As soon as the Qingming Festival passes, the spring will be in full bloom, the spring rain of apricot blossoms will fly, and the green water will swing the red flowers. A peach blossom outside the yard is red and gorgeous, and as soon as the east wind passes, the yard is full of fluttering petals. The wheat in the field began to grow wildly in the snow of the old year, Chen Xuejiao went to her own field to see it once, the wheat in the field was like a large lake, thinking of the harvest scene when the mango was planted, the corners of the mouth couldn't help but bend.

As spring grows stronger, it is a good time for marriage in the world, and those boxes draped in red cloth are carried from the door of the house to the husband's house. In the season of spring, not only people, but even the wild cats and dogs also began to make trouble.

When I fell asleep at night, the female cat jumped off the eaves, stepped on the tiles "squeaked", the baby cried like a scream, and the hearts of the troublemakers trembled. Chen Xuejiao's muscles and bones are more and more abundant in the past half a year, the peach blossoms at the door have just budded, she can't sleep at night, she gets up in the morning, the quilt always falls to the ground, the wild cats and wild dogs outside the house call spring every night, she has no sleep, and finally fell asleep, and when it comes to the bright day, she is covered in wet sweat, and a handful of black hair is wet and covered on her chest. Li couldn't, so he had to build a long wooden board on the outside of the kang, spread a thin quilt and a thin bedding, and let Xue Jiao sleep on it alone.

The sun is warm, unlike the cold and freezing in winter, as soon as the catkins fly, the salted duck eggs have already been pickled. Other people's recipes are also marinated in imitation of the Chen family's duck eggs, but they are not as pickled as Xue Jiao asked, either salty or light, either the egg whites are hard, or the egg yolks are black. Xue Jiao's pickled duck eggs, big, egg whites are tender, the egg yolk is red like preserved rouge, a bite down the mouth full of oil, the teeth are fragrant, no need to eat vegetables, only this duck egg can eat two big buns.

Not only the restaurants in the town become jars, but also the jars are booked. Even the small stall vendor bought dozens of catties and dozens of catties. The Chen family's salted duck eggs spread for a while, and the shopkeeper of the sauce fragrance garden who bought the tea egg recipe last time came to the door again, wanting to buy the salted duck egg recipe from Xue Jiao. This time, Xue Jiao refused to sell, and only reached an agreement with Sauce Xiangyuan to guarantee the supply of fifty jars to Sauce Xiangyuan every month.

The shopkeeper of Sauce Xiangyuan agreed on the spot, and said that he would want as many salted duck eggs as Xuejiao had here in the future.

Chen Xuejiao didn't agree immediately, because she couldn't marinate so many salted duck eggs in a month by relying on her own family. To order large-scale pickling. A lot of people need to be borrowed. She has to plan carefully for all the rules here.

When nothing happened, she sat under the window. Holding on to the abacus and thinking. The business of Jiangxiangyuan is all over Xuzhou Prefecture, and even Jingshi has their branches, and the Chen family supplies 50 jars of salted duck eggs a month, which is too little, which is not enough for two days of sales. If you seize the big customer of Sauce Xiangyuan. Isn't it just that he has grabbed a big backer, and he is not as worried about unstable sales as retail investors. Working with them is only a sure win.

So, I thought about it and wanted to set up a workshop for salted duck eggs. She didn't tell Li and her family about this idea, she wanted to wait for Chen Xiu to come back and reveal a thing or two to him. Starting a workshop is not that easy. The supply of duck eggs, the manpower, and the recipe of salted duck eggs all need to be carefully planned. A business trip to any one of these links can affect the reputation.

Chen Xiucai wrote a letter and had already followed the merchant ship to Yuhang. said that he used all his net worth to sell two baskets of good tea. The two-story boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal will arrive in Xuzhou in a few days.

There is a lot of rainy weather in the south, and the tea can't stand the moisture. He wrote in his letter that the ship's plank partition was used to store tea, and the bedding was wet enough at night, and it was taken out and spread out on the deck to dry during the day, and it was damp again after a short time after taking it back at night.

Li received the letter and looked forward to Chen Xiucai returning home. In the past, I didn't think that when he went out, the Li family found that a family was separated from the backbone of the man when he went out, the family was all children, Xue Jiao was a big idea, but she was still young, and she usually didn't even have a person to discuss when she encountered troubles.

The more I looked forward to Chen Xiucai's return, the more I felt that the sun was passing slowly, and sometimes my heart couldn't help but be in a trance.

When the Li family was not out of the cabinet, the old man Li took his eldest brother Li Yuntian to the south and north to sell dry goods. When I came to the house and talked about the thrill outside, I always entangled Mrs. Li's heart tightly.

Mrs. Li sighed, not caring if she was a girl who had not left the pavilion, and talked about other merchants. The merchant with a bulging purse and silver went to the street to buy some cloth and noodles every time he went, and carried them to the inn one by one, saying that they were brought to his wife and children at home, but half of them were folded on the kiln sister'er. Those white and tender kiln sisters, with thief eyes, specially picked up the bulging purse, and a few words of their brother and brother screamed softly, so they opened the cage and took out things, leaving their wives and children behind.

There are also people who have worked hard to sell the goods and go to the Qinglou to have fun, called the fans to sing a little song and play the pipa, some Qinglou single-door business, the bridge with a red light is carried in, and the sound of the woman playing and singing makes the soft-boned merchants stop and can no longer move their legs.

The Linzhuang brothers, who went to Yuhang to sell dry goods with Mr. Li, made money and went to a port to find a fan head to have fun, and the powder head was shy and shy to envelop the brother, and abandoned his wife for this powder and never wanted to come back. The wife of the family only said that he would come back after spending a few years outside, gritted his teeth and propped up the door and pulled the three children, the poor stir-fry at home could not afford to put oil, Mrs. Li took pity on her, and took Li to send rice and noodles to her, it was raining, a room leaked and there was no dry place, talking about the ruthless man with a handful of snot and tears, so sad Li still remembers it clearly.

has been with Chen Xiucai for so many years, she knows that Chen Xiucai is not that kind of person, but she can't help but think wildly, her man is literate and handsome, isn't it the kiln sister's favorite.

Chen Xuejiao thought that Li was covered with a thick quilt and was in a panic, so she got up early and replaced Li's quilt with a thin quilt while Li was cooking.

I heard that there was a lot of rainy weather in the south of the Yangtze River, and the boat was damp, so I was worried that Chen Xiucai would not bring enough clothes to change, and I was worried about his food.

When Chen Xiucai came out, he brought enough food on his body, and the pork and blood sausage left over from the New Year were stewed in a pot by Li Shi until they were cooked thoroughly, and they were sliced into domino-sized slices. A chicken was dried and chopped, fried in a pot with dried chili peppers, until the oil boiled before it was put into a jar, and a small urn of pickles was brought to him, so that he could eat white flour steamed buns.

These foods were enough for him and Li Yuntian to eat Weishan Lake, but Chen Xiucai went straight to Yuhang from Weishan Lake, and he didn't know if he was used to eating southern food.

Here, the Li family's thoughts were all on Chen Xiucai, and there was another accident in the upper room.

Zhao and Zhang thought that Cai's gave birth to a daughter, and they fell behind, and as soon as Cai's confinement passed, these two concubines bullied her together, let her live and cook every day, and let her wash pots of clothes.

Cai's endured it for two days, and finally had a seizure, she was not such a soft person, and saw that Zhang's menstrual cloth was hidden in a pile of clothes to be washed, and she dropped the enamel basin for washing on the spot.

Mrs. Chen came out to support the Zhang family, and scolded Sanfang for being a desperate account. It should be something, it happened that Mrs. Cai gave her daughter sesame oil, listened through the door, spun her feet and kicked the door open, crossed her waist and started a ring with Mrs. Chen.

Cai is a person who has seen the world, and when he was young, he followed Old Man Cai to the town to sell sesame oil, and practiced a neat tongue. But she didn't think it was a big deal, she opened the door with a bang, sat at the door and slapped her face to tell the story of Mrs. Chen's mistreatment of Cai's family, and a person from Zhuang rushed into Chen's house to see the excitement, and lay Mrs. Chen on the kang angrily for three days, and woke up to ask for a three-room separation. Cai's family wanted to split up a long time ago, but he didn't have a chance, so he had to divide the family this time.

Mrs. Chen originally wanted to let the three rooms go out of the house, but she couldn't stand Mrs. Cai's shrewdness, so she found the village to divide the family property on the spot, and collected the boxes and cages in the upper room, and even asked the washbasin at the door to be carried into Cai's house.

Those bodies were saved by Mrs. Chen for more than ten years, and they were divided in half by the three rooms at once, and she only complained bitterly.

Since the big house was separated, Zhao and Zhang did a meal for a while and washed their clothes for a while, thinking that they could enjoy the blessings of the two of them by bullying Cai, but they didn't expect that the three rooms were also separated, and the two concubines suddenly picked up the work of going to the room again.

Originally, when the big house and three rooms were not separated, the Cai family did not have a body, and there was no need for Zhao and Zhang's to move, and the three meals a day were taken care of by the Li family, but once the family was divided, the work fell on the two of them. When Mrs. Chen saw that she had fallen into the hands of Sanfang, she was more and more angry and wanted to put her mother-in-law's money in front of the Zhao family and the Zhang family.

Straight to tears behind the back of this concubine's struggle.

Zhao and Zhang were not from a rich family before they got married, one was born in a butcher's family, the other was born in an Orion, these jobs have also been done, there can be Li in the past, after a long time, someone waited to raise a lazy child, and he used to only care about picking on Li's no, he didn't move a finger, and he started to do work again, and he almost died on the first day.

Early this morning, the two concubines grinded their teeth.

Zhao dislikes Zhang's only burning the fire and not cooking, and Zhang's dislikes Zhao pretending to be sick all day long. The two of you quarreled with each other, and they almost pulled their hair and fought.

It was only when Old Man Chen stopped drinking, and the two of them stopped talking, still staring and pouting.

The big room and the third room were eating breakfast separately, the pot stove in the upper room was still cold, and Mrs. Chen was knocking the ground on crutches, and just wanted to scold a few words, she heard the neighing of the carriage outside. (To be continued)