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In the morning, Mrs. Chen regarded the stone as a thief, and howled so loudly that the neighbors heard it and came to Chen's house to inquire about the news. Next door, Grandma Xianglian broke a basket of duck eggs with her little feet, and Xue Jiao took it and took out twenty yuan from her pocket and handed it to her.

In addition to the embroidery workshop, the Chen family's salted duck egg business has not been left behind. Since their family made a living, many people followed suit, pickled duck eggs and sold them or ate them themselves. Every household in the Baitu Town area of the belt has begun to raise ducks, and it is not a large-scale raising, there are always seven or eight in a family, and the duck eggs themselves contain a fishy smell, and they are salted and poured into a good dish with wine.

Nowadays, Xuejiao pickled duck eggs no longer need to go to Weishan Lake to collect duck eggs, just shout in the neighboring village, how much to collect, enough to fill their own fifty jars. A few days ago, she discussed with the Li family, planning to get out the workshop of salted duck eggs just like opening an embroidery workshop, and invited someone to pickle it alone, because Chen Xiu came back, and the family and home were very busy, so the matter was put on hold.

The duck farmers in the village will sell duck eggs to the Chen family every day in exchange for a few pocket uses. Although there are a lot of pickled salted duck eggs now, the taste is not as good as the Chen family's, the Chen family's duck eggs are mainly supplied to restaurants, tea shops, and breakfast stalls, and the price is more expensive than the general one.

Grandma Xianglian carried an empty basket for the Li family to chat. Just talked about the movement in the yard this morning: "What kind of mourning did your mother-in-law howl early in the morning, I have a little scrape in my ears and say that she is a thief." ”

Li smiled and waved his hand, and sighed: "The sky is blue, where did the thief come from." ”

In the days when Chen Xiucai was not at home, Xianglian's family helped them a lot, harvesting wheat, planting corn, autumn harvest, and planting vegetables. The two families have a good relationship. The Li family has respect for Grandma Xianglian in his heart, and he has nothing to hide: "It's my family who came back and brought a subordinate." My mother didn't recognize it, thinking that there was a thief in the house, and there was such a scene. ”

"Zimin is back." Grandma Xianglian is kind-hearted, Chen Xiu is what she grew up watching. Now that he has returned safely, he is happy in his heart. He put his hands together and recited the Buddha, opened his eyes and asked, "Is it a boy or a woman?" ”

"It's a kid, and he said he was looking for relatives." Li smiled and agreed. Grandma Xianglian is invited to come into the house and sit.

"Nope." Grandma Xianglian waved her hand again and again, glanced into the room, and her eyes immediately widened. The room is full of boxes, and I can't tell what kind of treasure is in them.

Grandma Xianglian went out to preach. Everyone said that Chen Xiucai had made a fortune outside and came home.

The so-called poor city no one asked, Chen Xiucai went to Xuzhou Mansion to pick up Qi An has not come back, the door threshold at home has been stepped on a few layers thin, some know that Chen Qi'an was admitted to the child, Qi Qi praised Li is blessed, at first Li was happy to hear this, more and more people are always flattering, listen to more numbness, come to entertain, the fried melon seeds and peanuts on the table spit out a field of potato seeds, and the sweet soup boiled in half a pound of red dates from the buyer was drunk.

Seven large boxes were placed in the hall, and before they could be turned upside down, waves of people poured into the house, and everyone was stunned when they saw the boxes on the ground, and some of them poked with their hands what was in the box, and they couldn't get the point for a long time.

"There's only cloth in it." Lee's sloppy eyes.

The limelight overshadowed the news that Qi Lin Mansion had won the first place, and the old lady Chen poured tea and put the fruits on the upper room, wanting to hear a few words of flattery, and everyone went into the north wing to see the excitement, and the old lady Chen angrily fell to her feet and secretly scolded the Li family for being uneasy and kind.

People are smiling, you can't cry to greet each other, the table is full of big pears, purple grapes, red apples, all kinds of snacks, everyone is eating snacks and drinking tea to discuss the truth about Chen Xiucai's homecoming.

There are also old relatives of Mrs. Chen who knew that Chen Xiucai's family was coming and didn't come to the door on weekdays, and heard that he was rich and prosperous to come to the house, and many people came to dip their heads and rub oil. The Chen family opened the door to welcome these people, saying that the Chen family had two children out of the door, to send some gifts to celebrate, those who wanted to face when they entered the door carried a few catties of pigs and two roosters, and those who were not very particular only took the hemp rope to hang a paper bag of snacks, and there were more shameless empty-handed people who came to eat and drink for nothing, saying that it was to celebrate the title of the gold list of Qi Lin and Qi An brothers, but they only saw them go to the upper room and order a Mao Er did not even drink a cup of tea, and walked into the north wing with a limp of footsteps, eating melon seeds in their mouths and holding tea in their hands, and stuffing their pockets with fruits when they went out.

Originally, Qi Lin took the first place, but a gust of wind seemed to praise Qi An: "I said that Qi An was different from other children when he was a child, and I heard the doll who read in my village say that he would memorize it if he read it twice in his mouth, I said that he could take the first place in the government test, and it was really not bad, and when he took the test in the future, he might be the first person to be the first place." ”

The more he said this, the more Hu Zou became, obviously it was Chen Qilin who won the first, and Li responded with a smile: "It was my nephew Qi Lin who won the first place, and our family Qi'an didn't have that ability." ”

The man ignored the Li family and continued: "Qi An has a good life when he is a child, and he is good-looking, and he may be the material of the champion in the future, and he will earn back the life of a first-class woman for you." After the relative finished speaking, he drank a large tea jar of noodle tea, grabbed the rose flower cake on the table and ate it, this rose flower cake is not available locally, it was Chen Xiucai who went to Shu to do business, and a merchant in Yunnan sent it, the soft and glutinous skin of the best roses is even more crispy than the rose cake in Fuxianglou in the town.

When these words reached the upper room, Mrs. Chen was angry, thinking that she was expecting Qi Lin to give her a long face in the first place, but she didn't expect everyone to ignore Qi Lin, and only praised Qi An's stinky boy in and out of words.

First Li still endured, with sitting and talking, she couldn't stand it for a long time, she had a lot of things inside and outside, the autumn eggplant in the vegetable field to be harvested, the autumn cucumber to be sauced, and the leeks to be cut. Just listen to their nagging, don't do any work. Li couldn't help but complain to Xue Jiao, Xue Ru, and Jing well: "Which trick has seen us in the past, and your father was rumored to be a water bandit...... One by one, they pretended to be deaf and dumb, and now they came to the door together. ”

It's not easy to get into the door, and those who know outside only say that they worship high and low, and those who don't know things say that Chen Xiucai is ungrateful.

Chen Xuejiao also felt bored, but she could see it. comforted Li: "Just watch the monkeys." ”

One sentence made Li laugh.

It's not going to go on like this. Chen Xuejiao ran into the upper room and went to find Old Man Chen.

"What are you doing?" Mrs. Chen asked with slanted eyes.

"I'm looking for my grandfather." Chen Xuejiao said.

Old Mrs. Chen snorted, turned around and stopped breathing.

Old Man Chen sat up from the bed. Knocked on the pipe, smiled all over his face, looked happy, and beckoned to her: "Come here." ”

Xue Jiao sat on a small stool in front of the bed. lit a cigarette for Old Man Chen, and chatted casually: "Master." Just now, those relatives came to visit my house, and you said that they would eat at your house or at our house, if they eat at our house. My mother and I are ready. ”

Chen Xuejiao's words were euphemistic, implying that Old Man Chen, those people were all relatives of Mrs. Chen. Now it's time for the North Wing. There is a rule in the countryside that relatives who come to the family usually eat in the upper room. If you eat in another room, you will think it is disrespectful, and you will drown in the spit stars when you go out.

As soon as Old Man Chen heard this, he knew what Xue Jiao meant, clapped his hands and said, "Of course I'm eating in the upper room." ”

Mrs. Chen also agreed with this, she didn't want her relatives to have too much to do with the big house, so she tiptoed to the north wing room and called her distant nephews and nephews into the upper room.

Chen Xiucai didn't take Qi'an back from Fucheng until the sun went down.

"Brother, aren't you tired." Xue Jiao took over Qi An's burden.

"I'm not tired, I'm just a little tired." Qi An smiled, and he was happy that he was admitted to Tongsheng.

Because the government exam was completed yesterday, I rested overnight in Xuzhou Mansion, and I only came back today, so I was not as tired as the last county exam, and my father came back, Qi An's mood was good, so he was more and more energetic.

"How many places did Brother Xingjian take the exam?" Xue Jiao asked.

When Xue Ru heard this, her face turned slightly red, but her ears were up.

"He took twenty-five exams, out of a total of thirty." Qi An smiled and said, "This time I have made a lot of progress. ”

When Li and the others learned that Han Xingjian had also passed, they were also very happy.

When Old Man Chen saw that his grandson was back, he beckoned him to go to the upper room.

Here the Li family began to prepare dinner, Qi An was able to pass the guò children's exam this time, thanks to Huang Xiucai's teachings, the whole family was very grateful to Huang Xiucai, so this meal had to be prepared more sumptuous than before.

Chen Xiucai stopped Li and said: "I have already set a table from Qingfeng Building, and the Han family will also come back, and the two of us will have dinner together." ”

As he was talking, the carriage called outside, and the shopkeeper Han came with Zhou, Xingjian, Bi Tao, and Mrs. Han, and Li took Xuejiao and others to hurry out.

A man came down from a carriage behind him and moved the table from the carriage to the house, a box of red paint and gold, eight cold dishes, eight dishes, eight stir-fried vegetables, and stacks of delicate fruits.

Gold and silver elbows, braised prawns, fried roasted bones, rouge goose pieces, and even more rare is that there is a "Twenty-four Bridge Bright Moon Night", this dish Xuejiao sold to Qingfeng Zhuang after its invention, but he has not eaten it yet.

The stone went into the pot house and burned the stove, put the big steamed buns of Li's at noon on the grate and heated them, and served them hot.

Xue Jiao went to the upper room to invite Old Man Chen and invited Old Lady Chen once, but she was naturally reluctant to come. There were too many dishes, so Li borrowed a table from Cai's and put it on opposite his own table, and there was no distinction between men's and women's seats. (Mine will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued)