For lunch, the leaves of wild vegetables were added with coarse chaff, and a frog meat was put and boiled into a paste. The crabs were washed and boiled in plain water only. Chen Qiuxia and Chen Qiusheng gathered around the table, their eyes lit up, and they licked their mouths a lot. It was sad to see Chen Qiuniang.

She turned her face away, only broke the crabs one by one, took a bamboo skewer to scrape off the paste, put it in an earthen bowl, and poured the leftover frog meat and rice porridge in the morning and put it on the fire to boil. This counts as food for the little two.

The family sat around and settled lunch. After lunch, Chen Qiuniang instructed Qiusheng to catch young cicadas, Qiuxia to dig Houttuynia cordata, and pair it with frog meat in the evening, which is also a delicious meal.

The two children were so excited that they went out separately. Chen Qiuniang searched around the house to find the utensils to enter the mountain. After searching around, there was only a machete. Something is better than nothing, Chen Qiuniang sharpened the machete, put it in the back basket, and was about to go out. Chen Liushi came out on crutches and asked, "Qiu Niang, where are you going?" ”

"I'm going out and getting something to eat." Chen Qiuniang replied, but she didn't dare to tell the old lady that she had entered the mountain. Because she was bitten by a snake last time when she entered the mountain, this old lady loved Chen Qiuniang very much, and it was absolutely impossible for her to go into danger again.

"Don't go to the mountains, just look in the village. Tomorrow, you beg Xiaoliu Langzhong to take you to the nearby Liuhe Town, and you go to the Zhu family at the entrance of the town and ask them to help us. Chen Liushi said as he took out a jade ring from his arms and handed it to Chen Qiuniang.

Chen Qiuniang took it and took a look, the clear jade had small words on it: Zhu Ji, but she did not have the Zhu family in Liuhe Town in her impression.

"Who is the Zhu family in Liuhe Town?" Chen Qiuniang asked. There is no Zhu family in Liuhe Town in this memory.

"Your husband's family, a dear who is calm in Wuli. Originally, it was said that when you were fourteen years old, the two families would get married. It's only like this at home, there is no dowry, and grandma is also afraid. Chen Liushi sighed again when he said this.

"What? Am I married? Chen Qiuniang was very surprised. Originally, it was okay to set a baby kiss in this time and space, but she didn't expect this hard-pressed adopted daughter, and she was so poor that she also set a baby kiss. I don't know what kind of person my fiancé is.

Chen Liushi nodded, and then talked about the relationship between the Chen family and the Zhu family.

It turned out that her fiancé Zhu's family was doing business in Liuhe Town, risking life and death, going to the north to buy some leather goods and sell them back, but I don't know what happened to him, Master Zhu was framed and had a lawsuit. Master Zhu's main house and Chen Liu's handkerchief are handkerchiefs. Knowing that Chen Liu's family was on an errand in the palace and serving Fei Guifei, and Fei Guifei was the emperor's favorite concubine, he turned to Chen Liu's family for help. Chen Liushi told Fei Guifei about this, and Fei Guifei only said a word. The lawsuit of the old man of the Zhu family is over. Since then, the Zhu family has been very grateful to Chen Liu.

After many years, Chen Liu's family returned to Wuli Town, and Mr. Zhu from nearby Liuhe Town came to visit. After three rounds of drinking, Old Man Zhu saw Chen Qiuniang reciting poems in the courtyard, and she was also well-behaved, so he had the idea of marrying and said at the banquet. Both parties were very satisfied, and that's it, Chen Qiuniang was given to Zhu Wenkang, the grandson of Old Man Zhu. With Zhu Ji's jade ring as a token, just wait for this Chen Qiuniang to be fourteen years old, and the two families will marry. Who knew that not long after the marriage, the Chen family fell and moved to live in this mountain.

"Now that the Chen family is down, your father only cares about gambling, my legs and feet are not dexterous, and I can't find someone reliable to ask the Zhu family for a favor. This time you were poisoned, I saw that Xiaoliu Langzhong was good, so I thought that he would take you to Liuhe Town to have a look. Otherwise, I'm afraid that our family will really have no way to live. Chen Liushi said as he wiped his tears.

"Oh. This is a matter of urgency. You can't just save you and immediately go to trouble them, right? Chen Qiuniang smiled and said to Chen Liu. In fact, she didn't dare to have too much hope for the Zhu family in her heart, let alone be optimistic about this family business. There are in the world, and there are only in the play. In those novels and TV series, usually the family affairs in this situation are not the right ones in the end, and few can be done. What's more, the Zhu family is a businessman, and they dare to go to the north to sell leather goods in troubled times, and they are masters of profit-seeking. Now that the Chen family is really down, they must also weigh the pros and cons, and besides, she Chen Qiuniang still has a corpse change. The Zhu family may use this as an excuse to withdraw from this family business.

Moreover, whether this marriage was completed or not was not agreed by the Zhu family. She is a modern woman, and she has to choose her husband for herself. As for the Zhu family, if the whole family is kind and treats people and things, this fiancé is also knowledgeable, kind-hearted, honest and honest, she can still consider it. If there is some other moth move, flowery intestines, don't say that the other party quits the marriage, even if she has to find a way to quit.

"yes. This matter can't be rushed, let's delay it for two days. Chen Liushi leaned against the door of the hall and sighed again and said, "Child, actually, I also thought about this at that time, although the Zhu family is only a businessman, but in this era of war and chaos, it is best to find a solid family in the town." You are so good-looking, if you go outside, this world is also a thin life. Grandma can be seen through in the palace. No matter how good-looking and literary those concubines and mothers are, they are just so uncomfortable, without freedom or sovereignty. Therefore, this family business is also good. It's just that now that our family is in this situation, I don't know that it may not be possible to have a decent dowry when we get it. There is no dowry, and grandma doesn't know how you got married. ”

Chen Liu lamented and was very worried about Chen Qiu's marriage.

Chen Qiuniang didn't have much interest in this matter. In those years, she lived in the countryside with her grandmother, and she tasted all kinds of warmth and coldness. What people like the most is that when someone falls into a well, they immediately get down to the stone, where there will be many true feelings and warmth.

"Grandma, don't worry about these things, the days are still long. In the future, we will definitely be able to live well. I'll go find something to eat first, and you can go inside and rest for a while. "Chen Qiuniang looked at the sun, and if she didn't enter the mountain again, she wouldn't even have the opportunity to explore it today. Today, she just went to familiarize herself with the road up the mountain and analyze the possible properties.

"Be careful. Don't go too far, it's spring, there will be wolves. Also, you put away the jade ring, but don't let your father take it. Chen Liushi advised.

"Grandma, don't worry, I'll take it away." Chen Qiuniang responded crisply.

Of course, she will take care of this jade ring, even if this thing can't be exchanged for the help of the Zhu family, she can exchange it for some money to get by. No matter how bad it is, this jade ring has the word Zhu Ji written on it, which must also be a symbol of identity, and it is worth a little money at more or less critical moments.

Chen Liushi was verbose for a while, and then Chen Qiuniang carried the basket on her back, took a machete and a small wooden stick of solid wood, and marched majestically and proudly towards Er'e Mountain.

As soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw a group of people gathered around, as if they were saying something. She wasn't originally a gossip person, but if she wanted to make money, she needed to collect information widely and look for business opportunities from it.

Therefore, gossip can also be a business opportunity, wealth. So, instead of rushing into the mountain, she slowed down and walked slowly.

I saw that people were leisurely surrounding a man in a blue cloth shirt, the man was in his twenties, and it was Li March, a small merchant in the township. This Li March often travels around major villages and towns, and there is a lot of news, and people always like to listen to him gossip.

"You don't know, Jinguancheng has already made a fuss." Li March spat and looked quite familiar.

"What's the fuss? It may not be as heavy as we pay taxes here, right? We will put our whole family to death for every inch of our hides. Zhang Sanniang pouted.

"It's all the same, the surname Zhao said on the surface that the people of the Great Song Dynasty had actually looted everything from us. Don't you know, even the golden urinals that pee in the palace were sent to Kaifeng. Not only that, but also pay taxes strictly, some people say that there is not much to pay taxes in Kaifeng, that is, we are rich in products in the Bashu region, so we pay so much. Last year, the weather was bad again, and there was a famine. Those dog officials also killed and robbed a lot of young women casually, and they didn't treat us Bashu people as human beings. Rebellions began everywhere in Qingcheng County, and later there were also rebellions near Jinguancheng, and various places rebelled, and the official mansions of Jinguancheng were burned and the officials were killed. The rebels fought all the way to Jianmen Pass. "Li March danced with his hands and made a good comparison.

Chen Qiuniang is not too clear about the history of the early Song Dynasty, and vaguely knows that in the early Song Dynasty, Shu had several uprisings, and the reason was that the Great Song Emperor was so poor that he could not live to live, so he levied heavy taxes on Bashu, and wished to scrape the entire country of abundance into three layers as military expenses. That's what Li March was talking about. She was secretly glad that she was born in such a poor rural area, even if it was difficult for war to spread.

"Huh? I heard that Jianmen Pass is an unknown old guy who is a guard, and this time he will take it in one fell swoop, regain the lost ground, and drive those villains out of Shuzhong. What a big song, he doesn't treat us as human beings at all. Someone next to me interjected, and I don't know where I heard it.

"How can I be? You don't know. The rebels missed a good opportunity at Jianmen Pass and were already defeated. Now it looks like some kind of general has been sent to guard it. The rebels were defeated and retreated. Alas, I don't know if there will be heavier taxes if we lose this time. Li March also sighed when he said later. The people next to him also sighed.

"Shuzhong is rich, if his surname Zhao is a little wise, this time it is calm, he will relax the policy on Shuzhong and let him recuperate. Otherwise, it won't be long before this country will have to change its surname. A middle-aged man dressed as a scholar interjected.

"I hope people live." Some people sighed again, and then someone saw Chen Qiuniang. So, everyone looked at her and walked away from her.

Chen Qiuniang doesn't mind, she fully understands everyone's psychology, after all, she is a person who died and came back to life, no matter what, she is an ominous person. It's just that the information I just heard doesn't seem to be good news. War means that people are struggling to make a living, so the catering business will definitely be affected.

However, it seems that several uprisings in Shuzhong in the early Song Dynasty were unsuccessful, and later Zhao Kuangyin sent who to guard Shuzhong? Chen Qiuniang is not very familiar with the history of the Song Dynasty, and even the food in the Song Dynasty is not so exquisite, too inclined to fast food culture, and she does not think about it too carefully studied. Therefore, she couldn't remember who she sent to Shuzhong to guard.

But in any case, what we heard today is definitely not good news, and after the war, everything is in ruins. I'm afraid that I have to establish myself in the industry, and at the same time find another way out.

At this moment, Chen Qiuniang felt that the future was a little bumpy. sighed, resenting himself that if he hadn't coveted the thousand-year-old rice wine recipe, how could he have been thrown into this minute of dire rhythm to struggle.

It's just that her personality is never pessimistic, and this kind of love is only a momentary thing. She continued her journey into the mountains.