Chapter 13: Arrival
They got in the car and sat down again because they left too early in the morning Zhou Xiaofu was lazy in the car, and it was almost time to look more energetic, and asked Lan's mother something about Zhuangzi.
The biological mother Wang Qingyang's Zhuangzi is in the suburbs of Tongzhou Prefecture in Kyoto, covering an area of 150 acres, is a small manor, planting some fruit trees and wheat and other crops, the fruit trees are hired by the village leaders to collect tenant rent, dry land is rented to tenants, speaking of which the income is not large, only 200 taels of silver per year.
Zhou Xiaofu looked through the window screen along the road, there are not many mountains on this road, and in the plain area, there have always been many inns and restaurants along the official road.
After about two hours, the carriage swayed, and when Zhou Xiaofu was about to fall asleep again, he heard a squeaky shout, and then the carriage also stopped, and he heard Ma Guihe, who was driving in front of him, shouting: "The fourth young lady is coming to Zhuangzi." ”
At this time, Zhou Xiaofu and the others slowly got out of the carriage, and after sitting in the carriage for three hours, Zhou Xiaofu felt that the whole person was about to fall apart, and looked at Mother Lan, her face was pale, and her expression was very bad. The two sons of thirty-seven or eighty-eight came to receive them, Wang Yousi and his daughter-in-law Tu, as well as their three children.
Wang Yousi and his family are the children of Wang Qingyang who brought them from home when he got married, and the family came over, and after coming over, he showed Wang Qingyang the dowry Zhuangzi, according to Lan's mother, these two people are still good, after Wang Qingyang died, he still sent fresh melons and fruits and freshly ground wheat to the two children in the autumn every year, and he missed the old family.
As soon as they saw that the fourth lady was coming, they hurriedly found someone to clean up the main courtyard on the Zhuangzi, Zhou Xiaofu and they also went in one after another and waited at the door for a while, seeing that Mother Lan's face was getting worse and worse, so they hurriedly urged Tu's to simply clean up, and let Mother Lan go in to rest first, saying that it was not a day or two to live.
In fact, the room is not dirty, but it is not a long-term inhabitant, the two maids hurried in to make the bed or something, Zhou Xiaofu helped Lan's mother to sit on the couch in the living room, and when she got off the carriage, Zhou Xiaofu secretly took two bottles of Huoxiang Zhenqi Water from the space, this thing can cure all diseases in modern times, you can drink heat stroke if you vomit, you can drink motion sickness, you can drink diarrhea, you can drink a very magical medicine, fortunately, it tastes the same as traditional Chinese medicine, Zhou Xiaofu went to the pantry to find a small bowl, cut the plastic bottle and poured it in, and put the two small bottles into the space, This thing can't be lost, in case it is seen by people with a heart, it is amazing, plastic was not available in ancient times, at least in ancient China.
After getting ready, Zhou Xiaofu came out with a small bowl and a cup of boiling water.
"Mother Lan, this is my master's holy medicine, it can treat diarrhea, motion sickness, and heat stroke, I just got some, you drink it soon." Zhou Xiaofu said.
Mother Lan looked puzzled, what kind of medicine is this, it can still treat so many diseases.
But I still took it, and the children I grew up with can still harm myself.
Zhou Xiaofu said again: "Mother Lan, you remember to drink it in one go, if you can't breathe, you have to hold your breath, this medicine is too hard to drink." Zhou Xiaofu remembered how she felt when she was forced to drink real soda when she was a child.
Mother Lan nodded, drank the medicine in one breath, and felt hot and spicy for a while, filling the entire mouth, and then going down the stomach and intestines, there was a hot feeling, and there was no nausea in an instant, and it was much more comfortable, she took the boiling water handed over by Zhou Xiaofu and drank a sip of surprise: "Fourth Miss, this medicine from your master is really good, I feel much better."
Zhou Xiaofu smiled, thinking that this medicine is the most feared by children in modern times, and basically children have drunk it since childhood. The effect is very good, but it is too hard to drink.
After drinking, Cuihua and the others made the bed, Zhou Xiaofu settled everyone to rest first, and then found the daughter-in-law of the head of the village, Tu Shi, to make some peasant dishes for dinner, and settled the residence where the two guards went, and then explained that the maid and Lan's mother quickly rested, this way has indeed been too long.
Zhou Xiaofu also hurried to sleep, the carriage really can't be compared with modern cars, the road is not very stable, and he feels very tired after bumps all the way, so he simply washed up and fell asleep at the end.
I felt that I was hungry and woke up in an instant, and when I got up, I saw that Cuihua had changed her clothes and brought hot water to come in and wait for herself to wash, thinking that it was already afternoon here, and after asking about the condition of Lan's mother, she began to wash, and after finishing changing into a muslin shirt and going out.
Soon, Tu took his daughter to bring the meal, fried garlic sprouts with bacon, scrambled eggs with chives, a bowl of fried vegetables with green garlic, and finally a large cup of local chicken stewed dried mushrooms. I asked, and the guards were all eating in the front yard as well. After serving the rice, Tu's face was flushed, and he rubbed his hands awkwardly and looked at Zhou Xiaofu and said: "The fourth lady came for the first time, the slave maid did everything that was on the Zhuangzi without preparation, it was really" Before the words were finished, Zhou Xiaofu laughed: "Sister-in-law of the Zhao family, you are welcome, this is already very good, you are the son of the family brought by your mother, after the death of your mother, many people redeemed themselves and left, and you are not afraid to stay here without fear of hard work, and you must not say such polite words in the future." ”
said something to Tu's heart, the first time this fourth lady came to Zhuangzi, she didn't know how to treat it, so she listened to such warm and polite words, and suddenly felt that what she had done over the years was not wrong. Tu happily "belched" and retreated with a curious daughter, Mother Lan on the side looked at Zhou Xiaofu and was very relieved to see the old man who was left by the eldest lady like this, and rested for an afternoon, and Mother Lan, who had eaten Huoxiang Zhenqi Water, eased up, and stepped forward to serve Zhou Xiaofu with food.
Zhou Xiaofu herself is a modern person, she really can't stand it when she first arrives, there is a person staring at the meal next to her, there is no way to have people up and down in the Zhou Mansion, if she is too weird, it is not good, but this will be on Zhuangzi She really doesn't want to continue like this, so she quickly sent Lan's mother down to eat.
I drank the fragrant chicken stewed mushroom soup first, and I was happy in an instant, and the memory appetite for eating compressed biscuits for a long time was awakened at once, and I put a bowl of chicken soup and a few small mushrooms and a piece of chicken wings and asked someone to bring the soup down for everyone to eat, Cuihua looked happy, because they only had bacon, garlic, sprouts, greens, or something and no chicken soup, and the four young ladies used to eat alone and ate the rest before giving them the rest.
Zhou Xiaofu ate quietly one by one, and didn't dare to eat anymore after she was eighty percent full, so she asked someone to withdraw the meal, sit on the chair and drink tea and think about things quietly.
Now that he has successfully come to Zhuangzi, he will pretend to dig things out, and then he will hand them over to Lan's mother tomorrow to arrange to sell, after all, all his net worth adds up to only more than two hundred taels of silver, whether in ancient or modern times, it is difficult to move an inch without silver, and secondly, he has to develop his own industry, open a shop or something, I originally saw that the heroine of the novel made a fortune by relying on novel meals and snacks, but I basically can't cook in the last days, at most cook an instant noodle, The diet of this Kaiyuan Dynasty is not bad, there are vegetable oils, there are all kinds of stir-fried vegetables, and there are pots to eat in winter, there is nothing to innovate, I will study architecture in college, which is really a bit of waste material on the ancient woman, I thought about it for a long time, and remembered that a few clothes I painted a few days ago made Lan's mother very respectful, and it is also feasible to make a fortune here, and the first thing to learn architecture is to be able to paint, and my own sketching is quite good, and I really can't open a ready-to-wear shop. Of course, you have to take the high-end route, after all, the consumption in Kyoto is quite high, and you can't make money selling bargains. There is also a possibility to try to open a furniture store, Zhou Xiaofu has recently gone to the yard and there are a lot of furniture, all of which are classical styles and do not have modern simplicity, let alone European styles, and I have never seen a root carved coffee table with a tea set, these are all things that can make money, and elegant people like these.
After a simple plan, Zhou Xiaofu found Cuihua and said that she was going to take a walk in the yard.
This yard is a big courtyard with three entrances, Zhuang Tou and his wife and a few children live in the front yard, Zhou Xiaofu and they live in the main courtyard in the middle, and no one lives in the last one, Tu planted some kinds of vegetables in front of the house, Zhou Xiaofu and Cuihua walked slowly around the vegetable garden, while asking about Cuihua's other maid Ziling. This Ziling doesn't talk much, even if she is not close to her, it doesn't seem to be anything, compared to the Cuihua on her face, it is really unreassuring, but listening to the meaning of Cuihua, this Ziling is nothing, not lazy, and there is nothing suspicious, it's just, take your time and look again, after two turns of eating, the sky is almost dark, so I went back with Cuihua.
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