In the end, Shen Lan didn't need to get an answer from Yuan Hao's mouth, but the matter of selling salt was negotiated, but Yuan Hao didn't want Shen Lan to take risks, so he persuaded Shen Lan to make another plan for this matter, that is, to sell illicit salt, and Yuan Hao didn't plan to pull Shen Lan into the water, after all, it was too dangerous for Shen Lan to do this as a weak woman, so he took this matter down himself, even if there was really any accident, he also hoped to protect Shen Lan and prevent her from being affected.

So after Yuan Hao went back, he persuaded Yuan Tian and told Yuan Tian that he could get another salt, even if he wanted to change his career, he wouldn't take Shen Lan to play, Yuan Tian had a slight complaint about this, after all, Shen Lan helped him a lot, and this matter of selling salt was also proposed by Shen Lan, and now his brother actually wants to kick away people and don't bring people to play with him, which is somewhat against the morality of the rivers and lakes, so Yuan Tian is a little unhappy with Yuan Hao.

But no matter what, Yuan Hao is Yuan Tian's younger brother after all, and Shen Lan is an outsider no matter how good he is, so in the end, Yuan Tian's heart is still biased towards his younger brother, so Shen Lan was kicked out of this circle by the Yuan brothers, in fact, Yuan Hao didn't want to kick Shen Lan away at all, but in the future, he personally went to Shen Lan to pick up salt and keep it a secret for Shen Lan.

Because of Yuan Hao's intervention, Shen Lan couldn't take out the salt in a bright way, and later Yuan Hao found a hidden cave in the mountain as a place for Shen Lan to reserve salt, Shen Lan only needed to put the salt there, and then Yuan Hao took someone to extract it secretly, as for the silver settlement, it was completely operated by Yuan Hao, so that outsiders would not know who Yuan Hao's family was, and no one would know that Shen Lan provided salt to Yuan Hao, so Shen Lan was a lot safer, and every time he went to put salt, Shen Changhai accompanied Shen Lan to go, It's done very secretly.

The Dragon Boat Festival in May is coming soon, at this time last year, Shen Lan was confined to the moon, so the Dragon Boat Festival was under the auspices of Shen Zhao's family, at that time she was in the confinement, so she could neither go to Jixian County to watch the annual dragon boat race, nor could she eat zongzi wrapped in glutinous rice, and Shen Lan's family at that time was not as rich as now, in fact, she couldn't afford to eat zongzi, but this year is completely different.

Early Xu asked Feng to go to the mountain to pick zongzi leaves, although there are rivers in Jixian County, there are no reeds, so the zongzi leaves here are not reed leaves, but a kind of bamboo leaves that grow in the mountains, the leaves are much larger than the reed leaves, usually only one leaf to wrap a zongzi, unlike two or three reed leaves to wrap a zongzi, and this kind of bamboo leaf is as wide as an adult's palm, and the length is about thirty or forty centimeters long, so a piece is enough to wrap a large and sincere zongzi.

After rinsing the collected zongzi leaves with water, Shen Lan instructed the Feng family to boil hot water and cool it and wash it again, before they began to use it to wrap zongzi, this zongzi is naturally not only a simple meat filling, Shen Lan also let people get salted egg yolks, dates, dried nuts and bean paste, so that there are a lot more types, which made Xu and Shen Mei surprised, I didn't expect a zongzi to have so many tricks, and suddenly looked forward to this zongzi.

Shen Lan cooked some of the dumplings, and everyone tasted them first, because the size of the dumplings was very large, so Shen Lan peeled the dumplings off the plate, and the three sisters tasted everything, but it was not good to eat much, after all, glutinous rice is not suitable for eating too much, but Shen Lan still prefers to eat traditional fresh meat dumplings, Shen Mei and Shen Wei prefer sweet zongzi, and the two ate three sweet zongzi, Shen Lan did not allow them to eat any more, so as not to hurt the spleen and stomach later.

After tasting the taste, Shen Lan asked Xu to let the boiled zongzi cool down and tie them into a string with five-color cotton thread, ready to be used to send gifts, the Dragon Boat Festival is an important festival, it is to send gifts to the elders in the family, according to the custom, the girl is to send a gift to her mother's family with her son-in-law, of course, large families can also send people to send gifts, Shen Lan prepared the festival gifts of her mother's family and her mother-in-law's family, and then asked Shen Changhai to send it over, and by the way, Shen Xiaoquan and his wife and Shen Yunting took over to celebrate the festival together, after all, there will be dragon boat racing activities in Jixian County every year, Shen Lan's home is close to Jixian County, which is naturally a lot more convenient, and Shen Lan has a carriage here, so it is also convenient for everyone to take a carriage to the county to watch the dragon boat race.

Early in the morning, Shen Changhai was sent out by Shen Lan, and Shen Lan took Xu and others to pack the zongzi to be eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow, and had already wrapped a lot of zongzi with various fillings before, but Shen Lan let Shen Changhai take it away and give it to the relatives of the Shen and Song families, glutinous rice is still very expensive in this era, mainly because the yield of glutinous rice is not high, and most people build houses to use glutinous rice, so the price of glutinous rice is very expensive. But Shen Lan really didn't know what cement was, she had only seen the finished product, and she didn't understand the raw materials at all, so she finally accepted the traditional wisdom of her ancestors.

Generally, ordinary people can't afford to eat glutinous rice, and zongzi is to be wrapped in glutinous rice, many people can't afford to eat, zongzi is naturally not eaten by every household, Shen Lan is now a small asset, naturally he doesn't care about these glutinous rice, so he wrapped a lot of it to give favors.

In addition to eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, they also have to wear five poisonous sachets, these things naturally fell on the two sisters Shen Mei and Shen Wei, so the sisters took three little girls to make sachets and tie the sachets, mainly prepared for Shen Lan and stones.

Because there are more people who give gifts, it was already dark when Shen Changhai came back, and after he came back, he went back and forth to Shen Lan, the old lady and the old lady of the Shen family were reluctant to come, they were more willing to stay at home for the holiday, Shen Lan had no accident, if it wasn't for Shen Lan's confinement last year, I was afraid that Shen Zhao's family would not stay in Songjia Village for the holiday.

But in addition, Shen Changhai came back with another news, that is, Yan Niang's child was not saved, so when Shen Changhai went to Songjia Village to send a festival, the Song family was a gloomy cloud, when Shen Changhai went to send a festival, Song Ruhai was arguing with Song Wang's family, Song Ruhai scolded Song Wang's evil mind and caused Yan Niang to lose the child, and Song Wang's scolded Song Ruhai for being shameless, knowing that Yan Niang had a body, and the two of them didn't pay attention to doing that thing at all, so that Yan Niang's child fell and blamed her. In short, this matter is known to everyone in the village, and now I am afraid that it has become a joke in Songjia Village.

Shen Lan didn't expect this, for the truth of the matter, Shen Lan was not in the mood to investigate, after all, it didn't have much to do with her, so Shen Lan heard it and passed, just told Shen Changhai to go down to eat, Ming'er and the whole family went to Jixian County to see the excitement, and finally this day is over.

Early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu took Feng to cut wormwood and calamus back, hung on the lintel before breakfast, and hung a bunch of lights on the windows everywhere before it was finished, and after breakfast, Shen Lan instructed Shen Er and Shen Changhai to drive a carriage to Jixian County, Shen Lan took the stone and Xu's Xiangling to sit in Shen Changhai's carriage, Shen Mei and Shen Wei took Shen Er's carriage, and the rest of the people stayed at home to take care of the house, so everyone couldn't go out.

The dragon boat race is not held in the county seat of Jixian County but is held in the Qingquantai outside the county, the dragon boat race in previous years is also held here, although it is outside Jixian County, but it is not far from the county, the Qingquantai on both sides of the Qingquan Terrace in previous years is bare, and the people who see the excitement can only stand on the shore against the sun to see, this year it has changed its appearance, the bamboo building was built on the shore, the bamboo building was built according to the river, the workmanship is not exquisite, but a little rough, and the roof is just a straw roof.

As for why Shen Lan knew that this building was not used here, she naturally learned it from Shen Mei's mouth, although Shen Mei didn't come to see the dragon boat every year, but she couldn't stand the fact that the girl was local, so even if she hadn't been here, she could also learn about it from the little sisters, so she was very surprised by the bamboo building that suddenly stood on the shore, so Shen Lan also knew.

Although the time is still early, but it can't stand the crowd, compared to this dragon boat racing activity is a matter of dozens of villages in Jixian County, so there are naturally more people, so the carriage can only be parked far away, leaving Shen Er alone to guard the carriage, after all, Shen Changhai is extraordinary, Shen Lan is a female dependent when she goes out this time, and it is always a lot safer to take Shen Changhai with her, so Shen Changhai is naturally with Shen Lan.

Seeing that there were still seats in the bamboo building, Shen Lan took everyone upstairs, since she could watch the dragon boat race without being under the sun, Shen Lan was naturally willing to go up to the bamboo building to watch the dragon boat race, so she took people up to the bamboo building, but just climbed the stairs, she saw a small guy standing at the door.

"Please stay, do you have a reserved seat?" The little guy asked politely.

This is not true, after all, Shen Lan does not live in Jixian County, how can she suddenly book a seat, Xu Shi hurriedly smiled and said: "Can the little brother be accommodating, my wife is inconvenient, and besides, the little brother opens the door to do business, it is not good to drive the guests out." ”

Hearing this, the little guy was a little embarrassed, the group was dressed well before they met, and it seemed that they were not ordinary people, but their boss had said before that they had already given a post to the big families in Jixian County, so almost all the seats in this building were owner's things.

"This old mother, please don't be embarrassed with me, the seats in my bamboo building are limited, and they have already been booked out, and now even if I want to arrange a place for you, I'm afraid I can't." The little guy also saw that the lady who took the lead was pregnant, but it was always honest to open the door to do business, so the little guy was embarrassed to speak.

Seeing this scene, Shen Lan couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but Shen Lan also knew that since people had rules for doing business, it was not easy to force anything, after all, she was not a powerful family, so after seeing that the little guy was unwilling, she was ready to go downstairs, but she didn't want to hear someone shouting, "Madam, please stay." ”

Hearing this, Shen Lan turned around to look at some of them, and suddenly showed a smile, only to see a young man walking towards Shen Lan.

"Madame's place has long been reserved for Madame, and I ask Madame to come with me." The person who came was actually not someone else, but Jia Xiangtian, speaking of the idea of this bamboo building is Jia Xiangtian's idea, knowing that there will be many people watching the dragon boat race here on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, so he had an idea, and hurriedly built a teahouse here, because he didn't want to do long-term business, so Jia Xiangtian chose the cheapest bamboo to build this bamboo building, and then posted to the people with heads and faces in Jixian County, on the one hand, it is to do business, on the other hand, it is also to make friends, after all, the Jia family belongs to outsiders in Jixian County, It's not easy to get a business off the ground.

Shen Lan was not hypocritical, and followed Jia Xiangtian into the building with a group of people, Jia Xiangtian led Shen Lan and his party to a window but a little biased position, speaking of which this position is not good, it stands to reason that Shen Lan can be said to be Jia Xiangtian's master, he may be a little disrespectful to Shen Lan by doing this, but in fact it is not the case, although Shen Lan has a small family fortune, but after all, her business is only limited to Yuan Jiaji, and although Song Wenxiang has improved in the army, but it is not as good as the squire of Jixian County, Therefore, Jia Xiangyu did not leave the best position to Shen Lan, but picked an inconspicuous place for Shen Lan.

"Madame, please." Jia Xiangtian's completely attitude towards customers somewhat angered Shen Changhai, after all, this Jia Xiangtian and Shen Changhai can be said to have grown up together, and they are naturally familiar with each other, so seeing that Jia Xiangtian arranged such a position for his master, and then had such an unfamiliar attitude, Shen Changhai was a little unconvinced.

"How can you arrange for your master to sit here?" Shen Changhai shouted loudly.

Jia Xiangyu was stunned for a moment, but he still had a smile on his face, and said in a flat tone: "Don't blame Madam, there are many guests today, and I have wronged Mrs. ”

Shen Lan nodded, although she didn't understand Jia Xiangyu's arrangement very well, but she didn't want to expose the relationship between the two outside, so she responded with a smile: "There is a place for the little woman in the shopkeeper, and Changhai must not be rude." ”

"This is what the villain should do, Madame, someone will come to serve the tea later, and the villain will retire first." Jia Xiangyu was also worried that Shen Lan would misunderstand him, but at this time, seeing that the master was not unusual, he was also a lot more relieved.

Shen Lan nodded, but Shen Changhai on the side was a little angry, but since Shen Lan had already drunk him, he naturally didn't want to say anything, but he planned to find Jia Xiangtian to beat him later, lest this kid have a big heart and do that betrayal of the master, after all, they were all sold to the master by their parents and family, and the master not only gave them food and clothing, but also let them learn skills, all of which were in order to serve the master one day in the future and relieve the master's worries.

Not to mention what Shen Changhai thought in his heart, after a while, a small servant came over to give Shen Lan tea and dried fruits on the table, and soon filled the table with food: "Guests use it slowly." ”R1152