Chapter 140: Procurement in Beijing
"I've got it here for you."
Qinglang said and prepared to leave.
"Hey...... Feed...... Wait a minute......"
Seeing that Qinglang was leaving, Ye Xiaoyu hurriedly stopped, although she hated "hot face sticking to cold ass", but after all, Qinglang made the table and sent it to herself, how to say it, I have to thank you a little. He is paralyzed and does not know how to count, he is a normal person, but he can't see the same as him.
Hearing Ye Xiaoyu's words, Qinglang turned to look at Ye Xiaoyu, as if urging her to finish her words quickly.
"That...... Actually, it's nothing, I just want to say that anyway, you came so far to send a table over, and you waited for me at the door for so long, why don't you come in and have a cup of hot tea before leaving, it's quite cold......"
Ye Xiaoyu finished his words in one breath while rubbing his hands, the temperature outside was really low, and if he didn't go in if it was sunny, he wouldn't care about him.
"I didn't send it on purpose."
After being silent for a while, Qing Lang held back such a sentence.
Ye Xiaoyu was about to faint on the spot, what kind of person is this, if you can't speak, it's better not to speak.
"It's too cold, let's get in......"
Don't care about Qinglang, Ye Xiaoyu walked directly to the courtyard, she deliberately didn't take the table, so that, according to her little understanding of Qinglang, he would definitely move the table into the house.
Sure enough, after Ye Xiaoyu opened the door, Qinglang appeared in the room carrying the table. Hong'er was called to the kitchen to help wash the dishes after dinner, and Liu Mei'er went home after dinner, so Ye Xiaoyu was the only one in the house.
"Sit down, ......"
After Sunny put the table down. was a little cramped and dumbfounded, Ye Xiaoyu looked a little funny.
"Come on, come on...... Drink tea and try my craft by the way. ”
After beckoning Qinglang to sit down, the heat preservation effect of the clay pot with tea was not very good, Ye Xiaoyu went to the kitchen to make him a cup of hot tea, took two small cakes and put them on the plate, and handed them to Qinglang, although she knew that Qinglang might not necessarily eat it. Due to the cold weather. Ye Xiaoyu smoked the finished small cake on top of the lid of the pot with hot water. So it's still warm when you take it out, and it's not too cold.
Sunny looked at the small cake on the plate and didn't speak, but picked up the cup. Took a sip of tea.
"Where do you put the table?"
I looked around the room. Sunny asked. The hall is a little small. Ye Xiaoyu has already placed two tables, and this third one seems to take up a lot of space wherever it is placed.
"Ugh. It's okay, just leave it there for now. ”
In this room, there is really no extra place to put such a small table, Ye Xiaoyu plans to move it to the bedroom by herself later, and wait until the day of eating hot pot to take it out, otherwise it will be put in the hall like this, and when Liu Mei'er comes tomorrow, there will be no place to walk.
"Let's go first."
After sitting in silence for a while, Qing Lang finally put down the teacup, got up and said lightly.
"Oh, by the way, I'm going to treat everyone to dinner in a few days, you should be free, right?"
was so silent by Qinglang that Ye Xiaoyu almost forgot to invite him to come here to eat hot pot in two days. It's good that I finally remembered, otherwise I would have to look for him everywhere.
Hearing Ye Xiaoyu say this, Qinglang's footsteps paused slightly, but he didn't say anything and left directly.
"I'll call you then!!"
Looking at the sunny back, Ye Xiaoyu shouted again. Although he didn't react at all, he must have listened, right?
The iron pot and table have been prepared, and there is ready-made charcoal at home, and Ye Xiaoyu's "hot pot plan" is now only the ingredients that have not been prepared.
Speaking of ingredients, Ye Xiaoyu is going to take a leave of absence from Lu Yishou tomorrow and go to the capital in person, in addition to buying ingredients, go to the shopkeeper Liu by the way, and inquire about the contact store.
Ye Xiaoyu knew that this matter was in a hurry, and the vegetables in the field had not grown yet, but he had made a special trip to the capital to buy things this time, and he just stopped by to see him and say hello based on etiquette, which should be reasonable.
The next day, when Lu Qian heard Ye Xiaoyu say that she was going to the capital to buy some things, she also asked to go with Ye Xiaoyu for the first time. This request, not only Lu Yishou and Jiang Ping were startled, but Ye Xiaoyu was also frightened. Since the eighth day of the first lunar month, everyone knows what the capital means to Lu Qian, if it weren't for all the family businesses in Quanxiu Village, for Lu Qian, Lu Yishou planned to move to the south to live, so that she could stay away from Yuejing, a place of right and wrong. But today she actually mentioned that she wanted to go again, and Lu Yishou felt that his heart was a little insufficient.
Because she knew about the woman in yellow, Ye Xiaoyu was more worried than Lu Yishou and his wife, if Lu Qian went to make trouble with those two families this time, wouldn't she become an accomplice if she accompanied her? Although Ye Xiaoyu sympathized with Lu Qian after all these things, she still couldn't do it if she wanted her to die with Lu Qian.
"I just want to go out and buy something."
As if seeing Ye Xiaoyu's worried eyes, Lu Qian explained. Recently, I was bored at home, Ying'er is a fool again, and she doesn't even have anyone to talk to, it just so happens that Ye Xiaoyu is going to the capital, and she can go out to breathe by the way, maybe it's okay...... Meet Ling Yu.
"Qian'er, your father and I don't want you to go out, we just feel that this capital is far away, go back and forth, tired and panicked, what do you want, ask Xiaoyu to bring it to you or ask your father to ask someone to buy it."
Jiang Ping hurriedly said with a smile, fortunately, she only gave birth to one, otherwise, with Lu Qian's temperament, there would be no peace in the family.
"It takes half a day to ride back and forth in a carriage at most, where the distance is far away. Moreover, Ye Xiaoyu is younger than me, don't you all go well? ”
Lu Qian said angrily, she is not a fool, she knows what her parents are worried about, but there is no point in staying at home like this, and her free days make her even more uncomfortable.
"Qian'er ......"
"Okay, needless to say, I've already decided, Ying'er, you go and ask Uncle Yang to drive the car to the gate of the yard."
Jiang Ping wanted to say something, but was directly interrupted by Lu Qian.
Seeing that Lu Qian's intention to go had been decided, Lu Yishou and his wife had no choice but to follow her, but they kept telling Ye Xiaoyu to take a good look at Lu Qian, and don't let her do anything out of the ordinary.
Ye Xiaoyu had to nod helplessly in agreement, having said that, if Lu Qian really wanted to do something out of the ordinary, how could she Ye Xiaoyu stop her. On this trip, Ye Xiaoyu could only pray in her heart not to meet Ling Yu or the woman in yellow, otherwise, ...... Hehe.......
The market was crowded and noisy, Ye Xiaoyu took Lu Qian, and finally squeezed in front of the meat stall. Originally, Ye Xiaoyu saw that Lu Qian, the eldest lady, was afraid of getting dirty, so she asked her to wait in the carriage outside and go in by herself, but Lu Qian also wanted to go in to have a look, for fear that she would get lost, Ye Xiaoyu had to take her hand and squeeze into the crowd.
In fact, don't buy a lot of meat, the Lu family raises a lot of sheep, chickens and ducks and other poultry, I heard that Ye Xiaoyu needs mutton for a treat, before Ye Xiaoyu came to the capital, Lu Yishou picked a fat sheep, and explained it to his subordinates to deal with it and keep it for Ye Xiaoyu to "treat" at night.
So Ye Xiaoyu's trip was mainly to buy beef and vegetables. It's spring now, the vegetables grown by themselves have not yet grown, there are only cabbages hidden in the cellar at home, although the cabbage shabu shabu is also good, but only one is really a single point, Yuejing is a metropolis after all, here, you can definitely see other vegetables.
Sure enough, the price of beef on the market is high, and it was sold for more than 90 yuan a catty, although the beef in the previous life was not very cheap, but it was too expensive here, no wonder no one had seen this kind of thing. Because it was too expensive, and the family had already killed a fat sheep, Ye Xiaoyu symbolically bought a catty, such an expensive thing, it would be good to have a good time.
Then, regarding the price of vegetables, Ye Xiaoyu was also frightened. Now that the weather is cold, there are no seasonal vegetables, and the vegetables sold in the market in Yuejing are not out-of-season vegetables raised by farmers in "greenhouses" on the outskirts of Yuejing, or they are transported from the distant island of Qiongzhou.
Qiongzhou Island is like spring all year round, but it is far away from Yuejing, and the price of vegetables transported from there is naturally high, and Ye Xiaoyu is more curious about the "cellar planting method" adopted by farmers in the suburbs of Yuejing.
In fact, if you think about it a little, you will know that this principle is not complicated, the temperature in the field is very low in winter, and there is frost, which is naturally not suitable for crop growth. But the cellar is different, compared to the outside, the thermal insulation efficiency is much better, and then put some horse manure inside, as long as the good thermal insulation performance of the cellar and the heat released by the fermentation of horse manure can ensure the normal growth of vegetables. However, this method is good and very cheap, and it requires little additional cost, but due to the limited calories, the vegetables do not grow quickly, and they are often easy to freeze to death halfway. It may be for this reason that the vegetables grown in the "cellar greenhouse" are sold so expensive.
In his previous life, when Ye Xiaoyu was studying agriculture, he had read some ancient books about agricultural planting. It is mentioned in the "Biography of the Followers": "Taiguan Garden is planted with winter onions, leeks, vegetables, and ru, covered with roofs, burning fires day and night, and waiting for warmth to be born." This means that there are houses built on the gardens of the official families, and the temperature of the houses is increased by burning fire day and night in winter, which is used for vegetable production as a tribute for the emperor's relatives and dignitaries. At the same time, with the development of society, at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the greenhouse was not only used for vegetable production, but also for raising rare birds and beasts, and cultivating strange flowers and trees. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Jia's "Collected Memories" of the former Qin Dynasty said: Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty "lived in the house of the fourth time,...... and Lingruijia birds, abundant flowers, and trees, which are not their addresses. The "house of four hours" mentioned here is the greenhouse.
However, the ancients in the previous life believed that the vegetables and crops cultivated by using "greenhouses" were "things from time to time" and "harmful to people", which violated the laws of nature, and the imperial court at that time also repeatedly ordered farmers to prohibit planting.
But judging from the fact that so many out-of-season vegetables are sold in the market, it should be legal to use "greenhouses" to grow in Daye Country. (To be continued......)