Chapter 22: The Younger Brother
Pork bones and beef bones boiled into glue, fried noodles, starch syrup, icing, egg white, danqu.
Just looking at these things, no one could figure out what Wan Ning was going to do.
Wan Ning stood up and went to the kitchen with Mrs. Shen Si.
Mrs. Shen Si looked at Wan Ning and reached for the eggs, "What do you want to do and let the cook do it." ”
Wan Ning shook her head, "This thing, the cook really doesn't know how to make it." ”
But she is the best at it, who told her to eat sugar the most, all kinds of flavors of sugar, every day to put a few pieces in her pocket, send away the patient she peeled a piece and put it in her mouth.
It's sweet and sour.
The one she does now is one of her favorites.
Seeing Wan Ning skillfully busy, Mrs. Shen couldn't help but ask again, "What are you going to do?" ”
"Make sugar." Wan Ning breaks the egg and leaves the egg whites out.
Make sugar? How did this kid think of making candy, there are things on the street, all kinds of sugar, if you want to eat it, you can buy it, why bother so much, besides, why make sugar made of bones.
"Auntie, don't worry, it will be done in a while."
Wan Ning looked at the cook next to her, "You come to help me, you can do whatever I say." ”
The cook nodded quietly.
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Mrs. Shen Si saw Wan Ning and the cook busy in the house, and there were conversations in the house from time to time.
"Miss Seven, is that so?"
"I'm going to keep fighting."
The two of them spoke as if they were playing dumb riddles, and Mrs. Shen Si couldn't hear them clearly.
Wan Ning rolled up her sleeves and walked around with a smile on her face, which made Mrs. Shen Si stunned, but she just went into the kitchen to cook something, why was Wan Ning so happy.
The sky suddenly became overcast, and it began to rain drippingly, and Mrs. Shen Si was just about to ask someone to hold an umbrella, when she saw a small figure in the corner.
The figure had apparently seen her as well, and was about to turn and flee.
"Brother Kun," Mrs. Shen Si called Brother Kun to stop, and Brother Kun ran out of the hall with his head down, followed by a nurse with an ugly face.
"Fourth wife, it's all my fault, I didn't watch the sixth master."
Brother Kun didn't wait for the nurse to finish speaking, so he shook his head very boldly, "Mother, I want to come and see Seventh Sister." ”
Brother Kun came to see Wanning.
The rain was heavier, and the fragrance of Konoha wafted in the courtyard, and Kun Ge had rain on his hair and kept looking into the kitchen.
Mrs. Shen Si's heart suddenly softened, "Just say it if you want to, what are you doing in hiding?" Your sister and the cook cook together, and it'll be ready in a while......"
Before Mrs. Shen Si finished speaking, Wan Ning had already seen Brother Kun and beckoned to Brother Kun with a smile, "Brother Kun come here, I'll show you good things." ”
Brother Kun left Mrs. Shen Si and ran into the kitchen happily.
Mrs. Shen straightened her waist and saw Wan Ning squatting down and asking Brother Kun to look into the bowl, "It'll be ready in a while, and I'll be the first one to eat for you when the time comes." ”
Brother Kun nodded, stood beside him obediently, and Wanning was not unfamiliar, and opened his mouth to talk.
"I just studied with my husband, and my mother said that I was good at reading and that she would make me a purse." Brother Kun said and looked at Mrs. Shen Si, as if to let Mrs. Shen Si confirm it.
Mrs. Shen Si smiled and nodded, "Mr. said that Brother Kun is good at reading, and promised us to go back to Yangzhou to teach Brother Kun together." ”
Brother Kun is only six years old, is it a little too young to ask Mr. to ask, is it possible that his uncle wants Brother Kun to take the road of the imperial examination?
"Brother Kun loves to read." Brother Kun raised his head and said very seriously.
"Yes," Mrs. Shen Si immediately said, "Brother Kun likes to read...... It's a pity that I can't find a good Xixi...... "If it is the Yao family, it must not be difficult to invite Xixi, I heard that it is a businessman, as long as the famous Xixi shakes his head and refuses."
Thinking of this, Mrs. Shen Si felt indebted to Brother Kun.
My aunt's demeanor was a little strange, and every time I mentioned Brother Kun, I had a meaningful look, trying my best to hide something.
Qungo.
Wan Ning looked at Kun Gezai carefully.
Brother Kun's appearance is less and less like his aunt, and he can barely say that he looks a little like his uncle.
Brother Kun raised his face, "Brother Kun has grown up, and he wants to take the Tongsheng exam like Mr." ”
Mrs. Shen Si smiled, "Okay, maybe our Brother Kun can also be named on the gold list." ”
Wanning remembered that when she was a child, she followed her father in office, once she ran into the book drying field, lowered her head to smell the dried books, she liked to smell the faint aroma of paper and ink, she also wanted to pick up the book and smell it, if the nurse hadn't found it early, she would have torn the book.
The mother talked about this with palpitations, and the father was not afraid, but put his hand on the top of her head, "In the future, our family will have a talented girl." ”
At that time, my father and mother were still very good.
Wan Ning tugged her thoughts back.
The Great Zhou Dynasty did not have a merchant registration, and the Shen family relied on the clan to enter the attached nationality in the past, on the surface, it was a squire, and the Great Zhou Law stipulated that prostitutes, preferentials, subordinates, pawns and their descendants were not allowed to enter the examination and donate to prisons, and it did not say that the squires who were attached to the nationality were not good, but the family of merchants was always excluded by the scholarly family, and no one had the heart to take the imperial examination.
Although my aunt was smiling, there was a reluctant look in her eyes.
Is it because he is afraid that Brother Kun will make a mistake on this road, or is there another reason?
Wan Ning wanted to know.
"Miss Seven, is this a good job?"
The cook's voice came, and Wan Ning raised her head to look.
"Okay, let's take a look when it's cool."
Mrs. Shen Si was also attracted to the past, and when she saw the things brought by the cook, she looked strange and she had never seen them before, "What kind of candy is this?" Looks like a cat's paws. ”
The top of the white ball looks like it has been stepped on by a kitten, and the footprints are still pink, like the soft meat pads of cats.
Brother Kun tilted his head and waited.
"Brother Kun, have you ever seen candy like this?"
Brother Kun shook his head, "But I know that the second aunt likes to eat candy, and every time my mother takes me to see the second aunt, she sends a lot of candy." ”
Aunt took Brother Kun to see his mother?
Wan Ning raised her head and looked at Mrs. Shen Si.
Mrs. Shen Si's hand couldn't help shaking, and she hurriedly staggered her gaze, and her eyes fell on the sugar, "These things are really beautiful, are you going to take them out and sell them?" ”
Wanning shook her head, "No, it's just a visit to the tea and snacks sent by a famous family in Taixing County." ”
"Visiting people in Taixing County?"
Wan Ning nodded, "Isn't our shop doing tea trading?" We will choose a good dragon well and give it to the gentry and wealthy merchants, and we will send tea and refreshments. ”
Brother Kun's gaze still fell on the cute cat's claw candy, "Can you eat it now?" ”
"Not yet," Wan Ning looked at the cook, "and it should be covered with a layer of our fried noodles, and it can be eaten in about half an hour in this weather." ”
Coming out of the kitchen, Wan Ning looked at the hour, "I can't let Mrs. Li wait too long." ”
Mrs. Shen Si bowed her head, "I'll let people prepare the carriage and horses." ”
Shen Jingyuan was still not at ease, "Be careful everywhere in the Yao family, if you don't have a comfortable life...... Let someone write to me that your aunt and I will live in Taixing for a while. ”
Uncle didn't leave because he was worried about her, right?
"Uncle won't go to Biansai this year?"
Shen Jingyuan shook his head, "Now...... It's different from before, there are more and more grains quoted for salt, some people use mixed brown rice to put in the warehouse, and some people use white strips to mix salt to lead, this time I really want to buy some grain. ”
It turned out that my uncle really wanted to buy grain.
Shou must know about this, otherwise how could he be so confident in selling grain.
Shen Jingyuan didn't want to say more, "The shopkeeper on your tea shop happens to be in Changzhou Mansion, so you can come over in a few days." ”
Wan Ning said: "I have already thought about what to do, so I have to work hard for my uncle to start doing it when the shopkeeper enters Taixing." ”
It took only a few days to prepare things and go to the shopkeeper to do things.
Wan Ning handed Shen Jingyuan what she had written in advance.
"When the shopkeeper comes, my uncle will hand it over to him, I may not have the opportunity to come here all the time, and there is another way to meet."
Can't stay too long, lest the Li family be embarrassed, Wanning got up and said goodbye.
Mrs. Shen Si and Brother Kun sent Wan Ning out of the door, and before getting into the carriage, Wan Ning turned her head to look at her aunt, "I don't know when Brother Kun's birthday is." ”
"It's the fifth day of the third month," Mrs. Shen Si said with a smile, "The fifth day of the third month is Brother Kun's birthday. ”
Wan Ning thought slowly, "When my mother didn't return to Yangzhou, my aunt was pregnant with Brother Kun?" We didn't even know it at the time. "My mother was divorced in June, so I guessed that my aunt was pregnant at that time.
Mrs. Shen's expression stiffened slightly, and her hand pulled Brother Kun tightly, "You are young and don't know the truth here, at that time...... No one knows, not even me, and then your mother ...... Something happened, and we didn't have any news. ”
After my aunt gave birth to my third brother, she had a miscarriage once, and she has been taking medicine to supplement her body for many years. My mother also brought medicine to my aunt from Beijing, and then my aunt didn't seem to take medicine anymore and wanted to take a concubine for my uncle, so I cried with my mother.
Wan Ning squatted down and looked at Brother Kun, "Brother Kun, do you want to find a good gentleman to teach you." ”
Brother Kun nodded, "Yes." ”
"Then study hard," Wan Ning stretched out her hand to straighten Brother Kun's clothes, "You study hard, we will definitely invite Mr. Good." ”
Wan Ning looked at Brother Kun's eyes that were exactly the same as hers flashing with a sincere and determined gaze, and stretched out her arms to hold Brother Kun in her arms.
Mrs. Shen Si next to her almost exclaimed.
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