"Shut up, no one will let you talk." Mrs. Bu drank Li Haitang, but her eyes were staring at her son, "Yan'er doesn't want to stay in the mansion for a moment now, your third sister-in-law can't even bring her back with coaxing and persuasion, she said that she just wants to stay in the ancient mansion for a few days." Angry sister, are you satisfied? ”

Step Five knelt there, not saying a word.

Madame Bu waved her hand, and the box on the table, along with the silver ingots inside, rolled to the ground. "My son is so capable, I don't think my sister ran far enough, right? actually took a hundred taels of silver and chased it to the ancient mansion. What, this is a coil for my sister to hide elsewhere? Or is it deliberately used to humiliate Miss Gu and make Miss Gu Jia angry and drive your sister out of the house? ”

Hearing this, Li Haitang's face turned pale, he bit his lip tightly, and Chu Chu fell into tears silently. To be honest, she really wanted to destroy the relationship between Bu Yuyan and Gu Qingshu, and wondered if Gu Qingshu would be annoyed and angry and cut off the relationship with Bu Yuyan. If so, then it's good, where will Bu Yuyan hide when the time comes? She knows very well, because of Bu Yuyan's unique character, there are very few good sisters. If the relationship between Bu Yuyan and Gu Qingshu is ruined, then Bu Yuyan must be very angry, and she may do something drastic.

At that time, others will think that Bu Yuyan is willful and unreasonable, which makes her sister-in-law gentle and understanding, and even more popular. It's just that she never expected that Gu Qingshu was also not simple, and it didn't match the rumors from the outside world, so she easily broke her plan, but Mrs. Concession became suspicious and angry. Mrs. Bu Mingli is scolding her son, but in fact, she is accusing the bride of having a ghost and being uneasy and kind.

His mother's questioning made Bu Wuruyu's face pale and pale, and he said in a deep voice: "Mother, my son knows that he is wrong." "Li Shi made mistakes, and he, who was a public person, was also wrong, this is the rule of the Bu family.

Seeing that her son listened, Mrs. Bu's face eased and sighed helplessly, "In recent days, Yan'er has insisted on refusing to return home. If your grandmother asks where Yan'er has gone and how she is going to get back, you can do it yourself. When Yan'er figures it out and comes back, for the time being, you are all safe and sound, no one should go to anyone, take care of yourself. The rest, more on that later. ”

Bu Wu replied with a calm face: "Yes, mother." ”

Li Haitang lowered his head, "Yes, mother." ”

Mrs. Bu glanced at Li Haitang's extremely aggrieved appearance, and suddenly felt that it was an eyesore, "Mother is tired, you go down!" ”

Bu Wu and Li Haitang got up and retreated. When he got outside, Li Haitang whispered to Xianggong with a timid face, wanting to explain something to Bu Wu. But Bu Wu didn't pay attention to her, ignored her, and hurried away with a gloomy handsome face. When he arrived at the gate of the house, he took the reins handed by the servant, turned over on his horse, and beat the horse away.

Li Haitang, who was hanging in place, bit his lip tightly, walked back to his courtyard quickly, entered the hall, grabbed a vase and threw it to the ground. Listening to the sound of the vase shattering, she screamed hysterically, "Bu Yuyan, Gu Qingshu, you wait, dare to do this to me, you wait, hmm...... Not...... Hmmm......" she cried in her chair.

Her bride grandmother, Mama Chen, warned the trembling maids in the courtyard to take care of their mouths, and then let the square-faced maid guard the door, stepped into the hall by herself, covered the door, walked to Li Haitang's side, and whispered comfort, "Miss, why do you embarrass yourself like this?" Miss Bu doesn't want to be close to you, you follow her, why bother to let people practice. ”

Li Haitang shook his head, "Mama, haven't you seen it yet?" Although the husband married me, he has not forgiven me and will not accept me. If I can't get the heart of Xianggong, I can't give birth to a son and a half daughter for Xianggong, I won't be able to gain a foothold in Bufu, and my life will not be easy. ”

Mama Chen hugged Li Haitang and sighed.

Li Haitang began to talk to himself, "Originally, I thought about it before I got married, and when I entered the house, I would be a gentle and lovely step wife, and the first important thing was to have a good relationship with Bu Yuyan, so that the husband was happy and the elders were satisfied." When the time comes, the husband will no longer reject me, and sooner or later he will put me in his heart, and I will have no worries for the rest of my life. But I didn't expect that Bu Yuyan to be a willful and unreasonable person, hating me for no reason, and losing face to me everywhere. Why? Why did she do this to me? ”

In this regard, Mama Chen was also puzzled, "Miss, you really haven't seen Miss Bu before?" Could it be that you inadvertently offended her without knowing it? Otherwise...... what she didn't say was, otherwise, why would Miss Bu, who is so dignified and straightforward, not be able to tolerate her young lady alone.

Li Haitang shook her head, she couldn't figure out when she had offended Bu Yuyan even if she wanted to break her head. Bu Yuyan was undisguised disgusted with her, she felt inexplicable, and she felt very wronged, and then she was angry. If she was indeed currying favor with Bu Yuyan in the first three days, she deliberately provoked Bu Yuyan and made Bu Yuyan lose her temper in front of others, and then she pretended to be innocent and won the sympathy of others.

Why did she have to endure Bu Yuyan's bad temper for no reason, and when she was angry, she naturally wanted to take revenge and come back. She used to do this kind of thing handy, especially this morning, she deliberately gave Bu Yuyan a dish in a low voice, causing Bu Yuyan to throw the bowl and leave, and the fragments of the porcelain bowl almost hurt her.

At that time, if it weren't for the three and four brothers who hugged Master Bu in time, Master Bu would definitely have beaten Master Bu Yuyan. There was also Xianggong, who asked her warmly if she was hurt, and scolded Bu Yuyan for becoming more and more disagreeable. At that time, although she said not to blame her little sister, she was actually happy in her heart. Bu Yuyan provoked everyone's anger and was unpopular, she was naturally refreshing.

Later, when someone reported that Bu Yuyan went to the ancient mansion, she suddenly wondered if Gu Qingshu was behind her back, so Bu Yuyan did this to her. She guessed that Gu Qingshu had some kind of letter and doubted her relationship with Sun Jingdong, so she stumbled on her here in Bu Yuyan.

On the day of the wedding banquet, Bu Yuyan specially invited Gu Qingshu to play in the house for a day, and she heard about it on the second day after she passed the door, and the two got together to play by themselves, and did not show their faces in front of the guests, let alone go to her wedding room. Because of this incident, there were some rumors in the circle of noblewomen in the capital, which attracted all kinds of speculation.

The name Gu Qingshu became a thorn in her throat. Today, she followed the third young lady to the ancient mansion, firstly, she wanted to meet Gu Qingshu, who was becoming famous, and secondly, she wanted to provoke the relationship between Gu Qingshu and Bu Yuyan. Who would have thought that she would be countered by Gu Qingshu. How could she swallow this breath.

Mama Chen patted her back soothingly, "Miss, you dissipate your anger, don't hurt your body." Now you are the bride of the house, all the courtyards are watching your every move, you and endure it, be cautious in words and deeds, except for the daily routine to the old lady and the lady's courtyard in the morning and dusk, the rest of the time to stay in the courtyard to look at the account book, embroidery. As long as you keep to yourself and don't let people get to the wrong place, and you know that you are cold and hot and understanding in front of the fifth young master, it won't be long before the fifth young master will accept you, and Mrs. Bu is also angry. At that time, Miss Bu no matter how disliked it, you are also an upright step wife, and no one can shake your status. ”

Li Haitang shook his head, "You don't understand, as long as Bu Yuyan doesn't like me for a day, Xianggong won't give me a good face." ”

Mama Chen said: "Miss Silly, Miss Bu is already thirteen years old, and she will be fourteen years old in the next year." For a family like Bufu, Miss Bu has reached the age of discussing relatives early. Look at it, either this year or next year, Miss Bu will definitely be engaged. At that time, Miss Bu was busy embroidering wedding dresses and preparing dowries every day, and she had to devote half of her energy to watching the affairs of her husband's family, so how could she have time to live with Miss! ”

Li Haitang felt reasonable, sat up straight, no longer snuggled in Mama Chen's arms, and took Juan Pa to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, "Mama is right, I don't have to entangle with Bu Yuyan more, it's me who bothers myself." However, she won't let Gu Qingshu feel better. She felt that she had Fushun Zhai, who was making money every day, and had connections, Gu Qingshu was just a poor lady in a mansion who was destitute and exhausted, and it was easy to deal with.

Mama Chen thought that she had persuaded her young lady and put her mind at ease. But how did she know that Li Haitang had always been arrogant, and now she gave up her steps and wanted to deal with Gu Qingshu instead.

When she was about to go to bed at night, the third young lady asked in a low voice while changing her clothes for Bu San, "Did the fifth brother say anything to you?" ”

Bu San didn't answer at the time, but after lying on the bed, he hugged his wife and whispered: "I didn't say anything, I pulled my eldest brother over with me, just drinking." Get drunk and fall asleep. When I woke up before dark, I suddenly said that there was something wrong with the business in other places, and I had to go there overnight to deal with it, so I had to leave Beijing. We were not at ease, so we sent ten guards to him. ”

The third young lady whispered: "This matter is troublesome, the little sister lives with the ancient girl and refuses to come back, and the fifth brother goes out again, the mother must feel uncomfortable." ”

"My sister is not here, you will take Xiaoqiu over early tomorrow morning to accompany your mother. When the mother sees her granddaughter, she will feel better. "They are different from other families, and the most favored is their daughter's family. This is also something that can't be helped, step five of their generation, they have only one daughter, Yu Yan, and she is still the youngest. And when it comes to Buchong's generation, there is currently only one daughter in their house in the house, and the others are all boys.

"Okay." She reached out and stroked the long scar on Xianggong's forehead with her index finger, "Does it still hurt?" ”

"The man is still afraid of this injury!" Bu Wu said with a relaxed face.

She glanced at him with disgust and chattered at him, "Before Li Shi entered the door, the little sister was a sweet-mouthed person, always coaxing her grandmother and grandfather to be happy, filial piety to her father and mother, and caring to those of us who were sisters-in-law. She is also often naughty, but she is not annoying when she is naughty, and often makes everyone laugh. Such a little sister, who is not spoiled. After Li Shi entered the door, the little sister became a lot duller, and every time she saw Li Shi, she would lose her temper. It's a mess. ”

"I didn't pay attention to it a few days ago, but today because of Miss Gu's words, I thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized that something was wrong. Although the little sister doesn't like Li's, she never took the initiative to find fault with Li's, she just avoided meeting and didn't do anything out of the ordinary. However, Li Shi appeared in front of the little sister from time to time, which made the little sister angry frequently. Now my little sister is like a cannon fight, just a little bit. So I had a strange feeling that it was fake for Li Shi to improve the relationship with his little sister, and it was true to provoke his little sister to be angry. ”

Bu San frowned, "My sister's temperament is straight and easy to be calculated." In the future, you should protect your sister more, as for the Li family, you should be on guard, don't let your family suffer. ”

The husband and wife talked for a while before they fell asleep.

When the sky was white, the people of the ancient mansion got up one after another, boiling water, sharpening knives, preparing ropes, lifting boards, and carrying water to the water tank, everyone was busy and orderly. Killing four pigs at a time was not an easy task, but fortunately, the manpower and everything needed were prepared the day before.

The back door of the people in the ancient mansion opened quietly, and Wei Tiehammer in the door beckoned: "Butcher Zhang is here, come in." ”

A big man said yes and pushed the cart into the door.

Wei Tiehammer closed the door and walked towards the kitchen with the man. Soon, four short pig howls came from the open space in front of the vegetable field behind the Gufu Kitchen. Some of the neighbors woke up with a light sleep, thinking that they had heard something wrong, and some got up to wash, and some continued to sleep.

At dawn, Qingshu was woken up by a small fish. Qing Shu yawned, got up and dressed and freshened up. "It's getting busy in the back, right? Is it boiling water? ”

Xiao Yu combed Qing Shu's hair and replied, "Yes, Miss." ”

Qing Shu yawned again, "Is Butcher Zhang here?" ”

Xiao Yu's hand kept coming, "Miss, the butcher has already come, and now the four pigs have been killed, and they are scalding and removing pig hair." ”

Qing Shu sighed, it seemed that she was sleeping deeply, and she didn't wake up after killing four pigs in the backyard, "Miss Bu didn't alarm over there!" ”

"The slave maid has seen it, Miss Bu sleeps very deeply, and Miss Xiaoxing sleeps soundly." Xiao Yu said, pinned a bead flower on Qing Shu's head, looked left and right, and felt satisfied, "Miss, do you like it?" I don't like the slave to change the hairstyle again. ”

"I like it, I don't need to change my hairstyle." Qing Shu said, stood up and walked out busily, "I wonder if they have taken a pot to catch pig's blood?" ”

Xiaojuan happened to come back from outside, "Miss, don't worry, according to what you explained, not a drop of the pig's blood was thrown, all of it was connected to the wooden basin, and two basins were taken." ”

"Let's go, let's see." Qingshu couldn't help but want to go and see the scene.

Xiao Yu hurriedly said: "Miss, don't go here, wait until they are cleaned up before you go over." ”

Xiaojuan also persuaded: "Miss, there is nothing to see about killing pigs, it is very scary to be bloody." ”

Qing Shu retreated, it was indeed like that. People who love pork don't necessarily dare to look at the killing of pigs.

"Sister, sister, Yuanbao won't let me go back to watch the pig killing, and my sister will punish him." Qingyang pouted, ran in with an unhappy face, and complained to Qingshu.

Qing Shu couldn't help pinching his nose, "Bloody, nothing to see, my sister won't go, and you shouldn't go." Why do you wake up so early? What should you do when the guests come and you are sleepy and want to sleep? ”

Qingyang said with a disappointed face: "Can't you really go to see it?" ”

Qing Shu smiled: "No." It's not dawn yet, and they won't come so early, do you want to go inside and sleep for a while? ”

Qingyang's eyes lit up, "I want to sleep." With that, he ran in, went straight into the inner room, went to bed, lay down, and closed his eyes.

Qing Shu followed up and took a look, and said with a smile: "It's fast." Get up, take off your clothes, and go back to sleep. ”

Xiao Juan joked from the side, "The young master is afraid that the young master will regret it, so he won't let the young master lie on the young master's bed." ”

Qing Shu personally stared at Qingyang and took off his clothes, and then watched him lie down, then he pulled the sheet and covered his stomach and sat on the edge of the bed to guard. It wasn't until he fell asleep that she got up and went out, leaving Xiaoyu to guard outside, and took Xiaojuan to the kitchen to see how everyone was tidying up.

At this moment, Wu Langtou was leading a dozen men who had withdrawn from the Zhuangzi to gather in the open space next to the vegetable field behind the kitchen with Butcher Zhang, surrounding the four pigs that had just been cleaned of their hair, ready to cut the pigs and cut the meat.

In the open space in front of the kitchen, several women were picking and washing vegetables; In front of the two makeshift stoves next to her, Xiaoya and three other children of different sizes were chopping wood, guarding the stove fire, and helping the adults boil water. Xu Sanniang sorted out the pots and pans, and prepared the four pots in the kitchen, and distributed the meat, roasting oil, stir-frying, and steaming dishes one by one.

Seeing Qing Shu coming, the big and small all stopped their work and said hello, Qing Shu walked all the way into the kitchen, "Sanniang, are the bud noodles ready?" ”

Xu Sanniang turned around happily, "It's ready, the slave maid specially sifted it with a sieve." As he spoke, he scooped out a small half bowl of yellow-orange-orange bud noodles from a cloth bag and showed it to Qingshu.

Qing Shu twisted it with two fingers, "This should be what the book says, wait a minute, let's get a small pot of seasoning and try it, if it can be done, use all the pig's blood." ”

At this time, a half-sized boy of twelve or thirteen years old with a simple face ran into the kitchen. He saw Qing Shu stunned for a moment, and subconsciously stepped back, one hand uneasily clutching the coarse cloth clothes on his body.

Xu Sanniang saw it and grabbed him, "Wu Xiaoshan, I've seen Miss soon." ”

Wu Xiaoshan, a boy with a panicked face, knelt on the ground without saying a word, and directly kowtowed to Qing Shu three times.

Early in the morning, there were three knocks from others, Qing Shu was speechless, and hurriedly signaled Xu Sanniang to help people up.

Xu Sanniang didn't expect Wu Xiaoshan's greeting to kowtow directly, and after receiving Qing Shu's signal, she quickly pulled him up and went outside the kitchen, "You kid." Say, is there something wrong with coming to the kitchen? ”

Wu Xiaoshan lowered his head, his face flushed, "Uncle asked me to take a wooden bucket, a wooden basin and a bamboo basket, otherwise the pig's head and pig water will not fit." ”

Xu Sanniang hurriedly took him to the small warehouse next to him and asked him to move the wooden barrels and bamboo baskets that had been washed in advance.

When a bucket of fat was delivered to the kitchen, Xu Sanniang neatly chopped it, threw a part of it into the pot, and roasted the oil over low heat.

And Qingshu instructed Xiao Juan to come in with a small half pot of pig blood, scoop three bowls of ground fine bud grain noodles into the pig blood basin, and watched Xiao Juan take a rolling pin and mix it in one direction. Then add the chopped green onion, ginger, pepper and salt to taste, and stir in one direction.

Xu Sanniang said that the fat in the pot was baked, Qingshu glanced over, half a pot of oil, and under the oil was a burnt yellow oil shuttle that shrank into fine dices.

Qing Shu knew in his heart that it was done, but he didn't dare to say that, "I haven't seen what is written in the book, so it's probably like that, let's give it a try." Then beckoned Xiaojuan to bring the half-seasoned pig's blood over, and said to Xu Sanniang, "Bring oil to the shuttle, scoop three spoonfuls and put it in." ”

Xu Sanniang felt distressed when she heard that she put three spoonfuls, but she also promised to do it quickly, while Xiaojuan continued to stir the pig's blood.

Qing Shu looked at it, and the result seemed to be a little thin, probably because there was less noodles, and asked Xu Sanniang to add half a bowl of bud noodles to it. After the stirring was done, Qing Shu said, "Try frying a pot first, and then season if it doesn't work." "Modern northerners put bud noodles and buckwheat noodles in them, but people here don't know what buckwheat noodles are, and there is probably no buckwheat yet.

Xu Sanniang, who was eager to try, hurriedly lit another stove fire, and Xiaojuan was responsible for lighting the fire.

When the pot was hot, Xu Sanniang applied a layer of oil to the bottom of the pot, and when the temperature came up, she scooped a few spoonfuls of the adjusted pig's blood and spread it thinly to the bottom of the pot. Soon, a unique fragrance wafted from the pot, and the cake was formed, and she quickly turned it over. In a moment, the first pot of fried pig's blood cake came out of the pot.

Looking at the pig's blood cake with a different fragrance on the plate, Xu Sanniang hurriedly took a pair of chopsticks and gave them to Qingshu.

Qing Shu took the chopsticks, pinched a small corner, and ate it into his mouth under the gaze of his four eyes. It's delicious, it has the taste of authentic fried blood cakes in the Northeast hometown, but the salt is lighter, and I feel nostalgic. In modern times, when she was a child, she hadn't gone to the south, she was not from the city, and what she looked forward to most every year was the blood sausage and fried blood cakes made by her grandmother when she killed pigs before the Chinese New Year. Thinking of her grandmother in the depths of her memory, she couldn't help but sniff and grinned, "It's delicious." Taste it too. ”

Seeing that she looked enjoying one moment and crying the next, Xu Sanniang and Xiaojuan looked cautious, thinking that it was unpalatable, so Miss was sad. Unexpectedly, in the end, they got a delicious evaluation, the two of them looked at each other, and one took a pair of chopsticks and tasted it.

Xiaojuan was stunned, and waved her hand holding the chopsticks, "Let's fry it again." ”

Xu Sanniang ran out and shouted, "Wu Xiaoshan, quickly move those two pots of pig blood to the kitchen, hurry up." "Who's from that, hurry up and clean up the pig's intestines, you have to wash them cleanly, and there is no smell at all." Hurry up, the kitchen is waiting to be used. ”

Qing Shu ignored them, took the dishes out, and put them on the makeshift stove outside, "You're all hungry!" Little girl, the four of you, wash your hands, eat separately, and pad your stomach. After speaking, he went into another temporary kitchen, "Mother Su, is the pot ready?" ”

Su's mother wiped her hands with a cloth, "Ready, Miss." ”

Qing Shu glanced at the water in the pot with various seasonings, "Whether today's pig's trotters and pig's head meat are delicious depends on it." ”

Su's mother smiled: "Those miscellaneous books, Miss didn't read them in vain." The old slave felt that it must be delicious. She had already smelled the fragrance wafting from the kitchen next door, and coupled with Xu Sanniang's excited shout, she knew that the pig blood that Miss had made was done.

Qing Shu smiled and said, "Don't you feel sorry for me for harming things?" ”

Mother Su hurriedly said: "Don't feel distressed, whatever will happen to the young lady in the future, the old slave will not be distressed." She was just waiting for someone outside to clean the trotters and heads.

Gu Qiang sent half a fan of pork to Luofu and hasn't come back yet. Half a fan of pork is a small return gift from Qingshu to Luofu.

Butcher Zhang neatly removed the bones of the three pigs, and then lifted the half fan left after sending it to Luofu to his board cart, which was not ready to remove the bones. The three heads that had been cut off the bones cut forty or fifty catties of meat from above and left them for the kitchen, and the others were also moved to the cart, and then said hello to Wu Langtou, packed up the tools, and pushed the cart away with Wu Langtou.

There was a little meat on the bones that were picked out, and Xu Sanniang instructed people to divide them into two large cauldrons outside and stew them with water. As for the pork ribs, they are put separately and used to entertain guests at noon. When the bones and meat are cooked, take them out, put coarse grain rice in two pots of bone broth, and boil porridge.

The work in everyone's hands did not stop, and when the sun rose in the sky, but it was not sunburning, the two big pots of porridge boiled in bone broth were cooked. Su's mother gave an order, and the woman and the child were in the house, eating around the big table. Outside, the men set up a makeshift table with wooden planks and sat around to eat.

On the two tables inside and outside the house, in the middle is a large pot of bone meat and a large pot of fatty stewed vegetables. There is enough porridge to boil in bone broth, and everyone has to fry blood cakes. Regardless of men, women and children, people who have not seen oil and water for a long time let go of eating, and it feels like the New Year.

In the snack hall of Wenhua Courtyard, Qingshu, Qingyang and Bu Yuyan sat down to eat together. A small table was placed next to it, and Xiaojuan, Xiaoyu and Xiaoxing were seated.

A plate of braised pork, a plate of fried green beans with shredded pork, a plate of pork ears mixed with shredded cucumbers, and a plate of fried blood cakes.

Bu Yuyan is not interested in braised pork and fried green beans with shredded pork, but she has a soft spot for pork ears mixed with shredded cucumbers, as well as the fried blood cakes, which keep being sent to her mouth, and the white rice in the bowl basically does not move. As she ate, she asked, "It's delicious, what is this cake made of?" The color is a bit weird. ”

Qingyang, who couldn't grab the blood cake, pouted, "Sister, we won't sue her." After that, I put a pair of chopsticks and pig ears mixed with cucumbers and put them in my mouth, and my small mouth was bulging.

Bu Yuyan read a stingy sentence, and she was happy to eat.

It was almost noon, Cai Tieniu and Wei Tiehammer pushed open the heavy and quaint vermilion lacquer gate of the ancient mansion, and looked out from time to time.

About a quarter of an hour later, the sound of kicking and trampling horses' hooves approached. Cai Tieniu followed the prestige, and immediately turned around and told Gu Yuanbao who was waiting in the door, saying that the two young masters were about to arrive.

Yuan Bao hurriedly ran to the second door, "Young master, the two young masters are about to enter the door." ”

Qingyang, who was sitting in the shade of the tree and waiting, heard this, quickly got up, and greeted the gate with a happy face, and happened to jump off the horse with Buchong and Buyong.

Gu Qiang commanded Li Dalang and Wei Tiehammer, so that they took the reins of the horse as soon as possible and led the horse in through the corner gate.

Qingyang hurriedly invited them in.

Bu Chong grabbed him, "That pig, really killed?" ”

Qingyang replied with a serious face: "Kill." ”

Bu Yong also came over and asked, "Kill all four heads?" ”

Qingyang's eyes lit up, "Yes! Otherwise, how can I invite you to a pig-killing feast? "My sister said that only their house in the whole capital has a pig killing banquet, which is unique, and he feels very proud, so he must invite good friends to eat.

But he didn't know that the pigs of the big aristocratic families in the capital were slaughtered in the Zhuangzi, and the people only pulled the cleaned meat to the mansion for food. As far as their ancient mansion is "unique", they pull live pigs to the mansion to kill, if it is spread, it is estimated that most of the people in the capital will say that they are rural buns.

While the three of them were standing in the door muttering, a luxurious sedan chair stopped in front of the ancient mansion.

When the person in the sedan chair appeared, Gu Qiang was surprised, and hurriedly greeted him respectfully, "The villain has seen Lord Luo." ”

Luo Shangshu, who was chubby and short, narrowed his small slitted eyes into a line, and then said with a sudden expression: "It turned out to be Gu Qiang!" Okay, huh...... Good. I heard that there is a banquet in this house today, the old man is greedy, and he brought his little grandson over to eat, he won't be welcome, right? ”

Although Gu Qiang was shocked in his heart, how dare he say that he is not welcome, so he said loudly: "Who dares to say that Luo Shangshu is not welcome, the young master and the young lady will definitely not agree if they know it." Luo Shangshu you please, please. ”

Qingyang, who heard the movement, walked out quickly, although he was at a loss, he didn't forget to salute and greet, "Qingyang has seen Grandpa Luo." He called Luo Shangshu grandpa, completely casually based on age. As for knowing that the chubby and short old man in front of him was surnamed Luo, it was Gu Qiang's loud voice.

Luo Shangshu, who was wearing a navy blue dark pattern silk robe, laughed heartily, "Haha...... Good boy. Then he pointed to the five or six-year-old boy who followed at his feet, dressed luxuriously and with red lips and white teeth like a little girl, "His name is Luo Zirong, he is two years younger than you, and he wants to call you brother." ”

Qingyang blinked his dark eyes and stared curiously at Luo Zirong with a shy face, "Brother Zirong is good." ”

Luo Zirong blushed, hid behind Luo Shangshu, and replied in a small voice, "Brother Qingyang is good." ”

When Luo Shangshu saw it, he laughed again.

At this moment, three more horses stopped in front of the gate of the ancient mansion, and the people on horseback were Zhou Boyan in a royal blue robe, Gu Ruixing in a white robe, and a seven-step flying crane in an azure robe.

The three of them dismounted and saluted Luo Shangshu with a look of surprise.

Gu Ruixing didn't say big or small, "Old man Luo, you're really here!" Then he got a potsticker and a sentence of "bastard boy" from Luo Shangshu.

At this time, Qingshu, who got the news, also rushed over, and saw that the old and young people were just standing at the gate and talking, but they didn't go inside, and hurriedly made a woman's salute to everyone, and said crisply: "Qingyang, don't invite guests in." When the words fell, she lowered her head uncomfortably at the gaze that Boyan had seen last week.

On the day she fell off the wall and was caught by Zhou Boyan, she had been comforting herself, so she felt that it didn't matter if she was hugged by a man in that situation. But later, every time I remembered that I was embraced by him at that time, and later I was hugged by him on the wall, I felt uncomfortable. Then she came to a conclusion: she has a modern soul and is not as cheeky as she imagined.

After being reminded by his sister, Qingyang, who was at a loss, had a backbone now, and immediately came back to his senses, like a little adult, and invited a group of people to enter and sit down in the living room.

There were distinguished guests, Qingshu took out the tribute tea cloud in the gift list sent by Luofu, thought that no one in the house would brew such good tea, sighed, recalled the crude tea art learned when marrying into a wealthy family, chose the most time-saving way, quickly got it right, and called Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan to come in and serve tea to the guests. Especially Luo Shangshu's cup of tea, which Qing Shu personally brought in.

Immediately afterwards, Qing Shu beckoned Gu Qiang to hurry up and find a way to get two jars of good wine before the banquet.

Gu Qiang thought for a while, let people take the tools for digging the soil, dug in the garden for a while, and soon dug two jars out. Facing Qing Shu's stunned gaze, he explained that this was a good wine buried by Qing Shu's father seven years ago, and two jars were taken out, and there were still eight jars left buried in the ground.

In fact, there will be a pig killing banquet today, which Qingyang asked Qingshu for yesterday afternoon. Qingyang's original intention was that killing pigs to eat meat at home was a new thing, so he wanted to invite his new friends Bu Chong and Bu Yong to come to the house to eat meat, and also invite his brother Yan to eat meat.

Qing Shu saw his expectant eyes and nodded. Bu Yuyan lives in her house, and she must arrange lunch well, and at the request of her younger brother, it has become a matter of convenience to entertain Bu Chong and Bu Yong. Besides, Zhou Boyan, even if Qingyang invited him, he would not come. The reason is very simple, Zhou Boyan is an adult man, Qingyang is only seven years old, and there is no adult man in charge of the Gu family, only a little woman like Qingshu is the pillar, avoiding suspicion is one of them, and the two families have no friendship is the second. Therefore, Qing Shu concluded that Zhou Boyan would not come.

In order to make Qingyang familiar with the rules of large families, Qingshu encouraged his younger brother to write invitations, and then sent people to Bufu and Zhoufu respectively. Unexpectedly, not only did the unexpected Zhou Boyan come, but he also brought Gu Ruixing and Buqi. What's even more surprising is that Luo Shangshu brought his grandson over to eat the pig killing banquet.

The people who came were all men, and naturally Qingyang, a shy little man, greeted him in front.

Qingshu, on the other hand, was busy arranging the table.

Hot dishes include sauce-flavored pork ribs, sweet and sour tenderloin, braised pork trotters, Dongpo elbows, Sixi meatballs, and lotus leaf cake and pork.

Cold dishes include, pork ears mixed with cucumber shreds, sliced pork liver with condiments, shredded radish mixed with salt, and boiled beans in salted water.

The bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses were placed, ten dishes were served, Qingshu took Xiaoyu to the living room in person, stood outside the door to give a salute, and invited the guests to sit down. Anyway, just these guests, regardless of whether they are old or young, Qingshu directly arranged them at a table.

As for Gu Ye's side, she asked Ding Jiamei to bring four dishes over.

Bu Yuyan's side prepared the same table of dishes alone, but she was also wronged that Bu Yuyan ate alone, and Qingshu had no time to accompany her to eat.

After the people on both sides have eaten for a while, a plate of hot and sour cabbage and a plate of vegetarian fried green beans are served. Then, cut the blood sausage that has not been out of the pot into sections and put it on a plate, fry the blood cake on a plate, and serve it at the same time.

For the other dishes, although there are a few fresh recipes, everyone knows what they are made of, but there are only two things on the back, which makes people scratch their heads.

Qingyang stood up at this time, and spoke a little shyly, "In the miscellaneous book that my sister reads, it is said that pig blood seasoning can be eaten, and the taste is also very good, and people occasionally make it to eat." My sister let the kitchen try it today, and everyone tasted it and said it was delicious. If grandpa and brothers don't dislike it, they can try it. ”

It is said that the reaction of the little ones is the most immediate. Five-year-old Luo Zirong pointed to the plate of fried blood cakes and whispered, "Brother Qingyang, I want to eat." I don't know why, the shy Luo Zirong and Qingyang seem very close, maybe they were bought by the sweet and sour tenderloin on the table. Because of a table of dishes, his favorite dish is this one.

When Qingyang heard this, he grinned, "Brother will clip it for you." With that, he turned to Laura Rong's side, took clean chopsticks and gave him a piece.

Luo Shangshu didn't stop it, he also stretched out his chopsticks and grabbed a piece of it to eat, and then sighed, and then sandwiched the cut blood sausage and tasted it.

The elders have already moved their chopsticks, and the younger ones are no longer humble, and they also pick up their own and taste them.

Luo Shangshu and the others drank wine and ate slowly, while Qingyang, Bu Chong, Bu Yong and Luo Zirong, who were children, were already full. Qingyang, as the host, naturally couldn't get off the table. And the other three little ones couldn't sit still.

Zhou Boyan saw it clearly, and said with a smile: "Grandpa Luo, there are a few of us to drink with you, and you are not lonely, how about letting the four little ones go out to play?" ”

Luo Shangshu smiled and waved his hand, "Qingyang, take the three of them to play, you don't need to accompany you here." ”

Qingyang hesitated, and Luo Shangshu said again: "Go ahead, take care of Brother Zirong." ”

Qingyang agreed, greeted Bu Chong and Bu Yong, and took Luo Zirong's hand, and the four of them ran to play.

Waiting for the little one to leave the table, Zhou Boyan asked the maids and servants who were waiting in the house to go out too, and then poured a full wine glass for Luo Shangshu, "Grandpa Luo, please." ”

Luo Shangshu didn't shirk either, and drank the wine in the cup with a look of enjoyment, "Good wine." ”

Gu Ruixing said, "Old man Luo, I thought you were just talking casually, but I didn't expect to really come to eat meat." It's not enough to come by yourself, but also to bring your grandson with you, tsk, tsk, tsk. ”

Luo Shangshu's eyes widened, "Grandpa is greedy, and he came when he smelled it, what can you do?" "As he spoke, he was going to sandwich the pork liver with the condiment.

Gu Ruixing smiled, and quickly snatched the plate of pork liver, "Old man Luo, last time you robbed me of wine and drink, today I robbed you of your favorite dishes, and it was flattened." ”

Luo Shangshu was about to fight, "You bastard who is neither big nor small, when your father comes back, he will give you a good look." ”

Bu Qi took advantage of the old and young bickering, grabbed half of the pig's trotters on the plate and gnawed them, and muttered to Zhou Boyan in a low voice, "The pig's trotters made by the first-class restaurants in the capital are not so delicious." He had tasted a small piece of it before, and he had been coveting this half of the pig's trotters, but his nephews, Gu Qingyang and Luo Zirong were there, and he was too embarrassed to grab them and gnaw them.

If you want to ask why half of the pig's trotters appear in a plate of pig's trotters cut into small pieces, the answer is that Qingshu feels distressed about the pig's trotters that are marinated, and thinks that everyone is a person with identity and face, and if you love to eat, you will only clip small pieces, and no one must be embarrassed to touch this half, and it will definitely be left on the plate and come back. It's just that it backfired, and when she saw that there were only bones left on the plate, she didn't know what her expression would be?

Zhou Boyan watched the juniors leave, and the three of them, old and young, shook their heads, took a lotus leaf cake and put it on the plate in front of him, and then put a piece of button meat, put a chopsticks of hot and sour cabbage, roll it up and eat it.

Luo Shangshu quit, "Bu Xiaoqi, the pig's trotters belong to the old man, put it down." "Yan boy, don't just eat for yourself, roll one for the old man." "Gu Xiaoliu, you bastard boy, that elbow is eaten by the old man and children, what do you eat? Are you old and losing your teeth or something? ”

Zhou Boyan was very calm and unhurried while drinking and eating, but he thought in his heart: I knew that you would become like this when you met together, so it was good to take all the servants away, or not to be ashamed.

It was noisy, and they ate for another half an hour, and then they left the table, moved to the living room and drank tea for a while, and then got up and prepared to leave.

At this time, Yuan Bao found Qingshu and scratched his head, "Miss." ”

Qing Shu, who was directing Xu Sanniang to cut the pig's head, turned around, "What's the matter?" ”

Yuan Bao said: "Miss, the little guy next to Luo Shangshu said to the little one, Luo Shangshu likes to eat the pig's trotters and pork liver, and asked if there is a small kitchen?" Look at that meaning, I want to bring some back. ”

Qing Shu is not happy, what's going on with this Luo Shangshu? I actually want to eat it again. But think about it again, how many pig's trotters were enough to buy in Luofu a few days ago? You can pay it back with half a fan of pork. Well, she couldn't bear to cut her hobbies.

At this time, the little fish serving the tea hurriedly came over, "Miss." ”

Qing Shu was puzzled, "Something?" ”

Xiao Yu replied: "The housekeeper asked the slave maid to bring a message, saying that a few sons like today's pig's trotters very much, and asked the young lady if she could pack some and send a few sons?" ”

Qingshu is depressed, and she is worried about her braised pig's trotters! Four pigs, a total of sixteen hooves. Luo Shangshu cut two plates at their table, and in the end only the bones came back; At noon, Bu Xiaoba gnawed one; Qingyang and a few of them ran to the kitchen after getting off the table and shared one. That's a dozen left. In the middle, she promised to leave one for Gu Qiang to drink at night, sell four to Ruyi Restaurant, and send one to Bu Xiaoba's grandmother, so that she only has six left. But everyone wants it, so what does she eat?

Depressed is depressed, but she doesn't want to be too stingy, so she took Xiaoyu and ingots to the front and sent off guests with Qingyang. At the same time, she said that she would arrange for the pig's trotters to be sent to the provinces in the afternoon.

Luo Shangshu, Zhou Boyan and others left, but Bu Chong, Bu Yong and Luo Zirong stayed, and they said that they still wanted to play with Qingyang.

Because it hasn't been cleaned up yet, and the kitchen was too busy to prepare people's meals. Qingshu asked Su's mother to arrange for it, and the blood sausage that had just been boiled out of the pot was cut into sections, so that everyone could grab it and eat it, and pad their stomachs.

Seeing that things were almost arranged, Qingshu went back to rest for a while, and then remembered that he hadn't seen Qingyang for a long time, so he came out to look for it, and after looking for most of the mansion, he saw Qingyang and others running in the open space on the east side of the garden. These naughty ones actually caught the blowing pig's bladder as a ball and kicked it, and they all ran with red faces.

Qing Shu called them to him, except for the shy Luo Zirong, the shoes on the other three feet were gray, and they almost couldn't see the original color.

Qingshu took the four of them to the courtyard where Qingyang lived, personally wiped their faces and hands with wet cloths, and then let them drink the summer soup.

Bu Yuyan, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly said, "How did you become like an old mother, chattering." ”

Qing Shu glanced at her, "Who is like you, who doesn't call back to take a breath when you see your nephews sweating profusely, let alone ask them if they are thirsty or hungry." ”

Bu Yuyan blinked innocently and approached Bu Chong and Bu Yong, "Chong'er, Yong'er, tell Aunt Sù, are you thirsty?" Are you hungry? ”

Bu Chong and Bu Yong subconsciously wanted to nod, but they saw the little aunt squinting her eyes threateningly, and the two of them shrank their necks, shaking their heads and saying loudly: "No." ”

Bu Yuyan raised her chin angrily, "They are neither thirsty nor hungry, and I, as a little aunt, naturally know." ”

Qing Shu scolded her with a smile, "Is there an aunt like you?" Then he said to Qingyang, "Take them to the pavilion in front of Wenhua Courtyard to enjoy the coolness, and my sister has prepared snacks and fruits for you." ”

Qingyang agreed, but pulled the corner of Qingshu's skirt, and when Qingshu squatted down suspiciously, he put his small mouth to Qingshu's ear, "Sister, can we eat fried meatballs?" Zirong said that it was delicious, and he had never eaten it before. When they went to the kitchen to ask for pig's trotters to gnaw, Xu Sanniang and a woman were frying round balls, and they tasted them curiously, so they kept thinking about the taste.

Qing Shu nodded his nose and said with a smile: "Okay, my sister will send someone to send it immediately." Go ahead! Take care of Zirong. "This is Luo Shangshu's precious little grandson, if she bumps into it, she can't afford it.

After settling the four small ones, Qing Shu took the follower Bu Xiaoba into the kitchen again, and asked people to prepare four food baskets to come out.

A braised pig's trotters, a Dongpo elbow, a Sixi ball, and a pork liver and pig heart with condiments were put into a basket and handed to Bu Xiaoba, "No, give it to your grandfather and grandmother." Do you want to deliver it yourself? The old man must be very happy to see your filial piety. ”

Bu Yuyan happily took it, "I'll send it, I'll send it, I want to watch my grandfather and grandmother eat it by themselves, so that I don't want to cheapen a shameless woman." With that, he walked out with his basket.

Qing Shu smiled and reminded from behind her, "Hold the basket steady, and eat the elbow and Sixi balls when they are steamed." Also, come back for dinner in the evening. ”

Bu Yuyan shouted as she walked, "I know, I will definitely come back to eat, so I won't let you eat alone." ”

Qing Shu turned around, and put a braised pig's trotters, a Dongpo elbow, a Sixi ball, and a pork liver with condiments into the second basket, ready for Luo Zirong to take when he returned home.

Just as he was about to load the third basket, Gu Qiang came over, "Miss, the shopkeeper of Ruyi Restaurant is here." ”

Qing Shu was puzzled, "For what?" ”

Gu Qiang lowered his voice, "Mainly for pig's trotters and pig offal." ”

Qing Shu paused, "Didn't you promise to sell them four pig's trotters?" ”

Gu Qiang said again: "It was Yan Gongzi who sent him, Yan Gongzi wanted to have a banquet at Ruyi Restaurant in the evening, and specially ordered the dishes on the banquet arranged by the young lady at noon, and instructed the shopkeeper to order four banquets at the house." ”

Qing Shu was stunned, "We can eat the blood sausage, pig liver, and pig heart ourselves, how can Yan Gongzi take them out for a banquet?" "In this era, ordinary people such as pig offal will eat it, and the rich and noble people will not look at it, and they feel that they have lost their identity. Today, Luo Shangshu and they didn't dislike it, she was already very surprised, and this week Boyan even dared, and he was actually going to take it to the banquet.

Gu Qiang smiled, "Miss, on weekdays, rich and noble families don't eat these things because they don't taste good." Today's kitchen makes good food, and it is fresh food when you take it out. The richer and richer the family, the more they like to try it, and they won't do anything they are not sure about. ”

Qing Shu agreed to make this deal in disbelief, and shook her hand to let Gu Qiang go and talk to the shopkeeper, and then she was only responsible for directing the kitchen to prepare food.

Things went very smoothly, and the four seats were the same as at noon, and the Ruyi Restaurant paid a hundred taels of silver.

accidentally earned a hundred taels of silver, and Qing Shu was naturally happy. As soon as I was excited, I was presented with four plates of marinated pork head meat, and four plates of jelly skin that had been boiled in the morning and formed in the evening. As for the condiments of the skin jelly, if you are afraid of spilling, put it in a small jar, tell the guys at the Ruyi Restaurant to bring it back, and pour it on before serving. In today's weather, the hot dishes are out of the pot and transported from the ancient mansion to the table of Ruyi Restaurant, and it is not cold at all.

Although summer is coming to an end, the meat is also unbearable. Selling the leftover meat during the day, Xu Sanniang chooses the right part and cuts it into long strips and salts it; There is also a lot of leftover meat, fatty meat or roast oil, or stir-fried vegetables, and pork belly is made into braised pork or button meat.

Qing Shu was not stingy, except for a few delicate meat dishes that allowed Xu Sanniang to go to the well, all the others served the people's dinner table and let them eat openly. The original subordinates in the house, plus the twenty-one people who were evacuated from Zhuangzi, are really "many people have great strength", so many meat and vegetables, as well as blood sausages, pig's head meat, etc., are actually eaten cleanly, and there is no need for Qingshu to worry about the problem of going bad overnight.

After a tired day and taking a bath, Qingshu lay on the bed and stretched a comfortable waist, thinking about a few things to do tomorrow, and unconsciously fell asleep