The heavy snow has passed, and the winter solstice is coming.

In Jingzhou City, the servants of the Cui family were busy going in and out. Cui Miao was half demented and half stupid, lying on the bed, drooling, and his lower body was useless. After the famous doctors invited by Cui Lie checked Cui Miao, they shook their heads, and the older Doctor Qi walked up to the anxious Cui Lie and arched his hand, "I'm afraid Ling Lang has become a waste, I still hope..."

Cui Lie's eyelids jumped, he picked up the wine jar on the table and smashed it, with a loud bang, smashing Doctor Qi's head and bleeding, and he fell to the ground. The rest of the doctors retreated in shock, not daring to come forward to help others, nor daring to say more.

"Say!" Cui Lie's big hand slapped the table with a bang, his eyes were bloodshot and angry, Cui Hao and Cui Sheng, who were standing next to him, lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak.

After a long time, the old doctor lying on the ground slowly stood up, his old hair falling down on his forehead, and blood spilling out, grinning, "Cui... Cui Lie, your Erlang has no eyes, but in fact, he is like a soul swimming body, which is dementia; One of the two life-roots beads is missing, and he is already crippled, hehe, I heard that Ling Lang was lustful and unjust, and today's disaster really deserves it..."

When Cui Lie heard this, he immediately became angry, overturned Doctor Qi to the ground, punched and kicked together, beat him half to death, and then asked the servant to carry him out. Cui Lie looked at Cui Miao who was lying on the bed and smirked in distress, and then looked at Cui Hao and Cui Sheng, and was angry, "You must give birth to a few grandchildren for me next winter!" Break your dog's legs! ”

Cui Hao raised his bloated chin, quietly glanced at Cui Lie, and met Cui Lie's fire-breathing gaze, "What do you see, if you don't give birth to a grandchild to inherit the lineage, you are not allowed to eat!" ”

Cui Sheng raised his eyebrows, but glanced at his brother with sweaty forehead and ugly face, but this was also seen by Cui Lie, "What do you see, you too, you can't give birth to grandchildren, don't think about playing!" ”

Cui Hao Cui Sheng stood and said yes again and again, Cui Lie got up and sat down, sat down and got up, paced back and forth in the room, seemed to be tired of the doctor standing on the side, waved his hand to rebuke them, thought about it, and made up his mind, "Hao'er, you go to open the family's warehouse and take out a thousand taels of gold, Sheng'er, you go and call Yu Chiyang, just say I have something to say!" ”

"I understand!"

The two of them spoke in unison, and hurried out the door as if they had been granted amnesty.

Wei Chituo was lying on the bed, his chest was hit hard, his body was faintly painful, and the whole person looked very vague, and he had been in a coma for three days.

Wei Chiyang has been guarding his brother for the past few days, and he only knows that his brother will say in a daze that the thunder explodes, the ghost and god possess something, and the little lady is a ghost and god or something, and he doesn't know what he suffered, but obviously like Cui Ergongzi, he was seriously injured when he came back from Shili Village.

At this time, the vicious-eyed Wei Chiyang was thinking about how to seek revenge, and when he heard Cui Sanlang's call, he knew that it was the head of the Cui family who was looking for him.

When Cui Lie saw Yu Chiyang coming, he put his thoughts together and asked Yu Chiyang to contact the mountain bandits in Yijugang, and promised him a lot of money to sell his life for the Cui family again. After Cui Lie explained the matter here, he went to the Assassin's Mansion to meet Liu Tingshi.

Speaking of Wu Yueya, she was invited by the Gu family to participate in the Gu family's noon banquet. This banquet was because the 'fake' jewelry in the newly opened jewelry store was sold, so Wu Yueya, who had made suggestions, was invited together, and Gu Yi held a celebration banquet in the lobby of the Gu family's inner courtyard. Of course, for the sake of the pickled fish trade in the Yangtze River waterway, Gu Yi will be ready to come back for the New Year with peace of mind, and so far a banquet has been set up to invite all the shopkeepers.

On this day, the Gu family set off fireworks, although it was daytime, it was a festive day, and the explosion of fireworks could be heard from a distance. Wu Yueya came to the door of Gu's house, showed the invitation to the servant who checked the invitation, and was allowed to enter.

However, Wu Yueya saw some beggars with a piece of clothing, and wanted to ask the servants for some food, but they were unexpectedly kicked away by the servants. Wu Yueya looked at the beggar crawling on the ground, frowned, and never said anything, but when she arrived at the door, she smelled the fragrance of the dishes, and she was a little curious about what kind of dishes there would be at this Gu family banquet, after all, she had never eaten anything good here.

When I walked in, I saw a charming woman walking around the lobby, as if she was arranging something, and when I got closer, it turned out to be a lute.

This woman was born charming, but she also had a bit of beauty, which was about the same age as Wu Yueya, and slightly attracted Wu Yueya's attention. And the other party also noticed Wu Yueya's gaze, and was slightly surprised when he looked at Wu Yueya, how could this woman be born like a narcissus, and when she appeared, she was like a lotus flower that was not stained with the dust of the world, which really envied her.

Wu Yueya smiled at the charming woman, "Hello! ”

"Huh?" Lan Xiaojing was startled, and when she came back to her senses, she saw that Wu Yueya didn't look like a subordinate, so she hurriedly bent down and saluted, "The slave family is Hongjuan Lou Lan Duzhi, who is this little lady?" ”

Wu Yueya looked at the other party, but generously picked up the dates on the dining table, "The Lu family of Shili Village." ”

Lan Xiaojing was stunned for a moment, then turned around and continued to sort out the pipa with the Gu family's maidservant, but ignored Wu Yueya. Wu Yueya was puzzled, walked in and looked at the other party's quaint pipa, and had the urge to go up and try it, but after all, this was someone else's thing, and she was embarrassed to touch it.

At this time, Lan Xiaojing naturally found that Wu Yueya was curious about her pipa, and after knowing that Wu Yueya was a villager, she said unceremoniously, "What do you see, the hillbilly has never seen the world." ”

"Heh," Wu Yueya opened her mouth, she really looked down on herself as a hillbilly, so she went to the couch next to the dining table and sat down, eating the sweet dates on the table.

"Hey, you're so rude, my master hasn't arrived yet, why do you move the food on it, get up, get up!" A servant girl walked over, pulled Wu Yueya up, and drove her away from her seat.

Wu Yueya smiled helplessly, and took out two dates, but was snatched back by the other party, so she had to walk outside the lobby and look up at the sky, when there was a sound of chatting inside.

"Xiao Cui, why do you want to molest others, in case it is Gu Langjun's important guest?"

"What do you know, Ah Hong, our Gu family is a wealthy merchant in Jingzhou City, that little lady is beautiful, but she is very unreasonable, and she is wearing a linen dress, she is simply the 'hillbilly' that Lan Duzhi said!"

Wu Yueya listened to the laughter coming from the lobby, she was laughing herself, and teased herself happily in her heart, Hillbilly Hillbilly, you are really a hillbilly, you don't understand any politeness, the ancients were too many rules and annoying.

"Hey, who are you? If you don't go to help take care of the lobby, what are you lazy here, and the shopkeepers will come later. ”

Wu Yueya heard the sound and saw that this was a young man in a white robe, with clear facial features, but the shelf was very large, and he was frowning and looking at himself.

"You're new here?"

Wu Yueya looked away and sighed, learned from the woman who claimed to be Duzhi, and said politely to the white-robed young man who came over, "Yes, it's not long before I arrived." ”

"Well, then I don't blame you, I want to be more familiar with the situation at home, and go and help!" The white-robed young man turned and walked towards the small vegetable garden in front of him, bending down and looking down to the left and right. He can now be regarded as a popular shopkeeper beside Gu Yi, and he has been accompanying Gu Yi to deal with the fresh fish business in the Yangtze River waterway for the past few months.

Wu Yueya walked into the lobby and walked to the maidservant girl named Xiaocui, "You all have your Mai and Erpo?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Cui cleaned up the couch, looked at Wu Yueya a little confused, and then handed a rag to Wu Yueya with some dissatisfaction, "I heard what the white shopkeeper said just now, I don't care about it when you just come, go and wipe the table over there!" Don't steal it! ”

Wu Yueya saw that Xiao Cui got up neatly and continued to clean the other couches, shrugged helplessly, picked up a rag to wipe the food table, this woman should also look like a teenager, although it is really pitiful to sell herself as a slave, anyway, it is better than those beggars who are struggling to live outside, at least they don't have to worry about eating, drinking, and living. The master of the Gu family is not bad, but she also heard a little about the humiliation of the Cui family's maid when she was eating in the Gu family's building, isn't the servant a human being when she buys it back?

Wu Yueya was busy wiping left and right, and she was probably almost done cleaning. During this time, the self-proclaimed noble woman has been playing with the lute, occasionally plucking the sound.

Wu Yueya took advantage of Xiaocui's inattention and secretly took a date and put it in her mouth. Who knew that Xiao Cui's eyes were sharp, and when she saw Wu Yueya being so disobedient, she came over and shouted for Wu Yueya to spit it out!

Wu Yueya was about to raise her hand to surrender, and there was a sound of greeting each other outside, it seemed that it was the head of the Gu family and the shopkeepers who had arrived, Xiaocui obediently stopped the 'lesson', and pulled Wu Yueya to stand respectfully to the side and looked at the door of the lobby, asking Wu Yueya not to eat dates in front of the master, just eat it secretly this time.

Gu Yi spoke loudly, no longer as rigid as before, and seemed to be in a good mood, so he smiled. In addition to the shopkeepers who came in with Gu Yi, there was also the white shopkeeper who had trained Wu Yueya before. After taking a seat, Gu Yi sat on the chairman, and the white shopkeeper sat in the upper side seat, close to Gu Yi's seat.

Wu Yueya looked quietly and found that there were nine shopkeepers, and only two of them did she knew, and she didn't recognize the rest. Although people are invited to dinner, how can they look down on themselves if the Gu family is a big family? I guess I had prepared some food for myself in a small room, but it wasn't.

The young shopkeeper in the white robe looked around, but found that there were more seats, which couldn't help but be a little strange, could it be that Gu Langjun remembered it wrongly, but it was unlikely after thinking about it, after all, the head of the Gu family was already rigorous, how could this kind of misremembering thing happen, and asked puzzledly, "Gu Gong, why is there an extra vacancy in the banquet?" ”

Gu Yi was a little mysterious when he heard this, then laughed out loud and looked at the shopkeeper in the banquet, "Is the little lady of the moon a little girl here?" ”

"Gu Gong, I informed her earlier, and she should have arrived." The shopkeeper touched his chin and furrowed his eyebrows to put on a sad face when he usually settled accounts.

At this time, the shopkeeper Zhao, who had been taking care of Gu's house, was clever, and at a glance he found Wu Yueya standing next to the maid Xiaocui, so he secretly waved to Wu Yueya.

This naturally did not escape the gaze of the head of the Gu family, and Gu Yi looked in the direction where the shopkeeper Zhao was looking. I saw that the maid Xiaocui was suddenly cramped and uneasy, and seemed to feel a little inappropriate.

"Oh, little lady Yueya, come here, the empty seat is reserved for you, no need to stand, let alone formality!"

Wu Yueya raised her head when she heard the sound, looked at Gu Yi, and then met several pairs of eyes with a sense of scrutiny, so she had to learn from Lan Duzhi, who was sitting on the couch next to her with the pipa in her arms, to salute before, and saluted Gu Yi stiffly.

"Don't be restrained, sit down, let me introduce to you, she is the strange woman who came up with ideas for our Gu family to sell 'fake' goods, so that our Gu family can overwhelm others in the jewelry business, and the shopkeeper has been assessed, the means of keeping accounts of the little lady of the moon are extraordinary, but there is no difference in the account books, especially the accounts are included in some grids, and the eyes are clear, I only felt that the little lady of the moon has seven tricks in her heart, and she is really a genius in the world."

After Gu Yi finished speaking, he attracted the appreciative voices of all the shopkeepers, but the white shopkeeper looked at Wu Yueya who was walking towards the banquet in shock, he had scolded her before, saying that people were lazy, but now after Gu Gongyi's introduction, he knew that this was the case, and his face suddenly became embarrassed, and it was not good to fall down and apologize.

Lan Duzhi, who was holding the pipa, hurriedly got up, first saluted Gu Yi, and then in front of Wu Yueya, his face was sincerely frightened, for fear that Wu Yueya would take advantage of this to make her fall into a bad reputation, after all, she was ignorant and scolded others for being hillbillies.

Lan Du, who saw the Red Silk Building, knew that in front of Wu Yueya, there was a look of making amends, including the master's Gu Yi who was puzzled.

Wu Yueya watched the other party come forward and smiled apologetically, and her heart was also strange. He poured wine into the bowl and picked up the wine bowl, "I don't know the fairy dust, and I vainly say that the village woman is looking for rice, and today I will punish a full glass of wine, and the pipa is attached to the fairy posture." ”

This Lan Duzhi drank a bowl of wine as an atonement, and by the way, he praised Wu Yue Aya for her beauty, but won the appreciation of the surrounding shopkeepers and the owner Gu Yi.

Wu Yueya didn't care about people saying that she was a hillbilly, and when she saw the other party's sincere apology, she didn't make things difficult, so that Lan Duzhi returned to her position, and then heard the sound of the pipa.

Lan Duzhi returned to his position and breathed a sigh of relief, for fear that people would take advantage of the topic to play, but fortunately, the other party had a good heart, but it was a pity that she was a Hongchen woman, she was cheap, and it was inconvenient to be friends with her.

That Xiaocui was stunned when she knew Wu Yueya's identity, thinking to herself what to do, she regarded people as new maidservants, and she called them, but they were still very obedient to help with dirty work.

Everyone pushed the cups and changed the lamps, the atmosphere was strong, Gu Yi changed the previous stereotype, and danced happily, and only then went back when he was tired of dancing.

Wu Yueya also drank a few glasses of warm green wine, and the taste was not bad, similar to the degree of modern red wine, and she toasted back several times, and drank dozens of glasses, her neck was not thick and her face was not red. The owner prepared a roasted whole sheep, but Wu Yueya tasted a rare commodity like pepper and decided to go by the way.

Others salute and salute, they have to recite a poem, Wu Yueya, as a woman, participated in this kind of banquet for the first time, so that no one embarrassed Wu Yueya, but the shopkeeper asked her to learn, this toast is also a science, if you are a small shopkeeper in the Gu family in the future, it is better to come out and deal with it.

Wu Yue Ayachun watched the play, watching this group of ancients come and go, drunk one by one, even the white shopkeeper was drunk.

At the end of the banquet, Wu Yueya put some pepper on the dining table, this thing should be good to take the barbecue, and say goodbye to the host first. Only then did I go out, and I saw the maid Xiaocui hurriedly running over, bowing her head and looking ready to be criticized. Wu Yueya looked at this girl who was a little taller than herself curiously, and said in her heart What are you here for, it can't be that she found out that she stole a packet of pepper, and her heart instantly became empty.

"I didn't steal the east... Ahem, I didn't steal it. ”

"That, please don't be angry, the slave knows it's wrong."

Wu Yueya understood, didn't you find out that I took a bag of pepper, so she touched someone's head, leaving Xiaocui, who didn't know why, turned around and left.

Xiao Cui crossed her fingers, in a daze, did she forgive Xiao Cui, or didn't forgive, after all, Nalan knew that she had forgiven, and she should have forgiven Xiao Cui, um.

Wu Yueya returned to the village, borrowed a firewood knife and went out to chop bamboo, in addition to burning bamboo to force out the liquid in the bamboo chips as a drink, but also to use bamboo to make bamboo sticks, bamboo forks, bamboo knives, bamboo chopsticks, bamboo plates. Wu Yueya has long wanted to try to make barbecue and eat. She had searched all over the South Place, but she didn't find any such food as chili, and now the only thing that had a spicy taste was pepper.

After making some tableware out of bamboo, Wu Yueya took advantage of the time there was still time and went up the mountain. The main reason for going to the mountain forest that Lu Feng said at the time was to see if she could pick up the leaks, after all, she also dug a few pits and waited for the rabbits to step on them.

Came to the mountain forest, checked a few pits, and no prey fell into them, and when she came to the last pit, Wu Yueya, who was not hopeful, found that there was a big gray rabbit that couldn't jump around, and she was overjoyed and caught it. When I returned home, I began to remove the rabbit and peel it according to the technique of Lu Ziji in my memory, and cut the rabbit meat. Soak it in salt, sauce and vinegar for a while, then stick it with a bamboo skewer, and then set up a fire pit outside the stove in the house, make a fire and roast it, and sprinkle pepper while roasting.

Mother Lu was roasting the fire next to her, looking at Wu Yueya's busy appearance, she was very relieved in her heart, and suddenly felt that the Lu family had picked up the treasure, and she really didn't make a mistake when she received Wu Yueya, this girl was a child with a conscience.

"Come, A-Niang taste it." Wu Yueya handed over a skewer of grilled rabbit meat to Lu's mother.

Lu's mother laughed and took a bite, "The taste of this pepper has not been tasted for decades, when I was a child, a Hu merchant stayed at our house and gave us a packet, this thing can only be eaten by rich and noble families." ”

"This was asked for when the Gu family was having a banquet," Wu Yueya replied, although she replied, her heart was still quite empty, this thing was imported from the Western Regions, and ordinary people really couldn't afford to eat it, and the price was quite rare, so a big merchant like the Gu family had a way to get pepper.

When the rabbit skewers are ready, the smell of cooked rice comes from under the lid, and dinner begins.

Lu's mother likes Wu Yueya, and thinks that the Lu family will definitely develop in the future, and Lu Feng will definitely be admitted to the Jinshi, and Wu Yueya will be able to marry into the Lu family and become a legitimate daughter-in-law.

But the north wind is still howling, and God has never been indifferent, and has never taken pity on any of the struggling beings on this earth, just like a rabbit in a trap, and treats the world.

The snow, always falling, fell silently, paving the world white.

At the end of the first year of Tianbao, the general Gao Xianzhi defeated Tubo to take back Xiao Bolu, and washed away the shame of the first three unsuccessful troops. The scholars in the snowy Chang'an City rushed to tell each other, spreading the joy of Datang's victory.

In the snow, Lu Ziji and Gu Renyi rode horses and continued to move forward, heading in the direction of Chang'an.