"Horse ...... Uncle Ma? You...... What are you doing in this outfit? Li Xiu was dazzled by the golden light on the other party's body, and squinted his eyes for a long time before he recognized the other party, the current Ma Ye was wearing a helmet and armor, and the bright armor leaves on his body reflected the light of the sun, and it seemed that his whole body was bathed in golden light, this was also the first time he saw Ma Ye dressed so formally, and he really didn't dare to recognize it for a while.

"Boy, the military situation is tense, I'm here to say goodbye to you today, and I guess I won't be able to come back until the New Year, so you have to worry a lot about those green vegetables in the greenhouse!" Ma Ye said anxiously, through the open courtyard door, Li Xiu could see Lao Qi and the others standing outside with their horses, and it seemed that they were about to set off immediately.

"Uncle Ma, what's going on, why are you in such a hurry?" Li Xiu also sat up at this time and said with a serious face, he had seen Ma Ye yesterday, but the other party did not say that he was leaving, but discussed with him the growth of cutting vegetables with a leisurely face, and left in such a hurry today, obviously he had just received the news.

"I won't be able to tell you, but remember not to talk nonsense!" Ma Ye also said with a heavy face at this time, "The prince has led the troops to defeat Liu Heimin, but the Turks suddenly went south, from Lingzhou to the south, and now they have hit the border of Gyeongzhou, and it is only a day's journey from Chang'an, fortunately, the princess led the troops to garrison there before, which blocked the Turkic troops, but this time the Turks used a lot of troops, and the princess's army was also a little difficult, and the court urgently organized a large army, led by the King of Qin to support the princess, and I also want to go with the army to help the princess!" ”

"It's Turkic again!" Li Xiu couldn't help but hate when he heard this, when Li Yuan raised his army, in order to appease the Turks, he had to pay tribute to the Turks, but even so, the Turks still went south from time to time, and after they saw that the Tang Dynasty was getting stronger and stronger, they once again supported Liu Heimin to confront the Tang Dynasty, and now they are directly sending troops, it seems that the Turks are also playing a balancing strategy, and they will not allow a strong unified dynasty to appear in the Central Plains.

"The military situation is urgent, I won't say much nonsense, I know your kid is a lazy person, but you should worry more about it during this time, and when I come back, remember to make a celebration banquet in person, your kid's cooking skills are much better than those chefs in Chang'an City!" Ma Ye laughed heartily at this time, turned around and walked out of the courtyard after speaking, after this period of getting along, he already knew that Li Xiu was proficient in cooking, and he already felt a little numb to Li Xiu's unreasonable skills, and he didn't even bother to ask, anyway, he didn't break the law.

Li Xiu didn't talk nonsense at the moment, and personally sent Ma Ye out of the door, and then saw Ma Ye fly on the horse and lead his troops to gallop away. Looking at the back of Ma Ye and the others leaving, Li Xiu suddenly felt that the originally warm sunshine actually brought a bit of a murderous aura, the big war was coming, and it was not far from the north of Chang'an, which made him a little worried.

However, even if the war broke out, for ordinary people, life still had to go on, and even the news of the Turkic army was blocked, except for a few ministers and nobles, ordinary people did not know the changes in the outside world at all, but the more this was the case, the more Li Xiu felt that the matter was serious, because the Turks had already been killed to the border of Chang'an, but the court was blocking the news, obviously worried about causing panic among the people.

"For the Turks' large-scale attack on Tang, I only remember that shortly after Li Shimin ascended the throne, that Jieli Khan once led troops into the country, and that time almost hit Chang'an City, except that there seems to be no record of the Turks attacking Chang'an, it seems that the Turks should not hit Chang'an this time!" After sending Ma Ye away, Li Xiu returned home and suddenly whispered to himself, he was recalling the historical knowledge of his previous life, but he only knew a rough idea of many things, so these words could only comfort himself.

Ma Ye is not there, Li Xiu naturally can't be as lazy as before, the princess's mansion has other stewards in charge, he doesn't have to worry, but the greenhouse can't be ignored, so in the next period of time, he also needs to take a little time to go around the greenhouse every day, at least to supervise a few responsible stewards not to be lazy.

The eighth day of the lunar month, that is, the traditional Laba Festival, this festival appeared very early, it is said that there is already a **** time, but the name is different, but the content is almost the same, they are all sacrifices to the ancestral gods, Laba porridge did not appear until the Song Dynasty, for the people of Guanzhong in the early Tang Dynasty, this day needs to eat a special noodle, which is somewhat similar to the face noodles of later generations, but there is a big difference. In addition, for the people who believe in Buddhism, Laba is said to be the day of the Buddha's enlightenment, so the major temples will also hold some celebrations on this day, which is very lively.

Two days ago, the vegetables in the greenhouse could already be picked, but Li Xiu did not let people move, but deliberately waited until the eighth day of the lunar month to pick, and then early in the morning, the people of the princess's mansion drove the carriage to pull the green vegetables into the city, but they did not want to sell vegetables, in fact, the princess's mansion is different from Li Xiu, for the real nobles, they are unwilling to do business in person, after all, the status of businessmen is low, so they are more willing to find some agents to do business, so that they can save face and enjoy the wealth brought by business.

The subordinates of the princess's mansion pulled the green vegetables into the city, and went straight to the palace along Suzaku Street, the vegetables in their cars were mainly given to Li Yuan, which was discussed by Li Xiu and Ma Ye before, so as to show the princess's filial piety to His Majesty, which was considered from the perspective of Ma Ye, and for Li Xiu, he could give the green vegetables to Li Yuan, and he could also use the identity of the emperor to form a celebrity effect in a very short period of time, so as to hit the popularity of the green vegetables.

Of course, at the same time, the merchants that Ma Ye had already contacted before also rushed to the greenhouse by vehicle, loaded the ripe vegetables inside into the car, and sent them to various vegetable markets in Chang'an City, but because the number of greenhouses is limited and the output of vegetables is not high, the vegetables sent to various vegetable markets are sold in limited quantities.

In addition, Li Xiu also had a little selfishness, and handed over the green vegetable business of the Le'an vegetable market to Boss Liu to take care of them, so that they could sell green vegetables while selling bean sprouts, after all, the fertilizer and water did not flow into the fields of outsiders, anyway, the green vegetables did not have to worry about sales, Boss Liu, they had the same purchase price as those merchants, and sold them to earn the difference, which was also a small condition that he added when he cooperated with Ma Ye before.

As soon as the green vegetables appeared in the vegetable market, they immediately caused a greater sensation than the bean sprouts, first, the scale of the bean sprouts was too small, only sold in the Le'an vegetable market, but now the green vegetables are almost sold in the big vegetable market in Chang'an City, and the second is that compared to the new vegetables such as bean sprouts, the green vegetables are also more acceptable, and many people know that only the royal family can eat green vegetables in winter, but now these green vegetables appear in the market, as long as you spend money to buy, which makes people who have been eating meat or pickles for most of the winter can no longer bear it, They all paid for it, of course, at the price of green vegetables, and only those princes and nobles or wealthy merchants could afford it.

After three days of limited sales, coupled with the rumors of green vegetables even in the palace, this finally whetted the appetite of the city's magnates, and on the fourth day, Li Xiu finally began to increase sales, and no longer limited, but even so, every morning when the vegetables are on the market, they will be snatched up.

In addition, the high price also brings extremely rich profits, which can definitely be described as making money every day, Li Xiu is responsible for bookkeeping every day, at first he was still excited about the growing sales, but slowly began to become numb, these things are just some numbers in his eyes.

"Master, do you think what the slave wrote right?" Yuechan carefully handed the account book to Li Xiudao, with a somewhat uneasy look on her face, Li Xiu felt bored with bookkeeping, and it happened that he found out that Yuechan was literate, and when she played cards before, she also knew Arabic numerals, so she began to teach her to keep accounts, so that he could also be more leisurely.

Li Xiu took a look at the account book, and found that it was all beautiful small characters, I have to say that Yuechan's brush writing is much stronger than him, and then Li Xiu checked the content of the account book again, and found that Yuechan is quite smart, she has used all the things she taught her, except for some minor problems, there are no other problems.

"Not bad, that's right, just remember this, maybe Yuechan can be a housekeeper in the future!" Li Xiu said very happily, and after speaking, he casually pointed out a few small problems with her, and then asked her to continue writing, while he himself leisurely ate fried beans.

Hearing Li Xiu's praise, Yuechan was also a little shy, at this time someone picked up the goods, Yuechan began to get busy again, Li Xiu's home is not far from the greenhouse, so those merchants who sell vegetables are the first to come to Li Xiu to register, report the number and price of the vegetables they bought, and then Li Xiu opened a list for them to go to the greenhouse to pick up the vegetables, each greenhouse has a number, in the future he only needs to check the list and the number of vegetables, no one wants to cheat from it.

"Master, the junior has already taken a bath, did you put it on the bed like before?" At this time, Liu Er walked in with Xiao San wrapped in a towel and asked.

"No, put it in the yard, it will not be allowed in my room for three days, and it must be bathed with soap every day for these three days!" Li Xiu hurriedly waved his hand to stop Liu Er from getting close to him and said, Xiao San, this guy actually fell into the toilet today, although Liu Er had already helped it take a bath, but Li Xiu still didn't dare to let it get close to him.

"Oh!" Liu Er promised to put Xiao San outside the door, she had already been used to Li Xiu's love for cleanliness, not to mention anything else, just bathing Xiao San's dog every day, and using particularly precious soap, is not something that ordinary people can make.

Xiao San seemed to be very dissatisfied with Li Xiu's decision, standing outside the threshold and whining, but Li Xiu didn't pay attention to it at all, and finally Xiao San glanced at Li Xiu with some grievances and left silently.

"It seems that we have to build a bathroom as soon as possible, I don't know if we can build a flush toilet, lest this guy fall into the toilet again." Li Xiu said to himself at this time, the family has money, and he finally has the confidence to plan to build a new home.

But as soon as Li Xiu's words fell, suddenly there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the courtyard, Li Xiu thought it was a carriage selling vegetables again, but the sound was not very similar, and then suddenly there was a long neigh, and a war horse jumped directly over the courtyard wall into the courtyard!