Chapter 127: Picking Medicinal Herbs
Lin Zhuohua glanced at his little uncle, and sure enough, his face was not very good.
Didn't you say that you won't come back today? Why did you suddenly come back again?
Jing Yun was indeed a little unhappy that King Yi came back to disturb him to have dinner with his little niece, but he didn't say anything, just looked at Lin Zhuohua who was embarrassed, and a touch of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
"Since King Yi ordered it, it just happened to be a meal together, I haven't seen it yet, but today I met a real person."
He thought about it for a while, and said that it was better to see than to hear, and when he saw the real person today, he also let him see what kind of person the other party was, and he could make his little niece like it so much. To be honest, he is still a little worried about his little niece's eyes.
He has seen the prince before, and he can see at a glance that he is not a good match for the little niece, but the little niece just likes it.
"Let's go get another pair of chopsticks."
Lin Zhuohua breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered Bai Yu to go and bring another pair of dishes and chopsticks.
By the time Bai Yu had placed all the dishes and chopsticks, Li Zeyi had already come in with the wind.
Jing Yun looked at the man who walked in, his appearance was delicate and evil, and there was a sense of nobility between his gestures.
Seeing people approaching, he got up: "I have seen His Royal Highness King Yi." ”
"Get up, you are Zhuohua's uncle and the elder of this king, no one is an outsider who doesn't need to be so polite." He stepped forward and helped the man up, and he smiled gently, making himself look as approachable as possible.
Jing Yun was used to seeing all kinds of people, and he could see at a glance that this King Yi did not have the posture of a prince for himself, he glanced at his little niece, and the first time he saw it, he had a good impression of Li Zeyi.
"Let's all sit down and eat, otherwise the food will be cold after a while, I made it myself."
Li Zeyi was slightly surprised, although he nodded, he naturally sat down next to Lin Zhuohua.
Jing Yun looked at the two of them, his eyes flashing.
After a meal, Li Zeyi intended to make friends, Jing Yun had a tentative heart, and the two had a good chat.
Lin Zhuohua saw that the two got along very well, so he put it down.
It's still a little hot here in Jiangnan, Lin Zhuohua got up: "You talk, I'll get you something cold to relieve the heat." ”
The temperature difference between the north and the south is really big, and it should be very cold in Beijing at this time. Thinking she walked out of the house and in the direction of the kitchenette.
She took the people from the small kitchen away, leaving only Bai Yu and Hongzhu to help.
She took the ice cube out of the medicine chamber and asked Hongzhu to help break the ice cube into crumbling ice. I found the milk myself, and then took out the taro balls that I had made before from the medicine house.
Cook the taro balls and rinse them with cold water to cool. She brought small bowls, put the finished crushed ice in each bowl, poured in the milk, and added some fruit pieces and cool taro balls. A bowl of good-looking and cold dessert after the meal was almost ready, she made several bowls in one go, asked Bai Yu and Hongzhu to help send three bowls, and let them share the rest, and also brought a share to a few people hidden in the dark.
Li Zeyi and Jing Yun looked at the things in the small bowl in front of them, they had never seen them before.
"Taste it."
Seeing that Lin Zhuohua was already holding a bowl, he ate it with a spoon, with a satisfied smile on his face.
The two of them were also whetted and picked up the bowl and spoon and began to eat.
Jing Yun's eyes lit up, this thing is good. Because he was a businessman, he instinctively thought that if this thing was sold here, it would definitely be very popular. Even a man thinks it's delicious, let alone a woman, and the shape of this snack is also very good-looking.
"You did this?" Jing Yi ate half a bowl and had already thought of some plans, then looked at his little niece and asked.
Lin Zhuohuohua nodded: "Yes, if my uncle likes it, I will write you a copy of the production method, which is very simple." ”
Li Zeyi is also a shrewd person, looking at Jing Yun's appearance, he probably guessed what he wanted to do, so he spoke in advance: "This thing is quite heat-dissipating, and eating a bowl on a hot day is much cooler than an ice bowl." In this south and some hot places, it should be very profitable to sell the pills. ”
Jing Yun glanced at Li Zeyi when he heard this, raised his eyebrows, then looked at his little niece, and said with a smile: "What King Yi said is right, I don't know if Xiao Zhuohua has the heart to sell this?" If you want to sell, you can sell a little uncle. ”
Lin Zhuohua was stunned, she really didn't think about it so much. However, after her uncle's proposal, she also moved her mind, and now the power she has developed in private has improved, but the cost is also getting bigger and bigger. Now relying on a few shops and medical buildings is already a bit difficult.
The farm was opened in the name of the national government, so it was not easy to move too much money.
Now that my uncle is proposing to sell recipes, she thinks it's really feasible, and she doesn't plan to open a restaurant, so the recipes in her head can be sold at a high price, and maybe she can use recipes to buy shares.
"Uncle is not as good as this, how about I invest in your restaurant with recipes, there are many such recipes, and there are many other recipes that are not available outside."
She likes to eat food in the hot summer, so she became a food blogger, it can be said that she has traveled all over the country, she has eaten all kinds of tall and tall food, and she has learned a lot from those chefs, so her cooking skills are also very good, but she is too lazy to do it now.
Jing Yun was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then began to think about the feasibility of this method, and nodded for a long time: "This is a good way." ”
Seeing that his little uncle agreed, Lin Zhuohua showed a bright smile on his face.
She has a lot of recipes, and her uncle is very good at doing business, so now she can already expect that there will be a lot of dividends in the future.
"When my uncle comes back in a few days, why don't you try the dishes?"
Jing Yun shook his head when he heard this, and then said, "When I come back, I'll bring the chef of the restaurant over and let her taste it." ”
Lin Zhuohua didn't have any opinions: "Okay." ”
After eating three bowls of dessert, Li Zeyi still had something to deal with in the afternoon, although he was reluctant, he still left first.
Jing Yun left after dinner, of course, Li Zeyi didn't come back during dinner, there were only two of them.
Sending his uncle away, Lin Zhuohua took Bai Yu for a walk in the small garden of the other courtyard to eat.
Lin Zhuohua walked for a while, then went to the pavilion by the lake and sat down, the night breeze blowing, with a hint of coolness. With one hand on her chin, she leaned against the pillar of the gazebo, her gaze falling on the sparkling lake.
The white moonlight sprinkled on the surface of the lake, like a broken starlight.
When Li Zeyi came back, he rubbed his eyebrows, he had dealt with a lot of things today, and he was a little irritable at this time, when he saw the bright little girl in the moonlight, leaning on the pillar of the pavilion, resting with her eyes draped. The wind swept across her cheeks, blowing her long hair that fell to her ears, quiet and beautiful, and his irritability dissipated at once.
He walked over, and when he saw that Bai Yu was about to speak, he immediately silenced him. Then he walked to her side with a relaxed step, bent down and gently picked her up, and walked in the direction of the courtyard where she lived.
Lin Zhuohua slept in a daze, she felt as if she had a very gentle gaze looking at her, and struggled for a while before slowly opening her eyes.
"You're back?"
Looking at Li Zeyi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed with a book in her hand, she covered the corners of her mouth and yawned, then got up and took the soft pillow and leaned against her.
She remembered that she was in the gazebo watching the night, and then the soft night breeze blew, and before she knew it, she fell asleep. When she opened her eyes again, she went back to the room where she lived, probably from whom he had carried herself.
"Well, although the weather is hot here, it is easy to catch a cold when you fall asleep outside at night with the wind blowing."
Li Zeyi reached out and touched her forehead, and was relieved to see that her temperature was normal.
Have you had dinner?
Lin Zhuohua nodded, indicating that he would pay attention to it in the future. In fact, she is already in good health and usually does not get sick. It's just that there are some special circumstances, such as a sudden upgrade in the medicine house, or an accident such as a breakthrough in mental power.
"Not yet, I'm a little busy this afternoon."
The little girl didn't mention that he wasn't hungry yet, but now that she did, he felt a little hungry.
"You wait, I'll finish the Yangchun noodles for you."
Lin Zhuohua lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and then ran out of the house.
Li Zeyi's raised hand was slowly lowered, and a helpless smile flashed at the corner of his mouth.
He leaned back on the couch, I don't know if it was because of the familiar fragrance, his eyelids were a little heavy, and he slowly closed his eyes.
When Lin Zhuohua came back from making Yangchun noodles, he saw Li Zeyi leaning on the bed rail and falling asleep.
The thick eyebrows of the sword eyebrows were slightly frowned, and they didn't seem to be very comfortable, and there was a faint cyan color under their eyes.
Lin Zhuohua put the hot Yangchun noodles on the table, came to his side and sat down, a little reluctant to wake her up.
Just when she was hesitating, Li Zeyi, who was asleep, slowly opened her eyes.
"You're awake, the noodles are ready, come and eat. After eating, go back and get a good night's sleep, I think you seem to be a little tired. ”
Li Zeyi rubbed his eyes, nodded and got up and sat down at the table. Looking at the hot Yangchun noodles on the table, there is an egg in it, and I don't know how she made it, the egg yolk looks very tender.
The warm spring noodles went down to the stomach, and the stomach immediately felt a lot more comfortable.
Lin Zhuohua watched him eat the whole noodles, and finally drank all the soup, which showed that he was really hungry at this time.
"I'm going back to rest, so you should rest early. Tomorrow we are going to go out, and I heard that there is a medicine garden in the suburbs for guests to pick. There are many kinds of medicinal herbs in it, and only ten plants can be picked every day, and it depends on luck what herbs you can pick. ”
Hearing Li Zeyi's words, Lin Zhuohua was a little curious about the medicine garden. However, she suddenly remembered the assassination of that day and asked, "Have you solved the assassination matter?" ”
"Eun has been settled, it's the prince's person. I have already sent the bodies of those people back and dumped them in the East Palace. ”
The corners of his mouth hooked up a sneer, now the prince is really becoming more and more shameless, those people are not dead soldiers at all, but some extremely vicious prisoners, most of whom have committed the death penalty. And the prince secretly dropped people and saved these death row prisoners.
That group of people was originally outlaws, and after being rescued by the prince, it can be said that they were very loyal to him. In the end, they accepted the training of the prince's dead soldiers, but it is a pity that the master they wanted to repay them made them take such medicine, and in the end, they lost their lives.
"How did you manage so many people?"
Lin Zhuohua was very surprised, the East Palace was in the palace.
The palace is heavily guarded, and it is difficult for even a person with strong martial arts to enter it, let alone carrying so many corpses, it is simply impossible.
"There is a secret passage leading to the East Palace in the palace, and my people entered through the secret passage."
This is something he inadvertently knew after the death of the little girl in his previous life, and he happened to be used by him in this life. In fact, there are a lot of secret ways in the palace. He didn't know if his father knew about these secret ways, but he was sure that the crown prince didn't know.
Lin Zhuohua was very dumbfounded, she wanted to ask him how he knew, but she swallowed back the words that came to her mouth. Everyone has secrets, and she doesn't look like she's probing into his secrets.
"You're amazing."
But she still looked at him with adoring eyes.
Li Zeyi reached out and touched his head, then got up and said, "Rest early, I'll go first." ”
Lin Zhuohua nodded, watched him leave, and did not withdraw his gaze until his figure disappeared into the courtyard.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, the two went straight to the pharmacy in the suburbs.
When Li Zeyi and Lin Zhuohua arrived in a carriage, there were already many carriages parked outside the medicine garden, and there were some people in line. Each of them reached out and carried a medicine basket, apparently to pick herbs.
The medicine garden is very large, anyway, looking inside from the main entrance, she can't see the end.
After Li Zeyi paid the money for two people, he pulled her into the pharmacy.
Looking at the endless medicine fields, Lin Zhuohua was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. Herbs and weeds are overgrown. It's hard to find the herbs from inside, to be honest. Some herbs are quite similar to weeds, and it is difficult to distinguish them.
There are already many people walking inside with medicine baskets on their backs, and there are also people squatting there to distinguish the value and preciousness of herbs.
Li Zeyi didn't know much about medicinal materials, he followed up and could only pick ten more plants, and the little girl asked him to pick whichever one he wanted.
Lin Zhuohua glanced at it roughly, and there were no very good medicinal materials at the entrance of the garden.
"Let's go inside."
The two of them walked inside together, and the more they went inside, the fewer people there were. I don't know why, but very few people go inside.
"Why don't you go inside?" Lin Zhuohua was a little curious, so he grabbed a woman who was about to leave and asked.
"You're not local, are you?" The woman saw that she was holding her by a beautiful little girl, and her attitude was very good. She looked at the two of them dressed in extraordinary clothes and spoke with different accents than theirs.
Lin Zhuohua nodded: "Well, we came from the north." ”
In fact, there are many people in the north, who come to the south in winter to spend the winter, and then go back when the weather in the north is warmer.
When the woman heard this, she was no longer surprised, but said, "This medicine garden is also peculiar, there are many kinds of medicinal materials here, and there are many precious and valuable ones. And the more I went inside, I heard that the medicinal herbs were more valuable and precious. But it is also accompanied by danger, this garden is large, and I heard that there are many snakes in it, so few people dare to enter it. In particular, a few bold people went in and were all bitten by snakes. The snake venom is very domineering, even if it is detoxified, it will be wasted. ”
Seeing that the two of them were a little surprised, the woman continued, "After this long time, everyone will no longer go inside. I see that you want to go inside, so I advise you to forget it. A little further in, there are also a lot of good medicinal herbs. ”
The two thanked the woman, and then watched as she left before continuing to walk inside.
Lin Zhuohua took out the medicine powder from the small bag he was carrying and sprinkled some on the two of them.
"My own body snake powder, an enhanced version."
Lin Zhuohua put away the medicine bag, and then winked at Li Zeyi: "Let's go, let's go in and have a look." ”
Quite a few people watched them go in and got together to discuss.
"Those two were so bold that they rushed inside."
"Looking at the young lady who is dressed as a rich man, if she is bitten by a snake......"
"Let's just take care of ourselves, let's go."
Regarding the discussion behind them, Lin Zhuohua and Li Zeyi didn't pay attention to it. Anyway, they came today just to see if they could find some rare medicinal herbs by the way.
As the two walked inside, there was a rustle and hiss.
Although he didn't see the snake, Lin Zhuohua felt that there were definitely quite a few in the vicinity, and those people didn't dare to approach. But with her snake repellent powder, those snakes didn't dare to come close. It can only be driven by two or three meters in two people, and some of them continue to swim.
But the hiss kept ringing out, and it was a little oozing.
Lin Zhuohua is actually not afraid of snakes, but she can't stand that kind of cartilage reptile.
She didn't want to go any further, so she stopped and swept around. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she pointed to the left where she was taking a few steps.
"You pick these few, I'll go over there and pick those few."
Although she didn't find the medicinal herbs she needed, these herbs in front of her were extremely rare. There are also a few medicinal materials that she needs for the new medicine she is preparing to configure, but she didn't expect to find them here.
Watching the little girl happily pick the medicinal herbs, a touch of helplessness flashed in Li Zeyi's eyes. Walked to the other side and took off the herbs she wanted and put them in the medicine basket behind her.
The two of them picked up the medicinal herbs and were about to leave, when Lin Zhuohua was just about to get up when he met a small snake with a white body.
She was slightly stunned, how did this little snake come over? She's sprinkled with snake repellent powder, and it's still so close to her.
And she actually saw fear in the eyes of the little snake, and she thought about it and stretched out her hand.
The little snake looked at her, hesitated for a moment, and then climbed into her palm.
The little snake was very small and coiled in the palm of her hand. Only then did she realize that the little snake had a wound on her body.
As if not feeling that she was not in any danger to herself, the little snake pressed its head to the palm of her hand. This person has a smell that it likes, and it makes it feel close.
Lin Zhuohua thought that this little snake was very interesting, and intuitively felt that it would not hurt him, so he took her into his sleeve pocket.
"Let's go."
She straightened up, turned to look at Li Zeyi and smiled.
Li Zeyi nodded, and then pulled her out. When he came to the gate of the garden, the person guarding the gate checked that everyone was indeed ten medicinal herbs, and did not pick more and let them go.