It was snowing, and at dinner, the old man Hua said: "Ruixue is a good year, and the coming year must be a bumper harvest year." ”

Xiao Qi: "In the coming year, the victims outside the city can go home and farm." ”

Mu Zhifu saw that the prince was very dependent on Xiao Qi, and wanted Xiao Qi to protect the prince.

On the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the prefect of Mu passed on Xiao Qi, and he was very kind to Xiao Qi.

"Deputy Liu, you see, if you don't do it anymore, stay by Zhu Shizi's side to protect the prince, and I'll give you twice as much monthly money as the catch."

Xiao Qi: "No, Master Mu, we still have unsolved cases, now Zhu Shizi often follows me up and down, and my fast arrest will not affect my protection of Zhu Shizi at all." ”

Lu Zhutou: "Master Mu, let Miss Liu do it for a few more months, and then let her protect the prince full-time when the city is stable." ”

Mu Zhifu gritted his teeth and was helpless.

On the afternoon of the 28th, after the Yamen finished work, Xiao Qi and Hua Xi'er bought a lot of flour and oil and went home.

Let's fry cat ears (a kind of fried pasta) together.

Now Hua Xi'er is very good at doing kitchen work, so the task of burning the fire falls to Xiao Qi's head.

Niu stood in the stove but only ate without moving, and complained in his mouth: "How much does this cost?" What a loser. ”

Xiao Qi: "Mother, this is bought by Aunt Xi and Lu Zhutou." ”

On the morning of the 29th of Da Niu, when Granny Hua and Granny Zhao went to give porridge outside the city, they gave the fried cat ears to the victims by the way.

On the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Xiao Qi and Hua Xi'er took advantage of the lunch break to go to Qixi's pen and ink shop together, and sent a red envelope to Qin Shopkeeper and Liu Qingzhi.

Liu Qingzhi was particularly moved: "Thank you to the owner, I will definitely do a good job in the shop?" ”

I saw that some shops on the street were closed.

Hua Xi'er said: "Shopkeeper Qin, tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, let's close early today, you can use the afternoon to help the family with New Year's goods." ”

Liu Qing's face was pity: "There are still some couplets left, if you don't sell them today, you will have to wait for next year." ”

Xiao Qi picked up twelve couplets and put them aside, "Aunt Xi, let's take these twelve couplets home and post them tomorrow morning." ”

Hua Xi'er: "Shopkeeper Qin, clean up and close the door, you can take the rest of these couplets and send them to the neighbors." ”

Liu Qingzhi: "Thank you. ”

On the way back to the Yamen, Xiao Qi said: "Aunt Xi, the shopkeeper Qin said that Liu Qingzhi didn't go to the academy because he didn't have money, and you said that we should not sponsor him for free." ”

Hua Xi'er: "It should be funded, but it can't be free, let's just charge him a small amount of interest, and giving money for nothing will spoil people." ”

On the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Mu Zhifu took Master Wang and his entourage to visit Zhu Shizi at Liu's house in person, but Zhu Shizi went to the Yamen to find Xiao Qi.

Mu Zhifu waited for a long time and finally waited for Xiao Qi to come back with a group of people, followed by a long series of tails, including Mu Ziqi, the little son of the prefect's family.

Mu Zhifu first greeted Zhu Shizi, and then looked at his youngest son with a surprised expression: "What are you doing here?" ”

Mu Zixi pointed to Li Sihu, who was walking beside him, and said, "I followed the catchers to the Liu family to eat, and they all said that the food of the Liu family was much better than that of Mingyue Restaurant." ”

Li Sihu stroked his forehead with some weakness, he hadn't come to Liu's house for dinner for a long time, he sold miserably in front of Xiao Qi today to get Xiao Qi's invitation, is it easy for him? The so-called fast catchers probably only refer to him alone, Lu Feng is the head catcher, and the other catchers didn't follow.

Mu Zhifu didn't want to show his youngest son's face in public, so he only asked a word, and then turned his head to chat with Zhu Shizi.

Xiao Qi remembered that Master Wang predicted that it would snow, and sure enough, it snowed, and he admired Master Wang very much, and gathered around Master Wang to ask long and short questions.

Mu Zhifu chatted with Shizi for a while, and because it was late, he stayed and used the Liu family's meals with everyone.

Niu's temporarily added a few more dishes, and tried the recipe pepper sesame chicken that Xiao Qixin read to her, this recipe was sent by Feng Xiaogongzi, and it is said to be the only book in the Feng family's collection.

The meal was placed in the main room where the first person entered.

Because there are so many people here today, the men alone fill a table.

Li Sihu didn't make it to the main table, and he and Afu and Amo sat in the side room to eat.

At the main table, everyone ate very sven, and after the pepper chicken came up, each person grabbed a chopstick, and then began to grab it like crazy.

Master Wang is also very delicious, seeing that everyone is robbing, even if he is sitting at the same table with the prefect and the prince, he still has the cheekiness to dance with chopsticks and go up to grab it.

Mu Zhifu said in his heart, the food of the Liu family is really delicious, no wonder one or two people come to eat and drink for nothing.

Lu Feng was eating fragrant pepper sesame chicken in his mouth at the moment, looking at a table full of dishes, and then looking at Mu Zixi

There are high piles of meat and bones in front of him, and the Liu family and the Hua family will not be eaten poor.

When chatting after the meal, Lu Feng mentioned this matter to the prefect with a serious face: "The Liu family cooks a big table of dishes for the prince and your little son every meal, and there are chickens and fish, should we give some silver subsidies." ”

Mu Zhifu said in his heart, how do you Lu Feng know what the Liu family eats at every meal, it is obvious that Lu Feng comes to the Liu family to eat every day. I just asked you to come to the Liu family to visit the prince, how can you come to the Liu family to grab food so shamelessly, your Lu family is so rich, why don't you send more things to the Liu family.

After everyone left in the evening, Niu praised Mu Zishan in front of his family.

On the way back, Mu Zhifu said to his son: "Qi'er, you get along with the prince more." ”

"I see, Dad."

Mu Zishan naturally likes to go out, staying in Mufu, every time he sees his mother, he is reprimanded, so that Mu Zichen always finds various reasons to run out of Mufu every day.

Mu Zhifu is a small official, but the wife of Mu Zhifu is the daughter of the eldest princess of Yuhua, and she has been domineering since she was a child.

Mu Ziqi looks most like the eldest princess, so the eldest princess likes Mu Zichen very much, and took Mu Zichen to live in the eldest princess's mansion when Mu Zichen was very young, so the number of times Mu Ziqi and his wife see Mu Zichen a year can be counted with a few fingers.

In the princess's mansion, Mu Ziqi wants to be windy and rainy, and has developed a very domineering character.

So when Mu Zixi grew up and returned to Mrs. Mu, Mrs. Mu couldn't get used to her youngest son Mu Zichen everywhere, and felt that compared with the eldest son, this younger son was full of problems.

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Before going to bed at night, Niu said to his family: "The little son of the prefect's family is a good one, he doesn't say anything sweet, he also understands people's feelings and sophistication, and never eats white rice." I brought a piece of satin with me today, and the pattern is really beautiful. ”

Liu Dahe answered on the side: "The child and her mother, just came to eat, we can't accept too valuable things." ”

Xiao Qi was very strange, she didn't even see Mu Ziqi take anything.

Alas, she was wrong, how could the dignified prefect take things by himself, it must have been taken by his little servant Amo.

Lu Feng actually often sends gifts, and he now comes here every day to report, because the Mu Governor knows that he lives close to the Liu family, so he asks him to come here every day to help visit the prince.

With the instructions of the Mu Governor's Mansion, Lu Feng eats here with peace of mind, and he often brings some small gifts, but the Niu family doesn't like his gifts, because most of the gifts he brings are for young girls.

Zhu Yuan, the prince of Huainan, eats and lives in Liu's house every day, and in addition to doing his own business during the day, he also occasionally patrols the streets with Xiao Qi.