Chen Shi and Mrs. Chen were boiling maltose in the patio, and as soon as they stepped through the door, the sweet malt fragrance came to their faces.

"Auntie!" Yu Yuan stepped forward to greet Chen.

Chen wiped his hands with the apron around his waist and asked with a smile, "Ah Yuan, are you here to find your uncle?" He sent rice cakes to the shopkeeper Tong, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back before noon today, what's the matter with you? If you don't tell me, go to the study and leave a note for your uncle. ”

Tomorrow is the New Year, and everything for the New Year has been prepared. Rice cakes are a must-have food for every household to celebrate the New Year, and making rice cakes is Chen's specialty, but in previous years, Chen's health was not good, so he didn't do much anymore. This year, although Chen's body is still not as good as ordinary people, it is much better than in previous years, not only the Yu family is happy, Chen is also very happy, he made more than ten catties of rice cakes by himself, relatives and friends, villagers and neighbors have sent a little.

"I'm here to find Ah Tang!" As he spoke, he helped Chen move the maltose boiled next to him into the kitchen, "Is Ah Tang here?" The last time we went to Hangzhou, we saw some new patterns, and I wanted to discuss them with her. ”

Chen didn't doubt it, and said with a smile: "She's in the study!" After speaking, he cut a piece of maltose with a knife and put it in a bowl and handed it to Yu Yuan, "Here, you brothers and sisters can taste it." ”

Yu Yuan happily agreed, and went to the study with the bowl.

Yu Tang was holding a lake pen in his hand, and he was drawing something on the desk.

The warm winter sun shone in through the window sash covered with Korean paper, gilding her figure with a layer of golden light, warm and soft.

Yu Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then called "Ah Mei".

Yu Tang raised his head and immediately laughed.

Smiles poured out of her eyes layer by layer, making her expression smarter.

"Why did Brother come here?" She put down her pen, stood up from behind the bookcase, and welcomed Yu Yuan to the Taishi chair by the window and sat down, "Don't you have to be busy preparing things for the Xiang family for New Year's greetings?" ”

The wedding date has been set, the marriage book has passed, although the wedding has not yet been held, but Yu Yuan is already the uncle of the Xiang family, it stands to reason that Yu Yuan is going to the Xiang family to pay New Year's greetings in the second year of junior high school, and the Wang family is worried about the New Year's gift, blaming Yu Yuan for not taking this matter to heart, and not buying something back when he went to Hangzhou City.

Yu Yuan laughed, completely forgetting about it, and he said, "Isn't there my mother and aunt?" I don't know about this kind of thing, if you buy the wrong thing, it's better not to buy it! ”

The last time the Xiang family came to leave a bad impression on him, he was a little reluctant to go to the Xiang family, but for the sake of Miss Xiang's face, he decided to leave all these behind and go to the Xiang family with a humble attitude to pay New Year's greetings. But that doesn't mean he likes to talk about it.

He put the maltose on the small table and said to Yu Tang: "Auntie gave it, taste it and see if it's delicious." ”

My mother got up early in the morning and started boiling sugar.

When she was young, she would wait by the stove at this time, and every time she would be forcibly carried away by her mother, and finally ended up crying and being stuffed with a piece of maltose.

It wasn't until she was ten years old that she was burned for stealing maltose, hired a doctor, drank medicine for more than a month, and could only look at all the delicious things in the New Year, so she didn't crave her mouth anymore.

For Chen, this was only five or six years ago, but for her, it was more than ten years ago.

She sighed in her heart, smiled and went to make a bowl of maltose water for herself and Yu Yuan, said "Brother also taste it", and sat down opposite Yu Yuan again.

Yu Yuan tasted the sugar water, it was fragrant, sweet but not dry, and he couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect Auntie's maltose to be so good, we have a good taste this year." ”

In addition to sacrificing to the king of the stove and entertaining relatives and friends who came to pay New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival, a large part of this maltose was prepared for Yu Yuan when he became married.

Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

Yu Yuan was stunned, didn't dare to say anything about maltose, and said his intention: "I thought about it carefully, just like you said, I will help manage the family's grange and mountain forest, and we will plant the kind of tree you said to make candied fruit." ”

Yu Tang guessed that it would be like this.

In the previous life, Yu Yuan's business was so good, her eldest uncle was still not at ease, and he had to guide Yu Yuan from time to time, in this life, Yu Yuan was just a miscellaneous person who followed the eldest uncle, and it was even more impossible for the eldest uncle to let go of the business in the shop to him.

"I was just about to talk to my brother about it!" Yu Tang said, got up and went to the bookcase, and said, "Brother, come and see, the painting here is the kind of tree I said." This Chinese New Year, all the people who are doing business outside are coming back, do you think you can ask those who are doing business outside to see if anyone knows this kind of tree? ”

Yu Yuan walked over and looked at it carefully for a while, then he neatly rolled the painting and said, "Okay, this matter will be left to me." I'll give you a message before fifteen. ”

Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief, but still felt not very relieved, and after Yu Yuan left, she re-painted a sea buckthorn tree to show Yu Wen, who had just returned from sending rice cakes from Tong's shopkeeper: "Do you know what kind of tree this is?" Can you find someone who knows this tree? ”

Many of the literati liked to play with flowers and plants, and some people might know them.

Yu Wen smiled: "What kind of problem are you giving me?" ”

Because Yu Tang proposed to invite the squires with heads and faces in Lin'an City and the scholars who were admitted to the show to drink wine when Yu Yuan got married, Yu Wen's legs were almost thin during this time, and he finally got things done, and in a blink of an eye, Yu Tang drew an inexplicable tree for him to recognize......

Yu Tang smiled embarrassedly, hugged his father's arm and coquettishly: "This tree is called sea buckthorn, my brother and I are going to plant this tree on our family's mountain, Daddy, you can help me ask!" Anyway, you have to help Brother go and hire someone! ”

People are in good spirits at happy events, his daughter is coquettish to him, he is very happy, teased Yu Tang a few words, and still brought the painting with him when he went out to send the wedding card.

To Yu Tang's surprise, it was Shen Shanyan, the teacher of the county school, who knew that this tree was actually the one who taught the county.

He smiled and asked Yuwen, "What are you asking for?" This tree is rough, but it does not live with us. If you don't believe me, you can go to Yaoguang's house. There are several plants in their house, which were brought back by Zhou Zijin when he went to Gansu that year. It still bears fruit over there, but after coming back, it only grows tall and does not bear fruit, because of this, Zijin also laughed at Yaoguang, saying that their family's water and soil are not good. ”

Yu Wen didn't expect this result, and stayed for a long time, then said: "It's my daughter, I don't know where I heard it, I want to plant this tree in our family's mountain forest, let me help inquire!" ”

Shen Shanyan escaped from the world here, and heard of Yuwen's character, and later came into contact with it a few times, but he was also temperamental, and occasionally went to enjoy flowers and go to the green together. Hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh and said, "You girl, it's a pity." If you were a son, you would be able to do something without studying. ”

What kind of person is Shen Shanyan, the son of the Shen family, a talented man in Jiangnan, and it is already great for ordinary scholars to get a word of praise from him, let alone a girl.

Yu Wen was full of joy with a spring breeze on her face, but she said modestly: "Where, where, she just likes to toss." ”

Shen Shanyan said sincerely: "It is already great to be able to toss and toss in a famous place." Then thinking of Miss Yu's marriage, he couldn't help but say: "Your daughter's marriage, you have to be cautious, don't indiscriminately promise someone else." ”

"Definitely, definitely." Yu Wen nodded repeatedly.

Even if Shen Shanyan didn't say such a thing, he was reluctant to marry his daughter casually, and now listening to Shen Shanyan say this, it strengthened his mind to find a good son-in-law.