Pu Cao is not a vicious person, and he gossips with everyone for a long time, and the corners of his eyes will sweep over the magpie from time to time. Seeing her like this, I was really afraid that she would be thirsty, so he made an excuse and ordered, "The tea is cold, and the magpie will go and change the pot and come with a new one." ”

When the magpie heard the word "water", he was immediately overjoyed, and he quickly stepped forward to hold the teapot and ran out like a wind under his feet. provoked a few little daughters-in-law to praise a few more words, "Don't say it, everyone, although this girl is stupid, she is still quite obedient." ”

Pu Cao and Chunni knew the inside story, and they were all funny. For a while, he talked about trivial matters in the village while eating snacks with everyone, and occasionally asked Mrs. Li a few rumors about Lijia Village, and the atmosphere was lively and joyful.

But after an hour, the sky gradually darkened, and several little daughters-in-law had the old ones to serve at home, and the younger ones to take care of, and they didn't dare to delay the work at home because of idle sitting, so they all said goodbye.

Pucao generously stuffed each of them a few pieces of snacks or a handful of hazelnuts, and they all went home with a smile on their faces.

Chunni lay at the door of the east house, calling the magpie who stole water and drank until her stomach was about to explode to cook and go to the kitchen to clean up dinner, and Pu Cao helped Mrs. Li to go to the vegetable shed to check the mung beans soaked last night.

The temperature in the vegetable shed is just right, and after only one night's work, the mung beans have become round and delicate, and occasionally a few small white bud cones have emerged, which is very cute and pleasant.

Pucao loved to eat bean sprouts in her previous life, but she was afraid of the various methods of those black-hearted traders, and often only drooled. Later, in her spare time, she saw a very simple method on the Internet, so she decided to eat raw bean sprouts herself. After wasting another two catties of mung beans, I finally practiced the craft of raw bean sprouts. Even every Chinese New Year, he had to be caught by the old lady of the family as laborers, and gave birth to several baskets full of bean sprouts to distribute to relatives and friends in the village, of course, he also won countless praises.

In this life, Pu Cao has no impression of bean sprouts in her memory, and she hasn't seen Fang Jie's restaurant twice. Presumably, even if this bean sprout is not unique to Snow Country, at least it is a novelty in Cuiluan City. If she can help the Li family make a small fortune, she can also follow by the way to solve her cravings, which is also a rare thing to get the best of both worlds.

Mrs. Li smiled and followed Pu Cao's side, not to help support the basket and hand a water scoop, the old and the young cooperated tacitly, and occasionally whispered and laughed, and they all felt very happy to be busy.

Liu Housheng came in after covering the straw curtain, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but come to the front and take a closer look, but in the end he didn't see any clues, and went to boil water for the stove.

Pucao found two pieces of linoleum and put them in a small wicker basket, poked a dozen dripping holes with scissors at the bottom, and then fished out the mung beans and put them in, covering them with a soaked clean cotton cloth. Finally, I found a green brick in the corner of the vegetable shed and pressed it.

Mrs. Li was amazed and asked, "Pucao, do you want this bean to sprout?" Can it be pressed with bluestone like this? ”

Pu Cao moved the wicker basket to a small wooden basin in the corner, and smiled to the old lady to solve her doubts, "Auntie, this bean sprout is just like the temper of a naughty boy, the more you don't let it go, the more it will do everything possible to achieve it." Pressed with green bricks like this, it looks like the bean sprouts are not allowed to grow outward, but in fact, the bean sprouts grown in this way are thicker and whiter, and the aunt will take a look at it in a few days. In addition, the cotton cloth on this must not be stained with oil, otherwise the bean sprouts will be easy to rot and the basket will be placed in a place where the sun can't shine..."

Mrs. Li nodded as she listened, her wrinkled face was half curious and half serious, and from time to time she repeated what Pu Cao had said, as if she was afraid of forgetting.

Pu Cao saw the old lady's sideburns that were getting paler under the light, and her heart was slightly pantothenic, and she inevitably remembered her mother in another world. It's all an old family that has worked hard for their children all their lives, and it should have come long ago to enjoy the blessings, but they still have to work hard to learn the craft, just for that glimmer of hope for their families to live a good life...

When she was done, Pu Cao whispered while helping the old lady walk back, "Auntie, I can't say if this bean sprout will sell well after it is born." But one pound of mung beans can produce at least ten pounds of bean sprouts, which is sold for two cents and twenty cents per catty. At that time, if there is an income of two or three taels of silver in January, the eldest mother will be able to enjoy the blessings. ”

How could Mrs. Li not know that Pu Cao was worried that she was expecting too much, and in the end, she was afraid that she would be disappointed if she didn't make money, so she smiled and patted the back of Pu Cao's hand and comforted, "Pu Cao, my aunt has lived for decades, and she can see these things through." If this happens, our family will not have to live a hard life, and it will be better. But if it doesn't work out, it's just a pound of mung beans and a few scoops of water, and the aunt doesn't feel distressed. It's so tired that you're worried about it. ”

"What is the aunt polite to me, I am idle on weekdays, and I am busy with my aunt, but it is also lively and interesting."

"Good girl, my aunt also likes to gossip with you, you are much better than the stupid girl in my family."

"Haha, auntie, if Nizi hears this, she should blame you for being biased."

The two of them whispered and laughed like this and entered the garden gate, Chunni heard the movement in the stove room, so she opened the door and poked her head out and shouted in annoyance, "Pucao, you quickly return this magpie, we can't afford to spoil the good things, she burned the japonica rice porridge again." ”

Pu Cao and Mrs. Li glanced at each other, both helpless and funny.

didn't mention all the things in Nangou Village, but said that Fang Jie took four or five small servants with him early that morning, and drove three carriages to Xuedu, which was 400 miles away.

Along the way, the sky is beautiful, and there is no snowstorm on the left and right as in previous years, the official road is quite smooth and easy, occasionally there are a few snow nests, and the long-term followers jump down and dig a few shovels and pass smoothly. So I hurried all the way down, but I could walk seventy or eighty miles.

On the evening of this day five days later, Dongzi threw his whip on the jujube red horse and urged it to trot quickly, seeing that the capital was in the distance, this kid was also excited. The grinning man was just about to turn his head to report to his master, but he didn't want to hear a burst of laughter from the carriage behind him, and even a few coughs mixed with it from time to time.

Dongzi immediately hung his head helplessly, needless to say, this must be the son reading a book while drinking tea, and he couldn't help but laugh again for a while. He turned his head and continued to drive the car with his mouth closed, but the strange thoughts in his mind were endless, one moment he wanted to turn himself into a mosquito and get into the carriage, and the other he wanted to have the divine eye to see everything, in short, he just wanted to find out what kind of book Childe was reading.

When Zhang Dongjia asked him to bring it to his son that day, he didn't care. Unexpectedly, the son never put it down when he got it, whether it was by car or lodging, he never left his side.

If it was a normal day, he might have thought that there was some love words written there, but every time Childe opened the book, he would smile forward and backwards, completely losing his elegant and noble appearance in the past.

It also made him feel like he had been scratched by a cat, and he even dreamed at night about what was written in the book. It's a pity that with the appearance of a baby like Childe who never leaves his body for a moment, he doesn't dare to start even if he has thousands of ideas.

He was so in such a daze that he didn't notice for a moment that the carriage slowed down, and when he arrived at the city gate, the guards were closing the city gate together.

Dongzi was naturally shocked, and hurriedly jumped down and knocked on the car window to report, "Childe, the city gate is about to close, I'm afraid we won't be able to enter tonight." ”

Fang Jie in the carriage lifted the green felt on the window to protect him from the wind and snow, and saw that the city gate was not completely closed, so he took out a brass token from his arms and handed it to Dongzi, saying, "Go and show the soldiers guarding the city gate, remember to add some broken silver." ”

"Yes, Childe."

Although Dongzi doesn't know what this token is, since the master is so determined to take it out, it is naturally a good thing that can bluff people. Therefore, he took the token and ran to the city gate without hesitation.

Sure enough, the soldiers of the team looked at each other when they saw the sign, and one of them immediately pretended to have a broken foot, and his companions naturally wanted to help him to the side to rest, so the half-closed city gate was naturally put aside, and the three carriages of the Fang family were successfully let in.

Dongzi smiled and said a few more words with the soldiers, and finally stuffed a few pieces of broken silver over, and then trotted forward to hand back the sign from the window, and begged with a reluctant face, "Master, what brand is this, it really works." The small one usually runs errands for the master, otherwise the master will give this brand to the small one for safekeeping? ”

Fang Jie glared at him, stuffed the sign into his arms and put it away, and then said, "This is not something you can keep, let's hurry up and go to Dongcheng Jinxiufang." ”

"Yes, Childe." Dongzi replied in frustration, and no longer sat on the wheel, pulling the reins of the horse with one hand and walking carefully on the street.

As the capital of a country, Xuedu is much more prosperous than Cuiluan City, which is located in the northern Xinjiang. At this time, it is already nightfall, if it is in the city of Cuiluan, except for the restaurant and the flower building, it is still lively, and the rest of the streets are afraid that even pedestrians are rare.

However, the snow capital here is not much different from the daytime, the streets are constantly pedestrians, and the lintels of the houses on both sides are also hung with various types of wind lamps, which illuminate the streets very brightly. The shops had not yet closed, and from time to time there were young men smiling and greeting customers, and there were even horse-drawn carriages waiting to be hired from time to time, provoking the vendors carrying grass targets and selling sugar gourds to dodge and curse secretly. There were also small vendors with oil lamps, and while holding a feather duster to clean up the occasional snow scraped on the stalls, they loudly beckoned passers-by to buy a box of rouge or an intricately carved wooden hairpin.

When the carriage turned into the most dense commercial street of the restaurant, the lights were brilliant everywhere, and the flow of people was like weaving, and there was a posture that the city never sleeped.

Dongzi came with his master once last year, and although he still sighed in his heart, on the surface, he raised his head and pretended to be familiar, and from time to time he turned his head and shouted to the other two coachmen to be careful to catch the car, and he also heard Fang Jie in the carriage frowning.

(I'm really in debt now, haha!) Recently, I've actually been busy revising the manuscript of Ruixue's publication, and all kinds of trivial troubles. And the publication of Xiaoyuan is also being discussed, and everything is in one place, so the update is really not powerful. I'm sorry to everyone! Haha, next month, I'm going to make a single update every day, and then pay off my debts, and add more from time to time, because I think this update method, maybe I can be more powerful than this single and double codeword. Sometimes in order to catch up with the update time, the more anxious I am, the more stuck, if I feel more relaxed, is it smoother. I'll try it first. It is estimated that the number of words will not be less than this month's update, so I will report to you first! If you have friends who are slow to update the flowering period, save a few more days to watch it. I really want to go out for a walk, I also want to see the scenery, and I become stupid to write at home every day. Ha ha. For more warm and fresh text, everyone allow me to be lazy. Hug! Thank you! ）