Chapter 71

As soon as I entered the kitchen, I heard Jinhua's voice shouting from the courtyard door, "Sister Qiao, Ye Lan, are you up?" ”

"It's coming, it's coming." When Qiao Zi heard this, he hurriedly put down the things in his hand and opened the door with an umbrella.

Jinhua was holding an umbrella outside, and when she saw Qiao Zi coming to knock on the door, she hurriedly entered the yard, "I'm here to feed the livestock." ”

The chickens, ducks, and piglets bought from Ye Lan, including the horse, these animals are all fed by Jinhua, even if she rests today, she also got up early to prepare breakfast, let her son eat first, and then came over to help.

"Jinhua, you are resting today, you don't need to come." Qiao Zi watched Jinhua rush into the yard, skillfully picked up tools to help, and hurriedly stopped them.

"Alas, Sister Qiao, what are you talking about, even if I rest, as a neighbor, I should come to help out, I'm used to doing these rough jobs, where can you and Ye Lan do it, just let me do it." Jinhua didn't let Qiao Zi touch her things,

"Sister Qiao, you go into the house, it's raining heavily outside, and when I feed here, I'll make breakfast."

"Breakfast Lan'er has already been made, have you eaten breakfast, if you don't eat it, eat together, what about Lanjian?" Seeing that Jinhua insisted, Qiao Zi stood under the eaves.

"My breakfast has been prepared, Lan sees that he is eating at home, and he will go to the school in a while, I will feed the pigs, chickens, ducks, and horses before going home for breakfast." Jin Hua said with a smile.

With Jinhua's help, the livestock in the family are all fed, Qiao Zi watched on the side, grateful, and saw that her daughter had prepared breakfast with her hands and feet, so she opened her mouth to invite Jinhua to eat together, but Jinhua refused,

"I'll come back at noon to feed the livestock, and I'll have breakfast at home, and I'll go home and eat the same."

"Aunt Jinhua, there are two eggs here, one for you and Lan Jian, take them back and eat them." Ye Lan took out two boiled eggs and handed them to Jinhua.

This time, Jin Hua was not polite, and took it with a smile, "Then thank you, I'll go home first." ”

It's just a courtyard wall distance, Jin Hua walked out of the courtyard door of Qiao's house, walked a few steps into his own yard, Lan Jian had already eaten, put on a raincoat and held a book and was ready to go to school, Jin Hua put two eggs in Lan Jian's hand,

"This is your sister's gift, take it and eat it."

"Mother, you can eat one too." Since Ye Lan's mother and daughter came, the level of food at home has been greatly improved, and Lan Jian is no longer as hungry as before when he sees an egg.

Although the food at home has been greatly improved, Jinhua mother and daughter eat with Ye Lan's mother and daughter at noon every day, and occasionally there are leftovers, which will be distributed to everyone, but this egg is also a precious thing, Jinhua took the eggs from her son, but she was reluctant to eat them.

"I'll put it for you first, and you can eat it when you come back from school."

"Mother, it's enough for me to eat one, don't save me, I don't eat that, if you don't eat, I won't eat either." Lan saw that he didn't know what his mother thought, so he pretended to be angry and asked Jinhua to eat it.

"Okay, good, mother, mother, can't mother?" Seeing that her son was so filial and sensible, Jinhua smiled happily, and this day is really getting more and more hopeful day by day.

Seeing that Jinhua promised to eat the eggs in her hand, Lan saw that she was satisfied, "That mother and I went to school." ”

"Okay, walk carefully, don't fall."

"Got it."

Seeing her son leave, Jinhua returned home, ate breakfast, looked at the eggs in her hand, thought about it after all, she was not willing to eat, or leave it to her son, cleaned up the kitchen a few times, saw that the rain was lighter, and went next door to see what could be done, and went in and found that Qiao Zi was the only one to clean up the kitchen, but Ye Lan was nowhere to be seen, and asked curiously,

"Sister Qiao, where is Ye Lan?"

"She's gone to the field."

"It's raining, what is she doing in the fields?"

"Yesterday, I made the vegetable shed, she said to see if it would leak, I want to accompany her, she still didn't allow me to go, said it was dirty outside, I plan to clean up the kitchen and boil some hot water, and after a while, Lan Jian came back and washed her."

"Then I'll boil the water." As soon as she heard Qiao Zi say this, Jin Hua immediately began to move.

"Okay." Qiao Zi nodded, since Jinhua took the initiative to come over to help with things again, she accepted it gladly, if she refused again, it would seem hypocritical.

The two chatted while doing things, the atmosphere was so discordant, and on the other side, Ye Lan walked slowly towards the vegetable field with an umbrella, because the ground was full of mud roads, it would be particularly slippery after rain, and she was wearing cloth shoes, and the mud got on the shoes, which were very dirty, heavy, and very slippery, and then, Ye Lan simply took off the embroidered shoes and put them on the side, got the trouser legs up, and then walked to the ground barefoot.

The soles of the feet are in contact with the soil, some of the mud is squeezed out from the toes, itchy, it's also fun, Ye Lan is playing while walking, first went to the vegetable shed, and touched the linen from the inside, although it was a little wet, but the rain fell because of the angle problem, and it slid down with the linen in time, and the rain effect was still lovely.

After observing for a while, Ye Lan felt that it was feasible to use linen cloth to make the shell of the vegetable shed, and had an idea in her heart, she would go to the city early tomorrow morning and order three hundred linen to come back.

Leaving the vegetable shed, Ye Lan did not leave immediately, but walked around a hundred acres of land by herself, to see the growth of each area after planting, most of the plants she planted were in the germination stage or seedling stage, very fragile, and she would die if she was not careful, she had to see if there were seedlings that could not bear it because of the rain.

Carefully turned around the field, occasionally encountered the seedlings that were distorted by the rain, Ye Lan would squat down to deal with it, and when she felt that there was no problem, she went to each place to see the corn, and it could be harvested in more than ten days.

Time passed unconsciously, and when the rain stopped, Ye Lan looked up at the sky, and there was a feeling that the rain had passed and the sky was clear, and she stayed in the field for a while before she smiled and picked up her shoes and umbrella and went home.

Of course, as soon as Ye Lan got home, the hem of her clothes was already soaked, her trouser legs and feet were full of mud, Guan Qiaozi had long been used to her daughter covered in mud, but she couldn't help but speak when she came back like this,

"Why did you take off all your shoes?"

"It's inconvenient to walk, the mud is too heavy."

"Anyway, it's also a girl, how can these shoes and socks be taken off, and how can these legs be exposed, did you touch anyone when you came back?" Qiao Zi looked at her daughter, who didn't look like a lady at all, and stroked her forehead.

"Mother, I'm going to the ground, not to go to any party, how can I not get dirty, it's raining outside, of course I'm here for convenience, what's wrong with showing my legs, my legs are not unsightly."

"How can a girl's legs be seen casually, this is something that your husband can only see later." Qiao Zi felt that she needed to give her daughter a lesson.

"Do you see that I am doing it like an ordinary girl, don't ask me with the standards of ordinary girls, I'm not an ordinary girl, that set doesn't work for me, I can come as happy as I want, it's just right if I can't get married, I don't want to marry yet, marry an obedient person in the future, so that I can take care of it, if you dare to have different intentions for me, just leave him and let him get out."

Qiao Zishi, "Is this what a girl should say?" ”

"Ahem......" Jin Hua pretended not to hear it, and hid to the side and snickered.

"Jinhua, don't laugh, come and help me get water and wash this wild girl head and foot first." Qiao Zi looked at Jin Hua angrily, don't think she didn't know that she was snickering.

"It's coming, it's coming right away."

Ye Lan washed the mud off her feet in the yard first, then went into the room, took off all the clothes on her body, scrubbed her body again, and then changed into clean clothes.

Qiao Zi and Jinhua took Ye Lan's dirty clothes to clean together, washed Ye Lan's clothes with their front feet and hung them out, and someone knocked on the yard with their back feet.

"Miss Joe?"

Qiao Zi recognized this voice, it was the handyman who sent water to Juxian Building every day, and hurriedly said, "Come in directly." ”

Someone walked in, but it was not Qiao Zi who thought it was a handyman, but two young and handsome sons, seeing the strange man, Qiao Zi and Jin Hua were stunned almost at the same time.

"Madame hasn't seen you for a long time, Xia Shangguan Rumo, the owner of Juxian Building, this is a good friend, Cheng Rui, I took the liberty to visit, and I ask Madame to forgive me." I didn't see Ye Lan when I entered the courtyard, there were only two women, Shangguan Rumo recognized Qiao Zi at once, after all, there was such a captivating woman in the northern city, it was difficult for people not to remember it, even if the clothes on Qiao Zi's body were only better than the clothes of ordinary people, it was difficult to hide his elegance.

Seeing Shangguan Rumo saluting herself, Qiao Zi hurriedly returned a salute, she knew that her daughter had a cooperative relationship with Juxian Lou, but she had never seen the boss of Juxian Lou, she never thought she was so young, and at this moment, when this person saw that she was talking to herself in a familiar tone, Qiao Zi couldn't help but be a little surprised,

"Boss Shangguan has seen me?"

"Madame and Xiao Yelan once bought seeds, that is, where to buy them, there was a relationship, Madame doesn't remember?" Shangguan Rumo smiled.

"Oh, I have the impression that Lan'er is in the house, Boss Shangguan and this Cheng Gongzi go in together, Lan'er, Boss Shangguan is here." Qiao Zi thought back that there seemed to be such a thing, but he didn't look at it carefully at that time, but he didn't know that the owner of that kind of sub-shop was so handsome, and he was also the owner of Juxian Building, he was really a young talent.

Ye Lan was resting in the house, sorting out her own records by the way, and when she heard Qiao Zi's words, she hurriedly got down from the kang and put on her shoes.

"Come in."

"Please, two of you." Qiao Zi guessed that Shangguan Rumo must have something to talk about when she came to her daughter, and she consciously left room for them.

"Thank you, ma'am." Shangguan Rumo took Cheng Rui in.

"Xiao Yelan~" Walking into the room, Shangguan Rumo was not so polite.

Xiaoye orchid~

The corners of Ye Lan's mouth twitched unconsciously, "Brother Shangguan, and this son, please take a seat, Brother Shangguan, what are you doing when you come to the door today?" ”

"The mountain is not me, I have to go to the mountain, Xiao Yelan, you promise a hundred dishes." Shangguan Rumo went straight to the topic, more than half a month has passed, although Juxian Lou is full of business every day, but everyone is coming for hot pot and spicy chicken, and now many restaurants have begun to launch non-original versions of hot pot and spicy chicken, although the taste is not as good as Juxian Lou, but because of the price reduction and promotion, it has pulled a lot of customers from Juxian Lou, and now Juxian Lou is in urgent need of dishes.

"I've been busy lately, so I haven't been in town yet, but I've got a menu ready." Ye Lan said, turned around and took out from a cabinet and took the time to write the recipe.

"Ninety-eight, you count, plus I taught hot pot and spicy chicken before, it's a hundred kinds of dishes, and I promise to fulfill it."

"Xiao Yelan, okay, you." Shangguan Rumo's eyes lit up, he almost snatched the recipe from Ye Lan's hand, looked at a few photos, and was immediately satisfied,

"This son really didn't look at the wrong person, I knew that Xiao Yelan would not be untrustworthy, I will send someone to learn these dishes immediately after I go back, and when I learn it well, Xiao Yelan, you will go to Juxian Mansion again, and check them once to see if there are any problems, okay?"

"This is okay, when the time comes, you send someone to say it in advance, and I will go over when I have time here." Ye Lan nodded.

"No problem." got the rest of the dishes, Shangguan Rumo was very happy.

"These dishes, and things to pay attention to, I have written them all, it can be said that the secret recipe is not passed on, you have to keep it, if you lose it or pass it out, don't trouble me." Ye Lan looked at Shangguan Rumo in ecstasy and reminded.

"Of course I know that." Shangguan Rumo very carefully wrapped the recipe with a hand towel, carefully put it in his arms, and then took out another thousand taels of silver tickets,

"This is the restaurant for more than half a month, I heard that you have hired a lot of workers to farm, I think you need money, I asked the round shopkeeper to calculate the turnover of more than half a month first, and then give you the share that belongs to you first."

"Yes, thank you." Because of the master's relief, this thousand taels of Yelan was nothing in her eyes, so she took it very calmly.

Without Ye Lan's grateful or surprised gaze, Shangguan Rumo was a little sullen, looking sideways at the person who had been standing next to him and had not spoken, a trace of evil flashed in his eyes.

"Xiao Yelan, do you know who the people around me are?"

"Isn't it your friend?" Qiao Zi and Shangguan Rumo still heard some conversations in the courtyard, because she was not interested in his friend, so she didn't look closely, at this time listening to Shangguan Rumo say this, Ye Lan felt that this person should be recognized by herself, but she was sure that she had never seen that face, but that figure, it felt a little familiar.

"Take a closer look." Shangguan Rumo looked at Ye Lan with some expectation.

“…… Master? After looking closely, a thought came to her mind, and Ye Lan screamed tentatively at the strange man.

"Good vision." The man who has been silent speaks, the voice is familiar to Ye Lan, and he can hear that he is in a good mood, but he is ......

"Master, is this what you look like?" Ye Lan looked at the 'black face' without a mask, because he never took off the mask in front of her, and she respected ** and never took the initiative to mention it, but she occasionally guessed that she had a perfect chin and black face, and what she looked like after taking off the mask, she never thought that it would be such a face.

How to say it, this face is quite delicate, but there is always a sense of disobedience when I look at it, awkward and wrong, but I can't tell what's wrong.

The voice of the black face, how could Ye Lan not know it, as soon as Cheng Rui opened his mouth, Ye Lan knew that this person was undoubtedly the master, and she was used to facing him with a mask and a black face, and suddenly faced him without a mask, Ye Lan was a little restrained, just now she only cared about Shangguan Rumo and ignored the black face,

"Master...... Hello. ”

Taking off the mask, the black face also seems to be a little restrained, and the face is stretched as if the whole world owes him money," ...... Good little girl. ”

"I said, why are you two masters and apprentices so restrained? Wasn't that the last time we met? Shangguan Rumo looked at the restrained appearance of these two people and smiled.

"It feels a little strange to suddenly see a master without a mask." Ye Lan smiled and took the initiative to speak.

"What's wrong?" Black face, no, it should be said that Cheng Rui asked.

"Why does the master have no expression, is it because he was born with facial paralysis and is afraid of scaring children, so he wears a mask all the time? So why did you suddenly pick it up again today? Ye Lan looked at the black face with great doubt, although he was good-looking, she always felt that something was wrong when she looked at it.

"Poof...... Puff puff ......" Hearing Ye Lan guess like this, Shangguan Rumo smiled without giving face.

(End of chapter)