The prosperity of the hundred-year-old county is not worth mentioning in a big country like the Li Dynasty, but Yi Xiangxiang is also honored to watch her father govern the hundred-year-old county in an orderly manner. She is going to go to her shop today to get spices, and come back to embroider a sachet for her nurse Li Mama according to the pattern she painted, and it will be her grandmother's birthday in a few days, just used to make a birthday gift for her grandmother.

"Sure enough, sleeping is the joy of the world! If I don't have to go out, I really want to sleep until dinner and wake up! Yi Xiangxiang, who woke up in the afternoon, stretched her waist and sprinkled delicately, and her lotus-like little fat hands contrasted sharply with the crimson satin brocade.

"Miss doesn't need to make a trip, although it's already autumn, but the sun is still a little sunny, send Miaoqin to the shop to get it." The nurse Mama Li sent the little girls to fetch water, and she reached out to dress Yi Xiangxiang. In her opinion, the young lady should be pampered in the deep boudoir, and she disagrees with Yi Xiangxiang's always love to run out.

"No, no, it's so insincere." Yi Xiangxiang squinted and yawned.

"Eh, Miss still knows sincerity, but the sachet has to be embroidered by herself to show sincerity!" Mama Li smiled and teased, and the fine lines at the corners of her eyes rose.

Yi Xiangxiang knew that Mama Li wanted to let herself practice embroidery again, so she didn't fall for it, she covered Mama Li's cheeks with her chubby hands and coaxed: "That's not good, whose embroidery in our family is as good as Mama, even Mama Liu, who is next to her mother." Embroidering sachets for your grandmother, you can't push it off! ”

"You know how to pat on the back!" Mama Li smiled and picked up Yi Xiangxiang and sat on the edge of the bed, bending down to put on the shoes of the young lady; The shoes are handmade cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles, with uniform stitches and tight stitching, and the upper is tattooed with bright red peonies, which are very delicate.

"Where is the sycophant, I don't believe you ask Miaoqin, isn't it the best embroidery work of Mama!" Although Yi Xiangxiang said good things about coaxing, it was not false, Mama Li's embroidery work was really good, and even Mrs. Yi praised it.

"Yes, Mama Li's embroidery is the best." Miaoqin opened the window and turned around to greet her own miss: "But the old lady Miss Guoshou only gave a sachet, isn't it a little cold." ”

"That's a new soothing sachet I developed, it wasted a lot of effort on my part, how could it be cold!" Yi Xiangxiang looked like "don't talk nonsense if you don't understand".

"Yes, yes, Miss is the most powerful." Mama Li recognized Yi Xiangxiang's words, although Miss is not very old, she is still very talented in the study of spices, and the spice recipes developed by the shop have doubled the entry of the shop.

Mama Li is the son of Yifu, her husband Hong Xi was originally a little girl who followed Mrs. Yi to learn spices, and later Mrs. Yi took charge of her with Hong Xi and gave birth to her son Ah Ping; Ah Ping is now a scholar next to the young master Yi Luochuan, and originally had a daughter who was as old as Yi Xiangxiang, but unfortunately died just after birth. In order to alleviate the pain of her bereavement, Mrs. Yi made her Yi Xiangxiang's wet nurse, and she really loved Yi Xiangxiang as her daughter.

Yi Xiangxiang waited for Mama Li to wash her face, brought hibiscus cake to replenish her energy, and walked to her mother's yard with a smile. If she wants to go out, she naturally has to show her mother first.

Yi Xiangxiang walked into her mother's courtyard and saw Lin wearing a blue skirt, the sleeves were rolled up high, and she was writing something on the temporary desk. The chrysanthemums in the yard are elegant and beautiful, and the lining of the Lin family is even more coquettish.

My own mother is just good-looking! Yi Xiangxiang thought to herself. She has been in this world for four years, from the cold temperament of the previous life to the present has become warm, this obvious positive energy to the sun is inseparable from the family love of the Yifu family, and although the Lin family always hates her, but the love is half a lot.

"Is my mother drawing?" Yi Xiangxiang jumped up and down at Lin's and hugged Lin's thighs violently, scaring the latter enough.

"You damn girl!" Lin smiled and scolded and put down the pen, pinching Yi Xiangxiang's face: "How can you have the kung fu to paint, you are writing a list of dishes for your grandmother's birthday banquet!" Mother, how can I have you so idle. ”

Also, who is the busiest Mrs. Yi for longevity? Naturally, Mrs. Yi, as a daughter-in-law, was the busiest. Although it is not a big birthday, her mother-in-law is also a good talker, but she still arranges everything in place, in her words, it is because her mother-in-law is good to serve that she should be more filial.

Yi Xiangxiang lost interest when she saw that it was indeed not a painting on the table, and took her mother's hand to show her intentions.

Lin looked at his daughter wearing a bright red dress embroidered with peony flowers, with a silver collar around her neck, and she was quite cute and cute. She didn't want Yi Xiangxiang to swing outside like a boy every day, for fear that she would really raise her temperament. But thinking that the distinction between master and servant in the house is clear, and his son is a man who loves to read, his daughter really doesn't have a suitable playmate, and going to the street to have fun is the only interest of the little girl, so she doesn't detain her too much, not to mention that she came to give her grandmother a birthday gift, and the Lin family is naturally not easy to stop.

"Bring a few more people, listen to Miaoqin's words, pay attention to safety, don't come nonsense!" Miaoqin and Leqi are the big girls next to Yi Xiangxiang, smart and clever, and the Lin family is used to trusting them.

"Eh, mother, when did you see me coming? I'm very measured! You can't bully the weak, and you can't put the score of the county order! I know everything, so don't worry! Yi Xiangxiang told her mother and went out with her little hands behind her back, although her mother was good-looking, she was too long-winded, Yi Xiangxiang was a twenty-year-old soul in her body, and what she was most afraid of on weekdays was this kind of chatter about the little girl.

When Yi Xiangxiang came to the door, the sedan chair was already ready. Miaoqin stretched out her hand to open the sedan curtain and let Yi Xiangxiang sit in, accompanied by the little maid Shumei, she helped Yi Xiangxiang pick up her clothes and retreated, and the sedan chair man steadily lifted the sedan chair and went to West Street.

West Street is the most lively street in Centennial County, and it is the same as the current pedestrian street commercial street; There are peddlers and pawns, and there are business tourists. In less than a cup of tea, Yi Xiangxiang's ears were filled with shouting sounds, and she excitedly lifted the curtain.

"Miaoqin Miaoqin, I want that shortbread to buy me quickly!" Yi Xiangxiang held the small window of the sedan chair, obviously the sedan chair trembled, but she was lying on her stomach steadily.

"Eh, Miss, sit down, I'll buy it and hand it over to you!" Miaoqin is most afraid of going to the street with Miss, this one wants to eat and that one wants to eat, she is really afraid that she will eat her stomach.

"I also want jujube cakes, the jujube cakes sold by that mother-in-law are delicious!" Yi Xiangxiang had already got the shortbread in her hand, but she still asked Miaoqin to buy jujube cake, and the latter could only pour it back.

When Miaoqin came back with the jujube cake, Yi Xiangxiang had already asked the sedan chair man to park the sedan chair on the side of the street, and she took Shumei to sit down at a wonton shop on the street, the two little girls were still eating the osmanthus cake in their hands, and the two little girls were standing behind them and hanging their hands. Miaoqin walked over with her forehead and said, "Miss, you can't eat so much, the pastries are not easy to restrain and your stomach will be uncomfortable." ”

"So Miss, I'm very smart to choose to eat something good and restrained! Okay, don't talk about it, sit down and eat together, I want five servings! Yi Xiangxiang pulled Miaoqin and sat down, looking at Miaoqin with a look of "look how much I love you", and Shumei on the other side also happily helped.

Although he knew that the master didn't care much about dignity and humility, after all, it was not in line with the etiquette, but the master's kindness and Miaoqin were not good at ruining the fun, so he sat down: "Then this jujube cake lady can only eat a piece first, and the rest will be eaten later." ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Yi Xiangxiang patted her little chest and assured that she only has food in her eyes now, and she will come down no matter what you say.

Yi Xiangxiang is actually still very emotional, although there are a lot of delicacies in modern times, but there are indeed some snacks that are really not as good as the ancient ones, although they are street stalls, but there is really no shortage of food.

After the master and servant ate the wontons, Yi Xiangxiang decided to walk to the spice shop to exercise and eliminate food. Along the way, she looked at the west and touched the west, and she was very interested in everything.

can't blame her for not being knowledgeable, this West Street has been visited so many times since she was allowed to go to the street. Every time she went out and said that she went to West Street, Lin rarely agreed, and would rather her go to the creek to flutter butterflies than go to the street, for fear that she would be scattered by the flow of people or the maid didn't watch it, and was hugged by the kidnapper.

Yi Xiangxiang walked slowly, and suddenly found that there was a crowd of people on the side of the road in front of her, and the cat laboriously pulled into the middle of the crowd to take a look, hey, interesting! actually ran into a betrayal of his father.

This "selling herself to bury her father" is not like the ones in the book that Yi Xiangxiang saw, the girl's family knelt on the side of the road, and the broken straw mat next to her was covered with the beautiful girl's father, and the beautiful girl said that if anyone helped her buy a coffin to bury her father, she would follow whom. There is a major factor missing in Yi Xiangxiang's "selling his body to bury his father", that is, the "father" who should be lying on the ground at this moment. Fortunately, if there was a corpse lying in front of her, Yi Xiangxiang would have avoided it quickly. Like she's never seen a dead person in her two lives combined.

Miaoqin also squeezed into the crowd with the assistance of the little girl, she was not as petite as Yi Xiangxiang and Shumei, and then she came in, and saw her young lady staring at the jute paper on the ground, and walked over and held the young lady's hand steadily, thinking that she must not let the young lady disappear from her eyes again.

Yi Xiangxiang was abruptly grabbed by her hand, looked up at Miaoqin, and then withdrew her gaze and continued to look at the jute paper on the ground. There are dense words written on the paper, and looking at this delicate font, you can know that it was not written by the gentleman who asked the roadside to write the letter on his behalf, but should have been written by the woman herself; The content of the statement on the paper is also very decent, and it explains the reason for "selling himself to bury his father".

It turned out that the girl who sold her body was named Cui Xiaodie, and she was from a place called Meizhou in the northwest of the Li Dynasty, and her family fled the famine. On the way, my mother died of a cold, and my father was grief-stricken and sick. Fluttershy's father's remains are parked outside the city, but they are not a place to do good deeds, and you have to give money to help you settle your body, which is why you sell yourself to bury your father.

Yi Xiangxiang did not doubt Cui Xiaodie's experience, she had read a lot of books, and she also had a relative understanding of the geographical distribution of the Li Dynasty. The Li Dynasty has been established for hundreds of years, although the foundation is stable, but the barrenness of the northwest has always been a problem, in recent years several counties under Meizhou have been famine, there are people fleeing the famine is not unexpected.

However, although it is guessed that Cui Xiaodie is not lying, Yi Xiangxiang has no intention of reaching out. Although Yifu is not Zhong Mingding's hairpin family, the maids and servants in the family are all carefully selected, first by the purchase of the family history, and then by the Lin family, there is no casual let people into the house.

Of course, if she wants to buy it, she can't do it, but she doesn't want to find trouble. Cui Xiaodie's appearance is good-looking, and she is also literate, such a maid is put into the inner house, if she has a different heart, it is very difficult to deal with it. For the ancient family, the beautiful and cultured maid can't give that trust if it's not a family. Yi Xiangxiang didn't want to see this girl give her father a red sleeve fragrance one day, wouldn't that be bad luck for her family. The track of fate is established, and the love of children is very influential in this ancient world, Yi Xiangxiang thinks that she is a very affectionate lord, not from the Buddha, so she naturally can't be this good person.

She saw that it would be lively, so she took Miaoqin's hand and took the maid to leave the encirclement, and walked towards the spice shop in a hurry, the two pigtails trembled and trembled, very lively.

Yijia's spice shop is located in the prosperous area of West Street, called "Yipinxiang", and it is also a very famous spice shop in Bainian County. However, few people in Centennial County know that this shop is from the county magistrate's family, firstly, because the Yi family is relatively low-key in business, and secondly, the Lin family does not come to manage it very much, and the things in the shop are all handed over to the steward Hong Xi to take care of.

Yi Xiangxiang is no longer wandering around, afraid that she will go back late Lin is worried, her calves are fast, and a few kung fu masters and servants with about a cup of tea will arrive in the shop. The steward Hong Xi saw his young lady coming to the shop, and happily walked out of the counter to receive him.

"Miss is here to fetch spices today? Why bother to run in person and call the little guy to get it. Hong Xi's attitude is neither humble nor arrogant, but also respectful. When he was in Kyoto, he followed Mrs. Yi to learn spices and take care of the shop, and then the old lady also helped him become a family, and after coming to Bainian County, he was appointed as the steward of a pin of incense, and he was grateful to the Yi family like Bole.

A few days ago, the young lady asked the little maid to send a spice recipe, and asked him to mix it and said that he would come to pick it up in a few days. Although the recipe is just a soothing spice recipe, it is very subtle. For a person like Hong Xi who loves incense, not to mention that Yi Xiangxiang is his own master, he is also very worthy of admiration for this spice talent.

"It's okay, you prepare the things and we'll take them later, I'll pick some other spices, and you can take care of your own business." Yi Xiangxiang has been instilled with spice knowledge by Mrs. Yi since she was a child, and she treasures these things; And she often makes a lot of inferences, and even the spices she mixes are praised by Mrs. Yi.

Just kidding, in my previous life, I was also a person who bought a Saint Laurent and used Chanel, and I had never eaten pork or seen a pig run.

The steward Hong Xi nodded in agreement, returned to the counter and continued to fiddle with the abacus. The shop is lively at this time, but not all the guests need to be entertained by him personally, and they all have their own small servants.

Yi Xiangxiang avoided the crowd's self-selection, selected a few more elegant incense, and prepared to take it back and pick it by herself, avoiding the conflict between medicinal properties and fragrance properties, and then rewarded them to the little maids, so that they were all fragrant.

Yi Xiangxiang finished picking the spices and handed over the several spice recipes he had recently studied to the steward Hong Xi; Among them, there is a plum blossom fragrance, which is the recipe of "Shouyang Princess Plum Blossom Fragrance" that she read in a modern magazine, the inventor is Princess Shouyang of Emperor Wu of the Southern Song Dynasty, and she blended this spice because of her love for plum blossoms. I thought it was interesting at the time, so I wrote it down.

The plum blossom fragrance is elegant, giving people the feeling of bathing in the spring breeze, and also makes the wearer feel refreshed, which is very suitable for the study and piano room. This spice Yi Xiangxiang wants to give to Lin, although Lin goes back and forth to the family every day, but also loves piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she must like such a fragrance.

Because she wanted to give it to her mother, she told Hong Xi that this spice was not for sale, and she only kept it for her own use, so that he didn't have to match it in large quantities. Originally, I didn't want to sell the soothing spices for my grandmother, but after all, the soothing thing was beneficial to people, so she relaxed it.

Hong Xi held the new recipe given by the young lady in his hand, his eyes bloomed with surprise, and he couldn't wait to mix the spices immediately.

Yi Xiangxiang originally wanted to go to the restaurant after leaving the shop, but the restaurant she said she was going to open was already under decoration, she wanted to see the progress, and she couldn't pin her aesthetics on her straight male brother; However, seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, he gave up on this idea. The group walked to the place where the sedan chair was parked, and when they passed the place where Cui Xiaodie was kneeling again, they found that half of the crowd of onlookers had dispersed, and Cui Xiaodie could be seen kneeling through the gap, but there was a young master-like son with a small servant on the side, and it seemed that he was ready to buy Cui Xiaodie.

"Isn't that the second son of Liu Yuanwai's family? Eh, if this girl is taken away by Liu Ergongzi, it will be bearable, the second son is well-known for his gentleness, and Yingying Yanyan has a lot of concubines in the house. The pancake seller was holding a shovel and talking to the mother-in-law next door who was selling woven bracelets.

"Evil, evil!" The mother-in-law is still holding a veil in her hand, and her eyes are also looking in the direction of Cui Xiaodie.

Liu Shijie, the second son of Liu Yuanwai, is indeed a gentleman, Yi Xihu mentioned it when he talked to the Lin family, and Yi Xiangxiang heard it a few times. Yi Xihu once had a headache for this little gentleman, mainly because he didn't catch the evidence that he was really a traitor, because everything he wanted to bully was bought home with money and bullied.

"Let's go with the master, I guarantee that you will eat and drink spicy food in the future!" Liu Shijie opened the fan and shook it very dementedly, and there was a picture of a lady on the fan, which was beautiful.

Eh, the fan is really a necessary artifact for the ancient prince to pretend to be, Yi Xiangxiang thought.

There are small thugs around him, which is the eternal standard, and so is Liu Shijie. "Go with our young master, but you will fly on the branches and become a phoenix, don't toast and don't eat and drink!" The little guy next to Liu Shijie reached out to pull Cui Xiaodie up at the signal of his son-in-law, which was not a gentleman's demeanor. Cui Xiaodie heard the comments of passers-by on Liu Shijie, and knew that if she followed, there would be no good results, and she was also fierce, gritting her teeth and refusing.

The onlookers were all ordinary people, and they didn't dare to come forward to help, so they could only whisper. Yi Xiangxiang touched her nose, and was thinking about whether to simply take the person away, it was not her style to pull out a knife to help, but after all, she was the daughter of the county order, and it was always unreasonable to be silent and righteous when she encountered this kind of thing.

However, before she could finish thinking about it, Cui Xiaodie violently rushed out of the encirclement, and in an instant, she rushed to Yi Xiangxiang across the street and knelt down. Yes, I won't go to the mountain, the mountain will be me, Yi Xiangxiang thought so.

In the end, Yi Xiangxiang still bought Cui Xiaodie, Liu Shijie originally wanted to go over and fight for it, but the sharp-eyed guy next to him recognized that the two servants behind Yi Xiangxiang were from Yi Mansion, and told Liu Shijie in his ear. Liu Shijie was a self-aware gentleman, he stomped his foot angrily and left angrily.

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