On the street, Li Tie's house.

Because the Li family also set up a porridge shed, the Li Mansion has not had enough manpower, so Li Tiehu asked his daughter Li Jiaojiao to help in the kitchen. Li Jiaojiao is big and can't do any heavy work, and she is afraid that she will be more and more helped, so Li Tiehu simply let her daughter choose vegetables under the eaves and help the little maid in the small kitchen who is responsible for selecting vegetables, and then wash rice.

The little maid who was waiting next to Li Jiaojiao was also not idle for a moment, and helped Li Jiaojiao do a lot of work.

Li Jiaojiao sneezed several times on her face, and the little maid hurriedly sent the silk silk up, and asked, "What's wrong with the girl?" Is it cold? Do you want the slave to go and get a doctor over?"

Li Jiaojiao took the silk handkerchief handed by the little maid, blew her nose, and said, "Do you look at your girl as if she is sick?" I always feel like someone is gossiping about me behind my back, and if I find out, I will never spare her! ”

When Li Jiaojiao spoke, although it was plain and bland, in the eyes of outsiders, her face was terrifying, and the horizontal flesh on her face kept shaking, which frightened the little maid who was waiting next to her.

The little girl didn't dare to say more, and hurriedly continued her work.

The big families in Wutong Lane have set up porridge sheds, but the Gu Mansion is a wealthy family in Pengpu, so the Gu Mansion takes the lead, and the Li family in Cuizhu Lane behind it, the Huang family on the street, and the Lingzuo family in Pengpu County at the end of the street have all set up one or two large and small porridge sheds.

But after all, Wutong Lane is the location of a large family, and there are women, dependents, elderly and children living in the house.

So in the past few days, several waves of guards have been placed in front of each house, Feng Lao'an and the Lin family discussed, they felt that the guards at the door were weak, and there were many beggars who came to drink porridge one day, so it was inevitable that it was not safe, so they dialed the backyard to wait for the small servants to go to the front yard to inspect together, and each person was equipped with a wooden stick with a zhang long in his hand.

If any people of the same religion and nine rank get in, they can beat him out. However, after a natural and man-made disaster, there will always be people who will take the opportunity to come out and make waves, and the large families of Pengpu are seven or eight times the size of the next few counties, although they have been quiet and quiet, but there are always people with bad intentions peeping.

In the back room, Feng Lao'an was holding the tiger born by the Qi family, and was talking to the Qi family, "Little Qi! These days, you just lie on the couch and take care of it, this woman is confined, but she can't be tired, if she hurts her body, then the next child will be difficult to conceive. ”

As Feng Lao'an spoke, Zijuan, who was standing on the side, had already taken out the longevity lock and gold collar that Feng Lao'an had prepared in advance, and the longevity lock was gently put on Hu'er's neck. Because the gold collar was too heavy, Feng Lao'an didn't dare to let Hu'er wear it, for fear of hurting his neck, so he let him play with it in his hand.

Hu'er is the nickname given by Feng Lao'an to Qi's child, the big name is Feng Yincheng, the child is called a nickname when he is a child, and Hu'er is a child born on Yinri, so Feng Lao'an gave him this name. Qi and Feng Cheng didn't care, and also called Hu'er.

After Feng Lao'an held Hu'er in his arms and coaxed him for a long time, Hu'er had stopped crying and fell asleep. After handing Hu'er to the nurse next to him and letting the nurse take him out, Feng Lao'an dared to say: "Xiao Qi!" Look at you, but you just gave birth to a child, and you have been lying on the couch for so many days, and your face is still so pale, can you take the medicine prescribed by Dr. Qin to nourish your body on time?"

After Qi gave birth to a tiger and hemorrhaged, his body has been weak, and there is no blood on his face, and he has been lying on the couch for more than ten days without any improvement.

Feng Lao'an is already anxious, if the Qi family does not recover well, then it will be difficult to conceive the next child, if Feng Cheng only has such a son, then the Feng family's incense will be broken. In order to keep the Feng family's incense burning, she had already instructed Doctor Qin to prescribe medicine for the Qi family.

"Auntie, Xiao Qi is fine, just raise it for a few days, aunt doesn't need to worry about me so much. Now it's time to worry about your home. As Qi spoke, the maid, who had already seen it, retreated, closed the door, and stood guard outside.

Seeing that there were only a few self-conscious maids left in the house, Qi continued: "Auntie, I have already heard from the steward, a porridge shed has been built outside the house in the past few days, and the surplus grain in our house is almost exhausted, and if the grain stored in the grain village in the south of the city is transported over, it can only last for more than ten days." Grandmother should discuss with Lord Zuo and let Lord Zuo open a warehouse to release grain, the grain in the official warehouse is ten times that of ours. ”

Feng Lao'an didn't expect that Qi was lying on the couch these days, and he knew all about these things outside. In the past few days, the porridge shed has been built, and the surplus food in the house has been consumed, but fortunately, there is still some surplus food in the kitchens of each house and courtyard, which can last for a few days, otherwise the house will really not be able to open the pot.

These days, most of the rice shops in the city have been closed, they have rice, but there are too many people who have fled into the city, and they are afraid that the victims will rob the rice shops, so none of them dare to open.

Although there is rice in the rice shop in the south of the city, there is still a lot of distance between the south of the city and Wutong Lane, and there is still a lot of distance between the mountain temple and the beggar village where the victims live.

Even if it is reported to the official afterwards, in this extraordinary period, the government has no choice but to do nothing. Therefore, Feng Laoan was unwilling to take this risk, so he asked people to stop the porridge shack outside the house and hold on for a few days.

There is indeed a lot of surplus grain in the granary of the government, but it is heavily guarded, and ordinary people cannot break in. If the Zuo County Order wants people to open a warehouse and release grain, they have to take the will of the superiors, if there is no will of the superiors, the Zuo County Order will release the grain privately, not to mention the official position, even the lives of the whole family will have to be lost together.

He didn't dare to take risks, so he kept dragging it. If it weren't for the Gu family personally taking the lead in setting up a porridge shed this time, presumably the stingy Zuo County Order would be reluctant to release a single piece of rice.

However, setting up a porridge shed is a drop in the bucket after all, there are only those porridges cooked every day, and there are no more, and the people who come to drink porridge are all idle and greedy ruffians, as for any old people and children, she has not seen one.

Feng Lao'an thought for a moment, thinking that he would stop giving porridge, so he said to Zijuan behind him: "Zijuan, you go to Mrs. Lin to say goodbye, and say that I will stop the porridge shed outside the house, and go to inform the steward of the outer courtyard, tomorrow's porridge will not need to be boiled, and tonight let people move the pots and pans for cooking porridge in." ”

Zijuan didn't understand what Feng Lao'an's move meant, but she could only do as she was told.

"Auntie, the other families haven't stopped the porridge shack yet, let's do this, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right? And this matter is still led by our family, if we don't set up a porridge shed, other families will also stop their own porridge sheds. Qi felt that Feng Lao'anren's move was inappropriate, and reminded him.

"There is not much surplus food in the house, and it won't last long, if the porridge shed continues to be built, I believe that the first person to eat every meter must be our family. After stopping the porridge shed at the door, the flow of people at the door can also be reduced, and it will be more convenient for us to transport the surplus grain from the Chengnan Grain Village into the house. ”

Feng Lao'an is like a female middle school Zhuge , everything is analyzed properly, and Feng Lao'an's move is also a way to do it.

While speaking, the maid in the small kitchen had already sent Qi's decoction over, Qi picked up the medicine bowl, and barely drank half a bowl, but he really couldn't stand the unpleasant smell of medicine, and put the medicine bowl on the top of the high table.

"I heard the maid who was waiting in the wife's courtyard come over and said that my wife was afraid that it would not work, and the sixth brother bought a feng shui treasure land for his wife in the name of his aunt, and asked people to order a good coffin, and even the doctor didn't plan to invite it. I think the sixth brother is a little too hasty, his wife's maiden family is not an ordinary family, if it is investigated, it will be difficult to do. ”

When Feng Lao'an heard this, he picked up the tea cup next to him and smelled the tea carefully, but he never drank it.

"I don't want to care about the worries of the sixth and the sixth daughter-in-law. Since the sixth child married Hongmei, he has come to me less often, and every time I ask Zijuan to invite, he is willing to come. Fortunately, Hongmei's girl is a person who understands the rules, and every morning and dusk is indispensable. ”

"Aunt Hong is a girl who came out of the wife's courtyard, and the current appearance of the wife should also be seen. After all, Cai is not only the housekeeper's wife in the house, but also her former master, when she comes over, my aunt will remind her a few words! After Qi finished speaking, he said again.

"This man! The more you teach, the more you know, if you discipline well, you can come out of the mountains and wilderness, and you can also become the wife of an official family. ”

"I want to teach, but people don't necessarily learn! Besides, when I'm old, where can I still work on these things, I just let them go to the people under my hands. As soon as Feng Lao'an's words fell, the voice of the little maid was heard outside the house.

"Old lady, Aunt Hong has come to greet you, and she also brought a few snacks made by herself, saying that she would let you taste them."

Feng Lao'an didn't embarrass the little maid who was waiting outside, and immediately let the little maid let Hongmei in.

Since Hongmei became Gu Lihua's concubine, she has changed her previous makeup and hair, combed a round bun, her hair is dotted with hairpins, a red gold hairpin, and inlaid with a few pearls that are not big or small, with dazzling luster, and you can see that it is not ordinary.

Hongmei saluted Feng Lao'an, and then gave a flat salute to the Qi family, so she dared to sit on the stool and chair brought by the little maid, with a smile in her eyebrows, looking like a superior person, "Mother, knowing that you don't have much appetite these days, Hongmei specially asked people to buy fresh hawthorn and oranges, made hawthorn cakes and orange cakes, and brought them to my mother to taste, hoping that my mother can like it." ”

Hongmei was talking, there was already a little maid put the hawthorn cake and orange cake up, the hawthorn cake was sprinkled with sugar, Feng Lao'an took a piece with chopsticks and tasted it, I thought it was very good, but it didn't look like Hongmei made it herself, but it seemed that after someone else did it, Hongmei came to do the last few processes.

Qi asked the maid to take a piece of orange cake to her, Hongmei's orange cake is a bit similar to persimmon cake, but fortunately, the taste is good, and I can't find anything wrong, so I said: "Aunt Hong is really ingenious, this kind of craftsmanship is comparable to the master in the dim sum shop outside!" ”

Hongmei heard this, her face flushed with ruddy, and she tightly twisted the handkerchief embroidered with plum blossom patterns in her hand, and Qi used the master of the dim sum shop outside to praise her, doesn't this mean that she is the same as the master of the dim sum shop outside? They are all lowly maids who serve people, they can't get on the stage, and they can't be the wife of the house.

Feng Lao'an looked at Qi's deliberate face of Hongmei, so he thought about relieving Hongmei and gave her the stairs, "Hongmei can have such a skill, and I will already be able to enjoy it." In the future, if you like it, you can come and talk to me, and let's talk about making snacks together. ”

Seeing that Feng Lao'an spoke for herself, Hongmei's nervous expression finally eased a lot.