Chapter 437: Cai Ping
The wooden door panels were removed one by one by the subordinates, and as they moved, dust came to their faces, choking the people standing at the front coughing. Even Yuan Jin frowned and fanned the wind in front of her nose with her little hand.
The door was pushed open, and a pungent smell of damp and moldy rushed out, and those who were close couldn't help but take a step back in unison.
Inside the door, the goods on the shelves have been emptied, although before the door was closed, the corners of the walls have been sprinkled with lime powder, but after a long time, the lime powder has long been damp, because of the rain and snow last winter and this spring, the upper corners of the shelves made of ordinary wood have been molded piece by piece.
A few of the people saw the way they were in the house, and they hurried to the other end and opened the wooden door on the opposite side. The air on both sides was convection, and when the breeze blew, the smell quickly dissipated a lot, and the windows on the side were propped up, and the room became much brighter.
But that didn't make Yuan Sheng's face any better.
He clearly saw several rats scurrying out of the house and burrowing behind the shelves.
In the palace, he had never seen such a filthy thing, and if it weren't for the fact that he barely maintained his majesty as the emperor's eldest grandson, he would have screamed in fright.
Pursing his lips tightly, Yuan Sheng's eyes were nervous, and his little face was a little pale.
Seeing that it was almost over, Yan Qingge led a group of people into the door and calmly introduced them to the layout of the store.
"These two shelves are specially opened for scratch and embroidery, and the wooden lattice on the counter here is a purse, which can be opened here......" Yan Qingge lifted a specially made lid on the counter, revealing the small storage box below: "Here are the things that customers accidentally left in the store, if they come back to look for them, give them to them." ”
Yan Qingge's embroidery village was opened by Yan Xiuyu with her help, and many of the decorations in it are similar to other embroidery villages, but they are more attentive to serving guests.
The moment Yuan Sheng saw the mouse, he was no longer in the mood to stay here, he looked at Yan Qingge with some apprehension, and saw that Yan Qingge was still leading them to talk about the embroidery village little by little, and asked: "Auntie, the embroidery village is still messing around now, ask someone to clean it up first, let's come back." Why don't we go to Zhuangzi first to see the matter of farming. ”
Yan Qingge smiled slightly: "Nongsang? The Zhuangzi of Yanwangfu only cultivates dry fields, and the time for planting has long passed, and now the only farm work that is still done in the field is calculated according to the season, and only weeding is left. The crops will not mature until the end of April, and the wheat planting will be completed before the snow falls in winter. ”
"What about silkworm farming?"
"Yanwangfu Zhuangzi planted kudzu hemp, not mulberry trees, so he did not raise silkworms. In fact, there are not many mulberry trees around our capital, and we are not very suitable for planting mulberry trees here, or there are more people in the south who grow mulberry and raise silkworms, so most of the tribute satin is sent from there. Yan Qingge replied.
Yuan Jin seems to understand whether she understands or not. He has now begun to study the Four Books and Five Classics with his husband, which will involve some of these agricultural matters. But what the book says, and the reality is really very different, he thought that when he went to the countryside, he could really see a large area of mulberry forests and green rice fields, but he didn't expect that the capital here is all dry land, and there are not many mulberry trees.
Yuan Jin was a little deflated, there was nothing to look at in the wheat field, it grew in the ground, and it was not as handsome as the rice that grew in the water. And I heard that now is a good season to eat mulberries, and the mulberry tree is much more interesting in his heart than the "useless" kudzu hemp.
Children's thoughts are probably the same, even if it is an old and oily child like Yuan Jin, it is inevitable that they will like to eat and play.
The one who understands this best is not Yan Qingge, but Aunt Caifeng who is following them.
Aunt Caifeng used to follow Aunt Hai and help bring Yan Shuyu, who had been brought for a long time, and she was still raising Yan Hanqiu like a jewel, in addition, the green boy and the blue boy were also in front of her, almost half of the child king.
She hurriedly smiled on her face and said: "His Royal Highness, in fact, there are a lot of interesting things in Zhuangzi, and now at this time, many Zhuanghu families will go to hunt rabbits, catch pheasants, and fish and shrimp in the ditches on the river, especially now, the animals that have been hungry for a winter have something to eat, and their bodies are full of newly raised fat and water, and they are fat and thin to eat, which is very good." And there are a few special fruits in spring, which can only be seen in the mountains......"
Yan Qingge rested sideways and glared at Aunt Caifeng, and Aunt Caifeng's words were suddenly too frightened to speak.
It's okay to say anything else, what does it mean to touch fish and catch shrimp and encourage Yuan Jin to go to the river to play? Even if you bring several people, once you fall into the water, there is still a great possibility that you can't be rescued, and you are not afraid that nothing will happen, but you are afraid that if something happens, who will be able to afford it.
In one, Aunt Caifeng said all the wild fruits. If the wild fruit is delicious, it has long been cultivated into a family, so do you still need to be born in the wilderness? Some of those fruits have a sour and unpalatable taste, and some are faintly toxic.
The children of the peasant family have been solid since they were young, and there is nothing delicious to eat, and occasionally they look for two to satisfy their cravings, but is this kind of thing that Yuan Jin can eat?
But at this time, it was too late, and Yuan Jin's interest had already been hooked.
No matter where the child is raised, he will always be easily interested in these things.
Aunt Caifeng was stumbling and didn't know what to do. On the one hand, she was extremely curious, and she also wanted to please Yuan Jin, and on the other hand, Yan Qingge, who obviously didn't let her say this.
After weighing the two phases, Aunt Caifeng said: "Your Highness, the slave maid has actually never been to those places, they have all listened to others, maybe it is not so fun there." She still decided that it was better not to offend Yan Qingge.
Seeing Aunt Caifeng's acquaintance, Yan Qingge no longer pursued it, and stretched out his hand and pointed to the back: "The front is just a place to sell goods, and the back is the serious embroidery workshop at that time, you go and take a look." ”
Yuan Jin was a little reluctant, and walked back.
When he was about to get to the townhouses that had been transformed into a place for embroidery girls to work, Yuan Jin suddenly stopped and asked, "Auntie, I really want to go to Zhuangzi." ”
Yan Qingge was speechless for a while, and after a perfunctory sentence, he diverted the conversation.
Unexpectedly, the next morning, Yuan Jin jumped in again, her face was full of joy, and said, "Auntie, look, what is this?" ”
Yan Qingge was puzzled as a result of the light green Qingya letter he was holding in his hand, and he saw that an invitation was written on it in beautiful hairpin letters, asking Yan Qingge to come and participate in the Cai Ping Poetry Meeting held in Cheng Guogong's Mansion.
Yan Qingge couldn't help but be stunned, and asked Yuan Jin: "How did you get the invitation?" ”
"I was playing with the green boy at the door, and a maid sister said that it was sent to you from outside, so I brought it to you. Unexpectedly, the green boy accidentally fell on the way and threw out the letter inside, and I saw the contents inside. Auntie, let's go to the event, shall we? Yuan Jin said happily.
Yan Qingge still has a little impression of this Cheng Guo Mansion.
Cheng Guogong's Mansion is a little lower than the Xinguo Mansion she married before her rebirth, although it has not yet reached the point of breaking down, but it has basically withered.
This kind of small aristocratic family with no future and no status, what they like most is to climb the royal relatives, if they can get the blue eyes of the big people, the help to them is not ordinarily great.
Before the rebirth, because the status of the Xinguo Mansion and the Chengguo Mansion were comparable, the two families were quite in contact, and even the concubines and concubines of the two families had marriages. For the Xiao family, the woman in charge of Cheng Guogong's mansion, Yan Qingge's impression is not bad.
Xiao Shi is always dressed up very gorgeously, and her personality is very hearty, although she is a little cautious, but she survives in a family like Cheng Guogong's Mansion, without scheming, there is no dregs left that have been devoured a long time ago.
It's just that Yan Qingge's liking for her is limited to before she was reborn. Xiao Shiba is a person with a higher status than himself, who can use it, it is simply everything, being stammered by this kind of person, in fact, it is quite dangerous, who knows if she is trying her best to investigate what you are behind her back, who knows if she gave you a valuable gift, whether she did something unconscionable to get it.
There are too many small aristocratic families like Cheng Guogong's Mansion who want to make friends with Yanwang's Mansion! Yan Qingge never paid attention to them, she had to receive at least two or three invitations every day, all of which were refused by the maid ghostwriter, and she put the invitations away, but she didn't expect this one to be seen by Yuan Jin.
As soon as Yuan Jin saw Yan Qingge's behavior of casually collecting the letter paper and putting it on the table, he knew that Yan Qingge didn't want to participate in this poetry meeting, and the light in his eyes dimmed.
He really heard what Aunt Caifeng said yesterday and went to his heart.
In the past, when he stayed in the Yanwang Mansion when he was very young, he would be very happy if he had the opportunity to walk on the streets.
But at that time, he was basically protected by many guards to go to the next restaurant, or go to those stores that were chartered to buy two expensive jewelry or toys, and basically did not appear in crowded places.
Now his pursuit is different, he is not the coaxing child of that time, he wants to see what the real folk and countryside are like, is it as written in the poem, is it as it is said in the book, is it like the occasional person when he listens to people talk?
No matter how disappointed Yuan Jin was, Yan Qingge didn't see it, but pretended to scold Xunshuang beside him, and said, "How can you ask His Royal Highness the Emperor Eldest Sun to send a letter, where are your eyes?" And Master Green Boy, didn't you just say that you fell, and no one went to see it! ”
Yuan Jin knew that it was Yan Qingge's words as soon as he heard it, he glared at him, and wanted to get angry, but his eyebrows were full of grievances that could not be concealed, and he looked like he wanted to cry a little, and ran out with his mouth deflated, and almost tripped over the threshold because he didn't look at the road with his head up.
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(Tianjin)