I don't know if it's because of the season, this afternoon, Shanhua and Qingmai mother and daughter didn't find the yasava stalks that Yan Yan needed, but dug up two small seedlings for Yan Yan, but unfortunately Yan Yan didn't know it, but she still decided to take it back and try to plant it in the yard for a season to see if there was any harvest.

In addition, Shanhua also brought back two pepper saplings to Yan Yan, which was a surprise for Yan Yan.

She remembers that in her previous life, she read Liang Shiqiu's essay "Yashe Talks about Eating", mentioning that every spring, when the yellow croaker was on the market in large quantities, their family would use pepper leaves to stew fish, and the taste was still fresh in his memory decades later.

In addition, Yan Yan plans to launch Sichuan cuisine, which requires a large amount of peppercorns, but in this era, people will not use peppercorns as condiments, but only use medicine, and the demand is not much, and sometimes it is not easy to buy.

So, in the next few days, Yan Yan asked the mother and daughter of Shanhua to take a few mothers-in-law into the mountain to find pepper seedlings, and also to find the yasca seedlings in their mouths, and after finding them, they were all transplanted to the barren mountain, where the fence was almost enclosed, and began to build houses and intercept water sources.

Seeing this, Yan Yan entrusted the head of the village to select a few families from the Zhuangzi who were not very rich in labor to be responsible for the breeding industry, and the specific division of labor was arranged by the steward.

On this day, after breakfast, Yan Yan was crooked on the kang to make up for sleep, I don't know if she was tired for the past two days, she always felt a little sleepy, and when she was staring in a daze, she saw Qing Glaze hurriedly breaking in, and her little face was white with fright.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Yan Yan asked.

"Miss, there are a lot of snakes dug up in the pool in the back, it's scary, some of them are so thick." Qing Glaze said as he gestured.

"Snakes?" Yan Yan was also taken aback, she had always been afraid of this kind of soft thing.

"No, it's so thick, it's yellow, it's scary, many of them don't dare to work, say yes, say yes..." Qing Glaze was still stroking her chest as she spoke, but she didn't dare to say the rest of the words.

Yan Yan didn't pay attention to what she wanted to say later, her attention was attracted by this sentence "yellow and yellow", yellow and yellow, shouldn't it be a yellow eel?

But the problem is that she has been here for so long, and she has really never seen a yellow eel, and she has not seen it in the memory of the original owner, not only has she never seen it, but she has never eaten it.

"How many people are still there, so let's let them avoid it, and I'll go over and see."

As soon as Yan Yan's words were finished, the nurse's voice sounded outside, "Back to grandma, the green glaze girl is timid, and she ran back shouting before she figured it out, and someone just said that it was not a snake, it was a long fish, but this long fish is almost the same as a snake, so many people will admit their mistakes and feel scary." ”

"Long fish?" Yan Yan searched in his mind, isn't the long fish a yellow eel?

"Nurse, you let them catch a few big ones and put them in the water, and we will eat this at night." Yan Yan's gluttony came up.

"Huh? Master, this is unacceptable, few people dare to eat this thing, and few people dare to get it, only when they are hungry in the famine years, they have heard that they have been caught and eaten. The nurse opened the curtain and came in.

"It doesn't matter, I have long wanted to taste the taste of long fish, the great poet Du Fu wrote a poem about eating long fish, called 'Su silk with long fish, green wine with jade grains. Also, there are many poems about long fish in the earlier "Book of Songs", which are said to taste very good. Yan Yan quickly searched out a few lines of poetry from his memory, which can be regarded as evidence.

The nurse has never studied, and she doesn't know what Du Fu is not Du Fu, but Qingxiang has followed Yan Yan for so many years, she knows Du Fu and his people, "Grandma, can this thing really be eaten?" ”

"You can't be wrong to listen to grandma, grandma, I want to taste it too." Qingmiao and Qingyu heard the movement from outside and ran in as well.

"Cheng, let the nurse explain, the fish is only delicious when it is killed, and it has to be disemboweled, it is best to remove the bones and cut them into long silks." Yan Yan made another request.

After speaking, she thought of one more thing, this thing is not spicy and not delicious, so she ordered someone to pick some dogwood and pepper leaves, and also prepare a little pepper, if the research is good, you can launch a new dish in the restaurant.

However, in order to confirm whether this thing was a yellow eel, Yan Yan decided to take a look for herself, so she ordered someone to get a bucket and go to the back garden to pick up two to take a look.

Unexpectedly, when she was waiting to see the yellow eel, Qinghe came in and said that someone from the Lu family was coming and asked her to go back.

When Yan Yan heard this, he thought about it for a while, it turned out that the day had come for Lu Ming to give Yan Yu a dowry gift.

But what does this have to do with her?

She didn't go to the last time she gave the gift, and she didn't want to go this time.

"Grandma, the slave maid thinks it's better for grandma to go, isn't grandma curious about what good things the Lu family will give to the second lady, and they always talk about grandma's dowry."

It turned out that Zhu told others outside more than once that she was married to Yan Yan as a concubine, and gave Yan Yanyun the two most valuable shops on Chang'an Street and the two most fertile Zhuangzi outside the city.

In fact, these things were decided by the Queen Mother, and the Lu family did not dare to resist the order, Rao was so, and the Zhu family also emptied these two shops, leaving Yan Yan almost an empty shell.

Therefore, Qing He was very angry, so he suggested that Yan Yan should take a look at what kind of dowry Yan Yu would have when he married him with the gift of the prince, so that the Zhu family would chew his tongue again in the future.

"What a stupid girl, what's there to compare with this, Lu Ming is the son of the world. is the only son-in-law, and the entire Lu family's family business is someone else's, why should I bother to find this unhappy? Yan Yan shook his head.

However, Yan Yan was a little curious, she wanted to know how rich the dowry Ma would prepare for Yan Yu, after all, when Yan Yan got married, Ma only gave a little furniture, clothing, jewelry and a silver ticket of 5,000 taels at the bottom of the box, and there were no field shops.

In fact, if it is really more serious, this family business should have half of the original owner, even if she is not a girl and cannot take away most of the Yan family's property, but the Ma family should also prepare a dowry for her according to the standards of the Yan family's daughters.

But in fact, Yan Yan's dowry was left by her biological mother, and some of it was given to her by her grandmother, according to Yan Yan's own cognition, there are a lot of these things, enough to support herself, but this is the reference standard for Yan Yan's own grassroots citizens in the previous life, not the standard for women in this era.

Therefore, she really wanted to find out, to find out how big the gap was, and whether the Lu family would withdraw for this reason.

Besides, Yan Yan clearly remembered that the last time she had an accident in her carriage was because she should have sent a gift to Yan's family in those two days, if it was not a coincidence, it meant that the Zhu family or the Ma family did not want her to appear.

Although she didn't understand the reason, Yan Yan thought about it again and again, and she decided to go to Lu's house, and Yan Yan was still a little interested in smashing the field.