Chapter 318, Confession
Yan Yan and Lu You moved back to the Lu family on the fourth day of the fifth month, and Old Lady Lu and the Zhu family obviously knew what happened in Mingyuan two days ago, so they looked at Yan Yan and Lu You with no more gentle eyes than before, but they didn't ask anything. ~with~dream~small~say~щww~suimеng~com
If they don't ask, Yan Yan naturally won't take the initiative to mention it.
When she went home this time, she prepared a modified version of wormwood glutinous rice cake with cooked bean flour and a ham rice dumpling, which can also be regarded as her innovation.
In addition, she also prepared a small gift for everyone, Mrs. Lu had the most, a pair of shoes and socks, a pair of sachets, and a group fan embroidered with butterfly and peony patterns of Xiangfei bamboo, Zhu and Huang had no shoes and socks, only sachets and fans, while Lu Ji and Lu He and several other peers only had a pair of sachets and a pair of new yarn piles in the palace.
Of course, Lu Ming and Yan Yu still have nothing.
When Mrs. Lu saw that Yan Yan was giving gifts and accompanying smiling faces after entering the door, it was not good to ignore her with a cold face all the time, so she had to ask her what she was busy with these days.
Yan Yan saw that the old lady's face was a little softer, so she talked about what she had done recently.
Knowing that Yan Yan was trying to plant Nanyue tribute red rice and rice, and was also trying to plant two new crops from the missionaries, Mrs. Lu was curious, "You mean you have seen Westerners?" Are they really blonde monsters? ”
"I went to see my husband and I, back to my grandmother, they are not monsters, they all say that one side of the water and soil raises one side of the people, because the place where they live is thousands of miles away from us, so their language, living habits and even the whole appearance are very different from us, but they are actually the same as us, they are all people." Yan Yan explained.
"Those missionaries go out with new seeds?" This time it was Zhu who asked.
Although she was also angry with Yan Yan, she had to admit one thing, Yan Yan was not only smart, but also very business-minded, those shops didn't say anything, just said that the queen gave her red rice, she could actually think of asking for rice to try planting by herself, and what kind of Western missionaries, Yan Yan could actually think of asking them for new seeds.
In addition, there are wild potatoes, peppercorns and herbs, etc., which she transplanted a lot to try to grow.
The Zhu family still understands the principle that scarcity is precious, so she knows in her heart that if Yan Yan succeeds in trying to plant, these things can make a lot of money in the future.
For this reason, Zhu couldn't help but speak, she wanted to order some new seeds in advance, but she was embarrassed to ask directly.
"Back to Mother, these seeds were brought by them from Tianzhu Kingdom, and they plan to bring them back to their own country, so I can say that I have divided a little bit from them. Mother rest assured, if I try to plant it in the future, I will send some seeds to my mother. Yan Yan guessed the other party's mind and took the initiative to say.
In fact, Yan Yan's visit to these two missionaries was indeed quite rewarding, because these two people came from England and stayed in India for a while, and found that the things that Indians kept warm in winter were actually collected from flowers grown in a kind of field, so they collected some seeds and planned to bring them back to their own country.
This is exactly the cotton that Yan Yan thinks about day and night.
In addition to cotton, there are several kinds of vegetables, such as bitter gourd, carrots, lentils, eggplant, etc.
After going around India, they became interested in China, a country with an ancient civilization, and wanted to take a turn and see if they could also find some new seeds to bring back to their homeland.
Knowing that Yan Yan was interested in the seeds they brought, the two missionaries were interesting enough and agreed to share Yan Yan a little bit as well.
Yan Yan wanted cotton, bitter gourd and carrots, and that lentils and eggplant were there, but she didn't ask for them.
Because she missed the planting season of bitter gourd and cotton, and Yan Yan did not know whether the seeds would be invalid next year, she divided the seeds she asked for from the missionaries and planted another third.
This is also an important reason why she only moved back to the Lu family today, so she has to supervise those mothers-in-law to plant the seeds, which is a very high-sounding reason, Yan Yan confessed to the Lu family.
Besides, sooner or later, these things will reach the ears of the Lu family, and there is no need for her to lie.
What's more, if she can really grow cotton, it will definitely be a great merit, and it will be too late to promote it, let alone hide it.
Seeing that Yan Yan not only understood her intentions, Zhu also offered to send her seeds after the trial was successful, and his face was no longer tense.
In fact, putting aside these grievances between Yan Yan and the Lu family, the Zhu family still appreciates Yan Yan's personality, not to mention the smart atmosphere, the thing that Zhu appreciates most about her is that she has strong self-esteem, she knows Lu You's identity in the Lu family very well, so she didn't want to be attached to the Lu family from the beginning, but moved out early to earn money by herself, which saved her a lot of trouble.
But the biggest problem of this kind of person is that it is not easy to fiddle, no, no matter what they do, whether it is coaxing or persuading, training or scolding, people just don't get in the oil and salt, and if they don't recognize this sister, they won't admit it, and if they say they will break off their relationship, they won't give anyone face.
"Sister-in-law, can you understand what Westerners say?" Lu Ji saw that the room suddenly became quiet, and interjected to ask.
"They have been coming to us for more than half a year, and they have only learned a few basic daily conversations, and communication is really difficult. Yan Yan replied with a smile.
In fact, when the two of them were in a hurry, they would spit out a string of native languages, and Yan Yan could understand 12 out of 10, but she didn't dare to show it, so most of the communication did rely on drawing and drawing.
And Yan Yan listened to the meaning of those two people, he would not stay in Da Zhou for long, and if he found all the seeds they needed, they would go back.
At first, Yan Yan still wanted to cooperate with these two people to do something silk, porcelain, tea and porcelain business, but it was the first time they met, and she didn't know the details of the other party, and she was afraid of being fooled, so she had to run aground temporarily.
"Ah, you can't even understand the words, just by analogy, you dare to conclude that this thing is for eating?" Mrs. Lu felt that Yan Yan's consideration of the problem was too simple.
"Back to Grandmother, we've all asked clearly." Yan Yan replied patiently.
As he was talking, Lu Ming came back, he had just come back from the court, and when he entered the door and saw Yan Yan and Lu You, his first reaction was to look at Yan Yu, and Yan Yu replied to him with a wry smile.
Indeed, after sitting for half a day, Yan Yu didn't take the opportunity to speak, not because others stopped her, but because Yan Yan hadn't looked at her since she entered the door, let alone give her anything.
Actually, according to her own intentions, she really wants to find a reason to leave, but the old lady and Mrs. don't speak, how can she speak as a junior?
Therefore, she could only sit on the sidelines, not to mention how embarrassed it was.
Lu Ming saw that Yan Yu's expression still didn't understand anything, so after saying hello to the elders, he found a reason to need Yan Yu's service and took her out.