The days fly by, and in the blink of an eye, it is almost May Duanyang.

In the past two months, every time the spicy seeds are delivered, Luo Shi will hire a chariot and horse in Kushui Town, escort the chili peppers all the way to a dilapidated town at the Pingshui Pass, and earn about 20 taels of silver.

Although she asked the gentleman at the bookstall to write letters on her behalf every time, greeting Uncle Liang at night and explaining the spicy business, she never showed up once.

Aunt Cuiying's broad bean shop in Liangzhou City, the business is not bad, because Luo Shi in prison has a life-saving grace for the money shopkeeper, so he also takes special care of the business stall, even if Cuiying only goes once every three or two days, all the business is as usual, and she doesn't need to worry about it.

After the winter, the work of making raw hides gradually became less and less, so he took care of the vegetable patch at home, carried water and chopped firewood. In my spare time, I go to the mountains to hunt a few pheasants and hares, or go to the fields to help with the work when I am busy with farming.

Ah Huang finally died of old age, and Shengzi cried all night because of this, carrying a hoe to dig a pit and bury it, and did not want to eat its meat. In order to comfort him, Rass went to the town to buy a calf and came back, and asked someone to build a cowshed, so that he could take care of it. In addition to the calves, she also held a litter of chicks and raised them, and she was able to pick up eggs to eat these days.

In short, the farmer's life is stable, and the door of the ugly woman and the fool is more and more recognized by the villagers.

Compared with the stability and leisure of the Luo family, the Que Rong family is like cooking oil on the fire, and the flowers on the cake are in the limelight.

The business of instant bread has grown, and with the army's list as the foundation, she has expanded the scale of the workshop, opened a shop in Liangzhou City, and the business continues to penetrate to the south. Needless to say, spicy dishes are now known throughout Liangzhou, and in the bitter water township of the original poor countryside, there is a gold-plated female god of wealth, who has earned a lot of silver in just half a year!

Shanzi's family also changed the brick and tile compound with bricks and seams, and there were no longer coarse cloth short clothes on his body, and the last time was brocade silk, and the gold and jade bracelets on his hands were the same as the young grandmother from the rich and noble family.

During this period, Que Rong has been in contact with Tongzhou, low and small, and finally looked forward to the reply over there, saying that it was around the Dragon Boat Festival, and Tongzhou was going to come to Liangzhou for review!

As long as the taste of the spicy dishes is passed, the lady will spread it out.

The shop is a trivial matter, mainly the secret recipe for snacks other than spicy strips, which is what Finberry really values.

So, she made special preparations, and specially invited a mason carpenter to come out of a wing room in the future, so that the owner who came from Tongzhou could settle down and rest.

On this day, the sun was hanging high, and the thin jacket was replaced by a single shirt, and it couldn't withstand the sweaty weather.

Rashi's body is getting heavier and heavier, and it is known that she is about six months old, but in fact she is already seven and a half months. Except for doing some light housework and stir-frying a few simple side dishes, she can't do anything else.

is idle at home, and naturally some people scold her behind her back for pretending to be delicate, not like an authentic peasant woman!

This sounds strange, it turned out that there was a lady in the village who pulled the doll out when she was working in the field, and then she also packed up the umbilical cord of the afterbirth, put on her pants and worked again.

Luo Shi doesn't know whether it's true or not, but she can't do it, she walks more on weekdays, controls her diet, and doesn't make her body lazy and weak, which is enough for her, so she doesn't care how others chew the root of her tongue.

At this moment, she was feeding the chickens in the yard, and had just picked up seven white eggs from the chicken coop, thinking about whether to make egg custard or scrambled eggs for lunch.

From afar, the daughter-in-law came to the door with a bag of pastries, and said with a smile:

"Have you changed your summer shirt? It's a strange year, the weather is so hot, you have to hope for a few rains, otherwise the harvest of the fields will be miserable."

"Auntie is here, is the business in the shop going well?"

Luo Shi patted the chaff shell that fed the chickens in her palm, pushed the door of the house, and invited the full daughter-in-law into the house.

"That's it, the spicy dishes of the Que Rong family are sold in Liangzhou, how much money can I grab from my crispy broad beans? After the cost of shop rent, there are still a few copper plates left, and I am satisfied."

She put the pastry on the table and continued:

"Oh, glutinous rice cake, climbing bean paste, it won't be too sweet and glutinous"

"Thank you, auntie"

Luo Shi took it happily, and she liked to eat some cold cakes, five poison cakes and the like during the Dragon Boat Festival compared to zongzi.

After pregnancy, her taste changed three times a day, thinking about what she wanted to eat if she couldn't eat, she really couldn't sleep well, this taste of glutinous rice cold cake with bean filling, she was looking forward to it, just waiting for her daughter-in-law to return from Liangzhou, and give her a hand to get home to eat.

Open the cold cake wrapped in castor leaves, dig out a small piece of radish and put it in your mouth, it is fragrant and glutinous, and the bean paste inside is soft and non-sticky, and it will not be too sweet like red bean paste.

Seeing her squinting and pleasant appearance, Manchu's daughter-in-law said with a smile:

"On saying that you are also a mother, why are you still greedy like a female doll, now I look at it, Shengzi is also older than you, shouting that he is going to be a father all day long, don't say it, I really gradually look like an adult, stupid or stupid, but not stupid"

Luo Shi smiled, and said in his heart: He is not stupid, but he can't think too much, and his temper is stubborn.

Dusting off the crumbs of the cake in the palm of her hand, Luo Shi left her to eat, and was about to go to the stove to make a fire-

"Don't eat, I'm in a hurry to go home to clean up, Erkui sent me a letter, saying that I would go home after the Dragon Boat Festival, and they have been gone for two months, so I miss it."

"Uncle Man Hoard is coming back? That's a good feeling, I still have a jar of pear blossom white tweed, so I'm going to hug it! When Erkui and Uncle Man Ho come back, you can ask me to go to dinner, aunt! ”

"Oh, this will also say something, and your meal will be indispensable!"

The daughter-in-law was full of joy, and when she thought that her husband and son were coming back, her heart was hot, but she remembered something, and then changed her words and said:

"By the way, I heard that someone from Tongzhou Mansion is coming, and I want to come to see the spicy dishes in the workshop, if it is successful, I will let Shanzi's daughter-in-law sell it justifiably, what do you think about this?"

"People have already arrived?"

"I've arrived in Kushui Town, I've had lunch in the restaurant, and it's time to go to the village before the evening."

Luo Xi nodded, and asked the daughter-in-law of Manchu: "I don't have anything to do with the Que Rong, if I rush to send something over, it will arouse suspicion, so I have to bother my aunt to run for me - when they eat in the evening, I will help send two dishes to add more heads."

"Ah, the dish? Shanzi's daughter-in-law is not short of silver now, will she lack this little face on the table? ”

"What is her business to entertain, I just add mine, if someone asks, my aunt doesn't have to mention me, just say that many people in the village are from Tongzhou, thousands of miles away from the mother's family, how much is a little heart"

The daughter-in-law of Manho sighed and wrote it down.

After sending her away, Luo Shi went to the stove room and was busy adding vegetables at night.

She escaped from the fire, Sanniang knew it, so she planned to borrow the matter of adding vegetables and invite Sanniang to come over for a gathering, some things could not be done at all if she relied on her current identity. And she is also very concerned about everyone, and wants to know the recent situation of Chang Geng and Douzi.

If you want Sanniang to recognize her immediately, Luo Shi thinks about it, and there is only one way to eat vegetarian dishes.

Recalling the vegetarian recipe that was first taught to Sanniang at that time, Luo Shi prepared two dishes. One is the small crispy pork fried from the radish strips, and the other is the fish-flavored shredded pork fried by the shredded vegetarian chicken.

These two dishes were also the best-selling cover fabrics in Sanniang's somen stall at that time.

Put the hot dishes on the plate, buckle the bowl on the top to keep warm, carefully put them in the food basket, and wait for the full hoarding daughter-in-law to pick them up later.

Taking advantage of the free time, she put away the things at home, and placed fruit plates, melon seeds, golden silk dates and tea plates on the kang table.

At the end of the night, the daughter-in-law took the food and sent it, an hour passed, there was no movement outside, seeing that the sky was getting later and later, Shengzi yawned and became sleepy, and Luo Shi sent him to sleep first.

Then he took out a needlework basket and sat on the kang with an oil lamp, and looked out of the window from time to time, until late at night, when the door of the hall rang.

She took a deep breath and smiled as she pulled the bolt and opened the door—

The person outside the door carried a wind lamp, wearing a windbreaker, slender eyebrows, and soft facial features, which was Sanniang herself.

The moment she saw Luo Shi, she was filled with incredible tears, if it weren't for the fact that half of her face was still a little familiar, she wouldn't dare to recognize the person in front of her.

"Radius...... Radix? ”

Sanniang was hoarse and asked tentatively.

Luo Shi couldn't help but have a sour nose, she had planned to meet again, she would not cry and meet again, so she kept holding back. can hear her long-lost name coming out of Sanniang's mouth, and hot tears rolled down all of a sudden, crossed the scar on her face, and fell on the back of the hand on the buttress panel.

Sanniang stepped forward and hugged her, followed by tears, she blamed and felt distressed at the same time, and chattered:

"You bad-hearted girl, you will only make people worried, and you won't even show your face after sending the grate comb, Dongying, ghost Dongying! I can only think that you are alive, and I will not cry blind with this pair of eyes! Show me, your face...... And your belly...... God, Rashi, do you have a body? ”

There were too many things I wanted to say during the reunion after a long absence, Luo Shi raised her hand to wipe away her tears, took Sanniang's hand with a smile, and said:

"I've got all the tea and fruit ready, and I'm going to talk about it until dawn tonight, let's go in and talk about it-"

Sanniang nodded, took out Juan Pa, nodded her face, lowered her head to extinguish the wind lamp, she followed Luo Shi into the hall, and closed the door by the way.

Recalling the incident just now, it turned out that when she was at the banquet, a woman brought two bowls of vegetables and said a paragraph. At first, she didn't care, but when she got down her chopsticks and ate the meat dish made of radish and tofu skin, she shivered, and hurriedly turned back to think about what the woman said: There are many women from Tongzhou in this village.

She immediately thought of Rashi!

Originally, I couldn't hold it back, and I wanted to leave the table immediately to find her, but after thinking about it later, if Luo Shi was easy to recognize, he wouldn't meet so secretly. So she was patient, and tentatively asked where a few Tongzhou women's houses were, and then went into the house to rest after dinner, and waited until late at night to carry the wind lantern and walk alone.

I searched for it from house to house, and when I walked to the westernmost house, I found the person who left the light. She was sure that Luo Shi would wait for her all night.

Taking off her cloak, Sanniang sat on the kang and looked at the room-

Although the house is simple, but fortunately, it is still complete, cleaned up, and some flowers and plants are placed on the side of the kang window, which is very similar to the house she lived in Tongzhou in the past.

Looking at the only one futon on the kang again, doubts gradually arose:

"When everyone mentions you, they all call you Shengzi daughter-in-law, I thought you were getting married here and having children, but why is there one person in one room, and the one next door is called Shengzi, right?"

Luo Shi lifted the teapot and poured a bowl of hot water for Sanniang:

"Warm up, it's not a summer night, you're still a little wet and cold all the way"

Seeing that Sanniang took the teacup and didn't drink it, she only raised her eyes and stared at herself, Luo Shi sighed helplessly, abducted and sold human traffickers, and told the story of a fool buying a wife.

It wasn't until the tea became cold that the radish was finished.

Sanniang's eyes were red, and she sighed: "If I were you, I would also be embarrassed...... So, this kid's dad is—"

Luo Shi nodded, when she mentioned Uncle Liang, there would always be a trace of pain in her heart.