Chapter 175: The Daughter of a Sinner
After all, the affairs of the Song family are the affairs of the Song family, and it is impossible for Song Zhi to know all the details.
In her spare time, she watched the play with Jiang Changwan and enjoyed the flowers, had fun and frolicked with the barbarians, and played chess and chatted with Shen Baiyan at night, and her life was relaxed and comfortable.
Shen Baiyan said casually some time ago, saying that the house is full of old wine, and the old wine is mellow but turbid, which is not suitable for thin drinking on weekdays.
Song Zhi wrote it down and said to the small kitchen that she wanted to drink new wine, she originally wanted the people below to go out to buy some, but she didn't expect that Rosin would be wrong, thinking that Song Zhi wanted them to make wine.
Rosin was not proficient in winemaking, so she only watched Wei's mother busy with her work, while she held a booklet and wrote down the essentials little by little.
Mother Wei uses newly harvested glutinous rice from Zhuangzi to make wine, and the rice grains are white and long.
The water used is spring water, rosin did not know how different this spring water was at that time, and drank a little bit with a small scoop, only to feel extremely clear, and the throat still has a sweet aftertaste, which makes people clear.
The rice should be rinsed with spring water until clean, then soaked overnight and loosened with your hands. On the second day, it is steamed thoroughly in the pot, and then it is cooled.
Mixing koji, breaking up, and putting into the tank, these three things have to be done together, but the physical work, Wei's mother can't bear it, so she lets the young and powerful little maids do it under her own guidance.
Rosin also followed to help, that day it was cold, they mixed the three major jars together, their hands were almost unconscious, and hurriedly returned to the small kitchen, one by one shrunk on the edge of the stove to roast the fire.
Three large vats with red glaze on the yellow mud bottom stood quietly in the courtyard, but after half a moon, a clear aroma of wine wafted out, and then it arrived at the wine table of the master's house.
"Well, that's good." Shen Baiyan took a sip and praised, "Where did you buy this wine?" Song Zhi and Meteor glanced at each other and said with a smile: "It seems that the people in the small kitchen have another round of rewards." ”
Zhuyue came with news yesterday, saying that she was pregnant, so Song Zhi didn't allow her to serve at the door, and originally planned to reward the two rough maids in the courtyard to Zhuyue.
Rewarding the maid for his own maid, this is very rare, and he is very nervous month by month, and he refuses.
Song Zhi asked the Ya Po who was used to being used in the house to be sent to the Moon Mansion today, and only let her choose by herself, anyway, with Su Zheng's current Yulu, it is not a problem to raise a few subordinates.
Water chestnut also let Song Zhi send to help, as soon as the matter at home was over, water chestnut came back, and saw Song Zhi and Shen Baiyan talking in the house, she was waiting outside the door, but was called into the house by a meteor.
"Why don't you come in, can you choose a good person month by month?" Song Zhi and Shen Baiyan are simple today, only a plate of small peanuts and a plate of pine nuts to drink. Song Zhi couldn't drink alcohol, so he only drank a rose drink.
"I picked two that looked pleasing to the eye, but they were all from other places, and I couldn't find out the details." Water chestnut road.
"So? Come to think of it, if you want to know the root cause completely, then you can only have children, and the second is the local poor family, under your nose, you can check the details of any bad things. ”
Song Zhi thought for a while, and then said: "But in our capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, except for the sin slaves, where are so many people who want to sell their sons and daughters, and the sin slaves cannot be bought and sold at will." ”
"Isn't that soft clothes beside Mrs. Song the daughter of a criminal minister? Could it be that the emperor rewarded "water chestnut road."
Shen Baiyan slowly put the pine kernel into his mouth, took another sip of wine, glanced at Song Zhi, and said, "The first emperor was extremely strict in the matter of criminal ministers, and he never rewarded criminal slaves to high-ranking officials and ministers.
When he heard Shen Baiyan say this, he knew that he had inadvertently exposed the secret, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Song Zhi worriedly rubbed off the red clothes of the two peanuts in her palm, the strength of her hands was not well controlled, and the peanuts became two petals, she said to Shen Baiyan: "What is the matter with this maid of sister-in-law?" ”
"I don't know much about this, but I've seen a copy of the file before." Shen Baiyan didn't want to delve too deeply, but seeing that Song Zhi was a little worried, he said to the water chestnut: "Go to Yuxinlou to get the records of the accounts concealed by the little officials of the Salt Transportation Division ten years ago." ”
The water chestnut left quickly, and Song Zhi frowned and said to Shen Baiyan: "At that time, I always felt that this aunt was a little too arrogant, and there was a trace of doubt in my heart, but I never thought that it was such a background?" The Zeng family is also too bold, and now this aunt has become her brother's concubine again, and she has a son, and she is even more involved with our family! ”
"Old things, no one will go to check an aunt for no reason, that is, what is found, who dares to use this matter as a raft?" Shen Baiyan comforted.
He has always had a convincing magic in his speech, and Song Zhi believed him, and the worry in his heart was lightened.
After about half an hour, the water chestnut returned, holding a dark scroll sealed with wax in his hand.
"The slave and maid retired first." The meteor was blessed and went out very consciously. The water chestnut also went out with hindsight.
Shen Baiyan didn't command, as if he didn't care if the two of them were here. He concentrated on priing open the wax seal of the scroll with a dagger, and it wasn't until the moment he spread it out that Song Zhi understood why he didn't care.
The words on this scroll are like books from heaven, and Song Zhi can't even read any of them, let alone water chestnuts and meteors.
"What, what is this word?" Song Zhi looked at these distorted words, only to feel that his eyes were dazzled, and his head was dizzy.
"Words that can only be learned by royal blood, so it's just a mystery." Shen Baiyan always doesn't take his bloodline seriously, and often laughs at himself.
He read it at a glance and said: "As I remember, the uncle of the Zeng family has an old relationship with the governor of the Salt Transportation Division, and the governor of the Salt Transportation Division concealed the output of Lingshan Rock Salt and swallowed 100,000 taels of silver. All the men in the family were sentenced to death regardless of their age, and the women were not official prostitutes. Uncle Zeng couldn't bear it, so he spent 3,000 taels of silver to dredge the joints to save his daughter-in-law, and stayed by Song's side as a maidservant. ”
"You know about this, but you help hide it?" Song Zhi couldn't figure out the trick of this.
"At that time, my father died, and I had not yet grown up, although Yuxinlou was operating as usual, but the group of dragons had no leader, and there were many affairs. Uncle Zeng only saved one woman, which was not a big crime, and he had a lot of people in it, and it was troublesome to be involved, so he let him go. Shen Baiyan closed the scroll and said to Song Zhi.
In this way, the Zeng family is kind to that aunt. She deserves to be repaid, why is she always restless, I heard that she has always been serving by her mother's side recently, which can also be said that she is filial piety and well-behaved, and she can't make mistakes on the surface, but she always pokes her sister-in-law's backbone inside and out. "These things, when Song Zhi still went to visit Ru'er, he listened to Zeng Yunyi.
"When the woman was rescued, she was already the age of remembering, she was originally an official lady, and she suddenly became someone else's maidservant, how could she be willing? Shengmi en's fight against Mi is better to send her to an ordinary person's house and give her some money. "If it was handled by Shen Baiyan, it would definitely not be the situation it is today.
Song Zhi seemed to feel something, and was silent for a long time.
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The day is getting a little hotter, and Song Zhi's belly is getting more and more pregnant day by day, and experienced mothers in the house say that they should move more when they are pregnant with a child, so that they can give birth to a child more smoothly in the future.
"They said the same thing when I was a barbarian, but I was always lazy and didn't like to move." Song Zhi held the jade bamboo fan and fanned the wind slowly.
But the fan in Jiang Changwan's hand was so fast that it was almost gone.
Somehow this year, even Song Zhi became afraid of heat. Shen Baiyan asked people to build a pergola on the roof of the main courtyard to isolate the sun and heat.
Jiang Changwan glanced at Song Zhi and said, "It is said that there are two people in the body of a pregnant person, why do you look at it and still not be afraid of the heat as me?" ”
"Maybe everyone's physique is different. There is a pergola on this roof, and it is not as hot as it was a few days ago. Song Zhi said as he shook the empty cup in his hand while brewing tea.
Cha Yun glanced at it respectfully, and said righteously: "Madam, no." ”
"I'm going to drink." Song Zhi said.
"No."
"I'm going to drink.
"No." "No."
Meteor walked over with the ice bowl for Jiang Changwan, and said in unison with Cha Yun.
Jiang Changwan took the ice bowl and glanced at Song Zhi with some smugness and ostentation, "Look, you can only watch me eat." ”
"Sister you!" Song Zhi pretended to be annoyed, picked up the cup indignantly, put it down gently, rested it on the coffee table, and reluctantly picked up the milk soufflé and drank it for a while.
"Okay, you envy me for having an ice bowl to eat, and I envy you even more for having a body." Although Jiang Changwan still had a smile on her face, there was a little sadness behind this smile.
Song Zhi held the bowl in a daze, his eyes moved slightly, and fell into the meteor eyes.
Meteor glanced at Chayun in understanding, and the two of them were blessed and went out together.
Song Zhi moved slightly on the soft collapse, and said to Jiang Changwan: "The maids have all gone out, let's sisters talk about themselves." ”
Jiang Changwan knew that Song Zhi was taking care of her emotions, put the ice bowl aside, and said to her: "Sister don't have to be so nervous, this is all an ordinary thing, my husband and you know, I think it's good to have a child, and I didn't urge me, but my mother-in-law was verbose." A few days ago, I also picked up my niece back and raised it by my side. Openly and secretly beating me, saying that she wants her to be sisters with me. What does it mean to be a sister with me? We all know it in our hearts. ”
"You husband and wife are so affectionate, the taste will change when mixed into a person, if it is a room, it will be fine, just a bowl of child avoidance medicine. But if it is an aunt, the couple will inevitably have a disagreement. Look at my brother and sister-in-law, their heads hurt from being urged by that aunt! is also a person who has given birth to a child and has merit, and it is not easy to be too harsh. Song Zhi waved his hand and shook his head, just wanting Jiang Changwan to know that the relationship between multiple aunts and wives would be weaker.