Zhou Qingxiao was half-lying in the corner, leaning against the corner, his unkempt hair was scattered, covering most of his face, and only occasionally revealing a pair of sharp and clear eyes.

He tore at the beggar's shirt on his body, blocked the hole in his knee, stretched, and slowly stood up against the wall.

A few years ago, his father sent him to this small town, and he has been secretly exploring here for three months, but he has not found any clues.

However, it stands to reason that the intelligence of the Youzhou Army will not be wrong, and the remnants of the Youyun Kingdom seem to be operating in such a small border town.

Zhou Qingxiao yawned, took out the already cold and hard steamed bun in his arms, and took a bite hard. While chewing hard, he thought casually, this is all gone, the people of the Youyun royal family are dead, these people still don't stop, and it is really wishful thinking to restore the country.

He was bored, and just happened to see Gu Nansang selling on the street.

At a young age, a shabby cloth shirt can't hide the bright demeanor in her eyes, which is different from the ordinary humble and cautious ordinary people, and different from the mercenary philistine businessmen, but it is unique.

Zhou Qingxiao watched it interestingly, thinking that it was rare to see it in this remote town.

When the girl was gone, he sighed, stood up, thought for a moment, and went in another direction.

Gu Nansang and Gu Dongqing bought all the incense and candle paper money that Xu asked for, and went straight to the pharmacy.

Gu Dongqing didn't ask much, by now, he had probably understood that the little sister had a lot of ideas, although they were eccentric, but they often had her reasons.

The two of them entered the pharmacy.

"Boss, do you have chili here?"

Sleepy in spring, the boss was napping behind the medicine cabinet, and he heard people talking, so he lazily answered: "Two pennies and a pound." ”

Gu Nansang was surprised: "So cheap? "This is a pharmacy, and it is sold by the pound.

The boss was sleepy-eyed and said angrily: "This pepper is available every year, and it produces more every season, and the old man of the farm forced me to stuff a sack last year, and I sold it for half a year and there are still so many left." You kid, how much do you want to ask? ”

Gu Nansang rolled his eyes and said, "Boss, do you still have dried peppercorns?" ”

"Yes, if you want, I'll give it to you at the price of the pepper."

"Is there star anise?"

The boss was annoyed, patted the abacus, and said angrily: "You little doll, do you want to buy it?" ”

Gu Dongqing hurriedly said: "Boss, don't be angry, my little sister is young, and she is not here to make trouble." ”

Gu Nansang said in her heart, this boss has a really bad temper, but his things are cheap, and she doesn't care about him.

"I want to." She smiled: "Two catties of pepper and peppercorns, half a catty of star anise leaves, the boss will wrap it for me, if it is easy to use, I will come back next time." ”

The boss muttered and took out the sack from the back of the cabinet, and then looked at Gu Nansang for a moment, and asked, "What do you want to do with all these medicinal materials?" The old man can say it in front, I just take the medicine, if you use the wrong dose, if something happens, don't come to me! ”

"That's nature, that's nature." Gu Nansang agreed with a smile.

Gu Dongqing was secretly surprised all the way, she was selling on the street just now, not to mention that she was a girl, that is, he had been working outside, and he didn't have such courage and open-mindedness when he asked himself, but Nansang came easily. And now she has suffered a lot of cynicism from this boss, but she can face it with a smile, and she doesn't see any annoyance at all, and she is secretly surprised, and she can't help but feel a little admired.

How did he know that Gu Nansang was an orphan in his previous life, and since he was a child, he had to be cheeky to please the aunts in the welfare home, so that he could seek more benefits when he ate. When I grew up, I had to go around all kinds of part-time places, and after graduation, I was engaged in the sales industry, and naturally practiced the ability of the tongue and lotus, as well as the thick skin of the city wall.

Out of the pharmacy, Gu Nansang squinted his eyes and looked at the sunshine, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said, "It only took ten yuan, which was beyond my expectations." ”

Gu Dongqing laughed: "You are young, what else can you expect." ”

"Brother, let's go shopping." Gu Nansang didn't care about his words, she was still smiling, and her bright eyes were shining with stars.

She always likes to laugh, looking at everyone with a little bit of kindness, since she recovered from her illness, except for the last time he went home and met Li Changsheng and his own conflict, Gu Dongqing never saw her black face to anyone, that is, the last time she met Li Changsheng, she was also smiling, but the Li family was half angry.

But it is undeniable that this smile is indeed very infectious, so that he who has always been calm can't help laughing: "Okay, let's go." ”

Walking and watching along the way, Gu Nansang bought a small bag of candied fruit for Gu Beihuai, and agreed to buy two chickens for Gu Dongqing. Originally, I wanted to buy rock sugar or white sugar, but the purification technology of sugar in this era was very poor, not to mention the color of the finished product, and it was very expensive, so Gu Nansang dispelled his thoughts and bought some caramel cubes (similar to coagulated maltose) instead.

Then they went to the rice store to buy rice and noodles, as well as mung beans and sesame seeds, and the brother and sister filled their hands with everything.

Gu Dongqing walked to the vegetable market with familiarity and picked up an abandoned bamboo basket with a hole leaking at the bottom, but he could barely carry it home, and both of them were a lot more relaxed now.

When he reached the gate of the city, he happened to meet the ox cart from the neighboring village to go back, and there was a vacant seat, so the coachman felt that he had earned a penny less, so he waited.

Fortunately, Gu Nansang was small, Gu Dongqing put down the bamboo basket and sat on it with her, just full of people, although it was a little crowded, but the villagers were quite kind, and the coachman was willing to leave, so they didn't say much.

When they arrived at the neighboring village, the two gave the coachman two pennies, got out of the car and walked only two miles, then arrived at the entrance of Lotus Village, and soon returned home.

Gu Beihuai was standing at the door of the house looking forward to it, seeing his brother and sister returning with a full load, he smiled so much that his eyes were full of crescents: "Sister, bring something delicious!" ”

"You, you know how to eat." Xu Shi came out of the kitchen, she wiped her hands, took the basket on her son's back, looked at so many things in it, and couldn't help but be surprised: "This is ......"

Gu Dongqing smiled: "Except for the incense candle paper money, the rest are all earned by Nansang selling cherries." ”

"How much can cherries sell for?" Xu Shi was surprised and wanted to ask Gu Nansang, but saw that she had already whispered to Gu Beihuai and sneaked into the house.

Gu Dongqing told the Xu family what he had seen today, and by the way, he also said that Gu Nansang wanted to do business.

She was still in doubt, but Gu Nansang looked at the willow branches and mugwort leaves hanging on the gate, smelled the fresh smell, and poured a large bowl of water.

"Sister, my mother has become a youth league!" Gu Beihuai held a green dough fruit like a treasure.

Qingtuan is also called Qingming fruit, the Qingtuan here is inset with wild wormwood, wrapped in rice flour, after steaming, all of them are crystal clear, and the taste is sweet and sweet.

Gu Nansang was already hungry, so after eating it, he felt that his stomach was at the bottom.

Gu Beihuai clamored to see what she bought.

When he saw the candied fruit and caramel candy, he jumped twice in place with joy, hugged Gu Nansang's arm, and his eyes smiled like crescent moons.

"Sister, you are the best for me!" The appearance of intimate attachment made Gu Nansang's heart soften.

She rarely softened her voice and said, "I also bought two chicks, one male and one female, and we will have eggs to eat in the future." ”

Hens can lay eggs in about four months, while roosters take about half a year to grow, and it takes at least half a year to hatch chicks.

It's just that chicks are cheap, a penny a penny, and adult chickens are far more than this price, in comparison, it is still a little more cost-effective.

Gu Beihuai volunteered: "I'll feed the chickens in the future!" ”

Speaking of this, Gu Nansang told him: "Then you can raise it in the front yard, don't go to the backyard and peck at our vegetable garden." Cut some grass or mulberry leaves every day. ”

Gu Beihuai wrote them down one by one, couldn't help but be greedy, touched a candied fruit and put it in his mouth, and looked happy.

"You glutton, why don't you clean up the table and eat?" Xu walked in from outside the door, saw the two chickens on the ground, looked at the full basket at the door, and sighed lightly: "Sang'er has grown up." ”

Gu Nansang's eyes flashed, and he took the opportunity to say what he wanted to do business.

"Your eldest brother has already told me." Xu's eyebrows were soft, but he couldn't hide his worry: "It's just this spicy taste, not to mention our village, even Anping City, if no one comes to buy it, wouldn't it be a waste?" ”

Gu Nansang smiled: "Mother, don't worry, I have my own way." ”

Her smile has always been infectious, and she has indeed brought changes in her family recently, and today she sold high-priced cherries with her eloquence, and Xu couldn't help but believe her a little.

"Let's eat first." She smiled lovingly.

After eating, Gu Nansang asked Xu's family, then took Gu Beihuai to his cellar, and saw that there were still two large baskets full of white radishes left, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Beihuai, choose some good radishes to go out, and I will take you to the city tomorrow." ”

Gu Beihuai cheered, then bent down and was busy choosing radishes.

Gu Nansang returned to the kitchen with a smile, took out the things he bought, and began to get busy.

She kneaded the dough needed to make the radish cake and set it aside to rise.

Then he took out the dried chili peppers, cut them into sections and placed them in a large clay pot, and went to ask Gu Dongqing to come over and help light the fire.

Gu Nansang poured vegetable oil into the pot, burned until smoking, then added Sichuan pepper, minced ginger, minced garlic, and chopped peanuts to stir until fragrant, then turned to low heat, put in a small piece of caramel to enhance the flavor, and then added star anise, bay leaves, and salt. After all the ingredients were fragrant, Gu Nansang hurriedly asked Gu Dongqing to put out the fire, she used a spatula to shovel all the seasonings into the crockpot, the high temperature of the oil gave out the special spicy smell of chili peppers, and the whole kitchen was suddenly filled with an indescribable strange fragrance, which attracted Xu Shi to walk in from outside.

Gu Nansang took out the white sesame seeds, grabbed a handful and sprinkled them on top of the red oil, stirred them with chopsticks, and breathed a sigh of relief.

After the fragrance, it was accompanied by a mouthful of tongue, and even Gu Dongqing couldn't help asking: "Nansang, where did you learn this?" ”

Gu Nansang originally wanted to put the chili pepper in and stir-fry it, but although the taste was stronger, it was a little choking, thinking that the people here were touching the chili pepper for the first time, so he used the method of pouring oil.

Gu Nansang took out a little chili pepper in a small bowl, walked out of the kitchen with the two of Xu, and said, "This is what I saw in the book." ”

When he said this, Gu Nansang winked at Gu Dongqing.

The last time she told the eldest brother was that she was instructed by the immortals in her dreams.

Gu Dongqing understood, and said with a smile: "Sang Er is really diligent in learning, you can also find such secret recipes." ”

"Mother, big brother, you have a taste." Gu Nansang took out a steamed bun, broke it in half, dipped it in hot sauce and handed it to them.

Xu Shi was skeptical, and when he took a bite, he felt a spicy taste spread in his mouth, accompanied by the kind of itching and slight pain that he had never experienced.

But aside from the weirdness of facing medicinal herbs, it is indeed delicious.

Gu Dongqing also nodded in praise, he liked the taste, and after a while, he finished eating half of the steamed bread dipping sauce.

At this time, Gu Beihuai came in with a bunch of big turnips.