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Xia Xiaoman pondered about his own business, he didn't pay attention to what Nian Liang said, he was stunned for a few seconds and reacted, but he didn't know what to answer, he couldn't say that he thought of Sun Wenwen and thought it was interesting, right? She had no choice but to speak through the porridge: "Well, it's delicious...... Well, it's about new rice. The new rice porridge is more glutinous and delicious. ”

Fortunately, she also knows this thing that everyone on the earth knows, and thanks to a small shop that once sold her the rice cooked by old rice, so that she had this experience, and then she was going to ask her the difference between cooking rice with new rice and old rice, and she could really say a few things one, two, three.

It's just that even though she has the talent and hope to speak, she lacks an audience.

Nian Liang snorted, and turned to Qing Ying: "Thinking about it this way, Fang Cai's porridge, I also feel rough when I eat it, is it boiled with Lu rice?" ”

The salaries of Daqin officials are also composed of two parts: silver and rice, which are paid in spring and autumn every year. However, the official reserve grain will not always be new rice, and there will probably be some old grain. Aged grain is not aged grain, generally the grain harvested in the current year is new grain, and the grain stored for one to three years is old grain; If it is stored for more than three years, the grain deteriorates and becomes inedible, and it is aged grain. Stale grain is edible, but even if it is only stored for one year, the taste is far worse than that of new grain.

The southern territory of Daqin is vast, the climate is warm and humid, the crops grow very fast, most of the rice grains are double-cropped, and the grain output is not small, so although the surrounding countries of Daqin are numerous, the border troubles are endless, but the food supply is still sufficient. In order to ensure the freshness of the reserve grain in the official warehouse, the old grain will not be stored for a long time, and after the new grain is put into storage, the old grain will definitely be out of the warehouse. In the early dynasties, the Daqin government also did grain export trade, and agreed to sell a part of the old grain at a lower price to a few small countries in the west that produced less grain, but this year, the western regime changed, and the rebellion continued, and this trade was suspended, and a large part of the old grain was sold domestically at a low price, and a small part was distributed to officials at all levels as Lu rice according to a certain proportion.

The Nian family not only has several officials and officials, but also because the old lady is the relationship between the clan and the county lord, several generations of sons and grandsons all have titles, and they also have titles. The silver doesn't add up much, but the grain and rice add up a lot. Fortunately, the Nian family still has a grain and rice shop in Beijing, and their own old rice will generally be put and sold, and the house will keep a relatively new food, until Layue Grain Village comes to send new rice over, and all the Lu rice will be thrown into the shop.

Qing Ying heard Nian Liang ask, and hurriedly shook her head: "Our courtyard has not passed through Lumi." Which one is not good to eat? It's just that this is the official, and there shouldn't be much rice, and Qian'er Ya Villa came to serve the account, didn't he send food? Moreover, if it is enough to say that the table next to it is mixed with some rice, Laba porridge has always been made of high-quality rice and fruit. ”

Nian Liang listened, changed his mind, and said with a smile: "I forgot that you didn't eat it, you can taste the porridge first, maybe I didn't eat it." Seeing that Qingying beckoned the little maid to go down and ask Cai Su Cai Wei to come over to replace her, Nian Liang said: "You don't have to be formal, just sit here and eat with Manniang." It's almost time. ”

Qing Ying has been serving Nian Liang for the longest time, and she has been taking care of the affairs of the inner courtyard of Changsheng Residence, as if she is the head of Changsheng Residence, her status is unusual, in the past, she and the lost Qinghuai also often ate with Nian Liang, so she didn't push too much, and sat on the side of a chair. Xia Xiaoman himself finished eating, and he was afraid that she would be embarrassed, so he got up and sat aside, leaving the table to Qing Ying alone.

Qing Ying first took the porridge cooked in the official and drank half a bowl according to the rules, and then tasted the new one sent by Grandma Jiu, and said with a smile to Nian Liang: "The slave and maid eat well." The official didn't feel that it was rough as the master said, thinking that it was cooked without a soul, and it was not fresh to eat. ”

Nian Liang smiled, and said to Xia Xiaoman: "Manniang will give me some more porridge from the ninth brother and sister." I'll try it again. ”

Xia Xiaoman got up and brought a small half bowl over, although he handed it to him, he said: "I just said that, and I didn't really let you identify anything." Don't eat so much, or you should take medicine later. ”

Nian Liang hummed, scooped a spoonful of the mouth, and tasted it seriously with his eyes closed.

Xia Xiaoman was angry and funny, and told him not to identify or not to identify, hey, he has to work hard with you, I don't know if it's intentional or paranoid in his bones. She couldn't help but push him and said, "Yes, I really just said that, maybe it may be that I eat our porridge every day, and it is not fresh, so I think it is delicious when I eat other people's houses." ”

was supposed to enlighten him, but it didn't work out but made him fall into silence. After a while, Nian Liang suddenly asked Xia Xiaoman seriously: "Manniang, are you homesick......?" ”

Belch...... Xia Xiaoman's brain is a little short-circuited, homesick?

Where do you think?

Family?

……

Yes, homesick, she wants to go back, although there is no so-called home, but she still wants to go back. She had already accepted the reality and hid her thoughts deeply, but at this moment, those were turned out again, and her heart twitched and uncomfortable.

Her mind suddenly became confused, and then she became suspicious, could it be that he knew about the crossing? It's horrible...... She remembered that she didn't have the habit of talking in her sleep, how did he know? And then what about you, you will be arrested? Burning at the stake? Bury alive? Dipping pig cage? …… And then wear it back ......?

After imagining this event as terrifying as the apocalyptic Star Wars, her mind finally rebooted. Be calm, be calm, what a weak heart! She scolded herself, she was really obsessed, thinking blindly every day, how could he know? Even if you know, you have to calm down and settle your mind!! Panic what panic.

She took a deep breath here and quickly adjusted her mentality, and just wanted to say two exquisite words to deal with it, but she heard Nian forgiveness: "Also, you haven't been home for five years." ”

Belch...... Her brain that she just restarted has crashed again, five years ......? What five years?

Wait, are you talking about "original"? That's right, it's the "original" that has been married for five years, and I haven't been back to my parents' home. It turned out that this was the case, embarrassed, and scared her. It's just that this time I went back to my mother's house......

Nian Liang kept looking at her face, seeing that she was initially frightened and then surprised, and then thinking about the sadness behind her good craftsmanship, he sighed in his heart, and his tone became more and more relaxed: "Just in time for the ninth day of the lunar month, you can go back tomorrow and stay for two nights." Before the twelve sacrifices to the gods of the family, I sent someone to pick you up. ”

Daqin customs, the twelfth month of the twelfth sacrifice to the god of the family will enter the New Year's Festival, until the end of the whole first month, during this period, the woman out of the pavilion must stay in the husband's house, so most people choose to go back to their parents' home before the twelve, over time, the ninth day of the lunar month to return to the mother's house has become a customary practice.

Xia Xiaoman didn't know about this convention, because no one had told her about it. Once a person is sold the death deed, it has nothing to do with the family in the past, and this routine becomes meaningless, and naturally no one will tell her such meaningless things that will make her sad.

You can go home, that is to say, you can go home. Xia Xiaoman began to think about it seriously. She had been here for a month, but she had only seen the "four corners of the sky on the high wall of the courtyard", and she needed to learn more about society and accumulate information for her independent life. Out of the house is good, but this destination, home......

The word home was a little unfamiliar to her. It turns out that some people say that where there is a mother, there is a home. Then since her mother died and her stepmother came in the door, she had no home. When she came here, she still didn't have a home, was Nian's home her home? Is the "original" home her home?

For her, the Nian family is the company, those people, either bosses or subordinates, she has always felt that she is a small staff member and has no sense of belonging. And the home of the "original"...... She didn't even know if that home was still a "original" home. Sell your daughter, even if it is because of the strength of the young family, the poor Xia family can't afford to mess with it, but in the end you gave up this daughter. In another place, she may do the same thing of abandoning the pawn to protect the whole family, but now, as that pawn, she can't calmly see that she has been sacrificed.

“…… Master," Qing Ying, who had been silent, spoke before Xia Xiaoman, she hesitated for a moment, and said softly in embarrassment: "This ...... Not very proper. "Even if Xia Xiaoman is promoted to a concubine now, she is still a slave who has been sold to death, and she has lost her so-called home, and she only belongs to the Nian Mansion now.

Nian Liang obviously hesitated for a moment, but at the end he shook his head and said, "It's okay." I'm going to talk to my second aunt. On the other side of the fourth room, you just go to ask for a car for a while, and if you ask you anything, just push it to my side, and they will not ask more. ”