Chapter 30: The General Returns
The Great General is coming back!
It's not to go back to the Qingzhou camp, but to go back to the general's mansion!
The general's mansion, which has no owner all year round, is boiling at this moment! The servants and maids were busy with their feet on the ground, cleaning, tidying, inspecting, and repairing, and making sure to ensure that the entire general's palace was in the most perfect state before the general's return!
Everyone is preparing energetically, only the housekeeper wanders from time to time, sighs from time to time or something.
Someone asked the housekeeper what was wrong.
The housekeeper shook his head, turned around and left without saying a word, but muttered in his heart: Who is that Hua girl......
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After seven or eight days, Fu Tingye really came back.
In the deep night, the general and his team of personal soldiers rode into the city quickly, he rode lightly in civilian clothes, very low-key, but could not hide the fierce and powerful momentum around him.
The gate of the General's Mansion was opened, and the servants led the horses to the stables briskly, the road surface in the gate was smooth and clean, and the lanterns on both sides were lit up, but there was no sense of warmth, only lining the General's Mansion in the night was more solemn and solemn.
Steward Zhao greeted him respectfully, welcomed Fu Tingye all the way to the front hall, and served hot tea.
"The meal has been prepared, will the general eat first, or will he bathe and change clothes?"
Fu Tingye drank the hot tea in one gulp, put down the teacup, glanced around the door, and asked, "What about her?" ”
He returned home with such a big move, didn't she know? Anyway, you should come out to greet you.
Steward Zhao chuckled in his heart, although his face was still calm, he began to panic in his heart!
"I don't know...... Who is she that the general is talking about? Steward Zhao pretended to be calm and replied.
Fu Tingye raised his eyebrows, looked at the housekeeper with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes suspiciously, and finally realized that something was wrong.
"Hua Qingxue, she's not here?" Fu Tingye asked, his tone low, obviously in a bad mood.
Steward Zhao began to break out in a cold sweat behind his back, and reported truthfully: "General, I have never heard of this person in the house......"
Fu Tingye stood up suddenly!
The servants inside and outside the front hall held their breath!
Steward Zhao was forced to bear someone's sharp gaze, and his scalp was numb! Carrying it stiffly, I didn't dare to look up!
Fu Tingye didn't get angry......
He just stared at the butler for a while, and then paced back and forth in the hall twice, very irritated!
How could she not be?! Didn't those people send her to Panshui City? …… How is this possible?! But an hour's journey, is it possible that something will happen?
Fu Tingye frowned, summoned a personal soldier, and ordered him to go to the Qingzhou camp immediately to inquire about the matter.
How can a big living person suddenly disappear like this?!
Fu Tingye lost his appetite, and his mood was faintly bored.
Originally, on the way, I thought about telling Hua Qingxue about the prince's return to Beijing, and I also imagined how she would look after hearing it, but this is good, people are not in the house at all!
"Prepare water, I want to bathe and rest." Fu Tingye threw down a sentence and walked out of the front hall with a gloomy face.
Steward Zhao and the servants looked at each other, and hurriedly lowered their heads and hurriedly followed.
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The sun was setting in the west, and the sky was darkening.
Without the sun, the temperature plummeted, and the cold made the streets less and less, and the shops and vendors also closed their stalls and went home.
Aunt Cao next door kindly persuaded Hua Qingxue: "Go back early, it's late for a while, it's not easy to walk on the road, it's approaching the end of the year recently, business is not as good as in the past, and it's okay to put it for an hour less." ”
Hua Qingxue nodded with a smile, stood up and started to close the stall.
Today's business is not very good, only a dozen bowls of tea are sold, and there are a lot of leftovers in the barrel, Hua Qingxue gave the remaining tea water to the uncles and aunts in the nearby stalls, and drank it to warm up the body.
During this period of setting up a stall, she gradually became familiar with the nearby stall owners, and she stopped the idea of going to Dongzheng Street, and now she feels very good in this state, she can rest at home in the morning, and make money from the stall in the afternoon.
Hua Qingxue, with the help of Aunt Cao, piled everything on the cart, waved at everyone, and pulled the car home unhurriedly.
Walking to Tongling Lane, I smelled the aroma of food wafting around, and I felt inexplicably comfortable.
This kind of peaceful life can make people completely relaxed, which is completely different from the tense days in Renqiu City.
Aunt He didn't know if it was because she heard the sound of the wheel, so she walked out of the yard to greet her, helped her push the cart into the yard together, and unloaded the wooden barrels and benches on it.
As soon as the wooden barrel was taken, it was empty, and Aunt He knew that Hua Qingxue had divided the tea at will again, and she couldn't help but sigh: "You don't sell as much tea every day as you give out, how can you make money in the long run......
Hua Qingxue smiled casually, "Actually, I didn't send much, business has not been good recently, I only boil half a bucket of tea every day, and the tea is not good to sell overnight, so it's better to send it out as a favor." ”
Aunt He still disagreed, thinking that this girl was too solid-eyed, and she was only afraid of suffering losses when doing business.
Hua Qingxue smiled and took out the things given by the other stall owners, and said, "Auntie, don't worry, look, this is the cabbage given by Uncle Niu, the tofu sent by Aunt Cao, and Uncle Li's baked cakes...... I think I've earned it. ”
Aunt He was helpless and funny, sighed, and had to give up.
After a while, I couldn't help but persuade her: "Since business has not been good recently, don't go out of the stall, it's cold, the girl's family is the most taboo to be cold, or think of something else at home, I don't know how to cherish it when I am young, and it will be too late for you to regret it when you get older......"
"I see." Hua Qingxue nodded with a smile, "I just thought, you should be persistent in doing business, it's not good to fish for three days and dry nets for two days, but it's almost the New Year recently, everyone is busy buying New Year's goods, and the tea is really not profitable." ”
Tea is a thing, saying that the low-end point is to quench thirst, and saying that the high-end point is to taste tea.
Hua Qingxue's tea belongs to the kind that is not up or down, let's quench your thirst, it also has a little taste, say tea, but it can't be compared with those famous teas, so this business can only barely make a living, but it really doesn't make any money.
Aunt He looked at her unhurried and impatient, and couldn't help but be stunned, and asked, "What, you have an idea?" ”
Hua Qingxue nodded, "Well, I just don't know if it will work out, I'll try it tomorrow." ”
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The next day, Hua Qingxue really didn't get up early to make tea again, she went to the street and found the grain store last time.
The guy in the grain shop actually recognized her, and when he saw her, he smiled and asked, "Girl, come to buy Yumai again?" ”
"yes." Hua Qingxue nodded, reached out and pinched the corn cobs piled up into a hill, hard.
"How much?" The guy took the weighed and came over to be weighed.
Hua Qingxue smiled and said, "Sell all of these to me." ”
"Huh?" The guy was dumbfounded, "All...... All? ”
Yumai usually has few people who buy it, although this thing is cheap, but everyone prefers to eat fresh, and dried Yumai is not very popular, so, Hua Qingxue said that she wanted it all, and the guy was really surprised!
The guy at the grain shop kindly said, "Girl, you want so much...... Are you planning to grind tama somen noodles? If you buy more, the mill behind our grain store can help you grind it cheaper. ”
Hua Qingxue smiled and shook her head, "You don't need to grind it into noodles, I just want these dried corns, can you help me deliver them home?" I can't take it alone. ”
"Okay! No problem! The grain shop guy agreed, turned around and took a pocket to fill Hua Qingxue with corn.
Hua Qingxue buys corn and wants to make popcorn.
She had already thought about it, popcorn was easy to make, the ingredients were easy to find, only corn kernels and sugar were enough, of course, it would be better if there was butter, but I didn't know if there was butter sold in this place......
If not, it doesn't matter, Hua Qingxue can extract it herself, but it's more troublesome.
- Buttered popcorn is delicious, and it's worth the extra effort.
Hua Qingxue asked the guy to help her bag the corn first, and said that she would come back later, and she wanted to go around elsewhere to see if she could buy fresh milk.
If you want to refine butter, you have to put the fresh milk into the container and stir constantly, goat milk milk can be, after stirring hundreds of times, some white semi-solids will float above the milk, use a sieve to remove the white oil, squeeze out the water, and then after refining it becomes butter.
Although the method is known, it is very cumbersome and troublesome to do, and Hua Qingxue still hopes to find the finished butter.
After shopping for a few streets, she was really bought by her!
It is said that this butter was purchased from herders in the north, and no one usually buys it, so there are not many goods, and there are only two large pieces of butter the size of bricks in the whole store.
Hua Qingxue checked the condition and found that the quality of the butter was particularly good and mellow, so she was overjoyed and bought all the butter!
Anyway, it's cold now, even if you buy more, you're not afraid of the butter melting.
Hua Qingxue came home with butter and corn, and couldn't wait to get into the kitchen, wanting to try the pot first.
She added a small piece of butter to the pan, slowly heated it over low heat, then sprinkled a handful of corn kernels, spread them flat on the bottom of the pan, and covered the pan.
After doing this, Hua Qingxue ran into the yard again, picked up two bricks and picked them up with a cloth, and pressed them on the lid of the pot, she was worried that the air pressure in the pot was too great, and the lid would fly!
Hua Qingxue added some firewood to the stove, and the fire began to burn, and after a while, you could hear a crackling sound coming from the pot, which was very pleasant.
She quickly made the fire smaller, and then pressed the lid of the pot with one hand and held the pot with the other, shaking it hard-
Shake and shake, shake until your wrist is sore, and the crackling sound gradually becomes smaller.
Hua Qingxue patiently waited for the sound to almost disappear completely, and then opened the lid of the pot with confidence.
A burst of corn-flavored heat came to the face, and it was very fragrant!
However, it was not finished yet, Hua Qingxue added a few spoonfuls of sugar to the pot, stirred it with a spatula, and waited for the sugar to melt and get on the popcorn, and then the plump popcorn came out of the pot!
- Sweet popcorn, done!
Hua Qingxue couldn't wait to taste one, it was really lucky, it was a big success the first time, fragrant and sweet!
She smiled and bent her eyebrows, and then heard the familiar sound of the wheel of the board car outside the courtyard gate, Hua Qingxue picked up a bowl of popcorn and ran out, "Auntie! Something delicious for you! ”
As soon as she ran out of the kitchen, she saw a tall and sturdy man appear at the gate of the courtyard......
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