Chapter 115: Zhou Zhuangtou buys cattle

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Pan'er and Chu Liang were talking in the house, when they saw Luan Yu walking in hurriedly, and said urgently:

"Madam, Princess Zhao has launched!"

Princess Zhao is pregnant with a dragon son and grandson in her belly, and now she is staying in the abandoned village, so naturally she can't make the slightest mistake.

Pan'er stood up, frowned and asked, "Can Wen Po and Doctor Ge go?" ”

"Wen Po arrived first, and Doctor Ge also sent someone to call."

For Doctor Ge's medical skills, Pan'er is still relieved, plus Princess Zhao's body and bones are not weak, even if she was harshly treated in the palace for a month before, but these days, the waste village is good to eat and drink, and it is almost enough.

Thinking so in her heart, Pan'er was still a little panicked, Chu Liangyi grabbed the cold hand of the little daughter-in-law, and said in a deep voice: "It's not you who wants to give birth, Princess Zhao is just an outsider, so why bother?" ”

Glancing at this person, Pan'er couldn't help but mutter: "You took the person over at the beginning, and now once Princess Zhao has three longs and two shorts, even if our family jumps into the Yellow River, it won't be clear......

Don't look at King Zhao is now sent by the sage to guard the imperial mausoleum, in fact, he still holds a lot of military power in his hands, plus King Zhao's fief is in Shu, that place is rich in products, strong people and strong horses, and has accumulated a lot of capital over the years.

Pulling out her hand, Pan'er didn't look at Chu Liang, turned around and walked into the room, found the snuff box filled with e-liquid, lifted the lid, smelled the spicy smell inside, couldn't help coughing a few times, obviously had been used to this smell before, so as not to cause such a big irritation, but because of the spiritual spring water that had been pregnant for a month, now the sense of smell is very sensitive, and the tears are like beads with broken threads, poofing down, and it didn't take long to receive a porcelain bottle of spiritual spring water.

The curtain was suddenly lifted, Pan'er was startled, her hand shook, and she almost threw the porcelain vase out.

Chu Liang's face was gloomy, and he strode in front of the woman, and his mood became more and more depressed.

"I said that Princess Zhao is not important, why do you have to toss yourself?" hated iron and steel, and when he faced the little daughter-in-law's moist apricot eyes, all the words of reproach were swallowed into his stomach, leaving only a thick and undispersed distress.

Holding the little daughter-in-law in his arms, his hot thin lips kissed the pink cheeks one by one, Chu Liang was probably angry, and suddenly bit the tip of his nose, Pan'er screamed in pain, her eyes were full of tears, her lips trembled slightly, but she didn't dare to say anything, and her little appearance was very pitiful.

Chu Liangyou didn't understand his hatred, pulled the person into his arms again, and implied a threat: "If there is a next time, see how I clean you up!" ”

"What's next time?" Pan'er grunted and pushed Chu Liang's strong and hard chest: "Quickly let someone send the spiritual spring water over......"

With evil in his eyes, Chu Liang pressed the person on the stool, and then called Luan Yu over, handed over the porcelain bottle to her, and ordered: "There is a life-saving elixir here, and it is handed over to Ge Zhichuan, he naturally knows when to use it." ”

Luan Yu is a dead soldier trained by the Dingbei Hou Mansion, and his loyalty to Chu Liang is even more than that of Pan'er, so he naturally has no disobedience at this moment, so he turned his head and left the courtyard.

in the delivery room.

Princess Zhao only felt that she was about to die, although she knew that the woman was very hard during childbirth, but she didn't expect the torture to be so serious, her whole body hurt very much, she bit the handkerchief in her mouth, she was still exerting her strength, but the child couldn't come out.

Wen Po is almost fifty years old this year, and she has delivered many children, and when she saw Princess Zhao's appearance, she knew that there was nothing wrong with the fetus, but this lady was too squeamish, and she couldn't stand the pain and couldn't use her strength, so she would get the child stuck at the entrance of the palace, and she couldn't give birth to it.

"Madam, work hard, you have to endure this."

Princess Zhao also knew this truth, her mouth full of silver teeth was about to be bitten, and the goose-egg-faced maid was wiping her sweat while staring at Wen Po, for fear that something would go wrong.

"See!"

The head came out and it was estimated that it was fast, Princess Zhao's heart was relieved, and she tried her best to breastfeed, and finally gave birth to the child. The blood did not stop, and the mattress under him was dyed red.

The maids in the house also found out, and they all panicked, after all, Princess Zhao was their master, if something really happened, I was afraid that the slave would not be able to please her.

The goose-egg-faced maid knew that Doctor Ge Shen, who was guarding outside, had excellent medical skills, and ran out of the house with one foot deep and one foot shallow, knelt down in front of the old man with a plop, and cried and wiped her tears: "Doctor, please save my master, she is ...... bloodshed."

Old man Ge didn't have so much patience, and when he heard that something was wrong in the house, he didn't care about the difference between men and women, so he broke into the delivery room directly, took out a few large blood spots that were pierced by a golden needle on Princess Zhao's body, and stopped the blood first, then he opened her mouth and fed a pill.

This pill was made by Ge Zhichuan with spiritual spring water before, and it can be used to save lives at critical moments, originally Princess Zhao was very pale because of excessive blood loss, and her face was full of death, but after taking the pill, she miraculously improved a lot.

The maid in the house was surprised and delighted, knelt on the ground and wiped her tears, Ge Zhichuan checked the pulse of Princess Zhao, and made sure that there would be no major problems, so she held a bottle of spiritual spring water and went back to her small courtyard happily.

Hearing the news that Princess Zhao's mother and son were safe, Pan'er was really relieved, and she didn't have to worry about her anymore.

Pregnant women are delicate, should drink more soup and water to replenish the body, although Pan'er has symptoms of morning sickness, but just don't like red meat, now it coincides with the river water is not long after the enlightenment, the silver carp and carp in the water are very fat, the older people in the Zhuangzi have to go to the river to fish, Qian Pozi bought one, stewed in the casserole, add a piece of tender tofu, and put some sauerkraut in it, when it comes out of the pot, it is sour and delicious, and I can't taste the fishy smell at all, Pan'er can eat more.

Recently, the saint didn't know what kind of wind to smoke, and he actually ordered Chu Liang to go outside Beijing to suppress bandits, the mountain of those bandits is not far from the capital, and the merchants who have passed by these years have been swept away if they are not strong and strong, but fortunately, they boast that they are doing business for a long time, only seeking money and not dying, and they have released everyone to the previous achievement, so that no one has cleaned up this gang of bandits for so many years.

Chu Liang took the soldiers from the northern camp of Chengbei out of Beijing, but Pan'er could only stay in Zhuangzi to raise the baby, but fortunately, there was nothing to worry about in Zhuangzi, and her small life was very comfortable.

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Wan Shi held Dani in her arms, and walked towards the abandoned village with a wine jar in her hand, which was not filled with wine, but with sauce made by her younger siblings.

Wan's younger sister Luo is not from the capital, but from Yuedi, there are many kinds of food in Yuedi, compared to Shudi, Luo married to Wanjia, although the dishes are light, but the craftsmanship is first-class good, and you can also make delicious and fragrant sauces.

Zhou Zhuangtou helped Wan's mother and daughter once, and today he happened to be free, so he came to the door with honey sauce to thank him.

The courtyard where Zhou Zhuangtou lives is at the gate of the abandoned village, and he will be able to see it as soon as he gets closer, otherwise he will not hear the sound that night, and he will go out directly.

Now it is the busy season of farming, Wan Shi shouted several times outside the fence courtyard but no one answered, or the neighbor's little daughter-in-law came out, and kindly mentioned: "Zhou Zhuangtou should be in the field at this time, you can see it by walking along the side of the road." ”

Hearing this, Wan hurriedly thanked him, and walked all the way forward according to the woman's words, and walked for about a quarter of an hour, when he saw a group of men working in the fields, obviously the weather was not very hot, but because of the fatigue of the work, he broke out in a hot sweat, and the clothes on his body were wet.

The rice fields were full of croppers, and a woman from the Wan family didn't dare to stare at them carefully, so they could only wait on the side.

The men who were working were sharp-eyed, and when they saw a fresh face, they patted the shoulder of Zhuangtou next week and asked, "Zhuangtou, look at the little daughter-in-law standing under the tree, she looks very delicate, but I don't seem to have seen it before?" ”

Following this person's line of sight into the distance, Zhou Zhuang recognized Wan at a glance, and found that the woman was holding Dani in her arms, standing honestly on the edge of the ridge, and he said:

"Come to me, you are busy first, and I will come when I go."

After speaking, Zhou Zhuangtou walked to the side of the road amid the boos of the tenants, and asked Wanshi:

"Why are you here, still with the baby?"

Wan Shi glanced at the mud on Zhou Zhuang's hands, and put the wine jar in his hand on the ground: "My brother and sister got some sauce, it tastes good, so I thought about sending it to you, if you hadn't helped me before......"

"It's hard to keep remembering how old it is." Zhou Zhuangtou waved his hand, his face was tanned by the sun, and his mouth grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"Dani misses her uncle?"

The one-year-old child was already talking, and Dani nodded, and said in a milky voice:

"Yes."

Zhou Zhuangtou smiled and chatted with Wan again.

There was a hint of hesitation on the man's face, and he said tentatively:

"I haven't asked you, it was so late a few days ago, why did you end up with Dani on the edge of Zhuangzi?"

As soon as he heard this, Wan couldn't help but think of the group of people in the Li family, pursed his lips, and said in a low voice:

"I had a little trouble with my in-laws, if I didn't run out, I might be beaten to death...... Don't talk about this, you still have a lot of things to do, I'll go back with Dani first. ”

Zhou Zhuangtou still wanted to give it away, but he looked down and saw that he was covered with mud, he didn't even wear shoes on his feet, and the smell of sweat was very big.

Back in the field to plant seedlings, Zhou Zhuangtou was also a little absent-minded when he worked, Wan Shi also looked like a gentle and pure woman, Dani was still so young, Zhou Zhuangtou really didn't know what her husband thought, a big man actually did something to his daughter-in-law, and his face was thicker than the city wall.

In the afternoon, Zhou Zhuangtou was busy with work, and when he left from the edge of the rice field, he did not forget to take the jar of honey sauce away.

After working for such a long time, Zhou Zhuangtou was tired and hungry, so he went directly to the big kitchen, put the honey sauce on the table, and Mrs. Qian came over with the food and asked:

"Xiao Zhou, what's in here?"

"Someone brought me honey sauce today, and I haven't eaten this sauce before." As he spoke, Zhou Zhuangtou tore open the red seal at the mouth of the altar, and a slightly salty sweet fragrance went straight to his nose, and Mrs. Qian took a pair of clean chopsticks, dipped some sauce out, tasted it, and said:

"It tastes really good, why don't you give me a little bit of it, and just give it to my wife to taste it."

Mrs. Qian always remembered that Pan'er loved sweets the most, and the dishes made in the kitchen on weekdays could be freshened with a little sugar.

"This jar of sauce is placed in the kitchen, Aunt Qian, you can use it whenever you want."

As soon as she heard this, Mrs. Qian squinted and smiled, scooped a spoonful of stewed meat for Zhou Zhuangtou, and then discussed with the cook with the sauce jar what kind of food to prepare for Mrs. at night.

The chef had been in Dingbei Houfu for more than ten years, and he had seen the world, and he had eaten roast meat made with honey sauce before, fat but not greasy, mellow aroma, just a piece of fresh plum blossom meat in the kitchen, put it on the plate, poke out fine and dense holes with a sieve, and then add dark soy sauce, light soy sauce and other seasonings, smear a layer of honey sauce, and marinate it in the bowl.

Mrs. Qian smelled the fragrance and couldn't help asking, "How long does this have to be pickled?" ”

"Don't worry! In the evening, I will get some light food for my wife, and when the plum meat is marinated tomorrow, I will make a charcoal stove in the yard and roast it on it, and how good the taste will be. ”

On cooking, Mrs. Qian can't compare to the cook, naturally it's not easy to say anything, just watch him kill the live fish with a knife, go to the thorn, chop the fish into puree, add egg whites, minced salt to adjust the taste, and roll out the hand skin, each copy of the hand with the fish filling and a whole shrimp, wrapped a small bowl and boiled in the bamboo shoot chicken soup, pinch the time, more than a moment less is not good, after all, for the copy, the heat is really important, a little over, the skin rake is fast, if the time is not up, eat and a little sandwiched.

Mrs. Qian watched the cook work slowly and leisurely, she touched a small pestle and sat on it, and waited until the hand was fished out of the pot, and then she walked into the house with the tray.

Pan'er hadn't eaten the shoushou for a long time, and when she smelled the umami, she had an appetite, scooped it up with a spoon and put it in her mouth, not mentioning the aroma of bamboo shoots and chicken soup, just said that the tenderness of the fish and the elasticity of the whole shrimp made her squint her eyes, and she didn't care about the heat, and ate all the shoushou into her stomach one by one.

Mrs. Qian brought white cardamom water, and Pan'er drank a lot of it, suppressing the taste in her mouth.

"The old slave heard that there was a cow in Lijia Village that broke its head, and it didn't look like it would survive, and the lady wanted to eat beef, if she wanted, the old slave would buy it back......

Pan'er remembers that there is such a sentence in the Great Cause Punishment System: those who kill officials and private cattle for all reasons will be imprisoned for one and a half years, but if the cattle are old and sick or die by accident, the beef can be bought and sold at will.

"If the one in Lijia Village is not an old cow, it will be bought back and sent to the kitchen, if it is too old, it will be very difficult to eat, and it can only be used for stew."

"I heard that it was a one-year-old calf, and before I could plow the land, I was about to die......

After Mrs. Qian finished speaking, Luan Yu gave her the silver and called a few strong tenants to go to Lijia Village to get the calf back.

When Zhou Zhuang heard that he was going to Lijia Village, he stuffed the cooking cake into his mouth in three or two bites, and hurriedly followed.

Most of the people in Lijia Village are surnamed Li, but there are also many people with foreign surnames, and Wan's father and mother moved there.

A group of four or five people went directly to the Zhuangzi next door, and the village chief of Lijia Village watched the calf fall to the ground, a bloody hole in his head, and he was about to lose his breath, and he shivered in distress.

The importance of ploughing cattle to the farmer's family is self-evident, although this calf has not yet grown, it was originally able to sell for ten taels of silver, and now it is so wasted, hey!

The gray-bearded old man sighed again and again, and there were many villagers gathered around, but Lijia Village was very poor, the land was barren, and he didn't want to grow anything, and it would be good if the grain produced every year could fill his stomach, so who was willing to buy this calf home?

Seeing that Zhou Zhuangtou, who was in the abandoned village next door, came, the old village chief was a little puzzled and asked, "Why did Zhou Zhuangtou come over?" ”

Looking down at the calf lying on the muddy ground, his chest fell together, but the movement was very weak, and there was a pool of blood on his head, and he was about to die.

"If no one buys this calf, can it be sold to the scrap farm?"

Hearing this, the old village chief's face showed joy, and even his fingers couldn't help but tremble slightly, and said, "Are you really going to buy the calf?" This cow is not dead yet, how can it be two taels of silver......"

The price said by the old village chief is fair, and the live ploughing cattle can be sold for ten taels, but this head is about to die, but he can only get two taels of silver, and he has lost eight taels of silver. But no matter how distressed it is, it's useless, fortunately, the cow hasn't lost its breath yet, and it won't be completely compensated if it's fresh, otherwise the loss of Lijiazhuang this time will be even greater.

Zhou Zhuangtou took out the silver and gave it to the old village chief, and asked a few tenants to carry the calf onto the donkey cart and let them go back first.

Mrs. Qian glanced at Zhou Zhuang suspiciously, and asked, "You don't want to go back?" ”

"I still have something to do, Aunt Qian will go first."

Saying that, Zhou Zhuangtou walked along the path to Lijiazhuang, he had been to Wanjia once before, and it had not been a few days, so he naturally remembered the direction.

As soon as he walked outside the fence courtyard, he heard the hoarse cry of a child from inside, Zhou Zhuangtou panicked, and he couldn't care about anything else, so he turned over directly from the fence courtyard, and when he walked into the house, he saw a tall man with his back to the door, pinching Wan's neck, and slamming the woman's head against the wall.

Zhou Zhuangtou was shocked, hurriedly stepped forward, and kicked the man's lower back, in the end, he did rough work all year round, he also had a lot of strength in his body, and directly kicked the person to the ground, and the hand holding Wan's neck was also released.

The man snorted in pain, turned his head to look, and found that it was a strange man, and his face became more and more hideous.

"You slut, just a few days after leaving home, you actually hooked up with a wild man, a shameless woman like you, it is better to die as soon as possible!"