In the middle of the hour, Yuan Yi and Yuan Qin came in with a plate of persimmons and followed silently.

At that time, the Qin family said about the guest master, and said that the guest master had a distant relative, who was the township test supervisor, helped the candidates cheat, and collected a lot of silver, and then the east window incident, the distant relatives and nepotists were arrested, and the court traced it, knowing that the guest master was related to him, and he was impeached by some ministers in the court. Since last year, there has been a lot of rain and floods in various provinces, so the government ordered officials in various localities to verify the people's situation and mobilize relief efforts. The old man of the guest originally walked in the court of the official position, because of the case of the distant relatives related, in order to avoid suspicion with the court to ask for an errand to investigate the disaster, bothered to do this business, later, the court allocated the silver to go to various places, but someone privately passed the guest master belonged to the disaster land silver two whereabouts are unknown, ironically said that someone is suspected of corruption and food. After the saint and the queen mother heard about it, they asked people to verify it and planned to play it. The old man was in a hurry, so he looked for someone to check the disaster relief accounts, one by one, and it was not bad, but where the money fell, and how many people and households were relieved, and the payment was not indicated, which left people with a truth. And this guest master was originally an official in the court, how do you know the details, thinking that the people below can rest assured, but the matter of changing the official position to avoid suspicion of the distant relative is over, and when the wind is calm and then return to the court, it will lead to such incidents, which he did not expect. No, I came to ask the master for help, and I want to discuss countermeasures!

This is Qin's one-sided statement.

When Yu Qi heard it, he was secretly curious, and he also felt that this guest master was really wronged, no wonder he begged the master so sincerely that day. However, why didn't he ask Lord Xifu Qin to help? Regarding this, the Qin clan did not mention it. Besides, this guest master was plotted three times and twice, and he was afraid that someone would not be able to tolerate him, so he tried every means to find something to blame him!

At this time, persimmons are coming.

Qin Shi glanced at it, Yuan Yi took one from the tray, uncovered the skin, and said, "The leather clothes can be revealed, madam, you can taste it." ”

Qin Shi took it, took a bite first, and then took her mouth, only to see her brows tightened. I'm afraid it's not delicious! Seeing her swallow it again, she finally ate it, and put the rest back on the plate, saying, "It's not cooked thoroughly, and it's astringent." ”

Yuan Yi smiled: "No, this fruit is fully ripe." ”

Qin said: "I will take the urn for a day or two before I can eat it." ”

Before he finished speaking, a report came from outside: "Chenggui is here." ”

Cheng Gui is a close attendant in front of the eldest lord, at this moment, he should be waiting for the eldest lord, what will he do here?

Qin Shi hurriedly responded: "Let me in." ”

In a blink of an eye, Cheng Gui came in, waited far away outside the curtain, and said, "Mrs., the lord heard that Mrs. is picking persimmons here, if it is good, please ask a few to come over, and the guest said that he also wants to taste it." ”

The Qin clan was in trouble.

Zhuang Hu explained: "I picked a lot, and I got it all done." It's just that some of them are not very cooked, and the wife does not dare to send them rashly, for fear of defiling the mouth of the guest. If the guest insists on eating, then bring a few with them! Don't say we didn't tell you, the uncooked ones should be astringent. ”

After saying that, Zhuang Hu covered his mouth and smiled at the Qin family, Yu Li, Zhuang Yu and others.

Cheng Gui replied: "The master also said the same, the guest said that the fruit is fully ripe is a taste, either sweet or sour, and it is not impossible to taste other tastes." He also said that he knew that his wife liked to eat persimmons, and there were persimmon cakes in the house, and if there were any, he would also reward a few to eat with tea. ”

Qin suddenly woke up and said, "I forgot, I didn't finish the persimmon cake dried last year, so go and take a few of the ones in the jar and serve them one piece!" "Ordered Yuanyi and Yuanqin to do it.

A little, brought the persimmon cake to Qin's eyes, Qin's glanced at it, it was this, nodded and let it go. As soon as they left, the Qin family said again: "It's rare for someone to mention it, bring a few to you Miss Qi to taste." ”

Because Yuanyi and Yuanqin left, Zhuang Hu got up and said that he would get it himself. After a while, a plate of persimmon cakes was served.

Qin Shi took a piece and handed it to Yu Qi, and said, "I'm sure you've eaten it, but I'm different from other places, and I've added rose nectar." ”

Yu Qi took it, didn't dare to eat alone, broke half of it and gave it to Zhuang Yu first, and the other half to the Qin family, but the Qin family didn't want it, and handed it to Zhuang Hu.

Zhuang Hu said: "Don't divide it, you can eat what you give it." It's not like we haven't eaten it. ”

Yu Qi was ashamed to answer a small snack, but Zhuang Yu, who was sitting next to him, was embarrassed to eat it, and looked at Lu Qi in a daze, without saying a word.

After eating, Yu Qi praised: "It's very delicious." I've never eaten anything so good. ”

After hearing this, the Qin family was very happy, and hurriedly said to Zhuang Hu: "Heard? Go pack a few more and let your sister take them back and eat them. "Zhuang Hu went. Qin Shi said again: "They are tired of eating, and they say that it is delicious in their mouths, and they don't want to see them in their hearts!" I think it's best to eat peaches all year round, saying that the taste is full of water and beautiful eyes. If you want me to say, this persimmon is comparable to grain. In the old days, poor families had no food to eat, so if they planted a few persimmons at home, they could survive the dry season and wait for a bumper harvest in the coming year. It can be seen that rich people don't know the stomachs of hungry and cold people, and they don't know that astringent food can fill their stomachs. ”

Yu Qi smiled: "What Mrs. said is true. In response to the ancients' saying that fame and fortune are hard to find, once you seek perfection, you feel that the taste is the same as chewing wax. But this thing is sweet, it's a delicacy, I can't describe it too much. Although there is no chicken, duck, fish, meat, mountain and sea delicacies, people love, eat this and those than that, the taste is also fresh, compared to other fruits, this thing has a unique simplicity, it can be seen that the simple things into the hearts of the people, so that the wife is so good to love it, it also plays its talents, helps the world, can be transformed into food"

Qin Shi praised: "It's rare that what you think is similar to what I think in my heart." If you like it, I still have it, and if you don't have enough to eat, just come and get it. ”

Yu Qi hurriedly got up and thanked him with a salute.

At the end of the day, Zhuang Hu wrapped several packs of persimmon cakes and pushed them to Yu Qi, asking her to take them back to entertain guests, joking that this is a good thing given by his wife, and he should be rewarded to others, and eating alone will rot his teeth.

Yu Qi accepted all the orders and said, "What my sister said is, when I turn around, I will call Brother Tong and my cousin to have a persimmon banquet, which is so lively." ”

Zhuang Hu glanced at her, and said coquettishly: "It's so shameless, only you dare to do the thing of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha." Your second sister is bold, but she is not as thick-skinned as you. ”

Yu Qi smiled shyly.

After a while, Yu Qi took his leave.

Out of Dongfu, Zisu asked Yu Qi: "Do we want to make a mistake in our steps?" Look at a butterfly, a bee, or something, and go to the old man. ”

Yu Qi said: "No, I won't go!" Didn't Mrs. say that? The old man embezzled the silver taels for disaster relief, which was a felony. If the eldest lord helps him, it is enough to see that the eldest lord's personality is different from Xifu. You see, the eldest lady usually talks little, but talks so much to us. ”

Zi Su said: "A slap doesn't make a sound." Haven't you seen it yet? I am afraid that your image today has been turned upside down. I'm watching from the sidelines, you seem to have become a person, where have those gentle and gentle Shuroujia gone? When she talks, she looks like a street girl in a miscellaneous market. ”

Yu Qi snorted: "My sister often wants to change, haven't I changed?" I didn't fulfill my sister's heart again. ”

Zi Su slapped his mouth again and again, and said, "I'm praising you for coming." That's good. Seeing you talking to the big girl, I was very relieved. ”

Yu Qi sighed and said, "Let's see! That's it. Isn't it the same when they hide from each other? ”

Zi Su said: "In this way, it is the right time to come to Dongfu today." Recall your temperament and earn back a few large bags of persimmon cakes. ”

Yu Qi said: "The persimmon cake is light, but it is enough to see a person." Changed my opinion of the big wife. ”

Zisu said: "It's the same as I thought." The eldest lady didn't finish half of her sentence, and I listened carefully, I don't know if you noticed. ”

Yu Qi smiled: "Are you talking about the guest master wanting to borrow the eldest wife's mother's house?" ”

At that time, what happened to the Qin lobbyist master, incidentally, said that he came to ask the master, and said something like this: "He also has some scheming, he knows that officialdom doesn't work, he wants to find righteous people in the rivers and lakes, and he knows that our lord has some intersection with the people in the rivers and lakes......"

Qin was born in the rivers and lakes, he was originally a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, and since he married into the Zhuang Mansion and became a wife, he has gathered the chivalry of the past. In the past, there were still people who knew about her heroic deeds, but most of the young people didn't know about her, thinking that she was a noble lady who had no quarrel with the world.

When Yu Qi was in his hometown in the south, he often heard his mother mention it, so he knew the origin of the Qin family, and when he heard the words about the rivers and lakes, he had a little guess.

Zisu woke up at this time, and Yu Qi remembered this again, and said: "When my father and mother were alive, they often said that the market outside the house was a mixed place of rivers and lakes. The only thing that can accommodate you is in the house, and when you go outside the house, you are a high-ranking official of the emperor, and no one knows it. In the end, isn't officialdom also a place where rivers and lakes are mixed? It's ridiculous that people in the officialdom still want to please the people of the rivers and lakes! ”

With that, the two of them had returned to Zhongfu.

Because of the persimmon cake brought back from Dongfu, Yu Qi didn't dare to take back the mirror flower thank you privately, so she went straight to Shouzhongju to ask the old lady to say goodbye, and by the way, she showed the old lady and asked the old lady to taste.

The old lady said, "I rarely eat this, and you eat less, although it is sweet and greasy, and those who have a light mouth like it." But I think this thing gets chills in my stomach. ”

Yu Qi said: "We are in Dongfu, and the eldest lady also told me an interesting story, saying that in the old days, poor people had no food to eat, so they used this to make a living. The old lady doesn't like to eat, it's the old lady who eats good, and she doesn't like what I ask for. I'll take it home and eat it myself. ”

This kind of witticism, the old lady rarely heard it, and she felt more and more pity for Yu Qi in her heart, and rushed to ask for two, asked Zhu'er to put it away, and said that she would eat it at night.

Yu Qi took an inch and said, "The old lady perfunctory me, I won't eat this time, and I will throw it away when I leave." It's better for me to take it all back. ”

The old lady sighed again and again, and said, "You mouth, when did you change the wind." Speaking of thieves, thieves scratch people! So he took one from Zhu'er's hand, broke it open, stopped with a bite of the snack, and said, "No matter how delicious it is, it must be delicious." I can tell you, I ate goose meat today, and I can't eat this. ”

Yu Qi was strange and said, "Why? ”

The old lady said: "If you eat goose meat and persimmons together, you will have a stomachache, and it hurts badly, and if you don't save it, you will die." Because he was afraid that Yu Qi would not believe it, he hurriedly told her about the past: "In the year of Emperor Feng, a group of thieves came to the palace, trapped in the row of old courtyards behind the imperial dining room, without eating or drinking, and happened to see persimmons dried on the tree, they shook them down, and in the dead of night, they quietly took it to the imperial kitchen, pounded and mixed flour, and made some persimmon cakes to satisfy hunger. I don't know, there was a big goose stewed for the Lord, and he stole it again, but he ate two things, and the thieves didn't come the next day, and they were in pain, and they were all caught in a net. Later, the Lord ordered all the persimmon trees outside to be cut down. You say, can't persimmons be eaten with goose meat? ”

Seeing the old lady mention Emperor Feng, in a trance, she remembered the advice of Bojing Lao Ni before her death.

At that time, he took refuge in Xianyuan Nunnery, Bojing Lao Ni taught all kinds of power and secret techniques, during which Lao Ni asked Yu Qi that if he had the opportunity to enter the Zhuang Mansion, he would ask his grandmother for her: "You ask your grandmother, when Emperor Feng died in the eleventh year, she could enter the palace?" ”

These words have puzzled Yu Qi to this day.

Now that I think about it, the confusion swells up again, and the sadness rises.

Seeing that Yu Qi was speechless, the old lady pushed her and said, "What's the matter?" Scared? ”

Yu Qi was taken aback and said with a smile: "Hearing the old lady say this, I remembered a record in an old book. ”

The old lady's interest showed on her face, and she asked with a smile: "Tell me to hear it." ”

Yu Qi thought for a while and said: "It is said that it was during the Chongzhen period in the last year of the Ming Dynasty, and the beauty Chen Yuanyuan was able to meet Li Zicheng, also because of persimmon cakes!" That Chen Yuanyuan is the first beauty in the world, and Li Zicheng is said to be a great hero in the late Ming Dynasty. ”

The old lady laughed and said, "Nonsense, right? Literati and wild histories, love to talk about this. Out of tune, climbing wildly. If there really is such a miracle, why didn't it go to the theater to let people know? ”

Yu Qi said: "I just listened to the book, saying that Li Zicheng attacked Xi'an and came to Kyoto, passing by a place, when there was a famine, there was no food. The villagers knew the name of the great hero, knew that he rose up for the people, and defended him very much, and where he passed by, the villagers baked persimmon cakes for him and the soldiers to eat, so that they had the strength to invade Kyoto and capture the beauty Chen Yuanyuan. ”

The old lady waved her hand: "I don't believe this!" Thou shalt not go out and talk nonsense. Spread to the top, that's going to kill the head! You've read these stories again! Hate your parents for seeing everything and harming you! All in all, what I am telling you is what I have seen in the old palace, and what you see in those books is made up by others, and I can't believe it. Again, this persimmon can't be eaten with goose meat. ”

Yu Qi didn't dare to speak, so she retracted her naughty and saluted: "Remember!" ”

When I think about it, everything is born and restrained by each other. It just so happens that the persimmon cake and the goose meat can't be touched, so it becomes a sharp weapon that can be used to deal with people in the future.

Next, when Mr. Yao came in to see Zhuang Jue, Yu Qi found an opportunity to see Mr. Yao, and once again asked if the persimmon cake and other foods had a similar root. Yu Qi thought that if there was restraint and rebellion, then a grudge could be carried out.

That is, to deal with the Cao family and the big sister Zhuang Hu, and avenge Sanxi!

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PS: The fourth volume has reached 1 million words today! And more than 1 million words! That's more than the word count in this book.

I want to write it to the fifth volume as soon as possible! However, the story points of the fourth volume were not finished.

Pure record!

Today's winter solstice, may you all be safe.