H2> sugar gourd is more trouble-free than fried chestnuts with sugar, the red fruit is cleaned, the seeds are skewered on a bamboo skewer, and then wrapped in boiled sugar coating.

The second day is the second day of the lunar month, and it is also the market day of Huangxian County. Lan Yi got up early to feed the livestock, chickens and geese at home, and added enough firewood to the kang in the greenhouse before calling the two children to have breakfast, and sent them to the second uncle's house to be taken care of by the Li family, and played with the three of Dafu.

Then, the family wrapped the bunches of red fruits made yesterday in a white cloth and put them in a bamboo basket, then covered them with grass to keep them warm to prevent the red fruits from freezing, and loaded two bags of hairy chestnuts in the car.

Today is a few days in the county seat, and the flow of people into the city to catch the market is continuous. After entering the wax moon, everyone was riveting to prepare for the New Year's goods, and the second, twelfth, and twenty-second three annual fairs in the county town before this year became the opportunity for everyone to purchase, and Lan Yi and the others also aimed at this opportunity to sell more sugar gourds.

Before entering the county seat and arriving at the Qinghe stall, Lan Yi found that the surrounding vendors had begun to sell food, and the fragrance of wontons, steamed buns, buns and other foods was intertwined on the banks of the Qingshui River, exuding bursts of warmth in the morning light.

The two of them quickly cleared the snow from their stalls, erected a bamboo pole fence, and then made the pot stove and began to add firewood to the hot pot and prepare to fry the chestnuts. Lan Yifei and the three of them waited next to the ox cart, looking at the things on the cart by the way.

Today is a good weather, the sky is blue, cloudless, a round of red sun slowly rises, the earth gradually has a trace of warmth under the red sun, fortunately, the snow on the road has been swept away, and everyone who rushes to the market does not have to worry about stepping on two feet of mud.

Second Uncle Wang and the four of them have been familiar with the surrounding vendors for more than ten days, and today they found that they brought three young daughters-in-law over. The three peasant women were dressed up, and they all looked good, one was petite and immature, one was quiet and introverted, and the other was charming and slender, standing together to attract the curious eyes of the people around them. After all, the Wang family's sugar-fried chestnuts have a good business, and the slightest movement will attract people's attention, not to mention that this time they brought three big people over.

Chen and Liu were looked at by everyone uncomfortably, and involuntarily moved their steps closer to Lan Yi.

"Brother Lin Yuan, there are a lot of you here today!" Wang Linyuan set up the table and scrubbed the table with a linen cloth, and the eldest brother who sold buns next to him couldn't help but talk.

"Yes, it's not that the chestnut business is not good, let's plan to add something new."

Several vendors around couldn't help but grit their teeth when they heard Wang Linyuan's words, his family's business is not easy to do, and he can't let people live?

"What's the matter? You'll have to give us a taste later. ”

Wang Linyuan smiled very honestly: "What else can there be, we countrymen can only sell some wild fruits, how can it compare to Brother Zhang's craftsmanship, let's eat your buns at noon today, you can be cheaper." ”

"Done! I'll keep it for you, and you will give me two catties of fried chestnuts, and the baby at home is clamoring to eat it. ”

Wang Linyuan nodded and talked to everyone. After Wang Linxi and Niu Wentian unloaded the things on the ox cart, Wang Linxi came to Lan Yi and asked respectfully, "Sister-in-law, can you light the fire?" ”

Lan Yi looked up and saw that there were not a few pedestrians, so she nodded and said to Liu and Chen, "Let's go in too." ”

Brother Zhang, who was selling steamed buns, looked at Lan Yi dumbfounded, and said to Wang Linyuan in disbelief: "She...... She's your sister-in-law? ”

Wang Linyuan nodded, smiled but did not speak.

Entering the fence, Chen and Liu were relieved, at this time Niu Wentian had already lit the fire on the cauldron, poured the fried sand into the pot and slowly heated it, Wang Linxi took out the pre-prepared sugar and salt and other seasonings and added them to the pot, and only when the domestic temperature was getting higher did they put the washed chestnuts into it and stir-fry.

There are two pots and pans in this fence, and the place is quite spacious, Lan Yi asked Liu to light the small pot, and she was ready to boil sugar. Put white sugar and water in a small pot and boil it slowly, and after there is a crackling sound in the pot, Lan Yi dips a little sticky sugar solution into cold water with chopsticks and cools it and bites it with her teeth.

Niu Wentian stood up, looked at the row of sugar gourds that Lan Yi threw out, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva and asked, "Lin Xi, this is a red fruit, right?" Sell this too? ”

Wang Linxi nodded, took a string from the board and handed it to Niu Wentian: "Brother Niu, you can taste it." ”

Niu Wentian wiped his palm on his pants, reached out to take the sugar gourd and ate the next one, he first narrowed his eyes and then grinned, then widened his eyes and quickly chewed a few bites and swallowed, and then bit a red fruit to eat, and stretched out his thumb to Lan Yi and the three people who were looking at him: "It's delicious, brother and sister are good at craftsmanship." ”

Lan Yi smiled, a tall man holding a sugar gourd in his mouth made such a vivid expression, which really made people look very happy, "Brother Niu likes to eat two more skewers." ”

"Good! Wait for this pot to come out before eating. After Niu Wentian finished speaking, he put half a string of sugar gourds in his mouth, reached out and grabbed the firewood and put it on the stove, and then took off the sugar gourd after using a short wooden stick to make it on fire, squatted on the side of the stove and squinted his eyes and ate it.

Lan Yi twitched the corners of her mouth, and she understood a little in her heart why Sister-in-law Niu trained her husband every day, so it was indeed a bit scolding.

"Three brothers and sisters, burn a small fire; Second brother and sister, this sugar gourd is okay, give it away. ”

Chen nodded, picked up the board and turned around and walked out of the fence and handed it to Wang Linyuan. Wang Linyuan took over the board and quickly inserted the sugar gourd on the straw handle, attracting the attention of many people.

After the grass handle was filled, Wang Linyuan shouted to the crowd that gathered around to watch the excitement: "Sugar gourd, sour and sweet sugar gourd, three texts, one string, five texts, two strings!" ”

The people outside began to shout about you again, Wang Lin explained in a burst of words, and after a while, he sold the sugar gourd. Lan Yi and the others listened inside, and a proud and satisfied smile appeared on Liu's face.

Wang Linxi peeked at Chen, met her encouraging gaze, nodded and held the shovel in his hand, he also had to work hard.

When Second Uncle Wang came back, Wang Linyuan had already sold thirty or forty strings of sugar gourds. Second Uncle Wang was watching the stall outside, Wang Linyuan walked into the fence and said to Lan Yi: "Sister-in-law, I'll go sell sugar gourds, second brother, the stall will be handed over to you and your father here." ”

Lan Yi nodded, and Liu quickly stood up and went over to tidy up his man's sleeves, a standard little daughter-in-law.

After Wang Linyuan walked away with the straw handle full of sugar gourds, Wang Linxi came out of the fence and stood at the table with Uncle Wang to sell sugar gourds and fried chestnuts with sugar, Niu Wentian fried chestnuts in the fence, and Lan Yi and the three of them still made sugar gourds.

Wang Linxi stood up to face everyone for the first time today, although her voice was a little lower than Wang Linyuan, she was also articulate and smooth, Chen gradually relaxed her tense muscles and nerves, and showed a relieved smile, she also retracted her mind and seriously followed Lan Yi to learn to make sugar gourds.

Lan Yi was quick with his hands and feet, and after a while, he made more than a hundred sugar gourds and asked Liu to put out the fire, and picked up more than a dozen good-looking sugar gourds and put them in a bamboo basket to cover them.

"Second brother and sister, third brother and sister, you will continue to make it when the sugar gourd is sold out later, and I will go back when I go." Brother Niu, you can rest after this pot is fried. ”

A few people nodded, and after Lan Yi took off her apron and washed her hands, she turned around and walked out of the fence.

She shuttled through the crowd with a bamboo basket, and came to the back door of the Xia Mansion in a blink of an eye. Lan Yi knocked on the door and gave the mother-in-law who was guarding the door a few pennies and asked her to inform Mrs. Xia of the big house, the Qin family, saying that the Lan family of Beigou Village asked to see her.

The mother-in-law came back soon, followed by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, this maid was dressed in an apricot-colored embroidered skirt, with snow-white rabbit fur rolling on the cuffs and collar, holding up a tender white and beautiful smiling face, this maid Lan Yi recognized that she was the spring apricot next to the Qin family.

"Mrs. Wang, you really haven't been here for a few days, and my wife has been talking to you several times."

"I'm also busy with trivial matters at home and have no time to get out, is my wife okay?" Lan Yi asked politely.

"Madame is well, you come with me." Chun Xing took Lan Yi through the garden and several arches to a meeting room, opened the curtain and invited Lan Yi in. Lan Yi stepped forward and felt a burst of hot air rushing towards her face, and she almost sneezed.

"Madame, your room is really warm." Lan Yi rubbed her nose and said with a smile.

"Look at your little face is frozen, come here." Qin raised his hand to let Lan Yi sit beside her, and asked with concern, "What's the matter with running over on such a snowy day?" ”

Lan Yi shook his head: "This is not a year, I will come to pay you an early year, and I will also take advantage of the more people in the New Year to come over to do some small business." ”

As soon as the Qin family heard Lan Yi say that he came to do a small business, he immediately became interested: "Oh? What is it doing this time? ”

Lan Yi opened the white cloth of the bamboo basket, took out a bunch of sugar gourds and a packet of sugar-fried chestnuts and handed them to the Qin family: "That is, the food made of wild fruits in the mountains, I don't know if you like the taste or not." ”

"This sugar-fried chestnut is really made by your girl!" The Qin family had already eaten fried chestnuts with sugar in the past few days, and at this time he only took the sugar gourd and looked at it for a while: "This red fruit is interesting to look at." ”

Lan Yi smiled: "Madame, try it." ”

Qin Shi gently bit the lower half and took it in his mouth and tasted it slowly: "The taste is not bad, you girl has a lot of ghost ideas." ”

"Isn't it to earn some broken silver for the New Year?" Lan Yi pretended to be sad, the Qin family had never had a stand in front of her, so she was also very relaxed.

Qin Shi glanced at her and said funny: "You sold sauerkraut to Le Xiangju, how can you still lack money for the New Year!" Where did we offend you, so that you bypassed Fengle Building and ran to Lexiangju. ”

Fengle Lou is the Xia family's property, but the Qin family knows that his son also has shares in Le Xiangju, and the sauerkraut and recipes sold by Lan Yi this time made Le Xiangju earn a lot of silver, and Feng Le Lou scratched his head for this.

Lan Yi looked at the Qin family and didn't look angry, and asked with a smile: "I don't know if my sister has a little letter back, how are she and the child?" ”

Qin Shi mentioned her daughter, showing a pleased smile, she patted Lan Yi's hand: "Wan'er and the child are fine, a little news that the spring will be warm next year and then the child will come back, I am looking forward to it." ”

"Really, that's a lot of hope!" Lan Yi was also happy, although she and Xia Wan had exchanged letters a few times after they separated, it was not as pleasant as meeting.

"Isn't it, the peonies on your hillside should also bloom then, and I will join in the fun to take a look." After eating the sugar gourd, Qin raised his head and said to the two maids beside him, "Chunxing, this fruit is good, you can send it to the old lady to taste." Chun Tao, you go and ask the eldest young master to come over. ”

When Lan Yi heard this, she quickly stood up: "Madam, I won't stay longer, I'll come back to you another day to say goodbye." ”

Qin Shi looked at Lan Yi for a moment and said, an inexplicable look flashed in his eyes, and then he said angrily: "What's the hurry, Xiao'er specially instructed me, if you come, I will definitely keep you and wait for him to come back." ”

Lan Yi was stunned, what could Xia Wan's brother do to find him? R1152