When I returned to the room, I saw that Ming Qian was still reading there, and there was a pile of copper coins and open red paper on the table, "Oh, have you opened it?" I don't know who gives how much! How can you return the gift in the future? ”

Ming Qian didn't raise his head and said, "Grandparents gave thirty wen, and dad and mother each gave twenty wen." The eldest brother and sister-in-law each gave ten wen. The uncle and aunt each gave twenty wen. Mingli's eldest brother and sister-in-law each gave ten wen. ”

Pearl sighed, she lost a lot, and calculated, this is only 170 yuan.

Pearl found a purse from the chest of drawers, put these copper coins in it, and he himself had more than 700 copper coins.

Pearl is sighing!

Ming Qian said, "Lady, where did you get these books?" ”

Wife?

It's really numb, but it's called like that now, just listen to it.

said with a smile, "When I was in the capital, I heard that my second brother was going to take the Xiucai exam, so I paid attention. These books are all stored in the Hou Mansion, and the young masters of the Hou Mansion have good gentlemen, and after they read them, they were asked to come. There are also some books that were given by old ladies. The old lady's family turned out to be a big family, and there were naturally a lot of these books. Oh, and some of them were given by the ladies. Knowing that I collected these all helped. There are still two copies missing, and they were taken by the second brother to see, and they can be taken back after a while. ”

"Oh, then get them back quickly, these books are too important to your husband. Your dowry isn't worth much. ”

Pearl smiled and didn't speak, listening to the meaning of this, she knew that Ming Qian was a little awkward about her rich dowry!

The sun was best in the morning, and Pearl moved out of the embroidery frame, and found a piece of transparent yarn from the kang kitchen and fixed it on the embroidery frame, this time, she planned to embroider a large piece.

The lion and tiger picture of Hunan embroidery is the most famous, in the past when it was in the Hou Mansion, it was a ready-made manuscript, no matter how good the pearl embroidery was, there was really some gap.

This time, Pearl intends to use modern sketching techniques to draw the picture, and also use chiaroscuro techniques to highlight the three-dimensional effect.

After brewing in her heart for a while, she came up with the idea that she wanted to embroider a two-foot tiger's head, so that people would be startled at first sight.

Pearl took out a charcoal pen and began to make a base draft, very focused, especially in terms of details, and not sloppy at all.

When the pearl was finished, she raised her head and saw Ming Qian looking at her, "That Spring Palace...... Did you draw it? ”

Pearl heard this, his head buzzed, last night's incident, Pearl still remembers it vividly, at the beginning, Ming Qian didn't mean to pity the jade at all, and when he knew that he was a virgin, he knew the severity.

I guess I also heard the rumor that I used to be someone else's concubine.

Now that I'm sure I can paint like that, is that okay?

Pearl didn't show his face, and said with a smile, "I saw it in the old lady's dowry, and my mother gave it to me before I got married, and I thought it was too rough, and I thought of two younger sisters, so I painted these." Of these two books, one is for the third sister. ”

Hearing this, Ming Qian's face was a little better, no matter what, he was the first man in the pearl, there was no doubt about it, so there was nothing to worry about.

If you draw it yourself, the annotations you write, of course, it is the most useful for yourself, Ming Qian did it according to the instructions on the pictures, and sure enough, the pearl was refreshed, and the pearl also thought of this, and her face turned red.

Pearl suddenly thought of the handkerchief, and asked, "Where is the handkerchief you put on the cupboard?" ”

"When you were cooking, I took it to my grandparents and parents, and now it's being taken away by my grandmother!"

Pearl's face was flushed, and she said angrily, "How can you let grandma keep it, you are thick-skinned, I still feel embarrassed!" ”

Ming Qian smiled and said, "It's better to put grandma there, you don't have to worry." By the way, when I go back, I have to ask Liu Gui for the book back, you won't be angry, right? ”

"My brother wants to borrow other books! You're not going to be angry, are you? ”

"I don't care about your dowry."

Who will believe this?

Regardless of his dowry, he still reads those books so closely?

I didn't bother with them anymore, and went out to make lunch with my purse.

Ming Qian said that their family's favorite food is meat.

As long as it's meat, I love to eat it no matter what.

When I came out of the house, I happened to see my brother-in-law Mingde, "Second sister-in-law is good." ”

"Uncle, is there anyone in the village who sells meat?"

"Yes! The Qu family sells meat, and now that the weather is cold, the pork can be stored for a long time, and his family has killed more pigs than usual, and there must be more. ”

Matilda's eyes lit up.

Pearl smiled, took out 100 yuan from her purse, handed it to Mingde, and said, "You help your sister-in-law run, sister-in-law doesn't know the way, buy three catties of pork, to be fat and thin, and buy some pigs to go back to the water, and give you the rest, if it's not enough, ask your sister-in-law again." ”

"Okay. I'll go. ”

Matilda ran away with that, and Pearl smiled and put her purse in her sleeve.

Suddenly it occurred to me that there was no sugar in the house, so Pearl entered the house and pretended to rummage through things in the buckets and buckets, but in fact, put things in the space.

Take out a packet of sugar, find the jar where the sugar was originally placed in the kitchen, and put the sugar in the porcelain jar.

There are a lot of spices in the space, how many are needed, and there are even more types of spices.

There was still a vaccine in a large refrigerator in the pharmacy, and Pearl was afraid of death, so she shot early, and secretly gave it to her mother's family, telling them that this was a secret method obtained from foreigners, and no one could pass it on.

At that time, Zhao still thought of his mother's family, and was glared at by bangs, so that's it.

Can prevent smallpox, Zhao also knows the severity, except for a younger brother, everyone else has had smallpox, and his health is not good, he is afraid that he will not survive it like a pox, so he simply won't say it, and Pearl found three jars, one put bean paste, one put chicken essence, and one put thirteen spices.

I found an empty wine bottle of ceramics and put white vinegar in it.

Then put some rock sugar in the bucket, the offspring bucket is two buckets, one large and one small, the big one puts a vinegar jar, and the small one puts red beans and mung beans.

When I was done, I went to the kitchen with a few jars.

Shen is already cooking rice on the fire, and today he is eating sorghum rice.

Pearl put the materials away, and Shen asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

"Spices for cooking. I brought it from my mother's house. ”

Hearing Pearl say this, he didn't ask much, and it didn't take long for Mingde to come back, and when he walked to the kitchen door, he shouted, "Second sister-in-law, I bought it back." ”

Pearl walked over to take a look, and sure enough, he bought it, took the big piece of meat, and was very satisfied.

There was also a basket that smelled, it was a pile of pig intestines, pig hearts, pork belly.

"Sister-in-law, take it quickly! I've got to give the basket back!" ”

Pearl hurriedly found a large basin, put the things in the basin, and then handed the basket to Mingde, and asked, "Is the money enough?" ”

"That's enough, the pig will be bought for thirty wen."

Pearl nodded, and let Matilda leave.

Shen Shi was a little embarrassed to see so many pigs in the water, "Brother and sister, the pigs in the water are not delicious, although our family has bought them before, it is really not delicious." ”

Pearl smiled and said, I'll do it, don't worry. Since there is a pig in the water, this pork will be saved for the evening! ”

"That'll do fine."

"Sister-in-law, do we have vegetarian oil at home?"

The fat intestines and the tips of the liver are all oily, and it is not possible to use meat oil.

Shen said, "Last year, I planted some soybeans at home, and I really squeezed vegetable oil. But that's all that's left. ”

"Okay, I see."