It was late spring, the peach blossoms and pear blossoms were gone, and the fruits were still very small, and almost all of them were green, which was nothing more than the difference between light green, light green, and strong green.

Over Taoli Mountain, there is also a mountain of fruit trees, all planted with bayberry.

The old lady liked to drink wine before her death, the bayberry was ripe, and she ate it freshly, and the rest was basically used to make bayberry wine.

There is also a cellar dedicated to storing wine for the old lady in Xu's house.

However, after his old man passed away, the original father and mother were not interested in bayberry wine, and they kept filial piety for the old lady, and those who had nothing to do with the spice business were let go of the steward.

Xu Da, the steward in the courtyard of the original father, as soon as the bayberry matured, he hired someone from outside to pick it up and sell it to the mansions of those dignitaries in the city. This bayberry mountain alone made him greedy for a lot of money.

"In the future, let's still operate as the old lady is here!" Xu Yin walked through the bayberry forest and said to the village chief, "Send some fresh fruits to the house, and make the rest of the wine." In addition to fresh fruit soaking wine, I will give you another recipe to try the fermented way to make bayberry wine. ”

The village chief responded spontaneously.

Xu Yin thought it was good to live here. Wait another month or two, peaches, bayberry, and pears will ripen one after another, and you can eat as much as you want, and you can eat enough.

You can't finish making wine, soaking wine, and making jam.

"Jam? What is that? When the village chief heard her say this, he asked curiously, "Is it boiled like soybean paste?" ”

"Almost, if you're interested, I'll give you a recipe, and you can try it when the fruit is ripe." However, jam is not suitable for selling in the market, and the cost of sugar is too high, and ordinary people may not be willing to buy it. If you ask someone to knock on the back kitchen door of a big family, they may be interested. ”

The village chief took her words to heart.

Further inside Yangmei Mountain, there is Tea Mountain.

Xu Yin looked up at the Xu Mansion Courtyard built on the top of the mountain, and twitched the corner of her mouth:

No wonder there will be a soft sedan chair in Xujia Village, and the masters who are used to being pampered, which one can climb the top of the mountain after eating and turning over two mountains?

Fortunately, the tea mountain is not high, the mountain road is not steep, and the steps are shallow, so you are not tired to walk.

The group went up to the top of the mountain, and when she decided to come to live in the courtyard, the housekeeper sent someone to clean it, so she could move in directly.

Xu Yin took the maid and mother-in-law to live in the second courtyard, and the front yard was reserved for the nursing home and the errand boy. The cooks brought by the government were also placed in the front yard.

The village chief waited for her to settle down, and then went down the mountain and went home.

I made an appointment to take someone to clean up the firewood mountain next to the tea garden early tomorrow morning.

Xu Yin will go to the cemetery tomorrow, after all, she is nominally here to guard filial piety.

It is still the tea picking season, and tea farmers can be seen everywhere on the tea mountain.

Although the most tender buds before the Ming Dynasty are no longer visible, the tea before and after the rain in the valley has fat buds and leaves, emerald green color, and the brewed tea has a fresh taste and pleasant aroma, which is still very marketable.

Xu Yin had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she asked the purple kite to take a small bamboo basket with a wide mouth, walked out of the courtyard, picked an area that the tea farmers had not picked yet, picked a basket of young shoots, and brought it back to the mountaintop courtyard to fry it herself.

When the old lady was still there, every Qingming came to the cemetery to worship the ancestors, she would live here for a while, and follow the tea farmers to experience the fun of tea picking, so the courtyard was equipped with perfect tea roasting tools.

The maids and mothers-in-law who were waiting around her were beaten by the old housekeeper before going out, as long as the girl could come out of the grief of the deceased, she could do whatever she wanted.

What's more, isn't it just tea picking? There is no danger, just let the girl be happy.

But when it comes to stir-frying tea, they are worried about burning her hands, so when they serve on the side, they all worry about their hearts and hang their guts.

"Girl, do you want the tea farmer to come to this job? The slave and maid are going to call a woman with quick hands and feet? ”

Xu Yin has already been fried.

Although I haven't fried tea for a long time, my hands are a little raw, but I quickly became familiar with it, and I shook my head when I heard the words:

"I just want to experience it, and I can't bother the tea farmers."

I think that at the beginning, my sister even planted the tea trees by manure, what is it to pick tea and fry tea?

"But ......"

"Purple Kite, do you want to come along? Really fun! ”

“……”

The purple kite looked suspicious.

Isn't the heart saying that stir-frying tea is like stir-frying? It's nothing more than a spatula replaced by hand, how much fun can this be? ”

Xu Yin said slowly while stir-frying tea: "Do you think, pick your own tea, fry it yourself, and go back and brew it and drink it yourself, isn't it fun?" It's a great sense of accomplishment, isn't it? It's true! If you don't believe you, try it! ”

She flickered the big girl and the little girl ashore, roasted tea collectively, and experienced the daily life of a tea farmer.

After frying the picked tea, it was getting dark.

After eating a six-course vegetarian meal made by the chef in the house, plus a small bowl of rice, I rested early after washing.

When I got up the next day, I went to the cemetery with the morning dew.

Worshiped the ancestors of the Xu family, the old lady, and the original father and mother in turn, and promised in front of their graves: they will carry forward the Xu family's incense industry, and never let the ancestors' hard work be cut off in her generation.

In fact, she didn't just say this to her ancestors, but her ancestors had to hear it if they wanted to! It's mainly for the people around you.

Next, she has to carry out her aromatherapy business in a big way, in case she is too involved and makes the maid and mother-in-law suspicious, it will be troublesome.

Now in front of her ancestors, she swears that she will inherit the Xu family's spice business, even if she is not married for life, she will carry it forward, which shows her determination.

Once a person has made up his mind and moved forward, it is reasonable to say that there is a big change in his personality.

Coming out of the cemetery, Xu Yin saw that the girl Zi Kite was always peeking at her, and raised her eyebrows lightly: "It doesn't hurt to say anything directly." ”

"Girl." Purple Kite boldly spoke, "You just said that you will carry forward the Xu family's spice business without marriage for life, and it will never be in your hands, is it true?" ”

"That's right."

"But if you don't get married, you have no heirs hanging under your knees, how will you pass on the Xu family's industry at that time? Doesn't that have to be broken? ”

Xu Yin: "......"

Hey! This girl is very logical! When the maid is succumbing!

When the two mothers-in-law who accompanied them heard this, they also persuaded me word by word:

"Girl, if you don't get married, you can't do it! If you are worried that no one will take care of the business in the house when you get married, you can recruit a son-in-law like a lady! ”

"That's right! When the girl's filial piety period expires and she reaches the age of marriage, she can throw hydrangeas to recruit relatives and recruit a good aunt who loves Mrs. as much as the master! ”

The more the two mothers-in-law talked, the more excited they became.

Xu Yin twitched the corners of her mouth, fortunately, she was already out of the cemetery, otherwise in front of the tomb of the ancestors of the Xu family, talking about her life's events, is this like words?

But the mother-in-law said: "The old slave didn't listen to Lingqing, otherwise the girl would have asked the girl to retract that sentence in front of the tomb of the master and the lady." The lord and the lady know that they must hope that the girl will find a lover and continue to have children, but the girl must not be rash......"

Xu Yin pinched the corners of her forehead with a headache: "Okay, okay, I'll think about it when I get out of the filial piety period." ”

Only then did the mother-in-law shut up.