Song Qiaoqiao carried the empty bucket, got into the carriage, waited for a while, and found that no one had come, so he poked his head out and looked out.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got out, he almost hit a wall of flesh, and after seeing the faces of the people who came, he was so frightened that he almost couldn't speak.

"Yuan, Yuan-sama."

Yuan Qi nodded and said hello, and helped Cheng Qingwan behind him into the carriage.

Song Qiaoqiao looked at the hands held together and was dumbfounded.

After Cheng Qingwan got into the carriage, she always received resentful eyes from her good sisters.

Confused, she tugged at her sleeve and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Song Qiaoqiao opened her mouth, glanced at Yuan Qi who was sitting next to her, and whispered, "I'll tell you when I get home." ”

Cheng Qingwan pursed her lips when she heard this, and then sat in the carriage without saying a word.

The carriage quickly stopped, and after getting down, he led Yuanqi to the backyard to look at the tomatoes.

"This is the tomato, exactly the same as the last time the vassal paid tribute."

Cheng Qingwan raised her eyebrows, picked a tomato that was already red, washed it and handed it to the person in front of her: "Lord Yuan will taste it?" ”

Yuanqi took it, wiped the water with Jinpa, and took a bite.

Suddenly, the sweet and sour juice and the tender flesh entered his mouth, his eyes widened instantly, and after eating, he spoke.

"This is exactly the same taste as a tribute, dare to ask the girl if there are still seeds?"

"There are naturally seeds, but adults, this is the seed from which I made a fortune, and I can't give it to people at will."

"I'm not looking for seeds, I'm just looking for them." Yuanqi knew that she had misunderstood, so he explained with a smile.

"Naturally, it's okay, but can Lord Yuan help me transport this tomato to the town to sell in a few days?"

"Tomatoes are scarce, and only the emperor and the crown prince can eat some of the annual tribute, if you sell them, I don't know how much silver you will have to set?"

Cheng Qingwan thought about it carefully when she heard this, and said in a low voice: "Twenty Wen? ”

Yuan Qi chuckled, and his always cold eyes actually had a little doting in them.

"Is it so cheap? If it is in the capital, one or two pieces of silver are also bought by many people. ”

"You also said that it was in the capital, Huaxian County is located in the middle of nowhere, and it is backward all year round. Although the people of the town are still wealthy, they are not stupid enough to spend a tael of silver to buy royal goods that they have never seen before. ”

"That's right." Yuanqi agreed with her idea, and then said, "However, you have to lose a lot. ”

Cheng Qingwan pursed her lips and said indifferently: "If you lose, you will lose, anyway, there is no cost." ”

Yuanqi looked at the acre of tomatoes and thought for a while before he spoke: "But if you believe me, I can transport these to the capital." ”

Cheng Qingwan was stunned when she heard this, and thought about it, Huaxian County is also 2,000 kilometers away from the capital, and it will take two months to get to the capital quickly.

"Once you go back, you have to ask for dozens of taels of silver to wrap up. The tomatoes I have here are only more than 100 catties, my lord, this account is not worth it. ”

"Well, it's not worth it just to sell them in the city, I'm talking about sending your tomatoes to the palace. If Your Majesty is happy, you will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and even more so, you will be called to the saint. ”

Cheng Qingwan raised her eyes and looked at his eyebrows carefully: "Then you want me to share this thousand taels of gold with you?" ”

"That's not necessary, I just hope that when the girl faces the saint, she will say a few good words for me, so that Your Majesty can transfer me back to the capital as soon as possible."

Yuan Qi raised his eyebrows and said casually.

This sentence is very reasonable, if others say it, Cheng Qingwan will really believe it. But why, when it came out of Yuanqi's mouth, she didn't believe it very much.

This was the end of the conversation between the two, and Yuan Qi was soon called away.

Cheng Qingwan sat on the threshold, surrounded by chickens and ducks that had grown up a lot, and looked thoughtfully at her acre of tomatoes.

When lunch and dinner were delivered, I didn't touch Yuanqi, and I heard Azhu say that he was called away by Wei County's order.

Cheng Qingwan returned home, walked to the side of the bed and looked at the food that had not been touched much, and frowned: "Auntie, why do you eat so little?" ”

"I don't have much appetite." Cheng Hua'er put aside the embroidery in her hand and said with a smile.

"Your aunt has been eating sweets lately, but she likes sweets, and the cane sugar that she originally bought for the New Year is almost finished." Aunt Liu sat aside and said with a smile: "I remember that there is a shop in the town, and you like to eat the pastries in it, let's take a look in a few days?" ”

Cheng Hua'er's face turned pale, and she nodded with a smile.

"Pastry?" Cheng Qingwan thought for a while and said with a smile: "A-Niang, can I make you something to eat?" ”

The woman was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile: "Okay." ”

When Cheng Qingwan heard the response, she hurriedly picked a few ripe tomatoes in the moonlight and walked into the kitchen.

Peel the tomatoes, mash them, add flour, add sugar, knead them into a dough, and put the small dough into a grinding tool.

Song Qiaoqiao walked in at some point, looked at her small pieces of pastries, and said with a smile: "Wanwan, what are you doing?" ”

"Pastries, A-Niang's appetite hasn't been very good lately, I'll make some pastries to make her appetizing."

Cheng Qingwan said as she put the demolded pastries into the pot and steamed.

"It's pink and tender, and it's delicious to look at."

"It's out of the pot, the first one for you to eat."

"Okay, then I'll wait here." Song Qiaoqiao smiled and sat down in front of the stove to burn the fire.

The two chatted without saying a word until the pastry was ready.

Cheng Qingwan lifted the lid of the pot, and the mist and fragrance came to her face.

After a while, when the fog cleared, she took a piece of pastry and fed it to Song Qiaoqiao.

Then, I took a piece of it myself and took a small bite.

"This pastry is delicious, sweet and sour." Song Qiaoqiao took several bites and said with a smile.

"Yes, the sweet and sour is absolutely appetizing, I'll take it to A-Niang to taste." Cheng Qingwan didn't care about the heat, quickly put the pastries on the plate and brought them to the room.

Seeing that the woman was still studying embroidery, she hurriedly smiled and brought it over.

"Auntie, auntie, come and taste it."

Cheng Hua'er glanced at it in surprise, then picked up a piece of pastry, took a bite, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

"This pastry is sweet and sour, it's delicious."

"Yes, Wanwan, how did you do it, teach your aunt next time."

Cheng Qingwan watched the two of them finish the pastry in three or five clicks, and returned to the kitchen satisfied.

"Finished eating?" Song Qiaoqiao looked at the empty plate and said in surprise.

Cheng Qingwan nodded with a smile and put the rest into the pot to steam.

By the time everything was steamed and put in the box, it was already the middle of the night.

The two yawned as they washed up and went to bed.

The next day, Cheng Qingwan yawned and went to wash, looked at the sky that was not yet bright, and smiled helplessly.

It's been almost a year since I've been here, and I've actually cured her of bedriddenness.

After washing, she went to cook as usual, put the food in front of Cheng Hua'er's bed, and then waited for the carriage with Song Qiaoqiao.

When the carriage came, Cheng Qingwan just brought the small box containing pastries from the house.

Yuanqi walked down and worked together to carry breakfast into the carriage.

"Lord Yuan, try this pastry."

Cheng Qingwan sat in the carriage, opened the box, and put it in front of him.

Yuan Qi took a piece, and as soon as he put it in his mouth, he realized that it was made of tomatoes, so he studied how to make it with each subsequent bite.

"It's delicious."

Cheng Qingwan smiled: "What the adults said yesterday, does it still count?" ”

"Nature." Yuan Qi paused slightly, and then said with a smile.

"Then I'll pick the tomatoes today and deliver them to your house."

"Okay, I'll arrange someone to escort you into Beijing tomorrow."

Cheng Qingwan raised her eyebrows, she really didn't think he would agree so happily.

When you get home, you start picking tomatoes.

She left the ripe and ripe tomatoes at home, and put the unripe ones in the box.

For the whole afternoon, five large boxes were loaded.

As soon as Cheng Qingwan entered the door, she collapsed on the chair and couldn't even lift her hands.

Cheng Hua'er saw that the three of them were tired like this, so she got up and made dinner.

Cheng Qingwan sat on the chair and fell asleep in a daze, and when she woke up, the food had already been delivered, the tomatoes had been delivered to Yuanqi's house, and the other three had also eaten dinner.

She looked at the food that had already cooled down, and really didn't want to eat it again, so she went to the cellar and brought two sweet potatoes.

Halfway through, I suddenly remembered that sweet potatoes can be used to make starch, so I went back and got a bag of sweet potatoes.

Cheng Qingwan washed the sweet potatoes and put two pieces into the pot first, which was used for today's dinner.

Subsequently, peel the sweet potatoes.

And then what?

Cheng Qingwan looked at the sweet potatoes that had been peeled and lined up on the table, and thought about it for a while, but she didn't think of what to do next.

Seeing that the sweet potatoes in the pot were steamed, and the sky outside was getting dark, her movements still didn't change.

The system watched this scene in his mind, sighed, turned out the system encyclopedia, and found the method.

Cheng Qingwan looked at the process that suddenly popped up in her mind, she was stunned for a moment, and then immediately thought of the reason, so she said with a smile in her mind.

"Wow, Xiaoxiao, you still have this function, is it a new upgrade?"

"It was there, but you didn't ask."

Cheng Qingwan paused for a moment, and then said with a smile: "It's not too late to find out now, with your encyclopedia, I have no problem opening a restaurant." ”

The system suddenly had a sense of foreboding.

Sure enough, in the next few days, Cheng Qingwan will ask about the steps of making cornstarch and the steps of sugar......

Cheng Qingwan has a lot to do, but the raw materials are limited.

She took the soy milk she had just made, sat at the door and drank it in small sips, thinking about where she could get some silkworm babies to make bed quilts.

Song Qiaoqiao didn't know when she sat next to her, and she was also holding a bowl of hot soy milk.

"In two months, it's going to be the New Year."

Cheng Qingwan nodded and said softly: "It's getting colder and colder, and I don't know what to go to town." ”

"It should be soon, I heard from Azhu yesterday that the imperial court issued an order that after the epidemic is cured, the refugees will be divided into various villages."