The two waited for a while, and the guard led them to a study. Through the screen, in the dim candlelight, a figure sat lazily.

The two are not surprised, since this prince was disfigured a few years ago, he is reluctant to meet people face-to-face, and he just hides behind the screen to deal with anything.

"Lord Qi, the little one encounters something today, and it needs to be decided by the prince." The shopkeeper Li of Yayi Teahouse reported everything that happened in the teahouse during the day.

"Shopkeeper Li, do you think you're a little too conservative? With Xu Gongzi and Yang Fuzi as a double guarantee, why not give the girl ten taels or twenty taels? And that superb sago pearl dew, if it is as delicious as you say, have you ever thought of buying it? As for the name of the store, if you want to change it, change it immediately, listen to the bamboo tea house, just listening to the name gives people an elegant artistic conception. We don't need to shout and drink it ourselves, the tea guests will naturally feel it. ”

"The prince has taught him a lesson! The little one wanted to see how the tea guests reacted to the sago in three days. Tomorrow, the small one will change the name of the store. Shopkeeper Li hurriedly responded.

"You remember, first, when Xu Gongzi and Chu Wuya go to the store in the future, what requirements do they have to meet them as much as possible. Second, from the day after tomorrow, if the tea guest can make a poem about bamboo on the spot, he will be given a bowl of black pearl dew. ”

Shopkeeper Li said yes again and again, and was surprised that the prince even knew what the name of the little girl was, and was willing to give precious black pearl dew to the tea guests.

The shopkeeper of the proud restaurant saw that the shopkeeper Li retreated, and also reported the matter of the restaurant, and it turned out that the two went to the Yayi teahouse before going to the proud building, and I don't know if there is any hidden secret.

"Shopkeeper Fang, you can think of buying the recipe, this idea is worthy of commendation, but the time is not yet ripe, if the two of them go to the restaurant, you just need to cooperate with them vigorously, no need to be careful, let alone make things difficult."

"The little incompetence has been unable to make the restaurant profitable for a long time, so I implore the prince to punish him!" Shopkeeper Fang knelt down.

"There is no need to blame myself too much, this king does not want to rely on a restaurant to attract money, it is not my intention to compete with the people for profit, you are good to run a business, go down."

The lazy figure and decadent voice made people unable to hear joy and anger, and the shopkeeper Fang retreated after repeated confessions.

A figure walked in from the side door, saluted the prince, and said: "The lower officials are incompetent, the restaurant and teahouse cannot make a profit, and the farm has lost its harvest, and the palace is afraid that it will not be able to make ends meet this year." The ability of the lower officials is limited, so I implore the prince to choose another master. ”

"Qin Changshi doesn't need to blame himself, the restaurant and teahouse are business, and it is excusable if you are not your director, and the failure of the farm is caused by the drought, which is beyond the reach of manpower. Alas, there is only a small palace, and this king can't let it have a surplus, which shows how difficult it is for my father to govern the world. ”

Qin Changshi hurriedly knelt down: "The prince has worked hard, and the lower officials feel deeply guilty!" ”

"The estate is close to the river, and the drought is severe. It can be seen that the drought situation in other parts of Daning is more severe, and in some places recently, there are even more disaster victims. If we work together to come up with a good plan for my father, it will undoubtedly be the blessing of Daning Sheji! Qin Changshi, you should find more skilled craftsmen to see how you can alleviate the drought. A few days ago, several county workers were killed and wounded, and just digging ditches will not work. ”

"The prince cares about the stability of the society and wants to solve problems for the emperor, so we should do our best to serve, please ask the prince to command!"

"Find more ways to make the farm produce more, this is what this king expects from you."

Early in the morning, the twins had already gotten up, and they cut some small bamboo tips according to Chu Congrong's request, cutting them to the length of their fingers, saying that they were tools for learning to count.

"Sister, do you think this is okay?" Seeing that Chu got up calmly, Shichiro immediately took it.

Chu looked at it calmly and nodded.

At this time, Rokuro brought in a plush thing from outside the courtyard gate and said, "I don't know who it is, put a handful of grass at the door of our house." ”

Ye Shi was walking over and happened to hear it, and also said: "I also saw it yesterday, and I thought you were playing with it." ”

When she saw her daughter looking intently, she said, "This is a stick of cattails, which used to be not so dry and overgrown everywhere, so the villagers used its poles to weave mats and straw hats, and even used to weave straw shoes." Now there are a lot less, only by the riverside. I haven't heard of any use for the sticks, they are all used by children to play with. ”

Chu calmly looked at it, the reddish-brown grass stick was like a ham sausage in another time and space, this was not a pu grass stick!

As soon as Liulang heard that his mother said that it was useless, he turned around and wanted to throw it away, but Chu calmly stopped him and asked him to put him in his room. Rokuro didn't say a word, just do it.

After eating early, Chu calmly got busy with some things at hand, and began to teach the twins to recognize the number. Seven or eight-year-old children have strong learning ability, and they quickly memorize Arabic numerals from zero to nine, they made a fuss about wanting their sister to teach more, Chu Congrong just let them practice the ground, and the two had to obediently comply.

The two practiced patiently for half an hour, and Chu Congrong was almost busy with the matter at hand, so he told them that they would go to Longtan Village to see the eldest sister in a while.

The two were a little dazed when they heard it, they had never seen the eldest sister in their impressions, and they just stayed at the title of "eldest sister". And none of the three of them have been to Longtan Village, and they don't know where the eldest sister was sold to, where to find it?

Several people ran to ask Brother San Lang, but San Lang didn't know the specific location, only knew that it was sold to a family surnamed Zhou, which was the milk trustee, and no one knew the specific situation of Sanfang.

Oh my God, a big living person casually sold to someone, and no one in the whole family knows, what's the situation? Chu Congrong couldn't wait to pull Chu Youxian up from the bed and ask him how he became a father!

The best ginseng is eaten by this incompetent father, which is really a kind intention of the local tyrant brother in vain!

"Let's go! Let's ask. Chu calmly instructed Liulang to bring a few pieces of yesterday's pastries, and the three of them went straight to Longtan Village.

The distance between Longtan Village and Longgouden Village is not close, and there are several villages in between, and it takes more than an hour to walk, which means that there are nearly 20 miles of road. The three of them walked and stopped, they were not hungry, but they were easily thirsty, but fortunately, Chu was calm and experienced, so the twins used bamboo tubes to prepare water.

Finally arrived in Longtan Village, Chu Congrong didn't dare to alarm the adults at first, and finally met a few half-grown children, and after giving out a few pastries, he finally asked about the useful situation. A few years ago, there was a family in the village surnamed Zhou who bought a little girl, but they moved out a year ago.

Chu Congrong was very disappointed, and after a relatively older child got the three cents, he gave her the exact information: the surname Zhou turned around and sold the little girl to someone else before moving away, and the buyer didn't know the specifics. Chu Congrong hurriedly found the adults in the village and asked everyone, but they only knew that the buyer's surname was Su, and he couldn't tell where he lived. wanted to further understand the whereabouts of the Zhou family, but they only knew that their family had moved to other places, and the address was unknown.

Chu calmly returned home unhappy and told Ye what he had heard, and Ye cried even more when he heard that his eldest daughter's whereabouts were unknown.

She hadn't had any hope for the matter, so she was fine. But the youngest daughter first gave her great hope, and suddenly turned into infinite disappointment, so that she could not bear it. Of course, she also knew that she couldn't blame her younger daughter for this, but when she thought that her eldest daughter didn't know where she was going, she couldn't control her sadness.

Chu Congrong had to comfort her with a good voice, she hadn't seen her for seven years, and she didn't care about waiting for a few more days, she would do her best to track down the whereabouts of the eldest sister and ensure that their mother and daughter would be reunited.

As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, Chu calmly knew that he had handled this matter too roughly, which also warned him to be more stable in the future.

finally appeased the Ye family, but I didn't know how much the fourth uncle's cassava pulp had grinded, so he turned around and went to Niu Er's house. Niu Er and his wife were at home, and Niu Xiaohua went out to look for wild vegetables.

"Second Aunt Niu, I brought you some food, try it tonight to see if it's delicious, if you think it's delicious, ask Sister Xiaohua to find me the day after tomorrow."

Niu's second sister-in-law took it and said, "Your mother also sent us a good cloth in the morning, and in the afternoon, she came to your house to deliver food to our house." That's too polite, isn't it? ”

She thought about it, and said with some reluctance: "Your fourth uncle is grinding cassava in the backyard, why don't you pull the stone mill away, we don't need it anyway." ”

She knows that this little girl is amazing, the whole family is okay if she is dumped by her grandmother, her life is still comfortable, good things are moved to the house every day, she asks for cassava chips twice and gives money, her daughter goes out with her for half a day and gets dozens of dollars back, and the strong man has not been able to earn so much for two or three days!

"I know that Second Auntie, you have always been good to us in your heart, but you don't need to move the stone mill. I'm sure you'll be using a stone mill soon. Chu Congrong smiled, "I will accompany my mother to my grandmother's house tomorrow, and I will go to the county the day after tomorrow, and the second aunt will remember to remind Sister Xiaohua." ”

That night, Niu Er and his wife looked at the two dishes and were fascinated, which was a new food they had never seen before.

Niu Xiaohua saw that her younger brothers and sisters were very happy to eat, so she tasted some of them, and felt that the taste was very good, like tofu but much better than tofu.

"Daddy, what are these two dishes, why don't you eat them?"

Aunt Niu smiled and said: "Girl, we don't know what the dish is, if you want to know, we have to ask your good friend Wuya, this is sent by her, and the method is also her godmother." ”

Niu Xiaohua sighed, it wouldn't be strange if it had something to do with Wuya.

"Dad, do you think this dish is made of tofu? Just this silk, mix some cucumber and sesame seeds, add some soy sauce, mix a few times and you can eat, how simple it is, but the taste can't be better! There are also these slices, Wuya said that if you fry them with spicy and pork belly, the taste is a perfect match! ”

"If it's delicious, eat more! I ate this thing with a bean flavor, didn't you say that she had a lot of tofu left in her house that day, I guess it was really made of tofu. But you said to give her the stone grinder, but she didn't want it, and said that we would be able to use it soon. Did she want us to help her make tofu?" Niu Er analyzed.

"Dead ghost, what about helping her make tofu, as long as it's more cost-effective than selling it on the street, let's do it! Otherwise, we can't afford to eat bran every day just by relying on that little land! If Xiaohua hadn't gotten back the dozens of dollars, San'er wouldn't have had the money to catch San'er's medicine! ”

Aunt Niu is respectful of Chu calmly.

"It's easy to make but it tastes great, if we can make this kind of food, I can guarantee that we will have no worries about food and clothing!" Niu Er sighed. He had sold tofu in the town before, and he knew by feeling that this thing should be in demand.

"No wonder Wuya always buys things at home, maybe this is where the money comes from. But don't think about it, a good way to make money is so easy for you to learn? If it was really made of tofu, it would be nice if she could buy tofu with us. ”

"Mother, I'll find out tomorrow when I go to Wuya, what are you thinking." Niu Xiaohua had seen Wuya's way of making money, but she just promised not to tell anyone.

Aunt Niu remembered Wuya's previous reminder that if she wanted to find her, she would have to wait until the day after tomorrow.