Yuhang is the beginning of the canal in the south of the Yangtze River, the first stop of the Grand Canal, in fact, they are the most convenient to enter this side from the sea, but the Jia family is the old surname of Jinling, and the first stop in the south of the Yangtze River is not Jinling, which will be criticized. At the beginning, it was decided that Jinling would turn to Yuhang, then enter Gusu all the way to the north, go to Huai'an and transfer to Suzhou, take Shangqiu, Luoyang Sui-Tang Grand Canal, and go to the ancient capital Kaifeng and Luoyang to see. Xiong Er was ready to accompany the old lady around Yuhang, so he took the stagecoach directly on the official road, passed through Xuzhou, and passed through Liaocheng into Beijing.

"You're saying that the headquarters of the monk is actually in Yuhang?" Ou Mengmeng is on the boat, and he will still talk to Xiong Er about the case, although there is no granddaughter to give him, but the old lady is still happy to talk about the conclusions he found. However, when he talked about this, he looked at Xiong Er, so he accompanied himself to Yuhang not to accompany him at all, but actually for the case. It's a bit depressing.

"No, you don't need children to check this, before Jingzhong had someone to take care of these people, pick out the key points, and they will know what to do." Xiong Er also knows how to look at his eyes, he understands very well, and dares to say that he wants her to help, and the old lady can take her crutches and knock him to death.

Ou Mengmeng nodded, and took her hand off the crutch with some regret. Sitting on the boat, she has nothing to exercise every day, and she can't beat her son every day, right?

Amber was also helpless, and hurriedly sent a hot handkerchief so that the old lady could wipe her hands. You can let the old lady and Xiong Er have some snacks together. Looking at the old lady's expression now, I also know that she is a little disappointed, so she can only be busy knowing that she is going to eat a snack. Don't be angry!

Amber welcomes Xiong Er on weekdays, and she can see that when the old lady and her own son and Xiong Er are together, it is obvious that they are a lot more relaxed, so Xiong Er is in the old lady's heart, like the eldest lord and the second master, he is a son-like existence. Others, including the so-called pro-grandchildren and great-grandchildren, have to withdraw a few feet away. So she was also very gentle to Xiong Er, and she was happy to be good to the old lady.

"Why do you have a snack again?" Ou Mengmeng has long been exempted from the aristocratic style of three meals a day and a few snacks, but she only exempted herself, but she did not exempt the girls, after all, they are going to marry into someone else's family in the future to manage the plan of a house, if they marry an ordinary family, but if they marry into a rich family, then some details are easy for people to see. That's why she doesn't miss those details.

"The lord of Tong'an saw that the water chestnut sent from the shore was extremely fresh today, so he asked people to make a water chestnut cake, please try it." Amber smiled and gave flowers dyed in various colors, which was very cute to look at.

This water chestnut cake method is very simple, water chestnut shell to take meat, crushed and boiled with rock sugar, boiled thick, poured into a variety of patterns of molds, is the pattern water chestnut cake. It is also sweet and delicious to eat. However, Ou Mengmeng was not a nobleman, so she directly asked Amber to hand the plate to Xiong Er.

Amber was helpless, gave the cake to Xiong Er, and took a small basket of washed and boiled water chestnuts and handed it to the old lady.

"Those girls, who were born locked up, say anything wild every day, but actually understand everything." Ou Mengmeng happily took a water chestnut that looked like a beard, and happily skipped it from the middle, and as soon as she bit the shell, the water chestnut meat squeezed into her mouth, full of powder, and the old lady's happy eyes narrowed.

Her hometown of Dongwu, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River, these are the snacks she had when she was a child, and there is a small one, which is really the kind of small water chestnut rice with thorns all over the body, and it is naturally sweet. When she was a child, there were hawkers on the streets, and she could look at them for a long time with special knives.

Amber smiled and took out some small water chestnut rice, which was cut for the old lady, "You eat less, you won't be able to eat after a while."

"The old lady likes to eat this." Xiong Er hurriedly put down the water chestnut cake, reached out and took a few water chestnut rice, and put it in his mouth. nodded, "It's still the old lady who knows how to eat, this is really sweet."

"Have you seen "Caigen Tan", the Jia family didn't get tired of eating fine before, they didn't get tired of fine food, they didn't get tired of eating meat, and they didn't see meat, saying that it was the dignity of the family at that time. Do you think the Jia family will dress and eat?" Ou Mengmeng herself was born in an ordinary family, so in the Jia family, she didn't change many rules, but desperately let them learn management, sometimes she herself felt that she was not like Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty, desperately open source, but she didn't know how to throttle. In the end, his change ended in failure. Now she wants to ask the son of the county lord, although your Xiong family is not a high-ranking family, but the county lord is,

You can always learn something, right?

"If the Jia family doesn't know, I'm afraid that no one will be able to come to Beijing." Xiong Er lifted the water chestnut rice and bit a few more. Obviously, he didn't understand, too, Jia's mother is the daughter of Zhongshuling, and the wife of Guogong, and she has been prosperous and rich all her life, of course she will, how could he have thought that this Jia's mother had changed the core, pointing to the water chestnut, "Even if this thing is sent to the capital, it is also a precious and rare thing, and it is only a person like the old lady who is blessed and long-lived, so she can eat so proudly."

The old lady is very skilled in eating, and eating it so casually is actually much more expensive than eating water chestnut cake. There is rock sugar in the water chestnut cake, and you will be full after eating a piece. But eating water chestnut like this, even if it is an old lady like an old lady, it is one or two catties casually.

Amber couldn't help but widen her eyes, this person, can you speak? I couldn't help but say, "Second Master Xiong, the old lady only ate some fresh food like this when she arrived in Jiangnan. In Beijing, except for the products produced in the village, the old lady has always been frugal."

"For more than four years, I've been very frugal, not before." Ou Mengmeng shook her head. She smiled, thinking about the life of Jia's mother in her memory, it is not owned by ordinary people, look at the water chestnut, think about it on Jia's mother's table, such fresh goods are actually not uncommon. At that time, Jia's mother's small kitchen was really flying in the sky, running underground, and swimming in the water, as long as it could be found in Shenjing, it could be found in her Jia's mother's kitchen.

"It has been a hundred years since the DPRK and China, and the wind of extravagance is gradually rising, and the Jia family dare not say that it is the first to bear the brunt, but in the past few decades, it has indeed been very expensive, I am afraid that the children will be like what is written in the book, why not eat meat." Ou Mengmeng sighed lightly, "In fact, in the past few years, the old body has also been advocating frugality. But they didn't dare to cut their use, it was not good to make people think that the girls of the Jia family did not understand the rules of the family. It's a little family! So there's always a contradiction."

"Actually, the old lady is not wrong, you practice it, the girls in your mansion are actually more pragmatic than ordinary women. As for some official pomp, who can't do this?" This time Xiong Er understood what the old lady meant, he thought of the girl before, and listened attentively to him about the furnishings of the shop, the management, and the food and drink that was usually sent in the house, and he also knew from her upbringing that the standard of the girls in the Jia family, he absolutely believed that the girls under the old lady's upbringing would not be bad, and they would not raise a group of girls who were childish as she said.