Chapter 107: Autumn Fall

In July, there is no shortage of vegetables to eat, the vegetarian food in the temple not only has those vegetarian fish, vegetarian braised pork, green vegetables and fried cabbage, but also the wild fruits picked by the monks in the temple in the back mountain, packed in a bamboo basket, not much, just a small handful, look very good.

This is something that Yan Ming buckwheat has never eaten, it has a red, orange and yellow color, and tastes sweet and sour, with a bit of jujube flavor.

I think this is from the temple, and I have been illuminated by the Buddha's light, and the two of them feel that it is no worse than the fruits sold outside. Before leaving, because Yan Mingqiao gave too much money for sesame oil, the monk also gave them a bag of mushrooms in the mountains.

"Two donors, these mushrooms can be boiled in a pot after they have been soaked in water. If it is stewed with meat, it tastes even better. ”

Yan Mingqiao just wanted to nod, but felt that it was not right, meat is not allowed in the temple, how does he, a monk, know that these mushrooms and meat taste better when stewed?

Yan Mingqiao saw that there was still a bright light in the monk's eyes, as if he was reminiscing about the taste of stewed mushrooms, he didn't dare to ask more, and he and Gu Mian hurriedly left.

It may have something to do with that sentence - wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart.

If you want to be a Buddha in your heart, you can practice anywhere.

Or maybe it was eaten before leaving home, otherwise how could there be such a delicious vegetarian meal in the temple. Yan Mingqiao felt that this vegetarian food was made by a monk who wanted to eat meat and couldn't break the vows.

Gu Mian's brain was buzzing, she thought the same as Yan Mingqiao, how could she still know the taste of meat, but she understood that she didn't ask what she shouldn't ask.

You can go back and try how delicious these soaked mushrooms are.

The way down the mountain is very quiet, because almost all the people who come to incense in the morning are gone, and there are very few people who come to incense in the afternoon.

There are grass and trees on both sides of the stone steps, and the forest is quiet and full of green trees.

Gu Mian said relaxedly: "Anyway, I have done everything I should have done, if my brother can't pass the exam, it's his own business." ”

Yan Mingqiao hadn't inquired about Gu Yan's homework, but when she pressed the bed for her sister-in-law, her sister-in-law said that Gu Yan was very smart, and the son of the Taifu family should not be far behind.

Yan Mingye is five years older than Gu Yan, and this year is also the township exam.

In the Yue Dynasty, the imperial examination was a very good and difficult way out. Don't look at Yan Mingye is eighteen years old this year, and he is not very old, it is because the children of the family do not worry about studying.

Buy a few taels of silver and don't blink his eyes, and he can use as much pen, ink, paper and inkstone as he wants, and he can keep up with eating and drinking.

Such a person, as long as he studies his homework seriously, is not too much worse.

But in fact, some of them are very old, and they have been taking the examination for talent and people, and those people are copying books by themselves, and by the way, they earn some silver to subsidize their families.

Copying books naturally does not save time compared to reading, if Yan Mingqiao is allowed to choose, of course she chooses to read books. Reading books should be done properly, while copying books requires copying all books, which is actually a waste of time.

Yan Mingqiao has also bought more than 1,000 books in the past few years, and these are exchanged for silver, there are thousands of taels, all of which are silver for nothing.

It is really not easy for a poor farmer to provide a scholar.

Yan Mingqiao only understood the difference, and then let the younger brothers of the Yan Guo Mansion study more easily. However, if they don't work hard and can't be motivated, that's their own business.

They themselves have to understand that if they don't work all the time, they don't get motivated, and wait for the money in the family to run out, then their children and grandchildren will have to copy and read books in the future, and they may not be able to read.

Yan Mingqiao felt that cutting the lord did not mean that the Yanguo Mansion was declining, and the children and grandchildren did not study and were greedy for fun, which meant that the Yanguo Mansion was going to a strange place.

Therefore, you still have to study hard, watch the eldest brother pass the exam, the second brother is also motivated, the younger brothers are serious in their homework, although they are also greedy for fun, but their minds are on the right path, and the Yanguo Mansion is going uphill.

Yan Mingqiao felt that it was not in vain to earn money.

After the two of them went down the mountain, they went to the street again, naturally spending money was indispensable, and when Yan Mingqiao returned to the Yanguo Mansion, it was already evening.

The whole mansion was in the afterglow of the sun, but Yan Mingqiao felt relaxed and very down-to-earth. In mid-July, the weather became cooler and cooler, and it took more than a quarter of an hour to walk from the gate of the Guogong Mansion to Buck Anxuan, but it was not hot at all.

As soon as I sat down and drank a cup of tea, the maid came in and said that the second lady was coming.

Zhang Xinyuan came over to get something for Yan Mingqiao, it was a fruit sent by her mother's family, including dates and grapes, which were very fresh. She is a month old, and it is inconvenient to go up the mountain with a big belly, for fear of moving the fetus, otherwise, she should do it to pray for her husband, and she will have to trouble the fifth sister.

Zhang Xinyuan didn't say anything to this sister-in-law, she just felt that it was her luck to be able to marry into the Yanguo Mansion and have such a sister-in-law, and to give money and help take care of all kinds of trivial matters.

Although Zhang Xinyuan has something to be arrogant about, she understands the truth. There is nothing that should not be done, she is thoughtful and thoughtful, and the fifth sister can feel better, and it is not the same whether she is willing to help or not.

Yan Mingqiao looked at these things and said, "The second sister-in-law is pregnant, you can keep these and eat them yourself." ”

Zhang Xinyuan said: "I still have them there, I sent them to my mother, and I got some for you, they taste good." ”

Seeing this, Yan Mingqiao didn't shirk it anymore: "Thank you second sister-in-law." ”

Zhang Xinyuan sat for a while and then walked back, Yan Mingqiao had a simple dinner outside the house, and then read a book for a while.

There is no other major event at the moment, just wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival next month, and after the festival, the second brother will prepare a birthday gift for the second sister, and then wait for the release of the list. The list is in September, and the fourth sister got married in September, counting carefully, there are many happy events in the second half of the year.

At this time, there is another big event that is not a big deal, that is, selling moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and you have to find a lot of short-term jobs.

Mooncakes are only sold once a year, so you have to start making them now, because mooncakes have to be put back for a few days.

Do more, you can start selling from the end of July, until the middle of August, there is half a month, and the silver earned in this half month can catch up with the profit of Yufangzhai for a year.

This is a big business, and it can add two more Zhuangzi to Yan Mingqiao.

Although this kind of thing has been done in previous years, Yan Mingqiao still has to keep an eye on it by himself, and there is also the autumn harvest, in short, he can't be idle for more than half a month.

When she goes to Fushang Zhuangzi, Yan Mingru will follow, she is about to get married, and she should learn the art of housekeeping, and she will follow her mother to learn more shallowly, and follow the fifth sister, if you don't understand something, you can ask, and the fifth sister will answer it wholeheartedly.

Yan Mingru knew that the sisterhood between her and Yan Mingqiao was not deep, but she admitted that Yan Mingqiao was a very good person.

She is almost the same as before, seeing that Yan Mingqiao is doing well, she will be envious, and even a little jealous, but she will not do anything bad, compared with Meng Xiaoniang and them at the beginning, she can only say that stability is a blessing.

When Yan Mingqiao went to the shop, if it was the shop of the Guogong Mansion, she would follow, and if it was Yan Mingqiao's own shop, she would not go.

Now that the Yanguo Mansion has a rich family business, the dowry for her is inevitably indispensable. Shop, Zhuangzi, Silver...... It is estimated that her mother will also give her material jewelry, plus miscellaneous furniture and decorations, so that she can get married in a beautiful scenery.

Yan Mingru was very content.

At the end of July, the princes of the house were on vacation, and Yan Mingye still did not come back. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, he estimated that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was also spent in the academy.

Although he didn't come back, Yan Mingqiao asked the little maid in the house to bring him a lot of meals, a total of sixteen dishes, and eating with those classmates who stayed in the academy with him was not too depressed. I won't send it in the Mid-Autumn Festival, for fear that I will suddenly change my food and make my stomach hurt, which will affect their exams, and I also instructed in the letter that if someone sends food at that time, don't be greedy.

The rest of the time, I went to Zhang Xinyuan's place more often, talked with her to relieve boredom, and saved the second sister-in-law from thinking about the west as soon as she was free.

Zhang Xinyuan really couldn't help but think about it, the month was uncomfortable, although it was a big grin, but I couldn't see Yan Mingye's people, it had been a few months.

Understanding is understanding, but is he really so busy that he doesn't have time to come back?

Yan Mingqiao would make her laugh, in order to reassure her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, she could only try to be more relaxed.

This year, in addition to pineapple, five kernels, egg yolk lotus paste, bean paste and date paste, there are also ham moon cakes newly learned from the south, as well as flower cakes, and the shopkeeper specially sent them to taste.

If you think it's delicious, you can make more to save the time when you don't have enough to sell.

Yan Mingqiao tasted it, and felt that the ham filling was very delicious, salty and sweet, and the shop used Jinhua ham, so the cost was much higher, and the selling price was more expensive than that of egg yolk lotus paste. Jinhua ham is delicious no matter how you eat it, not to mention that it is made into a snack.

The taste of the flower cake is also good, sweet, it can indeed eat the fragrance of flowers, Zhang Xinyuan likes to eat this, but Yan Mingqiao likes to eat meat, so he thinks that the taste of the flower cake is average.

Both of them are puff pastry on the outside, and the red letters are printed on the skin, which looks quite festive.

Yan Mingqiao asked Lin Xiang to send a message to the shopkeeper, saying that she could do more of these two things, and if she couldn't sell them, she could keep them and give them away.

These two things look very good, and the materials used are also sufficient, and they will definitely be able to get their hands on them after sealing them and giving them away.

In order to take care of the business in the shop, the Boxing Mooncakes given to the subordinates by the Yanguo Mansion this year are still ordered from Yufangzhai. And Yan Mingqiao ordered dozens of boxes first, and sent the mooncakes to relatives and friends a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

If it's delicious, it can also attract some business to the shop, in short, it's a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone.

Moon cakes naturally can't forget her good sisters, after sending them to the Taifu Mansion, the Eldest Princess's Mansion, and the Ankang Hou Mansion, in order to apologize, she sent two boxes to the Huang family.

Zhao Yun'an felt that there was a little sister who opened a dim sum shop, which was really a big advantage, she really hadn't eaten this kind of moon cake, she was the favorite of several people. After eating, I was shocked, I ate three pieces in one go, I didn't eat dinner, and immediately ordered eighty boxes of ham, twenty boxes of flowers, and thirty boxes of egg yolk lotus paste in Yufangzhai.

Approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets are selling moon cakes and buying moon cakes, and you can smell the aroma of moon cakes from afar, and you can find where the shop is if you look for the taste. Yufangzhai's business is booming, because I bought the recipe of a few dim sum shops next to it, people just quit, and there is this shop on the left and right streets, so the business is even more prosperous.

This lively and joyful scene lasts until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and August is the time to eat crabs, two crabs, a pot of chrysanthemum tea, half a moon cake, Yanming buckwheat can eat against the moon for a long time.

Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, when Yan Guogong was not in the mansion, the Shen family could still talk and laugh with the concubines, and they didn't need them to serve them, looking at Lerongrong, only Zhang Xinyuan couldn't eat nervously because of Yan Mingye's exam.

And the next three days will be the day of autumn. Zhang Xinyuan bowed to the Buddha statue in the house from morning to night, Yan Mingqiao had the experience of sending her brothers to take the exam, but she didn't feel too nervous, in other words, even if she was nervous, she couldn't help much, wouldn't it be in vain.

The preparations have already been prepared, and even the Bodhisattva has worshipped, just like Gu Mian said, what she can do has been done, so whether she can pass the test or not is Yan Mingye's own business.

Actually, when Gu Mian spoke reasonably, it made sense.

Zhang Xinyuan was nervous, but Yan Mingqiao was eating, drinking, eating crabs, steamed crabs, spicy crabs, and crab roe soup dumplings these days...... After eating a large pot of hot tea, it is called a pleasure. The fresh and sweet crab meat, delicious crab roe buns, enjoyable spicy crabs, and full of yellow are also delicious.

It wasn't until the maid said that crabs were cold, and even if they drank hot tea, they couldn't eat like this, so Yan Mingqiao stopped eating them.

She had a stomachache last time, and she really didn't dare to eat it.

Speaking of which, Yan Mingqiao can't remember what happened before he was five or six years old, and he didn't suffer when he went to the main courtyard later, even if he lost his teeth, he slowly fell out, and his stomach hurt for the first time.

Take care of your own body.

For them, three days have passed, and for Yan Mingye, these three days can be said to be like years. On the evening of August 18, Yan Mingye came back from the examination room and looked sloppy.

Yan Mingqiao looked at him, a little unrecognizable, it has only been a few months, Yan Mingye was not fat in the past, it can be said that he has a strong body, but now he has lost a lot of weight, and he looks more upright.

Zhang Xinyuan was so distressed that she couldn't do it, but she was distressed for a while, and said suspiciously: "You look much better now than before." ”

The eyebrows and eyes are more beautiful, looking thin is thin, but they are clear enough.

Zhang Xinyuan was happy again, "Hehe, it's better to read." ”

Yan Mingye: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm tired, and I will definitely make it up." ”

Zhang Xinyuan: "I just think it's so good-looking." ”

Shen looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "I also think this is good, refreshing and refreshing." Eat with the delicacies of the mountains and seas, nothing grows, and the light grows and weighs. ”

Yan Mingqiao followed: "The second brother came back, as if he had been reborn. ”

Shen smiled and said, "Okay, you can go back and freshen up, and then have a good rest." ”

The couple went back to their own yard, and after the exam a few years ago, Yan Ming was also lying in bed, not eating, and sleeping heavily. Now that I have a wife, I naturally talk to my wife, and wait until dinner and freshen up before going to sleep.

Otherwise, Zhang Xinyuan would not let him go to bed.

The next day, he went to Shen's side again, his temperament has not changed for so many years, and he still has something to say, "Mother, this time my son did well in the exam." ”

Zhang Xinyuan sneered: "Mother, don't take it to heart, he is also happy after the exam, and his tail is up to the sky for a while, and he doesn't know what to do." ”

She was disappointed and sad if she failed the exam at that time.

Yan Mingye smiled, "Lady, if I really can't pass the exam, I will tell my mother that I can't pass the exam, you should believe me." ”

Zhang Xinyuan couldn't help but smile, and Shen also smiled, "Okay, okay, you can pass the exam, this time you will have a few days off, take a good rest, and talk to your daughter-in-law." In the days when you are away, she works hard alone, and you should take care of it more. ”

"These are your business, you are the one who wants to be a father, don't leave it all to your subordinates." The Shen family doesn't like Yan Guogong like that, and he is even more afraid that his children will become like that. She worked hard to raise her children, so she thought that her daughter-in-law should not work so hard.