Unexpectedly, on the second day, the two chickens and ducks who ate the first piece of tofu died, and after they were shoeed, the eating cells were black and swollen, obviously poisoned. The duck didn't die, but it was also sluggish.

Qin Yu guessed that it should be that the dead chicken ate most of it, and the duck ate less, so it was only slightly poisoned and did not die.

Eat the second, third, fourth... After that, the livestock of tofu were all alive and vibrant, and they were very energetic.

Aunt Qin called all the slaves in the house, put the dead chicken and the mentally depressed duck in the middle, and told everyone with a serious face that the tofu directly ordered with salt brine was poisonous, and everyone was forbidden to order tofu directly with salt and brone.

In fact, this ban is seriously biased, and it is not so terrible to order tofu directly with salt brone, the biggest possibility is that Qin Yu did not grasp the dosage yesterday, and put too much, which will cause the salt brine in the tofu to exceed the standard, and the chicken will eat too much, which will lead to sudden death.

However, the people of the time were ignorant, many nobles, and even many sages, thought that the people at the bottom did not understand the reason, and if you had any policies to implement, just order them to do it, and there was no need to talk about why they did it or what the benefits of doing it were.

Mother Qin is the same. When she needed to build the Qin family's good reputation externally, her approach was to distribute the Qin family's wealth to the outside world without asking for anything in return. In Qin Yu's view, it is actually a condescending charity. But the neighbors especially ate her set, because it was from top to bottom, there was no need to wonder if Aunt Qin had ulterior motives, and whether they wanted to pay any price to repay her: a reward is a reward, it is the kindness of a nobleman, what do you want to do so much?

Aunt Qin is like this to the neighbors, and she is more direct to the slaves in the family, just do what she is ordered, beyond the order, this slave may not end up too well, because Qin Yu has not found out that his slaves are disobedient, so he can only preliminarily guess that the disobedient slave will not be too good.

In short, after listening to Aunt Qin's words, the servants in the family all responded with a serious face: "Only! ”

Seeing that everyone listened, Aunt Qin instructed Mandarin Yuan again: "You take someone to grind all the beans soaked last night, make tofu with the sour pulp stored yesterday, and make a few more dishes with different tricks, and see how to make the most delicious." Let everyone taste it. ”

Yesterday, I ordered the brine of tofu, because it tasted sour and yellow slurry, so the mandarin women gave the brine a sour name.

When she heard Aunt Qin's instructions, she knew that she was busy today, she soaked more than a dozen catties of dried beans last night, and after soaking for one night, it had already become dozens of catties, so she ordered a few strong men, and asked Aunt Qin to allow them to help her grind beans, carry jars, and the clay pots used daily are too small, and she has to apply to the warehouse to receive Dading for cooking soybean milk.

Aunt Qin agreed to come down.

After using the morning food, Aunt Qin and Mother Qin invited the queen to come over and discuss the matter of Naji and Najib.

The wedding etiquette is cumbersome, Qin Yu saw that there was nothing for him here, so he wanted to continue to go to the West Market, after all, he only went for half a day yesterday, and the West Market was very big, and there were many places he hadn't been to.

But he stopped him.

Qin Yu couldn't get close to this old man with gray hair and beard and several lost teeth, and he always felt that he looked at their brothers, sisters and brothers with pickiness and scrutiny, and even once, he saw him look at Qin Chuan with disdain and contempt.

Since then, Qin Yu has not been cold to him.

What are you dragging on, isn't it just serving Qin Gongzi? For these juniors, they are just relying on the old and selling the old.

However, I didn't think so in my heart, after all, he was an old man, Qin Yu still stopped very politely based on the upbringing of respecting the old and loving the young, with a smiling face, and asked: "Can the old gentleman teach me?" ”

As soon as his old gentleman came out, even Aunt Qin couldn't help but look sideways.

The action of brushing the beard is obvious. He is old, his legs and feet are not dexterous, in addition to cultivating his son and grandson, he has long been out of the council, and the rights of the main family can be let go, he has been worried about the three generations of the Qin family for a lifetime, and when it comes to the fourth generation, he doesn't want to continue to worry about it.

If it weren't for Qin Chuan being the current and future head of the Qin family, and Aunt Qin wanted him to go out of the mountain to preside over the major event of his bride marrying, he wouldn't even want to see a few children of this generation.

Therefore, for this young son of the main family, except for indispensable occasions such as New Year's festivals, he did not see much, and he didn't even say a few words.

Hou/Confined has a very high status in the Qin family.

Although he was a slave, he was educated and trained in the Shaofu and Zongzheng of the Qin State when he was a teenager, and then he was assigned to serve the son Ji Chang, although the son Ji Chang went within a few years, and the Qin family even changed the clan, but he still followed him to Liyang.

In Liyang, his status rose, and he once became the tongue of the Qin family to the outside and the inside, and he could almost take half of the Qin family's big and small affairs. After Qin Yu's father went to the battlefield, he was even more in charge of his front and back, Qin's father's military exploits, armor and weapons and other affairs were all in Zhang Luo, and even Qin's mother was in charge of marrying home.

Therefore, in normal times, even Qin's mother regarded herself as a junior in front of him, not to mention Qin Chuan's older children, and in front of him, she didn't even dare to speak.

Although Hou / Yu considers himself a slave, but in fact, he is in this family, he feels that his status is very high, and his words are also very weighty, he does not dare to compare with Qin's mother, but if he says the last sentence, Qin's mother will also have to listen.

But now he found out that Qin Yu, the youngest child of the Qin family, was excepted.

Although Qin Yu was only six years old, he was polite and polite, but he was not afraid of him.

He is still small and can look at him at eye level as he is sitting on the ground, but he feels like he is being looked down on.

The boy called Mr. in his mouth, but he just felt that this boy didn't like him as an old servant.

I don't like it very much!

His eyes are clear, and when he looks directly into other people's eyes, there is a kind of strength in it, you stop him, if you can't say that he is ugly, these eyes will give you a sentence:

You can't do that!

Inexplicably, he thought of a word: Lord Shaoguo is suspicious!

It's ridiculous!

Hou quickly drove this absurd idea out of his mind, but he leaned forward unconsciously, his attitude was modest, and the words he said were respectful and persuasive, and said: "Zongzi marries a wife, follows the ancient etiquette, the opportunity is rare, why don't you stay and wait with me?" ”

It means that he wants Qin Yu to stay and learn wedding etiquette. Persuading a person to learn etiquette is a very important performance, and it is also an affirmation and appreciation of a person.

This old man's posture of a loyal old servant is indeed a good heart.

But Qin Yu didn't appreciate it.

He stood straight, his eyes level, his body relaxed, and he was full of possiveness. He first nodded his head to express his acceptance of his words, but he refused: "Chuan is the son of the sect, and he is the bride, not only to tour the ancient ceremony, but also to listen to the admonition of the gentleman, so as to ensure the continuation of the family, my child is ignorant, so I will not join in this fun." ”

Bah! You old horseman, let your serious little master not teach, but stopped him, a little child, grinding his teeth, do you think I will lead you?

After that, he winked mischievously at Aunt Qin and Mother Qin, and jumped out to play.

After leaving a stammering mouth, he violently tore off a handful of beard.

"Hiss......"

Mother Qin was shocked by her youngest son's unkindness, but Aunt Qin covered her smile and said to the queen: "This is the first time to talk to my little grandson, right?" ”

Later/Confined to the old age, he naturally covered up the embarrassment of being scolded, and sighed: "Yes, I only saw him well-behaved and fine from a distance in the past, but I didn't expect him to be such a lively character." ”

Qin's mother spoke for her son: "The fish is very filial, friendly and fraternal, and smart and clever. ”

Being well-behaved and fine is equal to being weak, and saying that Qin Yu is lively is actually saying that he is stubborn.

Qin's mother was a little annoyed by the evaluation she gave to her son.

Hou/Yu was noncommittal to her words, and only nodded: "It is very clever, since it is smart, it is even more important to teach it early, and it is useless to blindly connive with him." ”

Mother Qin smiled: "Aunt has already arranged it, and the fish loves to learn very much." "On weekdays, Qin's mother is always called Qin's aunt, and in front of the queen, she changed her habits and officially called her aunt.

It's just that there is a rare strength in the gentle tone.

Qin's mother's family has been a commoner for generations, and a big reason why she was able to marry Qin's father back then was that she gave birth to a good look. But in the eyes of the queen, she is not qualified to be the wife of Qin's father, she has no family, no power, no talent and no virtue, she only has a bad look, at most she will be a concubine. Therefore, although Qin's mother married into a housewife, she did not have much respect for her.

But this time, Hou finally turned his head to face Qin's mother.

Mother Qin still sat with a docile face. With a smile on her lips, she bowed her head slightly, her shoulders were flat, her hands were crossed on her knees, and the loose deep sleeves covered her palms, only a few fingers were faintly exposed. On the exposed fingers, the nails are well-trimmed and shiny, and it is not at all obvious that this is the finger of a woman who is about to be an aunt.

When he looked at him, she was not afraid to move, like a pine and cypress, like a mountain, gentle and firm, looking at him as before.

No, it's still different.

She has been married for sixteen years.

In the past 16 years, she served her aunt, raised children, was in charge of the family, her servants were respectful, and her children were filial.

Time has given her strength, time has given her wisdom.

This woman is no longer afraid of him.

It is impossible to say that Qin's mother is not afraid of the queen at all, this old man has been hanging in front of her like a mountain for ten years, so that she can't climb over, let alone resist.

But motherhood is stronger.

In the past, she could accept that this old servant would not take herself in her eyes, but if this old puppet dared to say anything bad about Qin Yu, she would dare not show mercy to him anymore.

Aunt Qin looked at the old servant, and then at the son-in-law, she couldn't cry or laugh. Qin Yu, this kid, finished his mouth cannon by himself, patted his ass and left, but he left them with such a mess that was not embarrassing or embarrassing.

Mother Qin decided to ignore it.

She said: "Nacai has been completed, the next thing is to find a good day to ask for a name, and ask for a name and Najib can do it together, which can save a lot of time, what do you think?" Limit? ”

Later/Yu glanced at Qin's mother steadily, and he didn't know if he had accepted her determination as a mother, but he just withdrew his gaze and returned to Qin's mother: "Only." ”

Aunt Qin said with a smile: "No, when the time comes, I still have to ask you to come forward more." ”

After all, he came out of Xianyang Palace, and he was a retainer for others, and this is what he learned, and he was duty-bound.

After/confined helplessly: "Only." Master, don't laugh at the old slave. ”

Didn't I see your little grandson already dissatisfied with the old man?

Mother Qin laughed.