On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, after breakfast, Jiang Yuqing took a coachman and a half-carriage gift to Xiushuiwan to visit his grandfather and grandmother.

Lu Lao Xiucai and Guo heard that their granddaughter was back, and they ran fast, and the two grandsons were afraid that the old lady would fall, so they hurriedly trotted up to help them.

When the old lady saw her granddaughter hugging her, tears came down: "You ruthless girl, you will be gone for several years, and you won't come back to see us." ”

Jiang Yuqing hugged the old lady and said, "It's my fault, I miss you too." ”

Let go of the old lady, Jiang Yuqing met with his grandfather and two cousins and sisters-in-law.

After a few pleasantries, they went into the house to talk.

Uncle Lu has just been transferred to a county in Chenzhou this year.

Because he only has a reputation for fame, he can only stop at the county order in his career. Fortunately, he is a contented person, and he will not think about something that he has or does not have.

He only used his energy in his own work, worked diligently, and did a good job as a county magistrate, so he was loved by the people everywhere.

In addition, there is a powerful brother-in-law as the backstage, even if there are a few people who don't like him, no one dares to pull him off the stage.

Therefore, the position of the county commander also sits safely.

Both sons are married.

The eldest cousin, Lu Huai, was admitted to the Juren exam last year, and now he is teaching students and reading at the same time in the school at home. I plan to study hard for two years before going to Beijing for reference.

Married to the daughter of the county school and politics, the couple now has a son, who is two years old this year.

Second cousin Lu Jin failed in the examination last year, and like his brother, he also plans to continue to refer to it in the next session. His wife is also pregnant.

Jiang Yuqing distributed the gifts he prepared one by one.

Guo Shi saw that she had brought so many gifts that were very expensive at first glance, and couldn't help but reprimand her: "Grandma is very happy that you can come to see us two old people."

And with so many gifts, spend some money in vain. But you will be thirteen or fourteen after the New Year, you are a big girl, and it is time to save some dowry for yourself. ”

Jiang Yuqing patted his chest with a smile and said, "Don't worry, rest assured, your granddaughter is not bad for money."

You just have to hold it, don't worry about me. Besides, with my identity, no matter who I marry in the future, he will have to provide for me! ”

The old lady was happy when she heard it: "Don't say it, it's such a reason!" ”

Jiang Yuqing had lunch at his grandfather's house, and in the afternoon he visited the newly renovated school.

Because of the successive departures from the Lu family's school, the Lu family's school is famous in the entire Qingzhou, and the number of students who come to study is increasing year by year.

Because of the large number of people, Lu Laoxiu had to expand the area of the school, and invited several gentlemen with excellent character and learning and open-mindedness to teach in the school.

But no matter how the school changes, his teaching philosophy has never changed, so he is respected by the students.

Because Xiushui Bend is not far from home, in order to accompany the two old people more, Jiang Yuqing had dinner at Lu's house before going home.

On the twenty-fifth of the next day, the family made rice cakes and glutinous cakes.

Jiang Yuqing has not experienced this kind of excitement for many years, happily shuttling in front of every stage, pinching here, playing there, or talking to uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters-in-law who came to help.

In the years when she was not at home, there were many more sisters-in-law in the family, and she didn't know any of them.

But she has a good temperament, and she has no shelf, and her family lets her call people people, without any ambiguity.

made the sisters-in-law, who were a little stunned when they faced her, really let go of a lot of hearts.

Twenty-six to make fruit, twenty-seven eight to kill pigs and chickens and ducks.

On the thirtieth day of worshipping the ancestors, in the inner ancestral hall, kneeling was full of black pressed human heads, and she was the only girl. And, at the top of the list.

When she put her holy decree of canonizing the "Lord of the Protector of the Country" on the offering table, the flame of the candle on the offering table suddenly "poofed" and soared up a lot.

The entire ancestral hall was filled with the sound of gasping! There is humanity, it must be the old patriarch who is happy again.

The old patriarch traveled west with a crane two years ago, and when he heard that he left, he walked with a smile, no illness and no pain. His old man's spiritual seat was also placed here.

The old man has worked hard for the prosperity of the family all his life, and Jiang Yuqing is also willing to add a piece of mourning to him and all his ancestors within the scope of his ability.

In the New Year, except for going to his grandfather's house for one night, Jiang Yuqing didn't go anywhere. Just stay at home and chat with the elderly, or go for a walk in the village.

Or talk to the third brother Jiang Yuhu about business experience.

It's not that she knows how to do business, it's just that the world in which she lived in her previous life is too advanced in science and technology, and even a very small opinion or suggestion is a new business opportunity and vision for Jiang Yuhu.

For example, last spring, she flew a pigeon to pass on the barbecue recipe and seasoning recipe to Jiang Yuhu.

After he found someone to try, he opened seventeen Tai'an barbecue restaurants in just half a year, almost all over the entire Lingzhou Mansion, and absorbed nearly a hundred retired veterans.

In the autumn and winter, Jiang Yuqing was afraid that the business of the barbecue restaurant would be affected, so he passed him a hot pot recipe, so Tai'an barbecue became popular in the city again, and it was really a daily profit.

At the end of last year, when the settlement was settled, the 17 stores made a net profit of 190,000 taels of silver after removing all the costs.

Nowadays, skewers in summer and hot pot in winter have become a popular fashion and a new symbol of food culture. So, in the new year, you will definitely earn more.

He plans to spread the stall to the next state capital this year, and plans to open "Tai'an" all over the seven southern prefectures within three years, and then make further plans.

I have to say that her third brother is really ambitious and intelligent.

So, Jiang Yuqing told him about the business model of modern supermarkets.

Jiang Yuhu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he took his sister to discuss it for a whole afternoon, and also wrote notes for the afternoon.

If it weren't for the fact that her mother couldn't stand it and drove people away with a stick, I was afraid that he would pull his sister and continue to talk.

When Jiang Yuqing was telling Jiang Yuhu about the business model of the supermarket, he suddenly thought of another good idea. For example, the publication of newspapers.

Don't look at the cheapness of this thing, but it can't stand the large quantity.

Although there are not many people who read and write in the whole Great Xia, there are many of them, and they can definitely afford them.

The content of the newspaper can be to publish current affairs, some gossip news, or serialize stories, or ask some influential Confucians to write some targeted articles on current affairs.

You can also place advertisements or various notices of missing people and objects, etc.

However, in the context of this era, if you accidentally send something sensitive, it is easy to make trouble.

Jiang Yuqing thought about it again and again, but still felt that it was good to give this idea to his father and have the court to operate it.

After all, such a lucrative thing, how can a household who is so poor that he is about to be a pants be let go?

On the eighth day of the next day, after getting up and washing, she ate a bowl of her favorite sour beans and rice noodles, and then went to the vegetable field behind her and poured it all over the ground with spiritual rain, and by the way, she picked a blue of ripe melons and vegetables.

Because the second aunt said that there are guests visiting today. What kind of guest it is, Jiang Yuqing didn't ask, it shouldn't be a weighty guest.

In this Qingzhou area, except for her closest relatives, no one can afford to let her receive her in person.

Taking the dishes back to the kitchen door, Jiang Yuqing found a vegetable from the house, took a small bench and sat at the kitchen door, not only picking vegetables slowly.

Cooking rice, a difficult job in the field of art, has completely given up.

Instead of going into the kitchen to interfere with other people's work, it is better to find something she is willing to do, at least she still does a good job of choosing vegetables.

Bai Xiaoshi lay next to her, lazily flicking his tail. The sun is so good, so comfortable, it's a tyrannical thing not to sleep with, and Benlu is simply too loving.

At this time, a little maid came from the front yard and said that her master, Doctor Qiu, had invited her to go. Jiang Yuqing let go of the unfinished dishes in his hand and went to the front yard.

It turned out that the old man was just bored, and when he saw that the weather was just right, he wanted to go up the mountain to collect medicine, and asked Jiang Yuqing if he would like to follow.

Jiang Yuqing thought about it, and he didn't seem to have any big deals, so he nodded.

When the old man Jiang heard that the old guy had turned his precious granddaughter up the mountain again, he was immediately unhappy, and immediately said that he wanted to go with them.

And Lao Hu was afraid that these two old guys would be old and would have to tire her granddaughter if they couldn't carry the basket, so they took Jiang Yushan, who was studying in the room, out and let him be responsible for carrying the basket as a coolie.

In this way, the group up the mountain went from two to four.

In the past, when he was still at home, Jiang Yuqing also followed Doctor Qiu to the mountain to collect medicines, so both the master and apprentice knew how many medicinal materials there were in which mountain.

I went to the mountain I had been to again, and I didn't find a few good medicinal herbs for a long time, and then I realized that the good medicine had been dug up by outsiders over the years.

So the master and apprentice planned to shift their positions and go to a few low hills farther away.

was stopped by the old man Jiang and said, "That tea bag ridge is hard to go to now!"

Two years ago, a big snake came, and I heard that its body was as thick as a bucket and five or six zhang long.

The two medicine pockets in Tongluoping next door didn't know that one was swallowed by a snake when they went up the mountain, and one was scared crazy.

The crazy one, now when he sees the well rope, he will be so frightened that he hides under the bed.

In the past two years, the serpent has sometimes come down from the mountain to eat sheep and other livestock. Several villages close to Chabaoling are very scared. ”

Jiang Yuqing frowned when he heard this: "In winter, the snakes are hibernating, it should be fine!" Moreover, didn't you organize people to fight snakes? ”

Old man Jiang said, "Why didn't you go." This matter was reported to the county government, and the county commander sent people to look for it several times, but found nothing.

But the strange thing is that every time the snake team goes down the mountain, the snake comes out again to harm the village, and it has become a pest in our Qingzhou. ”

When the master and apprentice heard this, they didn't insist anymore.

Jiang Yuqing plans to find another opportunity to go to that mountain after he goes back, but it is not easy to take his master, grandfather and brother at the moment.

Even if there is no good medicine, the master and apprentice no longer insist on it, so they just go out to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and a few people are talking while walking, and before they know it, they have gone a little far.

Seeing that it was noon, several people found their way down the mountain nearby. Walking home from here is a real way to save a lot of effort.

Passing by a natural spring well next to a small village, the four stopped to drink some water and rest their feet.

An old man who was washing hoes downstream recognized Old Man Jiang and shouted in surprise: "Hey, third child!" ”

Old man Jiang looked up and was happy: "Old rookie, why are you?" "It turned out that when this old man was young, he had let go of the platoon with Old Man Jiang, and he could be regarded as brothers who had experienced life and death together.

The old man said, "What are you doing here?" Do you go up the mountain to dig medicine? ”

Old man Jiang said happily: "It's okay to be idle, come out and take a walk." ”

The old man said: "It's good to walk around, keep it at home and don't move, it's easy to rust." By the way, did you eat lunch? ”

Old man Jiang said: "No, I'm planning to go home!" ”

The old man said, "Don't go back, go, go to my house." I've already cooked a meal at home, so let's eat some together!"

Old man Jiang said: "Forget it, your family's food is counted." There are so many of us going, and you still can't drink the northwest wind at home? ”

The old man said, "What kind of northwest wind to drink?" It's not that I didn't have enough to eat in the early years, but now the family has enough food and meat.

We haven't seen each other for a long time, so we just happened to have a drink with this old brother. ”

The old man is old, and his strength is not small, so he forced the old man Jiang to go to his house, Jiang Yuqing and the others glanced at each other, and had to follow helplessly.

When he arrived at the old man's house, it was exactly as he said. The table was full of white rice, and there was a meat dish.

When his daughter-in-law saw the guests coming, she temporarily prepared two meat dishes and brought them to the table.

was busy and happy, and suddenly there was a rapid gong sound outside: "Come on, fight snakes!" The big snake in Chabaoling came down the mountain again, dragging away the little girl of the Sun family, hurry up and come——"