After Li Yuan learned that Chen Miaomiao was not in Chen's mansion, but went out to the temple to pray for her mother, she offered to leave.

"Sister Su, then I'll go back first. Cai Wei will stay in your mansion first, and I will pick her up the night after tomorrow. Tomorrow, Chen Gongzi will probably come to pick you up. ”

"Okay, then we'll see you tomorrow!"

At this time, it was the beginning of the year, and Cai Wei and Qing Sha were resting in Su Mingshan's boudoir.

After she finished saying this, Qingmei on the side went into the room and hugged Qingsha out.

She handed the child to Li Yuan, hesitated for a while, and followed Li Yuan towards the stable.

When Li Yuan got into the Su family's carriage, she didn't leave, but asked the coachman to go to the concierge to drink a cup of hot tea first, and then climbed up.

At that time, there were only three of them in the stable, Qingmei glanced at Qingsha, who was asleep again, and said to Li Yuan: "Yuanniang, you look seven points similar to Ya'er, even if you are older now, it can be seen that it is caused by the years." I'll go to your place tomorrow and put on your makeup, right? We need to avoid unnecessary trouble. ”

Li Yuan reached out and touched her face, and then looked at her aunt with a worried face, and then thought of what she was going to do, so she responded: "Okay, then tomorrow will trouble my aunt!" ”

Qingmei saw her appreciation, and her heart was warm: "Then I'll go over tomorrow after lunch, and then you go to Qianfu, and Sasha I'll take it back to Sufu." ”

"Good!"

When Li Yuan returned to Xie's house in the east of the city, Xie Yanzhi had not yet returned.

She saw that Qingsha had woken up, so she asked the little girl to help light the fire and start cooking by herself.

Qingsha saw that she was chopping meat filling, and her eyes suddenly lit up: "Mother, eat meatballs!" ”

"Okay, mother, I'm going to make cabbage meatball soup at night. If you want to eat, when your mother fried vegetarian meatballs for a while, I will fry a few meatballs for you. ”

Xiao Qingsha nodded wildly: "Mmmm, leave it for my sister too!" ”

"Good!"

Before the Chinese New Year, Xie Yanzhi bought a lot of meat, which could stand up to this day, except for some marinated by Li Yuan a year ago, the rest were put in a basket and hung under the eaves.

At this time, she took all the meat, half chopped the filling, and prepared half to braised it.

After the fat and thin meat, eggs, starch, salt, chicken essence and dark soy sauce are added, and the meatballs are pinched out to make the soup tender and delicious.

Li Yuan made the braised pork first, because there was a lot of meat, she directly divided it into two plates.

She intended to use one plate for the evening, and the rest for outsiders to see, so she planned to put it in a basket and hang it under the eaves when the time came.

When the braised pork was simmering in another pot, Li Yuan also set out to make vegetarian meatballs.

The so-called vegetarian balls are radish balls and pumpkin balls.

This fried thing is rare to do once, and Li Yuan can do it vigorously.

By the time the braised pork could come out of the pan, she had already fried quite a bit.

After Xiao Qingsha lowered her head and ate the two meatballs in the bowl that were specially fried for her, she directly collected half of the vegetarian meatballs into the space.

The time spent cooking in the kitchen passed exceptionally fast.

It didn't seem to be long before it was getting dark outside.

Li Yuan had already prepared the meal, but Xie Yanzhi still hadn't come back.

Just when she fed Qingsha and asked her to play tangram in the room obediently, and was about to go out with Li Laohan to find someone, she saw Meng Peng and Chen Hao coming back from outside.

Meng Peng saw that she and Li Laohan were dressed very thickly, and they looked anxious and wanted to go out, so he asked, "Brother and sister are dressed like this, are they going to find Shao'an?" ”

"That's right! If this is in Liuyun County, I wouldn't be worried. But this is the city of Fu, and he went out today to ......"

When Shao An returned to dinner at noon, he said that he would come back later in the evening, so that he didn't have to wait for him to eat. Afraid that something would be wrong with him outside, I also asked Chen Xing to join him. ”

Li Yuan heard Xie Yanzhi say that Chen Xing had fist and foot kung fu, and when he heard that this was the case, he put his high heart back.

"That's it, that's good! By the way, Brother Meng and Chen Gongzi haven't eaten yet, right? I'm done, let's eat first! ”

As she spoke, she looked at Li Laohan: "Uncle, you ask Xiaotai not to cook first, I have done a lot today, you can come over and go back later." ”

Li Laohan was very content, the master had few family affairs, and he also respected their ancestors and grandchildren, so after he thanked him, he automatically avoided it.

Xie Yanzhi is not there, in line with the principle of avoiding people in this era, Li Yuan is not good at eating at the same table with Meng Peng and them.

So she brought the food to the table and went back to the kitchen to eat her own food.

When she came out again, she saw that Meng Peng and Chen Hao had already finished eating.

At that time, one of the two men was carrying water, and the other was washing dishes.

It was Chen Hao who carried the water, and when he saw that the water in the kitchen tank had been used up almost completely, he automatically went to the yard to fetch water.

It was Meng Peng who was washing the dishes, he heard Li Yuan's footsteps, turned back to her and said, "Brother and sister have worked hard all day, give me this bowl of chopsticks." You cook for us, and I should wash the dishes for you. ”

Li Yuan, who originally wanted to say no, silently handed over the dishes when she heard the words.

*

This night, Li Yuan couldn't wait for Xie Yanzhi when he waited for Hai, and then fell asleep in a daze.

When I woke up, it was the next morning.

She put on her clothes, folded the quilt for Qingsha, and then went out.

I was going to go to see Xie Yanzhi who didn't come back, but I happened to run into two people who came back from outside.

Xie Yanzhi: "......"

Originally, he still wanted to go back to his room to sleep, but even if Yuanniang woke up after that, he only came back late at night, so he woke up late!

"Brother Xie, do you think I should tell you good morning or good evening?"

After Li Yuan said this, he saw the tiredness in his eyes, and said distressedly: "Okay, go wash up, I'll go and steam some steamed buns and dumplings immediately, and make a bowl of egg soup by the way." You go to bed after eating, what's the matter, wait until you wake up! ”

Xie Yanzhi was relieved to see that she was not angry, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Don't worry, Yuanniang, I'm fine, and things are going well." ”

He finished his words and looked at Chen Xing: "Don't rush back to sleep first, and then sleep when you are full." ”

"Good!"

After Li Yuan steamed the steamed dumplings and cooked a large pot of egg soup, Meng Peng and Chen Hao didn't know when they had come over.

Li Yuan entered the hall with something, and saw the two of them surrounding Xie Yanzhi, and there was a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the dining table, and he was painting something at this time.

"Brother Xie, it's time to eat."

Xie Yanzhi sketched out the remaining terrain of the Qian Mansion and handed it to Meng Peng.

"Brother Ziran, you and Chen Gongzi will take a look first. If there's anything you don't understand, wait until I'm full and wake up. ”

"Good!"

Xie Yanzhi drew the topographical map of the Qian Mansion very carefully. Before returning at night, he was looking for a relationship to disguise himself and enter the Qian Mansion.

Although the Qian Mansion is strictly managed, it will relax a lot at night.

Even if there are patrols everywhere in the house, with Chen Xing's help, and one of the people who is bribed is a member of the patrol team, he can avoid it perfectly every time.

He didn't sleep all night, he was groping for the layout of the Qian Mansion, and secretly probing the location of several warehouses and account rooms.