Lin Wanwan tasted several kinds of herbal medicine today. Her mouth was bitter and her heart was bitter. Studying medicine was really hard. She was in a bad mood. When she returned home, there was a dandy blocking the door. It was really unlucky.
"Get out of the way." Lin Wanwan said coldly.
He Wenyu came to his senses from his daze, hurriedly straightened his clothes, crossed his arms and said, "He Wenyu, I have met the young lady."
Lin Wanwan mentioned the horse stiffness angrily, rushed over and said: "Get out of the way!"
He Wenyu jumped aside quickly to avoid being stepped on by the horse, and then watched Lin Wanwan riding into the yard arrogantly. The slaves had already gathered around to help her lead the horse.
Although Lin Wanwan had a cloth covering her mouth and nose and was wearing men's clothing, her exposed eyes and head were enough to make him fascinated.
Even though Lin Wanwan just now was not as delicate and charming as a young lady, and was even a little rude, in He Wenyu's lustful heart, this delicate and savage person happened to be lively and lively, as if the unreachable Luo Shen descended into the mortal world and took over.
The atmosphere of the earth made him even more obsessed.
After laughing foolishly for a moment, He Wenyu grabbed the door of Xiao Mansion and asked: "Who is that young lady just now?"
Before the disciple could answer, He Guangqin, the drunken concubine of the second wife of the Xiao family, spoke in a male voice: "She...she is the cousin of the Lin family of a certain family."
"Cousin? Lin?" He Wenyu was about to ask a few more questions, but the other party was so drunk that he had no choice but to let people in first.
Ms. Lin has never heard of this, but since she can get married to the Xiao family, it shouldn't be a bad idea. I wonder if my father and mother can accept it.
This time, He Wenyu wanted to replace the original wife of the Xiao family's Qiliang room with the twins of the Xiao family. Even his grandparents who had always doted on him couldn't agree and only coaxed him. Now that he has been replaced by the Lin family, I'm afraid
It's even harder.
On the way back, He Wenyu was worried about gains and losses for a while. But it was impossible for him to give up Luo Shen, so he mentioned it to his mother as soon as he got home.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhu was much calmer this time. She was not as rude as when she heard He Wenyu say this for the first time, which made He Wenyu uncomfortable for a while.
After the Zhu family found out that they had mistaken the wrong person and that their hopeless son was in trouble, he had already taken the time to send someone to find out clearly. With the power of the He family in Qiantang, it was easy to find out about the Xiao Mansion.
Just before He Wenyu returned home, someone had reported all the information about Lin Wanwan to Mrs. Zhu.
So after He Wenyu finished talking about the matter excitedly, Mrs. Zhu said in an old voice: "Look at how flustered you are, you are just a girl from a poor family, she is worthy of your jumping up and down. Waiting for your marriage to the Xiao family's young lady to be arranged
Come on, mother will welcome Mrs. Lin in for you immediately."
He Wenyu was stunned for a moment when he heard this: "Ah...amniang, do you mean to take her as your concubine?"
Zhu said casually: "Yes, the betrothal gift is generous, and taking a noble concubine can be regarded as a compliment to her."
He Wenyu thought for a moment and asked: "What, is the Lin family in decline?"
Zhu sneered: "It doesn't matter whether we are in poverty or not. Nowadays, there are only farmers and fishermen in the countryside. You, you, you know a lot about the Jiangnan nobles. The future of the He family will all depend on you."
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He Wenyu only listened to the first half of the sentence. He was a little disappointed to learn that Luo Shen had such a humble background, but then he felt relieved. This was indeed much easier. He didn't have to make trouble with his family, and he could have his cake and eat it too.
With both a good wife and a beautiful concubine, life is a happy one!
"Then let Auntie Lao arrange it! Get the approval as soon as possible, and then my son will obediently go to Jinling to make a decision." He Wenyu bowed to Mr. Zhu with a playful smile.
Zhu said angrily: "Get out of my eyes quickly, I will get upset when I see you acting like a fool!"
"Don't be upset, grandma, my son will leave now." He Wenyu stepped back with a smile.
On the other side, Lin Wanwan brought Kunlun back to the house. Huanong came up to meet her, took the medicine box prepared by Kunlun, put it into the house and put it away.
Hongyan brought a hot water basin over and wiped Lin Wanwan's face and hands. After the maids were all busy, Lin Wanwan sat comfortably on the bed and said to Hongyan: "I got some grapes from my senior brother at the dock today. They are all packed in
In the cloth bag. Hongyan, go and give some to each room."
After Lin Wanwan finished speaking, she pointed to the cloth bag that Kunlun put on the floor after carrying it in. In fact, Lin Wanwan had eaten too many herbs and was thinking about the grape in her mouth.
"Grapes?" Hongyan was shocked, looking at the big bag and asked again in disbelief, "Is this bag all grapes from the Western Regions?"
"Mom! I want to eat grapes!" Xiao Qingyu raised her head from the toy and shouted.
"Well, Yun Shang goes and washes some." Lin Wanwan replied lazily. This life of having someone to work for was indeed too comfortable.
Mrs. Lu Xiao once got a bunch of this stuff, and she even held a grape banquet in her house, and everyone who attended got one to taste it.
Only Xiao Ronghua in the Xiao family attended the grape banquet with her brother who liked Xiao Lu's smelly feet the most, and each of them got one.
Grapes were still a rarity in the early Tang Dynasty. When Li Yuan hosted a banquet for his ministers, there were grapes on the table. Prime Minister Chen Shuda was reluctant to eat them and wanted to take them back to his mother who was thinking about grapes!
Think about it, even the prime minister can't get grapes, how rare this fruit is!
The shortage of grapes did not improve until Li Shimin sent troops to penetrate Gaochang and established Xizhou.
However, tribute alone was far from meeting the needs of the Tang market. Later, the Tang people began to vigorously transplant grapes. With the introduction and promotion of grape and wine brewing technology from the Western Regions, grapes and wine were no longer so out of reach for ordinary nobles.
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As for ordinary people? Don't even think about it. In the Tang Dynasty, ordinary wine and wine were luxuries enjoyed by the nobles.
At this time, it was only the fourth year of Zhenguan, and it was still basically a forbidden palace. It was beyond the reach of ordinary nobles. Only the top nobles might have some ways to get grapes.
The Xiao family in Nanlanling, where the Xiao Lu family is located, is naturally one of the top families, but Madam Wanwan... she actually carried back a cloth bag, which must have weighed at least two or three kilograms (one catty in the Tang Dynasty was sixteen taels)!
Where did her senior brother come from?!
Compared to Hongyan's shock, Kunlun, Huanong and Yunshang in the room were much calmer. Just grapes, how many boxes were packed in a ship of new year's goods that came back from Qiongzhou before the Chinese New Year (actually Lin Wanwan was there)
Luan County traveled through time and space and bought it from modern times, and then casually said it was brought on board), and gave some to the elderly and children in the family during the Chinese New Year.
Yun Shang had already picked out a bunch of large, brightly colored grapes and washed them.