In the early morning, the sound of horses braying broke the tranquility in the yard.
inside the house
Qin An sat up and put on his clothes, turned to look at his wife who woke up next to him, "Sleep for a while, and I'll call you when the meal is ready."
"No, there are a lot of things to do today. There are a lot of fish in the fish pond. I plan to smoke fish. My husband, you come back at a bad time. You have to work as soon as you come back."
Su Yan stood up and went to the cupboard to get some coarse clothes. She was stuck in a fish trap, so naturally she couldn't put on her clothes properly.
Thinking of this, she wrapped a cloth handkerchief around her head, so that she wouldn't be afraid of fish scales flying on her head when she killed the fish.
Although my hair dries quickly after washing on this day, it takes a lot of effort to wash it on my hair.
Qin An bent down to fold the quilt and said in a low voice: "It's just the right time, otherwise you would be tired and have back pain."
Tuantuan must have been woken up, crying one after another. Qin An quickly walked out after laying down the bed, and it didn't take long for Tuantuan to stop crying.
Knowing that something was going on today, Dongzi woke up and got busy without Su Yan saying anything.
If Su Yan was too lazy to make breakfast normally, she would just go out and buy some. Now that her family has finally come back to stay for a few days, she will naturally have to improve the food.
"Xiao Xiu, go out and buy some fresh pork and come back. I'll make some dumplings to eat."
"Mr. Tuan Tuan, if you stop crying, you can come over and knead the dough, saving me a long time of kneading."
"Here we come." Qin An handed the child to Cuilan and followed him into the kitchen.
There are many people in the family, so even making dumplings to eat doesn’t take much time.
While eating, Dongzi couldn't help but praise, "Madam's cooking is so good."
Su Yan smiled and said, "Eat more if you like."
As a speaker, she shared the dumplings in the bowl with Qin An, and whispered: "Mr. Sir, help me eat a few, as if I'm not hungry. Eat a few and you'll be full."
Qin An looked at her, slightly worried, "Can't eat again?"
"No, maybe I ate too much last night."
As soon as Su Yan finished speaking, there was a shout from outside the door: "Master, are you up?"
"Woke up."
Su Yan quickly stood up and opened the door. Zhou Pingsheng came with the fish and said, "Put it in the yard."
"Uncle Zhou, are you busy today? If not, come and help me for a day. In addition to the wages, it's two hundred coins."
She was usually generous, so Zhou Pingsheng would definitely not ask for her money. Besides, it was only natural for her to ask him to work, and she had already paid him.
"I'm not busy. I've already paid my salary, but I don't want it."
Su Yan didn't say anything more to him. She just gave him the money and said, "Let's eat first after moving in. Xiaoxiu, scoop up a bowl of dumplings for Uncle Zhou."
"What a shame, eating and drinking at the same time." Zhou Pingsheng waved his hand quickly.
At this time, Qin An strode out, then bent down to lift the big wooden barrel, and steadily entered the yard.
Zhou Pingsheng sighed: "My boss is really strong."
"I'm used to farm work before. Come in, Uncle Zhou, eat and start working."
After Su Yan said this, he was too embarrassed to say anything else.
Pickled fish are hanging in the yard, and the spicy fish smell permeates the whole yard. People passing by poke their heads in and look at it again and again.
There were probably a lot of people, and the one hundred catties of fish were all finished in less than a morning, so I asked him to bring another hundred catties over.
This work lasted until noon. Fortunately, I had eaten dumplings in the morning, so I wasn't very hungry yet.
The group of people had been tired all morning. Su Yan's arms were sore and she didn't want to cook at the moment, so she asked the food shop to deliver food.
After dinner, Tuantuan was clamoring to fall asleep. At this time, he asked Su Yan to hold him and coax him. Qin An didn't let him go and carried him out. After a while, he came back holding him.
Tuantuan has fallen asleep.
Su Yan whispered: "Leave it in our room. It should be quiet there. I'll take Erdan to the private school and be back later."
After saying that, she waved to Erdan and led him out of the yard.
Zhang Xiu and the others are capable of doing these things, but they are just afraid that Erdan will be too worried. Children are already sensitive.
Sun Erdan was very well-behaved. Other children of this age would always run around when walking, but he kept an eye on the people around him, for fear of bumping into Su Yan.
"Mom, do you want to eat candied haws on a stick? I'll buy it for you. I've saved a lot of money."
Every few days, his mother would give him some money and let him buy food or whatever he wanted to buy.
He lacked nothing, so he saved it.
"Eat." Su Yan said.
Erdan happily called out to the uncle selling candied haws on a stick and counted five cents before taking the candied haws and handed it to Su Yan.
Su Yan fed it to his mouth, "Help mother eat some."
Erdan opened his mouth and bit down one, and out of the corner of his eye he saw her eating it too, smiling with her eyes slitted.
After sending Erdan to the private school, she went home directly. At this moment, Qin An was washing the dustpan used in the yard.
After being dipped in fish, the smell will be strong, so you need to wash it carefully with soap locust.
The grown man is a bit clumsy in doing these small tasks.
"Soak there, I'll wash it later."
Qin An looked up at her with soft eyebrows. Su Yan came over and fed him candied haws, "Erdan bought them."
Qin An opened his mouth and bit it down, chewed it twice and then swallowed it, "Go to the house and take a nap."
"You're not sleepy. Taking advantage of the nice weather, I'll make some food for you to take to the capital to eat."
After Su Yan finished eating the last candied haws, she lifted the vegetable basket beside the threshold, took out the vegetables and sat next to him to wash them.
Wash and dry on the rope.
It's probably because the hemp rope was dried in the sun and became a little hard, so it was accidentally pricked.
She quickly took her hand back and looked down to see if anything had gone in.
Qin An naturally noticed it, put down what he was doing, and came over, "Did you get stabbed?"
He reached out and took her hand, looked closely, and saw that there were obvious short thorns. He stretched out his hand to pull it out with his fingers, but he couldn't get it out after a long time of pulling.
Soon he went to the room to get the needle, carefully picked it out, then lowered his head and sucked it with his mouth.
After finishing, he looked up and saw his wife looking at him with a smile. He smiled and said in a low voice: "Daughter-in-law, let's go back to the house and take a nap."
Of course Su Yan knew what he was thinking, and said angrily: "Just rest, there are still a lot of things you haven't finished before going to the capital."
Qin An inserted the needle into the thread ball again, "No need to prepare, it will easily break if you wear it too much."
At this time, the sound of horse hoofbeats was heard outside, and the two of them looked over. Ning Yi got off the carriage, and Su Yan knew that he was here to recruit a cook for the imperial kitchen.
"You go sit down in the main room and I'll get the recipe."
She entered the room very gently and quickly came out with the recipe.
Ning Yi glanced around. There were fish and vegetables hanging in the yard. The Qin family had done a lot of business and was considered a wealthy family in the county.
But every time I come here, it always looks like an ordinary home.
“What are fish used for?”
"Sell them in winter."
Su Yan handed him the recipe and said: "These dishes are not available in Beijing. I don't know what your taste is. These dishes can be sweet, spicy or light. I'll let the cook adapt accordingly."
"Have you chosen a cook? I suggest it be someone your Ning family can trust."
If the food is cooked to taste and the emperor rewards it, it will naturally be beneficial to the Ning family.
Choosing a chef is naturally very important.
Ning Yi looked at the dish recipe and said warmly: "I've chosen it."
He glanced at Qin An and then looked at Su Yan, "Are you going to the capital? We will return to the capital in a few days. I have already paid for the security guards in the capital."
"It's such a big favor for you to help my family."