The old man of the Zhang family left the city early in the morning and looked around all day. Without letting Li Jinzhu take a look, he directly decided on a small workshop that was originally engaged in the incense business.
The next day, Mr. Zhang picked three or four reliable men from his warehouse and drove a car to deliver the eggs from the Li family's yard to the small workshop.
Sister-in-law Yin called an idle man from a street teahouse, gave him a handful of money, and asked him to run around and tell the lime shop and other companies who had ordered the goods yesterday to quickly deliver the goods to the small workshops.
Li Yuzhu and Li Yinzhu followed the first car. Li Jinzhu and Sister-in-law Yin rushed to the dental shop nearest to the workshop. They picked two strong women, agreed to try them out for ten days, and rushed to the workshop with the two women.
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Li Xuedong went home after school and waited with Li Xiaonan until it got dark. Neither Li Jinzhu nor Sister-in-law Yin came back, so the two of them had to do it themselves. Li Xuedong took off his gown, steamed the rice first, and then looked inside and outside, except for the one in the backyard.
There was no vegetables, oil, salt, anything else, and not a single egg was left in the yard.
Li Xuedong went to the backyard to pluck a handful of green vegetables, wash them and stir-fry them. While Li Xiaonan lit the fire, he opened the lid of the pot and spread a thick circle of lard along the edge of the pot. The lard melted and flowed into the rice, sizzling and fragrant.
It overflowed. After a while, Li Xiaonan opened the lid of the pot and spread lard again.
Li Xuedong fried the green vegetables, and Li Xiaonan smeared the lard three or four times, and the rice was fragrant. The two of them scooped up a piece of brown and crispy rice cake, put a chopstick of green vegetables on the rice cake, and took a bite. It was really delicious.
While eating something delicious, the courtyard door creaked, and Li Xuedong held the bowl and stretched his head to look outside.
In the light from the kitchen, Li Jinzhu was in front, and the three of them walked in exhausted.
"It smells so good!" Li Yinzhu sniffed and exclaimed.
"These two little ones know how to cook! Who fried these? They're all burnt." Li Yuzhu stretched her head to look at the rice in the pot, pointed at the fried vegetables on the plate and asked with a smile.
Li Xiaonan pointed at Li Xuedong with chopsticks.
"She made the fire too strong." Li Xuedong quickly explained.
"Where did this lard go? This can of lard was still full this morning!" Li Jinzhu asked, picking up the lard can.
"Here." Li Yinzhu had already uncovered a piece of rice cake and took a bite. While talking vaguely, he handed the shiny and brown rice cake to the eldest sister.
"This must be Grandma's idea!" Li Yuzhu looked over, shoveled two pieces of rice cake, and handed one piece to Li Jinzhu.
"You really know how to eat! No wonder Uncle Santang said you were a prodigal." Li Jinzhu looked at the empty chunk in the lard can with great distress.
"Uncle Santang is talking about you, not me, right?" Li Xiaonan bit the rice cake and looked at Li Xuedong and asked.
Li Xuedong nodded quickly. He felt something was wrong in the middle of the nod, so he quickly explained: "And me, Uncle Santang said that it would be a waste of money for us to take Grandma to Hangzhou."
"This rice is a bit undercooked." Li Yinzhu used chopsticks to pick up the rice in the middle and tasted it.
"She must have flipped the pot and greased it, and the rice was cooked." Li Yuzhu patted Li Xiaonan on the head.
"Take out the rice cooker, put the uncooked rice in the pot, and add some water to cook the vegetables and rice. Yuzhu goes to the backyard to stir some vegetables, and Yinzhu starts the fire. Make the fire lower." Li Jinzhu rolled up his sleeves and started cooking again.
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Gu Yan picked up Mrs. Pan and Ms. Shi, as well as Pan Shihui, the sixth wife of the Pan family, and immediately sent people to Hangzhou to ask his sixth aunt, Mrs. Fu, and three cousins to come to Pingjiang Villa to accompany him. If the sixth aunt could not come, she must
Let three cousins come and stay for a while.
After going to Hangcheng to be the steward, Gu Yan left his job and rushed to the Huainan Salt Farm to check on the salt affairs.
He is a person in charge of official duties!
Gu Yan had been gone for two or three days and rushed back from the Huainan Saltworks. Although his sixth aunt did not come, his three cousins had arrived the day before.
When Gu Yan returned to his hometown, Mrs. Pan, accompanied by a group of young ladies, went to Hanshan Temple to offer incense to celebrate the occasion.
As soon as Wang Gui entered the villa, he hurriedly called in the sentinel who was left to watch Li Xiucai's family and inquired in detail.
When Gu Yan finished washing and changed his clothes and came out, Wang Gui was already waiting outside the hanging flower door with his hands down. Hearing Gu Yan's call to come in, he quickly walked into the house and reported in detail what happened to Li Xiucai's family.
Hearing that the Li family had partnered with Yin, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, who ran a warehouse next door, to start a preserved egg and salted egg business. They were already pickling preserved eggs and salted eggs in the workshop. Gu Yan raised his eyebrows and let out a laugh. This must be the idea of the eldest sister of the Li family. He knew that this eldest sister was not simple.
"Let's go and have a look." Gu Yan picked out a folding fan from the tray held by the boy, shook it open, and raised his feet to go out.
Shi Gun and Wang Gui hurriedly followed, left their business, and headed straight to Cai Lian Lane.
From the day after the workshop opened, Li Jinzhu asked Li Yinzhu to stay at home to wash clothes, cook and take care of the housework.
They left before dawn every day and came back after dark. When they got home, they were covered in mud and sweat, and their clothes needed to be washed and changed. They also had to take care of Li Xiaonan and Li Xuedong. There was a vegetable patch and a group of chickens in the backyard, so one person had to be left behind.
Take care of housework at home.
When Gu Yan arrived at Cai Lian Lane, Li Yinzhu had picked up the eggs and fed the chickens. He had taken out the quilt and washed it and hung it to dry. He had just had some free time and was walking out with Li Xiaonan, discussing where to go for a stroll.
Just after leaving Cai Lian Lane, I bumped into Gu Yan.
Gu Yan was halfway off his horse when his eyes fell on Li Xiaonan and he smiled.
"Ouch! It's that person!" Li Yinzhu exclaimed.
Gu Yan leaned back slightly when she called her, glanced at her with disgust, tapped Li Yinzhu with a folding fan, and smiled with Li Xiaonan: "You, third sister, are you always so startled?" p>
"Who are you?" Li Xiaonan looks like a cat.
"Back away." Gu Yan rolled the folding fan against the stone.
Shi Gun hurriedly signaled to everyone and took about ten steps back, blocking the pedestrians coming and going.
Gu Yan's upper body leaned forward slightly, shook out the folding fan as a shield, and said in a low voice: "We met in the Gongyuan of Hangzhou, don't you remember?"
Li Xiaonan's eyes widened, "You! You! You are talking nonsense!"
"Don't be afraid. If I wanted to do something, it would have already happened. You always look like this, like a cat with fried hair. I have to tell you, I really don't mean any harm." Gu Yan continued to press.
The voice is sincere.
"He?" Li Yinzhu's voice was trembling.
She understood what Gu Yan said. How did he know about Ah Nan taking the exam?
"It's okay, nothing will happen to him, he means no harm." Li Xiaonan quickly comforted Sister San.
"That's right!" Gu Yan put away the folding fan and slapped it in the palm of his hand, which scared Li Yinzhu.
"Then what do you want? What do you want to do?" Li Xiaonan patted Li Yinzhu, looked at Gu Yan and asked.
"We are destined." Gu Yan looked serious.
Li Xiaonan looked up at the sky and rolled her eyes.
"How about making friends?" Gu Yan looked at Li Xiaonan's eyes and smiled.
Li Xiaonan laughed.
His behavior reminded her of the distant past, when she met a young scoundrel who thought he was extremely chic on the way home from school. He shook his head at her and said: Little beauty, make a friend.
"There is a difference between men and women. Men and women give and receive without being intimate. Men and women..."
Gu Yan stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Li Xiaonan's eyes, interrupting Li Xiaonan's words.
"Sure enough, you are talking nonsense with your eyes open." Gu Yan shook out the folding fan again, "You are talking nonsense, but there must be a reason for the comings and goings. Well, they say you have a good mind.
Excellent, I don’t know much about Gezhi. How about I ask you to tell me about Gezhi?”
Li Xiaonan and Li Yinzhu's eyes widened after hearing this.
"I'll give you one tael of silver per trip. If the deal is good, how about more?" Gu Yan leaned forward slightly and looked at Li Xiaonan.
"Where should we talk? I won't go to your house." Li Xiaonan held her breath slightly.
"Then I'll come to your house." Gu Yan answered quickly.
"Not even my house! Let's go to that teahouse over there." Li Xiaonan pointed to a quiet teahouse not far away.
"Okay." After Gu Yan said something crisply, he looked back at the teahouse. "Then it's settled. I have a lot to do. Come over when I have free time and ask him to invite you to teach in the teahouse. His name is Shi Gun.
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Gu Yan's folding fan lit up the stone roll, but the stone roll didn't know where to go. Following Gu Yan's folding fan, he quickly nodded and bowed with a smile on his face.
