The Li family set off again, still very fast, but everyone was in good condition. After all, they had a half-day rest yesterday.
The weather has been beautiful, and it has been sunny all the time. During this period, the crops do not need rain, so the grain filling and ear heading are very good. It can be seen that it is another bumper year.
The further north you go, the cooler the climate becomes, so Li Hui and others don't have to suffer so much when traveling by car. Occasionally, they lift the car curtains and look outside, and the breeze blows, which is very pleasant.
After leaving Guizhou Prefecture, we walked for half a month and finally entered Liaodong on the tenth day of the seventh lunar month.
Although it is still some distance from Fucheng and Pingyang Line, it is two days earlier than expected. The time lost due to rainy weather last time was completely recovered.
Cheng Xue saw that she was traveling very fast today, so she discussed with Li Hui and decided to rest at a post station in the city. She also sent someone to buy some paper work and burned it at the intersection in the evening.
When Mrs. Lian learned that she could rest for half a day longer, she couldn't smile from ear to ear with joy. Sister Xuan will see Li Hui next time. This time, she probably misses her father.
Seeing her mother and aunts all walked away, the little girl hugged Li Hui's neck and whispered repeatedly——
"Sugar, sugar, eat..."
There is no such thing as "favoring boys over girls" in Li Hui's place. All there is is "preferring girls over boys." It's no problem for the little baby to eat sweets. The baby teeth have to be replaced anyway, so don't worry about it.
The child was gently thrown up and caught firmly, and he said to Bai Wei in a good mood:
"Tell Madam, I will take Sister Xuan to the street to buy things and I will be back before lunch. Tiandong, Dexi, you two will follow."
"Yes." The two said in unison, handing over the work at hand to Shunxi, Chengxi and others.
Bai Wei thought for a moment and then reminded her as a matter of routine:
"Master, Madam won't let Miss Zhou eat sweets."
"...Ah, I understand."
Li Hui just agreed, but the next second Sister Xuan's face was full of displeasure, grabbing her uncle's collar and shaking him.
"Hey, darling, let's not eat sweets. Let's eat something else. How about buying rice cakes?"
"Well, okay." The little girl nodded heavily, bared her teeth and raised her eyebrows.
Seeing her provocative look, Bai Wei shook her head in amusement without making a sound. Anyway, it was time to remind her. If the master doesn't listen, it has nothing to do with her being scolded by the lady.
The time spent on the road made them fully understand that when leaving home, it was the hostess who spoke with force. The young master is not as valuable as the young lady, and the master does not have the status of his wife.
Entering Liaodong, the inns here are all rows of houses. There are no longer two-story or three-story buildings, except for restaurants.
In winter, restaurants can burn charcoal for heating, but if the inn uses charcoal for heating, the cost is too high and it is completely unnecessary.
Bai Wei, Bai Shu is good at making fires, but lighting the stove and making a kang still lacks sufficient heat. I wanted to ask the inn clerk what to do, but I didn’t expect that he came directly to help. The two of them just watched from the sidelines. They will not do this kind of work in the future.
There are few, so you must master it as soon as possible.
The waiter burned two kang holes with three strokes, five by two, and also helped light the stove outside and filled the pot with a full pot of water.
"You can take a shower when the water is hot. The bathtub is in the warehouse. I will move it over later. Do you need one in every house?"
"Yes, thank you, little brother." Bai Wei quickly thanked her.
The guy shook his head and said "You're welcome" and went out.
Seeing that the two of them were completely familiar with it, Bai Shao felt relieved and went to the kitchen to ask the cook about the rules. Since it was a foreign official staying here, he could use everything in the kitchen, including meat, eggs and fish.
Time is tight, so I heated up the steamed buns I bought in the morning and simply fried a few vegetables to have a meal.
After Shunxi finished working in the stables, he came to the kitchen and saw two sheep racks. He went to the cook and asked if there were any copper pots. When he learned that there were five, he returned excitedly.
"Shao'er, there are five copper pots here. I'll go to the street to buy some more beef, vegetables and so on. How about making a stir-fry in the evening?"
"It's OK, but the conditions are limited. I can't eat spicy hot pot and stir-fry."
After all, it was not her own home. Shunxi understood this and smiled, "Yeah" and nodded.
"Just clear soup, add some green vegetables or something for a change."
Although the food on the road was rich, it was nothing more than rice, stir-fried vegetables, noodles, dumplings, dumpling soup, etc. If you wanted to eat steamed buns, you had to buy them, let alone stir-fry them, which was impossible.
"Well, go to the street and buy some beef, mutton, and other small items. Buy some chive flowers when you see them. There is no home."
"Sure, what else do you need?"
Bai Shao thought about it, said some more, and took out a piece of silver and handed it to him. After Shunxi got the money, he happily called Wenxi to go shopping. Without giving any instructions, Chengxi got up, took the sheep rack aside, and chopped it with an axe.
into small pieces.
When Li Hui came back, he saw him chopping sheep, walked to the kitchen door and said:
"Bai Shao, can you arrange a stir-fry dinner tonight?"
"Sure, sir, I asked Shunxi to go out and buy chive flowers, beef, tripe cores, etc."
After hearing her answer, Li Hui praised her a few words, then hugged Sister Xuan and left.
In the lobby, Cheng Xue looked at a lot of half-finished paper work and raised her lips. This was what her third uncle had told her to do. The old man said that he had to fold it himself to be sincere. Although they didn't have that much time, at least they wanted to do as the Romans did.
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Li Yue followed Cheng Xue, and she hated debt. When she saw something to do, she washed her hands and started working. Li Tian, Li Heng, Li Huai, and Yan Yixin also followed. The children were very quick and folded it in a short time.
Got two sacks of gold ingots.
Ginguo and Cheng Xi brought the dishes to the lobby. Cheng Xue asked the children to put away their things, wash their hands and get ready to eat.
There are six dishes and one soup, and the staple food is steamed buns and pancakes.
Bai Shao came over and asked Bai Wei and Baizhu to go to the kitchen to help serve the food. When she brought people back and saw the missing steamed buns, she immediately couldn't laugh or cry. It must have been that the waiters were hungry and brought them, but they only took two or three per pot, so they didn't take them like this
I don’t think I can fault the symmetry.
She won’t pursue it, so just eat it.
"What are you thinking? There's something wrong with the steamed buns?"
"Ah? No." Bai Shao replied subconsciously.
Seeing that it was Bai Wei, he smiled and asked her to take away the remaining steamed buns. He blanched the sheep rack, washed it, and kept it for later use. After cleaning up, he left the kitchen, and before entering the lobby, he heard Cheng Xue's scolding voice. The person being trained was none other than Mr. Li.
"... Why don't you have a better memory? You have told her so many times not to give her snacks before meals because she will be too late to eat, but you just don't listen. This is not pampering her, but harming her, do you know that?" p>
"Oh, sister-in-law, it's serious, just have a meal, it'll be fine." Mrs. Lian hurriedly tried to smooth things over.
For those who didn’t know, I thought Cheng Xue was my mother!
When Sister Xuan saw her uncle being scolded, she quickly reached out and hugged Cheng Xue, begging for a hug pitifully. Children are very smart and know that if they want to protect their uncle at this time, they have to please their mother-in-law.
Seeing the little guy's efforts, Cheng Xue finally couldn't bear it, so she held the child on her lap and said:
"For the last time, I won't care about you anymore."
When the little girl heard this, she immediately nodded heavily, nestled in her arms obediently, and stopped moving.