Chapter 207 What's being hidden from him
Xiao Nuobao was also happy that Brother Xiao didn't have to leave, showing his millet teeth and dancing with joy.
Xiao Lanyi pinched her fat hand with her backhand.
Both of them were very happy!
The servants of the Xiao family outside the door were wiping their sweat at this moment. When they saw Madam Xiao walking out, they thought she was telling them to get ready to leave.
Who would have thought that the order they heard was to move their luggage and stay in this village!
The servants were all taken aback and looked at each other in confusion.
"Did I hear it right? The old lady wants to learn from the young master and live here too?"
"What's going on? Didn't the old lady come to find the young master to go home? Why did he lead her astray?"
But despite their grumblings, everyone was quite happy.
After all, they had been traveling for such a long time, and the servants could not take a carriage. They were really tired and were looking forward to taking a break.
In addition, Xianquanju had a picturesque scenery, which they also found rare, so they hurried to work and unloaded the numerous accompanying items from the carriage one by one.
The Xiao family brought many servants and a lot of luggage. The master's suitcases alone had three large suitcases.
Xiao Lanyi was afraid that the servants would put things in a mess and disturb the business of Xianquanju, so he followed to take a look.
But this one look made him realize that his grandmother and mother brought too many clothes, and some of them were even thick dresses, which were obviously not summer clothes.
"These are what my grandmother and mother asked you to put in?" Xiao Lanyi couldn't help but wonder, and asked the maid beside him.
After getting the maid's affirmation, Xiao Lanyi was even more puzzled.
Didn't the ancestors come here specifically to look for him? It shouldn't take long, but why did they even bring autumn clothes, as if they were planning to stay away for a long time?
Thinking about the inexplicable baby girl in her mother's arms and her particularly melancholy look, Xiao Lanyi always felt that something was wrong.
But at the moment, she didn't have time to ask too many questions, and it was more important to help settle this group of people at home.
Feng was thoughtful, and thinking that the Xiao family had two female relatives this time, she called Fengnian and Li Yiner.
"Yin'er, Mrs. Xiao and Madam Xiao are of different status. You should vacate the first-class guest rooms in the main house of the southernmost mansion of our Xianquanju and let them live there alone. Don't let them be disturbed by others."
"Fengnian, except for the personal maids who follow them, the rest of the servants should be arranged to live in ordinary empty houses. If there are not enough houses, let them live in three or five people in one room and squeeze them together."
After receiving the order, the two immediately went to make arrangements.
Before the sunset, Mrs. Xiao and Madam Xiao had already gone to sleep in their rooms, and the rest of the servants also had their own places to stay.
Mrs. Feng estimated that they should be hungry, so she asked Widow Gu to send the prepared meals to the upper room.
Xianquanju pays attention to details when entertaining guests.
Anyone staying in the upper room had a special person to deliver food to the room.
At this moment, Mrs. Xiao was already hungry, but she didn't say anything because she didn't want to disturb the Jiang family.
Seeing the sudden food, Mrs. Xiao couldn't help but be happy. She sighed that her grandson had good taste and chose a good place, while lifting her skirt and sitting down to enjoy.
Although the widow's cooking skills were not as good as Li Qiqiao's, she was taught by Li Qiqiao after all, so she could be considered to have inherited some of her skills.
On the nanmu dining table, the scallion-roasted pork chops were very tasty, and the salt-baked pumpkin strips on the side were crispy on the outside and fragrant on the inside.
Not to mention the steamed egg with minced meat, which was steamed without a single honeycomb hole, and was so slippery that even chopsticks could not hold it. Just scoop it with a spoon, put it in your mouth, and it melted in a fragrant way after two sips.
Old Mrs. Xiao was used to eating the food cooked by the chef in the mansion, and she had long been fed up with it. Now that she had changed to this farmhouse dish, she felt it was very rare and ate it very enthusiastically.
When Widow Gu went to collect the dishes, she saw that the five or six dishes were almost all empty, and there was not much soup left.
Widow Gu felt very accomplished.
When she went back, she couldn't help but talk about it to Mrs. Liu and the others.
"It seems that the noble lady from the capital also likes the food of our Xianquanju."
"I, a second-rate cook, have been enlightened by Qiqiao sister, hehe, and finally I can be on stage!"
That evening, when Feng came back from Xianquanju, she brought a full five hundred taels of silver notes and put them in the money box.
The Jiang family's dinner was just ready at this time.
Sun Chunxue stood in front of the stove with her hands on her waist, eating a large pot of glutinous rice, and said in surprise: "Mom, where did so many banknotes come from?"
Without Feng saying a word, Li Qiqiao smiled and said while serving the dishes: "Do you even need to ask, sister-in-law? It must have been given by the Xiao family. It must cost a lot for so many people to stay in Xianquanju."
Feng came out from the inner room and nodded.
"Well, the old lady of the Xiao family said that she prefers the food of our Xianquanju, and she joked that she is a glutton, so she wants ten dishes and one soup for every meal in the future. She also said that the servants are working hard, so the same arrangement is made. She is afraid of troubling us, so she took the initiative to propose to pay double the cost of the guest room in the future."
"Give this five hundred taels of silver first, and you can make up for it later if it's not enough."
The two daughters-in-law were grinning with joy.
This is really generous.
Xianquanju can get a large sum of money again!
Feng also narrowed her eyes. What made her happier than making money was that although the old lady Xiao looked strong, she was easy to get along with.
After making an extra request, he was afraid of troubling the host, so he not only wanted to give double the money, but also knew how to be considerate of the servants. He was really a good person.
Little Nuobao was lying on the kang listening, and he also kicked his feet and laughed.
Just at this time, the food was served on the table. The little guy immediately rushed to the table, holding chopsticks in one hand and a spoon in the other, and was about to start eating.
Two-grain rice was served with sauerkraut stewed pork ribs, and then a few bites of sour and spicy potato shreds and tofu skin with soy sauce. Little Nuobao ate so much that his face was covered with rice grains and he shouted that it was delicious.
After eating, Li Qiqiao happened to take some rice pot crunch out before washing the pot, so she gave Nuobao the largest piece to let her have a snack.
Little Nuobao held the food with both hands and ate it with a crunch, and her little teeth were sore from biting.
The aroma of rice spread throughout the room, and Chun Ge'er, who was standing beside him, was so greedy that he kept craning his neck and blinking to look at it, and he swallowed his saliva many times.
Jiang Fengnian washed a basin of fruit and sat by the kang. The family gathered around and talked.
Feng was sewing a small bib with needle and thread in her hand.
Feng Jing, holding a book, walked into the inner room and touched his sister. His eyes stayed on Feng's hand and he found that the bib in his mother's hand was modified from an old pair of trousers...
Fortunately, after this was done, it would also be worn by Chun Ge'er. Feng Jing said nothing and left silently with shaking shoulders.
At this time, Xiao Lanyi came back from outside.
He went to the pasture to eat with old lady Xiao and the others, but he still wanted to come back to live at night. After all, he was used to it.
But Xiao Lanyi's expression was not very good.
Feng saw it and thought that he was nagged by old lady Xiao, so she didn't ask more questions.
Xiao Lanyi lowered her eyes, worry flashing in her eyes.
He thought about it and decided to let Nuobao help, so he took off his shoes and went to the kang, and put the little guy who was eating the fragrant food into his arms.
"Nuobao, can you help Brother Xiao figure out why my grandmother and my mother left Beijing this time." Xiao Lanyi said, and touched his head in confusion.
Little Nuobao stopped chewing: "Huh? Didn't they come to take you home?"
Xiao Lanyi took a bite, and the big pot in Nuobao's hand: "Not only that, I always feel that they seem to be hiding something from me, especially my mother." Just
now when he was eating, he deliberately tried a few words, but all he got was a reply from Mrs. Xiao, "Nothing, eat well."
Xiao Nuobao held the hot pot in her mouth and nodded her head thoughtfully.
No wonder, she also noticed that Mrs. Xiao had a strange aura.
It was definitely a sign of troubles in the near future!
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