53 Chapter 53
◎Muyun sent seeds with the letter◎
Gui'er and Li Yu's wedding had to take place before the spring sowing. After it was decided and the new house was cleaned up, it was held quickly.
They stayed in Songzhuang for two days and returned home on the third day.
Gui'er had a lot to say to Cheng Mu, but Cheng Mu saw that she was eager to say something and found excuses to avoid her several times to avoid being alone with her.
Unexpectedly, after coaxing Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi to sleep, I still found an opportunity to lock the door and tell the story specifically to her.
Cheng Mu: "Shh—don't talk, you'll wake them up."
Gui'er sat next to her, holding her arm, and whispered in her ear, "Madam Cheng, my mother told me the day before that it would hurt and asked me to bear it. Why didn't she tell me that it would be very useful?"
Cheng Mu knew that she was interested, as she could see from her inability to hold back and tell her about it.
"Madam Cheng, you know, we haven't gotten off the kang in the past two days. Today, Li Yu went out and said his legs were weak and his eyes were white. How can men be so useless? At first, he could get it done, but later he couldn't get it done for a long time."
Cheng Mu pushed her away and said perfunctorily, "Okay, okay, I get it."
Gui'er held her back, insisting, "Madam Cheng, I think I can still find another wife to marry into your family, right?"
What? Cheng Mi blushed for her, how could she dare to think!
At this time, Xiaoliu moved a little, and Cheng Xi stood up and motioned her, "Let's talk outside."
Gui'er took Cheng Mu to the west wing and locked the door again.
Cheng Mu: ...
Gui'er said, "The landlord's family often has multiple wives and concubines. As a man, if I marry a son-in-law at home, should I be able to marry another one?"
Cheng Mu: "I don't know, ask your mother."
Gui'er: "That slutty fox has a master, Madam Cheng. From your perspective as an experienced person, who is more capable and fierce, the stinky dog Chen Hu or Wu Yong?"
"Don't ask me, I can't see anything." Cheng Meishai, I haven't even been there yet, and I'm already... an experienced person.
After Gui'er and Li Yu had a meal prepared by Yu, they returned to Songzhuang.
Yu was busy preparing food, cooking, and cleaning up. When Gui'er came back, she didn't come up to her to talk. She asked Cheng Mu, "Madam Cheng, did Gui'er say anything to you? This damn girl, I don't have time to look for her, and she doesn't know how to look for me. I still have something to ask her."
"Don't ask, she said everything is fine."
As long as Gui'er didn't tell Yu that she wanted to marry into the family, she would pretend not to know.
There was a post station not far from Tianma Town. One day, a postman arrived at Zhaojia Village and saw four or five village women sitting by a well beside a drying field, all enjoying the cool air. The postman dismounted, greeted them, and asked, "Where is Zhao Datian's home?"
"It's just ahead, at the corner."
Someone asked, "What do you want with Zhao Datian? He went to the fields this morning."
The postman asked, "When will you be back?"
The village woman said, "Maybe Mrs. Cheng has a lot of land, all over the place, so she can't give it to you."
"Is that Madam Cheng at home?"
"exist."
The postman left, and several women were still guessing who was looking for Zhao Datian.
The postman came specifically to deliver a letter. The letter was addressed to Zhao Datian, but the village woman said it was Mrs. Cheng. The postman thought it was Zhao Datian's wife, so he gave the letter to Cheng Mi.
When he saw Cheng Mu, the postman was still thinking in his heart, Zhao Datian's wife is so outstanding, then Zhao Datian must be a very handsome man, it's a pity that they have no chance to meet.
So after delivering the letter, he said a few more words, saying that if someone wanted a reply, he could send it to the post station. The new emperor had gone out from Yanbei, and many noble families were coming and going. Now the post stations along the way are very accessible.
After receiving the letter, Cheng Mu was still wondering who would send a letter to Zhao Datian since he was illiterate.
After telling Yu about it, Yu guessed, "Could it be sent to you? Open it and take a look."
If he wanted to send a letter to Cheng Mu, he shouldn't have used Cheng Mu's maiden name. The letter came from the capital, so Cheng Mu immediately guessed, could it be from Mu Yun?
"What are you afraid of? Even if she sends it to her eldest father, who can't read, he will still show it to you." Seeing that Cheng Mu didn't open it, Yu took it and opened it herself, then spread it out in front of Cheng Mu.
"You wrote quite a lot. What did you write?"
Cheng Mu took a quick look and saw that it was indeed sent to her by Mu Yun.
Mu Yun said in the letter that after he escorted the grain to the front line, he met Commander Lin, who was really his martial arts master who had disappeared for many years.
He said that Commander Lin asked him if he wanted to join the army and serve as a vanguard to attack the imperial palace in the capital. Although it was a question, it was actually a gift of wealth to him. This was all because of their pre-existing master-disciple relationship, so Mu Yun decisively followed.
He said that during the march, he was a cavalryman, given a waist knife, a set of bows and arrows, and a flag spear. Chengfeng accompanied him all the way, and he also had to carry two liters of fried rice and a liter of fried flour with him in case of emergency. He went on reconnaissance every day. He learned all kinds of flag signals, climbed mountains and waded through water, and could travel hundreds of miles a day...
He said he had never been defeated in the vanguard camp, and wherever he went, the people lined the streets to welcome him. When he asked for grain, the people would always give it to him. He even wanted to marry his daughter to the righteous army, and he was almost chosen...
He said the first thing he did upon entering the capital was to follow his master to raid Prime Minister Yan's house. Yan Gou controlled the government and had amassed a fortune. All the wealth in his house was plundered from the people, and anyone could take it, which was very satisfying. He had no interest in gold, silver, treasures, or women, but he did get a lot of food. Among them was a kind of golden potato, "small ones were as big as an arm, and big ones were as big as a fist. They tasted like pears and dates, and they could be eaten raw or cooked, and they could be eaten as desired." He raised them simply and cheaply, and his sister-in-law would definitely like them...
He said that in this life he had surrounded the palace and caught a turtle in a jar.
He also said he had bought a house and a shop in the capital, where they could settle down in the future. The golden potatoes sprouted, and he cleared an acre of land in his yard, planted all of it, and hired someone to look after it...
He said he still wanted to make a fortune, so he followed Master Wu south to quell the rebellion.
Yu waited until Cheng Mu finished reading, then asked, "Is this a letter from Master Yun? What does it say? When will he be back?"
Cheng Mu folded the letter and said, "He didn't come back. He went to fight again with Master Lin."
Yu complained, "Master Lin is addicted to teaching his apprentice."
Cheng Mu told her: "Master Lin is now General Lin."
Yu was shocked.
"Then Mu Yun should also be a young general, right?"
Mu Yun did not mention it in the letter. Perhaps he went south to quell the rebellion in order to gain fame?
"If you had followed Master Lin, you would be the general's wife now." Cheng Mu asked Yu, "Do you regret it?"
"What are you talking about, Madam Cheng?" Yu said frankly. "Do you think I'm worthy of being a general's wife? I'm not destined for that."
Cheng Xi sighed, "Master Lin was sincere in wanting to have sex with you at that time."
"Even if our feelings back then were genuine—Madam Cheng, we must kill Yang Wulang. Captain Lin is a yamen official, and we are prisoners. We are naturally incompatible. We are obsessed with revenge, so how can we think about living a good life?" Yu lowered her head and smoothed her clothes over and over again. "We have our own luck in being pardoned for killing someone, and he has his own luck in joining the army to gain merit."
Perhaps there are no regrets, but looking back, there are still some regrets. The timing was wrong, and if they were the protagonists of a storybook, there would be something to look forward to. But this is the reality Cheng Mi is experiencing, and she doesn't believe she will ever see such a fate.
Along with the letter came the deeds to houses and shops in the capital, and a packet of seeds.
The seeds are chili seeds and others, which were also looted by Mu Yun from Prime Minister Yan's mansion.
Cheng Mu could imagine that soldier standing out from the crowd during the house raid. While others rushed to the treasure, he went straight to the kitchen. While others wore jewels and carried gold and silver, he carried a few packets of seeds and two baskets of sweet potatoes...
Phew. How ridiculous! I must have been laughed at by others.
This is because he has been with her for too long and has been influenced by her. He doesn't know the joys of the world. If he wants to rob, he robs treasures. What use is there to him in robbing food and seeds?
Since he still thought of her even in the face of wealth and glory, Cheng Min's previous anger towards him disappeared unknowingly.
She gave Mu Yun's land deed to him and kept it safe, and would give it to him when he remembered to come back here.
If one day his secret is exposed and it is disadvantageous to him, Cheng Mu can consider saving him and taking him in again.
In the summer, all the seeds that Mu Yun sent back bore fruit.
Yu squatted in the vegetable patch and looked carefully.
"This green one looks like a persimmon. What kind of fruit does this one with white flowers bear? It looks like a pen tip."
Cheng Mu said, "They were all brought from foreign countries. For example, this persimmon is a tomato, and this is a hot pepper, which is spicy and also called chili pepper."
Xiaoliu also came over and asked, "Can I eat now?"
Yu said, "Persimmons can only be eaten when they are red."
Cheng Mu said, "You can eat both green and red ones. When they grow a little bigger, we'll pick some and try them."
She has conducted several rounds of experiments in the space, and the pepper is not a very spicy variety. It is estimated that the various varieties and spiciness in later generations are cultivated from generation to generation based on different local environments and different human choices.
Ten days later, the tomatoes turned red, but the peppers were still green.
I picked a few particularly good red tomatoes and a few big peppers.
Yu was at a loss as to how to start. "Madam Cheng, how do we eat this?"
Cheng Mu asked Xiaoliu to wash the tomatoes and told Yu to crack a few eggs into a bowl. Guier also came back today to try the new food, and Cheng Mu assigned her the task she was best at, which was to cut meat into shreds.
Make the simplest home-cooked dishes in later generations: scrambled eggs with tomatoes and shredded pork with green peppers.
The tomato was hard when squeezed, and Yu thought it needed to be left alone for a while before eating, just like the local persimmons. But when it was cut open, it was juicy and ripe red inside.
She watched Cheng Mu cooking carefully and was surprised by how easy it was to cook, just as quick as scrambled eggs with leeks.
"Is that all?"
The eggs are golden, the tomatoes are red and juicy, the tomato sauce covers the eggs, and then sprinkled with green chopped green onions, which is very tempting.
Yu took a piece and gave it to Xiaoliu, who was looking at her eagerly. After savoring it carefully, Xiaoliu said, "What a special taste."
Gui'er, following Cheng Mu's instructions, was using potato starch to shred the pork. Without even looking up, she asked, "Why is it so special?"
"It's just..." Xiaoliu couldn't describe it, "It's just so special that I've never tasted it before. I want to eat more every time I take one bite."
Cheng Mu said, "The shredded pork with green peppers will be ready soon and can be eaten soon."
Xiaoliu really had a special liking for scrambled eggs with tomatoes. Cheng Xi helped her pour the tomatoes and eggs over the rice. She mixed it and ate a big bowl in one breath, licking the bowl clean.
Gui'er also licked the bowl clean like her. She especially liked the shredded pork with green peppers. "It's so delicious. It tastes so delicious."
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