Xiao Yunying tied the bag shut and instructed:
"This bag contains sausages I made last night. Each one has a different flavor. They're already cooked, so just fry them thoroughly when you want to eat them. They can't be kept for long, so you have to finish them by tomorrow night."
These two bags contain fruit teas. Besides peach oolong and pear pu-erh, there's also apple Tieguanyin. You can divide them among yourselves when you get home.
I took extra quail eggs and tea tree mushrooms because I saw your mother likes them. Wood ear mushrooms are good for you to eat; these two types can be soaked and rehydrated just like regular dried mushrooms.
The pear is for you too. You should still have some snow fungus at home, right? Stewing them together will be good for your wheezing.
Chen Yuancheng touched the cloth bag that was shaped like a pear: "It's already winter, and you still have such fresh pears."
Xiao Yunying downplayed the issue, saying, "Ripe pears can be stored in the cellar for a while after being picked. This bag is my last stock, so eat it sparingly."
The two carried the cloth bags back to the living room and placed them on the table. Xiao Yunying went out and called Ling Qi in to help them move the things.
Madam Chen said, "Why did you take so much?"
"Not much. Madam Chen likes fruit tea, so I took a little more. The rest are all foods that are good for Yuan Cheng's health."
In my experience, sometimes food therapy is worse than medication. Many foods are just as effective as herbal decoctions. There's a saying that all medicine has some degree of toxicity, so it's best to avoid herbal decoctions if possible.
Chen Yuancheng's condition was a mild case of asthma, but it appeared particularly severe due to the limited medical technology in ancient times. Drinking herbal decoctions for a long time would not only fail to cure his illness but would also leave a lot of drug toxicity in his body, which would be a loss for him.
Hearing that it was for her son's health, Madam Chen did not refuse anymore: "Yunying is so kind. It is my son's blessing to know you."
Xiao Yunying joked, "It's my good fortune to have met Yuan Cheng, a young master who is rich and kind. I'm even counting on him to buy my family's vegetables and help me get rich."
Mrs. Chen declared boldly, "Buy it! Buy it at a high price! If he won't buy it, I will!"
Xiao Yunying said arrogantly, "Look, I've found a backer. You can't lower my vegetable prices anymore."
Chen Yuancheng smirked: "Okay, whatever price you say, that's the price."
After Ling Qi finished moving the things she had prepared, Xiao Yunying said to Madam Chen, "Aunt Su, you should take these things back with you. Yuan Cheng and I are friends, and it is only right for me to help him. I cannot accept such generous gifts."
Madam Chen feigned displeasure and said, "I've accepted all your things, so why are you asking me to take back what I brought? Isn't that a slap in my face?"
“It’s different, the things Aunt Su brought are too valuable…”
Madam Chen interrupted her, saying, "What's the point of discussing whether it's valuable or not? It's a thank-you gift. Who cares about the price? What matters is the sentiment."
"Yuancheng has already sent a thank-you gift..."
"He gave me what he gave me, and I gave me what I gave him."
“We farmers really don’t need the things Aunt Fang brought. Take silk for example, who would be willing to wear it? It would be so heartbreaking to see it get snagged while working in the fields and on the mountain…”
Madam Chen pointed to several brocade boxes and said, "Yuan Yao told me that you returned the jewelry she gave you. I know you don't like flashy but impractical things. Apart from a few bolts of silk, the rest are guaranteed to be useful to you. If you don't want to make clothes from the silk, you can embroider handkerchiefs, make sachets, or sew quilt covers. All of these are fine."
"But……"
Madam Chen's impatient nature was fully revealed at this moment. She strode out and said, "It's getting late, Yuancheng, we should go back."
Xiao Yunying was a little dumbfounded. How could they just leave like that?
Chen Yuancheng walked over and said, "My mother is right. The gift is about the sentiment. You don't need to worry about the price. Besides, she won't take it back. Just accept it."
Xiao Yunying said helplessly, "What can I do if you don't accept it? Can I force it on your mother and let her take it away?"
If you think about it from another perspective, the Chen family has money, so what is valuable to you is just ordinary to them, the same as what you give them. If you think about it this way, there's no need to feel embarrassed.
Ling Qi and Madam Chen's coachman drove the carriage to the courtyard gate. Xiao Yunying saw that Yuan Yao and Yuan Xuan liked to play with bubbles, so she filled a bamboo tube for each of them and gave them bubble rings as gifts.
"Take care, Aunt Su. I won't see you off."
Madam Chen boarded the carriage, lifted the curtain, and said, "We're leaving now. You should go back soon."
Chen Yuancheng said goodbye to her and was the last to get into the carriage. Xiao Yunying waved to him and watched the carriage gradually disappear into the distance.
Once the carriage had traveled far away, they returned to the reception room and opened the brocade box.
Aside from the six bolts of various colored silks being relatively ordinary, the contents of the six brocade boxes surprised Xiao Yunying slightly.
The items are a box of snow frog oil, a box of dried bamboo fungus, a tea set, a jar of saffron, a set of knives, and a ginseng root.
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