Chapter 028: Brewing Ginger Tea
Mo Beiyuan went to the window and saw Feng Aoqing walking to the collapsed courtyard wall.
He felt inexplicably worried, so he took Wei Ze's raincoat and followed him.
I saw her bending over with her butt sticking out, looking for something in the haystack.
Seemingly having found it, she grasped a handful of grass stems in both hands, and with a "Hey", she pulled them up by the roots.
“Tsk.”
Feng Aoqing looked back and saw that all the mud brought up by pulling out the weeds was thrown onto Mo Beiyuan's face.
"I'm sorry! I didn't know you were following me!"
Mo Beiyuan had a sour face. He wiped the mud off his face with his sleeve and asked, "Are you looking for herbs?"
"No, this." Feng Aoqing showed him the roots of the grass, which turned out to be young ginger.
"You'll definitely get sick after being caught in the rain. Make some ginger soup for everyone." Feng Aoqing said when she saw that he was confused.
Under the straw raincoat, raindrops flowed down her smooth cheeks. On her face, as beautiful as a lotus emerging from the water, the corners of her mouth were raised, her eyebrows were curved, and she was full of smiles.
"Come and help, we found it!" Feng Aoqing walked past him, waved to the people in the corridor, and shouted in a rough voice.
When she raised her hand, Mo Beiyuan saw a bloody wound on her hand, which was bleeding.
"Your hand is cut." He held Feng Aoqing's hand and said.
"It's okay, Ye Zi pulled it. Don't get in the way here! You can't do your work." Feng Aoqing put her hand to her mouth, licked and sucked the wound, and gently pushed him away.
Several people ran out of the house, and Mo Beiyuan retreated to the corridor, but did not enter the house, his eyes still looking over here.
Feng Aoqing showed them the leaves and pointed out a few places where there were some, asking them to pick more.
Among these people were farmers, some of whom already knew the ginger, while some who did not grow ginger had never seen one with leaves. But with the sample, everyone found it quickly and soon had a small pile.
Feng Aoqing saw that it was almost time, so she hurriedly asked them to go back.
It’s much easier when it rains. You can just take a basin and wash the ginger under the eaves. You don’t have to pick water for making ginger soup. You can just put the big pot in the rain and fill several large basins in a short while.
Feng Aoqing used a clean stone to smash the ginger and threw it into the pot to boil. He boiled three large pots in total. After all, the water and ginger did not cost the money of the escort, so they had no objection.
When everyone came to serve the soup, they saw that it was ginger sugar tea. The brown sugar and tea leaves were taken from the bamboo basket by Feng Aoqing.
"You prepared it in vain. It was used up in one go." Tian Ying'er felt it was a pity.
"It's okay, we can buy more in Yucheng. At least we still have a few pieces of silver. They have nothing. I'll give them what I can. It's not easy for everyone. It would be a pity to let it get soaked." Feng Aoqing looked indifferent.
She wanted to say, we have plenty of food, we can have meat and fish for every meal, but it’s not easy to take it out all at once.
These words were heard by the person who came to get the soup and told others, and everyone knew that this was Feng Aoqing's own thing.
In the evening I ate the multi-grain steamed bread that I brought with me when I left this morning. This kind of food that is not air-dried will spoil easily, so I ate it first. It was very comfortable to eat with hot ginger soup.
"She is very generous!" Mo Shuyuan said sarcastically.
The second aunt was about to respond when she heard Mo Beiyuan cough and stopped talking.
"It seems that since I'm not often in the mansion, you guys are used to talking nonsense to Ao Qing, right? Have you forgotten that besides me, she is the most important person in this family?"
"Yuan'er..."
"From now on, no matter if I am your elder or your junior, if you continue to speak to her, don't even think of spending a cent of my money or hers! Don't worry, you won't starve to death. The escort's biscuits will fill you up."
"We have separated, but it's not your business! In our family, my master is the boss!" Fang Nianqiao started to act like a shrew.
Mo Beiyuan was holding a silver spoon that Feng Aoqing had just given him. He waved his hand and the spoon sank deeply into a pillar not far away.
"If you are not one of my family, then I will not be polite."
He was pretending to be cool, but Feng Aoqing saw what he was doing, so he roared like a lion: "Mo Beiyuan! You're acting like a bitch! From now on, you have to eat with your hands!"
Mo Mingyuan hurried over to help pull it out and handed it back to Mo Beiyuan. When he took a look, he saw that it was crooked. He quickly hid it in his sleeve and used his internal energy to straighten it.
After everyone else had received theirs, the Mo family came to claim it.
Feng Aoqing brought it to grandma and the children first.
"Oh my God, daughter-in-law Yuan, where did you get this bowl?" Grandma Qin Lancui's eyes were wet before she finished speaking.
In her hand was an exquisite silver bowl, which was obviously a good thing.
"I traded ginseng for a set of six bowls yesterday. The largest one is for Mo Beiyuan, the second one is for you, the third one is for me, the fourth one is for Jingtao, and the fifth and sixth ones are for Xingbao and Yuebao. Look, there's also a silver spoon."
This bowl is like a Russian nesting doll, with the smaller ones inside the larger one, which saves a lot of space. Because it is made of silver and is relatively thin, the size difference is not that big.
"Isn't Mo Beiyuan so hypocritical? He always has his own set of tableware at home. I exchanged my largest ginseng for this. After all, Star Treasures and Moon Treasures shouldn't be mixed in with other people's bowls."
Feng Aoqing gestured with her hand, "that big" to Qin Lancui.
Mo Beiyuan was scolded, holding the silver bowl, not knowing whether he should drink or not.
"Let him help you dig next time! Also, you can't call him Prince right now, you have to call him husband at least. How can you call him by his name?"
"Okay, I'll listen to you, husband. Move over a little. I want to sit next to grandma." Feng Aoqing nudged Mo Beiyuan with her leg.
He obediently moved to the side to make some space for Feng Aoqing.
She put her hand on grandma's leg, which held a ball of burning mugwort, and gently fumigated grandma's knees.
She had just picked a bunch of mugwort and dried it by the fire while making ginger sugar tea. Grandma had knee pain.
"Be good and do these after dinner. It doesn't hurt me now." Grandma stroked her wet and dry hair and said with concern.
"I'm not hungry. It will be too late when the pain starts." Feng Aoqing was very gentle at this time.
He is very gentle to both children and grandma.
After fumigating her grandmother's legs, she saw that the fire was not completely burned, so she called Mo Nanzhou over to fumigate his clothes.
"There are more bugs on rainy days. Don't turn into a pig's head again tomorrow. Turn around."
Mo Nanzhou turned around and tears dripped onto Feng Aoqing's hands.
"What? Did it stink your eyes?"
Mo Nanzhou shook his head. He had been attracted to insects since he was a child. Before he was taken back to the Mo family by his father, his mother often used mugwort leaves to fumigate his clothes.
After fumigating him, Xingbao and Yuebao were already in line.
"You join in every fun, who do you think you are?" Feng Aoqing smiled and patted their butts.
"Oh my god!" The two of them are worthy of being twins, they have a perfect understanding of each other.
"Hahahaha, I feel like you're scolding me, but I have no evidence!"
Mo Beiyuan watched Feng Aoqing busying around, talking and laughing with an auntie smile on his face, and even forgot to drink the ginger tea in his hand.
Chen Yilan was quiet today. She kept looking at her son coldly, and her son's eyes almost never left Feng Aoqing.
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