To make Qingtuan, you need to use mugwort juice. But it was only the beginning of February, and the mugwort had just emerged, so it was tender and not fragrant.

Chen was so worried that she tapped Yu Tang's forehead and said, "Why did you say Qingtuan when you could say something else? How can Qingtuan made at this time be delicious?"

Yu Tang smiled awkwardly.

Did she think that the mourning period for Old Lady Pei had not yet ended? She subconsciously mentioned Qingtuan. She did not expect that there were so many details to be paid attention to when making Qingtuan. Chen felt that the previous one was too rough, so she decided to make a few new ones.

But now it's too late to regret.

Yu Tang hugged his mother's arm flatteringly: "Mom, I'll help you."

"You'd better stay away from me!" Chen said angrily while looking through the high-quality lotus rice that Mrs. Chen had just begged from the Wu family next door, "I don't expect you to do the stove, but you should at least put some thought into it. Do we have to eat amaranth in winter and winter melon soup in summer?"

Yu Tang didn't dare to say anything. He sat on the bamboo chair beside him and watched his mother and Mrs. Chen picking lotus seeds.

"Mr. Wu's family really knows how to enjoy themselves." Mrs. Chen looked at the lotus seeds in her hands, all of which were the same size, and said, "Should we make some with green bean filling?"

Qingtuan is usually filled with lotus seeds or red bean fillings.

The green glutinous rice balls, when bitten open, reveal red red bean filling or white lotus seed filling, which looks delicious.

Few people make dumplings with mung bean filling.

Chen thought for a moment and said to Yu Tang, "Aren't you very capable? Go and find out what kind of fillings Master Pei San likes to eat. If he likes green bean fillings, we can make some of that."

Yu Tang agreed, got up and left the kitchen.

Mrs. Chen said, "Madam, aren't you making things difficult for Miss? No matter what kind of fillings Mr. Pei likes to eat, we can just put some of the same..."

Chen was determined this time, and ruthlessly interrupted Mrs. Chen: "She is like this, it's your habit. Master Pei San has been kind to our family. Not to mention making a few Qingtuan in advance, even if he asked me to make a Eight Treasure Duck myself, I would be happy to do it. But is there anyone who talks like her? She only cares about the momentary quick mouth. What if the season is not right and it can't be made?" At this point, she became worried again, "This mugwort is not fragrant, and it can't taste like the Qingming Festival. Master Pei San has eaten all kinds of good things. What if he rejects it? It's better to give something else?"

Mrs. Chen had no choice but to comfort her: "Young lady, don't you like the Qingtuan you made? She thinks your Qingtuan is delicious, so she subconsciously mentioned Qingtuan. Madam, please stop blaming Young lady. You have been scolding her all morning. Fortunately, Young lady is filial and listened silently. If it were someone else, she would have run away in anger. Besides, she is not doing it for herself."

Chen stopped talking.

In the previous life, no one even knew what color clothes Mr. Pei San liked to wear, what kind of carriage he rode in, or what kind of tea he drank. Finding out what he liked to eat... was even more difficult than asking her to have a fight with Lin!

But she could also understand her mother's feelings.

If the things sent to the Pei family are not liked by Pei Yan, it would be like flattery against the horse's legs, and it would backfire and become even more troublesome.

well!

She didn't know why she suddenly mentioned sending Qingtuan.

However, he is still in mourning, so mung bean filling and the like should be okay, right?

Yu Tang strolled around the yard and peeked outside the kitchen. Seeing that his mother's anger had subsided, he went into the kitchen with a smile and said, "Mom, the more colors there are, the better our Qingtuan is. You can make some of any other fillings. Isn't it important to have four or eight colors when sending cakes? We can make four or eight fillings!"

Mrs. Chen was too lazy to talk to her, so she told Mrs. Chen: "From tomorrow on, let the young lady come to the stove to help."

Yu Tang was so frightened that his soul left his body. He ran away while saying, "Mom, I haven't finished writing the 10,000 characters that my father punished me to write! I will come back to collect the punishment after I finish writing the characters."

Chen looked at her daughter's back and thought of the troubles she had caused since she was a child. She couldn't help but smile. Just as Yu Tang said, she made a green dumpling with lotus seeds, red beans, mung beans and sesame fillings and asked Yu Bo to help deliver it to Pei's house.

Pei Yan has been very busy these past two days, accompanying one person or another, but Fourth Master Song found a way to find him and said, "How can other people know each other as well as we do? If we want to cooperate, it is of course the best for us to cooperate. If you really don't want to be in charge, just find another one. We two companies will be in charge, and you just sit back and share the profits. What do you think?"

After all the talk, I still want him to be the guarantor.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think of the Yu family.

Especially Miss Yu.

Even when he was worried about their family, she was still able to keep a clear mind and know how much she could eat and what she could do.

Give the Yu family some time, and they will surely prosper.

Pei Yan dismissed Fourth Master Song: "Those who came to participate in the auction have moved in one after another in the past few days. You know them well, so just go and talk to them one by one! What's the point of me helping to pull strings in the middle? People will think I have ulterior motives!"

Old Master Song Si knew very early on that his little cousin was capable and could accomplish anything he wanted to accomplish. No matter how he tried to get rid of him, he would not leave: "We know each other, but we have never done business together. I always feel uneasy. For the sake of our relationship, you must give me some advice."

While the two were arguing, the Yu family's qingtuan arrived.

Pei Yan took the opportunity to return to his study and became somewhat curious about the Qingtuan that was delivered to him. When he opened it, he saw that it was filled with mung bean filling, and his heart suddenly warmed.

I remember that he was still in mourning, and as expected, there was only the Yu family and the young lady of the Yu family.

Although this woman is quite utilitarian, her utilitarianism makes people feel good about her, which is a real skill.

He ate a green dumpling.

The taste was just average.

But he still called Pei Man over and asked, "What has Miss Yu been doing all this time?"

Pei Man was a little dumbfounded.

He is the chief steward of the Pei family. He has to take care of countless things every day. What's more, Miss Yu is still a woman. Even if he cares about the Yu family, he should pay attention to Master Yu!

But if he couldn't answer the boss's questions, then he was wrong.

"I'll ask someone to ask!" Pei Man said immediately.

Pei Yan didn't necessarily need to know, so he nodded, ate another Qingtuan, and asked Pei Man, "How many boxes of Qingtuan did the Yu family send over? The rest were taken to Old An's place," he thought for a moment, and added, "Send some to the eldest house and the second old master to try them out."

Pei Man responded and left.

Pei Yan was lying in a rocking chair, reading a book.

Hu Xing, Yu Wenzhe and Yu Yuan entered the city covered in dust.

"I have troubled you for two days," Yu Wen sincerely invited Hu Xing, "I have asked Ah Tiao to inform my family in advance. They must have prepared wine and food. I will treat you to a couple of drinks."

Hu Xing had gone to see the forest with Yu Wen and Yu Yuan these past two days, and his legs were sore from walking. So he didn't refuse: "Okay! Sorry to bother you!"

"It depends on what you are talking about!" The three people said politely and returned to Qingzhu Lane.

Chen had indeed prepared wine and food long ago. Hu Xing and the uncle and nephew of the Yu family sat around the square table, drinking and talking about the forest of the Yu family. "I don't know who gave this idea to your young lady. It's not that you can't grow sea buckthorn, but the cost is too high. But if you grow walnuts or something like that, there's too much sand in the soil, and I'm afraid the fruits won't taste very good. You can grow peanuts or something, but peanuts can't be sold at a good price. I can't make a decision on this matter, and in the end you have to decide what to do."

Yu Wen chuckled, thinking that the person who tied the bell should be the one to untie it, so he said to Yu Yuan, "Go tell this to your sister and see what she says."

Yu Yuan took some time to meet Yu Tang.

Yu Tang was waiting for news and was a little amused when he heard the words.

The past and present lives are still different.

She was not idle during this period. She asked people to inquire about the sale of preserved fruits and how to make money by farming.

But you can't make a lot of money.

She said to Yu Yuan, "Tell my father about this. Let me think about it for a while."

Yu Yuan also jumped in with great enthusiasm, but now he felt that he should slow down.

He went out and talked to Yu Wen, and Yu Wen was no longer in a hurry to make a decision. Instead, he opened his heart and drank with Hu Xing, and got Hu Xing drunk. In the end, he called Yu Wen "Master Yu" all the time, very respectfully.

Yu Wen also drank a little too much and could hardly stand steadily.

Yu Yuan had no choice but to send Hu Xing back.

As a result, I met Pei Man when I went there.

Pei Man knew what Hu Xing was going to do. Thinking of what Pei Yan had asked him before, he couldn't help but ask Yu Yuan: "Is everything going well in Shanlin?"

"It's not going very smoothly." Yu Yuan was a bit fearless before, but now that he knows more about business, he has become more cautious. He smiled and said, "If the general manager has any good ideas, you might as well tell me directly."

"Sure!" Pei Man agreed readily.

Yu Tang discussed with Yu Yuan: "How about we grow peanuts? I know there is a kind of peanut crisps that are very delicious. I have nothing to do these days anyway, let Mrs. Chen make some for me and you can try it!"

Anyway, there is no better idea now.

Yu Yuan agreed.

Yu Tang asked Mrs. Chen and Shuang Tao to make peanut crisps at home.

Chen looked on and asked, "How many kilograms of peanuts does this require?"

That’s right!

Yu Tang was a little frustrated, and she was more and more eager to find out why Pei Yan wanted to make preserved fruits in his previous life. However, Pei Yan was busy with the auction at that time, so she was embarrassed to visit him.

So what should they grow in their forests?

Yu Tang thought that the peanut crisps he made should not be wasted, so he packed a box and sent it to Pei's house. He gave the rest to neighbors and friends, and planned to keep them for when Yu Yuan got married.

March came in the blink of an eye. Even if Yu Tang did not go out, he heard Mrs. Chen, who was out buying groceries, say that there were more and more unfamiliar faces in Lin'an City: "They all looked like wealthy families. I heard that Mr. Wu's small house in the east of the city was rented out. I wonder what happened in Lin'an City?"

Be it Yu Tang or Chen, they all pretended not to hear.

Li Duan felt very uneasy.

Before the lights were turned off on the 17th day of the first lunar month, Lin Jue returned to Fujian with the painting "Fishing in Songxi".

He had previously thought that the master hired by Lin Jue had repaired the small damaged area in the middle. Only a few days ago did he find out that in order to save time, Lin Jue had asked the master to make some rough estimates and add a few strokes to the damaged area in the middle.

I don't know if these few additions are important?

Something seemed to be wrong with the Pei family, but these local gentry and noble families in Lin'an knew nothing about it.

He had a bad feeling.

It seemed like something important was about to happen, but their family was excluded from the Pei family.