Pei Weixuan seemed to know what Yu Niang was thinking. When Yu Niang looked at him with shining eyes, he nodded slightly and said, "Okay."
Xu Qinyu couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Fourth Brother, I haven't even told you what it is, and you already said it's okay."
Pei Weixuan said slowly, "I know what Yu Niang wants to say. It's indeed worth a try."
Xu Qinyu tapped her fingers on the wooden table twice, wondering in her heart how reliable this method was. This method would definitely require the help of her fourth brother.
The Wen family would not easily let Concubine Gui leave the Wen family, nor would they easily let Old Master Wen write a letter to release the concubine. Otherwise, how would they vent their anger if they released Concubine Gui, and how would they control the Wen family and the Pei family?
If we don't find a way to get Concubine Gui back home soon, those people in the Wen family might use Concubine Gui to force the Pei family or make her do something.
Now the Wen family is also a commoner. They may still have some money, but it will eventually be spent, so they will definitely find a way to make a living.
I just heard what my cheap mother-in-law said. The Wen family now lets the third wife and two old concubines work, and is reluctant to buy slaves. It seems that there is not much money left. When they know that she is a great cook, they can use Concubine Gui to force her to open a restaurant in partnership with the Wen family. Even worse, they can force her to work for the Wen family. Will she agree or not?
If she disagrees, Concubine Gui will definitely be in trouble, and her stepmother-in-law will be sad if she sees it.
If you agree——
Bah, she is no different. She is not the kind of person who compromises easily. When the time comes, she will definitely find another way to rescue Aunt Gui.
So we must take advantage of this opportunity to rescue Aunt Gui as soon as possible.
"Fourth brother and sister-in-law, what are you talking about? Have you thought of any way to bring grandma back?" Pei Jianing was extremely anxious at the moment. Seeing that his fourth brother and sister-in-law were still talking in riddles, he couldn't help but ask directly.
She also hoped to bring Aunt Gui back as soon as possible, as she didn't want to deal with the Wen family anymore.
Although her mother felt it was not good to go to the Wen family to wash clothes this time, it was also because of Aunt Gui and she had no choice.
If it were her, she wouldn't give up on her family even if she couldn't think of a solution. Even though she often disliked her mother for being too gentle and a little weak, she also loved the Wen family and her family.
Xu Qinyu smiled cunningly and came over to whisper a few words to a few people.
Pei Jianing's eyes lit up as he listened. "I also think this method is worth a try. People like the Wen family who are selfish will definitely take the bait."
Wen was a little nervous, "Will this method work?"
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Fourth brother said it can be done. I'll go and try it after you make the medicine."
They discussed for another half an hour before the last family washed up and went to bed.
Pei Weixuan left the house right after breakfast the next day.
Xu Qinyu asked, "Fourth brother, do you want me to go with you?"
Pei Weixuan glanced at her and said, "No need, I'll be back soon."
Xu Qinyu nodded, watched her fourth brother leave the yard, and then she went back to the kitchen and started to get busy.
A lot of food needs to be fried today, so she has to prepare it quickly.
You need to use vegetable oil to fry meatballs, radish balls, and fish.
Xu Qinyu bought a few kilograms of soybean oil two days ago. Soybean oil is already available here, but it is expensive, even more expensive than lard.
Fried meatballs must be cooked with vegetable oil, which makes them taste better.
She went to the kitchen and prepared the meat filling first. When it comes to frying food, the oil temperature and the filling are both key. She made a homely flavor. She first chopped the pork into a paste, added salt, eggs, mung bean starch, a little five-spice powder and chopped green onions, and finally poured in ginger water and stirred vigorously in one direction. The ginger water can remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor. Pour it in slowly in several times.
When the oil temperature reaches 70%, she can squeeze out a plump meatball with her hands and drop it into the pan.
Wen helped her by occasionally turning the meatballs in the pan.
Pei Jianing was helping to wash and shred the radishes. The shredded radishes she cut didn't look good, but they would be blanched and chopped soon, so it didn't matter if her knife skills were not good.
The radishes here are green-skinned radishes, which are full of moisture and taste more like radishes, and are crisp and sweet.
After the meatballs were fried, Xu Qinyu tasted one. It tasted delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with juicy meat bursting out when bitten. Pei Jianing ate several in one breath. Wen also tasted one and said it was delicious. Xu Qinyu put a few more in bowls for Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er, and asked them to eat them slowly.
When they went out to check again, the little black panther was following the two children and asking for meatballs, even wagging its thin black tail.
Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er were very conflicted. The meatballs were so delicious. It was not that they were reluctant to give them up, but after their entire exile, they knew how precious food was.
Seeing the little black panther looking at them pitifully, he finally softened his heart and ate half of it and threw the other half into the little black panther's bowl.
The little black panther immediately ate half of the meatball that the two children threw to it. After eating, it squatted in front of the two children and continued to look at them eagerly.
The two children became even more confused.
Xu Qinyu couldn't help laughing, and went back to the kitchen to start frying radish balls. After blanching the shredded radish, chop it into cubes, add eggs, salt, a little five-spice powder and some chopped green onions and mix well. Finally, add flour and continue stirring in one direction until it becomes a radish paste.
The fried radish balls taste just as good as meatballs. They are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Even though they don’t have any meat filling inside, they are still very fragrant.
Not long after, Pei Weixuan also came back. He put the medicinal herbs he bought into a small stove and boiled them into a plaster. Finally, he spread it evenly on gauze to make a plaster that could be applied to the skin.
He made several plasters and gave them to Wen.
Wen took the ointment, said goodbye to her family and prepared to go out.
Xu Qinyu went over and explained it to her in detail. Only then did Wen nod heavily, "Then, Yu Niang, I'll go out first."
After Wen left, Xu Qinyu made fried fish and fried lotus root cakes.
It’s a pity that there are no sweet potatoes here, otherwise I would make some sweet potato balls, which would be sweet and soft.
After frying the food, there is still a lot of oil left, which can be collected and used to cook.
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It is said that after Wen Shi put a few plasters in her pocket, she went straight to the Wen family. It was Gui Yi Niang who opened the door. Gui Yi Niang had an old face, full of wrinkles, and her hair was almost half white. When she saw Wen Shi, she couldn't help but sigh, but didn't say anything. She let the person into the house and invited her to the ear room.
After entering the side room, Aunt Gui couldn't help but ask, "It's almost New Year's, why are you still here?"
She didn't want her daughter to wash clothes at the Wen family and be bullied by Old Lady Wen. She had been hesitant before because she knew very well that even if she told her daughter that she wanted to leave the Wen family, she would not be able to leave as long as Old Master Wen didn't let her go. It would be better not to tell her daughter this.
For more than two months, her daughter has been telling her to leave the Wen family and live outside with her and her grandson. She also said that Yu Niang is also very good and that their Pei family is very lucky to have met a good daughter-in-law like Yu Niang.
How could she not want to? How could she really want to stay in the Wen family and be tortured by Old Lady Wen?
Wen opened the door of the ear room and looked around. Seeing no one there, she leaned over and whispered a few words in Gui's ear.
After hearing this, Aunt Gui was shocked, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that this method was feasible. She knew Old Master Wen and Old Madam Wen too well and knew what kind of people they were.
She said, "Okay, I'll put it on right now."
Wen helped Concubine Gui apply a plaster under her armpits, and hid the rest under the bed. "Xuan'er said that the remaining plasters can be replaced every seven days, and it won't hurt your body, but there will be some symptoms. It's not true. Yu Niang also said that this method should work, but she asked us to keep our mouths shut. She also said that as long as we keep it a secret from the Wen family, this thing will definitely work."
Aunt Gui nodded, and she couldn't help feeling sad when she thought that at her old age, her children and grandchildren still had to worry about her.
The mother and daughter exchanged a few words in the second room when a clear female voice rang out from outside, "Aunt? But Aunt is here."
This is Wen Yunling's voice.
Wen paused, not waiting for her to respond.
Wen Yunling had already pushed open the door of the ear room and walked in directly.
Seeing Wen, she smiled and said, "It's almost New Year, why are you here, aunt?"
Wen said calmly, "I'm worried about Concubine Gui, so I came to see her."
Wen Yunling didn't even glance at Aunt Gui, and continued to talk to Wen at the door. "By the way, Aunt, I heard that Fourth Sister-in-law is selling some delicious food at a stall. Why don't you bring some for us to try? Even if you don't want to give it to us, you should bring some for Aunt Gui to try."
Wen became alert.
She said, "Yu Niang's cooking skills are just average, and the fish she cooks doesn't have that strong of a fishy smell. The people on South Street and North Street are all poor and haven't had good food. Fish is cheap and doesn't smell fishy, so naturally they treat it as meat to satisfy their cravings. Besides, Auntie is old, and eating fish can easily cause choking, so I didn't bring any. I usually just buy some buns and wontons on the way and bring them to Auntie."
She did not usually bring food made by Yu Niang to Aunt Gui, and that was because of Yu Niang's cooking skills and the Wen family.
Because Yu Niang's cooking skills are so amazing, she has been eating food from the imperial kitchen for twenty years, and no other imperial chef's cooking skills can match Yu Niang's.
Yu Niang’s cooking skills are very good, but it might also easily get her into trouble, so she would never brag about her cooking skills to the Wen family.
What if she brought it to the Wen family to see, let them eat it, and know about Yu Niang's cooking skills, what would they think of it? Gui Yi Niang was still at the Wen family, so what if she used Gui Yi Niang to threaten Yu Niang? So she knew that Gui Yi Niang was not full at the Wen family and would not bring food made by Yu Niang. She would just buy some meat buns and wontons on the street and bring them to Gui Yi Niang.
After listening to it, Wen Yunling felt that it made some sense, but she also felt something was wrong. The two brothers Wen Shuncheng and Wen Shungong said that people on South Street praised the fish cooked by Xu Qinyu as very delicious.
But when she thought about it carefully, she realized how old Xu Qinyu was, only fifteen at most. How could she possibly compete with the chef who had been in charge of the cooking for many years?
I guess it's just that his cooking skills are pretty good, and he happens to know some recipes for cooking fish, so the fish he cooks doesn't have a fishy smell, and he sells it cheaply, making hard-earned money.
Wen Yunling lost interest after hearing this. Without saying goodbye to Wen and Aunt Gui, she left the ear room and walked out the door.
After she came back yesterday, she cried to her grandmother and said that her two half-brothers from the third house did not help her and allowed outsiders to bully her. Her grandmother was really furious and wanted to make trouble for the two half-brothers, but they did not come back. No one knew where they ran off to, and they did not come back until dinner time.
Those two brats, if you have the guts, never come back to the Wen family!
Seeing that Wen Yunling had finally left, Wen Shi didn't want to stay any longer, so she said a few words to Gui Yi Niang. She knew that Gui Yi Niang was a soft-hearted person, but she was never a talkative person, and she was even very tight-lipped. She would never tell this matter to anyone.
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Xu Qinyu had already fried the fish pieces and lotus root dumplings, so there was no need to prepare anything else.
Over the next two days, she had a rare break and did some house cleaning. Wen wouldn't let her touch anything, saying that she was busy enough on weekdays and it was a rare opportunity for her to take a few days off, so she should just rest. It happened that the weather was sunny these days, so during the day she would move a small stool and sit in the yard to watch the two children, eating melon seeds and spiced peanuts, and watching the little black panther running around the yard with a stick in its mouth, or running around with the little white jade in its mouth.
After more than two months of contact with the little white snake, Xu Qinyu feels that she is not so afraid of snakes anymore.
No, she should not be that afraid of Baiyu. Apart from being a snake, it looks pretty and is not poisonous, so it won't give people goose bumps. If she encounters other cobras and rattlesnakes, she can jump three feet high.
Although the little white snake was eating and sleeping all the time, it looked much bigger than when the fourth brother brought it back.
Xu Qinyu sat in the yard eating melon seeds, watching her mother-in-law, Ning Jie'er, and fourth brother all busy themselves.
Ning Jie'er had no complaints when she saw her fourth sister-in-law resting. She knew how tired her fourth sister-in-law was from cooking every day. However, she was a bit childish after all. While she was working, she would run over to her fourth sister-in-law and eat some melon seeds with her, and then go back to help with the work.
Looking at Wen, Xu Qinyu felt that Wen was the kind of mother-in-law that her daughter-in-law would like no matter what era. Wen had been a queen and had a very gentle personality. She was willing to take care of all the housework in the family. Even her daily underwear was washed by Wen. She was actually quite embarrassed and wanted to wash it herself, but Wen refused, saying it was just a matter of convenience. She also said that she was tired enough every day and she didn't need to worry about other housework.
In every household in Guihua Lane, the daughter-in-law does the work, not only cooking but also washing clothes for the whole family.
There are probably not many mothers-in-law in this era who are willing to help their daughter-in-law wash her underwear.
After resting for two days, Xu Qinyu felt much better.
Chinese New Year is coming tomorrow, and the family plans to have a reunion dinner in the evening, and then go shopping in the market.
This was the first year Xu Qinyu had spent here. She didn't know what she was feeling. In her previous life, she was an orphan, without family and helpless. She didn't know why her parents abandoned her. The mother in the welfare home said that she was picked up from a trash can. Someone passing by heard her crying, crying like a kitten. When they looked inside, they saw a baby in a cradle. If someone hadn't heard her crying that night, she might have been thrown into the garbage truck as garbage and died long ago.
Finally, she has family in this life. She has taken over the body of her original body. She wonders how her original body's parents are doing in the capital. She hopes everyone has a happy new year and good luck.
Turning over, Xu Qinyu wiped the corners of her eyes and prepared to go to sleep.
She heard Pei Jianing talking to her, "Fourth sister-in-law."
Xu Qinyu nodded.
Pei Jianing: "Tomorrow is Chinese New Year."
Not only Xu Qinyu felt sad, but everyone in the Pei family couldn't sleep.
Xu Qinyu nodded again.
"Fourth sister-in-law, thank you." Pei Jianing said in a low voice.
If it weren't for Fourth Sister-in-law, their family didn't know whether they could survive in this place. Even if they survived, it would probably be extremely hard. Now, because of Fourth Sister-in-law, their family has no worries about food and drink. She is really grateful to Fourth Sister-in-law.
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "We are all family, let's work together to live a good life."
After the New Year, she had some other ideas. After Concubine Gui came back, Wen Shi would not have to go to the Wen family to wash clothes for Concubine Gui. At that time, she wanted Wen Shi and Ning Jie'er to make bags at home and sell them.
Yes, it is a must-have item that almost every woman in modern society has, a bag.
This was what she thought two days ago when she saw those purses in Xia's sister-in-law's cloth shop.
The girls here carry purses with them when they go out, but the purses can hardly hold anything else except some small change, so she came up with this idea. Bags are a must-have for fashion. Even if it is not for fashion, it is very convenient to carry a bag on your back or in your hand when going out. She thought about giving it a try. If it really works, Wen and Ning Jie'er will have their own things to do.
She hopes that Wen and Ning Jie'er can also have their own careers.
She would set up a stall for a few months after the New Year, which would be enough to open a restaurant. She could then hire some helpers and waiters, and take in a few apprentices, so that Wen and Ning Jie'er wouldn't have to worry about her business all the time.
As for her fourth brother, she has not yet thought of what he can do, so let him continue to help her. He is very skilled in pounding fish paste and killing fish.
As she was thinking, Xu Qinyu fell asleep in a daze.
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