When Xu Qinyu saw that figure, she knew that her and her fourth brother's plan had succeeded. She heard that the old master had written a letter to Gui Yi Niang to release the concubine.
Why was it a letter of concubine and not a divorce or a divorce? Because even though Concubine Gui was only able to escape slavery and become a concubine because her mother-in-law became the empress, the title of concubine was simply a nice word. Even if they wanted a divorce, they couldn't treat her like a wife, so they could only issue a letter of concubine. If Wen was still the empress, the Wen family might have feared the empress issuing a letter of divorce.
In short, a concubine is not considered a real wife, and divorce is impossible even if you go to the government. Only by getting a letter of release as a concubine can you truly part ways.
Seeing Aunt Gui hunched over, Xu Qinyu turned around and called out into the house.
"Mom, grandma is back."
When Wen and Ning heard the noise, they both ran out.
Several people helped Concubine Gui into the house. Concubine Gui did take the letter of release as a concubine, as well as twenty taels of silver. Xu Qinyu didn't expect that Old Master Wen would give twenty taels of silver to Concubine Gui.
Twenty taels is twenty taels. Although it is a little less, it is silver after all. You can keep it as private money for Aunt Gui.
Needless to say, Wen wiped her eyes, went to the kitchen to prepare food, and boiled water, intending to wait for Concubine Gui to finish her breakfast before giving her a good wash.
Xu Qinyu also breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at Pei Weixuan and smiled at him.
Pei Weixuan also looked at Yu Niang, and his heart felt soft.
There was no leftover breakfast, and Xu Qinyu's meals were basically just enough for the whole family.
Aunt Gui was weak and couldn't eat anything too nourishing. Since there was fish at home, she made porridge with raw fish slices.
While she was cooking porridge, Wen first boiled some hot water and went into the house to help Gui Yi Niang wash up. When she saw the wound under Gui Yi Niang's armpit that had become ulcerated due to long-term application of ointment, Wen's hands trembled.
How could the ointment not cause any harm at all?
Aunt Gui touched Wen's cheek and smiled gently, "Don't worry, Yan'er, I'm fine. Brother Xuan said that you won't need to use this ointment and you'll be fine soon."
Wen has a very nice name, Wen Yan.
Aunt Gui didn't even bring a change of clothes, and wore Wen's clothes. Wen herself was a little thin, but her daughter's clothes were a little big for Aunt Gui.
When the two men came out, Aunt Gui was already clean and refreshed, and her hunched back was straighter.
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Grandma, I made some raw fish porridge. You can eat it first. It's good for your stomach."
When Aunt Gui sat in the kitchen and ate porridge, she found it smooth and thick, and the fish was tender and smooth without any fishy smell. Aunt Gui was stunned for a moment and couldn't help looking at her like her grandson's wife.
During the time when her daughter was the queen, she lived a good life in the Wen family. She had eaten all kinds of delicacies from land and sea, and even had royal banquets in the palace. However, those royal banquets could not compare to the cooking skills of her grandson's wife.
This fish porridge was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten.
Aunt Gui couldn't help but feel lucky that she had left the Wen family, otherwise it would be disastrous if the Wen family knew about her granddaughter-in-law's cooking skills.
Aunt Gui suddenly became worried. "I left the Wen family because I had tuberculosis. After all, Yuniang runs a food business. What if the Wen family knew that Yuniang was doing well and said I had tuberculosis, and no one dared to buy Yuniang's food anymore?"
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Don't worry, grandma. When the medicine wears off, I will make you plump and white with a rosy complexion. By then, you won't look like you have tuberculosis. We are not blind and will be able to tell the difference. Even if the Wen family insists on it, we won't admit it and will say it was a misdiagnosis. As long as you take good care of yourself, we have nothing to fear."
People with tuberculosis look very thin and have a very bad complexion. As long as Gui's health is improved, everyone can see it.
I will never admit to faking illness.
Even if it is, it was a misdiagnosis by the doctor.
I feel a little sorry for those two old doctors.
Concubine Gui was also kidnapped by kidnappers and then sold to a pawnshop. She was bought by the Cheng family, the family of Old Lady Wen, to be a maid for Old Lady Wen, Cheng. She grew up with Cheng. When she was bought by the Cheng family, she had been kidnapped for several years. She was beaten and scolded by the kidnappers all day long and had almost forgotten her own name. After she was bought by the Cheng family, Cheng gave her the name Guihua.
Now that she had left the Wen family, she was no longer the Wen family's concubine or aunt.
She is Gui.
After eating the fish porridge, Gui wanted to help with the work, but Wen persuaded her to take a rest.
She hadn't been eating or sleeping well these days, and her body was exhausted. Gui was also aware of her physical condition and knew that only by taking good care of her body would she not bring trouble to her children and grandchildren, so she went back to the west room to rest.
The west room was the largest, so Gui lived in it with Wen and Yan Jie'er.
Before Gui went to rest, Xu Qinyu formally introduced the other two members of the family to her.
White jade and black jade.
Bai Yu disappeared. Since the weather gradually became warmer after the New Year, the little white snake no longer needed to hibernate. It was awake every day. From time to time, it would come to Xu Qinyu to ask for fish fillets to eat. At other times, it would find a place to coil up.
It can no longer be called a little white snake, as it looks to be as thick as three fingers.
When Bai Yu first came home, she was only as thick as a finger, small and delicate.
Xu Qinyu also discussed with Pei Weixuan when to send Baiyu back to the mountains. In fact, after raising it for more than three months, she was a little reluctant to let it go. But when she thought about it, if it really grew into a big python in the future, she would be a little scared, but more afraid of scaring other people.
Fourth brother said that he would send Baiyu back to the mountains in the next two days.
As for Mo Yu, there is no change, except that he has grown a lot bigger, about ten pounds, and is well-fed by Xu Qinyu. He likes to stick to Xu Qinyu the most. Basically, when Xu Qinyu is at home, Mo Yu follows him wherever he goes. At other times, he is still very naughty and likes to play with Bai Yu. He also wants to run around with Bai Yu in his mouth like when he was a child.
But Baiyu has grown a lot and is awake, so how could it be held in its mouth?
It is common to see Bai Yu entangled with Mo Yu, the two rolling on the ground.
Sometimes Xu Qinyu felt that the white jade was a little scaly.
It's probably the frizzy hair of a furry animal.
Gui smiled and said, "I know everything."
She saw the little black panther when she came back.
As for the white snake, she was not surprised at all. Her grandson Xuan Ge'er liked to keep some strange pets when he was in the palace.
Baiyu was probably afraid of Moyu, and no one knew where she was hiding at the moment. She was not in the yard.
Gui stayed at Pei's house.
In the next few days, Xu Qinyu was busy at home except for making braised fish and pork intestines. She had a lot of free time, and she spent the rest of her time thinking about what food to cook for Gui to nourish her body.
Pei Weixuan also took Gui's pulse and said that she was just weak in health but had no other major illness. As long as she took good care of herself, she would be well in a month or two.
The ointment had just worn off, and Aunt Gui still had a cough these past few days, but not as severe as she had at the Wen family.
In addition to fish porridge, he would also stew soda and steam meat for Aunt Gui every day, and the two children at home could also eat it.
Xu Qinyu also specifically asked Uncle He if he could buy cow's milk or goat's milk from the villagers.
Goat milk and cow milk are the most nutritious.
Not many people in the town raise cattle and sheep, so goat milk and cow milk are hard to find, so we asked Uncle He to help keep an eye out in the village.
Two days later, Mr. He really found the milk. He must have gone to other villages to look for it.
Xu Qinyu inquired and learned that it was indeed in the village next door to Uncle He's. The family's buffalo had given birth to a calf, and the calf had more milk than it could drink. Buffalo milk is also very nutritious, but it has a fishy taste. Besides the calf, the family didn't drink much of it. Knowing they could sell the milk, they were naturally delighted.
Ten cents for a bucket, which weighs about eleven or twelve pounds.
It is freshly squeezed every day, and then delivered to Guihua Lane by Uncle He when he delivers fish, placed in a small wooden barrel with a lid.
With this bucket of milk, Xu Qinyu was happy and immediately made caramel milk tea for everyone.
It’s just that the tea leaves are not good enough, otherwise the milk tea could taste better.
She didn't add too much sugar when frying the tea leaves, so it was just slightly sweet, but the taste was very mellow and full of milk flavor.
Gui could drink some, but since it was tea, she couldn't drink too much. Xu Qinyu used some ginger and almonds to boil fresh buffalo milk for Gui to drink. It tasted very mellow and had no milky taste.
Xu Qinyu drank a large bowl of milk tea with satisfaction. Even the fourth brother seemed to like caramel milk tea very much. He drank two sips and looked at Yu Niang after finishing it, probably feeling a little embarrassed.
Xu Qinyu used the ten pounds of buffalo milk delivered on the first day to boil pure milk for Gui, and made caramel milk tea with the rest. She also sent some to Xia's sister-in-law, and each member of the Xia family received a bowl.
Lian Zhuzi and Xiao Cui were there too. The whole family was drinking a bowl of hot milk tea, feeling so comfortable and relaxed.
Xiao Cui couldn't help but sigh, "It must be very happy to be a family with Miss Xu."
Miss Xu can even make milk, which others don't like to drink, taste so sweet and delicious.
Wu chuckled and said, "That's right. It was a blessing for the young man from the Pei family to marry Miss Xu."
On this day, the whole Guixiang Lane could smell a sweet and fragrant scent.
A few days later, Xu Qinyu used the buffalo milk delivered to her to make caramel milk tea again. She also made double-skin milk, egg cake with milk, ginger milk, milk custard, milk cake, milk steamed buns, and custard buns. She tried them all.
Feng'er and Yan'er were so happy while eating.
The custard buns are a simple version, without butter. They are steamed with eggs, flour, sugar, milk and oil. They need to be stirred three times during steaming to form the custard filling.
In fact, she could also make butter. Butter is the cream that is separated at the end after being beaten. Without a whisk, it would be extremely labor-intensive, so she naturally gave up.
Needless to say, the custard buns tasted great, full of milky flavor and had a runny filling.
There is too little milk, just enough for our family. If we want to make milk buns and custard buns to sell, we need a lot of milk, but the supply is insufficient, so we have no such idea for the time being.
However, ten kilograms of milk can also make a lot of milk buns and custard buns.
There was enough food for the family, and the extra food was sold to the Xia family and Xu Kongmu's family.
A steamed bun with milk is two cents each, and a steamed bun with milk yolk is three cents each.
The milk steamed buns are quite big, while the custard buns are very small, about the size of a fist, but both the Xia and Xu families prefer to buy custard buns.
Xu Yunlan from Xu Kongmu's family prefers custard buns. She never knew that sweet buns could be made like this.
Xu Yunlan asked her father to bring back some more custard buns after leaving the government office in the evening.
As she ate the custard buns, she felt both happy and conflicted. She wanted her best friend to have a taste of the delicious custard buns, but she was also afraid that her best friend would lose control of her appetite after knowing about it.
But she really didn't dare. Last time when she entertained the county magistrate, the county magistrate told her before he left not to tell Zhizhi that there was a chef with excellent cooking skills in Yuanbao Town, and he was afraid that Zhizhi would be greedy.
Zhizhi is the county magistrate's daughter and also her best friend. They have known each other for many years and have played together since childhood.
Zhizhi is too fat, which has some impact on her health.
Even she could eat several custard buns in one go and still feel unsatisfied, so how could Zhizhi resist?
Xu Yunlan was just thinking about it when the little maid at home called out in the yard, "Miss, Miss Zhizhi is here to look for you."
Xu Yunlan was startled when she heard this. She quickly stuffed the custard bun in her hand into her mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it, almost choking. She didn't have time to hide the last custard bun on the plate, so she stuffed it into the small cabinet next to her along with the plate.
Just as she hid her things, a plump girl wearing a grass-green silk jacket with twined flowers and a crescent-colored long skirt embroidered with plum blossoms came running in.
This girl is indeed a little overweight, with a very obvious double chin, and is almost twice the size of Xu Yunlan, but she is very fair-skinned, with big, watery eyes, willow-shaped eyebrows, and rosy lips. She is a lovely fat girl.
As soon as the fat girl entered the room, she smelled a sweet and fragrant smell. She grabbed her best friend and asked, "Yunlan, what did you eat?"
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