Chapter 187

During the Mengxia season, it was half sunny and half cloudy, and it was still raining heavily in the early morning. In the afternoon, the clouds parted to reveal the sun, and the clear sky saw birds flying. The children in the neighborhood were holding small dragonflies made of bamboo and laughing and joking in the alley. Chasing and fighting back and forth.

Seeing this scene, the passing load carrier shouted "yo yo yo" and told the children to be careful not to hit his load.

"Hey, little brother, do you have any tofu?"

The salesman who was walking in front stopped and shouted, "Yes, auntie, how much do you want to buy?"

"Give me ten cents."

The fat man said Auntie stuffed a handful of money into the hands of the salesman and put the wooden basin in front of him.

The salesman raised his knife and cut a large piece of white tofu into a wooden basin.

"Thank you, Auntie, for the favor." The salesman smiled and put the money away.

Behind, the door of a courtyard creaked open, and Yan Quyue waved to the salesman.

The salesman came over with a load and asked her if she wanted to buy tofu.

Yan Quyue asked: "How many more are there?"

Hearing this tone, the salesman became happy and took away the rag on the cargo pallet with a smile, revealing half a basket of tofu inside.

"Little lady, are these enough?" he asked, rubbing his hands.

Yan Quyue nodded and asked him to bring in the load. She led the way and led him to see Uncle Jin.

At the beginning of the month, the Yan family would make banquets, and all the Yan family's practitioners and mark masters would come. It was lively, with dozens of people.

After buying these tofu, the kitchen lady immediately took them and processed them.

As the girl in the family, Yan Quyue also helps out. But she didn't know how to cook, and Uncle Jin, wet nurse and others didn't let her do rough work, so she chose an easy job and was responsible for purchasing ingredients.

"Uncle Jin, what else is missing?" Yan Quyue asked.

"We've run out of spices at home, Sister Yue, go buy some." Uncle Jin said, remembering something, and asked Yan Quyue to bring two Lianjiazi, "We've almost used the rice at home, Sister Yue, go and buy some." You can buy four or five kilograms of rice from the store. If you come across some old rice, you can buy some too."

"Okay," Yan Quyue agreed.

She went to the warehouse to withdraw five ounces of money, and then went to pick out two skilled practitioners from among the guards.

The Yan family keeps two mules, one of which is harnessed to a carriage, used to carry people on trips and to receive guests. A mule is tied to a wooden cart and is used to pull goods daily. The mule is very strong and can pull goods weighing more than several hundred kilograms.

Yan Quyue jumped onto the wooden cart with great skill. One of the trainees was driving the cart, and the other was walking beside him.

They went to the spice shop first.

Yan Quyue is very familiar with spices. Her family is a tenderer and has entrusted many goods in the past. Among them, the most valuable ones are spices shipped to Sichuan from exotic places such as Jisi Prefecture or Turpan, which are under the jurisdiction of the Qiang people.

What the bandits rob the most are these expensive spices. If you want to safely transport the goods to the Central Plains and sell them, you need those honest sellers.

There are more than one private marking firms in Zhaohua, and the Yan family is just one of them. They only have more than 30 marking experts. Sometimes, if they are not dealing with expensive items, only seven or eight people can do it.

But if it comes to goods like spices, almost everyone will go out. Yan Jingming is the head of the family, so he must follow the bid. As for Yan Quyue...

Yan Quyue curled her lips and thought, her brother always treats her as a little lady, so wait She and her sister-in-law Wen Shujin were not allowed to follow them in dangerous places.

"Miss Yue, we've arrived." Lian Jiazi, who was driving the car, jumped out of the car. As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Quyue got off the wooden cart.

She shook the slightly wrinkled hem of her skirt and entered with her face raised.

When the shopkeeper in the spice shop saw her coming, he smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Mrs. Yan, what are you here to buy today?"

Yan Quyue said, "Weigh out some of the spices used for cooking. It doesn't take too much." , I didn’t bring that much money.”

“Easy to say.” The shopkeeper clicked the abacus in his hand, and asked with a smile, “Why did your Yan family take so long to bid this time? Could it be that they ran far away?

” He said: "Not far away, we went to Pu'an."

They stayed in Pu'an for a few days, and then went to several places along the county seat. Each time they stayed for a few days to purchase goods, but they were delayed when they came back.

Naturally, there is no need to explain these words to others in detail.

The shopkeeper couldn't get any information from her, so he secretly thought that she was such a strict-mouthed little lady, and he wanted to ask if the Yan family was going to Mianzhou recently.

"I don't know." Yan Quyue shook her head and said to him, "If you want to know, just ask my brother."

There was a hint of reluctance in the shopkeeper's smile, and he could only respond vaguely.

After buying the spices, Yan Quyue took Lian Jiazi to the rice store not far away.

As soon as they arrived at the place, they saw many poor people in patched clothes gathered outside Mihang.

Seeing this scene, Yan Quyue knew that this was the rice store that Mihang was releasing today.

"There are too many people here." A practitioner frowned and looked at Yan Quyue worriedly, "Mrs. Yue, why don't we go and ask? You can rest in the car for a while."

"There's no need to be like this. Please, I'll ask for the price. You and Fourth Brother will guard the car and don't let anyone drag the mule away." Yan Quyue waved her hand and squeezed into the crowd alone.

There were too many people crowded in the rice row.

Not long after Xu Yi and the others arrived, the space where they were standing was crowded by several people in rags, and the smell lingered.

"..."

Misstep.

There's really no way to pretend that this kind of smell doesn't exist.

A Xu and the others thought it was okay and continued to look left and right. At first they didn't know why Xu Yi wanted to squat on the old rice. Later they found out that Xu Yi wanted to use the old rice to make herbal tea, so they followed with interest. Came over.

"Lang Jun, why aren't there any grains in the rice store yet?"

Xu Yi said, "It's almost time."

He didn't lie. There were several guards in the rice store who looked like Lian Jiazi, carrying dozens of bags of rice and piling them up in the rice store. In front of the store.

Those who were waiting for Chen Cangmi were so excited that they pushed forward, and the crowded crowd became more and more noisy.

Yan Quyue finally squeezed in, but got a headache from the noise.

She frowned slightly, buying food was not an easy task.

In the crowd, Yan Quyue looked around with eyes, glanced ahead, and saw Xu Yi, who was frowning as he was being frantically rubbed one after another.

At this time, Xu Yi felt someone looking at him from a distance of several people. He turned around and met Yan Quyue's eyes in the crowd.

The two of them were stunned for a moment, neither of them expected to meet each other in this place. Then Mihang began to put grain out, leaving them no time to worry about anything else.

Yan Quyue moved her fingers on the handle of the scimitar, and she saw a beautiful female envoy next to Xu Yi, smiling and talking to him.

She looked away, wondering whether Dr. Xu had a young lady by his side and what it had to do with her.

...

In the time of half a stick of incense, it was Xu Yi's turn to buy food.

It was almost time for Xu Yi and the others to leave, so they needed to prepare some food for the trip.

He asked for one stone of fine rice, five bushels of brown rice, and three bushels of red beans, mung beans, and soybeans.

After buying these, Xu Yi turned his attention to Chencang rice.

The price of old rice is less than half the price of new rice. It is cheap, only thirty-five cents per bushel and three hundred and fifty cents per stone.

Xu Yi planned to buy it to make medicinal tea, so he didn't need to buy much, so he only needed two buckets.

After this trip, he bought more than two shi of food.

The donkey cart they rode in was big enough to carry these, and there was more than enough space left for other things.

A Xu and Er Qing, carrying food on their backs, hurriedly squeezed out of the crowd.

Xu Yi turned back and looked in the direction of Mi Xing. The figure of the Yan family's young lady was particularly conspicuous in the crowd. He saw it as soon as he looked.

Today, the young lady of the Yan family is wearing green bamboo-colored clothes, and her hair is combed into a bun, with a few strands of hair floating playfully in the air.

The green bamboo color was particularly familiar...

Xu Yi was stunned for a long time. For a moment, there was such a familiar scene in his memory. He remembered that he had seen it in Pu'an.

"Lang Jun, it's time for us to leave."

Behind them, Ah Jin and the others were urging them.

Xu Yi stopped thinking, turned back to the donkey cart, and bent down to get into the carriage.

Ah Jin lay by the car window and looked outside. Seeing Xu Yi coming back, he asked with a smile, "What are you doing, Mr. Lang? Did you meet someone you know?" "

No." Xu Yi shook his head.

Ah Jin didn't believe it and said, "Just now, Er Qing and I saw it."

Xu Yi raised his eyes and looked at them: "What did we see?"

Er Qing's face instantly turned red and hesitantly whispered: "We saw Xu Yi The doctor seems to be looking at a little lady."

Xu Yi: "..." Very good, his innocence is gone.

"No, you got it wrong." Xu Yi couldn't laugh or cry and told them not to think too much.

He looked at the young lady from the Yan family and thought she was a little special.

It's just a little different from seeing other people.

They were leaving Zhaohua soon, and Xu Yi firmly thought that there would be no other unexpected developments between him and Miss Yan.

...

Back at the inn, Xu Yi took the newly bought Chencang rice without stopping and took it to the room.

When closing the door, he pulled A Xu and asked him to give him the persimmons in the car.

The persimmon cake started talking about last autumn, when they passed by a village and saw many persimmon trees planted in the village.

It was the season when persimmons were ripe, so Xu Yi bought a basket of persimmons from the villagers.

There were so many persimmons that they couldn't finish them all no matter how much they could eat, so Xu Yi made the extra persimmons into persimmon cakes for easy storage.

Later, everyone got tired of eating persimmons and left a bag in the cage where no one touched it.

A Xu was counting things in the past two days and turned it out.

After half a year, the persimmons are still good and edible.

Xu Yi saw a thick layer of persimmon frost on the persimmons, and immediately thought of a medicinal tea recipe to appetize and strengthen the spleen.

However, they all had good spleens and stomachs, so Xu Yi had no intention of trying it since they didn't need this recipe.

Unexpectedly, yesterday, the inn lady Xi Rou suddenly came to see him for medical treatment. Her illness was exactly that of deficiency and swelling.

Xu Yi told her that he had a prescription that could treat asthenia and bloating. There was no need to drink medicinal soup, just use medicinal tea instead.

Moreover, this herbal tea can not only be drank, but also eaten, and can be taken as breakfast.

After hearing this, Xi Rou agreed on the spot.

It is said that good medicine tastes bitter, and there is no medicine that is not bitter. If you really don’t need to drink medicine, why not do it.

So, today we went to the rice store to buy old rice.

You cannot wash the old rice you bought. Use a clay pot as a pot. Pour it in and stir-fry over low heat until the outside of the old rice turns yellow and has a burnt aroma.

Then, you can pour in water and boil it until cooked.

After cooking, pour it into a bowl, sprinkle the persimmon frost scraped from the persimmon cake into it, mix and dissolve, and the "Chen Cang Rice Persimmon Frost Tea" is ready.

Xu Yi opened the door and called A Jin to come over.

"Send this bowl of medicinal tea to Madam Xi."

Downstairs.

Xi Rou knew about it when Xu Yi and the others came back. She sent the waiter to help A Xu and the others, but A Xu politely refused.

The waiter came back aggrievedly: "People think I'm clumsy."

Xirou rolled her eyes, waved her fan and said: "Go, go, you're just a drag, you have nothing to do here, go to the kitchen to boil some hot water , There will be customers asking for tea, and they don’t even have a cup of hot tea.”

The waiter responded gloomily and ran to the kitchen to help.

As soon as he left, Ah Jin came over with herbal tea.

Xi Rou took the pottery bowl from her hand with a smile on her face and looked at the clarified medicinal tea inside. It smelled of a burnt aroma and for a moment she couldn't guess what was used in it.

Xi Rou asked in surprise: "This is the herbal tea for me? Why does it smell so good?"

A Jin said: "Mr. Lang said this is called 'Chen Cang Rice Persimmon Frost Tea'. Madam Xi, please try it while it's hot."

Xi Rou Hearing this name, he looked strange. Is there anyone named like this?

Without thinking much, she turned the spoon and drank casually from the bowl. After drinking, she saw the burnt rice inside, scooped it into her mouth and chewed it.

This burnt rice is very fragrant, and you can't taste a trace of the rotten smell of rice that has been stored for a long time.

"This rice..." Xi Rou was extremely surprised, "How did you do this? You just fry it until it becomes fragrant, but you can't taste the taste of old rice."

The fragrance is also different from the taste of new rice, except that it is It's delicious, Xi Rou can't describe anything else.

"It needs to be stir-fried over low heat, otherwise it will be bitter and you won't be able to make herbal tea." Ah Jin said softly, "Just cook the rest." Xi

Rou smiled while holding the empty bowl, she was a simple person. Method.

Ah Jin asked her on behalf of Xu Yi: "Ms. Xi, we also have a bag of persimmons with persimmon frost on them. Do you want them?"

"For me?" Xi Rou's eyes lit up.

Ah Jin nodded and said, "We don't need it. Madam Xi will take it back and make herbal tea a few times. This recipe is nourishing but not overwhelming. It can whet your appetite and refresh your mind."

"Then thank Dr. Xu for me." Xi Rou was not polite. With this bag of persimmons, she didn't have to look for the persimmons waiting for frost.

In the next two days, she took the persimmon cake cream and brewed herbal tea four times, using all the Chencang rice she bought.

In just two days, the bloating disappeared completely, and even when I ate the hard-to-melt bean cakes, I didn’t feel bloated anymore.

Not only that, even her appetite had improved, she was eating a few more mouthfuls of rice, and Xirou felt her waist was tight when she was getting dressed.

There is also Wen Shujin who has the same worries.

Since Wen Shujin drank the medicinal tea prescribed by Xu Yi, her appetite has obviously improved in the past few days.

On the first day, she only felt that she had eaten, had no belching, and had no other reactions.

The next day... She looked at the food on the table, hesitated for a moment, and took a few more bites. I was worried that eating a few more mouthfuls would cause stomach discomfort. I waited, but there was no uncomfortable reaction at all.

Wen Shujin was shocked, this medicinal tea was more effective than the medicinal soup.

Even the brothers and sisters of the Yan family were extremely happy when they saw their wife/sister-in-law's face glowing and having an appetite.

But seeing that Xu Yi was really capable, the problems that had troubled them for several years were now easily solved.

Yan Jingming pinched his wife's soft fingers and whispered softly: "Since Dr. Xu is so skilled in medicine, why don't we invite him to take care of your body."

"I have a weak spleen and stomach, and this herbal tea will help me. " That's enough." Wen Shujin took her hand out of her husband's hand and glared at him a little shyly. Didn't she see Sister Yue standing by?

Yan Quyue was not surprised, with no unnecessary expression on her face, she nodded seriously and said: "Sister-in-law, my brother is right, you should take good care of your body, otherwise I want to go somewhere farther away. Even my brother disagrees. "

Your brother is also thinking about you." Wen Shujin, with soft eyes, pulled Yan Quyue and said, "You are not young anymore. You have to think about the future. Such a big girl spends all day with those masters. "It's not good either."

Yan Quyue didn't care much and sat down with her sister-in-law: "What's the matter? They can't beat me. Besides, they don't dare to bully me either. I beat them until their teeth were all over the floor."

Yan Jingming slapped his forehead in pain, God, how could he raise such a sister.

Wen Shujin's face darkened, thinking about the matchmakers she had gone to these past few days to bring up Sister Yue's marriage again. All those people looked disgusted, and her chest ached with anger just thinking about it.

She said sadly: "We didn't do anything bad, but there are many people making irresponsible remarks outside, and you don't even know it. Now it's spreading more and more. We tried to find a good son-in-law for you in Zhaohua, but we couldn't find one. "

Then don't look for her..." Yan Quyue was halfway through her words. Seeing her sister-in-law's face, she swallowed her words and did not continue.

She was also depressed. Wouldn't it be better to keep her for a few more years?

Yan Jingming sneered and said: "I do, but I don't want to be poked in the back, scolded as such a bad person, and won't let my sister get married."

Yan Quyue was helpless: "..."

How can this world be so annoying? Disgusted.

"Stop talking about these words, sister-in-law, please ask Dr. Xu to take care of your health." After saying that, she winked at Yan Jingming. In Yan Jingming's eyes, his wife's body is particularly important. On this point, the brother and sister Stand together.

It was Uncle Jin who took the initiative to invite people.

Unfortunately, Uncle Jin went to the countryside today to arrange the distribution of Chencang rice.

Uncle Jin was not at home, so he ordered the family's Lian family to invite him, but it was not polite enough.

After thinking about it, Yan Quyue said, "I'll go."

Wen Shujin couldn't help but smile and said, "Interesting, when has Sister Yue ever cared about such matters?"

Yan Quyue said, "It's about my sister-in-law's health. How could I not take it seriously?"

After saying this, Wen Shujin couldn't help but laugh, saying that she was so careless that she arranged it like this.

Yan Quyue listened with one ear and missed the words with the other, thinking that her sister-in-law was laughing at her again.

She was brought up by her brother, and she remembers how good her brother was to her and how well her sister-in-law was to her.

Sometimes her sister-in-law worries about her, and Yan Quyue doesn't know it. But among those who came to propose marriage, she didn't like any of them.

I remembered that when she was fourteen or fifteen, she had a very close friend. That good friend was fair-skinned and beautiful. Unlike her, she was a sister from a wealthy family. She was well-educated and proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. She didn't like to wield swords or guns. She was a lovely person. Even Yan Quyue felt that her friend deserved a good marriage.

But who knows, her family picked a dandy for her, and he treated her badly after they got married. He was still out playing with flowers and flirting with butterflies, staying at night in a tiled house, claiming that he wanted to study to gain fame, but the result was not good. He spent the whole day begging for money from his parents at home, and used the money to live happily.

In just two years, he took in two of her maids as concubines, and didn't take his wife seriously at all. In just two years, she became even more different. Compared with before she got married, her temperament had changed drastically. She cried day and night without saying a word, and her health was in bad shape. She even refused to see Yan Quyue.

They said it was her husband's family and would not allow her to meet Yan Quyue, fearing that she would learn from Yan Quyue and ruin the reputation of her husband's family...

Every time Yan Quyue thought about this, she thought, this woman in the world Most of them are unable to control themselves, and they are locked in a deep garden all their lives, and they are not allowed to take a wrong step.

Even if she hates her husband so much for courting Qin Muchu and being greedy for sex, she can't be jealous or hateful, and she can even lead that man to be her sister with a smile.

If it were her, she wouldn't be such a woman.

Yan Quyue rubbed her wrist and sneered, if she married such a man, don't blame her for being cruel.

Outside the carriage, the handlebar shouted to her: "Miss Yue, the inn has arrived."

Yan Quyue opened the curtain and got out of the car, walking lightly into the inn. She supported the counter with her arms, glanced around, and asked He said, "Which room is Doctor Xu in? Take me to see him."

The waiter was stunned for a while, then coughed and said, "Miss Yan, why are you here?"

"Didn't I tell you to come to see Doctor Xu?" Qu Yue raised her eyebrows, "Where are the others?"

The waiter shrank his shoulders and looked a little afraid of her. When she looked over, he immediately pointed to the room upstairs and whispered the name of the room.

Yan Quyue smiled and said: "Thank you."

The waiter: "..." You're too polite.

Yan Quyue looked at him with a smile that did not diminish, but she had no intention of teasing him, so she turned around and left.

At the entrance of the stairs, a tall man walked down. It was Xu Yi who was wearing a crescent-colored gown.

"Doctor Xu." Yan Quyue spoke first.

Xu Yi had already seen her. Seeing this, he walked over quickly and asked, "What's wrong with Miss Yan?"

Yan Quyue said, "Please go to my sister-in-law for medical treatment."

When Xu Yi heard this, he frowned slightly and said, "Spleen and Stomach" The feud is not over yet?"

Yan Quyue shook her head and said, "Okay, I want you to take care of my sister-in-law's health."

Xu Yi understood immediately that it was for something else. In addition to the long-term disharmony between the spleen and stomach, Mrs. Yan's body is congenitally weak and cold. If she takes good care of her body, there will be no problem.

"Doctor Xu, are you free now?" Yan Quyue looked at him with twinkling eyes and asked.

Xu Yi lowered his eyes and said, "If you are free, Miss Yan, wait for me for a moment, and I will get the medicine box."

Before he finished speaking, a girl wearing a lotus-colored gauze dress jumped in from outside the inn.

Seeing Lang Jun there, Ah Jin shouted with a smile: "Lang Jun, we are all ready, we can go out and play."

Xu Yi: "..."

Yan Quyue raised an eyebrow: "Didn't Doctor Xu say that there are " Empty?"

"Lang Jun? Why aren't you leaving?" A Jin didn't get a response from Xu Yi and walked over curiously. Only then did she see Xu Yi standing opposite, with a handsome figure. The little lady with red lips.

This little lady had a playful smile on her face, as if she was teasing her husband.

Ah Jin opened his mouth and stared at them dumbfounded.

"Have I disturbed you?"

Xu Yi's eyes darkened. What was Ah Jin thinking?

He took a deep breath and warned her in a lowered voice: "Don't talk nonsense. This Miss Yan is here to invite me to see a doctor in the mansion."

"Oh, that's right." A Jin nodded matter-of-factly.

But...it was Uncle Jin who came to invite her last time. Why did she become Miss Yan this time?