Chapter 278

The next day, Xu Yi and Yan Quyue were awakened by the noise outside.

They put on their clothes and came out, and saw Mrs. Guan directing the servants to move the lotus roots. The freshly dug lotus roots were still wet with mud. Yan Quyue's eyes lit up when she saw them.

"Where did this lotus root come from?" Yan Quyue stopped Mrs. Guan and asked.

Mrs. Guan said with a smile: "Da Lang went to the countryside to find it himself early in the morning. No, he sent someone to deliver it at dawn. They are all fresh."

Yan Quyue loves to eat lotus roots, and she knows this basket without even thinking about it . For whom was the lotus root bought?

At this time of the year, lotus roots were not yet on the market. Yan Jingming, the elder brother, thought that his sister would like to eat them. At dawn, he called the boy at home and found an old lotus root farmer to specially select them.

When Yan Quyue brought Xu Yi to see her brother, Yan Jingming was taking a bath and changing clothes, looking refreshed.

"Brother, why are you digging lotus roots?" Yan Quyue said this, feeling extremely happy.

Yan Jingming waved his hand and said, "If it's not just a basket of lotus roots, I can find anything in the sky for you."

Yan Quyue said, "Then I want the moon."

Yan Jingming glared at her: "..."

Which Where can I find this moon if someone is so cruel to his nose?

At noon, Wen Shujin arranged for the cook to prepare a table of Yan Quyue's favorite dishes.

The cook made several dishes with different flavors using only lotus roots, including lotus root soup with distiller's grains, lotus root meat cakes, lotus root cakes and lotus root cakes.

Everything is done exquisitely and exquisitely. Not only Yan Quyue loves to eat it, everyone else is full of praises.

The Yan family didn't have many rules at the dinner table. A Xu, A Jin and Er Qing all came to the table to eat, and Wen Shujin enthusiastically served them food.

A Xu took the opportunity to ask Wen Shujin how to make the lotus root meat cake on the table.

Wen Shujin didn't know either, so she called the cook to ask for details. The cook enthusiastically introduced the cooking method.

"The lotus root should be cut as thin as a pancake, dipped in oil inside and outside, smeared with minced meat, chopped green onion and shredded ginger, wrapped in powder on the outside, heat the oil in the pan, wait for a stick of incense, and it's done It’s ready.”

A Xu humbly asked her, “How should I prepare the meat to make it delicious?”

The cook smiled and said, “It’s easy, just chop the meat into minced meat, and choose the fat ones. "This is so delicious..."

...

After dinner, Yan Jingming called Xu Yi to go to the study to talk.

"Shu Jin told me last night that you are going to do folk medicine when you come back this time."

Yan Jingming looked at Xu Yi with eyes that seemed to have tempered the firelight, and said straight to the point, "This is not a small matter, and only a few of you are afraid of it ." I'm too busy. If you're short of people, I have a few good candidates here that I can choose for you."

Xu Yi thanked Yan Jingming first, and then said: "I have a few friends in Yanting who can help me. Some business dealings."

"That's not the problem." Yan Jingming waved his hand to interrupt him.

Although he had never been to Yanting, he knew Xu Yi's popularity there from Uncle Qi and Wen Wei.

But you can't do whatever you want. Yan Jingming added in his heart.

Xu Yi nodded. He had thought about it this way, so he didn't plan to rely on Yu Qiulin and Tao Qinghao. He just wanted to ask them if they wanted to take shares.

He asked Yan Jingming if he wanted to invest in medicine.

Yan Jingming's face gradually became solemn, and he asked him how to become a shareholder.

"To run this medicine, we need to spend money every day. I want to build a mountain in Yanting and plant medicinal materials on the mountain. The profits from the harvest of medicinal materials can be invested in medicine and teach more folk doctors."

And the harvest of this medicinal material Not only used in medicine, but also in medical clinics.

The medical clinic can make a profit, and the money earned can be recycled. He wants the Yan family to invest in it because he likes the Yan family's reputation.

Biao Xing travels all over the country and has many channels, and he can bring the medicinal materials he grows to any place in the Northern Song Dynasty.

He can also spread the folk medicine he practices.

If he only accepts disciples in a small place like Yanting, he is destined to not be able to accept many disciples. He is greedy and wants more people to come to Yanting.

This requires utilizing all available connections. Even if Yan Jingming didn't come to him to talk about this matter today, Xu Yi would come to him to discuss buying shares.

After Yan Jingming listened, he thought in silence for a long time.

After a long while, he said: "Let me think about this matter."

Xu Yi said: "Brother, don't be anxious. If you think about it, you can send someone to Yanting to find me."

...

After resting for two days in Zhaohua, Xu Yi and the others The brothers and sisters-in-law of the Yan family said goodbye and it was time to pack their bags and return to Yanting.

Wen Shujin reluctantly pulled Yan Quyue and said a lot of words, and sent the person several miles outside the city, then reluctantly stopped and watched the vehicle go away.

"Let's go." Yan Jingming looked at his wife.

With tears in her eyes, Wen Shujin choked and said, "I regret marrying Sister Yue so far away. It's hard to even meet her."

Yan Jingming's face was stiff and silent.

You can't ask Sister Yue and Xu Yi and Li to go home.

Xu Yi and the others didn't know anything about this. They were on the road for more than half a month. When they were about to arrive at Yanting, they met Zhang Tiegou on the way to pick them up.

"Brother Yi!"

Zhang Tiegou's loud voice boomed in his ears.

He dismounted and walked toward Xu Yi's vehicle with a silly smile on his face.

Xu Yi and Yan Quyue got out of the car immediately.

Xu Yi asked him: "Why did you come to pick us up if you didn't mean to just wait for us in the city?"

Zhang Tiegou grinned and said: "My godmother was worried and insisted on asking me to come. I thought that I had just tamed a horse, which was just the right time." How about trying your feet?"

"It's a good horse." Xu Yi's eyes lit up and he asked him, "Where did you buy this horse? It looks very strong."

When it comes to buying horses, Zhang Tiegou has a lot to say. Xu Yi chatted that this horse was brought from Maozhou by merchants from other vassals. They were all disabled horses that could not go on the battlefield. They could be bought as mounts or to carry things in carts.

Thanks to the Tao family's connections, Tao Qinghao has done a lot of business in recent years, and the Tao family's caravan has expanded a lot. This time he bought six horses from merchants from other vassals.

The foreign merchant brought eight horses, and two more. One was bought by Xin Yao, and the remaining horse was the horse in front of him.

Zhang Tiegou complained naggingly: "I wanted to buy one for An Geer, but this guy said he didn't like it."

Xu Yi smiled. An Geer was not like Zhang Tiegou at all, so I don't blame him for being so angry.

"He is still young. Wait a few years and then you can choose a good horse for him to learn from." Xu Yi gave an idea.

A gentleman learns the six arts, namely etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. When he gets older, An Ge'er will come into contact with Yu. When the time comes, he will give him a beautiful horse. An Ge'er will like it.

Zhang Tiegou said with a naive smile: "You still have an idea."

He added, "Let's go back first."

He got on the horse, looked back and shouted loudly, waved his arm, and the horse under him started to move forward with all four hooves. Run.

Vehicles followed closely behind.

After half a day, the group arrived at Yanting City Gate.

The simple words "Yanting County" came into view. Everyone's joy of returning home was indescribable. All they wanted to do was go faster, and faster.

The vehicles passed through the city gate and crossed the streets. The East Street market was old and unchanged, and the stalls on both sides of the streets were bustling, selling all kinds of familiar groceries.

Finally, the vehicle stopped in front of Xu's house.

"Brother Yi and the others are back, open the door quickly!" Zhang Tiegou's loud voice rang out again.

The people inside heard the commotion and ran over quickly with their skirts in hand. The next moment, the door opened to the outside, and Qiaoqin shouted loudly with tears in her eyes: "Madam!"

Yan Quyue paused slightly and looked at her personal maid, beaming with joy. .

"Qiaoqin, I have suffered so much for you these past few years."

She reached out and wiped Qiaoqin's tears. The master and servant looked at each other and smiled, and Yan Quyue's eyes were filled with tears.

Behind the door, Mrs. Lin also followed closely. When she saw Xu Yi and the others, she ran forward excitedly: "I've been waiting for you all day long, and finally I've got you back. Hurry up, Mrs. Lang Jun, please go inside and leave this place to us." Come."

After saying that, he immediately shouted twice inside.

Soon two strong young men came over. They were Lin's two children. They hadn't seen each other in the past few years and had grown a lot taller.

They saluted Xu Yi and Yan Quyue in unison, and after calling someone, they ran to help move the boxes and cages.

There were A Xu and Er Qing outside, so Xu Yi took Yan Quyue and A Jin into the house to talk.

After not coming back for so long, Mrs. Lin has taken good care of the Xu family. The furnishings in the home have not changed much. There are people living in them. The house is not old because of its popularity.

Xu Yi glanced around and asked, "Where's Uncle Liu?"

Uncle Liu and Liu Zhuang were Uncle Liu's son and Lin's husband. He stayed with the Xu family with Lin back then, but he didn't show up today.

Lin said as he walked: "He went to Zhuangzi to be busy. Chen Liu and the others planted a lot of medicinal materials in Zhuangzi. Recently, some medicinal materials needed to be harvested and they were short of manpower. He thought that being idle was also idle. He could save money by going to help. "A salary."

"Chen Liu and Xiaodouzi come here often?" Xu Yi asked with a smile.

"We come here often. They grow a lot of crops and often bring seasonal crops. They don't charge us any money. It saves us a lot of convenience." Mrs. Lin said, calling her eldest daughter-in-law to fetch the boiled water.

Yan Quyue glanced at the shy young woman.

When Mrs. Lin saw it, she explained: "Yiniang is the bride who just came in last year and lives with us in the reverse room."

Yan Quyue was surprised: "Why don't you go to the South House?"

A Xu and A Jin lived in the South House before. , there are still two wing rooms unoccupied. Xu Yi said that during their absence, except for the east room and A Xu A Jin's room, all other rooms can be occupied.

Mrs. Lin smiled and shook her head. As the head of the family, Xu Yi lamented that as a servant, she had to be polite.

What's more, it was her father-in-law who bought their family such a decent life now. With such great kindness from the Xu family, they would be disgusting if they didn't know what was good and what was good.

"My lady husband has just come back. Let's take a rest and talk first. It's okay not to talk about these annoying things." Mrs. Lin wiped her hands carefully and brought some good tea leaves to make tea for the two of them.

They always have such good tea, because Yu Qiulin occasionally brings the two husbands of the Tao family and the Xin family over to chat.

It was said that it was more comfortable to come here to discuss things with Xu Yi.

Mrs. Lin didn't understand the logic of this. She couldn't afford to offend these people, so she wouldn't shut them out.

Hearing this, Xu Yi choked.

He had never heard these three men mention it once in their letters, and it was quite a secret.

"They all came here secretly." Zhang Tiegou laughed at them, "I'm so incompetent. I'm afraid of my mother-in-law, and I don't even dare to go to a wine shop. Any talk of freedom is just a pretense."

Xu Yi looked at it with a half-smile. He: "Aren't you afraid that I will tell my sister-in-law this?"

Zhang Tiegou: "..."

He coughed twice, and shouted with an inward look: "What am I afraid of!"

Then he stood up in a hurry and faced Xu Yi and Yan Qu. Yue said, "You are back, I will inform Brother Qiu and the others."

Xu Yi smiled.

Without further exposing him, he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Brother Zhang."

Zhang Tiegou snorted: "You are so polite." After that, he left without looking back.

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at the background as he walked away, and suddenly felt that it seemed that nothing had changed in the past few years.

In his ears, Mrs. Lin was still talking tirelessly about what happened in the past few years.

After Xu Yi and the others went on a long trip, Uncle Liu stopped doing car-type work and returned to the countryside to retire. He can't stay idle. His family is now in good condition and he no longer has to farm. The land at home is leased to tenants, and he only gets 20% of the tax.

Even so, he would leave an acre of land for himself to work on.

The Wang family is not as hardworking as him, but in the past few years, she has finally enjoyed the blessings of children and grandchildren, and her body looks healthier than before.

When Xiaodouzi reached the age of getting married, his family arranged a match for him. He was from the same village, and he was told that he would marry into the family next year...

In addition, several matchmakers came to ask for Qiaoqin's hand in marriage. Qiaoqin refused and used the excuse that her wife was not at home and no one would make the decision for her, so she shut out these matchmaking mothers.

Yan Quyue was most afraid of delaying Qiaoqin's marriage. When she heard about this, she felt uncomfortable and said, "If I had known, I would have given the body contract to you and asked you to make your own arrangements."

Qiaoqin burst into tears and smiled: "What did the lady say? Even if you are free, I don't want to get married so early."

There is no benefit to marrying.

If you meet someone you don't like, you will be wasted your whole life.

She wants to find a man she likes and get married like a lady.

Mrs. Lin was talking about trivial things without any clue. She just talked about whatever came to mind. When she heard that Yan Quyue was worried about Qiaoqin's life events, she said that she could talk to Mrs. He.

Xu Yi was surprised: "Aunt He is working as a matchmaker?"

Why hadn't he heard Yu Qiulin mention it before?

Mrs. Lin covered her mouth and said with a smile: "No way, it's a nephew from Madam He's family who is about the same age as Miss Qiaoqin. Now he works in He's family and sometimes he comes to give gifts to Brother Qiu."

She didn't say it clearly, but her eyes glanced at Qiaoqin several times.

Qiaoqin was stunned at first, then her cheeks and ears turned red, and she shouted in embarrassment: "Mother Lin, why are you still talking nonsense!"

Mrs. Lin saw her embarrassed look and said quickly: "Oh, I am too talkative. I shouldn't mention this, Miss Qiaoqin, we are the only ones at home, and no one else knows about it."

Qiaoqin twisted her handkerchief and looked at Yan Quyue with a blushing face: "Madam, don't listen to her nonsense, then He Xiaolang . I've only been here a few times and I haven't said anything to him."

Even so, there were so many people present that there was no hint of what he said.

Yan Quyue thought to herself, I wonder what the character of this nephew of the He family is, but if he is good and has the same feelings as Qiaoqin, he will indeed have a chance to make a good match.

While a few people were chatting, a donkey cart stopped outside the door.

Tao Qinghao and Xin Shengyuan didn't have time to ask the coachman to put down the footstool. They quickly raised the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.

"Xu Yi, you're finally back."

"I thought you never wanted to come back in this life."

The two of them spoke in unison. Before they even entered the room, their voices reached Xu Yi's ears.

Seeing them, Xu Yi's head buzzed.

The people in memory gradually overlap with the people in front of me. They have changed a lot, but the smile in their eyes remains the same as before.

He came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Qinghao, Xinyao, you're fine."