Chapter 125 Old Yeast
When Qiao Yishi heard Cui Qingyi asking them for help, he immediately put down his chopsticks and nodded solemnly.
On the other side, Uncle Fan finished his work in the fields and went to his daughter's house in the city. Fan Hui was a little surprised to see that her father came alone, so she hurriedly invited him in to sit down, and then busied herself preparing tea to entertain him.
Father Fan waved his hand to signal his daughter to stop working. "I've already eaten at home. I came here because I want you to take me to the dental clinic."
Because he was afraid of causing trouble for his daughter, Father Fan never visited his son-in-law's house easily. Even when he came to the city to work, he rarely came to his daughter's house.
Therefore, when he suddenly came to visit, Fan Hui was happy at first but also worried that something might have happened at home. Fortunately, Old Man Fan dispelled Fan Hui's worries in time.
Hearing her father say that he was going to work at a pawnshop, Fan Hui asked curiously, "Why go to a pawnshop?" Her father was capable. Although the family had two brothers, the house had been prepared long ago.
"Landlord Zhang's 50 mu of land near our home has been sold. I'm thinking of going to the brokerage to see if I can rent it out for farming. Your nephews are getting older, so we need to prepare more food."
Every year after the harvest from farming, Old Man Fan would send some to his daughter in the city.
Fan Hui nodded in understanding. She knew the situation of her mother's family. Since her father had the skill of building houses, their lives must be better than other families. But there were too many people. Her eldest brother had given birth to three boys in a row, and the eldest was seven years old this year. As the saying goes, a young boy will eat his father out of poverty, so it was better to grow more food.
Both father and daughter were impatient, so Fan Hui packed up her things and took her father to the dental clinic in the city.
Because there was no business coming to the store, He Ya Ren was lying on the counter bored, staring blankly at the pedestrians coming and going on the street.
Seeing Fan Hui and his daughter coming, he hurriedly stood up and greeted them, "Do you want to buy a house?"
Although Old Man Fan is good at building houses, he is not very sociable when he is outside, so he thought of bringing Fan Hui along.
Fortunately, Fan Hui was used to it, and without her father's instructions, she took the initiative to introduce herself. "We are from Fanjiazhuang outside the city. We heard that it was you who sold Mr. Zhang's land, so we thought we could ask you about the buyer. My father wants to rent a few acres of land for farming."
After saying that, Fan Hui handed a few copper coins to the counter.
Hearing that they were from Fanjiazhuang, He Yaren took a closer look at the silent old man Fan, and then slapped his forehead and said, "You must be the Fan family of the Fan family, the carpenter from Fanjiazhuang. It was you who built my house two years ago."
Upon hearing this, Old Man Fan also looked at He Ya Ren carefully, but he had no impression of him.
"My family is He Shilin's in Hejiagou. I rarely went back when I was working and building houses in the city. You haven't seen me."
After hearing this, Old Man Fan remembered that because of their friendship in building a house, He Yaren pushed back a few copper coins on the counter.
"I did sell the land to him, but the buyer said he had to find someone to rent it to himself. I don't know if it's been rented out yet."
When Old Man Fan heard this, he became a little anxious. The land was close to his house. If he rented it, it would be convenient for farming and taking care of it in the future. Besides, it was all fertile land. If it was rented to someone else, he didn't know where to find such good land.
"Could you tell me the landlord's name? I'll ask him myself."
He Yaren was a little hesitant because Cui Qingyi and Kong Ruo were both girls who came here several times. If he rashly revealed their addresses, he was afraid that it would cause them unnecessary trouble.
But on second thought, the Cui family is a family that the royal family pays attention to, and they are also registered with the county government. Who would be so bold as to cause trouble for the Cui family?
Thinking of this, He Yaren's tone was slightly proud. "The new owner of this land is the Cui family of Huaihua Lane. Uncle, you may not know that this Cui family is a family that the royal family has issued an imperial edict to praise."
Now, everyone in Dongping County knows the Cui family in Huaihua Lane. When the surname Cui is mentioned, the first thing people think of is the imperial edict.
Such a person actually appeared in their Dongping County. Although they were unable to see what the envoy from heaven looked like due to time constraints, it did not prevent them from hearing about it.
When Fan Hui heard about the Cui family in Huaihua Lane, she laughed. Isn't this just a coincidence that the flood washed away the Dragon King Temple?
When Fan Hui told He Yaren that her daughter was learning embroidery at Cui's Girls' School, He Yaren called it a coincidence and asked with great interest about how the Cui's Girls' School was going. Although he and his wife did not have a daughter, they did have a niece at home.
Because Cui Qingyi was commended by the royal decree and received a plaque of a doctor of needlework, her family, as the first to become Cui's disciples, also benefited.
Her daughter Qi Yuan is only nine years old this year, and someone has already come to inquire about marrying her.
Everyone who came to see Qi Yuan praised her for raising a good daughter, but Fan Huike was not carried away by the compliments. She knew that the child was still young and it was not too late to get engaged after she was fifteen and came of age.
Qi Yuan has been following Cui Qingyi and Konjac. Besides her increasingly improved embroidery skills, the biggest change is her temperament. Fan Hui can't really put her finger on it.
But as the mother who raised Qi Yuan personally, she saw every little change in Qi Yuan. Seeing these changes made Fan Hui very pleased, and she felt that her original decision was absolutely right.
Now when people asked about Cui's girls' school, Fan Hui felt that she had endless things to say, but her father was urging her to go to Cui's house quickly.
Fan Hui took her father directly to the girls' school. There was no one at the Cui family at that time.
Along the way, Fan Hui recounted to his father the recent events of the Cui family. Father Fan had never left Dongping County, and being a royal noble was a distant thought for him. Yet, right now, in Dongping County, a figure had emerged who was praised by the imperial family. He felt a strange sense of pride.
Cui Qingyi has no classes today and is drying yeast in the yard of the girls' school.
She made these starters in her spare time. Although they are not as convenient as the yeast powder used in modern society, Cui Qingyi always felt that the dough fermented with starters has a unique fragrance, and the pastries made from them are also more fluffy.
The production of yeast is also very simple. Cui Qingyi used purchased rice wine and ground flour to make it.
Make the prepared starter into dough balls of uniform size, flatten them, dry them and store them properly. Only a small amount is needed when using them.
Fan Hui and Cui Qingyi are familiar with each other and speak very casually in daily life.
As soon as I entered the door, I pointed to the yeast heads neatly arranged in a row behind the bamboo curtain and asked what they were. After hearing Cui Qingyi's explanation that the yeast heads could be used to proof the flour, I was amazed.
The steamed buns and dumplings her family eats are all bought on the street. She can't make them herself and doesn't know that there are so many details to pay attention to when making dough.
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