Song Lizheng asked Ling Weiyuan, who was lying on the bench, "Do you agree with this division?"
Ling Weiyuan nodded: "My father still has 20 taels of silver on him. If our eldest wife really can't make ends meet, my father will give it to us to help out!"
Song Lizheng was choked and turned to look at Ling Weicheng and Ling Weicun. Seeing that they looked calm, he thought this family was really weird.
You said you wanted to fight for the family property, but they divided it equally.
You say you don't want to fight, but the eldest wife treats the old man and the old lady's personal money as her own property.
The other two families surprisingly had no objections to his outspoken words. He was truly magnanimous.
But no one had any objections, so why should he, as the village head, care so much?
He picked up the brush on the table, dipped it in the inkstone, and wrote his name on the paper.
It’s not enough to just write, so I dipped my thumb in ink and pressed a fingerprint on the paper.
"Okay, one for each of you." Seeing that they had no plans to separate the household, Song Lizheng did not offer to help keep the documents of division.
Old Master Ling also didn't want to give anyone a chance to talk, so he smiled and handed the documents to his sons, and invited Song Lizheng to stay for lunch.
Song Lizheng waved his hand: "No, dinner is ready at home. I will come to visit another day."
With that, he walked out the door, completely ignoring the Ling family's attempts to keep him.
On the way, he was still confused. Wasn't it the boy from the second wife's family who negotiated with him yesterday? Why was the family divided today and the old man wanted to live with the first wife? What was going on?
Who will be the future head of the Ling family?
If you can't think of it, just forget about it. Song Lizheng quickened his pace and walked home.
He felt hungry just now after smelling the fragrance coming from the Ling family's kitchen.
After Song Lizheng left, Ling Jiheng asked Erzhu to invite Doctor Cheng to help take the pulse of everyone in the Ling family.
It took each person a cup of tea, and by the time they finished, it was already noon.
Doctor Cheng prescribed prescriptions for everyone, some requiring more medicine than others to treat their hidden injuries.
Some are medicinal foods, which are used to regulate the body's deficiency.
Chi Xingyue usually drinks spiritual spring water, and his overall mental outlook is quite good.
Doctor Cheng felt his pulse and nodded repeatedly: "Nothing serious is wrong, just a little thin. Eat more healthy food and you will recover slowly."
Chi Xingyue thanked Dr. Cheng and stood at the edge.
Ling Jiheng took everyone's prescription and asked Erzhu to call Ling Yi to get the medicine.
Then everyone went back home, had a simple lunch, and took a nap.
Chi Xingyue woke up around three in the afternoon and heard a noise outside the house.
When he came out, he saw that it was Jinbao who had returned, bringing with him rice, flour, grain, oil, peanuts, melon seeds, pine nuts, walnuts, lotus seeds, red beans, mung beans, rock sugar, etc.
In addition, there is a small jar of salted duck eggs!
Chi Xingyue was so surprised!
He hurried back to the house to pour a glass of water and praised Jinbao for his ability.
Jinbao drank the hot tea and felt all his fatigue disappeared.
Ling Jiheng coughed lightly and asked someone to send the things into the west wing.
The west wing is quite large and is currently occupied by Erzhu. If it were partitioned off, it could create at least three rooms.
Erzhu was a very honest man. He said to Ling Jiheng, "Second Young Master, you should add a door here, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to resist eating secretly."
Ling Jiheng didn't mind the other party cheating, but the severe cold was coming, and if the house was too big, it would be difficult to warm it up.
Thinking about this, I feel that living too scattered is not a good thing. If there is something in the front yard, it will take a long time to get to the back yard.
If the snow is very thick, traveling will be a problem.
I was thinking about gathering everyone in the front yard when it snowed, but I didn't say it out loud yet.
After all, he and Chi Xingyue both like quietness.
He asked Baozhu to soak the lotus seeds, mung beans and red beans, and called Jinbao to go to the village to dig mud and buy bricks.
After this calculation, Ling Jiheng felt that there were not enough bricks and tiles at home, so he asked the housekeeper to go buy some.
Farm tools and other things are also indispensable. It would be best if the blacksmith could make him a few trays, large and small, as soon as possible.
As for the matter of drawing the ground, it had been forgotten by everyone. I'm afraid it won't be remembered until after the festival.
Seeing that Qingfeng Courtyard was bustling with activity, Ling Weiwei, Ling Mingyue, Ling Minghao and Shu Rui came over happily accompanied by their maids.
"Second Aunt!"
"Cousin-in-law!"
Seeing that they were well-behaved, Chi Xingyue smiled and waved, asking Baozhu to go back into the house and bring out an armchair, and then went to the side room to get some pine nuts and walnuts to put on it.
"Second Aunt doesn't have a small stool here, so you'll have to make do with it. Tell me what you want to eat and I'll make it for you!"
"No need, cousin, we've already eaten. We just saw how lively it was here and came to take a look!"
Chi Xingyue nodded and went back to the house to get them a pot of tea. The water in the pot was warm, so even if it spilled, there was no need to worry about scalding anyone.
When Ling Jiheng came back from outside, he saw four little guys playing in the yard.
I walked up to them, touched their heads, and invited them: "Would you like to stay for some mooncakes?"
The little ones' eyes lit up and they hurried away saying they would report it to their families.
In fact, he also had a bit of a desire to show off, but it only attracted more members of the Ling family.
It can be said that almost everyone who can move has come to join in the fun!
The group of people were making a lot of noise, and Chi Xingyue was a little overwhelmed.
Ask everyone: "Can you make mooncakes?"
There was silence for a moment, and everyone looked at each other, all stunned.
Chi Xingyue sighed, asked several female relatives to wash their hands, and went into the kitchen to make the filling.
Roast peanuts, melon seeds and other nuts, and crush them together with rock sugar.
During this period, Chi Xingyue took some lard, sugar, flour, and alkaline noodles back to the house. When he came out, it had become a mixture of syrup, salad oil, and alkaline water.
Fortunately, it was Mid-Autumn Festival before I traveled through time, and the canteen chef prepared a lot of ingredients for making mooncakes to celebrate the festival.
The baked mooncakes are not only used as snacks and benefits for village cadres, but are also prepared to be sold to the villagers of Nanshan Village at low prices.
Unfortunately, even though everything was ready, Chi Xingyue didn't even get to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival before she wore it.
Now, these things can be used.
Oh, and there’s also cooked glutinous rice flour.
It was too troublesome to turn raw glutinous rice into cooked glutinous rice flour, so Chi Xingyue simply filled a small bag with it and took it out.
"What is this?" Shu Muyun asked curiously.
Chi Xingyue explained: "The secret recipe can make mooncakes even more delicious!"
So, no one asked any more questions.
After all, the secret recipe can be exchanged for money, and it may have been passed down from generations of ancestors.
Chi Xingyue scooped out a bowl of flour from the flour bag, poured the brown liquid into it, and asked someone to knead the dough.
Put the crushed nuts in a bowl and add sugar and cooked glutinous rice flour.
Chi Xingyue thought about it, went back to the house and got a bag of raisins.
Shu Muyun had seen this thing before and naturally thought that it was brought by Ling Yi and his friends and that the young couple had not finished it.
Without asking, he poured the raisins into the filling bowl and stirred it evenly with chopsticks.
Chi Xingyue thought about the next steps and took some lard and sugar back to the house. When he came out, the bowl was filled with clear salad oil.
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