Beloved Concubine

Chapter 63

On the second day, Chen Xiao was woken up by Chunhong knocking on the door.

She read the information last night and saw it was five in the morning. She was worried about oversleeping in the space, so she simply went to sleep on a bed outside the space.

Occasionally sleep on an outside bed as well, otherwise the bed will look unused.

Chunhong asked her to get up for lunch, and it was already noon.

After lunch, Chen Xiao went to Yihong Garden, and Fang Yu went with her like a shadow.

Seeing Nie Feng, he told Chen Xiao: Mr. Xu who was drunk yesterday died at five o'clock this morning.

"Dead?" Chen Xiao was surprised: "How did you die?"

"Drunk to death."

"Then will your place be affected?" After all, he was drunk in Yihong Garden.

"What's the impact?" Nie Feng said indifferently while making tea, "It's the shopkeeper Li of the Longshun who invited him to drink. It's none of our business."

"By the way, the man standing behind Mr. Xu yesterday is the shopkeeper Li of the Longshun? He was also there on the day of the county magistrate's banquet, the one sitting next to the man who had eighteen cups with me. "

"Yes, that's him, Li Mingyu, the treasurer of Longshun. The one who drinks eighteen cups with you is Lord Min of Dingtai."

Nie Feng told Chen Xiao about the Longshun, Dingtai, Sheng'an, and the emperor's small treasury.Only then did Chen Xiao understand the relationship between them.

"The backstage of the Longshun is Xia Guolu's mansion. The backstage of the Sheng'an is Xilingduan's mansion. King Lu is the younger brother of Emperor Xia, and King Duan is also the younger brother of Emperor Xiling. Oh, no, the old emperor Xiling Dead, Prince Duan is the uncle of the current Emperor Xiling."

Chen Xiao was speechless: They are all royal nobles!No wonder these two foreign companies are so good in South Vietnam.

Fang Yu asked: "How many years has the Longshun been in operation in South Vietnam?"

Nie Feng thought about it for a while: "About five or six years."

Fang Yu asked again: "How much money can Longshun make in a year?"

"I don't know how much silver they can earn. I only know that their annual transactions in South Vietnam are several million taels of silver."

Fang Yu was thoughtful.

Three girls, Qingqing, Ronger, and Xiner, have arrived.

As soon as Qingqing came in, she squatted down and saluted: "Thank you Mr. Fang and Mrs. Chen for saving my sister's life."

Miss Qianjin was born, and she would not kowtow to others casually, and squatting was already very sincere.Usually it is shallow squatting, kneeling, or nodding.

"Get up, you don't have to be polite." Chen Xiao said, "Has your sister told you the whole story?"

"Let's talk." Qingqing got up: "I also want to thank Mrs. Chen and those guys. I will thank you in person when I have the opportunity in the future."

If Xiaoshitou and the others hadn't fished Lian'er up in time, Chen Xiao and the others might not be able to save her.

"As long as you don't misunderstand them." Chen Xiao said.

Qingqing nodded.At that time yesterday, she had indeed misunderstood and was very angry, but she had no time to question her.Later, I heard my sister tell what happened, and knew that the three people were not frivolous, but helped my sister dig out the poisonous weeds.

Nie Feng said: "Okay, let's start learning songs!"

……

Chen Xiao taught for two consecutive days. The three girls all knew the rhythm. They memorized the score and then practiced by themselves.

……

In the blink of an eye, it's July, and the peppers in Chunji's small courtyard are ready to be picked and eaten.

The bacon that Chen Xiao made before was not made into jerky in the end.Because it is basically pork belly, it is not easy to make jerky.There are no cypress trees near the county seat, but there are pine trees.Xiaoshi and the others went to chop some pine branches, and finally made them into smoked meat.

Stir-fried bacon with green peppers, few people in the small courtyard have never eaten it.When they ate the dish for the first time, all the rice in the steamer was scooped up.

"Sister, this dish is so delicious, it will be our restaurant's signature dish in the future!" No matter whether it's chili or smoked meat, it didn't exist before.

Chen Xiao laughed at their futile looks and said, "Tomorrow I will teach you how to cook green pepper fish, the day after tomorrow I will cook green pepper chicken, and the day after tomorrow I will cook green pepper fried meat and green pepper scrambled eggs."

"Sister, I'm afraid there are not enough peppers in the yard."

"Then you go to Nangou Village to have a look. Some of the peppers there should be ready to pick."

After that, Xiao Shitou went to Nangou Village to pick some peppers and came back. Chen Xiao taught them how to cook as she said before.

On July [-]th, Yihong Garden's "Flower Day", Nie Feng invited all the people in Chunji Courtyard to listen to music and watch plays in Yihong Garden.

This time Chunhong also went.She heard from Xiaoshitou how much delicious food they ate when they went to Yihongyuan last time.Of course, Xiao Shitou didn't say anything about Lian'er, nor about County Captain Xu.He was afraid to say Chunhong and dare not go.

The "Flower Day" theater performance was in the afternoon. After lunch, the group closed the store and set off collectively.

The six people came to Yihongyuan Theater, and Nie Feng arranged them in a private room on the second floor.

"How many people will come today?" Chen Xiao asked Nie Feng.

"Full." Nie Feng raised an eyebrow at Chen Xiao.

Fang Yu couldn't see this kid winking at Xiao Xiao.Now he finally knows that it is "Xiao Xiao", not "Xiao Xiao".

He said: "Hurry up and serve the tea and dried fruits, and let us just sit."

A few days ago, Fang Yu accompanied Chen Xiao to Yihong Garden to teach songs. Several women were learning there, and Fang Yu and Nie Feng were drinking tea and chatting here.Nie Feng admired Fang Yu's martial arts very much and wanted to learn from him.Fang Yu asked him to exercise his body first, and when he could run from the county town to Nangou Village and then back from Nangou Village within an incense stick of time, he would come and learn from him.

It takes about three to ten minutes to burn a stick of incense, and it takes four or five miles from Nangou Village to the county seat.Nie Feng thinks this is impossible, and no one can run back and forth within the time of a stick of incense.

Fang Yu made a bet with him that if he ran back and forth for a stick of incense, Nie Feng would lose him 100 taels of silver.As a result, Fang Yu got 100 taels.

Nie Feng was convinced, thinking that he would never be able to practice such a speed no matter what.But he still wants to ask Fang Yu to teach him.

Fang Yu agreed to teach him the slingshot because of his good personality.Nie Feng felt that the slingshot was useless, and Fang Yu said that he had no idea of ​​the true power of the slingshot.He wanted to demonstrate, but the slingshot that Nie Feng brought broke as soon as he broke it, saying it was a child's toy, no wonder he felt that learning a slingshot was useless.

Afterwards, Nie Feng followed his request to find a truly lethal slingshot.But this kind of slingshot is not available in Nanyue, so someone has to bring it from Xiling.

Fang Yu likes Nie Feng's character because he is free and easy, has no airs, and has a thick skin.The Nie family is also an official, but Nie Feng does not have the arrogance of an official son, and those who don't know think he was born as a commoner.

"The tea and dried fruit will be here soon. Please sit down first, and I'll greet the others."

After Nie Feng finished speaking, he went downstairs.Today is Yihongyuan's second "Flower Day". He has invited many prominent figures in the county.

After a while, tea, dried fruit, pastries, and fresh fruit were served.

Chunhong saw the "brown sugar cake" cut into small pieces, and remembered how she had never seen it in the market.

"Hey, there is cake!"

Chen Xiao picked up a piece of brown sugar cake and looked at it, it was a baked cake.

"This is brown sugar cake." Chunhong said.

"This is the brown sugar cake?" Chen Xiao always thought that the brown sugar cake was steamed, but he didn't expect it to be baked.

Chunhong sighed in her heart: It turns out that Sister Chen has never seen brown sugar cake.

(End of this chapter)