Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Mrs. Hu: "There is no fear of life for the time being."

Yunzhu, who was sniffing, choked up, and a sense of solidity suddenly enveloped him. Thinking about his lapse just now, Yunzhu tried to make up for it, "... Well, she just loves money, no. Safety will follow you all the way back, really, I know it’s worrying."

The friendship with Zhao San lasted only two or three months, but with repeated contact in recent years, the older I got, the more I realized that she was a soft and affectionate woman.

However, she was too young, so she was inevitably overly sensitive, and because of family reasons, she was too preoccupied. However, she had been married to Liu Ping for three years, which made her a little more flexible.

Thinking about it carefully, the two of them had not seen each other for almost half a year, and now they only knew about the current situation from letters. When Zhao San talked about the Jinling riots in the letter, Yunzhu felt that his heart was about to jump into his throat.

Then seeing her being kidnapped by powerful men to open up wasteland, and meeting the Hu family and his wife while digging the ground, Yunzhu was covered in cold sweat but couldn't help but feel happy.

What a smart kid.

Zhao San said of himself: "We had some twists and turns in Jinling. I don't want to hide it from you, but everything is fine. I have grown two inches taller and am practicing boxing with a master blacksmith. The master is very nice. He helped us dig the ground and taught a few of us how to box. He was very patient."

"Although we are being kidnapped, these people are not bad. They allow us to continue farming and promise to collect grain at a price that is [-]% higher than the government price next year. Therefore, we will not return to the capital for the time being, otherwise the money for renting the land will be lost. The water is floating..."

Yunzhu was holding back tears, crying and laughing at the same time. When she turned the page, she saw a small nondescript painting, which could vaguely be distinguished as corn.

Looking at the corn cob that had haunted me for more than two months, the excitement of unraveling the mystery gradually deepened. I couldn't wait to turn over it, and I saw Zhao San writing in the letter, "The mountainous and rocky barren land in the south cannot grow rice, and beans and millet are difficult to grow." Climbing, just like this corn, in a field as big as a palm, sowing in spring and harvesting in autumn, one tree can provide a person with a day's ration."

It's good to treat people you know well as swordsmen, and don't cherish words like gold. Looking at these five or six miscellaneous pieces of paper, you know that the Hu family is trustworthy in Zhao San's eyes.

We even talked about selective breeding. In the end, she did not forget to praise Yunzhu as a down-to-earth good boy who has not forgotten his roots. He still remembers the things of serving the land, and even figured out an effective way to do it. Remember one meritorious service and so on.

Yunzhu closed the letter and thought to herself, after Zhao San went out for a trip, her sister's money became more secure.

When she first wrote the letter, Mrs. Hu happened to be watching from the sidelines, so she naturally knew the general content of the letter. Now she acted as an interpreter, which just completed the information outside the letter.

"There is a martial arts organization in Jinling that calls itself Liuzhao Palace. It is said that it started with a woodcutter who received the secret method taught by an immortal while collecting firewood on Zhongshan Mountain and found a paradise called Liuzhao Spring. It is said that there is endless gold underneath. Silver treasure..."

Mrs. Hu was a person of temperament. She immediately pursed her lips and said solemnly, "They have a large number of people. Lao Hu and I were not kidnapped because we were on the official route. But Zhao San and the others lived in the mountains. Maybe they wanted to call someone." It’s too much, and the couple is looked after separately when they go out to work, and neither of them is willing to leave the other and run away first, not to mention the cost of Manshan, which no one can part with.”

Yunzhu frowned, remembering what he had learned from the wild history. If bandits wanted to make a fortune, they would either loot villages in remote places or dig up people's ancestral graves without respecting martial ethics.

The method of cashing out the money was also very simple and crude. He simply said that he met a fairy in the mountains and was given away for free.

What?Do you also want to get rich?

Okay, then you guys come with me and let’s go loot the next one, ah, no, let’s go find the next kind old god to find some food to eat and some money to spend.

If there are few people, there will be crooked ways. If there are too many people, it will be serious. If you want to support so many people, you will have to loot a lot of villages. If things go on like this, there will be riots.

Now it seems that there is a riot in Jinling. If the riot is like this, the emperor will definitely quell the chaos, but it will cost money to quell the chaos, but there is no money in the treasury...

If the common people have no money at home, they just sell some eggs, grain and livestock. If the Tian family has no money, they have to kill the fattened ducks.Thinking about this, Yunzhu took a breath of cold air and felt in her heart that the 500 taels should be spent or spent. She couldn't wait for the fat duck to overturn before thinking of a solution. If it was late, it would be in trouble.

Women's families are always more delicate emotionally. After making sure that Zhao San would be okay for the time being, the old man and the young man gathered together and sighed for a while about the love that the third man depended on each other, and then talked about the layoffs in the house.

"500 taels of silver is really a lot. Ordinary people like us only spend a total of 50 taels of silver all year round." Mrs. Hu couldn't help but gasped after hearing the price, "But if you want to make up for it, you can do it. When Lao Hu comes back, we can write to Zhao San to discuss it."

When Mrs. Hu heard about the redemption, she immediately became more energetic. She finally no longer had to hold back many words in her heart. She was afraid that Yunzhu would regret it, so she spoke very quickly,
"You must not be dazzled by the wealth and wealth. It is the right idea to redeem yourself. I don't treat you as an outsider. Although it is too early to talk about some things now, you must also know that everyone in the world is a slave. To have a lowly status is the most common way for a villager to marry someone, and when you hear about a lowly status, you have to think about it."

What's more, the future of descendants and descendants excludes lowly status in every aspect.

What is a humble status?Mrs. Hu had stayed in the Rongguo Mansion for four months, so she naturally knew that the maids and servants who were not in power were simply worthless and would be bullied by whoever caught them!

Yunzhu sat on the edge of the couch and listened carefully with a smile. Suddenly, a meowing kitten came from outside the door. When he opened the curtain, he saw Hu Junrong catching a palm-sized milk cat Qiuqiu and bouncing on him. of snowflakes.

"Hey, it's snowing. We both forgot the time." Mrs. Hu took the kitten and handed it to Yunzhu to hold. "The child is old and has no playmates. He was talking about looking for a little one. Come back and stay with him."

"Liu'er is here too. Your aunt is nagging you." Hu Junrong greeted him warmly, as if his own child had come home without noticing anything else. He turned around to call his son out to see the cat as if he were offering a treasure.

The brocade-colored kitten was smoky and round, burrowing back and forth on the sleeves, like a burnt chestnut crawling out of a fire.Yunzhu stroked the kitten back and forth a few times, but maybe her gestures were wrong. Seeing that the fur was about to explode, she hurriedly threw the kitten into the arms of the child from the Hu family.

"It's the flower slave I want!" The little fool danced and shouted thank you to his father and mother, then kicked off his shoes and hugged the cat to get into the kang.

Mrs. Hu's disgust was palpable, but she suppressed her voice and said softly, "It has to be kept in the firewood shed for two days, and it has to go back to shitting in the ashes under the stove. It also has to buy veterinary medicine to deworm it, but it can't be put on it first." Come to the house.”

"Okay, I want to sleep with it in the woodshed!"

Hu Junrong got rid of the coldness under the stove. When he entered the house, he listened to his son's innocent words and said with a smile, "Okay, okay, you sleep with it in the woodshed."

After the kitten was taken away, Hu Junrong hurriedly asked if it was okay to eat pot in such a cold weather.Yunzhu raised her eyebrows and said jokingly that she had brought a knife of lamb meat, which was perfect for the hotpot. They had finished taking pictures, and seeing snowflakes falling outside the window, Mrs. Hu happily agreed.

"In this case, let's eat now. How many days can Xiaoliu stay out? Today's pot meal will have to be eaten with soy sauce duck soup tomorrow."

Where can I find shabu-shabu mutton in soy sauce duck soup? It sounded tempting. Although she had to go back to Jia's house tonight, Yunzhu still firmly voted for shabu-shabu. "It's snowing. Everything you buy is expensive. You two grind these peanuts and sesame seeds to make paste. Be sure to grind them into a paste. I'll paste some corn pancakes, which will make a perfect meal with the pot." Grind sesame paste. Regarding this matter, Mrs. Hu warned uneasily and described the appearance of the finished product again.

Erbajiang, Yunzhu nodded. The meat is boiled in white water and dipped in sesame sauce. The taste is also very delicious.

It was just the first time to grind sesame paste with her own hands, and she was still a little unfamiliar. Yunzhu didn't lift her arms, for fear of making barbs on her hands, and Qingwen would dislike her if she went back to embroidery work.When Hu Junrong saw it, he didn't want her to grind it, "You're a delicate skinned one, you can taste it by smacking it, give it to me!"

Yunzhu: "Fortunately, there are donkeys to help me. If I have to grind the pot myself every time, I'm afraid the pot won't taste good."

"It's delicious to just grind it into powder and use it as a dip. I also thought about putting it in the pot and cooking it together, but your aunt wouldn't let me."

If you cook the dipping sauce in one pot, wouldn’t it be called spicy hot pot?
It's a pity that spicy hot pot won't be popular for a while.The common people couldn't afford it, and the nobles looked down upon it. After eating it once in Jia's house, the masters said it was too fishy and dry, and although it tasted good, it was not good for health. After that, they never had it again.

There is quite a liking among the servants, especially the young men and women who do hard work in the garden. They all regard Yunzhu as a fairy descended to earth. I don’t know who will be blessed with the craftsmanship on the stove.

He kept praising her, just to beg Yunzhu to cook hot pot a few more times.

But fresh meat and vegetables are easy to come by, but pepper and aniseed are expensive. They are as wealthy as the Jia family. After using it twice, the warehouse refused to give it back.The manager said straight away that there was not much in stock and the price was expensive. If you want to use it, you should go to my wife to approve the note in person.

Go to Mrs. Wang and ask for hot pot base?Yunzhu shook his head like a rattle, no need, no need, boiled meat dipped in sesame sauce is also delicious.

"Master Xiaoliu, have you read the letter Zhao Laosan wrote to you? Do you want me to read it to you?" Not many people outside knew about Yunzhu's literacy, and Mrs. Hu was a tight-lipped person. Suddenly, It's quite strange to be treated as an illiterate.

"I've finished reading. I'm just waiting to use your connections to send her a reply." Yunzhu smiled happily and said that the wool was collected in an upright manner.

"Lao Hu, go and get two cabbages from the cellar." With that, he pulled Hu Junrong out of the door. I don't know what the couple said on the way. When they came back, the hand stroking their beards never stopped.

What are you thinking?

Seeing this, Yunzhu couldn't laugh or cry, thinking that the couple was overthinking it, and said, "Be it cabbage, and I'm not picky about food. Frosted cabbage is so delicious."

The sweet aroma of corn pancakes came into the house from the kitchen, and accompanied by meows, Hu Junrong asked her, "How much does it cost to redeem yourself for 500 taels of silver?"

"Ah...you know that too?" Yunzhu was originally an adult inside his body. After getting acquainted with him, he didn't treat himself as a child. After cutting the cabbage in his hand with a knife, he snorted. , some complained, "There is nothing we can do about it. People have me and I don't have them, so it is inevitable to be manipulated by others."

As he spoke, he clapped his hands and sent the cabbage to the kitchen, his expression no longer as cheerful as before.

Seeing this, Hu Junrong was the first to laugh out loud, slapped his thigh and said, "Sir, I always feel that I owe you a huge favor, and now I'm just waiting for the opportunity. As for money, our family doesn't actually have it."

He said this with great enthusiasm, but then he dropped it in a sharp turn. Yunzhu thought he was going to lend her money and said with a smile, "Could Dr. Hu's connections be enough to give me a favor?"

Hu Junrong hesitated, "We can't decide yet..."

Peeling the garlic heads one by one, they pounded them into minced garlic. The fragrant and smelly minced garlic was mixed into the sesame sauce. Hu Junrong took the mortar and patted his son, "Go and wash your face and hands quickly. Come back after washing. Isn't it clean?" Give me some meat!”

After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and volunteered to cut the cooked mutton into slices. Yunzhu next to him didn't expect such a rinsing method. After cooking, he cut it out and then dipped it in the sauce to eat, which saved a lot of charcoal.

"You're absolutely right. When I come back from Jinling, I should reward myself based on my merits, but here... in short, it won't do to reward too much, not to reward too little, and even less to reward me at all. It makes me afraid to hear it now. The word "reward" is given!

"Everyone wants to get promoted and make a fortune, but if you are a poor person, when you entered Tai Hospital, you were told to get a set of silver needles for me. Guess what? It hasn't happened yet!"

"I think that giving rewards to officials and giving money will make people hate you. Why don't I go and ask for a favor, and ask the government to redeem it for you in the name of the Ether Hospital? Just treat it as if I'm returning half of the favor to you."

"At least... you don't have to spend 500 taels of silver, right? Who has that much money!"

The three of them talked enthusiastically about the government's request for redemption, and what the favors involved. They walked around at the end of the year, maybe it could be finalized in the coming year, and they were very excited.

Only the stupid son of the Hu family is the most sincere, and he only says one thing back and forth, "Can I eat with the kitten? The kitten said it also wants to eat meat."

Rather than calling it a pot, it is better to call it cabbage stewed with mutton. The corn tortillas rolled up with burnt edges are golden and fragrant, and even more crispy and delicious when you take a bite. When they got into the mood, the three of them warmed up a pot of rice wine.

There should be no need for a quilt when sleeping tonight. It was warmer and warmer. Yunzhu ate to his heart's content, with a confused look on his face, but he still didn't forget to redeem himself.

Then he pulled out a purse from his sleeve and said solemnly to the Hu family and his wife, "Ten taels of silver, you can use it for walking around. In this case, I will wait for the good news in Jia's house." !”

The opportunity to save 500 taels passed by, and Yunzhu was very interested. At this time, saving money is making money. Who could not be interested in earning 500 taels over and over again?
Who would have thought that Hu Junrong would push his purse back with a horizontal hand, burp his wine, and shout with gestures, "What's going on! I'm telling you, it's done, just think of me as thanking you." My great kindness, if it doesn’t come true… it doesn’t come true…”

Hu Junrong's face smelled of alcohol and was flushed. He dared to drink and chat with someone at such a low level. Mrs. Hu could hardly stand it and continued, "Don't spread this word outside. If it doesn't work, just pretend that you haven't done it." Otherwise, given the temperament of the manager of the Jia family, I'm afraid that you will be eager to redeem yourself and raise the price."

This is natural.

Yunzhu staggered onto the carriage and wandered all the way into Jia's house. He and Qi Xie, who were full of garlic smell, got into the bed.

She stared at the top of the bed in ecstasy, thinking vaguely, this is how great it is that everything in the world is working together.

Hey, that's great.