Princess of the auxiliary country

The mother and daughter stayed at the eldest princess's mansion for more than half an hour. Seeing that it was getting late, they got into the carriage again and returned to the hot spring villa.

Huo Jingzhi and Huo Jinyan stood at the door of the mansion and watched their carriage leave.

"Our little girl is so good, but some people just don't know the stuff."

There is someone here, and it is self-evident who he refers to.

"Be careful."

Huo Jingzhi glanced at his son, turned around and entered the house, and Huo Jinyan quickly followed.

"Actually, this might not be a bad thing for your little sister. The palace is not a good place."

This is true at all. Their family's current status is not low, and they don't have that big ambition. In fact, it's quite good now. Safety and security are more important than anything else.

"Too."

Huo Jinyan thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case, and he felt a lot more relaxed.

"Jinyan, let's go and follow my father to sit in the study."

The father and son went to the study.

"You have also seen the current situation. I'm afraid it will be difficult for your little sister to find her husband's family in the future."

"I have discussed with your mother that if she meets the person she likes in the future, and the other person doesn't have so many messy thoughts, we will help support and pave the way."

Huo Jinyan nodded, naturally he had no objection to this.

"However, if she doesn't find the person she likes, we don't have to force her. From now on, our Duke Ji's mansion will support her for the rest of her life."

However, Huo Jinyan was a little confused. Hasn't this been said before?
He also promised that he would take good care of his little sister, why did he say it again?

"For you, your father and your mother are naturally relieved, but you will get married after the Chinese New Year. Your mother and I will also grow old in the future, and we will not be able to protect Yaoyao all the time."

"So you and your daughter-in-law need to take over. The relationship between sister-in-law and sister-in-law is inherently delicate, so you have to mediate and maintain it. Do you understand what it means to be a father?"

It turns out that he was worried about his future wife.

"My son understands. Don't worry, father. Zhilan has always been sensible and sensible, and she is not a mean person. Moreover, I have already made it clear to her in a letter about my little sister."

"She will definitely not look at my little sister the same as those people outside."

Huo Jingzhi nodded. He was quite satisfied with his future daughter-in-law, but there were some things that he had to explain to his son in advance.

Speaking of Huo Jinyan's fiancée, she was not an ordinary person.

She is the daughter of Fang Qiao, the left prime minister of the Yu Dynasty. She is the direct daughter of the first wife and the only girl of this generation of the Fang family. She has been raised to be well-educated, dignified and dignified since she was a child.

Back at the Hot Spring Villa, Huo Junyao immediately checked the seeds he had obtained.

Things like pepper seeds have already sprouted very tiny buds.

She quickly asked Xiaochan to use a wooden basin, get some fine leaf mold soil, and continue to put the germinated pepper seeds into it to cultivate.

This time, you need to wait until the yellow shoots grow strong before transplanting them to the greenhouse.

Ten days passed in a flash, and the temperature dropped a lot compared to before.

The seeds she cultivated went very smoothly, and the seedlings have been transplanted into the greenhouse one after another.

Every day, there are dedicated people who take good care of her according to her arrangements.

Although these servants are not optimistic about their princess's desire to grow vegetables in winter, they even think it is fanciful.

However, Her Royal Highness the Princess has an order, and they will do it as the princess tells them. Anyone who dares to talk nonsense or fails to do what the princess tells them will be punished or sold out.

These servants naturally did not dare to neglect them, and the princess princess was very kind to them, making them feel close to her, and she was quite serious about her work.In the past ten days, Huo Junyao also discovered the source of the bitter taste in the tofu and fish soup.

Salt, yes, salt.

The Yu Dynasty still used sea salt, well salt and pond salt, and the technology was relatively backward, so there were still many impurities in the salt, resulting in a slightly astringent taste.

Moreover, the output is not high, and many people cannot even afford salt. When cooking, they can only use vinegar cloth to increase the taste.

As a person from later generations, how could she endure such a situation?

It only took two or three days to build a simple purification device and purify all the salt at home.

The original astringency and bitterness are all gone, and the flavor of the tofu and fish soup has also improved a lot.

However, the eldest princess Ningyang did not notice that there was a change in the salt, and thought it was because her daughter's craftsmanship had improved again.

As for the salt purification matter, Huo Junyao also told the chef that it should not be spread to outsiders. She has no plans to release these things yet.

After all, salt was very important in ancient dynasties. Although it was controlled by the court, many people made profits from it privately.

Therefore, if these things are released, I am afraid that it will affect the interests of many people. Now that she has not accumulated enough, and the prince is eyeing her, she still has to keep a low profile.

It would be better not to release things that would threaten the interests of others for the time being.

On this day, Huo Junyao just got up and was about to go to the greenhouse to check the situation. As soon as she went out, she noticed that there were sparse snowflakes falling from the sky.

"Snowing?"

In her previous life, she lived in Chongqing City, where it was rare to see snow even in the depths of winter.

In this Yu Dynasty, snow started to fall before late autumn?

"My slave has long thought that this year will be colder than last year. I didn't expect it to snow now. It seems that many places are about to suffer disaster."

Hongxiu stood behind Huo Junyao, looking up at the falling snowflakes from the sky.

"Is it a snowstorm?"

Huo Junyao frowned and glanced at his greenhouse with some worry.

If this is the case, it's hard to say whether my greenhouse will be successful.

"Why did Yaoyao get up so early? It's so cold, why don't you get more sleep?"

Princess Ningyang came over at some point, and when she saw Huo Junyao, she came over with a smile.

Then he couldn't help but sigh.

"The snow came early this year. It seems we need to prepare more charcoal, otherwise this winter will be difficult."

When she said this, Huo Junyao also realized the problem.

In ancient times, there were no air conditioners or heaters. For heating, it seemed that a few charcoal braziers were placed in the house.

Although it is very warm, it is also very dangerous. Many people die from carbon poisoning every winter.

She didn't expect that there would be carbon dioxide everywhere in her house. She thought for a moment and asked, "Mom, do we have iron at home?"

"Yes, every year the village needs to repair farm tools and so on, so some will be saved, but not too many."

"After all, this is a material urgently needed by the imperial court, and it is impossible for it to appear in large quantities outside the imperial court."

In ancient times, salt and iron were very important materials for the imperial court, and were basically under the control of the imperial court. Although private salt and iron were also sold and smuggled by the private sector, the quantities were not too large, and once discovered, it was a serious crime.

"Then can you ask someone to ask how much there is? If there is a lot, get me a thousand pounds now, and then find some blacksmiths."