Fair Lady

Uncle Li took a few male neighbors and quickly rebuilt the utility room and hut of Shuyao's house.For the sake of safety, the original cellar was still filled in, and the newly built utility room was also changed from the original all-wooden house to a brick-wood structure.

Because Aunt Mei was going to make tofu for sale, the utility room was built much larger than the original one, and it was simply divided into two rooms. The big one inside was a tofu workshop, and the small room outside was built with shelves to store sundries.

When the work was finished, Aunt Mei prepared a table of sumptuous meals. Shujie insisted on paying the wages to the neighbors who helped the workers. I can make subsidized livelihoods such as tofu and soy milk, and life is not that difficult.In the future, there will still be many places where the neighbors will be asked for help. If they refuse to accept the wages they pay, they will be too embarrassed to ask the neighbors in the future.

When you think about it, children taught by people like Mrs. Xia Tutou are naturally high-spirited and unwilling to take advantage of others for nothing.It's better to accept it for the time being. In the future, if the Xia family really needs it, it's the same for them to help. Don't they still want to make a tofu stall?At that time, it would be good to help the business more.

Uncle Li fulfilled his promise and built a beautiful chicken shed with the remaining bricks next to the utility room. The cover on the top can be lifted.

When Zhang Shiwen heard that the chicken shed had been built, he hurriedly sent over six chicks and two hens laying eggs. Shuwen and Xiutao were so happy that they walked around the chicken shed for most of the day.Shuyao, on the other hand, listened carefully to Qiutao's instructions on how to feed the chickens, which made Qiutao Xiaonizi feel a sense of accomplishment. She is responsible for raising their chickens, which can be considered "rich experience".

On this day, Shuyao brought Shuwen and Xiutao back to pick up vegetables and leaves, and there was an extra guest at home, Mama Wu, who came from the Zhang family (Xia Ruoyun's husband's family) in the suburban county of Lucheng.Xia Ruoyun just found out that her sister-in-law, Zhen Zirou, also passed away, but she found out she was pregnant after she came to Yulin Town to bury Xia Linxuan last time. It took nearly three hours to drive a carriage from Lucheng to Yulin County. Master Zhang was worried and sent Xia Ruoyun's bodyguard Mom took Xia Ruoyun's place.

Mama Wu brought vegetables, fruits, and some dry goods from the Zhang family's own farm, as well as a few bolts of plain cloth and processed wild animal fur.

Before leaving, Mama Wu took out five more 100 taels of silver bills and handed them to Shujie: "Young master, our wife is pregnant and cannot come to see you, she said that if you have any difficulties, someone will send a message." , or go directly to find her, with her, you three brothers will not be hungry.

Shujie didn't accept the bank note: "Mother Wu, please tell my aunt that we are fine. If there is any need in the future, I will definitely go to my aunt for help. When my aunt is about to give birth, I will take my younger brothers and sisters to visit my aunt and little cousin. "

Shuyao took out a ginseng from the mahogany box: "Mother Wu, my mother prepared this for my aunt. After my aunt left last time, my mother said that my aunt might have a younger brother, so she asked someone to find this. By the way, Wu Mom, I dreamed about my mother last night. My mother said that you would come today, and she wanted me to tell you to let my aunt eat less, eat better, and walk more every day. Mama Wu, why did my mother say that my aunt eats too much? Little brother won't come out?"

Mama Wu was shocked. A while ago, she heard that there was a noble lady in Lucheng who had a good fetal image, but it was difficult to give birth, and both mother and child died. Mrs. Wen said that the fetus was too big to come out.This uncle and wife are asking the cousin girl to remind her wife in a dream.Look at the ginseng that the cousin girl took out, it should be more than a hundred years old, right?It is said that uncle and wife are like sisters to wives, which is true, and sisters are not so generous.

Holding Shuyao's little hand, Wu's mother smiled and said: "You are too young, Cousin. Mom will tell you when you grow up. Mom will definitely pass on what my uncle and wife said to my wife."

Mama Wu went to put a stick of incense on Xia Linxuan and Zhen Zirou before she hid the ginseng and went back.

Shuyao knew that Madam Wu was the most loyal to Xia Ruoyun, so those words just now would be conveyed to Xia Ruoyun, and she would always keep them in her heart.I hope Xia Ruoyun can escape that catastrophe in this life.

After the first seven days, Aunt Li and Aunt Ajuan helped Aunt Mei set up a few tables of meals and invited all the neighbors on Xitang Street.The courtyard of Xia's house couldn't fit, so a large table was set up in the small courtyards of Uncle Li's house and Ajuan's sister's house.

From the second day onwards, Xia's tofu stall finally opened, and the business was surprisingly good. At first, the neighbors cared about it, but after visiting it once, they were full of praise, and the next visit was really out of their own appetite.One spreads ten, ten spreads one hundred, and later the guests who come late can only return disappointed, repeatedly confessing that they will save some for themselves tomorrow, and some customers even directly prepaid for ten days, and agreed to come and pick it up every day.

The tofu made by Aunt Mei is white and tender like jade, smooth and fragrant; the tofu nao is fresh and smooth, with endless aftertaste;Several wealthy families in Yulin Town and even Yulin County went directly to Xia's house to place a whole month's deposit to ensure that the wives, aunts, young masters and ladies in the mansion would have a delicious breakfast.

What is even more shocking is that after more than a month, the Xu family, a big family in the county, discovered that the naturally dark yellow skin of their third lady began to turn white and tender. Miss Xu especially loved the soy milk and Tofu nao, eat a bowl of tofu nao and drink a few cups of soy milk every day.This discovery made Mrs. Xu overjoyed, not only doubled the ration, but also sent a lot of high-quality cloth and snacks as thanks.

The master of Xu's family was an official in Beijing, and he was appointed as the third-rank Zhongshu Ling.Eight-year-old Third Miss Xu Nian'er is Master Xu's only legitimate daughter.Mrs. Xu and his wife returned home from their places of work to worship their ancestors. They encountered bandits on the way. Mrs. Xu, who was pregnant with Liujia, blocked the knife for her husband and became pregnant.

Mr. Xu named his daughter Nian'er to commemorate his deceased wife.I don't know if it was due to the premature birth, but Nian'er, who has delicate and beautiful features, was born thin and thin, with dark yellow and rough skin. Compared with her sisters, she became an ugly duckling.

However, Mrs. Xu and Master Xu still regard Nian'er as the apple of their eye and love them very much. Master Xu even refuses to continue the string because of Nian'er.Because Xiao Nian'er didn't want to stay in the capital and be laughed at by others, Mrs. Xu brought Nian'er back to Yulin County, hoping to return to the capital after Nian'er recovered.

I didn't expect to use so many secret recipes to no avail, but after eating Xia's soy milk and tofu brain for more than a month, I started to get better. Isn't Mrs. Xu overjoyed?

Aunt Mei really didn’t expect it. She learned to make tofu from her grandmother when she was a child. She had made tofu before, but she never thought that she could make tofu with such a good taste and effect. She was stunned when she tasted it on the first day. I stopped, and after much deliberation, I couldn't think of the reason, but it could only be attributed to the blessing of my wife's spirit in heaven.

Only Shuyao and Shujie knew that it was all due to the magical mahogany box.The soybeans and water used to make soy milk have been invigorated in mahogany boxes. How could it not be delicious?

Because the business was very good, Shujie worried that Aunt Mei would be working too hard alone, so he asked Mrs. Ajuan and Mrs. Sun to help.Both were very happy and grateful.Sun's daughter-in-law originally wanted to find a job to subsidize her family when she was idle at home. Ajuan's sister-in-law set up a stall every day, because she didn't have enough capital, she bought some small things like needles and threads, and she worked hard and couldn't make much money.

Now the two of them are helping at Xia's house, they are close to home, and they can go back to cook for the family and do some housework.The business of the tofu stand is good, and the wages given by Shujie are also good. It's really beautiful.

Every morning, Shujie and Chunsheng also helped to transport things to the stall with a cart.At first, Aunt Mei refused to let Shujie work, but Shujie was very persistent. He said that he was no longer a young master, and he naturally had to contribute to the family's livelihood, and he didn't want to become a bookworm who didn't work hard. What their mother Zhen Zirou said was to combine work with rest.

Shujie's daily work and rest time is very regular. When he practices martial arts, when he reads books, and when he helps out with the tofu business, they are all arranged in an orderly manner. Aunt Mei no longer objects when she thinks of what Yen Zirou often said in the past.

Shuyao's task is to bring Shuwen and Xiutao, and the three children are very busy every day learning to read, feeding chickens, and helping to pick soybeans.

Under Shujie's guidance, Shuyao and Shuwen began to practice calligraphy and memorize the Three-Character Classic, copying three big characters every morning and evening.Shujie's plan is to enlighten his younger siblings first, and next year when the two of them have a foundation and the family has a relatively good income, they will send Shuwen to the school in the county, and then invite a female teacher and a teaching mother Come back and teach Shuyao.

In the previous life, Shuyao only learned some characters from Zhen Zirou when she was at home, but when she went to Zhen's Mansion and Murong Shangshu's Mansion, no one asked her to learn or invite a master for her, so in her previous life, she couldn't understand everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she was still in the school. During the three years of refuge in the countryside, because he accidentally rescued an old woman, he was found to have a talent for embroidery, and he learned the embroidery skills from her, so he was considered to have a skill.

Relying on her exquisite embroidery skills, she does embroidery work day and night, for her husband Xue Minglang to be the second place in high school, and also arranges for him with the unparalleled flow color embroidery. Who would have thought that this white-eyed wolf...

In this life, she didn't go to Quancheng (Aunt Mei's hometown), so she probably won't meet Xue Minglang again, right?I don't know if that poor scholar with a family of four walls can still be ranked second in high school?

The life of the Xia family is simple and warm, but what Shuyao and the others don't know is that annoying people and troublesome things will soon follow.

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