delicious little cook

Chapter 666 Silence for the fox in the forest
"This is a bit wicked. You know that the princess is pregnant, so you can't get angry."

"You are not wicked when you bully?"

"How can I call it bullying you? You call me ancestor. You are my unworthy descendant. Forget? You are not filial to me if you sue."

"The more you talk, the more excited you are? Okay, when I return to the capital, I will definitely give you a good bed, and I will see it in your study with my own eyes."

"You know how to threaten me with this."

"Sad married man, I allow you to renew your envy of the good life of bachelors."

"I bother!"

Gong Zhangji patted Gu Yun on the shoulder and stood up.

"Husband and wife are enemies, two people have one life, my beloved concubine is naturally my biggest weakness, there is no doubt about it, but your weakness is Bai Kou, this is terrible, and it is also very unfair to your future young wife. The root cause of an innocent woman getting involved in your messy relationship is your hesitation and continual decision. It’s a failure for a man to do what you do. If anything happens to Bai Kou in the future, it will be your fault.”

"Nonsense, it's up to you to say it." Gu Yun patted the weeds stuck to his body, and stood up with a displeased expression on his face.

"Be patient, the Chinese New Year is not long away, and the caravan is already on its way back. Let's see what they find out before we make plans."

"Come back? So soon?"

"I just set off, and it's still far away from the capital. If the journey goes well, I guess it will be good to enter the capital on the [-]th."

"It's okay, it's okay. It's better to come back after the first month is over. It's better to come back one day earlier."

"Okay, okay, let's stop chatting, hurry up and work, catch more foxes and go back to sell them for money, and earn money to buy flowers for my daughter-in-law."

"Go away, wretched married man."

"Jealous single dog, I pity you~~~~"

The two young men ran away, bickering and playing tricks, and spent another hard day in the mountains and forests.

Bai Kou got up from lunch break and went to the Dragon Tent to serve tea as usual, chatted with the sage, told some anecdotes about the market, the people waiting outside the tent could hear laughter from inside from time to time, and the old people among the palace maids occasionally discussed in private I will also feel as if Bai Yuchu is still there.

Concubine Zhao Xian asked her daughter to drink tea with her in the tent, and chatted about the children's marriage. The eldest princess hinted to her mother that she did not want her daughter Shi Tianqi to marry Gu Yun. It's not up to the woman's family to be the master. Gu Yun'an and his wife can't make it if they don't agree with it. Instead of letting their golden-branched and jade-leafed daughter suffer such grievances, it's better to find another suitable husband. There are many people in the clan circle who can marry, isn't it? She must marry Gu Yun.

As for the real reason for not marrying, the Eldest Princess did not confess to her mother and concubine. She was still thinking about her sister-in-law messing up the mandarin couple, especially those two nieces who wanted to marry Gu Yun, so let them make trouble. Well, she herself doesn't get involved, she can't afford to lose this man.

Seeing that the eldest daughter is not willing to marry the Gu family, Concubine Zhao Xian naturally felt very uncomfortable. She said a few more words before being interrupted by the Eldest Princess, telling her mother and concubine not to talk too much in this kind of place, what to say? Let's talk in the palace.

Concubine Zhao Xian had no choice but to hold back her words sullenly, wondering if she was really old, and the children no longer listened to her words.

In the afternoon, Princess Jingyun and her sister group still came to Bai Kou to learn how to make small snacks. They also wanted to learn the gingerbread made by the girls of the Pomegranate Club yesterday, and they also brought ginger powder and other ingredients specially. The snacks that are stirred in order and then baked are indeed the most suitable for novices like them. The only places where the fire is used are the melting butter at the beginning and the oven at the end, which is less dangerous.

They want to learn, Bai Kou is naturally willing to teach, and promised to teach them how to make pound cake tomorrow, but she deliberately changed the word pound to half word, which means half cake to them, which means that four servings weigh half a catty. It’s eight taels of ingredients, mixed and baked cakes, that is also an excellent entry-level snack, no need to calculate various proportions, just memorize them by rote, and people who are not good at arithmetic will not mistake the ingredients, so So as not to explain the origin of the pound unit of weight.

The noble ladies ate delicious gingerbread and happily agreed to tomorrow's promise.

When the boys came back with their prey, the sky was already dark. After a day of exhaustion, all the men took a bath and had a meal and rested early. Even Gu Yun fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow. The camp was swept away these days. In the nearby mountains and forests, the small animals probably hid, so today they deliberately walked a little farther and brought back a good harvest, so they were even more tired.

Winter hunting is a time to show off all your abilities wantonly. Although Gu Yun does not participate in hunting competitions, and the mountain forest he goes to is not a venue for competitions, and he only picks foxes, but the group of them get something out of going into the mountains every day, which makes many people feel happy. Everyone jokes about the winter hunting in the past few years, the foxes in this forest are really unlucky.

The sage laughed at such jokes. This was originally an enclosed royal hunting ground. There are countless small animals. Naturally, it is their young people's ability to hunt them. What's more, if there are enough species of foxes for breeding, they will naturally stop hunting like this. Fox, the foxes have been unlucky for the past few years.

The next day, the noble ladies came to learn about pound cakes, with Bai Kou taking care of them. Naturally, it was a success once, and it was soft and delicious. One piece of cake was cut into ten pieces, and one person could eat them all in one go without knowing it. Before leaving, Gong Jingyun He also invited Bai Kou and Bai Kou to the tent in the Marquis of Fuyang tomorrow morning to make three sets of geese for them all.

Don't dare to disobey the princess's words. Although this big dish needs a whole day of preparation time, Bai Kou still readily complies.

When Gu Yun and the others came back from the forest, and heard that Bai Kou would stay at the Marquis of Fuyang for a day, Gu Yun didn't know when to come back at night, so Gu Yun felt a little upset, and insisted on keeping Bai Kou on duty at night for the reason of sorting out business plans. , sent Qinglan and the others back to sleep.

In the beginning, the two of them seriously discussed some business plans for the coming year. After all, they went to Haikou last year. As long as the factory’s business monopolizes the capital, they will be able to pay taxes of ten thousand taels. There are more reasons, if next year he fails to pay a decent amount, someone will take the opportunity to attack him, saying that Gu Yun is deceiving the king.

The promise made by Bai Kou will ultimately be on Gu Yun's head. No one will say that Bai Kou is deceiving the king, but Gu Yun will definitely say so.

Gu Yun became an imperial merchant when he was only 17 years old. Before that, he was just a dazzling rich man in the capital. No matter how rich he was, it was his own behavior. There is a political cover over the usual business, which is too easy to be attacked.

(Author's words: The published chapters cannot directly modify the chapter name, I am a little embarrassed to ask the editor to change it...or just leave it like this, don't change it...)
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