Pastoral little master

Chapter 96

Tanjiajiangfang is at the foot of Jigong Mountain in Tanjiazhuang, 300 meters away from the nearest house on Zhuangzi.

"Duo, that's it." Tan Dejin pointed to Qi Duo not far away.

Qiduo fixed her eyes on the past and was stunned for a while.

Ah, that is Jiangfang, no wonder grandma and the others dislike it.

The first thing that caught the eye was a man-high withered yellow weed bushes, and then fixed his eyes, only to faintly see something behind the weed bushes.

"Father, why is this place abandoned like this? Since the Jiangfang was handed down by our ancestors of the Tan family, why didn't grandpa keep it running and let it be abandoned?" Qiduo asked, and walked forward.

I wanted to ask this question a long time ago, but I have been busy with Erxia's affairs these two days, so I haven't had time to ask it yet.

"The soy sauce shop is indeed handed down from the ancestors. I heard from your grandfather that the soy sauce of our Tan family was very famous a hundred years ago, and it was shipped to other provinces for sale. The business is very prosperous. It's a pity that because your great-grandfather got a sudden illness, he was going to another province. He passed away suddenly on the way, and your grandfather had just got married at that time, so he didn't fully know the secret recipe for making sauce.

It is said that your great-grandfather hid the secret recipe somewhere, but your grandma and uncle searched everywhere but couldn't find it.At that time, some people also said that the secret recipe was taken by your grandma, but the grandma refused to admit it, and there was a lot of commotion.

Later, because there was no secret recipe, the soy sauce brewed by the soy sauce shop was not pure enough, and sometimes it had a sour and strange smell. Slowly, the reputation of our Tanjia soy sauce wine was ruined, and the business plummeted, but your master still insisted, thinking that there will be a day The authentic Tan family soy sauce will be brewed.

28 years ago, the harvest was not so good, and the price of beans rose a lot. Your grandfather spent a lot of money to buy beans, but the batch of soy sauce was all spoiled.

The family no longer has the money to support this soy sauce shop, so your grandfather had no choice but to close the soy sauce shop. This is the pain in his heart, and he has never set foot in the soy sauce shop since then. I am afraid no one will remember our Tan family soy sauce . "Tan Dejin followed Qiduo, and said the reason.

Listening to the past, Qiduo nodded from time to time, never expecting such a past in Jiangfang.

She changed her opinion of Mr. Tan slightly. It turned out that he had insisted on his ideals, but unfortunately he failed.

Qiduo felt a little regretful, if her great-grandfather hadn't died young, or if the secret recipe hadn't been lost, maybe the Tan family sauce shop would still be prosperous, and the life of the Tan family wouldn't be as embarrassing as it is today.

"Father, why do you suspect that grandma has taken the secret recipe? Grandpa and uncle are her sons. The prosperity of the Tan family is also good for her?" Qi Duo was puzzled, how can a mother be so confused.

Tan Dejin pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and said, "That grandma is the stepmother, your real grandma passed away in childbirth when giving birth to your grandfather."

"Oh, so it's like this, no wonder." Qiduo suddenly realized, no wonder people would doubt Grandma Ji, it's understandable.

But she was still puzzled, and asked again, "But even if this grandma is not grandpa's biological mother, she took away the secret recipe, and the Tan family sauce shop can't continue to operate, and it's not good for her. She still has to live in the Tan family .”

"Cough, she... she hastily remarried less than a year after your great-grandfather passed away, and no one has seen her again." Tan Dejin said with a slightly embarrassed expression.

This is all about the ancestors. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have said it to his daughter.

But it was Qiduo who asked these questions, he had to say it, if Liuju or Erxia asked, he would definitely not say it.

Qiduo stared, she didn't expect to be so bloody. Thinking about it this way, the possibility of the secret recipe being taken away by Grandma Jitai is very high.

Since the great-grandfather married her, he naturally treated her as his wife. Some secret things were not told to his sons, but it was very possible to tell his wife.

Grandma Wei Ji failed to give birth to a son and a half for her grandfather, so she felt insecure in the Tan family, so she secretly took the secret recipe to find another way out for herself.

When the father and daughter were talking, they had already approached the sauce shop.

Tan Dejin pulled up the weeds that were tall, and Jiangfang appeared in front of Qiduo.

It's a pity that during the past 28 years, no one has cared about it, and Jiangfang has experienced the wind and rain in silence. It has been overwhelmed and severely damaged.

Now it can no longer be called Jiangfang, because it is just a pile of ruins and broken tiles, only half of the wall is still standing, the other walls are all collapsed, and the tiles are all broken.

Among the ruins, some fragments of sauce jars can still be seen faintly.

According to Tan Dejin, all the soy sauce jars selected by the sauce shop were sold, and the ones left in them were unusable.

According to Qiduo's visual inspection, the soy sauce shop was very large, with a long row of eight-bay house foundations, and wooden piles buried in the soil in the spacious yard, which was the place where the soy sauce was dried.

She seemed to see the busy figures of the workers when the business of the sauce shop was booming, and the bright smiles of grandpa and grandpa.

Time goes by, the old man is gone, and the glory is no longer.

Seeing this mess, Qiduo felt inexplicably sad.

"Oh, it's all ruined. I said earlier that our house is useless unless it is used to build a house in the future. But this place is far away from the village, and it's too deserted to live here." Tan Dejin said with a long sigh.

When the soy sauce shop closed, he was a few years older than Qiduo. At that time, the soy sauce shop had no workers, only Mr. Tan and his sons were making soy sauce in it.

At that time, he could only follow behind and fight, and couldn't help much.

Looking at the ruins, Qiduo was meditating, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her thoughts kept turning.

She remembers very clearly that there was a century-old sauce shop in her hometown in her previous life, and the products she produced were well-known at home and abroad.

The founder of this time-honored brand started out in the local streets, selling soy sauce on his shoulders, and then opened a soy sauce garden. The products produced not only soy sauce, but also various hot sauces, and finally produced pastries. The business has been long-lasting Not bad.

Now my conditions are better than that of the founder, why can't I do what he did?

Qiduo now wants to revive Tanjiajiangfang, so that it can continue to have a good reputation in Daming Dynasty.

"Father, do you know how to make soy sauce?" Qiduo asked.

"It's been a long time since I've done this, so I almost forgot about it." Tan Dejin scratched his head and said in embarrassment.

Qiduo pursed her lips and nodded lightly. You can ask Mr. Tan about this matter. Although he has failed before, it does not mean that he will fail forever.

I have supernatural powers and spiritual spring water, which may help.

"Father, where is Luhuapo?" Qiduo didn't say her plan for the time being.

The appearance of Jiangfang made Qiduo understand that there was nothing to look forward to in that pond, but she still wanted to go and have a look, so she was reconciled.

"It's still ten miles away. It's getting dark, so I can't go today." Tan Dejin said.

Ten miles away, well, it's a bit far away, so Qiduo had no choice but to give up.

The father and daughter went home along the way they came from, and Qiduo was full of thoughts about how to open a sauce shop.

However, before opening the sauce shop, the house has to be rebuilt, which will take a lot of effort. It seems that this matter can only be done slowly, and a fat man cannot be eaten in one bite.

Mrs. Xu was cooking with Erxia and Liuju. Seeing Qiduo came back, Liuju waved to her, "Duo, come here."

"What's wrong, Second Sister, by the way, hasn't Fourth Uncle come back yet?" Qi Duo walked over and asked.

"I haven't returned yet." Liuju shook her head, then pointed to a pile of bamboo shoots and asked, "Duo, how do you eat these things?"

"Hey, who dug this?" Qiduo asked in surprise, they sold all the bamboo shoots they dug this morning.

"Mother and Eldest Sister went to dig it, and even picked mushrooms." Liuju replied.

Qiduo looked at Xu Shi and Er Xia, they both pursed their lips and smiled.

"Mother, you are different from us, don't do these tasks in the future, what if you hurt yourself." Qi Duo said angrily.

Xu's little feet were exhausted walking on the flat road, not to mention it was still on the mountain, and there were so many wild animals on the mountain, if something happened to him, he would not be able to run away even if he wanted to.

"Look at what you girl said, my mother is not a paper, why do you look down on my mother now, think that my mother can't do things, haha." Xu smiled and blamed.

"Mother, I didn't mean that." Qiduo acted like a baby while shaking Xu's arm.

"Hehe, mother knows that you love mother, mother knows what can and cannot be done, don't worry." Xu hugged Qiduo, stroked her hair gently, and said softly.

Erxia and Liuju watched and smiled from the side, their smiles were warm and happy.

There is warmth flowing in Qiduo's heart, and the feeling of being close to each other as a family is really good.

Looking at the pile of bamboo shoots, Qiduo immediately thought of Zheng Wanru, who should send some over.

She asked Liuju to peel off the outer skin of the bamboo shoots first, but don't throw them away, they can be cooked and dried in the sun, and they will become delicious bamboo shoots.

"Mother, I'll send some bamboo shoots to Aunt Shen." Qiduo picked up half a basket of bamboo shoots and said to Mrs. Xu.

"No need, when we came back in the afternoon, we sent a basket to Aunt Shen's house. I also told Aunt Shen about the separation of the family, and Aunt Shen also said that we should separate.

Aunt Shen also gave our family a lot of things. You can return them at night. By the way, let me tell you how to make these bamboo shoots. "Xu said with a smile.

"Okay." Qi Duo agreed with a smile.

Two dishes of bamboo shoots and mushrooms were cooked by Qiduo himself. She made bacon and fresh bamboo shoot slices, mushroom and vegetable soup, and fried small snails at the same time.

Luoshishang Qiduo told Erxia before going to the county to let her go home and remove her tail early.

After cooking, and after waiting for a while, Tan Debao's figure appeared at the Moon Gate.

Qiduo and Tan Dejin greeted her hurriedly, both anxious about Liu's matchmaker.

"Brother, why did you come back so late today, are you okay?" Tan Debao asked with concern first.

"It's okay, let's go, let's talk in the room." Tan Dejin patted Tan Debao's arm.

"Fourth Uncle, is Matchmaker Liu back?" Qiduo asked Tan Debao in a low voice.

Today I am outside, but I have been thinking about this matter in my heart. If the damn matchmaker Liu can't be found for a day, the truth of the matter will not be exposed.

Tan Debao shook his head, "I went to her house a few times today, but the door of her house was still locked. I asked other people in her village, and someone said that some relative in her family passed away. She went to the funeral, and it might take a few days to come back. .”

"Fourer? What a coincidence, father, fourth uncle, do you still remember the two people who came to look for second uncle last night, their family also had a funeral, is it possible that they happened to be relatives of Matchmaker Liu?" Qiduo said, rolling her eyes, Not impossible.

Tan Debao nodded, "Well, it's hard to say."

"It's not that coincidental." Tan Dejin shook his head.

"Whether it is or not, how about it, brother, let's eat quickly, and after dinner, let's go to that house and take a look quietly." Tan Debao suggested.

"That's fine." Tan Dejin nodded.

The two brothers hurriedly lowered their heads to pick up the rice and stopped talking.

Qiduo pursed her lips tightly, hoping that this trip would be fruitful.

(End of this chapter)