Chronicle of Farming in Muxianfu

Chapter 110 Annual gift delivery (seeking pink)

Xia Zhi lowered his head and picked up a mahogany box and handed it over with both hands, "Mrs. Wei, this is a cup specially made by our wife for drinking honey water. In addition, the dried beef and pork, melon seeds and dried sausages are used for drinking a few times a day. The best appetizers when drinking. The dry sausage needs to be steamed for a quarter of an hour before eating. This altar of sweet sauce is eaten on the cake, which is especially good for the health of the old lady and the young man. Those two boxes of fried cakes need to be used Eight-point hot oil is fried for half an hour, and then dipped in the white sugar in the big red jar to eat. The chicken soup dumplings are steamed for a quarter of an hour on high heat. When eating, you must first bite a small mouth, otherwise the soup inside Tongue burning. Cucumber kimchi and womb cabbage kimchi are appetizers. The other six pots of flowers are carefully planted by our wife and are reserved for you to put in bottles. Those eight boxes are full of fresh vegetables, and the remaining two brown wood Inside the box are a hundred-year-old Sichuan Asako and wild ginseng. In the end, um, the three big wooden barrels that were not moved in, the one tied with red cloth strips is the spring water for making tea, and the one tied with blue cloth strips contains four Pairs of live carp and twenty pairs of live prawns."

Xia Zhi was eloquent, gabbling like a bean, and explained everything that should be explained in the gift. The girls in the room all opened their eyes in surprise. They are all the children of this mansion. , I often follow Madam, I haven’t seen any rare jewels, although I didn’t show it in my eyes and tone just now, but I feel a little contemptuous of these rituals in my heart. The questioning is a little redundant, just give me a small reward letter and pass it off.

Unexpectedly, after hearing the introduction of the girl in green, they felt a little ignorant. Everything in this year's gift is so magical, all kinds of novel food, delicate and blooming flowers, and live fish in the winter?Live shrimp?And eight boxes of fresh vegetables?

A maidservant in yellow clothes, who is usually trusted by his wife, couldn't help stepping forward to lift the lid of the box. When she saw that the inside was full of green beans, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She was the long vegetable. I have seen it before. A few months ago, the master had a banquet in the Xianke Tower. She went to pass the message on behalf of the wife. She saw a plate on the table. It was said that it cost 20 taels. How much silver?
Mrs. Wei said with a happy smile, "Miss Xia Zhi will definitely thank your wife for me when I go back. Our Wei Mansion has not yet repaid the great kindness of the lady, but received such a great gift from the lady."

"Mrs. Wei, please don't say that. You don't know that our wife is worrying in the mansion?"

"Oh, what is Madam Xian's concern, do you need our help?" Mrs. Wei Er hurriedly asked, Tao'er is her own son, and she is more grateful than anyone else for Mu Ai's life-saving grace. Now I heard that If the benefactor has something to do, ask him immediately.

Xia Zhi burst out laughing, saluted again, and said with a smile, "It's the servant girl's fault. I didn't make it clear, which made my wife worry. My wife is fine, because the annual gifts sent by your house are too rich. Our house's return gift But they are all local products, not worth much money. Our wife sighed and said, this is really suspected of taking advantage of the opportunity to make money. So, just worrying, how can I earn less money?"

Xia Zhi vividly pretended to be troubled, seeing her was like seeing her wife's expression, which made Mrs. Wei Er and the girls in the room all laugh.

Mrs. Wei Er wanted to talk to her a few more words, but remembering that today was her birthday banquet, and there were still some wives who came and went to eat in the main courtyard on a daily basis, so I had to ask someone to give me a big reward envelope of two or three taels. Xia Zhi asked her and his maid again to explain in detail before rushing back to the banquet.

Not to mention Xia Zhi explaining how to eat again, suddenly remembered that the wooden box in his hand was specially given to the young master by his wife, so he entrusted the servant girl to hand it over, and then happily went out to join Mu San and the others back home.

To put it simply, Mrs. Wei took the gift list and entered the hall, nodded to her sister who was seated inside, and then confessed to several old wives who had a lot of contacts on weekdays, and had a glass of wine with them.Mrs. Wei knew that it was the annual ceremony of the Muxian Mansion, and seeing her sister's happy face, she knew that there must be something good, so she managed to restrain her curiosity, and waited until her sister turned around and returned to her seat. Only then asked in a low voice, "What did Mrs. Xian send again? Is there a holy product?"

"No! But..." Mrs. Wei Er was very naughty, halfway through speaking, she refused to tell her sister, but Mrs. Wei pinched her, "Okay, you don't have to say it soon."

"Sister, it's honey. It's ten times better than the holy product that Liniang got. I also sent a special cup for drinking honey. The honey is also three small pots. I think it's for us sisters and mother-in-law. , but extremely careful. There are also eight boxes of fresh vegetables, all so tender that water can be squeezed out. There are also two barrels of water for tea and live fish and shrimps."

Mrs. Wei became more and more excited as she talked. The bucket of water in the master's study is like a treasure on weekdays. It is sealed very tightly. It is just a drink for the mother-in-law and Tao'er each day. They only taste a glass once in a while. , but the feeling of being refreshed and thoroughly moisturized in an instant seems to remain in my heart forever.This time there were two full buckets, so the sisters should drink two more glasses anyway.

The two masters were chatting lively, and the guests next to them noticed that sitting next to Mrs. Wei Er was the wife of Yin Chengan of Huawang City Mansion. With a good background, it is inevitable that he thinks highly of himself on weekdays. Today, Ben has nothing to do at home, so he went out to drink Mrs. Wei's birthday wine. If there is a lady who is good at flattering and flattering among the crowd, she will talk more about her.Seeing that Mrs. Wei Er went out for a while before returning after the banquet, and she didn't toast her a glass of wine, she felt a little annoyed in her heart. She called Mrs. Wei Er nicely. To put it bluntly, she was still a concubine.

Seeing that the two were happy talking to themselves, they interrupted aloud, "Why did the two sisters of the Wei family lose it? The sisters were chatting happily there, did they get something good, and I also took it out to open the eyes of all the sisters." ah!"
Mrs. Wei looked up and saw that it was the famous Mrs. Chen Feng. She knew that she was always high-minded and liked to put on airs.The family held a banquet to celebrate my sister's birthday, and I really didn't want to invite her, but because of the friendship between Mr. Chen and my master, I had to post a post, but I didn't expect her to come.Thinking of what her master said, she was also her husband's boss, but she always suppressed her sister's face regardless of the occasion, and said indifferently on her face, "Madam Chen laughed, but a friend sent some local products to us. Sisters try something new, what good things can there be? Unlike Mrs. Chen's natal family in the south, Master Feng loves her sister, and all the good things are delivered by car."

Mrs. Chen praised Mrs. Wei's good words, and raised her head even higher for a moment, "Mrs. Wei, you are too polite. What my natal family sent are just pearls and gems, novelty decorations and the like. These ordinary things are just more expensive than those local products."

The two wives of the Wei family had a bad face when they heard this, and they kicked their faces when they really got their noses, and they didn't even look at whose house this was, just belittled the master like this, and looked at no one.Even Mrs. Wei, who is a submissive person, has some annoyance in her eyes, let alone Mrs. Wei.

At the table, there was a winking person who quickly smoothed things over, "Speaking of which, local products are not bad either. A cousin from my family sent me a cart yesterday, and there was actually a bear skin in it. My master was overjoyed." He said that he would make a cushion and put it on the big chair in the study, so he had to look at it every day. It made me jealous of that bearskin." What she said was funny, and everyone gave face, covering their mouths and laughing When they got up, the atmosphere became harmonious again.

However, Chen Fengshi didn't wink and didn't appreciate everyone's love. Instead, he sneered and said disdainfully, "Your master is also a person who has never seen a good thing. There are two bear skins in the leather gift from my mother's family. Let me take it with you." I gave it to the servants, but I like the two red fox furs very much, it would be good to make a cloak."

The lady who spoke earlier was the wife of the same master, Mr. Chu Shangchu. She has always been on good terms with the two ladies of Weifu, and often walks and gathers with each other on weekdays.

Just now, I was trying to smooth things over out of good intentions, but Chen Fengshi immediately threw back a few words. No matter how gentle and kind her temper was, she couldn't help but turn dark at this moment.Although it's not easy to make a scene with her because my husband is on a job under her, but I really can't force myself to greet her with a smile again, so I shut my mouth tightly and sulked in my heart.

It's okay for the two wives of the Wei family to suffer a little bit, but they have to stand up for those who defend themselves, otherwise, who among the wives will be willing to make friends with them in the future.Besides, my master has also explained that today is just the right opportunity, and the release of the news will not attract people's suspicion.

At that moment, Mrs. Wei smiled and said, "I am not as far-sighted as Mrs. Chen. It would be great if I could get one of the bear skins. My master defended the border a few years ago, and his knees have some problems. It's very cold this winter." It’s a bit difficult, but it would be much easier if I had a bearskin cushion. Unfortunately, the local products my friend sent didn’t contain furs, and they were all ordinary things like fresh vegetables, live fish and shrimp.”

"Fresh vegetables? Live fish and live shrimp? Mrs. Wei is really lucky. It's not easy to eat fresh things in the cold winter months. Today we are all lucky. We happened to come to drink the second lady's birthday wine. If you miss One day, I'm afraid there won't be such a chance to see the novelty." Madam Chu knew that Madam Wei was standing out for her, and she wanted to teach Madam Chen a lesson, so she took up the topic with surprise and joy, and put it on the shelf by the way. Let Mrs. Wei show off a ladder.

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