Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 96 Ice Making
Li Kongzhu returned to the house with the medicine bottle, and saw that the man was upright again.

He opened his mouth, and finally swallowed the words.

"I'm going to pour a glass of warm water in!"

"it is good!"

The man nodded and watched her go out.Only then did he take a closer look at everything in the house.

The house was more than twice as wide as the hut I lived in before, and the ground was no longer uneven with potholes, but was paved with large gray stone slabs.

The kang is no longer the monotonous color it used to be. Not to mention the addition of kang cabinets and cages, the remaining sleeping area is at least two feet longer than the previous small kang.

In addition, a new stand-up wardrobe and washbasin stand were added, and a woman's dressing table was also added here near the window.

Zhao Junyi curled his fingertips, he really missed a lot.

Li Kongzhu, who was going to pour water, came in with a bowl, called him, and saw him turn his eyes.

Said: "It just occurred to me that you probably didn't have lunch, so why don't you take this medicine after meals?"

"No problem!" The man stretched out his hand to take the pill, raised his neck and delivered it, and said, "Take another one in half an hour!"

Li Kongzhu nodded when he heard this, went to the side of the kang and took out the quilt from the kang cabinet. "Fortunately, there is a kang burning at the bottom of the pot today, so your legs need to rest!"

"Hmm!" The man looked at her busy figure and was surprised that she didn't ask any questions.

Li Kongzhu, who was laying the quilt, didn't ask anything, it's still the same sentence, she waited for the day when he was willing to tell, and she forced her to come here, after all, she was a little unwilling.

The shop was ready, turned around and looked at him with a smile and said, "It's done!" As he spoke, he approached him, making gestures to help him.

Seeing the small hand stretched out, Zhao Junyi shook his head, and called out, "Jian Zhuo!"

"Yes!"

The window was knocked open by a sudden external force, and a shadow slid in like a ghost.

Li Kongzhu stared at the person who broke in through the broken window with startled eyes, and saw him half kneeling in front of Zhao Junyi, crossing his hands.

Zhao Junyi nodded and gave him a wink, and saw him stand up and reach out to help the man up.

Seeing this, Li Diaozhu quickly rushed to the other side to help.

After the two of them worked together to help the man onto the kang, Jian Zhuo was forced to retreat again.

Seeing the person flying out of the window again, Li Kongzhu snorted and laughed, "I think it's better to do less of this in the future!" For no other reason, the new window of her new house was just repaired not long ago, and it was smashed. If it is broken, there is no extra money to repair it.

"No defense!" The man leaned against the kang cabinet and beckoned her to come closer.

Li Kongzhu walked over and sat beside him, the man hugged her and hugged her, "Come and sleep with me!"

The woman nodded, took off her shoes and got on the kang to help him lie down, then entered his arms in fear.

Smelling the familiar air, his waist was a few inches thinner than when he left.

He raised his eyes distressed, but unexpectedly found that the man's eyes had been closed at some point, mixed with the sound of the long breathing, he had fallen asleep.

How much is this?Even if it made him so tired?

Li Kongzhu sighed lightly, resting his head on his heart, listening to his steady and slow heartbeat, murmured to himself for a while, then closed his eyes to follow his breathing, and fell into a deep sleep...

Zhao Junyi's return caused quite a commotion in the village.

Especially after hearing that his face had been healed, his legs were being treated again, and he was still returning by carriage, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit and please him.

For this group of people, Li Kongzhu didn't like to offend, but he didn't want to entertain them either.He only said that the master's leg is not good, and he has to rest well, so he can't be disturbed, so he also invites everyone not to come to the door again.

For those who asked about the identity of the old man, they even prevaricated by dressing in a sloppy manner.

After greeting each other for two days, they managed to get rid of this group of people, and the two brothers from the big room and the second room over there followed.

Seeing the flattering smiles of the two, Li Kongzhu didn't stop him, and after leading them into the house, he handed over to Zhao Junyi to deal with it.

And she followed Hui Niang, who also lived here, to Nanshan.

Now the peach branches that have been grafted have begun to bud, and it is estimated that they will bloom in early April.

Although the peach blossom season is over now, it shouldn't be too late to bloom now.

Also, with the first batch of flowers blooming, the second batch of flowering will soon come.

Li Diaozhu wanted to use this flowering day to do something, so he discussed it with Hui Niang after returning from his inspection tour that day.

After getting her consent, the two families began to get busy again.

In the past two days, Mr. Hua has heard a lot about Li Diaozhu from the people in the village who are fawning on him. His reputation has been ruined before, but now he has changed drastically. Can't believe it's the same person.

I thought that the woman who could make the Jun family's heartbeat is such an alluring woman, but I didn't want to be full of such a person with a rotten reputation.

Looking at the man whose face had improved in the past two days, Hua Lao shook his head and smiled, "Although I have to admit her talent, but such a woman, are you sure you want it?"

At that time, Zhao Junyi, who was sitting in a wheelchair and basking in the warm morning sun, only gave him a cold look and didn't say a word when he heard this.

Been back for a few days.I thought I could enjoy the sweetness that she had haunted people in the past, but I didn't want the two of them to have a sweet sleep the day before.

These days, the little girl is always busy running outside.

Although there was a commotion for a while because of his affairs, but now in the whole big family, apart from old man Hua and Jian Zhuo, there is only Yu Jiadi who waits on others.

"Uncle, please drink soup!" Yu Jiadi brought out two bowls of bone soup on a tray, and handed one to him, and the other to Mr. Hua.

Zhao Junyi picked up the soup bowl and looked at it, then put it back, "Put it there, drink it later!"

"The girl ordered Zai Shi to drink a cup, saying that this way I won't feel bloated when I have lunch later!"

"put it back!"

She gave her a non-salty look, which made Yu Jiadi inexplicably stunned.

He opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't dare to talk too much, put the bowl back on the tray, and stepped back.

Hua Lao blew on the steaming milky white rich bone soup in the bowl, squinted his eyes and smiled at him, "Why are you so angry? The girl made this arrangement for your own good. Your feet now, It's time for seams, why don't you drink more of this soup to mend it."

Zhao Junyi pursed his thin lips lightly and remained silent, thinking that when he used to live in a dilapidated house and had no money, women would always sell hawthorns and buy some bone sticks to save.Seeing his bad luck, he would cook soup or boil an egg to nourish his body from time to time.

Now, it always makes him feel that something has changed a bit.

At this time on the Nanshan side, Li Kongzhu and Hui Niang were wearing gauze hats, walking in the peach blossom forest looking for each other, watching the occasional bee land in the middle of the petals, they looked at each other and nodded.

These bees were brought back from the outside by Li Kongzhu and Li Chong, and they were mainly used to pollinate the peach trees.Now the peach blossoms in the two acres of land are in full bloom. If you want to produce good peaches, you can't do without enough pollination.

In addition, in the peach forest, every not too far, there will be a tatami-like wooden floor that is less than half a meter high from the ground.Next to the ground floor, there is a sunshade modified by Li Diaozhu with tarpaulin.In order to look beautiful, the inside and outside of the umbrella is covered with a cloth film made of various colored floral cloth for decoration.

At that time, the two women were tired from walking around, so they went to a floor shop, took off their shoes and sat cross-legged on it, then leaned back and looked at the beautiful scene with their hands propped up.

"Is this really possible?"

"Try it!" Li Kongzhu shrugged, it would be a pity if he didn't see such a beautiful late spring scenery.

Hui Niang nodded, "Throwing so much money, there must be something in return!"

"Ok!"

The two were chatting with each other, when Li Chong, who had put the beehives in order, followed.

When looking at the two, the greeting asked them if they were going down the mountain.

The two nodded naturally, but before they left, Li Kongzhu thought of something again, and said to Li Chong: "By the way, if the jujube flowers bloom, you can also raise bees to collect honey, jujube honey is also a must. "Nowadays they invest too much in advance, they can't just wait and do nothing, you have to know that it will take several months until autumn.

Li Chong nodded his head, "I see!"

The three met and went down the mountain.

When I got home, it happened to be lunch time.

Seeing a few people come back, Yu Jiadi quickly helped to fetch water to cleanse the face.

After the meal is set, they each go back to their room for lunch break.

But Li Kongzhu was in the room, holding the rice paper bought with a lot of money, and began to draw the figure.

Zhao Junyi sat on the edge of the kang and looked at her seriously, feeling bored, his complexion darkened a bit.

"What are you busy with now?"

Looking for something to say, she raised her head, but she kept her eyes on her head and said without raising her head: "Busy on a spring outing! Now the peach branches in Nanshan are blooming, and the second batch of grafted ones are also budding. This is great." In late spring, there is no other scene, you think I can let it go."

"But you want help?" The man raised his eyebrows and looked at her.

The woman's charcoal pen paused for a moment, and finally raised her eyes to look at him in the next second.

Seeing that his complexion was a little bad, he couldn't help asking, "Are you okay?"

"nothing!"

The unsalty voice made the woman frown.so cold?It's not like the way he talks to her now.

Putting down the pen, moved to his side, and asked the question he just said about helping each other, and asked something I wanted to ask earlier, "I remember when you went to Fucheng in February, you said you asked me to do whatever I wanted, but really of?"

"Hmm!" The man's face turned pale when he saw her coming.

But Li Kongzhu asked again, "Can you reveal your backer? Are you afraid of causing trouble?"

"Don't worry." The man stretched out his long fingers and stroked the broken hair by her ear.Seeing that she was always a palm away from him, the dissatisfaction that had been pent up in his heart for the past two days finally overflowed completely.

Lifting the quilt, he frowned and called her, "Come here!"

"Why?" She gave him a speechless glance, she still wanted to draw a picture.

The man didn't move his hand to lift the quilt, he only raised his eyebrows to look at her.That kind of extremely indifferent eyes made Li Kongzhu feel a little depressed for no reason.

After thinking about it, he finally obediently moved over, got into bed, put his arm around his waist, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "I still need to draw."

"Ah."

The man is light.The woman raised her eyes in dissatisfaction, "Why did you ask me to come here if you already know?"

"It's nothing." Feeling the tight embrace of her small hands around her waist, a hint of satisfaction slipped in the man's eyes.

Hearing this, the woman gritted her teeth angrily.In the next second, he tugged at his skirt like a kitten with fried hair and growled, "Zhao Junyi, don't think that you can make fun of me because you are injured. If you piss me off, be careful that I will beat you up."

"Oh?" Facing the small fist raised in front of his eyes, the man raised his eyebrows slightly. That damn good-looking face with the slightly hooked corners of his mouth is really damn charming.

The brain froze again.

Li Kongzhu felt that she was about to collapse, since this guy's face recovered, she found that she could no longer face him calmly as before.

Every time I met his eyes, my heart couldn't help but pound.For the past two days, she has been busy with excuses, just trying to avoid the time alone with him as much as possible.

You must know that she was the one who had the cheek to tease him before, but now it's completely reversed, making it impossible for her to seize control.

With a blushing face, he let go of his grip on the front of his shirt, and muttered, "Beauty tricks are not easy!"

"?" The smile in the man's eyes grew stronger, and when she left her little hand, he pulled it back.

Li Kongzhu was stunned for a moment, but the next moment he saw the man's face approaching quickly.

"Boom!" The blushing face reached an unprecedented height at this moment.Li Kongzhu felt that his heartbeat was a little unbearable, and his nose was itchy.Facing the magnified handsome face close at hand, his eyes also began to become a little blurred.

"Pretty tricks? Ha!" The man's thin lips were less than half an inch away from hers, and he smiled lightly, then raised his head again.Looking at the woman who hadn't recovered yet, she said indifferently, "That's a good word!"

Li Diaozhu's brain has been in a state of shutdown all the time, especially his light smack that intentionally left his lips, which made her nose feel hot.

"Plop!" Two tubes of bright red nosebleed were sprayed out in spite of her wishes.

Zhao Junyi, who had just got up, was stunned for a moment, but in an instant, he curled up his beautiful thin lips with a smile.Satisfied in her heart, she still calmly stretched out her long fingers to wipe off the bright red liquid that spewed out from her.

Li Kongzhu was also awakened by this spray, seeing the bright red stain on his brushed finger, he quickly lowered his head, gritted his teeth, wishing he could find a hole to bury himself.

"But you want a towel?"

The 'kind' reminder from the culprit made the woman's hands itch to bear it again and again.

Finally, "Zhao Junyi!"

The shameless woman broke out, grabbed his skirt, and pulled his upper body closer to her.

She gritted her teeth and stared at him face to face, and saw the man's deep eyes gliding with a smile.The woman hummed and hummed unhappily, and in the next moment, she offered her vermilion lips up without hesitation.

She was always the one who teased him...

It should be like this...

When the sky rang, Li Kongzhu didn't go out of the house, with swollen lips and a red face, he drew a picture of jingle in the room.

Hui Niang knocked on the door and came to look for her. She only said that she felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to sleep.

I don't want to say these words, causing people outside to start making ambiguous guesses.

After Hua Lao listened, he directly vented his dissatisfaction on knocking on the door, and if he drank too much, be careful not to lose his body in the future.

At that time Li Kongzhu heard it, his face turned red, and he wished he could hit someone with something.

On the other hand, looking at the successful man at the side, it seems that there is nothing wrong with him at all.

Li Kongzhu picked up his pen and snorted secretly, feeling that he was really unwilling to lose this battle!
In mid-April, the peach blossoms connected by Li Kongzhu and the others in Nanshan began to bloom one after another.

At that time, Li Diaozhu tried to make an oven, using peach blossom honey to make a honey cake.

As soon as the fragrant, soft and peach-flavored cake came out, the business in Hui Niang's shop immediately recovered.

Now that the peach blossoms all over the mountain are in full bloom, Li Kongzhu and Hui Niang take advantage of this to prepare for the spring outing.

The event will still be held in the store, just like the previous Lantern Festival with prizes.However, this time the grand prize, in addition to the one tael of silver, also comes with two tickets for a one-day trip to the luxury peach forest for the whole family.

In order to let the lottery winners feel the value for money, Li Kongzhu is going to use a donkey cart to escort them all the way, and also provide considerate human services, so that ordinary people who win the lottery can feel the comfortable life of being a master and wife.

For this matter, Li Kongzhu specially recruited a couple of sons and daughters from his family. In addition, he also asked Wang to go to the village to find some half-grown boys and girls to come for training.

Unexpectedly, the matter of recruiting people was only about to start, and it caused a sensation in the whole village to come to the door one after another.

The main reason is that Li Kongzhu's conditions are too attractive, let half-grown boys and girls go there, and they set a salary of [-] Wen per person for a month's work.

This made the villagers who basically have one or two and a half-year-old children in every family want to send them over.

In order to be able to come, some people even gave Li Diaozhu and Wang a gift.

Li Diaozhu was a little dumbfounded, and asked Mrs. Wang to reassure everyone not to mess up, and just said that it was a trial first, and if it was successful, they would recruit more people next time.

With the reassurance of these words, the villagers began to calm down slowly.

But Li Kongzhu and Hui Niang are officially busy.

One of them is in charge of setting up the activities in the store in the town, and the other is in charge of training and making honey cakes for the event with the family of four in Yujiadi.

Because the weather is getting hotter now.Li Diaozhu wanted to buy car ice to put in the ice cellar, but said he wanted to make iced honey water and ice bowls.As another consumption, Jieshihao is given to customers who come to the garden to drink.

It’s just that ice in this era is ridiculously expensive. Most of the rich families collect ice in winter and store it in the ice cellar for their own use. If they don’t lack the money, it’s hard to get ice.

Li Kongzhu has a way of making ice, but it's a huge profit, so it can't be made conspicuous now.But in the face of dozens of taels of ice, for the two families who are now out of ammunition and food, they simply cannot afford it.

After discussing for a few days, Li Kongzhu decided to let Li Chong go to another restaurant to pay two or three yuan and come back for the time being. For the rest, she thought of other ways.

Hui Niang asked her what she could do, but Li Kongzhu just smiled and didn't say anything.

After returning, he told Zhao Junyi about it.

At that time, Zhao Junyi nodded after hearing this, and ordered Jian Zhuo to go and deal with it.

When Elder Hua came to check Zhao Jun's pulse again, he looked at Zhao Junyi and said, "You just let her make trouble like this?"

"Trouble?" Zhao Junyi snorted.That woman is not troublesome, she has a clever mind.

Hua Lao snorted when he saw him like that, "With your future future, you really don't care about the reputation of such a woman?"

Here it is again, Zhao Junyi snorted lightly, and gave him a casual glance, "I don't need Laohua to worry about this."

The old man glared at him angrily, "If I hadn't been favored by Jun's family in the past, I would have taken care of your business?" Given his noble status, even a pure country girl is even worse than this girl with a bad reputation. All right.

"I heard that I used to crawl on the bed..."

"Old Hua!" Zhao Junyi's face was as dark as water, and his face was as cold as ice, "I respect Mr. Hua and Mr. Jun for his kindness, but Mr. Hua should be cautious about Mr. Jun's family affairs. Mr. Jun's wife should not be someone else's wife. Insult at will!"

"Insult?" Elder Hua also got a little angry, "I care about it with good intentions, but in your eyes, it has become an insult?"

Zhao Junyi pursed his lips and remained silent.

Seeing this, Mr. Hua made a few good words again and again.Shaking his fingers and criticizing him for a while, his face turned ashen and said: "Just treat me as a dog and a mouse!"

After all, he was so angry that he flicked his sleeves and got up, and walked towards the outside of the house.

Unexpectedly, when he stepped out of the house, he happened to run into Li Kongzhu who entered the house again.

Li Diaozhu met him head-on and quickly saluted him.

Unexpectedly, the old man snorted coldly, ignored her and quickened his pace, walking away from her.

Li Kongzhu didn't know how to get up, when he entered the room, he saw Zhao Junyi was about to stand up on the kang and get down to the ground.

Seeing this, the woman hurried over to help him, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing!" Zhao Junyi's face returned to calm after she came in.

Seeing this, Li Kongzhu didn't ask any more questions, he just looked at the splint on his foot and asked: "How long will it take to remove it?" I heard it has been more than a month, it must be much better.

"Just another seven days!" Enjoying her rare intimacy, the man walked around the room with her support, then went to the kang and sat up again.

After Li Kongzhu helped him to the kang, he took out a notebook from the cabinet and began to write the plan.

After Jian Zhuo bought the things, Li Kongzhu took advantage of the dead of night and went to the kitchen to fetch a basin of water into the house.

Finding a stick in his hand, he slowly opened the wrapped thing.

He grabbed some of the white powder inside and threw it into the basin, then stirred it quickly with a stick.

But after a while, I saw the crystal water splash that was still spinning just now, completely frozen into ice at this moment.

The whole process is simple and easy to understand, and the man under the lamp can see it clearly.

After seeing her finished, he took a stick and tapped it. After knocking out fine powder, he took a piece of the white crystal and put it in his mouth to taste.

"Well! The ratio is not bad, no smell!"

She clapped her hands and turned around.

Seeing the man staring at her without moving his eyes, he was amazed, so he couldn't help but proudly puffed out his plump breasts and said, "Hehe, what's the matter, you must be shocked by my extraordinary skills. Tell you, sister is a practiced woman. Frost palm. If you dare to provoke me, be careful that I can turn you into a popsicle immediately!"

The man recovered from the shock. Hearing this, he couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, and said in a loud voice: "It doesn't matter whether I provoke you or not, just talking about this person who haunts you endlessly every day and night." , it seems like someone else!"

Such ambiguous words, uttered from such a cold-hearted person, really make people feel weird and embarrassing.

Li Kongzhu's face was red, and he shouted angrily while holding a wooden stick with one hand on his waist, "Hey, whoever is pestering who, you are going to talk nonsense to ruin my reputation, you know I am still innocent now. Even if you find me again , and it’s easy to find.”

"Oh?" Remind him?

The man raised his eyebrows and looked at her playfully for a while.

The woman twisted a few times uncomfortably when she was watched.

This guy, why has he changed so much now?
An annoyed one walked over and blew off the lamp on the cage vigorously, "Sleep, sleep! I'm so sleepy."

In the dark, the woman groped onto the kang, and when getting into the quilt, she deliberately moved away from her position in dissatisfaction.

Seeing this, the man silently twitched the corner of his mouth.As she lay down slowly, she waited slowly without rushing.

one two Three……

A certain person counted less than a hundred silently, and his arms were filled with nephrite jade and Wen Xiang that suddenly rolled in.

Hearing her familiar chewing and humming, the man stretched out his hand to hook her slender waist in satisfaction, and fell asleep together with her breathing!

(End of this chapter)