Warm spring enters Hou's door

Chapter 144 Mutton Soup in Winter
"You brat, you deliberately made up words to irritate me!" Sima Huan was not one to swallow his anger.Once he reacted, he immediately growled.

Du Yi smiled triumphantly: "Your brain is about the same as mine, you can't beat my father. My mother will definitely not like fools, just accept your fate!"

Well, after being looked down upon by the Qi family and Fu Fengzi, now even this little bastard comes to look down on me?
Sima Huan gritted his teeth with hatred. "You should be thankful that I'm your uncle. Otherwise, just because of what you said just now, I can make you live or die."

"But I don't treat you like an uncle!" Du Yi said.

Sima Huan's eyes turned cold again. "Are you trying to force me to attack you?"

"Then can you do it?" Du Yi only asked.

"Of course I can do it!" Sima Huan said, raising his hands high.

Du Yi raised his head and looked at him fixedly, his bright eyes were full of coldness, without any fear at all.

Sima Huan was in a trance for a while, he seemed to see Du Juanqing's eyes full of disdain, and in an instant, those eyes were very similar to Gu Caiwei's, and finally...he actually saw the same brilliance in this little guy's eyes as his brother's !

His hands softened suddenly. "Do you think I will be irritated by your provocative methods again? Now that she hates me so much, I won't be so stupid as to do more bad things to make her unhappy. Besides, I don't bother to care about you little guy !"

After that, he withdrew his hand, jumped onto the wall and left.

Seeing this, the two hidden guards naturally disappeared in a flash.

Both Gu Chengfeng and Qi Shi were stunned. "He just left?"

"If you don't leave, are you really waiting for A Niang to hate him even more?" Du Yi chuckled lightly.He hurriedly went to Fufengzi and Ou Shenzi to salute one by one, "Thank you, master and uncle, for making the move. Without your help, my mother would have been taken away by him."

"It's okay, it's just a little effort." Ou Shenzi waved his hand quickly.

Fu Fengzi also said indifferently: "Although I don't like Marquis Changning, I don't like Erlang Jun who makes enemies everywhere. Therefore, if I really have to choose, I would rather your mother and your father."

Du Yi stuck out his tongue, and quickly turned around: "Both masters have worked hard. Now I will take you to the guest room to rest. You will stay here this year and celebrate the New Year with us."

As soon as he came back, he had already shouldered the heavy responsibility of being the head of the house.

Fufengzi Ou Shenzi nodded and followed him.

Seeing their figures go away, Qi couldn't help showing a bit of surprise: "This child, he has changed a lot from the last time we saw him!"

"Yeah, more stable and more responsible." Gu Chengfeng nodded and said, "With such a sensible son by my side, Ah Wei will definitely not have a sad life in the future."

"Of course I know this. Didn't we agree to marry Awei because of our son-in-law's delicate thoughts and open-minded temperament?" Qi said in a low voice, "It's just that I didn't expect that , this child is already so capable at such a young age. I'm afraid Awei and the others have never thought of this."

"Auntie..."

Hearing their husband and wife praising other people's children in front of him, Gu Tianyuan's face was almost wrinkled into a bun. "Can't you praise me? Obviously, Master said that my progress is amazing!"

Gu Chengfeng and Qi Shi turned their heads to look at him, and then they both nodded. "Indeed, your progress is not small."

However, compared with Du Yi's changes, his is still not big enough.

In fact, it's not that Gu Chengfeng doesn't live up to expectations, it's just that the medicine that the young master gave to Du Yi is really useful, and Du Yi's body has undergone a radical change.In this way, everyone was stimulated by Du Yi first, and then came to see Gu Tianyuan, and naturally felt that it was not enough.

Therefore, even though his father and mother also praised him, Gu Tianyuan didn't feel excited at all after hearing it, but his chest was even more dull and uncomfortable.

"No, I'm going to fight with Du Yi! Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep again tonight!" He gritted his teeth and rushed towards Du Yi.

Although his physical fitness has been severely suppressed by Du Yi now, the two of them can still fight for a few rounds.Moreover, even if he was really knocked down by him, at least he could learn something in this matchup and strengthen his physique even more, so he never tires of it.

Of course, since they were back home, the two little guys spent more time playing with the little lady besides exchanging skills.The little lady is already two years old, and the little doll is just when it likes to make a fuss, with a small mouth that can say whatever it hears, like a little parrot, it doesn't stop all day long, making it very noisy.

When her father was around before, Du Juanqing mostly taught her to speak word by word.Later, when Du Juanqing went to Yongxing County, Gu Caiwei was about to give birth again, and it was Qi and Gu Chengfeng who took her. The two elders were almost driven crazy by this little doll!
But now, when she met Gu Tianyuan and Du Yi, she was like a fish in water.Although there was a ten-year age gap between them, the three of them went into the sky together. Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan rushed to teach her how to speak.The little lady likes elder brother and younger uncle, so she naturally followed suit honestly.In just a few days, she spoke more smoothly!More and more words popped out of my mouth.

Someone brought her daughter, Gu Caiwei was completely relieved, and began to take care of her body seriously.

Madam Changning Hou gave birth prematurely, this matter is not a secret in the capital of God.At least, everyone who should know knows it.

As early as the second day after Gu Caiwei gave birth to Mr. Xiao Lang, Princess Taiping ordered people to bring a lot of nourishing medicinal materials, and the Duke of Lai's mansion also sent people to look at it.

Tian hated Gu Caiwei, the person who occupied her daughter's body, but under the pressure of face and Gu Chengyuan, she also came over to take a look at her son, left some medicinal materials and left.

Other families in Shendu also sent people to congratulate them one after another.

But because Du Juanqing was not at home, and Gu Caiwei was too weak, so Xiao Langjun's bathing and full moon banquet were all skipped, and they only had a lively time around their own family.

However, on the day of Xiao Langjun's full moon, someone sent a generous gift to their house again.

It was really a generous gift, because the gift box was as tall as half a person, and it was so heavy that the concierge would be wobbly to carry it by himself.

Du Juanqing was not at home, so now it was Du Yi who took on the role of the host.

He easily took the gift box and took a look in his hand: "It was sent by the Crown Princess, Princess Anle and others."

Then when the gift box was opened, a burst of golden light shone out immediately, which almost dazzled the big guy's eyes in the sunlight.

Gu Caiwei took a closer look, and she smiled immediately: "It turned out to be a gold leaf! They really spent a lot of money."

Such a box is full of gold leaves, at least there are thousands of gold leaves.It doesn't matter if the quantity is large, the main thing is that it is full of gold leaves, which looks really festive. Gu Caiwei thinks that people who don't admire vanity, when she sees the full of gold leaves in front of her, she can't help but burst into ecstasy.

Gu Tianyuan had sharp eyes, and he immediately found another note in the box.

Taking it over and looking at it, there was a line of words written on it. After reading it, he couldn't help sneering: "So they also know that sister's premature birth is because of them! So they brought this box of gold leaves as an apology for you. If you want to eat something or drink something, just take the money to buy it, you're welcome!"

"It's indeed the style of the princess and the others." Gu Caiwei nodded.

She couldn't help but think of Princess Anle and the others she saw at the princess' mansion that day. Seeing their extravagant attire, their overly gorgeous dresses, and the value of anything they took off casually.Giving her this box of gold leaves now is only a drop in the bucket, nothing at all.

Qi's face turned cold when he heard this. "Well, he is a princess and several princesses! If the maid of Princess Anle wanted to attack you at that time, would you have clashed with Mr. Erlang and ended up giving birth prematurely? As a result, you have such a big incident now that you almost lost your life. Their lives were lost, but they kept ignoring them all the time. Until now, they slowly stood up, but they just threw over such a box of gold leaves, and nothing else! The airs of the royal people are really enough big!"

"Aniang, you are venting your anger." Gu Caiwei smiled lightly, "Actually, no matter what Princess Anle and the others do to me, Sima Huan and I will always fall out."

"At least it must be after you give birth! After giving birth and taking care of your body, you can fight with him however you like, and you won't suffer so much if he throws you to the ground eight hundred times!" Qi said angrily. Said, "So, in the final analysis, the reason is still on them!"

Once her mother messed around, her father would not be able to fight her, so naturally Gu Caiwei would not be so stupid as to confront her head-on.

Gu Caiwei nodded quickly. "Yes, Aunt, you are quite right. It's all their fault! But... even if this is the case, what can we do? We can't seek revenge from them, can we?"

Qi gave her a white look. "After talking for a long time, don't you just want to persuade me to let this matter go?"

"It's not nothing, is it? After all, they gave us so many gold leaves! With this money, we can live a prosperous year!" Gu Caiwei laughed.

Qi's eyes rolled even wider. "Do you think I look like someone who needs money?"

Thinking of the dozens of banks under the Qi family... Gu Caiwei silently lowered her head.

Seeing this, she sighed again. "Forget it, for you and your son-in-law to continue to live in this court, I will endure it! But, as long as I find an opportunity in the future, I will not let them go!"

Gu Caiwei nodded quickly. "Auntie, you are so kind!"

Qi Shi turned her head and left.

Gu Tianyuan stuck out his tongue quickly. "Sister, Mommy is really angry this time."

"I can see it." Gu Caiwei nodded, "And for me, she suppressed a lot of anger. With A Niang's temperament, it is not easy for her to do this."

As she said that, she looked down at the eldest daughter who was lying on the bedside teasing the younger son, and her heart felt soft.

"Thinking about it, if the little lady does something that displeases me in the future, for her happiness, I should behave like my mother."

This is a motherfucker!
No matter how strong the temperament is, when meeting children, he will always soften a little involuntarily.

Her mother has worked really hard.And my future life will definitely not be so easy.

She couldn't help but reached out and rubbed the little lady's head: "My mother only hopes that you will do what you want to do when you grow up, and don't wrong yourself."

The little lady raised her head, stared at her with big bright eyes for a while, then narrowed her eyes and grinned, and called out sweetly: "Mother!"

Gu Caiwei's heart melted immediately.

As long as the child is happy, she is willing to give her heart and soul.

At this time, it has entered the twelfth lunar month, and every family is starting to prepare for the New Year.

And since the twelfth lunar month, the people at the gate of the Hou Mansion have never stopped, they all came to give New Year's gifts.Most of the people who came here were from various military forces.

The annual gifts of these people are also simple and rude, either they bring all kinds of gold, silver and jewels they looted from foreigners, and move them here in boxes; or they are local specialties, such as ten live sheep, a group of pheasants, and a horse. And so on, anyway, every time someone comes, it will be a huge pile of things, and it will be extremely lively.

If there are two groups of people looking for it together in one day, it will be even more lively!
Observing the annual gifts received by the Marquis of Changning every day has become the favorite program of the people in Shendu.

It's just that this made Gu Caiwei suffer.

"There are so many things, and our mansion is so small, how can we fit it?" She was just holding the brochure Liuli sent over, one head and two big.

Especially those live sheep and horses.Fortunately, those military generals got the superior weapons sent by Du Juanqing, and now they have a master swordsmith who has been trained by Ou Shenzi Fufengzi, and all the weapons in their arsenal have been refurbished, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved. They were grateful for Du Juanqing's kindness in their hearts, so the horses they sent were all top quality.

As soon as the horses were delivered, Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan screamed and picked out the one they liked, and then they picked out a docile filly for the little lady, and the three of them were still in the back garden in the cold Riding and playing.

It's just that there are so many chickens and sheep, the back kitchen is already full, and relatives and friends can also give them away, but there are still some left.There are only these few people in their family, and they can't finish eating!

"If you can't fit it, then go buy two more houses and install it. Our family is not short of money!" Qi said immediately.

"It's the only way to do it now." Gu Caiwei nodded helplessly.

It just so happened that the box of gold leaves that the princess had sent before hadn't moved.Gu Caiwei asked Liuli to take Du Yi and the others out to choose, found a fairly spacious house, bought it for [-] yuan, and then moved all the living things, gold, silver and jewelry there.

On the day of moving things, the occasion was even more unprecedented.

The guards in the Hou's mansion just started to go out with boxes full of gold, silver and jewelry, when someone heard the news and rushed to watch the excitement.When the chickens and sheep behind came out, there were already a sea of ​​people who came to watch.

After Gu Caiwei heard about it, she smiled lightly: "It's not easy for the common people to come here to watch the excitement. I think so, let's kill a few sheep on the spot, make mutton soup from the mutton, and boil the soup with the bones, and give it to Everyone warms up by drinking and drinking, and it is also regarded as their reward for coming to our family. Anyway, we can’t finish eating so many things.”

"Okay!" Du Yi immediately nodded, "Mother, please leave this matter to me! I will go with my little uncle, and I promise to do a good job!"

"Okay!" Gu Caiwei nodded.

When the little lady heard this, she quickly raised her hand happily: "Mother, I'll go!"

"You're too young, and it's too cold outside, so don't go." Gu Caiwei immediately shook her head.

The little lady pursed her mouth. "Just go! Just go!"

But Gu Caiwei didn't let go, seeing that she couldn't say anything about Gu Caiwei, she immediately turned around, pulled up the hem of Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan's clothes one by one with her little hands, and looked at them pitifully: "Brother, uncle, go!"

Being looked at by this little guy, Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan were about to melt.

How can they bear it?
"Sister, just let her go with us! We must take good care of her." Gu Tianyuan said in a low voice.

Du Yi also nodded. "Anyway, it's at the door of our house, and I didn't run far. My sister is two years old, and I have already gone to many places with my father at this time. She is locked in the backyard all day long, and it is quite pitiful to say the least. .”

These two little fellows are talking to each other, competing to say good things for the little lady, so what can Gu Caiwei do?

"Okay, you can take her out if you want. But when you go outside, you must remember to take her with you, and you must not walk away, you know?"

"Understood! Don't worry, Ma'am!" Du Yi nodded hastily.

When the little lady saw this, she also laughed heartlessly.

Gu Caiwei has been in the Hou's Mansion for four or five years, and she has trained several of the cooks in the Hou's Mansion.So now, Du Yi only needs to go to the back and pick out one at random, and then let someone lead two sheep, and the few of them left the Hou's mansion in a mighty way.

At this time, the people who were watching at the gate of the Hou Mansion had not yet dispersed.Then I saw the people from the Hou's mansion come out, and the two sheep were led out and tied to the big poplar tree by the roadside.Then, the chopping board was brought out, and a row of more than a dozen knives were lifted out, and placed in front of the chopping board one by one.There are still dark red blood stains on the large chopping board!

Immediately afterwards, Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan walked out together leading the little lady.

Du Yi took the initiative to bow his hands to the onlookers: "These days, I would like to thank everyone for your great love for our Changning Hou Mansion. We are grateful in our hearts, but we can't repay you. The weather is cold now, and everyone has been blowing in the cold wind for a long time. Cold feet, very likely to suffer from wind and cold. So now, my aunt ordered, in order to pray for my father who is far away in Yongxing County, and also to give good fortune to my brother who was born prematurely and sickly, we decided to make a pot of mutton soup on the spot and distribute it to everyone , so as to dispel the cold for everyone, and please accept it.”

As soon as this remark came out, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd.

"Okay! I didn't expect to come to see the excitement, and there is even mutton soup to drink!"

"This sheep was raised in the Border Pass. I heard that the water plants in the Border Pass are very rich, and the sheep there run extremely fast, and the meat on their bodies is also very fat, and there is not much fat!"

"Also, Mrs. Changning Hou has good cooking skills. Under her guidance, the cooks in the Changning Hou's mansion are also very skilled. I still remember that a cook came out of the Hou's mansion last year, which immediately attracted many other families to go. In the end, Princess Taiping snatched it back. I heard that the cook is now enjoying the hot food in Princess Taiping's mansion. He doesn't have to do anything except cook for the princess every day. Even his wife and children They were all taken to the princess' mansion, and they ate and drank like him every day!"

"Really? Then I must try this mutton soup!"

……

While everyone was talking, some people had already run home to invite their friends and companions to come and drink soup.

While the common people were talking about each other, the cook of the Hou Mansion had already picked up the sharpened knife, directly killed the sheep and let the blood out, then peeled off the sheep's skin, removed the meat and bones.

The cook performed a series of actions with ease, and every move was chic and graceful, which attracted everyone's applause.

The cook's technique is skillful, with one knife at a time, without any stagnation.Soon, a sheep was disassembled cleanly, and the mutton and mutton bones were perfectly separated.

Waiting for him to cut the mutton into evenly thick slices, a fire was lit on the stove that had just been set up beside him, and the water in the pot quickly boiled.

Simply process the mutton, and then blanch it in a pot.Then put pepper, ginger and garlic, citrus peel, hawthorn and other seasonings into the boiling pot, then add the mutton and start to simmer slowly.

After processing the mutton, the cook lifted the mutton bones with one hand and the machete with the other, and after a while, he chopped the mutton bones into bones of the same length.

Every time he chopped off a bone, he casually threw the bone into another boiling pot beside him.

The mutton bone drew a beautiful arc in mid-air, and then fell steadily into the pot. When it fell, it didn't even raise a few drops of water.This move was another feast for the eyes, and everyone applauded in unison.

And when the bones of a whole sheep were chopped and thrown into several pots, the mutton soup over there had already begun to exude a strong aroma of mutton.

The cook threw the knife away, walked over to take the spoon from the apprentice, quickly fished out the orange peel and hawthorn in the pot, grabbed a handful of salt, sprinkled it in and stirred it, and then put the lid on the pot.

"Just wait for another stick of incense. Now, you can line up with the bowls."

As soon as the words fell, the people in front of them who had been staring at the pot and drooling for a long time hurriedly formed a long line in front of the stove obediently.When the other people who didn't have bowls heard it, they turned around and ran home to get bowls.

Waiting for the mutton soup pot to boil again, a gust of hot air with a tangy meaty smell came oncoming.Smelling this smell, people who have been waiting here for a long time immediately closed their eyes and took a deep breath, feeling that it was worth waiting in the cold wind for a long time!

At this time, Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan had already picked up a spoon each, and began to scoop up soup for the people who had lined up.

When the people saw that it was Changning Hou Shizi and Changning Hou's wife's younger brother who came to distribute broth to everyone, they were even more excited.So after serving the soup, they still didn't forget to bow to Du Yi and Gu Tianyuan, and then found a corner to drink with the bowl in their hands.

After standing in the cold wind for a long time, I finally got a bowl of warm soup in my hand.They quickly took a sip, and a warmth melted in their mouths, and quickly spread down their throats to their stomachs, followed by their limbs.

By the way, there is also a unique fragrance of mutton that overflows between the lips and teeth, the taste is strong but not fishy, ​​and there is even an unspeakable fresh fragrance.Take a bite of mutton, the meat is indeed tender and chewy, and the taste is indeed much better than that of local mutton.

In fact, there is not much mutton in this bowl of mutton soup, most of it is broth.But there is no way, even the broth is delicious!Everyone didn't have time to care about the amount of mutton, because—while they were drinking the mutton soup, the mutton bone soup had already begun to be distributed!

They hurriedly drank the bowl of mutton soup in their hands in two mouthfuls, and then hurriedly took the bowl to pick up the mutton bone soup.

Du Yi and the others didn't expect that the matter would develop to this point - originally they just planned to have fun, but they didn't expect that more and more people came after hearing the news. They didn't have enough sheep. Du Yi Hastily asked someone to bring a few more sheep over, quickly slaughtered them again, and continued to throw them into the pot to cook, so that they could barely fill the stomachs of those who came behind.

As a result, this incident naturally caused quite a stir.

At this time, a carriage was slowly moving forward along the bluestone road.Although the carriage tried its best to drive the car steadily, the body still shook violently from time to time, and the laughter of men and women could be vaguely heard inside.

Suddenly, a group of people ran out from the alley ahead, and they shouted while running wildly: "Hurry up, hurry up! If it's too late, there will be no more!"

These people rushed forward in a single brain, regardless of the carriage driving in front of them.Seeing this, the coachman stopped his horse quickly.

The group of people didn't stop when they saw this, they just continued to run forward with the bowls in their hands.

Immediately, the curtain of the car was lifted, and a young man with only a loose robe stuck out his head: "What are you doing? Suddenly reining in the horse and stopping, are you trying to kill the princess?"

The coachman was so frightened that he quickly jumped out of the car and knelt down: "His Royal Highness, Mr. Wu Erlang, it's really not a small incompetence, but a group of people who ran out suddenly just now, and they didn't stop when they saw the carriage. The little one I was afraid that they would hit the carriage and hurt you two, so..."

"Where are the untouchables so bold that they even dare to bump into the carriage of the princess?" Immediately afterwards, another vicious voice came from the carriage.

It can be roughly guessed from the voice that it is the voice of a little lady, and this little lady is not very old.However, there was a sternness in the still immature voice. In the winter, it was like a cold wind blowing when the snow was falling, and the driver was so frightened that he trembled several times.

Wu Chongxun hurriedly put down the curtain of the car, he turned around and hugged the pretty girl in the car. "Okay, okay, we don't have to be as knowledgeable as these untouchables. Now there may be some kind people doing good deeds, so these people who are greedy for money can't bear it, and they will scramble to take advantage of it. For this kind of people As far as they are concerned, if they go late, they will take advantage of it, and they are of course not happy about it. We have to understand them."

"Damn! Why should I understand them? This group of ants, they live in this world to disgust people! When my dad becomes emperor, I will let him drive out all these filthy untouchables!" Carriage The little lady inside gritted her teeth and growled.

As she said that, she yelled at the outside of the car again: "Go and check and see who is doing good deeds today, and even blocked the way of the princess?"

The maid who was following the car quickly agreed to go.

Sensing the enslavement that could not dissipate from her body, Wu Chonglie hurriedly turned around and put his arms around her, coaxing and persuading her.After a while, men and women chanted softly again, and the carriage began to vibrate.

The person who inquired about the news came back soon, but she didn't dare to say anything when she heard the movement in the carriage, so she could only stand obediently beside the carriage.

She waited until the movement in the car disappeared before she whispered, "I want to report to the princess, the servant girl has already found out."

The little lady in the car didn't speak, Wu Chongxun asked lazily, "Who is it?"

"It's the residence of the Marquis of Changning, they are distributing mutton soup!"

"It turned out to be her again!"

Immediately, before Wu Chongxun could speak, the little lady in the car had already gritted her teeth and let out a low growl.

Immediately afterwards, with a swipe, the car curtain was pulled open, and a gorgeous little face appeared in broad daylight.

This person is obviously the current crown prince's beloved daughter, Princess Anle.

Seeing this, Wu Chongxun quickly grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on Princess Anle. "Princess, you have to take good care of your body! It's very cold and windy outside, you will catch cold if you go out like this!"

"Don't worry, you won't die from the cold. Back then in Fangzhou..." Princess Anle blurted out.In the middle of speaking, she frowned, and immediately changed the subject, "You mean, Madam Changninghou is distributing mutton soup?"

"Yes. I heard that a few days ago, many generals at the border sent them a lot of live sheep, and they couldn't finish them, so they simply killed them to reward the common people." The servant girl replied.

Princess Anle immediately pulled the corners of her lips and smiled coldly. "They will borrow flowers to offer Buddha."

"Does it matter? They have done this kind of thing more than once or twice. At the beginning, they extorted [-] guan from Jianchang King, and as soon as they got the money, they shipped it to the gate of the city and distributed it to the untouchables. Because of this, The Marquis of Changning's family has won the reputation of caring for the common people. That reputation has been spread until now, but it is all in Chang'an. Now, after this incident, their reputation will definitely spread in the capital of God. "Wu Chongxun said with a smile.

Princess Anle's eyes became colder.

Wu Chongxun smiled again. "But having said that, this Mrs. Changning Hou's cooking skills are indeed not bad. I heard that she later trained a lot of cooks, which were clearly given to Mr. Di Ge and Princess Taiping. In other words, the mutton soup they distributed today The taste should not be bad. Princess, do you want to have a taste? I can ask someone to bring us two bowls."

"Is the food that those untouchables eat edible?" Princess Anle snorted coldly.

She was about to pull down the curtain and sit back, but she looked forward uncontrollably.

When Wu Chongxun saw this, he also looked over, and saw a little lady with pink make-up and jade carvings standing there.She leaned on the wall with her small hands, and when she found someone looking at her over there, she grinned and smiled at him.

Seeing such a beautiful and lovely little lady smiling at him, Wu Chongxun couldn't help but soften his heart, and raised his smiling face.

But Princess Anle's complexion suddenly darkened, and she suddenly shouted at the top of her voice: "Kill her! Go quickly and kill this little bitch for me!"

(End of this chapter)