The Imperial Examination Blessed Wife in the Palm

Chapter 20 I Miss Books Too

Aunt Li and Mrs. Li bought a bunch of cotton, some cloth and miscellaneous things, and they couldn't hold it with their hands. After all, they had to free up their hands to take care of their two children.

Aunt Li then called an idler, took all the things for them, and went to her own shop together.

Li Chengdong is taking the shopkeeper and a few guys to count and place all kinds of spices that he brought back from Huining City this time.

Seeing his wife, children, sister and nephew coming, he smiled all over his face and asked Aunt Li: "Didn't I tell you to bring my sister and Xiaowei to the city in the afternoon? You are all tired these days, you should sleep more. It is."

Chen San knew the trick a long time ago, and paid for Aunt Li to the idle man, and moved in all the things bought by the two sisters-in-law.

Aunt Li smiled and said: "Anyway, I'm idle at home, I just want to go to the city to go shopping and buy something. Who knows, I bought too much and couldn't carry it, so I had to come here. When are you After work, why don't you call a car and go home with us for lunch, the old hen soup I stewed in the morning is perfect for lunch."

Li Chengdong said, "I'm afraid it won't work. I brought back a lot of borneol musk this time, and they are all very expensive. I have to count them as soon as possible and start selling them. I have to send some out and sort them out. You can eat them yourself at noon." , I will go home early in the evening."

Seeing Lu Weiwei looking at several kinds of spices on the shelf beside her, she laughed, "What is Xiaowei looking at?... What's so good about dried Chinese prickly ash and dried chili? Don't you always dislike eating them?"

Lu Weiwei didn't expect Li Chengdong's shop to sell prickly ash peppers. They should have been introduced to China in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, right?
So today is actually a parallel time and space similar to the Ming Dynasty?
She thought and said with a smile: "Uncle, isn't this a spice shop? Why do you still sell seasonings for cooking? Could it be that they are so expensive that ordinary people can't afford them?"

The spice shop of her uncle's house was also much bigger and grander than she had imagined, and it might really be the "luxury shop" it is today!

Li Chengdong said with a smile: "They are all necessary seasonings for cooking in every household. How can they be expensive? We are all used to accompany the stall. Otherwise, when people come to ask, there is nothing like this or that. They must think that we are good. It’s not neat, so I won’t come here in the future. But in the early years, the prickly ash pepper was indeed expensive. Since people knew that they were edible and delicious, the price soared all of a sudden. It was only after more people planted that they started to change. It’s so cheap that every household can afford it.”

is it?

It was only then that Lu Weiwei belatedly realized that pepper and chili were put in the dishes made by her aunt last night. She didn't find it strange at the time, but it was a result of years of habit.

I don't think that this habit of hers coincides with the actual situation today?

Mrs. Li interjected with a smile: "We always have prickly ash and chili peppers at home, Xiaowei, did you forget? It's just that you don't like their taste, and I usually don't put them in my dishes."

Lu Weiwei smiled dryly, "I really forgot about it for a while. But I didn't like them before, but now I think they smell good. Mom can cook them in the future, and you can put more. All the dishes are more delicious when kept. .”

"Okay." Mrs. Li agreed, "What's the problem? I'll satisfy you at noon."

Aunt Li said with a smile: "Xiaowei can eat spicy food now. After a few days, when you feel better, let's go eat hot pot. I really think of the hot pot in Piaoxiang Restaurant, and my mouth is watering. The last time I went Eating, it was all a few months ago, it’s expensive, but it’s really delicious, it doesn’t matter if you spend it a few times a year, and if it’s really not possible, you can also ask for a mandarin duck pot.”

Lu Weiwei's heart moved, and she hurriedly said, "Auntie, is the hot pot in Piaoxiang Restaurant delicious? What is Yuanyang pot?"

Li Chengdong smiled and rubbed her head, "Why do you have to ask everything now? Of course the hot pot in Piaoxiang Restaurant is delicious, and the clear oil and butter are delicious, especially in winter. When you eat it in one bite, it is spicy, spicy and fragrant. , is simply the greatest enjoyment in the world; if you really can’t eat spicy food, you can also have white pot and hot pot at the same time, so it’s called Yuanyang pot, and it’s also delicious. I don’t think it tastes that good anyway.”

"But it's no wonder that the Piaoxiang restaurant is the best. Their family is the originator of eating spicy hot pot. I heard that when Mrs. Shen opened the first Piaoxiang restaurant in Huining City, it became a hit because of the spicy hot pot. , not long after that, it was opened to the capital, and also to other places. Anyway, there are Piaoxiang restaurants in the surrounding counties and counties I have been to. Also because of the surge in demand for chili peppers everywhere, tens of thousands of people are Relying on planting them, we can eat enough and live a good life, so there are still many elderly people who chant Buddha whenever Mrs. Shen is mentioned, and they can't help but praise them!"

Lu Weiwei couldn't help being surprised this time, "Piaoxiang Restaurant is also opened by Mrs. Shen?"

I thought that Mrs. Shen just took the lead in setting up a women's school, but I didn't expect to open such a large restaurant. It can be said that she has driven the entire industrial chain by herself, which is really remarkable.

It's a pity that she came too late in the year, and no matter what, she didn't have the chance to meet that amazing and talented senior.

——If Lu Weiwei was not sure that she was a senior when she heard Aunt Li say that Mrs. Shen led the establishment of a girls' school in the morning, now she is 100% sure after hearing Li Chengdong's words!
Then she has no other choice but to study and take the imperial examination.

After all, Mrs. Shen has already walked all the roads she could possibly go first, and she has walked so well, and she really doesn't know anything other than studying. In fact, she can't walk the road of Mrs. Shen, let alone overcome Shen Mrs. those difficulties and obstacles on the way.

So when Li Chengdong returned home in the evening, the whole family sat down and had dinner, Aunt Li was busy feeding Li Sheng, and Mrs. Li was busy helping Mama Wang clean up the dishes.

Lu Weiwei directly expressed her thoughts to Li Chengdong, "Uncle, I also want to go to school to study like Cousin Achang and Cousin Ayue, is that okay? If my mother disagrees, can you help me persuade her?"

Li Chengdong drank two or two small wines for dinner, and was tired for another day. Finally, now that he was full of wine and food, he could relax his whole body, and his brain also relaxed.

Wen Yan didn't even think about it and said: "Okay, Xiaowei can go if he wants to, I will tell your mother..."

Halfway through the speech, I realized what Lu Weiwei said belatedly, and my whole body became sober, and hurriedly said: "Xiaowei, what did you just say? You mean... Do you want to go to school too? I listened to it." Is it wrong?"

Lu Weiwei first laughed at Li Chengdong's reaction, why uncle is always so cute.

Immediately, Fang Zheng turned pale, and repeated what he said just now, "Uncle, what I did say is that I also want to go to school, is that okay?"

(End of this chapter)