The lucky star of rebirth

Chapter 59 Mother and Daughter Conversation
There is no shortage of things like saltpeter in Jinling City, and many herbal medicine shops have them. In addition, Ji's family also keeps some all year round.

Ji Songxian recruited Zhuo Liang to ask her to find some saltpeter. Although Zuo Liang didn't know what to do with saltpeter, it seemed that his girl was not sick or in pain, what to do with it, but he obediently went to the pharmacy to get some.

After taking it over, he walked around the beam and asked, "What does the girl want saltpeter for no reason?"

Ji Songxian took the saltpeter and asked him to fetch a basin of water from the beam, and said with a smile, "wait for the girl to do a trick with you."

While speaking, she put the powdered saltpeter she brought into the water basin, and said while putting it away: "You stay here and watch, and tell the girl what you see."

After explaining to Rao Liang, Ji Songxian sat aside and continued to copy Song Ci. After a while, he heard Rao Liang exclaim: "Girl, girl, hurry up and see."

Ji Songxian hurried over, but saw that a lot of water in the basin had frozen, and more and more ice was forming. She knew it was done, so she couldn't help laughing: "In this way, we can use more ice, and wait a moment. When the ice has melted, the water can be collected and boiled to dry in the sun, and saltpeter can be obtained again for further use.”

"There is such a thing, the girl is really smart, she even knows this." Rao Liang was overjoyed for a moment, praised Ji Songxian and said: "In this way, we can use ice in our house, and the girl doesn't have to worry about the grandpas anymore." And the boys too."

Ji Songxian was in a good mood when he saw a basin of water was frozen into ice, so he took Ruoliang to the kitchen to make ice bowls.

She first got some big fresh peaches, cut them into pieces and mashed them to get the juice out, asked Ruo Liang to smash a lot of green walnuts into boiling water to remove the bitterness, cut up diced apples, fried the sesame seeds, and looked for Put some goat's milk into the pot to boil, put almonds in it, when the goat's milk is cooked, put some cold boiled water, and put in the pounded peach juice, diced apples, walnuts, and There are cooked sesame and so on.

After finishing these, Ji Songxian took small celadon bowls one by one, put the finished things into bowls separately, then found a big pottery basin, filled it with water, placed the small bowls in the basin one by one, and then began to put them in the basin. It didn't take long to sprinkle saltpeter in the basin, and bowls of ice bowls were made.

Ji Songxian took a mahogany carved food box from the kitchen, put the ice bowl into the food box and handed it to Zhou Liang: "You go and get it and send it to your brothers and sisters-in-law. Remember, don't be greedy for cheap and send it along the way. You must send it to your elder brother first. Then send them down one by one, I'd rather take a few turns and take a few more steps than let someone choose whether to go or not."

Rao Liang nodded and smiled, "Don't worry about it, the girl knows these things even if she doesn't say anything."

Ji Songxian smiled and left a bowl of ice bowl in the basin, took three more bowls and put them in another smaller food box, pointed to the remaining one: "You take this bowl to our room and wait for it to be delivered Eat again, I will send it to my parents."

After finishing speaking, the master and the servant split up. Ji Songxian took the food box and went to Wu's place. Just as Ji Yi was there, she didn't have to go any further. Ji Songxian came in to greet her, and Wu was very happy to see her : "Sister Xian, come here quickly, why don't you stay in the house and run over to do something on such a hot day, be careful to catch the heat."

Ji Yi also stroked his beard and said, "You are naturally delicate, but now the sun is scorching, you should be more careful."

Ji Songxian smiled slightly and said: "There are many flowers and trees in our yard, so it's hot everywhere. I have nothing to do with me, so I made some ice bowls for my father and mother to taste."

After finishing speaking, she put the food box in her hand on the table, first brought out a small green bowl and handed it to Ji Yi, and then found a small silver carved spoon from the food box and handed it over: "Taste it, Dad, there is a lot of food in it." Daddy's favorite walnut."

He handed another bowl to Wu Shi: "I also put my mother's favorite peach juice."

She picked up the last bowl by herself, tasted it with a silver spoon, and felt that it was cool, sweet and fragrant. It used to be very hot during the walk, but now her son felt completely cold, and the heat was gone.

"Only made these three bowls?"

Ji Yi asked while eating: "It tastes good, but it's cold, so we should eat less, so as not to upset our stomachs."

Ji Songxian narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "I made a lot of them. I asked Raoliang to give some to my brothers and sisters-in-law. Dad, eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it melts."

"It's hard for you." Wu Shi also laughed, and ate half a bowl for a while: "You don't have much ice every day in your room, so why bother with these silly things, they won't heat you up any longer."

Ji Songxian bit the milk-flavored ice cube in his mouth and ate a piece of walnut, enjoying the slightly bitter sweet taste and smiled for a while: "It's useless to use the ice in my room. I read a prescription from an ancient book, which is I used saltpeter to make ice, so I asked Ruoliang to take some saltpeter and tried it. It really worked. I thought our house is not short of saltpeter. I will get more ice for my brothers and sisters-in-law in the future. I also put ice basins in the house. It can't be too hot."

"Make ice with saltpeter?" Ji Yi frowned and thought about it for a while: "I haven't seen it written in any book."

Ji Songxian tilted his head and thought for a while: "I read it a few days ago, and I forgot which book, after all, I know the method and it's done. I want to do something like that."

Mrs. Wu pointed at Ji Yi: "You are an idiot, aren't you happy that the girl is willing to honor you? If you don't like this, give it to me. I love it very much."

Ji Yi hurriedly covered his ice bowl: "Who doesn't like to eat, I love it too. This is what my girl respects me, so why give it to you."

Wu bit a piece of milk ice resentfully: "Which girl is not filial, see if you can."

Seeing the old couple bickering like children at such an age, Ji Songxian couldn't help laughing for a moment: "If my parents like to eat, I will make it with my parents later. It's not a difficult thing. Let's change things up tomorrow, get some grape juice, and I'll add some wine to Dad..."

"There's sweet-scented osmanthus wine at home, you brought it here." Mrs. Wu snapped.

But Ji Yi suddenly thought of something: "Don't use sweet-scented osmanthus wine, His Majesty rewarded me with a jar of wine yesterday, which one do you use, the color is good, and it looks best in a glass bowl."

"Yeah." Ji Songxian nodded: "What Dad said is true, I didn't think about serving it in a glass bowl, and I'll show Dad when I get it tomorrow."

After Ji Yi finished eating, he put down the ice bowl and went out, Wu Shi pulled Ji Songxian to talk.

She reached out and touched Ji Songxian's hair: "Our sister Xian is becoming more and more sensible, and we all know how to be filial to our parents."

Ji Songxian bowed his head: "It's what it should be, not to mention that I am so old, even children know how to be good to their parents."

"Mother only thinks that our sister Xian is the best." Wu said with a smile: "In a blink of an eye, you are already this old. It should be said that your in-law's age. Mother wanted to book a marriage for you earlier, but she didn't know What kind of son-in-law do you like? Our family doesn’t like so many rules. Mother will ask you today, and you can tell the truth, what kind of son-in-law do you want in your heart, mother can find you according to that. If you don't like what your parents found for you, you will be in a bad mood for the rest of your life."

Ji Songxian's face was as red as fire when he said something, his head drooped even lower, and his voice was so small that Xiao Wu couldn't hear: "It's a matter of marriage, the parents ordered the matchmaker, where, where is there room for me to speak, mother look It’s good to wear it well.”

"That's not right." Mrs. Wu raised her eyebrows and stared at her eyes: "Your mother, I never thought about it. How come you are dead when I come to you? I think your father fell in love with me at the beginning. But I don't think he has no father and no mother. His family is so poor that he can't get rid of the pot. I don't like what other people say to me, so I just wait for him. What happened? Ask people to arrest you, but your father resisted desperately, and later became an official, he didn't half-heartedly, he has always been good to me, I have lived with your father for so many years, and there were times when we were noisy, but after most of my life, I was happy in my heart Now, I am very happy, I just feel that these days are getting more and more exciting, even in a few lifetimes, I will still find your father as my son-in-law."

Mrs. Wu said this without shame or embarrassment, ordinary women would not be able to say such things, and only a bright and open-minded person like Mrs. Wu could say such things in front of her daughter.

Ji Songxian's face became even redder when he heard this: "Mother has good eyesight, I can trust her."

Wu Shi was anxious at the moment: "Hey, why are you... tell your mother, what kind of person do you want to find?"

Seeing that Mrs. Wu was asking sincerely, although Ji Songxian was very ashamed, he still raised his head and thought for a while before saying: "I don't know what it is, I just want to find someone who really loves me. Secondly, as long as he is sincere to me and lives his life with sincerity, there is no such thing as a concubine. "

Speaking of this, Ji Songxian took a look at Mrs. Wu: "Our father treats mother wholeheartedly, and brothers and sisters-in-law are all kind. I have never been scolded by anyone since I grew up, and I have never blushed with anyone. I just thought, If I really want to marry a young man from a wealthy family, no matter how good I am, once the freshness wears off, they will be able to go to court today and go to court tomorrow. Maybe I will sell it to someone and give it back to others, I... Finding a family background is easy, and a kind person will do it."

After she finished speaking, Mrs. Wu also fell silent, and after thinking for a long time, she patted her thigh: "What you said is very true. Our backyard is very simple. If you really marry into that aristocratic family, don't talk about the relationship between sisters-in-law and in-laws." Anyway, you can't control even the concubines in your family. If you don't have them, you can be bullied. It's too much, you can't bear it, those from poor families have a few filthy money to find a concubine, this, this is what to do."

Ji Songxian was also stunned for a while, her wish was not too harsh, why is it so difficult for Wu Shi?

She also thought a lot for a while, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was really difficult. Counting the whole city of Jinling, how many officials are there who really don't take concubines or keep concubines?
"If I can't find someone like this, I won't marry, and I will serve my parents for the rest of my life." Ji Songxian gritted his teeth and said.

(End of this chapter)