【Chapter 49】Business enters Beijing
Dinner is dumplings filled with pork, cabbage and pork scallion, and a pot of thick and appetizing white radish and oxtail soup.
Oxtail soup is a good thing. It can not only replenish qi and remove dampness, but also strengthen muscles and bones, nourish the five internal organs, and taste delicious and suitable for all ages. However, oxen was a very important farming force in ancient times, so it was promulgated to prohibit the slaughter of oxen as early as the previous dynasty.
So who has the courage to cook a jar of banned oxtail soup?
A face that was unparalleled suddenly flashed through Yu Wan's mind.
It's not that coincidental...
No matter what, thanks to Xiao Tiedan, their family can drink oxtail soup that ordinary people will never drink in their lifetime.
The oxtail was stewed so hard that the gelatin was blended into the soup, making the light soup thicker instantly. After drinking a spoonful, you could feel the crumbs melting in your mouth. The spicy food was filled with a hint of sweetness of white radish, and the rich flavor spreads on the tip of your tongue.
In the middle of winter, nothing warms the body like a bowl of oxtail soup.
The whole family was so satisfied that they were all sweating, except for the little girl who didn't eat spicy food.
The last piece of oxtail was chewed clean by the little iron egg. After chewing, he still sucked his fingers and didn't even let go of a drop of grease.
The dumplings were finished, but there was still a lot of stuffing left. After dinner, Yu Wan left and gave away corn flour and white flour with her aunt, rolled it into dumpling skins and bun skins, and wrapped the remaining meat fillings.
Xiao Tiedan also wrapped a few, but he actually packed them well!
But after all, it was a child, and he fell asleep on the chair without wrapping it for a while.
Yu Wan wrapped the little iron ball tightly in a cotton coat, held him, and went back to the house with Jiang.
Yu Wan burned hot water and lit a brazier. After washing, the family lay on the warm bed.
Little Tiedan lay on the pillow, drooling.
The fire in the room gradually darkened.
Yu Wan closed her eyes and couldn't sleep.
"Can't Awan fall asleep?" Jiang asked softly.
Yu Wan turned around and looked at Jiang from the dark night: "Have I disturbed my mother?"
Jiang looked at her sideways, and there seemed to be a bright light in her beautiful eyes: "No, I slept a lot during the day, and I'm not sleepy yet, Awan is thinking about my worries?"
Yu Wan opened her mouth: "My grandma, where did I go the year I left home? Have I mentioned it to you?"
"No." Jiang lay down flat, shook his head slightly, and looked at the beam in the night, "But you brought something back."
"Is that true?" Yu Wan was slightly stunned.
Jiang gently lifted the quilt and got out of bed, came to the wardrobe, opened the cabinet door, bowed and carried out a box, and took out something from the box.
She returned to the bed, covered her quilt, and reached out to hand the thing to Yu Wan.
Yu Wan touched it, then looked at it faintly, and said in confusion: "Suizi?"
Jiang said, "It's a jade pendant. You sold the jade pendant, but the ears are broken at home."
Yu Wan stroked Suizi and said, "It's hard for my mother to keep it."
"The knots are very delicate." Jiang said with a smile, explaining why he was holding a broken thing.
Yu Wan looked at Suizi at the firelight: "There is a bead on it, I don't know if it can be sold for money."
"Awan... I'm not curious about what happened back then?" Jiang asked, looking at her.
Yu Wan shook her head: "I think it's not something worth remembering, otherwise I will definitely tell my mother."
Mrs. Jiang smiled faintly: "Go to sleep."
"Yeah." Yu Wan stuffed Suizi casually under the pillow, closed her eyes, and fell asleep deeply.
The last ray of fire was extinguished.
In the endless darkness, Jiang's low sigh came.
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"Get out! Get out of here!"
In Guiyun Pavilion in the General’s Mansion in Zhenbei, Yan Ruyu smashed a room of porcelain.
The maids in the room were frightened.
This daughter-in-law who had never even spoke loudly for Su Rili was angry with someone outside, but as soon as she returned to the room, she began to smash things.
A maid took advantage of Yan Ruyu's carelessness and sneaked out with a vase.
"Stop it!" Yan Ruyu raised her hand and pointed.
The maid's body froze at the door.
"Turn around." Yan Ruyu said coldly.
The maid doesn't move.
Yan Ruyu raised her voice: "Miss. I asked you to turn around! Are you deaf or stupid? If you can't hear me again, I'll find someone to sell you tonight!"
"Miss, please spare me!" The maid turned around quickly, held the vase and knelt on the ground, "This vase was something sent by the young master's mansion. I was afraid that the lady would break it, so I thought of putting it away."
Yan Ruyu said coldly: "You are my master! Otherwise, you will give up the position of the daughter of the General's Mansion to you! Come and be the eldest lady! You marry into the Young Master's Mansion for me!"
The maid was so beautiful that she kowtowed and begged for mercy: "I don't dare! I don't dare!"
"What's wrong?" Mrs. Yan hurriedly walked in under the maid's gang. When she saw the mess on the ground, she gasped. When she looked at her always calm daughter, she was so angry that she looked like the fur-fried lion. She immediately turned cold, "You all retreat!"
"Yes." The maids walked out tremblingly.
The maid kneeling on the ground also stood up.
"Leave the vase!" Yan Ruyu said fiercely.
"Dare you still dare to make a fuss?" Mrs. Yan said angrily, "A daughter of Yan's family has learned the style of a shrew in the market. What about your upbringing? Let the dog eat it?"
Yan Ruyu was angry, annoyed and aggrieved.
Mrs. Yan couldn't understand her daughter's temperament very well. She was not angry easily. It was definitely not an ordinary grievance that could make her so angry.
Mrs. Yan sighed: "Mom knows that you are wronged, but getting angry cannot solve anything. You are the smartest. As long as you calm down and think about it, you will know what to do to keep the young master's wife."
Yan Ruyu pondered for a moment and calmed down. She pulled open the makeup box and took out a jade pendant with tiger patterns wrapped in white silk: "Mom, prepare a gift for me, I want to see the princess."
...
At dawn, Yu Wan was awakened by the biological clock in her body. As usual, she went to the chicken cage to collect eggs, and then cooked a pot of pork, cabbage, dumplings for breakfast.
Three days later it was New Year's Eve, and they still had some silks and satin that they had not sold. The price of the cloth shop in the town was not high, so Yu Wan decided to go to the capital to try her luck.
The material that can make Mrs. Bai look straight can be sold for at least a dozen taels?
After all six pieces of fabric were removed, my uncle's medical treatment was settled.
Yu Feng knew that she was going to the capital and came over early.
Yu Feng said: "First take a ox cart to the town, and when you get there, you can change your cart to the capital."
The price of a carriage has increased, from one hundred cents to one trip, and it has increased by two or three times, but there is no way. Who made the ox cart cheaper, but it is too slow?
He didn't expect that when he arrived in the capital, the city gates would be closed.
Yu Wan bent her lips: "Brother, these materials are excellent. As long as they are sold, the money for the car is a trivial matter."
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Chapter completed!