The Li family set off again, still very fast, but everyone was in good condition. After all, they had a half-day rest yesterday.

The weather has been beautiful, and the weather has always been sunny. During this period, the crops do not need rain, so the grain filling and ear heading are very good. It can be seen that it is another bumper harvest year.

The further north you go, the cooler the climate becomes, so Li Hui and others don't suffer so much when traveling by car.Occasionally I lift the car curtain and look outside. There is a gentle breeze, which is very pleasant.

After leaving Jizhou Prefecture, we walked for half a month and finally entered Liaodong on the tenth day of the seventh lunar month.

Although it is still some distance from Fucheng and Pingyang lines, it is two days earlier than expected. The time lost due to rain last time was completely recovered.

Seeing that she was traveling very fast today, Cheng Xue discussed it with Li Hui and decided to rest at a post station in the city. She also sent someone to buy some paper work and burned it at the intersection in the evening.

When Lian learned that she could rest for half a day longer, she was so happy that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear.Sister Xuan will look for Li Hui next time. This time, she probably misses her father.

Seeing her mother, the aunts and uncles all walked away. The little girl hugged Li Hui's neck and whispered repeatedly——

"Sugar, sugar, eat..."

There is no such thing as "favoring boys over girls" in Li Hui's place. All that exists is "preferring girls over boys."It's okay for the little baby to want to eat sweets. The baby teeth have to be replaced anyway, so don't worry about it.

The child was gently thrown up and caught firmly, and he said to Bai Wei in a good mood:
"Tell Madam, I will take Sister Xuan to the street to do some shopping and I will be back before lunch. Tiandong, Dexi, you two will follow."

"Yes." The two said in unison, handing over the work at hand to Shunxi, Chengxi and others.

Bai Wei thought for a moment and then reminded her in a routine manner:

"Master, Madam won't let Miss Zhou eat sweets."

"……Yeah, I got it."

Li Hui just agreed, but the next second Sister Xuan's face was full of displeasure, grabbing her uncle's collar and shaking him.

"Hey, darling, let's not eat sweets or anything else. Can we buy rice cakes?"

"Yeah, okay." The little girl nodded heavily, bared her teeth and raised her eyebrows.

Seeing her provocative look, Bai Wei shook her head in amusement without saying a word.Anyway, it's time to remind him. If the master doesn't listen, it has nothing to do with the wife scolding him.

The time spent on the road made them fully understand that it was the hostess who spoke powerfully when they were away from home.The young master is not as valuable as the young lady, and the master does not have as much status as his wife.

Entering Liaodong, the inns here are all rows of houses. There are no longer two-story or three-story buildings, except for restaurants.

In winter, restaurants can burn charcoal for heating, but if inns burn charcoal for heating, the cost is too high and it is completely unnecessary.

Bai Wei and Baizhu are good at making fire, but they are still not good enough to light the stove and make a kang.I wanted to ask the inn clerk what to do, but unexpectedly he came directly to help me.The two of them just watched from the sidelines. There will be a lot of this kind of work in the future, so they must master it as soon as possible.

The waiter burned the two kang holes with three strokes, and also helped light the stove outside and filled the pot with a full pot of water.

"You can take a shower when the water is hot. The bathtub is in the warehouse. I will move it over later. Do you need one in every house?"

"Yes, thank you, little brother." Bai Wei quickly thanked her.

The guy shook his head and said "You're welcome" and went out.

Bai Shao saw that the two of them were completely familiar with it, so he went to the kitchen with confidence to ask the cook about the rules.Because it is an expatriate official who is staying here, he can use everything in the kitchen as he pleases, including meat, eggs and fish.

Time is tight, so I heat up the steamed buns I bought in the morning and simply stir-fry a few vegetables to start the meal.

After Shunxi finished working in the stables, he came to the kitchen and saw two sheep racks, so he went to the cook and asked if there was a copper pot.When he learned that there were five of them, he returned excitedly.

"Shao'er, there are five copper pots here. I'll go to the street and buy some more beef, vegetables and so on. How about making a stir-fry in the evening?" material."

After all, it was not his own home. Shunxi understood this and smiled, "Yeah" and nodded.

"Just clear soup, stir-fry some green vegetables or something for a change."

Although the food on the road was rich, it was nothing more than rice, stir-fried vegetables, noodles, dumplings, dumpling soup, etc. If you wanted to eat steamed buns, you had to buy them, let alone stir-fry them, which was impossible.

"Well, go to the street and buy some beef, mutton, and other small items. Buy some chive flowers when you see them. There's no home left."

"Okay, what else do you need?"

Bai Shao thought about it, said some more, took out a piece of silver and handed it to him.After Shunxi got the money, she happily called Wenxi to go shopping.Without any instructions, Cheng Xi stood up, took the sheep rack aside, and chopped it into small pieces with an axe.

When Li Hui came back, he saw him chopping sheep, walked to the kitchen door and said:

"Bai Shao, can you arrange a stir-fry dinner tonight?"

"It's done, sir. I asked Shunxi to go out and buy chive flowers, beef, tripe cores, etc."

After hearing her answer, Li Hui praised her and left with Sister Xuan in his arms.

In the lobby, Cheng Xue looked at the many half-finished paper works and raised the corners of her mouth.This was what my third uncle had told me at the beginning. The old man said that he had to do it by himself in order to be sincere. Although they didn't have that much time, they could at least give it a try and do as the Romans do.

Li Yue followed Cheng Xue and hated debt. When she saw something to do, she washed her hands and started working.Li Tian, ​​Li Heng, Li Huai, and Yan Yixin also followed.The children were very nimble and folded two sacks of gold ingots in a short time.

Ginguo and Cheng Xi brought dishes to the lobby. Cheng Xue asked the children to put away their things, wash their hands and get ready to eat.

There are six dishes and one soup, and the staple food is steamed buns and pancakes.

Bai Shao came over and asked Bai Wei and Bai Shu to go to the kitchen to help serve the food. When she brought people back and saw the missing steamed buns, she couldn't laugh or cry.It must have been taken by the waiter when he was hungry, but he only took two or three from each pot, so it seems that he couldn't be guilty of not taking them so evenly.

She won't pursue it, so just eat it.

"What are you thinking about? There's something wrong with the steamed buns?"

"Ah? No." Bai Shao replied subconsciously.

Seeing that it was Bai Wei, he smiled and asked her to take away the remaining steamed buns, then blanch and wash the sheep rack and keep it for later use.After cleaning up, he left the kitchen and heard Cheng Xue's scolding voice before entering the lobby.

The one being trained was none other than the Li family master.

"...Why don't you have a better memory? You told her so many times not to give her snacks before meals, because she would be too late to eat, but you just didn't listen. This is not pampering her, but harming her, do you know that?"

"Oh, sister-in-law, it's serious, just give her a meal, it'll be fine." Mrs. Lian hurriedly tried to smooth things over.

For those who didn’t know, they thought Cheng Xue was her mother!

When Sister Xuan saw her uncle being scolded, she quickly reached out and hugged Cheng Xue, begging pitifully for a hug.The child is very smart and knows that if he wants to protect his uncle at this time, he must please his mother-in-law.

Seeing the little guy's efforts, Cheng Xue finally couldn't bear it, so she held the child on her lap and said:

"For the last time, I won't care about you anymore."

When the little girl heard this, she immediately nodded heavily, nestled in her arms obediently, and stopped moving.


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