Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 136
Chapter 140 Third
"This matter... has always been your father's heart!" Father Sun sighed: "This matter is strange, I usually go to the forest in the back mountain to herd cattle, and I would sit under the pine tree to rest. Sitting there, I felt that the soil under the buttocks was a bit strange, so I found a sharp stone and scraped it a few times. Hey, there was a little bit of tile color under the soil, so I continued to dig. It was this jar of wine. Strange!"

"So, what dad said is true? I was young and ignorant at the time, and every time I heard dad talk about it, I thought he was teasing me! I dare say that I have never been able to understand dad's heart. He really gave it to me. I buried the wine..." Mrs. Sun murmured, took the wine jar, rubbed it lightly with her fingers, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty, Liang Yuzhong patted Mrs. Sun's shoulder lightly, comforting him silently she.

"It has been exposed to the sun and rain for many years, the red cloth that was tied to the tree branch has long since rotted away, it is not surprising that Ga Gong could not be found." Jin Xi said, taking Sun's arm, said: " Mother doesn't have to be sad and blame herself, now that Da Gagong has found this altar of wine, it must be considered that Gagong has a spirit in the dark! Mother lost this wine and found it, presumably Gagong has a spirit in heaven, and I feel relieved."

"Xi'er is exactly what Xi'er said, Yuzhen, don't be sad, you are pregnant now, you should be happy!" Mrs. Sun repeatedly comforted Sun.

"Yue Zhong, I found this wine. How many cups should we have this afternoon?" Father Sun said, Liang Yuzhong scratched his head and smiled. This wine has been buried for more than 20 years. The real old wine, who is the man? It's rare, not to mention, Father Sun also has good intentions to help Duke Jinxi fulfill his long-cherished wish.

Mrs. Sun said hello repeatedly, and Mrs. Sun wiped away her tears, and said, "Then I'll fry a few more chives for lunch."

Jin Xi suddenly came over with a smile, took the wine jar from Mrs. Sun, and said, "Duke Da Ga, father, I have a heartfelt request, I hope you can fulfill it."

"Why, Xi'er wants a drink too? That's impossible, the little girl is growing up, I can't bear it!" Father Sun said with a smile while stroking Jin Xi's head.

Jin Xi pursed her lips and smiled: "Drinking too much hurts your body, but drinking for pleasure, I'll pour out a bowl later, and save it for Da Gagong and Dad to drink, and the rest of the wine in this jar will be given to Xi'er how?"

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Jin Xi got half of the jar of old wine, went to the kitchen like a baby, and started tinkering with her new products with great interest.

Following the formula of toilet water in memory, mix together several kinds of flowers and plants with mosquito repelling effect, such as seven lixiang, fly plum, mosquito repellent, wormwood, mix these flowers and plants together, and then squeeze out the grass juice and flower juice inside , mix well with the mint extract and keep it for later use, this is the first step.

The second step is to boil the mountain spring water in the pot, cover the pot, and leave a hollow thatched pole protruding from the pot, and then distilled water flows out drop by drop from the thatched pole.

The third step is to mix the distilled water with the extract of mosquito repellent flowers and plants evenly, and then find a ratio of four to one, and mix it into the jar of aged wine.

At this point, Jinxi's pure natural toilet water was born. Although the ingredients of modern toilet water are slightly different due to the constraints of conditions, the essence remains the same, and they all have the effect of repelling mosquitoes. Because mint is added, It can also bring you a cool experience in hot summer.

Originally Jin Xi wanted to add snake gall extract, but the snake was not easy to come by, so Jin Xi had no choice but to wipe the snake gall.

In addition, Jinxi also took several kinds of flowers with different aromas and squeezed out the flower juice. In this way, these toilet waters are no longer single, like incense sticks, there are various scents. Customers are buying You can choose according to your own preferences.

When the whole family and Father Sun were invited to see Jinxi's new product, everyone was surprised. No one expected that the jar of old wine could still be used here. Moreover, because Because of the old wine mixed in, Jinxi's toilet water smells even more mellow and fragrant, making people unable to put it down.

"Your father wants to see his wine and help Xi'er to make these fresh and practical good things, so that he can laugh out loud in the sky." Mrs. Sun sighed for a long time, and everyone was silent, but everyone looked The look on the table is in agreement, this is the real value for money, and it is far more memorable than pouring it all into the stomach.

Jin Xi came back at the beginning of March, and originally only planned to stay for seventy or eighty days, but she didn't expect to be busy for a whole month.During this month, she made a large number of things, such as fragrant soap, shampoo, face wash, bath, toilet water, mosquito coils, and researched many kinds of edible honey toilet water, honey scented tea.

The spring tea in the back mountain tea garden has also been picked, and the green tea, black tea, and black tea are roasted, and they are packaged together and sent to the Chaxiangxuan just waiting to go to the town.

Jin Xi looked at Mrs. Sun's big belly that changed day by day, and then looked at Mrs. Sun and Jin Rou, the old and the young, it would be nice if they could take care of the work of dressing and eating, and serving the ordering garden by the way.The tea garden is basically looked after by Father Sun and Liang Yuzhong. Besides, although the two families have rented out the land this year, although there is no spring plowing this year, there are still two fields under the hillside that are planted with wheat and rapeseed. Liang Yuzhong is responsible for all these. It's really too busy to take care of.

Jin Xi thought about it for a while, then discussed with her family, and when she turned around, she sent the batch of tea leaves to the Tea Fragrance Hall, settled the money, and asked Mrs. Sun to hire two or three neat women from among the women she knew. Specializing in taking care of the tea gardens, Father Sun only needs to go to the tea gardens at the right time to play a supervisory role. In this way, Liang Yuzhong, a strong laborer, can save his labor and concentrate on taking care of the wheat and rapeseed of the two families.

The family asked Father Sun to discuss it together, and they all agreed with Jin Xi's proposal.

Seeing that the things that should be made are almost done, and the tea leaves are ready, Jin Xi naturally can't wait to send them to the shop for sale, so that she can make follow-up adjustments to make up for the leaks according to the sales situation.

In a blink of an eye, the time has come to the first day of April, and in four days, the fifth day of April will be Qingming Festival.

According to the rules in this area, Tomb-sweeping Day is one of the important festivals. Even if Liang Yuzhong and the others separated from the old Liang family, they had to go back to worship their ancestors.

Mrs. Sun is now more than five months old, and her stomach has grown a lot, but because she is in the middle of pregnancy, she is relatively stable, so she discusses with Liang Yuzhong that all four members of the family will go back to Lao Liang's house during the Qingming Festival.

On the third day of April, Liang Yuzhong and Mrs. Sun took the two sisters, Jinxi and Jinrou, with straw paper incense candles and various melon and fruit offerings, to the Woniupo behind the Sunjiagou, to give to Sun who was buried there. Shi's father burned incense and kowtowed. Mrs. Sun and Father Sun were very relieved to see that the family was so filial and pious.

On the fourth day of April, Liang Yuzhong rode the ox cart of Father Sun's house, took Sun's mother-in-law and a large batch of Jinxi's finished products, and went out of Sunjiagou under the watchful eyes of Mrs. Sun and Father Sun.

The plan for this trip is that the four of them will go to the town first, send the finished products to the shop, rest at Qianlixiang Steamed Bun Shop at night, buy something on the morning of the fifth day, go back to Lao Liang’s house, and burn it. Xiang went back to Sunjiagou.

In Sun Ji's shop, because the Qingming Festival was about to pass, there was an endless stream of people who came to buy the yellow paper for joss sticks.Shopkeeper Zhang and Sun Yubao were both busy in the shop without stopping.Liu Yuanwai's family in the town ordered a large batch of incense paper firecrackers, and Sun Erhu drove them to Liu Yuanwai's residence in person.

So, when Liang Yuzhong's family of four arrived, they didn't see Sun Erhu. Jinxi asked Jinrou to accompany Sun to the Qianlixiang shop next door, and herself and Liang Yuzhong took the goods on the ox cart to the small warehouse at the back. Before that, she picked out a few pieces of each product and put them aside as trial products.

The store in front was finally busy with a wave of peaks, Jin Xi brought the batch of trial products to the store in front, shopkeeper Zhang and Sun Yubao surrounded them curiously, watching Jin Xi introduce the new products this time, Mainly the effectiveness of new products, how to use them, and then how to price them.

"Er Hu told me that you have been in Sunjiagou for a month this time, and you are definitely looking for new products! We really guessed it right!" Sun Yubao said with a smile while playing with the toilet water.

Although shopkeeper Zhang has already learned from Sun Yubao and the others that the special products in Sun Ji's shop are all made by the girl Jinxi in front of him, but now he saw the toilet water in these bamboo bottles, and the fragrances of different colors and smells. Jianzi, shopkeeper Zhang still couldn't help being amazed and envious again, looking at Jin Xi couldn't help but bring more admiration.

"Extraordinary goods to live in! After the Ching Ming Festival, the weather will soon heat up. The goods made by Miss Jinxi this time will come in handy in summer! I will recommend them to customers when they come to the door in the past few days!" Shopkeeper Zhang Rubbing his beard, he said that together with Sun Yubao, he had put those toilet water and other things into different categories and put them on the shelves for sale.

"Then shopkeeper Lao Zhang has to worry about it. Then you guys are busy here first, and I will go to Qian Lixiang's side first."

Between Sun Ji and Qian Lixiang, there was a house separated, and after leaving Sun Ji's door, Jin Xi walked briskly, and walked to the door of Qian Lixiang's shop in a few steps.

During this time period, breakfast was just over, and there was still more than an hour before lunch. During this free period, Sun Yuxia and the others could take a breather and rest for a while.

When Jin Xi came in, Qin Ya was packing crispy wife cakes for a man. The windows in the shop were clean, and there were no other customers. Regardless, there were Sun, Sun Yuxia and Jin Rou sitting around one of the tables.

Sun and Sun Yuxia were chatting and laughing, Jinrou was sitting obediently by the side, blinking her big bright eyes and looking around the shop, holding an aiwowo in one hand, and a jujube cake in the other, her pink cheeks bulging Drum, apparently enjoying himself.

"Sister, this jujube paste cake is more delicious than the one Mother brought back last time, take a bite!" Jin Rou saw Jin Xi coming in, her eyes lit up, and she offered the cake in her hand to Jin Xi.

Jin Xi shook her head and smiled, "The jujube paste cake is freshly made, so it tastes better than the cold one. If my sister doesn't eat it, you can eat more if you like it."

"Sister, can I eat that thing later? I can't eat it right now, so I can eat it at lunch, is it okay?" Jin Rou was very happy, pointing to the drawing on the wall and asking Jin Xi, Jin Xi smiled Touching Jin Rou's head, her voice could not help but be petting, and said: "It's rare for you to come here, as long as you have a big enough belly in this shop, I will let you eat it once! "

"Big, big!" Jinrou said loudly, making Mrs. Sun and the others laugh again.

"I'll have lunch in the shop later, big sister, eat a bowl of dumplings first!" Sun Dahu came out from behind, holding a bowl of floating dumplings in his hand, and put them in front of Mrs. Sun.

Sun was surprised and said: "I ate dry food on the way, so I'm not hungry. How can I eat this big bowl of food, Dahu, you..."

"Sister, you can eat as much as you want, you don't have one mouth, you should be able to eat as much as you want! This dumpling is made of beef stuffing. It's a new one made by Dahu. There are twelve in a bowl. It's for sale. As for twenty Wen, it’s rationed every day, customers are rare, you haven’t tasted it yet, have you? Hurry up and taste it, so that you can correct Duhu. Isn’t it Dahu?”

Sun Dahu is a typical good man, and now he has been tempered by Sun Yuxia to become the leader of the kitchen. He just smiled and nodded repeatedly.

A flat bowl sells for twenty renminbi, so how much does the sea bowl in front of her cost?Mrs. Sun was both moved and distressed: "I can eat whatever I want, but it would cost you so much..."

"It doesn't cost money, who made us Xi'er so capable, big sister, you can eat at ease, the owner of this shop is Xi'er, we are borrowing flowers to present Buddha, are you afraid of leaving her poor?" Sun Yuxia likes to make fun of Jinxi the most .

Jin Xi didn't show any weakness either, she went up to support Sun Shi's shoulders, and said with a smile, "Mother, since this is my aunt and uncle's wish, you can eat it! At worst, I'll just deduct it from my aunt's monthly bill!"

Mrs. Sun was dumbfounded by the two people, sighed, picked up the chopsticks, and said: "I really can't do anything with you two, okay, I'll eat!"

"That's right!" Sun Yuxia and Jinxi said in unison, and they looked at each other and smiled with indescribable joy.

The next day was the Ching Ming Festival, Liang Yuzhong's family of four brought ancestor worship things, and after having breakfast in Qian Lixiang, they drove the ox cart to Lao Liang's house in Jinjishan Village.

The bullock cart had just turned into the bluestone road in front of Lao Liang's house, when a carriage passed by Liang Yuzhong's bullock cart.

"Father, I've seen the driver of the carriage that passed by just now. Uncle and the others came back from the town to rent the carriage of the carriage driver!" Jin Xi said to Liang Yuzhong.

"Looking at the place where the carriage came just now, it should be your grandfather's house. It must be your uncle who has returned." Sun said.

"It doesn't matter who comes back, anyway, the four of us will go back to town after worshiping our ancestors!" Liang Yuzhong said disapprovingly. Originally, he had decided to send Sun and Jinrou back to Sunjiagou after the worship, but Jin Xi and Jin Rou impulsively wants to go to the town to take off Xia Tian's clothes, so she refuses for a day.

The four of Liang Yuzhong got out of the bullock cart, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw Mrs. Hong sitting at the door of the room with a small stool in hand, holding a bowl of soup in his hand and drinking with his head buried in his mouth. Standing beside him were Liang Liqing and Liang Libai. His eyes stared blankly at Hong's bowl, and a smell of meat wafted out from it.

Jin Xi coughed lightly, Hong raised her head and saw Liang Yuzhong and his family walking in, Hong grinned and stood up holding the bowl.

Hong Shi was wearing a lotus-colored spring dress, with a colorful shawl tied around her shoulders, and her hair was simply pulled up in a lady's bun.After two months, her belly was swollen high, and she was already a big belly, as if she was ready to give birth at any time.

Her eyebrows were trimmed, black and long and slanted like temples, and her eye sockets were a little sunken, making her eyes look indescribably gloomy.The lips under the high nose are a bit full, and when he smiles, the gums of the upper teeth are exposed.Although a little powder was applied, it still couldn't cover the thin eye lines around her eyes, especially when she smiled, those eye lines became denser. It seemed that she was not a few years younger than Sun, and she didn't seem to be in her twenties at all. Nodding young woman.

Jin Xi swept her eyes and took Hong's attire into her eyes, but Hong's eyes obviously turned around on Liang Yuzhong who was striding into the door, and then fell on Sun's Niangsan behind him, and said with a smile: "Hey, the fourth uncle's family is back for the holidays? Has the journey been hard?"

Liang Yuzhong didn't look sideways, hummed, and walked straight ahead past Hong.

Jinxi and Jinrou walked over holding Sun's arm on the left and right. Sun and Hong were basically not familiar with each other, and they didn't know what to say. I heard Jinxi said that Hong's quarreled within a few days of their wedding. After returning to her natal family, Mrs. Sun couldn't ask, 'When did you come back? 'Is that the case?So, Mrs. Sun could only smile gently, nodded to Mrs. Hong, and said, "Oh, it's Lihui's wife."

Jin Xi has now reached Sun Shi's shoulders, Hong Shi's stature is about the same as Sun Shi's, when she stood up to say hello to Sun Shi, Jin Xi just glanced at the soup in her bowl, Jin Xi's heart skipped a beat Down.

"What kind of soup does sister-in-law drink? It smells so good." Jin Xi said in a normal tone, like asking someone while chatting.

Mrs. Hong was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said in his mouth: "Hey, it's impolite that Hui is not with me, my father-in-law is sympathetic to me, and sent a pair of pig stomachs back from the town, and my mother-in-law made pork belly soup for me , said that pregnant women drinking pork belly soup is good for the fetus. The third aunt is not young this month, so it would be good to let the third uncle make a pig belly and cook soup to nourish the body!"

I don't know whether it was conscious or unconscious, but when Hong shi spoke, he put the mouth of the bowl behind his back.And while she was speaking, she glanced at Liang Yuzhong over there.

Jin Xi narrowed her eyes, Sun smiled slightly, and said, "The pork belly soup is really nutritious, and your third uncle made it for me too."

Mrs. Hong cast a glance at Liang Yuzhong who was standing by the patio waiting for his third wife, covered his face and giggled, and said, "Uncle San is a loving person, Aunt San, you are really blessed." After finishing speaking, her eyes moved again. Liang Yuzhong drifted over there.

Mrs. Sun didn't notice Mrs. Hong's erratic eyes, she only felt a little blushed when she was teased so much by her nephew and daughter-in-law, she lowered her head and smiled awkwardly, and then remained silent.

Jin Xi took over the quarrel and said: "Sister-in-law, it's windy here, you'd better go back to the house and drink pork belly soup, if you drink it carefully and make your stomach upset, then you will disappoint uncle's kindness to you."

Jin Xi was not happy with Hong's behavior of flirting her eyebrows and eyes. The word "uncle" was deliberately accentuated. Hong's eyes darkened, and then she pretended not to understand, and said with a smile: "Sister Xi'er is too worried. , my father-in-law is the kindest person. Then I won't delay the third uncle and the third sister-in-law, the Lord just mentioned your family, you should go to the backyard quickly, and invite the third sister-in-law to sit in my room later. "

After Hong finished speaking, he smiled at Liang Yuzhong again, but Liang Yuzhong's eyes fell on the shrine in the main room inside, and he didn't respond at all.

As early as when Liang Yuzhong's four people entered the door, Liang Liqing and Liang Libai broke up and ran to the backyard.

Jin Xi supports Sun Shi, and softly tells her to pay attention to her feet.

"Sister, does sister-in-law eat pork belly? Why is the smell different from the pork belly my mother ate last time?" Jinrou asked in a low voice.

Mrs. Sun didn't pay attention to this, but said: "Maybe it's because the cooking method is different and other supplements are mixed in!"

Jin Xi smiled with the corners of her lips turned up, and said, "There is no pork belly in her bowl at all."

"What is that?" Sun asked softly.

Regardless of what tonics are mixed in that soup, Jinxi can recognize the color of the pork belly at a glance, who made her breakfast shop add stewed soup now?At noon and dinner, in the big vat at the door of the shop, which is taller than a person, there are various nourishing soups simmering, such as dried mushroom and old duck soup, pig's trotters and soybean soup, and pork belly and wolfberry soup.

Jin Xi thought for a while, and said, "I'm not sure yet, but it's definitely not pork belly." Jin Xi said, judging from the tender red meat slices floating in the soup, a guess flashed in Jin Xi's mind , His brows subconsciously frowned.

Soon, he passed through the side door of the main room and came to the backyard.

In the back yard, the Eight Immortals table from the dining hall was carried to the yard. Old Liangtou was leading Brother Liang Yuju standing by the table and busy cutting straw paper. The cut straw paper had to be made of a square wooden seal. Press it heavily on the papyrus, and a whole row of circles is chiseled at the bottom of the Great Treasure Seal. On the heavily pressed papyrus, there will be rows of neat circular imprints, and each circular imprint symbolizes a penny.

At the door of the kitchen, Mrs. Tan was instructing Mrs. Jin and Mrs. Yang to wash rice and vegetables there, but Liang Yumei and Liang Jinlan were nowhere to be seen.

Seeing Liang Yuzhong's family of four coming in, Liang Yuju just ignored them without raising his head.

"Yo yo, what day is it today, our family celebrates Qingming Festival, why did you invite the third child's family?" Ever since his daughter and mother-in-law were explicitly rejected by Jin Xi, and fell into the courtyard because of Jin Xi, Liang Yulin felt in the bottom of his heart. The four members of Liang Yuzhong's family were very annoyed.

"Second brother's words are really strange. According to what you say, then I'm not a descendant of the old Liang family if I separate out and live in another life?" Liang Yuzhong didn't show politeness to Liang Yulin, and directly pushed back.

Liang Yulin rolled his eyes, snorted, glanced at the Sun family and Jinxi sisters, and said contemptuously: "If they are all separated, it will definitely be different. There is also a judgment of closeness in the ancestors' hearts, right? Besides you Just come here, dragging the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, and come back with a few big mouths to eat our meal, this is not authentic!"

Liang Yuzhong frowned in anger. The four of them bumped all the way here just to fulfill the obligation of the younger generation to burn some paper for the ancestors. They really didn't want to take a sip of rice or even a sip of tea from the old Liang's family.

Before Liang Yuzhong could refute, Jin Xi had already opened his mouth, looked at Liang Yulin, smiled sarcastically, and said, "My father and my second uncle are both brothers from the same mother, and the separation is just a matter of circumstance. Points! But if the ancestors of our old Liang family really had spirits, they would probably have been pissed off by you, the second uncle. Why, just because of the stupid things that the second uncle did in the past, made grandma so angry, The ancestor's face must have been discredited!"

(End of this chapter)