Mrs. Quanfu wants to leave

It was almost time for the evening meal when we returned to the house, and Brother Fang had already returned home with Lu Balang and his brothers and sisters.

Evening meals are eaten in each room. Of course, Shen Nanxun and Lu Fenghe used it together with Lu Silang's family and Lu Jiulang's family in Lu Sanye's and Zhao's yards.

"Your grandmother wanted you to use it, but I refused. They eat with your uncle's family, and there are too many of them. You get up early tomorrow and go to eat with your grandparents." Zhao confessed to Lu Feng at the dinner table millet.

Lu Fenghe responded, "It just so happens that the cook I brought back has a very good white case, let her steam two drawers of silver silk rolls tomorrow."

Mrs. Zhao replied, "Then we might as well steam more, and we will also benefit from the old lady's honor."

"Look at what my mother said, if they can cook what they want to eat, just say it."

The evening meal in the three rooms is usually divided into two tables, one table for adults and one table for children. Now that there are more Lu Fenghe's family, it is not too crowded. Instead, the whole family sits together lively.

After dinner, Brother Fang wanted to take his parents to see the good things he bought in the afternoon. Shen Nanxun held back his smile and was dragged by Brother Fang to Yunhua Building. Brother Fang held Lu Fenghe with the other hand. It is helpless.

Brother Fang happily said that he bought gifts for his grandfather, grandmother, brother Feng and brother Gu, and asked Shen Nanxun to bring them back for him first.

Shen Nanxun looked at the pure-natured brother Fang and felt that those people in the family were really hideous, and they could do anything to such a child.

Before Brother Fang could finish speaking, Sister Qing and Brother Chi came to ask him to go out to play again. He told Shen Nanxun not to leave. He and his brothers and sisters would come back a little later. Shen Nanxun and Lu Fenghe.

Lu Fenghe glanced at Shen Nanxun and got up to leave.

Shen Nanxun cleared his throat uncomfortably, "Could you borrow the next few local chronicles to have a look."

Lu Fenghe looked at Shen Nanxun in surprise, this person actually reads local chronicles in addition to the art of war and the mansion newspaper, he is the most impatient to read things, and he is reluctant to read the account books every month.

Shen Nanxun rubbed the tip of his nose with his index finger, "It's true that I didn't read too much before. My fourth brother said that you have more local chronicles here than in the Cangshu Pavilion."

Regardless of whether Shen Nanxun really wanted to borrow books or just wanted to find an excuse, Lu Fenghe could only nod, "Then go to the study opposite."

They are now in the West Wing where Brother Fang is temporarily staying, and Lu Fenghe's study is in the East Wing, which is indeed opposite.

In the study room, Lu Fenghe found the bookshelf where the local chronicles were placed, "They are all here, you can choose by yourself."

Shen Nanxun was not in a hurry to read the book, but asked Lu Fenghe, "Yue Zhang said that you have some connections with the Mengle tribe. If I need it, I can ask you for a token."

Lu Fenghe turned his head abruptly, "Are you going to Mengle?"

Shen Nanxun shook his head, "I won't go, maybe I will send someone to go."

"Is something wrong?"

Shen Nanxun himself couldn't tell whether the direction he had vaguely thought of would work. "Some things may require the assistance of the Mengle Ministry and the Dali Kingdom, but I haven't figured it out yet."

"Go to Bailuyuan and take the handkerchief or painting that I haven't taken away, take whatever you want, and then repair a book and print your small seal, and go to Mengle to find Wang Nu Daohong, she recognizes my things. "Lu Fenghe said.

"The matchmaker you're talking about is Daohong, the princess?"

Lu Fenghe nodded, "Yes, she must be the queen mother now. She said in her letter that she had resigned twice, and I'm afraid she still can't resign now."

"Mengle and Dayong are still separated by Dali Kingdom, how could they find her?"

Shen Nanxun really didn't know, "I don't know about Mengle, but Yue Zhang mentioned it."

"So, you are looking for the local chronicles of Mengle?" Lu Fenghe asked.

Shen Nanxun nodded, "It would be better if there were some."

Lu Fenghe raised his hand and took out a Fanbangzhi to Shen Nanxun, "Only this one mentions a little bit. Mengle's writing is different from ours. They have many monks and Buddhist sects, and most of the records are in the Beiye Sutra. I haven't fully learned Mengle's writing either."

"You and Lady Dao..." Shen Nanxun hesitated, afraid that this was something that could not be said, after all Lu Fenghe never said it.

Lu Fenghe didn't care much, "There's nothing we can't say. The Mengle part is divided into thirteen mengs, which are about the thirteen state capitals we are talking about. At first, these meng were the brothers and right-hand men of King Mengle. For the fierce master, it has been passed down through generations, and someone has a different heart, so he brought the matchmaker out of the palace."

"There are many monks and Buddhas in Mengle. Although they are barbarians, they will not attack children. So they found someone to bring the matchmaker to Dali, but the person who brought the matchmaker disappeared halfway. The matchmaker was taken to Dayong. She His appearance is not quite the same as Dayong's, but he is very glamorous, so he was sold to a brothel in Yangzhou."

"Yangzhou?"

Lu Fenghe nodded, "Yes, the matchmaker is also a pitiful person, raised as a skinny horse, the old lady wanted to sell her for a good price, but the other girls in the building rejected her, after all, she could attract countless lords to spend a lot of money just because of her foreign land. "

"I went to my aunt's house and went out to swim in the lake with my brother. I saw her being pushed into the lake by other girls to choke on water..."

"You saved her?" Shen Nanxun asked.

"Of course we have to save her. At that time, she was only a child of twelve or thirteen years old. Let alone she did nothing wrong, even if she broke the law, she should be handed over to the government instead of being tortured by a few big girls."

"My uncle's family is somewhat powerful, so I complained that I had never seen a foreign woman, and wanted to buy her to serve her, but the old bustard said nothing about selling her, and finally gave me a lot of money. He said that he would be with me, and he could teach everything. A bustard who is an aristocratic lady can earn more money."

"Perhaps it was the noble lady of the aristocratic family who was able to make money and impressed the madam, so she agreed, and even proposed that if she learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she would give it to Shu Xiu, just like me, but one month before the matchmaker and Ji , she will come to pick you up."

"Later, when Hong Niang came to Lu's mansion, she desperately learned all kinds of things. What she wanted was not to go back to earn money for the old bustard after she had learned it, but to learn... to set up her own family, but the old bust had a short life. He ate too much, fell into the moat and drowned."

Shen Nanxun did not expect such an encounter.

"What then?"

Lu Fenghe sat in the rose armchair, "Later, the matchmaker was about 15 years old, and the new bustard came to pick up the matchmaker. He wanted to take the matchmaker back to earn money. The matchmaker didn't dare to run away. If she ran away, the Lu family would be punished." Involvement, I want to help her redeem her body, she is unwilling, so she followed back, but on the way, the matchmaker ran away and went to the largest brothel in Piling, where she voluntarily sold her body, and the two sides quarreled for a long time."

"Later, the matchmaker stayed in Piling. Not long after, the Mengle Ministry came to find her. The matchmaker wrote to me and told me what happened next."

"She did business with the Dali Kingdom, and sold items from the Mengle Department on Guangnan Road. I heard that she was taken out of the sea and earned a lot of money. King Mengle was very happy, and built a golden pagoda for her. Jinguan, she also cleaned up the Mengzhu family who sent her out of Mengle, and now half of the Thirteen Mengs depend on her."

It's hard for Shen Nanxun to imagine that Daohong who went back could have such a chance. Dayong is absolutely impossible. It would be great if a woman who has been living in a brothel can be brought back to her original family. All the property was handed over to her, and she was even intended to be the heir.

"Mengle is different from Dayong. Whoever has the ability will be the king of Mengle, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman. The same goes for the Mengle Lord and the people. As long as he can lead them to live a good life, it doesn't matter whoever sits in the golden palace."

"Madam Dao mainly sells something from Mengle?" Shen Nanxun asked.

Lu Fenghe counted with his fingers,

"The medicinal materials are sold on Guangnan Road. Haimao medicinal materials are prone to dampness on the sea. It is said that the tribes on the other side of the sea are not good at using our medicinal materials. Doctor Yang said that the medicinal materials of Mengle are stronger than the medicinal materials of Dayong. Some."

"They also have very beautiful and strong coarse cloth. She gave it to me. My uncle said that the coarse cloth is very strong, and it is rare in Dayong. It's just that the coarse cloth is not valuable, and they don't have much to sell locally. She just gave it to me. I was playing."

"There is also dark tea, which she said is called Pu'er tea. It is not a new tea from that year. The old tea she gave me is five or six years old or even ten years ago. It is said that this tea becomes more valuable as it ages. I don't quite understand it. , isn’t the most valuable new tea from that year?”

Shen Nanxun heard another key word, tea.

Could it be that what Lu Sanye wants him to make a fuss about is really tea?

"Uncle, have you ever drank the kind of tea you mentioned?"

Lu Fenghe nodded, "Fourth brother is very used to it. He has a bad stomach, and he always feels uncomfortable after eating greasy food. He said that black tea is very good for relieving greasy, and it doesn't hurt the spleen and stomach. Although green tea also relieves greasy, it is a bit cold. Fifth brother doesn't like it. I like it, saying that the taste of tea is a little weak, not as refreshing as green tea. By the way, grandma likes it too."

"Is there any progress?" Shen Nanxun asked.

"Would you like to try it?"

Shen Nanxun nodded, "Yes, but the ones at home are all from four or five years ago, and it should be ten years old. Do you really want to drink it? What if the old tea gets damp and hurts the spleen and stomach. Bailuyuan will come down. There are some new teas, you can go back and look for them."

"I'll try it first."

It doesn't matter to Lu Fenghe, anyway, she has told her that if she really has a stomachache from the tea that she spent ten years in her junior year, it has nothing to do with her.

"Lu Fu, go upstairs to get the tea cakes sent by the matchmaker, get some more cakes."

Lu Fenghe also hadn't had tea for a long time, and he was a little greedy, so he ordered Cuizhi to start the stove to boil water.

"The matchmaker also said that the way to eat this tea is different. You don't need to mix the tea paste. Just take a piece from the tea cake and brew it with boiling water. Skim off the first water, and the second and third tastes and colors are different. , if you don’t think the taste of the tea is bland, it’s okay to make a few more cups.”

Shen Nanxun was really interested now, "It sounds very simple."

"Well, the tea soup is very pretty. The reddish-brown tea soup in the white-glazed tea cup looks like fruit honey."

Shen Nanxun thought about this matter. As a person like him who is afraid of trouble and has no tea-making skills, this kind of tea is much more convenient to eat, and there are many people like him. People who have the time to sit down, order tea and eat slowly.

The most I can do is to mix some tea paste, pour it with boiling water, and often complain that this kind of tea is tasteless and there is no tea foam.

I heard that the sales of loose tea are better now, does that mean that many tea drinkers are ordinary people who don't have much spare money.

If this is the case, they probably don't have the time to order tea, let alone the skill of ordering tea.

Shen Nanxun fell into deep thought, but can things be accomplished by changing the way of drinking tea?What is the connection between the way of drinking tea and high status?
Lu Fu quickly took out the five cakes of tea, and each cake seemed to be very substantial.

Shen Nanxun murmured, "So big?"

Lu Fenghe asked Lu Fu to put down the tea tray, picked up a cake of tea by himself, carefully unwrapped the oil paper wrapped outside, revealing the black tea cake, dragging such a cake of black tea made Lu Fenghe's hands look white and small .

"That's right, it's really a bit big. When I first saw her, I thought she deliberately asked someone to make such a big tea cake for me. Later, she told me that they were all tea cakes of this size. They are not easy to store when they are small. They are so big. The tea cakes can be piled up and placed in a cool and ventilated place, and they can be aged for decades to get better and better."

"This cake is as heavy as three or four balls of tea."

Lu Fenghe shook his head, "A piece of tuancha is only two taels, this cake is about ten taels, not just two or three pieces of tuancha."

Lu Fenghe took a flat but sharp-edged object that looked like a knife and a needle, and inserted it flatly into the tea cake from the edge, about the length of half a finger, and raised the flat tea knife sideways with a little force, making a few crisp sounds , a piece of tea was stripped off along with some broken tea.

Lu Fenghe put the tea slices directly on a silver drainer covered with spun gauze, and placed a wide-mouthed tea bowl under it, and immediately forgot to rinse the tea slices with hot water. The hot water rushed through the tea slices and leaked into the bowl. The pieces were loose, and the tea soup in the tea bowl was already a light reddish brown.

The tea bowl was half full of tea, and it was almost touching the bottom of the silver drain. Lu Fenghe changed the silver drain to a smaller tea bowl, and flushed again. This time, she didn't put down the kettle until the water covered the scattered tea leaves.

He fetched two small white-glazed cups again, then took out the silver drainer, put it into another large tea bowl with a wide mouth, divided the rich gold soup in the small tea bowl into the two small white-glazed cups, and poured out a cup To Shen Nanxun.

"Drink while it's hot."

Shen Nanxun looked at the teacup in front of him, which was not enough for a sip, and felt a little uncomfortable.

With slender hands, Lu Fenghesu picked up the teacup and drank the golden soup in the teacup in three small sips.

Putting down the teacup, Lu Fenghe saw that Shen Nanxun didn't drink, and urged, "Drink it, we are lucky, this cake tea is not damp."

Piling was damp, so Lu Fenghe spent a lot of effort to protect the tea from moisture.

Although she doesn't like this black tea very much, the heart of the matchmaker is something that can be preserved, so of course she must preserve it well.

She specially ordered a half-person-high purple sand tank from Yixing, and spread thick bamboo charcoal in the tank, and then spread tea cakes layer by layer with bamboo lids.

The purple sand jar is more breathable than the ceramic jar, and the bamboo charcoal absorbs water vapor, and the bamboo strips are less likely to rot and mold when exposed to moisture.

Shen Nanxun imitated Lu Fenghe and swallowed the tea soup in three sips. The tea soup was boiling hot, and he could feel it while holding the teacup in his hand, but swallowing it in three small sips did not burn his mouth, on the contrary he felt warm in his stomach.

Seeing Shen Nanxun drink it, Lu Fenghe asked enthusiastically, "How is it? Is it different from the tea made from tea paste?"

Shen Nanxun smacked it, "It's really different, the tea taste is more refreshing."

Nowadays, because green tea is mostly used for ordering tea, a large amount of tea paste is easy to be jerky and difficult to swallow, so many people will add various spices when ordering tea. Although some of the jerky tea paste is covered up, it also makes the tea taste thicker complex.

Lu Fenghe was a little disappointed, "Why are you the same as the fourth brother?"

"There's still a little remorse."

"Do you really think it's better than ordering tea?"

Shen Nanxun shook his head, "It's different, the tea tastes thick and rich, and this tea soup is more monotonous and refreshing."

Lu Fenghe moved the silver leaker to the small tea bowl again, and poured hot water again, this time the tea soup was excellent and faster, almost flowing through the tea, and the washed water was reddish brown, richer than the previous tea.

Despite its richness, it is still translucent and not cloudy.

Lu Fenghe said while flushing the water: "This is the way the matchmaker taught me to make tea. I don't know if it's right. I follow her every step of the way. Even the silver leak and the tea bowl are gifted by her. , I got someone to make some in the same size."

"Mengle also has porcelain?" Shen Nanxun asked.

Lu Fenghe shook his head, "No, Dali state-owned porcelain kilns, but they are very expensive. They mostly use pottery, but I don't think ceramics can tell the color of this tea soup, so I made this Ru kiln white glaze cup, which is all remade. How can I buy such a small tea cup and such a big tea bowl?"

"Ms. Dao is very good at business?" Shen Nanxun remembered something again.

Lu Fenghe still shook his head, "She can't do it, she's not as fast as I am at reading the books, so she's a little better than you, she leaves impatiently looking at the books, my mother said that she doesn't have much talent in business."

"Then she..."

"My mother gave her the idea to let her return to Mengle not to rush to get revenge, and there is no need to flatter her. She must find a way to make money. With the money in hand, many things will be solved."

There is actually something about the mother-in-law here?Shen Nanxun only knew that his mother-in-law was the only daughter of the Zhao family in Suzhou, and she didn't have much contact with her, and occasionally she would talk about homely things. He also knew that her mother-in-law was very good at managing housekeepers. There is also insight in business.

Shen Nanxun once again felt that he was negligent of his duty. He had never seriously understood Yuezhang's family. He only knew some things that everyone knew, and he never thought about the uniqueness of each of them.

Shen Nanxun chuckled, "What about you? Are you more talented in business than Lady Dao?"

Lu Fenghe is also not modest, "Mother said I have talent, but I am too lazy, and I am afraid of trouble in everything. If I am in business, I will not be able to do it. Even if I do not do everything myself, I still need to know everything. .”

"Are you lazy? Mother-in-law's words are not quite right."

Lu Fenghe said very seriously: "Lazy, I don't have much patience, just call me when you hit my little girl."

For a moment, the atmosphere in the room was very harmonious, a bit more harmonious than when the two were just married.

Until Brother Fang ran in, "Father, if you are really still here, I was afraid you would leave again."

Shen Nanxun stroked Brother Fang's hair, "Of course it's still there, Brother Fang has explained."

Brother Fang covered his mouth and smiled, then he was very melancholy, frowned and asked, "Can we not live in our grandfather's house?"

Before Shen Nanxun could speak, Lu Fenghe asked, "What's wrong? But what did someone say?"

Brother Fang shook his head, "I want to live with dad, but dad can't live in Yunhua Building at my grandfather's house."

Lu Fenghe breathed a sigh of relief, she was afraid that someone in the mansion would say something that was not pleasant to be heard by Brother Fang.

"Isn't it good to be at my grandfather's house? I can also play, read and write with my brothers and sisters, and there are people to accompany me."

Brother Fang is very confused.

"It's fun to be in my grandparents' house, but it's not very good. My grandparents' house looks so big, but there are actually very few places to go. I can't go to the grandparents' yard, it will disturb them, and my son's grandparents' house can't go either. It's a little far away, anyway, I can only play in the courtyard of the fourth uncle, fifth uncle, and eighth uncle, hey."

"Mother, can we move out? An inn near my grandfather's house is fine too."

Lu Fenghe didn't expect that Brother Fang would rather stay in an inn than here.

"why?"

Brother Fang organized the conversation for a long time, "I still think Aunt Du's cooking is better, and my sister is upstairs all day long, so I have to go upstairs to see my sister."

As he said that, Brother Fang went to grab the snacks on the table and eat them.

"Aunt Cuizhi doesn't live in the yard either, and the clothes are dirty when I get home in the afternoon, and I can't find my clothes, nor can I find Aunt Cuizhi."

Brother Fang went on to grab the second piece of dim sum.

Lu Fenghe poured Brother Fang a glass of warm water, "Have some to eat, is this dessert delicious?"

Brother Fang didn't nod, but said, "It's not as delicious as Aunt Du's."

Lu Fenghe laughed, "Then you eat so much."

Brother Fang is a child who doesn’t eat much dim sum on weekdays. At noon, Lu Fenghe will also ask the small kitchen to make him soup or porridge and a bowl of noodles instead of dry snacks. He is full after each meal. He rarely looks for dim sum, and he is not very keen on dim sum.

"I'm a little hungry."

Lu Fenghe looked at the sky, it wasn't completely dark yet, and he went out to play for an hour at most, so he's hungry?

"But didn't you have enough for the evening meal?"

Brother Fang nodded aggrievedly, "Brother and sister ate too fast, when I finished a bowl of fish soup and raised my head, they had finished eating, and there was nothing left on the table."

Brother Fang touched Brother Fang's forehead distressedly, "What do you want to eat now, mother..."

Speaking of this, Lu Fenghe couldn't continue. There is no small kitchen in Yunhua Building, and only Zhao's yard has a small kitchen in the entire three rooms. It is not used much at ordinary times, so I have to go to the small kitchen at night to cook for Brother Fang. Eating is really inconvenient.

It's not that there is less food prepared at the children's table, but that the other children are older and are used to eating together. The meals are a bit chunky, and the children don't know how to be full. The dishes on the dining table in the house must be finished and cannot be wasted.

Originally, I added a child and didn't add a lot of dishes. The older children added two bites each, and finished the extra dishes deliberately added.

Children are not like adults, who know that Brother Fang is a guest and need to be taken care of, let alone add vegetables and soup for him.

Brother Fang didn't want to be served, which made him a slow eater at a young age and there was nothing to eat on the table after finishing a bowl of fish soup.

Brother Fang was used to being at home in the past, no matter whether he had noodles or meals, he had to have vegetables. Without vegetables, he couldn't even eat half a bowl of stalked rice in his bowl.

At that time, I didn't feel very hungry, but now I came back from running around, I just feel hungry.

Shen Nanxun took a look at Lu Fenghe, and picked up Brother Fang, "Why don't Dad take you to the night market, the night market here is not quite the same as in Kyoto."

Lu Fenghe has always been reluctant to eat outside food, and now there is no better way.