"As expected, with my second aunt's personality, she will only be bullied without the support of her natal family." The natal family is the backbone of a married woman, but few of them rely on her to the extent that my second aunt does.
"But the second aunt still missed her mother's family, so she sent someone to bring back some money. She gave part of it to the third aunt, but also brought some for the old lady."
Hua Zhi listened and thought of her eldest aunt who was always picky and strong-willed. Even a concubine who was not valued knew the difficulties of her family. What about her who was spoiled? Was she planning to completely cut off ties with the Hua family
Most of the money was finally sent to Hua Zhi. Hua Zhi asked Nian Qiu to record the amount for the third concubine separately. She didn't care how much the money was, but she cared about the kindness. She would repay it a thousand times in the future.
The child arrived unexpectedly early, so Hua Zhi planned to move up the date of her trip to the north. The weather was getting colder, and she didn't want to suffer any more.
"Baoxia, please go find Doctor Chu for me and ask him to make more medicine. I will pick it up in ten days."
"yes."
"Fudong, how are those people doing? Can they go out to fight?"
"Most of them are fine, but I think a few are still a little short of perfection."
"Eight days from now, no matter whether it is auspicious or not, the snack street will open." Hua Zhi looked at the most introverted maid, "Fudong, although the snack street is under the management of Chen Liang, you have to know that everything related to food will be related to you. You are the one in charge behind the scenes. Do you understand?"
Fu Dong bit her lower lip until it turned red, and whispered: "I will do my best, but I am not good at business..."
"You are not needed for management. What you need to do is to train enough apprentices and understand them, rather than being ignorant of everything except food." Looking at Fu Dong, whose eyes were wet and pitiful, Hua Zhi softened her tone, "I know you wish to stay in the kitchen for twelve hours a day. I will definitely make your wish come true in the future, but only you can take care of this matter."
"…Yes, I will try my best to do it well."
"Hold Xia."
"Yes, ma'am."
"I rented a shop from my grandmother on Beiyang Street. You take people to decorate it well. Make sure the storefront is well decorated and elegant. If you don't know how, go ask Fourth Aunt. She is good at this. When the weather gets colder, we can sell the canned goods on the farm."
Bao Xia knelt down with a loud thump, "Miss, please take me with you."
Yingchun also knelt down and said, "Miss, please take one with you no matter what. Baoxia has the best physical strength, and the maids will feel relieved if you take her with you."
The maids inside and outside the room all knelt down, and for a moment there was a crowd kneeling inside and outside the room.
Hua Zhi had a headache and didn't know how to convince these maids that taking them out would be a burden. No matter how healthy their physical conditions were, they couldn't withstand long distances on horseback.
"Why is Bao Xia the one with the best physical strength? It's obviously me."
The room was silent, as if even breathing stopped for a moment, and then everyone looked at Shaoyao with shining eyes, who was holding a plate in one hand and putting pastries into her mouth with the other.
Hua Zhi's heart was moved, but she immediately shook her head, "If I go out for a few days, you can go with me, but this time it will take at least 20 days for me to go back and forth. What if your master has something wrong and can't find you?"
This is easy. Shaoyao ran out and said, "I'll go ask him."
When Shaoyao found Gu Yanxi, he was sitting under a tree playing with leaves out of boredom. Not far from him, six servants of the Hua family were squatting in horse stance and shaking.
Shaoyao looked at them with pity. What a miserable life it was to be in the hands of the prince!
"What are you doing here?" He took a piece of dessert from her plate, broke off a piece, put it into his mouth and ate it slowly. Gu Yanxi seemed not to notice Shaoyao's little action of hiding the plate behind her.
Thinking that she was no match for the prince and that the snacks would definitely not be hidden, Shaoyao simply took the last two snacks and took a bite of each, then spoke with confidence, "Is there anything going on recently?"
"how?"
Shaoyao confessed honestly, "Huahua is going on a long trip, and I want to go with her."
"Going to the North? Don't we have to wait until November?" After saying that, Gu Yanxi said to herself, "Yes, the child is born now, so it's not a bad idea to go earlier."
"Brother Yan, I want to go."
"No one is stopping you."
Shaoyao jumped for joy and said, "Then I'll go talk to Huahua."
"etc."
Shaoyao looked at him warily, "You can't regret it."
"When do you leave?"
"About ten days or half a month. Huahua said she would go get the medicine in ten days... Wait, I can make medicine too, why didn't Huahua look for me?" Shaoyao ran away.
Gu Yanxi raised her eyebrows and once again felt that Hua Zhi was really good to Shaoyao.
Hua Zhi, who didn't know she was being treated as a nice guy, coaxed the unhappy Shaoyao, "Doctor Chu has some ideas for treating frostbite. The frostbite medicine he made is very effective, and I didn't even know you when I ordered the medicine from him!"
"Then you can ask me to do it for you now."
"You don't need to make these medicines." Hua Zhi used a towel to wipe the cake crumbs off her hands. "If you have time, make me some nourishing medicine. My grandfather is old, and the North is not a good place. I am always worried that he can't stand it."
Only then did Shaoyao become happy and said cheerfully that it was no problem.
"Yingchun, go and check what medicinal herbs you have at home and make a list for Caocao. We can make it based on these herbs. We don't have any extra money to buy more precious herbs for the time being."
"yes."
Shaoyao also agreed with a smile, but thought in her heart, You don’t have as much as I do. I have a garden of medicinal herbs, and there are still a lot piled up in the warehouse. If it’s not enough, I can ask the prince. Anyway, I won’t be short of anything.
After deciding on the day to go out, Hua Zhi went to see her grandmother.
The old lady looked at her, "Are you really determined to go there in person? Are you ready?"
"yes."
In the old lady's heart, her husband and son still had the upper hand. She nodded and said, "That's good. If we go early, we can come back early. Maybe we can avoid the wind and snow. How many people do you plan to bring with you?"
"Six. Shaoyao will also go with me. Please tell the families in the side branches, and ask them to prepare the things they want to bring. Don't take too much. There are only a few of us, so we can't take too much."
"Okay, I know."
Knowing that Hua Zhi was going to the North, everyone in the Hua family started to move. Although they still didn't believe that a girl who grew up in the inner house could run so far, what happened during this period of time made the various branches of the Hua family gradually trust Hua Zhi. If they couldn't find the place, they would naturally return it. But what if they really found it
Because everyone thought so, the things they prepared far exceeded the amount Hua Zhi could take away. The old lady's words that she could only take one-tenth away caused a lot of trouble for each family.
PS: I wrote some at the airport, some on the plane, and some more quietly during the meeting today, so I still managed to update two chapters. It will probably be too late to update tomorrow, so one update would be good. These two chapters have a lot of trivial things, which is the most difficult and thankless to write, so please bear with me.