Jiang Yanyi was afraid that Madam An would be embarrassed, so she helped her explain to An Yongyuan: "I heard that Yunniang had severe morning sickness a few days ago and couldn't eat, so I asked Yunniang to stay at the farm for a while. I didn't expect that General An would worry about her and asked him to come here in person."
"Miss Chu, you are so kind." An Yongyuan clasped his fists towards Jiang Yanyi, "My wife is well taken care of by Miss Chu, and I would like to thank her here."
This statement has a bit of a double meaning.
An Yongyuan was not good at speaking. It was thanks to Jiang Yanyi that Madam An's slanderous words against Madam An in front of the noble ladies reached his ears. After dealing with the servants who were gossiping in the mansion, he had a fight with Madam An and waited for Madam An to return home.
Unexpectedly, he waited and waited but Madam An did not come back. The only thing he could think of was that Madam An was angry with him. After all, she had suffered some injustice during her pregnancy, but he did not notice it at all.
As Qingming Festival was approaching, he came in person on the pretext of taking Madam An back to worship their ancestors.
The war situation in Yuzhou is tense now, and An Yongyuan is busy training troops. Although Jiang Yanyi invited them to stay for dinner, An Yongyuan was unable to spare the time.
"The military camp has important matters to attend to. Yuzhou is trapped and there is a shortage of medicinal materials in the city. Buying medicinal materials from the neighboring states is just a drop in the bucket. We have to send a batch from Xizhou."
The An family opened the largest pharmacy in Xizhou, so their network of contacts for purchasing medicinal materials was naturally wider than that of other places. When this task fell on the An family, An Yongyuan did not dare to be careless at all.
A carriage came hurriedly and left hurriedly.
After seeing the couple off, Jiang Yanyi's brows unconsciously furrowed.
Food, fodder, and medicinal materials are all things that concern human lives during war.
Yuzhou stretches from north to south. The south is a land of fish and rice with abundant medicinal herbs. In contrast, the north is bitterly cold and medicinal materials are scarce.
An Yongyuan sent the medicinal materials stockpiled in the An family pharmacy to Yuzhou. If the Turks invaded in the future, Xizhou would be the hardest place to find medicine.
Seeing Jiang Yanyi's worried look, Huo Jianjia asked, "Does the boss miss Young Madam An? Now that we are back in the city, the boss will visit Young Madam every now and then."
Jiang Yanyi shook his head. "General An is a man who protects his wife. I'm not worried about Yunniang."
She sighed and asked, "The caravan should arrive in Xizhou soon, right?"
Yang Xiu had led the caravan out of the country for more than a month, and a few days ago he sent a message back saying that they were on their way back.
When Huo Jianjia followed her father to escort, she had been to most places in Daxuan Dynasty, but she had never been outside the border. She said, "My father said that one should leave Yangguan Pass on March 3rd and return home on September 9th. Once outside the border, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back for several months. However, Xizhou City is at the border, and Uncle Yang and the others have acquaintances to lead the way, so they should be able to come back earlier."
Outside the Great Wall is a desert, and riding a camel is not as good as riding a horse inside the Great Wall, so the journey is naturally much slower.
Jiang Yanyi said, "Based on the more than one month of travel there and the more than one month of return, they will probably return around the Dragon Boat Festival."
Jiang Yanyi was not worried about the business outside the Great Wall. She wanted to use the caravan to buy large quantities of medicinal materials from other countries outside the Great Wall.
Once a war breaks out, gold will be less valuable than food and medicine.
While Xizhou City is still stable, we should stockpile as many medicinal herbs as possible.
***
During the Qingming Festival to worship their ancestors, Jiang Yanyi and his sister also returned to the Chu family.
I couldn't go back to the capital in the short term, and I couldn't go to my ancestors' graves to offer sacrifices, so I could only hold sacrifices in the newly built ancestral hall.
The Chu family made green rice dumplings, and Jiang Yanyi also made green rice dumplings and wisteria flower pastries from the farm and brought them over.
The tradition of eating Qingtuan during Qingming Festival originated in the prosperous Tang Dynasty in the world where Jiang Yanyi originally lived. The jade-green mugwort glutinous rice dumplings have spanned thousands of years and have been passed down from generation to generation. They have their own charm.
Considering that the cook of the Chu family could make red bean paste filling, Jiang Yanyi made salted egg yolk and pork floss filling.
Jiang Yanyi made the meat floss himself using cooked pork tenderloin. He didn't have any modern kitchen tools, so it was thanks to Huo Jianjia who used a stone scoop to mash the drained cooked meat into minced meat bit by bit, and then chopped it up with a sharp knife.
Mash the steamed salted egg yolks into a paste, mix with meat floss and knead into a dough again.
The green color of Qingtuan comes from the juice of young mugwort, but the freshly picked mugwort has a strong bitter taste, so it must be blanched in water before pounding. The squeezed mugwort juice is mixed with glutinous rice flour, and the kneaded dough is emerald green.
Roll the dough into long strips and divide it into portions. Fill them with salted egg yolk and pork floss filling like rice balls and steam them for half a quarter of an hour.
The green rice dumplings just out of the pot are soft and chewy, fat but not greasy, with a light aroma of mugwort on the skin. The salted egg yolk and meat floss inside have a more prominent salty and fragrant taste against the light flavors of mugwort and glutinous rice.
Madam Chu hadn't seen Jiang Yanyi and his sister for a long time, so she talked to them for a long time. When she saw the qingtuan and biscuits that Jiang Yanyi brought, she smiled so much that wrinkles appeared on her face: "You come whenever you want, and you have to bring something every time. How can you be so reserved when you go home?"
Jiang Yanyi said, "I am often away from home for business, and I have not been able to be filial to you. I just made some snacks to honor grandma, but I am not being polite."
"You are such a sweet-talker." Madam Chu held Jiang Yanyi's hand, trying to find some similarities between her face and her daughter's. At first glance, her eyebrows and eyes looked somewhat similar, but upon closer inspection, she felt that she was nothing like Madam Jiang. Finally, she said sadly, "Go to the ancestral hall and burn some incense for your mother."
Jiang Yanyi responded and pushed Chu Yangui out of Old Madam Chu's room and headed towards the ancestral hall.
Chu Yangui had difficulty walking, so after he finished his worship, Jiang Yanyi helped him put the incense in front of Mrs. Jiang's seat.
"Sister." Chu Yangui called her in a low voice.
The wind blowing through the hall brought a gust of cool air. Jiang Yanyi turned around to look at Chu Yangui. Her dress floated gently in the wind, and a strand of hair fell on her cheek. The pomegranate tree outside the window was in bloom, with red flowers among the green, which was very eye-catching.
"I want to go out and study." Chu Yangui looked at Jiang Yanyi and said the second half of the sentence.
Jiang Yanyi was stunned for a while before he asked, "Study abroad?"
"The master has four branches of knowledge: the study of the world, the study of art, the study of travel, and the study of military affairs. I am extremely stupid, but the study of art can satisfy the master. The master said that I have seen too little and am too persistent in my thoughts. It would be better for me to travel and see the various aspects of life. When I know what it means to 'open and close the four seasons to transform all things', the study of the world and the study of travel will be completed."1
Chu Yangui's tone was calm and soothing, and on his face, which looked even more elegant and handsome as he grew older, one could already see a calm demeanor nurtured by the fragrance of books, paper and ink. However, his black jade-like pupils seemed to be hiding something, so deep and secret that one dared not peek.
Although she had always lived under the same roof with him, Jiang Yanyi still felt that this boy had grown up so fast that she felt a little unfamiliar. After thinking for a moment, she said, "You are determined to study, and I will not stop you. It's just that the world is in chaos right now..."
"It's a time of chaos, so I want to go and see what kind of life the people in this world are living." Chu Yangui interrupted Jiang Yanyi calmly.
Jiang Yanyi knew that since he said that, he must have made the decision long ago. No matter what he said, he couldn't change his mind. But he was still worried: "What if he encounters danger?"
Chu Yangui said, "Don't worry, Sister. Uncle Zhong will go with me."
"Grandma's side..."
"I'd like to ask my elder sister to keep it a secret for me from my grandmother. Just say that I'm away studying."
Old Madam Chu had a strong character, but her youngest daughter had died and her most capable third son was still on the battlefield. When she learned that Chu Yangui wanted to go out to gain experience and study, she would definitely not agree.
***
After returning from the Chu family, Jiang Yanyi immediately went to find Duke Chen to ask about Chu Yangui.
Unexpectedly, Duke Chen left a letter and left without saying goodbye.
The letter said that he had taught Chu Yangui everything he could. There are 30,000 classics in the world, and he did not teach his disciples to nitpick and study to become the top scholar. He was just a guide, and he told Chu Yangui which road to take and how far to go. He had led Chu Yangui to the right path, and the future depended entirely on Chu Yangui's own luck.
Jiang Yanyi originally thought that Duke Chen had returned to Meilin Thatched Cottage, so he asked Bing Shao to go to Meilin. However, he learned that Duke Chen had not returned to Meilin either, and had disappeared like a hermit.
After Chu Yangui went to study, Jiang Yanyi looked at the huge yard and felt that the house was getting more and more deserted.
I used to be someone who was not afraid of loneliness, but now I am actually a little afraid of being alone.
Jiang Yanyi went to the pawnshop and bought two maids, hoping to make the place more lively. However, the two little girls were good at eating but not talkative. Not only were they timid in front of her, they were also very afraid of Huo Jianjia.
Jiang Yanyi was quite helpless, but fortunately the two maids were diligent and dutiful, and Aunt Guo gave them advice on a daily basis, so they were efficient and quick in doing things, so Jiang Yanyi just let them do as they pleased.
When she first moved here last year, she and Okra saved a lot of pumpkin seeds, and planted them all in the flower bed near the wall in the spring. Now the entire wall is covered with pumpkin vines, and some have even grown around the pomegranate tree in the next yard.
The litter of kittens in the house have all grown up. Cats can be seen dozing off with their eyes closed everywhere, next to the pumpkin leaves on the wall, on the eaves, and next to the pillars.
Jiang Yanyi picked the male flowers from the pumpkin vines, coated them with flour and egg liquid, and fried them in a pan. She also broke off the tender tips of the pumpkin vines and stir-fried them.
This is the dish that Jiang Yanyi's grandmother is best at. Once when she went to her grandmother's house, she wanted to eat pumpkin flowers, so she ran to the field and picked all the pumpkin flowers. Because she couldn't tell the male and female flowers apart, her grandmother often complained about her.
After the female flowers fade, small pumpkins will grow, but the male flowers will not.
The fried pumpkin flowers just out of the pan have a crispy skin, while the fried pumpkin flowers inside are very soft, sticky and sweet.
Because Jiang Yanyi often cooked some side dishes and shared them with the neighbors, even Xie Chuji, who was difficult to approach at first, would often come to Jiang Yanyi's place to sit because the two families lived very close.
She likes playing chess. When Duke Chen was away, she learned that Jiang Yanyi could play chess. After playing two games with Jiang Yanyi, she became attached to him. The two of them often discussed the details of running a private school while playing chess.
Xie Chuji was a talented woman, and her grandfather was a great scholar of the time, as famous as Lu Linyuan's father. With her as the living signboard of the academy, more and more families were willing to send their daughters to school. The number of talented people who volunteered to be teachers far exceeded the number of teachers recruited by the academy.
Jiang Yanyi had never received a love letter in his previous life, nor had he received a love poem in this life, but Xie Chuji had received so many love poem writing papers that he could use them to start a fire.
She occasionally joked about this when playing chess with Xie Chuji, and Xie Chuji just raised his eyebrows and said, "The people who wrote these sour poems combined are probably not as good as one finger of your future husband."
Jiang Yanyi realized belatedly that Xie Chuji was teasing him.
She looked a little dazed, as if she couldn't realize that such a talented woman who was out of touch with the world could actually joke.
Xie Chuji noticed that Jiang Yanyi's expression was not right, but he returned to his original indifferent and dignified expression.
Jiang Yanyi smiled and said, "Your expression and tone just now made me feel that you are a living person."
Seeing this, Xie Chuji relaxed: "My mother always said that I have never been good at dealing with people. I don't want to learn from Xushe. I offended many people in my early years, but unfortunately I didn't learn from my mistakes. Until now, I can't change my bad habits."
Jiang Yanyi said: "There are few people in this world who can live as they please. You are lucky to be able to do so."
Xie Chuji smiled, somewhat self-deprecatingly: "You can turn anything you say into a compliment."
When she turned her head to look out the window, she noticed a red scarf draped over an embroidery frame nearby, with a half-embroidered pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water on it.
There was something else in Xie Chuji's eyes: "Preparing the wedding dress, the veil is embroidered so beautifully."
She threw the chess piece in her hand back into the chess basket and lightly slid her fingers across the surface of the ceramic jar with water lilies planted nearby, where several goldfish were chasing and playing.
Xie Chuji's eyes became tired, as if he had completely let down his guard against Jiang Yanyi: "Do you have any wine?"
Jiang Yanyi went to get a pot of plum blossom wine that he bought from Chen Guogong's wine house a few years ago.
Xie Chuji smiled when he smelled the wine: "Is it brewed by Duke Chen?"
Without waiting for Jiang Yanyi to answer, she poured herself a glass and drank it, her eyes slowly turning red. "That year, he and Duke Chen buried the jar of wine in the back garden of the Mu Mansion. I later dug it out, and it tasted exactly like this."
It was just after the Qingming Festival, and there were still people going out for outings and visiting graves everywhere. Jiang Yanyi guessed that Xie Chuji was moved by the scene, and her emotions had been suppressed for too long. She was a loner and unfamiliar with the place, so she could only talk to him for a few more words now, which was why she exploded in front of him.
Jiang Yanyi comforted her: "You have helped the Mu family to redress their wrongdoings. The deceased is gone. Please accept my condolences."
Xie Chuji sneered, "He is still alive, but he just refuses to see me."
Jiang Yanyi felt goose bumps all over his hands all of a sudden.
Xie Chuji half-lay on the table, her cheeks flushed from drinking, and it was unclear whether she was talking nonsense or a secret she had kept in her heart for many years: "They are twin brothers, he can fool others, but he can't fool me..."
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Du Mingzhao traveled into an ancient novel about a farming son-in-law and became the vicious female supporting character in the book.
Du Mingzhao in the book is an only child. She relies on her parents' love to be lazy and eat too much all day long. She is still unmarried at the age of twenty. She forces the frail handsome man next door, Song Qihe, to be her son-in-law.
After getting married, Du Mingzhao still did not restrain himself and bullied her handsome husband in various ways, forcing him to jump into the river.
The amnesiac husband did not die. Instead, he remembered his own impressive life experience. After suffering humiliation, he took back his power and finally returned it all to the supporting female character Du Mingzhao.
She died in such a tragic way!
At this moment, Du Mingzhao was counting on his fingers:
My father was just a poor scholar, and our family lived in poverty and hardship.
But she is the only precious daughter her parents have, so of course they have to spoil her like a little darling.
Du Mingzhao knew that as long as she didn't commit suicide and stayed away from the man next door,
Relying on her excellent medical skills to give acupuncture and save lives, she can live a happy life!
The first thing Song Qi did after waking up after his rebirth:
He broke his leg and ran to a remote mountain village to ask the girl from his previous life to treat him.
In return for saving his life, he would marry into the Du family and become Du Mingzhao's husband!
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