This woman seemed to be in her thirties, her eyes were dodging, she was cowering, half of her face was red and swollen, and there were bruises and nail marks on the corners of her eyes, as if she had been beaten.

Xu Qinyu probably guessed who the woman was in her heart, she just saw her coming from the end of the alley, she should be Mrs. Luo's daughter-in-law.

Sure enough, when a woman saw this, she immediately shouted: "Mr. Lin, why, didn't your mother-in-law say that the fish made by Mrs. Xu is unpalatable, and she came to the door twice yesterday to make a fuss for the eight cents?" Go back, the little lady didn’t say anything, she also refunded the money and let your family eat free food. Is this free food addictive? I am ordering you to buy fish today, and you will come back tomorrow to get the money back, and I will order you the next day Two daughters come to buy? Why, your family is still shameless?"

The neighbors in the neighborhood also know that Mrs. Lin is pitiful, and they know what kind of life she lives in Luo's house.

But eating free food is eating free food. It is said that Potian Lin is also the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Luo. Sell ​​the fish.

If the little lady goes to other places to sell fish, the business will still be good.

At that time, the people in Osmanthus Alley had to pick and choose and couldn't afford to eat meat, and the children were sallow and emaciated all day long, so they had to find someone to reason with.

This is also to tell the little lady that the woman in front of her is Mrs. Luo's daughter-in-law, and their Osmanthus Lane is just such a wonderful family.

Lin's face flushed red.

But what can she do?

Her mother-in-law suffered so much from Miss Xu, and she was unwilling to do so. She wanted to continue learning the recipes of Miss Xu, and wanted to eat fish, so she had to ask her to buy it. She didn't want to come, but her mother-in-law borrowed it last night. The phone beat her up, and even the big girls got kicked twice. If she didn't come today, the mother-in-law would beat their mother-in-law even harder.

After the woman finished speaking, she saw that Lin's face was red and swollen and she knew that her mother-in-law had hit her again, so she couldn't help but sighed.

He is also a poor person, but a poor person must have something to hate.

Xu Qinyu looked at the wound on Lin's face, and knew that if she were Mrs. Luo's daughter-in-law, she would not be thirty years old, she seemed to be in her twenties, and she was wasted like this.

Xu Qinyu panicked, she said: "Sister-in-law, I won't sell you this fish, you can go back."

Even if she feels sorry for the Lin family, it is impossible to continue selling fish to the Luo family.

Lin's face turned pale, and she looked at Xu Qinyu imploringly.

"Little lady, please sell me the fish, or I, my mother-in-law will beat me to death when I go back."

"Aren't you long hands or legs?" Xu Qinyu asked her back.

Lin was stunned, "What, what?"

She didn't understand what the little lady meant.

Xu Qinyu said calmly, "Don't you know how to resist? Don't you know how to run when she hits you?"

Lin's lips trembled twice, unable to speak.

No one ever told her that she could resist.

The women around began to nod.

In their conception, even if they are beaten and scolded by their mother-in-law, it is okay to resist, but it is impossible to fight back.

What Xu Qinyu said actually meant that if she hit you, wouldn't you hit back?

Why, a strong laborer in his twenties can't do an old woman?

She is willing to sell fish to Lin's this time, but it is just to encourage Mrs. Luo's unhealthy tendencies, making Mrs. Luo think that she is easy to talk to and can make friends with, and she will try every means to mess around to get her fish recipe.

She felt that even though this was a feudal society where filial piety was the first priority, it shouldn't be filial. Besides, it had nothing to do with filial piety. It was an old woman abusing her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, but she didn't know how to resist.

This Mrs. Luo dared to sell her daughter to marry her son. Now that Mrs. Lin can’t give birth to a son, Mrs. Luo dares to sell her two daughters and divorce Lin, and use the money from selling her granddaughter to marry her son to a daughter-in-law who can give birth to a son. .

It's just a matter of time.

Lin didn't speak.

Xu Qinyu no longer cared about her and was busy selling fish.

In the end, all the braised herrings were sold out.

Mrs. Lin didn't buy the braised herring either. She went back to Luo's house in a daze. Mrs. Luo's face was also bruised and one eye was swollen. The daughter-in-law slapped her body, "You idiot, you can't even buy a fish if you ask me, so what's the use of you, you might as well sell it to a kiln."

Mrs. Luo cursed Lin Shi and Xu Qinyu with obscene words, and hit her hard, making Lin bow her body and turn pale.

The pain from her body and the despair in her heart made Lin couldn't help thinking, can she really resist?

Can someone really rebel against his own mother, against his own mother-in-law?

When she was at home, she was beaten and scolded by her mother, but she was not beaten as much by her mother-in-law. She had to work every day at home, and finally her mother gave it to the Luo family for twenty taels of silver.

For the twenty taels of silver, not a penny of mother's dowry was prepared for her, and it was all left to her brother.

The reason why she was able to get the dowry gift of twenty taels of silver was because she was good-looking, and it was Luo Dagen who fell in love with her. So picked her.

She thought that women in this era were like this.

But today someone told her that she could resist.

But how to resist?

...

Xu Qinyu returned home after buying the fish. She was a little depressed along the way. In fact, she has no right to judge the Lin family. Most women in this era are not happy. Just kidding, after all, the freedom that women in this era want is basically impossible.

When she got home, Xu Qinyu's mood was almost the same.

She felt that it was better to pity herself than to pity Lin's family. Originally, she was worth hundreds of millions, but when she came to this kind of place, she became a surrogate concubine who was exiled. Who could be so unlucky as her.

If it weren't for her great cooking skills, she would probably be in a worse situation than Lin's.

Fortunately, the Pei family is easy to get along with and has cooking skills.

But no matter what, she still hopes that Mrs. Lin can stand up by herself and protect her two daughters.

When she got home, Xu Qinyu started to make evening food. The evening food for the past few days has been eating braised fish, and she was a little tired of eating, so she burned the ribs, and there was old rock candy at home, so she was extravagant and made it. A sweet and sour pork ribs.

The recipe for sweet and sour pork ribs is simple. The most important thing is to fry the sugar color. A fried sweet and sour pork ribs with good sugar color is half the success of this dish.

Pour the blanched pork ribs into the fried sugar and stir-fry until the skin is slightly browned. Add soy sauce, vinegar and salt to stir-fry the flavor. Finally, add an appropriate amount of water and cook on high heat. After boiling, turn to medium heat and continue. When it's almost stewed, add a spoonful of vinegar to collect the juice.

The yard is full of sweet and sour smells of meat. They didn't know that meat can be sweet and sour, and it smells very appetizing and fragrant.

People in Osmanthus Alley also smelled the sweet and fragrant meat, and they all knew that Mrs. Xu's family was cooking new food.

There are a lot of people in the family, so Xu Qinyu cooked all the two catties of pork ribs he bought last time in one go.

After finishing the sweet and sour pork ribs, she steamed another egg custard, and finally fried bean sprouts.

In the Southwest, radishes, cabbage, taro, tofu, and bean sprouts are all common dishes, such as yam, lotus root, winter melon, and water chestnuts are relatively expensive dishes, because they are not available in the Southwest, so they have to be shipped from other places. Water chestnuts are actually a kind of fruit.

In the evening, Brother Shao's mother-in-law, Xia Xia, came to serve the evening food, and Xiao Cui came with her.

Brother Shao didn't come. Although the snow has been a little less these two days, it's still very cold.

Xu Qinyu has already packed the food box. The round-grained rice she stewed by herself is soft, glutinous and sweet in the mouth, and the rice grains are shiny. This is the fat that comes with the round-grained rice.

She now cooks roujiamo and braised herring every day, with a net profit of 350 to 60 yuan, and she can afford to eat japonica rice every day.

Wu Shi came over and brought Xu Qinyu two baotou caps and two pairs of fur gloves.

They are all made of rabbit fur, one made of white rabbit fur and one gray rabbit fur, which should be for her and Pei Weixuan. Seeing that the two of them have to go out all day to set up a stall, and it is cold, it is only for the two of them. People sewed it.

Of course, instead of using a whole piece of rabbit fur, it should be some scraps, you can see the traces of splicing, Wu's female celebrity is pretty good, the hat is also cute, it stays fluffy on the head, and the gloves are also, the whole palm of the hand is warm after wearing it After getting up, Xu Qinyu liked it very much and thanked Mrs. Wu.

Wu said with a smile, "It's as long as Miss Xu likes it."

Brother Shao has grown some flesh visible to the naked eye these days, not to mention how grateful she is to Xu Qinyu.

Seeing that Xu Qinyu and her husband had to go out of the stall against the wind and snow all day long, wanted to do something for them. Clothes are not suitable, but hats and gloves are very good. Xia's family makes a living in a cloth village. All kinds of fur are also indispensable, and there are even more furs that are cut from leftovers, so she picked up some leftovers of rabbit fur to make two such hats and rabbit fur gloves.

Mrs. Wu just came to deliver hats and gloves, and after giving things, she got Shao Geer's evening food and returned.

Xu Qinyu was still fiddling with her rabbit fur hat and gloves, but she didn't have a bronze mirror at home, otherwise she couldn't look any better.

Since she became the original body, except for the face reflected in the basin when washing her face, she has not looked at her own face carefully, but Xu Qinyu remembers that the original body is eight or nine points similar to her appearance.

Xu Qinyu touched the rabbit fur hat on her head, and saw another gray rabbit fur hat beside her. She picked it up and put it on the side of the cheap husband, and put the hat on for him, "Fourth brother, quickly put it on!" Look up."

She smiled with crooked eyes, with a hint of slyness, she just wanted to see how the cheap man would look with this kind of soft rabbit fur hat.

Seeing her on tiptoes, Pei Weixuan subconsciously bowed slightly to make her feel more relaxed.

He also saw the sly smile on her face, and he couldn't help but laugh.

When he realized that he was smiling, he was slightly taken aback, lowered his eyes again, and returned to that indifferent expression.

When Xu Qinyu brought it to the cheap husband, he realized that even though he was wearing a dark blue jacket and a furry rabbit fur hat, he did not look feminine, but was still as cold as jade, with a natural look Nobility can't hide it.

Xu Qinyu touched the tip of his nose, and sure enough, he was good-looking, and it didn't matter if he wore a sack.

The sweet and sour pork ribs that ate at night, both Feng Geer and Sister Xian especially like it. The sweet and sour pork ribs she cooked are slightly browned on the surface, but the meat inside is very fresh and tender, and the color is bright red. It's all sweet and sour sauce, and lick the sauce off lips at the end.

...

In the next few days, Xu Qinyu and the cheap husband continued to go out to the stall. There was a rabbit fur hat tightly wrapped around her head, and then she put on rabbit fur gloves. She was not cold when pushing the cart. Not only did she freeze her hands before, but The wind has been blowing for half a day, and head is buzzing, not to mention how uncomfortable, was still thinking about whether to buy some furs and make a hat and gloves yesterday.

With a warm hat and gloves, Xu Qinyu goes to the pier half an hour earlier every day, and the business is basically stable, with about 100 roujiamo every day. Fortunately, she sells Chaoshi in the morning and not in the evening. Several other stalls at the pier still have some business.

Xu Qinyu had been selling food for a few days at the pier before she realized that it was only the beginning of winter. According to the past, the pier would still be lively for at least a month, and it would not snow so much until deep winter at the end of the new year. The merchant ships and official ships will not continue to run. didn’t expect that there was such a heavy snowfall in early winter today, so they were stuck here. There are other merchant ships that have not reached the southwest. They are on the road because of the snow. on other docks.

According to the words of these people on the merchant ship, they may not know how long they will be trapped.

Xu Qinyu knew that although Roujiamo was delicious, she would get tired of eating it for ten days and a half months.

Since the people on these merchant ships will continue to stay at the pier for a long time, she plans to sell the Roujiamo for ten and a half months, and then change to Xinchaoshi and continue to sell it.

The business of Roujiamo and braised herring has stabilized. Every morning, the stall starts earlier, and it is only noon when the ingredients are sold and bought. She can take an hour off at noon to get up to process the herring and make braised fish.

Mrs. Luo didn't dare to ask her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to buy fish these days, and the Luo family at the end of the alley was quiet.

Having made money in the past few days, Xu Qinyu began to think about new foods.

She was a little craving for winter bamboo shoots and bacon. The stewed winter bamboo shoots and bacon made on the road to exile were not authentic. To say they were authentic, they had to be pickled Du Xian of Anhui cuisine. This dish was truly salty and delicious.

Pickled Duxian requires good ham, spring bamboo shoots or winter bamboo shoots, fresh pork, bacon, ham, lettuce and other ingredients.

Among them, ham and bacon are the most important.

To make a good ham, it needs to be marinated, fermented and air-dried for at least half a year.

Even if she can't eat it now, she can make ham and bacon first, besides, she should really pickle some bacon.

She deliberately picked a good pork hind leg, and bought a few catties of salt to salt the ham.

The ham is a little salty to make. First trim the pig’s hind legs, then wrap the salt on the pig’s hind legs, rub it vigorously, rub the salt in, and rub the salt a second time, and then it is air-dried and fermented.

Not only can she eat this ham by then, but she still plans to sell it for money.

In addition to this ham, she also marinated some bacon, which is almost ready to eat during the Chinese New Year.

In addition to bacon, she also made some cured fish. When she made bacon and cured fish, she would put some five-spice powder on it to make it taste better.

The five-spice powder is also a combination of several spices bought before, and it is fried and then ground into powder.

Looking at the bacon and fish and a big ham hanging in the kitchen, Xu Qinyu was satisfied.

...

Let's say that Xu Qinyu's business here is smooth and smooth. After Chen Fuwei and Ma Liu, who had sent the Pei family into exile, left Raocheng, they went home and returned to the capital.

Originally, they went back to Beijing by water, and the merchant ship they took, even Chen Fuwei's horse, got on the merchant ship, but they didn't expect that after two days of walking, it began to snow heavily, and the waterway was dangerous under snow, so the merchant ship leaned against the nearby pier. The deputy lieutenant and Ma Liu and his party also continued to follow the official path.

There are post stations and horses on the official road, and they rushed back to Duxun within a few days.

Duxun is the capital of Dasheng.

When we arrived in Duxun, Ma Liu said to Chen Fuwei, "Boss, I'll go to Dechang Hou Mansion first, and send a letter to Miss Xu's parents."

On the way to exile, they were blessed by Mrs. Xu, and they ate food made by others for a few days, which satisfied their appetites. Especially Mrs. Xu was very generous, and she taught him several simple ways to eat, and then gave it away to others On the way to exile, they can also do it by themselves. Although the craftsmanship is definitely not comparable to Miss Xu's, at least it will not be as unpalatable as before. The little lady also told him that there is actually a more delicious way to eat the braised bacon with winter bamboo shoots, called pickled Duxian, but it is much more complicated than the braised bacon with winter bamboo shoots, and she also told him the method.

After receiving the benefits from others, Ma Liu kept his promise, and the first thing he did when he returned to Du Xun City was to go to Dechanghou's Mansion to report his parents' safety.

Deputy Chen nodded, "Go."

Ma Liu immediately went to Dechanghou Mansion.

The gate of Marquis Dechang Mansion was closed, Ma Liu knocked on the door, the concierge quickly opened the door, looked Ma Liu up and down, and asked impatiently, "Who are you looking for?"

Ma Liu just returned to the capital, and didn't take much rest along the way, so he was naturally slovenly and covered in dust.

Ma Liu's face darkened, and he said, "I'm the official who sent the second girl of the mansion to exile in the southwest, and I came here to report a letter to the mansion today."

Knowing Ma Liu's identity, the concierge didn't have much good looks, and just said something salty, "Then please wait for the military master first, so that the slave can go in and report."

When the concierge entered the room to inform, Ma Liu's face became more and more serious. His status was indeed low, but he sent the second girl of the Dechang Hou Mansion to exile, and now he was obviously coming back to help pass the news to the Dechang Hou Mansion, but the servants in the mansion Still with this attitude, it can be seen that when Miss Xu lived in the Dechang Hou Mansion before, even if she had no worries about eating and drinking, she might not be respected very much, otherwise she would not have been exiled by the exiled Prince Shu's fiancée from the third girl in the Hou Mansion. got the second girl from the Hou Mansion.

No wonder Mrs. Xu knows how to cook, it was all forced by the Marquis of Dechang, otherwise how could a girl from an aristocratic family do such a job.

"Bah, what the hell!" Ma Liu kicked the stone lion at the door angrily.

After about a quarter of an hour, the porter came out and said, "Master Jun, let's go in with the servant, the old lady wants to see you."

Ma Liu sullenly followed the doorman into the Hou residence.

After walking along the corridor and the corridor for a long time, I entered the flower gate and came to a quiet courtyard. Under the corridor in the courtyard stood a few old maids. One of them was wearing a fine cotton robe and waved back to the door, with Ma Liufu. After he was blessed, he led Ma Liu into the hall. At the top of the hall sat an old lady wearing a soft silk and a thick long jacket. The old lady was wearing a soft silk ruby ​​smear on her forehead. Seeing Ma Liu, she immediately said: " I dare to ask, but the military lord sent our Yuniang to the southwest? How is my Yuniang? What hardships have I suffered along the way? My poor Yuniang, when I was exiled in a hurry, I didn’t have time to prepare anything, Yuniang is sure It must have suffered a lot.”

Ma Liu sneered in his heart.

The old lady's bald head is worth dozens of taels of silver.

Even if King Shu offends the new emperor, the new emperor targets at the line of King Shu and confiscated the house of King Shu before exile, but he doesn't hold the little lady Xu so much, just give the little lady a silver ticket, gold bean, gold leaf or something. Will make Miss Xu suffer so much on the road to exile.

Xu Xiaoniang had a hard time on her way to exile, and it could be seen that she didn't have any money on her body.

And if this old lady was really worried about her granddaughter when she saw her howling, why didn't she cry at all?

This point of Ma Liu is a misunderstanding, but it is also true. The five golden leaves on Xu Qinyu's body are still the second house to collect all the money, but the old lady needs dozens of taels of silver to wipe her forehead, and she really has no idea about this granddaughter. on the body.

Ma Liudao: "Xu Xiaoniang has suffered a lot all the way, she can't even eat rice porridge, and she was sick all the way, but fortunately, she survived and has successfully reached Raozhou City."

The old lady dipped the veil into the corners of her eyes, which were dry with tears, "My poor Yu Niang, I blame our Houfu for being incompetent, and it is also her life. Who would have thought that the first prince would do such a rebellious thing, and he would be so embarrassed. King, let the lineage of King Shu be exiled, my family Yu Niang knows the righteousness, she will not cry or make trouble, she is willing to follow King Shu to exile, hey."

Ma Liu gritted his teeth, motherfucker, this old lady is really talking nonsense, half of the people in the capital know that Xu Qinhui, the third girl from the Marquis of Dechang's mansion, was betrothed to King Shu.

Ma Liu endured it, and said, "Although Mrs. Xu suffered a lot on the road, she survived anyway. Madam, Madam Xu asked me to bring a letter to her parents, and asked the old lady to let me go to give it to her. The little lady's parents say something."

The old lady said, "Since Yu Niang's mother beat her into exile, she has been very sad. She has been sick for a while and has not recovered. You don't have to go there. I will send someone a letter to the second room."

Ma Liu couldn't take it any longer, and sneered, "How can you be ashamed, old lady, the mouse has skin? You really want to feel sorry for your granddaughter, why should you give the silver note and gold to the little lady Xu, then the little lady Xu has no gold or silver on the way to exile. , I almost didn't get through it, and who in the entire capital didn't know about your Dechang Marquis Mansion. Since the second lady in the mansion is worried about her daughter, the old lady should ask me to report to the second lady in person. The second lady got the letter. , The body will recover on its own, so the old lady doesn't want her daughter-in-law to get better."

The old lady's face was ashen, how dare this inferior person dare to humiliate her like this.

The old lady of Dechang Hou has never been humiliated like this before, and she was so angry that she wanted to be killed, but after all, he was an officer and soldier, not a servant in the mansion, and she was afraid that she would directly drive people away, and then this person would talk nonsense outside. The words ruined the reputation of her and the Houfu.

The old lady said with a solemn expression, "I have a good heart. Since the military master has such a misunderstanding, the old man has nothing to say. Mammy Feng, just lead the military master to the second room!"

Mammy Feng's face was also not very good-looking, and she replied in a cold voice: "Please also ask the military lord to go to the second room with the old slave."

Ma Liu ignored the old lady, turned around and followed this Feng mama to the second room.

Along the way, Madam Feng ignored Ma Liu and kept her face straight, and Ma Liu didn't care.

Soon arrived at the second room. The second room was a little far from the main courtyard where Mrs. Dechang Hou lived, and it was located in the south.

Arriving at the door of the second-room courtyard, Mammy Feng said with a cold face, "Master Jun, you're here, you can do it yourself."

Turn around and leave.

Ma Liu scolded: "What are they all about?"

He had just finished scolding when a child came out from behind the bushes and kicked Ma Liu's leg, "Who are you! What are you doing in our second room? Did your grandmother ask you to scold your mother?"

When Ma Liu turned around, he saw that it was a young boy of about five or six years old. He was handsome and beautiful. His facial features were five or six points like Mrs. Xu, but with a fierce look on his face, he grinned at Ma Liu.

Ma Liu saw that he was haunting the door of the second-room courtyard again, and knew that he should be Xu Xiaoniangzi's blood brother.

He said, "I'm here to deliver a letter to your parents, your sister's letter."

Hearing this, the child froze for a moment, restrained the ferocious expression on his face, and pulled the corner of his clothes and ran inside, "Mother, mother, elder sister has sent a letter."

Ma Liu was dragged into the courtyard by the child. There were only two maids in the courtyard. Seeing the child, he hurriedly called out, "Brother Li, what are you doing? Who is this?"

Ma Liu briefly explained his identity, the maid was overjoyed, and she hurriedly said to Ma Liu and then went through the house. It was a little while, a pale woman was supported by the maid tremblingly, and when she saw Ma Liu He didn't even care about etiquette, and asked with trembling lips, "Master, but, do you have a letter from my wife?"

"Yes..." Ma Liu told the woman about Xu Qinyu's journey along the way.

He also said that Mrs. Xu did not have the desire to survive at first, and she was dead on the way. Later, when she fell ill, she wanted to open up. She even cooked food for them, and passed on the words that Mrs. Xu said to the woman in front of her. people listen.

The woman is also Xu Qinyu's mother, the Xue family.

After hearing Ma Liu's words, Mrs Xue burst into tears, but the knot in her heart slowly dissipated.

As long as the daughter is still alive, as long as the daughter still has the will to survive, there will always be a time for their mother and daughter to meet again in the future.

When her daughter went to King Shu, she made a big noise in the Hou Mansion. The old lady ordered her to be tied up and sent Yu Niang to Prince Shu Mansion. The little maid next to her was clever. When Yu Niang was tied to the sedan chair, she secretly prepared her. The five golden leaves of her were stuffed into Yu Niang's sleeves.

Ma Liu didn't feel well when he saw the woman crying sadly, and when the woman's cry subsided, he scratched his head and said, "Madam, don't worry, I can see that Miss Xu is really thinking about it, and she does The food is really delicious. I think the food in the big restaurants in the capital is not as good as the food cooked by Xu Xiaoniangzi. It is definitely no problem for Xu Xiaoniang to make a living in the southwest. She also said that she will make a lot of money for her in the future. You are tweed."

Xue did not take this to heart, as long as Yu Niang can live well.

Yu Niang does know how to cook some food, and the taste is still good, but to say that it is better than the food in the big restaurant in Duxun, she thinks it is a bit exaggerated.

Shi Xue thanked Ma Liu again, and when Ma Liu saw the letter was delivered, he said goodbye to Shi Xue.

When Brother Li was sending Ma Liu out, he kept asking questions about his sister. It was obvious to the naked eye that he was very worried about his sister.

After Ma Liu told the child in detail again, Brother Li swore secretly that he would be a high-ranking official to protect his sister and let her return to the capital.

...

At the same time, next to the main courtyard of the Marquis of Dechang, in the courtyard of the third room of the Marquis, there is a beautiful girl lying on the couch in the west wing, which is the third girl of the Marquis of Dechang, Xu Qin. Hui.

Xu Qinhui opened her eyes, and when she saw the decorations around her, she was stunned for a while, and then she slowly widened her eyes in disbelief.