Xu Qinhui couldn't believe the scene in front of her. She looked up at the carved begonia embroidered screen of Zhang Zitan. She remembered this screen. Before she got married, when she was in Dechang Hou's mansion, the decoration in the west wing of the third room , Every day at noon, she likes to stay in the west wing for a while. She also remembers the white fox fur under her body. It was her mother who knew that she didn't like to rest on the bed at noon, and liked to rest on the imperial concubine's couch. She bought it at a high price. Come, so that she can lie down more comfortably.

But isn't she dead? Why did he return to the Marquis of Dechang Mansion as soon as he opened his eyes?

She remembered clearly, the deep-rooted fear and panic before her death, and also deeply remembered the erect king, no, Xindi's cold and frosty face, half of his face was bloody, he killed half of it. The only thing stained by the palace is the clean eyes, but those clean eyes have no emotion in them, and the light-colored eyes are not like human eyes at all, but more like ferocious wild birds. eyes.

At that time, the new emperor was carrying the sword, the body of the sword was blood red, and blood dripped down the tip of the sword.

At that time, she trembled as she looked at the new emperor who was walking towards them step by step.

In her ears, her husband Sheng Yuandi shouted in horror, "Fourth, fourth brother, I, I am willing to give up this throne to you, will you let me live? I didn't want to poison my father at the beginning, yes, It's Empress Dowager Fu, it's my mother, not me, I don't care about this throne at all, fourth brother, just let it go..."

Sheng Yuandi's voice stopped abruptly, a ray of blood filled her eyes, Sheng Yuandi's head fell on the ground, she didn't have time to scream, then the sword light flashed, and the last scene was that she saw her neck and neck without the head. and gushing blood.

The new emperor cut off her head without giving her a chance to speak.

Xu Qinhui gasped violently, clutching her neck tightly, so what's going on now? She obviously died under the sword of Pei Weixuan, why is she now appearing in the Marquis of Dechang Mansion?

Is it a dream before death?

Xu Qinhui pinched her thigh subconsciously, and the pain in her thigh made her cry out in surprise.

The voice of the maid Ping'er immediately sounded outside, "Girl? But you're awake? But what's wrong?"

"Ping'er, come in!"

Xu Qinhui immediately called the maid to come in.

Ping'er is the big maid beside her.

The door of the wing room was pushed open, and a round-faced maid walked in. Seeing Xu Qinhui's pale face, she worriedly said, "The girl is a nightmare? The servant will go to the small kitchen to cook some soup for the girl to drink."

"No." Xu Qinhui stepped forward to grab Ping'er's hand and asked her with a trembling voice, "Ping'er, what day is today?"

Ping'er's face turned pale, and she whispered, "Girl, what's wrong with you? Don't scare the slaves, this year is Yuan, Yuan Qi year, yes, it is the first year of Emperor Sheng Yuan's ascension to the throne."

Xu Qinhui was stunned.

Could it be that entering the palace to be the concubine of Emperor Sheng Yuan was a big dream for Huang Liang?

No, definitely not, those scenes are too real.

So it's not a dream, but after she experienced such a massacre, God gave her another chance to start over.

This time, she will never make the wrong choice again!

Thinking of something, Xu Qinhui asked excitedly, "Ping'er, me, where is my second sister now?" If the second sister hadn't married the vertical king, she would have been married.

She doesn't know what day it is now. In her last life, she had a marriage contract with the vertical king who was the fourth prince, but in the battle between the first prince and the second prince, the first prince was not as ruthless as the second prince and the concubine, and the first prince's family had no real power, the queen Mr. Wen also has no means, and his heart is too soft, and it is not very useful to be a gentleman of Anping, and he can't say a few words in the court.

In fact, at that time there was a dispute between parties, and it was the eldest prince who appealed louder in the court.

The eldest prince is a powerful man who can lead troops.

In the end, he was defeated by the cruel hearts of the second prince and Concubine Fu. The two poisoned the first emperor with a glass of poisonous wine, put the blame on the first prince, and did not give the court a chance to investigate, and directly tied the first prince and let the first prince be martial arts. Gao Qiang, but was besieged by hundreds of internal guards, and finally ended in a fiasco.

The eldest prince was directly charged with murder and usurping the throne and beheaded on the spot.

Naturally, the second prince ascended the throne as the emperor.

The fourth prince, the seventh prince, and the sixth princess, who were brothers with the first prince, were all exiled to the southwest.

Of course, these are all things that she only gradually came to know when she entered the palace to be the concubine of Emperor Sheng Yuan, and it was also known to the whole world.

Because Pei Weixuan did not rebel and kill the new emperor to enthrone the throne, he is justifiably crusade against the faint-hearted king and the empress dowager.

Before the late emperor was poisoned to death, an edict had actually been drawn up to establish the eldest prince as the crown prince.

The second prince and Concubine Fu must have found out about that edict by accident, so they couldn't wait to poison the late emperor and kill the eldest prince.

But later this edict was somehow found by Pei Weixuan. She remembered that after entering the palace as a concubine, Emperor Sheng Yuan and Empress Dowager Fu kept looking for this edict.

At that time, she knew that she was the fiancée of the fourth prince, and she was afraid that she would be exiled together.

Grandma knew about the disaster and cried a lot while hugging her, and finally gave her an idea.

The grandmother was an old acquaintance with an old concubine in the palace, and when she asked to see the old concubine, she asked her to meet the new emperor.

The grandmother said that she was born beautiful, and as long as the new emperor sees it, she will love the fragrance and cherish the jade.

Later, she entered the palace, saw the new emperor, and cried a lot. The new emperor took pity on Xiangxiyu and wanted an imperial decree to spare her from the wedding with the king. She planned to amnesty the world so that she would not have to accompany her in exile.

But she was worried about the reputation of the Hou Mansion, so she hesitated to talk about it, and said that Xu Qinyu, the second sister in the mansion, had not yet been married.

At that time, she was really worried about the reputation of the Hou Mansion and feared that outsiders would say that she was ungrateful.

Sure enough, the new emperor took the bait, and an edict made Xu Qinyu, the second girl of the Marquis of Dechang, have a marriage contract with the king, and they wanted to be exiled together.

Later, the second sister was sent to Wang Shu's mansion by her grandmother in a small sedan chair, and was exiled to the southwest following Wang Shu's lineage.

Who would have known that King Shu was such a ruthless character that he endured ten years of forbearance, and then went to the palace again, killing the new emperor and the queen mother. No, half of the people in the harem should have been slaughtered.

Thinking of this, Xu Qinhui couldn't help shivering.

But fortunately, it was too late, she came all over again, and she hadn't entered the palace as a concubine for the new emperor.

But she didn't remember whether the second sister had married her to Prince Shu's mansion now.

Ping'er said: "Girl, why did you forget that the second girl was exiled to the southwest with King Shu two months ago."

Did it happen two months ago?

Xu Qinhui frowned slightly.

But it was too late, there was still ten years, and the second sister was frail. She remembered that the second sister died of illness on the way to exile.

Afterwards, it seems that there was a mudslide on the road of exile, and only the Shu Wang and Wen Shi survived.

Then, the Shu Wang and Wen Shi should be left alive now.

Speaking of which, the Wen family was really lucky, with a concubine of the uncle's house as the queen, even if she was later exiled, the whole family would be left with her and a son. Take it back from her.

She vaguely remembered that when Pei Weixuan beheaded her head, she saw Mrs Wen wearing a cloak, wrapped tightly, standing far away in front of the main hall, surrounded by Pei Weixuan's black armor guards.

But at that time, Mrs. Wen was hunched over her waist and was exiled for ten years. After all, her body was still in ruins.

Xu Qinhui thought of the scene where King Shu blood washed the harem and lost her head, her face was pale, and her stomach was a little tumbling.

Fortunately, there are still ten years left, even if the second sister is dead, she still has to plan something to see her grandmother, and she needs her grandmother's permission to go to the southwest to marry the vertical king.

Even if the land in the southwest is poor, she can bring a little more money and a bank note of tens of thousands of taels. If her mother is rich, she can continue to entrust someone to bring her money every year. She will buy a big house in the southwest, and then Bringing a dozen servants and servants, she can live with the Wen family and King Shu alone, and it is not impossible for her to live. Bring a cook, and bring enough beautiful clothes and jewelry.

Thinking like this, Xu Qinhui also said: "Since the second sister has an accident, I will go and talk to my grandmother."

Ping'er subconsciously said, "The second girl is fine. Just now, an official who sent the second girl into exile in the southwest came to the Fuzhong to deliver a letter, saying that the second girl and the king have arrived in the southwest safely, and they should have been settled."

"What did you say?" Xu Qinhui's happy expression stopped abruptly.

Her face was full of disbelief, how could it be possible? The second sister died of illness on the way to exile. She would not remember it wrong. Later, when the second aunt found out, a mouthful of blood spurted out. After that, the second aunt stayed in bed for a long time, and went away after more than half a year.

After that, the second uncle was also heartbroken, and he made a mistake in the officialdom and was deceived by Shangfeng.

If she hadn't interceded with Emperor Sheng Yuan, the second uncle would have lost his official position.

She will never remember wrong, but now Ping'er tells her that the second sister is not dead?

"Change my clothes, I'm going to see my grandmother."

She still didn't believe it.

Xu Qinhui changed her clothes. In Mrs. Xu's courtyard, Mrs. Xu was just angry with Ma Liu, and now she is scolding the second room with Mammy Feng beside her. She thinks it's all to blame for the second room. Let the official messenger deliver the letter, and humiliate her like this, especially the two girls, who were exiled to the southwest and exiled to the southwest. Since they have become the wives of the rebels, they still want to have something to do with their Houfu.

Seeing Xu Qinhui, Mrs. Xu felt better.

Xu Qinhui called her grandmother and asked her with concern how her body and bones were and how she had eaten recently.

Seeing her favorite granddaughter, Mrs. Xu felt much more comfortable.

Xu Qinhui pretended to care about the second sister, and mentioned that the second sister was not in the southwest.

Mrs. Xu immediately told her that the official just sent the letter to her door like a bean.

Xu Qinhui was completely speechless.

What went wrong? If the second sister hadn't died, how could she escape the fate of her previous life? How can you marry the vertical king? She didn't want to have her head chopped off again.

As for the edict that King Shu would find the first emperor in the future, and finally revolted and killed the capital, she did not dare to tell the new emperor and the empress dowager Fu.

Otherwise, the mad woman Empress Dowager Fu might have killed the Houfu as a comrade of King Shu and killed him together.

So what should she do?

...

Xu Qinhui in Duxun City was worried, but Xu Qinyu in the southwest was living as usual.

The snow has been a little smaller these few days, but her Roujiamo is still selling well, with a limit of two per person, enough for two people on a merchant ship.

But the two of them couldn't get enough to eat, so they could only satisfy their cravings. Every day, they shouted for Xu Qinyu to do more. Xu Qinyu really couldn't do much. I'm still skinny now, and I don't have much flesh on my body.

And she plans to set up a stall in the east and west of the city in addition to setting up a stall at the wharf.

But if she went to the east and west side of the city to set up a food stall at night, she didn't plan to sell roujiamo, and planned to replace it with something else.

She hadn't thought about what kind of evening food stall to set up.

There is no night market in the town. Usually, at the time of Xu, that is, at 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening, all the shops are closed. She plans to make money in a few days and go to the iron shop to make a big iron pot and a big iron bucket. With a big iron pot, there is no need to divide the fish into three or four pots for stewing. In this way, it is stewed in one time and placed in an iron bucket. , sell these braised fish at home when it's time to eat twilight.

Anyway, the fish she stewed will be sold to the neighbors in Osmanthus Lane for the time being. When the time comes, I will tell everyone, and let them come and buy it when it is time.

Even if the reputation of braised fish becomes better in the future, people in other alleys want to buy braised fish, so they can just buy it at home. She doesn't need her and fourth brother to push the cart out of the stall, and she can go to the east and west of the city to sell the stall.

If this is the case, the family definitely needs a big dog to guard the house.

When the family was having dinner at night, Xu Qinyu asked, "Fourth brother, when can we get a pup who looks after the house and protects the owner?" She is used to running around, so she needs to find a caregiver who knows how to protect the master. Seeing the master being bullied, she rushes forward!

Pei Weixuan thought for a moment, "Tomorrow, I will go out tomorrow and go up the mountain to find something."

"Isn't it snowing tomorrow?" Xu Qinyu knew that the cheap husband would watch the sky, "If it's not safe to go up the mountain when it snows, why does fourth brother go up the mountain?"

The snow fell very little in the past two days, and she planned to ask the fourth brother if it would continue to snow heavily.

Pei Weixuan said: "There will be light snowfall in these two days, and heavy snowfall in a few days."

It's like it's endless, Xu Qinyu was worried, if it snows like this, it won't be a disaster, right? She couldn't help asking about her worries, Pei Weixuan glanced at her, and said slowly: "There won't be a disaster in the southwest." That means there may be disasters in other places.

After hearing this, Xu Qinyu was still worried.

Hearing this, Mrs. Wen was also a little worried. She didn't want her son to go up the mountain. It was winter and it was snowing, so going up the mountain was even more dangerous. When it was cold, it was difficult for the beasts on the mountain to hunt prey, and they were all in a state of hunger. What about the beast?

Wen Shi said a few words, but Pei Weixuan said: "Mother, don't worry, I went to the mountains to find a medicinal herb, which will only appear after snow, and it has something to do with my illness."

He is poisoned, so the medicinal materials he went to find can detoxify him.

Wen Shi closed her mouth, but she was still a little worried and frowning.

...

The next day, before dawn, Pei Weixuan went out. This morning, it was Xu Qinyu who made the pancakes and eggs at the stall.

Along the way, Xu Qinhui was quite worried about him. Although he vaguely knew that the cheap husband was not as sick and weak as he appeared on the surface, and had good martial arts, but it was dangerous to enter the mountains in winter, and even ordinary old hunters would not choose to enter the mountains in winter, but He had to go again.

Speaking of which, she also wanted to go up the mountain, and she hadn't eaten mushrooms for a long time.

People here don't eat mushrooms, so naturally there are no mushroom sellers. The town is still a little far away from the mountain. Even if the weather is warmer in the future, she thinks it will take an hour to walk down the mountain by herself, which is a bit far.

After selling court food, Xu Qinyu went to buy pork offal and herring, and today she also bought a lot of suet.

The previous suet has already been eaten, but this time bought a lot of suet, and can produce two large jars.

There is a lot of suet, so there is naturally a lot of oil residue. She plans to make dumplings with oil residue and radish.

The radish stuffing with oil residue is the best, because the oil residue is rich in oil, and the sweetness of the radish can absorb the excess oil of the oil residue.

After returning, she didn't process the ingredients first, and went to the east and west of the city, wanting to see what kind of livelihood most of the stalls here do.

There are two streets in the east and west of the city that are relatively lively, even if it snows, there are still many people.

In front of the market are several large restaurants and various shops. If you set up stalls, they are basically fixed in the back alley of the market. It can be regarded as a tile market, selling all kinds of food and ingredients, and there are also stalls selling sundries and other things. Yes, it is more lively than the pier, which is only lively when there are many merchant ships.

The food sold in the tile market on the east side of the city and the west side of the city is basically relatively common.

Xu Qinyu looked around and had a general idea in her mind, and she planned to think about it after going back.

After returning to Osmanthus Alley, Xu Qinyu started to get busy.

Wen didn't go out to work for the past few days, she was worried that Mrs. Luo would come to bully the children at home again, but she hadn't seen Mrs. Luo for a few days, Wen planned to wait for her son to return at night, and continue to work at the employer's house tomorrow.

Wen Shi was at home in the afternoon and had already helped Xu Qinyu scrape off the scales of the herring.

She didn't help break the belly of the fish, because Yu Niang said that there is fish gall in the belly of the fish, and the fish will suffer if it is not handled properly.

Xu Qinyu processed the fish well, and she also washed and marinated the fish in the belly of the fish, then added a little sliced ​​ginger and stuffed it back into the belly of the fish to burn it together.

After cooking the fish, seeing her daughter-in-law working hard, Wen offered to help her sell the fish at a stall in the alley.

Xu Qinyu was naturally willing, and she had to make lard to make dumplings.

Wen's going out of the stall was also very smooth, and he sold out the fish in a short while, and gave the money bag to Yuniang when he came back.

Xu Qinyu also refined the lard and started making dumplings.

The lard dregs dumplings need to chop up the oil dregs, and also need some pork belly to be minced meat, shred the radish, add some salt to water, and stir the shredded radish with the chopped oil dregs and meat stuffing along one side, then Add an egg, and finally add a little soy sauce, salt, five-spice powder and continue stirring.

The radish dumplings with lard residue have one characteristic, they are delicious!

It has no outstanding umami and other flavors, just a fragrant, full of fragrance.

Xu Qinyu also made a sauce.

Use soy sauce, vinegar, and a little spicy pepper.

Of course, she made the oily peppercorns with cornel.

Even Sister Ning just focused on eating without any pause.

Pei Weixuan's share of Xu Qinyu was not cooked, and he planned to cook it when he came back at night.

It's just that didn't expect that the fourth brother hadn't come back after she had marinated the fat intestines, and Wen Shi didn't dare to sleep. After waiting for another half an hour, no one came back, and several people were a little restless. The two children went to bed first, and Xu Qinyu was asked to wash up and go to bed first.

Xu Qinyu thought for a while and said, "Mother, don't worry, the fourth brother has already said, if it is fast, I will be back tonight, if it is slow, it may take two or three days. The fourth brother also brought food up the mountain. I am not sure, the fourth brother is not sure." will go into the mountains."

Wen Shi was still worried, and was finally persuaded by Xu Qinyu to go to sleep.

Xu Qinyu also didn't sleep well, thinking about her fourth brother.

In the night, also had several dreams, some about things in previous life, and some about some fragments of Yuanshen getting along with his family, it was a mess.

At mao shi, she woke up on time, went to the kitchen first as usual, lit the oil lamp and started to light the fire.

Just as the stove was on fire, there was some movement in the courtyard. She hurried out to see, and saw the fourth brother standing in the courtyard. It seemed that he should have jumped in from the wall. The courtyard door was still open. She said in surprise: "Fourth brother, you are back."

Pei Weixuan nodded, carrying a cloth bag into the kitchen.

Xu Qinyu also followed in.

Seeing that he returned safely, her hanging heart finally let go.

Pei Weixuan went into the kitchen and put down the cloth bag, Xu Qinyu asked curiously, "Fourth brother, are the medicinal materials you are looking for in the bag?"

"No." His voice was clear and cold, "Yu Niang will know when you open it."

Xu Qinyu was about to open the cloth bag when the smell of fresh mushrooms rushed into her nostrils.

She was slightly stunned, bent down and couldn't wait to open the cloth bag. There was indeed a big bag of mushrooms inside. She was a little shocked and said, "Can fourth brother distinguish between poisonous and non-toxic fungi?" After she finished speaking, she realized that something was wrong. Brother knows medicine, it is not surprising to be able to distinguish between poisonous and non-toxic mushrooms.

Xu Qinyu touched the tip of her nose, bent her eyes at the fourth brother, and poured out all the fungus in the bag.

After the bacteria came out, a bright red fruit and a plump ginseng rolled out.

This fruit is not a fungus, it should be the medicine cited by the fourth brother. When she saw the plump ginseng, she was also shocked.

Pei Weixuan picked up the red fruit and fat ginseng on the ground, and finally put the fruit in his palm, and handed the ginseng to Xu Qinyu, "Return Yuniang's money."

Xu Qinyu just remembered that when she was still in Raozhou City, the fourth brother borrowed a tael of silver from her to buy medicine and make ointment.

She hastily waved her hand, "It's only a tael of silver, not worth a piece of ginseng, not to mention that fourth brother borrowed money to buy medicine to make chilblain ointment for us."

This wild ginseng is of good quality at first glance, even the whiskers have been dug out, and it is chubby, so it must be very valuable. She thinks that the fourth brother is poisonous, so maybe this ginseng is more needed.

"Fourth brother, why don't you stop selling this ginseng? Maybe it can save your life in the future, or you can make a decision later when there is an emergency. Our family is not short of money now, so it's better to keep it."

Pei Weixuan nodded, "Okay, then I will concoct it tomorrow."

Xu Qinyu knew that the medicinal materials needed to be processed in order to be stored for a long time.

She squatted down and looked through the mushrooms again, and they were all non-toxic. She was thinking about frying the mushrooms in the morning, when she heard the fourth brother's voice slowly, "Yu Niang, didn't you ask me to find a home for you?" Is it the guardian of the courtyard and the master? I found it."

Xu Qinyu was stunned when he heard this.

I thought to myself, I didn't see the fourth brother bring back the puppies either.