The Wen family now lives on East Street, Yuanbao Town. They were sent to Raozhou City by Deputy Captain Chen and his team. They learned that each person would need one hundred taels of silver to register in Raozhou City. The Wen family grew from old to young. There are about 30 people, and Old Man Wen's descendants are very prosperous, and he can afford more than 3,000 taels of silver, but the house in Raozhou City is not cheap. Also have two thousand taels of silver up.

Although Wen's house wasn't raided at the beginning, he secretly took a lot of money to manage it secretly.

Before he was exiled, those officials crossed the border like locusts and robbed him of most of his family business.

In fact, before the concubine entered the palace, An Pinggong was just Uncle Anping and had no family business. Later, the concubine entered the palace, slowly becoming a concubine, and then to the queen. During this period, he was also respected by others and accumulated a lot of family business. , But these family properties, how could the new emperor and Concubine Fu really let him take all of them away, so those guards took almost all of his family business at the behest of the top, and the old man didn't dare to say anything, when he was exiled, The entire family business of the Wen family is only 10,000 taels of silver.

These 10,000 taels of silver bills cost hundreds of taels to check on the road. When we arrived in Raozhou City, knowing that the registration fee here and the money to buy a house are not cheap, did not want to register in the city.

Old Man Wen knows the truth of sitting and eating mountains and empty space. There is no shop or business in the family. The whole family has no income at all. No one in the family can do business. The sale of the sale, the dismissal of the dismissal, really wanted to be in Raozhou City, and the few thousand taels left on him were not enough to see, so he chose Yuanbao Town.

I also wanted to take it slow. Yuanbao Town only costs 12 taels per person, and the Wujin Mansion next to the Yamen is half cheaper than Raozhou City, so finally chose Yuanbao Town, which is the closest to Raozhou City. After falling down, bought a house, and then bought some fields and shops to see what to do for a living.

If you earn more, it will be the same if you transfer your livelihood to Raozhou City in the future.

Even if the merchants were the lowest among the scholars, peasants, and businessmen, Mr. Wen did not intend to give up doing business.

He knew in his heart that without money, even a scholar would starve and be unsatisfactory, and it would be better to earn more money, at least not worry about food and drink, and crowds of servants.

As for studying the imperial examinations, the Wen family and the Shuwang lineage were not allowed to take the imperial examinations for three generations, so reading would be impossible.

Even Mrs. Wen wanted to let her granddaughter Wen Yunling enter the palace to be the concubine of the new emperor. He had this confidence. Among Mr. Wen's unmarried granddaughters, Wen Yunling in the big room was the most bright and beautiful, but it was only a distance from the border town. The capital is thousands of miles away, how to send the granddaughter to Beijing is still a problem, and it has to be operated slowly.

Wen Yunling came out today, and she was followed by another concubine daughter from the big house, who was also Wen Yunling's concubine sister Wen Yunxiang, so she was naturally not as well dressed as Wen Yunling.

The other two teenagers, Xu Qinyu remembered that they were like the two grandsons of Concubine Bai.

Concubine Bai is the other concubine of Grandpa Wen. She has a daughter and a son. Naturally, the daughter will be married long ago. The son is Grandpa Wen's third son, and he is also a concubine.

Concubine Bai is a daughter of a good family. At first, she was attracted to Mrs. Wen, but the parents of Bai's family had died of illness, so she was given to Mrs. Wen as a concubine by her brother and sister-in-law.

Concubine Bai was born beautiful. At the beginning, Mrs. Wen was afraid that Concubine Bai would spoil her alone, so she brought her maid to Mrs. Wen as a concubine, which was Mrs. Wen's biological mother, Concubine Gui.

There is nothing between the two concubines. They have been peaceful and friendly all these years. Because of this, Mrs. Wen treats Concubine Gui with her nose not nose, eyes not eyes. She feels that Concubine Gui is a concubine raised by herself, so she should be suppressed together with her. Concubine Bai, until Mrs Wen became a concubine after entering the palace, Mrs. Wen dared to show any more respect to Concubine Gui.

It is precisely because of these years of respect that when the Wen family went into exile, the Wen family was also implicated in exile. Mrs. Wen hated Concubine Gui, and her bullying became even more ruthless.

Xu Qinyu was not quite sure that the girl and two teenagers who followed were the prostitutes of the big house and the two of the third house.

Because of the Wen family's lineage, there are so many children and grandchildren. Thinking of the children and grandchildren of the Wen family's lineage, her head is buzzing a little, because there are really many people.

Grandpa Wen has two direct sons and one concubine, which is easy to tell.

But these two sons-in-law married again, took concubines, and had children and grandchildren.

The third concubine born by Concubine Bai only married a daughter-in-law and was unwilling to take a concubine, because she married a daughter-in-law late, and she also had two sons and a daughter, who were not yet of age to marry.

It seems to be these two teenagers, the two sons of the third house, and the grandson of Concubine Bai.

Because when they were on the road to exile, Wen Yunling wanted to bring someone over to fight with her during the battle of the big stone to hide from the rain. The two young people were not there. They stood in the distance and looked at Wen Yunling with the eyes of a fool, so Xu Qin Yu was also a little impressed by them.

Because of the large number of Wen's family, Xu Qinyu knew from her original memory that she couldn't tell the difference between people. The most impressive thing was Wen Yunling, or because Wen Yunling kept looking for trouble on the way to exile, which was particularly annoying.

Xu Qinyu didn't understand what she was thinking, the family was in trouble, why did she like to provoke trouble, she was really sick.

Hearing Yunling came over by himself, although he said hello, his tone was somewhat self-satisfied.

Xu Qinyu didn't give her any face at all, and sneered, "A good dog won't stand in the way."

When Pei Jianing saw Wen Yunling coming over, her expression became unwell. She hated Wen Yunling and didn't want to deal with her. As a result, she couldn't hold back when she heard what the fourth sister-in-law said, and burst out laughing.

Sure enough, she still had the fourth sister-in-law, so she slapped her face directly when she went up.

Wen Yunling glared at Pei Jianing, and there were two more puffs of laughter behind her. She looked back and saw that it was the three brothers and two concubines.

Wen Yun was so angry that he shouted: "Wen Shuncheng, Wen Shungong, is there something wrong with the two of you, didn't you see this person bullying me? Why are you laughing? And she said good dogs won't get in the way, but you guys are The one who came with me is also a dog in her mouth, what are you laughing at, are you pigs?"

"It was funny." The two brothers muttered.

I don't know what Wen Yunling from the big room was thinking. She wore such a coquettish and coquettish makeup and went out for a stroll. They didn't want to go out at all. They were called by the old lady to keep up. Lingsheng is beautiful, people in such a small place don’t have much knowledge, and I’m afraid that they have some bad thoughts to bully Yunling, so you also keep up with Yunling, if Yunling gets hurt, I’m the only one who asks you.”

And dogs are dogs. In Wen's house, their three rooms are just like dogs.

The eyes of the two brothers sank a little, but the smiles on their lips were restrained.

After Wen Yunling lost her temper at the two younger brothers, she turned back and sneered at Xu Qinyu, "I just wanted to say hello to you, thinking that after all, both of them are living here, and the two are such close relatives, naturally I should Let's work together. There were some misunderstandings on the way to exile. At that time, everyone was in a bad mood, and it was inevitable that there would be some disputes. But now they are all in Yuanbao Town, so they should support each other. Apologize to me, and I can forgive you too."

Xu Qinyu felt that even if she wanted to make friends between the two families, she would still be uneasy and well-intentioned.

So I don't even pay attention to her. "Whether you have good intentions or ulterior motives, I can see clearly with my eyes. Seeing that you are a weasel greeting the chicken for the New Year, I feel uneasy and kind."

What she said was to call Wen Yunling a weasel.

Wen Yunling is the first daughter of a noble family, and arguing with people in the capital is not such a quarrel. She hides a knife in the cotton. How can she say that people are weasels? She doesn't know how to quarrel in this way. She was so angry that her face was pale and her hands were shaking a little.

She screamed, "Xu Qinyu!" Not even the fourth sister-in-law.

Xu Qinyu glanced at her and sighed, "Don't be so loud, I can hear you, then I'll go first."

She really didn't want to talk to Wen Yunling.

Wen Yunling saw that her oil and salt were not getting in, she turned around and left, getting more and more angry.

Now, she has brought along a younger sister who is uncomfortable here and there all day long, and two younger brothers who are not dealt with on weekdays. She wants them to come forward to beat Xu Qinyu, but she also thinks that the three of them will not help. Own. In fact, she didn't intend to beat people by herself. She wore a rabbit fur cloak and painted bright makeup. How could she tear her hair with people on the street? It was too embarrassing. She was better at directing others to help her.

Besides, she couldn't really fight Xu Qinyu.

She came out today to hang out, and it was purely an accident to meet her aunt's family.

But she did have some thoughts, it was her own thoughts.

She knew the current situation of the Wen family, and also knew that her grandfather chose Yuanbao Town instead of Raozhou City because he didn't have much money, so she chose Yuanbao Town. At first, she was reluctant to live in the town and wanted to live in the city. Later, figured out that it’s better to stay in the town, as long as find a profitable business first.

But it has been almost three months since came to the town, and family is sitting on the mountain without any income.

Grandfather bought two shops on East Street. Naturally, they were empty shops. They didn’t know what to do for a living. The two shops had to be left empty first. Every day, the expenses for a family of more than 30 were 10%. Big money, not only her grandfather and grandmother are worried, but she is also worried, worried that there will be no money to spend in the future, and she will have a hard life.

Now the family does not buy slaves in order to save money.

Household chores are all done by people from the third house, and even Concubine Gui and Concubine Bai need to work.

There is also her aunt. Aunt starches and washes clothes at her house. She also knows that her aunt comes to starch and wash clothes because she wants to be with Aunt Gui to take care of her. In fact, she doesn't really feel that her aunt is working or not at home. It is probably because her grandmother thinks that her aunt is the queen. I got a lot of anger, so now I can let my aunt stay at home to starch the laundry.

When she went out to see Xu Qinyu this time, she thought that she heard what Wen Shuncheng and Wen Shungong secretly said two days ago.

The two brothers hid at the back door and said that there was delicious fish and meat for sale on South Street, as if they were made by Aunt Wen's daughter-in-law.

The two brothers, one is thirteen and the other is only eleven, are still half-old children, murmuring, thinking of living in Wen's house since childhood. Although they were always scolded by the old lady in the capital, they don't worry about eating and drinking. Now they even worry about eating and drinking. , the second room in the first room can still eat well, and the third room only eats bean porridge and cooking vegetables, because the grandfather told the old lady to save money.

Knowing that the fourth sister-in-law can cook and earn money, she can't help but have a somewhat envious tone, and she also said that she also wants to go out to find work and support the family.

So Wen Yunling knew that Xu Qinyu probably cooked and set up a small stall by himself, but it was not clear what they were selling.

She remembered that on the way to exile, the food that Xu Qinyu cooked for those officers and soldiers really smelled fresh and delicious, and she had an idea in her heart.

The purpose of stopping Xu Qinyu was to make peace with her, to try the food she cooked, if it was as delicious as the two brothers said, she was planning to open a restaurant together, and she asked her mother to pay the money, Xu Qinyu showed her craft, and thought that it was cheap for herself. Xu Qinyu will give her twenty taels of silver a month when the restaurant is opened and she will be the chef.

She didn't know that Xu Qinyu could earn twenty or thirty taels a month casually for the food that Xu Qinyu worked on. She did it by herself. If she really opened a restaurant, she didn't know how much she could earn.

Who knew that Xu Qinyu ignored her at all, and even called her a weasel!

Run away after scolding!

Seeing Xu Qinyu turned around and left without looking back.

Wen Yunling was angry and annoyed, and immediately turned her head to command the two younger brothers, "Wen Shuncheng, Wen Shungong, stop her for me!"

The two rolled their eyes and ignored her.

Then Wen Yunling was so angry that she cried, and the tears fell down her cheeks. She was mainly angry at Xu Qinyu, and she was even more angry when she saw that her younger brother didn't help her, so she couldn't hold back.

Seeing her cry, Wen Shuncheng Wen Shungong ran away, planning to sneak home in the dark at night, otherwise, when Wen Yunling and Mrs. Wen complained in the daytime, they would be fined to kneel for a long time, how about Sneaking back at night, sneaking out during the day, not going home for a few days, to see how the old lady punished them.

Wen Yunxiang, the concubine who was left behind, said weakly, "Sister, don't cry."

Wen Yunling cried until her makeup was a little smeared. Seeing someone pointing around, she stomped her feet angrily, covered her face, turned around and ran home.

Wen Yunxiang sighed and followed slowly.

Xu Qinyu didn't feel bad when she met Wen Yunling, she didn't take the Wen family at all.

She just didn't expect that the old man Wen would let his family register in the town, and thought they would stay in Raozhou City. She thought that if Wen's family members stayed in Raozhou City, wouldn't the mother-in-law and mother-in-law Aunt Gui also stay in Raozhou City? In Zhoucheng, it is extremely difficult for her mother-in-law to meet her, and the Wen family will not treat Aunt Gui well. Now that she knows that the Wen family is in Yuanbao Town, she has other ideas.

Aunt Gui is the mother-in-law's biological mother, and the family love that blood is thicker than water cannot be parted from, and the mother-in-law must be thinking about it every day.

But here is different from modern times. If you don’t want to live together, or have no feelings, you can sue for divorce if you are bullied by domestic violence.

It is difficult to get married here, even if Aunt Gui is a flat wife, she actually has a good name. After all, she is still a concubine. Book.

On the way back, Xu Qinyu couldn't help thinking about it.

Wen Shi has been absent-minded since seeing Wen Yunling, and he is always distracted on the way back.

When she got home, Xu Qinyu put aside her clothes and leftovers of fabric and fur, and prepared to fry melon seeds and peanuts.

She still has no idea about Aunt Gui's matter, and she doesn't know if Aunt Gui is willing to leave. After all, the thinking of many women in ancient times is completely different from that of modern women, and it is also due to the general environment. People, just like Mrs. Luo's daughter-in-law Lin.

Xu Qinyu planned to fry the melon seeds and peanuts first.

The five-spice melon seeds she fried are fried in an iron pan with salt and a little spice, so that the fried melon seeds are salty and delicious.

When she was frying melon seeds, she asked her family to peel out the peanuts she bought.

She bought dried peanuts without shells. This kind of peanuts with shells cost eight cents a catty. There are also special peanuts for sale, which are more expensive. It is more cost-effective to buy shelled peanuts and peel them by yourself.

She plans to make peanuts into spiced peanuts, which are more delicious.

The ordinary stir-fried melon seeds and fried peanuts here do not add salt or spices. They have no taste at all, and the food can be regarded as original.

But the spiced one is definitely better.

Spiced peanuts are more troublesome to make.

Soak the peeled peanuts for a quarter of an hour to soften the surface.

The next step is to cook. She didn't waste the spice from the fried melon seeds before, and used it to cook the spiced peanuts.

Add spices to the peanuts and cook them until they are seven mature, remove the water to control the dryness, and fry the spiced peanuts that have been cooked to seven degrees in the pot. When the heat is almost, add the salt from the fried melon seeds before, and thoroughly fry the peanuts with salt. The moisture in the rice makes it crispy and crispy.

The fried spiced peanuts are fished out with a slotted spoon. She frys a lot in one pot, and there is not much salt left. She is reluctant to throw away the remaining pinch of salt.

The fried five-flowered peanuts taste fragrant and crispy, suitable for snacks and snacks.

After giving one to two children, Xu Qinyu also instructed thousands of times, "Brother Feng and Sister Chia must pay attention to eating peanuts, eat them slowly, and chew more in their mouths, isn't it more fragrant? ?"

The two children are three or four years old, and they can eat some granular things, but they must be careful.

The two children nodded, and asked Xu Qinyu a few more.

Xu Qinyu brought it to the Wen family, fourth brother and Ning Jie'er to taste, and they all said it was delicious.

She fried a lot this time, and kept it well. It was no problem to eat it for a few days, and she could even send some to the sister-in-law of the Xia family and Xu Kongmu's family.

In fact, this spiced melon seeds and spiced peanuts are going to be sold on the East Street and West Street. They are more expensive. I am afraid that I can make a lot of money in the past few days during the New Year. Xu Qinyu is very excited.

However, I heard the fourth brother suddenly say, "Yu Niang, take a good rest these few days, your body will not be able to bear it."

Xu Qinyu glanced at the fourth brother, the fourth brother seemed to see what she wanted to do, but the fourth brother was right, she was indeed afraid that her body would be overwhelmed, and her body was the capital of the revolution! Only if you have a good body can you think of other things. Since she was exiled here, she has been turning around, and has hardly had a good rest.

Forget it, don't think about it, just take a good rest these ten days.

Money can be earned at any time, but the money is endless!

Hey, if only she could find a few talented apprentices, and now she can teach them to fry peanuts and sell them for money.

Pei's family can't cook and eat. Occasionally, she was too busy before, and Mrs. Wen and Pei Weixuan were also in charge.

She clearly taught her how to cook the ingredients and seasonings, and they all looked at them, and they didn't taste good when they were made.

This fried peanuts is a technical job. If you really want to fry them, I am afraid that the taste will not sell well after frying, so it will be a waste.

She also knows a way to fry salted and dried iridium peanuts. Fresh peanuts must be pulled from the ground. After washing, they are boiled together with the shells and then sun-dried. It is August and September, when peanuts are harvested at that time. In season, this salted and dried peanuts can be kept longer, so there is really no rush at this time.

At noon, Xu Qinyu casually cooked some braised rice to eat.

In the afternoon, was busy making chicken cakes, mung bean cakes and jujube rice cakes.

The jujube puree rice cake needs to steam the red dates first. There is no food processor here, so there is no way to puree the jujube meat with the skin only removed from the jujube core. The jujube skin will affect the taste, so the task of peeling the jujube skin and obtaining the jujube puree is left to Pei. family.

When kneading the glutinous rice noodles and white noodles, she also added some brown sugar, which tasted better.

After waking up, the noodles are soft and flat, then roll up a layer of jujube puree, roll it up, cut it into pieces, and steam it in a pot. The house is full of sweet taste. The steamed jujube puree rice cake tastes sweet and glutinous.

Pei Weixuan even ate a few pieces, it seems that the fourth brother actually prefers sweets.

But the jujube puree rice cake that just came out of the pot is really delicious, sweet and glutinous, and Xu Qinyu also ate several pieces.

When Zhuzi came to serve Brother Shao's evening meal in the evening, Xu Qinyu packed two packets of spiced peanuts and some jujube rice cakes for Zhuzi, and asked him to take it back to his sister-in-law Xia to taste.

After eating evening food, there is nothing to do. Tomorrow, will make some fried radish balls, fried fish, fried lean meat balls, and lotus root clips for Chinese New Year.

Naturally, Xu Qinyu was not required to do the cleaning, it was all done by mother-in-law, sister-in-law and cheap husband.

After dinner, everyone was still in the kitchen, waiting for the water to be boiled to wash and chatting.

Wen suddenly said, "Yu Niang, Brother Xuan, Sister Ning, I have something to tell you."

Xu Qinyu said: "Mother, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Wen Shi clasped her palms and mustered up the courage to speak.

"Actually, these days, I've been doing laundry at home."

She knew that her family didn't want her to deal with the Wen family, but Aunt Gui was her biological mother, the one who gave birth to her and raised her, so she couldn't ignore her relatives whose blood was thicker than water.

At the beginning, she went to East Street and West Street to find a job.

Only those who live there are willing to find someone to do laundry.

She saw a notice for laundry and washing workers posted outside the house where she entered the first five days, so she knocked on the door, but she did not expect that it was the old Aunt Gui who opened the door.

Only then did she know that the Wen family also came to Yuanbao Town, and asked Aunt Gui to live in the side room of the house as a concierge.

She was so angry that she wanted to stay at Wen's house to see if she could find a way to make Aunt Gui and her father divorce.

How could Aunt Gui really want to stay in Wen's house? Even though she was Mrs. Wen's maidservant, she never thought of being the old man's aunt. Then she was the maidservant of the old lady, and then went into exile, and was still tortured when she came to Yuanbao Town, and she didn't even want to stay in Wen's house.

But Mrs. Wen kept her because she wanted to torture her, and she was not willing to let her go at all.

She knew that she had little hope of leaving the Wen's family, and she didn't want her daughter to stay at the Wen's house and be bullied by Mrs. Wen, telling Wen to leave instead of staying in the Wen's house to wash clothes.

Wen's really doesn't care.

Seeing that Yuniang was busy, Mrs. Wen couldn't think of any other way to take Aunt Gui away, so she washed clothes at Wen's house for more than two months, and accompanied Aunt Gui every day.

Xu Qinyu really didn't know that her mother-in-law went to Wen's house to wash clothes.

Because she didn't even know that the Wen family was also in Yuanbao Town before today.

But with her mother-in-law's personality, I'm afraid she told them this because she had no other choice.

Xu Qinyu didn't think there was anything wrong with it, she just wanted to get Aunt Gui out of Wen's house now.

But how can Mrs. Wen be released?

In fact, it was Mrs. Wen who was unwilling to let him go.

Wen sighed and said, "My aunt is actually not the child of Mrs. Wen's family. She was also abducted and sold to a dental shop. Later, she was picked by Mrs. Wen's family and bought to be a maid for Mrs. Wen. , I heard that the old lady is not easy to get along with, she had a bad personality when she was a girl, and she often beat and scolded her servants." So Aunt Gui's troubles grew from childhood to adulthood.

Aunt Gui was only four or five years old when she was abducted. How could she remember many things? She traveled to so many places. She couldn’t even remember where her hometown was. She only remembered that she was abducted, and other things were vague. .

Xu Qinyu couldn't help sighing, there were more kidnappers in ancient times than in modern times.

But no matter what era it is, human traffickers deserve to die!

Xu Qinyu tried her best to think of a way, and just as she was thinking, she heard sister Ruan, who was sitting at the stove looking at the little white snake, cough suddenly.

Xu Qinyu had an idea, looked at Pei Weixuan, and had an immature idea.