The milky aroma and sweetness are really strong, and it won't dissipate after such a short time. Xu Yunlan pretended to be stupid and changed the words, "Zhizhi, why did you come here suddenly? Is there any other scent? Did you eat it on the way here?" Something happened, so the smell didn't dissipate."

"Staying at home is too depressing." Yang Zhizhi went to sit on the bamboo chair, which creaked under the pressure, and she sighed, "So I came out to play with you, Yun Lan, you don't even know, I'm going to I have been feeling unwell for a few days. My mother asked the doctor to show me. The doctor said that I am too fat. This is not going to work. I still have to lose weight. My mother has recently supervised my weight loss. There is no meat, I am so hungry."

Yang Yunlan felt a little distressed and felt guilty when she heard that, she ate delicious custard buns, and even lied to Zhizhi that she didn't eat them.

After Zhizhi finished speaking, he took another breath, the smell of milk was still there, Zhizhi looked at Xu Yunlan solemnly, "Yunlan, you lied to me, you must have eaten delicious food, I can smell it, I didn't eat anything on the way here."

She wanted to eat it, but the servant girl was watching. If she dared to eat it, the servant girl would complain to her mother when she returned.

She has been a vegetarian for the past few days and her eyes are going to light up. She is really hungry.

Seeing that she really couldn't hide it, Xu Yunlan hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, I'll just keep it from you."

She opened the small cabinet next to her, and there was a fist-sized, creamy white bun left on the white porcelain plate.

"Is this a small bun?" Yang Zhizhi asked curiously, "Who makes buns so small, why are there no folds?"

Xu Yunlan smiled and said: "This is not a steamed stuffed bun, but it is indeed a steamed stuffed bun. It is called a custard bun. There is another one. You can eat it."

Just eat one and you should be fine.

Yang Zhizhi's chubby and tender hands were pinching the custard bun, and after taking a bite, the milky yellow heart flowed out, she quickly caught it with her mouth, the stuffing here was sweet, smooth and delicate, Yang Zhizhi squinted happily Eyes, "Yunlan, where did you buy this, it's sweet and has a rich milky fragrance."

They don't drink cow's milk and goat's milk on weekdays, which has a strong fishy smell.

But this custard bag has a milky fragrance, but it doesn't have any fishy smell of milk.

Xu Yunlan touched the tip of her nose and said, "My father bought it, but I don't know where I bought it from."

Of course she knew that she bought it from Mrs. Xu. But Mrs. Xu doesn't cook much, it's enough for the family to eat, and the rest is sold to her family. Her daily meals these days are custard buns, home-cooked bean porridge, and a plate of marinated rice. shredded radish.

This pickled shredded radish was also bought by Mrs. Xu's family. It is actually made of radish. don't know why Mrs. Xu called it pickled radish. It tastes crispy and appetizing.

Yang Zhizhi had some regrets, and carefully finished the custard bun, even if it was only a small fist, she was satisfied.

After eating, Yang Zhizhi kept muttering where did he buy the custard bun, could it be Qingfeng pastry shop? Or Donglaiju Restaurant?

She thinks this little bun is more like a pastry.

Xu Yunlan felt guilty and dared not speak, but was also worried about Zhizhi.

Can she really lose weight by being a vegetarian all the time? In the end, will she be unable to control eating a lot, and will gain weight instead? She really hopes that Zhizhi can lose weight and have a healthy body.

It would be nice to have a diet that is both delicious and weight loss.

Yang Zhizhi stayed at Xu's house until noon before returning. When he returned to the county government, Yang Zhizhi told her mother, Wei Shi, that he had eaten a custard bun at Yunlan's house, and it was very delicious.

Wei looked helplessly at his daughter, "The doctor said that you can't get fatter."

She also loves her daughter dearly, but for her daughter's body, she has to be ruthless.

Yang Zhizhi acted coquettishly with Wei, "How could that be? I just want to honor my father and mother. The stuffing in the custard bun will flow out. It's not a sugar bun made of white sugar and brown sugar. The stuffing inside is yellow. Milky and milky."

She praised the custard bun again.

Wei Shi couldn't help but feel a little greedy when he heard it.

Later, thought it would be better to buy it back for everyone to taste. There are two sons in the family.

The eldest son is married, and the second is only sixteen this year.

As a result, Wei asked the servant girl whether she went to Qingfeng Bakery or Donglaiju Restaurant, but she couldn't find this dessert called custard bun.

Later, County Magistrate Yang asked Wei Shi, and Wei Shi told County Magistrate Yang that Zhi Zhi ate a delicious bun at Yunlan's, and she couldn't forget it, so she sent someone to Qingfeng Pastry Shop He Donglaiju asked, but none of them were sold.

When County Magistrate Yang heard that his daughter ate at Xu Kongmu's house, he probably guessed where he bought it from.

It must have been bought from the cook's house who cooks at Xu's during the Chinese New Year.

I just don't know who the cook is and how old he is.

He didn't even know where the cook lived, so he let it go.

...

Gui Shi has been raised at home for only eight or nine days, and she no longer coughs, and the ulcers under her armpits have also healed, and some flesh has grown visible to the naked eye. She bought new clothes, and also went to the government office, and got the official seal of the concubine release letter. In fact, as long as she got the concubine release letter, she had nothing to do with the Wen family. some.

Afterwards, Mrs. Gui took care of Brother Feng and Sister Xian every day, feeling more relaxed and peaceful than ever before.

The Wen family didn't send anyone over to take a look.

It has been eight or nine days, but no one from the Pei family has come to make trouble, Wen Yunling felt that something was wrong.

She talked to her mother, Yue Shi, who frowned and said: "You don't care if they come and make trouble, Aunt Gui left as soon as she left, even if she didn't suffer from tuberculosis, what's the use of staying at the house, let alone Aunt Gui herself agreed Those who take the concubine release letter and the money and leave, I am afraid that the other side will not drive them away for the money."

She really looked down on her mother-in-law, and she really didn't know what to do with her aunt, so she never took her aunt seriously.

Wen Yunling pursed her lips and said, "I didn't think that if my sister-in-law is good at cooking, my family will open a restaurant in the future, and my sister-in-law can be the chef."

Yue Shi snorted, "You girl, why do you think that her cooking skills are better than Donglaiju's chef who has been in charge for 20 or 30 years? Why don't you find a way to poach Donglaiju's chef? come over."

When Wen Yunling thought about it, it made sense. Even if the fourth sister-in-law was good at cooking, she couldn't catch up with Dong Laiju, who had been a chef for 20 or 30 years.

Yue Shi sighed, "It is true that we should think about what to do for a living, as well as your grandparents, why don't you buy a few servants to come back to work and cook food? Sanfang must do it."

Aunt Bai's old eyes are dim, and sometimes there are small stones in the food she cooks, and even the dishes are not cleaned, and there are mud spots in her mouth.

Aunt Bai's daughter-in-law is even more well-informed by Aunt Bai's true biography. She reprimanded her for unclean food and stones, so she apologized with a sullen head, but it was still unpalatable next time.

Recently, their elders have been going out to buy daily and evening food and come back to eat.

Wen Yunling also frowned, she also felt that it would be better to buy a few servants, because the clothes in the third room could not be washed clean.

...

On Aunt Bai's side, she didn't send anyone to inquire about Aunt Gui, for fear of revealing something.

On the contrary, the two grandsons always run out, and have been to Osmanthus Lane a few times, and saw Aunt Gui sitting in the yard basking in the sun, she didn't cough anymore, and her complexion was much better than when she was at Wen's house.

The two children already knew that Aunt Gui was forced to leave Wen's house by her grandfather because she was suffering from tuberculosis.

After hearing this, Aunt Bai patted the two little grandchildren on the shoulders, "Brother Cheng, don't tell your grandparents, just pretend that you don't know, maybe your Aunt Gui's tuberculosis is not serious, and she will recover after a few days." much better."

The two children are half-children, and they don't like the eldest and the second wife, and even less like the eccentric grandparents, so naturally they won't say anything to them.

The Meng family is even more boring on weekdays, determined not to inquire about anything.

Wen Shuncheng and Wen Shungong have also been outside to make money recently, they can't do anything else, no one wants to go to the dock to move goods, they think their half-grown children can't do their best.

Both of them were eleven, twenty or three years old, and the one who took pictures of Hanako would not take pictures of them, so they ran outside the county town, and when they saw small ditches, small ponds, and small rivers, they went to touch them, and found a lot of eels. He came back to town to sell it. In fact, Wen Shuncheng wanted to sell the eel to the fourth sister-in-law, because the fourth sister-in-law was a fish cook, but he didn't dare to come to the house to disturb him, so he sold the eel to another restaurant. .

Sometimes the harvest is good, and the two can touch dozens of pennies a day.

Most of the money they earn is also smuggled back to Sanfang by buying meat buns to improve their family's meals, and the rest is saved by themselves.

Aunt Bai knew from her two grandchildren that Aunt Gui was fine, and she felt at ease.

...

A few days later, whether it was the Wen family, the Pei family, or all the families in the southwest, they became a little uneasy.

Because there was news from the north that there was a snow disaster in the north, which crushed the houses, killed many people, and froze to death. If the crops are planted in time, the crops will not be harvested when the crops cannot be planted for the autumn harvest, and then there will be a famine.

It is also said that many people in the north have already begun to flee the famine.

When Xu Qinyu heard the news, she felt uneasy in her heart. She was a little gloomy when cooking fish balls, and she didn't talk to her fourth brother.

Finally, when it was almost cooked, he said to himself, "If only there were crops like sweet potatoes and potatoes."

In ancient times, it was prone to natural disasters. As long as there were natural disasters, it was easy to confiscate the harvest. Without the harvest, many people would naturally starve to death.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes, a crop with a yield of several thousand kilograms per mu, are ten times higher than ordinary crops. They do not pick soil and are easy to survive. They can be harvested once a year in the north and twice in the south. They can be used as vegetables or as vegetables. As the staple food, even if there are natural disasters, with these, at least people will not starve to death.

As long as people don't die, they can always take their time.

Xu Qinyu knew that she was just saying that she couldn't find these crops.

The only thing she knows is cooking.

In fact, there are already some trade exchanges with other countries. For example, some other dishes seem to be from other countries, and the spice such as pepper is also brought back from other countries.

But it has probably never crossed the sea, so crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes are not available.

Pei Weixuan listened to Yu Niang's muttering and asked, "What are the sweet potatoes and potatoes that Yu Niang said?"

Xu Qinyu raised her head and glanced at the fourth brother, and made up a reason with a heart, "I just read it from a lonely travel journal, saying that it seems to be some overseas crops, and the yield per mu can reach several thousand catties. It's not true, fourth brother, you said that if there is such a crop, it will be a disaster year, but it will not starve people to death."

Pei Weixuan didn't say anything, just gave Yu Niang a deep look.

He knew that there were no such travel notes, so where Yu Niang grew up and lived, wouldn't anyone starve to death even in a disaster year?

Is it possible to find such crops by crossing the ocean?

"Can Yu Niang remember what the crops looked like in the travel notes?"

Xu Qinyu nodded, "Remember."

She didn't take it seriously, and didn't think much about it, she casually described the appearance of sweet potatoes and potatoes to the fourth brother, as well as some other crops.

Pei Weixuan kept these one by one in his heart.

Two days later, Pei Weixuan went to the mountains and released Bai Yu.

Xu Qinyu was a little reluctant, but felt that Baiyu was more suitable for staying in the mountains. In such a busy city, when Baiyu grows up, it scares people, and is afraid that the official of the government office will come and kill the giant python.

That night, everything was silent, and Pei Weixuan was asleep when three very light and short bird calls sounded outside the window.

Hearing these three short bird calls, Pei Weixuan opened his eyes.