By Jia Xiuzhen

When the new emperor came to the throne, everyone was guessing what would happen afterwards, but there seemed to be no waves.Apart from the customary favors and promotions, there have been no major changes in personnel affairs in the court, except that there are more princes.So stable, the old sage was very satisfied.Moreover, the sky is beautiful this year, and it is not as cold as the peach blossom snow last year, and the farmer Zhuangtou is relieved.

If you want to talk about something new, there is something new, not in the court, but in the suburbs.The blacksmith camp and carpentry camp in the south of the capital have already caused people to speculate, and within a month, a large land boundary was actually built to build houses.At the beginning, it was said which family's garden it was, and it was said that it was the new garrison, or that it was the mansion of a retired high official. There are different opinions.

Looking at it again, it doesn't look like it. The houses are almost the same, and they are all made of earthen walls and gray tiles - none of the guesses above will look like this.When building a house, it was even more novel to dig a large canal along the house. Only then did I find that the layout of those houses was also high and low.What kind of novelty is this?

Everyone in Jia's family also heard about it and guessed it for a few days as a new thing.After hearing this, Li Wan knew that it had something to do with the machine he produced, and his heart was really strong.I heard someone say it, maybe it has to be a hundred times the size of the previous Xiaozhuangzi?No wonder the blacksmith battalion and the carpentry battalion are nearby, probably to make the machine easy to carry without being too ostentatious.Just in this way, how much material can be obtained in a year?Sure enough, it was a big man doing big business, but fortunately, it had nothing to do with me.

After receiving Jiamu's order, the girls would come to Li Wan's place to sit for a while almost every day.Li Wan took the opportunity to put all those "fake ancient books" on the bookshelf, and said with a smile: "I am not as good at teaching, so I just give you a place to learn. I don't believe you still want to serve them with delicious food and drink." You can sue me to the old lady." Everyone laughed.

Li Wan said again: "The books here are not common in other places. You can read them separately, but there is one thing. If you want to follow the books and ask me, I don't know most of them. You just have to understand it yourself." Li Wan In the past few days, Wan has selected books in Xiaotianxia that can still be seen by the outside world, and has collected them into new works, and has accumulated a lot, and now they are all put together with the "Qing Ming Jue" of that day.

Sure enough, how did these little girls see Bai Xiaosheng's tricky words?After only turning a few pages, I read it, one person at a time, reading with relish, occasionally covering my mouth and chuckling, or pointing to the words for people around to read, when I read quietly.After reading it, Li Wan softly ordered Suyun and the others to prepare tea and snacks, and he also took the book of Lingcooking Sect to read carefully.

Biyue and the others stood aside, Tanchun raised his head from the book, waved at them and said, "When we are reading, we don't need to wait on you, you go outside to have fun. Just leave one here to pass on the message." So Biyue took Playing chess, serving books, entering painting and others went out, while Xueyan and Suyun stayed behind.Seeing that the snow geese had stayed behind, Daiyu smiled and said, "You can take a copy too?"

Xueyan hurriedly waved her hands and said, "What are you talking about, girl! I'm here to serve you."

Daiyu smiled and said, "Sister Suyun is here, what are you doing here, go out and relax for a while."

Just as I was talking, Nanny Chang came in. After hearing this, she said, "It happens that I have a little work here, why don't Xueyan come and help me." Daiyu said, "Not going yet? You have to stay in the house." You're really lazy." Xue Yanfang smiled and followed Chang Nanny.

Although reading is fun, after reading it for a long time, my eyes are a little bit stiff and my neck is stiff. When Suyun passed the time, he changed to new tea, snacks and cut fruits, and said with a smile: "These are all newly figured out by the grandma. Girls, take a rest." rest."

After hearing this, several people put down the scrolls in their hands, and came over to read them carefully.Xichun sniffed and said, "It smells so strong like milk."

After waiting for everyone to sit down, they washed their hands with the fragrant soup served by Miao Er and others, and Suyun swiftly served a celadon cup in front of everyone.The pleated Li-shaped cup is blue after the rain, but the size of a palm, filled with milky white sorbet and topped with rose red sauce.

Yu looked at it and couldn't help saying: "Good color!"

Li Wan smiled and said: "Not only is the color good, but the taste is also good, you should try it." After hearing this, everyone picked up the small celadon spoon and put it in their mouths.I only feel that the milky fragrance is rich and melts into the throat, and after careful tasting, there is a slight taste of wine, but the rose red sauce has a floral and fruity aroma, which is another wonderful taste when mixed with the milky sauce.

The small cup is not big, and the dim sum is only half filled, but you can see the bottom after a few spoonfuls, even Daiyu can fill a bowl.Suyun served tea to everyone again, the cups were the size of copper coins, the color was light red, everyone drank it, but it was tea with flowery and fruity aroma, it wiped away the greasy milk in their mouths, naturally they praised it again.

At that moment, the servants and others also came in to serve, and another tea was served, Biyue came in holding a three-layer plate box with sunflowers, Xichun looked at it carefully and said with a smile: "There are so many fresh ones, I have never seen them before."

Li Wan said with a smile: "Thanks to Lan Er, the greedy cat, he has been in school for a long time now, and you all know his appetite, so I specially prepared some snacks for you. Tell me one day, the truth is those The dim sum is so flashy, and after eating it for a while, I'm hungry again, and it's not time to use the dim sum. I also said that the milk made by them seems to be still hungry.

Tell me, our family makes dim sum, how can there be anyone who says you have to be hungry?According to my opinion, I'm afraid I'll be hungry next time I directly replace it with solid steamed buns.The nuns doted on him, and after hearing this, they hurriedly asked Zhuangzi to try making milk desserts. No, these ones you haven't seen before are all new ones these days. "

Biyue laughed out loud when she heard it, Xichun looked at her and said, "Good girl, what are you laughing at?"

Biyue smiled and said, "Go back to girl, I heard that our grandma put everything on my brother, it's really funny, girl, let's take a look at these snacks, how can the mothers and us figure it out. I ordered a large stack of recipes and asked people to try it."

Li Wan glared at her and said, "It was because I saw that you had no idea, so I came to help."

Bi Yue said: "Yes, yes, grandma said, those who help others help themselves."

The girls couldn't help laughing when they heard this, Yingchun said: "Biyue's tongue is becoming more and more sharp now, every sentence of this sentence is allusable."

After hearing this, Bi Yue blinked her almond eyes, and said, "Thank you miss for your compliment."

Yingchun smiled even more, took her hand, and said to Li Wan: "I really love the wonderful person that sister-in-law trained."

Li Wan said: "What a wonderful thing, she is just a spoiler!"

A few people chatted and laughed, and Tanchun asked: "Is there any one in the sister-in-law's village that specializes in raising cattle?"

Li Wan said: "Where is it? It's the one who believed in the reward from the princess before. I'm really ashamed to say that I, such a skinny Zhuangzi, have changed to one with land and slopes. No, I raised some cows on the grassy slopes. What will happen?" It's time for the baby to give milk."

Xichun said: "I heard that sister-in-law's place where Zhuangzi used to be is now very lively, with many new gadgets opened."

Li Wan laughed and said, "Oh? It's rare that you are well informed."

Xichun laughed and said, "When my sister-in-law came to see me, I heard them gossip. But I can't remember those names, I've never heard of them."

Tanchun said: "It's really new, some are blacksmiths, some are carpenters, and now there is a workshop as big as a manor."

Li Wan said, "Workshop?"

Tanchun nodded and said: "Yes, because a big canal is drawn into it, and it is surrounded by water, so it is called a water-enclosed workshop."

Li Wan said: "This is really strange, but do you know whose business it is?"

Daiyu tilted her head and glanced at Li Wan, then looked back at Tanchun, Tanchun shook his head and said, "It's not someone's family, I heard it's a big business, and even the people inside are palace people, I don't know I don’t understand, I’ve only heard that there is a royal hunting ground, Huangzhuang, so could there be a royal workshop? It’s just that this one is called a workshop, but I don’t know what it does.”

Daiyu said, "It's a blacksmith and a carpenter. It's also called a workshop. See what it's for."

Tanchun listened and nodded, "That's the reason, but no one knows what it's for now."

Li Wan said: "Where can we people guess the business in the royal family? But this is a novelty. Even you know it, so it can be seen that everyone is talking about it."

Xichun said: "It's not that everyone is talking about it. My nanny dreamed that she could do some business in it. I heard her say to my sister-in-law that 'it's not too small'. Later, my sister-in-law said that the business , the prince is just watching the scene, so it can be seen that my nanny is really dreaming!" Li Wan was about to speak, when there was a sound of laughter outside, and he heard the report, "Second Grandma is here!"

After a while, I saw Sister Feng coming in from the outside and seeing everyone, she said with a smile: "Let me tell you, maybe you can make a circle here, so I won't have to look for them one by one."

After hearing this, Yingchun and the others knew that they were looking for themselves, so they hurriedly got up, Sister Feng waved her hands and said with a smile: "It can be counted as a chance for me to catch up, these are all new things, I'm still waiting for my orders."

While talking, Suyun brought out a serving, the same sorbet and flower fruit tea.Sister Feng just took a spoon to eat, then raised her head and said: "This is interesting, it's better than the milk porridge milk sugar that I usually eat, but it's from my sister-in-law's Xinde Zhuangzi?"

Li Wan laughed and said, "Sure enough, there is nothing you don't know."

After hearing this, Tan Chun asked, "Just now we were talking about something new outside. In the Waishui factory, I can hear people talking about it all day long, but I don't know what it is."

Sister Feng became very excited when she heard this, and said with a smile: "It's rare that all of you ladies who introduce poems and paintings all day long also talk about these mundane things. Except for me, this mansion is really serious. No one knows."

Xichun heard this, and hurriedly said: "It's Sister Feng, she knows everything, tell us quickly."

When Sister Feng heard this, she glanced at Li Wan and said, "Sister-in-law, it's only been a few days, and everyone has been taught like this. Even the fourth younger sister, who is such a small person, can tell by hand."

Li Wan hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I don't dare to take this one. When it comes to these things, I can't be counted in the mansion!"

Sister Feng was drinking tea, and when she heard this, she laughed and said, "What a devious sister-in-law!"

Seeing that Yingchun and the others were looking at her eagerly, they found it funny again, put down their teacups and continued: "That workshop is now diverting water to irrigate the canal, and the houses all look the same. The things are actually mechanical devices, which seem to be made by water power.

As for what to make, I didn't know at first, but now I heard that a lot of wool was shipped from farther places outside the mouth, and silk and cotton yarn from the south, so it can be seen that it is something to be used as clothing material.It's just that with such a big battle and such an idea, it's no wonder that some people suspect it's a blindfold.Almost all of them are palace people now, so it is known that it is a business of the Tian family.

Word came out again that it was something that was obtained from foreigners and that they wanted to try to make it.As long as soldiers are stationed around, some people suspect that they are making weapons and gunpowder.It is also said that it is something used by the nobles.It's all right. "

Tanchun listened and nodded, then asked, "How big is the workshop? Some say it's bigger than our mansion."

Sister Feng said with a smile: "What kind of place are we? The barren mountains and fields are naturally big when surrounded by horses."

Xichun said: "They are all palace people, my nanny is still dreaming of doing business."

Sister Feng was taken aback when she heard this, and said, "What business?"

Xichun said: "My nanny, I've been thinking about it since the blacksmith camp and carpenter camp were opened there, and now I see what kind of workshop has been opened, and I'm thinking about opening a shop there to do business."

Sister Feng said with a smile: "Your nanny's family used to be in business, but now she is married to the head of purchasing in the East Mansion, but she has some experience."

Xichun snorted, "What insight! My sister-in-law said she was dreaming all day long. It's not her turn to think about it!" Sister Feng smiled and stopped talking.

Li Wan said: "Although it is a business in the Tian family, there are so many people there. The place is remote. These people must eat and drink. How can there be no business?"

Sister Feng looked at Li Wan and said, "My sister-in-law knows about economics now!"

Li Wan said: "I heard my brother and sister-in-law talk about it occasionally, and naturally they have grown up." The crowd asked Sister Feng again, really curious, which was unheard of in this dynasty.Sister Feng really knew the details, and she was able to answer nine out of ten answers, which Li Wan admired.

After the tea was refilled, Li Wan asked Sister Feng: "You just said that Baoyuan is here, what's the matter?"

Sister Feng slapped her forehead and said with a smile: "I've forgotten the real thing when I talk about this nonsense! I, on the orders of my wife, came to tell you that we have guests coming to our house tomorrow, and we all have to see them." , Remember to change into the clothes you’ll meet outsiders.”

Tanchun laughed and said, "But Aunt Xue's house is coming? I heard that there is a girl in his family who is older than us, so it's even more lively now."

Sister Feng nodded and said: "It's his house. Well, I have to go and look elsewhere. You can continue to talk about poetry and painting." At that end, Li Wan had someone prepare a food box, which was for the elder sister to eat. Sister Feng hurriedly ordered Ping'er to take it, and thanked Li Wanfang several times.