After binding the loving mother system, I was so bad

Yunzhou, the governor's office.

Gu Nanxi lay in bed for more than half a month. After gaining a little weight, he could no longer lie down.

Recently, Wen Yu has been obsessed with ideological education classes. In the novel published in "Yunzhou Weekly", he praised Yunzhou endlessly and almost praised Gu Nanxi to the sky.

As Gu Nanxi looked at it, she wished she could use her toes to dig out a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment on the ground.

"Lumei, what shall we eat today?"

Food is the most important thing for people. After breakfast, we start thinking about lunch, and after lunch, we start thinking about dinner.

Gu Nanxi climbed up from the kang and opened the window in the room to ventilate.

Lumei tied a knot on the sachet to finish it off. This was the third sachet she had made!

"Master, what we eat at night is not decided by us, but by the common people."

This is really a happy trouble!

Every day someone feeds the Governor's Mansion with different kinds of food. Lumei calculated the days and figured that this time it should be canned braised mutton.

Gu Nanxi picked up Xiaohua, who was still lying on the kang. She was chubby and furry. She said, "We have to find a way to return the favor to the people."

Lu Mei sighed helplessly: "They don't want money or silk, and they told them not to send any more. They promised us well, but they forgot it the moment they turned around."

Gu Nanxi stroked Xiaohua's fur and asked doubtfully, "Lumei, has Xiaohua gained weight? Why does she look bigger than when she first came?"

Lu Mei glanced at it and said indifferently, "If you live like a pig every day, where can you run if you are not fat? Other people's cats like to scratch the hydrangea. Our cat doesn't even bother to lift its paws to move when a cat toy is dangling in front of it. I don't know who it got it from!"

Gu Nanxi felt a little guilty, as it is said that pets follow their owners.

Could it be that the one who saw through my true nature was a little cat?

Xiaohua likes Gu Nanxi's kang very much and almost treats it as her own property. She only allows Gu Nanxi to get on the kang and Lumei is not allowed to even touch it!

"Xiaohua, it's time to eat meat." Lumei wanted to tidy up Gu Nanxi's quilt.

But before she got on the kang, she saw Xiaohua grinning at her with her pointy ears standing up!

Lumei slapped its butt in annoyance and threw a small piece of mutton into the food bowl under the dining table.

Xiaohua quickly ran under the dining table, picked up the mutton, jumped for a few times, and climbed back onto the kang!

As soon as Green Plum touched the quilt, she was almost scratched by Little Flower.

"Forget it, I'll do it."

The palms and backs of the hands are all made of flesh. Gu Nanxi didn't want Xiaohua to get beaten, nor did she want Lumei to get hurt, so she had to do the job herself.

"Just spoil it!" Lumei took advantage of Xiaohua's inattention and pinched its ear tip, and almost got scratched again.

Gu Nanxi quickly picked up Xiaohua and said, "Be gentle. It took a lot of effort to grow a little hair on Xiaohua's ears. Don't pull it out."

Xiaohua's short and fat tail tapped lightly on Gu Nanxi's arm, as if she was very satisfied with Gu Nanxi's favoritism.

Lu Mei deliberately said: "Is our Xiao Hua a disabled cat? Why is her tail so short and fat? Other cats have such long tails, but her tail is the same whether it is standing up or not!"

"Aw! Aww!"

Xiaohua cried and waved her claws in the air, as if to say, come on, let's fight one-on-one, what's the point of just talking?

The childish voice and pretending to be ferocious made Gu Nanxi and Lumei couldn't help laughing.

Lumei couldn't stop laughing: "Xiaohua, you must be a transformed person, right? You can even understand human language! Also, who did you learn pronunciation from? Come on, read with auntie, meow meow meow... not ow ow ow!"

"Ouch! Ouch!"

"It's meow meow meow..."

One man and one cat, one imitated a cat's meow and the other imitated a tiger's roar, the noise made Gu Nanxi's head hurt!

After the two of them finally calmed down, Gu Nanxi expressed her idea: "The New Year is coming soon. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to give gifts to the people according to the usual practice this year."

Green Plum stopped teasing Little Flower and said seriously, "If we prepare too much, I'm afraid the people won't be willing to accept it."

It is said that money is a person's courage. Once a person has money, he will no longer care about trivial matters.

People in Yunzhou started making money since the year before last, especially this year. The wool business has been growing, and the cannery business is also booming!

Although they have not completely escaped poverty, many families have still benefited greatly from it.

As hard as the days in the past were, as deep was their gratitude towards Gu Nanxi!

Gu Nanxi naturally knew this, so this year she planned to add a can of bean paste to the New Year gift!

This soybean paste is good stuff!

Put a lump of lard in the pot, then cut a few onions and put them in. Cook until the lard melts and the aroma of the onions wafts out, then add a bowl of sauce.

You don’t even need to add salt. Just pour the sauce fried with lard on the noodles and you’ll have a bowl of delicious noodles with soybean paste!

This soybean paste is best made during the plum rain season. Soak the selected soybeans in water, then steam them, filter out the water, coat them with flour, and spread them on a bamboo plate.

Wait until the beans are full of mycelium, then rub them apart and flatten them, and dry the bean yellows in the sun. This way the sauce will be fragrant.

"The sauce that the young lady brought back?" Lumei remembered that the young lady disliked the soybean sauce made in Yunzhou and brought back a lot of soybean sauce from Kyoto.

This sauce mixed with lard is the best sauce for making stinky tofu!

When in Kyoto, regular customers of Baiwei Restaurant are willing to buy a bowl of sauce from the restaurant. Whether it is mixed with rice or noodles, it is delicious!

The main ingredient of this soybean paste is beans, and the more expensive ingredient is salt.

I think the people would be willing to accept this!

"What a good idea! It happens to be winter, and there is not much food on the table of ordinary people. Adding a spoonful of soybean paste to this cabbage stewed with tofu is also very delicious!"

After discussing the return gifts for the people, Gu Nanxi began to think about what gifts to prepare for His Majesty and the Queen Mother.

Last year we gave them wool felt, so I can’t fool them with that this year.

In addition to wool felt, Yunzhou also has canned food. Although it can be bought in Kyoto, it is not what I want after all!

Gu Nanxi looked around for a long time, but finally found out helplessly that this year's gift was indeed a bit meager.

Lu Mei comforted her, "Your Majesty and the Queen Mother treat you like family. They also know the situation in Yunzhou and will never pick on you."

These words were like a bolt from the blue, clearing away the fog in front of Gu Nanxi's eyes.

Yes, last year I dared to give only one piece of wool felt as a gift. Besides the fact that this thing was indeed novel and attractive, I knew more importantly that His Majesty and the Queen Mother would definitely sympathize with me.

Then why is it that even though this year's gifts are so much more generous than last year's, I still have a vague worry in my heart?

Gu Nanxi sighed and had to admit that distance was the gap. Lovers would be separated by distance, and the same was true for the relationship between the monarch and his subjects.