The general's wife is sick

Ji Liu is in a good mood these few days, the more smoky the mansion is, the happier he is.

It was not in vain that they traveled thousands of miles to let him come to the capital, since they had to pay the price for letting him come.

It was the first time he saw his own boot workshop after traveling between several shops every day, and he had been in the capital for so long.

The boots workshop has now expanded its production scale, and the number of workers has more than doubled compared to when it first started making military boots for Xiong Jinghai. Now it is processing and rushing to manufacture mesh shoes customized for Xiong Feng. After these orders are completed, the workshop will We will start to focus on civilian boots.

Although the amount of hemp rope he ordered people to collect in Yuzhou was not large, they were still in stock. This batch of hemp rope could barely last until autumn. When autumn came, the hemp leaves in Yuzhou would grow again. Edge can form a complete industrial chain.

But Xianyi Pavilion and Treasure Hall are easier to take care of. Most of the people who come and go here are dignitaries. Feng Shuning's reputation has already been spread. Almost everyone who has bought things in Xianyi Pavilion and Treasure Hall knows his name. If he lets go later, Feng Shuning will be able to manage the store here.

On that day, Ji Liu took the initiative to invite Yan Bao to go shopping, and Yan Bao held Ji Liu's elbow with a smile, "What you say is true, today I will definitely taste your craftsmanship!"

"I won't let you go back home with the Wu Zang Temple empty." Although Ji Liu was speaking, his eyes fell on other places.

Following Ji Liu's gaze, there was a pair standing in front of the vegetable stand, who was being made trouble in front of everyone because of a few copper coins.

"Yo, credit again, only 5 copper coins have to be credited, I haven't paid back the debt I owed for buying vegetables a long time ago, and how dare I come to credit again yesterday, don't buy vegetables if you don't have money, go home and eat porridge go!"

With a cold face, the peddler not only stretched out his hand to push him, but also kept swearing, "Aren't you very rich earlier, and the noble person on your list, why didn't you stand up for you, bah, you are a dog , you have three days to pay back the money quickly, or I will sue you to the government office!"

"How much money does he owe you, I will give it!"

Ji Liu stood in front of the vegetable stand, and the peddler put on a smile, "This nobleman, you can't deal with such a person. He is not a good guy. After I was caught stealing my vegetables before, there was also a nobleman who helped him." But after he got rich, he didn’t regard us hard-working people as human beings, and looked down on us in every way! That’s not counting. Later, he bought a lot of vegetables from us and lowered the price, which made us breathless. Come on, I don’t want to do business anymore, and he asked that noble man to put pressure on us, and the soldiers of the City Defense Army patrolled our stalls every day to prevent us from doing business on this street!”

"Yes, this nobleman, you dare not have anything to do with such a villain!"

"That's right, that's right, Xiao Li is right! He has a bad heart!"

After the hawker finished speaking, other stall owners began to echo.

Ji Liu frowned, "But all I saw was that you two are together! How much money he owes you, I will give it to you, Young Master Shuang!"

Yan Bao pulled Ji Liu, and he could tell that this twin must have a bad heart and was rejected by all the stall owners. Why did Brother Liu insist on helping him?

Ji Liuyi said righteously, "We are all twins, it's just that I haven't met this matter, now I have met someone who will definitely help him!"

Many stall owners looked at each other, and there was always such a fool who was willing to help him. God is blind that this kind of person can still live well!

The smile on the peddler's face faded, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he persuaded again, "Your lord, think twice, our few copper coins are not a big deal, but this person really can't pay them!"

Yan Bao saw that the pair looked ordinary, and although they were clean and tidy, they were obviously old clothes. He just wanted to speak, but someone quietly pinched him from behind.

"It's okay, just treat me as a couple and do a good deed every day. I will help this person!"

Ji Liu paid for him, and led him away with the foolish eyes of the vendors in the whole vegetable market.

"Are you really what they said?" Ji Liu turned his head and asked far enough away from the market.

"Thank you for your help, I just had an unexpected situation at home. I was short of money for a while, and I was just paying on credit at the stall. The stall owner took the opportunity to humiliate me and arranged for me with other people. How can I ask me a powerless person?" How can Shuang'er make the soldiers of the city defense army move, they will hide and run away when they see it on the street!" As Shuang'er spoke, tears rolled down his face.

Yan Bao blinked, judging from the situation just now, not to mention that what the peddlers said must be the truth, and it was almost inseparable. When he was accused of making things difficult, he did not refute in front of them, but when Ji Liu asked Completely overturned the previous words, and pushed away his own mistakes. I have to say, this is a master!

"I think so too. There are so many of them bullying you in the street. Don't be afraid. My father is the Minister of Rites. If they dare to bully you again, you can come to me and I will help you out!"

"You are the famous Liu Shuangshao in the capital?"

"Huh? You know me?" Ji Liu showed a shocked expression.

That Shuang'er looked embarrassed, "Liu Shuangshao, my name is Jiayuan, thank you Liu Shuangshao for your help today, and I will definitely repay you in the future."

After finishing speaking, Jia Yuan left in a hurry, Zhi Le watched from behind the two, Yan Bao's new servant Wen Liang was taken aback by his presumptuous appearance, wouldn't the master be afraid of being punished for being so presumptuous in front of the master?

With this thought, he hurriedly looked at Ji Liu's face.

"Master, he must have heard that you were divorced by Princess Guangyang, so he wanted to stay away from you."

The words of ingredients made Wen Liang's heart pound even more, it depends on how Ji Liu reacts.

Ji Liu sighed softly, "Talking too much!"

Yan Bao knew that Ji Liu was abnormal today, but he was not so stupid as to ask why in the street, he just dragged Ji Liu and continued to buy vegetables, "Have you finished chatting, grandma is still waiting for us to go home to cook, hurry, hurry, I want to eat fish , and prawns, I specifically asked Fuchu Kitchen, I heard that river seafood can only be bought before noon, let's go quickly."

A few people bought a few river delicacies at will and headed back home. The food had already been prepared in the mansion, and Yan Bao finally confirmed that Ji Liu's behavior today was weird.

"Are you using me as a cover? Today's Jiayuan is the purpose of your going to the streets, right?" Yan Bao hit the nail on the head.

"No, it's just a coincidence that something unfair happened." Ji Liu skillfully put on the apron and rolled up the cuffs. The cook prepared the pre-work for him in advance, and many ingredients had been washed and neatly stacked on the plate.

Yan Bao curled his lips, "I don't believe you can't see that what those little vegetable farmers are saying is the truth, but you can clearly see it, but you still insist on helping him!"

Ji Liu smiled, "You have grown a lot!"

"That is! But you must have your reasons for doing this, so I won't ask, but don't forget how he looked when he knew your identity today. No matter what your plan is, I'm afraid it will not succeed !"

That Jia Yuan's dislike of Ji Liu was too obvious, no matter what Ji Liu wanted to do, I'm afraid he would not easily follow his will.

An ordinary couple behaves like this, not to mention other people in the capital, such things as divorce are always bad for reputation.

"I don't care." Ji Liu really doesn't care, but in the eyes of others, he is only pretending to be strong.

Yan Bao didn't want to continue to sprinkle salt on his wound, so he picked a cucumber and played with it in his hand, changed the subject, and started chatting about the Ziyang Earl's Mansion.

"Since Wang Xinru was brought back to the mansion, Yan Yong and the others have settled down a lot. Their parents have been convicted now. If they were not their father's children, they might be implicated and imprisoned. Now they are hiding in the mansion. I look so pitiful. After going through this incident, I think they can also understand the feelings of my mother and me. "

"Sometimes I would think that after experiencing a similar thing, they must feel guilty towards me and my mother. But then I thought, I really shouldn't judge others with my own thoughts, after all People are so close to each other, I am not a roundworm in their stomachs, if I really pin all my hopes on others, I might encounter such poisoned things in the future."

Ji Liu took the cucumber away from his hand, and after being played with by him, this cucumber can no longer be eaten.

"So, I started to think more deeply, analyzing this person from their own environment and the relationship with the people around them. Later, I found that as long as I used snacks, I could basically guess what these people were thinking. "Yan Bao happily shared his growth experience with Ji Liu.

Cutting cucumbers and mushrooms neatly, Ji Liu said casually, "I will learn later, watch more, listen more, talk less, and don't show all your thoughts on your face. Like you now, don't let others know when you are happy." Seeing that you are happy, even if you are trampled on the street, you have to smile, so that no one can see that you are angry."

"Ah?" Yan Bao frowned, "It sounds so difficult."

"Do you know that your expression is expressing worry!" Ji Liu reminded him.

Yan Bao followed behind him step by step, watching him skillfully chop vegetables, ingredients, and carve radishes, he felt distressed, "It's hard for you."

He was sure that Ji Liu's proficiency in the kitchen must be due to the death of his biological mother. Not only did he live with his grandmother in the countryside since he was a child, but he finally came to the capital because he wanted to marry a sick man. Thinking about it, he is also a poor person .

Ji Liu couldn't help laughing, her peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly, "What are you thinking?"

"It's nothing, Brother Liu, your craftsmanship is really good. Look, this flower looks like the real thing." Yan Bao changed the subject, he thought that such a thing should not be mentioned, because it might cause Ji Liu to be sad.

The radish flower held by Yan Bao is lifelike.

Ji Liu smiled, "Grandmother taught me that the kitchen is the second battlefield of my life."

"Grandmother was right."

Yan Bao didn't want to hit Ji Liu, let alone show the difference in status between the two of them in front of him.It is not easy to give birth to twins, so the world is more harsh on twins than women.The kitchen is indeed the second battlefield, but in the capital, no official family would be willing to let their Shuang'er stay in this place surrounded by fireworks all day, because they will not marry badly in the end. The servants in the family, the cook and the cook There are a lot of them, just need to be able to support the scene with a little bit of fur.

So both Princess Guangyang and Yan Bao were surprised when they heard that Ji Liu had such superb craftsmanship, and even praised Ji Chengyue when he drank the medicinal food he made.

Put hot oil into the wok, stir-fry shallots and sliced ​​ginger to give out the aroma, quickly stir-fry the seasoning willow, put the ingredients into the wok at different times, and the tempting aroma of the food permeates the kitchen.

"It smells so good..."

After a while, the fried mushrooms and stir-fried river prawns came out of the pot.

Ji Liu deep-fried the fish cut into flower knives until it was set, boiled sweet and sour sauce, and made another dish of squirrel mandarin fish.

"Try this dish in a while, it tastes sour and sweet, you should like it..." Ji Liu turned to pour the sauce on the plate, only to find that Yan Bao was already watching the first two dishes intently.

"This is just an ordinary dish. If you eat in the mansion tonight, I will guarantee you a rare delicacy."

"Anything else?"

"Secret!"

After lunch, Yan Bao dawdled around in Ji Liu's yard, chatting with the old lady Ji, playing chess with Ji Liu, and reading a book together, during which Ji Liu ordered someone to make fish balls, shrimp balls, beef balls, and Deep-fried meatballs were served with some green vegetables. Yan Bao waited for dinner in a daze.

The old lady Ji is old, and she doesn't use much at night, so the three of them didn't share dinner together. Ji Liu specially made three delicacies soup for her, and a cup of Xiaoshi tea after dinner.

After closing the door, in the small kitchen, Ji Liu Yanbao cooked a hot pot on the small charcoal stove in the kitchen.

Holding the sesame sauce plate, Yan Bao shouted that it was delicious, "This is really good, warmer than soup, and you can boil whatever you want in it."

"It's delicious but you can't eat too much. If you eat too much at night, you will grow meat." Ji Liu hit Yan Bao's heart.

Stopping the chopsticks, Yan Bao rubbed his belly, "Then I won't eat, I can't gain weight again."

Ji Liu didn't persuade him either, and picked up the vegetables with his chopsticks to eat.

Watching Ji Liu eat at half pay, Yan Bao was drawn to salivate, and slowly raised his chopsticks again, "It's rare that brother Liu worked so hard for me, so I can't waste this table of delicious food, as long as I eat a little more today, it's okay."

"Eat, I'll give you some slimming tea and flower ointment after eating, to ensure that you have a delicate body, no flesh, and skin as tender as a boiled egg." Ji Liu sighed, no matter which dynasty, beauty and beauty are never out of date.

"What? Is it useful? Where did you buy it?" the soul asked repeatedly!

Ji Liu smiled, "You also know that my marriage will be decided by the emperor in the future. I no longer insist on this, but I don't want to sit around all day and just wait for the future to get married. So I want to start some business by myself. I have always felt that the world is unfair and the world is too harsh on us, but we also have hands and feet, even if we don’t rely on our ancestors’ shadows, we should still display our own value.”

"Wait!" Yan Bao interrupted him, he remembered that when they first met, Ji Liu told him a script, and that script was a story about Shuang'er's self-reliance and finally happiness. "You want to start your own business, so you made this thing yourself?"

He knows that Ji Liu has medical skills, and he believes that the slimming tea and flower ointment in his hand can make him better now.But Shuang'er's publicity is too shocking. He likes that kind of inspirational story, but after all, it's just a story, and no one will take the story in the storybook seriously.

"I made it, and I think it should sell well in the capital."

"Liu brother, do you know that if the world knows that this is your own business, you will..."

"That's why I said, my marriage is decided by the emperor, I will not force it."

Yan Bao nodded. It is true that his marriage has been arranged by the emperor Jinkou Yuyan, "But if you come out, you will also implicate your elder brother and second brother? Besides, your father just took a concubine. Do you think the house is not lively enough? "

"No, didn't I tell you that!" Ji Liutaohua's eyes were hooked, but Yan Bao leaned back and stared at him defensively, "What do you want me to do?"

"Uncle Yan is the hereditary title of earl. If there was his support in the early stage, I think these things will be able to enter the high-end households in the capital with a high-end attitude." The earl who eats and drinks has a level of appreciation that ordinary people cannot surpass in terms of entertainment. He dares to play and knows how to play, but he abides by the rules of the court and does not boast. He is a rare good earl.

So this kind of good thing that will be popular among women and Shuang'er in the future, the first thing he thinks of is Yan Bao.

"You want my father to help you? But this is your thing." Yan Bao didn't believe that Ji Liu didn't understand, if this thing passed through his father's hands, it would mean that Ji Liubai gave him part of the profit.

Ji Liu put down the chopsticks in his hand, "I borrowed Uncle Yan's name, instead of questioning the effect of my product, you thought about it for me. Brother Yan, I am lucky to have a friend like you."

After expressing his gratitude, Ji Liu said again, "I regard you as a friend, so I trust you with this thing. Life is not easy for us, and no matter how strong the people around us are, they are not as strong as ourselves. I am a concubine. In the Ministry of Rites Shangshufu, but I never live on the monthly money given by my aunt, the money in my hand is saved by myself. I know you don’t lack these things, but I know you, you have Own thoughts, so... would you like to participate?"

Yan Bao's eyes widened, revealing a trace of astonishment in his eyes, he lowered his eyes to cover up his emotions, "Liu brother, let me think about it, it's getting late today, I'll go back first."