The Sun family understood when they heard that the Xiong family told all those who could make decisions in his family to go, but they didn't expect that the Xiong family would teach the fourth lady the art of making pastries directly, thinking that at most they would just ask them to help the little one. busy.

When the Xiong family asked the Sun family not to steal this craft and not to force Xiong Siniang to teach it, they didn't think it was too much. If it was her family, they wouldn't give this kind of money-making craft to a married woman.

Invited Xinghua Village and Sunjia Village to come over, and made a written document face to face, signed by both parties.

Mother Xiong said: "Before the ugly words come to the fore, don't think that my words are ugly. When you two are gone in the future, the craftsmanship of my fourth lady has nothing to do with those of yours, so don't even think about it." Then give my fourth lady a penny, otherwise don't say that my Xiong family will take this piece of paper and sue your Sun family to the Yamen."

Mother Xiong said unceremoniously, especially imposingly, but the Sun family dared not let a fart go, but the Xiong family was stupid to teach this pastry craft to the fourth wife, so that his Sun family could sit at home and collect money. Naturally, it is impossible Wait for good things to come out.I don't know that the ancestors in the family have appeared.

The grandparents assured again and again that Sun Dalang, Sun Sanlang and the following two little ones had some ideas in their hearts, and they knew how much money the Xiong family made.They had followed Sun Erlang in pastries at Xiong's house before, and they could easily earn dozens of pennies when they changed hands in the town. One can imagine, wouldn't Xiong's family make much more money doing this.At this time, even though the gentlemen of the Sun family were a little careful, they didn't dare to show it. If they wanted to, they would slowly figure it out, and they couldn't anger the Xiong family. .

The Sun family all left, including Sun Erlang, leaving Xiong Siniang alone to learn the craft of making pastry at Xiong's house.But Xiong Siniang learned that after a few days of study, she knew that the family's income was so much that she couldn't imagine it. She really didn't dare to think that Mother Xiong would agree to pass on the skills to her, and she would be very satisfied if Sun Erlang could buy the goods.

"Si Niangzi, your brother-in-law gave you this craft. You should know how to be grateful and don't be that ungrateful person. Your second brother-in-law loves you and wants to improve your hard life, but he doesn't want you to take things from your natal family Subsidize the mother-in-law." I don't know how many times Mother Xiong beat Si Niangzi with these words, but Si Niangzi always replied respectfully, and this time is no exception.

Mother Xiong looked at her well-behaved daughter, and her heart softened. This daughter has suffered with her since she was born, and she did not cheat when she worked at her mother's house. She is a good girl.

"If the Sun family dares to be tough with you and bully you with our family's money, you can go home, mother, father, and your elder brother can make decisions for you. Don't be afraid, your mother's family is your forever home , no matter what happens, your natal family will accept you and will never let you be homeless."

"Aniang!" Xiong Siniang cried out, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances in her heart over the years.

After learning for a few more days and fully mastering the craft of making pastries, Mrs. Xiong left, and made a special trip to Xiong Erlang's house before leaving.Mother Xiong didn't deliberately hide it, she knew that it was Tang Shou's credit that she was able to learn the pastry skills, so she came to thank her.

Tang Shou looked at Xiong Zhuangshan, who was standing with his arms folded, and dared not say any sentimental words. This guy would not kill him if he was jealous, but would make him bow down.

"It's okay, it should be, you are Erlang's fourth sister, that is, my fourth sister, if you can help me and your second brother will not stand idly by." Tang Shou said: "I have no other requirements, I just hope you remember this skill The whole family depends on Erlang, if Erlang needs help in the future, you and your Lord Lang should not sit idly by."

Tang Shou was still worried about Xiong Zhuangshan, his temper was too violent, he would not make noise if he could do it, and there was no problem that could not be solved by doing it.He was afraid that when he was gone in the future, Xiong Zhuangshan would beat people in the village or outside the village, and because of his poor popularity, no one would speak up for him.Others in the village don't know about it for the time being. He wants to get a hold of these family members. If something happens to Xiong Zhuangshan in the future, he will try his best to help him.

Xiong Siniang knew that her second brother didn't like being with them very much, so she ordered soybean oil for pastries and left.Both Xiong's family and Xiong Siniang use soybean oil from Tang Shou's place, so even if the villagers don't come to exchange it, his family's daily profit is still quite a lot.

Once the two skills are taught, Tang Shou will be relaxed, and Xiong Zhuangshan can do it by himself if he can't use his strength to extract soybean oil.And the dirty work of feeding pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks made Tang Shou even more reluctant to do it, and Tang Shou didn't know how to do it, so he took a leisurely life, sleeping until the sun was up every day, and getting up whenever he wanted.After he came to Yuchao, except for the days when he was sick at the beginning, he hadn't been so leisurely. He lived a life of upside down black and white for several days, and only got up from the bed today.

Tang Shou used to eat when he got up these days, Xiong Zhuangshan knew that he was tired a few days ago, so he didn't call him, just made some by himself, and went to work after eating.

Now when he entered the room and saw Tang Shou woke up, he stopped what he was doing, and took out Tang Shou's clothes, which were warmed under his quilt, with Xiong Zhuangshan's body temperature, which was not cold to the touch.

Tang Shou rubbed his eyes and took it, and put it on casually. This kind of thing happened every day. Tang Shou was already used to it from being uncomfortable at the beginning.

The clothes on his body were full of Xiong Zhuangshan's body temperature and breath. Wearing them on Tang Shou's body, it seemed that his whole body was branded with Xiong Zhuangshan's brand. Xiong Zhuangshan was always satisfied at this time, and this twin was his.

Tang Shou slowly got up from the bed, yawning, "I ate wontons in my dream, let's eat wontons later."

"ravioli?"

Tang Shou would always say some strange food names, sometimes the same food from Tang Shou's mouth was called differently from Xiong Zhuangshan's here, Xiong Zhuangshan guessed that it might be due to the region.He knew that the living habits of people in the south and people in the north were very different, and many of the same things were called differently, so he didn't care much about these details.

"Okay, what do you want me to prepare?"

"Go and grind some more flour and come back, and chop up the meat at home, I'll wrap it."

Tang Shou went outside to wash his face and brush his teeth. Yu Chao used willow branches to brush his teeth. He soaked the willow branches in water and peeled them off to reveal the willow fibers inside. These willow fibers are like tiny combs. You can also clean your toothbrush with it.

Willow branches are consumables, and the comb-like willow fibers will be bald within a few days.Xiong Zhuangshan lived alone in the Xiong family before, and the family's Yangliuzhi didn't prepare those.Just in time to run out, Tang Shou looked at the willow branches suffering from bald spots and was still in a daze, not knowing what to think about.

Xiong Zhuangshan just came back from grinding flour, saw it and said, "Tell the villagers tomorrow morning, whoever has willow branches will give us some, and we will exchange it with soybean oil."

"No, the willow branch fiber is still hard to brush your teeth. If you don't pay attention, your gums will be punctured. Let's make some teeth brushes, and I will also make tooth incense." Tang Shou remembered that there were toothbrushes and toothpaste in the history of the Song Dynasty. , but they don't call these two names, but brush teeth and teeth incense.

Yaxiang was something he saw in a Song Dynasty record of incense, and it was all made of spices.He remembered several of them very clearly, because the two kinds of tooth spices were very particular about the materials used, and any kind of spice could only be used by noble families.

According to the records in the book, the earliest people who used tooth incense in the Song Dynasty were monks in temples.The temple is full of incense, and there are many pilgrims, not short of incense money.That's why those monks have spare money to make tooth incense. They seal the tooth incense made of spices in a jar, and put it in their mouths or swallow it after eating, and the fragrance will remain in their mouth.Later, many noble families would do this, and over time, there was a toothbrush, and people in the Song Dynasty would brush their teeth with a toothbrush stained with tooth fragrance.

Later, due to the collapse of the Song Dynasty, the newly opened Yuan Dynasty never learned to brush teeth, and toothbrushing and tooth incense gradually disappeared.This made the people of the Qing Dynasty think that the predecessors were dirty and ignorant of cleanliness, and even thought that they didn't brush their teeth, but they didn't know that the people of the Song Dynasty had developed tooth cleaning to an unprecedented level.

Tang Shou rubbed his chin, narrowed his eyes, and smiled treacherously: "Erlang, what's the point of making money from the poor, cheating the rich is the kingly way! Those who we want to cheat are willing to come to the door with money in hand."

Do you ask for money?You can't buy anything with money, so how can you beg for money.Xiong Zhuangshan really didn't understand how he could be begged to buy things, but he never argued with Tang Shou on these trivial matters, it was what Tang Shou said.

"Okay, then let's do the toothbrush and the toothbrush you mentioned. You tell me how to do it, and I will do it."

Tang Shou was afraid that he would not understand, so he grabbed Xiong Zhuangshan's big palm and drew a toothbrush shape on his hand. "It's probably in this shape. Here is the brush head. You can use the fine hair of the ponytail. Here is the brush handle. It is ground flat and round, so it is easy to hold with your hands."

Tang Shou fingered and drew on Xiong Zhuangshan's rough palm, very seriously, without any other thoughts.But Xiong Zhuangshan has it. He has been with Zuo Shou for 28 years, and finally married his husband. He wished to give up his 28 years of grain storage overnight, but Tang Shou didn't want it very much.

Now his palm is held in Fulang's tender little hand, and the fingertips are scratching in his palm, Xiong Zhuangshan really doesn't want to listen, his eyes look at Fulang's white and tender little hand for a while, and he opens and closes for a while Closed lips.Gulu, Xiong Zhuangshan let out a loud swallowing sound.

Tang Shou blushed with anger, and shouted: "Xiong Zhuangshan, I'm talking to you seriously, and didn't you want to pass last night? Your surname is Xiong, not a real bear, and you don't have to be here twelve hours a day In love...ah, what are you doing, let me down."

The overwhelmed small wooden bed soon creaked.

After eating the wontons, it was already dinner time, Xiong Zhuangshan finished washing the dishes and went into the room, Tang Shou was sitting on the bed wrapped in a quilt.

Xiong Zhuangshan's face was neither red nor pale, and he didn't feel the slightest bit of embarrassment, "What about brushing teeth and tooth incense you mentioned in the morning, please tell me again."

Tang Shou snorted angrily, "I can do it myself without you."

Those things seemed to be easy to manipulate in Xiong Zhuangshan's rough hands, but they were not so obedient in Tang Shou's hands. He almost didn't cut his fingers after touching them a few times, so Xiong Zhuangshan quickly snatched them away.

"Come on, you didn't do this rough work. You can just say it, this time I promise to listen carefully and don't care about other things."

Tang Shou noticed that he said 'this time', which means there will be a next time?Desperately telling myself not to care about it, there is nothing to care about with a big and strong bear, suppressing his anger, "You are like this..."

The wooden stick was in Xiong Zhuangshan's hands, he was very obedient, no matter how he fiddled with it, and within a quarter of an hour, Xiong Zhuangshan carved one.

"Is it like this?"

Tang Shou nodded, "Yes, we need some ponytail fluff here. Does anyone in our village raise horses?"

"No, but I have been to a few noble families to slaughter livestock, and I am familiar with some of their servants. If you pay them a few pennies, you can definitely get some horsetails."

"That's good. Let's go to the town tomorrow. I have to pick some spices for tooth incense myself."

The price of spices varies greatly, and the price of the same quality varies. The better ones are a hundred taels, the second ones are dozens of taels, and some are a few taels or even cheap.In terms of the Xiong family's current economy, they can't afford too good ones, but they can't afford too bad ones. Those nobles who are used to good things will know as long as they use them.

Tang Shou went there personally because he wanted to pick and choose, to see if he could pick up the leaks.

"Yes, I will accompany you, you can buy whatever you want."

"Do you have enough money at home? The things I bought this time are very expensive, and I need precious things such as agarwood, white sandalwood, and musk."

Xiong Zhuangshan said: "That's enough, don't worry, I'll take all the six taels I earned before, and I'll make up for you another three taels here. It's the first time we do it, let's buy a few taels less, and when we earn more Do more."

The author has something to say: the record of brushing teeth and tooth incense comes from "Meng Liang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. If you are interested, you can read it.

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