Delicate Flower Chapter 101: Sea buckthorn

Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen were making maltose in the courtyard. As soon as they stepped through the door, the sweet smell of malt hit their faces.

"Auntie!" Yu Yuan stepped forward to greet Mrs. Chen.

Ms. Chen wiped her hands with the apron around her waist and asked with a smile: "Ayuan, are you here to see your uncle? He has sent rice cakes to shopkeeper Tong Da. I'm afraid he won't be able to come back before noon today. Come on, what's the matter with you? If you don't want to tell me, just go to the study and leave a note for your uncle."

Tomorrow is the Little New Year, and everything for the New Year has been prepared. New Year cake is a must-have food for every household during the Chinese New Year, and making rice cakes is Chen’s specialty. However, in previous years, Chen was not in good health and did not do it much. Although Chen's health is still not as good as that of ordinary people this year, it is much better than in previous years. Not only the Yu family is happy, but Chen is also very happy. She made more than ten kilograms of rice cakes by herself, and her relatives, friends, fellow villagers and neighbors all gave some as gifts.

"I'm here to see Ah Tang!" He said as he helped Chen move the maltose that had been boiled nearby to the kitchen. "Is Ah Tang here? We saw some when we went to Hangzhou last time. I want to discuss the new pattern with her."

Ms. Chen did not doubt that she had it and said with a smile: "She is in the study!" After saying that, she cut a piece of maltose with a knife, put it in a bowl and handed it to Yu Yuan, "Here, you brothers and sisters, try it."

Yu Yuan happily agreed and went to the study room with the bowl in hand.

Yu Tang holds a lake pen in his hand and is drawing something at his desk.

The warm winter sun shone in through the window sash covered with Korean paper, coating her figure with a layer of golden light, warm and soft.

Yu Yuan was stunned for a moment before calling "Amei".

Yu Tang raised his head and immediately laughed.

Smiles emerged from her eyes layer by layer, making her look lively.

"Brother, why are you here?" She put down her pen, stood up from behind the desk, and welcomed Yu Yuan to sit on the grand master's chair by the window. "Don't you have to be busy preparing New Year's greetings for the Prime Minister's family?"

The wedding date has been set and the marriage contract has been signed. Although the wedding has not yet been held, Yu Yuan is already the uncle of the Xiang family. It stands to reason that Yu Yuan will go to the Xiang family for New Year greetings on the second day of the lunar month. The Wang family is worried about the New Year gifts. He blamed Yu Yuan for not taking this matter to heart and not buying anything when he went to Hangzhou City.

Yu Yuan chuckled and completely forgot about this matter. He said: "Isn't there my mother and aunt? I don't understand this kind of thing. If I buy the wrong thing, I might as well not buy it!" ”

The visitor from the Prime Minister's house left a bad impression on him last time. He was a little reluctant to go to the Prime Minister's house. But for the sake of Miss Xiang's face, he decided to put all these things behind him and go to the Prime Minister's house with a humble attitude. Happy New Year to everyone at home. But that doesn't mean he likes to talk about it.

He put the maltose on the small table and said to Yu Tang: "Auntie gave it to me. Try it to see if it tastes good."

My mother got up early in the morning and started making sugar.

When she was little, she would wait impatiently by the stove at this time. Every time she would be forcibly taken away by her mother, and she would end up crying and being stuffed with a piece of maltose.

It wasn’t until she was ten years old that her mouth was burned because she ate maltose. She called a doctor and drank medicine for more than a month. During the first month, she could only look at all the delicious food. Then she stopped being greedy. .

For Chen and the others, this only happened five or six years ago, but for her, it was already more than ten years ago.

She sighed in her heart, smiled and went to make a bowl of maltose water for herself and Yu Yuan. She said, "Brother, try it too," and sat down opposite Yu Yuan again.

Yu Yuan tasted the sugar water. It was fragrant, sweet but not dry. He couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect aunt's maltose to be so good. This year we are in great luck."

In addition to offering sacrifices to the Stove King and entertaining relatives and friends who came to visit during the Spring Festival, a large part of this maltose was prepared for Yu Yuan to use when he got married.

Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

Yu Yuan hesitated, not daring to talk about maltose anymore, and said the reason why he came: "I have thought about it carefully, just like you said, I will help manage the farm and forest at home, and we will plant what you said That kind of tree makes preserves."

Yu Tang guessed it would be the same.

In her previous life, Yu Yuan's business was doing so well, but her eldest uncle was still worried and had to give guidance to Yu Yuan from time to time. In this life, Yu Yuan is just a handyman who works behind her eldest uncle, and it is even less possible for her eldest uncle. Let him go and leave the business of the shop to him.

"I was just about to talk to Brother about this!" Yu Tang said, got up and went to the desk, saying, "Brother, come and see, the tree painted here is the kind of tree I mentioned. This During the Chinese New Year, people who are doing business outside have all come back. Do you think you can ask those people who are doing business outside to take a look and see if anyone knows this kind of tree?"

Yu Yuan walked over and looked at it carefully for a while, then neatly rolled up the painting and said, "Okay, leave this matter to me. I will give you the news before fifteen."

Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief, but still felt uneasy. After Yu Yuan left, she drew another picture of a sea buckthorn tree and showed it to Yu Wen, who had just returned from the shopkeeper Tong’s delivery of rice cakes: "Do you know this person?" What kind of tree is it? Can you find anyone who knows this kind of tree?"

Many literati like to grow flowers and plants, so maybe someone knows them.

Yu Wen smiled and said, "What kind of problem are you posing for me?"

Because Yu Tang proposed to invite the prominent squires in Lin'an City and the scholars who passed the exam to have a wedding banquet at home when Yu Yuan got married, Yu Wen's legs were almost running thin during this period, and it was not easy to get things done. It was almost done, and in the blink of an eye, Yu Tang drew another inexplicable tree for him to recognize...

Yu Tang smiled sheepishly and hugged his father's arm coquettishly: "This tree is called sea buckthorn. Brother and I are going to plant this tree on the mountain at our house. Dad, please help me ask! Anyway, you can I need to help my brother find someone!"

People are in high spirits during happy events, and he was very happy when his daughter acted coquettishly at him. He teased Yu Tang a few words, and still took the painting with him when he went out to send wedding invitations.

To Yu Tang's surprise, the person who knew about this tree was actually Shen Shanyan, the county school's teacher.

He asked Yu Wen with a smile: "Why are you asking this? Although this tree is rough~IndoMTL.com~, it cannot survive here. If you don't believe it, you can go to Xia Guang's house and have a look. Their house There were several plants that Zhou Zijin brought back when he went to Gansu that year. They were still bearing fruit there, but after they came back, they only grew taller and stopped bearing. Because of this, Zijin even laughed at Xia Guang. Dun, saying that the soil and water in their home are not good."

Yu Wen did not expect this result. He stayed for a long time and then said: "It's my daughter. I heard someone told me somewhere that she wanted to plant this tree in our forest. Let me help you find out!"

Shen Shanyan escaped from the world here, and had heard about Yu Wen's character. Later, he met Yu Wen several times, and he also liked his temper. Occasionally, he would go to enjoy flowers and go for an outing together. Hearing this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "What a pity for you, my daughter. If I were a son, he would be able to do great things even if he didn't study."

Who is Shen Shanyan? He is a young master of the Shen family and a talented person from Jiangnan. It is extraordinary for an ordinary scholar to receive a word of praise from him, let alone a girl.

Yu Wen's face was filled with joy, but he said modestly: "No, no, she just likes to toss."

Shen Shanyan said sincerely: "It's already amazing to be able to toss and toss in a famous way." Then thinking of Miss Yu's marriage, he couldn't help but said: "You have to be careful about your daughter's marriage and don't be careless. Only when you are betrothed to someone else."

"Definitely, definitely." Yu Wen nodded repeatedly.

Even if Shen Shanyan didn't say such things, he would still be reluctant to marry his daughter to someone else casually. Now that Shen Shanyan said this, he was even more determined to find a good son-in-law.