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"Gold!" Small! "Lou!" Jin Xiaofeng's eyes were filled with venom, she shouted with all her might, "You are plotting to kill me, I want to report you to the inner court, I want to sentence you to death!"

Jin Xiaolou stretched out his hand, pulled off the clothes from Jin Xiaofeng's body, and threw it onto the ground: "What I spilled was not you, but my own clothes. As for why you burrowed into my clothes, it would be better to be clear about that."

"This is yours?" Jin Xiaofeng hugged her arms in front of her body to protect herself, "I don't believe that you can afford such good clothes!"

"I'm going to the county city today, so if you don't believe me, you can come with me. Check the documents in the clothing store and find out who paid for the clothes in black and white." Jin Xiaolou said as she threw the scissors at Jin Xiaofeng's feet, "However, I advise you to quickly boil some water to wash your hair, if not, you will only have to cut off your long hair."

"Jin Xiaolou, just you wait!" Jin Xiaofeng was helpless, she could only say a few words, stomped her feet and walked back into the kitchen.

Just as Jin Xiaolou arrived at Xin Ning, she saw a group of food carts heading out of the city.

headed straight for the County Magistrate Mansion, where the costs wouldn't be too good this year, and it was the rainy season, so when the food was usually delivered to the military camp, it had already become damp and moldy, and Hei Zheng must be worrying about the matter of the food too.

Just as she arrived at the entrance of the He Residence, the butler saw Jin Xiaolou and hurriedly came forward to welcome him. "Oh, Lady Xiaolou, our master's mood isn't good, he's hoping for someone to go against him with a poem to expel his frustration, you came just at the right time!"

Jin Xiaolou laughed awkwardly: "I'm not good at poetry, but I have a way to dispel the depression in Old Master He."

The butler's eyes immediately lit up when he heard it, and quickly led Jin Xiaolou into the study room.

He was sitting in front of a red wooden square table with one hand on his forehead and the other flipping through the books on the table.

Jin Xiaolou looked through the gauze window in the distance and saw four big words written on the cover of the book: "Qi Min Ji".

Qi Min technique? Jin Xiaolou was familiar with this book.

They were both agricultural scholars, so why was it that she had read such a famous agricultural book before?

The butler knocked on the door of the study and called out: "Master, Lady Xiaolou is here."

"Dig a hole, fill it with soil, and bury the vegetables layer by layer. This will keep the vegetables as fresh as they were when they were picked. Good idea!" But... How can this pit move from the Xin Ning to the Wuli River? "

He muttered and asked casually: "Lady Xiaolou? What Lady Xiaolou? Didn't I say before, don't bring those girls to the mansion? If Madam discovers them, I won't admit it.

"Cough, cough." The butler wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked at Jin Xiaolou embarrassedly before rushing into the house, "Master, it's Lady Xiaolou, the Lady Xiaolou that Young Master spoke a few words to my concubine in the main hall that day."

"Oh, Jin Xiaotao's sister, Jin Xiaolou?"

The door of the study room opened from the inside. Justice was standing by the door with his beard pulled. He was wearing a green coat.

"Lady Xiaolou, please come in." He who cherishes the righteous has always treated those who are talented with respect.

Jin Xiaolou smiled and saluted justice: "Sir He, are you worried about the matter of transporting food?"

He was stunned for a moment, then immediately put down the book in his hands: "Cough, don't talk about these annoying worries. Since Lady Xiaolou is here, how about you match poems with this old man?"

He had grown a beard from all the trouble with Justice over the matter of the grain. It just so happened that he had the ability to learn, so he slowly began to think.

However, Jin Xiaolou shook her head and laughed: "Lou Shi Shi may not be able to, but there's a way to deal with the matter of the food."

Laughing with righteousness, he obviously doesn't take it as the truth. A little girl talking about food, she must be speaking some naive words as well.

He then brushed his sleeves and took out a book of poems. It seemed that he was about to start reciting.

Jin Xiaolou was vexed, but quickly continued: "Master He, are you worried about the storage of the food? It has been raining heavily recently, and the war front is long, so I'm afraid that many of the provisions will have rotted by the time they get to the front. "

He didn't expect a mere girl to know so much.

Now that he did not underestimate Jin Xiaolou, he nodded his head: "You are right, this problem has not been solved for hundreds of years, and it is truly a headache. If we can solve this problem, would our Great Zhou still be able to win against a mere South Yi? "

Jin Xiaolou raised her head: "I have a way."

He then slowly walked to the back of the table and sat down, looking at Jin Xiaolou who was standing upright in the middle of the study room.

She looked at him expectantly.

"Does the lord know the cause of food corruption?" Jin Xiaolou said, "It's a bacterium."

"Thin..." Bacteria? " And justice had never heard the word.

"Yes, something we can't see with our eyes." Jin Xiaolou explained.

Hesitation: "If you can't see it, how do you know such a thing exists?"

"Sir, can you see the wind?" Jin Xiaolou laughed, "You can't see the wind, but you can see the branches and flags fluttering in the wind. For the same reason, we can't see the bacteria, but we can see the rotten food caused by them fermenting."

"If you want to save the food better, you have to kill the bacteria in the food and try to isolate the air to preserve it aseptically." Jin Xiaolou took out a canned food that she had prepared when she left her room, "Sir, please take a look, this is a can, after I cooked the food I used steam to kill the bacteria inside, and then sealed it. This can last for at least three months."

"Three months?" He Zhengyi stood up from his chair with a look of shock on his face. If he could keep food for three months, then the problem of military rations would be completely solved.

"That's right. If the lord doesn't believe me, we can give it a try." Jin Xiaolou passed the canned food to He Zhi County: "I have 600 cans here, you can take them to the army camp first. If the food in the can breaks when the soldiers eat it, I don't need any money, I can compensate you with another 100 gold. "However, if it is preserved well, I will sell these six hundred cans for six hundred taels of silver."

"It's a deal." And righteousness stared at the iron jar in his hand, "How would you like to eat this can?"

Jin Xiaolou replied: "It's very simple. Just pull out the cork and heat it in the fire. It's convenient, nutritious and delicious. "

"Alright, I'll send someone to get the six hundred cans tomorrow!"

Outside the Fragrant Snow Pavilion, Mu Furong stirred up layers of red waves in the wind.

In the pavilion, Meng Guangmei used a pair of scissors to cut off the broken branches in the vase, she raised her head and asked the servant standing by the side: "How is it?"

The servant girl, hollyhock, hurriedly said, "I just left. As soon as she left, Master ordered someone to bring a metal box to the kitchen. He said he wanted to try the hot metal box."

"An iron box?" Meng Guangmei was a little curious, "Taste what?"

hollyhock shook his head. "I don't know. There seems to be something to eat in that box."

Humph, food? "My family eats a lot of the delicacies of the sea and the mountains, so we still have to try some weird things." Meng Guangmei used some strength in her hand and cut off a whole blossoming Begonia with a "Kacha" sound, "Tell the kitchen to warm it up and send a copy to my room first. "Jin Xiaoluo was actually able to stay in Master's study room for such a long time. This woman from the Jin family is more annoying than the last.

"Yes."

hollyhock hurriedly responded. Just as he was about to leave, his wife called him over. "Call that Jin Xiaotao over."

After a while, Jin Xiaotao was outside the door.

She was dressed in a short coat with pink silk embroidered with peach blossoms and silk pants. In her hand she held a folding fan with a tortoiseshell woven into it.

Meng Guangmei glanced at it, and could not help but criticize silently. What came to him in the village was petty, as if she had never seen a fan, and it was still in her hands even when the weather was cold.

Who knew that the moment Jin Xiaotao entered the door, she immediately offered the fan in her hands to Meng Guangmei: "Mother, I saw the fan when I was out on the streets yesterday. I bought it and brought it back to Mother."

"It's a cold day. What do you mean by giving me a fan?" Meng Guangmei did not hold back, her words were sharp and sharp, scaring the maid who was following Jin Xiaotao to the side into kneeling on the ground.

Jin Xiaotao laughed, "There are fewer mosquitoes in the autumn, so it's not appropriate to bring a fan with you. However, it's not bad to bring a fan with you. Mother, look, this fan is made of Agarwood, and when it is fanned, it will give off a fragrant scent, beautiful and elegant at the same time. "

Meng Guangmei laughed coldly, she was a young lady born into a scholarly family, and had studied poems and songs since she was young. She was also good at dancing, and her grandfather, father and brother had all three generations of high position.

She even used a village girl to teach?

That was funny.

Meng Guangmei did not accept the fan from Jin Xiaotao as she awkwardly retracted her hand that was in the air.

"Since you are Jin Xiaolou's older sister, do you know what kind of books Jin Xiaolou usually reads, what she knows, embroidery? Singing and dancing? Cooking? "

Jin Xiaotao was startled, she did not expect that the Madam would actually ask her about Jin Xiaolou.

Then he shook his head. "She doesn't know anything."

"Nonsense, you heard it yourself on the day of the wedding. At least she knows poetry."

Meng Guangmei said indifferently.

Jin Xiaotao also could not understand, why would Jin Xiaolou who could not read a word suddenly know poetry: "Maybe she only knows that phrase, Mother, believe me, I grew up together with Xiao Lou, she is only responsible for feeding pigs and chickens at my house, she doesn't even know her own name when it comes to studying."

"That's strange, then what is the food she brought for Master?"

Just as Meng Guangmei was thinking about this, hollyhock outside the door led the kitchen lady in.

The kitchen servant held a wooden tray in her hands, and a small white jade bowl was placed on top of the plate. Inside the bowl was the beef mince cooked with potatoes, which was steaming hot, and the fragrance was drifting along the hot air into Meng Guangmei's nose.

"Is this the food Jin Xiaolou gifted to the old master?" Meng Guangmei waved her hand, allowing the chef to bring the plate closer.

The kitchen maid quickly nodded, "According to the lord, in reply to the madam, this is called... The canned potato and beef was brought over by the Lady Xiaolou. "