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"But I just lack a little girl who's on fire. What should I do?"

Fu Zhi's words caused Qin Wuya to be at a loss of whether to laugh or cry, but she forced herself to ask again, "Didn't I have to go buy another girl to burn after selling you out?

You'll have to pay the old woman with teeth to get what you want if you keep on going back and forth, don't you think it's a loss? "

"Madame, can't you light the fire yourself?" Fu Zhi asked again.

"You also said that I'm your wife. Have you ever seen a lady who burns her own fire?"

"Nope." Fu Zhi slanted his head in frustration, thought, and said seriously:

"Then why don't you keep me? I will eat less from now on. Just a steamed bun a day?" No, half. Fu Zhi is small and half of him is full. "

Qin Wuya never thought that Fu Zhi would say something like this, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

This child is so sensible that it makes one's heart ache.

After being silent for a long time, Qin Wuya suddenly laughed: "There is a lot of rations at home, Fu Zhi can eat as much as he wants everyday. In the future, when Fu Zhi grows up and has enough strength, I will send him to the fields to work, okay? "

When he heard that he could go down to work when he grew up, Fu Zhi was very happy, but thinking about how he would still pee at such a young age, he started to hesitate.

"Then right now …"

"Just treat it as owing me now, when you grow up and pay me back, will Fu Zhi go back on his word?" Qin Wuya knew what she was thinking and casually added.

In the end, this child was a naive one. After being slightly agitated, he immediately raised three of his fingers and guaranteed to Qin Wuya:

"Fu Zhi will not renege on the debt. Madam, wait until Fu Zhi grows up and works harder, then double the amount of rations you have eaten back to Madam. "

"Then I'll wait." Qin Wuya laughed and nodded.

That night, after eating the alimentary diet, Qin Wuya called Wang Nu to speak in the courtyard, and told him about Fu Zhi's thoughts and thoughts during the day.

Wang Nu was also emotionally moved when she heard this, but after a long while, she couldn't help but say:

"Madam, that girl, Fu Zhi, is a sincere child. He works diligently, but there are a few things that I, an old woman, can't take."

"Oh, what is it?" Qin Wuya was curious.

"That child really knows how to talk. Every time I enter the kitchen, she nags me for several hours. Listening to her speak makes my ears hurt a little."

The Wang Nu said with an embarrassed look on her face: "Madam, can you let the Tsai Zi take my place in the kitchen from now on? I'll do all of her work."

"Strange, when I talked to her in the day, I didn't think that this girl had a lot of words to say. Did I misunderstand something?" Qin Wuya did not understand.

"Madam, in the past few days, I didn't feel that Fu Zhi was a girl with too much words. On the contrary, I felt that she was more lively than Fu Xi, and that he had gained more popularity in the courtyard.

But who knew that the girl had told me about her family from the second day? Since no one had spoken to me like that for a long time, they were close at first and let her talk.

The first day she told him about her family's matters, and the second day she told him about how much food her brothers and sisters ate every day, how many times they went to the fecal pits, how many times she burped when night fell, and how many times she kicked the bedding.

One by one, they began to calculate the time and told me about it, until my brain expanded along with it for the next few days. "

Finished speaking, the Wang Nu seemed to have thought of Fu Zhi's nagging devil music, and her body unconsciously shivered.

Qin Wuya was a little surprised to hear what the Wang Nu had said. During the day, when Qin Wuya heard Fu Zhi's words, she felt that the child's thoughts were a little strange, so she thought a little too much into it.

It was just that he did not feel that Fu Zhi was annoying, but hearing about it from the Wang Nu, Qin Wuya faintly felt that Fu Zhi was making a ruckus.

However, she was still a child after all. Perhaps it was because of her that she left home and thought about the matters at home. She also felt that it was impossible to say whether the Wang Nu had the intention to get close to her.

Thinking about that, Qin Wuya advised Wang Nu: "Maybe Fu Zhi misses his little brother and sister at home, so just let her say it. After a few more days, she will finish what happened at home."

"But yesterday, she had already told me that the dog from Cripple Yu's family, who lived in the village, had lost three teeth." Wang Nu's voice trembled unknowingly.

Qin Wuya: "..."

Ever since that day, when Zhang Shan said that he wanted to build a fire house behind his ear, the next day, he sent people to Liubei County City to find the few craftsmen with the best skills in cultivation. He also called for a helper to build a house in the town.

Due to the complete manpower, a large group of people together with the materials for building houses and digging tunnels took a total of five days to complete.

The fire house was not very big, and was about the same size as the ear room, it was only that there was a short wall at the center of the house, which Qin Wuya divided into two parts, inside and outside.

The half outside was used for splitting firewood, while the one inside had three large pots.

These three big pots were also different from the ones in ordinary kitchens. Not to mention their size, the inside of each pot was made into a different angle to fill the mouth with water.

The lower side of each outlet was connected to the same copper trough as the front of the ear chamber. The copper troughs were arranged in a trapezoid shape. The upper part and the lower part were narrow, and by the time they reached the ear room, the three troughs were divided into two each. They became six cups and two were combined into one, standing side by side facing the wooden bath barrel in the ear room.

Two vats of water had been set up in front of the door of the fire house. When it was night time and they needed to bathe, they only needed to heat up the land dragons under the big pot and fill the pot with cold water.

Whether he should take one bite or take three, all depended on his own needs.

In the middle of May, the six carriages of four-colored pastries, which the Bai Family had set aside for Old lady of the Bai Clan's birthday, and which were imprinted with the design of the Happy Birthday Crane, had all been prepared.

As a result, the First Lady of the Bai Family had sent another steward from the inner courtyard to receive the goods. However, this time, the person who came was not Bai Qingnian, but a middle-aged man with a nice face.

Perhaps it was because of what Bai Qingnian had told him, the middle-aged manager was extremely polite to Manager Wu and Qin Wuya, and only ordered the servants to clearly count and confirm the pattern of the pastries, then very happily settled the rest of the money, causing the originally slightly worried Qin Wuya and Manager Wu to sigh in relief.

On the second day of receiving the goods, the Manager Wu courteously entertained the steward of the Bai Family a meal of wine and food, then picked a few nimble servants to escort the people of the Bai Family out of the Clear Water Town.

At the end of May, Bai Qingnian sent someone to send a letter to Guest Home Resturant, to the effect that Old lady of the Bai Clan was very satisfied with the four colored pastries on the day of the birthday feast.

In the middle of June, the Bai Family was holding a meeting of the Lotus Feast. They invited the hundreds of thousands of madams and mistresses from large and small families in Cloud Prefecture to participate.

Old lady of the Bai Clan felt that the patterns on the four colored pastries were pretty and interesting, so he decided to order another thousand pastries related to lotus flowers or poems.

The aristocratic families had a lot of face, and the Bai Family, as one of the top families in Cloud Prefecture, naturally had even more interest in these things. Because of this, the meaning of the letter was that as long as Qin Wuya and Manager Wu made the cake according to Old lady of the Bai Clan's wishes, then they could give the Bai Family a proper dignity in front of the various young mistresses.

It was actually not difficult to make other pastries with patterns, but it would require some effort to get the students of the town to help with the inscriptions. He also asked the craftsman to make these kinds of poems into a mold. This way, he would need to spend a lot of money.

If any ordinary rich person came to ask for it, they would definitely not be willing to do it.

But this time, the Bai Family took a total of a thousand, and obviously, the Old lady of the Bai Clan was not someone who cared too much about money, thus the Manager Wu was naturally willing to do this business. On the second day after receiving the letter, he sent his servants over to discuss it with Qin Wuya.

Qin Wuya was unable to find anything wrong with the letter, so she made Manager Wu write a reply in the study room in the backyard. When night fell, she personally wrote the letter to Zhang Shan.

Chao Chung Hall had special brothers who came and went between Clear Water Town and Cloud Prefecture every few days. Rather than sending employees to deliver messages, it would be safer to have the brothers of Chao Chung Hall help with this trip. After all, the Horse Bandits's Horse Bandits s all watched people eat.

But that night, Qin Wuya also paid a heavy price in order to avoid the cost of running errands, and when she stood up the next day, he felt as if all the bones in her body were broken and connected back to each other.

Although Qin Wuya was used to doing this, it was too embarrassing to place all of her work on Manager Wu alone.

Manager Wu knew that Qin Wuya had a lot of ideas, so he was naturally relieved. He only waited for the Bai Family to personally send people to agree on a new deed and personally go to the outskirts of the plant to take charge.

In fact, the actions of the Bai Family were even faster than Qin Wuya thought. Less than four days after sending the reply from the Manager Wu, the inner court manager of the Bai Family once again brought the deed and the deposit to the Clear Water Town.

This time, the person who came was the same kind middle-aged manager who was responsible for receiving the goods last time. Although the manager's words were polite, he was not an ignorant person. He took out the deed the moment he came over, and the three of them sat down in a corner to agree on the price.

Compared to the previous time, because it was specially customized this time, Manager Wu proposed that each box of pastries should be added with another silver coin.

Inviting people to draw, write inscriptions, and make models was time-consuming and expensive, so Manager Wu naturally would not ask for too much money, and the price was obviously within the Bai Clan's estimation.

Because of this, the middle-aged manager didn't object, but after thinking for a while, he happily agreed.

After she had married into the Bai Clan, she dug a pool of jade in the courtyard of the Bai Clan that was located outside the walls of the Cloud Prefecture Palace, and planted various kinds of lotus flowers and water lotuses.

Every June, when the water lilies in the pond would bloom, the former White First Lady would invite the ladies of the Cloud Prefecture to the other courtyard to admire the lotus flowers.

In the past, Old lady of the Bai Clan only held the Lotus Feast for the sake of his own preferences, he did not expect that after continuously holding it for a few years, because of its elegance and its reputation as a summer vacation, it would gradually spread among the wealthy families of Cloud Prefecture.

For this reason, in the coming decades, all the families with some prestige in the Cloud Prefecture hoped to receive a lotus invitation for their female family members in June.

Of course, to the ladies of these aristocratic families, the other meaning of the invitation was naturally the recognition and dignity given by the Bai Clan.

As the oldest family in the Cloud Prefecture, the Bai Family was still one of the top aristocratic families in the Cloud Prefecture. The dignity given to them by the highest status in the Bai Residence was naturally more than just a little bit of vanity.

Regarding this, every single woman who received the invitation and even the man in charge behind the woman knew the truth.

Just like in previous years, this year, the lotus invitation issued by the Bai Family was similarly hard to buy, and a single one was hard to find.

With Qin Wuya's status, she was obviously unable to enter the Lotus Feast, but this did not stop her from sending people to the various families to find out about the Old lady of the Bai Clan's preferences, or to find out more about the pastries and tea that had appeared in the Lotus Feast in the past.

Green lotus cover green water, hibiscus red fresh. The root of the root is concomitant with the root, and the head of the lotus is concomitant with the root.

Qin Wuya's right hand that was holding the self-made reed pen stopped for a moment, she sized up the snow-white letter and saw the disorderly four lines of the folk song poem, before asking Wang Nu who was standing beside him:

"I heard that Old Madame Bai and the late Old Master Bai have a good relationship?"

"Exactly." The Wang Nu nodded and said with a face full of amazement:

"When the Old Master Bai was alive, he also had a few concubines in his room, but they were not too doting on him. On the contrary, he was very friendly with the Old lady of the Bai Clan.

I heard that the Bai Clan, other than a few ladies who had already married off, who were born from an imperial concubine, the few old men who live in the courtyard were all born from the Old lady of the Bai Clan. "

The matter of the Bai Family's deceased god being born with an infatuation was known by everyone in the Cloud Prefecture more than ten years ago. Therefore, Qin Wuya did not think that there would be any problems with the gossip the Wang Nu gathered about the Bai Family.

It was just that compared to the Wang Nu's amazement and admiration, Qin Wuya actually discounted the Old Master of the Bai Family's loyalty.

Perhaps the Old Master of the Bai Family was really fond of the Old lady of the Bai Clan, but the only thing missing from the zither was a single portion of the "Three Thousand Water, Only a ladle of it".

And this single-minded skill was probably what Old lady of the Bai Clan yearned for and could not ask for in his entire life.

Otherwise, why would the old lady only love that double-edged red lotus in the decades after marrying into the Bai Clan when dozens of famous lotus flowers had been planted in the lagoon of the Bai Clan side courtyard?