As soon as September comes, the weather gradually becomes colder. I feel thin when wearing a jacket, and I have to cover a piece of thicker than a armor on the outside.

Haner tiptoed on the yard table and picked off the last tender loofah of this year. The rest of the shelf were all the falling seedlings with big fingers. Haner sighed unconsciously: "These small loofahs were born at the wrong time. They just grew up and caught frost and will never grow up in their lifetime!"

But Zhen said, "Pick it all, the younger ones want it too! You want it all!"

"How can you scratch your skin at such a young age?" said Smiling, but after listening to his mother's words, he picked all the little loofahs. "These edged loofahs are not easy to scratch."

"I'll scrape it!" Zhen's voice was very loud. "What a little prodigal son. Are you going to throw away such tender melons? The skins of these tender melons were removed, and chopped peppers were added with sesame oil and vinegar. It's delicious!"

Waner was too lazy to listen to his mother's nagging, picked all the loofahs and threw them into the basket behind him, and then picked the gourds and gourds: "Oh, these little gourds are elders! The skin is hard! It's so small and can't be used as a water scoop!"

"Then take it off and use it as a toy for the children!" Zhen's ability to make the best use of it. "You can use a pen to light your eyebrows and eyes, and you are a ready-made tumbler!"

"Oh, mom really has a way."

So, there was a large plate of fried gourds with garlic and fried gourds on the table for dinner today, plus a pot of cold loofah, and a thick stack of gourd silk cakes. The main food was sweet potato porridge and white flour steamed buns.

Because Ruan said that the gourds and loofah were both cold, Xiaoxiao went into the kitchen and fryed a large plate of vinegar and cabbage, and planned to give everyone some red date tea tonight.

As it is cold today, it is no longer suitable to eat in the yard, so everyone moved to the main hall of the main room. There was a table of Eight Immortals, so Xiaoxiao and a few of them ate around the small low table next to them.

Since Xizi sent a child's trolley last time, the twins at home have also been settled. When the adults were having dinner, the twins sat face to face on the trolley to play. At this moment, the two were fiddling with a few tumbler gourds on the table of the car, laughing non-stop.

The old lady drank a large bowl of sweet potato porridge: "Our previous bowls were not worth ten, but at that time I was full in one bowl."

Everyone laughed, now they were used to these words, no longer feeling sad about self-pity. Yanran also smiled and said, "That's the old lady who still has her belly to eat walnut crisps."

Everyone laughed, Zhan Yan also said, "We still have a large bag of walnuts. Yesterday, Mr. Li went to the walnut tree outside the vegetable garden and drew a lot of green eggs and walnuts. Now he is holding it in a sack and waiting for the green skin to fall off! In the past few days, we will also make walnut crisps, and then add some red dates to make southern date walnut cake!"

A sentence prompted Yu Ge'er in the car to say, "Eat candy and cake!"

Brother Sheng also shouted, but Jin Baodi couldn't do it, so she had to go into the kitchen to pick a piece of honey from the honey jar and dip it in a steamed bun for the three children to eat. The children were so happy that they stuttered in small stutters, and couldn't bear to finish it all at once.

Seeing that there was still a lot of honey left, Jin Baodi wanted to give it to Xiaoqian and Keju again, but the two children shook their heads repeatedly and said that they would not eat snacks when they grew up.

Everyone sighed: In such a hard day, the children also grew up early...

But from the southern date walnut cake, I remembered the delicious date-and-walnuts. Since I tried that a few months ago, the dates and walnuts have been packed and will only be used when cooking and making snacks.

Smile thought, when the Tang family turned over and returned to the good days before, I must have a good meal of dates and walnuts, and use the thickest Xingtang jujube with the fragrant big walnut kernels in Dingzhou! Use the sweet Hotan jujube with Hangzhou salt and salt walnuts! Use donkey-hide gelatin crystal candied dates with amber to bake walnuts! Use different ways to pick them up and eat them in different ways!

Eat until you are full! Eat until you get angry! Eat until you have nosebleeds!

A few years later, the "Mingyizhai" gold medal refreshment shop of Kaner's family launched a series of classic snacks such as 12 date-packed walnuts, pine nut and chocolate cake, etc., which became popular throughout Kyoto...

This is a glorious later story, so I won't mention it for now.

Although the table is full of simple food, everyone is very satisfied with their whole body being hot.

The careful Shan Niang saw that the old lady gently beat her legs and asked a few questions without realizing it. The old lady smiled and said, "My legs are old. Maybe the weather is cold these two days, and her knees are a little hurt... By the way, I smiled and pressed my legs a while ago. The technique is pretty good. I will help me press them tonight."

Xiaoxiao chewed the steamed bun in her mouth. Although she was puzzled, she still nodded on her face: "Okay, I'll sleep with my grandmother tonight!"

I don’t know how to massage, so when did I press my grandmother’s legs? It must be that she has something to say to me.

Yanran hurriedly said, "The fourth sister, let's sleep with us. The last book "Slack Collection" has not been finished yet. We just happened to study how to make persimmon cakes. The old persimmon tree at the entrance of the courtyard cannot be wasted!"

Zhan Yan also smiled and said, "You should not eat too much fresh persimmons. Instead, it is better to make them into persimmon cakes, which will not make them cold. You can keep them for more days!"

After the lively supper, there was a wind outside. The old lady said, "It's going to change. Let's go back to the house, close the doors and windows, and don't get in."

So, instead of sitting and chatting with the old lady as usual, everyone went back to their respective houses.

Xiaoxiao stayed in the old lady's room. She first cooked red date tea in the main hall with a large tea stove, sent some to each room, and then went to the kitchen to get the boiled water from Zhen's house and washed with the old lady.

After all these are finished, it's almost time to go to bed.

Xiaoxiao put out the bed and asked, "Grandma, do we still have the lights?"

"I don't light the lamp to do work, so I'd better save some lamp oil." The old lady was already lying on the kang, "Remember to remind the girls in the fifth room to go to bed early."

Xiaoxiao nodded: "I have already explained it, and Aunt Wu can't bear to light the lamp and boil oil."

Xiaoxiao turned off the light, her eyes adapted to the darkness for a while before she got on the kang.

As cold as today, the window screen has been removed and the window paper is not transparent. Whenever the lights are turned off, the room is pitch black and you can't see your fingers.

Xiaoxiao pressed the old lady's legs aside: "It will get colder and colder. I'll make a pair of knee pads for my grandmother tomorrow."

"Two pairs of spring lines have been made, enough." The old lady said slowly: "If you have enough carbon and quilts, you will not be afraid of winter."

"Well, Aunt Wu said a while ago, it was too cold and our family squeezed into a kang to sleep. If there were too many people, it would be warm and save fire."

The old lady said, "I used to say that the fifth wife is the stupidest. I have only seen her strengths now. In this life, I have to walk through mountains and rivers. How can I live on Yangguan Avenue for the rest of my life?"

After hearing this, Xiaoxiao remembered his grandfather's illness: "I have been thinking about where the most ideal place to escape punishment these days. With the identity of King Ning, it is difficult to exile my grandfather and the others to Furong Kingdom, which is too obvious."

Grandma's voice was not loud, and she was whispering in Xiaoxiao's ears: "If a crime like the Tang family is exiled, it is probably a place like the Ryukyu Peninsula."

“…”

"You go out quietly and see, are the lights in each room turned off? By the way, you can bring in the small tea stove and there is no need to bolt the door." The old lady suddenly said, and then reminded her again, "Put on a piece of clothes and don't catch a cold."

Xiaoxiao put on her clothes and walked out of the house gently. After hearing that the house next door was no longer moving, she quietly opened the door bolt and looked at the yard. The lights in each room had been turned off, and the pale moonlight shone in the yard, like the cold water of the lonely lake.

Xiaoxiao carried the small tea stove and returned to the house with a cool look, but she felt her eyes lit up. It turned out that it was her grandmother who lit the oil lamp, and the jumping orange-red color made the whole room warm.

My grandmother got dressed and got up at the kang: "Xiaoxiao and cook another pot of red date tea."

Xiaoxiao started cooking tea, but Yu Guang saw three tea cups on his grandmother's table.

Could someone come later? Who will come?

Who else would the guest who came to visit in the middle of the night besides the legendary man in black?

As the tea water in the pot boiled, the room was filled with the fragrance of red dates. Xiaoxiao did not seal the tea stove for the time being, but just changed to a low heat to warm it on it.

As if it was just for this pot of red date tea, there was a knock on the door outside the window at the right time.

To be precise, it is a knock on the window, which is very light and has a certain sense of rhythm.

The old lady's voice was not loud: "Come in."

While talking, the old lady had already stood up and stood in front of the house waiting.

Xiaoxiao also stood beside her grandmother. Without hearing any movement, she saw someone gently lifting the curtain.

As Swan said before, this person was wearing a black night clothes, tall and quick in shape, as if he could hide himself in the night at any time.

When this person uncovered the black cloth covering his face, Xiaoxiao felt shocked. This face that once surprised him appeared again in front of him - Shang Tuojiang.

"Come late at night, thank you Mr. Shang." Grandma said, and then ordered Xiaoxiao: "Come to make a cup of hot tea for Mr. Shang."

Xiaoxiao pressed down all kinds of thoughts in his heart, turned around and lifted up the copper teapot, and filled the three thick tea cups on the table: "There is no respect for the thick tea in the Pengcao."

Shang Tuojiang nodded slightly, sat down silently, and said straight to the old lady: "Founder the current situation, the old man and the others cannot be arranged in the mainland. If I can really go to the sea, I will do my best to the landlord and will never let the old man suffer any grievance."

"The Tang family cannot repay you with great righteousness," said the old lady.

Shang Tuojiang said lightly: "If it weren't for Mr. Tang, my life would have been lost in the deep sea to feed fish and shrimp."

Seeing that both of them were sitting down, Xiaoxiao sat at the table, warming his hands with a hot tea bowl, and couldn't help but say: "But, my dynasty is vast, and the borders between the southeast, the west and north are originally barren lands for the Central Plains, and the emperor may not exil his grandfather and the others to the beach."

Shang Tuojiang said: "I have already settled the southeastern waters, causing chaos on the seas there, and making it impossible for those merchant ships to deliver goods safely. At that time, the emperor will definitely ask about this matter."

The old lady and Xiaoxiao's grandparents and grandson listened carefully to Shang Tuojiang's words, fearing that they would miss one and a half.

Shang Tuojiang: "Once the superior asks, I said that maritime trade has been unstable in recent years, and I am not willing to suppress these people with an iron fist. After all, the freedom of sea transportation cannot be changed. But now, commercial talents who are proficient in trade are urgently needed at sea. Only such people can resolve these disputes in a reasonable way."

Xiaoxiao sighed that this is indeed a good solution, but for Shang Tuojiang, this method is very risky. Shang Tuojiang, a man, had a very subtle position in the Yuanlong Dynasty. On the one hand, it was a pirate leader who was terrified of the ships on the sea. On the other hand, it was used by the emperor of this dynasty and shouldered the mission of resisting foreign enemies for his country.

This is also a dangerous move for the emperor. For people like Shang Tuojiang, if they use it well, they will definitely win the whole game. If there are some omissions, they may be backfired.

"This method is really risky." The old lady also felt that it was inappropriate.

Shang Tuojiang said, "I don't directly interfere in the maritime trade order. As long as there is a problem with public security, even the safe trade may not be carried out."

When Xiaoxiao heard these words, he vaguely remembered the Yuanlong Business Daily brought by Xizi. It seemed that it recorded that "the East Coast is not peaceful, and there were repeated harassment by Japanese and Dutch ships." At this moment, he said: "But there is already a little chaos in the East Sea, and there are some foreign enemies..."

"That's all my people." Shang Tuojiang said without changing his expression.

Xiaoxiao was completely stunned: "Those foreign ships..."

"Those Japanese pirates and Dutch pirates are my people, and I asked them to make trouble there. Only when they get in trouble can they talk to the emperor." Shang Tuojiang picked up the red date tea and took a sip.

Xiaoxiao saw the power of pirate bosses for the first time. The emperor probably would never have thought that those foreign pirates were also used by the merchants. At that time, as long as the emperor thinks that these troublemakers are all foreign merchant ships, and they are dissatisfied with certain trade, they will naturally shift their focus.

The old lady frowned: "The Tian family is suspicious by nature, but they are afraid that this will not happen, which will affect Master Shang."

Shang Tuojiang said, "Therefore, I cannot mention this matter. I need to find a suitable person to advise the emperor, so that he knows that the East China Sea and the South China Sea need experienced business talents like the Tang family to mediate from it to achieve peace. If only force is used to suppress the country with xenophobia, even if the sea is calm, all the gold, silver and treasures will probably be lost because of the closing of the country."

This statement is reasonable, but who should play such a suitable person? King Ning is not suitable, and even Shang Ye cannot let King Ning know about it. After all, King Ning is a descendant of the royal family, and it is impossible to see a pirate colluding with foreign pirates to make trouble in the sea. Even to save the Tang family in a curve, it is absolutely impossible to allow it.

Who is the most suitable to go? You must have the opportunity to meet the emperor, and you must also have weight in your words. The most important thing is to be able to explain this matter clearly and further convince the emperor.

The old lady paused for a while before saying, "The chess pieces that the Tang family has raised for many years should be used."

Who? Bai Lianhua? Xiaoxiao shook her head repeatedly. She knew this woman so well. She might have the ability to deceive men, but she was essentially a stupid and arrogant woman. She didn't have a clear mind. Letting her do this would only ruin the matter.
Chapter completed!