Yunzhou, governor's office.
Gu Nanxi lay down for more than half a month. After gaining a small amount of weight, she could no longer lie down.
Recently, Wen Yu has been obsessed with ideological education classes, and published novels in "Yunzhou Weekly". In his words, he praised Yunzhou endlessly, and he almost praised Gu Nanxi to the sky.
As she looked at it, Gu Nanxi wanted to dig out a three-bedroom and one-living room on the ground with her toes.
"Lu Mei, what shall we eat today?"
People depend on food. After breakfast, they start thinking about lunch, and after lunch, they start thinking about dinner.
Gu Nanxi got up from the kang and opened the window in the room to let in some ventilation.
Lu Mei tied a knot on the sachet as a finishing touch. This is the third sachet she has made!
"Master, what we eat at night is not decided by us, but by the common people."
This is really a happy trouble!
Every day, people feed the governor's house in different ways. Lu Mei counted the days, and this time it should be canned braised mutton.
Gu Nanxi picked up the little flower that was still leaning on the fire bed. It was plump and furry: "We have to find a way to return the gift to the people."
Lu Mei sighed helplessly. : "I don't want to give you any money, I don't want to give you any silk. Tell them not to give any more gifts. I promise you well, but then you forget about it."
Gu Nanxi stroked Xiaohua's hair and said with some suspicion. : "Lu Mei, has this little flower gained weight? Why do I look bigger than when I first came here?"
Lu Mei glanced at it and said indifferently: "I spend my days raising pigs. If you don’t live like this, where can you go? Other people’s kittens also like to scratch the hydrangeas. Our cat’s stick is dangling in front of us, and we don’t know who it is.”
Gu Nanxi felt a little guilty, as everyone said pets follow their owners.
Could it be that it was a little raccoon slave who saw through his true nature?
Xiaohua likes Gu Nanxi's hot bed so much that she almost regards it as her own. She only allows Gu Nanxi to get on the hot bed, and Green Plum is not even allowed to touch it!
"Xiaohua, you've eaten meat." Lu Mei wanted to take off Gu Nanxi's quilt.
But before she got on the fire bed, she saw Xiaohua grinning at her and her pointed ears stood up!
Lu Mei patted its butt angrily and threw a small piece of mutton into the food bowl under the dining table.
The little flower took a rough stroll, ran under the dining table, picked up the mutton, jumped for joy, and climbed onto the fire bed again!
As soon as Lumei was next to the quilt, she almost got scratched by Xiaohua.
“Forget it, I’ll do it.”
The palms and backs of her hands were all flesh. Gu Nanxi didn’t want Xiaohua to be beaten, and she didn’t want Lumei to get hurt, so she had to do it herself. Do this job.
"Just pamper it!" Lu Mei took advantage of Xiaohua not paying attention and pulled the tip of its ear, almost getting another paw.
Gu Nanxi quickly picked up the little flower: "Be gentle, it took a lot of effort to grow such small hairs on the little flower's ears, don't pull them out."
The little flower is short and thin. The fat tail lightly tapped Gu Nanxi's arm, seeming to be very satisfied with Gu Nanxi's favoritism.
Lu Mei said deliberately: "Isn't our little flower a disabled person? Why is this tail so short and fat? Other people's cats have such long tails, and their tails with their tails erect are the same as if they are not erect!" "
"Ouch! Ouch!"
The little flower howled and waved its paws in the air, as if to say, come on, let’s challenge each other, what’s the point of beeping?
Gu Nanxi and Lu Mei couldn’t help but laugh with her milky voice and feigned ferocity. Lu Mei was grinning from ear to ear: "Xiao Hua, are you afraid that you are not a human? You can still understand human speech! Also, who did you learn the pronunciation from? Come, say it to your aunt, meow meow." Meow... not ow ow! ”
“Oow! ow ow!”
“It’s meow meow...”
One person and one cat, one meows like a cat and the other imitates a tiger. The noise makes Gu Nanxi's head hurt!
When the two things finally stopped, Gu Nanxi expressed her thoughts: "As the New Year is approaching, I'm afraid it won't be appropriate to give gifts to the people this year as in previous years. ”
Lu Mei stopped teasing Xiao Hua and said seriously: "If you prepare too much, I'm afraid the people won't be willing to accept it."
It is said that money is a person's courage. Once a person has money, he will not Then worry about those three melons and two dates.
Since the year before last, the people of Yunzhou have begun to make money. Especially this year, the wool business is getting bigger and bigger, and the cannery business is also booming!
Although poverty has not been completely lifted out of poverty, many families have benefited greatly from it.
As hard as the past life was, how deep their gratitude to Gu Nanxi was in their hearts!
Of course Gu Nanxi knows this, so this year she plans to add a can of bean paste to her New Year’s gift!
This soybean paste is a good thing!
Put a lump of lard into the pot, cut a few onions and put them in. Heat until the lard melts and the fragrance of the onions comes out, then add a bowl of sauce to it.
You don’t even need to add salt. Mix the sauce from the lard oil and pour it on the noodles, and you have a bowl of fragrant fried noodles!
This soybean paste is best made during the rainy season. Soak the selected soybeans in water, then steam them, filter out the water, then wrap them in flour and spread them on a bamboo plaque.
Wait until the beans are covered with mycelium, then spread them out and dry them in the sun. This will make the sauce fragrant.
"The sauce that the young lady brought back?" Lu Mei remembered that the young lady thought that the soybean paste made in Yunzhou was not authentic, so she brought back a lot of soybean paste from Kyoto.
This sauce mixed with lard is the best sauce for making stinky tofu!
When I was in Kyoto, regular customers of Baiwei Restaurant were willing to buy a bowl of sauce from the restaurant. Whether it was bibimbap or noodles, it was delicious!
The main ingredient of this soybean paste is beans, and the more expensive ingredient is salt.
I think the people will be willing to accept this!
“What a great idea! It happens that in winter, there are not many vegetables on the common people’s tables. This cabbage stewed tofu with a spoonful of miso is also very delicious!”
We discussed it and gave it to the common people. After returning the gift, Gu Nanxi began to think about what gifts to prepare for the Holy Emperor and the Queen Mother.
Last year I gave them woolen felts, so I shouldn’t fool them with this again this year.
In addition to wool felt, Yunzhou also has canned food. Although you can also buy it in Kyoto, it is not what you want after all!
Gu Nanxi circled around a lot, and finally found out helplessly that the New Year's gift this time was really too thin.
Lu Mei comforted: "The Holy Emperor and the Queen Mother treat you like family. They also know the situation in Yunzhou and will never find fault with you."
These words were like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, Avoiding the fog in front of Gu Nanxi's eyes.
Yes, last year I dared to give only one wool felt. In addition to the fact that this thing was really novel and gimmick, I also knew that the Holy Emperor and the Queen Mother would definitely sympathize with me.
Then why this year’s gifts are so much richer than last year’s, but I still feel a little worried?
Gu Nanxi sighed and had to admit that the distance was the gap. Lovers will be separated by distance, and the same is true for the relationship between monarch and minister. (End of this chapter)