Chapter 72: Drying Vegetables
The princess did not interrogate them personally and took the three maids away. Nanny Lou came back soon.
"Princess, this was done by the maidservant next to Concubine Zhu. She said she did it on Concubine Zhu's orders."
Hearing this answer, Concubine Zhu widened her eyes in disbelief, "No, this is impossible."
"I don't!"
When Concubine Mei heard this answer, she was furious with Concubine Zhu.
"I will kill you to avenge my child..."
Even when he was on the way back to Shouzhuyuan, Ji Yunqing's mind was still a little numb and he couldn't think straight.
She had never seen any woman in the mansion have a miscarriage before. Even the incident with Concubine Qian happened afterward.
This time, Concubine Mei was talking to her with a smile, but within a short while, she lost the baby in her belly.
She couldn't help but shudder.
"Hemerocallis, we must be more careful from now on. You must remind me not to go to any waterside or dangerous places.
Otherwise, your master might be gone for no apparent reason."
Hemerocallis comforted her gently: "Don't worry, Master. I will remind you."
Hearing Xuancao's patient comfort, Ji Yunqing felt a little relieved.
Ji Yunqing stopped suddenly.
No, just now there were two concubines, Mei and Zhu, standing by the water. Maybe there were not just the two of them, but also their maids.
Then what Mei Shiqi said was that she felt someone was pushing her from behind...
Ji Yunqing broke out in a cold sweat.
Maybe there really is someone.
Generally speaking, the maids serving around are trained, and they are like air when no one speaks.
Xuancao looked at her master who suddenly stopped, tilted her head slightly and asked in confusion: "Master?"
Ji Yunqing shook his head, his face was very ugly, and he made up an excuse: "It's nothing, I just want to go to the toilet, but I just ate so many good things, it would be a pity to go back and poop."
Hemerocallis: “…”
Master, you don't need to feel sorry about this, right?
"Let's go! I'll bear it for now and go to the toilet next time." Ji Yunqing ignored Xuancao's indescribable look and stopped thinking about what happened before.
When Ji Yunqing returned to Shouzhuyuan, as soon as he entered the door, he saw Hong Xing and Hong Dou looking at the yard with sad faces.
"What are you two doing here?"
Ji Yunqing looked around the yard in confusion, "What's so good about this place? Do you two think that mosquitoes have nothing to eat if they don't have land to farm, so you plan to do good deeds to feed the mosquitoes?"
When they suddenly heard the voice of their master, Hong Xing and Hong Dou hurriedly saluted, and then Hong Xing couldn't help looking worried.
"Master, there are too many vegetables in our yard. It will be wasted if we can't eat them all."
The food that cannot be finished is wasted. The Chinese people, who have been thrifty all their lives, cannot bear to hear this.
Ji Yunqing looked at the vegetables in the yard carefully.
The vertical cucumbers on the rack are hidden among the cucumber leaves. There are purple eggplants and green eggplants on the eggplant plants. Both colors were planted at the beginning.
There are also beans that are more than one meter long, which are pleasing to the eye.
Each one is full of fruits, and coupled with the juicy green vegetables, it looks crispy and refreshing.
Ji Yunqing exclaimed in her heart, it was really beautiful. Before she traveled through time, she couldn’t even keep a garlic sprout alive!
She used to have trouble keeping flowers alive as she thought they were too fragile, so she turned to growing vegetables and stuffed the sprouted garlic cloves she bought into flowerpots. Ji Yunqing felt happy that now everything was secure.
After all, the garlic cloves sprouted in the plastic bag. If you put it in the soil and take good care of it, it will grow quickly, right?
But the result later...
Not to mention.
Ji Yunfeng happily admired the vegetables that he had grown with so much effort.
He decisively decided: "If we can't eat it, we can dry it in the sun or pickle it into pickles. We can't waste it anyway!"
Upon hearing this, several maids also agreed.
"That's great. My mother is very good at pickling vegetables. Master, I have been helping her since I was a child." Hongdou participated actively with great joy.
Hong Xing also nodded, praising her master's cleverness: "That's good. Even if the master is confined to his room during the winter, he won't have to worry about having nothing to eat!"
Everyone: "..."
Everyone understands the truth, but there is no need to say it directly, right?
But it’s too late today, so we can only start tomorrow.
The next morning, taking advantage of the cool weather, the agricultural product processing work in the yard was in full swing.
Ji Yunqing led the maids in the yard to pick the ripe beans.
The stove in the yard has not been removed yet, so we are still using it.
Rinse the beans in boiling water and place them in a sunny place in the yard.
The same method applies to green vegetables.
Cut the eggplant into strips and dry them in the sun.
Ji Yunqing planned to dry half of the remaining cucumbers and make the other half into pickled cucumbers.
The main reason for so many sun-dried foods is that drying is convenient, while pickling requires more seasoning.
Just the salt alone made Ji Yunqing feel heartbroken.
Look at the fruits and vegetables that are still growing in the yard. They will be ripe in two days.
Ugh!
It’s a good thing that we can grow so much. It’s really a sweet trouble.
I don't know when King Zhao will come to her again. It would be great if he could give her some gold coins again.
Unfortunately, King Zhao recently got her ex-fiancé, and it is obvious that he will be partying every night and cannot come.
Thinking of this, Ji Yunqing looked at the gate of the courtyard.
Nothing happened.
But she did remember one thing.
"Yesterday, she said she wanted to send a guqin to Concubine Zhao. I'll send it over later."
Ji Yunqing muttered this, and Xuancao was very curious. She had wanted to ask it yesterday.
"Master, why are you so nice to Concubine Zhao?"
"Okay?"
Ji Yunfeng cut another cucumber with his knife, and said without raising his head: "Actually, I was thinking that since we are close to each other,
If I'm grounded in the future and she happens to be released, she can help me out and send me some things. Of course, if she's grounded again in the future, I can send her some things."
Hemerocallis: “…”
What to say?
"Master is really far-sighted!"
But it's just a piano, it can't be eaten or worn, so it's appropriate to give it to someone else as a token of appreciation.
After Ji Yunqing finished his work, he took Hemerocallis with him.
At this moment, there was only an old woman dozing off guarding the door. The master and servant tiptoed away and stopped in front of a wall of the Hundred Flowers Garden.
Xuancao asked Ji Yunqing in confusion: "Master, why don't you just ask the old woman to open the door? Even if she can't open the door, you can ask her to wait on the side?"
"No way"
Ji Yunqing shook his head and explained to Xuancao seriously: "Your master, I am a social phobic."
Hemerocallis didn't understand what it meant.
Ji Yunqing continued, "It's just that I, your master, don't like interacting with people. I usually don't talk if I can."
Daylily: …? ? ?
Master, are you such a person?
Ji Yunqing nodded seriously. Yes, she was actually very socially anxious inside.
"Alas, when will there be someone who truly understands me?"
Ji Yunqing was sad for three seconds, then looked around, picked up a handy wooden stick nearby and threw it in.
"anyone there?"
Logically speaking, at this time, there should be people here, just like yesterday.
Sure enough, before she could throw down one, the voice of Concubine Zhao came from the courtyard.
(Ji·Inner Social Phobia·Yun Qing summoned up the courage: Ask for electricity~)