Uncle Lin fell from the sky [Red Mansion + Qing Chuan]

Lin Zizhen took three little ones with him, walking around the streets and alleys, stewing boiled, candied haws, donkey rolling, and pea yellow, and they never stopped talking all the way.

These places were recommended to him by Li Guanghua before, all of them were the best restaurants that Li Guanghua found in Xiumu, and some were still hidden in the depths of the alley. There are quite a few people here, and there are also servants of some big families.

It can be seen that no matter what age, everyone's pursuit of food remains the same.

At the beginning, Hong Hui was a little bit resistant. After all, he seldom ate outside food since he was a child. If he wanted to eat, he would go to famous hotels, and eating while walking on the street was really unseemly.

But seeing his younger brother and Kangle's mouth full of oil, and smelling the smell of stewed skewers, not only was his heart moved, but also Uncle Lin next to him asked him several times, how bad it would be for him to refuse , After eating the first bite, there will be a second, and a third.

Anyway, the guards who followed behind to protect the people just watched the masters in front eating happily, which made their hearts itchy. The family came to eat.

Lin Zi really didn't want to buy some for them, everyone had a taste, but these guards shook their heads and refused, they would rather be cautious than careless, otherwise if something happened, ten of their heads would not be enough to cut off.

In addition to eating by themselves, Lin Zizhen and the others also packed a lot to take back to Siye and Sifujin, as well as Siye's only daughter, Little Gege.I heard that Little Gege knew they could go out, and was very envious, but no matter how big-hearted Fourth Master was, he would not easily agree with Little Gege to go out with them.

After eating enough, Lin Zizhen took them to the West Street to watch the ancient version of cockfighting and cricket fighting. From the Tang Dynasty to now, the folks in the capital have always retained the custom of playing crickets, especially after the Eight Banners entered the capital. This hobby was also cultivated. A group of noble children often get together to chat and fight crickets.

Occasionally, in the West Street, there will be a group of players to add color, set up arenas, play games, and gather a large group of people to place bets and watch.In addition to this kind of competition held by dudes, you can also see many children around, in groups of three and four, with long braids, although they are dressed in ordinary clothes, they are extraordinarily stinky, holding crude earthen pots or enamel pots. The tea mug, squatting under the tree, also began to fight, and the loser took out the copper coins he had saved, and bought one or two candied haws, and everyone shared one with me and ate it happily.

The cockfight was too brutal, Lin Zizhen didn't dare to take them to see it, after all his son and Hong Yun were only four or five years old, it would be bad to scare them.If you don’t have enough cricket fighting, you can take a look. The adults watched it here, and even watched the children’s side, especially Kangle and Hongyun. Some children cheered on the crickets they had chosen.

In the end, his face turned red, because the General Tiekou selected by Kang Le won the Qing Datou selected by Hong Yun. The big green head of the legs fell to the ground forcefully, and Hong Yun hurriedly picked up the cricket, looking at the miserable state of the cricket, still teary.

Master Kangle followed suit with a sigh, then turned to Lin Zizhen and said, "Father, it's so pitiful, can we raise it."

Hongyun also looked at him with hope, Lin Zizhen nodded, but looked at the two children and said: "Since you said you want to raise it, you must learn responsibility, you can't give up halfway, it may be just a plaything to you , but it is also a life. So you take good care of it, okay?"

The two children nodded solemnly.Hong Hui on his face also hurriedly said: "Uncle Lin, I will also help my younger brother and the others, and supervise them by the way."

"Okay, I'm sure you can do it." After talking about the more serious topic, Lin Zi was really about to take them to buy a box for crickets. At this moment, the child who had just recognized the cricket suddenly rolled his eyes, After looking at the outfits of Lin Zizhen and his group, they stepped forward and stopped them.

Sniffing, he said to Lin Zizhen and the others: "This big green head was caught by me with great effort. If you want it, it's not impossible, but you have to give me money. It has a broken leg, but its The cry is really nice. Give me ten copper coins, and I won’t suffer a bit if you buy it.” After saying this, the child’s voice became weaker and weaker.

Originally, he had hoped that Qing Datou would win, so that he could resell it to those rich adults and make a lot of money, but he didn't expect it to fail and lose.It also caused him to lose three copper coins. The money was originally intended to buy red cakes for his younger sister. Today is his younger sister's birthday. That debt collector killed their mother-in-law right after birth, and Ama also hated her younger sister. Later, he married a daughter-in-law and gave birth to a stinky brother who could only cry.

But no matter how annoying my sister is, he promised Erniang to take good care of her.If he didn't bring the red cake back, that crybaby would hide in the quilt and cry secretly, and he would be useless, and he didn't look like his Tuketan's sister at all.

For his own ears, Tuke Tan focused on Lin Zizhen and the others.Isn't it just a cricket? As for being so pitiful, when Tuketan broke his leg in order to catch crickets to make money, he still got up and worked. What a big deal.

The child's words immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of Kang Le and Hong Yun, and even Hong Hui was not very happy, but Lin Zizhen looked at the crooked patches on the child's body and nodded.

"Okay, I can give you ten copper coins, but you can't do this in the future. If it's other people, they won't be as easy to talk to as us. And in the future, you can't vent your anger on people or creatures that are weaker than you. That's not right. What a good boy does."

After Lin Zizhen finished speaking, he counted ten copper coins and gave them to Tuke Tan.

Holding the copper plate in his hand, Tuktan blushed. After coming for a while, he regained his former unruliness, and said slowly, "Am I a fool? I'm sure not everyone...it's not like these two fools They are all pitiful for a cricket, with red eyes." So, how could they argue with him.

This time, the two children who provoked him glared at him again, and the child even made a grimace in arrogance, and then jumped the two of them angrily.Lin Zizhen didn't say anything, just watched and smiled from the sidelines.

When the child was about to leave with the money, he hesitated, and finally said: "You are rich at first glance, remember to treat Qing Datou better. If you don't want to keep it, just let it go, anyway, it eats grass survive."

After saying that, he ran away.

Lin Zizhen patted two small ones this time, and took them to buy boxes for crickets. There are wooden square ones with reliefs, and straw woven pear-shaped ones, round ones, gall-shaped ones, mallet-shaped ones, and Yuling ones. melon shaped...

It is very exquisite and beautiful, even if it is not used to hold crickets, it is also beautiful to be used as a decoration.

After seeing these handmade boxes, Lin Zizhen also became interested in ancient handicrafts, and took the children to visit the places where carpenters and stonemasons gather.

Not to mention that it is also very interesting here, with wooden miniature courtyards, various animal dolls made of mud, and many wild and interesting stone carvings.

Lin Zizhen and the others picked up and bought a lot.

West Street sells a mixed bag of good and bad things, and besides these, Lin Zizhen also bought a lot of seeds from a small vendor who claimed to be from overseas.

When passing by a tavern, Lin Zizhen suddenly thought that the fourth master was going on a long trip, so his heart moved, so he went in and twisted two jars of the strongest shochu, which was said to be the strongest.

Originally, he wanted to send Hong Hui and the others back to Sibeile Mansion first, but Hong Yun refused, and he wanted to plant flowers with Kangle. Lin Zizhen bought a bag of overseas seeds, and mentioned by the way, that when the time comes All kinds, see what is planted?

The child is concerned, he has never planted anything since he has grown up.But it's getting dark now, and fourth master and Si Fujin are probably thinking about the child.

Lin Zizhen simply carried his things and went to Sibeile Mansion.As long as it's not a matter of principle, Lin Zizhen, who loves children, asks someone to run for him, bring him his official uniform, and tell Sun Jiawen by the way that he won't be going back tonight, anyway, there are many guest rooms here for fourth master.

On the side of the outer courtyard, Fourth Master and his staff member Mr. Dai sorted out all the project materials for the diversion of the Yellow River, and marked the places that needed careful inspection.

After finishing his work and having dinner, Lin Zizhen came back with someone.

As soon as he saw Fourth Master, Hong Yun, who was the happiest today, hurriedly shouted: "Ama, Uncle Lin and Kangle are staying at our house today. Uncle Lin said he would take us to plant things together."

After finishing speaking, he took out his hollowed cricket gourd and said to the fourth master: "Look, Ah Ma is my young and big head. He lost the game, and he broke a leg and was thrown away. Can I help you?" I can't keep it." After speaking, she looked at Fourth Master expectantly, afraid that he would reject her.

Fourth master glanced at him and nodded, but he still told him out of habit not to play with Shangzhi.

To be honest, they also played with this thing when they were young, even their Ama, Emperor Kangxi also played with it when they were young, but it was only when they were having fun, and there was an expert on the side watching the time, and when it was o'clock, he would Stop, do your homework obediently.

He didn't care about Lin Zizhen taking them to watch the cricket fight, but he said to Lin Zizhen with interest: "Why do you suddenly think of farming?"

At the same time, he naturally asked the servants to clean up the room for the two father and son.

"It's not that I bought a bag of seeds that are said to be from overseas on West Street. I bought it out of curiosity and planned to plant it to see what I could grow. It happened that Honghui and the others were also interested in it. It would be nice to take them to plant a kind of seed." fine."

Hearing this, fourth master became interested, and the group sent someone to invite a gardener, and moved to the garden. At this moment, some servants began to tidy up, and soon the beautiful garden was bald.

After coming here, if Lin Zi really has any dissatisfaction, it is the monotony of the diet. For the era of modern times, where the material is abundant and explosive, there are off-season vegetables, various fruits, and special foods there. , an online shopping can be achieved.

Fortunately, when he wore it here, the online shopping system followed suit.But there is no provenance for these things, even for his son, he would not give them to him, so he could only hide and eat some fruits at night.

As for what the original seeds were in the bag, Lin Zi really didn't know much, but he stuffed a lot of seeds into it on the way here.Peppers, peanuts, sunflowers, cherry tomatoes, watermelon, and his favorite strawberries, improved crystal grapes, etc.

Many of these seeds have actually been planted in some places now, but many of them are mostly ornamental plants and are not used for food. There are no sunflower seeds at this time. Most of the melon seeds that people say are guide melon seeds.

The gardener looked at these seeds, although many of them could not recognize them, but with many years of experience, he still carefully guided the masters to hydroponics first, let the seeds germinate, and then transplanted them into flower pots, and waited for them to grow to half a foot. Then move to the ground.

Regardless of whether they are big or small, they followed the method the gardener said seriously, claimed a batch of seeds of their own, and started a competition to see who planted the best.

Fortunately, hydroponics is not troublesome, and it was done quickly. It is a pity that such a piece of land has been tidied up, and there is no need to place it bare for the time being.

After finishing all this work, Lin Zizhen thought of the two jars of spirits he bought. He will start to work again tomorrow, and fourth master will go on a long trip in a few days. He must get out the alcohol early.

Although he can buy it directly with a certain treasure, it's better to be careful, not to mention that this thing is actually not difficult to make.At this moment, Lin Zizhen held the wine and shouted: "Let's go, let's make you something nice."

After finishing speaking, the eyes of the three children who had just cultivated their own flower seeds lit up again.They love the fun of doing it themselves.

Lin Zi really didn't lose everyone's appetite, so he specially explained: "This thing is also what the strange person said at the time. After distilling spirits, you can get a more pure essence of the wine. You can't drink this thing directly, or you will be poisoned. But using it to clean the injured wound can prevent infection and suppuration, and it is said that when encountering a highly contagious disease, spreading it in the air can also reduce infection.

Anyway, it's a good thing, let's make some first, and take it with Fourth Master when he goes out, so as to be prepared. "

After hearing this, fourth master was stunned for a moment, and patted Lin Zizhen on the shoulder. "You are determined, there is no need to be in such a hurry, I am only here to inspect, who would dare to assassinate the prince."

After finishing speaking, he continued: "But if this is true, then this is really a good thing, especially for soldiers. Every year, there are not a few soldiers who die of fever due to wound suppuration and infection. At this time, you have made a great contribution. "

Lin Zizhen really didn't care much about making meritorious deeds, but he was also happy to think that he could save many people with a single stroke of a butterfly.

Even though she grew up studying Ma Zhe and believed in science, the dean's mother who took care of them always talked about good reincarnation and karma. Lin Zizhen was also influenced a lot, and she always insisted on doing good deeds to accumulate good fortune.

See if he is very lucky now.

"Is there any trouble, use the kitchen, and find some bamboo poles, and it will be done in a while."

Fourth master didn't stop him either, he was also quite curious.When a group of people came to the kitchen, fourth master asked people to get things ready, and they all went down, leaving only Su Peisheng to light the fire, fourth master also rolled up his sleeves to help.

Lin Zi was really speechless, alcohol is really easy to make.I saw that Lin Zizhen poured the wine into the pot, covered the pot, then cut the bamboo pole in half, and inserted one end into the gap of the pot cover. As the wine boiled, the distilled water slowly flowed into the prepared porcelain bottle.

The three children on the side watched curiously.Soon the strong aroma of the wine spread out. Although it was a bit wasted, it was enough for urgent use. Although the alcohol concentration was lower, it was enough.

If a large amount of production is required in the future, it is best to make a set of equipment out of glass.The current glass technology should be able to succeed after a few more experiments.

After waiting for the finished product, the fourth master asked Lin Zizhen to keep quiet, and he kept the vial for himself, and let his confidantes take the rest, and test to see the situation first.

It's just that he is about to leave, so he can only wait until he comes back, and then he can claim credit for Lin Zizhen.

.......

The next day, Lin Zizhen returned home from get off work from the Imperial Academy, and picked out the things he bought yesterday. After thinking about it for a while, he wrote a long letter and called Pang Xi's family, asking Pang Xi to take her to Rongrong. Guofu, gave the things to Miss Lin, and said by the way: "Remember, this letter must be handed to the girl by hand, and tell her to make up her mind early, she is a girl from the Lin family, and the Lin family will always be her backing."

And here Rongguo Mansion, Xiaoxiang Courtyard.

As soon as Baochai left, Daiyu leaned on the couch, thinking of the intimate words she had just said to Sister Bao. She was always worried about herself, but she forgot that everyone in this world has their own difficulties. Is that also the case, she is accompanied by her family, but because of her brother's involvement, there is no hope of entering the palace, and because of her brother's incident, she can only rely on her aunt and uncle's.It is indispensable to be at the mercy of others. Daiyu doesn't believe how much Sister Bao likes Baoyu.

Sister Bao is an ambitious person, and the man she likes to admire is not Baoyu.I'm afraid that sister Bao will look at Baoyu more like a younger brother or a son.

Thinking of this, Daiyu laughed.

Sister Bao saw that she was not like this, as a younger sister and daughter at the same time, she was not feeling well. The bird’s nest in Xiaoxiangyuan was broken. Use, take good care of your body.And Baoyu.never mind....

Thinking of the second aunt's increasingly ugly face, to her, this is a villain, but to Baoyu, this is the person who loves him the most.

If they were really together, it would probably be nothing more than defeat and frustration.She will never let go of her pride for Baoyu, to please such a person who hates herself.But Baoyu is even more in a dilemma.

Maybe it's like Sister Bao said, since she also has relatives now, why not leave.

I just don't know if my uncle would mind...