After Yan Mingzhu tied up the vegetable garden, she walked to the vegetable garden and taught Mrs. Yuanda how to pick vegetables without damaging their roots and picking them completely.
Mrs. Yuanda and Mrs. Yuan Er learned it very seriously, and after learning it, they volunteered to pick Chinese cabbage.
Yan Mingzhu took Yuan Yixiao to pick small green vegetables. The green vegetables were small and picked very quickly, making a crisp sound.
After a while, Yan Mingzhu had picked a basketful of food, enough for the whole family to eat tonight.
But Mrs. Yuanda and Mrs. Yuan'er didn't have such a smooth experience. Chinese cabbage is large in size, so you have to use force when picking it. Sometimes you accidentally use too much force, and it will make a thud.
The cabbage was not pulled out, but fell down and squatted on its butt.
"Hahaha, mother, you have a lot of mud on your butt, hahaha..."
Yuan Yi laughed so much that Mrs. Yuan Er grabbed a handful of mud and smeared it on her face.
"Mom, you are too much, don't run away, I will come back too!"
"Sister-in-law, help me quickly. This girl is very strong. I can't hold her down at all."
Mrs. Yuan Da turned to Mrs. Yuan Er and immediately came over to stop Yuan Yi's laughter.
Yuan Yi smiled with her face blurred, and shouted: "Cousin, don't watch the fun, we are in the same camp, come and help me!"
Yan Mingzhu also joined in the fight. For a while, everyone's face and body were muddy with mud, but the laughter continued. The small vegetable garden was very lively.
After picking the vegetables, some of them were taken by the servants for cooking, while Yan Mingzhu took the other cabbages to pickle them.
"There is a kind of kimchi called Guo's kimchi. It tastes quite good and the making method is very simple. Auntie, just follow me and make it together."
Yan Mingzhu asked the servants to prepare two large vats for pickling vegetables.
Cut off all the vegetable leaves, cut the remaining white stems into large pieces, wash them, hang them up to dry, and then add some seasonings.
"Pour salt, white vinegar, brown sugar, vermicelli plum and braised plum juice in proportion. Add spicy to one jar, and add nothing to the other jar. Then put it in a cool place to ferment for three to five days."
According to what Yan Mingzhu said, everyone got busy. When it was finally done, Yuan Yixiao even came closer and smelled it, "It smells so good. It tastes very different from the kimchi I used to eat. Cousin, are you?"
Where did you get such fragrant Guo’s kimchi?”
Without waiting for Yan Mingzhu to answer, Yuan Yi smiled and had an idea, "Ah, I know, you must have eaten it at Dingbei Palace, right? The most indispensable thing in the palace is rare goods. His Highness must have found something delicious.
Everything is brought to you, cousin, right?"
"What nonsense are children talking about? What delicious food is there in Dingbei Palace? What does it have to do with our Zhuzhu? Don't talk nonsense anymore."
Mrs. Yuan Er rewarded Yuan Yixiao with a chestnut, and Yuan Yixiao covered her forehead in grievance, "But His Highness King Dingbei is very good to my cousin..."
"Pickle your cabbage, tell me what's available, and then go back to your yard."
Yuan Yixiao felt aggrieved, but she did not dare to refute in front of her mother. Fortunately, Yan Mingzhu opened her mouth to explain: "It was the method taught to me by my two masters."
"I see, Xiaoxiao, from now on, you are not allowed to mention your foreigner's name casually in the Hou Mansion, do you understand?"
Yuan Yi smiled and wondered, is His Highness King Dingbei a foreign man? If everything goes well, he will be his future cousin-in-law, but what about his own family!
But Mrs. Yuan'er's expression was serious, so she had no choice but to agree aggrievedly.
After placing the two large tanks in a warm and cool place, it was getting late, so Mrs. Yuan Da and the others went back to rest.
Not long after Yan Mingzhu pretended to leave, she came back.
"Girl, that's the jar you want. Girl, what do you want the jar for?"
Liu Xiang was sent by Yan Mingzhu to get the jar before. When she came back, she happened to meet Yan Mingzhu in the kitchen.
"Pack some pickled cabbage and send it to Prince Dingbei's Mansion."
Yan Mingzhu thought that Qi Jue didn't like meaty food and never touched spicy food, so she chose the non-spicy vat.
While explaining, Yan Mingzhu opened the lid and filled the jar with pickled cabbage.
Liu Xiang also knelt down to help, but she felt very strange in her heart: "Girl, you want to deliver pickled cabbage to Beiwang Mansion, why do you have to do it secretly, and then come back and pretend when the eldest lady and the others are not around?"
"My aunt and others are afraid that I will have too much contact with His Highness. Yesterday, I was lectured by them. If they knew that I was going to send pickled cabbage to the palace, I'm afraid they would talk about it again, so I decided to keep it private.
Come and save trouble."
Liu Xiang was so happy that she asked, "Girl, why do you think you are having an affair with His Highness Prince Dingbei?"
"If you keep talking nonsense, I won't take you out."
Liu Xiang quickly begged for mercy and worked hard to fill the jar with pickled cabbage. After a while, the jar was full.
Taking the jar and looking at the sky outside, Yan Mingzhu walked out of the secret passage.
Because it was getting late, Yan Mingzhu did not ride a horse, but chose to walk there.
It was dark at night, and Pei Duqin had just finished his official duties at the Hanlin Academy and was on his way back home. He inadvertently opened the curtain, and with almost a glance, he saw a beautiful figure not far away.
Even though he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, Pei Duqin recognized him the moment he saw his back.
There was a thought in my heart, and I didn't even think about it. My mouth was already speaking faster than my brain: "Miss Yan San."
Yan Mingzhu was originally in a good mood. On the way to the palace, she even thought of making a joke with Qi Jue.
While she was organizing words in her mind, she suddenly heard someone calling her and instinctively looked back.
After seeing that the other party was Pei Duqin, the smile in her eyes instantly became clear, and there was not even a fake smile on her face, showing a sense of alienation from the inside out.
"What do you want, Second Young Master Pei?"
Not to mention the big difference in Yan Mingzhu's attitude towards him, even Liu Xiang immediately stood in front of Yan Mingzhu after seeing it was Pei Duqin, for fear that the other party would hurt Yan Mingzhu.
"Girl, what do you have to say to these beasts from the Pei family? Let's leave quickly."
Yan Mingzhu didn't intend to pay attention to it at all. She withdrew her gaze and turned around to continue walking.
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Pei Duqin got off the carriage directly and chased after him, "Miss Yan, the night is getting darker. It's very inconvenient for a girl like you to go out alone. Where are you going? Can I take you there?"
Yan Mingzhu turned her head and looked at Pei Duqin with a strange look. She quickly guessed in her heart that Pei Duqin had some bad intentions in his heart and dared to attack her again. It seemed that it was the same as before.
The punishment for the Pei family was not enough, so why did this guy dare to show up in front of her?
"Where am I going, and what does it have to do with you? We've already broken up with each other, so you don't have to pretend in front of me. Good dogs don't block the way. If you don't get out of the way, don't blame me for being rude."