"You want me to make food for Master?" He Yunxi asked.
"No. The master's wife is not in good health. If there is a chance, can you take a look at her?" Lu Yan asked.
"Is it bad?"
"I often get sick. I have seen the imperial doctor, but there is no cure."
"Who are you, my wife? Can you still treat his wife as an imperial physician?"
"Master once worked in Hanlin, but because of some things, he resigned and came here." Lu Yan said, "When I was in the capital, I also hired an imperial doctor."
"Oh. I don't know the extent of the medical skills of the imperial doctor here, and I haven't seen anyone there, so I can't guarantee whether I can cure it. But if there is a chance, I can show it to her." He Yunxi said.
"Thank you."
"Thank you, it's not a big deal." He Yunxi felt that this lady was a nice person, and helping with medical treatment was just a casual matter.
When the two returned home, He Yunxi made tofu fish, while Lu Yan went to the next village to order tofu plates.
The preparation of tofu fish is very simple. First, cut the fish into slices, marinate it with salt, wine, pea powder, pepper and other seasonings, and then cut the kimchi.
There was no kimchi in the Lu family, so Lu Yunjiao brought the tofu pudding to Wang Yougen's house to change it in the morning.
He Yunxi went to the ice cellar and took a piece of pork belly, cut it into small cubes and prepared it for later use. He also prepared onions, ginger and garlic.
I just bought garlic last time, and now people rarely use it as seasoning.
All the ingredients were ready. She scooped a large spoonful of lard into the pan. After the oil melted, she put the diced meat in and fried it. When it was almost done, she put in the onions, ginger, garlic and bean paste and sauteed until fragrant. Then she poured the kimchi in and stir-fried.
Add water after it tastes sour. After the water boils, put the fish bones and fish heads in and boil, then pour in the tofu pudding and cook. After a few minutes, pour in the fish meat and cook for a few minutes. Before taking it out of the pot, add a little of the ancient version of Thirteen she made.
It's fragrant, and a little mushroom powder is added.
Unfortunately, there is no clear oil now, so the last step of oiling is missing.
Put it into a pot, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and the spicy and fragrant tofu pudding fish is ready.
Lu Yan happened to come back and the family had dinner together.
After dinner, Lu Yan went to Liu's room, and when he came out, he called He Yunxi to go to the village chief's house.
"Have you told your mother about buying land?" He Yunxi asked.
"I told you, mother said it's up to us," Lu Yan said.
"That's fine." He Yunxi didn't want to cause any quarrel with Mrs. Liu. Once there was a rift between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would be very troublesome.
It was still early at this time, and Wang Yi's family had not yet gone to the field. Lu Yan went to knock on the door, and the person who opened the door was Wang Yi's youngest son, Wang Yu.
"Brother Lu, you are here, please come in." Wang Yu admired Lu Yan and greeted him warmly.
Lu Yan and He Yunxi went in and handed the basket in their hands to Wang Yu: "I brought some snacks for the children."
"How could this happen?" Wang Yu refused.
"What's the matter?" Lu Yan put the basket in his hand, "Is the village chief here? We have something to ask him."
"Here you are. Dad, Brother Lu is looking for you." Wang Yu shouted inside, and Wang Yi came out of the room.
"Boss Lu, what can you do?"
"Village chief, it's like this. We want to buy the land under our mountain and want to know what the regulations are." Lu Yan said.
"Do you want to buy land? Or the land at the foot of your mountain?" Wang Yi was a little surprised, "That is a wasteland, what are you buying it for?"
"Although it is wasteland, once it is cultivated and cultivated, crops can be grown."
Wang Yi advised: "The land in that place is not good and it is far away from the river at the entrance of the village. It will not be useful for growing crops in the future."
"We have already thought of ways to solve the water problem." Lu Yan said, "Village Chief, do you know what the price of this wasteland is now?"
When Wang Yi saw that Lu Yan insisted on buying it, he stopped trying to persuade him and said, "One acre of wasteland costs one and a half silver. How much do you want to buy?"
Lu Yan looked at He Yunxi, and He Yunxi asked: "How many are there under our mountain?"
Lu Yan knew that she was not familiar with that place, so he said: "There is a small hill to our right, and there is about fifty acres of it extending to the foot of the mountain next to it."
"Then why don't we take it all down?" He Yunxi winked at Lu Yan, the price was even lower than they expected.
One and a half taels of silver, fifty acres, is seventy-five taels. It was fifteen taels more than she expected.
She was afraid that Lu Yan would worry about spending the money his mother spent on medicine, so she pulled his sleeve, whispered in his ear: "I still have fifteen taels of dowry money, which I pawned last time."
Warm breath sprayed on his ears. Lu Yan, who had never been so close to a woman in his life, couldn't help but blush. He didn't know what he was thinking. He Yunxi pulled his sleeves, and he coughed dryly and said: "
Village chief, then we want the area at the foot of our mountain, all the way to the foot of other mountains."
"That's at least fifty acres of wasteland. You all want to buy it?" Wang Yi was so shocked that his voice rose, and then he frowned: "Those are not one or two acres. The purchase fee alone is more than seventy taels, and another one is required.
Two silver deeds. Do you have that much silver?"
"I have enough money. When something happened at home last time, my mother pawned her last jade pendant. Now I have some left. If I buy that fifty acres, it will be enough." Lu Yan said.
The Lu family has a lot of money, but few people know about it, and Wang Yi is one of them. When the Lu family settled down and bought land, he was the one who helped organize it.
"Since you still have dozens of taels, why not buy a few acres of high-quality land and use it to grow crops in the future, so that you can live on." Wang Yi advised.
"Village chief, let's buy those wastelands. When the time comes, we can open up the wasteland and cultivate it. Maybe we can also cultivate good land." No matter what Wang Yi said, Lu Yan insisted on buying it.
"Well, since you have decided, I will go to Li Zheng tomorrow and go to the Yamen with him. You can come with me then." Although Wang Yi wanted to persuade Lu Yan, he also knew his character.
Not so easy to listen to.
In his opinion, buying so much wasteland is like studying stupidly.
But it's not his own money, so what's the point of being anxious?
After coming out of the village chief's house, He Yunxi sighed: "The village chief is really good. He wholeheartedly cares for the villagers."
"Yeah. So Wangjiacun is much better than other villages." Lu Yan said.
"Let's go and visit Uncle Yougen's house."
The two arrived at Wang Yougen's house. When they were walking through the village, He Yunxi noticed that someone was looking at her. When she turned around, there was no one there.
But that's not Wang Erya's house.
"What are you looking at?" Lu Yan asked softly when he saw her staring there.
He Yunxi glanced at him: "Look at your rotten peach blossoms."
Lu Yan frowned, not understanding what she meant.
"Let's go." She didn't have time to deal with Wang Erya now, and there was no evidence, so no one would believe her.