General, Madam Called You To Farm

Chapter 65 – Father-in-law and his son-in-law (1)

Su Xiaoxiao went to the outer courtyard to find Shen Chuan, she gave him the medicine that the patient needed to take, and carefully instructed the dosage and usage.

“I can’t trust anyone else. So I can only ask you for this. In addition, this is a secret recipe passed down from my ancestors. So remember to keep it confidential for me.”

“Don’t worry, I will.”

Shen Chuan received strange medicines.

“In return, these cakes are for you.” Su Xiaoxiao took out fifty wife’s cakes wrapped in bamboo leaves from her back basket.

Wife’s cakes / Lao Po Ping (老婆饼) 

-Food wrapped in Bamboo leaves.

-The back basket. 

“So, so much?” Shen Chuan was stunned. “I can’t finish all of them!”

Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said: “If you can’t finish eating them, then you can give it to your fellow classmates for a taste. It is also necessary to have a good relationship with your fellow classmates.”

In fact, it was originally intended to be given to the students of the academy for tasting. But now there was a great opportunity to sell the favor. So why not push the boat with the current?1

1To push the boat with the current (metaphor) : to take advantage of the situation for one’s own benefit. 

In her previous life, she had always disliked her mother’s tactful businessman behavior. But when she changed from a wealthy young lady to a poor village girl, she realized that to become a person who didn’t bow down to others, money was required. 

Su Xiaoxiao said, “The academy is too far away. I may not come to the academy to set up a stall in the future.”

“Ah……” Shen Chuan was disappointed.

Su Xiaoxiao smiled: “However, if anyone wants to eat, they can pre-order it. As long as it reaches ten pieces, I will send it to you for free.”

“In addition, since I considered you as a friend. For you, I will only charge 9 wen a piece for any reservation made by the academy.”

Wow, he didn’t have to go out and could get the cakes delivered, and it was also one wen cheaper. Thinking about it, it was really a bargain!

Shen Chuan immediately responded, “I will go and tell them right away!” 

“Don’t forget the wife’s cakes!” Su Xiaoxiao reminded him.

“Oh, yes, yes!” Shen Chuan turned back with a smile, he took a lot of cakes, and dashed out.

Su Xiaoxiao went to the main gate of the academy.

Seeing her coming out from the inside, the page boy who had stopped her before was dumbfounded.

“Jie2!”

2Jie (姐) : Older sister.

Su Ergou trotted over and said, “Have you seen Shen Chuan?”

Su Xiaoxiao nodded: “I have seen him, and I also have given the cakes to him.”

“Then we can go back now,” Su Ergou said.

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head: “No hurry, let’s go somewhere first.”

The three-day period agreed with the doctor had arrived. She had to go to the doctor’s house to pick up the ordered silver needles and medicinal materials.

“Do you know Chunliu Lane?” she asked Su Ergou.

“I know, it’s not far from the market. From here to Chunliu Lane, it’s about… three or four miles?” Su Ergou was not sensitive to numbers, so seven or eight miles was his own random estimation. 

In fact, they walked more than six miles.

Su Xiaoxiao was sweating profusely with her fat little body.

Today’s exercise was sufficient enough……

Chunliu Lane was an old alley. There were many cracks on the bluestone floor, and green moss grew in the cracks.

The two walked cautiously, and finally came to the door of a family with a wooden sign surnamed Fu. 

“Knock on the door.” Su Xiaoxiao said.

“Eii!”

Su Ergou was happy to be ordered by his fat older sister, he raised his hand and knocked on the door.

“Is there anyone?”

He shouted.

After a while, the door was slowly opened from the inside.

“Who is it?”

An old voice asked impatiently.

“Huh?”

Su Xiaoxiao blinked and looked at her in surprise.

She also saw Su Xiaoxiao, and her eyebrows twitched: “There is no meigan cai today!”

-A bundle of Meigan Cai (梅干菜)
A type of dry pickled chinese mustard. The pickle consists of a whole head of various varieties of chinese mustards and cabbages that has undergone an elaborate process consisting of drying, steaming, and salting. The vegetables are harvested, trimmed before the Qingming Festival, and sun-dried until limp. It is then salted or brined, kneaded until the juices are exuded, and left to ferment in large clay urns for 15 to 20 days. The vegetable is then repeatedly steamed and dried until reddish brown in color and highly fragrant. 

Yes, the granny who opened the door for them was the old woman who sold dry goods in the market.

Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but sigh, the town was really so small… She actually met two ‘acquaintances’ in one day. 

“Wait, how do you know my house?” the old woman asked with a frown.  Su Xiaoxiao looked up at the door plate on the wall. It was the family with the surname Fu.