Chen Shizheng and Mrs. Chen were boiling maltose in the patio, and the sweet malt aroma came out as soon as they stepped into the door.

"Auntie!" Yu Yuan stepped forward to greet the Chen clan.

Chen wiped his hands with the apron around his waist, and asked with a smile: "A Yuan, are you here to see your uncle? He has sent rice cakes to the shopkeeper Tong, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back before noon today, you What's the matter? Go to the study and leave a note for your uncle if you can’t tell me."

Tomorrow is the New Year, and everything for the New Year is ready. Nian gao is a must-have food for every family during the New Year, and making nian gao is Chen's specialty. It's just that Chen's health is not good in the past years, so he doesn't do much. Although Chen's health is still not as good as ordinary people this year, it is much better than in previous years. Not only the Yu family is happy, but Chen is also very happy. He personally made more than ten kilograms of rice cakes. Relatives, friends, villagers and neighbors all gave them a little.

"I'm here to find Atang!" Yu Yuan said as she helped Chen move the boiled maltose next to him in the kitchen. "Is Atang there? We saw some new patterns when we went to Hangzhou City last time. , I want to discuss with her."

Chen didn't doubt he was there, and smiled: "She's in the study!" After finishing speaking, he cut a piece of maltose with a knife and filled it with a bowl and handed it to Yu Yuan, "Here, you brothers and sisters, taste it."

Yu Yuan happily responded and went to the study with the bowl.

Yu Tang held a lake pen in his hand, drawing something at his desk.

The warm winter sun shone in from the window sash pasted with Korean paper, coating her figure with a layer of golden light, gentle and soft.

Yu Yuan was stunned for a moment before yelling "Amei".

Yu Tang looked up and immediately laughed.

Layers of smiles came out of her eyes, making her look agile.

"Brother, why did you come here?" She put down the pen, stood up from behind the book table, and greeted Yu Yuan to sit down on the grand master chair by the window, "Don't you need to be busy preparing things for the xiang family?"

The wedding date has been set, and the marriage certificate has passed. Although the wedding has not yet been held, Yu Yuan is already the grandfather of the Xiangjia family. It stands to reason that Yu Yuan is going to visit the Xiangjia New Year’s greetings on the second day of the year. I didn't take this matter to heart, and I didn't buy anything back when I went to Hangzhou City.

Yu Yuan chuckled and completely forgot about the incident. He said, "Isn't there my mother and aunt? I don't understand this kind of thing. If you buy the wrong thing, it's better not to buy it!"

The last time someone from the Xiangjia family left him a bad impression. He was a bit repulsive to going to the Xiangjia family, but for the sake of Miss Xiang’s face, he decided to leave all this behind and give him a modest attitude. Happy New Year. But this does not mean that he likes to talk about it.

He put the maltose on the small table, and said to Yu Tang: "Auntie gave it to you, try it."

Mother got up early in the morning and started to boil sweets.

When she was young, she would wait eagerly by the stove at this time, and she would be forcibly taken away by her mother every time, and ended up crying and being stuffed with a piece of maltose.

Until she was ten years old, her mouth was scalded for stealing maltose. She invited a doctor and drank the medicine for more than a month. During the first month, she could only look at all the delicious things, and she was no longer greedy.

To the Chen family, this was just what happened five or six years ago, but to her, it was already more than ten years ago.

She sighed in her heart, smiled and went to soak a bowl of maltose water for herself and Yu Yuan, and said, "Brother, try it too", and sat down across from Yu Yuan again.

Yu Yuan tasted the syrup, it was fragrant, sweet and not dry. He couldn't help but praised: "I didn't expect my aunt's maltose to do so well. This year we will have a good taste."

In addition to offering sacrifices to the stove king and entertaining relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, most of this maltose is intended for Yu Yuan to use when he gets married.

Yu Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

Yu Yuan was stunned. He didn't dare to talk about maltose anymore. He said, "I thought about it carefully. Just like you said, I will help manage the farms and forests at home. We will plant the kind of trees you mentioned. , Make preserves."

Yu Tang guessed it would be the same.

In the previous life, Yu Yuan’s business was doing so well. Her uncle was still worried, and she had to guide Yu Yuan from time to time. In this life, Yu Yuan is just a messenger behind her uncle, and it is even more impossible for her uncle to let go of the shop. The business here is handed over to him.

"I'm just about to talk about this with Brother!" Yu Tang said, got up and went to the bookstore, and said, "Brother, come and see, the tree painted here is the kind of tree I said. The people who trade outside are all back. Can you ask those who trade outside to take a look and see if anyone knows this kind of tree?"

Yu Yuan walked over and looked at it carefully for a while before scrolling through the painting neatly, and said, "Okay, I'll leave this to me. I'll give you news before the fifteenth."

Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief, but still felt uneasy. After Yu Yuan left, she re-painted a sea-buckthorn tree to show Yu Wen, who had just sent rice cakes from the shopkeeper Tong,: "Do you know what kind of tree this is? Can you find someone who knows this kind of tree?"

Many of the literati like to make flowers and plants, maybe some people know it.

Yu Wen smiled and said: "What problem are you giving me again?"

Because Yu Tang suggested that when Yu Yuan got married, the squires and scholars who had been admitted to the city of Lin'an should be invited to the house to have a wedding drink. During this time, Yu Wen's legs are almost running thin, and it is hard to get things done. In a blink of an eye, Yu Tang drew another inexplicable tree for him to recognize...

Yu Tang smiled embarrassedly, holding his father's arm and acting like a baby: "This tree is called sea buckthorn. Brother and I are going to plant this tree on our mountain. Daddy, please help me ask! Anyway, you have to help too. Brother, go and invite someone!"

He was very happy when he was happy, and his daughter acted like a baby at him. He was very happy. He teased Yu Tang and brought the picture with him when he went out to send the wedding invitation.

To Yu Tang's expectation, the one who knew this tree was actually the teaching of the county school, Shen Shanyan.

He smiled and asked Yu Wen: "What are you asking about this? Although this tree is rough, it is not alive here. If you don't believe it, you can go to Yaguang's house and have a look. There are several trees in their house. It was brought back by Zhou Zijin when he went to Gansu in Nian Nian. It was fruitful there, but after he came back, he only grew up and didn’t bear fruit. Because of this, Zijin even laughed at Xiaoguang and talked about the water and soil of their home. No way."

Yu Wen didn't expect this result. After staying for a while, he said: "It's my girl, I don't know where I heard someone say, I want to plant this tree in our mountain forest, let me help you inquire!"

Shen Shanyan avoided the world here and heard about Yu Wen's character. After contacting it several times, he was also concerned about his temper, and occasionally went to admire flowers and take a walk together. Hearing this, he couldn't help laughing: "It's a pity you girl. If you're a son, you can do something without reading."

Who is Shen Shanyan, the son of the Shen family, the talented man in the south of the Yangtze River, and it's amazing that ordinary scholars can get him a compliment, let alone a girl.

Yu Wen was full of joy, but said modestly: "Where, where, she just likes toss."

Shen Shanyan said sincerely: "It's already great to be able to toss, and to toss famously." Then thinking of Miss Yu's marriage, he couldn't help but say: "Your daughter's marriage, you have to be careful, don't make a random promise. That's it."

"Definitely, definitely." Yu Wen nodded repeatedly.

Even if Shen Shanyan didn't say such a thing, he was reluctant to let his daughter be married to someone else casually. Hearing what Shen Shanyan said now, it was even more determined that he wanted to find a good son-in-law.