In ancient times, she gave birth to seven daughters and was divorced by her husband's family.

"There are also ten people who can get free meals today! They will be chosen randomly."

"If you find the words 'free of charge' written on the cup you drank milk tea from, you can come back to me and I will return the money to you."

"..."

Everyone was very happy to hear this, and they immediately smiled at Bai Lu.

"Bai Lu, you are such a nice person."

"Yes, Mrs. White is a very nice person."

"They always gave us discounts before, but I didn't expect they would give us a free meal today."

"We don't even have to spend money to drink this."

"Then we can't let White Lady lose today, right?"

"How about this, let's buy some more."

"..."

As they talked, they bought a lot.

More than you bought before.

Bai Lu didn't lose any money at all, and even made a lot of extra money.

Bai Lu naturally expected the current situation.

She was very happy.

When doing business today, Bai Qingze was also there. Bai Qingze was very surprised to see so many people there.

He observed Bai Lu for a long time these days and found that Bai Lu was really powerful.

He said to Bai Lu: "You are indeed a good businessman."

Bai Lu smiled at Bai Qingze and said, "You have mentioned this more than once or twice before."

Bai Qingze smiled and shook his head, "Although I knew you were good at business, I didn't expect you to be so good at it."

"It's simply time and time again, refreshing my understanding of you."

Bai Lu smiled at Bai Qingze.

Bai Qingze felt that Bai Lu's way of doing business was quite novel, because she was a modern person after all, and Bai Lu learned all these methods from modern times.

"..."

Bai Lu and Bai Qingze spent a whole day at the Seven Fairies Milk Tea Shop. New Year's Day was quite busy.

But today, Bai Lu got off work early.

She asked Madam Luo to make milk tea here, and then she would leave after half an hour and go home for dinner.

Bai Lu, Gu Liang, Bai Qingze and the other two were walking side by side on the street, buying food for New Year's Day.

Originally, she wanted to take Madam Luo out for some fresh air, but when she thought about the things she would have to carry later, she decided to bring the two men out with her.

She couldn't bear to see Madam Luo come out.

Bai Qingze wanted him to buy groceries, but Bai Lu refused, "If you come to buy groceries, how can I thank you for saving my four daughters?"

Bai Qingze thought about it, felt that this was the truth, nodded, and stopped talking.

He and Gu Liang followed Bai Lu silently and helped her carry the vegetables.

Bai Qingze felt as if everyone around him was looking at him. This feeling was quite strange and a little embarrassing.

The guards behind Bai Qingze couldn't help but twitch their lips.

Then, he silently guessed in his heart... the relationship between Bai Qingze and Bai Lu, why do they seem to have such a strange relationship? Bai Lu could actually order Bai Qingze around and ask him to carry vegetables.

And Bai Qingze carried the vegetables so naturally, and Bai Qingze actually carried the vegetables so obediently... Did they think too much, or did they think too little.

They glanced at Bai Lu and Bai Qingze with strange eyes.

Bai Qingze sighed inwardly. He looked at the black chicken, two pounds of pork belly, a large lettuce, and a roast duck in his hand...

There were also all kinds of miscellaneous vegetables in Gu Liang's hands, such as cabbage, tofu, carrots, rice, flour... and rare donkey meat.

Bai Qingze couldn't help but ask Bai Lu, "Have we finished buying almost everything?"

Bai Lu took a look at what they had in their hands, smiled and shook her head, "No, I still have to go to the Chinese medicine shop and buy some herbs."

"Why are you buying medicine? Are you going to poison someone to death?"

Gu Liang asked curiously.

Hearing Gu Liang's words, Bai Qingze next to him couldn't help but twitch his lips.

"I wonder how long you have studied at the Lotus Town Academy, and what you have learned."

"To say that someone was poisoned to death... is something that comes so easily to you."

Disgraceful to gentlemen!

Gu Liang chuckled. He learned all this from Bai Lu, so it’s not his fault.

Bai Lu smiled and explained: "Buy some Chinese medicine pepper and ginger slices. This will make the food taste better."

In ancient times, these things were very precious spices and Chinese medicines. In that era, such spices were rare.

Therefore, spices and things like ginger slices are all used as medicinal materials.

Few people cook.

When they heard Bai Lu say she wanted to cook, they both looked strange.

Although Gu Liang had eaten Bai Lu's meals before, Bai Lu had never used precious Chinese medicine to cook, so he felt...what Bai Lu made this time must be some dark cuisine.

Bai Qingze didn’t know much about it. Could these Chinese herbs be used in cooking?

A gentleman stays away from the kitchen. Moreover, his family is so well-off that he has no idea what dishes his family members use or whether these spices are used.

And listening to what Bai Lu said, he felt that Bai Lu should be a girl who had never touched housewifely food. So, can the food she cooked really be eaten?

He couldn't help but doubt in his heart.

Bai Qingze coughed twice, then said to Bai Lu, "So...so Lady Bai, are you sure this food is edible?!"

"Don't worry, the poison won't kill you."

Bai Lu smiled at them and then went to the Chinese medicine shop to buy things.

Let Gu Liang and Bai Qingze take these things and go home first.

After seeing Bai Lu leave, Bai Qingze immediately glanced at Gu Liang and stuffed all the things in their hands to the guards.

"Hey, is this okay?"

Gu Liang scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

Bai Qingze patted Gu Liang's shoulder with a smile and said, "If you are successful in your studies, you can do the same in the future."

After all, he paid the money, so what if he asked them to bring some food?

Gu Liang thought about it, nodded, and felt a little embarrassed.

But seeing Bai Qingze being so natural, I just let it go.

Maybe this is the difference in their concepts.

But wow wow wow...it's so nice not to have to carry groceries.

On the way, Bai Qingze felt that Gu Liang looked somewhat similar to someone he knew, the Duke...

He thought about it and felt that it must be an illusion. Maybe it was because he and Bai Lu were suspected to be blood relatives. He felt that everyone looked somewhat similar to the people in the court.

Not only Gu Liang, he even felt that Madam Luo was somewhat similar to the people in the court.

Bai Qingze smiled and shook his head.

But it seems not necessarily so, because there was war more than ten years ago.

During the war, a group of nobles went missing.

That's hard to say.

For example, the son of the Duke whose name contains Liang has never been found, right?!

Bai Qingze shook his head and sighed.

The man next to him looked at Bai Qingze sighing and couldn't help asking, "Why is Mr. Bai sighing?"

"Is there something unpleasant in your heart?"

"If you have anything that makes you unhappy, just tell me, Gu Liang. I, Gu Liang, will help you share your worries!"

"Gu Liang?"

"!!!"

"Your name contains the word 'Liang'?"

"Yes, my name contains the word 'liang', which means cool or hot."

Bai Qingze: “…”

Well, I was happy for nothing.

"But why is there this word in your name?"

Bai Qingze's eyes darkened.

Bai Lu didn't know what was going on between Bai Qingze and Gu Liang.

After she bought the Chinese medicine from the medicine shop, she carried the medicine home.

But on the way, she met two people she shouldn't have met.

She looked at the backs of the two people and felt somewhat familiar.

Bai Lu shook her head and thought to herself that she was overthinking it. This should be impossible.

Zhang and Bai Ergou, both of them should be in prison at this moment, how could they be in a place like this? !

When he was in prison before, he was ordered by the mayor and the county magistrate to stay in prison for three to five years.

Who could have gotten past the county magistrate and the mayor to release Bai Ergou and Zhang? It was impossible!

I must have been too tired recently, so I saw it wrong.

Bai Lu thought so and went back home with her things.

Bai Lu had already asked Gu Liang, Bai Qingze, Zhao Cuicui and Mrs. Luo to gather together in advance.

Although it was Mrs. Luo who was in charge of the store today, because it was New Year's Day, not many people came to order milk tea in the evening, so she closed the store in half an hour.

Following Bai Lu's instructions, Mrs. Luo went to buy some peanuts, melon seeds, and some candies for them to eat.

The seven moons seldom eat sweets, for fear that their teeth might be damaged. This time, each of them got a piece of sweet candy.

The young prince had never eaten candy made from ordinary people. After he put a piece of it in his mouth, he felt a little curious: "...the candy made from ordinary people tastes pretty good."

"I will only eat this candy from the folks!"

"This is called Eight Treasure Candy. It tastes good, right?"

Bai Lu smiled at the little prince again and patted his head. "When you come back, you won't be able to eat it. I'll have someone bring you some more."

Leng Bingnian also nodded silently. He rarely ate sweets.

Because he felt that it was somewhat shameful for a man to eat candy.

But after thinking about it carefully, he is also a child now, so what's wrong with eating candy? Bai Lu and the others are still grown-up children. Grown-up children can eat candy, but children cannot.

Besides, can't you eat candy if you're not a child? Just eat it if you like.

Leng Bingnian felt that although his life was good before and he lived a carefree life with his parents, he always felt... much more comfortable now than before.

Being with Bai Lu and the others reduced the sense of family affection.

But it feels incredibly sincere.

Maybe Bai Lu and the others will slowly become his family.

Leng Bingnian just ate the candy in a daze.

Bai Qingze and Gu Liang also ate one piece each. Bai Qingze had never eaten common candy before, so he thought the taste was just average. Maybe he just didn't like candy.

He and Gu Liang looked at each other and asked, "What are Bai Lu and Madam Luo doing? They were just beside us."

"Bai Lu and Madam Luo."

Zhao Cuicui was standing next to them and answered with a smile: "They went to cook. Today is New Year's Day, so they have to cook something delicious."

......

Bai Lu planned to cook ten dishes and one soup, and also make dumplings at night. The donkey meat for making dumplings had already been bought.

She planned to make donkey meat steamed dumplings. Many people have never eaten donkey meat steamed dumplings. Dumplings made with donkey meat are the most delicious.

Most people can’t eat it.

Two hours later, Bai Lu and Mrs. Luo hurriedly brought all the dishes.

Pot-fried fish, braised spare ribs, braised pork, sweet and sour eggplant, fried garlic sprouts, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, mapo tofu, three fresh vegetables, shredded pork with fish flavor, stir-fried pork with cabbage...clear meatball soup.

Ten dishes plus a soup are served perfectly.

Except for Bai Qingze, no one else rarely saw such a sumptuous meal.

Madam Luo, Gu Liang, Zhao Cuicui and the others were all enjoying the meal very much, and Bai Qingze was also very happy with the meal.

He finally understood, "Those Chinese herbs you bought are not some kind of dark cuisine at all."

"Really delicious."

The food she cooks is simply divine.

These dishes were especially delicious with good color, aroma and flavor. He felt that even if the dishes he ate were the imperial meals in the palace, they would probably not be as good as those made by Bai Lu.

It is true that there are many experts among the people.

Seeing Bai Qingze staring at her, Bai Lu felt a little embarrassed.

She touched her nose awkwardly, wondering if the food cooked by the imperial chef in the palace tasted better than hers. She thought it tasted better.

However, many of the materials she used were available in the system mall.

When I was cooking, I drove Mrs. Luo out, so no one suspected that there was anything different about the food she cooked.

I just thought that the food she cooked tasted better than others because she added Chinese medicine, and that she must be more talented than others, that's all.

Everyone had this meal and drank the new orange juice from their milk tea shop.

I just felt that New Year's Day was refreshing.

At midnight, we ate large steamed white flour dumplings stuffed with delicious donkey meat.

The steamed dumplings were very big, and the seven little moons couldn't eat them at all. But seeing how greedy they were drooling, Leng Bingnian and the little prince couldn't bear it.

So they divided the steamed dumplings a little bit and gave each of them a bite.

It's nothing serious. It will be easier to digest if you chew it a few more times.

This year's New Year's Day was particularly happy.

At night, in a corner of the White Mansion where no one knew, the seven wolves were already asleep.

Suddenly, they smelled a familiar scent and there seemed to be movement before their eyes.

When I looked up, Xiaohong, who was originally very alert, suddenly closed her eyes again.

Oh, it's the two of them.

Leng Bingnian and the little prince stood quietly at the courtyard wall, looking at the moon in the sky.