The little cook in the book has fallen asleep

It was still early when Cheng Yu and his friends arrived at Qingtian Village, so Li Huaxiang took her share of rice, flour, grain and oil, and took Cheng Jin and the two boys to the Li family.

She also agreed with Cheng Shang and the others that she would bring the Li family to the Zhao family to discuss the matter of sweet potato vines and pepper seedlings.

Zhao Yunniang also brought her children to the Zhao family, and everyone was welcomed by Zhao's uncle and aunt.

"Yun Niang, who is this?" Old Mrs. Zhao looked at the woman in front of her excitedly. This girl looked 50% like her mother.

She hadn't seen her mother for thirty years, and her memory of her mother had long been blurred. But after seeing this girl, she actually felt like she was seeing her mother again when she was young.

"Younger aunt?" Zheng Rong was even more surprised. If Zhao Yunniang was 70% like the eldest aunt, then the old lady in front of her was 90% like the eldest aunt.

"Is your surname Zheng?" asked Old Mrs. Zhao.

"Yes, my name is Zheng Rong! Who are you?" Zheng Rong respectfully saluted as a junior.

"Me? Your grandfather's name is Zheng Yexi?" asked Old Mrs. Zhao.

"Yes, my grandfather's name is Zheng Yexi! Who are you? You are the little aunt!" Zheng Rong had heard about the little aunt more than once.

My grandfather said that when he returned to Beijing with his great-grandfather, he discovered that his great-grandmother had assaulted his second sister. Because his great-grandfather and his great-grandmother were in a family marriage, they could only lock her up in the family temple to worship Buddha.

Although my great-grandmother gave birth to my uncle later, she was still concerned about my aunt. My great-grandmother is now in her seventies and can no longer remember many things, but she is always talking about my aunt Zheng Qi.

"If I'm correct, I am your aunt Zheng Qi." Old Mrs. Zhao also looked at Zheng Rong with tears in her eyes. This is the blood of her Zheng family.

Cheng Yu: ...This is...saving a cousin?

Everyone was immersed in the joy of recognizing their relatives, except Old Man Zhao who was sitting there with a heavy heart.

How could Mrs. Zhao not know her own old man? She immediately came up to the old man and whispered, "Chenglang, I am Zheng Qi, and I am your wife, forever!"

She has been married to Zhao Cheng for more than 30 years. During these 30 years, he has never let her do anything. Zhao Cheng is the one who does all the washing and cooking.

Later, after she gave birth to a son and a daughter, she accidentally recovered her memory and pawned three jade bracelets without Zhao Cheng's knowledge.

The two of them built a house in Qingtian Village and raised their children. They lived in a large house made of blue bricks and tiles. Zhao Cheng took care of her in her daily life, and she did not suffer much.

Later, when his son and daughter grew up, Zhao Cheng taught them how to do housework and let them sleep until they woke up naturally. Even if his mother-in-law had complaints, he helped to ward them off.

She had been Zhao Cheng's wife for more than 30 years, and except for her poor life, everything else was satisfied.

"Mom, we are still here!" Zhao Yun's mother teased as she watched the two elders whispering in each other's ears and holding hands.

Zheng Rong: This young aunt and uncle have a really good relationship.

"Dad, Mom, brother and sister-in-law, come out quickly!" Cheng Shang shouted from outside.

Cheng Shang asked his son to unload the things while shouting at him, but there was nothing he could do as his son was too strong, so he decided not to compete with him for the work.

Isn't it? Cheng Yiyu carried the 20 kilograms of rice like a chicken.

"Brother-in-law, what's wrong?" Uncle Zhao took his two sons to move the things they brought to the kitchen.

The Zhao family originally thought that the Cheng family had a large population and they were unwilling to accept the rice, flour, grain and oil. However, Old Mrs. Zhao said that only when relatives interact with each other can they become close.

So when the Zhao family hunted rabbits or pheasants, they would make them into cured rabbits and chickens and send them to the Cheng family, and the Cheng family would also send them food and meat from time to time.

"Brother Fan, Brother Ye, you don't need to take that to the kitchen. This is for you to grow." Cheng Shang quickly asked Zhao Fan and Zhao Ye to put down the two backpacks covered with white cloth.

"Mrs. Zhao Cheng, are you at home?" The voice of Old Mrs. Li came from outside. The Li family came.

"Yes, come in, the door is not locked." Old Mrs. Zhao said, and then ran to the door to greet the Li family.

After everyone had arrived, Cheng Shang opened the cloth covering the backpack, revealing the sweet potato vines and pepper seedlings underneath.

"This is a sweet potato vine, and this is a pepper seedling! Is there any vacant space in your backyard?" Cheng Shang asked.

The Li family and the Zhao family were all stunned. Is this the sweet potato vine that Lord Zheng brought back? Didn't he say that he was still trying to plant it in the capital?

Chili seedlings? What kind of chili seedlings?

"Come, brothers, sit down and try the cold noodles!" Li Huaxiang and Zhao Yunniang asked their brothers and sisters-in-law to sit down, and each of them made a bowl of cold noodles for them.

Even Zheng Rong and her maid Xiaolan had a bowl.

"It's delicious, have another bowl!" Uncle Zhao Hua said immediately, his forehead already covered with sweat from the spiciness.

"Control yourself!" Old Mrs. Zhao patted her son on the head and told him not to disturb Cheng Shang when he was talking about important matters.

"Mom, you beat me up and made me stupid!" Zhao Hua said dissatisfiedly.

"He wasn't smart to begin with!" said Mr. Zhao.

Then everyone started laughing. Cheng Yu even sat on a small stool, covering his mouth with his hands and laughing. His chubby little face was curved with laughter, which made people's hearts soften.

"Brother, do you feel it's spicy? It feels great!" Cheng Shang asked.

"Yes, it turns out that feeling is spicy! So cool!" Zhao Hua laughed, this chili is great!

"Yes, this is the pepper seedling that produces peppers, but we are the only one that has it.

You can take them home to plant and pick them for yourself, but you cannot sell them privately. We will buy back all the peppers you produce at the market price." Cheng Shang made all the good and bad things clear.

"If you want to grow it, you must sign this agreement. If you violate the agreement and sell it privately, you will be required to pay ten times the compensation," said Cheng Jin.

Human hearts are the most complicated things. Li's uncles are very good, but the same cannot be said about his sister-in-law.

Especially the Li family, including the three brothers and sisters-in-law. This agreement was proposed by Li Huaxiang, because once the chili peppers were leaked, their cold noodle business would definitely be affected.

The Li family and the Zhao family naturally knew that it was the Cheng family who was helping them, otherwise how could they not have a place to farm with so much land in the Li family?

"And this sweet potato vine is given to you by Nannan. If you can't finish eating all the sweet potatoes in the future, remember to leave them for us and we will harvest them too!" Cheng Shang said happily. Small sweet potatoes had grown from the sweet potato vines in the field behind them.

Don't ask! The only thing to ask is that Cheng Xiaoba was just being rude and pulled out a small piece to satisfy everyone's curiosity, but he was rewarded with a meal of bamboo fried meat by Lin Pan'er.

"How do we grow sweet potatoes? We have never grown them before!" Zhao Hua asked.

"Brother, do you have any open space in your backyard?" Cheng Shang asked, then he thought of something and said, "This sweet potato vine is not yet popular. I suggest you plant it in the backyard first, so that people won't miss it!"

"Yes!" Zhao Hua said. Their vegetables were too big and they had originally wanted to pull them out to make sauerkraut. Today was the perfect day so they could clear the land.

Cheng Yiyu poured out half of the sweet potato vines, carried the remaining half on his back and followed Cheng Shang and the others into the backyard.

Originally Zheng Rong was immersed in the bowl of cold noodles, but when she heard that they were going to plant sweet potato vines, she immediately became excited and followed them into the backyard.

Her grandfather brought sweet potato vines from overseas, but failed to grow them successfully. The sweet potato leaves were all yellow, and she suspected that by the time it was time to harvest them, there would not be a single sweet potato.

As soon as she entered the backyard, she saw that the men from the Cheng, Zhao and Li families had quickly picked all the greens and handed them to the women standing nearby and piled them up next to them.

Then I used a hoe to loosen the soil, dug a small trench, placed the sweet potato vines in it randomly, and covered them with a thin layer of soil.

Just like that? She thought of her grandfather and her father's meticulous planting method, and the Cheng family's casual planting method. Was it her father and his family's fault? That's why the crops turned out to be yellow?

The Zheng family father and son, who were standing in the imperial farm with sad faces, sneezed. Who was talking about them?

"By the way, you need to water the sweet potatoes less often, just enough water. Too much water will burn the roots and the sweet potatoes won't grow." Cheng Shang said. He learned this from his daughter. Root burn means root rot.

Zheng Rong secretly took note and asked Xiaolan to send a letter home to remind her grandfather whether they were treating the sweet potatoes too delicately and watering them too much.

In fact, it is not Zheng's fault that he watered the plants so often. The land where he went was mostly sandy, and sandy land could not store water, so it had to be watered frequently. However, the imperial farm was made of yellow soil, and too much water would easily burn the roots.

There was no such thing as adapting to local conditions in this era. Even though he was the director of the Ministry of Agriculture, he was not yet enlightened to this point.

The Li and Zhao families also followed Cheng Shang's example and planted a row of sweet potato vines, and only stopped when they were satisfied after all the sweet potato vines were planted.

In the end, the Zhao family asked for half of the pepper seedlings and signed an agreement. The Li family also signed an agreement and took the pepper seedlings and sweet potato vines to plant.

Zheng Rong also became more careful. When the Cheng family returned to Qingshan Village, she followed them to the Cheng family. She hadn’t eaten enough delicious food yet, so she didn’t want to go back to the cannibalistic Zheng family in the capital!

She also asked Xiaolan to find an escort company to deliver a letter to her family. When Mrs. Zhao found out, she found some mountain products and preserved rabbits and sent them to the capital.

Zheng Rong simply sent the letter directly to her eldest aunt's house and asked her to take the letter to her grandmother. After all, the Zheng family was in too much chaos now.

When Zheng Huijie's wife returned to the Zheng family with injuries and her son, it caused an uproar. Zheng Rong was missing!

This was the only girl born in the Zheng family this generation, so Zheng Yexi immediately sent more people to look for her.

His mother, Old Lady Zheng, was sitting on a chair crying with tears in her eyes. He knew that she must be thinking of her lost second sister.

His father also had good intentions. He knew that his mother was of humble status, so after he became the director of the Ministry of Agriculture, he asked for an imperial decree for his mother.

His father also took the opportunity to ask the emperor for grace to raise his mother's position. Now his mother is the second wife of Old Master Zheng.

My father's wife was narrow-minded and in poor health and could not get pregnant, so under the threat of her mother's family, the Zheng family decided to let her nephew from her mother's family marry under her name.

This time it was the adopted son who did it, and Old Master Zheng immediately set about dealing with the mother and son.

It's no wonder that Old Master Zheng got married. After his wife came into the family, for the sake of her family's career, he sent his sister to the home of a minister in his fifties to be a concubine, and also drugged his mother... Every incident was simply outrageous!

The Zheng family was in chaos until a week later, when Zheng Yexi received a letter from Zheng Rong. He was so happy because they finally found his second sister.

He told this matter to Old Master Zheng and Old Lady Zheng, and withdrew all the manpower to concentrate on dealing with the dirty affairs in the mansion. He would wait until the mansion was truly safe before going to pick up his second sister and Zheng Rong to go home!

He finally figured out what was wrong with his sweet potatoes, and immediately mounted his horse and headed for the imperial farm. This time, the sweet potatoes would definitely grow fruits!