The book begins with the waste of all the members

"Junior Brother Bai, are you there?" Yin Lan called Bai Shuyang in a sarcastic tone.

"Wei Yu said, we should still address each other as usual, don't try to take advantage of me."

"That doesn't change the fact that you are my junior's junior."

Bai Shuyang pouted with a look of resentment.

"Hahahaha, I won't tease you anymore. Come in if it's convenient for you. Miss made tornado potato rolls. They are delicious."

"It's convenient, anytime is convenient, come right away."

The two of them climbed over the wall with ease.

Bai Shuyang bumped Lou Lan with his shoulder, "Are you really not going to learn cooking from Wei Yu? I see you really like her cooking."

Bai Shuyang has been unwilling to give up since he became a junior apprentice. While on guard, he secretly encouraged Loulan to become his apprentice and become the fourth apprentice.

Loulan rolled her eyes at him.

Bai Shuyang grabbed Lou Lan's sleeve and said coquettishly in a pinched voice, "No, come on, come on, let's study hard together and make progress every day."

"I'm not used to being the fourth one, thank you." Loulan slapped Bai Shuyang's hand away and walked away without looking back.

Bai Shuyang still didn't give up, "Then you can be the fifth one."

Lou Lan took a deep breath and said, "I'd rather be your master's wife."

Bai Shuyang's expression was as if he had been struck by lightning, "Ah... you you you you... shameless, I treat you as a brother, and you actually want to be my father."

Loulan looked at Bai Shuyang as if he were a fool.

When Wei Yu saw them coming, he handed the fried tornado potato rolls in his hand to Lou Lan.

Bai Shuyang looked at his empty little hands and became angry.

"Hahahahaha..."

Yinlan held her stomach and laughed out loud.

After laughing enough, he took out two potato rolls from another pot and gave them to Bai Shuyang, "How come you, a young master from a noble family, don't seem very smart?"

Bai Shuyang wasn't angry either. He took the potato chips and said, "You dare to tease me like this."

Yinlan smiled shyly, "Thank you."

Bai Shuyang raised his head proudly, "Yeah."

Wei Yu watched their interaction and almost couldn't hold back her smile. They were indeed the couple she recommended.

Wei Yu cooked a few dishes, and Bai Shuyang and Lou Lan had lunch before climbing over the wall and going back to stand guard.

In the afternoon, Wei Yu changed into the "work clothes" brought by Bai Shuyang and went to plant potatoes.

I have to say that Bai Shuyang is really loyal to them. These work clothes are not only comfortable to touch and wear, but the embroidery on them is also very beautiful.

"Miss, I feel something is wrong." Yinlan touched the clothes she hadn't changed into yet, "This fabric looks like Shu brocade."

Wei Yu, like a dog that had never seen the world, excitedly said, "What? Shu brocade? One of the four famous brocades?"

This is such a wasteful thing. Back then, our Huanhuan could only use Shu brocade to make a pair of shoe uppers, but Bai Shuyang used Shu brocade to make clothes for his farmers. It's so extravagant and inhumane.

Yinlan carefully held the two clothes that belonged to her, with a complicated expression, "Should we wear these or not?"

"Put on, of course." Wei Yu pushed Yin Lan behind the screen, "Put on, let's go plant potatoes."

I just don't know if I can grow golden potatoes with the help of this clothes.

That was definitely not possible. Not only that, ever since these three "country dogs" knew that the clothes on their bodies were priceless, they were afraid to even throw a piece of potato.

If they keep procrastinating like this, when will they be able to plant the potatoes?

Wei Yu took out her one hundred taels of silver and rushed to the door angrily, "Bai Shuyang."

"Here, what's wrong?"

"Tell me honestly, are the clothes you made for us made of Shu brocade?"

Bai Shuyang said very proudly: "You can see that it is the best material in our shop. It is comfortable to wear, right?"

"Comfortable, but a little heavy." The weight of gold.

Bai Shuyang asked innocently, "Heavy? How could it be heavy?"

Wei Yu was discouraged. With trembling hands, she took out the half-warmed 100 taels of silver and pushed it through the crack at the bottom of the door. "Is this enough? It's enough for the cost of those sets of clothes."

"Of course that's not enough. You can't even buy a piece of clothing with this little money."

"Then take this money first, and I'll pay you back later."

Life is not easy. I am already heavily in debt before I even make any money.

Bai Shuyang simply pushed the silver back to her, "No need, I don't need your money, just consider it as my filial piety to your master."

"This..." Wei Yu still felt it was too expensive and he felt guilty.

"Really, these clothes are from my own shop. I earn a lot of money, so I don't need to worry about the money for these clothes." The ready-made clothing shop that Bai Shuyang mentioned was a gift from his grandfather on his sixteenth birthday. Even his father, a first-class duke, had no right to interfere.

"You don't have to feel embarrassed. I want to learn cooking skills from you and learn your recipes. Compared to this, the few pieces of clothing I gave you are really nothing."

What else could Wei Yu say? Just accept it with pleasure.

Not happy at all.

Wei Yu wanted to cry but had no tears. "Do you have any cotton and linen clothes? Those are more convenient for work and more wear-resistant." She decided to use this Shu brocade dress as her drinking dress and wear it to important events.

"Cotton and linen are fabrics only worn by poor families. How can you wear that kind of clothes?"

"I'm just a poor guy now, I deserve it." Wei Yu was not lying. In comparison, they were really poor now.

After a while, a small stack of banknotes was stuffed in through the crack in the door. "This is for you."

Wei Yu counted it and it was exactly five hundred taels, which was her salary for half a year as queen.

numb.

"My dear disciple, take this money back first. I have no use for it. I don't have a small shop in my palace and I can't spend your money. Thank you. I will come to you next time if I need it."

Wei Yu waited for a while, but Bai Shuyang outside the door pretended not to be there and did not take the banknotes she sent back.

Wei Yu cleared his throat and said, "If you don't take it back, I will expel you from the sect."

There was still no movement outside.

"From now on, all the delicious food I make will only be given to Loulan..."

Wei Yu's hands were empty and the banknotes disappeared in an instant.

"You are so cruel and break my heart." Bai Shuyang was still whimpering outside the door.

Wei Yu went to the warehouse and searched and found some cotton cloth.

There is no choice but to work hard to ensure adequate food and clothing.

Yinlan came over and took the cloth. "Miss, what are you doing with the fabrics that our servants use to make clothes?"

"We make our own clothes for work. If you're so timid, we won't be able to finish growing potatoes next year, and then we'll be buried with our Shu brocade clothes."

Yinlan smiled embarrassedly.

"But Miss, won't making clothes be even slower? We may not be able to finish a set in half a month."

"Of course it won't work according to your clothing style. We can simplify it and make it in two or three days."

Wei Yu had made up her mind. She planned to make it according to the modern and very popular new Chinese style. If that didn't work, she would just make T-shirts and trousers. Anyway, they were under house arrest, and no one would say that they were being unconventional.

She does it however she likes.

Wei Yu took about five minutes to draw the clothing drawings.

Yinlan was stunned by what she saw.

"Miss, this dress is not very good."

"Why not? It's very good. It's convenient and saves fabric." She thought of the more conservative women in ancient times, so she painted women wearing long sleeves and long pants.

Yinlan shook her head vigorously, her face full of rejection.

"Okay, then you can continue to wear the clothes made of Shu brocade and farm. We still have to raise chickens, ducks and pigs later."

Yinlan shook her head even harder, she couldn't bear to do it.

"That's right, let's do it this way first. If you don't like it, you can add a small vest or something."

"Okay." Yinlan compromised.

After planting potatoes in the afternoon, they started making clothes, and Lian Yinsheng came to help.

Wei Yu cut the cloth, Yun Lan sewed it, and Yun Sheng helped to organize the threads.

Bai Shuyang was bored guarding the door, so he said something to Loulan and climbed over the wall into Chengming Palace.

"I was wondering why Chengming Palace was so quiet. You guys are all hiding here. What are you doing?"

"I'm making clothes." Wei Yu lowered his head to cut cloth without raising his head.

"Are you making winter clothes so early?" He flipped through the drawings Wei Yu had drawn, and the styles of the clothes were very novel. "Did you design all these clothes?"

Wei Yu nodded silently. When she looked at Bai Shuyang's face now, she would unconsciously think of the expression pack of the one with money stuck all over his face.

"I didn't expect you could design clothes." Bai Shuyang picked up the blueprint and said, "Can I have it? I'll ask our workers to see if they can make it. This dress looks very comfortable to wear."

Wei Yu didn't expect him to accept new things so quickly. "Don't you think these styles are weird?"

"That's weird."

Wei Yu: “…”

"I think some parts of the pattern you drew are very beautiful and innovative, such as this one." Bai Shuyang said, pointing to the buttons on the collar.

Wei Yu explained: "This is called a button. It can fix the lapel or collar, and can also be used as a decoration."

"This is much more convenient than a belt, and it looks better too."

"This is called a magnolia buckle. There are many kinds of buckles, such as butterfly buckles, phoenix buckles, and bead buckles, all of which are very beautiful."

Bai Shuyang said excitedly, "Can you draw them? I'll take them back with me."

"Okay, since you're so loyal, I'll draw you a few more clothing styles, both for men and women."

"That's daring."

Bai Shuyang put the drawings in his pocket and left happily, even forgetting that he came to Wei Yu to ask for snacks.

In the next few days, they really made several sets of work clothes for them. Wei Yu almost cried the moment he put on the clothes.

Finally, I don’t have to wear those cumbersome and complicated clothes anymore.

release.

Ever since he started wearing modern clothes, Wei Yu has completely let himself go when working. He wishes he could plow two more acres of land every day, but unfortunately they don't have that much land.

Vegetables and potatoes matured quickly, and the contents of their ice cellar were consumed even faster. In less than a month, their ice cellar was empty. Not to mention the meat, which was eaten up before it was even smoked.

They had not eaten meat for seven days now, and now they were drooling at the sight of birds flying in the sky and field mice running on the ground.

When will my dream of raising chickens come true?

Wei Yu sat in the rocking chair, and the clouds floating in the sky were like little chicks constantly teasing her.

"One day you'll all be in my chicken pen."

Bai Shuyang tried several times to help her bring the chicks into the palace, but they were confiscated every time they were checked at the palace gate. Bai Shuyang also happily earned the title of a wealthy chicken farmer.

In Bai Shuyang's words: His lifelong reputation was ruined by a chicken.

Forget it.

She should think about how to increase the current yield of the land.

There are five of them eating now, and each one of them is eating more than the other.

It’s difficult, too difficult, and it’s even more difficult as the head of the family.

"Miss, it's getting cold. You shouldn't sleep outside anymore. Come inside after the sun goes down." Yinlan came out specifically to remind her to go inside.

In the past half month, she has slept by the vegetable field more than ten times. The weather has turned colder, and Yinlan is afraid that she will catch a cold.

"I understand. Come into the house later." Wei Yu said in a muffled voice with his eyes closed.

"I understand. Come in later. Come in later." A short and sharp voice repeated Wei Yu's words.

Yinlan quickly pulled Wei Yu behind her to protect him.