Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

Chapter 134 Why

"Let's go back to the house and discuss it." Shen Huai pushed Shen Lingzhu's shoulders and called his son and Miaozhu.

As soon as they entered the house, Mrs. Hu's voice came from the inner room: "Master, what happened? Is my seventh brother still in Pingyang?"

"They have been away from Pingyang for a long time and are now in Pingding County, only about 400 miles away from us.

It can be settled with a little more money." Shen Huai said, and waited for the two wet nurses, Qian and Xu, to come out before entering the inner room.

Then he turned around and said, "Xian Zhu, please look after the sisters. Nineteenth sister, please go and tell the third uncle."

"Okay." Shen Shijiu led his nephew Song Zhu away first.

Shen Lingzhu wanted to see her off, but was stopped by her eldest brother. She silently spread her hands to her senior sister.

Senior sister Shen Miaozhu was as calm as ever. She even instructed the two wet nurses to go to the kitchen to cut the fish meat and make fish balls.

She wanted to go with them, but Shen Miaozhu said, "The two sisters-in-law can do it, you come with me to pick some wine."

"Do you want Second Grandpa to take me to Pingding County?" Shen Lingzhu immediately thought of her senior sister's intention.

Shen Miaozhu nodded: "Things are valuable because they are rare. Sometimes silver is not as useful as goods."

Shen Lingzhu agreed. The two of them walked to the wine storage room in the west wing. When her senior sister went to the kitchen to get a bowl, she walked to the side door and knocked on it, saying, "Aunt Jiu, is Uncle Jiu hurt?"

"It's just some scratches. I'll clean him up and ask Miaozhu for medicine later." Aunt Jiu was wiping the body of the sleeping Shen Xiao.

Shen Miaozhu said, "We are in the wine storage room in the west wing. Aunt Jiu will call me later."

"Okay, you guys go about your business." Aunt Jiu said this and didn't say anything else. She looked at the blisters on her husband's thighs and secretly decided not to let him go out to earn money.

Shen Lingzhu followed her senior sister into the so-called wine storage room with a heated kang, and her eldest brother, who was seeing someone off, also followed in.

He said, “Xiao Zhuzi, the road from home to Pingding County is very bumpy and has many hills.

You should stay home and help your second sister make more drunken dates."

She asked, "Can you make it?"

"Of course. I used to go to my grandfather's house in Shouyang with my mother and we walked through that place." Shen Xianzhu had indeed been to many places.

Shen Lingzhu said: "If my elder brother can leave, I can leave too."

"But you're a girl..."

"Is Aunt Nineteen a girl?"

"How can that be?"

"Same."

"Stop arguing with each other and try the wine in jar number 3." Shen Miaozhu had already used a bamboo wine scoop to pour half a bowl of wine for each of them.

And shake it gently in your hand to sober up the wine a little.

Although the wine was fermented for a shorter time, its color was more beautiful than the last time. She was waiting to hear what her family thought after drinking it.

After all, the raw materials for these three or four thousand kilograms of grapes were picked by the family after paying an additional ten taels of silver to the village chief.

Shen Xianzhu took it and sniffed it, "It smells like alcohol."

After taking a sip, he took two more sips and commented, "It's still a little astringent."

"It's normal for wine to have a bit of astringency, because it's brewed with not only the skins but also the seeds." Moreover, wine can be brewed thanks to a substance contained in the grape skins and seeds. The senior sister knows what it is.

Shen Lingzhu took a bite and shook her head at her senior sister, she couldn't taste it.

It is also recommended to serve a few more bowls so that everyone can share their feelings.

Shen Xianzhu disagreed: "No, no, no, mother can't drink it, and the wet nurse can drink it better. I'll go call Grandma Qi."

"What's wrong with you calling me?" Grandma Qi happened to push the door open. She had a keen nose and could also drink wine. She caught the aroma of wine wafting from the opened wine jar.

"Done?!" She took the half bowl of wine handed to her by her eldest granddaughter and said in one sip, "Not bad, the sour and astringent taste is harmonious and smooth, with a sweet aftertaste."

Shen Xianzhu, who was still holding the wine, looked at her wine, then looked down at his own, wondering why he didn't feel anything after drinking it.

Shen Lingzhu saw it, approached him and said softly, "I can't taste it either."

Shen Xianzhu saw that she was serious and nodded slightly: As long as I am not the only one who doesn’t understand, it’s good!

"By the way." Grandma took two sips of wine and told Shen Xianzhu and Shen Lingzhu to go to the east room.

Upon hearing this, the two siblings swallowed the remaining wine in unison, which made their grandmother say that it was a "waste of food".

After they left, Shen Miaozhu asked, "Did my aunt agree that Xiao Zhuzi should go to Pingding County?"

Grandma nodded and said, "Well, your seventh aunt must go. As the head of the family, she will have someone to look after Xiao Zhuzi.

In fact, she wanted you to go, but your uncle disagreed."

"Why?" Shen Miaozhu didn't expect this to happen.

Grandma reached out and scratched her nose: "Because my big bamboo has grown up, its face is so tender when you pinch it."

The old lady didn't see her eldest granddaughter blushing shyly, she just heard her say with understanding: "So that's how it is."

Alas, the big one is too steady and the small one is too lively. I will probably be shy when I don’t see the little bamboo in the future.

Shen Lingzhu, who was not shy, saw her aunt holding her younger sister and coaxing her as soon as she entered the main east room, while her younger brother was sleeping quietly with his fist raised next to her.

My uncle was writing furiously at the table. When he heard the footsteps, he said, "Madam, you talk to them. I'll go to the hall to write."

"Okay." Mrs. Hu watched him leave and waved for the two children to come and sit down.

He gestured to Shen Lingzhu to open a box on the kang, which contained five hundred taels of silver notes from his last sale in the capital, as well as dozens of taels of silver he had saved recently.

"Five silver notes, three of which were sewn into the clothes with bamboo slips, and two were given to Xianzhu.

On the way, you must listen to Second Grandpa’s arrangements, and…” Hu explained everything to the two of them in detail for a long time, and finally asked them to go find their uncle to look at the topographic map.

Shen Lingzhu stepped out of the door and then came back, smiling and saying, "Aunt, I will bring everyone in the family back."

This childish remark instantly made Mrs. Hu laugh. She rubbed the little girl's head and said, "Remember to send a letter every three days so that my aunt will know how hard my little girl works every day."

"You must write it, auntie. It will be alright. Nothing in this world that can be solved with money is a problem." And ninety-nine percent of the things in the world are related to money.

Mrs. Hu's smile froze. When did the child she raised so closely become so insightful?

……

They had already agreed to set off quickly, and the next day at daybreak, several people gathered at the foot of the mountain.

Shen Lingzhu first said goodbye to her aunt, and only breathed a sigh of relief after her uncle, senior sister, and grandparents accompanied her two miles away from the village.

Her seventh aunt, Ren, who was sitting next to her, couldn't stop sighing.

Shen Lingzhu tried to persuade her, but she didn't know where to start, so she took out some hot cakes and persuaded Aunt Seven to eat some, "Aunt Seven, Pingding County is less than 500 miles away from us, but it will take at least seven days to walk there.

If you don't eat this, how will you have the strength to hold on?"

"Oh, I'll eat it." Ren took the cake, and inevitably she stuffed a bamboo slip of porridge into her mouth.

Shen Lingzhu said, "White Fungus and Eight Treasure Porridge. My second sister got up in the middle of the night to cook it, and everyone got a share."

"Miaozhu is thoughtful." Ren paused and asked, "Is seven days the fastest?"