It's a sunny day today, with lush weeping willows by the river. It's still cool in Xinyi Medicine Shop, but the heat is getting thicker, and the wind from Wuzhang River can't dissipate the thick heat.

After noon, Xin Yi summoned everyone in the medicine shop to the hall in the side courtyard, leaving only Mrs. An and the two waiters on duty to look after the front hall.

This place is spacious and suitable for holding meetings.

Today's Xinyi Pharmacy has a total of thirty people, old and young. It's not too many, not too many. It's not easy to manage.

However, Xin Yi doesn't like to talk about long and boring things. In addition to formulating the rules and regulations of the pharmacy, she just calls the people in the pharmacy together every half a month to sound the alarm, talk about safety, and put an end to fake medicinal materials and medical accidents...

After the meeting, do some team building, get together to eat and drink, and build relationships.

It's the same today. The discussion in the hall is still going on. In the kitchen at the back, food has been prepared. The big pot and stove are full of firewood, exuding the fragrance of food, attracting greedy people...

And every time there was a meeting, Xin Yi used humorous stories to give examples. Everyone in the room seemed to be listening to the stories and learned from them. Alarm bells were ringing, and they gradually liked this kind of discussion with food and drink, and did not become irritated.

.

"Okay, I'm done."

Xin Yi took a sip of water and looked at everyone with a smile.

"If you have any ideas, you can tell me."

The guys were scratching their heads, you looked at me, I looked at you, and they just laughed for a long time.

"We all listen to Mrs. Zhang!"

"Yes, we all listen to the boss lady."

"We will do whatever the boss lady says."

Everyone laughed.

After a while, Zhou Daozi yawned.

"I just want to know what we are going to eat today..."

He sniffed, took a few hard breaths, and nodded silently, "It smells so good. I'm hungry!"

Xin Yi glanced at him, a little funny. He was about to call everyone to leave the meeting, but when he glanced away, he saw Sun Huai standing at the door, looking in on tiptoe with an anxious expression.

"Okay, this half-month meeting is over. Let's go down and rest for a while, waiting for dinner."

There was a burst of commotion and laughter below.

Everyone dispersed.

Xin Yi stood up and approached Sun Huai and bowed, "Eunuch Sun, do you have anything to do with me?"

Sun Huai looked around, waved to Xin Yi, and said in a low voice: "Master Jiu asked me to tell you that today he will bring the noble people here for consultation, and ask the lady to prepare some wonderful things to entertain the distinguished guests..."

Xin Yi frowned slightly.

The Prince of Guangling County is already extremely noble in the eyes of ordinary people. Who can he call a noble person?

Xin Yi's mind was quick and he immediately understood who that person was.

"Thank you, father-in-law, I can save it."

Sun Huai nodded and pointed outside, "Then I'll leave first. By the way, Master Jiu also said... don't do it too deliberately. It would be bad if the nobles knew about it."

Xin Yi agreed with a smile, feeling strangely sweet in his heart.

In the past, she was afraid of Fu Jiuqu, treating him as a villain and a traitor. She was always on guard and careful about everything. Who would have thought that she would fall in love with such a person with such a eccentric temperament? Who would have thought that the Prince of Guangling County was actually a gentle and delicate person at heart.

A man who will consider everything big and small for her?

An inexplicable smile appeared on Xin Yi's face.

But suddenly, I felt worried again.

Kit Kat?

What is strange?

What is cleverness?

What kind of ingenuity can impress the Emperor of the Song Dynasty without making him feel deliberate?

This Fu Jiuqu posed a difficult problem for her!

I think he thinks highly of her too much.

Xin Yi opened the wooden window and took a look at the golden light waves reflecting on the river and the scorching sun above his head, and his mind suddenly became active...

The summer solstice is coming soon after the Ear Grain. Although it has not yet set in, the weather is already hot and hot. I will take advantage of today's "half-moon meeting" to make some drinks for the shop assistants and sell them to the officials "by the way".

good?

Xin Yi confirmed this idea almost immediately.

Because when she thinks about cola, soda, milk tea, coffee and other drinks, her tongue almost sticks out from her stomach...

Just do it.

There were already cold drink shops in the Northern Song Dynasty. The "Yinzi" and "Xiangyinzi" signs that can be seen everywhere in Maxing Street and Zhouqiao Night Market were all shops selling cold drinks. Therefore, people in the Song Dynasty had already dug cellars to store ice.

Various cold water ointments are emerging in endlessly...

But for Xin Yi, these are just help, not difficulties.

The power of civilization that spans nine hundred years is not hers alone. After nine hundred years of improvement and survival of the fittest, something that can still occupy a place in modern catering must be novel...

As for whether the ancients liked it or not, she wasn't sure, but when she got interested, even if Zhao Zhen didn't come, she wanted to do something to comfort herself.

Coke and coffee were the first to be excluded by Xin Yi due to lack of materials.

After thinking about it, I feel that the most feasible option is milk tea and vinegar plum soup, and just squeeze some orange juice to make an "orange fish".

She couldn't care if it happened or not, because she was already greedy.

Xin Yi loves food and benefits from his previous research on traditional Chinese medicine.

The so-called "medicine and food come from the same source". While studying pharmacology, she also studies "taste bud health care", so she has practical experience in some common household diets.

Milk tea is the simplest.

In order for her children to drink fresh milk, Xin Yi finally gave up her plan to raise dairy cows, but Uncle Zhang and Madam Xiao Cao in Zhangjiacun, as well as several other families, were mobilized by her to raise milk-producing cows.

Milk is delivered on time every day.

Xinyi asked the eldest brother of the Zhang family to return to the village quickly, collect some fresh milk, take out the tribute tea "rewarded" by the Guangling County King, make tea soup, and use starch to make pearl balls, and then take out brown sugar and sucrose and prepare them.

Construction begins...

When Fu Jiuqu brought Zhao Zhen to the medicine shop, the sun was setting in the west, but the heat had not receded. In order to understand the situation, Zhao Zhen came in casual clothes and light clothes, instead of taking a sedan or a chariot, he came on foot.

It was so hot that I was covered in sweat.

The sour plum soup made from Xinyi had just been cooled down, impurities were filtered out with gauze, and it was put into a teapot for later use. The fragrant milk tea had already been warmed up and allowed to cool down. My husband was coming from Aunt Li’s house with a basin of solid ice, shouting along the way: "

Give in, the ice will melt." The whole pharmacy was laughing and joking.

It's fun.

Such an atmosphere is rare for Zhao Zhen in the Forbidden Palace to see.

Everyone in the palace respected him and feared him, but what he felt most was actually alienation.

It's hard for Zhao Zhen to imagine such a scene where everyone, no matter how big or small, neither up nor down, all mingling together...

He frowned and stared at everything in front of him with complex eyes, without moving.

Fu Jiuqu glanced at him and said, "Uncle, please come inside."

Zhao Zhen then snorted, "What are they doing? So noisy."

Fu Jiuqu said: "I don't know about this either. Because my uncle went on patrol incognito and didn't want to disturb others, I didn't inform them in advance. I'll find out later when I call Xin Yi."

Xinyi?

When Zhao Zhen heard him calling someone by her girl's name, he glanced at him with furrowed brows and snorted.

Fu Jiuqu raised his lips and smiled, then followed slowly.

Several guards stood silently at the door and stopped following. Only Sun Huai and Zhao Zhen's chamberlains followed...

In the eyes of the nobles, this was already low-key, but their appearance immediately attracted the attention of people in the pharmacy.

They have all seen the Guangling County Prince. The man beside him is so heroic and majestic. Who is it?

Could it be his father?

Everyone was speculating one after another and did not dare to make a sound.

Xin Yi had just put some ice in the kitchen, savored the taste, and had just taken a sip of sour plum soup to feel refreshed, when he heard the announcement that the distinguished guest had arrived, and quickly strode out to greet him.

She walked in a hurry and looked furious. She looked at Fu Jiuqu as if she had just learned that Zhao Zhen was coming, and said in surprise: "Officer..."

"Let me sit down." Zhao Zhen interrupted her, "The reclining chair last time was good, and the acupuncture was also good."

Xin Yi put on a smile and said, "Dear guests, please come in. I will make arrangements for you."

Zhao Zhen strode in front, while Xin Yi stood aside, waiting for him to walk over. Just as he was about to follow, Fu Jiuqu glanced at him.

Xin Yi also happened to look at him.

The two looked at each other with smiles in their eyes.

Zhao Zhen was placed on the recliner he had sat on last time. He patted the armrest and looked at the gentle waves of the five-foot-long river, and then looked sideways at Xinyi's yard. There were blooming flowers, vegetables, and greenery in the river.

Growing luxuriantly on the edge...

"Your little courtyard is very nice."

Xin Yi followed Zhao Zhen's gaze and glanced at his vegetable garden, his eyes full of tenderness.

"Thank you for your compliment. I also like this yard very much. It is full of vitality. This is the feeling of being alive."

The feeling of being alive...

Zhao Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly, pondering these words, and suddenly asked: "Do you think you are lucky or unlucky to be alive?"
Chapter completed!