Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 234 Return to Xiantao Mansion

"Where has that restless guy been lately?" Master He San asked Xiao Jinzi while he was busy with the things at hand.

Xiao Jinzi smiled and replied with an expression that said, "I knew you couldn't help it," Qin Haodong said, "I heard Miss Song talk about how the crabs are so delicious and juicy in October. She went to Yangcheng Lake to eat hairy crabs."

Master He San was stunned when he heard this, and then he laughed and said, "This girl is just greedy. She has learned to act like a playboy. She goes to the local place to eat whatever she wants."

Xiao Jinzi complained in her heart, isn't this also your credit? In the past four years, Song Sanniang has been moving around everywhere, so it is naturally difficult for Master He San to see people.

So every time she came back to stay at home, Master He San would find an opportunity to meet her.

If they heard that she wanted something or food, they would try their best to get it for her and pretend that it was their own.

Although some people saw his feelings for her, Song Sanniang herself thought it was just a brother's care for his sister, so she didn't notice it.

He San was very distressed because he accepted his kindness and gave him gifts in return.

But he couldn't say it openly, but Mr. He was already urging him to get married.

From time to time, strange women would come to visit his house brought by his family, so he had to move into a store of the He family.

Song Sanniang and her companions were leisurely boating on the lake, admiring the beautiful scenery.

The light of the setting sun was scattered on the lake. The golden water surface was reunited into golden ripples as the boat passed by. The fishermen on the boat were preparing dinner for them.

The male and female Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs weighing more than 8 taels were tied up, cleaned, steamed and served.

After being steamed, the fist-sized hairy crabs are golden in color with a slight red glow.

Song Sanniang and her friends opened the crab shells themselves, and the crab roe inside was actually oozing with oil. The golden crab roe seemed to be competing with the sunset for color.

Without the attention to detail of young ladies from aristocratic families, they each cut the hairy crab in half and ate the crab roe from one side in one bite.

The delicious and rich crab roe lingers in the mouth. After eating the crab roe, take a bite of the white crab meat, which is sweet and tender.

If you like to eat vinegar, you can add a little vinegar. Mr. Hu ate so much that he didn't care about his image as a master.

The boat girls would remove the crab roe and meat from the small hairy crabs and make crab roe buns and crab meat tofu.

In addition to hairy crabs, Yangcheng Lake also has many other aquatic products, such as white fish, freshwater shrimp, mandarin fish, turtle, etc. In addition to these, there are also aquatic plants such as lotus roots and water chestnuts.

The cook also prepared steamed white fish, crispy fried lotus root cubes, and finally water chestnuts to be eaten raw as fruit for them.

The white fish from Yangcheng Lake has fine scales and bones, a silvery white body, and tender and delicious meat. Song Sanniang used to like eating the tilapia from Xiantao Prefecture because it had big bones and tender meat. Now she thinks this white fish is also delicious.

The crab meat buns have a thin skin and lots of fillings, and they are juicy when you take a bite. The lotus root cubes are crisp and appetizing, and they are really suitable to be eaten with other dishes.

Finally, after eating a few sweet and crispy water chestnuts, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. This life is so comfortable.

However, everyone does not plan to stay here for long, because the Jin family's merchant ship will leave tomorrow, so they will follow. They have been away from home for half a year, and it is time to go back and visit.

Back at Xiantao Mansion, Song Sanniang and the others welcomed Song Xiaodi, who was running towards them.

Song Xiaodi was over four years old. His big eyes blinked on his white, chubby face. He hugged Song Sanniang's thighs, looked up and called her sister.

Song Sanniang bent down and picked him up, and found that he had become heavier, and it was a bit difficult for her to hold him.

She pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh, you are cheating on me every day. How come you are so much heavier? I can't even hold you anymore."

Song Xiaodi smiled proudly and said, "That's because I've grown up. Mom said I'm four years old. When I'm older, I can go to school.

Then I can pass the exam and become a scholar like Brother Haoxi, and everyone will like me."

Master Hu said with a smile, "Then you have to work hard, brother Haoxi, who studied late, was able to pass the exam and rank first. You should not play around in the future."

Song Xiaodi glanced at Master Hu and said hello to him shyly. He ran over to hug his elder sister without even noticing Master Hu. He would be scolded for being rude.

Si Niang and Wu Niang snorted at the side, "Just seeing elder sister, we are not your sisters, right? We are angry."

Now Song Xiaodi didn't know what to do, so he could only look to Song Sanniang for help, but Song Sanniang didn't intend to save him.

She put him down, patted his head, and said, "You apologize to your sisters. I'm going to find my parents." Then she went into the backyard.

Little Brother Song was completely stunned and could only look at Master Hu and the other three stupidly. Whenever he did something wrong in the past, the eldest sister would always help him out, so why didn't she help him this time?

His eyes were red, as if he was about to cry. The four women looked at each other, and the five women picked him up, "Okay, a man should not drop his golden beans, understand?"

When Song Sanniang got home, she started looking through the bills that had been handed to her recently to check the recent business conditions of the stores in the south. She was quite busy. Then, when she finally finished sorting them out, a week had passed.

Then she visited her acquaintances in the city one by one. After Jin Zhaohua got married, Jin Zhaoyi and Jin Zhaotong, the three sisters of the Jin family, also got married one after another. Jin Zhengren is now preparing for the imperial examination.

To be honest, sometimes when she visited the Jin family, she would think of the time when they used to talk, laugh, eat and drink together. She couldn't help but sigh that time was so cruel, and in the blink of an eye everyone went their separate ways.

Now, after visiting the Jin family, she had to visit the husband's families of Jin Zhaohua and others one by one. She couldn't just go to the Jin family and be done with it like before.

Jin Zhaohua gave birth to two sons for the Ma family. Her mother-in-law had stopped caring about the family for the past two years. Because of her absurd behavior, Ma Tongpan asked her mother, who was living in retirement in her hometown, to leave the family.

Madam Ma had been living well in her hometown, but she was invited out by her son. She was very unhappy and treated Madam Ma even worse.

The power of the household manager is in the hands of Ma Tongpan's mother. She brought Jin Zhaohua with her to let everyone see that Jin Zhaohua will be the head of the Ma family in the future.

Jin Zhaoyi married into a family that cooperated with the Jin family, which was considered a good match. However, her husband's family was not in Xiantao Prefecture, so they had fewer opportunities to meet. She gave birth to a daughter and is now pregnant with her second child.

Jin Zhaotong married the nephew of the eldest sister of Jin Qishan's wife, Mrs. Han. His family was not a prominent family, but just an ordinary family of scholars, but the family tradition was upright and he would surely achieve something in the future.

Song Sanniang also visited the Tan family. Tan Shulan had not married yet, but she would soon. Her future husband was the third brother of her second brother's classmate, and he was also from a scholar family. Although her future husband was only a student, he had the hope of passing the imperial examination.

The women in the Tan family envied Song Sanniang for being able to travel everywhere. They wished they could go with her to travel everywhere, but unfortunately they had elderly parents and young children to take care of, so they could only pester Song Sanniang to ask her about what she had seen and interesting things along the way.