Chapter 223: Your Concubines Have Given You Many Green Hats
“Then make them into eggs that aren’t easily broken.”
“Eggs can be made into preserved eggs, duck eggs into salted duck eggs, and goose eggs can also be pickled into salted eggs. However, salted eggs are best made with duck eggs. These things are not as easily broken as raw eggs, but they are all delicious.”
Qin Wanwan raised her little hand to prove it.
“Salted duck eggs, delicious!”
Since there were so many eggs at home, they should try it.
If it really could be made, then Shahe City would have another product to sell.
Not only that, it could also bring in some income for the military.
So Xie Chong asked how salted duck eggs and preserved eggs were made.
He didn’t want to take advantage either: “If they can really be sold, I’ll give you twenty percent of the profits then.”
He didn’t feel there was anything wrong with giving a bird a share of the money.
Although Xie Chong’s business sense wasn’t that sharp, there were simply too many eggs. He wanted to try it out, and if they could be sold for money, that would be the best.
Keke generously declared: “Give all this money to the cub!”
It only needed to stay by Wanwan’s side and didn’t have to do anything every day. Whatever the cub wanted, it would buy without hesitation, so it truly didn’t need any silver.
Keke wished the cub’s little treasury could be even larger, preferably more than her father Shang Wuyang’s.
The little Qilin cub should also come to the mortal world to live a happy life.
So, after eating the tea eggs, everyone, led by Keke, went to make preserved eggs and salted eggs.
Preserved eggs were made from chicken eggs, while salted eggs were made from duck and goose eggs.
Making preserved eggs also required mixing salt water, quicklime, and wood ash with mud. Therefore, when Xie Chong’s subordinates came to find him, they saw their General squatting in the backyard, playing with mud with his daughter.
Children are naturally fond of playing, and Qin Wanwan was no exception.
She had been diligently playing with the mud, but Qin Wanwan’s little chubby hands started playing as she molded it.
She first molded a shapeless lump, a truly abstract thing.
The little one held it up: “Daddy, this is you.”
Xie Chong looked at it and then: …………
He absolutely did not want to admit it.
Aunt Zhang coaxed the child: “Miss, you made it so well!”
Qin Wanwan pouted: “You’re lying, it doesn’t look like Daddy at all.”
Aunt Zhang: …………
You knew that, and you still asked.
Qin Wanwan held it in her hands, looking at it repeatedly: “I was thinking of Daddy’s appearance in my heart, but my hands didn’t obey.”
What she thought of was one thing, but what she made was another.
She had indeed molded it according to Daddy’s appearance, but the finished product was… um, ugly.
But the little chubby cub still had some aesthetic sense.
She also had a bit of stubbornness in her, determined to mold something.
Everyone else was wrapping eggs in mud, while she was diligently molding little figures on the side.
Her nose itched, and she forgot her hands were dirty. She casually wiped them, and then her face was covered in yellow mud.
The fair and white milk ball had turned into a dirty little calico cat.
But she was still cute.
“General!”
What was going on here?
Xie Chong turned his head to look at them, and then…
A group of grown men squatted on the ground, dejectedly wrapping eggs in yellow mud together.
“Can we still eat these after wrapping them in mud for a while?”
Why didn’t they believe it?
Keke was very displeased with their doubt: “Don’t doubt Keke, who knows astronomy and geography and everything!”
The few of them looked at it amusingly.
“Oh, Lord Keke knows everything, then do you know when we’ll be able to defeat those Tartars?”
Keke snorted: “I don’t know about the future, but I do know a little about some past events.”
Keke’s eyes darted around, and it said to the person who asked: “Yang Canjun, right? Did you take a beautiful concubine a while ago.”
It said this with certainty.
Everyone else looked towards Yang Canjun.
Yang Canjun immediately touched his nose, a little embarrassed.
This was ancient times; it was normal for men to have three wives and four concubines.
Yang Canjun had a wife at home. He was a bit lustful, but of course, he greatly respected his wife and would never neglect or mistreat his principal wife because he favored a concubine.
“What’s there to say? Many people know. I saw that girl selling herself to bury her father and felt pity for her. I gave her the silver, and she willingly came to me, so I didn’t refuse.”
He mumbled this very softly, but Xie Chong still kicked him.
“Don’t say these things in front of Wanwan.”
Yang Canjun immediately shut up.
Keke cackled, a creepy, sinister laugh.
They really wanted to know how this fellow made such a sound.
“You haven’t been home for several days, have you? Your concubine has given you several green hats.”
Everyone was confused: “What’s a green hat?”
Keke: “It means your concubine slept with other men!”
“That’s impossible!”
Yang Canjun immediately stood up, his voice raising.
He glared at Keke: “Impossible. She’s so weak-willed, it’s impossible. Besides, An Niang manages things in the mansion.”
Keke looked at him disdainfully: “Why don’t you go back and see now? There’s a surprise.”
“I’ll go back then!”
He had just returned from an external patrol mission and indeed hadn’t been home for several days.
But… thinking of how the weak concubine leaned on him, saying she would only be able to rely on him in the future, he couldn’t believe someone like that would have such great courage.
Yang Canjun left in a furious huff.
The others exchanged glances, and suddenly stood up to follow him.
“General, we’ll go along to see. If Yang Canjun gets too angry, we can comfort him.”
Comforting was an excuse; watching the show was the real reason.
Although they were all brothers, they were also a group of mischievous friends.
Xie Chong held the egg in his hand, expressionless.
He hadn’t even done anything yet when Qin Wanwan stood up and skipped to follow behind them.
Xie Chong: …………
“What are you going to do?”
With his dirty hands, he couldn’t grab his daughter immediately.
Qin Wanwan ran back and grabbed her Daddy’s clothes with her little dirty hands, trying to pull him up.
“Daddy, get up. Let’s go join the fun together.”
Xie Chong glared at Keke with a dark face: “What are you teaching her all day?”
Keke whistled and looked up at the sky.
Don’t blame it; it didn’t teach her anything bad!
Qin Wanwan grabbed Xie Chong’s hand and bounced.
“Daddy, Daddy, let’s go, let’s go…”
“Daddy~”
Her soft, acting-spoiled demeanor drew the others over.
“General, please go. What’s there to hide? We’ll help cover Wanwan’s eyes then.”
“Exactly, you can just not look if you don’t want to.”
“General, you’re really something. You can remain unflustered even when Wanwan is acting spoiled. I can’t, though. How about we carry her?”
Xie Chong: “Get lost!”
But in the end, he still went, carrying Qin Wanwan.
When they arrived at Yang Canjun’s house, a scream suddenly came from inside the mansion.
Xie Chong’s General’s Mansion looked like a small courtyard, apart from its large size; others were even less so.
Such a loud noise could be heard clearly even standing at the doorway.
