Traveling to the ancient harem

Chapter 132 Hongge'er's Chili Noodles

Two years later.

Huang Ye is already fourteen years old and will be turning fifteen this year. According to the rules of the Great Xia Dynasty, girls should reach the age of fifteen, which means they can get married.

The court has undergone the biggest changes in the past two years. In the second year of the crown prince's regency, the emperor announced his abdication and became the emperor emeritus. When the new emperor ascended the throne, he changed the court's previous casual style of doing things and acted vigorously and decisively. Those who were not tactful were reprimanded by the new emperor. If they did not change, they would be pardoned and return home to retire. The new emperor would never tolerate them. This method gave the court a new look and greatly improved work efficiency.

The new emperor also promoted a large number of newcomers. For example, Xuan Ge'er, who used to have an unknown period of time in the Hanlin Academy, has been named by the emperor to go to the Ministry of Personnel for training in less than two years, and it has been almost a year.

The layout of the Huang Mansion has also changed a lot. The old man retired last year and the new emperor ascended the throne. As an old minister, he also retired after completing his mission and would not be a bother to the new emperor. His sons and grandsons are still in office. The new emperor tried to keep him, so he finally agreed.

Then, Xuan'er got married. Huang Ye's eldest sister-in-law was the daughter of a colleague of Huang's father in the Ministry of Revenue. Knowing the character of the Huang family, she proposed to marry her daughter to the Huang family. The Huang family was not a family that cared about family background, so they let the two children get to know each other themselves. Huang Ye also went there that day and liked this beautiful, neat and generous young lady very much. His sister was satisfied, and Xuan'er was also satisfied, so the matter was settled.

After getting married, Huang Ye got along with her eldest sister-in-law like real sisters. Now her eldest sister-in-law is pregnant, and she will become an aunt this year.

Huang Ye's biggest wish now is to wait until her nephew or niece is born and she reaches the age of marriage, and then go out to travel the world with Hongdou and Prince. She and Hongdou now practice martial arts every day, and their internal skills are gradually improving. Prince is even more amazing. Now his wingspan is almost two meters, and he has become a veritable eagle king. One night he actually caught a sheep and brought it back to show off. As a result, Huang Ye gave him a good lesson and asked him to return the sheep, saying that it is not easy for ordinary people to raise sheep.

Hong Ge'er left Beijing last year. Ever since Huang Ye gave him a copy of The Art of War on his birthday last year, he has become more determined to become a general. Seeing that he was determined, the old lady asked her brother to get him into the barracks and send him to the northern garrison for training. The reason why Huang Ye wanted to travel around was to see her second brother. She hadn't seen him for almost a year and wondered how he was doing now.

A few days ago, Hongger asked someone to send back the coming-of-age gift for her. It was a jasper hairpin with extremely fine water content. Huang Ye estimated that her second brother's salary for the year might not be enough to buy this hairpin. She was very touched and wanted to go see her second brother even more.

In the letter that the second brother brought back along with the gift, he asked her very embarrassedly how the pepper harvest was this year and whether she could bring him some more, as many people around him were looking forward to it.

Speaking of this, we have to talk about when Hong Ge'er left. Huang Ye felt sorry for his second brother catching a cold in the snowy north, so he mixed the dried chilies he had harvested last year with Sichuan peppercorns and ground them into chili powder. He then wrapped the powder in oil paper and put it in a big bag for him, thinking that it should be enough for him to eat for the whole winter, and he would ask someone to bring it to him this year.

Who knew that Hong Ge was so generous that he put a spoonful of chili powder in the big pot where meat was cooked, which caused a stir in the whole garrison. People kept coming to ask for chili powder. In the end, his superiors came forward and confiscated his stock, and he was able to live in peace. Before winter came, his superiors found him and asked him in a roundabout way whether he had any more this year and whether he could send some to satisfy his craving.

And there is also the young man. He declined the position in the Hanlin Academy that the Li family had arranged for him. He listened to the advice of his grandfather and, with the joint efforts of his in-laws and his grandfather, he arranged for a transfer to a remote small county in the southwest to be a county magistrate. You have to know that the more difficult the place is, as long as you do a good job and achieve results, you will be promoted the fastest, and in the future you will be among the court officials, which will give you more confidence than others.

Actually, Huang Ye originally planned to open the restaurant she had dreamed of at the beginning of this year, but she overestimated the yield of peppers. She had planted all the pepper seeds on the farm last year, but the result was almost the same as the wild ones, with too low yield and very few seeds. She could only ask the experienced farmer to carefully select the seeds and continue planting this year. Although the planting area seems to have increased a lot, the yield is still estimated to not meet the requirements. She wants to open a restaurant with peppers as the main ingredient. If the raw materials cannot keep up, it will not be able to continue for a long time, so this matter has been put on hold.

The eldest daughter of the Huang family, who had been practicing outside to pray for her family, was returning to Beijing to celebrate her coming of age. The news spread slowly without causing much ripples. People didn't have much friendship with the Huang family in the first place. Even though they had a top scholar, they still kept a low profile and married a wife of humble family background. When people heard about this, they just listened to it.

The Huang family has been busy these days. It is early autumn now, and Huang Ye will be coming of age in a few days. This is a big event. Chen has not been sleeping well these days. Her daughter-in-law is about to give birth, and she is about to reach the age of marriage. She has to take both of them seriously.

When Xuan Ge'er won the top spot in the imperial examination, they had wanted to celebrate it in a big way, but in the end, they didn't do it at Huang Ye's suggestion. The reason Huang Ye gave was that since the Huang family was low-key, they should continue to do so, and as long as they did their job conscientiously, that would be fine. So she still suggested not to hold a big celebration this time. She had not appeared in front of the public for a long time and had no friends, so there was no need to be high-profile.

Although it is still not a big ceremony, it is the only time in a daughter's life for her to get married, so several important relatives should still be invited. Also, my daughter is already an adult, so the marriage should be put on the agenda. She can't be like Hongger, who is so worrying and doesn't care about his marriage at all.