Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 287 Sudden Enthusiasm

The bullock cart staggered for nearly two quarters of an hour before entering the city. The road was exposed to the sun, and with the bowl of fragrant cold noodle that he ate at noon, Wen Shu felt that his throat was about to smoke when he entered the city.

So the first thing I did when I got out of the car was to buy a bowl of ice and snow licorice soup from the cold water stall beside the road.

A bowl of chilled licorice soup not only saved the throat, but also refreshed the whole person.Wen Shu couldn't help thinking whether he should also buy some ice cubes for the shop to make cold water (drinks with ice).

There are many ice shops in Bianjing city. They store the ice in the cellar during the cold winter, and then take it out for sale in the next summer. According to the water quality of the lake, the ice taken out is also divided into grades, and the prices are naturally different. .

Because Wen Shu's house has an underground well, the water in the well becomes as cold as ice in summer. If you want to eat some iced melons and fruits, you just need to put the melons and fruits into a bamboo basket, and then use a rope to wrap the melons and fruits into a bamboo basket. The basket is hung tightly and sank into the well.After a night, the taste is almost the same as that of the iced one.

But now that the tea shop is open, the well water is no longer suitable.
Besides buying ice, tea shops don’t have cellars, even if you buy ice, you can’t store it for a long time, you can only use it on the same day you buy it.And because it is outside the city, it is not easy to ask the ice shop to deliver the goods to the door, so I can only go to the shop to buy them in person every day, and then send them outside the city.

But how can she have that time?

Why don't you find a gap and dig a cellar in the back?Or dig a well?

While thinking, she had already turned into the alley where her home was located, and Wen Shu was secretly calculating the cost of digging a well and a cellar, when she heard someone calling her, "Wen girl."

Wen Shu came back to his senses and followed the sound, only to find that it was Mrs. Guo who was at the opposite door.

"Aunt Guo" She smiled back politely and was about to go, but Mrs. Guo suddenly came over and asked enthusiastically, "Where are you from?"

Wen Shu was a little confused by this sudden enthusiasm.Although Mrs. Guo is opposite his family, her friendship with her own family is very ordinary. In previous years, when exchanging hundreds of meals, she never went to her house to exchange.Even when they met on weekdays, she took the initiative to say hello, and the other party responded in a flattering way, never taking the initiative to talk to her like today.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!The vigilant Wen Shu immediately sensed that there might be something going on, so he answered cautiously.

"It's nothing, I just went shopping in the West Market. Isn't it the summer solstice tomorrow, I want to buy some dry goods and come back to cook rice." She smiled and answered very naturally.

Mrs. Guo didn't think much about it, because the fact that the Wen family opened a tea shop outside the city was not publicized, so very few people knew about it.

"Then I bought it, what are you going to do?" She asked while looking at Wen Shu.

"No, I didn't know what to buy after shopping around, so I thought about going to other places in the afternoon." Wen Shu smiled.

"Oh, if you want me to say that you girl is ingenious, no matter what you buy, it will definitely taste better than ours."

Mrs. Guo even praised her!The sun really came out from the west.

Because of her mischievousness when she was young, Wen Shu did harm to Guo Shi a lot, so that Guo Shi disliked her very much when she grew up, and even secretly said that she was a mother who couldn't get married.

Even when they heard that she went to school to learn cooking skills, they didn't take it seriously and said that her father was stupid and had money to cook.

Today is really weird!

"My aunt won the prize, and my father is still at home waiting for me to eat, so I will go back first." Wen Shu found an excuse to leave, but Guo called her again, "It just so happens that my aunt's house just steamed rice. Meat rice, you pack a bowl and take it home to eat."

"No need, auntie, there is food at home"

"There are not many of these bowls, just steamed, and they are fragrant." As he spoke, Mrs. Guo rushed to the room behind him and shouted: "Yu Niang, quickly get a bowl of rice for the girl of the Wen family."

"Hey." There was a reply from inside.

After a while, I saw a young lady about Wen Shu's age come out with a bowl. It was Guo's eldest daughter, Mei Yujuan.Because of Guo's dislike for Wen Shu and their different personalities, even though they are about the same age, they never played together.

"Hurry up, take it." Mrs. Guo took the bowl from Mei Yujuan's hand and handed it to Wen Shu involuntarily.

The hospitality is hard to turn down, Wen Shu has to continue if she doesn't want to, and politely adds, "When I steam the rice, I will also send a bowl to my aunt."

Originally, it was just a courtesy, because Mrs. Guo never asked for food from her family in the past, Wen Shu was thinking, she would definitely say "No, no."

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Guo responded immediately, "Okay, okay, let us have a taste of your handicraft."

Wen Shu didn't even know how he went back with that bowl of rice, but felt that what happened today was too abnormal.However, after she opened the door, she realized that there was still something abnormal.

"Father?" She looked at Father Wen who was sitting under the eaves in a daze in surprise.

At this time, shouldn't her father be watching the shop in front?

"I'm home."

Wen Shu nodded, "Father, why are you sitting here, have you had lunch yet?"

"No, I can't eat it."

"Ah?" Just as Wen Shu wanted to ask why she couldn't eat, her father stood up and said with a serious expression, "Come in with me."

what happened?Wen Shu scratched his head and followed in a daze.

"What's going on here?" Father Wen took out the greeting card in the morning and the box sent by the Hou Mansion.

"What?" Wen Shu put the bowl on the table beside him, and moved over curiously. After seeing the posters on the table, he also looked shocked: "This is it?"

"You don't know."

Wen Shu couldn't laugh or cry, "I want to know, can I tell you in advance."

"Then who are they?" Father Wen couldn't figure out why these high-ranking officials suddenly proposed marriage to this little-known girl from his family.

It was Wen Shu who turned his head quickly, and after thinking about it for a while, he understood the reason, "It should be Hong Ying."

She cheerfully put down the post, and poured herself a cup of tea, "The young gentlemen of these families all participated in yesterday's gathering, so they must have told their family about Hong Ying when they went back, so there are these posts. "

Father Wen has lived to this age, and many things can be understood at one point, but there is still one thing that he doesn't understand.

"Then this box is again..." Old Man Wen pointed to the one sent by the Hou's Mansion, "I took a look, and there are several posts in it that are repeated with the ones in your hand, like this military inspector Huang's house. , and the book Lang Cheng's family..."

After hearing what he said, Wen Shu opened the box again and looked over one by one. In the box, apart from the few households he had seen just now, there were five households that he had never seen before. Looking carefully, all the positions were higher than those households. Even a scholarly family, a hairpin family.

And the reason why she didn't hand it over later was obviously that after the eldest girl told them her true identity, they felt that the difference in status was too big, and even Hong Ying couldn't make them bow their heads.

She shared her conjecture with Father Wen, who was silent for a while after hearing this, and then said, "Then what do you think?"

"Whatever you think, of course I'm happy." Wen Shu put down the post and said with a smile: "It's rare that someone proposes marriage to me, and it's a high-ranking person. It's a good thing."

Father Wen gave her an angry look, "Say it well, I'm asking you if there's anyone you like here?"

Wen Shu carefully recalled the young gentlemen of these families in the Yaji, and found that she was only focused on eating at that time, and she had no time to pay attention to the young gentlemen on the opposite side because she was only interested in eating. It seems that he can't even remember what he looks like.

"No, I can't even remember what they looked like."

Hearing what she said, Father Wen hesitated, "What about these posts?"

"Take it for now." Wen Shu said happily: "It's rare that so many people propose marriage to me, and they all have status. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it's a very honorable thing."

She said that Guo Shi treated her like a different person today, and that was the crux of it.

But after finding out the reason, she didn't panic anymore. It turned out that it was just to get some credit, and she thought there was a bigger conspiracy.

Hearing what she said, Father Wen also laughed.

That's right, since he settled down in Xiaocha Lane, today is indeed his happiest day. Those people who secretly think he is unlucky on weekdays are all smiling and friendly today.

It's because everyone has a good face, what happened today really made him feel proud.

(End of this chapter)