Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 296 Who Is Pretending to Be a Big Girl
In the early morning of the next day, Dongfang was just showing his belly, and West Street was already full of people.

Xiao Cangxiang woke up amidst the noise, all kinds of pots and pans echoed each other, and after a while, a moving movement was assembled.In the Wen Family Courtyard, Wen Shu raised his head from the table and rubbed his pillow-numbed arms, his eyes were a little dazed.

How did she fall asleep here?
Oops, her dick!

Thinking of the two test chickens, Wen Shu rubbed his numb arms, walked out with his feet up.

After completing the "Shan Hai Jing" last night, she originally wanted to watch the two chickens carefully all night, but she fell asleep lying on the table before she knew it.

At this moment in the courtyard, the two chickens are still asleep, one is sleeping in the corner beside the vegetable ridge, and the other is sleeping under the Tianmao tree.

The twisted chicken sleeping under the Tianmao tree was very vigilant, and opened its eyes vigilantly before she approached. Then, it stood up, flapped its wings excitedly, and ran towards her feet.

"Cuckoo."

The sharp mouth pecked and pecked on the ground, the hint was very obvious.

Wen Shu ignored it, and went straight to look at the white-haired chicken squatting in the corner of Cailong. It also opened its eyes at this time, and stood up shaking.

Although his posture wasn't upright and his movements weren't fast enough, compared to his sluggishness yesterday, his appearance of falling asleep at any time was already much better.

The twisted chicken is fine, and the white-haired chicken is fine, so the rice can be steamed normally!

This is really good news.

Wen Shu excitedly ran to the well to wash, and told Father Wen the good news after he woke up.Father Wen was both surprised and delighted when he heard it. Aning said that eating the grass could prevent infant deaths, and he planned to steam it into Baijia rice and distribute it to passing business travelers after the test was successful.

Naturally, he supports such things such as forming good karma and immeasurable merit.

Wen Shu didn't even eat breakfast because he had to go to the tea shop to steam rice early, so he went out of the city with a bag of fennel grass on his back.

The weeds in the bag were rootless and unfeedable, so she picked them all up and planned to steam rice later, and the remaining ones with roots, she planned to plant them in a spot on the mountain behind the tea shop when she was free.

If she can survive, she plans to secretly open a field in the back mountain to plant some "exotic flowers and herbs" obtained from Shan Hai Jing.In this way, it can go back and forth and flow continuously, and it can also provide a reasonable source for those magical flowers and plants.

It is also a good escape route when it is absolutely necessary.

Giving up this place is better than giving up the iron box. If you find fairy grass in the mountains, at best, others will lament that she has bad luck, and at worst, this place will be taken over by others , It's better than the secret of the iron box being known and guarded like a ghost.

Lu Xi didn't expect Wen Shu to go out so early, so when he brought someone over with half a basket of kumquats, he missed it again.He was still greeted by Papa Wen and a group of neighbors watching the fun.

"Hey, there are so many kumquats, this is a precious thing."

"No, it's not cheap even in August and September, let alone now."

"Which family is this from? It's so generous?"

The neighbors were chattering, while Father Wen looked at Lu Xi with some embarrassment.He recognizes this little brother, the last time Aning went to the Hou Mansion, this little brother came to pick him up, but right now
"I'm from the Marquis of Weiyuan." Seeing his doubts, Lu Xi explained with a smile, "This is given to Miss Wen by the eldest girl of our family, saying that it is for the little lady to try something new together. ?”

Although it was given by the young master, but with so many people watching, if you tell the truth, I'm afraid it will damage the reputation of the little lady.

"Unfortunately, I just went out."

"Going out." Lu Xi paused, "So early?"

He looked at the sky, didn't it just dawn, he didn't even eat breakfast in order to deliver things.

"Mmm," Father Wen replied without saying anything.

If his family opened an ordinary tea shop, he would definitely answer truthfully, but in the current situation, it is better to keep a low profile.

"Then I don't know when the little lady will come back?" Lu Xi continued to ask, he still had something to say.

"I'm not sure about this, but brother, is there something else?"

"Well, no, it's just that the eldest girl of my family hasn't seen the little lady for a long time and wants to call her to the mansion to talk."

With so many people watching, let's talk face to face about the treat.

"Success, when she comes back, I'll tell her that some brothers are coming in for tea."

"No, no, don't be too busy, senior officials. We still have something to do, so we will take our leave first."

After being polite with Lu Xi and the others, he watched them go out of the alley, chatted with the neighbors who were complimenting and envious, and grabbed a handful of kumquats for each of the children who were staying around the bamboo baskets, Father Wen heaved a sigh of relief and entered the courtyard with a bamboo basket.

Unexpectedly, just as the door was closed, someone knocked on the door again.

"Hello, sir, my eldest daughter asked me to send some kumquats to Miss Wen." said the little servant.

Father Wen was stunned, didn't he just give away half a basket?Why come again?

Fortunately, the neighbors were all dispersed at this time, and no one came to watch the excitement. Father Wen accepted the basket in a daze and asked, "Didn't you just give away half of the basket?"

"Ah." The boy was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head, "Is there such a thing?" Could it be that the eldest girl also sent someone else to send her off.

Seeing that the boy was also confused and ignorant, Father Wen didn't make things difficult for him, and sent him away with a few polite words.

On his side, he was puzzled, but on the other side, Wen Shu was very busy.

The summer solstice is a big festival, even court officials will rest for three days, but for ordinary people, especially traffickers and pawns, it is also a good day for doing business. Vegetable farmers in the suburbs of Beijing are reluctant to rest on this day, and they have to bear it early The vegetables are sold in the city.

For a while, the officials and Taoists who entered the city came and went, and even brought a lot of business to the surrounding teahouses.

Wenshu's Baiwei tea shop also received a lot of customers early in the morning, all of them were hawkers who went to the city early to do business. Of course, they could eat, and what they were willing to eat were ordinary steamed buns, tea soup and other things.

Because Wen Shu asked Mrs. Zhao to put up a sign at the door early on, saying, "Today, we will give away a hundred meals for free, and those who need it can pick up one." , also has a good heart.

Who wouldn't want a free meal, especially on this festival, after discussing it, they all made up their minds to bring a portion on their return trip.

The travelers on the road talked and walked away, but Wen Shu and Mrs. Zhao behind the tea shop were sweating profusely.

In the back kitchen, two large iron pots were bubbling under the smoldering flames. Wen Shu stood in front of the iron pot on the left, stirring the spatula in his hand, watching the color of the grass juice in the pot. While carefully thinking about how many baskets of rice to steam and how much fennel to put.

Mrs. Zhao was busy in front of another pot. There were eight steamers on the pot, all of which were steamed with ordinary Baijia rice, four baskets of mung beans, and four baskets of dried fruit.

There are only so many fenugreeks, so you can’t just give them away when you see them. Good steel has to be used wisely. For those who have no children at home, Wen Shu thinks it’s better to give them ordinary ones, so she ordered Mrs. Zhao to steam eight baskets of ordinary rice.

Mrs. Zhao felt a little strange about Wenshu cooking herbal juice to steam Baijia rice, but because of the lessons learned from "thirsty water for eyesight, thirsty water for wisdom" and "noodles with cold salad", she no longer made a fuss and asked questions.

Because she knew that the little boss must have her reasons for doing so, and she just had to follow orders.

(End of this chapter)