Chang’an Small Restaurant

    On the beginning of summer, when it was time to ring the bell, Lin Yan came back from the office. Grandmother is waiting for him to eat twilight.

    After washing her hands and face, and changing into homely clothes, Lin Yan came to the grandmother's courtyard.

    "Brother, you are back!" Mrs. Jiang Tai smiled happily.

    Lin Yan smiled, "I told you not to wait for me, don't starve you."

    "How can you not wait? Aye and Auntie are not here. I'm eating alone. It's boring." Mrs. Jiang Tai pouted first, then smiled again.

    Lin Yan's eyes are slender and slender, and the ends of the eyes are slightly raised, but the middle part is too straight. It is an atypical red phoenix eye. The whole face softened, "What did you do at home today?"

    "A Chang and I sew sachets, today is the beginning of summer."

    "Oh, is it?" Lin Yan served her grandmother a night of cabbage and egg drop soup.

    Because only the grandparents and grandchildren were eating, for the sake of fun, they did not divide the meal, but gathered together beside a large food table like the later generations.

    "I know you're busy!" Mrs. Jiang Tai moved the two plates of cakes over, "This is our own steamed red date cake, these are sent from other places, and each one is picked up. Two, which one do you try?"

    Today we ate at the meeting hall, and the sage gave the cakes for the festival and returned to Jingzhao Mansion. Lin Yan smiled and picked up a piece of his grandmother Yin Yin's gaze.

    "Our jujube cake this year is very good, um, the buttermilk is a little too much." Not only the buttermilk, but also the sugar, the grandmother is old and has a dull taste. Take care of Mrs. Tai's taste and do it well.

    Lin Yan calmly took a sip of tea, sent over the overly sweet pastries, picked up a white round shape, took a bite, the glutinous rice skin was quite chewy and delicate The bean paste, which has the meaning of rouge cake in the palace, but not so sweet, is unexpectedly delicious, "Who sent this?"

    The maid behind Mrs. Tai replied, "It's the Guangming Temple at the back door."

    Mrs. Jiang Tai also smiled, "Their master Ci Ming is very good at making assorted wontons, but I didn't expect the cakes to be good too."

    No one has corrected Mrs. Jiang Tai that the host of Guangming Nunnery is Master Yuanjue, and Master Ciming is from Hedong Jingxin Nunnery, and it passed away twenty years ago, as if no one told her, In front of her is her grandson, not her self-imposed eldest brother.

    Mrs. Jiang Tai went along and talked about the milk soup crucian carp made by Master Ci Ming, "The soup is fresh, thick and milky white, with some tender green onions floating in the heart, it is very delicious."

    "There will be fresh crucian carp the other day, and let them stew soup." Lin Yan put some shredded bamboo shoots on a small plate for his grandmother.

    After dinner, Lin Yan chatted with her grandmother for a while before exiting.

    In the study, the housekeeper Zhou handed over the gift list for today's gifts and the gift list for his own return. Although it is called Lixia Cake, how can there be only cake? It's all a long list of things.

    Butler Zhou is an old man, and he has his own measure of how to receive gifts and return them. Lin Yan just turned it over and handed it back to him.

    Butler Zhou laughed again: "There are also two temples and nunneries that also sent cakes, and according to the rules they gave money to the basket." If you are a monk, just follow the big rules of Beijing.

    Lin Yan nodded nonchalantly, "Just watch and deal with it."

    The housekeeper Zhou was very close to himself, and smiled more and said, "A Lang should also marry a bride. It is like a housewife who is the master of human affairs."

    Lin Yan let out a "hmm" and looked down at the book.

    Butler Zhou was a little confused by the host's "um", did he hear it or just said it?

    Shen Shaoguang also ate cake for a day today. There were many good believers who burned incense and offered offerings in the nunnery. Afterwards, these offerings naturally belonged to the nuns in the nunnery. Some of them sent cakes out and pressed baskets in return, as well as summer cakes. As a result, there were a lot of various cakes in the nunnery.

    Jingqing picked up two of the most meticulously collected plates, and sent them to Shen Shaoguang in person, smiling: "Thank you for the guidance of Donor Shen in the past two days, and I made a good summer cake. It has won a lot of face for the nunnery. Mrs. Lu Guogong and Mrs. Ye Shilang have personally praised them, saying that they have the character of royal banquet cakes in the palace." What I didn't say is that the money for the basket was also more generous than in previous years.

    The temples and nunneries send food to others during the Chinese New Year and festivals, one is to maintain relationships, and the other is to fight the autumn wind. How can a serious person let them come back with an empty basket? It is necessary to put some property in the basket, which is called "money in the basket", which is also a way of making money as agreed in the temple.

    Shen Shaoguang naturally told her to be polite.

    "How many good things I ate from the donor Shen in the past, today I left the tip of the offering, and the donor also tasted ours."

    Shen Shaoguang said with a smile: "Then I will try it, see which one is outstanding, and eat it according to the gourd painting."

    Jingqing smiled and said, "It's not me bragging, tell me to see, there is nothing better than ours."

    Shen Shaoguang laughed more and more. She knew that this was Jingqing and grateful for her help. The nun Jingqing does not necessarily understand the Dharma very well, and even she is not shrewd, but she is loyal and sincere, and the nuns in the nunnery are convinced of her.

    Shen Shaoguang brewed tea with the remaining bit of pickled peony, and drank tea and ate cakes with Jingqing.

    "Master Jingqing brought these pastries?"

    "Where can I send it? I only visited a few shops in the workshop, and I know a few outside the workshop. The other ones were sent by other teachers and sisters."

    Shen Shaoguang nodded.

    Xu Shi was really happy today, and Jing Qing followed the gossip about the house in Beijing.

    "The Duke of Lu's family is getting more and more lavish. If he hadn't been in contact with him long ago, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to enter his house. It can be seen that Concubine Shu in the palace is really favored."

    Shen Shaoguang nodded, Concubine Shu was indeed favored.

    "I don't know what kind of beauty Concubine Shu is?" Jingqing whispered, "I think Mrs. Lu is majestic, but her color is not very good. But his second mother is a beauty. Son."

      I don't know which lady came from this Erniang."

    Jingqing made a second understanding, and said: "Looking at the face, it does not look like a mother and daughter, but when they get along, they are very close." He also sighed, "The lady of the country is really benevolent and virtuous. !"

    Shen Shaoguang followed her and said, "It's really benevolent and virtuous."

    "Er Niang is not only getting better and better, but also more enthusiastic about Buddhist affairs. I heard that we are in Chongxianfang, not far from the Guogong's mansion, so she said that she would come and stay for a few days and worship Buddha. Pray."

    Shen Shaoguang then sent Shunzui favors: "She is a faithful girl."

    Shen Shaoguang became neighbors with this faithful girl within two days.