Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 13

When Wen Shu and Wen Tai went home, they brought out Wen's food from the kitchen and ate hastily, and then went about their business.

Old Man Wen wanted to return the household belongings to the Zhao family as soon as possible, so he lit the oil lamp at night, and chopped the large pieces of leftover materials into small pieces suitable for handles, while other delicate tasks, such as planing and polishing, were due to It's hard to see clearly at night when the light is dim, so you can only leave it for the day.

Seeing that her father was busy, Wen Shu couldn't go to bed early, so after washing the dishes, she took a thousand-character text and sat next to her father, reading it by the dim oil lamp.

She has been studying for half a year now, and she has just finished studying this thousand-character essay. She can almost recognize [-]% of the characters in it, and the remaining [-]% are more difficult to remember.

Half an hour later, a few stars quietly flashed in the dark sky.

Father Wen rubbed his back pain, put the split wood aside, and said to Wen Shu who was beside him, "Don't look, let's rest early."

Seeing that her father was finished, Wen Shu nodded, rubbed his sore eyes and stood up, "Then father also rests earlier."

Wen Tai responded, and the two father and daughter went back to their rooms. The night was heavy and there was nothing to say all night.

The next day, as soon as Dongfang showed his belly white, the two got up again.

After Wen Tai washed up, he devoted himself to household work, but Wen Shu saw that he couldn't help, so he could only go into the kitchen to make breakfast.

Putting on an apron, she set up a small stove, filled the earthenware pot on it with water, and then added a few leaves of tea leaves. After the water boiled, she took out a small earthenware pot from the cupboard. The tea powder of grandma tea.

It is mainly a powder made of four flavors: roasted yellow chestnuts, fried white sesame seeds, Jiangnan olives with pits and flesh, and Saibei shelled walnuts.

Pour the 'Grandma Tea' powder into the boiling tea, then light it with cold water, bring the tea to a boil again, then light it with cold water, do this three times, and the color, aroma and flavor of the Grandma Tea will be ready.

This tea has the effect of invigorating qi, strengthening the spleen, and strengthening the waist and kidneys. When it is cold, Wen Shu likes to make this tea for Wen Tai to drink, in order to reduce the occurrence of his back injury.

After the grandma tea was cooked, Wen Shu scooped another large spoonful of flour from the wheat noodle jar, and added two large spoonfuls after thinking for a moment.

Now that the shop is gone, and the subsidy from the court is half as low as expected, she must find other ways to increase the income, otherwise this year will be sad.

After much deliberation, she finally focused on the food that was within reach in front of her eyes, took out the two white wombs that her father bought yesterday from the corner, washed them, chopped them up, and then took out the leftover oil from boiling the oil. Chop the slag together and make a stuffing.

As the sky gradually brightened, the sound of saws sawing wood could be faintly heard outside.

When the sun completely burst out from the east, emitting thousands of golden lights, the Wen family's kitchen also emitted bursts of fragrance.

Picking up the white, plump and soft steamed buns stuffed with white womb into a clean bamboo basket lined with a white cloth, Wen Shu went back to the room and took a starched and whitish robe and folded several layers to cover it to prevent it from cooling down. .

After finishing all this, she went out of the kitchen with a bamboo basket, and greeted Wen Tai, who was working in the courtyard: "Father, the steamed buns and grandma's tea made for breakfast, the tea is hot in the pottery urn, remember to eat, I'll go out first one trip."

After finishing speaking, she hurried out of the courtyard without waiting for her father to respond.

Tokyo City is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, with a population of up to one million. Among them, the alleys and squares are crowded, and even remote places such as the north of the city are densely populated.

Because of the extremely bustling night market, Gai didn't close until three o'clock every day and resumed at five o'clock. Therefore, when Wen Shu walked onto the street with a basket in his arms, the street was already crowded with people.

"Fry some tea and herbal soup, do you want some soup, my lady? The store has black bean soup, lychee round eye soup, and dust-free soup"

"Butterfly noodles, water-smooth noodle lady, come and bowl noodles."

Wen Shu refused the peddler's lively solicitation, biting the white cabbage steamed buns she had made in her hand, thinking to herself where should the basket of steamed buns be sold?

It's obviously not suitable on the street. The breakfast stalls on both sides are various and full of flavors. Her vegetarian steamed buns are not outstanding here, and the possibility of being selected is extremely low.

After thinking about it for a while, a place suddenly appeared in her mind, West Street Liu'an Lane.

Most women nowadays are too lazy to cook breakfast, and what's more, they even buy lunch and dinner together outside. If she mentions it now, she should be able to bump into some women who are just getting up and don't want to eat breakfast. people.

Liu'an Lane is not far from Xiaocha Lane. Go to the right hand from the end of the street, then pass Zhouxi Lane, and pass two openings.

Different from Xiaocha Lane, which has a layout of houses behind the shops in the front, Liu'an Lane is an alley that only people live in. Most of the people living in it are small vendors in the market, or doing work on the wharf. Coolie family.

These people are relatively economical in their daily expenses, and they spend two dollars for one dollar. Her basket of steamed buns, which is not very good, should have some market value in that place.

After thinking about it, Wen Shu hurried to Liu'an Lane.

The weather has turned cold now, and the steamed buns in the basket have been out of the pan for a while, if you don't hurry up, it will be really cold.

"Cooking cakes, selling cooking cakes, cooking cakes just out of the pan"

Just as Wen Shu turned around two turns and reached the entrance of Liu'an Alley, he heard the cries of peddlers.

Following the prestige, I saw a man in a brown short jacket peddling along the alley with his back turned to her. The voice should be a teenager.

Wen Shu looked around and saw that there was nothing wrong with him, so he cleared his throat, and began to sell like the young man: "Steamed buns, steamed buns. Freshly baked steamed buns, fragrant white cabbage buns."

Hearing the voice, the boy turned his head to look at her curiously, then turned his head back and continued to yell.

Wen Shu didn't care either, since this alley doesn't belong to her family, it's normal for others to yell at her.

"Steamed buns, fragrant white cabbage buns." She yelled as she walked forward, and as she walked forward, the crisp and sweet cries gradually spread.

Mrs. An, who lived in the seventh room at the end of the alley, was reprimanded by her mother-in-law early in the morning, and she was very upset. Hearing the sound, as if she had found a vent, she opened the courtyard door angrily, and shouted: "The salesman Little lady of steamed buns, come here."

After hearing this, Wen Shu thought that there was a business coming, and immediately smiled and asked, "This lady wants to buy steamed buns?"

Mrs. An looked her up and down, raised her chin and asked, "What's your steamed bun stuffed with?"

"Bai Si, how many ladies do you want?"

Mrs. An snorted coldly, and looked at the mother-in-law who was bending over to wash up in the yard from the corner of her eyes. She pointed at Sang and scolded Huai and said, "It's just a vegetarian who dares to call it sweet. I see you little lady and those deaf and blind people in the family. The old woman is no different, she knows nonsense all day long."

Seeing her unkind expression, Wen Shu just felt confused, and didn't know where he had offended her, but he still explained with a smile on the basis of the idea of ​​a businessman making money with kindness.

"Ma'am, I don't know. My cabbage is prepared with lard. In addition, there are a lot of meat dregs in it. It has a fragrance. If you don't believe me, you can buy two and try."

"Let's leave the meat residue?" Mrs. An paused.

"Yes, how many do you want my lady to buy?"

After scolding, the anger in Mrs. An's heart dissipated a lot, and she was about to answer, but the old woman suddenly sternly scolded: "You lazy woman, if you don't go to set up a stall, why don't you leave this door with some wild woman?" The man is showing off." As he said that, the man walked over here.

Mrs. An's expression froze, as if she had knocked over a multicolored plate, she said in a shrill voice: "What are you talking about, mother-in-law, she is just a little girl who sells steamed buns, and I was thinking about buying two steamed buns for Da Lang to bring." Going to work."

The old woman became even angrier when she heard the sound, and scolded: "You prodigal bitch! The most important thing to do when you go to the pier to carry out work is to relieve hunger, so why don't you buy steamed buns! It's serious to buy two pancakes.

Mrs. An blushed when she heard the words, and felt that she had lost face in front of outsiders, and was about to throw up her sleeves and close the door, but the old woman had already walked over, pushed open the half-closed courtyard door, and looked at Wen Shu outside.

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