Pu Xiaoxiang thought to himself that he had traveled south and north for so many years, and had seen a lot of things—no, it should be "seeing more and eating widely"—there may be those who have not eaten, and there are really few who have not seen them. Took the menu at the moment: "Let me see!"

She flipped through a few pages and couldn't help but freeze there. Seeing this, Xiao Er next to him chuckled and said, "Guest officer, do you want to let the little one tell you something?"

"No, we have our own encyclopedia!" Pu Xiaoxiang flatly refused, and then handed the menu in his hand to Jiang Shuiyuan: "Classmate Jiang, the task of ordering food is handed over to you, don't let us down! ”

Jiang Shuiyuan took the menu and looked at it a few times, and immediately understood why the two of them were discouraged, and said to the shopkeeper with a smile: "It seems that your Fan Lou Zhengdian is really the original Song Dynasty style, and even the price is in Suzhou yards." I just don't know if the pound in your store is ten taels or sixteen taels?"

"Of course it's sixteen taels! This is the Great Song Dynasty, how can there be a catty and ten taels? Isn't that a reduction in fortune (short 1 tael), a loss (less than 2 taels), and a longevity (lack of 3 taels)?" Could it be that the guest official has been a Chinese medicine practitioner since elementary school or has opened a pharmacy at home?"

"I won't tell you!" Pu Xiaoxiang was still worried about the matter of breaking face just now, and turned his face to Jiang Shuiyuan and humbly asked: "What is Suzhou yards? Why haven't I heard of it before?"

Yuke Hotta also put on a deferential look.

Jiang Shuiyuan explained: "We generally use Arabic numerals such as 1, 2, 3, and 4 in our current accounting, or Chinese characters such as one, two, three, and va in capital letters. Arabic numerals were only introduced to China in the 13th and 14th centuries, and were called foreign characters by the Chinese people, and Chinese characters with capital letters are usually believed to have appeared in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. So before that, what kind of bookkeeping did we Chinese use? Suzhou yard is also called grass yard, flower yard, Fanzi yard or business code, originated in the Tang Dynasty, perfected in the Song and Yuan dynasties, popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. If you look at the ledgers, title deeds or diaries and other documents and archives of the Ming and Qing dynasties, you will find that there are such Suzhou yards everywhere. ”

"Why is it called Suzhou yards? Not Hangzhou yards or Danzhou yards?"

Jiang Shuiyuan scratched his head: "I can't tell you this, because there are all kinds of legends." Now the popular view is that Suzhou's commodity economy was relatively developed during the Tang and Song dynasties, so Suzhou yards were born here. Of course, some people think that just as Arabic numerals did not originate in Arabia, but were invented by Indians, Suzhou yards have nothing to do with Suzhou, and they are called casually by later generations. ”

"I see. Yuya Hotta and Pu Xiaoxiang both nodded their heads one after another. Pu Xiaoxiang then asked, "Then why does the second brother suspect that you are studying Chinese medicine or opening a pharmacy?"

Jiang Shuiyuan said with a smile: "This is for the little second brother! But I guess that it is due to the rise of a large number of Western-style banks since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the original vertical ledger has gradually been replaced by the horizontal ledger, and the Suzhou yard that is compatible with the vertical ledger has gradually withdrawn from the historical stage, and only a small amount is retained in a few more traditional lines, such as traditional Chinese medicine? ”

"Awesome! You're so good!" It's all in one sentence!" the shopkeeper couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "As I said just now, only about three or two out of a hundred people who come to our store to eat can know Suzhou yards." But if you want to tell Suzhou yards in the past and present lives clearly, there is not one in a thousand people!"

"Don't you look at who this is! Do you think this kind of superficial question can be difficult to get him?" Pu Xiaoxiang said with honor.

The shopkeeper was really frightened, and asked cautiously, "Who are you, guest officer?"

Jiang Shuiyuan replied with a smile: "Don't listen to her nonsense, I'm just an ordinary tourist." Pu Xiaoxiang and Hotta-kun, you see, this is one to ten, and when you learn it, you can order it quickly. ”

Suzhou yards are not difficult to learn, like 〡 (1), 〢 (2), 〣 (3), ten (10) are clear at a glance, 〦 (6), 〧 (7), 〨 (8) can draw inferences, only 〤 (4), 〥 (5), 〩 (9) need special attention. In Jiang Shuiyuan's view, smart people like Pu Xiaoxiang and Hotta Yuya will definitely not be a problem to learn in minutes.

I don't know a lot of Chinese characters, and I don't know what it means when I know them...... I'm so sorry!"

Jiang Shuiyuan took the menu and looked through it carefully, and immediately discovered the sinister part of the store. For example, "Dumplings", although Ouyang Xiu said in "Returning to the Fields" that "soup cakes, the Tang people call them 'no trust', and now commonly known as dumplings", but you are a business owner, can't you honestly write the noodle soup that everyone understands?

There is also "Jiayingzi", according to the record of Cheng Dachang's "Yan Fanlu" in the Song Dynasty, that is, the plums of Jiaqingfang in the capital are particularly delicious, known as "the beauty of the capital", so they are specially called "Jiaqing Li", and later because everyone knows that it is a plum, simply call it "Jiayingzi", but a thousand years later, who knows that "Jiayingzi" is a plum?

Jiang Shuiyuan also asked the little second brother about this, but he didn't expect the little second brother to reply stinkily: "In our Fan Tower, the plum has to be called 'Jiayingzi'! Because the guests come to us to order culture, eat history, and feel the feelings of the Great Song Dynasty." Do you understand your feelings? Can you eat a plum at home and eat a Jiayingzi in Fanlou the same way?"

Shouldn't it be the same?

Jiang Shuiyuan forcibly suppressed the urge to ask rhetorical questions, and had to patiently explain the glorious history of plums and noodle soup in the Great Song Dynasty to Hotta Yuya and Pu Xiaoxiang in the future, and sometimes he had to take special care of the feelings of Yuya Hotta from the mud bombardment: "ほうとう (餺飥)は、山梨県を中心とした地域で作られる郷土食." wheat flourを水で練って紐(ひも)状または団子状に切ったもの。 Miso Shili てのjuice として煮こみ,カボチャなどの野菜を具に加えたものが...... (馎饦 is also a local dish in the area of Mui Hon-Yamanashi Prefecture, where it is made into a ribbon or dumpling shape with wheat flour and water,...... ）

Hotta Yuya was also shocked: "How does Jiang Jun know that the dumplings are the local cuisine of Yamanashi Prefecture?

Jiang Shuiyuan shook his head: "It's not clear whether there are any records in my country's classics, at least I haven't seen it." The reason why I know that it is a local dish of Yamanashi Prefecture is because it is recorded in Hotta-kun's "Hanwa Shuangjie Dictionary". ”

"Is there one?" Although the dictionary belonged to Yuya Hotta, he really hadn't noticed it yet.

Jiang Shuiyuan replied casually while ordering: "Of course there is, in the upper left half of page 1539." ”

Of course, Hotta Yu didn't believe it, but he was bored, so he took out the "Hanhe Shuangjie Dictionary" from his schoolbag and turned it to page 1539, and then saw the entry for "餺飥" in the upper part of the left, and the content of the explanation was exactly the same as what Jiang Shuiyuan said just now!

He raised his head in a daze like a robot, and asked bitterly, "Jiang Jun, have you read this dictionary before?"

"No, I don't. ”

"But what you just said is exactly the same as in the dictionary, and you can even remember the page numbers clearly!"

Jiang Shuiyuan realized that he had inadvertently played big, and immediately remedied: "Oh, I just happened to see that page." And at this moment, I met you from the mud bombardment in Dongpo Mountain Villa, so I was very impressed. ”

"Jiang Jun, do you think I'll believe it?"

Pu Xiaoxiang put down the green matcha in his hand and replied slowly: "Hotta-kun, this gentle and elegant young man in front of you is a big monster who takes pleasure in destroying other people's self-esteem and self-confidence. If Hotta-kun is not afraid of the destruction of the three views, you can choose not to believe it, and then try to stay away. Otherwise, your faith will collapse and you will doubt your life!"

Yuya Hotta holds his head in his hands: "Ever since I met him, my outlook on life has begun to disintegrate, and now it has broken into PM2.5!" )