Don't go past the woodcutters, and when you come to town, some of the breakfast shops have opened their doors. His stomach was rumbling, and he wanted to find a shop for breakfast, but he remembered that he was penniless.

Touching the body, in addition to this clothes, there is also a set of gold needles, and there is nothing to take out to pawn, even if there is, I can't find a pawnshop so early.

Damn the madman Zhou!

Besides, he scolded bitterly in his heart, that is, he pouted and said that he would not bring a penny and still live a comfortable life, and he still believed him stupidly, which was good, he got lost halfway, and he didn't even have the money to buy a piece of baked cake.

He touched his sleeve again, there were only letters from Lian Daning and Chen Musa, and some people's names and addresses on them, but there was no Fengyang Mansion, because Fengyang was not on the planned route at all.

"Little brother gets up early, come in, the shop has tofu brain, soy milk, rice porridge, pancakes, steamed cakes, and buns. ”

A middle-aged woman with a thick waist and a thick face was coming out to pour dirty water, and when she saw him looking miserable and depressed in front of the door, she shouted. No matter how miserable and depressed a person is, he doesn't have a few pennies for breakfast, after all, he still looks like a Sven person in clothes.

"Can you hang the account?" and blushing hotly, he asked with difficulty.

"This is a small profit, and there is no credit. The woman's face changed and she turned and walked back to the shop.

An old man walked out of a shop next door, looked at him and smiled, "Little brother, come here." ”

Besides, at this time, I felt hungry and cold, and my legs trembled with fatigue, so I walked over quietly, still with shame on my face, and asked in a low voice: "Uncle, can you settle accounts here?"

"Haha, what's not on the account, the little brother is a foreigner, at first glance, he is a scholar, he has run out of entanglements, and he can't help for a while, he can use a few dollars for breakfast, just treat him as an old man. ”

"Thank you!" "Besides, he was not polite, and thought to himself, eat something to warm up his body, and then find a way to get money.

As for how to make money, he really doesn't have to worry, he can write, paint and sell it, and he can use the few golden needles on his body to treat people and make money.

As for finding the government to help, it is not difficult, it is estimated that he can lend back the entanglement by taking out Lian Daning's letter to Fengyang Mansion, but he doesn't want to and doesn't dare to do it, since someone wants to harm himself, the crisis still exists, it is better to be a low-key person, it is better to be incognito. By the way, just use your original name to make sure no one knows.

The shop is just a low earthen house, in which a few large pots are boiling porridge and tofu brains, and on the stove on the other side, a man is making cakes.

Then, a little girl of the same age as herself, who was fourteen or fifteen years old, came over and placed chopsticks and dishes on a wooden table. When I saw him, I smiled shyly.

"Little brother, why are you so early, it seems that you came down from the mountain. The old man walked in, sat down across from him, and asked.

"Uncle, I am a student from other places, I came out to study, but I got lost, I actually walked into the mountains, and I didn't come out until morning. The luggage also fell into a cliff. "He made up a set of rhetoric, regardless of whether it was credible or not.

"Oh, you're still fateful, you can come out alive after a night in the mountains alone. ”

"Where did you come from, and how old is this year?" the old man squinted at him, not to interrogate his origin, but to think that this young man was a little weird.

"A contemptible person from Wuzhong, surnamed Xu Mingming, is eighteen years old this year. He replied.

This age is also compromised, and he is sixteen, according to his original Xu Ming's age is twenty-five, but eighteen years old is quite credible, and it is difficult for people to see the exact age between sixteen and twenty.

The man in the pancake looked up at him and said with a smile: "Little brother, you seem to be in trouble, let me point you out a place, there is a squire Zhao in our town, I like to associate with you scholars, go to him, at least don't worry about food and housing, it seems that he still has to hire a teacher in his house." Little brother might as well give it a try. ”

The old man shook his head: "Don't go to Squire Zhao, who doesn't know that he is a well-known glazed mouse iron rooster, and he likes to read on his face, that is, he pretends to be, and he has invited a few teaching gentlemen, which one of them is not at the end of the year because he didn't give money to break his head and bleed, and he was all accused of going to the house." ”

The pancake man smiled: "I just see that the little brother is in trouble, let him go there for a few days first, stay for a few days, and then think of other ways." ”

"If that's the case, can't we have a house at home? Even if we don't eat well, we can always eat enough and have a bed to sleep. We have a shop, are we afraid of this one person?" the old man was a little unhappy, muttering to himself.

Besides, he hurriedly smiled and said: "Uncle, don't dare to trouble you too much, there is a pharmacy in this town, I can go there to find a job, I can always make money, and your food money here will be doubled and returned to you." ”

"Oh, you still know how to heal?" asked the old man.

"I know a little bit, it's a family tradition, and I know how to do acupuncture. ”

"You don't even need to mention the money for my meal, otherwise you will scold me. If you know acupuncture, I would like to try it, my old cold legs, together with the autumn wind, will hurt my heart, can it still be cured?"

"Absolutely. It's just that the old cold leg can't be cured in a few days, I'll give you a few days, and then leave you a prescription, you go to the crude medicine shop with a few pairs of medicine to slowly recuperate, I see that here is against the mountain, there must be more herbs in the mountain, you can also pick some by yourself, come back to soak in wine and drink, you can relieve some in about a year, insist on drinking for a few years, and the effect will be seen. ”

"Then dare to be kind, little brother, don't go, eat coarse tea and light rice here for a few days at the old man's place, and give the old man a few days of needles. ”

The man who made the pancake also came over and said with a smile: "Little brother, if you know acupuncture, are you afraid that you won't be able to make money? There is a man in our town, who has a crude medicine shop at home, and there is a big shelf. ”

Besides, he nodded. I thought, this is really the case, in this world, like his father Guo Zhong, there are only four words in his mind to save the life and help the wounded, and there are not many practitioners who have no money to treat them.

"This son, if you can cure my grandfather's old cold leg, our whole family doesn't know how to thank you. The little girl also came over and said with a blushing face.

In acupuncture, he is not timid, not inferior, his acupuncture techniques have been similar to his father's learning, although he lacks clinical experience, but he has seen too much, he has long been familiar with it, and it is not difficult to start, not to mention that he has now clinically practiced in the mountains.

After a while, the table was full of food, including freshly boiled millet porridge, a large bowl of tofu brain sprinkled with chopped green onions and chili oil, and a large plate of pancakes and a large plate of steamed cakes.

"Little brother, you taste this tofu brain, our Fengyang's tofu brain is a must, the emperor can't leave it every day, after Emperor Taizu sat in the Jinluan Treasure Palace, he still thought about this mouthful. Our family doesn't dare to say anything else, this tofu brain is in the entire Fengyang Mansion, which is the number one. The old man boasted.

I really know this story, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang once marched and fought, was scattered, and fled alone, like himself, cold and hungry, met a peasant woman, saw that he was pitiful, and there was really nothing at home, so he took bean cakes and rotten cabbage leaves and made him a bowl of small tofu.

Zhu Yuanzhang ate so deliciously, he felt that he had never eaten such food in his life, and then he found his team and started fighting again, and slowly forgot about it.

When he became the emperor, he slowly got tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas all over the world, and suddenly remembered the bowl of small tofu that he had eaten, and remembered the kindness of the peasant woman, and sent someone to find the peasant woman, gave a large sum of silver as a reward, and invited her to the palace and asked her to make another bowl of small tofu for herself.

The peasant woman was completely blinded, where did she think that the bowl of "pig food" that was given back then was eaten by the current emperor. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is pig food, soybean cake is the slag filtered out when making soybean oil, which is used to feed pigs in normal times.

When she arrived at the palace, how dare she make bean cakes and rotten cabbage leaves for the emperor to eat? Besides, there are no such ingredients in the palace, and there are no pigs in the inner courtyard of the palace.

The peasant woman was in a hurry and thought of the delicacy of her hometown: tofu brain. This thing is suitable for all ages, expensive and low, she chooses the best ingredients, adds a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and makes a bowl of tofu brain that is unique in the world.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a farmer's family, and at first glance, he knew that it was added, and after tasting it, it was not the taste in his memory, and he insisted on the original taste. This was a bad thing for the peasant women, and even more so for the cooks.

The original flavor is not difficult to get, the bean cake is easy to buy, and the rotten cabbage leaves can also be found, but who dares to do it?

In the end, after a compromise, the farmer had to choose ordinary ingredients and make the original tofu brain of his hometown and present it. Zhu Yuanzhang ate it and felt a lot better, but it was not original yet, so he ordered it to be redone again.

Not to mention the imperial kitchen, the eunuch of the catering supervisor has long been frightened and has been retired twice, this is still relying on the peasant woman to have kindness to the emperor, otherwise, the imperial chef will not want to live.

Liu Ji, that is, Liu Bowen saw some signs, followed by a bowl of deadly tofu brain, ate a few bites, and praised it, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said that it was not the original flavor, and the people were fooling him.

Liu Ji explained that the emperor was hungry back then, and the so-called hunger did not choose food, so when he ate tofu brain, he would feel that it was as beautiful as a delicacy.

Only Liu Ji dares to say this kind of thing. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that this might be the case, and besides, this peasant woman had a gift to her, and it was not good to be too difficult for her, so the matter would be over.

Later, in order to show that he did not forget his roots, Zhu Yuanzhang also included tofu brain in his recipe. Naturally, no one in his children and grandchildren dared to cancel it without authorization, and since then, the palace has to make a pot of tofu brain every day and prepare it there, and throw it away if no one eats it, but it can't be left out.

Fengyang tofu brain is also famous all over the world, and there are branches in Beijing and Nanjing, but the most authentic one is Fengyang Mansion.

Besides, what he was eating was Fengyang's best bowl of tofu brain, he hadn't eaten it before, but he felt that today's bowl of tofu brain was indeed as beautiful as a delicacy.

Haha, besides, giggle.

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