In the Shang Mansion, Ji Qing and a few others were eating leisurely.

After telling the story for such a long time, Ji Qing did feel that his stomach was a little hungry, and today's lunch was also quite hearty, this roast haggis really made Ji Qing feel his index finger move, and it was his favorite food since he crossed over, and he often ate it.

With this, he can cook for himself, and every time Ji Qing can eat two large buckets of rice.

And today, Green Yi also specially cooked white jade fish soup, the fish meat is fat and melts in the mouth, the soup is delicate and tender, in addition to these, there is actually a small jar of wine today, although it is not a first-class wine, but Ji Qing seems to have never drunk wine in this world.

I heard that in ancient times, it was all low-alcohol wine, but I don't know if it's true or not.

But after a sip of wine, Ji Qing immediately felt like swallowing a knife and rolling in his throat, and the spicy breath rushed straight to his nose, choking Ji Qing with discomfort.

"Rhubarb, you can take it easy, this wine is the scorching sun roast produced in Ling's tavern, and now it is a little famous in Yongcheng, this small jar is worth the usual wine I don't know how many jars." Shang Li glanced at Ji Qing with disgust.

"Ling's Tavern?, could it be ......" Ji Qing guessed at once, besides that man, who else could brew this kind of high-grade wine?

"Our Shang Mansion has cooperated with the Ling Mansion, and we have made a lot of money during this time, otherwise it is estimated that you will have to wait for ten days and a half months for the food in front of you now. ”

"Ah...... Miss, this fish soup is so delicious, how do you make it?"

"Hmph, this is Green's specialty, she has her own unique secret recipe, I can't tell you. ”

"If you don't say it, you won't say it, but this fish soup reminds me of a soup I used to drink, when I was half hungry to death, and an old woman was kind enough to cook a bowl of soup for me to drink...... "Ji Qing began to spate again.

The reason why Ji Qing said this was actually to create suspense, to fool Shang Li into telling him the secret recipe of the fish soup, he might be able to "copy" it, and find a few chefs to make fish soup in the future to make money, and when the business gets better, won't he be able to make a little benefit from it?

Although Shang Li is mentally mature, he is still young after all, where will he be the opponent of a young man like Ji Qing in the new era?

"That bowl of soup, is it delicious to have this fish soup?" Shang Li asked.

"Naturally, there is none, but it did leave a deep impression on me, and the old woman told me that there are actually two moving legends behind this soup. ”

"And what's the name of this soup, big brother?" Wu Ya suddenly interjected.

"It's called, Pearl Jade White Jade Soup. ”

"Wow, what a good name, big brother Ji Qing, tell us the story of this white jade soup. ”

"Okay, then I'll tell you about it. Ji Qing immediately used his brain and began to think about the legend of this soup.

Pearl Jade White Jade Soup is a soup made with cabbage seeds, spinach leaves (jade), rancid tofu (white jade) and leftover pot rice grains (pearls).

But speaking of this, Ji Qing suddenly realized a problem, in this era, there seems to be no spinach, and this thing doesn't seem to have been passed on to the Central Plains now...... The origin of spinach can be traced back to Persia (present-day Iran) in western Asia 2,000 years ago, and was transmitted to Western Europe and Spain by the Moors through North Africa. It is clearly recorded in the "Tang Hui Yao" that spinach seeds were introduced to China from Nepal as a tribute during the reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Fortunately, the two girls, one big and one young, listened attentively to Ji Qing's story, but they didn't care about the details of spinach or something.

The first legend told by Ji Qing is the story of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang because of his poor family when he was young, he never had a full stomach, and when he was 17 years old, he died of the plague because of his parents, and he was homeless, and was forced to become a monk in his hometown Huangjue Temple, in order to be able to eat. However, soon there was a famine in his hometown, and the incense in the temple was cold, so he had to go out to make a fortune. During this period, he experienced the vicissitudes of the world, and often couldn't get a bite to eat all day. Once, he didn't get anything for three days, he was hungry and dizzy, fainted on the street, and then rescued an old woman passing by and took it home, put the only piece of tofu and a handful of spinach, red roots and green leaves together, poured a bowl of leftover rice and boiled it, and gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang to eat. After Zhu Yuanzhang ate, his spirits were greatly lifted and he asked the old woman what she had just eaten, and the old woman was bitter and happy, jokingly saying that it was called "pearl jade white jade soup". Later, Zhu Yuanzhang defected to the Red Turban Army, became the emperor, and tasted all the delicious delicacies in the world. Suddenly, one day he was sick and couldn't eat anything, so he remembered the "pearl jade white jade soup" he had eaten when he was begging in his hometown, and immediately ordered the imperial chef to make it for him. The chef had no choice but to use pearls, jade and white jade together, boiled into soup and offered, Zhu Yuanzhang tasted it, felt that it was not right at all, and asked someone to find a chef from his hometown to do it. The chef was very smart, and he thought to himself: Since the emperor is not interested in the real "pearl jade and white jade soup", I might as well try my luck with a replica. Therefore, he used fish dragons instead of pearls, red bell peppers cut strips instead of Fei (Fei is red jade), spinach instead of emerald (emerald is green jade), tofu stuffing instead of white jade, and poured fish bone broth. After offering this dish, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it tasted very good, the same as what the old woman gave him back then, so he ordered the chef to be rewarded. After the chef got the reward, he went home sick, and passed on this dish that Zhu Yuanzhang liked to his hometown fathers.

Another legend says that when the war was in chaos, Cixi, the daughter of a wealthy man, was forced to flee west with her son Guangxu and her attendants. When passing through Huailai County in western Beijing, because everyone was tired and hungry and thirsty, they had to turn into a civilian's house on the side of the road to rest. When the hospitable commoner husband and wife saw that the oldest old lady among the guests looked panicked and discouraged, they suddenly felt compassion, and hurriedly fetched water for everyone to wash, and went into the house to rest on the kang.

Just when the husband was warmly entertaining the guests and the wife was preparing the meal, the husband and wife encountered a problem: in the years of war and chaos, the living standards of the poor people were naturally not high. When the dishes are ready, they are spinach and tofu, but the rice has become "a good woman who is difficult to cook without rice", but millet is there, which is not enough to cook a meal for so many people, and there is also white noodles, which is only enough to make a pot of batter. How do you do this meal? Buy it? There is no silver. Although the guests said when they entered the door that they would leave money for their meals, that was for later. Don't ask guests to pay before eating!

The clever wife had an idea and came up with such a solution: she boiled the millet until it was eight ripe, fished it out, mixed with a small amount of white flour, and the golden millet turned into even and round flour particles, and then poured it into the spiced spinach and tofu soup, and after a few minutes, a large pot of steaming and fragrant noodle soup was displayed in front of everyone.

The husband smiled and greeted the guests for soup while marveling at his wife's cleverness. In the pot, the white and even grains are scattered like pearls between the white jade cube tofu and the emerald green spinach, especially the part where the spinach rhizome is combined, the emerald green with a little light red and pale pink spinach root, more like a red-billed parrot as cute. The husband said casually: pearl white jade box, emerald green parrot. Just as he was about to say more, he happened to be heard by Cixi. Cixi asked, "Do you know poetry?" and her husband replied, "I don't understand." Cixi asked, "What do you mean by that?" and her husband replied, "I'm talking about soup, and that's the soup we ate." Cixi said, "This soup tastes good." What's the name of this soup?" the husband replied, "This soup is one of our local specialties, and it's called 'Pearl Jade White Jade Soup'." Cixi was very happy when she heard this, and without even raising her eyelids, she pulled out a long voice and said a word: "Reward!"

"I didn't expect that you still have such an adventure, rhubarb, what happened to the old woman?"

"That old woman must also be a master of the world, and I have never seen her again. Ji Qing shook his head regretfully.

"Miss. "Green came in suddenly.

"Green, what's wrong, panic. Shang Lixiu frowned.

"There was a man who wanted to see Miss Usya, who was now outside the house, but he did not want to show his face, but took a hat. ”

"Since you're here, please come in. ”

"But, miss......"

"Don't worry, isn't there rhubarb as a companion, even if someone wants to be unfavorable to me, rhubarb will definitely do it before him. ”

"Yes, miss. ”

The green coat soon returned, followed by a young man with a hat, who was wearing a white suit.

"There are no outsiders here, Your Excellency can take off the hat now, right?" Shang Li said with a solemn expression.

"Miss Shang, I'm bothering you. ”

"Old Wu?!" Ji Qing exclaimed.

"You, you're ...... Brother!" Usya also exclaimed.

This...... Everyone didn't expect Wushiqi to come so blatantly, and what they didn't expect was that Wushiqi's voice became much thicker, and he was blind in one eye, so he could only show people with an eyepatch, if it weren't for Ji Qing's impression of Wushiqi's appearance, the people present would almost be unrecognizable.

"Sister, my brother's appearance must have scared you, right?" Wu Shiqi smiled bitterly.

"Brother...... Your eyes, who hurt them, my mother will be sad when she sees it. Ushiya reacted quickly, and finally got the point.

yes, who injured Uski's eye, it can't be his own blindness, right?

"I asked Ling Gongzi for disfigurement, Ling Gongzi just did a little work for me by the way, he said that if it weren't for this, I'm afraid our family would not be able to retreat from Yongcheng safely, this time, I want to thank your mansion for taking care of my mother and little sister, the grace of the Shang Mansion, I will never forget it today!" Wu Shiqi knelt down directly.

"Lao Wu, what are you doing, get up quickly, since we have decided to keep your family safe, naturally we will not break our word. ”

"Brother...... Brother, don't be like this, no matter what you become, brother, you are the pillar of our family, and you are also the brother I am proud of!" Wu Shiya immediately got up, and her small body immediately hugged Wu Shiqi's strong body.

"Sister......" Ushiki had tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Actually, this time, there is a reluctant invitation below. ”。

"Your Excellency, please speak, but whatever my merchant government can do, the merchant government will definitely do it. Shang Li glanced at the Uski thoughtfully.

To be honest, she really doesn't like people kneeling in front of her, but Wu Shiqi is grateful to Shang Fu for secretly taking care of his sister and mother for him, huh...... That's a different story.