Chapter 115: Lamb stewed with radish
Later, she hibernated everywhere and changed various identities, either as a singer of the princely family, or as an ordinary oil seller. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But there's always a task on your side, so why don't you have a moment of leisure? When the vassal states heard the news, they had to keep one eye open in their dreams, so as not to be caught by the princes and kings.
When the Empress Dowager died, all the backbones of their generation were transferred back to the vicinity of Chang'an to prepare for the dispatch of the new master. Zhu Ge didn't expect that the first thing he received was to take care of his new master.
However, living with her new master has a feeling that she is back to when her parents were still alive when she was a child. Normal, yet warm.
The market was already crowded, and Gillian saw the folk market of the Han Dynasty for the first time, so she naturally felt very novel. She only hates that she doesn't have a camera in her hand, so she can leave a little information about the folk market in the Han Dynasty and give it to historians as an academic paper with a small 10,000 words.
The preparation for winter is naturally mainly food and clothing. Although Gillian is not short of money in her hands, she custom-made fur clothes. But in order not to stand out from the crowd, she still picked out some leather and cotton cloth with great interest, and bought silk threads to make them herself.
If you eat, it is depressed in winter, and there is only a limit to be able to eat. Gillian bought a few wax moons and sixty catties of cured pork at a peasant woman's stall, and she didn't have to buy anything after buying these. It's a matter of just taking it back, and this is the countryside again, and the carriage and horses are inconvenient.
Zhu Ge raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Gillian who was worried after paying, and picked it up with one hand. "Miss, what else do you want to buy?"
People are really angry compared to people, Gillian looked at Zhu Ge who was carrying dozens of pounds of things easily.
Well, that's going to go around again.
I bought the necessary seasonings for the kitchen again, such as soy sauce, salt and vinegar, and I bought more than 100 catties of rice at one time last time, and there are a lot of leftovers. Gillian, who thought that she had bought a similar amount, thought that she would sleep in the dark because she had no lamp oil these days, so she bought another ten catties of lamp oil. When paying, the oil seller saw Gillian with a look of embarrassment and pointed to the west of the bazaar with a smile: "Madam, the donkey packs the goods, and the money is a little more expensive at a time." ”
Zhu Ge had the intention to hold Gillian, and said that it was really easy for her to say that the most than a hundred catties of things was for her, but seeing that Gillian was interested, it didn't stop her.
Following the direction pointed by the oil seller, I walked to the west, and sure enough, I saw several strong women guarding a dozen donkeys. Seeing Gillian coming, you rushed to introduce your own advantages. Although most of the people who come to the market are reluctant to pay this money, there are still many people who have to use donkeys to carry goods when they are far away and prepare New Year's goods. A lot of money caught up with the expenses of an ordinary family for half a month.
In the end, Gillian's business was robbed by the most enthusiastic and loud middle-aged woman, and she couldn't help but take the cloth in Gillian's hand and put it on the donkey.
It's the same for everyone, Gillian doesn't care, she pays happily. And he told Zhuge to put things on the table, and told the woman to lead the donkey behind her.
Gillian, who has no worries, bought another forty catties of reeds (that is, radishes), which can be stored for a long time without pickling. Stir-fried and stewed soup are all good choices. Turning around, she met someone leading the hare over, and Gillian knew that there were still stalls selling prey.
They sold hares, wild goats, and some game that Gillian couldn't name.
Well...... You can buy a little bit of this......
Gillian, who stimulated the desire to buy, pulled the knowledgeable bamboo song and picked it up carefully. Lamb soup with turnips? Yes, and in winter, it won't be bad if you buy a little more.
With this mentality, Gillian bought a bunch of them in a mess, and in the end, she really didn't waste that money. When they got to the house, the woman helped to carry the things in the same way before leading the donkey away.
Gillian was in the house and Zhu Ge were tidying up the things they bought, and asked curiously: "Zhu Ge, why are all the women selling things in the market?" "Isn't it said that the ancient capital was feudal, and women shouldn't go out of the house without going out?
The neighbor cow and the woman were like this, washing and feeding the livestock at home. Gillian thought that the women of the Han Dynasty were like this, but when she went to the market, all of them were women.
Zhu Ge was cleaning up the goat meat that Gillian had bought in the kitchen, and sneered when he heard it. "My good young lady, isn't it a woman to do business?"
Listening to Zhu Geyi's explanation, Gillian knew that doing business in the Han Dynasty was the most despised. Shinong industry and commerce, commerce came last. And because of this, women are asked to go out to do business, because men don't want to lose this face.
With this logical thinking, Gillian doesn't know whether they are open or feudal.
After putting away the bits and pieces, Gillian asked Zhuge to go to the carpenter's house in the village to fetch a few things. One is a kang table and the other is a bathtub.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and Gillian feels that in the future, their daily activities such as eating and making clothes will have to be carried out on the kang. The height of the strip is there, but it is too narrow, and it would be nice to be wider.
As for the bathtub, the average family uses a large wooden basin that can sit one person, called "Mu Pan" in the Han Dynasty, but the weather is getting colder and colder, and Gillian really can't bear it anymore. So the description of the bathtub is a half-person-high Mu Pan, which was originally said by Gillian herself, but she really didn't want to go to someone else's house.
The last time the Niu family came, they only said a few words of greeting and left. Later, when I got older, I went to their house and saw the toilet that refreshed the three views at their house.
The folk toilets of the Han Dynasty were basically the squatting pits used in the backward rural areas of later generations, which is nothing. Gillian has adapted to it, their house is such a toilet, but it is a small room by itself.
When she arrived at Niu's house, Gillian found that their house also had an independent two-story building, and you must know that the people who lived in high-rise buildings in the Han Dynasty were all princes and nobles.
Curiosity kills cats, that's true. She took a closer look and realized that the first floor was a pigsty, which was nothing. But the key is that the second floor is a toilet, and human feces can be discharged directly into the pigsty below to be used as feed for the pigs.
Gillian who understood it was disgusting enough, but she still endured it until she went back before throwing up. Every time I think about this, I can't even eat pork. The bacon bought in the back is a family specializing in pig breeding in this neighborhood, Gillian saw them drive the pigs out to eat grass every day, and asked Zhu Ge to go to buy meat when he saw the toilet of their house to rest assured.
Condition, can not say anything.
But Gillian still dispelled the idea of visiting other people's homes because of this, and after Zhuge went out, Gillian began to cook dinner.
Ordinary people eat two meals, and she and Zhuge usually eat at three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
After washing rice and cooking rice, Gillian selected two white and tender radish, peeled and cut into pieces, blanched the radish pieces slightly after boiling water in the pot, put oil in the pot to preheat, fry chives, ginger, cinnamon, spices, peppercorns, put in the bamboo song cut goat meat and stir-fry, the meat is fragrant.
After frying the yellowish oil, add water and boil for half an hour, add radish cubes and salt, and continue to simmer. The water vapor slammed against the lid of the pot, and the sweetness of the radish and the smell of mutton went straight to the nose.
After doing this, Gillian thought about why Zhuge had been gone for so long, and got up and pushed open the courtyard door to look. From a distance, I saw a light and agile figure coming, due to the perennial practice of martial arts, although Zhu Ge is thirty years old, but still like a girl.
"Miss, I told the carpenter as you said, but I have to wait for half a month."
This Gillian was mentally prepared and didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, after Zhu Ge entered the door, there was the following: "Miss, the government will come to collect the gift in two days." (To be continued.) )