Chapter 5: Encounter in Heicheng
The spring is cold, and the golden warm sun some time ago is just a flash in the pan, and the cold wind blows, as if it is a winter scene again. Fortunately, although it was cold, it had never snowed, and a few hazy clouds could be faintly seen in the sky, floating shallow in all directions.
Shijin Zhai is lively at the moment, coming and going businessmen, brocade scholars, gathering into a table, or talking about the recent prince's micro-service, or talking about the situation after the flood in Jiangzhou, or curious about the shortcomings of each family. On the wooden table, the smell of boiling sake fills the air, and there seems to be a strong aroma of sake in the air.
Outside the gate, an inky carriage slowly stopped. A few girls who happened to pass by couldn't help but stop their steps, and looked at the man riding the horse timidly, dressed in a soot robe, with a sword hanging from his waist, and sword eyebrows and starry eyes.
Such a man, looking at it can't help but make people's hearts break.
But I saw him jump at will, stand upright on the ground, and bow respectfully to the people in the carriage, "Childe, it's here." ”
Seeing the curtain of the carriage lifted, Shi Shiran, the person sitting in it, got out of the carriage, and several girls were completely red-faced. The master just taught a new lesson yesterday, and Dao Gu's appearance was as stunning as a streamer in the night, and he seemed to be shrouded in light just by looking at it. I thought that such a comment was just an exaggeration of rumors, but when I saw it today, I didn't know about it.
The shopkeeper noticed the guests at the door early in the morning, and regardless of the good clothes, he knew his nobility just by his bearing. immediately laughed and personally stepped forward to greet him.
"What do you want to eat, do you need to arrange an upstairs private room for the two of you?"
"No need." Jinyi spoke, "Two hot rice hearts are packed together and taken away." ”
"Mi Xinzi, this ......" the shopkeeper hesitated, "How about a guest officer or another point?" ”
Xiao Yan was puzzled, "What's the matter, now you don't do this in Shijinzhai?" ”
"Well, that's not it. My decades-old shop, there are only a lot of dishes, and the rice heart is a specialty of Zhaizhong, how can I not do it. It's just that the master who made the rice went back to the countryside, and it took a few days to come, so he couldn't make it. ”
Xiao Yan regretted, "...... Such. ”
The shopkeeper apologized earnestly, "I'm really sorry, if the guest officer comes back in a few days, he will definitely leave you a copy?" ”
"I'm afraid I can't." Jinyi said, "My son-in-law came from other places, and because the elders liked this rice heart very much, they wanted to bring a copy." ”
Xiao Yan held his hands behind his back and turned to leave, "Since you don't have it, you can't force it, so you can leave." ”
The shopkeeper was stunned, it was from out of town, no wonder he had never seen such a talented young man in this decades. Just as he was about to go back, he suddenly remembered something in his mind, and hurriedly called the master and servant who had walked to the door.
"Childe is slow, childe is slow."
"What else?"
The shopkeeper didn't know if he was so proper, "There is a young girl, just like the son, there are elders who love Mi Xinzi very much. After the master returned to the country, the girl borrowed our kitchen utensils and made them herself, and the taste was not bad. If you need it, you might as well go to the backyard and wait a little while for the girl to come and ask if she would like to make more. ”
Xiao Yan groaned and glanced at the sky outside, "It's okay." "Step into the backyard.
The weather, which was still comfortable, suddenly began to drizzle, and the curtain hung from the sky and the earth, blurring the locust tree attic in the distance. Qingzhi quickly took out the oil-paper umbrella and held it up, while quickly brushing away the rain stains on Jingning's sleeves, and said in a muffled voice, "Why is it raining so decently, making the clothes wet and soft." ”
Jing Ning said, "It's okay, Shijin Zhai is ahead, just go quickly." ”
In the main hall of the backyard, Xiao Yan's eyes fell on a purple magnolia in the corner and looked at it casually. Outside, a servant trotted in, saying that the person who was waiting had arrived.
Wearing a warbler-colored fringed skirt and a red and white oak placket, a woman could be seen coming from a distance, and the bartender followed her to say a few words to her, and the woman's eyes immediately fell on Xiao Yan.
When she approached the door, Xiao Yan stepped forward, "The girl is here to be that rice heart?" ”
The bearing is noble, but it is rare. Jing Ning looked at the young man in front of him and replied, "Yes, I heard the shopkeeper say this, it is estimated that it will take a long time, and the son is in a hurry?" ”
"Don't worry, girl, please, thank you."
Jing Ning didn't say much, went straight to the stove room, rolled up his sleeves, tied the stove skirt, and was busy back and forth. I don't know how long it took, dusted off the moose, cooked the soup, and then stirred the soup into a basin of cold water several times, and then scooped up and dried. I turned around and mixed the sesame juice, mixed the minced meat, two parts of ginger rice, two parts of melon rice in sauce, and packed them separately.
Carrying two things back to the main hall, one handed to his guard, his tone was light, "Okay." ”
Xiao Yan's eyebrows raised slightly, with detachment, "Thank you, girl." ”
Jinyi took the brocade box, and then handed over a piece of gold, "Trouble girl, a little heart, please smile." ”
Jing Ning was unmoved, "It just so happens that I have to do it, if I make a special trip here, I will naturally accept this gold." ”
Jin Yi has been by Xiao Yan's side for a long time, and he is already familiar with people and colors, so he naturally knows whether these words are sincere or polite. So he took the gold ingot back into his arms, and carried the brocade box without saying more.
"Wait a minute, both of you." Jing Ning walked to the bookcase, wrote a paragraph smoothly, dried the ink and handed it to Xiao Yan, "I heard that the shopkeeper said that the son came here from out of town to buy rice for the elders in the family, and this filial piety is really respectable." This is the specific method and the steps of the ingredients, because it is my personal recipe, and it has nothing to do with Shijin Zhai, so the son can take it. ”
Xiao Yan lowered his eyebrows, and raised it again after a while, "The girl's recipe is also a rare thing, why give it lightly." ”
Jing Ning waved his hand casually, "It's not a rarity, and I haven't regarded it as a private property." With that, he stepped out of the threshold.
Behind him, Xiao Yan looked at the beautiful back and walked away, and then looked at the thin paper in his hand, which was as clear as a spring, "It's a good word." ”
The more you go to the lobby, the more you smell the strong aroma of wine, Jing Ning is a good wine person, and he loves to make his own wine in his spare time. Xu has tasted a lot of good wine, and the amount of wine is excellent, and the average restaurant sells very little to get her eye.
In the afternoon, Shijin Zhai was a little less noisy, and there were a few tables of guests sitting sparsely, smiling and cooking wine and chatting softly.
Go to the shopkeeper and hand him the other one, "I have some things to do in the afternoon, please ask the shopkeeper to send someone to send this to the old gentleman." ”
The shopkeeper remembered, "Girl, the old gentleman came to the ward this morning, saying that if you see the girl today, I will tell you that the old gentleman has an important guest to visit today, and he will be closed for a day, and I ask the girl to forgive me." ”
"An important guest?" Jing Ningwan'er, "Okay, I'll send it myself tomorrow." ”