Chapter 24 The Beginning of the Establishment of the University

1. Wheat kernel soup

Early the next morning, the birds on the jujube tree chirped non-stop, the breeze swept through the leaves and trembled slightly, and the sky in the mountains in the early morning was exceptionally blue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Early in the morning, Wang Youcai carried the burden all the way from the mountain road, he walked to the big jujube tree and put down the burden, he saw the silence outside the tent, thinking that the three people must be sleeping. He laid down his burden and walked lightly into the tent.

Unbeknownst to him, he took a closer look and found that the tent was empty, and the three of them were nowhere to be found. He walked out of the tent and looked at the car next to the jujube tree, which was still moving, and he thought that the three of them would not go far. He walked a few dozen steps and looked up at the mountain in the distance, and he saw three people standing halfway up the mountain in the distance, looking here.

He hurriedly ran forward dozens of steps, stood on a big mountain rock more than ten meters away from the jujube tree, he waved his hand and shouted loudly: "I'm here, you guys go down the mountain quickly!"

The three people in the distance also stood on the mountain and beckoned here, and as the shouts of the three people on the mountain came far and near, Wang Youcai and the three people on the mountain became closer and closer.

Of the three people on the mountain, Wu Likong ran down the mountain at the forefront, and Director Qian went down the mountain like a snail, he took two steps and stopped panting. It was so good that Wen Jinyong reached out and held Mr. Qian's arm and slowly walked down the mountain.

It took Mr. Qian more than an hour to approach the jujube tree from the halfway point of the mountain, and he was still a dozen steps away from the jujube tree and sat on a big rock to catch his breath. He reached out and took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "This mountain road is really difficult to walk. ”

Wu Likong came over at this time and half-jokingly said: "Teacher Qian, you go up the mountain and suck all the fresh air in the mountain into your lungs." Who knows, Director Qian listened to Wu Likong's words, not only did not get angry but stood up, he patted his stomach with his right hand and said, "You see that my stomach is also full of fresh air." ”

At this time, the sun had already shown half of his face from the opposite mountain, and a ray of sunlight shone on the jujube tree and on Director Qian's body. Wang Youcai walked up to his rice pick, he bent down and stretched out his hand to open the lid on the rice bucket and said, "Come and drink wheat kernel soup and eat steamed sweet potatoes." ”

As soon as Director Qian heard about it, he drank wheat kernel soup and ate steamed sweet potatoes. Hurriedly walked over and said, "I don't often drink wheat kernel soup, so drink some fresh food today." He approached the rice bucket and took a look, then turned to Wu Likong and said, "Xiao Wu, go and bring my milk cup, I want to use the cup to drink the wheat kernel soup." ”

Wang Youcai took the rice spoon and said, "Teacher Qian, your milk cup is too small, I can fill it with one spoonful, you better take a big rice bowl!"

At this time, Wu Likong was holding a large bowl in his right hand and a milk cup in his left hand, and he approached Mr. Qian and said, "Here, this is your milk cup." Wen Jinyong came over with a large hot water kettle for tourism, Director Qian took the milk cup, he took the milk cup to Wang Youcai and said, "Come, you can serve me a cup of wheat kernel soup." ”

Wang Youcai took the cup and filled the cup with only half a spoonful, Director Qian took the cup and said very gracefully: "I said to try it, that is to taste, you can't drink more if you taste it, and if you drink more, you won't feel the deliciousness in it." ”

When the three of them were all tasting the wheat kernel soup, Wang Youcai spoke, and he said, "There is a legend about this wheat kernel soup." Wu Likong raised his head and asked, "What legend, you will tell everyone." Wang Youcai said slowly: "Words: During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu was chased and killed by Wang Mang's army, and he fled to a hundred miles north of Nanyang, starving. Suddenly, a peasant woman was carrying a rice can, so she asked for it, but the peasant woman only promised to let him eat half of it, and keep the other half for her husband. But Liu Xiu was so hungry that he ate all the food at once.

The peasant woman said angrily: "This is the wheat kernel soup I specially made for my husband, you have eaten it all, what should my husband do?" Liu Xiu said very apologetically: "Sister-in-law, I'm really sorry, I will thank you again in the future for doing a little bit." The farmer said, "You don't know, wheat soup is very difficult to cook, and it takes two hours." Liu Xiu comforted him and said, "You go back and try it, it will be cooked when you roll it, and it will rot when you roll it second." Then he left.

Besides, after Liu Xiu led the army to defeat Wang Mang and ascended to the throne, one day he suddenly remembered the wheat kernel soup that tasted too fragrant that day, so he ordered the chef to cook it carefully, and he always felt that the wheat kernel soup made by the chef was not so sweet. So he ordered someone to find the peasant woman, according to the law at that time, Liu Xiu still felt that it was not so sweet, he wanted to punish the peasant woman, the peasant woman said: "Back then, the saint was hungry and did not choose food, so he naturally felt sweet, and now the saint has two flavors of the mountains and seas every day, naturally and at that time." ”