Chapter 292: People are self-aware

After the future brother-in-law moved to a new house, the chef who changed to her could even make this ordinary steamed bun so delicious!

This is the first feeling in the heart of the hungry Zhu Erlian after eating four big steamed buns in a row. The Aunt Liu that Zhang Shou brought from Rongshui Village in the past is not bad, and she will do a lot of tricks that he has never heard of before, but if you want to talk about the craftsmanship of making dim sum, it is really dwarfed by the Zhu family. But the steamed bun he just ate was completely different!

Obviously it's a vegetable filling, but I don't know how it's stuffed, at first the first one he just thought it was delicious, but the second, third, and fourth, each of which he watched carefully and tasted carefully. It's obviously very ordinary greens, shiitake mushrooms, spring bamboo shoots, and a little bit of black stuff that I can't tell what it is, why can it make him feel so happy that his eyebrows are about to fall off?

Although he is not tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas, he has also eaten a lot of good things!

Just as Zhu Er's eyes were rolling, staring at the kind mother-in-law in front of him, and his heart was even turning whether to find a way to dig people back to Zhu's house-or when he went to his future brother-in-law for a few more meals in the future, he suddenly heard a loud voice: "Second son Zhu, my little gentleman invites you over!" ”

It was Yang Hao who spoke. As the grandson of Yang Laoqi, although he learned a little Tang poetry and Song words plus a little basic arithmetic with Zhang Shou, and he didn't even learn it well, Yang Hao still firmly remembered his grandfather's words, and after arriving in the capital, all the titles were put away, and only the three words Mr. Xiao were used.

At this moment, seeing that Zhu Erru had just woken up from a dream, he actually arched his hand to that Xu Pozi, and he was so surprised that his jaw was about to drop. It's not because of the disparity in the identities of the two, but because he moved here early, he clearly knows how terrible the Xu Pozi who looks like the mother-in-law next door is...... She actually made a plate of fried scorpions yesterday, and then ate it as if no one was around!

Yang Hao looked at Mrs. Xu who was smiling and watching them leave with a plate, and wanted to ask Zhu Er what he had just eaten several times, but he finally swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. Until he brought Zhu Er to the door of Zhang Shou's study, he hesitated again and again, but in the end he whispered two words.

"Second son Zhu, that Mrs. Xu is a good cooker, and many skills are better than Aunt Liu, but she is ...... Ahem, anything can be dished. was still showing off with Aunt Liu before, and once skinned the snake raw and ate raw snake meat, which scared Aunt Liu and almost fainted. ”

Snake meat is in the dish, this is not surprising, Zhu Er himself is a curiosity, snake meat soup and the like have also tasted, as long as he doesn't see the dotted snake skin, he doesn't have any psychological shadow at all. However, when Yang Hao described that the cook Mrs. Xu had eaten raw snake meat just now, he couldn't help but have goosebumps.

"And ......" Yang Hao paused, and then said in a slurred manner, "Mrs. Xu said that she is very good at cooking whole worm feasts. It is...... It's the worm of the bug. ”

Zhu Er finally couldn't help it at all. However, just when he was about to pick his throat and quickly spit out the steamed bun he had just eaten to see what kind of mess it was, he heard Zhang Shou's laughter: "The whole insect banquet is a good thing, at least, silkworm chrysalis, locusts, and scorpions, after these are fried in oil, without condiments, they are all quite delicious and delicious." ”

Zhang Shou, who came out of the curtain, saw Zhu Er's face turned pale with fright, and immediately stepped forward with a smile and patted him on the shoulder, and then said casually: "Don't worry, although Xu Po likes these scary foods, she is also very good at real soup and dim sum, and she has her own strengths and weaknesses with Aunt Liu." I heard Ah Liu say that you ate vegetable steamed buns there before? That's what she's good at. ”

"It used to be a good craft on the street of the vegetable market in the outer city, and I could sell hundreds of them a day, and I didn't add any scary condiments. Insects are an alternative delicacy, and she only makes them for those who can appreciate them, otherwise wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing? ”

Hearing this, Zhu Ercai finally returned in a haunted spirit. He turned his head and was about to glare at Yang Hao angrily, but he saw that the young man lowered his head in a daze, and muttered in a low voice I saw it with my own eyes, and he couldn't continue to pursue it, so he could only follow Zhang Shou into the house stupidly.

Immediately after, he saw Zhang Shou gesturing to Ah Liu in the room, and then Ah Liu retreated silently.

Sensing that something was wrong, he couldn't help but ask tentatively, "What's going on?" ”

"It's not like there's an accident, it's just that Ah Liu went out this time, and it was a bit of an accident."

Zhang Shou reorganized the sentence and repeated the first thing Ah Liu said just now to Zhu Er. As soon as the words fell, he noticed that Zhu Er immediately frowned, and then snorted contemptuously and disdainfully: "The first time the dignified prince went out, he couldn't suppress the official mansion and the wealthy family, and he also colluded with these guys, and he did everything for the small people, and the face of the descendants of Taizu was all lost to him!" ”

"So, I want you to go to Cangzhou." Zhang Shou looked at Zhu Er and said something earth-shattering.

"Me?" Zhu Er pointed to his nose in surprise, seeing that Zhang Shou nodded very definitely, he was first surprised, and then immediately depressed, and involuntarily avoided Zhang Shou's gaze, "I'm not the eldest brother of both civil and military affairs, except for a seven-rank Xunwei lineage, which was given to me by the eldest brother, I don't have any official position." ”

Although he felt that Zhang Shou couldn't pit himself, Zhu Er was not like Lu Sanlang and Zhang Chen, who had always regarded themselves very highly, after experiencing the farce that he tossed after his father and brother's accident, he honestly didn't have much confidence in himself at all, otherwise he wouldn't feel that the character of the good farmer was very suitable for him. Therefore, he simply said bluntly: "Of course, even if I have an official position, I can't deal with the eldest prince." ”

"I don't have that ability." When he said these words, Zhu Er was a little depressed, but also a little calm.

Looking at such a future second uncle who has always shown truth, Zhang Shou suddenly smiled. The reason why he directly brought out the matter of the eldest prince first was that he wanted to take a look at Zhu Er's nature, that is, where his ass was sitting, and then explore Zhu Er's self-awareness. And the final conclusion was not unexpected, and even better.

"Don't worry, it's not for you to go to Cangzhou to fight against the eldest prince. On the Xingtai side, Zhang Wu, Zhang Lu Zaiming, and Zhang Chen are in the dark, just three people, just fighting with the government, local tycoons, and a group of textile workers whose attitudes may flip at any time, and they can't even talk about gaining the upper hand. Don't say it's you, even if it's your eldest brother, it's impossible to go to Cangzhou alone to deal with the eldest prince. ”

"To fight a war, it still takes thousands of troops to capture the flag, and it is impossible to go to a strange place to find fault alone, it is not that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but the dragon swims in the shallows and is played by shrimp."

Zhu Er had always thought that Zhang Chen was really injured after falling from a horse and recuperating at home, and he laughed at his luck, but now that he heard that people actually followed Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu to Xingtai, after his initial stunnedness, he suddenly had a deeper sense of self-defeat.

The three surnamed Zhang that he looked down on are all able to do the right thing now, and they can endure it!

It's just that Zhang Shou said that it is difficult for his eldest brother Zhu Tingfang to go to Cangzhou to find a solution, which made him feel a little more comfortable.

And without waiting for Zhu Er to make his own little idea there, Zhang Shou said in a hurry: "But how about the eldest prince, I have my own monarch to take care of it, and I want to take care of the Xingtai mess, after all, Zhang Chen, Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu are over there." What I want you to do when you go to Cangzhou is actually something else. ”

Hey? Zhu Er finally became a little more energetic. Of course, he also hopes that he will be able to compete with the eldest prince like Lu Sanpang, who was the second prince on the street last year, and from now on, he will be able to impress his father and brother, and live with his eyebrows raised, but he later substituted himself into the situation of the dead little fat man at that time, and finally felt that he didn't have the courage and eloquence at all.

Therefore, at this time, he was immediately relieved and hurriedly asked cheekily, "What do you want me to do with my brother-in-law?" ”

"Actually, when I was in the Cuiyun room where Mr. Ge lived, what I found was not only the arithmetic classics he left behind."

Although he planned to reveal a little to Zhu Er, Zhang Shou knew very well what he should grasp, so he did not hesitate to continue to push the pot on the bamboo house.

Seeing that Zhu Er immediately showed a look of great interest, he said unhurriedly: "It seems that there were other people living in that bamboo house later, so I found a notebook in it, which is said to have been left by the servants around Taizu. ”

"The note said that Taizu dreamed of the Emperor of Heaven in the past, and when he saw the map of the world, he ordered the Ordnance Bureau to make the ball, and knew that outside the Ming Dynasty, the world was big. However, Taizu dreamed of the Ming Dynasty to the east, crossed the endless ocean, and saw a vast continent, with abundant and fertile products. There are sour tomatoes, crispy peanuts, spicy peppers, crisp and sweet corn, soft and glutinous potatoes......"

"There are also cotton with better quality and higher yields than today's cotton seeds, rubber that can flow out of the tree with a gentle cut, and coffee and cocoa ......that can be ground and washed as a refreshing drink after picking, drying, and frying."

Zhang Shou didn't shy away from it, and when he saw that Zhu Er almost didn't stare out his eyes, he said earnestly: "I advised you to collect seeds before, so that people think that you are a good farmer, and this is also because of this." Nowadays, many products are not unique to the Ming Dynasty, but gradually introduced from other places over a long period of time. For example, watermelons, grapes, and cotton from the Western Regions ......"

At this moment, Zhu Er suddenly remembered what Ah Liu had said to him before, and immediately blurted out: "Ah Liu said before that he once heard your brother-in-law chant limericks!" ”

"It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. It is better to live without bamboo than without peanuts. It is better to have no peanuts than no tomatoes. It is better to have no tomato than no corn. It is better to have no corn than no potatoes. It is better to have no potatoes than no lobsters; It is better to have no lobster than no chili pepper...... At that time, I thought that I had not heard of these except meat and bamboo, but it turned out to be from the continent on the east side of the sea! ”

If you've heard of it, you'd be surprised! I didn't expect Ah Liu to say this to Zhu Er...... Probably because when he ate something in Cangzhou, that kid was really shocked, and he didn't treat you as an outsider......

Zhang Shou thought so in his heart, and said unhurriedly: "This time, Ah Liu went to Cangzhou, and when he went to the market to hang out, he accidentally found a maritime shop selling tomato sauce and fried peanuts. I don't know if the things sold in this store are actually made overseas or if they are available today, but I would like to check them out. ”

Emphasizing these two things, seeing that Zhu Er was immediately shocked, he smiled and said: "Although it may be just the same name, Ah Liu said that the tomato sauce is extremely sour, and the fried peanuts are crispy and delicious, and he has tasted them himself, but in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes, he just bought some and left, and rushed back to Beijing afterwards." It's not big, it's not small......"

Before he finished speaking, he only heard Zhu Erzhu shout categorically: "Brother-in-law, don't say it, I'll go!" ”

Zhu Er took a deep breath, clenched his fists and slammed the bookshelf next to him, the expression on his face was a little solemn: "To be honest, the children of our lords have grown up listening to the stories of Emperor Taizu since childhood, not to mention that it is likely to be true, even if it is fake, I have to ask for understanding." The people don't know, don't I know yet? Emperor Taizu just went to sea and lost his whereabouts! ”

He paused as he spoke, and then changed the subject stiffly: "Besides, the excuse of searching for seeds is also ready-made!" ”

"To be honest, although I have been quite serious about attending classes in the past few months, and the content of your lecture, brother-in-law, is not too difficult, but to say that the branch hall can enter the first class, in fact, I am really not sure. In that case, I might as well leave a book for my father and grandmother, saying that I have no ambition to run away from home...... After all, the excuse of falling off the horse was used by Zhang Chen's kid, I can't pretend to be sick, right? ”

Zhang Shou didn't expect Zhu Er to plan to "run away from home", even if it was just an excuse on the surface, it was much more serious than Zhang Chen's "falling horse".

What's more, Zhang Chen is father Zhang Chuan, the Duke of Qin, doesn't care about him at all, whatever he likes, he wants people to give people, and he wants money, not so much that he doesn't care, but rather conniving. But Zhu Er is different. There are such fathers and brothers, and there are such shrewd grandmothers, who come up with an excuse to run away from home, and if there is no result, after being carried home, it will be a part of the broken leg by a family law!

Thinking of this, he had to make his words clear: "Of course, this is what Ah Liu personally investigated, but if there is a discrepancy, or if you rush to Cangzhou but people go to the empty building, then this trip is not only in vain, but if you really miss the branch test of Banshan Hall, then you may be said to be a deserter who retreats in fear, and even the Zhu family is swept in, have you considered the consequences clearly?" ”

Zhu Er's face turned a little pale, and then he deliberately said nonchalantly: "How do you know if you don't give it a try?" Bet your luck! ”

He no longer had a hippie smile, but looked at Zhang Shou solemnly: "Brother-in-law, you don't understand the status of the four words Emperor Taizu in the minds of our courtiers. When everyone played together since childhood, they were all imagining whether Emperor Taizu had expanded his territory in other places after he crossed the sea, and whether he was still alive...... After all, everyone said that he was a mortal descent. ”

"Don't say it's me, if you tell Zhang Chen about them, maybe they will also leave anything serious at hand to verify! Being laughed at and beaten up, this risk is compared with the whereabouts of Emperor Taizu, so what's it? This kind of thing, thanks to your brother-in-law, you thought of me! ”

At this moment, Zhang Shou couldn't help but think to himself, that Taizu was really a deified person, and he could still have such a large number of fans after many years of founding the country...... Well, fans! But at this moment, he heard a soft cry from outside the door.