Chapter 12: Making Soup

Zhao Ming calmed down his mood, he was happy today, who knew that he heard an anti-poem early in the morning, and the most terrifying thing was that it was his disciple who wrote the poem. Su Bai waited for Zhao Ming to sit down before saying, "Teacher, the student's poem is called "Ju Yun", Zhao Ming nodded.

"Autumn frost creates chrysanthemum flowers"

"Endless romance writes the sunset"

"Unintentional sentences"

"Born with a charm into a thousand homes"

Zhao Ming is relieved, fortunately, this poem is still a normal Yongju poem, hey? Isn't that right? How could this kid make such good poetry? I didn't teach him either, is there really any providence in this world? Zhao Ming didn't think that Su Bai copied it, in his opinion, this level of poetry and writing was not something that these gentlemen around him could write, and there was no place to copy it if he wanted to. Zhao Ming can only comfort himself, his apprentice is a genius, of course he has the ability of heaven and man, who have you ever seen who memorized the entire "Book of Rites" in two days?

"Teacher? Teacher? Su Bai called twice, Zhao Ming came back to his senses, and Su Bai continued: "Teacher, can you see how to modify it?" Zhao Ming coughed dryly and said: "There is no need to modify, now this level is just in line with the image of your young genius, if I modify one or two for you, there will inevitably be some traces, but it is not beautiful." Su Bai pouted secretly, this Li Shiguang's "Chrysanthemum Rhyme" has been sung for thousands of years, and every word in it is worth scrutinizing, can it be modified casually? Just be polite to you, you really listen!

Zhao Ming did not continue to dwell on the poems, and continued to explain the "Book of Rites" to Su Bai, in the Tang Dynasty, the main content of the imperial examination was not the future Bagu article, but the poetry and songs, the good way to govern the country, and the knowledge and experience. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages, but Su Bai obviously prefers the former, Tang poetry and Song lyrics, and Datang can be said to have achieved the ultimate in poetry.

The content of the study was extremely boring, Su Bai was about to fall asleep several times, Zhao Mingzhi, who was watching it, shook his head, eager to give him a few precepts, but after receiving such a genius student, he was not the kind of strict teacher, and he was a little unable to do it. Finally, when it was time for lunch at noon, Su Bai was in good spirits, and as soon as his little nose twitched, he knew that he should still eat mutton at noon, and it should be the lamb breast left in the morning.

Zhao Ming said with a smile: "Like to eat mutton?", Su Bai nodded and said: "If it's meat, I like it!" Zhao Ming laughed and said: "Zi said: I don't get tired of eating, I don't get tired of being fine, and there is nothing wrong with liking food." Su Baixin said, this level is also called food, and when my mutton is made, I will let you know what the mutton should taste like. The grilled lamb chops at noon are more delicious, and you can hardly eat much of the sheep smell, but this kind of grilled lamb is much more delicious.

Continuing to study in the afternoon, Su Bai's learning speed was so fast that Zhao Ming's brain was a little sweaty, if he taught Su Bai at this pace, I was afraid that it wouldn't take long for nothing to teach him, how embarrassing it would be then.

In the evening, Su Bai walked to the dormitory without two steps, and was pulled to Bujing Hall by Wang Fugui who came out on the side, Su Bai looked, there were more people who came to listen to the story today, and there were about 20 people in the past at a glance, Su Bai felt happy in his heart, stretched out his hand and made a gesture to pay the money, the new students still didn't understand what was going on, and the old students next to them told them that when each person paid ten cents, they still looked a little unbelievable, and they still had to spend money to listen to the story? The old student said with disdain: "What is the difference between listening to books and not giving money, and reading novels without collecting?" Some new students don't understand what it means to read novels and not collect, in fact, old students don't understand either, but they think it's so powerful, so they follow along.

Tonight's story is even more exciting, as soon as the plot of Guan Erye sending his sister-in-law for a thousand miles came out, the students' excited eyes were red, and they couldn't help but substitute themselves into the role of Guan Erye. At this time, the camp of the students was divided into two camps, one was to like Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's strategy, and the other was to like Guan Erye's righteous Bo Yuntian.

Both groups of students firmly believed that the person they liked was the protagonist in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and in the end, they were at a stalemate, and they all looked at Su Bai, wanting Su Bai to affirm that his statement was correct. Su Bai smiled slightly: "If you want to know what will happen next, please listen to the next decomposition", after speaking, he returned to the dormitory with his two hundred dollars, and behind him was a group of students who were 'dissatisfied'.

Su Bai is on fire, and now the most discussed among the students in "Mingde Academy" is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", some scholars say that Su Bai is all nonsense, and the original history and what he said can almost be called completely different, but more students said that it is better to listen than anything else. Even the gentlemen know that Su Bai will tell a story about the Three Kingdoms in the evening, and in just three days, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has already stood still...

When it was almost noon the next day, the porter Lao Liu came to inform him that Wang Xing was coming, and Su Bai hurriedly asked Zhao Ming for a half-day vacation. Zhao Ming couldn't wait for Su Bai to ask for leave, teaching him in the past two days Zhao Ming knows what pressure is, drawing inferences from one another, and having a good memory, I have to say that being a teacher for such a student is not ordinary.

With the wrapper skin borrowed from Wang Fugui, he wrapped two hundred coins, and walked towards the gate in a hurry, the sound of the collision of copper coins sounded so pleasant, sure enough, no matter what dynasty it was, money was a good thing.

Wang Wen looked at Su Bai with a little difficulty on his back, came over to take over the burden, and as soon as he heard the voice, he knew that it was a copper coin, and looked at his son in surprise, this kid has surprised him too much in the past two days.

Wang Xing's rented house is not far from Huaide Fang, and the distance from Qunxian Fang is not close, and the two of them walked for more than half an hour to get to the place, of course, this may also be because Su Bai's legs are short now.... The house is not big, and it is not a single courtyard, but more like a large miscellaneous courtyard, which has three tiled houses, the middle of the master lives, and the two sides are rented out, and Wang Xing's family rents the east wing.

Wang Liu saw Su Bai happily pinching his face and said, "Do you miss your mother?" ", Su Bai's face was black, please, I'm so old, and I feel a little disgusting myself. Wang Xing threw the burden on his body to the table, and there was a sound of copper coins colliding with each other, and Wang Liu's attention was directly diverted, and he opened the package excitedly, and his eyes were inseparable.

Su Bai looked at Wang Xing and said, "Dad, you go to the West Market to buy a leg of mutton and come back, buy some pine wood on the way, the fresher the better", Wang Xing sighed and was about to go out.

"Stop! How much does it cost to buy a leg of lamb? How good it is to buy some mutton fat and come back, and put some when cooking, it will be delicious", Wang Liu's voice sounded, the attributes of this woman's iron exploded, and Wang Xing was afraid of his wife, rubbing his hands at a loss. Su Bai smiled and said: "Mother, our family is here to do business in the city, but not to be a miser, if I don't ask you to make soup, how can our family make a lot of money?" In the end, Wang Liu was persuaded by Su Bai, and Wang Xing ran away happily, looking like he was hungry enough. After all, at home, it's not the same as in the academy, where you can eat meat every day.

Under the temptation of the leg of mutton, Wang Xing came back in more than half an hour, carrying a leg of mutton in his hand, which looked very fresh, but there was no pine in his hand, Su Bai asked: "Dad, didn't you buy some pine, what about pine?" Wang Xing said with a smile: "When I came in the morning, Zhuzi's father helped pull a cart of firewood, what else to buy", Wang Liu also said: "That is, we countrymen still need to buy firewood?" That's not enough to make people laugh to death", Su Bai really felt a little headache, and it was not good to shout that he was using pine wood to cook. When stewing mutton soup, put in a piece of washed pine wood, it is best to be slightly burnt, the stewed soup not only does not have the smell of sheep, but also has a pine fragrance, not to mention more energetic.

Fortunately, there is a pine wood in the firewood that was moved in, although it is a dead tree, it can also be used to deal with it, wash the pine wood, add water to boil it a little first, then roast it dry with fire, and add water to the pot after washing, because the material is insufficient, there is no wolfberry codonopsis, only three kinds of green onions, ginger and garlic, and even the big ingredients and cooking wine, no matter how these are dealt with first, let Wang Xing buy the rest of the things again, and Wang Xing has been staring at them when he did it.

Wang Liu also said: "Da Niu, did they let you be a cook in the academy, are you so familiar with this technique?" Su Bai secretly said that it was not good, it was almost exposed, so he hurriedly went back to make up for it and said: "There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book, I learned these in the book", "Oh", Wang Liu put his mind at ease, in her eyes, people who know words are the same as people who know spells, as long as they look at those symbols, they can know what medicine people take when they are sick, and they only know where to choose when building a house, which is really tight.

Now that the eldest of his family is already a scholar, he has the opportunity to teach the second child again, and then he will be the mother of two scholars, go to the village and see who is gossiping about himself. When I think about it, I feel beautiful, and I can't help but look forward to the hope of tomorrow. Wang Xing was much more direct, and his eyes never left the mutton and bones in the pot again, and he was so greedy that he couldn't wait to swallow it whole.

While boiling the mutton soup, Su Bai used a spoon to foam the soup outside, put less salt in the pot and said: "Our salt is not refined salt, the taste will be a little worse, when the time comes, let my father go to the West Market to buy some spices and come back, our mutton soup is small and profitable, three dollars a bowl, our family can at least save more than a penny, sell better, and there will be no young and old left in a day."

When Wang Liu heard that he still had to spend money to buy spices, he came back to his senses......