"It's okay, I'll just go in and have a look, speaking of which, when the roasted tea workshop was first established, the stove used for roasting tea was still built by me and Liu Bu for you!" Li Xiu didn't take Yuechan's dissuasion to heart, but continued to walk forward, and before he went in, he already smelled a strong aroma of fried tea, which made him look forward to the scene of fried tea inside. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But before Li Xiu could enter, he saw Yuechan standing in front of him with an anxious face, and he wanted to say something but hesitated, and finally gritted his teeth and said with a red face: "Master, you ...... Don't go in, it's strictly forbidden for men to enter! ”

When Yuechan said the end, she also stretched out her hand and pointed to a sign on the wall next to her, Li Xiu only found out at this time that there were four big words written on the sign "Men stop", although he knew that the people who fried the tea were female workers, but he still couldn't help but ask with some curiosity: "Yuechan, although there are female workers inside, I just want to go in and have a look, isn't this okay?" ”

"Master, the workshop belongs to our family, you can naturally enter at any time, but there are all female workers inside, and now that the weather is hot, the roasted tea has to revolve around the stove, so when these female workers are working, the clothes they wear are relatively thin, so it is usually strictly forbidden for men to approach here, sir, you had better not go in!" Yuechan explained with some embarrassment at this time.

The tea workshop is different from other places, the tea is roasted with female workers, at the beginning are the little daughters-in-law and big girls in the nearby villages, taking advantage of the slack time to earn some pocket money, but as the tea workshop becomes more and more prosperous, the wages of female workers are also rising, they work for a month than the family to plant a year of land to earn more, the result naturally attracts more women to come to work.

So many women get together, the most important thing is safety, so the tea workshop has always been dominated by women, in addition to carrying this heavy work, even the guards are the female soldiers who retired from Princess Pingyang, and the workshop of roasting tea is strictly forbidden for any man to approach, but in this way, it makes those female workers not pay much attention to their image when working, after all, it is women who come in and out, and no one cares.

Li Xiu heard Yuechan's explanation, and then realized that he almost made a big mistake, if he really broke in, I am afraid that there must be chickens and dogs jumping into a mess, in case he is repeatedly said that he is lustful, it will be too wrong.

Thinking of this, Li Xiu immediately dispelled the idea of going in, and asked Yuechan to take herself to other places for a turn, now it is not early, and dinner is also beginning to be prepared in the workshop, these female workers usually eat and live in the workshop, although they can rest every ten days, but they generally save three days together, so that they can go home and live for a few days.

Li Xiu came to the canteen of the workshop at the moment, and there were rows of neat tables and chairs in the entire canteen, which looked like a school cafeteria in later generations. The cafeteria was very clean, and there were two middle-aged women wiping the table inside, it seemed that they were in charge of hygiene, Li Xiu was also very satisfied with this, and walked to the back kitchen at the moment.

The back kitchen is naturally the place to cook, after all, there are hundreds of people in the workshop, and eating is not a small problem, there are more than a dozen people who are cooking alone, and they are now washing vegetables and cooking, but when Li Xiu saw the meals prepared in the back kitchen, he couldn't help frowning.

"Yuechan, why are they all vegetarian dishes, there are many people working in the workshop, why do you have to prepare some meat dishes?" Li Xiu said to Yuechan at this time that he found that the staple food prepared in the back kitchen was good, including steamed buns and porridge, but the dishes were relatively shabby, except for radishes and green vegetables, there were no other things.

Yuechan also frowned when she saw this situation, and then explained: "Master, according to the regulations in the workshop, in the busy season, the workshop will prepare a meat every day, of course, just cheap pork, but I didn't see it today, let me ask the chef here what's going on?" ”

Yuechan hasn't been here for a long time, so she doesn't know much about the changes in the workshop, and at the moment she opened her mouth to call a middle-aged cook who was cooking, only to see that the other party was five big and three thick, stronger than ordinary men, in fact, just now Li Xiu saw her holding a cauldron alone, and this strength alone is not comparable to ordinary people.

"Fourth aunt, isn't there supposed to be meat in the workshop, why haven't you seen it at all now?" Yuechan asked the cook with a small face at this time, as the chief housekeeper of the palace, the entire workshop is managed by her, and there is naturally a kind of atmosphere of a superior on her body, so Yuechan's small face looks really scary.

When the sturdy cook heard Yuechan's blame, she hurriedly shouted: "Big housekeeper, you are wrong to blame the old woman, it's not that I don't make meat, but I can't buy meat at all now, so I can only make some green vegetables and radishes!" ”

"What's going on, why can't you buy meat here?" Li Xiu asked a little strangely when he heard this, in his opinion, the workshop is surrounded by villages, although there are more checks on the road because of smallpox, but it shouldn't be difficult to go to the village to buy some meat, grain, etc., right?

"Master, you don't know, in the past, the meat in the workshop was ordered from the butcher shop in Chang'an, and there were special people sent it every day, but now when smallpox comes, the meat in Chang'an can't be sent at all, at first we also wanted to buy some meat from nearby villages, but many people are ready to send pigs to the New Year to kill, there are very few people who are willing to sell, we have bought those who are willing to sell in nearby villages, and we can't go to any farther places."

When I said this, I saw the cook pause, and then said helplessly again: "Actually, don't talk about meat, now there is not much food, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the workshop, and I used to take some spices and grain from the princess's courtyard, so that the workshop will not be cut off, but if it goes on like this, the workshop can only gnaw pickles." ”

"Chang'an is under martial law, why don't you go to the county seat to buy meat?" When Li Xiu heard this, he asked again, they belong to Xinzhu County, although the small county town is not very big, but although the sparrows are small and have all kinds of organs, there are still many people who do business in it, and there are still a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and the like.

"The county seat doesn't let people in!" The cook explained again.

"How is this possible, it is understandable that Chang'an is under martial law, but how can a county be under martial law?" When Li Xiu heard this, he asked rhetorically with an expression of disbelief. He knows the county magistrate of Xinzhu County, he is a good official, and he thinks about the people very much, he must know that martial law in the county will have a great impact on the surrounding people, can it be said that he also has a last resort?