Chapter 10 Dinner in the Kitchen
At the exit of an alley, there were a few middle-aged women who were greased and powdered, looking around at the people passing by, and when they saw Shen Yue coming, Hula came up, pulling his sleeves and rubbing them on his chest, and was about to pull them into the alley while laughing, Shen Yue was embarrassed, and said in his heart that the prostitutes of the Ming Dynasty were so arrogant, seeing that the alleys were full of low straw huts, and the quality of these people was extremely poor, if there was Chen Yuanyuan's level, he might have fallen, but it was better to flee now. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
is pulling, there is a delicate sound in my ears,
"What are you people pulling me for!"
Shen Yue looked back with joy and shame, the person who came was Pinglan, carrying a vegetable basket on his arm, his hands on his waist, and his apricot eyes were on fire. The women hurriedly dispersed, Shen Yue was relieved and wanted to explain, but Pinglan didn't give him a chance, shook his head and left.
Shen Yue had no choice but to step forward quickly and follow, speechless all the way. The two walked to a butcher's shop, and Pinglan stopped and hesitated. Shen Yue was overjoyed, the opportunity came, and said to the butcher shop owner: "Come on two fat chickens and cut six catties of pork belly." ”
Pinglan hurriedly said: "I've bought good vegetables, let's order less meat." After speaking, he subconsciously swallowed his saliva. Shen Yue felt a little cute when she saw her like this, and it was rumored on the Internet in later generations that there was a foodie girl who was the happiest, and it was true.
"Let's finally live in the city, it's time to make up for it, I'll cook when I go back, show you your hands, and make sure you want to eat every day in the future."
There was an old farmer next to the butcher shop with a basket of chickens in front of him, chirping, Pinglan pointed there and said, "Let's buy some chickens, we can sell eggs when we grow up in the future." ”
Shen Yue also wanted to add some liveliness to the courtyard, so that the Wang mother and daughter also had something to do, and could contribute to the collective, so as not to feel under the fence. After taking the meat and buying a dozen chickens, the two went home.
When she arrived at the door, Pinglan took the chicken coop that Shen Yue was carrying, her face was red, and she said with a twist: "You are not allowed to go to that kind of place again in the future." With that, he trotted into the courtyard.
Shen Yue smiled bitterly, but he also realized that Pinglan had the affection for herself, she could also call herself her brother when she was in Hualiu Lane, but she was called Xianggong, which implied that Shen Yue didn't understand. It has been nearly a month since he came to the Ming Dynasty, and the first person he came into contact with and the person who has been in contact with him for the longest time is Pinglan, but Shen Yue is still stuck in the mentality that he is an older otaku in his later life, and he was taken in by Pinglan's mother and daughter, and Ping Shuwen entrusted them to himself before he died, just wanting to take good care of them, and he never had other thoughts about Pinglan, who was only thirteen years old. I still have illusions about returning to the afterlife, and I have been trembling when I first set foot in the Ming Dynasty, and I am a little at a loss in the face of Pinglan's feelings at this time.
With a full stomach, Shen Yue came to the kitchen in the courtyard, where oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are readily available, after all, the Chinese nation has lasted for so many years, and after the Tang and Song dynasties, the attainments of eating are already perfect. In later generations, he often cooked by himself while wandering, and although he was not proficient in it, he was confident that he could handle it. At the moment, a pot of braised pork stewed beans and a pot of mushroom chicken nuggets were simmering in the fire.
Shen Yue was burning the fire, but when he turned his head, he saw Wang and Pinglan already standing behind him watching, and he was a little curious about Shen Yue's scholarly appearance but his fluent cooking skills. Pinglan was a little embarrassed when she saw Shen Yue looking over, and turned around and pulled her mother to prepare other food.
The fragrance in the pot spread, causing the brothers Ping Yuan and Ping Dayong Ping Dashan, who were feeding the horses in the backyard, to gather around the kitchen, staring at the two pots and drooling, fidgeting like gluttonous cats. Near noon, Gao Sheng and Guan Xing came back from the official mansion and saw that there was no one eating in the main hall, so they also followed the fragrance to the kitchen. Guan Xing rubbed his hands with a smile and joked to Gao Sheng: "I knew that Brother Shen had this cooking skill, what kind of salt did we sell, and the door was squeezed out of the door to open a restaurant for safekeeping." ”
Everyone laughed heartily, and the fatigue and bitterness of the past few days were swept away in the laughter and the aroma of food, and they no longer shifted their positions, but sat directly in the kitchen, each holding a large bowl, eating rice, and pouring a few spoonfuls of fragrant broth on top, and eating it. The two big pots of dishes could not satisfy everyone's appetite at all, and even the soup was scavenged, if it weren't for Gao Sheng and Guan Xing going out of the city to sell salt later, Shen Yue would have to go out and buy some meat to continue cooking.
After lunch, Shen Yue pulled a few people back to the lobby, and placed a marijuana bag on the ground, which was coarse salt from the government after completing the temporary procedures and receiving it from the designated salt merchant, about 100 catties. The location here is close to the Bohai Bay, there is a salt drying field by the sea, and the salt production is sufficient, but because the Yuan soldiers and bandits are rampant, the circulation is not very smooth, so the government specially approves some bold people to bring a small amount of salt to the surrounding towns and villages to sell. The coarse salt color of the white flowers is not much different from that of later generations, but the particles are not so fine, which shows that the process at this time is very advanced.
Gao Sheng also asked everyone to weigh the big bags of coarse salt into two catties, divided into dozens of small cloth bags for easy sale, this trip out of the city to sell salt is not to sell door-to-door, but directly to the big households and the chief and others in the village and town, and then they sell it to the villagers, so that although they will earn some difference, but it is safe and fast, but to run around dozens of towns and villages, the road is far away, even if it takes two or three days to come back on horseback. Therefore, Wang prepared some dry food and water bags for the two, tied the salt bags and put them on the horses, and wrapped the dry food and clothes in square scarves and tied them on their shoulders, and Gao Sheng and the two rode out of the city.
Shen Yue has always been concerned about Pinglan's affairs, thinking that if he finds a way to return to the afterlife or encounters any accidents, he doesn't know how to settle their family. But seeing the scarf wrapped in dry food between the two of them gave me some inspiration. Farewell to the two, immediately went back to the house and began to plan, not long after a few drawings came to the room of Wang's mother and daughter, beckoned the two to find some cloth cutting, although the things on the picture are a little novel, but the two are also ingenious, according to Shen Yue's guidance to cut and sew. What Shen Yue wants to do this time is a backpack for the next generation.
Since he was ready to do some business to make a living, Shen Yue thought about it for a long time, although there were many innovative and practical products in his mind, and they could be realized in the Ming Dynasty, such as soap, glass, perfume, etc., but these things are not suitable for the current environment, now the north is still unstable, the population is scarce, the people are poor, those luxury goods are difficult to promote, although to the rich land in the south, there may be some sales, but a few people still remember the corn and potatoes and other crops in the mountains, and can only wait for the harvest to make plans to go south. Therefore, Shen Yue's plans are all commodities that are practical or urgently needed at the moment. Although the war made the people poor, it was the right time to engage in military supplies. Shen Yue planned to include the backpack in the military supplies and sell it to the government or the township group organized by the gentry of the surrounding villages and towns.
The backpack is temporarily designed in three styles, a large backpack, a shoulder cross-body bag, and a chest bag, but now there is no way to produce zippers, but the three of them discussed making a few nail holes in the opening, and then tightened it with a thin rope, and the metal buckle attached to the shoulder strap has a simple structure and can be made by a blacksmith. In this way, the Daming version of the backpack was born, and after it was done, Pinglan happily tried it one by one, and was dissatisfied with Shen Yue's not only good hand cooking, but also proficient in needlework, Shen Yue sighed with self-pity and walked out of the house, looking for the old blacksmith to customize the metal buckle.