A plate of stir-fried garlic sprouts, a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, a large plate of seven or eight steamed buns, a plate of four or five Hu cakes, plus a bowl of japonica rice and lotus leaf porridge for one person. This is Li Xi and Wu Ji's breakfast.

Li Xi doesn't know how to do it in other places, as far as his observations over the past few days are concerned, some common cooking methods in later generations have basically appeared in the current Tang Dynasty, but the names are different, but it seems that when people cook, they are still roasted, steamed, boiled, stewed, broiled, and broiled, and as for stir-frying, he really hasn't seen it.

But those practices are still fresh to eat occasionally, and he can't stand eating them every day, so these days he has been stir-frying and eating according to the habits of the previous life.

To say it, Wu Ji grew up in a rich family from childhood to adulthood, although she was only adopted as a slave singer and so on since she was a child, but it is undeniable that no matter who she is, no one dares to wronged her with this food and clothing, so she can be regarded as having eaten all the delicacies of the mountains and seas. On the other hand, Li Xi's family, although he has Li Qiu's monthly care, things that ordinary people can't eat at all, such as meat, eggs, good japonica rice, etc., have never been broken in his family, but compared to the level of Wu Ji who ate from childhood to adulthood, it is far worse.

It's just that Rao has eaten all the kitchens of many high-ranking mansions, but she has never eaten such stir-fried dishes, so she is quite interested in Li Xi's fried dishes in Pingyu. It's just a little bad.,I like to eat happily while still finding faults.。

"This garlic sprout is too spicy, but it loses its umami. Also, do you Jiannan people also like to eat green onions like this? ”

Her eating posture is very elegant, chewing slowly, and she is a little particular, on the other hand, Li Xi eats, ten out of ten dirt buns.

Stuffing the rest of the buns into his mouth, Li Xi hurriedly drank a mouthful of porridge, but grinned hotly, and only after a while did he free his mouth to refute, "Miss, it's not that I naturally like to eat spicy things, if a person lives in a place for a long time, the taste of food will take the initiative to change and adapt to the local environment, you see us here, the air is humid, and the weather is cloudy and rainy, so in such an environment, people are easy to get sick, if you want not to get sick, what should you do?" Eat more spicy and sweat more! ”

Speaking of this, he was really interested in talking, so he gushed again: "You haven't been out before, you go to other people's houses to see, often people take the fresh dogwood, but just wash it and eat it raw, to put it bluntly, just to drive away the tide!" This is actually the same as Shanxi...... Uh, what should it be called? Taiyuan? Oh, by the way, Jinyang, Jinyang people like to be jealous, why? That's because the locals don't have that in their bodies, and it's uncomfortable if they don't eat it! ”

"For example, most northerners like to eat things like onions, ginger and garlic, like to eat big meat and meat, and like to drink spirits, why is this? Because of the bitter cold in the north, people have to use these things to keep out the cold, and Guangdong ...... Well, that is, in Lingnan, people tend to eat something sweet and fresh......"

showed off her knowledge of social geography, and immediately listened to a martial artist with a wink, these are things she doesn't know at all, and she hasn't paid attention to them at all, at first glance, when she hears Li Xi say it, she feels that this argument is very fresh, and if you think about it carefully, it really makes a lot of sense.

At that moment, she thought about it seriously before she said: "I only knew that you did well in poetry, and I didn't want to be a miscellaneous person." Well, there are some similar records in the "Biography of the Goods and Colonies" in Taishi Gong's "Historical Records", in addition, there seem to be similar descriptions in the food and goods chronicles of various dynasties, but they are not as clear and clear as what you said, and the little girl was taught! ”

Li Xi finished the porridge and wiped her mouth proudly, but she didn't plan to discuss anything with her at all. Although this Wu Ji is nominally just a singer, but after a few small talks recently, Li Xi found that she is not an ordinary singer who only knows how to tinker with musical instruments, she loves to read, she has read a lot of books, and she has added miscellaneous notes to the subset of history, and the things she reads are still very complicated.

In addition, the current era is not like the knowledge explosion of later generations, and there are very few things that people can read in the Tang Dynasty, so people have time to read those books over and over again, so it is said that it is reading, but in fact, it is almost an endorsement, and it is so meticulous and serious that it is staggering.

Since there was an occasional debate between two people on an issue, Wu Ji was able to memorize the original sentence from four or five books in the blink of an eye, and after flipping through the books to check, and there was not a single word wrong, Li Xi didn't argue with him.

Therefore, seeing her thoughtful appearance at the moment, Li Xi was afraid that she would go through the nonsense of the history subset again, so he simply got up immediately, pointed to the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and said, "Old rule, you are responsible for washing the dishes!" ”

This is the division of labor that the two people have gradually run in in recent days, Wu Ji is very strange, for ordinary people are very concerned about things, such as food and clothing, such as the living environment, are not picky, and even the first time to live in a poor ordinary scholar's house, the first time to fill the stomach with firewood, the first time to wash the dishes, the first time to wash her own clothes, she is quite fresh.

It's just that although she is also very interested and willing to learn, when Li Xi tasted the dishes she made twice, she decisively decided to cook by herself in the future, and just handed over the glorious task of washing dishes to her.

Speaking of the snail life of two people, the division of labor is clear.

And Wu Ji has always been not disgusted with these things that ordinary women can do, Li Xi asked him to wash the dishes, and she would always agree lightly.

But today, when he caught a glimpse of Li Xi getting up and taking the big bag of small things he brought back yesterday to go out, Wu Ji hesitated for a moment before saying, "If you are short of money, you can think of other ways to do this...... It's discrediting to you. ”

Li Xi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he turned around and smiled at her, and he didn't have the helpless expression that Wu Ji imagined, looking at him, he seemed to be very proud, and then he heard him say: "Fame is a thing that is based on strength, and money is also part of strength." ”

After thinking about it, he added, "A very important part!" ”

In other words, if Xiaoyi Hei Saburo is just a poor bastard, not from a big landlord family, and he didn't spend money to buy a Yuncheng County Charge Division to do it, who would worship him when he met him?

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Today is Li Xi's first day at work, and it is also the first step in his plan to make money.

But apparently, the first day was not as pleasant as he had imagined.

Stubbornly picked up the brush, wrote his Nian Gengli nationality and so on and handed it to the old housekeeper with a blank face, he lowered his head, and almost dug a hole in the ground.

When the old housekeeper saw this piece of paper, he was stunned for half a pillar of incense.

After a long time, he slowly came back to his senses, but he swallowed his saliva, with a puzzled face, and he didn't know whether to ask Li Xi or himself, but said: "Shuzhou No. 1...... Wit? ”

The newcomer goes to work, and he is in charge of the pen and ink and accounts in the house, of course he has to ask for a copy of the people's Nian Gengli nationality, one is a record file, and the other is to see how the new bookkeeper's pen is, don't go out of the house, who knows that after he finally forced Li Xi to write, it was this one in his hand......

Find a Mengtong student, it won't be written like this, right?

This is the first talent in Shuzhou?

Why do you feel like you can't even hold a pen?

He stared at Li Xi for a long time, then suddenly turned around angrily and went straight to the backyard.

"Madame, take a look, this, this...... Alas......"

This time, Pei Yang's had just gotten up and washed up, and was watching the maid teasing a pair of children while eating, when she saw the old housekeeper running to the back house recklessly, she was not angry, and she didn't even put down the chopsticks, but said lightly: "Steward He, how many times have you been said, you are so old, don't always panic when doing things, no matter how urgent things are, you are not in a hurry to take these steps, right?" Let's catch your breath before you speak. ”

Although Pei Yang has a son and a daughter this year, in fact, she is only twenty-one years old, if it is other women, at this age is still the age of immaturity, but for some reason, she seems to be born with a kind of spirit that ignores everything in the world, and this kind of courage is manifested in ordinary life, which makes her beautiful and peerless appearance add a suffocating coercion.

For no reason, as long as she stands in front of you, you just feel that she is definitely stronger than you.

It seems that she is strong in her bones, because she despises everything in the world from the bottom of her bones.

Therefore, although she was just wearing simple civilian clothes, she didn't even wipe her rouge when she got up in the morning, and she didn't even wear a hairpin ring, and she even held chopsticks in her hand, just talking like a homely conversation while eating, but the old housekeeper He Gui unconsciously relaxed his steps when he heard this, and after he came to the room, he just stood at the door with bated breath, but he didn't even dare to say a superfluous word.

As a result, his stop was a full time for two pillars of incense, and finally Pei Yang's finally finished eating, and was served by the maid to drink tea soup and rinse his mouth and press the rice, then he straightened his sleeves and said lightly: "Say, what's the matter." ”

Hearing this, He Guiyan hurriedly stepped forward, handed over the manuscript in his hand, and said, "Madam, take a look, this is the pen and ink of the bookkeeper Li Xi, the new bookkeeper we hired yesterday, this ...... Alas, the old slave already didn't know what to say. ”

Pei Yangshi stretched out his hand to take the manuscript, but first turned his head and ordered a maid to take her makeup hairpin ring and rouge gouache and the like, and then glanced up casually, but this glance made him immediately stunned.

Rao is a surname that she has always disdained in everything, and when she saw this self-description post of Nian Gengli, she still showed almost the same expression as the old housekeeper He Gui when he first saw this piece of paper.

Astonished! Extremely surprised!

But soon, her face returned to normal, but the moth brow frowned unconsciously.

"This is what he wrote? Which Li Xi wrote it by hand? ”

The old housekeeper He Gui nodded cleanly when he heard this, lest he not explain clearly, and even danced with his hands, and said: "It was written by Li Xi himself, the old slave saw that he came early in the morning, and personally served him tea, and then asked him to ask for this, he looked very reluctant to write, and only reluctantly wrote it in the end, the old slave watched him write it with his own eyes, but he ...... this word."

Pei Yang smiled bitterly when he heard this, thought about it for a while, and said, "You go and inquire to see if this Li Xi is ...... Forget it, you still don't have to go, I don't think anyone will fake their names to come to our house to be a little bookkeeper. ”

Then she waved her hand, "Go ahead, don't say anything, don't say anything, wait until he has worked for a month, pay him and let him go." ”

The old housekeeper was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "What about now?" ”

"Now?" Pei Yangshi frowned helplessly, "Just treat him as an idler and raise him for a month." ”

When the old housekeeper heard this, he looked like he wanted to say something, but in the end he agreed to take the piece of paper and turned around to go out, but at this time, someone reported that it was his uncle's visit.

As soon as the old housekeeper subconsciously raised his head, he caught a glimpse of his wife frowning slightly. Then he listened to her command, "Steward He, go and let him in." ”

The old housekeeper He Gui hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "Madam, my uncle is here, it's nothing more than to play some autumn wind, it's better for the old slave to help you respond." ”

Pei Yang's shook his head when he heard this, and said: "We have recently separated out of the door, there is no man in the family, and it is so bad with the house over there, and our Yang family has already moved to Henan Mansion with the third uncle, so we are outside, and we can't do without a relative to take care of it, right now, except for him, a distant cousin, where is there anyone else?" Although he is not angry, he is still surnamed Yang after all, no matter whether it is good or bad, it can only be him for the time being. ”

He Gui sighed and nodded, put the paper away, and then said goodbye and hurried out to meet him.

Although it is not unreasonable for Mrs. to say that the outside should rely on this uncle to take care of him, but this uncle's hands are too dark, and when he doesn't come to loot a few thousand dollars, he actually refuses to leave, but he is still addicted, and he actually comes every other day, how can he get it in the long run?

"Where is your wife? Have you eaten yet? ”

Hearing the voice of the uncle from a distance, He Gui hurriedly greeted him, greeted him with a smile, and said: "Mrs. has already eaten, and she is using tea and soup. ”

Yang Zhao laughed and said "yes" when he heard this, and continued to walk inside.

He Gui peeked at this uncle while leading the way, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

I have to say that the uncle is indeed born with a dignified appearance, after all, he is Zhang Yizhi's nephew, and there is a common proverb among the people that "a nephew is like an uncle", he can be said to have inherited all the advantages of the previous generation in this appearance, if you only look at this, he is really worthy of being his wife's cousin.

But if you look at his greedy energy......

Alas......

Thinking of this, the old housekeeper He Gui couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

A woman's family, obviously can remarry, but refuses to marry, what to say that in the whole world, except for the current Chang'an City Xingqing Palace [everyone] is barely liked, there is no man she can look down on, so she would rather support a portal alone, but also categorically refuse to remarry, and the result is ...... That's it.

Not only do outsiders not take this Pei Yang Mansion in their eyes, but they are the "own family" they must rely on, and they just take this side to make a vault that can be used to withdraw money at any time.

Thinking about it all the way and sighing and laughing, it was not until he let Yang Zhao go to the front of the room and watched him enter the room that he turned around and left.

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