In the city of Chang'an in the early morning of winter, the cold north wind 'woo' blows non-stop, it is now the beginning of the lunar month, and it will soon be the Spring Festival, coupled with a heavy snow some time ago has not melted, making the early morning of Chang'an winter is also extraordinarily cold.

Compared with the past, today's streets in Chang'an are particularly deserted, most people are listening to the cold wind outside the window, and then nest in the warm quilt to sleep for a lazy night, because today is the tenth day, except for a few people who have to go to work normally, most of the other people do not have to work.

Speaking of the benefit of the ten-day break, it was previously only available to officials or scholars in the academy, and workers in factories or men in shops had little time to rest, except to ask for leave from the master's family. But since Li Su took the lead in promoting the day in Taiwan, and in the form of legislation, it is stipulated that all industries must have a day off every ten days, and special industries can allow employees to adjust themselves, so the day of the day has spread, and later Li Zhi ascended the throne and reformed the Tang Dynasty, of which the provision of the day was also introduced into the Tang Dynasty.

On the wide Suzaku Street, the number of pedestrians has decreased by half at once, and the number of horse-drawn carriages is not much, which makes the crowded Suzaku Street look a little deserted in the past, and nearly half of the breakfast shops on both sides of the street are not open, but some of the more popular shops are not affected, and business is still booming.

An unpretentious carriage came from the direction of the imperial city, and there were several guards on horseback around it, but this did not attract the attention of passers-by, after all, this is Chang'an, and there are countless dignitaries and dignitaries, who doesn't go out and take a few guards to fill the scene? Therefore, the people of Chang'an have long been surprised by this situation.

I saw that the carriage went all the way south in the direction of Suzaku Street, and then turned east at Anyifang, near Mingde Gate. It was only when we came to the winding pool that I stopped. This place is not far from the Jinyang Princess Mansion of her son. However, a few years ago, soon after his son and Shangguan Tingzhi got married, they moved to Taiwan to live. Occasionally, I will come back for a while. And just before Li Su came to Chang'an, the two of them went to Australia to play and have not come back.

"Ninth brother, there is a breakfast shop here, my son often praises this breakfast for being good, she likes to eat this breakfast in Chang'an, it just so happens that the two of us haven't eaten, why don't you go down and taste it?" On the carriage, Li Su pointed to a breakfast shop not far away and smiled. The door of the breakfast shop is not big, but it looks very neat, and there is a flag hanging next to it, with the four big characters of 'Xu's shop' written on it.

Li Zhi in the carriage heard Li Su's words, turned his face to look at the breakfast shop and said with a smile: "I also heard my son praise this shop for its good craftsmanship and clean, but it's a pity that I haven't had the opportunity to come to taste it. ”

After Li Zhi received the news from Li Su before. Immediately got up from the bed, changed into civilian clothes and left the palace, he now wants to know very much, what is the purpose of the sixth brother's visit this time? It's a pity that after meeting Li Su. Although Li Zhi asked several times, Li Su diverted the topic, and just said to find a place to talk about it. It's just that Li Zhi didn't expect that he, the sixth brother, would choose the place of conversation in such an inconspicuous breakfast shop.

Li Su and Li Zhi got out of the carriage and walked into the shop. This Xu family's shop is really clean, and the entire floor of the shop is covered with tiles. The scrubbing is very clean, and the surrounding walls are also plastered with white cement that has just been developed, so that guests do not have to worry about rubbing white ash like white lime.

The door of Xu's shop is not big, and there are ten very neat tables in the shop, but for some reason there are no other customers in the store, so the tables are empty. At the bottom of the shop counter was a woman in her forties and fifties who was busy in the stove behind the counter, and from time to time she opened a steamer, and there was a burst of mist rising from it, accompanied by the enticing aroma of food.

"Two guest officers, please come in!" The woman behind the counter saw Li Su and Li Zhi coming in, and immediately greeted with a smile, and then she turned her head to a small door next to her and shouted, "Yan'er, come and greet the guests!" ”

"Well, here we are!" With a crisp response, the cotton curtain of the small door was lifted, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl walked out, dressed in a crisp cotton shirt and cotton pants, with a white and neat apron on the outside, and greeted Li Su and the others with a smile: "What do the two guests want to eat, our Xu family shop has buns, pancakes, fritters, beef and mutton, and all kinds of porridge, Hu spicy soup, mutton soup, beef soup, ......."

Li Su listened to the little girl introduce so many kinds of breakfast at once, and couldn't help laughing at the moment: "Little girl, seeing that your store is not big, and there are no customers in the store, why do you still prepare so many kinds of breakfast, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to sell it and lose money?" ”

However, the little girl blinked her cute big eyes after hearing this, and then explained to Li Su: "The guests don't know, although our Xu family shop is small, but it is very famous in this area, and the people who come to eat in the shop are the dignitaries who live nearby, and they are relatively lazy, and they usually don't get up until three o'clock in the morning, and then they will send their families to buy breakfast, so now the store is a little deserted." ”

Hearing the little girl say that the dignitaries and nobles living around are lazy, Li Su and Li Zhi all laughed out loud at once, the land price by Qujiang Pond is extremely expensive, and some nobles in the city like to build a house here, but Qujiang Pond is a little far away from the imperial city, so there is time to live here, naturally those idle nobles who do not need to go to the court, they have nothing to do except eat and drink every day, and have a lot of time to sleep lazy, the little girl said that they are lazy and did not wronged them.

The woman behind the counter may think that it is a little inappropriate for the little girl to say this to the customers in the store, so she hurriedly explained: "Don't listen to my daughter's nonsense, the two guest officers are now so cold weather, the guests are naturally reluctant to get up early, and as soon as the weather in Chang'an is cold, many nobles go to the south or Daqi to escape the cold, and they will not come back until the spring of the next year, so the business in our store is also affected, and the income every winter is much less!" ”

Li Su and Li Zhi naturally didn't mind, and Li Zhi opened his mouth and asked the woman behind the counter: "Boss, why is it that only your mother and daughter are busy in your store?" Also, didn't this little girl go to school? ”

As soon as Li Zhi's words fell, before the proprietress could answer, the little girl standing next to him rushed to say: "Usually the store is full of parents and brothers, but my father just went out to buy goods, and my brother is behind to accompany the pregnant sister-in-law, I just don't have to go to school today, so I came to the store to help, if it is usually my brother to greet you!" ”

Hearing the little girl's cannon-like answers, Li Su and Li Zhi laughed again, and at the same time had a good impression of this outspoken little girl.

Next, Li Su ordered a basket of soup dumplings, a pancake and a bowl of spicy soup, while Li Zhi ordered a bowl of white porridge and a few fried dough sticks, which were quickly delivered, and there were also free small pickles in the store, which were pickled with radishes, cut into thin shreds, and sprinkled with sesame oil, which made people very appetizing just by smelling it.

Li Su hadn't eaten well since yesterday, and now he was already hungry when he was on the road, so now when he saw breakfast being served, he was not polite at all, first sprinkled pickles on the pancakes, and then rolled up the pancakes, and he swallowed them in a few bites, and because he ate so fast, he didn't even taste the taste of pancakes.

After eating the pancakes, Li Su drank a few more sips of the numb and spicy Hu spicy soup, and immediately felt warm all over his body, and in this cold winter morning, there was an indescribable comfort. Next, Li Su picked up the small soup bag with chopsticks, first put it on his mouth to bite the skin open, slowly sucked the soup inside, and waited until it was clean, and then put the soup in the ginger vinegar next to it and put it in his mouth, and slowly taste the deliciousness of the soup bag.

It is said that soup dumplings are a delicacy in the south, but with the increasing development of transportation, exchanges between various places have also been strengthened, so the special cuisines of various places have also spread, and it is not surprising to eat soup dumplings in the south in Chang'an.

"The store has good craftsmanship, this soup dumpling is the essence of Runzhou soup dumpling, more than 30 processes are not bad, it is really rare to be able to eat such authentic soup dumplings in Chang'an!" After Li Su tasted the soup dumplings, he immediately praised loudly. Runzhou is the Zhenjiang of later generations, at that time Runzhou's soup dumplings were already very famous, Li Su even went to Runzhou to taste the delicacy of soup dumplings, so they are still fresh in their memories.

And the proprietress behind the counter heard Li Su's praise, and her eyes lit up and said: "The guest officer is really well-informed, and he actually tasted our soup dumplings at once to go through more than 30 processes, don't tell you, my daughter-in-law is a native of Runzhou in the south, and the family has passed down the craft of making soup dumplings from generation to generation, and these soup dumplings are made by herself, but she is now pregnant and can only make ten cages a day. ”

When Li Zhi heard the words of the proprietress, he couldn't help but be interested in this kind of soup dumpling, so he asked for a cage himself, and then tasted it like Li Yu, and the result was also loudly applauded, and at the same time, he secretly screamed in his heart that it was a pity that he had stayed in Chang'an for so many years, and he didn't know that there was such a delicious soup dumpling here.

The two brothers didn't eat breakfast, and it was rare to experience the life of such an ordinary person, so they all put down the shelves and gobbled up the breakfast in front of them, and even Li Su finally added a bowl of millet mung bean porridge to eat enough.

However, when Li Su just put down the chopsticks in his hand, Li Zhi finally couldn't help but ask again: "Sixth brother, why did you suddenly come to Chang'an this time?" (To be continued......)