Shao Qing not only got up as early as usual on this day, but also ate breakfast faster than usual.

"Sir, would you like to add another half bowl of red bean and barley porridge?" Ye Rou wanted to come and get Shao Qing's bowl.

Shao Qing had already stood up: "No need, I'll go to the door to see if the osmanthus has bloomed." ”

Ye Rou knew his thoughts, and couldn't help sneering, and then turned into a sigh, silently cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks.

Shao Qing paced out the hospital.

The faint scent of flowers hits.

Sure enough, with the cool breeze, the osmanthus bloomed.

It is another year of autumn, and a tree of osmanthus is fragrant.

A month ago, Yao Huan sent his younger brother to school for the first time, and when he saw the laurel tree at the door, he praised it again and again for being tall and strong, with lush branches and leaves, and when it bloomed in autumn, it would definitely be able to fill the entire alley. He also said that he would bring a jar and ask Mr. Shao for some osmanthus flowers, and pickle them in sugar to make cakes to eat.

Shao Qing was concerned about this matter, and almost every day he came to see when this old laurel tree would break its golden branches.

But today, he came out so early, of course, not just to watch the flowers.

Yao Huan is a woman who knows how to be polite, and he believes that unlike the usual time when he let his younger brother take the neighborhood's ox cart over, today, Yao Huan will send Ruzhou to school by himself, and return the book by the way, and thank him.

Standing outside the courtyard, Shao Qing felt that he could talk to her for a longer time.

Her family's business opened at noon, and she should have come early.

If she was having breakfast in the courtyard or preparing in the classroom when she came, she would just nod and say a few words, could he still lead her out of the courtyard to talk in front of Ye Rou Lu Gang and others?

Shao Qing checked his thoughts, and suddenly felt that he was like a young man who had nowhere to say his feelings, seriously, and wanted to laugh at himself, but also a little longing for joy.

He looked away from the laurel tree and into the alley.

It was really a wish, and sure enough, a moment later, two figures, one tall and one short, appeared.

Looking at the past from afar, the woman with a graceful posture who kept looking left and right while walking at the latest news was not Yao Huan.

Shao Qing hurriedly turned sideways again, and re-ornamented the osmanthus shape.

"Mr. Shao is early. Flowers blooming? ”

When the familiar voice sounded, Shao Qing turned around.

I saw Yao Huan who came closer, his cheeks reflected the morning sun, the shadow of his long eyelashes fell on his cheekbones without rouge, and his dark eyes were shining, as if they were filled with morning dew between the petals.

My Fair Lady, like a dream.

Mr. Shao's heart was soft, and he couldn't help but secretly sigh, seeing you, who still has the heart to look at the flowers.

"Well, it's open," he finally pressed down on this emotion, and replied kindly, "Yao Niangzi, when this osmanthus blooms for three or five days, you can pick some and make those snacks you said." ”

He was looking forward to her coming, and as soon as she appeared before him, he suddenly hesitated again, and for some reason did not want to ask about the Yaji of the Pony family at once.

But Yao Huan, who was from the family, made a special trip to thank Shao Qing and share the joy for the smooth project.

"Mr. Shao, the packets of spices you gave me have made a big splash. Needless to say, the chicken, fish, pig and sheep roasted out are unusual, but more coincidentally, there was a distinguished guest who was particularly good at identifying the incense recipe during the banquet, and was interested in guessing the recipe of the material bag, which was quite interesting. ”

"And the poems you taught me about daylily flowers, as well as the recipes of those vegetarian dishes, they are useful, they are all useful!"

"The prince is very agreeable to my family, not only gave two more money, but also asked his aunt to say that in the future, if any of the clansmen wants to have a small banquet in the garden, or the prince and the scholars want to go to Jinmingchi for an outing, they will also think about my family to cook."

Yao Huan was not slow to speak, and he spoke in one go. Not long after she crossed over, she found that the shell of her soul not only gave her a beautiful appearance that met the aesthetic standards of this era, but also gave her normal language ability.

In her opinion, this is more in line with her own mind than God directly giving her the status of the golden finger of the eldest princess of the queen mother.

As long as you can solve the problem of speaking and communicating, everything else is easy to deal with.

Shao Qing saw that Yao Huan suddenly became a chatterbox, gushing endlessly to himself, as excited as if he had won the list, and his heart couldn't help but soften three points more.

This woman is close to me.

Shao Qingpin smacked Yao Huan's excitement that rose from the bottom of his eyes, said "Very good, very good", and said casually: "Which distinguished guest?" But the son of the Zeng Mansion that Ruzhou said? ”

Yao Huan was stunned for a moment, and immediately recalled that a few days ago, his open-mouthed younger brother had told Shao Qing that his aunt and sister called Zeng Jiashilang a fairy, and he couldn't help blushing.

Without waiting for her to answer, Xiao Ruzhou on the side had already opened his mouth in a childish voice: "It's not Uncle Zeng, it's an old man......"

"Ruzhou, you go to the courtyard first, put away your schoolbag, and sit and wait for Mr. to start the class for you!" Yao Huan decisively interrupted his younger brother.

Rao is that she was beaten by a small success, and she still has a trace of caution. After all, Huang Tingjian was one of the four scholars of Sumen, and was once regarded as a member of the old party, and was punished by the imperial power at the same time as the concubine Wang Xu.

Even if Huang Tingjian is now marginalized in the political arena and the New Party no longer stares at him, the less social information such a person disseminates, the better.

"Mr. Shao, the one who identified the spices is a senior in incense making, and he also impromptu told some interesting anecdotes about the incense on the trade road, which taught people a long time."

Shao Qing nodded and patted Yao Ruzhou's shoulder: "Go in, find Ye Rou and ask for your Yin Xi, yesterday you will come, I told her to wash and dry." ”

Yao Ruzhou secretly rolled his eyes: Sir, you are happy now, my sister sent me away, just to talk to you for more hours.

However, this doll is also happy today, after all, his aunt and aunt have earned money, and they can also benefit him.

He said goodbye to his sister with a smile and walked into the courtyard gate familiarly.

Yao Huan quickly decided to divert the topic about the banquet members.

And the next new topic is another reason why she came to see Shao Qing today.

"Mr. Shao, when you gave you the spice packet that day, you said that these spices came from a friend of Shanghu in the Western Regions. I take the liberty of asking, do you, Hu businessmen, take the sea route or the land route? ”

Shao Qing was instinctively startled.

She asked, what was this for? I live in Kaifeng, far away from the Guangzhou Bosi, does she want to test me, is the thing from the north of the sea? I had prevaricated with her family before, saying that my father was from Jingzhao Mansion......

Suddenly, Shao Qing became vigilant.

"The land route is also an old friend of my family when they were in Jingzhao Mansion in the past, buying some medicinal materials and leather goods from each other," Shao Qing said lightly, "Yao Niangzi's family also moved from Gyeongju to Kaifeng, and Niangzi also knows that although after the current official family ascended the throne, there were wars between my Great Song Dynasty and the west, but the trade route of Longyou, Hexi has always been open, which can be regarded as a fortunate thing for the small people and small businessmen." ”

"Oh......" Yao Huan thought for a while, and simply said directly, "Mr. Shao, yesterday in the Fuma Mansion, the incense-making senior said that the big food merchants in the Fan Merchants would bring a kind of blue-gray or brownish-yellow dried beans and boil them directly to drink, which tasted bitter. I'm looking for that kind of bean to see, and I wonder if it's similar to my Sencha from the Central Plains. ”

When Shao Qing heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then blamed himself for being too sensitive.

"Okay, if they come from the trade route, I'll ask them."

Yao Huan thought that the Arabs took the Northwest Silk Road far earlier than the sea route from Quanzhou and Guangzhou. What's more, Shao Qing is a person who agrees that there will be an echo after agreeing to things, please ask him to ask, it is more reliable.

The time window is almost around 1100 A.D., the two Song Dynasty trade was so prosperous, coffee was actually introduced by various Western European missionaries in the Qing Dynasty, why is this?

Is it because without me Yao Huan appeared, and the coffee beans were missed by the Great Song foodies?

Hahahaha......

Thinking of this, Yao Huan couldn't help laughing at himself, he swelled and swelled, as if he was "one of the ten important figures who influenced the food culture of the Song Dynasty".

"Then Mr. Lao Shao will help you pay attention to the question."

Yao Huan said, took out the book to return Shao Qing: "Oh, this is the "Lin's Qing Cuisine" borrowed by Mr. Shao last time, my aunt and I both read it and benefited a lot, there are some recipes in it, my aunt said that it was not remembered by Shen Jingluo in "Mengxi Writings". ”

"Dream Creek Pen Talk"? This name is really good, the legacy of Shen Jingluo's legacy? ”

Shao Qing has been in contact with Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huan for a while, and after getting acquainted with each other, Shen Fuzhi briefly talked about his family history, so Shao Qing knew that they were Shen Kuo's relatives.

However, it was the first time he heard Yao Huan mention that Shen Kuo had such a book.

Yao Huan said: "This book is like a treasure chest, with everything." Music, art, food, elephants, and machinery and weapons......"

Shao Qing originally listened with a smile, but when he heard the last half of the sentence, his heart sank.

Shen Kuo, Shen Jing's envoy, led the Song army of Yanyan Road to defeat the commander of the Western Xia people during the Shenfeng period.

Shao Qing realized that in the book that Yao Huan said, there might be clues to what he was looking for......