Chapter 119: Eight Treasure Porridge Disaster Relief (1)
"Sweet dried fruit steamed buns are naturally delicious. Chen Guanren can also try a kind of salty and sweet filling, after the salted duck egg yolk is steamed, mashed with agar powder and powdered sugar, add some fresh buttermilk and ghee, knead into a ball and wrap it in steamed bread, and then steam it. ”
What Yao Huan said is the practice of "salted egg yolk quicksand buns" in modern Cantonese dim sum.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were salted duck eggs, and the people of Kaifeng ate them during the Dragon Boat Festival, and Yao Huan often saw the salted duck eggs sold in Chengzhou (now Gaoyou, Jiangsu) in the southern goods market.
After the almond tofu dessert, Yao Huan also wanted to try making this salted egg yolk quicksand bun.
If you can't find the coffee beans, then open a tea shop, and the left and right need novelty confectionery to make dim sum signs. When she was a modern person, she traveled to Kyoto, Japan, and before watching a geisha performance in Gion, the sencha served by the store was accompanied by a variety of pastry sweets.
Chen Hao listened to Yao Huan's new stuffing, his eyes lit up, he muttered the recipe, and said happily: "It sounds very interesting, so harmonious, because of the addition of ghee cheese, after the steamed buns are steamed, will the filling flow like fat?" ”
Yo, the young man can, sure enough, he has practical experience in food, and when he hears it, he can think that the stuffing is semi-fluid, and it is by no means a school of words on paper.
Yao Huan nodded, but did not expand it again.
When she had just seen the dried fruits, she was thinking of another piece of food.
All she thought about said: "Yang Weng, although these fruits can still be used, but they have been flooded, and there is no blazing sun in this late autumn season, there is nowhere to dry, and it is the same as the rice in the half warehouse, it is not suitable to let go for ten days." ”
Chen Hao said: "The rice and grain given by the imperial court to Taixue has always been abundant, but now that the catastrophe has just passed, Taixue has not resumed classes, and there are few people in the total, how can I eat it in ten days, it is better to send it to the people around me......
"Brother, don't do bad things with good intentions."
Before Chen Hao's words fell, a still immature voice sounded behind them.
But it was Yao Ruzhou and a boy about ten years old, who spoke out to stop Chen Hao, who was a half-grown boy in plain clothes and pants.
"Brother, how can I do bad things with good intentions?"
The young man walked up, saluted Yang Weng and Yao Huan, and said, "It is the business of the Privy Council to distribute military tents and resettle the victims of the collapse of the house. Raising free food and distributing relief to the victims is the business of Kaifeng Prefecture. Where did Taixue come to this position? If you don't have a job, you don't have power. Moreover, Taixue's rice, grain, meat and vegetables are all used by the imperial court, and the accounts must be paid off on weekdays, if it is given to the people like this, someone will ask in the future, what is the standard for distribution and use, why is it given to the east of the street and not to the west of the street, why is it given to this rice and the fruit of that family, how can Cai Xuezheng say that he is innocent? Cai Xuezheng has a clear conscience, but how do you know that no villain chews his tongue and slanders Cai Xuezheng in the name of sharing money and committing greed for ink? ”
His surging words made his brother "hmm" several times, frowning and pondering, obviously thinking that what the younger brother said was very reasonable.
In Yao Huan's heart, he was even more amazed.
This young man looks four or five years older than Ru Zhou, how can his thoughts and expressions be so mature and mature? Is it talent or family history?
Yao Huan asked in a harmonious voice, "This is the little son of the Chen Guan's family?" ”
"Sister, his name is Chen Dong, and he has already taken me to clean half of the corridor."
Without waiting for Chen Hao's introduction, Ru Zhou preemptively reported his new friends to his sister.
Chan what?
Chen Dong?!
"Yao Niangzi, Chen Dong in Xia Danyang, came to Taixue with my brother today, and saw that Brother Ling was so young, he even shoveled mud and swept water without saying a word, and he was very moved, how could he not do his best to do his best."
As long as this young man speaks, it is a long list of children's words, and he is more like a student than his brother.
Yao Huan was only half of his mind listening to him report to his home.
The other half of his mind is naturally sighing, and today he has unlocked a celebrity of this era!
No, more accurately, a celebrity thirty years later.
The surname is Chen Mingdong, a native of Danyang, and he was not confused when Jingkang was ashamed, so he is indeed about ten years old now.
It should be him.
Thirty years later, Huizong Neizen and Qinzong ascended the throne, a student named Chen Dong was saddened by the situation of traitors in the court, misleading the monarch and the country, and united a group of patriotic students to write a letter, calling for the extermination of traitors and the revitalization of the dynasty. even petitioned, striving for the imperial court to reuse the main battle faction Li Gang.
In Yao Huan's previous life, although he couldn't memorize a few sentences of Tang poems and Song poems except for those big road goods, Chen Dong's words in the book were really impressive.
"Today's events, Cai Jing is in trouble, and Liang Shicheng is in the back. Li Yan complained about the northwest, and Zhu Mian complained about the southeast. Wang Hao and Tong Guan resented Liao and Jin, creating a gap. It is advisable to punish the six thieves and pass on the first four directions to thank the world. ”
Look at the college students in the Northern Song Dynasty, look at the scribes in the Northern Song Dynasty, how dare to speak, how able to speak, accumulate disadvantages with needles, there is no nonsense, every word is on the point, and there is no need for rare words, what is said is a human language that even the illiterate masses can understand.
The six thieves of Bianjing, after Chen Dong's inscription, have been stinking for 10,000 years.
It turned out that this great patriot Chen Dong, when he was a child, had such a refreshing mind!
Yao Huan stepped forward, touched his younger brother Yao Ruzhou's head, and said to Chen Dong: "Thank you for taking care of him." Well, what you just said, the truth is good, but after the reason, we still have to solve practical problems, and we can't teach these things and rot in the warehouse of Taixue in vain, right? ”
Because he asked Yang Weng again: "How many stones is the rice that can still be eaten in the warehouse?" ”
Yang Weng said: "There must be thirty stones." ”
"The students who stayed in the Taixue Academy, plus the servants, how much do they need to be every day?"
"It's just five buckets."
"Ten days is five stones, and there are more than twenty stones."
Yao Huan quickly calculated that more than 20 stones is more than 200 buckets, and the price of rice in Kaifeng at the moment is between seventy or eighty to one hundred wen per bucket. That is the market price under normal circumstances, if the government opens a normal position during the famine, the price of rice sold to the people should be lower, not to mention, the rice of Taixue has been immersed in floods.
Even according to the market price of 100 wen per bucket, counting these dried fruit beans, it will be less than 30 yuan.
When Yao Huan was reading Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" at his aunt's house, he saw that Shen Kuo wrote weights and measures in the Song Dynasty, and one stone was about ninety-two catties. Yao Huan, who often buys chicken feet, knows in his heart that the official catties of the Song Dynasty are slightly heavier than the city catties of later generations, about more than 600 grams. Then one stone in the Northern Song Dynasty is less than 120 catties in later generations, and more than 20 stones are equivalent to more than 1,000 kilograms in later generations.
If it is boiled into porridge with longan, red dates, and chestnuts that are not low in energy, even if it is cooked into a thick porridge that can be inserted into chopsticks, one pound of rice is converted into porridge, which should be enough for five adults to satisfy their hunger. If it is limited to 10 days, it can supply 1,500 people per day
If the private sector is to provide disaster relief, this scale is not small.
Yao Huan thought of the two gold ingots he earned when he entered the palace on an errand.
I have already earned my life once to be able to be crossed to the Song Dynasty by God. The palace called the Son of Heaven and his concubine to let go of a horse for some reason, and made another profit. And escaping from the flood not only earned lives, but also people......
She is grateful from the bottom of her heart for her luck.
She Yao Huan is stupid and easy to talk when she comes over, but because of her caution when she first arrives.
She's not really stupid, and she's not heartless.
In the prosperous era, there were also poor people in the capital. The poor people have suffered natural disasters again, and they are afraid that their way to life will be narrower.
Since the gold ingot is from the Zhao family, return it to the people of the old Zhao family!