Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Scholar in Green Shirts
The "medicinal diet craze" has gradually emerged in the city of Hangzhou, and restaurants of all sizes have also launched medicinal diet dishes one after another in order to rub off on the "health fever", making it a marketing gimmick.
Su Jiudong looked down on those restaurants that only used medicinal food as a "disguise" for attracting wealth. In particular, the chef inside does not understand the characteristics and production of medicinal food at all, so there is a phenomenon that Lin Sheng's restaurant is not serious about medicinal food.
Angry is angry, Su Jiudong is a commoner, and he can't do anything with those restaurants, so he can only manage his own one-third of an acre of land to ensure that his medicinal diet and effectiveness are genuine.
The Yongyuan Medicinal Diet Pavilion was famous, and the emperor rewarded a lot of silver taels in public, and Su Jiudong always felt that there were many pairs of eyes secretly staring at the Yongyuan Medicinal Restaurant.
The wealth is not exposed, and many people in Qishan County know that Su Jiudong has a lot of silver in it, and they don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse.
After Su Jiudong returned to Qishan County, the dignitaries who received the news issued an offer to Su Jiudong. Su Jiudong agreed to the invitation of several noble ladies in Hangzhou City, and wanted to come to the door to prepare meals for them in person, so she often went to Lin'an Mansion recently.
Recently, Wen Yiheng often stayed overnight in Qinchaxingyuan, and he didn't know what he was busy with Chu Lufeng, so he only occasionally went home to have a meal, and then hurried back to Qinchaxingyuan.
Wen Yiheng, the "pillar of support", is not always there, and Su Jiudong is also not at home during the day, and there are only three old and weak women and children left in the family, Liu Yunniang, Su Ting'an, and Ah Rong. For this reason, Su Jiudong always felt a little panicked in his heart, and couldn't help but worry about what accidents would happen from time to time.
Before going out on this day, Su Jiudong instructed Liu Yunniang to hide the valuables and silver tickets at home, and to lock the doors and windows when she went out. If a stranger comes to your home, don't open the door to welcome them. If an acquaintance visits, you have to make sure twice before opening the door.
Liu Yunniang ran into the house and checked it before sending Su Tingan and Ah Rong out to the school, while Su Jiudong went to the medicinal restaurant to continue his livelihood.
It was noon, and the people in the medicinal restaurant gradually increased, and the seats were gradually full.
Shopkeeper Liu noticed that the scholar in the green shirt and robe had come to the medicinal restaurant to dine again today.
Su Jiudong was busy in the back kitchen, planning to come to the front hall to take a breath. Shopkeeper Liu beckoned Su Jiudong to come to the counter and told Su Jiudong about the scholar in green shirts.
Since Su Jiudong returned to Qishan County, Jonway Medicinal Diet has introduced several heart medicinal diet dishes that Su Jiudong has researched and improved. Diners were raving about it and business was booming.
And it was in this environment that the scholar in the green shirt appeared in the medicinal diet hall for the first time, and it was the fourth day so far.
Shopkeeper Liu mentioned that the scholar in the green shirt often frequented the medicinal restaurant and would come over to eat around noon every day. Order two or three different varieties of medicinal food at a time, both cheap and expensive. And I worked hard to read and write while eating.
"If my child had half the hard work he had back then, maybe he would have been able to pass the exam." Looking at the hard-working scholar in green shirts, Shopkeeper Liu couldn't help but think of his married son, and shook his head with hatred while sighing.
"Every day? So he's a regular customer, right? "The medicinal food launched by Yongyuan Medicinal Diet is delicious and cheap, and it can also maintain health, so it is not surprising that there are repeat customers Su Jiudong.
But there was one thing that made Su Jiudong puzzled.
Most of the scholars from poor families study and take the examination in order to become officials in the examination and soar to prosper, but the conditions are relatively difficult.
It would not be surprising if the scholar in the green shirt usually ordered some cheap medicinal food that ordinary people could afford.
But Shopkeeper Liu mentioned that the scholar in Tsing Yi also has a bit of expensive medicinal food, which is very suspicious. Just looking at the appearance and clothing of the scholar in the green shirt, it is a simple and simple type, not like a high-priced medicinal meal that can only be enjoyed by high-ranking officials and nobles.
Su Jiudong looked at the scholar in the green shirt carefully, and saw that he had a delicate face, with a casual momentum, holding a book in one hand and writing and drawing on paper with the other, his brows were occasionally frowned, as if he was thinking about the problems in the book, and only took a few mouthfuls of medicinal food from time to time, and it took almost an hour to finish a lunch meal.
The scholar in the green shirt studied so hard, Su Jiudong didn't bother much, and he let go of his suspicions, turned around and went back to the kitchen.
After school in the afternoon, Liu Yunniang went to the school to pick up Su Tingan and Ah Rong and brought them to play in the medicinal restaurant.
Su Jiudong asked the whole family to follow her to take good health, so now Liu Yunniang and her two children have dinner in the medicinal restaurant every day.
The staff at the restaurant eat together after the restaurant closes and the diners leave, and dinner is also very lively.
Liu Yunniang felt that there were too many people, and the food was more delicious, otherwise when she returned home, there were only her, Su Ting'an, and Ah Rong, three women and children, staring at each other, which was really boring.
This day is a rest day, Su Tingan and Ah Rong don't have to go to the school, Liu Yunniang came to help in the medicinal food hall, and also brought the two children over.
Ah Rong'an quietly followed Shopkeeper Liu to learn abacus behind the counter, Su Tingan followed Su Jiudong's buttocks, and he followed Su Jiudong wherever he went. Jiujiu Chinese
Su Jiudong was bored by Su Ting'an, but looking back at his innocent little face, Su Jiudong couldn't bear to open his mouth to drive him away, so he could only let him continue to follow.
At noon, the scholars in green shirts came to eat as usual and ordered different dishes.
Su Jiudong finished his work in the back kitchen, and came out of the front hall to rest.
I saw the scholar in the green shirt sitting leisurely at the corner table next to the private room, reading and eating at the same time.
It just so happened that Su Ting'an was also there, and Su Jiudong felt that this was a good opportunity to educate children, so he hugged Su Ting'an's stocky little body and taught softly: "An'er, look, do you see the little brother in the corner who is wearing a green shirt and reading hard?" ”
"See." Su Ting'an looked at Su Jiudong's guidance and nodded twice very realistically.
"You see that he is studying hard even when he eats, and in the future, An'er and your sister Ah Rong will take that little brother as an example, and they will also study hard, so as not to disappoint Daddy, Auntie and Grandma." Su Jiudong pinched Su Ting'an's fleshy cheeks and smiled gently and kindly.
"Do you want to read a book while eating like my little brother?" Su Tingan thought about it, "While I saw it, I was eating, and the food was not fragrant." ”
Su Ting'an's childish words made Su Jiudong laugh out loud, and hurriedly corrected: "It's not for you to learn from your little brother and read while eating, but for you to learn from his hard work...... In fact, reading a book while eating is not good for your health. ”
The last sentence Su Jiudong lowered his voice and leaned into Su Ting'an's ear and said, and after speaking, he pecked Su Ting'an on the cheek lovingly.
Most children are cute when they are young, and they will be crippled when they grow up, and Su Tingan is one of the few types that becomes more and more cute the more they grow up.
Looking at Su Ting'an's little fleshy face that was inexplicably similar to Wen Yiheng's, Su Jiudong felt endless love and pity in his heart.
Seeing Su Ting'an, Su Jiudong was full of love. And thinking of Wen Yiheng himself, Su Jiudong was a little angry.
Wen Yiheng, a "stinky man" who is not at home all day, doesn't know what ulterior secret plans he has to play with Chu Lufeng all day long.
Approaching the Dragon Boat Festival, Wen Yiheng was still busy, after urging Wen Yiheng several times to go home for the festival on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and Wen Yiheng did not respond, Su Jiudong didn't bother to pay attention to him, and sprinkled all his temper into the zongzi wrapped by studying with Liu Yunniang.
"It's almost the Dragon Boat Festival, today let's wrap a few more zongzi and send a few to Chunshan. He lives alone in the county town, teaching hard, and he has to study in his spare time, which is not easy. Liu Yunniang was very disappointed in the Su family, but she still felt sorry for Su Chunshan.
When he grew up, Su Chunshan had an honest and a bit old-fashioned, but when he was a child, he was sensible and cute, and Liu Yunniang secretly stuffed him with good food. Now that Su Jiudong has come to the county seat with his family to live temporarily, Liu Yunniang also brings Su Chunshan a daily thing to eat from time to time.
Therefore, the relationship between Su Chunshan and Liu Yunniang, in the complex background of the Su family, can be regarded as one of the few warmths.
"Okay, I'll ask the store guy to send it to him when I'm done later." Su Chunshan is indeed the only person in the Su family who is good to Su Jiudong, and Su Jiudong is also willing to take more care of Su Chunshan.
"On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, do you want to call Chunshan over for dinner?" Seeing that Su Jiudong's attitude was so easy to speak, Liu Yunniang asked tentatively.
Su Jiudong shook his head: "It's still not necessary." On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, he will definitely go back to the big house in the village to eat, where is the need for us to care...... You better make zongzi well, and on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, I will take our whole family to watch the dragon boat race. ”
After wrapping the zongzi, Liu Yunniang picked out a few large and porcelain zongzi and packed them, told the store guy the address, and asked the store guy to send it to Su Chunshan.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the shopkeeper came back with a hand full of zongzi. Liu Yunniang was puzzled and asked the shop guy why he didn't send the zongzi out.
The shopkeeper said that he sent Su Chunshan over according to the ground, the door was closed, and no one was at home. The neighbor said that Su Chunshan may have been teaching in Kongxing School and had not come back, and the shopkeeper rushed to Kongxing School again, and the school was also closed, so he simply returned to the medicinal restaurant with zongzi.
"Okay, I'll send it to him tomorrow afternoon when I'm done." Liu Yunniang took the zongzi and took it back to the back kitchen of the medicinal diet hall and put it away.
In a blink of an eye, at noon the next day, Su Chunshan came to Yongyuan Medicinal Restaurant and asked Shopkeeper Liu what happened when he sent someone to his house yesterday to find him.
Liu Yunniang came to answer the phone, saying that it was she who asked the store guy to send him zongzi yesterday, but he was not there at home and in the school. It just so happened that Su Chunshan was coming to the medicinal restaurant now, so he handed over the zongzi to Su Chunshan by the way, and left Su Chunshan to have lunch in the medicinal restaurant.
Liu Yunniang asked Shopkeeper Liu to arrange a window seat for Su Chunshan, saying that she would wait a while and finish her work, and then come over to have lunch with him.
Su Chunshan sat down at the round table, admired the riverside scenery outside the window, and noticed the green-shirted scholar sitting in the corner next to the private room.