Chapter 226: Yu Shinan
In addition to living in a lot of wealthy families, there are also a lot of officials who do not have extra money, if the officials live in a place where there is no need to give red envelopes, the new court is actually enough for them to live very comfortably, but this money is not enough for their whole family to live in the capital, and the meals sold in the restaurant on Chang'an Street are still relatively expensive.
You can only cook at home, so you have to hire a chef who can do it.
Fortunately, at this time, it is not necessary to make a sedan chair when going out, and most literati can still lift a pen and ride a horse.
In this era, the sedan chair has not yet become popular, but the average person does not like to take the carriage, especially the civil officials pursue the improvement of the quality of life, but also take the carriage for the daunting way, the carriage is too shaky, even in Chang'an City, most of the road sections have bluestone slabs, no tires of the two-wheeled carriage, sitting up can not say how comfortable it is.
Yu Shinan served in the palace Chinese Academy, valued by Emperor Li Shimin, and recently he buried himself in writing a book silently, writing in the dark, looking at the time is almost up, and his stomach is a little hungry.
But the person he invited was a man, although he could cook, but it was really not delicious to cook early, noon was not the meal time, but the official family would often use the noon time to get together with others to have a snack, and if they had eaten at noon, although they would be more sleepy in the afternoon, they could eat late in the evening, because they were often not too early on duty.
Sometimes there is some personal exchange.
Although Yu Shinan's work is different from that of the general affairs officer, there are not so many complicated affairs.
Buried in literature, his opponent is not people or complicated affairs, but literary papers.
Yu Shinan drank a little porridge and walked, thinking about it on the street, while moving forward, suddenly saw a gangster who was usually in the fangmen next to him, standing next to a person to help him sell a white food There are many people next to him, buying, she is curious to go over and line up, these people do serious things are really very rare.
The person who sells food he knows is not from this workshop, but he often comes to this workshop to do odd jobs, and he occasionally asks this person to deal with some complicated affairs at home, and he is an honest and responsible person, seeing these two people together, he frowned.
"In the future, you will sell steamed buns! I don't have to do odd jobs everywhere, and there is no meal. If the steamed buns are sold, you will still be able to eat the leftovers. ”
"I really didn't know you were a good person, I used to blame you."
The man who sold the steamed buns wrapped the steamed buns with lotus leaves and handed them out, wiping his tears and saying with great emotion.
So I couldn't help but go over and line up, Yu Shinan was also a celebrity in the workshop, and when I saw Yu Shinan, this prodigal son, the man who helped sell steamed buns deal with the steamed buns and handed them to Yu Shinan: "The steamed buns are good, three cents." ”
"Why are you here? Haven't you been messing around all the time? ”
"It's not mixed, it's not mixed, I started selling steamed bread dough, as long as I use a wooden partition to keep it warm, I can push out the steamed bread and sell it."
Yu Shinan looked down at the steamed buns, and felt that the steamed buns were indeed cheap and good, and the things seemed to be very sufficient.
"As long as you work hard and live a serious life, the future will get better and better."
"Favor, favor. In the future, we will sell steamed bread dough, if there is anyone who can't live and wants to join the steamed bread seller, you can introduce it to me, and we will bring the dough for them to sell. ”
"Aren't the average person kneading dough themselves? Still need to buy it with you? ”
"It's different, the dough they knead won't steam out steamed buns, but it's hard and not delicious. Our dough is fluffy and fluffy, delicious and easy to eat. ”
"That is, how can soup cakes be compared to steamed buns?" The person next to him who had already nibbled on steamed buns or was gnawing on steamed buns nodded and said.
"I'm going to eat steamed buns for breakfast every day in the future."
"Steamed buns are enough, not only for breakfast, but also for dinner, and now we are recruiting some people to sell steamed buns."
The person who stood next to the dog selling steamed buns, he was in charge of promotion, while the other two were responsible for going back and forth between Chang'an and Fan's manor to purchase steamed bread dough.
At first, they didn't have the money to buy bicycles, so they had to use manpower to continuously transport the dough, but fortunately, there were very few people who could sell the dough at first, and when there were more people selling dough, they also bought bicycles.
And selling steamed bread dough, the other side also seems to know that their hard work in carrying steamed bread is in the form of a backpack, so that they can carry steamed bread dough on their backs, because the hygiene of food and these things must be maintained very well.
The person in charge of selling the dough also knew that only healthy and hygienic food could be sold permanently, and they paid attention to hygiene with Sun Erlang, and now they have to wash their hands before doing anything, and they also bought a special hand towel to wipe their hands by their side.
Yu Shinan took a bite of the steamed bun and felt that it tasted good, and it was full, so he bought more than a dozen steamed buns and went to work in the literature museum.
Steamed buns are cheap and can be used as favors to other colleagues to make delicious things, which is very simple to do.
People are terrible, and working in the palace must pay more attention to the gossip that people tell from time to time, and don't let yourself enter the whirlpool of gossip, even if you enter the whirlpool of gossip, it is best to be positive.
"Dr. Yu, what did you bring with you?"
Because I brought a lot of steamed buns, of course, I couldn't hold them with my hands.
The steamed bread seller had already made preparations and used some straw bales to put them up, so that the excess steamed buns could be carried away and kept warm.
"I saw a new food on the street in our house, it tasted good, and it was brought to you at a cheap price."
"Are you speaking for New Foods like this? Bring it and I'll taste it. If it doesn't taste good, we won't buy it again. ”
"It's guaranteed to be delicious, I'm just full after I eat two steamed buns."
"This name is too disgusting, it is equivalent to eating a human head, and the name must be a martial artist."
There are many doctors in the literature museum who are responsible for compiling a lot of books for the emperor, because the books left behind by the war for a long time are in the ranks of collections, and some of the books that have gone through the war have been scattered and there is no way to keep them intact, and they have to make up some clicks through discussions with each other.
Occasionally, they were given the job of writing for the emperor.
There are a lot of documents that the emperor needs to produce, each of which has a different format, and only the doctors of these literary museums can master the format of these documents well and write fluently.
It is very simple to eat a steamed bun, eat it in three times and two times, and they do feel a little full in their stomachs, and the taste is not bad, the fluffy and soft feeling is much better than the dough, they can feel that this steamed bun should be the product of the dough, but they don't know how to become so soft.
"Where did you buy this? Very tasty, is it expensive? ”
Whether it is expensive or not, but it involves whether they can eat it every day.
The cost of eating every day, they probably still have to estimate, most of them have not yet reached the point of losing one by one, and the cost of eating dozens of dollars without a meal is still within their budget.
Dozens of dollars can already ensure that they have meat for their meals.
"It's not expensive, I only bought this steamed bun for three cents a piece, and each one is the size of a palm."
"That's a lot bigger than the palm of our hands. Dr. Yu, your palms are too slender for us to compare. ”
Everyone secretly calculated in their hearts that if they eat steamed bread for breakfast, the budget for dinner will be more, not to mention listening to Yu Shinan say that steamed bread will actually be served on the street for three meals in the future.
Breakfast generally does not have much time to eat, being able to eat quickly is the most important thing, there are many people because they don't have time to eat breakfast, often hungry, working in the literature museum.
Although the steamed buns are still invisible, I heard Yu Shinan say that they will be sold in various shops in the future.
Yu Shinan did not distribute all the steamed buns, he specially left a steamed bun to prepare for the emperor, so that the emperor knew that the people also had such delicious food.
As for meeting the emperor, it was not a difficult thing for Yu Shinan, and he was able to see the emperor more or less every day, because his job was to help the emperor write a lot of documents.
After eating steamed bread, he had a lot of deep feelings, and he always felt that steamed bread could be used as a daily staple food and paired with some dishes, and the taste should be very delicious.
He found the dough seller, because it was sold on the first day today, so he still had all the dough left, and when he went home, he experimented and made meat buns and vegetable buns, which were better steamed than just eating steamed buns.
Although he doesn't plan to steam steamed buns to sell, he and the dough seller set down the dough and prepare to make some buns of various flavors every day, and take them to the Literature Museum, I believe it will be widely acclaimed, and Yu Shinan can also take the opportunity to gain some recognition.
Don't think that high-ranking officials will trigger all kinds of competitors, and they always need friends, but there is less competition in this area of the Literature Museum, after all, their way out is actually in their own ability, but they may not necessarily be ranked according to seniority.
Ranking by seniority is often the most problematic.
The gentleman cooks far away, but if you really live alone, you want to save a little money, and if you don't want to get too close to money, you have to cook something to eat.
Although he can't kill cows and sheep, he can still get some vegetarian fillings.
It's a pity that Yu Shinan doesn't have a refrigerator, and the things he makes must be consumed in a short time. Fortunately, it doesn't seem too expensive to him.
He can afford this kind of guest.
"Is this a food invented by Yu Qing's family? Haven't seen it before. ”
After inspecting the food and safety according to the rules, Li Shimin took a bite.
Generally, his subordinates will not take the liberty to invite the emperor to dinner, and if they want to invite the emperor to dinner, they have to go through a lot of procedures, and once there is a problem with any procedure, the head will not be protected, which will cause a lot of controversy.
So under normal circumstances, food will be taken out to share with the emperor, so it must be that this food is a little special.
Generally the emperor did not see it.
Li Shimin really hasn't seen these white steamed buns and steamed buns.
Yu Shinan originally wanted to give it to the emperor yesterday, but he thought that he could do some experiments and then give it to the emperor to eat.
The experiment is very good, the steamed bun with ingredients is more delicious than other things, especially the case of wrapping the vegetables in it, he called this thing steamed buns.
In order to prevent any problems, he cooked all the ingredients by himself, and at most asked the person next to him to tell him what the main points were when cooking.
"The taste is bland, but it's delicious, and you can eat it every day."
Yu Shinan is not a good cook, so although the filling in it does not taste too good, the steamed buns sold to Chang'an City are not made of flour from the Fan family manor, and now the flour in the palace has been made with the flour of the Fan family manor, so when he eats the dough made of the flour outside, he actually has no special touch, but will feel that the taste is relatively ordinary, but the fluffy and soft taste still makes Li Shimin feel special and think about it, knowing that this is a taste that the people can accept.
The steamed bun food itself is special enough and has good palatability.
"Can this bun be promoted, can I cook it myself tomorrow?"
"The dough can only be produced by the Fan family manor, and I heard that the dough kneaded by ordinary people cannot create a fluffy effect.
However, the Fan family manor has opened a workshop to start kneading the dough, I heard that they themselves do not sell steamed bread, only in the early stage of promotion, there is their own cart to sell steamed bread, except for the inside of the Fan family manor, the rest of the dough outside is made by the Fan family manor, and others are responsible for steaming and selling, and the dough is also cheap and not too expensive. ”
Li Shimin was obviously stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "It's the Fan family manor again, and there are too many surprises they have brought us." Can't they give away all the surprises at once? ”
"I guess some surprises take time to prepare! said that all the staff were from the Fan family manor, and Fan Jingjing only gave a little pointer. ”
Yu Shinan thought about it carefully, Fan Jingjing actually couldn't do a lot of things personally, but he explained what was in his head to others, and let others do research and develop new things, but he couldn't help but take credit for Fan Jingjing, if there was no Fan Jingjing at the beginning, there would not be a bicycle at the beginning, and there would not be so many magical agricultural products in the Fan family manor, I heard that Fan Jingjing's seeds came from Shuiyun Palace.
"It seems that you can't go without looking for Shuiyun Palace, Fan Jingjing alone can bring about such a big change in Datang, the knowledge that the entire Shuiyun Palace has, as well as the farm energy, I don't know how terrifying it is."
"The most terrifying thing is the distance of Shuiyun Palace, if he is really very close to us, it is impossible for us not to feel it."
Li Shimin did not say that if Shuiyun Palace was very close to Chang'an, it would pose a very big threat to Chang'an.
But where can so many people be accommodated near Chang'an?
In addition to the nearby mountainous Qinling Mountains or the high mountains to the north, it is possible to hide so many people's lives.
But according to the observations of those sent to investigate, there were only poor savages in the mountains.
Even if he gave the entire land to Fan Jingjing, Fan Jingjing did something that they couldn't understand, but the people of the entire Fan family manor could see that they had no contact with Shuiyun Palace.