Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Deliciousness of Preserved Eggs
Li Yan just told the fourth master how much money the lost house could make in a month, and the fourth master was slightly surprised: "So much? ”
Li Yan nodded: "That's right, this is the only one in the capital." The fourth master thought about it, indeed, if other families were so limited, they would have been smashed a long time ago.
The two were about to chat, when Su Peisheng came in to deliver the news: "Master, Geng Gege has it." The fourth master was happy at first, and then looked at Li Yan with a little weakness: "This..."
Li Yan smiled: "Since Sister Geng has it, Master should go and take a look, I'll be with Master." ”
The fourth master nodded: "It's okay." ”
The two went to Geng Gege hand in hand, and as soon as they arrived at Geng Gege's courtyard, Fu Jin and the others were already in Geng's courtyard.
As soon as Fu Jin saw the fourth master coming, he came up to greet the fourth master: "Ye auspicious." The fourth master looked at Fu Jin: "How is the Geng family?" ”
Fu Jin blessed his body: "If you return to your master, the imperial doctor has already come to diagnose it, and she has been pregnant for nearly three months." "It's a secret.
The fourth master nodded, looked at Geng's house, and then pulled Li Yan and left.
Fu Jin looked at the back of the fourth master and Li Yan leaving with a complicated expression, and sighed.
"Mama Yang, you go back and send a trustworthy mama to the Geng family's yard, these maids are inexperienced, and then collide with Geng Gege."
Mama Yang bowed her head: "Yes, then this Mama chose the Internal Affairs Office or our house." ”
Fu Jin thought for a while: "That's it, I'll go to the palace and ask Eniang for a grandmother, what we arranged in the province is still regarded by some people as harming her." ”
Mama Yang: "That's right, the slave won't be in a hurry to find it first." Saying that, Fu Jin went back to the main courtyard like this, after all, he was a Gege child, so he didn't value it so much.
Especially Eniang is not favored, although it is Geng's family and Manchu, but this surname has long been sinicized.
Li Yan also vaguely remembered at this time, the Yu Concubine and Niu Hulu clan in history seem to have exchanged children with each other?
Then their relationship should be good, but now I don't look like a good relationship.
Geng Gege stayed with Song Gege all day long, and he began to learn how to eat fasting and chant Buddha, and Niu Hulu should also be disdainful.
Li Yan was thinking about it, and he just bumped into the chest of the fourth master coldly.
Li Yan: "Oops!" With a sound, the fourth master looked at it with some distress: "I didn't break it." Li Yan raised his head and looked at the fourth master with slightly moist eyes: "Master, it hurts~"
The fourth master looked at Li Yan with a smile: "Such a big person, he can't even walk." Although he said so, his body still hugged Li Yan very honestly.
Li Yan's face turned red instantly: "Master~ My injured nose is not a leg, I can walk by myself." "It gives people a glimpse of what it looks like.
The fourth master smiled indifferently, as if he knew what Li Yan was thinking: "It's okay, it's almost time to Yuhua Pavilion." ”
Only then did Li Yan react, the surroundings were already his own territory, and it didn't matter if he was seen.
After waiting to return to the house, Li Yan sat down. looked at the fourth master: "Is the master going to rest?" ”
The fourth master looked at Li Yan: "What do you think?" Li Yan picked the chin of the fourth master: "Guest officer, are you coming?" ”
The fourth master smiled, and the two of them were beautiful all night.
Early in the morning of the second day, Li Yan got up to practice calligraphy, and Li Yan practiced calligraphy like that, purely to pass the time.
The weather in March was still slightly cold, and Li Yan felt that his hands were a little stiff after practicing for a while, so he didn't practice anymore.
Put down the pen: "Ah Ling, you show me the account sent from the shop a few days ago." Pick out some of the good ones, and we have to pick a time to sell them. ”
Ah Ling smiled and said: "The master's plan is good, and they should have used up what they sold before." Li Yan shook his head: "That's not necessarily. ”
If ordinary people finally buy a bottle, they are naturally reluctant to use it, and they will use it more slowly, while those who are richer must have more than one bottle, and they can't use it up in such time.
As for the ladies who can't go up or down, they should be used up. Therefore, Li Yan is ready to sell the previous new products again.
Then Li Yan thought about what to eat, Li Yan thought about it and decided to eat preserved eggs, that's right, preserved eggs.
Say do it, let's do it.
Li Yan looked at He Chunting: "Little Hezi, you go to the dining room, ask them if they have preserved eggs, and bring them back and let's eat some ourselves." ”
Xiao Hezi went to the dining room.
In the dining room, Xiao Shunzi looked at Xiao Hezi with a smile: "Brother He, is this here to bring food?" Xiao Hezi smiled: "What time is this, our master asked me to ask you if there are any preserved eggs in this kitchen?" ”
Xiao Shunzi frowned: "Preserved eggs? I really don't know about this, so I'll ask you the master. ”
Chef Zhang looked at Xiao Hezi and said with a smile: "Ping Fujin will also eat it, I'm afraid you want Songhua eggs, just pickled a jar this month, so I'll send it to Ping Fujin." ”
As he spoke, he commanded the little eunuch to send Li Yan over. Li Yan looked at this jar of preserved eggs, and he was also overjoyed in his heart, so many preserved eggs can make a lot of food.
Hurriedly asked Xiao Hezi to move to the small kitchen with the two little eunuchs. Ah Ling also went up to give a small purse to the little eunuch who came to deliver preserved eggs.
Since the birth of the page, Li Yan has given people a purse, but the material used in the purse is different, and the embroidered pattern is not the same.
For such a little eunuch who has no name but stays in a decent place like the dining room and the Internal Affairs Office, he is given an ordinary cotton purse, and it is embroidered with the words of each season, what season to give what it looks like.
And the kind of one that has no name or anything, it is also a purse, but there is not much embroidery on it, of course, most of the people who can come to Li Yan to ask for rewards are not like this.
As for the rest of the eunuchs and grandmothers in the front yard, what they gave was a splendid purse, and there were still all kinds of seasonal flowers on it.
As for those who have the same status as Su Peisheng, they are given splendid purses, embroidered plum orchids, bamboo chrysanthemums, and four gentlemen.
Of course, this brocade is also much better than that given to those front yards.
These are all sewn by those little girls in Yuhua Pavilion when they are idle, and they are kept by Li Yu to reward people.
So much so that many eunuchs in the backyard are willing to come to Li Yan here to offer their courtesy, after all, Li Yan has always been generous, and he also has a purse, which is also worth a lot of silver, and can have half a tael.
When the peeled eggs also arrived, Li Li went directly to the small kitchen and asked Yu Hang and Daniel Zhang: "What are you going to do with these peeled eggs?" ”
Yu Hang and Daniel Zhang first asked Li Li to be safe, and then took a preserved egg out and said to Li Can: "The slave plans to steam a preserved egg first and make a lean porridge with preserved eggs, which is also a famous Jiangnan meal." ”
Li Yan nodded and said with a smile: "I originally planned to eat some of this, if you do it well, I will promote it to them later." ”
Yu Hang knew that Li Li had his own shop, which also sold his own snacks, so he immediately pulled Daniel Zhang to his knees: "Then the slave thanked the master first." ”
Li Yan smiled and asked Xiao Hezi to help them up: "It's all a family, why bother saying this, you do it well, you won't lose it." ”
Yu Hang and Daniel Zhang also have two brushes, which makes preserved egg lean porridge.
Li Yan tasted it: "This tastes good, reward them with a big purse." "The big purse is ten taels, which is not too little, after all, they are only two taels of silver per month now, which is too much.
Li Yan tasted good, naturally when the fourth master came back in the evening, he had to let the fourth master eat, but the fourth master didn't eat this thing at all, Li Yan sighed: "That's a pity." ”
On the second day, Li Yan's breakfast was preserved egg lean porridge and crystal shrimp dumplings, which were served with a side dish.
After all, that's all there is to the monthly routine of the side Fujin, if you want to make the dining room do it again, you have to add money, but Li Yan doesn't need to do this, the people in the dining room are in a hurry to serve Li Yan.
For lunch, Li Yan asked Xiao Hezi to go to the dining room to bring a big dish and noodles, and came back to eat with the raw preserved eggs.
That's right, it's a raw preserved egg, Li Yan eats it with vinegar, but it's also delicious. Ah Ling, Ah Qiao and Xiao Hezi watched Li Yan eat so happily, but they actually didn't understand a little, is this black and autumn so delicious?
Thinking like this, he naturally had a thought in his heart, and asked Yu Hang to deliberately leave them some things that Li Yan couldn't eat.
Xiao Hezi was holding the preserved egg that Yu Hang had just given him at this time and handed it to Ah Qiao: "Ah Qiao, you taste it, this is specially left for us by Chef Yu, you can eat this piece, and those are for Ah Ling." ”
Then Xiao Hezi and Ah Qiao ate it outside, and the moment they entered their mouths, the two of them felt that it was difficult to swallow.
Xiao Hezi looked at Ah Qiao's ugly eyes, forced himself to swallow it, and then stretched out his hand and said to Ah Qiao: "You spit out this preserved egg, spit it on my hand." ”
Ah Qiao looked at Xiao Hezi like this, his eyes couldn't help but redden, and he forced himself to eat it, and then looked at Xiao Hezi: "Xiao Hezi~" You are so good.
Xiao Hezi smiled: "It's nothing, let's go back, you have to give the preserved eggs to Ah Ling to eat." I specially asked Chef Yu to keep it for us. ”
Xiao Hezi said this, Ah Qiao would naturally let Ah Ling eat it, after all, she ate such an unpalatable thing, she ate it herself, it makes no sense that Ah Ling didn't eat it.
Ah Ling's reaction to eating it was not as big as Ah Qiao's, but she didn't feel delicious either.
But Li Yan thinks that this preserved egg is really delicious, and he has been struggling with what to make the preserved egg into recently.
Not to mention that Li Yan was entangled in how to eat preserved eggs here, Yun Gege was in a hurry over there: "Xiangxue, even Geng Gege is pregnant here, why don't I have it." ”
Seeing this, Xiangxue could only come up to comfort Yun Gege: "Gege, you are still young now, you will be." ”
Yun Gege smiled: "The newcomers have already entered the mansion, how can I have anything to do in the future?" ”
Xiangxue's words didn't follow Yun Gege's words, although she herself felt that this sentence made sense.