Chapter 222: The Wine
Man'er is not a child who is restless to eat, but her tongue is raised by rosin, and today's lunch is only a bowl of chicken soup matsutake rice, which is called this girl's delicious food, looking at her spoonful of eating, she can't see that it is a tongue of golden branches and jade leaves.
"Eat slowly." Song Zhi looked at the way the barbarian ate obediently, and he was also brought out of his good appetite, and he used half a bowl of soup more than usual.
"Mother, this rice is really delicious, can you still eat it tomorrow?" The barbarian raised his eyes, and looked at Song Zhi pitifully and cutely with a pair of clear eyes like grapes.
Song Zhi shook his head and said, "No, it's easy to hurt your stomach when you soak rice, so don't eat more." ”
A bowl of rice is full of soup, and when you eat it, the liquid in your stomach is thinned, and it is not easy to restrain it.
Eating this kind of food is cheap.
When Song Zhi was young, he heard Song Ling say that the wages of those who sell coolies at the dock are only ten cents a day, and they are reluctant to eat the sorghum flour steamed buns for one penny, and they are even more reluctant to eat the clear soup Yangchun noodles for two cents.
I can only bring a ball of my own yesterday's multigrain cold rice, buy a bowl of cold tea that doesn't cost money, wash it, and swallow it into my stomach, which can be regarded as having soup and water, rice and vegetables.
In the busy farming season, the half-grown boy also has to go to the field to help carry a small dustpan of wheat ears, how can there be this idle time to cook?
Steam a pot of rice, boil a pot of pickle soup, and use this soup to soak rice and eat, that is.
How can this rice made of rosin be so expensive? I'm afraid that the people of Pingtou can only eat this chicken soup a few times during the New Year's Festival, and they are afraid that they have never seen this matsutake mushroom.
The chicken soup was simmered on the small stove yesterday, and the fire was not stopped all night, and the taste was all in the soup, and the chicken and chicken bones were all filtered out, only a pot of clear soup.
Matsutake mushrooms are cut off from the bottom of the unclean, sliced and put in chicken broth, and simmered for half an hour, before becoming a small bowl of inconspicuous rice.
If he hadn't been born in a powerful family, the people outside would have wanted to break their heads and not want to eat a bowl of rice, and there would be such a precious way to eat, right?
Man'er was born in such a family since he was a child, and he would never have the opportunity to see what kind of bitter taste it is to make tea and cold rice, right?
A bowl of soaked rice made himself give birth to a lot of caprice, Song Zhi shook his head, and thought helplessly, "Isn't it because I'm old?" ’
"Remember to take the princess to the garden, but don't tell her to take a nap right away." Song Zhi instructed Dongchun.
Seeing that Song Zhi had finished eating, Meteor asked, "Madam, do you want to take a nap?" ”
Song Zhi slept well yesterday, and when Shen Baiyan left today, her movements were light, and she didn't wake up until three o'clock in the morning, and she didn't feel sleepy at all. She thought for a moment and asked, "Is Xiaozhu already here?" ”
Meteor smiled and said, "Madam is too smart, Xiaozhu came before lunch, and the slave maid obviously asked her to come back after lunch, and I don't know why she was in such a hurry, and she also brought her daughter Tuan'er over." The slave maid left the little girl without eating, so she asked the kitchenette to bring some pastries for the mother and daughter. ”
"My daughter brought it too?" Song Zhi asked.
"Yes, I said that I came to ask Mrs. to come here." In fact, Meteor looked at Xiaozhu's appearance, afraid that she had something to ask for, but she didn't say it, Song Zhi also knew it in her heart.
"You let them in. Tell people to burn the charcoal fire in the side hall more vigorously, don't freeze the child. "The rosin-scented food nourishes Song Zhi every day, she is not as afraid of the cold as before, only when Chu Ji and Man'er are there, the charcoal fire will be more prosperous,
When Xiaozhu and Tuan'er came in, Song Zhi was slightly stunned, not only because of the injury on Xiaozhu's face, but also because Tuan'er beside her had grown from a rickety glutinous rice dumpling to a slim little girl. This girl is good at picking, picking the strengths of her parents.
"Xiaozhu? What is this on your face? Song Zhi naturally wanted to ask, Meteor was also surprised, just now Xiaozhu covered her face with a silk scarf, she didn't notice the injury on her face.
"Careless, accidentally fell." Xiaozhu wanted to squeeze out a smile, but accidentally touched the corners of his mouth, and this smile was more ugly than crying.
She didn't want to tell the truth, and Song Zhi didn't want to ask, so she beckoned to Tuan'er and said, "This is, Tuan'er?" ”
Tuan'er was stunned by the beautiful noble woman in front of her, and subconsciously took a step forward, but turned back to look at her mother.
"Tsk," Xiaozhu was surprised when he saw that Song Zhi was a little interested in his daughter, but he could see that his daughter was so unpopular, so he showed a hurry, "What do you see me doing?" The princess calls you! ”
Xiaozhu sneered at Song Zhi and said, "Tuan'er is a nickname, and now it's not good to call Tuan'er when he's older." If the princess appreciates her face, she will reward this girl with a name. ”
"You should have taken this name, but I can't take your errand." Song Zhi looked at Xiaozhu and saw many folds piling up at the corners of her eyes, thinking that she was not a few years older than Zhuyue, but she was old, and she felt a little pity in her heart.
"No, no, the princess is willing to reward her name, that's the blessing of this girl!" Xiaozhu hurriedly said.
She pressed Tuan'er's neck again and said to her, "Quick, kneel down!" Beg the princess to give you a name! ”
Song Zhi saw that Xiaozhu's behavior was really abnormal, so he hurriedly called Meteor to stop it, and said, "Xiaozhu, what are you doing here?" ”
Tuan'er was blushed by her mother's push and gaffe, and knelt on the side in a daze.
Xiaozhu was pulled away by the meteor, and suddenly softened on her, almost crying: "Princess, please accept this child." ”
Meteor raised his eyes and glanced at Song Zhi, both of them looking stunned.
Tuan'er heard her mother's miserable voice, her face showed distress and sorrow, and finally spoke: "Princess Niangniang, my father came to tease me and my mother twice in three days, and I used to think that he just wanted silver, so he gave it too." Later, he asked for too much, and Siyuntang's income was not good, where did he get so much silver? When we couldn't give us the money, he said he would sell me to Manyazi. ”
Speaking of this, Tuan'er showed hatred on his face, and said: "I thought he was just talking about it, I am his biological daughter in the end, but a few days ago, I actually brought a group of people to tie me up, but fortunately, my mother came out to take me without her life, and with the help of the neighbors, I escaped." Later, some of the neighbors knew about the gang and said that they were working for a brothel. ”
Being sold to a brothel by her own father is indeed extremely pitiful, Song Zhi is naturally pitiful in her heart, she said to Xiaozhu: "I remember that the rotten gambler husband who taught you a hard lesson in the past also told the two of you to reconcile, why can't you get out?" ”
Tears rolled out of Xiaozhu's eyes, she still remembered the rules of being a maid in the past, don't lose her temper in front of Song Zhi, hurriedly wiped it, and said: "Although he and I are not husband and wife anymore, Tuan'er and him are still father and daughter!" He's a bastard again, saying that his daughter raised him, and it's fair! If I come to you again, he will go and sue the king, saying that you have forced him to separate his father and daughter. ”
"What a bastard!" Meteor said through gritted teeth.
"So you want to sell your daughter to the palace before he does? So that he has nothing to say? Song Zhi understood the abacus in Xiaozhu's heart and said.
Xiaozhu nodded again and again, and said busily: "That's exactly what it means!" That's exactly what it means! I know the princess best, and your heart is the best! Tuan'er is a few years older than the princess, just enough to be a companion for the princess, and in the future, she will be asked to shelter the princess from the wind and rain, and be a cow and a horse! I just want to give her an innocent life to live. ”
Every word of her is a loving mother and gentle heart, and she has carefully calculated for this daughter.
Song Zhi looked at Tuan'er and saw that she had red eyes, but she didn't let tears fall, so he knew that this child was a stubborn person, could he be willing to be a slave and a maid? If you don't want to, it's not good to add to the evil.
"What about yourself? What do you think? Song Zhi asked.
Tuan'er raised her head to look at Song Zhi, then turned her head to look at her thin mother, touched her forehead to the ground, knelt down to worship piety, and said, "Ask the princess to take her in, just be a sprinkler and sweep a rough girl." ”
Xiaozhu was stunned for a moment, she originally wanted to continue her relationship with Song Zhi and ask Tuan'er to be a second-class maid in the princess's room, but she didn't expect Tuan'er to ask for a rough maid.
Song Zhi heard Tuan'er say this, and knew that she was a peaceful person, so he nodded again, and said: "The maids in the inner courtyard have signed death deeds. ”
Tuan'er said calmly: "Got it." ”
Xiaozhu knows about getting married month by month, if her group is a girl in the room and grows up with the princess since childhood, why worry that there is no good way out in the future, but it is difficult to say that a rough girl.
Xiaozhu looked at Song Zhi with begging eyes, but was blocked by the meteor intentionally or unintentionally.
"Okay, ask Mr. Scrivener to write a deed." Song Zhi said to the tea rhyme.
Chayun was blessed and walked out. She walked past Xiaozhu's side, bringing a slight aroma.
This fragrance is the usual thing that the big girl next to Song Zhi is used to, and Xiaozhu suddenly remembered what happened when he was Song Zhi's big girl in the past, and fell into a trance of memories. She sighed silently in her heart and said, "Look at Tuan'er's own creation." “
"Xiaozhu." Song Zhi's soft call pulled Xiaozhu back to reality, "Is Siyuntang really so bad?" ”
Speaking of this Xiaozhu, she sighed again, "Miss Liu's craftsmanship is good, and she could have supported it, but she asked her mother's family to loot a lot, and she hurt her foundation, and gradually she couldn't hold on." Miss Liu herself was also discouraged, I saw that she didn't want to continue to do it, and always said that she wanted to go outside. ”
"Oh? If this is the case, if you lose your job, you can also go to the house and find a part-time job in the outer courtyard. Song Zhi said simply, telling both the mother and daughter to be grateful to Dade.
Cha Yun came back with the deed, Xiaozhu's expression suddenly became a little stiff, but Tuan'er, simply pressed a fingerprint, bowed to Song Zhiyi, and said: "Everything in the future will be sent by the princess." ”
Song Zhi nodded and said, "Qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea, there is already a big girl named Sicha next to the princess, you can choose a word to make the name." ”
"Wine." Tuan'er said quickly, barely thinking.
Xiaozhu kept looking at her daughter, as if she wanted to impress her appearance in her eyes.