Chapter 173: Yu Qiuyu's bread cellar
It's about Song Zhe who has been staying in Lingnan for a long time, not to mention Yu Qiuyu, even the guards can't stand it.
Seeing that Song Zhe was still not concerned about returning to Beijing, the guards hurriedly persuaded him: "My lord, now you should go back, if you go back late, Your Majesty will have to blame again, is it difficult for you to let Your Majesty know that you stayed in Lingnan because of greed?" ”
"Gluttony?"
Compared with the guards, Song Zhe's voice seemed very relaxed.
"It's a good excuse."
Guards:......
Yu Qiuyu who is eavesdropping: ......
"Why don't I want to go back to Beijing, don't you know the reason?"
Seeing the two emotions of doubt and hatred on the guard's face, Song Zhe immediately knocked on the guard's head unhappily.
"Yes......"
As a guard who has been by Song Zhe's side since he was a child, he certainly knows why Song Zhe is reluctant to return to Beijing.
Song Zhe is a member of the five princes, coupled with his outstanding military achievements, he has long been feared by many people, if he goes back, there are so many troubles in the capital, and sooner or later he will be annoyed to death.
If Song Zhe behaved more stubbornly, the emperor would be much less jealous of Song Zhe.
After all, what kind of climate can a gluttonous major general become?
Yu Qiuyu quietly returned to her room with a stomach full of shock, she originally thought that those rich and noble masters in the capital would be comfortable and happy all their lives, but she didn't expect that there would be so much trouble around them.
To be honest, Yu Qiuyu was a little sympathetic to Song Zhe.
In fact, being Zhao Zhichen's confidant may not be a very lucky thing.
Is Yu Qiuyu sympathizing with Song Zhe?
Of course not.
Like Song Zhe, Yu Qiuyu has always believed that poor people must have something to hate.
Therefore, Song Zhe must have done a lot of wrong things, otherwise how could he be punished?
Thinking about it, Yu Qiuyu spread out a piece of yellow paper made of straw.
She is usually idle, and always likes to make some strange gadgets by herself.
Of course, the rudiments of these gadgets are basically from modern times.
Of course, these gadgets are applied to life.
She picked up a pen made of coal, made the bamboo tube hollow, and then found a small hole in the center, and then placed a small bamboo tube in a conical shape under the slightly larger bamboo tube, and then used a silk thread to thread the bamboo tube and fix it together.
In this way, a simple carbon pen does just that.
However, people's carbon pens use charcoal.
Yu Qiuyu's self-created carbon pen uses charcoal.
Although the production method is different, and the effect is not the same, but in the end this is ancient, if you use a brush to draw patterns, you will definitely not be able to draw well, so the pen that can be made directly from local materials is the king.
Yu Qiuyu used her own pen to draw some sample drawings of the cellar on yellow paper.
She estimated the units of ancient dimensions, and then thoughtfully marked the size of each quick structure.
In fact, this is very similar to modern architectural drawings.
After Yu Qiuyu finished drawing the drawings, he could wait for the arrival of the craftsman Xu at home with peace of mind.
I don't know if I can be satisfied with the production results of the craftsman Xu, but with the good reputation of the craftsman Xu within a radius of ten miles, Yu Qiuyu feels that if the craftsman Xu can't make the cellar she wants, Yu Qiuyu really doesn't know who to ask for help.
To tell the truth, although Song Zhe came back under the banner of coming to Lingnan to deal with military affairs, she didn't see Song Zhe go to the prefect's yamen a few times, but she always received Song Zhe at home frequently.
The first question Song Zhe asked every time he came was: "Has the cellar you said been built?" ”
Yu Qiuyu was annoyed by his question, and every time he asked this question, Yu Qiuyu couldn't help but feel the urge to beat him.
What!
He is a young general, the third son of the Dingbei General's Mansion, and he sticks to her almost every day for a peasant girl with no power and no power?
What is this like?
Yu Qiuyu's impression of those officials and the like is that they wear gold and jade, and they are outside the gold and jade, and they are ruined.
All of them are not smiling on the surface, serious as if they are something, but they are rotten on the inside.
They pretend to be very tall, at least they won't be like Song Zhe who is reluctant to come back because he is greedy and dares to stay at other people's houses.
Song Zhe's existence really subverted Yu Qiuyu's impression of these people who were officials in the capital.
"No, no, no!"
Craftsman Xu came, Yu Qiuyu showed the drawings to the craftsman Xu, the craftsman Xu was an expert in the end, but he knew how to build the kind of cellar in Yu Qiuyu's mouth at a glance at the drawings.
Her description is too detailed, it seems that Yu Qiuyu should have high hopes for this cellar.
Originally, it was impossible for Yu Qiuyu to wait for the craftsman Xu to come over to make the cellar so quickly, after all, there were so many people in front of them, and the craftsman Xu had to go down one by one.
However, the greedy Song Zhe has been urging him.
Song Zhe is a big man who is not easy to mess with, and the craftsman Xu is just a small person in the Lingnan market, so the craftsman Xu must put Song Zhe's needs first and help Yu Qiuyu build the cellar first.
Craftsman Xu was busy with Yu Qiuyu for about a day, a small cellar was piled up, and a fire baked it, making the cellar a little more porcelain, Yu Qiuyu was very relieved and satisfied to give the craftsman Xu five taels of silver, and then began to prepare the ingredients, ready to use this ancient version of the bread cellar to make snacks.
Yu Qiuyu first steamed the pumpkins picked from the mountains, then found a large porcelain bowl, and then crushed the pumpkins into pumpkin puree in the porcelain bowl.
In this way, the fragrance of pumpkin comes to the nose.
Yu Qiuyu added the pumpkin puree with water melted with thread sugar and poured it into the pumpkin puree and flour, mixed the pumpkin puree and flour into a dough, then kneaded the dough into a palm-sized small dough, and then she sprinkled sesame seeds on the small dough.
Song Zhe watched Yu Qiuyu go through the whole process in surprise.
He originally thought that Yu Qiuyu said that he wanted to use pumpkin puree to make food was actually just talking about fun, how could pumpkin puree really be made into food?
But who knows, Yu Qiuyu said that pumpkin puree can be made into snacks, and this pumpkin puree can really be made into delicious snacks.
Song Zhe had to re-examine Yu Qiuyu.
Maybe others will lie and talk big and big, although Yu Qiuyu also lies, but she doesn't brag, she says that if she can do it, she can definitely do it.
It didn't take long for a handful of firewood to be burned, and the pumpkin crisp in the bread cellar was ready.
Yu Qiuyu wrapped a white cotton cloth in his hands and took out the pumpkin crisp inside with a special shovel.
The golden exterior, the crispy crust, and the aroma constantly overflows.
Song Zhe was not afraid of being hot, so he hurriedly picked up a piece and tasted it.
At the beginning, Yu Qiuyu said this dim sum in the Confucian Food Xuan, but he wanted to taste it, isn't that the case?
However, when Song Zhe took the first bite, he was a little dumbfounded.
The crispy skin is soft and delicious on the inside, and the sweetness of pumpkin comes to your nose, and you can tell that it must taste good just by smelling it.
After another bite, I was instantly conquered by its taste.
After chewing, you are conquered by the sensations on your taste buds.
All in all, delicious.
After eating one, Song Zhe showed a state of surprise.
But Yu Qiuyu frowned.
"I've got to find a way to get some milk."
In fact, if you add milk, the taste will be even better.
Lingnan flowers and plants are lush, there is no shortage of cattle and sheep, and naturally there is no shortage of milk.
Yu Qiuyu has also considered, in fact, she can consider using goat milk, but goat milk has a smell, many people can't stand this smell, and there is no modern high-tech in ancient times to get rid of the smell.
Therefore, the original idea of making some goat's milk crisp had to be stopped.
Taking cow's milk is a physical work, who is this kind of physical work?
So Yu Qiuyu unceremoniously brought Song Zhe with him.
Want to eat? How can you do it without doing something for her as a reward?
In the slightly remote mountains to the west of Lingnan, herds of cattle and sheep are raised.
There, there's milk.
However, milk is expensive, and ordinary Lingnan people can't afford it, and they generally buy it from large families like the Shi family and the Wu family.
The Lingnan people in the ranch were a little surprised when they saw Yu Qiuyu and Song Zhe coming, but they still welcomed them very warmly.
Seeing that there was good milk here, Yu Qiuyu didn't talk nonsense, and bought a few buckets of milk back without saying a word.
Yu Qiuyu didn't have much strength, and the milk bucket was heavier, so it was really a wise choice to let Song Zhe and Song Zhe's guards come over to help take the milk bucket away.
Song Zhe and the guards were two, while Yu Qiuyu was carrying a bucket, and several people were walking on the road, which seemed to be the "most eye-catching scenery".
After returning home with milk, Song Zhe and the guards were tired and sat on the ground on the spot.
Yu Qiuyu carried a bucket of milk into the kitchen.
But in a moment, a snack with the same shape as pumpkin crisp was almost done, and it was taken to the bread cellar to bake again, and it didn't take long for the milk crisp to overflow, and the effect was very satisfying to Yu Qiuyu and Song Zhe.
"Little autumn rain."
Song Zhe said vaguely while biting the milk crisp, "People like you are really geniuses." ”
What is it that making dim sum so well is not a genius?
She shouldn't stay in Lingnan, if she can come to the capital, it is conceivable that Yu Qiuyu will not be able to show her skills.
Yu Qiuyu pursed her lips and raised her eyebrows, without saying a word.
Here, Yu Qiuyu is happily making dim sum and studying dim sum, but over there, Li Jin's home has undergone earth-shaking changes.
After Yu Yifan and Li Jin severed their relationship, Li Jin's situation was much worse than before.
In the past, Li Jin often regarded herself as Yu Yifan's aunt, but now Yu Yifan deliberately distanced herself from her, and the ignorant women and children around her who wanted to please her also left her one by one.
Li Jin is really to the point where the wall is falling down and everyone is pushing it.
Moreover, on Master Wu's side, Yu Feng also had to go back in disgrace.