Chapter Ninety-Nine: Octagonal Dumplings (1)
But in a blink of an eye, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival. Wen Mingtang took out the zongzi leaves he took from Zhuangzi two days ago, and started to make zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival with Ah Bing and Tangyuan.
The dumplings are prepared with glutinous rice, fresh meat, bacon, red beans and ...... Five kinds of fresh meat with egg yolk.
When Liu Yuan came over, Wen Mingtang was wrapping zongzi with A Bing and Tangyuan, and the oily zongzi leaves were pulled into a dustpan, and an orange-yellow salted duck egg was put into the same fat and suitable fresh meat in the dark brown glutinous rice soaked in the braised meat broth sauce.
This rice dumpling...... Even if it hadn't been steamed in the pot yet, Liu Yuan couldn't help but start swallowing when he saw it, watching the salted duck eggs and fresh meat being submerged in glutinous rice, and then covered by zongzi leaves, and finally wrapped in two circles by colored ropes, shaped into an octagonal shape, and thrown into a wooden barrel on the side.
"Master Wen," Liu Yuan looked at the octagonal dumplings in the wooden barrel and asked Wen Mingtang, "This salted egg yolk and fresh meat filling is the first time I've seen it, is it delicious?" ”
Wen Mingtang glanced at him, Ah Bing and Tang Yuan on the side looked at Liu Yuan with strange eyes, and asked him: "Have you ever seen the dishes cooked by Master Wen when they are not delicious?" ”
Liu Yuan: "......" After a pause, he said: "I haven't seen this kind of stuffing, just ask!" ”
Wen Mingtang said "oh", didn't talk nonsense with Liu Yuan, just continued to bow his head and wrap zongzi, while saying: "Tomorrow's morning food will eat zongzi, you can come and eat tomorrow!" ”
Liu Yuan nodded "um", looked up at the sun above his head, took the file to cover the sun above his head, and then walked to Ah Bing's side, reached out and took away a green bamboo tube he hung on his waist, shook the full green bamboo tube, opened the tube cover, and saw a few reddish-brown sour plum drinks with golden osmanthus floating in it, Liu Yuan nodded with satisfaction, put the green bamboo tube on his waist, looked at Ah Bing's indignant eyes, touched Ah Bing's head with a smile, and said: "If you want to cross the mountains and mountains today, you must be very thirsty. Borrow your sour plum drink for a while! ”
After that, he took the sour plum drink and left.
Seeing this, Ah Bing, who was making zongzi, couldn't help but say: "I knew that I was not familiar with Liu Sicheng, and after this person was familiar, he became more and more unkind!" If you say it's borrowing, will it really be repaid? ”
Originally, when Liu Sicheng didn't become a regular guest of the public kitchen, he was not so polite.
Liu Yuan, who was carrying a sour plum drink, left Dali Temple and went in the direction of Yishan Academy.
Liu Yuan went to the Yishan Academy, but Wei Fu went to the pen and ink shop in the city and the study.
At dusk, the two ran all day and returned to Dali Temple.
When I saw Lin Fei, I saw a bowl of ice powder with all kinds of small ingredients on Lin Fei's table, and he was slowly digging ice powder to eat.
Although he didn't go out like Liu Yuan and Wei Fu, in Dali Temple, Lin Fei was not without gains.
Pushing the ice powder aside, Lin Fei gathered the file in his hand and looked at Liu Yuan.
Liu Yuan drank the last bit of sour plum drink in the bamboo tube beside him, and then handed a few pieces of paper full of writing to Lin Fei.
Lin Fei listened to Liu Yuan while watching.
"The mountain behind the Yishan Academy is not high, and there are four or five mountain people in it, I specially asked, and Du Dao has never seen Han Juntong and his scholars." Liu Yuan picked up the unimportant and said, "There is a small nunnery on the mountainside, and there are two elderly nuns living in it, I also went to inquire, but I have never seen these two people." ”
Lin Fei said "um", pointed to the different handwriting on the paper, and found the two most delicate and upright names in a group of crooked handwriting, and said, "These two are the two old nuns?" ”
Liu Yuan glanced at the handwriting that Lin Fei pointed to, nodded in response, and said, "Yes, these are those two old nuns." ”
Lin Fei let out an "um", glanced at Liu Yuan, and motioned for him to continue.
Liu Yuan roughly talked about the situation in the mountains, and then talked about the main point: "That Ruan Zhan is not in the academy today," Speaking of this, the look on Liu Yuan's face became a little solemn, and said, "My classmates don't know where he went, and he didn't say where he went before leaving." I only knew that it was early in the morning, and I left the academy alone before dawn. ”
Liu Yuan paused, and then said: "I really can't find Ruan Zhan, so I told the people of Yishan Academy, when I see someone, I will leave him for me, I have something to ask him." ”
Lin Fei let out a "hmm" and turned to Wei Fu on the side.
Seeing this, Wei Fu handed over the file in his hand and spoke.
"I have been to the pen and ink shop and the study, and the owner of the shop and the study have some impressions of these two people, and they are frequent customers in the shop and study, if there is anything special...... The proprietor of one of the studies was a beautiful woman in her forties, still charming. Wei Fu said.
Because the makeup on Han Jun's face is particularly special, and Lin Fei once said that the color of the lipstick on his lips is mostly used by middle-aged women in their forties.
He couldn't tell the color of the lipstick, but ...... Wei Fu said: "The female proprietor has lipstick on her lips, and I see that the color is similar." ”
Of course, he's almost the same, but it's just about the same in his eyes, and it's hard to say whether it's the same or not.
After listening to Wei Fu, Lin Fei hadn't spoken yet, but Liu Yuan on the side couldn't help but let out a "huh" and exclaimed: "That study owner is actually a beautiful woman?" ”
The proprietor of the study has seen a lot of scholars and literati, and it is the first time he has seen a beautiful woman.
Wei Fu nodded, frowned, and said, "I see that she is wearing a skirt that is now fashionable in Chang'an City, and she is still ...... is also a little frank and exposed," he is old, and he really can't get used to seeing this, paused, and said, "It's really a little out of place in places like the study." ”
As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan fell silent, paused, and said: "As soon as you say it, I think about it, I don't feel like the owner who came out of the study, and the study is really a little improper." ”
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Before he finished speaking, he heard Wei Fu say: "I was about to say it!" When I went over, there were four or five students in the study, all of whom were handsome, tall and thin......"
As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan gasped: "Is there such a coincidence? ”
Lin Fei raised his chin and said to Wei Fu, "You continue." ”
Wei Fu said "um", and said: "Although they are looking at the book, they are fighting with each other, and one of them even took the book down." ”
Liu Yuan: "......"
Wei Fu said again: "The beautiful woman came out to stop her by being the owner of the study, although it was to stop it, but it was more like flirting with a few students. ”
Liu Yuan: "It's really not serious. ”
Wei Fu said "um", and said, "Isn't it?" I was curious and asked how the beautiful woman had come up with the idea of opening a study, and she said that this study belonged to her husband, who had died last month, so she accepted it. ”
Liu Yuan twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this, and couldn't help but say: "She only died last month, and now she is dressed up like this, flirting with the students?" ”
Wei Fu glanced at him and said, "Isn't it?" I can't get used to it, but if it doesn't break the law, what else can I do? So I asked her father-in-law how she died, what did she say? ”
Speaking of this, Wei Fu's expression became solemn.