The plum blossom cake pot has been sent over two days ago, when Wen Mingtang arrived, he once again sighed that Darong has a lot of skilled craftsmen, and after Lin Fei's discernment is unique, he wants to start making this plum blossom cake that he has been thinking about for a long time.

It's just that because I want to use some vegetables and vegetables that are not easy to store early, I delayed it for two days, and made two days of porridge and noodle lamp traditional morning food, so that I can use the vegetables and vegetables.

Today, I finally don't worry about the inventory in the warehouse, so I can let Wen Mingtang play.

Plum blossom cake is a fashionable snack in the Jiangnan area, with a special fermented batter poured into the pot, put in various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, sesame seeds, etc., and then injected into the batter, sprinkled with sugar, red and green winter melon shreds and baked.

The plum blossom cake made in this way is the most traditional plum blossom cake, and Wen Mingtang has prepared some accessories such as wine-stuffed dumplings, pine nuts and raisins, etc., for everyone who comes to eat the morning food to choose whether to add to it.

has always been a colleague who has worked together for several years, and Bai Zhuzi, who has long been familiar with Liu Yuan's taboos and preferences, didn't need to go back to ask Liu Yuan one more time, so he chose "Dujia".

Poured a cup of tea for himself, took the oiled paper bag from Bai Zhu's hand, and looked at the plum blossom cake in his eyes, Liu Yuan called out "ah".

Bai Zhu, who was biting into the plum blossom cake and tasting the delicate and sweet bean paste filling inside, lifted his eyelids, glanced at him, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

When questioning, the tip of the tongue was also pushing each other with the bean paste filling. I don't know if it's his delusion, I always feel that there seems to be a faint fragrance of roses in the bean paste filling today, and there is a hint of rose fragrance in the sweetness of red beans, but it is surprisingly not abrupt.

Looking at the pastry baked golden brown in his hand and shaped like plum blossoms, Liu Yuan said: "You say plum blossom cake, I thought it was an ordinary pastry, only made of plum blossom silk in the flour, but I didn't think that the word plum blossom was actually highlighted on its shape." ”

After that, without waiting for Bai Zhu to answer, he blew on the plum blossom cake that was still a little hot, and took a bite of it.

The shape is secondary, and whether it tastes good or not is the key.

The plum blossom cake has been baked slightly crispy on the outside, but the inside is still soft, and when you bite it, it is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. But unlike ordinary pastries that are charred on the outside and tender on the inside, this plum blossom cake has some indescribable toughness in the mouth, and the tough crust tastes sweet and relish, with a unique caramel aroma after the fine sugar melts.

The taste of the cake crust alone is extremely sweet and delicious, and the filling inside is not even the slightest mistake: the aroma of the bean paste with roses is delicate and soft, and the texture of the sesame seed trap is smooth.

Not to mention the sweet filling, from the crust to the inset, plus the sake stuffed dumplings and pine nuts on the top, the aroma of wheat is mixed with the concentrated sweet aroma, and then mixed with the hot filling, which is extremely delicious.

I couldn't wait to finish eating the two sweet plum blossom cakes, and after drinking two sips of tea to clear my mouth, Liu Yuan couldn't wait to reach out for the plum blossom cake with fresh meat filling. The same tenacity and caramel flavor of the cake crust with salty and sweet fresh meat filling, not lost to the sweet filling at all, salty and sweet with a touch of different umami.

Bai Zhu watched from the side, and before opening his mouth to eat, Liu Yuan, who said that he wanted to watch while eating, finished eating the three plum blossom cakes, and his eyes did not glance at the open file, shaking his head but not feeling strange.

With Liu Yuan's temperament, it's strange that he can endure eating and watching. It's better to simply eat the morning food, and completely take care of it and then look at the eucalyptus.

After eating the last bite of plum blossom cake in his hand, Bai Zhu drank a few sips of tea and cleared the sweet fragrance in his mouth, and then began to sort out the clues he had found in the past few days.

The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and Lin Shaoqing has more and more things, although he knows the temperament of the above peaks, he must have a plan. But this eucalyptus, in his hands with Liu Yuan, is really progressing a little slowly.

So...... It is all the more important to be diligent and able to make up for the shortcomings, and not to be lazy.

When he took up the pen to record and sort out the clues, he glanced at the vacant seat on the other side of Liu Yuan: After finding out that the source of diarrhea in the city that day was from the cattle steward of the internal affairs yamen, Lao Wei was originally able to come to the yamen to report, but early the next morning, I heard that Lao Wei fell from the roof and fell his leg when he was repairing the roof at night.

Now it's okay, the sick leave has been asked for succession, looking at Lao Wei's hanging legs, I guess I won't be able to come to the yamen until after the Spring Festival.

He was looking at the seat of Wei Fu, and Liu Yuan, who had finished eating plum blossom cake and wiping his mouth, also glanced at the vacant seat of Wei Fu, and while piling up the debris that could not be piled up on the eucalyptus of Wei Fu, he said: "Old Wei is really ...... I don't know if it's intentional. ”

"What did he do on purpose?" Bai Zhu shook his head and said, "His broken leg was caused by repairing the roof of his family, and it was not an official matter, and he deducted his own monthly salary and annual leave." The family is waiting for him, and even if he pretends to be sick, he will not joke about such things. When I went to Lao Wei's house a few days ago to ask about things, I saw that Lao Wei was looking at his legs and feet and worried, and I wished that I could come to the yamen to report earlier! ”

At present, there are three temples in Dali Temple, Lao Wei has a family to raise, Liu Yuan still has to worry about buying a house, and he will marry a wife and have children in the future.

They are not Shengdou small people, and their lives are much better than ordinary Shengdou small people, but they still have to worry about their livelihoods.

But some people have a lot of money in hand that they can't tell where they came from, and if the money is enough to buy more than a dozen houses in Chang'an City, and if it is used to provide the expenses of ordinary people, it will be enough for dozens of lifetimes.

"It's not that businessmen are not allowed to get rich in business, my old Bai family is in business," Bai Zhu looked down at the clues he had sorted out in the past few days, and said, "This Su Fuhai and Lu Yuanlin, a tea merchant, and a cultural merchant's silver money accounts really don't match." ”

"This Su Fuhai claims to have opened a tea house, but the scale of the tea house is really small and pitiful, before the tea house was opened, Su Fuhai was just an ordinary villager, not rich; Lu Yuanlin's literary play merchant is even more in the shop, and the family sells some counterfeit things, and what he brought on the boat is also a picture of imitation, the shop is small and pitiful, and the family made a living by hunting before he started. It's okay to call a 'businessman', but it's a bit of a misnomer's name to call it a 'rich businessman'. Bai Zhu said, "I also deliberately took the account books of the Su and Lu families home to look for my family's old account office, all of them are just small transactions, how can it be possible to make a gold mountain in less than 20 years?" ”

As for Qian Chengli, it is not like Su and Lu who have a large amount of silver hidden at home, like Zhang Wulin, the flower and tree business is handed down from the ancestors, and the silver money account is also matched.

Qian Chengli's problem is his brother Qian Chengyi, who helps take care of the flower garden.

"There are four brothers in this generation of the Qian family, two of whom died young, and only Qian Chengli and Qian Chengyi have grown up." Bai Zhu said, "According to the neighbors and his flower farmers, this Qian Chengyi is a practitioner who fights fiercely every day, and he wants to kill people if he doesn't say anything that is ordinary. There have been several incidents of wounding people before, all of which were done by Qian Chengli with money. ”

"Qian Chengyi makes trouble every day, and he has run away from home several times with his brother Qian Chengli, and every time he leaves home, he relies on his fists to find a position as a guard for a period of time." Liu Yuan answered, "According to Liu Sanqing's steward and guard, Qian Chengyi was hired by Liu Sanqing as a guard, and he went to the mine several times, and he knew Liu Sanqing through Qian Chengyi. Not only did he know Liu Sanqing, but he also knew Zhang Wulin, who also served as a guard and helped deliver the four treasures of the valuable study several times. ”

Qian Chengyi is also the biggest gain they have found these days: this person can not only connect Liu Sanqing and Zhang Wulin, but also ......

"A few days after Feng Tong's disappearance and the accident, he happened to have a conflict with Qian Chengli, ran away from home, and was no longer at home." Liu Yuan said, "The day after Feng Tong's body was found, he went home, which was too coincidental. ”

Of course, it is not a whim to focus on Qian Chengyi, Bai Zhu snorted lightly: "Although Lao Wei has taken a leave, he does understand a lot of flowers and plants, and I remember the records of the charter office on the bank of the Weishui River clearly, and the pot of hydrangea that Qian Chengli brought on the boat is ......."

Before he finished speaking, an errand hurriedly came in from outside the hall, walked to the two of them, and said, "Bai Sicheng, Liu Sicheng, there is a person named Qian Chengli outside, and he wants to see the two Sicheng." ”

Bai Zhu, who had not finished speaking, did not continue Fang Cai's words, but turned his head to look at Liu Yuan, the two glanced at each other, and a smile flashed in their eyes: This is not ...... Are people coming?

Wei Fu understands flowers and plants, and Qian Chengli, a flower and tree merchant, doesn't care about flower beds, and also deals with flowers and plants a lot, how can he not understand?

Walking into the hall where the message was spoken, Qian Chengli's face was a little pale, and his eyes were blue, obviously he hadn't rested well in the past few days. It seems that since the two of them left that day, Qian Chengli had already guessed something.

After seeing the two of them walk in, Qian Chengli hurriedly got up, and after stepping forward to salute and call the "adult", before he could speak, he heard Liu Yuan speak: "You came here today for that pot of hydrangeas?" ”

Qian Chengli's face was obviously stiff, but he smiled bitterly and said: "The flowers are blooming there, and the flower farmers can be seen every day, but now that they are gone, how can they do it?" Unexpectedly, these flowers that I planted on a whim actually revealed the secret that my brother had hidden in front of people. ”

It is true that the Qian family is a flower and wood merchant, but what he buys and sells is the peonies and some pine bonsai that are sought after by the people of the time, and this hydrangea is an occasional thing he got when he went south, and he brought it back because he saw it beautiful.

Chang'an is not suitable for planting this flower, and it is quite difficult to plant. Even if it was painstaking, he only planted a small piece, because of the effort and rarity, he would take it to the cruise ship on the Mid-Autumn Festival for people to enjoy.

This flower ...... Soon after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it disappeared due to the cold, and it took only a few months of work before and after, but everything was "said".

Qian Chengli sighed and said, "This flower has some meaning, not only is it beautiful, but it also changes color. ”