Chapter Ninety-Nine: Three Meals a Day (Asking for a Subscription and Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Waiting for the soldiers to procrastinate and turn into the West Street they had just come out, Qian Yan looked back and took a deep look, and walked back with the big girl and the orchid in one hand.
The small courtyard where they live now is on the side of East Street, not far from the intersection, and separated by two horizontal alleys.
The courtyard is not facing the street, it is the third one in an alley, and there are five small courtyards in that alley, and they are exactly in the middle.
This location is very good, there are people on the left and right, if you really want to encounter something, you can hear it by shouting, as long as it is not the kind of person who is not particularly good at being a person, most of the neighbors will help with it.
Li Hao may have thought at the time that Tianyan was just a woman, and it was more suitable to live here for a while.
After the contact between several old ladies and them in the past two days, it can be seen that those people are relatively honest and kind, and there is basically no kind of person who knows that they are very cunning and difficult to mess with at a glance.
This kind of neighbor is the best.
When the three of them returned home, only Grandma Orchid, Black Egg and Ugly were at home, and everyone else went to clean up the newly bought yards.
Grandma Orchid was supposed to go with her, but there was also a housekeeper here, so I would cook an afternoon meal by the way.
In fact, there is nothing to clean up, those three yards have always been inhabited, as long as they are cleaned, they can be moved over in these two days.
They don't have any courtesy now, and the bedding and clothes they have bought after they entered the city.
When I was on the road, many things were broken, like baskets, and many of them were already in tatters, so I threw them away.
In Handcheng, it is still very convenient to buy small objects such as baskets.
Of course, if you want to save money, you can also make your own, but this is not like the mountains, it is convenient to get rattan, after all, it is in the city, and you can find some willow branches at most.
But that's not to say that you can cut down casually, many of the trees in the city have owners, so it's better to spend a few pennies to buy one.
The kind of specially knitted to take out, the process is not comparable to their own improvisation, people specialize in this every day, the weaving is more delicate, not to mention, the rattan has also undergone special treatment, it takes a long time, and it is very beautiful.
Some baskets also made up a lot of patterns, but Qian Yan couldn't help it, and bought two baskets with the pattern of the word Fu and the word Shou, so that the ugly ugly received it in the space, thinking about going back to show it to her parents.
Although the weaving craft of later generations is also varied, it is purely handmade by the ancient working people, and the meaning is different.
Before, she was still thinking that one day she would go out alone with Ugly Ugly, and then buy more antiques and embroidery that are unique to now, especially some antiques and embroidery.
It's just that she went out with a few old ladies before, and at that time she found out that this side may be because of the north, even if it is close to the imperial city, there are really not many types of cloth and embroidery.
There are only seven or eight kinds of fabrics in the cloth village here, among which the silk is distinguished by different patterns, otherwise there are only three or four.
Not to mention the embroidery of the embroidery village, there is no dazzling array as it is on TV, and the finished embroidered product cannot be said to be rough, but it is not comparable to exquisiteness.
She and her mother went to an embroidery fair before, and saw many exquisite embroideries in it, especially the kind of double-sided show, although the price is very expensive, but it is indeed exquisite and lifelike.
Qian Yan thought, it may have something to do with the region, after all, this place in Handcheng still belongs to the north, and the embroidery should come from the south.
If it weren't for the fact that she was going to leave in the next few days, and didn't have time to go to the south again, she would have wanted to go over and have a look, and it would be a pity to think about it.
It would be nice to go to the south to see, and I don't know what the ancient Jiangnan was like, and the Jiangnan water town has been a famous and prosperous place since ancient times.
Of course, it is estimated that this era will not be too good, these five dynasties and ten countries are prone to wars, and the current Jiangnan side should be an independent small country, is it Yang Wu or Wu Yue? She doesn't remember exactly.
Even if I used to do it, I might not be able to make the trip, thinking to myself, Ugly really won't choose a location, how good it would be if it landed directly in the south of the Yangtze River.
Tilting said hello to Grandma Orchid, went to the backyard, and entered her house.
Orchid and the eldest girl consciously did not follow, knowing that she wanted to read the letter, so they helped their grandmother pick vegetables together in the front yard.
It's almost noon, and the people who went to clean up the yard should be coming back soon, so they pick out the vegetables in advance, make the noodles, and they can do it directly when they come back.
Since entering Hancheng, it has changed from two meals a day to three meals a day.
At first, I was afraid of wasting food and money like this, after all, they didn't have a lot of money yet, this is just eating the old book, and sooner or later they will be empty.
It turned out that no, before two meals a day, a person had to eat five or six multigrain cakes, but after becoming three meals, not only did not increase the amount, but also decreased.
I ate thick porridge in the morning, and I was hungry until evening, and I couldn't sleep without eating five or six.
Since I ate three meals, it was noon not long after eating in the morning, and I had just digested it in the morning, and I was full after eating two cakes, and it was the same in the evening, so it was less.
In addition, it is summer, as long as you steam a pot at noon, you don't need to eat it directly at night, you don't need to do it anymore, you don't even need to use firewood, it doesn't take much trouble and doesn't cost anything, and it's more suitable.
That's right, since they arrived in Handcheng, they have changed to eating dry every day.
All the way to eat thin, have already eaten stomach discomfort, even if they were in the village before, at least until the summer harvest, they will eat dry, not to say that they eat thin every day, just mixed with some wild vegetables or something.
After arriving here, it is not that Tilt Yan did not want to go to the restaurant, taste the characteristics here, and improve the food by the way.
It's just that when they went to Dongshi before, they also passed by those restaurants, and Qian Yan found that the smell wafting out of them was not tempting, at most there was some meat flavor of stew.
I don't know if it's because there is no vegetarian oil, or if it's something else, there is no stir-fry here, and the smell wafting out is the smell of stew, which is not comparable to the fragrance that you smell outside the restaurant in later generations.
Of course, it may be because of the region, most of the dishes here are salty, light, and the soup is mostly watery, unlike the thick oil red sauce in Shudi Chudi, and it is spicy and fragrant.
After walking around that day, the most attractive thing was a pastry shop, and the sweet smell wafting from it.
(End of chapter)