As soon as it was dawn on the second day, the oxen rode away on a fast horse.

Facing the rising sun, the petite young lady and her mother went to pick mulberry leaves, she is ten years old this year, has long been a good hand at raising silkworms, now the spring silkworms have been partially hatched, she has to take care of the silkworm baby every day, clean the silkworm room, collect the freshest mulberry leaves to feed the silkworm baby, and strive to harvest the big, white and full cocoons after more than a month. This is the homework given to her by her mother, but she can do it seriously.

In order to raise silkworms, she spends less time with her younger brother every day.

The second brother Luan was holding a spear in the yard. Although he is only twelve or thirteen years old, he has no shortage of milk, eggs, and meat since he was a child, and his nutrition is good, and his body is good. The eldest mother asked the retired soldiers at home to teach him martial arts, and he was willing to learn and practiced diligently every day.

The smoke was curling, and the Qin family had already started to light a fire to cook.

The Qin people had two meals a day, and the morning food was generally eaten in the middle of the morning, about eight or nine o'clock, and the feeding was at three or four o'clock in the afternoon. It's only about six o'clock in the morning, and the kitchen has started to cook. These were all trained by Qin Yu, because he had to eat three to four meals a day, otherwise, his stomach would be hungry easily.

Others Qin Yu didn't know, anyway, Chuan Heluan actively responded to his meal.

Qin Yu saw that everyone in the family was doing everything, so he walked around his yard while doing stretching exercises. He is only six years old this year, he is not in good health when he is young, he does not dare to do too strenuous exercises, he can only do some gentle exercises within his ability, so as to exercise and maintain the flexibility of his body. In the Qin State, or in the Warring States, without a good body, he was almost like a waste, and he didn't dare to relax himself physically.

After he walked around the dog house, chicken pen, pigsty, sheep pen, cow pen, vegetable garden, nursery, flower garden, and small orchard, and went to say hello to his mother and sister who were picking mulberry leaves behind his house, he went to the kitchen with a slight sweat on his forehead to see what to eat today.

The mandarin girl in charge of the kitchen was watching the fire and steaming egg custard for Qin fish. The pottery mustache is slow to preheat, she has to boil the water in the mustache first, and then put the pottery bowl filled with egg liquid in the retort and steam it over high heat, the egg liquid is added with sesame oil, honey, fine salt, and quickly whipped with a chopstick, in order to get rid of the smell of the egg, the mandarin duck thought of many ways, and today is before the bamboo curtain cover, sprinkled with a few small wild onion chopped grains.

She carefully calculated the time of steaming eggs, about a quarter of an hour later, she smelled a faint egg fragrance through the water vapor, her face was happy, and her heart said that today's aroma is stronger than yesterday's, and waited for ten breaths, she removed the bamboo curtain cover, boiling steam gushed out, followed by a strong egg fragrance, she fanned the steam with the bamboo curtain, looked down carefully, only to see the black pottery bowl, is a golden egg custard, dotted with green shallots, very gratifying.

The mandarin maid said to the servant who burned the fire: "Okay, let's put out the fire." ”

The servant swallowed hard, nodded and extinguished the fire.

Mandarin Yuan took out a piece of white fine linen, wetted it, put it between her fingers, and took out this bowl of well-cooked egg custard, which was about to be sent to the little master, and the egg custard should be eaten while it was hot, and it would lose its taste when it was cold.

Not to mention that their little master is smart, he can eat countless tricks when he eats an egg, and he deserves to have the baby of the whole family, it is her slave maid, with such a steamed egg custard skill, she is also more favored by the owner's family.

As soon as Yuanyuan put the pottery bowl in a shallow plate and brought it to Qin Yu, she saw Qin Yu walking in all directions, and came in with a little blushing face.

The servants all greeted Qin Yu in twos and threes.

The mandarin girl turned around with a smile on her face, made a brisk salute to Qin Yu, and said with a smile: "Oh, little master, it's really time for you to come, look at today's egg custard, it is delicious, it must be a good sign." ”

Yuanyuan is a native of Chu State, and has a great belief in the power of the witch god, as long as she has something that makes her feel happy, it means that it is a good sign, and the whole day will be smooth today, without the invasion of yin and evil.

Yuanyuan's parents were prisoners of war of the Chu State, and when their family was captured, although she was still young, she also remembered things, and she can still speak the Chu State dialect fluently.

A few decades ago, their family of three was rewarded to the Qin Gongzi Jichang Mansion, and within a few years, they followed the Qin family to Liyang, and lived here for decades. Now that her parents have long since died, and she has reached the age of gray hair, she still speaks as cheerfully and crisply as a little girl.

Yan is her granddaughter, because Yan is favored by Qin Yu, she is also honored and dares to speak in front of Qin Yu.

Qin Yu smiled: "I just came in when I smelled the fragrance." Today's egg custard is especially fragrant, has Grandma thought of a new secret method of steaming eggs? ”

The mandarin girl giggled for a while before she said: "What is the secret method, the slave just saw that the wild onion in the backyard grew well, so he pinched the most tender part, cut it into pieces, sprinkled it on the egg liquid and steamed it, and removed the smell of the egg, but isn't there only the fragrance of the egg?" ”

Qin Yu probed to look at the soft and tender yellow-orange-orange egg custard, and sure enough, there were five or six emerald green green onion leaves embedded on it, which were cute and tight.

Qin Yu said with a smile: "Grandma is still exquisite, if you don't eat a meal of Grandma's meal one day, the fish will not be happy for a day." ”

The mandarin man smiled even more cheerfully, and the other servants in the kitchen also laughed, and for a while the place was full of laughter, attracting Qin Mu and Jiaojiao, who had come back from collecting mulberry leaves.

Jiaojiao said loudly: "It must be my brother in the kitchen, my mother, I smell the aroma of egg custard." ”

Without waiting for Qin's mother to speak, Qin Yu, who heard his young sister's voice, poked his head out and shouted: "Mother, sister, today's egg custard is steamed, you come and eat together," and shouted to the mountain looking at this side of the courtyard: "Brother Zhong, come and eat egg custard, it's not too late to practice after eating." ”

As soon as he shouted, the brother and sister went to see Qin's mother, and Qin's mother laughed and said, "Go quickly, I'll go back to the silkworm room, and after eating, Jiaojiao will come to help me again." ”

Qin Yu was not happy, came out and took her hand, and said, "Feed the silkworms and have a spring aunt, Grandma, Grandma's steamed egg custard today is really good, you can also taste it together." ”

Aunt Chun, who was following behind Mother Qin and Jiaojiao, stood up, stacked the bamboo curtain full of fresh mulberry leaves in Mother Qin's hand, and said to Mother Qin with a smile: "Master Mother, go quickly, there are slaves over there in the silkworm room." ”

Qin's mother couldn't, so she had to be held by a pair of children and daughters to the kitchen, and turned around and instructed as she walked: "Luan, go wash your hands first, and then eat egg custard." ”

Luan agreed loudly and went to wash his hands.

The pottery bowl of Qin Yu's family is not as delicate as a bowl in later generations, but a large bowl with a half-foot square, so this bowl of egg custard steamed by Mandarin Yuan is really a lot.

Qin's mother couldn't resist the children, so she just let the three children eat after just two bites, and she checked the food that was being cooked in the kitchen.

After a while, the steamed buns were steamed, and Luan immediately put down the bamboo spoon and said to his younger brothers and sisters: "You guys eat, I'll eat soft cakes." "He was hungry for a long time, and although the custard was delicious, it was not full, and he didn't like to eat it.

Mother Qin praised today's soft cakes for steaming well, but they wasted some firewood.

Isn't it? Pottery conducts heat slowly and dissipates heat quickly, and if you want to steam a pot of steamed buns, you can't do it without skills.

Qin Yu sighed secretly, they actually have a complete set of bronze dining utensils at home, but bronze is a utensil that can only be used by nobles, and their family is not qualified to use it, so they can only use pottery.

I can see it, but I can't use it, this sense of grievance can't help but complain that Aunt Qin wants to revive the Qin family.

Seeing Qin Yu looking at this, Qin's mother thought that he also wanted to eat soft cakes, so she broke a small piece for him and said to him: "It's still early, you eat less, you eat too much, and your stomach is uncomfortable." Then he gave another large piece to his daughter, and also instructed: "You eat more, only when you are full will you have strength and your body will be strong." ”

Qin Yu: ......

Mother, are you saying the opposite? Sister Jiaojiao is a delicate and easy to push down a soft little Lori, and she is still strong, do you want her to grow into King Kong Barbie?

Jiaojiao smiled at her brother, and then bit off most of the steamed buns, swallowed them in three or two strokes, and said to her brother: "Brother, you ate the custard, and the rest of the soft cakes Sister ate it for you, how about it?" ”

Qin Yu touched his stomach, which was already five or six points full, looked at the remaining egg custard, so he had to break a little steamed bun and stuff it into his mouth, and gave the rest to Jiaojiao's sister, and then ate the egg custard fiercely.

Anyway, he has eaten the big steamed buns that have just come out of the pot, and he doesn't lose money.

Mother Qin saw that the three children had almost eaten one bite at a time, and said helplessly: "If your eldest mother is at home, don't you dare to let you eat at will in the kitchen place, there are no rules." ”

Aunt Qin is the most disciplined, and when she eats, she has to sit (kneel) in the hall one by one, one person and a few cases, and she can only eat after her old man speaks.

Luan shrunk his neck and whispered back: "The eldest mother is at home, so the son doesn't dare." ”

Qin Mu shook her head and said, "Okay, don't eat it either, and then eat it when you can eat it." Yuanyuan, today's morning food will start later. ”

The mandarin man hurriedly agreed, thinking, not only to open later, but also to prepare less vegetables, vegetables and meat soup, the largest amount of food The master ate two large soft cakes in a while, and when the morning meal is time, she will definitely eat less, so that she does not have to prepare too much amount, so as not to eat it all and waste food.

Before and after the morning meal, Qin Yu practiced Qin characters on the bamboo slips, and went to learn a few words of Chu dialect from Mandarin Yuan, and saw that the sun was almost over, so he took the bamboo flute, rode on the ploughing ox, took the pastoral dog, drove the sheep out of the sheepfold, and let the sheep go.

By the way, I went to see his duck flock, and today I broke a few ducklings.