Chapter 90 Ice Porridge Wild Vegetable Rice
The woman moved very quickly and had to wait too long to prepare a meal. Five people sat around a simple wooden table to eat. Of course, it was a bit crowded, but Xun Yuantuo highly praised this meal.
When he was in Xun Mansion, the owner of the mansion paid attention to eating fine and fine food. It was not that it was the skill of the knife and carving that could be called fine, but that it was highly praised for exquisite vegetarian snacks.
In the words of Xunji, if a person eats too much fish, he will be full of fat and unconscious, and will be confused all day long and will find it difficult to study and study, and may even miss important matters. Therefore, eating vegetarian food is the most appropriate habit. Since then, the whole mansion has promoted vegetarian food, and the chefs invited also focus on vegetarian food.
Xun Yuantuo also agreed with it, so he also tasted vegetarian food. The wild vegetable rice made by a woman was quite fond of Mr. Xun's appetite.
But what puzzled the young master was that the two girls were not interested in eating, and seemed to be a little disgusted with the meal. Mr. Xun raised his eyebrows slightly and was confused in his heart.
No wonder the master said that there is no harm in going out for a study trip. In just half a day, he had two or three doubts in his mind. This is indeed a rare thing for Mr. Xun, who is easy to study books and knowledge.
After dinner, the master and apprentice went out to walk with the moonlight all over the sky. Although the weather was a little hot, it was sunny in the west mountain at night, and there was a breeze, so it was not difficult to get hot.
Zhou Kefa is in front and Xun Yuantuo is behind, and he is always one step slower than his master. When the two walked outside the station, Mr. Zhou slowed down and said without looking back, "Yuantuo, I remembered a big thing now. This trip still seems a bit urgent."
Xun Yuantuo was a little confused because he thought about the two or three questions. He heard that the master said this and he was still saying that the master had not left a letter to his home, for fear that the servants at home were worried about where they were going, so he asked tentatively, "Sir, have you not left a letter to his family?"
"No, no." Zhou Kefa shook his head, and the tall and thin man was particularly bright in the light blue moonlight.
"I once heard that Qingchai had a shop, and the shopkeeper's dim sum skills are excellent, especially for making ice honey porridge. Every summer, I have to take your master's wife to eat it for two or three times. As I grow older, my memory is no longer as good as when I was young. I really forgot this time."
Fortunately, Xun Yuantuo and his husband are becoming more and more familiar with each other. If they were others, they would probably be speechless. As a teacher, he always thinks about his oral service. After all, it is not a good person to do things.
Mr. Xun smiled, "Master must have forgotten that he has been overworked recently. The shopkeeper has been invited by the housekeeper to Xun's house to specialize in making snacks. I also know that he has excellent skills in making ice honey porridge. If the master does not want to break the appointment, we will turn around and invite the master's wife to eat the porridge a few times before leaving."
Others don’t know how Xun Yuantuo, who has lived in Qingchai for a long time, could not know. This ice honey porridge is made of sweet wine and osmanthus nectar, surrounded by broken ice. This ice is specially taken out of the ice well in the county. You must first ask with the crystal officer in charge of the ice well before you can open the well to get the ice.
The ice removed is square and cannot be eaten directly. The whole ice is left to mouth and it is extremely harmful to the stomach. In summer, the ice is very easy to turn into water. If the ice melts, the sweet wine honey slurry will be diluted by water and there will be no flavor.
Therefore, it is necessary to scrape it into broken ice chips with a quick knife to be used as the main ingredient of ice porridge. This is the case with the shopkeeper of the Qingchai Dim Sum Shop. He has excellent knife skills and is skillful, so the ice porridge you make will not be melted. Put the ice porridge in your mouth, which is cool and refreshing, and does not harm the spleen and stomach. It is a great food to relieve heat.
Zhou Kefa shook his head and then asked in a deep voice: "How many days did Yuantuo eat ice porridge at most?"
"Three days." Mr. Xun was very puzzled.
"I have eclipsed it for more than ten consecutive days. The first day I eclipsed it like an immortal. On the third day, I praised it as an excellent product in the palace on the ground. On the seventh day, I feel that a skilled woman can also do it."
Mr. Zhou sighed, "Although the ice honey porridge is good, it will feel that it is not very good when eaten for a long time. No matter how good the vegetarian meal is, it will still taste very good after eating three meals a day, but what if there is nothing else in a month? If you have this wild vegetable rice for years, let alone you, the noble son from the Zhongming Ding Food House, even the poor people will feel that it tastes like chewing wax, and there is no taste at all."
"Therefore, it is not that this family likes to eat wild vegetables and rice, but that they have to fill their stomachs. The wealthy family is tired of eating fatty fish and tender meat. They occasionally eat a meal of coarse grains and feel that the taste is unique. However, poor families do not want to eat meat, but are hard to afford." Zhou Kefa turned around and did not look at Xun Yuantuo, but looked at the ruined inn not far away.
"In fact, for you, who is talented and intelligent, you can understand it after a little thought. It's just that you have never put your own side with the poor."
"As for the other two questions, think about it slowly. We will definitely understand it when we stay here for two days." Zhou Kefa saw the student frowning and thinking, patted the young master's shoulder, and returned to the station alone.
Xun Yuantuo stood there, suddenly, feeling that he had never seen through his master's thoughts.
"As for the money, you can give it to others, give it more and give it to yourself. There is a large bag of silver ingots stuffed into the bottom of the carriage. Don't pretend that I didn't see it. My teacher's eyes are very good."
The moonlight is rich, and the leaves pass through the forest and penetrate into the entire inn.
The room where the bed should have a bed was empty and there were no half-dry utensils. The woman settled two girls to sleep, and she went upstairs with a bundle of bamboo mats and spread the bamboo mats in the empty mats. She felt a little disgusted and said to the two who were waiting, "If you don't dislike me, you'll just spend one night here. Although the weather is getting hotter, the room is on the back and the ground is still frozen. If my two daughters sleep here for a night, I'm afraid I'll catch a cold tomorrow. I can only treat you badly." When the woman spoke, she looked towards Zhou Kefa and deliberately avoided Mr. Xun. At that moment, the latter understood it. It was obvious that she had not forgotten the previous argument, and she was still a little resistant at this moment.
Mr. Xun said nothing, and sent the woman away and slept with her clothes.
As soon as he lay down, Xun Yuantuo felt that what the woman said was not false. She was indeed cold and bone-black when she pillowed on a bamboo mat at night. As for Mr. Xun's body, she might sleep for a night and would not have the cold air invaded her waist and legs the next day, causing pain for several hours.
On the other hand, Zhou Kefa did not realize any abnormality at all. He fell asleep soon after lying down, which made the young master secretly shocked.
Look, Master is Master, and he seems to be able to make countless steps better than him in every aspect, and it is hard to see him.
Xun Yuantuo went downstairs and walked two steps to slow down. He walked out of the door lightly, walked straight into the carriage, and took out a book.
The mat was really cold and hard, which made him feel sleepless. Instead of tossing and turning, it would be better to just read the chess scores under the moonlight and wait until the dawn is warmer tomorrow before resting.
Chapter completed!