Chapter 180

On the temple hall, all officials were solemn and reported the matters in the memorial. It was said that this year's bumper grain harvest, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and heard the saint stroking their beards with a smile.

There was no big event in the early morning. Please leave the DPRK.

On the way back, Pei Zhengwen went to the hospital to buy breakfast to fill his stomach. Pei Zhengwen and his colleagues walked side by side chewing cakes. The colleague said: "in the bumper harvest year, the price of rice has dropped. Why don't the peddler change some good rice to make cakes? The cakes are too hard to bite. Do you have anything important to do today? I'll take you to sun Niang's foot shop at noon. Her cakes are very good. "

"Nothing." Pei Zhengwen spits out two words. His unworthy son often goes to this store recently. He doesn't work as a demon. He pays attention to it. It's worth going to sun Niang's foot store to see if the store has hidden a mystery, glances at the cake, eats it in twos and threes, and doesn't waste: "a good harvest is a good thing. We need to be vigilant about going to the Grass Valley from the north to the south."

"Ha ha, I don't think so this year."

In fact, sun Niang's foot shop is on their way home or to the military camp. There is no need to make a detour.

Sun Niang's foot shop, the door was closed, several old diners surrounded, and his colleagues crowded over. A piece of red paper was pasted on the door, and the black words were a little floating, as if the writer was happy and wrote lightly. He read: "the cook and hairpin are closed for a day."

"Alas, it's a pity that we came at a bad time. The cook and hairpin." Colleagues shrugged at Pei Zhengwen.

"Well, come back next time." Pei Zhengwen said that good food is a meal, bad food is a meal, and it's OK to be full. After years of military life, he doesn't care about his appetite.

Suddenly there was a rapid sound of horses' hoofs in the street. In the distance, someone exclaimed and cursed. The fast horse passed in front of Pei Zhengwen and his colleagues and ran in the direction of the palace. It was a scout!

Pei Zhengwen's face sank, looked at his colleagues and walked back tacitly.

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The hairpin ceremony was carried out in an orderly manner.

Add hairpin, wear Ru skirt, and worship the teacher's kindness.

Second, add hairpins. Go to hairpins. Hairpins hold beads and Phoenix hairpins. Wear a curved train. Second, worship your teacher.

Three hairpins are added, and the hairpins are removed. The hairpins are made of pearl, mother of Pearl and silver hairpins as hair crowns. Change into large sleeved long skirts and worship three times to show inheritance.

Finally, I offered a toast, looked at the moon and admonished a few words, gave the word Yao light to a Yao, and explained: "you are a Yao who 'threw me a wooden peach and rewarded it with Qiong Yao'. Now I hope you shine like the Yao light of 'food and everything', leaving a bright light in the long river of history. You have never died in vain."

Yao Guang is the one who feeds all things. It means to provide direction for all things. Wangyue hopes that she can make a name for her cooking history. She has high hopes. Ah Yao feels pressure, but she is also fascinated by the light of her long river and pokes the softness in her heart.

Finish.

Wangyue went to the kitchen to cook. Don't worry. It's too late to prepare now. She asked a team to help. She burned the fire to wash vegetables, ingredients, cut fish and meat, and boil soup. She just changed her clothes and rolled up her sleeves to do the final steps of cooking, frying and frying. The people and things in the yard were left to a Yao to deal with.

Aunt Wang sighed that although the guests invited by a Yao didn't do it, the Caotai team still had people in the kitchen. There were a lot of casual workers to clean up. Looking at the moon was really intentional.

"Ah Yao, you are so beautiful!" After the hairpin ceremony, Pei Shuo came up to ah Yao and his eyes were shining. A clear pool reflected the skylight, which also reflected the appearance of ah Yao, as if she had come out of the skylight lake“ You look good in a big sleeved shirt! And the Phoenix hairpin and corolla on his head. "

"Is it really nice?" A Yao was embarrassed to help the Jinfeng hairpin, with rosy cheeks. The phoenix of the Phoenix hairpin was a partial Phoenix. She was small and inserted into the tip of the falling horse bun to show her side face. She held a ruby the size of a rice bead in her mouth, decorated with three pearls of the same size, which looked beautiful and lovely.

The Pearl Flower mother of Pearl and silver hairpin are inlaid with chestnut on the outside, with the pattern of sweet scented osmanthus in the middle, and the stamens are inlaid with pearls. It is inserted into the bun with a radian like a hair crown.

"Uh huh!" Pei Shuo nodded hard, summoned up his courage and asked shyly, "do you like the first wooden hairpin?"

A Yao blinked and guessed. She stared at Pei Shuo and looked at him more embarrassed. She didn't want to be timid. Her eyes glanced to other places.

"Did you make the wooden hairpin?"

"Yes, yes!" On this point, Pei Shuo was very sincere. After affirming his actions, he was very proud of "I'm powerful. I'll cross my waist first". He also looked at the ebony hairpin with some regret: "I begged master Wangyue for a long time before she agreed to use the ebony hairpin. If I had known that you had added hairpins twice later, one was gold and the other was silver, I should have hit a copper hairpin, But I'm afraid you don't like it and won't accept it. "

"These two are given by the long princess." A Yao whispered, "I like this hairpin very much."

Ying Niang gnaws at melon seeds and says that she doesn't like people. She's a hard spoken child. Pei Shuo grew up to be a talent. I think Pei Xingzhi should be good. When I think of the flower tree, Ying Niang moved the corners of her mouth.

"At the end of the month..."

Pei Shuo was about to invite ah Yao to see the red leaves in the eastern suburbs. Pei Bo hurried to see the red leaves. He looked grim: "young master, general, please go back to the house immediately!"

"Go back quickly. I'll make you a delicious meal later." A Yao helped persuade.

"Well, it's settled. When I come back, I'll make delicious food for me." Pei Shuo doesn't give up. He shakes Cui and smells good-bye to a Yao. They go home with Pei Bo together.

She doesn't know. As soon as Pei Shuo leaves, the next goodbye will be a few years later.

Mo xingle, like a Yao, saw the bird's nest in the crowd. Before a Yao went to say hello to the bird's nest, Pei Shuo came over and looked at the bird's nest and found that Mo xingle was already talking to her.

"Bird's nest girl, long time no see." Mo xingle said hello to the bird's nest. When he approached, he found that the clothes of the bird's nest had changed, like a servant girl of any family.

"Brother Mo, you are here too." The bird's nest smiled.

The bird's nest seems to have changed, grown taller and looked better. Mo xingle looked at her face, maybe her carefree childishness had faded, her thin long eyebrows and the canthus of her eyes were caged and calm, which made the cardamom girl a few years older.

"You two sisters are really different. They obviously look the same. One is calm and the other looks like a child." Mo xingle joked: "why didn't I see you at Sun Niang's foot shop? I was with the girl looking at the moon?"

The bird's nest shakes its head with a smile.

"Bird's nest sister!"

A Yao sent Pei Shuo away and rushed like a butterfly. The bird's nest apologized, smiled at Mo xingle and walked to a Yao: "it's all hairpin, and it's like a child."

"I'm still a baby." Ah Yao was shocked by the bird's nest, "I don't know shame. Well, your hairpin ceremony is over, and I should go back and recover my life. "

A Yao was stunned for a moment. "Did the long Princess let you come?"

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be here." The bird's nest wanted to rub her head, but there was nowhere to start. She straightened the flower Dian hairpin on her head, "tell the girl I'm going back."

A Yao quickly pulled the sleeve of the bird's nest, "can't you stay here for a while? Let's go after dinner... Or did I hurt you because of what I said last time? "

As soon as she spoke, she was pinched by the bird's nest.

"Don't worry, I'm fine now. You're right. Our family used to... So even if she cooked for your people, she didn't necessarily want to eat. Now she's transferred back to the kitchen to take charge of the long princess's meal. It's a blessing for me. Thank you, too. "

The bird's nest was attached to a Yao's ear and said in a voice that two people could hear. Finally, "now she knows the existence of you and the girl. It should be regarded as a kind of acquiescence. Come on and do well. I'm waiting to meet you in the kitchen of Princess Chang's house next time. "

A Yao nodded. Her brain was still a mess of paste. The words of the bird's nest hidden the fundamental reason why she and Wangyue came to the capital to overturn the case. What happened.

The bird's nest greeted the others with a smile and left in an ox cart.

"Dinner!"

Li Gang shouted, and the smell of the food floated out.

Several people in sun Niang's foot shop have a table, including Aunt Wang, Yu Niang, Yu Niang's husband and Mo xingle, and a Yao Wangyue, Yan Niangzi and Ying Niang.

The chicken is nothing to say. Open the chest, take out the internal organs and wash them. Put a few pieces of mellow orange peel into the chest and apply the sauce. Put a layer of yellow mud on the whole Ji and turn it into an oval mud chicken ball. Wrap it with lotus leaves, tie hemp rope, bury it in the fire pond, bury it with soil, make a fire on it and bake it well. Before it is served, break the hard yellow mud with a hammer, and even the chicken feathers can be taken off. Mixed with the fragrance of lotus leaves, the chicken is fragrant and tender.

Fried clam with bean paste and perilla is also an alternative appetizer. When you pick up the clam and sip it, the light yellow meat and sauce will be inhaled into your mouth.

When making taro, chop ribs and marinate them into the taste. Spread taro and steam them in the pot. A little fat meat in the ribs exudes oil to allow taro to absorb. Taro powder is waxy and has the taste of gravy. The ribs are also contaminated with the smell of taro, which complement each other, just like the wonderful combination of bamboo shoots and fat meat.

Two fish a day. The grass carp takes the whole fish bone, the fish bone makes soup, and the fish meat is chopped into minced fish. Add egg white and starch, wrap minced and seasoned minced pork into it like a dumpling, rub it into a fish ball and cook it in the pot. Finally, put laver and shrimp skin in the soup, drop a few drops of shrimp oil, sprinkle scallion, clear soup and fish balls. This is one of them. Make a slightly sour appetizing fish soup, which is perfect.

Aunt Wang also sighed: "it's much better than my cooking. I'm superb in cooking. I've seen it today."

Mo xingle interrupted: "that's right. The girl looking at the moon is one of the best cooks in Nanxun."

There is also a brewing balsam pear. Remove the melon bag in the middle and brew it into minced meat. First, it feels bitter in the depths of the tongue, chews the elastic teeth and fresh sweetness of minced meat, and then the balsam pear slowly returns to sweetness.

The taste of first bitter and then sweet makes people sigh that it is not easy to eat. When they think of life, they dig out the delicious dish in their memory, which has nothing to do with value and taste. It just happens to appear at the worst time, giving them the best comfort and becoming the driving force of hope and longing for a better life.

"Eat well." Li Gang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and smiled: "it's like Li Rou brought me out of the mountain village. We were as happy as the first full meal we had in the capital."

"It will get better in the future." Li Rou said softly.

"Li Rou, when I make more money, I'll invite the cook to cook nine dishes and one soup and enjoy it."

Sun Niang's eyes were wet. She thought that the husband and wife file in sun Niang's foot store had become her own hard support. Seeing the decline of the store's business, she had no time to take care of it. When she came to the sesame oil chicken soup noodles to bring back the dead, she bowed her head and took a few more mouthfuls of rice, blinked more to remove the water vapor, so as not to be seen by others.

Leng buting added a piece of taro to her bowl, which was song Fangjia's: "eat taro, taro is sweet."

"OK."

A Yao bit her chopsticks and looked at the moon. She also thought of the original baked sweet potato and the bowl of rough and choking wheat rice, as well as the bitterness after coming to the capital. Fortunately, the bitterness she had eaten was like this brewing balsam pear, slowly returning to sweetness.

Seeing off the guests, the courtyard returned to quiet.

Wangyue and a Yao returned to the house and told her to be careful in her words and deeds in the capital. At night, the kitchen lights are bright and the cooking smoke is swirling. Wangyue is still teaching the secret method of palace cuisine, the quality of materials, which parts are suitable for cooking, and which ingredients taste good. I wish I could become a master of Kung Fu and teach what I have learned all my life overnight.

A Yao knew that the time of parting would come again. She listened more attentively and lived up to the expectation of looking at the moon.

On the third watch, there is a full moon and stars in the sky.

The continuous fire lights up the twists and turns of the mountain road. The fire light is like a long snake swimming in the mountains and forests. It turned out to be an urgent March. The leader carried the military flag, and the flying flag was illuminated by the fire, and the word "Pei" was clearly visible. This was Pei's army, which frightened the north and the South with the holy battle.

Pei Zhengwen took the lead. Bo Bu wore Yang and rode a jujube red horse in silver armor. After his long tail, near the end, Pei Shuo followed the large team with a long gun. His merit was not enough for him to follow the leading army.

As Pei Zhengwen expected, the autumn harvest northern barbarians came to the Grass Valley again and occupied two small counties in the border city. The big city has not been broken yet and is still guarding. The news spread back to the capital. Pei Zhengwen asked for war and captured the border city. He got the Oracle, ordered troops to set out, called back his useless son before departure and asked him whether he would follow.

Since he chose the road of military merit promotion, Pei Shuo has no hesitation.

Even the notice didn't have time to tell ah Yao that he had accompanied his luggage from Yanmen and set out with the army.

The bird's nest is like walking a tightrope in the long princess's house step by step. Finally, it seeks the position of the people around it, hides its power and bides its time, works for the long Princess tremblingly, and quietly waits for the opportunity to overturn the case.

When a Yao sent off Wangyue, she was left alone in the house, but it was different from the scene when she first came to the capital. They learned that the bird's nest was in Princess Chang's house. They occasionally corresponded and could reunite with her when they met the festival bird's nest. A Yao filed a case in the fourth lawsuit and sixth Bureau of the government office and slowly managed her own business. Since others thought she was too young to invite her, Mo xingle invited her to do more family banquets, She was also recommended to other officials with surplus money. The reputation of the four departments and six bureaus has accumulated and fermented, and everything is developing in a good direction.

A miserable life is just a moment. There will always be a day when the bitter rain will end and the wind will clear up. Clear the clouds and see the sun and see the brilliance of the water washed blue sky.

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