Chapter 172： Shopping in blue (two updates combined into one, 4,000 words)

Chapter 172 Shopping in blue (two updates combined into one, 4000 words)

After getting dressed and washed, Su Ruojin was ready to treat herself as a guest and go into the tea restaurant to order a set meal and experience the morning tea culture. As soon as she left the Moon Cave Gate, she met Zhao Lan coming over.

“Morning, little prince!”

Zhao Lan smiled slightly and said, "Morning."

The two of them greeted each other and asked if they had eaten breakfast. The young lady said that she wanted to order food as a guest, and Zhao Lan said that he was treating her.

Su Ruojin, as the host, wanted to treat guests, but was stopped by Zhao Lan, "Then there is that little lady who is treating guests."

Zhao Lan insisted on inviting this guest, so Su Ruojin couldn't insist anymore. After entering, his father Su Yanli had already taken his mother, Sanlang and Shilang to eat.

Zhao Lan stood at the door and hesitated for a moment. He wanted to treat the young lady to eat alone, but did not want to sit at the same table with the teacher.

Su Yanli didn't see what the student was thinking, but the food on the table was half-empty. The students had different identities, so it didn't look good anyway, so he stood up and said, "Why don't you, Ah Jin, sit at the next table with the little prince?"

Just what Zhao Lan wanted.

Su Ruojin thought that it would be good to save her mother from being uncomfortable eating at the table, so she sat at the same table as Zhao Lan. The waitress brought the order book to the two of them and asked them to order.

Su Ruojin painstakingly listed all the snacks and tea in the dining book. She could tell what was there even with her eyes closed, so she asked Zhao Lan to order.

He smiled slightly and asked her what she was going to eat over here. Su Ruojin smiled and said, "Prepare a crystal set meal. Where are you, little prince?"

“Then just like you.”

Crystal set menu mainly includes crystal shrimp dumplings, crystal osmanthus cake, crystal crab roe soup dumplings, crystal meat, fried spring rolls, pumpkin cake with red dates and wolfberry glutinous rice porridge, and a cup of green tea.

 Zhao Lan used to be silent during food and sleep, but since he went to Su's house for dinner, although he didn't talk about it himself, he liked to listen to what others said. Of course, this person refers specifically to Mrs. Su Er.

After eating a big crystal crab roe soup dumpling, Su Ruojin was so satisfied that she couldn't help but sigh: "If it weren't for the little prince's favor, a small shop like Su Ji wouldn't be able to get crab roe at this time of year."

Zhao Lan was sucking the soup out of the big crab roe soup dumpling. He took a full mouthful and was really satisfied. Seeing that his master was eating happily, Shuangrui quickly took another basket from the side table and placed it in front of his little master.

There is only one in each cage. The transparent and bright ones are lying in the small cages. They are very delicate.

Zhao Lan poked the orange tube into the sloshing crab roe soup dumpling, raised her eyes and asked, "What are you going to do after breakfast?"

“Stay with my parents…”

Su Yanli had finished eating at the table. He got off the table and was about to go out and give the table to the queue behind him. He happened to pass by and when he heard his daughter's words, he quickly interrupted: "We don't want to accompany you. You can do whatever you want."

Su Ruojin: ...she still disliked being accompanied, so she puffed up her mouth to express her dissatisfaction.

Su Yanli said to the students: "Don't be in a hurry, eat slowly."

Zhao Lan nodded.

Sanlang and Silang were young and could not have the patience to accompany the adults to have morning tea slowly, so Su Yanli and his wife took their two children out of the restaurant. Also, Su Xiaowu was still sleeping in the room, so the couple hurried back to the room worriedly. .

The empty table was quickly occupied by waiting guests.

Business is booming!

Su Ruojin's mood improved and she asked casually: "What are you going to do after breakfast?"

“March is a perfect spring season. Let’s go out for a walk. Do you want to come together?”

“Where to go?” Su Ruojin didn’t want to go out today after being out for a long time yesterday afternoon.

“Where does Ah Jin want to go?”

"Me?" Ye Huaizhen took care of the things in the shop, and her parents brought her younger brothers and sisters. It was rare for Su Ruojin to have free time, "Go shopping."

“I happen to have nothing to do.” It means going shopping with you.

Su Ruojin was about to grab the crystal shrimp dumplings. When she heard this, she raised her eyes and said, "You asked for leave like my father?"

"Um."

The young lady stared at him with her clear eyes. Zhao Lan felt guilty for some reason and did not dare to look at him. He lowered his eyes and reached out to pick up a cup of green tea. He lowered his head and pursed his lips and took a sip. The tea went into his throat. It was very fragrant. He tasted it carefully. The sweetness between the teeth is a unique taste. No matter whether it is a sweet pastry or a salty soup bag, the tea leaves only a faint fragrance in the mouth.

No wonder it’s called morning tea so appropriately.

Since having dinner at the restaurant during the Dragon Boat Festival last year, Zhao Lan has almost never gone to Su's house to have a meal. Even if she gave out gifts during the New Year, she only asked the two stewards to come over and deliver them. She thought that Zhao Lan had picked up an errand and got busy.

The relationship between a prince's student who doesn't go to school and an ordinary wife will slowly fade away if they don't move around. Su Ruojin thought that Zhao Lan and Su Yanli were developing in this direction, but every festival was timely and valuable. When she needed help, He was not stingy and seemed to be even better to her than his brother, so much so that she felt that this fourteen-year-old boy was strange.

Has it changed from middle school to adolescence?

Su Ji breakfast opened and she didn’t invite her, so why did he ask for leave to come? Want to go shopping with her?

Su Ruojin always felt that something was wrong, but it didn't seem right to take back what she said. Just go shopping. Anyway, there are only two main streets in Wenshan Street, both of which can be seen at a glance. It doesn't take much time to go shopping. Okay, come back for dinner.

As long as Su Ruojin goes out, Mao Ya must follow. Su Ji Morning Tea Shop has just opened. Except for the two waitresses Siping helped find, Shi Da and Shi Xiaosan are a little uncomfortable with the service model of the tea restaurant. Chunxiao and Qiuyue do not follow. go shopping.

March in spring, the sun is warm and the breeze is just right.

Zhao Lan went shopping with the young lady, slowly and leisurely, watching her trying snacks and visiting bookstores. She picked out a storybook and read it with gusto. When she wanted to laugh, she suddenly realized that someone was waiting for her, and she immediately smiled apologetically. ,"Excuse me…"

“Want to buy…”

"Don't buy it." It's a joke. She is only nine years old and can read such a romance book. Su Ruojin hurriedly read a collection of literary and historical scriptures.

Zhao Lan raised the corners of her lips and followed her silently.

After leaving the bookstore, Su Ruojin didn't know where to go for a while. Unintentionally, she glanced at the calligraphy gentleman on the street and said casually, "I asked the calligraphy gentleman to teach the three brothers of the historian how to read."

Siping told Zhao Lan about this, and he nodded to show that he heard.

“How about we go over to do a calligraphy test?” Su Ruojin asked Zhao Lan for his opinion, but as soon as he finished speaking, he straightened his legs and sat down opposite Mr. Zhao Lan.

Of course Mr. Mo knew the little boss and smiled lightly, "What does the little boss want to test?"

"When you open a shop, of course you want to make money, so let's test the word "wealth." Su Ruojin said as she took a pen and wrote on the paper. She wrote in block letters, neat and stretched, elegant and delicate. At first glance, it was written by a young lady.

After writing, she turned the paper so that it was facing Mr. Mo.

Mo Liyun's face condensed when he saw the words, just like a monk in a temple who saw a pilgrim draw a lot and was full of sympathy and wanted to hide it, but had to say it.

"Sir, isn't it good?" Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Su Ruojin reached out to pick up the paper and held it up toward her, "Cai... Bei... Cai... I think it looks good!" She looked at Mo Mo who didn't want to read the words. gentlemen.

He looked embarrassed and helpless, and reminded: "Young lady, it's best not to go out casually these days."

“Why?”    Mo Liyun smiled helplessly: “Little boss, the secret must not be leaked.”

Well, all fortune tellers like to say this, saying that if the secret is revealed, they, the fortune tellers, will have to pay for it with their lives.

Su Ruojin curled her lips: "Mr. Mo, we are old acquaintances, but there is no harm in testing."

“I’ve told you the result directly, but the boss is still not satisfied?”

“I like the process of character testing.”

Morrie:…

Zhao Lan:…

Unable to do so, Mo Liyun had no choice but to tell him how to measure "wealth" and why knowing a fortune would cause trouble.

Su Ji's morning tea would have been in trouble without Prince Zhao. This was undoubted. However, Zhao Lan had already come to the small breakfast shop in person to protect Su Ji. Who would dare to reach out to Prince Zhao?

Su Ruojin took the meaning of Mr. Mo's paper and took it apart. It turned out that shells are not only shells and money, but also can be used as knives. Recalling that when traveling in his previous life, he saw a rural lady cutting leeks with clam shells, so he used the shells as knives. .

The knife and the **** light are really not suitable for going out.

Su Ruojin didn't believe it, but also wanted to avoid going back to Beijing in the past two days. Anyway, there was a place to live here.

Seeing that the sun was hitting her head, Su Ruojin was no longer interested in shopping, "It's hot, little prince, let's go back."

Zhao Lan just wanted to accompany her. It didn't matter to him whether he was going shopping or just dazing at home.

Hence, the group turned around and headed towards Su Ji.

Mo Liyun looked at the young man's back, and then at the words he wrote in his hand. He always felt that the young man looked at him with a scrutinizing look, as if he looked at everyone with a scrutinizing look.

It really is…

Back at the shop, Uncle Shutong and Shi Xiaoer were unloading crabs, river shrimps, and some seafood, such as scallops, clams, etc., from the car, as well as a bundle of dried kelp, which Su Ruojin specially asked Shutong to buy.

Su Ji’s morning tea includes pickled cucumbers, pickled plums, mustard mustard, sauerkraut, etc. There is one less sea vegetable, so kelp is just right.

Bianjing City is not close to the sea. Although kelp is not valuable, few merchants are willing to bring it out to sell it, so it is not easy for her to eat some kelp to supplement iodine.

Today she finally saw it. She couldn't help but mix the kelp shreds and make kelp soup. "Sister Mao Ya, help us get some to soak. I'll go to the kitchen to make some kelp shreds later."

"Okay." Mao Ya took a large bundle of kelp to the kitchen, cut some and soaked it in water.

Su Ruojin took Zhao Lan to the steward's room and asked Chunxiao to serve him tea. "Little Prince, please take a rest. I'll prepare lunch."

Zhao Lan nodded, "Excuse me, A Jin."

Su Ruojin smiled at his politeness and turned to go to the kitchen.

The boss has been here for the past two days, and Miao Ercui is preparing lunch in the kitchen. The main dishes are beef fried noodles, leek and pork dumplings, and the dishes include roasted chicken with black fungus and spring bamboo shoots, sweet and sour pork ribs, hot kidneys, shredded pork with lettuce, fried vegetarian meatballs, and dried fragrant vegetables. Mix cucumber, minced meat and tofu.

Seeing the little boss coming, he quickly asked: "Second Madam, is it okay for me to arrange these?"

"very good."

The little boss recognized her hard work, and Miao Erjian was very happy. "The kelp has been soaked. I want you to teach me how to make it. If you do it once, I will be able to do it next time."

Miao Ercui doesn’t know how to make kelp.

Su Ruojin smiled and said: "It's simple." She can only make two things with kelp, making soup and cold salad.

More than half an hour later, a simple lunch was cooked in the shop. A large table was set up, and Su Yanli took the whole family to eat with the students.

I don't know since when, Su Yanli liked to chat with Zhao Lan at the dining table. As a result, after everyone had finished eating, they were the only ones still chatting at the table. Sanlang and other children had long been impatient, so they slipped off the table after eating. Went to play.

Cheng Yingzhen went to the room to feed Su Wumei. Su Ruojin had to watch her two younger brothers, and followed them as they ran in and out to be naughty. They ran to the well in the back kitchen. There were two large wooden basins placed beside the well. There are various bowls and chopsticks on it. On the other one, the kelp has been soaked just now, and the water in it has not yet been poured out.

Su Sanlang took a few pieces of paper from somewhere and threw them into the water playfully.

Su Ruojin hurriedly chased after him to stop him, trying to grab the unharmed paper from his hand. When he saw the writing on it, he guessed and snatched it from Saburo's hand, "I'll beat you if you act naughty again."

Su Sanlang was in high spirits and didn't pay attention to Sister's threat at all. Suddenly, he exclaimed: "Sister, why did the words on the paper turn blue?"

Su Ruojin was stunned and stopped grabbing the other papers in Su Sanlang's hand. She quickly squatted down and took out the paper floating in the basin. She looked at it carefully and saw that the black calligraphy did not fade, but was soaked in water and swam away.

Then the blue words are written on them first, and then the unsuspecting person practices the calligraphy on them.

Su Ruojin looked at the basin. This was water soaked in kelp. The kelp contained scriptures. There was a top-secret letter written on paper with a starch solution. When it dried, nothing could be seen. The written paper was still It's like a blank piece of paper, as if nothing has been written on it. If you want to read the top-secret letter, it's easy. The chemical revealing agent corresponding to the starch solution is iodine.

Normally, only iodine is sufficient, but now why the water soaked in kelp can reveal the originally transparent paper, Su Ruojin has no idea.

She quickly went to ask the brother of the Shi family who had practiced these calligraphy. As soon as he entered the fortification room, Shi Da saw the calligraphy he had written in the hands of Xiao Dong. He blushed and said embarrassedly, "I can't write well, let Xiao Dong The boss is laughing."

Su Ruojin was not in the mood to discuss whether calligraphy was good or not, so he asked, "Where did these papers come from?"

“Mr. Mo bought it for us from the pen and ink shop.”

After Su Ruojin heard this, he knew better and asked Shi Da not to tell anyone what he asked him.

“Yes, little boss.”

Su Ruojin found Xiao Sanlang again and told him not to tell anyone about seeing the blue letters and to keep it secret, "otherwise, I will never make delicious food for you again."

Su Sanlang originally wanted to show off that he saw the blue letter, but after hearing what Sister A said, he had no choice but to nod in agreement.

After everything was arranged, Su Ruojin came to Zhao Lan and told him about the discovery of the blue letter.

“Is there any more?”

Su Ruojin replied: "At that time, I also put the remaining papers into the water to test. When they were gone, there was only one piece."

After saying that, he gave the dried paper to Zhao Lan.

Zhao Lan could still see a few blue characters through the smeared ink paper. They were not Chinese characters. Due to his job, he had already learned the Liao-Xia Chinese characters from Mr. Shen.

I could recognize those words at a glance. They were probably written poorly, like an abandoned draft, but there were only three words that I could recognize clearly: urgent...open...di...

“Did Shi Dayou say that Mr. Mo bought it from that pen and ink shop?”