Chapter 51

The Shangsi Festival is a good day, both for those who travel in spring and those who set up stalls.

Shen Shaoguang hired two mule carts early to prepare semi-finished and semi-finished products of various ingredients with Yu San and A Yuan. He just waited for the time to go to the Qujiang River to make a fortune.

Neither A Yuan nor Yu San had experienced this battle, let alone A Chang. I know that the little lady used to set up a stall to sell pancakes, but I don't know that she can "change the shop to a stall" at any time now.

Shen Shaoguang proudly showed them the results of setting up a stall on the Dragon Boat Festival last year, "So many buckets of iced sour plum drinks have been packaged by the guards, and no one else wants to buy them. After the festival, buy them. The captain of Sour Plum Drinking Zi came over again, and I simply sold the recipe to him."

The three of them were shocked again by this new wave of pranking, so Fang Zi can also be sold?

"How much did you sell for?" Achang asked.

Shen Shaoguang sold off, "Guess what."

"Five taels." Achang thought for a while.

A Yuan often helps Shen Shaoguang settle accounts, feeling that five taels is not enough to make the little lady so proud, "Ten taels."

Yu San was busy with his work and did not speak.

"Twenty taels." Shen Shaoguang said with a smile.

Achang opened his eyes wide, a recipe for sour plum soup can buy several himself.

A Yuan clapped his hands reluctantly, and expanded from this: "Then if we sell all kinds of recipes for meat and jade noodles..."

Achang first smiled and said, "How can we do that? People bought all our recipes and opened a liquor store, so wouldn't they fight for business?" So as not to be unknowingly at a loss.

Yu San couldn't listen anymore, "Oh", "The key is that this kind of idiot who buys a drink for twenty-two is hard to find."

Shen Shaoguang: "..." Okay, I'll let you guys say the truth.

A Yuan summed up the statement: "The little lady is still amazing!"

Shen Shaoguang is smiling, but the little girl is caring.

In the blink of an eye, it was the first day of the festival. Standing at the place where the stall was set up last year, watching A Chang light the stove, Yu San kneading glutinous rice balls, and A Yuan fetching water to scrub the table, Shen Shaoguang was not without emotion. Last year, I was alone, guarding a desk, doing everything by myself, making a few thousand dollars and being very happy. Let's look at it now... It will be better in the future, right? will it?

Because it is outdoors, the things that can be brought are limited. The main thing is to make various flower cakes, such as pea yellow, Aiwowo, green dumplings, red bean cakes, snowflake cakes, etc. They all bring fillings and leather molds to make them now, so as not to blow it. Chapped leather or broken frame.

When selling all kinds of pastries, the ones that are more particular can be put in a cardboard box, and those that are not so particular can be packed in paper bags, or the sticks can be inserted and eaten.

Tea drinking is simpler. There are no cold drinks for seasonal reasons, only jasmine tea, hawthorn and wolfberry drinks. Whether it is jasmine or hawthorn and wolfberry, they are all from drugstores. If you smell it carefully, you can smell the smell of Codonopsis and Astragalus. Another sweet soup is added - sake brewed Yuanzi, prepared for the hungry.

A small team of four spread out the stall, and several large boxes of colorful and various flower cakes were placed in the most conspicuous part of the stall to ensure that people on the road could see it at a glance.

Some people even remember Shen Shaoguang, "The little lady made a good glutinous rice dumpling!" When they saw the Aiwowo that I had eaten here, they were even more delighted, "I will never eat such a good bean paste in the future!"

The people next to me were curious and asked what is so special about this bean paste?

The original customer was actually a researcher who loves the bottom line: "A friend and friend who was good at eating and drinking, this bean paste is called 'Lingsha Zang', which is delicate and plump, sweet but not bitter. Come on, this little lady deserves these words."

This guest also popularized science. It is said that Lingsha Zang in Madam Guo's house in Tianbao was the best.

The delicacies of Mrs. Guoguo's mansion are not available, but the ready-made Aiwowo by the Qujiang River does exist. After listening to the allusions, people naturally want to try this dessert full of Tang romance.

Once the chat started, someone asked Shen Shaoguang where he opened the cake shop.

Shen Shaoguang made a small advertisement with them, introducing the Shenji wine shop in Chongxianfang, and smiled and apologized: "We also have flower cakes on weekdays, but there are not so many varieties. It's agate meat, jade balls and other chicken, duck and fish meat for drinking and cooking. more."

It is agate and jade, and the name alone is beautiful enough. Not only were the customers who bought the flower cake not disappointed, but they became more and more interested.

Yu San looked at Shen Shaoguang with some doubts, Shen Shaoguang is very innocent, they are really not the nurses I asked for, this is the power of repeat customers.

Ah Yuan only praised her in her heart, "Look, look, I said that the little lady can attract countless guests just by talking."

After a wave of large traffic was sold, the purchase of food began to slow down, and the four of them had time to rest and chat.

A Yuan looked left and right, "Little lady, will Tanhua Lang pass by us?"

This Shen Shaoguang really didn't know, "If you go shopping in Xingyuan, you might see Tanhualang, anyway, it's not very busy at the moment." And to San and Achang, "Wait for Ayuan to come back. , you can also go for a walk instead, and it's not a waste to come to Qujiang for the holiday."

A Yuan shook her head, "We are all going out to play, and the little lady is left. This time you go!"

Shen Shaoguang laughed, I'm too old to be a star chaser. I've saved pocket money for a long time to buy tickets for the last seat of an idol concert in the early years.

Yu San looked at Achang: "You also follow."

Shen Shaoguang raised his eyebrows. Yu Sanjiguan put the filling in the green dough wrapper, wrapped it well, and pressed it into the mold again.

A Chang smiled and took off the sleeves of his apron, "I'll follow the little lady."

Shen Shaoguang was represented and accepted their kindness, so he also took off his apron and said with a smile, "Then we're going out for a walk, and we'll be back for a shift later."

Shen Shaoguang took Achang to the direction of Xingyuan. There were many people along the way, and they were all waiting to see Xinke Jinshi. don't know what time this Tanhualang started to explore the flowers. Shen Shaoguang didn't want to wait stupidly, so he took Achang and walked forward. On the way, he bought a big bag of sesame candy, and bought Achang a very beautiful candy painting.

Achang was flattered, even when he was a real child, no one had ever done this, "let's eat it for a little lady."

Shen Shaoguang likes to eat sweet, but he can't eat too sweet. "You can eat it. It's hard to take it, or else I'll bring one for A Yuan."

Shen Shaoguang took the bun and sesame candy and held it, so that Achang could concentrate on eating his candy painting.

Looking up at the clear and lingering river, boats on the river, and occasionally flying water birds, weeping willows swaying along the shore, looking far away, there is a dense green, which really means "willow like smoke". Shen Shaoguang turned his head again to look at the ladies in red makeup and the romantic gentlemen, all of them with green eyebrows, pink faces, and youthful spring shirts.

After blowing the wind by the riverside, he pulled a tender grass stalk and put it in his mouth. Seeing that Achang had finished eating the sugar, he went back.

When passing by Xingyuan, heard that the Tanhualangs have just passed by.

Achang was excited: "Let's go quickly, maybe we can catch up."

Shen Shaoguang threw the stalks of grass, rushed forward with Achang, and really caught up.

Among the people, Shen Shaoguang looked and saw that the two tanhualangs were really young, and they were in their early twenties. If the powder is applied, the eyebrows and eyes are fine and delicate, like a zhilan and yushu.

Whoops, this year's third flower makes the appearance very high. Shen Shaoguang compares the former Tanhua Lang who he is familiar with. The temperament is a bit cold, like a cypress branch in winter, not so close to the people.

At this time, there was a maid who wanted to come forward, and the sword-brow and star-eyed Tanhua wanted to come to know him, so he let the maid go, but the maid was holding a silk handkerchief.

The flower-seeker unfolded the veil to take a look, opened his lips and smiled. The romantic attitude of this smile made countless girls take a breath, and immediately someone threw the handkerchiefs and flower branches in their hands at the tanhualangs as was popular in the past.

The two Tanhua Lang smiled and rode forward.

"Tsk! Tsk! A young man has been admitted to the university, Qujiang is a flower, and Pingkang Mingji has sent a balm stained with eyebrow print and lip gloss. There is nothing more complacent in life than this!"①

"Shiro is also more diligent, and it will be you if you can't keep up next year."

Shen Shaoguang looked sideways at the two scholars beside him. It turned out that the handkerchief was given by a prostitute in Pingkang, and there was also a fragrant "artistic processing". You Tang Dynasty people really know how to play!

Seeing the pretty little lady looking at them, the two gentlemen also smiled and nodded to Shen Shaoguang.

Shen Shaoguang smiled dryly and squeezed out of the crowd.

Because the Tanhua envoy was in front, Shen Shaoguang was too lazy to squeeze forward, so he led Achang around for a while, bought some other snacks, and then walked back to his stall when the road was clear.

As soon as they came back, they saw that Yu San and A Yuan were very busy, and Shen Shaoguang and A Chang quickly joined in.

Rao was so busy, A Yuan also reported the news to Shen Shaoguang, "Little lady, little lady, just now that flower stalker bought our flower cake! What else did you say 'cake is more delicate than flowers'."

The guests next to them also laughed and said, "We also try this flower cake that all the envoys like."

Shen Shaoguang: "..." What kind of adventure is this? It turns out that Lord Qianlong's roast chicken and Cixi's Xiaowotou may be real!

While busy, Shen Shaoguang pondered, and went back to be a big brand of flower cakes.

Thanks to Tanhualang's help, today's flower cakes were sold extremely fast, and gradually some varieties were sold out.

There were also fewer tourists. Shen Shaoguang hurried Yu San Ayuan and the others to go shopping, guarding the stall by himself, and then closed the stall and went home only when they came back.

The former Tanhua Lang came at this time.

Shen Shaoguang found that this man always liked to appear when the night was over, and he was born with a bit of loneliness.

At this time, there is the biggest problem - there is no food!

Shen Shaoguang smiled and joked: "The current Tanhua envoy bought cakes, so the former Tanhua envoy has no cakes to buy."

Lin Yan frowned slightly, "Then let's drink jasmine tea."

Shen Shaoguang poured him tea, brought the cakes, and then went to clean up the chopping board.

After cleaning up, he turned around and saw Lin Shaoyin lowered his head slightly and was gently scraping the tea powder with the lid of the tea bowl, perhaps because his nose was straight, his profile was particularly good-looking, and he was wearing a dark crimson official uniform. very.

Compared with the two flower-seekers just now, this one's good looks have been precipitated, it is probably like - Shen Shaoguang remembered the ham hanging in his backyard again.

Shen Shaoguang felt that Lin Shaoyin could be counted as a leg for two years, and steamed it with flower carvings, thinking it was a good idea.

Lin Yan turned his head to the side, just meeting Shen Shaoguang's eyes.

Shen Shaoguang was not embarrassed to be caught, but smiled and said, "Lin Langjun was so lively when the apricot orchard was in bloom? Did you—" Shen Shaoguang coughed lightly and stopped. It would be too frivolous to ask if there were any famous prostitutes to send veils.

Lin Yan smiled: "It's like this every year."

"Oh—" Shen Shaoguang nodded.

"It's just that there were no such good flower cakes to eat at that time." Lin Yan lowered his eyes slightly, took a piece of snowflake cake into his mouth, and chewed slowly.

"..." Shen Shaoguang couldn't help laughing, did Lin Shaoyin eat honey today? Why are you talking so sweetly all of a sudden?

The corners of Lin Yan's eyes lifted slightly, like a bud in the beginning.

The author has something to say: ① In fact, it is the experience of the late Tang poet Han Xi. "The envoy Yu Zuo sent congratulations to the silk child in the hand of the Liaoling, so there is a poem": "Untie the small letter seal of the Liaoling, and the flower banquet shows the spring bushes. The eyebrows are printed on a slight green, and the sandalwood mouth disappears with a thin red."