chapter 62

After the Dragon Boat Festival, it is the real hot summer. The sun was shining brightly, the ground was scorching hot, and a thin layer of scalding dust floated up. The dog hid in the shade of the wall and lay listlessly. Even the gang of chickens they raised were a lot more honest, not always thinking about it. He jumped over the fence and came out to harm the vegetable garden.

At this time, put everything back, Shen Shaoguang doesn't go out of the store every day, relying on the drinks and fruits from Jingshui Town in the backyard to survive. It’s better to eat in the morning and evening. For the noon meal, just take a few bites like a cat.

As soon as he saw Shen Shaoguang having lunch, Yu San frowned. Shen Shaoguang pleases him with a smile and encourages him to eat two more bites. She understands that people don't like to eat the rice that was finally made by holding the kitchen and guarding the stove in the summer. This is an intolerable thing for the cook!

A Yuan and A Chang have a good appetite all year round, and they are not taboo when it comes to meat and fish. On such a hot day, when I am hungry in the middle of the morning and half of the afternoon, A Yuan can also eat two hu biscuits with chopped agate meat, or eat a tray of jade-pointed noodles - the same is true for A Chang, and the two of them have snacks at the same time. and consistent.

Since arriving in Shenji, A Chang has gained a lot of weight, but he has not grown in size; however, A Yuan has worked hard in the last stage of adolescence, and has grown several inches a year.

Shen Shaoguang converted his height, about 165 cm, and A Yuan was half taller than her, always over 175, and his waist was wider. Only sad.

However, the guests thought it was very good. "If you look at the people in your store, you will know that the food is delicious! Look at how decent they look."

The less "decent" Shen Shaoguang and Yu San: "..."

Shen Shaoguang and Yu Sanyou pecked at each other, and one felt that the other party ate a lot, so why didn't they grow meat? What a shame on the chef! Another daily dislike, eating as much as cats, mouth greedy and tricky...

Shen Shaoguang felt that he was half wronged: eating less is the real thing, and being greedy and mischievous is not true! You see, I hang my life with porridge and side dishes every day.

Shen Ji's morning and evening porridges include pure rice porridge, rice and mung bean porridge, rice lily and lotus seed porridge, lotus leaf porridge, and green vegetable lean meat porridge.

In addition to all kinds of seasonal vegetables in summer, the side dishes are pickles: Yu San Princess's variety of aristocratic pickled sauerkraut, pickled radish, pickled cucumber, pickled purple ginger, as well as pan-fried mashed fish with glutinous rice, fried bacon with cornel sauce, and pickled salted eggs Such "marinated goods peripherals".

Despite the "quantum Zeno effect", Shen Shaoguang still observed her cured ham from time to time, imagining the taste of Mr. Tang Lusun's ham mixed with shepherd's purse and porridge, while imitating Yu San's style, poking it with a bamboo stick. A poke—however, it didn’t show the reason. It can be seen that it is a long process from young fresh meat to charming old bacon, and there is no rush.

Shen Shaoguang thought of the "two-year leg" Lin Shaoyin again. He was about twenty-five or six years old? In terms of age and appearance, it is still very fresh, but who makes people "gifted"? It was because of his immobile temperament that he shortened the fermentation period...

Thinking of his eyes that seem to hide a thousand words lately, the hook at the corner of his eyes when he smiles, the lips after drinking the soup, and the arms and waist, Shen Shaoguang is a little dry, hold on, my integrity and Bottom line!

Finally, Shen Shaoguang was fed up with pickles, and stretched his claws to other living creatures.

In the morning, after the uncle who brought the fish delivered the fish, Shen Shaoguang asked with a smile, "Can you bring some grasshoppers and golden cicadas? The cicadas have only just climbed out of the ground and haven't shed their shells, but they can fly not so much. Fragrant, not tasty."

The fish seller smiled and said, "The little lady is a rich man in the city. How could she come up with these things? We rely on this to save our lives in the famine years."

"It's delicious, Lang Jun just catch some." Shen Shaoguang said with a smile.

Not to mention that Shen Shaoguang was a tavern owner who was a grass-roots person before the crossing, and a tavern owner who was a court slave after the crossing. Even the real rich and noble people in this dynasty also ate these things, such as Emperor Xuanzong, like the grandfather who is in the present.

Refusal to the cloud, in the fourth year of Kaiyuan, there was a locust plague. Xuanzong hated and ate the locusts. He said, "You eat the grains of the people, like eating the heart of the people." He literally led the officials and the people to win the battle against the locust plague.

Of course, it has been a long time since Kaiyuan at this time, and Xuanzong's eating locusts has too much political significance. It is Jinshang's grandfather who really eats "worms" for his appetite.

According to the old cook in the palace, the sage loved to eat golden cicadas, or roasted, steamed or blanched, and then seasoned with vinegar, sauce, coriander, and polygonum, and he would eat it every summer. ① It is said that there were many high-ranking officials and nobles who followed suit at that time, and the late emperors and Jinshang were not very general about this.

Shen Shaoguang didn't know whether the dignitaries still liked it or not, so maybe he could ask Lin Shaoyin when he looked back.

He is a farmer who sells fish. He has been a supplier to Shen Ji since he caught fish last year and sold it in the city. The past half year has been a lot easier. The little lady's family is greedy. I need to help me with this little work. Description is to buy.

On the second day, brought a pot of golden cicada larvae - Shen Shaoguang's hometown called Zhi Hou'er, and he used a dozen strings of grasshoppers strung with grass stems. Arrested.

It was not easy for Shen Shaoguang to miss the children, so he paid a lot and said with a smile, "Thank you for your help." He brought some flower cakes to show his gratitude.

The fish seller left happily, and Shen Shaoguang cooked these "worms".

Eating cicadas like the emperor did, Shen Shaoguang didn't have the patience, so he decided to use the method of "deep frying" and fry the whole thing.

Cleaning is the most important step, and then slightly pickled in salt water with peppercorns, dried, and ready to fry.

Frying this is no different from frying small balls. First, fry it slowly on a low heat. When it is almost completely fried, take it out, raise the temperature of the oil and fry it again to make it more crispy and fragrant.

Then sprinkle some pepper and cumin powder, empty mouth, drink, eat with hu cakes, all are very good.

But this kind of thing, not to mention Yu San, even A Yuan and A Chang would not eat it.

A Yuan was a little moved, but seeing how the insects were showing their teeth and claws and their eyebrows growing, they retreated in the end.

Although A Yuan doesn't eat, she doesn't delay to praise her little lady: "Little lady is brave!"

Shen Shaoguang: "..."

Shen Shaoguang ate deliciously at home - today's lunch was finally full.

But I didn't want to be seen by the early guests. This is a regular customer, the one who wrote a poem on the outside wall praising the Wing Chun plate, "The white jade plate is tender with green silk, and the jade pot is fragrant with meat."

This person who later wrote poems about Shen Ji's cakes, jade tip noodles and cold tao, all written on the wall, is almost a part-time advertising creative director of Shen Ji.

This is a scholar after all. At that time, it was compared to Cao Zhi's "Cicada Fu". "The body is in the kitchen, and it is burnt when it returns to the charcoal." He found some historical origins for Shen Shaoguang's gluttony.

That being the case, how could Shen Shaoguang ignore him? Add some stir-fried courgette, mixed with pig ears and other side dishes, and a new wine of green ant, the scholar eats and drinks happily, and when he is drunk, he will attack the case and sing. Eating cicadas and locusts."

This "Cicada Food and Locust" has changed the sadness of "Cicada" and praised the prosperity of the world, saying that the golden cicadas and locusts, which were used to prevent famine in the famine years, are now only used as drinks. Although it is written about cicadas and locusts, the words are fresh and elegant, combined with parallel and scattered, quite a bit like a sketch of the Six Dynasties.

Shen Shaoguang can't wait to get a red slap, this style and theme are the most suitable for advertising slogans. If he was full of depression, he would say like Luo Caizi, "No one believes in Gao Jie, who cares?" I can only persuade him, let him get drunk, and it is impossible to go to the wall— Very discordant society.

Shen Shaoguang scraped the old poems, and the scholar took advantage of his drunkenness to write this fu on the wall with another rambunctious sketch.

Shen Shaoguang only sighed with emotion, but unfortunately the supply of ingredients could not keep up. If he could keep up, with this advertisement, he could earn more than three to five buckets.

Shen Shaoguang didn't know that his small wine shop had the potential of koi fish. This poem was later seen by Li Xianggong who came to eat, and he mentioned it in a chat with the emperor. It was the Hanlin scholar who became the emperor.

Although the Hanlin at this time was not more expensive than the later Hanlin, he was also a close minister of the emperor. This scholar did not do well in the scientific examinations for many years, but he stepped into the official career because of a meal. The opportunity in this world is really lamentable.

Of course, these are later stories.

When Shen Shaoguang tossed and blew up the monkey, Lin Yan was in the office of Song Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment.

"Because Fan Shangshu is unwell, An Ran asked me to look for the Shen Qian case file, which is now available." Song Shilang smiled and pushed a roll of things from the table case.

Lin Yan nodded and thanked him solemnly.

Song Shilang smiled and said, "But it's a transcript, and I couldn't bring it out anyway."

"Yan understands, this has been extremely difficult."

Major case files like this are kept in special archives. The original rule was that all ministers in the non-political affairs hall should sign and not lend them out.

But in practice, in order to avoid this kind of trouble, it is convenient to sign for the borrower, review it by the Minister of Punishment, and approve it, and then it can be read in the Department of Punishment-Song Shilang used a little power to have someone copy it to Lin Yan. share.

"It's worth An Ran's efforts to help check the old files. The son of the Shen family who asked for it would be very good. If he came to Beijing, An Ran would definitely recommend it on his behalf." Shilang Song said with a smile.

Lin Yan smiled, "Okay."

At the beginning, Lin Yan asked Song Shilang for help, on the pretext that a nephew of Shen Qian wanted to know some past events, and asked himself to investigate, this person is naturally non-existent, but at this time Lin Yan suddenly thought of another meaning...

Song Shilang and Lin Yan entered office at about the same time. When Cui Shangshu had an accident, Lin Yan ran around for him. Song Shilang knew about it. At that time, he felt that this person could be handed over. It was quite emotional, and knowing that he had no immediate descendants left, the Shen family's children who were still investigating his old case at this time also relied on a sense of righteousness. The strange saying that "squares are gathered together by likes, and things are divided by groups" is all about righteousness over profit.

It's just that sometimes the price of loyalty is too high, "This Duke Shen and his son passed away, and his wife and daughter entered the court. I'm afraid such a noble girl..."

Having said this, Shilang Song suddenly stopped, remembering that Lin Yan's fiancée was rumored to be coming, he couldn't help being a little embarrassed, and he took a sip of tea to cover it up.

Lin Yan also took a sip of tea, her eyes warmed, A Li was alive and well, as bright as the three spring scenery, but she should be better, if one day, Shen Gong's affairs will be snowed...

Lin Yan put down the tea cup, put his hands on his knees, the longevity strands hidden in his sleeves rubbed against his skin, and it was slightly itchy, but Lin Yan let it itch...

The author has something to say:

Lin Shaoyin: I am a son-in-law and half a son-in-law.

Song Shilang, who knows the truth: ...is it interesting to play Jingfen?

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①For practice, refer to "Qi Min Yao Shu"