Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 173

Wen Shu heard the words and got up with a smile: "Let's go, greet the guests."

"Hey." Mrs. Zhao responded briskly, dropped the grass at hand, and ran quickly to the water tank behind the tea shed.

Scooping water by the water tank and washing their hands, the two of them entered through the back curtain. At this time, all the people in the carriage in front had already dismounted. Looking around, there were about thirteen or four people including men, women and children.

Mrs. Zhao and Wen Shu looked at each other, with smiles in their eyes. So many people came down, but they didn't eat anything. Each of them ordered a bowl of tea soup, and there were more than a dozen bowls.

Just when they were happy, a nanny who led the way in unexpectedly said, "Shopkeeper, there is boiled clean water here, please pour some."

Mrs. Zhao, who was about to pick up the tea soup, was taken aback, and immediately responded: "Yes, yes, the guests want to drink clean tea, this tea set."

She wants to say whether to use ours or your own, after all, rich and noble people pay more attention to it.

Unexpectedly, the other party said: "It's not for drinking, it's for washing the body, so I have to trouble the store to add some cold water. My little man accidentally vomited on his body, so I took a basin of water to scrub him. We have the basin ourselves. Just trouble the store to fetch some hot water."

Although a little astonished, under Wen Shu's signal, Mrs. Zhao still carried the water.

The nanny thanked them, took the hot and cold kettles, poured them into the small wooden basin they brought, and adjusted the temperature with water while pouring.

After the water was adjusted, she put the kettle on the table behind her and called softly, and the four or five maidservants who followed immediately responded, unfolding the plain long silk in their hands, and surrounded the woman who was carrying the child with her .

After a while, the woman could only be heard humming a little tune while undressing the child, while the nun knelt down, threw the handkerchief into the warm water, and wrung it dry.

Mrs. Zhao was watching it strangely, when the curtain behind her opened and a small head came in, "Mother, I'm hungry."

It was Goudan. Seeing that Mrs. Zhao was in a hurry, she pulled him in, and Wen Shu took two steamed buns wrapped with white womb with oil residue from the cage drawer for him.

Goudan was so hungry that he took the bun and broke it in half, then gobbled it up.

A little girl standing by the door couldn't help swallowing when she saw this, and cautiously said to the mother beside her, "It smells so good, mother."

The nanny looked at some wives surrounded by plain silk, feeling a little embarrassed.

Wen Shu saw the little girl staring at Goudan eagerly, with infinite longing in her eyes, so she picked up two more buns from the cage and asked Mrs. Zhao to take them over.

Seeing this, the women surrounded by Sujuan immediately frowned, and said in a low voice: "I have never seen the world, and the food in this country shop is also greedy."

The little girl's hand that had already been stretched out was immediately retracted by this drink.

The nurse next to her quickly explained: "The girl got up early in the morning and ate little, so she must be hungry."

"If you are hungry, you should endure it. You will go to Beijing after two miles. After entering the mansion, you will not be able to eat anything. You have to eat wild food on the side of the road. If you come from the countryside, there are no rules. Don't lose it when you go back to the mansion." Your father and my face."

Hearing this, the little girl shrank imperceptibly from her shoulders, and soon tears welled up in her eyes, but she tried her best not to fall.

Only then did the woman seem to relieve her anger, and did not speak again.

After a while, the plain silk was removed, and the swaddling baby in the woman's arms returned to its original position, but it was not as tight as before, and half of her face was exposed.

Mrs. Zhao just happened to go to the next table to get a kettle, she glanced at it unexpectedly, and suddenly said in surprise, "Ah! Why is this kid's face so yellow?"

Hearing this, the woman gave her a very displeased look.

Mrs. Zhao came back to her senses, knowing that she was talking too much, she hurriedly stopped talking.

But when he went back to the back, he whispered to Wen Shu: "The baby who has just full term has a sallow face, not much better than the dog's egg back then."

Wen Shu didn't speak. Although there were thirty jaundice-curing dango in the storage basket, the other party didn't take the initiative to ask, so why would she speak rashly.

Besides, sister-in-law Zhao said that the child was just full-term, and whether she could eat the dango was yet to be decided. She didn't want to cause trouble for herself.

After scrubbing their bodies, the group of people got up and left without even a bowl of tea, but just as they walked out of the tea shed, the little baby suddenly started crying, and immediately the woman cried out in surprise: "Why did you vomit again?"

"Oh, the clothes I just changed are dirty again." The nurse next to the woman sighed, "Why don't you go back and scrub them again."

Seeing this, the little girl's wet nurse said, "Ma'am, look at fourth brother's face, I'm afraid he is suffering from jaundice, Ma'am should find a doctor as soon as possible."

Hearing this, the woman immediately raised her brows and shouted: "Nonsense, my son is doing well, so there is no illness." "

The wet nurse seemed to have expected that she would say that, so she lowered her head and said nothing.

The nanny next to the woman hesitated and persuaded: "Ma'am, the fourth brother's complexion is indeed a little yellowish, just to be on the safe side, let's see a doctor."

This time the woman didn't get angry again, but her complexion was also very ugly. After a while, she suddenly sobbed and said, "Why is it jaundice? This child's complexion is just like mine, but it is yellowish. Why is it jaundice? You are so ignorant. Don't talk nonsense."

Wen Shu and Mrs. Zhao looked inside, both puzzled.

It is understandable for a mother not to listen to others saying that her child is not good.But looking at the child's face, everyone said it was abnormal, but she still insisted on seeing it as very normal, which was a bit abnormal.

But they still didn't say much, because this noble lady looked very difficult to talk, and the maids and women around her were all silent.

And what she said just now to scold that little girl is really unfavorable.

"Yes, we're all talking nonsense, but the fourth brother vomited all over again. If we don't change, we'll catch a cold easily, or let's turn around and wipe again."

The woman stopped her tears and nodded lightly.

The talking mother seemed to feel a little embarrassed to bother the shopkeeper again and again, so when she came in this time, she paid ten cents and put it on the counter.

"Master Lao, bring some more water."

It's not Wen Shu's style to be rich, so he asked Mrs. Zhao to bring water.

Next, do it again as before.

This time Mrs. Zhao didn't leave after delivering the water, she just stood by and watched, and saw that the child's face was so yellow that it didn't look like it. As a mother, she couldn't see the child's suffering again, and at the risk of being rejected by the woman, I mentioned it again.

"This young man's complexion is really yellow, madam, don't be careless, my dog ​​got jaundice not long ago, and his complexion was similar to this at that time."

The woman still glared at her impatiently after hearing this, Mrs. Zhao looked at it, and she kindly fed the dog's belly again, and without mentioning it, she brought the water bottle back, hugged the dog's eggs on her body, and fed him buns.

After scrubbing, the woman and her party left again, this time without any accidents.

Seeing that the carriage was nowhere to be seen, Mrs. Zhao sighed while holding the dog egg, "She is also a mother, why is that madam so big-hearted, how many people told her that the child's face was wrong, how could she be so arrogant?" Stubborn."

Although Wen Shu couldn't understand the mood of being a mother, she also shook her head and sighed.

If the lady is not from a wealthy family, or can listen to some words, she might give a few words of warning, or take out a dango, and let them decide whether to use it or not.

It's a pity. She shook her head again.

After this incident, the tea shed fell silent again.

Seeing that nothing happened, the two went back to the land temple and continued to pull the grass. When Goudan saw this, he followed their example, squatted down, and grabbed the grass with his small hands.

Wen Shu liked Coke, and boasted to Mrs. Zhao that Goudan must be promising when he grows up.

Which mother doesn't like to hear others praise her child, even though she is not sure whether it will be promising or not, she still likes to hear it.

(End of this chapter)