Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 174

Half an hour later, with the efforts of the two of them, all the weeds within a six-foot radius of the Earth Temple were removed.

After moving the picked grass to a place where the sun can shine to dry, the two of them cleaned their hands with dog eggs and turned back to the tea shed.

It was near noon, and there seemed to be more people coming and going on the official road. People carrying loads passed by in twos and threes. Mrs. Zhao had received Wen Shu's order earlier, and she was not in a hurry to go out to pull people at the moment.

The little boss said that the tea shed is so big and stands here, and those who need it will naturally stop and come in to sit, and it is useless if there is no need to greet.

After thinking about it, she was very reasonable, but seeing that few guests came in, she was still somewhat worried.

Wen Shu, however, was very open-minded. She didn't want to make a lot of money by opening the tea shed, because since she left the city, within three miles along the road, there were not seven or eight small sheds, but three or four.

What she currently sells is just ordinary steamed buns and tea soup, nothing special, and the possibility of people remembering and looking for them is very small, so she can only try her luck and pick up a few merchants passing by.

The reason why she opened the tea shed and chose to open it here is her own consideration.

First of all, I want to apply what I have learned. Although I can’t make a lot of money by opening a tea shed, I still have three or four times a month, which is enough to meet daily expenses.

Secondly, it is for the convenience of getting into the iron box.

After the tea shed was built, she had an excuse to stay outside all day instead of reporting everything to her father.If she wants to sell something, she has to rack her brains to find excuses, or hide it all day long, lest her father find out that there is something new in the house.

As for the third, it is naturally to cover up the mysterious things in the iron box.

After opening the tea shed, if she encounters any strange things, such as Zhu Yucao, she can tell her father that she found them on the back mountain. Anyway, there is a mountain behind the tea shed, so it makes sense.

For the guests, they can secretly push the matter to the Lord of the Land, and they always just beat them to death and refuse to admit it, the more mysterious the better.

After receiving two passing guests and selling eight steamed buns and two bowls of tea soup, Wen Shu made lunch.

There was no class in the private school in the afternoon, so she didn't plan to go back to the city.There is a mountain behind the tea shed. After lunch, she wants to use the name of looking for flowers and plants to go to the mountain to practice archery.

She didn't want to go in the iron box for a while.Although she already knew that the last time she met was a "god" and not a "monster", but that experience still had a great impact on her.

There were only the three of them for lunch, and because the tea shed was newly opened, the vegetables and vegetables purchased were not complete. After Wen Shu checked them out, she finally planned to make wontons with bamboo shoots and fern.

Bamboo shoots and fern wontons, as the name suggests, the main filling is spring bamboo shoots and bracken.

Rinse off the fluff and silt of the bracken, cut off the tender upper half, put it in a boiling water pot, scald it for a while, pick it up, and then soak it in cold water.

Peel the bamboo shoots, take only the top half of the tender shoot tips, cut into thin slices, blanch them in a boiling water pot for a while, pick them up, and cut them into small pieces together with the bracken.

Heat up the frying pan, add a small amount of meat oil, when the oil is hot, pour in the chopped bracken and bamboo shoots together, stir fry until fragrant, add rice wine, salt, pepper and stir well, then take out and let cool , and then stuffing.

While she was busy, Mrs. Zhao was not idle, and quickly rolled the dough made in the morning into wonton wrappers, perfectly matching her time.

After the dough was ready, the two wrapped up wontons together, while Goudan moved a small stool to sit by the door outside the tea shed, picked up a branch and scratched it on the ground.

The sun shines from the treetops. In the tea shop beside the official road, a woman and a young lady are washing their hands to make soup, and a boy bows his head outside the door to paint.

The picture is beautiful and comfortable.

Diagonally across from the official road, a scholar in a scholar's shirt saw this scene in his eyes, remembered it in his heart, and put it into his pen after returning home.

The tea shed is comfortable and leisurely, but said that the three carriages that left at noon, after entering the city, drove directly into the house where a family lived in the east of the city.

The owner of the house is Lord Wang's mansion who had just been promoted a few years ago. In the lobby of the front yard at this time, Lord Wang, who was over thirty years old, was watching with a pale face. pulse doctor.

From time to time, his sharp eyes flicked to the woman with her hands in her sleeves and tears in her eyes. He took a few deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his chest, and waited for the doctor's diagnosis.

After a while, the old doctor withdrew his hand, shook his head and sighed: "It is indeed children with jaundice."

"Is there any cure?" Mr. Wang asked.

The old doctor shook his head helplessly: "If you treat it when the symptoms are mild, take a few doses of Yinchen Drink, it will probably be cured, but now that the evil energy has entered the lungs, the chance of cure is less than [-]%, and it may damage Tianfu. "

Hearing this, the woman fell down on the ground, and the nurse next to her rushed to help her.

"Don't help! Ignorant stupid woman!! Good son, you lost your life just like this, everyone can tell at a glance that the child's face is wrong, but this stupid one, if my son can't get better, you will get out of here today Go back to Haozhou."

After learning the exact diagnosis, Mr. Wang could no longer hold back the anger in his chest, and cursed aloud before the doctor left.

Go back to Haozhou, my wife's natal family is Haozhou, the master said this, doesn't it mean that he wants to divorce his wife!

Mother Chen was taken aback, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Master, please calm down. Madam has been in a state of depression since giving birth to Mr. Xiaolang, so she just lost her mind for a while."

"Hmph, I missed it for a while." Before she finished speaking, Mrs. Wang interrupted: "The doctor said that fourth brother's illness has been on for half a month, and it has been delayed until now! They say that the son of a tiger who does not eat poison, I think you stupid woman is more poisonous than a tiger or a wolf."

Hearing this, the woman, who had been depressed for a long time, suddenly broke out and cried loudly, "The master only knows to blame my concubine for everything. I am the mother of the fourth brother. Can I wish him well! The master is here Bianjing is accompanied by a beautiful concubine, when did I ever think about the difficulty of concubine running common affairs at home?"

Hearing the resentment in her words, Mrs. Wang was very angry and laughed back, "You hope that the fourth brother is well! You hope that the fourth brother can ignore the reminders of the people around him many times. Mammy Xiong said that before entering the city, she once I reminded you. But you were still stubborn at that time, and you refuted people's nonsense. Even my father, who met for the first time, could tell at a glance that the fourth brother's expression was wrong. As her own mother, every day I watched by his side every day, but I didn't notice it at all, and if you said that you didn't do it on purpose, who would believe it."

"Grandma Xiong, Grandma Xiong, the master misses his wife in front of him and loves Aunt Gu, but I stand in the way. If that's the case, why did you hire me as your stepmother?"

"You!, you stupid woman, stupid woman!" Daddy Wang trembled with anger, knocked the teacup on the table to the ground, and called the maid to fetch ink, actually wanting to divorce his wife on the spot.

As Madam Chen's wet nurse, she hurriedly knelt down to plead for mercy, but Mrs. Wang, who was extremely angry, ignored her at all.

The woman on the ground burst into tears, her body trembling uncontrollably, but her face was mad, and her words were as tyrannical as before.

"Master has this intention long ago. I didn't know it. Now I'm using the topic to make room for Aunt Gu. Anyway, the fourth brother is dead, and I don't want to live anymore. You rest, you rest."

"Ma'am, Ma'am, don't say a few words!" Nanny Chen next to her was in a hurry and pulled at her sleeve.

Although the current state is not opposed to remarriage, women who are divorced and returned to their natal families have a bad reputation, and there is little room for remarriage.No matter how bad the master is, he is still an official. If he is dismissed and goes back to his natal family, he can only be a businessman's wife if he remarries.

And this matter is indeed Madam's fault. She mentioned the fourth brother's illness earlier in the morning, but Madam didn't know why she didn't listen to it.

Now that things have come to this point, not only the fourth brother's life cannot be saved, but even his status as an official wife is about to be lost

(End of this chapter)