The story of Princess Lenggong's farming

Chapter 164
Sibao responded dully, and said: "...Understood, I just don't say anything."

Only then did Shen Sisi smile and say: "This is a good boy. Come on, Four Treasures, continue to write: Flowers of water, land, plants, and trees are very cute. The literati of the past dynasties love chrysanthemums. Since Dayu, the world loves peonies. Yu The only love lotus comes out of the mud but not stained, clean and clear but not demonic, straight in the middle and straight in the outside, not spreading or branching, the fragrance is far away and clear, the pavilion is clean and planted, it can be seen from a distance but not played with. I call it a chrysanthemum, a flower The peony is the rich and noble flower; the lotus is the gentleman of the flower. Hey! The love of chrysanthemums is rarely heard of by Empress Tao. Who is the same as the love of lotus? The love of peony is suitable for everyone. !"

Sibao's eyes became brighter the more he listened, and finally he stuttered, "This, this, this...you wrote it..."

Shen Sisi squinted her eyes, looking at the majestic characters placed on this painting. It is a beautiful scenery in itself. This is her adapted version of Ailian's words. First of all, make it high-end and upscale, so that it can be done. Everyone in the world loves to chase after noble flowers. In this way, she can imagine how expensive this lotus root should be. She had heard that this thing is expensive in the capital, so she wanted to come here It's okay to sell at a high price in the border town... I laughed when I thought about it.

She happily put away the painting, and when the ink was dry, she held it carefully in her hand, took it back to her room and hid it in the space.

This thing will be of great use, haha... In the future, she will harvest the lotus root, and this will be the only lotus root in the prosperous age.Her pond originally didn't have many lotus roots, and rare things are the most expensive, so this painting had to be sold for a sky-high price...

Thinking about meditating and dreaming can wake up with a smile.

As soon as Shen Sisi left, Sibao was stunned for a while, looking pitifully at the ink pen on the desk, feeling indescribably depressed.

It seems that he is better-looking than Shen Sisi in handwriting, but he is inferior in everything else.Why, why does she even have such aura when composing poems? !
Four Treasures are sluggish, admiring, entangled, depressed, and wronged. I really don't know what to say in my heart, as if I can't understand it.

How could there be such a woman in this world? !But she just doesn't look like a woman at all, how can there be such a woman? !

Sibao was frustrated for a while, and he put away his pen and ink depressedly, and went to grind the spices again. He looked at the thick calluses on his hands, which were made by grinding the spices and practicing calligraphy. He used to be responsible for chopping firewood, but now he doesn’t have to Chopping, in the past with an axe, you can grind your hands to blisters, but now you can only hold a pen, but... no matter how hard he seems to be, he can't compare to the local girl...

He couldn't even lift up his energy for a while, but he was also the type of person who became more and more courageous when he was frustrated, so he made up his mind to practice calligraphy and martial arts well. At least these two things, Tu Niu can never surpass him up.This girl's handwriting is so ugly that I can't say it. It's no wonder that I have to inscribe it myself, and let him write it. It's really a shock.

Zhong Gensheng came back covered in sweat, he drove the pigs back to the pigsty, wiped his sweat and drank water and said: "...it's still so hot now, collecting pigs is really not an easy job, The pigs in the Tugen family don’t know when they will be slaughtered, otherwise I can relax a bit, everything is squeezed together.”

Saying so, people are not idle at all.

Shen Sisi saw that he was quite energetic, and sure enough Zhong Gensheng didn't even sit down, he just said: "I'll go to Tu Gen's house to have a look, and get some pig manure back and sprinkle it in the fish pond."

After finishing speaking, he left, and he really couldn't be idle for a moment.

After a while, Zhong Gensheng really came back with a small half of the pig manure from the ox cart, went directly to the backyard, piled it aside, took a dustpan and slowly sprinkled it into the fish pond, which was quite leisurely.

He carefully looked at the fishes in the pond that came out to breathe, and he was very happy to see that they were quite big. The lotus and lotus leaves were also green, and the aquatic plants were also very green. He muttered to himself, the family has no shortage of fish to eat this winter, and after spilling the pig manure, he went to Niu Laogen to beg for some duck and goose manure, but he didn't have much, after all, ducks and geese breed In the water, most of it was contributed to the river. Zhong Gensheng still bought some back and piled them in the backyard, intending to fertilize the vegetable field in the backyard. The harvest of the vegetables is not good, the appearance is even worse, and the mouth is not good, so he has been thinking about it for a long time, and plans to save more fertile land. Niu Laogen is also easy to talk to. accepted.

Shen Sisi saw him busy back and forth, and said: "Father, you should also take a break, your head is sweating..."

Zhong Gensheng couldn't stay idle at all, and dragged a sack of rice husks from the ox cart and said: "Tu Niu, this is the rice husk you want. I bought some after a lot of effort, and everyone has to keep it." I can’t bear to sell it to feed the pigs. I got it from Tugen. He doesn’t know where he received it, and he kept it for the pigs. He wanted to give it to me. How can I take his for nothing? , I gave Qian Yi for a while, but he was not very willing to accept it, and then he accepted it..."

"Uncle Tu Gen is quite nice." Shen Sisi said with a smile.

"Yeah," Zhong Gensheng was a little puzzled. Today he was always probing Tu Niu's marriage, and he hesitated in speaking, which made him a little puzzled. In order to avoid trouble, he just said that Tu Niu wanted to stay at home. Liu Tugen Only then did he stop talking, but he only kept this in his heart, and he would not say it to Tu Niu.

"The pigs in their family will be ready for slaughter when they grow fat in autumn. He takes good care of them and is willing to feed them..." Zhong Gensheng said with a smile: "And your uncle Niu's ducks have also grown fat, and the geese have also grown strong. The goose eggs laid are big and round, and he said that the ducks can be ready for slaughter after a while..."

Shen Sisi laughed after hearing this, "When the stove over there is turned on, this business can be done..."

Zhong Gensheng laughed when he heard the words, and said: "But the goose egg is too big, Tu Niu, what are you going to do?!"

"Salt it..." Shen Sisi said with a smile: "Salted goose eggs, just like salted duck eggs, guaranteed to be delicious..."

"The duck eggs that were pickled for the first time are almost cooked too?!" Zhong Gensheng said, "It's been a month."

"Well, let's open it today. Mother and Xiaohua have preserved some of them. When they're all cooked, we'll sell them..." Shen Sisi said with a smile.

"But can it be sold?! It's so expensive..." Zhong Gen was puzzled and said, "I'm afraid I can't sell it..."

"Don't worry, Dad, it can be sold..." Shen Sisi smiled and said, "I will talk to the shopkeeper of Fumanlou at that time to ensure that the supply exceeds the demand..."

When it came to doing business, Zhong Gensheng couldn't compare to her little head, so he smiled and let her go. Anyway, even if he couldn't sell it, it wasn't worth anything. The family could afford it, and now the family wouldn't be poor. It's time to get over everything...

When Shen Sisi returned to the front yard, He Axiu had already disposed of the two chickens that had been killed, and when she saw her, she smiled and said, "Tu Niu, it's all done, how can you make lotus leaf chicken, mother will also see Just keep learning..."

"I want to learn too..." Niu Xiaohua also said with a smile.

"Okay..." Shen Sisi washed the lotus leaves with well water, and smiled with them, "This is a seasonal dish, and it can't be made without lotus leaves, but this chicken will have lotus leaves after it is finished." It is fragrant, the meat is tender, delicious, nutritious and can nourish the body. The most delicious..."

The eyes of the two people who said it were bright, and now they are learning cooking skills from Tu Niu, and they all find it really interesting, especially watching a dish, made by their hands, the sense of accomplishment is really indescribable.

Shen Sisi removed the large skeleton of the chicken, split the chicken in half, used some tomato sauce, salt, soy sauce, sugar, pepper powder, and star anise powder that she had ground to spread evenly on the surface according to the prepared ratio, and then burned it again. Fill a small pot of oil, deep-fry the chicken until golden brown, take it out and boil it in another pot, then wrap the fried and boiled chicken with lotus leaves.

She also made a bowl of sauce by herself and put it next to the lotus leaf chicken. When she ate it, she tore off a piece and dipped it in. Soon the chicken gave off a fragrance of lotus leaves, which made He Axiu and Niu Xiaohua smell it I just feel the aroma is tangy.

Shen Sisi got two, washed the unused chicken offal, cut it into small pieces, then added chicken oil, and stir-fried one chicken offal to eat.

Another twenty salted duck eggs from Kaifeng were boiled. There are too many people in the family. If they are reluctant to cook, they may not be enough to eat. So after cooking these, Shen Sisi fished out the duck eggs and let them cool, and put them in the cooked vegetables A duck egg was cut into eight small pieces on the chopping board, and two large plates were placed full of them, and a carved lantern in the shape of a tomato was placed in the middle. Now she is not only pursuing the taste, but also the appearance of the dishes, so As soon as this plate was put on the table, people who watched it were dying.

Especially the oily duck egg yolks with the white whites, and the red saffron lanterns in the middle, are really beautiful and fragrant. The fragrance that wafted out of it really made the whole family salivate in a panic.

Zhong Gensheng and Han Ji Changsheng naturally set up a table in the main room, eating like this every day, the family is used to it.

As soon as this dish was served, the master and servant's eyes lit up, and Zhong Gensheng said with a smile: "The new dish developed by Tu Niu, I invite General Han and General Changsheng to try it too, and see how her skills are..."

The two of them narrowed their eyes with a smile, and said: "It goes without saying that the local girls are skilled." Before they finished speaking, they had already picked up their chopsticks, and they were already eating before the dishes were served. After all, they were from the army. They eat a lot, even if Zhong Gensheng does physical work every day, they can't eat it. After all, their masters and servants are physically strong, and they are not comparable to Zhong Gensheng...

Sauteed chicken offal, served with salted duck eggs, and lotus leaf chicken, boiled a small pot of pork bones and soup with chicken skeletons, served with fragrant rice and fried browned egg pancakes, and beef The sauerkraut and fish pot soup made by Xiaohua and He Axiu, this meal is really nothing to say.In fact, their mouths were full of oil after eating every meal.

Now that He Axiu and Niu Xiaohua have cooked some dishes, they are naturally good, so dishes like pickled fish are cooked by them, and Shen Sisi spends most of her time thinking about new ways to eat them.

However, the taste of the lotus leaf chicken and salted duck eggs is really amazing. The taste buds seem to have a new stimulus, and the mouth can't stop.

Zhong Gensheng smiled and said: "This duck egg is not bad, our local girl said it would sell for five to ten yuan a piece. I was worried at first, but I don't worry after eating this..."

"The price is not expensive, it's definitely not expensive..." Han Ji said with a smile: "As long as you save a little, you can cut a whole plate with four or five. It looks very beautiful when it is put into the rice pile. The price is really good." It's not expensive..."

Changsheng also smiled and said: "Yes, it's just a pity that the lotus leaves are only available in summer. If they are available every now and then, this dish will be amazing..."

Zhong Gensheng only smiled. He agreed with Shen Sisi's statement that there is no one person who can complete the business in this world, so he can also take it easy, just live freely, there is no need to think about making money for everything...

(End of this chapter)