Carpenter's Lady

Chapter 59

Liuye Lane is not very long and not wide. There are two teahouses at the entrance of the alley, one is called Ruyilou and the other is called Deyilou.

Ruyi Building opened first, and Deyi Building arrived later. When the plaque reading "Deyi Building" was hung up, I heard that the shopkeeper of Ruyi Building was still yelling at the sound of firecrackers. As for why it was during the sound of firecrackers, I'm afraid It is because the shopkeeper of Ruyi Building has too much lung capacity, otherwise why would he only have firecrackers to accompany the music?
The two teahouses are diagonally opposite each other, as if they were born to fight in a ring. The Ruyi Building faces east, and the Deyi Building faces west.The two families are very close to each other. On rainy days, you can jump from one house to the other in five steps.

The tea guests on the two upper floors could talk through the window, and they could hear clearly without making too much noise.Therefore, when Ding Erye and his wife took their son and daughter-in-law to have morning tea in the Ruyi upstairs, they could easily discuss the opening of the store with Master Yan in the opposite Ziyi upstairs.

It has been half a month since Zhang Mu and his party lived in Liuye Lane, because the shop on the West Street needs to be slightly remodeled, and the carpentry work is done by Ding Erye and Wu Ling, so there is no need to invite people from outside. After breakfast in the day, I went to the shop to knock.

It’s just that Ding Erye, who has hidden his appetite for decades, seems to have opened up this hidden food potential since Zhang Mu’s red date cake. On the second day when he came to Liuye Lane, he smelled the fragrance and entered successively. Ruyilou and Deyilou, until now, have already estimated the specialty refreshments of the two teahouses. Ruyilou serves steamed dumplings and siu mai, while Deyilou serves Yunsi.

Ruyilou's steamed dumplings have extremely thin skins, and the skins are full of soup. Zhang Mu was a little surprised when he saw the two baskets of steamed dumplings with thin skins as transparent as before. The Jinling soup dumplings eaten are somewhat similar!

When the hot steamed dumplings were served, the beauty couldn't help but want to jump on the table in Wu Ling's arms, and Wu Ling grabbed her by the tail.

"Meow! Meow!" Bastard, bastard!I'll burn you to death!

Ding Erniang laughed and said, "A Ling, put the beauty on the ground."

Wu Ling saw that his mother had already put two soup dumplings into the bowl, crushed them, and put them on the ground.

This is for the beauties to dine on the ground!
"Meow! Meow!" The beauty who had just hit the ground ran to Ding Erniang's feet and rubbed her, calling out so softly that Wu Ling couldn't help but feel a chill, and said to Zhang Mu: "Amu, the beauty has been getting more and more The more you are afraid of stepping on the lower, and you are so flattering to your mother, you twist your body when you see me!"

"You, don't hang the little salted fish on the beam, the beauty will probably talk to you!" Ding Erniang laughed.

The people sitting at the tables on the second floor couldn't help but stare sideways. That table even gave the cats the steamed dumplings!A steamed dumpling costs three pennies!These steamed dumplings are thin and small, and three of them are not as big as one bun, so they are not expensive!
Seeing how small the steamed dumpling was, Wu Ling thought to himself that the prices in the county town were high, they cost three Wen each, and the white balls in the town, with red and white meat stuffed into the soft white flour, could be eaten with a bite. The fragrance was overflowing, this little dumpling was estimated to be swallowed by him in one bite, remembering what his grandmother said to chew slowly when he was in the Zheng family, Wu Ling resisted the urge to swallow it in one bite, took half a bite, and felt the corner of his mouth When it is hot, the soup splashes everywhere.

"Ah!" Zhang Mu sat next to him, flesh-colored dots were quickly printed on the smoky cotton-padded jacket, and he couldn't help but cast a sad look at Mr. Xianggong.

Wu Ling couldn't stand his daughter-in-law's small eyes the most, so he quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe it for her.

The men and daughters-in-law sitting next to them couldn't help laughing kindly, and one woman kindly said to the Wuling gang: "Young Lord, don't be ashamed, we have to splash all over when we come back to eat, this food has never been eaten. It’s from the stove of a big family in Beijing, it’s exquisite! You have to bite a small bite first to suck up the soup!”

Ding Erniang came here for the first time, seeing this woman has a very kind face, she thought of making friends, and said with a smile: "Our family just moved here, and it's the first time we eat such exquisite food, my sister-in-law laughed at her." .”

As soon as Zhang Mu heard about Jingli, he put more thought into it, and interjected: "Auntie, do you know which family in Jingli passed it on?"

"Who else could it be? It's the Wu family, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites. I heard that the young lady of her family is alive. There is no one who is not proficient in food and clothing. This steamed dumpling is still imitated. I heard that the real steamed dumpling is better than the This one is even thinner and more transparent, and the stuffing inside also has a recipe, but we small families feel like we want to swallow our tongues when we eat meat stuffing!"

A woman with a long face spread out next to her said, "The soup dumplings that Ruyilou is good at, and the cloud silk that Deyilou is good at, are all passed down from the Wu family, and they are all the way to eat them that her lady figured out. !"

Zhang Mu's heart flickered, and the blood on his face faded instantly, this girl even meddled in eating!
I'm afraid that her restaurant will be opened after a while!

At this time, Wu Ling had finished eating a steamed dumpling. Seeing his daughter-in-law staring at the steamer in a daze, he picked up a steamed dumpling and put it in a white porcelain bowl in front of Zhang Mu, saying, "Amu, let's eat while it's hot!"

Zhang Mu held the bowl, said "hmm", and began to eat in small bites!Facing Shang Xianggong's concerned eyes, he suddenly felt that money still had to be earned!The lives of ordinary people here are too insecure, especially the girl from the Shangshu family, who always makes her feel inexplicably uneasy. She lowered her head and looked at the beauty who was eating dumplings. Seeing that its small head was almost buried in the bowl, the beauty was afraid. He must have eaten this thing too!In the past, she often brought soup dumplings home for it to eat.

She has to accumulate a lot of money to be at ease!

After breakfast, Wu Ling and Ding Erye went to work on the West Street, and Ding Erniang stayed at home with Zhang Mu. Zhang Mu lives in the east wing of the second entrance. According to Zhang Mu's intention, the two rooms on the east side of the second entrance are reserved for Mrs. Zheng when she comes to live next spring. It's cold here, let's stay here and wait for grandma to come!"

Ding Erniang had already made tiger-head shoes and a tiger-head hat for the unborn baby in Zhang Mu's womb, and made two new clothes for the baby, saying that it was better for the baby to wear old clothes. The clothes from childhood were picked up and let Zhang Mu take them with him.Ding Erniang said that it hurts the mind of pregnant women to use needles and threads, and Zhang Mu is not allowed to take needles every day, but women who are going to be mothers always want to do something for their children, so Zhang Mu is responsible for embroidering tiger-head shoes and hats. Two cute little tigers.

Nothing happened in the afternoon, Zhang Mu thought of several bookstores on West Street, so he said to Ding Erniang: "Mother, why don't you accompany me to West Street, I'm bored at home all day long, I think Buy two books and come back to read."

"Okay, I'll go as soon as I finish this stitch! You put on your shoes first!"

There are two bookstores on West Avenue, one is the third one on the east side of the building they bought, and the other is the fifth one on the west side. Zhang Mu went to the first one first, and when he saw two women coming in, he pointed to the bookstore. The book on the low cabinet in the corner said: "You two ladies, there are books that women like to read over there. Would you like to choose a few?"

The young man was polite, so Zhang Mu walked over to have a look. She also wanted to know what books the women of this dynasty liked to read. On the right were books such as female biographies and female virtues. Zhang Mu smiled slightly and looked away. When I touched the title of the book on the left, my eyes burned like an electric shock!
Stone Records, Cui Yingying stays in the West Chamber of the Moon, Dou E is wronged!
(End of this chapter)