Queen Mother's A Scientist

As soon as I opened the door, I smelled a sweet smell of grain fermentation in the air.

Hua Qingxue curiously finds the smell and goes to the kitchen. She sees aunt he working in it. On the cutting board with a layer of white flour, one big white steamed bread after another is neatly placed.

Seeing her coming in, aunt he took a steamed bread and stuffed it into her, "wake up? Here, take it. "

The steamed bread was hot and still hot in his hand. Hua Qingxue blew it and said, "it smells good."

And white, soft and round, I have an appetite.

Hua Qingxue was not polite. She took a bite at once - soft and vigorous. After chewing, the rice noodles fermented maltose. It was delicious!

Maybe it's empty in the stomach. The first white flour steamed bread in the morning makes Hua Qingxue feel delicious.

"Aunt, this steamed bread is really delicious." Hua Qingxue sincerely praised.

Aunt he laughed, "there will be steamed stuffed buns later."

When she finished, she went to uncover the steamer on the stove. The white steam was noisy. There were white fat steamed buns in it.

Hua Qingxue opened her eyes and was amazed. She couldn't help asking, "aunt, do you want to sell so much?"

"Yes, I have a breakfast stall on Fuxing street to make some money." Aunt he neatly packed steamed buns into bamboo baskets paved with clean cotton cloth, wrapped them with thick cotton pads, and covered the top layer with a thick cotton pad.

Seeing that she was going to lift the bamboo basket, Hua Qingxue hurriedly said, "aunt, I'll help you."

They carried the bamboo baskets full of steamed buns out of the kitchen and put them on the two wheeled scooters in the yard. A total of two baskets were carried.

At this time, it was still dawn. Aunt he went out to set up a stall with a scooter.

Hua Qingxue stood at the gate of the yard, yawned, closed the gate and returned to his house.

Seeing aunt he set up a stall, she couldn't help thinking about how to make money and live in the future.

In fact, there are many ways in her head, but most of them are subject to raw materials and can't be made

Ah!

Hua Qingxue remembered!

When she was in Renqiu, she wanted to make money by cooking tea. Later, she had to give up because there was no sugar and pot at home. Now she can have a try!

Making tea is simple and easy. The most important thing is that the cost is very low. Even if it can't be sold in the end, it won't lose too much.

Hua Qingxue was more and more excited. She quickly passed the tea recipe in her mind and decided to make four kinds of tea drinks: Chrysanthemum Sydney tea, red jujube medlar ginger tea, plum green tea and white gourd tea.

The ingredients of these tea drinks are common and taste good.

In fact, huaqingxue thinks that drinking honey grapefruit tea is the best this season. However, grapefruit and honey are luxury goods for ordinary people, and the price is relatively expensive. If you make tea, the cost is too high.

People can spend a penny to drink a bowl of tea on the roadside to quench their thirst, but two cents and three cents are not necessarily, because everyone will think that three cents can eat a bowl of wonton, and drinking tea is too expensive.

Hua Qingxue thought about it and cleaned up her house carefully. She silently wrote down the missing tools and materials for home use and tea making, and decided to go out and buy.

As the day began to dawn, shops on both sides of the street opened one after another.

While walking, Hua Qingxue paid attention to what shops on both sides sold and what pedestrians on the road were buying.

Although she already knows that this is the state of Qi, it feels like the Song Dynasty in ancient China, whether it's the clothes of pedestrians on the street, the style of architectural furniture and the production technology of small commodities.

For example, the production technology of sucrose was very close to modern sugar production technology in the Song Dynasty. The sugar produced by Western sugarcane was slightly light because of its impure white color, and the price was not high. Du sugarcane tastes sweet and thick. The sugar used to make is snow-white and frost like, and the price is the highest.

Hua Qingxue thinks it should be a diversion from history, similar to another world in the Ancient Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty is the most prosperous in economy, the most developed in science and technology, the most prosperous in culture, the deepest in art and the richest in people's living standards.

Most importantly, this dynasty has the most inventions, so it is very suitable for huaqingxue to settle down here.

Hua Qingxue is slowly choosing in the street.

Dried chrysanthemums, ginger and medlar are very common. They are sold in medicine shops. Huaqingxue just started to do it. She wasn't going to buy too much, so she only bought a little of everything and didn't spend much money.

I just had a problem buying plums.

Plum is the key to the taste of plum green tea. We must choose the plum that is salty and sour enough to make the tea taste good.

However, Hua Qingxue wandered around for a long time and didn't buy a suitable plum. In other words, the plum of this era, the curing method and taste are different from those in her cognition.

Plum green tea can't be made.

Hua Qingxue couldn't help being disappointed. She was wondering if there was any other tea to replace. She glanced at the shop selling rice grain in front and moved out a lot of corn!

Corn?!

Is it really corn?!

Hua Qingxue was stunned!

Shouldn't corn be available only in the Ming Dynasty Ah! Forget again, this is not the history in her cognition!

Hua Qingxue asked curiously. She mainly wanted to know whether the corn was local or imported from other places?

At present, there are not many people shopping, and the waiter is happy to chat with her.

It turned out that the corn here was not called corn, but Yumai. It was brought back to Daqi by merchants from overseas and presented to the emperor as a rare thing. As soon as the emperor saw it, Longxin was happy and immediately asked the household department's big Siman to promote this kind of crop.

However, this promotion seems to have just started for a few years, and there are not too many people planting it. People are gradually familiar with this new crop. Although they know that fresh corn is sweet and fresh after cooking, sun dried corn is not very popular because it tastes coarse after grinding.

Hua Qingxue asked the price and found it very cheap, so she happily bought two or three.

Hua Qingxue, who bought a lot, returned to her residence with satisfaction. It was almost noon and people were hungry, but there was no food at home. She remembered that she had patronized the materials for tea, but forgot the rice, oil and salt used in the buyer.

Alas... What a toss

Just about to go out of the door again, I saw aunt he coming back with a scooter.

Hua Qingxue's eyes lit up and asked, "aunt, do you have any steamed buns left? Can you sell me? "

Aunt he was stunned at first, then smiled, "didn't you eat?"

Hua Qingxue smiled shyly, "well, I haven't taken care of it yet."

Aunt he turned and took out two or three steamed buns from the basket and stuffed them into Hua Qingxue's hand. "The steamed buns are sold out. Take the rest."

Hua Qingxue quickly paid for the money. Aunt he naturally refused. The two people refused again and again. Aunt he reluctantly accepted the money.

Aunt he came into the house and picked up the bamboo baskets, mattresses and other things. Hua Qingxue followed aunt he like an asshole while eating steamed bread and asked, "aunt, I'm going to set up a stall to sell tea in the street. Do you have any good suggestions?"

Aunt he looked back at her and looked a little hesitant. "You little girl, go out and set up a stall... I'm afraid you'll suffer."

In particular, Hua Qingxue is still soft and weak. Wouldn't it be worse if he met a generous local ruffian?

Hua Qingxue opened her eyes and asked, "is there any danger? But I just went to the street and looked at the public security... "

Aunt he thought for a moment and said to her, "why don't you try Dongzheng street? The stall over there is delineated by the Yamen. As long as you pay the money, no one will occupy the place. Moreover, there are guards patrolling the street from time to time. The public security is very good."

Hua Qingxue asked, "how much do you want to pay?"

"I remember like... Fifty Wen a month." Aunt he thought about it and told her seriously, "spending some money is a small thing. The most important thing is safety. You are a little girl. Unlike us bad women, you'd better be careful."

Hua Qingxue nodded again and again.

Aunt he reminded her: "but if you want to rent a stall, you have to go to the Yamen to go through the formalities first. I'm afraid you can't do it in ten and a half days. If you really want to rent it, you have to go as soon as possible."

Such trouble

Hua Qingxue kept it in mind, thanked aunt he again, and went back to the house with the rest of the steamed bread.

In the afternoon, Hua light snow went out with his registered residence certificate and silver.

But she is not going to the yamen, but to the general's house.

Seriously, she's a woman. She's really scared to go to a place like Yamen. About because the shadow was too deep in liaobing last time

Since Beard said that he could go to the general's house to find the housekeeper for anything, of course, such contacts should not be wasted.

Hua Qingxue followed the route explained by the soldiers last time and walked on and on. Sure enough, she found the rumored general's house.

With high walls, green tiles and vermilion painted gate, the plaque of "general's house" is hanging above the gate, and two majestic lions stand on both sides of the gate.

Before Hua Qingxue could get excited, the guard of the gate waved to her, "go to the side door."

What side door?

Hua Qingxue was stunned, and then thought, it seems so. In ancient times, some high-ranking families rarely used the main door on weekdays, and they went in and out through other doors.

But... Where is the side door of the general's mansion?

Hua Qingxue glanced disappointed at the two guards at the gate. From the disdain and contempt in each other's eyes, she can't expect someone to lead the way. Find it by herself

Hua Qingxue walked slowly along the courtyard wall outside the general's house. After walking for a long time, she finally found the side door!

It is said to be a side door. In fact, it is a circle larger than the courtyard door of ordinary people.

Hua Qingxue came forward and patted the door. Soon someone opened the door. He was a young servant. It seemed that he was dozing just now. At the moment, he was holding half the door with one hand and yawning.

Hua Qingxue hurriedly said, "Hello, is housekeeper Zhao there?"

The other party frowned, swept her from head to foot and asked, "what's the matter with housekeeper Zhao? Who's in his family? "

Hua Qingxue carefully replied, "I'm not from housekeeper Zhao's family. I want to ask housekeeper Zhao for help..."

Before he finished, he was impatiently interrupted by the other party: "is housekeeper Zhao what you want to see?! Go, go! Stay away! If you don't see where this is, you dare to climb the relationship! "

Then he slammed the door shut!