By Jia Xiuzhen

Let's say that when Mr. Lao returned to the mansion, he was busy going to the outer study to find his husband and come back to discuss.The second master of the Zhang family, named Li Chengze, was originally born in a side house and was raised under the name of his aunt. He was not favored by the Zhang family. When the sea was banned in the early years, he was sent to the Commercial Customs, but he got the attention of the ten princes at that time. Later, when the sea ban was opened and the customs was established, he became the direct descendant of an old official, so he slowly got up.Hearing what happened before and after Lao Shi talked about it, he praised Li Wan for his transparency. He knew that the matter was serious, and he hurried to Shi Ye's mansion regardless of the darkness of the sky.

Li Wan sent Laoshi away, and at dusk, when the wind got tighter and the sky darkened, he waited for the snow through the two glazed windows with great interest.Ten thousand years in the pearl world is like spring, Li Wan has a special understanding of the unpredictable situation in this world, and the snowy and rainy nights that ordinary people worry about are quite interesting in her eyes.Looking at it like this is not enough, and asked someone to open a window, and a gust of cold wind blew in, directly piercing into the man's neckline, thinking that this is the meaning of the four seasons.

Su Yun came in with some tea, looked at it and said: "Grandma opened the window again to blow the wind, and my mother-in-law said that the wind hurts the most, and it hurts my head. Grandma won't listen."

Li Wan said with a smile: "You can't stop talking. I think you are almost becoming a nun. The room is airtight in winter. It's better after the wind."

Suyun poured her tea and said: "Every day when people are not around, people open the windows to ventilate. There is no reason to blow on them while people are there."

Li Wan didn't get involved with her, so he changed the subject and said, "It's probably going to snow today, let's get some hot pot to eat, and we'll have a 'Pu Xia Gong'."

Suyun shook her head: "I don't know what Grandma said, but whatever Grandma ordered, we'll just do it."

Just as they were talking, Nanny Chang and Biyue came with some clothes, and Li Wan discussed with Nanny Chang what to eat for the evening.Nanny Chang smiled and said, "Puxia Gong? It's Xinya, but there's no place to find fresh wild rabbit meat now."

Li Wan said: "Just to borrow a name, it's going to snow at night, so let's eat mutton pot." The two talked in detail again, and Nanny Chang took the money and went to the kitchen to get some money.

Li Wan said to Bi Yue: "You go find two women, and set up that Tangli waist table in this room. It's very interesting to eat the pot. If it's just me and Lan'er, it's boring to be alone. Very good. It's just that Madam Yan will not agree to eat at the same table. In this way, Lan Er and I will be placed on this kang table, and you two will cook a big pot on this Tangli table, and the whole room will be so lively. "Bi Yue squinted her eyes when she heard this, and hurried to find someone to move the table.After a while, Suyun was also sent to the warehouse to get new snacks.

Now Li Wan's warehouse has been divided into two places, one is large, it stores materials that are not commonly used, jewelry and utensils, and the other is smaller, more than half of it is for food, and all kinds of altars and jars are piled up. There are several bamboo and wood cabinets.Sister Feng came to see it once, and when she went back and talked to Mrs. Wang, she said, "My sister-in-law is really a wonderful person. She has a whole room full of candied fruit, cakes, preserved goods, soy sauce. Those who didn't know thought she was going to open a dim sum shop," said Mrs. Wang. : "It's good for her to focus on these things."

Jia Lanxia practiced the three-month period and winter practice, and after finishing the orthodox soul technique, she waited for her breath to calm down. Then she took Primrose Green to the east room, and smelled a warm and fresh fragrance from afar. It's a blessing, and I just feel my stomach is empty."

Primrose said: "I heard from elder sister Biyue that the mutton pot that grandma prepared today, Nanny Chang took the money and went to the kitchen to prepare it for a long time."

Qing Yu answered: "Brother Lang's appetite is not as good as that of taking the medicinal bath, but he has been able to eat a lot in the past six months."

Primrose said: "How can anyone say that, brother, what is edible?"

Qing Yu said with a smile: "It's still the fourth girl who said that brother is called capable if he can eat."

Several people gossiped and entered the room.Then I saw two tables set up. On the kang table was a small red clay charcoal stove, with a copper pot the size of a sea bowl, and a shallow dish of green plums and green official kilns on the side, tender red meat slices sandwiched with white stone patterns, bright green baby spinach and Artemisia seeds, light brown and light yellow fresh mushrooms, finger-sized fish dumplings and shrimp balls, oily bean curds cut into two finger widths...the table was full.

There are also two flat edged cups of the same color, with a small porcelain bowl on the side, which contains oily brown sauce, and two plates of bright green coriander and shallots on the side.

The white copper pot on the Tangli table in the ground is much larger, it is about a foot wide, and it is also full of materials for the table. The sweet white bowls and dishes used in the official kiln are two or three of the plum green ones. Big, piled high with meat, vegetable, mushroom balls and the like, with more patterns than those on the kang table.

Seeing Jia Lan coming in, Li Wan smiled and beckoned him to approach him, touched his face, and said, "Is it cold? Today we're eating mutton pot. Seeing that Nanny Chang is almost moving the kitchen here."

Nanny Chang was bringing hot wine in, and upon hearing this, she smiled and said, "Didn't you follow Grandma's orders? The soup base in this pot alone has been boiled for half a day with fresh mushrooms in high broth." The meat is not on the folds of this steamed stuffed bun. You only look at the trivial materials on the table. If you don’t know the top trivial things, you can’t see it. For example, this soup and that material. Ouch, sesame sauce shrimp marinated leek flower Fermented bean curd, garlic, sesame oil, autumn oil, vinegar, salt and sugar broth...I can't think of anything!"

Yan Momo also smiled when she heard it, and said: "Okay, okay, I know you have worked hard, and we will all respect you later."

Jia Lan looked at the table full of things, and then heard this conversation, how could he bear it, and hurriedly arranged for everyone to sit down.Li Wan said with a smile: "You can eat with me on this kang table, so to speak, Madam Yan agreed, and almost left our mother and son cooking here alone, and they wanted to hide and have fun. "

Everyone talked and laughed and took their seats, Suyun was still waiting for Zhang Luo, Li Wan stretched out his hand to stop her and said: "You can be more comfortable, you have to do it yourself to eat this pot. It's interesting, the meat is old and tender, how do you know me?" taste."

Jia Lan had already picked up the ebony chopsticks and boiled the meat in the pot, and said to Suyun in a leisurely way: "Sister Suyun, hurry up, Primrose and Qingyu are waiting for me to practice today, but I missed the afternoon snack. Then Suyun smiled and went back to sit down.

Although there are two tables, they are only two or three steps apart, and there is no difference between them and the same table.Li Wan served Jia Lan with the ingredients, and sprinkled coriander and shallots on it. Jia Lan thanked him, dipped the meat slices into his mouth, felt tender and delicious, and nodded after eating each line.After swallowing it down, she turned her head and said to Nanny Chang: "Where did you get the sliced ​​meat, it's more tender and smoother than the usual mutton, it's just right for you to eat like this."

Nanny Chang just took a sip of wine, put down the glass and smiled, "Brother really has roots of wisdom. This is the upper brain, with oily flowers in it, and it is the smoothest. Today I use the upper brain, three forks and hind legs Meat, the hind legs are the thinnest and chewy. There are also people who only like the tail, which is a lump of oil. I think no one here eats that."

After hearing this, Jia Lan admired Nanny Chang more and more, and said, "Sure enough, there is knowledge everywhere, and a piece of mutton is just so particular." Li Wan asked him to taste the leg meat again, and the other tasted the same, but he couldn't tell which was better.

Nanny Chang and the others warmed cinnamon wine on the table. Li Wan thought the mutton was already hot, so he didn't use the wine. Jia Lanrang made a cup of kumquat tea.After eating the pot for more than half an hour, Li Wante opened a window again, and there were snowdrops falling outside, the cold wind blowing into the room instantly lost the coldness, everyone ate and drank, feeling the heat, It was a good wind.

The table was removed, and tea was served again. Seeing that it was pumpkin and Pu'er, Li Wan said, "This tea is suitable for drinking at this moment."

Nanny Chang smiled and said: "It's hard to say, just now I can eat meat and vegetables, but after these few dishes, I will be hungry again."

Bi Yue hurriedly said: "Grandma just asked Suyun to bring out some snacks, and she was just putting the tea on the plate when I brought tea."

While talking, Suyun came in, carrying a three-tier sunflower-petal-style oiled bamboo platter, which was indeed filled with more than a dozen kinds of dim sum, and the primroses and green stalks at the back each held a high-bottomed fruit platter with sweet and white engraved flowers, serving with fresh cut fruit.

Li Wan said with a smile: "I don't wink, I just had dinner, where is there room to put these!"

Suyun smiled and said: "Grandma told me to find everything in the next afternoon, I don't care, I will take it out of course."

Yan Momo said: "The nights are long in winter, it's okay for grandma to be prepared. And my brother's appetite has grown again recently, so it's safe to be prepared."

After Li Wan drank the tea, he used two pieces of crispy pears, and asked Suyun and others to share them.

After chatting around the stove for a while, Jia Lan still needed to exercise, so Madam Yan brought some snacks for Jia Lan to prepare, and the rest of them picked up their favorite food and used it a little, saving most of it.Li Wan said with a smile: "Biyue has always been the best of these, you can take them all." Biyue quickly thanked the reward, and happily put it away.

This winter in the north, the cold wind blows like a knife, and it gets dark early, and the lights are lit in every house, and people do some sewing quietly, and those who like to be lively gather together to gossip, and those who are on errands just go I had no choice but to wander around in the wind and snow.Miao Er is doing needlework in the room, the little girls live in a room of four or five people, different places, Miao Er originally had three people in this room, and another one came a while ago.

Hearing someone knocking on the window outside, Miao Er hurriedly put down her sewing, tightened her collar and went to open the door, but she saw Bi Yue came in with a smile wrapped in a cloak, and said, "It's snowing outside, but it's fine inside your house. Why are you alone in the house? It's so cold, where did they go to play?"

Miao Er hurriedly poured her a cup of hot tea, and said, "They are all talking in the next room. I have to do some work here, so I didn't go. Why did my sister come here?"

Biyue said: "Suyun is going to the night today, so I'll drop by when I go back to the house. Grandma gave me some of the snacks I just got. I think you love this too, so I'll bring you some." He gave Miao'er a large greased paper bag, "Didn't you say that the night is long and it's easy to be hungry at night? It's not easy to get around with this dark light. If you are hungry, you can eat two pads for this snack."

Miao Er hurriedly took it and thanked her, then turned around and took out a cloth bag from under the pillow at the head of her bed, opened it, it was a very delicate jade-colored purse, embroidered with green plums, and bordered with a circle of snow-white fur, very cute.She opened it, handed it to Biyue, and said, "I know my sister's work is very good, this is a new needle technique I learned, and finally I can make something decent, for my sister."

Biyue took it over and took a closer look. She liked it very much, stuffed it into the armhole, and said with a smile: "This look is novel, so I will accept it. By the way, what are you doing? The lights ruin your eyes, why don't I help you?" help you?"

Miao Er hurriedly waved her hand and said: "How can I ask my sister to help, but the night is long, my bones hurt from too much sleep, I just need to find something to do. I also practice this needlework. I met my sister and Suyun sister that day. Work, I'm ashamed to death!"

Biyue smiled and said: "Don't be like this, we are really ashamed when we see grandma's embroidery work. Let's practice slowly, the mother said that although this is a job that is practice makes perfect, it also requires talent. I Talent is so-so, you can only rely on familiarity."

The two talked a few more words, and Biyue went back to the house.Miaoer sent Biyue away, went back to the house and put away her needle and thread, washed her hands, opened the oiled paper bag, sesame sauce chess piece cake, bacon sandwiched with sand, honey fried dough, sourdough milk cake...all small one by one , I couldn't hold it back, I tasted them one by one, while I was eating, I heard the laughter outside, and knew that it was my roommate who came back, so I quickly put the paper bag away and put it in my cabinet, and wiped the table with a rag.