The Daily Life of the Daughter of a Minor Official

Chapter 199 Barbecue in Lotus Pond

Su Ruojin almost failed to follow Prince Zhao's train of thought. Su Ruojin was stunned for a moment before she remembered the thank-you gift she said at the entrance of the alley: "Roast duck."

Zhao Lan left with satisfaction after hearing the answer.

You said you couldn't sell it just now, so why do you seem to have gotten Huanxi dumplings?

Shuang Rui saluted the Su family as they bid farewell, "Dr. Su, Mrs. Su, please stay." After saying that, he turned around and said alone: ​​"Please, second lady, please prepare the food recipe." The implication is to come and get it at any time. .

Su Ruojin: ...Uncle Xue’s preserved eggs haven’t been sold yet. Is Prince Zhao so anxious?

 After seeing off the little prince, Su Yanli had time to ask his daughter: "You didn't come back last night. Did you meet the little prince?"

Su Ruojin shook her head. She was about to tell her father about Carpenter Zhang when she saw her mother and younger brother. She didn't want to worry them, but said, "I'll go to my father's study to write a recipe for roast duck for the little prince."

Su Yanli understood that his daughter wanted to talk to him alone, so he nodded, "Yes!"

The Su family lived in a large place, and Su Yanli's study was not in the backyard, but in the front yard. Cheng Yingzhen took Su Xiaomei back to the backyard first. Su Sanlang was tired after a long day, so he sneaked back to his yard with Si Lang.

 Only Su Dalang, Su Ruojin and Su Yanli went to the study.

As soon as he arrived at the study, Su Ruojin admitted his mistake to his father, saying that he should not have made the blueprints he found into self-defense weapons for Prince Zhao Xiaojun. As a result, Carpenter Zhang was almost killed.

Su Yanli never blamed his daughter for these things. He was right to be indifferent and clear-minded, but he was living a comfortable life. If his daughter hadn't hugged Mr. Fan and Prince Jin's thighs with delicious food and rare things, the Su family would not have been able to live such a comfortable life.

"A Jin doesn't have to blame himself." He said: "The Liao Xia people have been active in the capital for more than a day or two. Have you forgotten what Carpenter Zhang once said about Carpenter Li? Even if they don't have this drawing of yours, they will still plot. Something else."

Su Yanli has always been tolerant. Su Ruojin knew this, but she still felt guilty. Su Yanli didn't know the power of firecrackers, which were deadly weapons that could change dynasties.

 But after her father said this, she felt relieved. At least he understood why her daughter did what she did, and that was enough.

Su Dalang listened on the side. As he grew up, he also had to slowly learn things other than books. Understanding the world is knowledge, and being knowledgeable is writing.

On the second day, as soon as he got on duty, Xue Changcheng went to Su Ji to find his wife, "Ajin, Uncle Xue is here to disturb you."

Since he got the job of making a bed three years ago, the Xue family's life has been much better in the past three years. Now that he has a prescription, the money in his hands will definitely be more abundant.

Su Ruojin saw Xue Changcheng smiling like a wolf grandma and entering Su Ruojin's steward's room with a fawning look. She smiled helplessly and stood up quickly, "Uncle Xue, please sit down quickly."

Xue Changcheng not only did not sit down, but also put away his smile and assured her with a serious face, "Ah Jin, I am really not a bad person, nor am I a foreign spy."

“Uncle Xue, if you were a bad person, you wouldn’t have been able to leave the Imperial City or Dali Temple yesterday.”

Xue Changcheng was still afraid that the young lady would not believe him. He was worried about how to prove his innocence. When he heard this, he was very happy and said, "Yes, Ajin just trusts uncle."

 “Sit down, Uncle Xue!”

　　Although Xue Changcheng did not treat Su Ruojin as an ordinary young lady, he was not an elder who could not stay for a long time. He reminded her sheepishly, "Learn...learn how to make arrangements when you go back early."

Su Ruojin also realized it, so he took him to the workshop and let others go out first.

The key to making preserved eggs lies in alkali and quicklime. Without these two, preserved eggs cannot be made. The other ingredients, such as tea powder, yellow mud, etc. are all common ingredients.

Su Ruojin told Xue Changcheng: Under normal circumstances, for one thousand duck eggs, about two kilograms of soda ash, seven kilograms of quicklime, one kilogram of tea powder, and the proportions of firewood ash, salt, water, yellow mud, etc. were told to him one by one.

 Pour soda ash, salt, tea powder, etc. into a pot and boil, then pour into a jar with yellow mud in advance, stir evenly, and cool until use. Dip the selected duck eggs in the cooled slurry so that they are evenly covered with the slurry. Then roll the eggs in the powder mixed with quicklime and firewood ash so that the eggs are evenly covered with the powder. Finally, it is sealed and stored in a cylinder. It usually takes about more than a month to mature and come out of the cylinder.

 “It’s been so long!”

Su Ruojin smiled and said: "I have something ready here. I will supply it to you first. When you make the vat, you can supply it to all the restaurants, restaurants, and ordinary people's homes in the capital. The profit will be both quantity and longevity."

Xue Changcheng nodded. Although the profit is small, the advantage is that the capital is small and it is easy to operate.

Seeing that the preserved eggs have a long profit period, Su Ruojin joked to Zhao Lan, "If Uncle Xue doesn't mind the trouble, he can find a village near the water to raise a large number of ducks, which can not only meet the demand for eggs, but also the male ducks." And the female ducks that don’t lay eggs are sold to the little prince’s restaurant.”

Xue Changcheng's eyes lit up when he heard the words "little prince". Did he hook up with a noble man? It’s not a blessing to my lucky stars. The hardship of being interrogated by the Imperial City Bureau and Dali Temple for a day and a night was not in vain!

When he came, Xue Changcheng’s smile was just to please. When he went back, he wished he could look up to the sky and smile. The ancients honestly did not deceive me. As expected, misfortune depends on blessings, and misfortune depends on misfortunes. Misfortunes and blessings depend on each other!

 It’s worth it, so worth it!

Su Ruojin sighed to see how happy a minister from the fifth rank was working to make money.

Mr. Xue was born into a poor family and was the last Jinshi. He finally found an eighth-grade job in the Ministry of Works and married a daughter of a sixth-grade imperial official to help him. A few years ago, the sixth-grade imperial official actually helped Xue, who was in the army. Your Excellency was promoted to the sixth rank of the Ministry of Industry, but it stopped there. After that, for many years, Master Xue did not move at this sixth rank, so he turned his attention to all the available resources around him, including Su Yanli Mr. Fan’s line.

It can be said that Mr. Xue is a good soldier who wants to be a general. No matter how hard he works, he works hard to rise. However, the daughter of a sixth-rank imperial official he married, Mrs. However, he clearly understood the high-mindedness of Mrs. Jingguan. I heard from Xue Liuniang that there were not many shops that Mrs. Xue was married to, and almost all of them were not well managed.

 Forget it, every family has its own way of life. Without her as an adult, Su Yanli and his wife would probably be worse than Master Xue if they were a homebody and a coward!

 Back home, Uncle Shutong, who had been shopping for food, came back.

Su Ruojin quickly asked, "Uncle, how much did you buy?"

Tong Shu said: "The weather was dry, and the nearby grain was either collected by large households in the capital or by big merchants. I didn't receive much. Later, I ran to Father Feng and collected a lot in the mountains, but there was nothing I could do. After transporting it out in one go, I found a cave to hide it near the exit of the mountain."

Su Ruojin first praised him for his flexible head, and then worried: "If it's not wet, will it be eaten by small animals like mountain rats?"

Shu Yi looked excited, "Dad Feng helped me find it. He said that when he went out of the mountain, he encountered rain one time and found this good place by chance. It was not like ordinary caves that were low-lying and humid. Instead, it was hidden in a place about ten feet high. The entrance of the cave They are all shrubs, and most people won’t notice them at all. Once inside, they are dry and clean, and there are no traces of animal activity.”

"That's a really good place." Su Ruojin was happy, "Looking at the weather, I'm afraid it won't rain much for a while. In the past two days, the people from the little county prince came to get the roast duck recipe. I asked them to help transport the food in batches. Capital City.”

Shutong was about to ask how to transport it to the capital, but he didn't expect that the second lady would solve it, so he didn't need to worry. After reporting, he hurried back to hug his son.

Two days later, someone came over to get the roast duck recipe, but Siping not only brought the recipe, but also invited Su Ruojin to come over, "If the second lady doesn't demonstrate it in person, the food cooked by the kitchen masters will always be unpleasant, so please The second lady will go with the younger one."

“But there is an oven on top of my square, do you have one?”

Siping got the recipe, but Siping didn't take a closer look. Hearing this, he quickly opened it and took another look. This stove really takes time to make. "Then..." The little prince asked him to invite people over. What would happen? Is good.

 “So urgent?”

 “My master wants to eat.”

Su Ruojin: ...I didn’t expect that the little prince had quite an appetite.

All right! It can be done in a moment. Su Ruojin thought that the place Siping took her to was a restaurant. Unexpectedly, when she got off the car, she found a quiet and exquisite house. After entering, there was a large pond full of lotus flowers.

She turned to look at Siping with a look of surprise on her face. Isn’t it the Little Prince Restaurant?

Siping smiled guiltily: "My master has been away from home for more than half a year and finally came back, so I want to relax here."

Su Ruojin…

 In the land of the Imperial City, where every inch of land is precious, there is such a large lotus pond. Not only that, there is little rain and drought in the capital, but the blue waves in this pond look like it has not rained for a long time.

 She has finally seen how the privileged class enjoys it.

If Zhao Lan, who was not far away, knew what the young lady was thinking, he would probably ask, "What did I say when I was working hard in South Vietnam?"

Siping took the young lady to the lotus pond and waterside pavilion, "Sir, the second lady is here."

Zhao Lan had already stood up and looked at her with a smile.

On the lotus pond, the air is fresh, the lotus leaves on both sides are swaying slightly, and the lotus flowers stand upright above the lotus leaves, slim, fresh and beautiful. There are red dragonflies fluttering their wings, standing on the lotus stems, flapping their wings, full of interest.

The young lady is standing in a light green dress among green lotuses and pink flowers. The wind blows across the pond, her dress is fluttering, her black hair is fluttering, she is pretty and agile.

I came here to relax today. Zhao Lan did not wear a dark brocade robe as usual, but a light green robe, which had a hint of floating clouds and hidden cranes. A silver leather belt cinched his waist, giving him an increasingly plump look. .

The long eyebrows are painted in ink, and the eyes are like paint dots.

The moment he saw Su Ruojin, his dark eyes seemed to be calm, and a layer of joyful light leaped into his eyes, "Ah Jin."

Today's little prince is so different from usual. Su Ruojin can't adapt to the difference. His eyes are so amazed that he forgets to greet him. He is awakened by the noble prince's deep voice and quickly salutes: "Ah Jin has seen the little prince."

The bright-eyed Prince Zhao's eyes dimmed significantly when he heard this title.

Su Ruojin didn't notice the change in the noble master opposite. She asked with some confusion, "The little prince wants to eat roast duck? Here?"

"Isn't it possible?" Zhao Lan put away his alienated mood and returned to being as gentle as the breeze.

 Looking at the lotus pond outside the pavilion, it was clear and clear, and the ingredients were roasting, but there was a smell of fireworks. Are you sure Prince Zhao is not joking?

 The young lady looked at him with a puzzled look.

Zhao Lan came prepared and looked up.

Shuangrui and three or five waiters moved and carried a whole set of barbecue tools to the small pavilion. After a while, the small pavilion was full.

 “Are you going to have barbecue here?”

Zhao Lan looked at the surprised young lady. She no longer had the cold and serious expression she had when she was looking for Carpenter Zhang a few days ago. She clearly didn't see him smiling, but his eyes and brows felt like they were smiling. Could this be the difference between work and private time?

Su Ruojin got used to it.

She saw the killed ducks placed on the tray, and looked up at Zhao Lan. He wouldn't think that the ducks were also roasted on the barbecue, right?

 This is a misunderstanding. No wonder Siping asked her to bring her here.

　　Shaking his head, he pointed at the duck and said, "This is not baked on a grill. It needs a stove like baking biscuits. It will be delicious that way."

 “Siping, find one and come over.”

 “Yes, sir.”

I don’t know where Siping is, but I responded anyway.

Su Ruojin smiled.

Although it is in Bianjing City, the journey from the Su family to this private garden is through half of the capital city. It is also noon, and I am already hungry, so I quickly marinate the duck and roast it later.

Su Ruojin rolled up her sleeves and started working.

Chunxiao and Qiuyue are coming to help.

Zhao Lan stopped them with a look.

Mao Ya was about to step forward, Qiu Yue stretched out her hand and pulled her. She turned to look at Qiu Yue, who shook her head at her.

Just when Mao Ya was puzzled and wanted to ask Er Niang how to deal with so many things since there was no one to help her, Prince Zhao also rolled up his sleeves, cleaned his hands, and asked with a smile, "How can I help?"

Su Ruojin was waiting for Mao Ya and the others to come up to help. Unexpectedly, Zhao Lan, a noble son who did not like the fireworks of the world, rolled up his sleeves. She was quite shocked, "Little prince, you..."

“I came out today to spend my days leisurely, so I have to have some fun.”

Su Ruojin glanced at the pile of barbecue ingredients and understood that he was indeed here to enjoy leisure fun, so he acceded to his wishes. It was probably impossible not to disobey him. He was a noble prince and a young prince who could do whatever he wanted.

So, Su Ruojin taught him how to make **** and onion juice, and she rubbed the duck with salt herself. The two of them stood at the small stone table, and unknowingly they got close to each other, marinating the roast duck together.

Zhao Lan was like a good student. From time to time, he asked what the function of this ingredient was and what that spice was. Su Ruojin always answered every question. He even regarded him as a stove master who was learning how to roast duck.

Mao Ya was on the side and gradually noticed that something was wrong.

 This is not about learning how to cook roast duck. It is clearly about learning how to roast duck to get close to the little lady!

 Have you seen it, little lady?

 A duck was smeared and marinated for a long time.

Su Ruojin felt that her stomach was full of hunger. She turned around quickly, took the skewers and put them on the grill. With a brush in one hand, she directed Zhao Lan to bring the oil pot.

 “I’ll pour it for you.”

 “What do you mean, pour it for me, you’re not hungry?” Being hungry made Su Ruojin lose her sense of distance, so she retorted smoothly.