Chinese dining table

Chapter 1252 Everything is making progress
On the fifth day after Li Si and Yun Jin got married, Yu Xiurong handed over the power of the inner housekeeper to Li Si.

So, when Yun Chu was having breakfast, he had already discovered that great changes had taken place in his home.

After taking a bite of the freshly-made steamed buns stuffed with chives and eggs, he said to Li Si, "Can you please not eat such strong-smelling food in the morning?"

Li Si smiled and said, "Aye likes to eat."

Yun Chu said: "It's like this, the question is..."

"Aye, there is no problem. Even if Aye has bad breath after eating the leek buns, others can only bear it. The daughter-in-law thought that whether Aye is comfortable or not is the most important thing. Because of considering other people's opinions, Aye could not eat his favorite leek buns. This is the daughter-in-law's big mistake.

If Aye has to consider others even when eating a leek bun, what is the point of Aye's struggle all these years?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Chu immediately took a big bite of the steamed bun stuffed with leeks and eggs that had just come out of the steamer. Not only were the first leeks in spring tender and delicious, but after being steamed at high temperature, the leeks showed signs of melting. The light green soup soaked the bun skin, making it slightly green. After taking a bite, the fresh taste of leeks filled the mouth, which was indeed very comfortable.

In fact, Li Si's behavior is truly royal style, which includes: I feel comfortable and don't need to care about other people's feelings.

Seeing that Aye was enjoying the buns, Li Si waited for a new basket of buns to be served and then replaced the old buns left on Aye's plate with new, steaming buns.

The replaced buns were not given to the people at the table, but to the servants and maids.

Yun Chu and Yu Xiurong were like this, while the others did not have the treatment of changing their buns, including Yun Jin and Li Si. They ate the first batch of buns served.

Yun Chu did not reject Li Si's kindness, but he knew very well that the reason why Li Si did this was to instill the rules of hierarchy into the Yun family, which was exactly what the royal family paid the most attention to.

The superior is the superior, and others are not allowed to encroach upon, challenge, or even resist him.

Yu Xiurong naturally noticed this small change, and Yun Jin of course saw it too. Yun Jin knew it but didn't say anything. Only Yun Luan was eating his buns madly. As for whether the buns were new ones, he didn't care at all.

Since the power of the housekeeper of the inner house has been handed over to Li Si, Yun Chu decided not to say anything. It would not be good to dampen the child's enthusiasm at this time, and it would also make Li Si fall into a vicious circle of self-denial and unable to extricate himself.

The millet porridge that Li Si brought personally was not too thick, which was also in line with Yun Chu's taste, because he never wanted to drink the thick porridge that people in Guanzhong liked.

However, the millet in the porridge is golden yellow, and each grain of millet has burst open. The rice grains are not stuck together, one by one, and the middle is full of slightly sticky millet starch. There is a layer of rice oil on the surface of the porridge. To make such a pot of porridge, the cook needs to put in a lot of effort and control the cooking time very precisely to make such a pot of porridge.

Yun Chu believed that the millet used for making porridge should have been strictly screened, possibly selected grain by grain.

Therefore, a bowl of porridge like this tastes luxurious.

Eating is not about eating delicacies from land and sea. On the contrary, it is called luxury when the diners can eat what they want and like the most, and the food is cooked to the extreme and made of top-quality ingredients.

The Yun family’s breakfast is actually very simple, just some buns, porridge, noodles and some refreshing side dishes.

Today, Li Si really supervised these meals carefully.

After dinner, Yun Chu prepared to water his beloved forsythia thoroughly and then add some humus to provide the flowers with more nutrients. The flowering period of the forsythia has just ended, and only by providing sufficient nutrients can this pot of flowers continue to bloom in full bloom next year.

"Husband, how do you feel about your daughter-in-law being the head of the household for the first time?" Yu Xiurong asked as she stood beside a clump of Xiangfei bamboo and trimmed the yellowing leaves with scissors.

"That's good. I just hope this kid can keep doing this."

"Impossible. With her personality, she can only last for ten days at most... No, six days!"

"I think this kid seems to be very confident this time."

"Let alone anything else, just getting up before dawn, personally supervising the cooks, and managing time to the best of her ability is not something a child like Sisi can do."

"No one knows a daughter better than her mother. I think what you said makes sense. Sisi has the ability to do things to the best of her ability, but she doesn't have the perseverance to do things for a long time. Six days is actually too long."

Yun Chu believed that his family was adaptable and omnipotent. Whether it was him, Yu Xiurong, Yun Jin, Yun Jin or Yun Luan, they all had a special talent - quickly adapting to new patterns.

The Yun family seems to have rules, but in fact, every rule of the Yun family can be changed, just like a piece of mud, which can be molded into any shape, but the essence of the mud will not change.

On the whole, Yun’s overall style is actually lazy. Laziness represents comfort, and human nature is lazy, so Yun’s lazy style is in line with nature, and any irrational changes will only fail.

Yun Jin went out wearing a spring shirt. The young man had finally grown up. His originally round face began to have some firm lines, which was in line with the changes in the facial lines of Guanzhong people. Generally speaking, as long as the young man did not have the square face that is unique to Guanzhong, the appearance of a young man with such changes would be very attractive.

There are generally no good-looking men in Guanzhong, but when one does appear, he is the most stunning beauty in the world.

This change has only occurred recently, and Yun Chu really hopes that his eldest son will grow up to be a man of great bearing and bearing.

The people and events that prompted this change were not Li Si’s recent wedding, but had a lot to do with the debate between Buddhism and Taoism.

The great debate at Louguan Terrace was still going on. The great masters of Buddhism and Taoism gathered at Louguan Terrace. Scenes of one party taking the stage after another kept appearing. Just when Yun Jin thought that the debate was about to end, some eminent monks or Taoists from afar would suddenly appear on the stage, overturn the previous results of the debate, and divert the topic once again.

Louguantai is located in Zhouzhi County, Guanzhong, 150 miles away from Chang'an. Yun Jin, Wen Huan and Li Chengxiu all lived there, watching the debate while waiting for it to end.

Whenever Yun Jin goes out, Li Si is always clingy and unwilling to let him leave. Because she is not as good-looking as Yun Jin, Li Si is very worried about letting Yun Jin go out alone.

Watching the two of them pulling each other out, Yu Xiurong glanced at Li Si's upturned nose and said to Yun Chu, "This child is good in every way except his nose. I don't know whose nose he looks like. Neither His Majesty nor the Queen has a nose like that.

Alas, the wife is not as good-looking as the husband, this kind of thing...ah, it's hard to say. "

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "Don't worry about it, and don't say anything. People naturally have their own way of getting along with each other."

While the two were chatting, Li Si, who had sent Yun Jin out, came back unhappy. Yu Xiurong called Li Si and looked at her upturned nose carefully and said, "What's wrong with this nose?"

Li Si immediately said aggrievedly: "I don't know either."

Yu Xiurong sighed and said, "Don't go out on rainy days, lest the rain water runs down your nose."

Only Yu Xiurong would say that Li Sicai wouldn't care. She pressed her upturned nose hard and said, "I'll press it from time to time in the future, otherwise my nostrils will really be flooded when it rains."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Just don't worry."

Yun Luan, who was about to go to the Imperial Hospital, heard this and looked at Li Si's nose and said, "According to the Imperial Hospital's research, your sister-in-law's nose may have been inherited from Li's ancestors. They used to live in places with thin air and needed two large nostrils to breathe hard, so their noses grew like this."

Seeing Li Si's eyes getting bigger and bigger, Yun Luan immediately walked around her parents and sister-in-law, and quickly left the courtyard and went to the front yard.

Yun Chu saw that Li Si was furious, and then laughed and said, "Are we enemies now?"

Li Si said: "As the eldest sister-in-law, I can't argue with my younger brother-in-law. I'll wait until he gets married."

Yu Xiurong said in surprise: "After he got married, he met you even less often."

Li Si said angrily: "I am waiting for his future wife. When the time comes, I will let my father and mother see my methods."

Yu Xiurong looked at Li Si, then thought about Yun Guanguan's appearance, and couldn't help but sigh, thinking that Li Si might not be able to defeat Yun Guanguan.

After a moment of heartache, she took Li Si's hand and went to the backyard. She planned to have a good talk with Li Si about how to manage the huge Yun family business and how to deal with those with ill intentions.

Qujiang City is a financial city, which is now filled with outsiders. Just to the left and rear of Qujiang City is a newly built steel city.

All the metal smelting and casting belonging to Chang'an City are located in this city, including a copper smelter, two mints, and a large number of iron smelting workshops, lead and tin workshops.

The main reason why this steel city was built here is that not only is it convenient to get water, but there are also four coal mines nearby and there are even two coking plants in the steel city.

Since this is a steel city, the smell here is naturally very bad. The coal from the coking plant contains sulfur, and the iron ore contains sulfur. Although sulfuric acid has been produced here using condensation towers, the sulfuric acid fumes from the large chimneys still cover the entire steel city.

The place where the steel city was built was originally a saline-alkali land with no grass growing. After the steel city was built and coking and steel smelting began, the land became even less grass-free.

Yun Chu went in wearing a mask, but he was still choking and coughing. Looking at the dark faces of the craftsmen in the workshop, Yun Chu asked the person in charge of the Steel City.

“Where’s the mask? Why aren’t you wearing it?”

"The craftsmen don't like wearing them because they feel short of breath. Besides, they are used to it. The masks are given to them and then they sell them. After all, the masks are made of high-quality cotton yarn."

Yun Chu looked at the big black teeth of the person in charge. This guy didn't even wear a mask. Not only did he walk in the sulfuric acid smoke as if nothing had happened, he also deliberately took two deep breaths in front of Yun Chu, showing that he was a real man of steel and that the sulfuric acid smoke couldn't hurt him at all.

After asking, Yun Chu didn't say anything more. The wages at the steel plant were very high, and the wages included subsidies for health damage. Since the government has already reminded them and distributed labor protection supplies, it is up to them whether to use them or not.

If you say more or interfere too much, everyone from the person in charge to the craftsmen will be unhappy.

In the Tang Dynasty, you give me money and I give you my life. This is a very natural thing...

"The left pole is one inch lower, and the right pole is two inches higher!"

As the foundry manager roared, the huge crucible slowly tipped over, and the red-hot molten iron poured out from the crucible with sparks, falling into the mold on the ground, splashing steel sparks everywhere.

Taking a look at the smug face of the steel plant manager, Yun Chu secretly sighed in his heart. The steel output of the steel city covering an area of ​​more than 4,000 acres was not even 30% of the production capacity of the small steel plant he had helped to shut down before.

Even so, the steel produced was also inferior steel, which would have to be destroyed and re-smelted in his previous world...

The head of the steel mill proudly used an iron bar to knock on the ground steel and said to Yun Chu: "County Master, listen, this is good steel--"

Yun Chu suppressed his sadness and nodded in satisfaction, saying, "Deliver it to the iron factory as soon as possible. If the speed is fast enough, we will have a lot of steel farm tools ready for the market next year.

This is a big business that Changan has been planning for a long time. We want to eliminate all non-steel farm tools, and Changan City wants to get the largest share of this big business of farm tools."

As soon as Yun Chu finished speaking, he heard the head of the steel mill raise his hand and shout in the sulfuric acid smoke: "Fight hard for a hundred days and take the largest share!"

Following the shouting of the head of the steel mill, the other craftsmen standing in the sulfuric acid smoke also shouted while breathing in the sulfuric acid smoke: "Fight hard for a hundred days and take the largest share."

Yun Chu listened to the craftsmen's shouts and sighed again in his heart. The quality and output of steel were not even comparable to those in later generations, but the slogans were the same as those in later generations.

These slogans were not compiled by Yun Chu himself, but were written by officials from the Wannian County Government. They are local products with local characteristics.

Although the quality and quantity are not as good as those of later generations, the slogans can catch up, which may also be a kind of progress.

(End of this chapter)