return to the garden

After reading half the story, Nanny Song came to call for dinner, Liao Qing closed the tree and put Zhang Xiaoli down, and the two of them washed their hands and went to eat together.

Zhang Xiaolin came out obediently, washed his hands and waited for Zhang Xiaoli and Liao Qing at the dining table. It could be seen that he practiced calligraphy a lot in the morning, and there were some ink stains on his clothes.

Sure enough, there was a large plate of spicy rabbit diced in the dish, which was bright red and very tempting to look at. Liao Qing tasted it and immediately decided that she must give Song Nanny a raise.

Boneless and diced rabbit meat, marinated with scallion, ginger, salt, rice wine, soy sauce for about [-] quarters of an hour, then add starch and mix well, deep-fry in oil pan until golden brown, fry pepper and chili until brown-red, add diced rabbit , Stir-fry the sesame seeds evenly, sprinkle with scallions on the pan, spicy and delicious, charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

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On the other side, the pot bottoms, hot dishes, and steamed buns for the masons and carpenters have also been moved there.

Guanshi Liu took the servants to move things there, and then taught a group of masons how to eat.

"Look, the soup base is ready. You just need to add water, add the base ingredients, boil it, then put the vegetables in and cook it." Guanshi Liu scooped up a spoonful and put it into the brass pot, then put it in Cooking began on the improvised racks erected by the masons.

After a while, the whole yard was filled with a spicy smell that stimulated people's appetite. It was a bit choking, but it smelled delicious.

To be honest, just looking at the layer of oil floating on the top, no master is willing to give them this way of eating. Most of the artisans who ate dry food and drank gruel on weekdays swallowed their saliva visible to the naked eye.

After a while, the hot pot boiled, and Manager Liu put the vegetables next to it into the pot. The pile of vegetables on top was put into the pot. Only then did the masons realize that since the bottom was all meat, it was chopped, maybe it was rabbit meat or something. There is a small half basket in full.

And meat!This master is in charge of food and meat!Where did this come from!They traveled all over the world to give houses to rich owners, but for the first time, they saw meat and so many people!The young ones couldn't help it anymore. They didn't eat much when they came back yesterday. They finally had a good meal. How could they restrain themselves, and their greedy eyes turned green.

Guanshi Liu didn't delay people from eating, so he gave up his seat and let people sit down.

"A table of ten people, get a basket of vegetables, and then get thirty steamed buns and two catties of fine powder. Those who can't eat spicy food can eat the white soup pot with the ones who can't eat spicy food. You can do it yourself. Let's cook and eat." Guanshi Liu yelled.

Sure enough, they were active in such a big event as eating. They quickly allocated the tables, and then a leader came to Liu Guanshi to receive the food.

You don't know the weight until you get it in your hand. You know, there are [-] catties of radish, [-] catties of meat, [-] pieces of cabbage, [-] catties of sweet potato slices, and [-] catties of fine powder made of sweet potato flour. Li, I still can't stand it.

The craftsmen here ate happily, and Liu Guanshi led the servants to the next carpenter's yard.

The yard over there is much smaller, with a total of fifteen carpenters.

"You can just eat here with the carpenter later, and it happens that there are two tables on their side." Manager Liu ordered a few boys who brought things to come.

The servants were also greedy. After listening to Guanshi Liu's words, they thanked him again and again, and ran over happily carrying their things.

"The dishes are delivered here. The host is generous. Everyone just eats with open stomachs. We will start work tomorrow, and everyone will work together to finish the work as soon as possible." Manager Liu divided the dishes and asked a few servants to teach them how to eat. Only then did I go back.

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Back at Zhang's house, Liao Qing and the hostesses had finished eating, while Nanny Song and Zhi Gui were waiting for Guanshi Liu to eat together.

"Don't wait any longer, just leave some food for me. You've been busy all morning, so don't starve." Manager Liu was very happy with the situation, and he smiled and pulled the man who was looking at the kitchen door. Nanny Song sat down.

"That's right, I'll let my mother say to eat first, she insists on waiting, the food is cold." Zhigui spoke quickly, put the food in his mouth with his chopsticks.

The old couple froze for a moment, then sat down supporting each other again.

"It's cold, mother just needs to be warm. Your father came back after doing errands outside, so I don't miss your father. We can't eat together after waiting!" Nanny Song reprimanded Zhigui.

Zhigui's temper was twisted, and when he heard the words, he curled his lips and didn't answer, leaving the old couple a little embarrassed.

In the end, Nanny Song still smiled helplessly at Guanshi Liu, and the old couple ate their own food, regardless of where Zhigui was picking any trouble, and Quan pretended not to hear.

Guanshi Liu and Nanny Song felt uncomfortable after eating this meal.

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The next day, the mountain was ready to start work, and the carpenter also pulled the wood over and started to make windows, doors and furniture.

The work on the mountain starts with the jade belt, which is the road around the mountain, but because Liao Qing plans to build some houses on the jade belt as jade belt houses, the jade belt has to be made wider, about ten feet wide, around the mountain Going around to the top of the mountain, when the time comes, there will be a half-foot wide space for the independent Yudai small courtyards one by one for the road up the mountain, and it would be better to add a fence outside.

This job was simple, but the more than forty masons were still too slow, so Liao Qing asked Uncle Zhang to find someone to go up the mountain to do it together.

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Liu Guanshi was watching on the mountain, and Liao Qing stayed in the study, carving the Qinhuai Yuding inkstone, while watching Zhang Xiaolin study.

That inkstone, Liao Qing had a clue in his mind, it was probably given to a noble person in the palace, so he tried to make it more delicate, so it took two days before Liao Qing began to carve and grind it carefully, but this craft, Liao Qing Qing reckoned that it would take five or six days to make her shine, warm and beautiful.

And Zhang Xiaolin is more worry-free about reading. Zhang Xiaolin really likes reading. He will ask Liao Qing if he doesn't know him. If he doesn't understand the sentence, he will read it several times. Very hardworking.

It may be that he is not very enlightened, and his poems are indeed not good. Liao Qing also has some shortcomings in his poems because of his thinking of science students. Understand by yourself.

However, Liao Qing thought about it, but he needed to hire a gentleman for Zhang Xiaolin to teach him poetry, otherwise Zhang Xiaolin would have to take the imperial examination in the future, and the scriptures would be a must, and it would be a hindrance.

Zhang Xiaolin was reading the "Book of Songs" at this time, and his head was full of fog.

"The Book of Songs" is divided into three parts: "Feng", "Ya" and "Song". And anti-oppression, anti-bullying complaints and anger; "Ya" is divided into "Daya" and "Xiaoya", mostly poems for noble sacrifices, poems for praying for a good harvest, and eulogizing ancestors and virtues. There are also some folk songs in "Xiaoya"; "Song" is a poem for ancestral temple sacrifices.

Zhang Xiaolin was reading "The Wind" at this time, that is, it was mostly folk songs, and his brain ached from being tortured by those folk songs, so he finally came to ask Liao Qing.

"Chi Chi, the gangster, hugs Bu Maosi. The bandit comes to Maosi, and when he comes, I will seek. Send his son Sheqi, as for Dunqiu. The bandit is in the wrong time, and the son has no good match. The general will not be angry, and the autumn will be done." Zhang Xiaolin Show the book to Liao Qing.

This is a passage from the Book of Songs, in "Guofeng. Weifeng. Gangster", Liao Qing remembers it very clearly. What is more deep in his memory is that when he was learning this poem, the master was one of his tasks. The target, a woman disguised as a man, when she read this poem, because the hero in it was too scumbag, Liao Qing was knocked on the head by her.

"This passage is about a simple and honest peasant boy who came to the heroine to exchange silk with cloth in his arms. In fact, he did not really exchange silk, but wanted to find an opportunity to talk about marriage with her. Send this young man across Qishuixi to Dunqiu Love Yiyi. It's not that she is willing to miss the wedding date, but that this young man has no matchmaker and is rude. I hope he will not lose his temper and come to marry in autumn." Liao Qing recalled it and said it very smoothly.

After asking, Zhang Xiaolin still hadn't left, and stood beside Liao Qing in a daze, his face flushed with embarrassment.

"What's going on?" Liao Qing rubbed the child's hair.

"No... I don't understand it all the time..." Zhang Xiaolin blushed with shame, and continued, "I've read it more than a dozen times, but I still don't know what's going on..."

"This is normal. The Book of Songs is different from ordinary articles. Many rhythms and font structures have changed since it was passed down. It is normal that you can't understand it. I will teach you these few days. When I come back from Yunzhou, I will bring another one." The teacher will give it to you." Liao Qing put the inkstone aside and took the book in Zhang Xiaolin's hand.

"However, if you want to understand this poem, you must not be like the hero in the poem." Liao Qing teased the confused Zhang Xiaolin.

"Guofeng. Weifeng. Gangster" is a long poem in which an abandoned woman complains about her marriage tragedy.First, it recounts the marriage contract that she made from her first love, and then she narrates that she fell in love, broke through the shackles of the matchmaker's words and married a gangster, and then she advised a group of young and beautiful innocent girls not to indulge in love, and pointed out The phenomenon of inequality between men and women, expressing resentment towards the gangster's heartlessness, and the gangster's capriciousness, and then recounting her hard work after marriage, being abused, and her brother's ridicule and self-inflicted misfortune, and finally describing the childhood friendship and today's deviation , reprimanded the gangster for his hypocrisy and deceit, and resolutely stated that he and the gangster had made a clean break in their relationship.

The image of a heartless man is vivid on the paper.

Zhang Xiaolin seemed to understand, he understood the meaning of the poem, but he didn't understand the emotion in the poem.

Liao Qing saw Zhang Xiaolin's confused look, but put the book aside, ready to have a good talk with the child about life.

For a person, his basic outlook on life, values ​​and the world were developed during adolescence. Liao Qing still hopes to have a good talk with this child.