Song female man

Lu Qian, the old master of the Lu family, is in his early forties this year, with a thin beard on his chin, wearing a square scarf on his head, and a jacket and skirt, he is considered one of the most refined people in Yangliu Town.He was also a scholar in the past, and after several years of examinations, he could no longer become a Juren. As he grew older, he married his wife Li, and after having two sons, he had to support his family, so he took over the academy from his father. Start teaching.

There are sixty or seventy students in the Lujia Academy, and he and his eldest son usually teach them. The Shu Xiu they charge is enough to get by, and they belong to middle-class families in Yangliu Town.

The courtyard of the Lu family is in the middle of the East-West Street in Yangliu Town. Shun Niang quickly walked to the door of his house and opened the door. It was still the door opened by the little maid named He Ye last time. He Ye already knew that Shunniang was the sworn brother of their family's Erlang Lu Quan. This time, she was very polite to her when she met Shunniang, saluted her, and told Shunniang in a very soft tone that her second son was not at home for the past two days. , I haven't come back yet.

She thought that Shunniang was looking for Lu Quan, so Shunniang told her that she was not here for Lu Quan, but for Old Master Lu.

It was almost noon at this time, and the students all went back to eat lunch. A few students who lived far away brought meals to eat in the school, and Lu Qian also prepared lunch with his wife, son and daughter-in-law.

He Ye asked Shunniang to follow her in, and when she reached the door of the backyard, she told Shunniang to wait for a while, and then went in to deliver a message.

After a while, Lu Zhan came out, and happily invited him in to talk, saying that his parents also wanted to see this man who was sworn brother to his family Erlang.

Shunniang looks honest and handsome, and Lu Qian and his wife fell in love with her as soon as they saw her, and they knew that she was a woodcutter and fisherman, so they liked her even more.In their hearts, they believed that Shunniang was an honest and hard-working person who lived a down-to-earth life. It would definitely be helpful for his family's Erlang to be sworn brothers with such a person.Just like what Lu Zhan said to Shunniang several times, the two of them also hope that Shunniang can persuade Erlang, who makes people worry about not making progress in their family, to change his ways.

Apart from nodding repeatedly to say yes, Shunniang couldn't say anything else.

After Lu Qian and his wife finished talking, Shunniang told the Lu family her intention of coming. When the Lu family heard it, they naturally said that the whole family would be invited to go. It's a pity that the prodigal Lu Quan didn't come back, otherwise the whole family would be together in a neat and orderly manner. It would be a good thing to go to Xi's family to congratulate them on their housewarming.

The Lu family kept food again, and asked Shunniang to have dinner at Lu's house. Shunniang said that she would go back to help her mother and sister-in-law prepare the noodles, so she would not eat at Lu's house, and thanked them for their kindness.

As soon as this remark came out, it won the praise of Lu Qian's wife, Li Shi, who said that there are too few young men like Shun Niang who both earn money and cook for the family, and they don't know which family has a young man in the future. The lady is blessed to marry Shunniang as his wife, but it's a pity that she only has two sons. If she has a daughter, she will definitely marry a young man like Shunniang.

Shun Niang 囧, didn't know whether she should be happy or unhappy, she rubbed her nose, she had no choice but to bow her head, saying that Mrs. Li had praised her absurdly.

Lu Qian said that since Shunniang's family had something to do, they would not force others, so they asked the eldest son to send Shunniang out.

After Lu Zhan sent Shunniang out and went back, he heard what her mother said to her wife that such a good boy as Xi Erlang would be suitable for the second mother of the Xie family. Now Xierlang lives next door to the Xie family. The lady has a good son-in-law and so on.

After hearing this, Lu Qian knocked on the bowl with his chopsticks, telling them to stop gossip, it was about their in-laws' daughter who hadn't left the cabinet, so these gossips were not nonsense.

Mrs. Li also stopped talking, but she still said that Lu Qian is a sarcastic remark, she was joking with his wife, and Lu Qian was so serious.

Lu Zhan sat down again for dinner, and told his father that going to Xi's house to congratulate him on his housewarming was not in vain, and that he had to bring some congratulatory gifts, so Lu Qian said that he would bring one each of the pickled fish and pickled chicken that the student Dang Shuxiu brought. Just go, and two bottles of wine are enough.

Mrs. Li muttered to the side, hoping that her second son, Lu Quan, could come back today and catch up with Xi's family for a banquet...

Shunniang left Lu's house to go back, ate the cold cooking cakes steamed yesterday with her mother and sister-in-law, and drank some leftover tea from Xie's family yesterday, and then began to pick vegetables, cut vegetables, and cut meat for dinner with them up.

Her mother bought some eggplant, loofah, pumpkin, onion, ginger, green vegetables, tofu, fresh lotus root, some salted duck eggs, roast chicken and goose, and two catties of pork.

While working in the kitchen, Mrs. Qi asked Shunniang what dishes they were going to cook, and Shunniang asked her to stand aside and watch, then rolled up her sleeves and chopped the roast chicken and goose into pieces first.Her strength is stronger than Liu's and Qi's, and she has been chopping firewood for the past few months, so she is quite skilled in doing this kind of work that needs to be chopped. The whole roast chicken and roast goose were cut into pieces of similar size.

Watching her chop up roast goose and roast chicken is like strolling in the garden. Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Liu couldn't help being stunned when they saw her. They always felt that Shunniang had changed from before. A little clumsy, and I can't always do the work in the kitchen well, I can only do some work of choosing vegetables and noodles.

Since Shunniang fell ill, this is the first time she has been in the kitchen to cook. Before that, she was only helping Mrs. Qi wash the dishes. No wonder Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Liu were surprised when they saw it. After all, Mrs. Looking at the roast goose and chicken from my mother's eyes, it is much easier than doing the same work. At a glance, it looks like a chef who works in the kitchen.

This scene also happened to fall into the eyes of Mrs. Wu who came here to watch Shunniang cook, and of course the two little tails behind Mrs. Wu, her Erniang and Sanlang.

Xiaojiao and his younger brother Xie Sanlang also came after her mother. As soon as Xie Sanlang came, he saw Kecheng chasing a little flower dog in the yard, so he also joined the ranks of chasing the dog.Hui'er who was in Qi's arms saw the two children, and excitedly stretched out her hands to jump in front of them, babbling, she didn't know what she was talking about, but it could be seen that she was very excited.Qi introduced to her that the boy who played with her brother Kecheng was Saburo from the Xie family next door, and taught Huier to call him Xie Sange.

Huier slobbered, slurred, and she really yelled at Xie Sanlang, but whether she was able to yell Xie Sange, it can only be understood but not expressed in words.

When Mrs. Liu saw Mrs. Wu coming with her two children, she quickly went to set up two stools to invite them to sit down and talk, and brought herbal tea for them to drink.

Mrs. Wu asked Mrs. Liu to put the stool at the door of the kitchen. She said that she came so early to see Xijia Erlang cooking. She also smiled and said to Shunniang who was chopping and roasting the chicken, and she really did as she said at noon I fried the mung bean seeds and ate them on a plate. The whole family said it was delicious, and it was better than fried soybean seeds.

Shunniang told her that Xi's family was going to produce seeds to sell, and in a few days they would set up a stall at the door to sell them.

When Wu heard this, she said it was a good thing, and asked Xijia to do it quickly. She said that mung bean hair seeds had not been sold in the town yet, and Xijia must sell well.

Mrs. Liu said, thanks to Xie's family renting this house to Xi's family, otherwise Xi's family would not have found such a good place to sell seeds.

When Shun Niang was chatting with the women outside, she had already prepared all the roast goose and roast chicken. When she was about to pick up plates, she found that there were not enough plates at home. After eating, there are not enough bowls, plates and chopsticks.

Turning around, she looked at Mrs. Wu who was chatting at the door of the kitchen, and said, "Miss Wu, it would be nice to borrow some dishes from your house. It's time for a treat, and I just realized that there are not enough dishes at home."

Mrs. Wu asked Shunniang how much she needed. Shunniang calculated that she planned to cook eight dishes, one plate for each table, and would need sixteen plates, soup, and fruit. In this way, it would cost twenty plate.As for the bowls, there are less than ten bowls in the family. Four people from the Xie family are coming, and the Lu family... She counts Lu Zhan who didn't come back, and there are six people there.In this way, at least ten bowls are needed, that is, ten.As for the chopsticks, she didn't plan to borrow them from Xie's family, but asked her sister-in-law to buy some later.

"Miss Wu, lend me ten or so bowls and twenty plates." Shunniang said, then turned to look at sister-in-law and said, "Sister-in-law, you can go and buy ten pairs of chopsticks later."

Wu Shi: "Okay, I'll ask Erniang to carry her for you."

After hearing this, Mrs. Qi asked her mother-in-law Mrs. Liu to hold Huier, who was in her arms, and said that she first went with Xie Erniang to bring over the dishes, and then went to the grocery store to buy ten pairs of chopsticks.

Xiaojiao took Qi's family to Xie's kitchen to hold the dishes, and the two gossiped along the way. Xiaojiao and Qi's hit it off, and started chatterbox without saying a few words, chattering non-stop.Qi Shi listened with a smile most of the time, occasionally adding a sentence or two.

After Xie Erniang took Qi Shi to pick up the dishes, she accompanied Qi Shi to buy chopsticks. Qi Shi has always been a quiet person, but he likes Xie Erniang who is open and talkative.So one of the two was happy to talk, and the other was happy to listen. When they went to buy chopsticks together and came back, they seemed to have become friends in the boudoir, and they looked very close.

At this time, Shunniang was already planning to cook the first dish, which was steamed tofu with salted duck egg yolk.

First peel off the yolk of the salted duck egg, chop it like tofu, then stir it together, put it in the pot and steam it in water, steam it on high heat for about a quarter of an hour, and then it can be out of the pot.This dish is salty, fresh and smooth, with a good taste, which is very suitable for the elderly and children.

Mrs. Wu was still chatting with Mrs. Liu, but when she saw Shunniang cooking this dish, she was attracted, so she stopped talking to Mrs. Liu, stood up, went directly into the kitchen, and stood beside Shunniang, It is really strange to ask what kind of dish this is.

Shunniang told Mrs. Wu what this dish was, and before she could explain how she came up with this dish, Mrs. Wu had already helped Shunniang explain it: "This must be what the old Taoist in Sichuan told you. wrong?"

"En, um." Shun Niang smiled and nodded repeatedly.

Wu Shi: "It's really fresh! But I don't know how it tastes, I'll have to taste it later."

Shunniang explained to her what the taste of this dish should be and who it is suitable for. Not to mention Wu Shi, even Liu Shi and others were attracted here, surrounded Shunniang, listening to her talk about this salty dish Egg yolk steamed tofu.

This time, when the craftsmen were asked to make the stove, Shunniang asked them to make a large, small, and two-eye stove, just to use a large pot for cooking, steaming cakes, and small pots for cooking, and now they can use the fire on the first day.

She put the salted egg yolk steamed egg in a large pot and steamed it over water, and then started to cook other dishes.

Sweet and sour fish, crispy pork slices, honey glazed lotus root, fried mung bean sprouts, braised pork, fried pumpkin, stuffed loofah.

Shunniang started to cook in order, not to mention, these few dishes of hers were eye-opening for Wu and others. She kept asking this and that while Shunniang was cooking, and Shunniang was about to cook again. Stir-fry, and she has to keep explaining, but she is too busy.

Although it's already August, the kitchen is still quite hot because of the fire. Wu and the others are not afraid of the heat, they surround Shunniang to watch her cook without blinking an eye.

The curtain wall formed by these women was airtight, Shun Niang was sweating profusely from the heat, and it was not easy to drive them all out of the kitchen, so she had to endure it.

After finally finishing the dishes that should be cooked, Wu and the others dispersed contentedly, and went out to sit and drink tea. Shun Niang let out a sigh of relief, and someone next to her suddenly handed over a handkerchief to wipe her sweat .

Shunniang was startled, and looked at the person who handed her the handkerchief, but it turned out to be Xiaojiali, Xiaojiali bit her lip, put the handkerchief into her hand, turned and ran out.

At this time, Xie Erniang was at the end, and her mother, Mrs. Wu, accompanied by Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Qi, was talking and laughing as she walked out.

Shunniang was stunned for a long time, feeling nonsensical, why did Little Pepper suddenly care about her, and even threw her handkerchief to herself to wipe her sweat...

Suddenly, her heart skipped a beat, thinking of a possibility, could this little pepper be the girl Huaichun who fell in love with her?Otherwise, how to explain throwing a handkerchief to such an "outsider"?

Looking down at the willow-green handkerchief in her hand, Shunniang felt that there were thorns on it, so she dared not use it to wipe her sweat.

She is one thousand and 1 who don't want Pepper to like her. After all, she is Kijiro who disguises herself as a man, not a real man. Although her inclination is to like women, she guesses that Pepper must like being a man of their own.Everyone is neighbors here, and Xie's family is so kind to Xi's family, how can I accept Xiaojiali's liking, won't it hurt the girl.

Shunniang decided that after inviting the Xie family and the Lu family to dinner today, she had to take some time to meet Xiaojiali, return the handkerchief she gave her, and explicitly reject her, and let her put her heart on others , Don't put it on yourself, waste time.

At this stage, she wants to make a fortune with all her strength, and she doesn't want to get involved with any girl, even the sister Song Yu in Bianliang City who attracts her so much, she still doesn't want to get involved.

She folded the handkerchief, stuffed it into the purse hanging around her waist, went outside to find a wooden basin, scooped some water in the water tank, washed her face indiscriminately, and found the handkerchief she used to wipe her face to wipe it. Clean, I went to move a small stool over, and sat outside under the eaves to cool off.

Qi's family came from afar and brought her a bowl of tea. Shunniang took the tea and drank it, watching Kecheng and Xie Sanlang chasing and playing in the yard.

Wu Shi, Liu Shi, and Xie Erniang were sitting far away from her, chatting and laughing, and they didn't know what to say. She only saw her old lady laughing, very happy.

Shun Niang rested for half an hour, and it was almost the end of Shen Shi. Mrs. Liu and others got up and went to the outside room, while Mrs. Qi and Erniang Xie went out to get the bowls and chopsticks and put them on the table outside.

Mrs. Wu went to ask someone to bring a table over, plus the original Xi's table for dinner, there are two tables for people.

After a while, Xie Yi came over, and the Lu family followed. They all brought some gifts, handed them to Mrs. Liu, congratulated her, and congratulated Xi's family on moving. The room suddenly became lively. Xie Erniang saw Lu Quan He also followed, and couldn't help curling his lips.

Lu Quan didn't notice Xie Erniang, as soon as he came in, he yelled at Shunniang, and Wu told him that Shunniang was cooking in the back kitchen.

As soon as he heard this, he strode in, found Shunniang who was dividing the vegetables in the kitchen, and pulled her out forcefully, saying that the work in the kitchen was done by women. There are so many women here, why use Shunniang to do it? .

Shunniang was dragged out by Lu Quan, and the unfinished work became Qi's and Xie Erniang's. Xie Erniang helped Qi's share the dishes, and took them out one by one.Fortunately, Shun Niang has already prepared today's dishes, Qi Shi and Xie Er Niang only need to finish the rest of the work.

The men sat at a large table, and the women sat at a smaller table. Wine glasses and wine were placed on the tables on both sides. Niang Shun asked everyone to drink whatever they wanted, until they were drunk.

Lu Quan pulled Shun Niang to sit next to him, pointed to the dishes on the table and asked her: "I heard that these dishes are all made by the second brother, is this true?"

Shunniang said yes, and told the story of the Taoist in Sichuan again, and the men sitting at the table believed that these fresh-looking dishes came from this source.

So everyone picked up their chopsticks and started to eat, and Shunniang received continuous praise. Everyone at the two tables praised the delicious food. Lu Quan said that it would be a pity that Shunniang didn't go to open a restaurant. These dishes can be prepared completely. Selling the hotel's signature dishes, Shunniang was so lucky that she actually got the authentic culinary skills of the Sichuan master.

Shunniang asked them, are these dishes really so delicious?

Lu Quan said that he hadn't eaten anyway, and he had eaten a lot of hotels and restaurants in Bianliang City, so he didn't eat the dishes Shunniang cooked today. He also asked Shunniang if he would like to open a restaurant. If there is, he can partner with Shun Niang.

Shunniang said that she has no capital, and Lu Quan said that he can find someone to borrow the capital, and Shunniang just needs to bring her skills to join the group.

Before Shun Niang could speak, Lu Qian on the table had already started to scold Lu Quan, saying that he was thinking about things all day long. Whoever loses it.Besides, Lu Quan is also a person with no savings. How can he do business only by borrowing money? This is an unreliable suggestion.Therefore, he asked Lu Quan to stop saying these whimsical words, and drink and eat well!

Lu Quan muttered a few words in a low voice, but he didn't dare to blatantly contradict his father, so he could only ignore this and drink in a dull mood.

Until Shunniang whispered to him that his suggestion was not bad, and she would talk about it after she had saved some money in a few days. Shunniang also told Lu Quan that Xi's family moved here and would soon grow a seed to sell. Yes, the stir-fried dishes that are very popular on the table today are seeds made from mung beans. In the future, if the Lu family wants to eat seeds, just go to her stall to get them.

Lu Quan asked Shunniang how much it sold for a catty, and Shunniang said that it was four Wen a catty, because mung beans are more expensive than soybeans, so the mung bean seeds are more expensive.

"This is still a business, but you can't make much money in a day. It is more profitable to open a foot shop. You should think about it carefully." Lu Quan said, he still did not give up the idea of ​​letting Shunniang partner with him to open a hotel.

Shunniang said that she would consider it. In fact, Lu Quan's suggestion is not unfeasible, especially since Shunniang still has the channel to buy wine from Sister Song Yu's hotel. It is not a matter of course to open a foot shop.It's just that she is a down-to-earth person and doesn't like to be aggressive.For now, she just wants to go all out to start this bean sprouts business, and other more profitable businesses will be placed in the back row.

At the end of the meal, Mrs. Qi went to the kitchen to bring out soup and pancakes, some for each table.

Lu Quan had already drank a lot of wine at that time, and he was hooking shoulders with Shun Niang and talking and laughing. When Mrs. Qi was spooning soup into everyone's bowls, Lu Quan waved his hand unpreparedly and took the bowl of soup in her hand. It was overturned and sprinkled all over Lu.

Mrs. Qi hurriedly apologized to Lu Quan, and took out her own handkerchief to wipe it for Lu Quan.

Lu Quan squinted at Mrs. Qi, but did not speak. After Mrs. Qi cleaned up and continued to scoop up soup for everyone on the table and left, he asked Shunniang: "That lady just now is your sister-in-law?"

Shunniang nodded and said that it was Lu Quan who was messing around just now, no wonder her sister-in-law spilled the soup all over Lu Quan.

Lu Quan muttered: "I don't blame her...it's just...by the way, how long has your elder brother been dead?"

Shunniang told him that it had been more than half a year, and then asked Lu Quan what he was doing.

Lu Quan came closer and asked in Shunniang's ear: "She doesn't want to remarry? Is she going to be a widow for your elder brother forever? Or are you and your mother not allowing her to remarry?"

Shunniang looked at Lu Quan, thinking that this guy was too lenient. Whether his sister-in-law remarried or not had nothing to do with him, but she didn't see that Lu Quan was still a gossip guy.

"Go! Don't worry about these things, don't ask!" Shun Niang pushed him away.

Lu Quan salivated and approached Shunniang again in a low voice, "Your sister-in-law looks good, so it's not you...huh..."

Now, Shunniang was really angry. She knew what Lu Quan meant very well. Without further ado, Shunniang gave him an elbow unceremoniously, hitting his weakness, causing Lu Quan to grin his teeth in pain, and then Shunniang Gritting his back molars, he told Lu Quan in a low voice that he still wanted to be brothers with him, so stop thinking and talking nonsense.

Who would have thought that this Lu Quan belonged to someone whose scars healed and forgot the pain, after the pain he still asked Shunniang if he really had nothing to do with her sister-in-law.

Shunniang was speechless, really wanted to give this guy a few more elbows, and finally thought that Lu Quan might not be able to speak well after drinking, and he was not a pure person himself, thinking about these things was based on those impure thoughts Therefore, he suppressed his displeasure and told him in a good voice that it was his sister-in-law who was willing to stay in the Xi's family. If she really wanted to remarry, the Xi's family would not stop her.Moreover, she also seriously said to Lu Quan, don't say those things that hurt her sister-in-law's reputation, otherwise she will really sever her brotherhood with him.

After listening to Shunniang's words, Lu Quan stared at her in silence for a while, then suddenly laughed, patted Shunniang on the shoulder and said, "Second brother, don't take it seriously, you also know that younger brother is a person who likes to joke, and second brother's person I absolutely believe in it, come on, let's drink and drink until we get drunk!"