Infrastructure masters in the red building

Shui Xian and Lin Ruhai sat in the kitchen of Wan Qing Building, completing the same "experiment" as Jia Fang.

The "drawer steamer" designed by Jia Fang and built by the carpenters of Baigongfang is currently placed on the big stove.The elderly master chef of Wanqinglou pulled out the wooden drawer, scraped out the crystal and smooth rice rolls, put them in a bowl, poured Wanqinglou’s special sauce, sprinkled green onion and sesame seeds, and respectfully handed it over to In the hands of the two of Shui Lin.

Shui Xian and Lin Ruhai tasted it and nodded in unison.Shui Xian said: "Sure enough, as Jia Fang said, if the rice milk is mixed with old rice, the taste is much smoother than that made from new rice alone."

Lin Ruhai admired while eating: "Such an exquisite food... how did Zi Fang come up with it? It is an eye-opener for me who comes from the land of fish and rice in Gusu!"

Shui Xian helped Jia Fang cover up intentionally or unintentionally: "Don't look at Jia Fang's young age, he has read a lot of miscellaneous books, and many anecdotes that we don't know, he knows them all. When you get along with him in the future, you will know."

Lin Ruhai was busy eating rice rolls at this time, so he didn't have time to open his mouth, so he only said "hmm" once or twice, which was regarded as an answer.

But Shui Xian instructed the master chef of Wan Qing Lou: "Try again pouring rice milk on the cloth, then sprinkle with ingredients, put it in a drawer and steam it."

The master responded repeatedly, took out the clean cotton cloth that had been prepared, spread it on a layer of bamboo drawers, and then poured a layer of thick and even rice milk on it, sprinkled with shallots, and fried dried shrimps with sesame seeds. Steam in a steamer.

This steaming only takes half a cup of tea, the master chef took out the bamboo drawer, put the cotton cloth and the rice noodles that had been steamed to a solidified state on the chopping board that had been wiped with a layer of lard, and quickly Once the cotton cloth is removed, the cotton cloth has been separated from the rice noodles. The master quickly rolls the thin, crystal clear rice noodles together with chopped green onions and dried shrimps into a roll, then cuts them into sections, and pours them with sauce and sesame oil. , and handed it to Shui Xian and Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai: "This... this looks even better than the one just now!"

He couldn't wait any longer, so he picked up a small piece with his chopsticks. Before he tasted it, he observed its appearance first: "This powder skin is as white as snow, as thin as paper, and the ingredients inside are faintly visible. If you want to refuse, you will welcome..."

Shui Xian almost laughed: "Ru Hai, it sounds like you are looking at pictures of beauties."

Lin Ruhai was already eating it: "Smell, it's really delicious! The skin of the noodles is soft and moist, and the dried shrimps inside are tough and delicious... put it on top of the food, what a talent!"

Shui Xian took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and read: "Bula sausage powder, optional fillings are fresh river shrimp, thinly sliced ​​fresh beef, eggs, vegetables... deep-fried dough sticks? This What are fried dough sticks?"

The master chef of Wanqinglou was well-informed, scratched his head and said, "It should be fried juniper, right?"

Deep-fried juniper is a snack that has been handed down from the previous dynasty, and Wanqing Building also has ready-made ones, so the master chef took out one, thought about it, and felt that fried juniper is already cooked, so there should be no need to steam it.

So the chef first steamed a piece of Bura sausage powder, peeled it off the cotton cloth, wrapped it outside the fried juniper, cut it into sections with a knife, poured the sauce on it, and handed it to the two of Shui Lin. in front of.

Seeing this unimaginable snack being handed to him, Shui Xian couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, it's ever-changing. As long as you change the stuffing inside, it will be another style." After carefully chewing all the food in his mouth, he commented: "It's smooth on the outside and crispy on the inside. It's really interesting."

But that’s not all, the paper in Shuixian’s sleeve also read: “In addition to rice rolls, rice noodles can also be used to make rice noodles, rice noodles, rice noodles and other foods.” Jia Fang did not explicitly say that these are all What, Shui Xian has no idea, but thinks it can be left after Jia Fang comes back, and ask him to continue communicating with the master.

"I originally thought that when all the rice from Jiangnan arrived, I would go head-to-head with other grain companies in this city, and with the intention of killing one thousand and losing eight hundred, I would do my best to squeeze out the opponent's turnover position. , No matter what, I want to lower the price of grain in the capital. But I didn’t expect Jia Fang to give me such an idea.”

After tasting the "intestine rolls", Shui Xian and Lin Ruhai continued to plan in the Wanqing Building.

Shui Xian was obviously in a good mood, and was lazily leaning on the back of the chair at the moment, tapping the table with his fingers, humming a little tune softly.Ever since Lin Ruhai recognized this person, he had never seen him so happy.

"Being able to do what you need to do and make a lot of money is the most enjoyable thing in life."

Lin Ruhai finally understood: "So brother Ziheng doesn't plan to confront Liangxing head-on?"

"No, I thought of a cleverer, albeit slightly rascal, way."

"Rogue?" It was hard for Lin Ruhai to imagine that the man opposite, who looked like a fairy, was acting like a rascal in the street market.

"However, this matter still needs a lot of help from Ru Hai. Without you, it would be impossible!"

Lin Ruhai opened his mouth in surprise: How did you drag him into the water?

But Shui Xian jumped up from the back of the chair, sat upright, called the shopkeeper Ren who had been waiting by the side, and said: "Send twenty reliable people to the back door of the Rong Mansion on the back street of Rong Ning, and look for Mr. Jia, said that these twenty people are at his service. Remember, tell these twenty people that no matter what they see or hear at Mr. Jia's place, don't be surprised, don't show doubts, and don't ask questions. Don’t let the wind leak.”

"So among the twenty people, you must choose the safest one."

Shopkeeper Ren Deling was about to go, but Shui Xian said with a smile: "You send someone there yourself, and when you see Jia San, he might give you something good."

Immediately afterwards, Shui Xian called the chief steward of his mansion, and said, "Immediately make room in the mansion to store a storehouse of one hundred thousand shi of grain. In addition, find a grain store that frequently communicates with the south, and ask him to listen to Mr. Lin's orders." .”

Lin Ruhai was even more surprised now, pointing to his nose and asking, "Me?"

Shui Xian nodded with a smile, and said, "Since you brought food to Beijing, we will do a good job of bringing food to Beijing."

Lin Ruhai: ...

After Lin Ruhai left, Shui Xian called the shopkeeper of Wan Qing Building and said in a low voice, "Make arrangements, I want to meet you, 'Bai Gu Taste'."

Jia Fang put the rice rolls in Taoyuan Village until his belly was round, and he burped very satisfied. He did not forget to remind Village Chief Tao and Mrs. Tao: "Although this food is delicious, it contains a lot of amylopectin. People with weak stomachs should not eat too much."

Village head Tao didn't know what this amylopectin was, but at least he understood the last sentence, nodded quickly, and told Mrs. Tao to write down: "Old woman, help me remember, and I will make it for the villagers in the future, and don't forget to remind them .”

He looked at the sky and remembered Jia Fang's previous order, and hurriedly shouted at the villagers who had returned from the fields to transport the grain stored in the twenty-stone village to the Xianliang Temple.

It is very convenient to transport these stored grains - after the wooden rails were built in the village, a special "flat car" was made for transporting goods. The wheels are small and the body is very low from the ground, but after the grain is loaded, the center of gravity of the body Very low, not prone to rollover.

The village found a donkey to pull the stored grain loaded into the cart. After pulling it twice in total, twenty shi of the stored grain had been sent to the Xianliang Temple and piled within the courtyard wall of the Xianliang Temple.

Jia Fang saw that the transportation efficiency was quite high, and there was still a lot of space in the Xianliang Temple, so he thought that he could let the villagers transport more next time, after all, he had [-] shi in storage to deliver from the "Xianliang Temple-Daoxiang Village" route. go out.

But that's it for today, Jia Fang still has to try his own handling ability.

So he thanked the villagers, and then closed the gate of Xianliang Temple.Now, it's up to Jia to let him go.

Jia Fang took a deep breath, and then remembered his means of transport—a trolley, which was still in Daoxiang Village at the moment, so he hurried back to Daoxiang Village by "shrinking the ground whip", intending to transport his transport to Daoxiang Village. Bring back the tools too.

He walked to the other end, and before he came out of the "Picture of Misty Rain", he stopped for a while, listening to the movement outside, and when he saw that there was no one there, he walked into the main house of Daoxiang Village.

He looked out of the door with his head, only to see that it was already dusk.

In the past few days, he has not been in the Grand View Garden very often, and Zhao Cheng helped him keep an eye on all the buildings in the Grand View Garden.Counting the time at this moment, the workers should have finished their work, cleaned up the things and left the garden.

With his hands behind his back, Jia Fang walked out of the main room to look for his means of transport.

Unexpectedly, walking into the courtyard of Daoxiang Village, he found a pile of sacks neatly stacked within the courtyard wall.

Jia thought at ease: What did those workers do?Why are the earth and rocks that were supposed to be transported out still piled up in Daoxiang Village?

But these sacks, one by one, looked familiar in size and material.

Jia Fang was shocked: Isn't this the grain that the villagers of Taoyuan Village helped to transport?

As soon as he reacted, he ran back immediately, and returned to the Xianliang Temple from Daoxiang Village in an instant. When he walked out of the Xianliang Temple, he found that the twenty stones of rice that had been piled up inside the courtyard wall of the Xianliang Temple had all disappeared.

Jia Fang: ... Oh!

Does this ground whip also have the function of directional transport?

He looked back at the Xianliang Temple, and found that the warm lights had been lit behind the Xianliang Temple, which seemed to be responding to his question.

Jia Da is overjoyed.

Then the villagers of Taoyuan Village heard a wanton cheer coming from the direction of Xianliang Temple.

The big guys looked at each other: This is... the sacrifice to the gods went well?

On the second day, Taoyuan Village started a large-scale grain storage and transportation activity.Because their third master Jia received a dream from the gods after offering sacrifices to the gods last night, saying that as long as the stored grains are piled up in the courtyard of the Xianliang Temple, there will be gods and warriors to carry them.

As for the removal of stored grain, most of the villagers are still very willing.After all, these stored grains are not theirs, and they have no right to control them, and the stored grains take up a lot of storage space in the village. Many people’s houses on stilts can’t live in the original good third floor, so all these grains are provided, and they have to be taken out frequently. It took a lot of energy for the villagers to come out to dry and remove insects for so many years.Now it is sent out, although it is sent to "sacrifice to the gods", the villagers are more or less relieved.

What really made them curious was what Jia Fang called "transportation by the gods and wrestlers".

"Oh, I saw it, it's true!" A villager revealed to his companions.

"Is that so? What does that fairy wrestler... look like?"

"I'm not saying I saw the Immortal Hercules, I really saw the transfer!"

"Just now, a group of us used a grain cart to deliver all the grain to the entrance of the Xianliang Temple, and then we helped Mr. Jia unload the grain from the cart and piled it under the courtyard wall inside the Xianliang Temple. Then Jia The third master asked us to wait outside the courtyard gate, saying that we wanted to be sincere. Then the third master Jia entered the courtyard by himself and closed the door."

"And then?" There are always some enthusiastic fans in the world.

"Of course we waited obediently outside the door, praying sincerely one by one. After a while, Mr. Jia opened the courtyard door and came out, saying that our sincerity touched the heavens, and the gods sent Hercules to bring the food They all moved away."

"Then we followed Mr. Jia into the yard to have a look, and found that the food that had been piled up in the yard was really gone. Not a single bag was left."

"Really? Did you hear any movement when the wrestler was carrying it?"

"No, nothing happened."

"What do you think, how could the warriors sent by the Jade Emperor let you hear the movement?"

"Then... is it possible that Mr. Jia moved all the food elsewhere?"

"Blind! That's absolutely impossible. Mr. Jia is still young. Look at his body, he looks so thin. How can he move this?"

"Besides, how could Mr. Jia move so much food in such a short time by himself?"

"……makes sense."

Some people are also very worried about the momentum of "Luxury Handling".

"You said, if Mr. Jia moves like this, will he move all the food in our village?"

"It's good to move out. If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come. Seeing that this season's new rice is about to be harvested, what are we still doing with those old millets?"

In Taoyuan Village, every time "Wulks carry" always attracts such discussions.But in the Grand View Garden, no one spoke at all.

Jia Fang gave the existing workers a few days off, and brought twenty "small workers" from outside the garden, saying that they wanted to transport away the excess earth and stone dug out of the pond for the reconstruction of the water system in the garden.After these small workers entered the garden, they were responsible for putting the excavated "earth and stone cubes" from Daoxiang Village into sacks and put them on the vehicles used for transportation. Transported to the gate of the Grand View Garden.

There was a car from other places parked at the gate of the Grand View Garden, saying that they would transport the earthwork from the Grand View Garden to the outside of the city.

The small workers in charge of carrying were silent, never saying a word, only knew how to work, and only solemnly thanked Jia Sanye when Jia Fang couldn't see it and warmly invited them to drink water and eat.

With the copper rails in place, the work they did was not too heavy. The main physical work was to move the sacks out of Daoxiang Village, put them on the cart, and then move the sacks down at the gate of the garden and sent them to the cart outside Jia's mansion.

The vehicles were waiting outside Jia's mansion, and when they were full, they slowly drove out of Rongning Back Street and headed elsewhere.A second empty car will catch up soon, and continue to wait outside the back door of Ning Mansion.

For a time, at the back gates of the Grand View Garden and the Ning Mansion, there were uninterrupted figures of the small workers.

However, the renovation project of the Grand View Garden has been going on for a long time, and during this period, workers, materials, and discarded earth and rocks have indeed been coming in and out without interruption.Therefore, no one paid attention to Rongning and Ningfu.

On the fourth day, Mrs. Lai, who was beside Mrs. Shi of the Rong Mansion, finally felt that something was wrong. She chewed the root of her tongue in the ear of the mistress, and said, "I heard that the third master has been in charge of repairing the garden these days, but he has been taking the things in the garden away. Send it out."

Mrs. Shi didn't care about this at all: "What good things can there be in the yard? It's nothing more than those disused bamboo trees, rocks, and pavilion railings that have been dismantled. If the third child wants to throw it away, let him throw it away. Anyway, he repairs the garden. The mansion didn't pay, so the things in the garden are naturally at his disposal."

Lai sneered: "The old slave was just thinking. At the time, the Duke didn't ask anyone, and he directly recommended the Third Master to repair the garden. If the Master left something for the Third Master in the garden, the Third Master would be fine." Master took this opportunity again, dug them all up, and smuggled them out..."

Mrs. Shi suddenly became suspicious, and said in her mouth: "That's not right? The garden originally belonged to the Ning Mansion, how could it be possible for our master to hide something for the third child in that garden over uncle?"

But just to be on the safe side, Mrs. Shi still asked Lai to "stare" at the back street of Rongning to see if Jia Fang might really be hiding something, and then take this opportunity to ship it out.

When Mr. Lai arrived at the back gate of the Ning Mansion, he saw those strong and small laborers carrying sacks on the car outside the gate without saying a word.She was still thinking: where did Jia Fang find this worker, and he didn't even bring himself to be lazy.

Lai asked the visitor in a tone of voice: "What are you putting on the car?"

"Soil!" The little worker who had just unloaded a sack looked stunned, unwilling to say a word.

"Soil?" Mrs. Lai pinched the handkerchief and began to scold, "Since the day before yesterday, you have been transporting soil outside the mansion. How lucky are you to have so much soil? Or luck... what else?"

At this time, a man with the appearance of a foreman squeezed towards Mrs. Lai and said, "That's true. There are more earthworks because the pond has just been dug. Mr. Jia also said that there are already earth hills in the garden, and there is no need to pile another one. So let’s ship all the earthwork out.”

He pointed to the courtyard of the Ning Mansion and asked, "Ma'am, are you from this mansion?"

Lai Shi: ...She is not.

She couldn't hold back her face, so she coughed twice and said, "After all, Mr. Jia, who is in charge of this project, was also raised by me."

Workers: Oh!

"But don't get in the way here and block our work." The foreman choked away Mrs. Lai, who had looked down upon Mr. Jia from a young age, with one sentence.

But she was still not reconciled. Seeing the first two people driving the animals away with the car, Nanny Lai suddenly felt that she was more than ten years younger. She grabbed the handkerchief and followed the car from a distance along the back street of Rongning. From the back, just look at where the car carrying the "earth and rock" is going.