The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

The lay monks practiced almost in a closed manner. After Yun Yan returned to the notebook, he had a lot of leisure. He didn't plan to write too much at once, but he still had to see the audience's reaction and then adjust accordingly.

With the vigorous development of training, after Xiaoshu, Bianliang officially announced that it has entered the dog days.

At this time, Yun Yanhui took on part of the logistics responsibility again.The abbot allocated some funds for the monks to spend, and Yunyan took it back to buy mugwort leaves, cattail fans, etc., and also prepared some fruits to cool off the heat every day.

There are a lot of cold food and cold drinks in Bianliang, because the people of this era have already mastered the ice-making technology, so there are shops that sell ice cubes.Such as rock sugar mung beans, kumquat ball snow bubbles, lychee dew, etc., are all very popular.

Because these monks are in great demand, Yun Yanhui often buys the ingredients and processes them himself in order to provide better and more supplies.Sometimes you don’t even need to buy ice cubes. There are deep wells in the temple, and some cold food has been chilled in the cold water well, which is no worse than adding ice.

When Yunyan returned home, these things were handled in an orderly manner. There were more people, and it didn't affect it at all, and gradually built up some trust.

Today, a batch of rock sugar mung beans was poured in cold water in the well, Zheng Ping and Yun Yanhui brought them up from the well together, and distributed them among the resting monks.

Hui Nai drank the rock sugar and mung beans in one gulp, and seeing the dog sticking out its tongue at its feet, felt very distressed, and poured some water to sprinkle it on, poured it into a bowl and told it to drink.

"This year's Sanfu is hotter than in previous years. Look, my big tiger is so hot..." Hui Nai wiped his bald head, "Even I want to drink ice water from time to time, Brother Yan, I see you If you have the succulent fruit, why not make jelly now, it will be a few hours in the town, and it will be eaten at night."

When the other monks heard this, their eyes lit up, and they cried out, "That's right, that's right, boil some sugar water and squeeze some mint juice, then add it in and eat a bowl, it's the most enjoyable thing."

"That's what I plan to make tomorrow, so I'll drink this today." Yun Yan said while drinking a cold drink slowly.

Hui Nai strangled his neck, "What you eat today won't be the same tomorrow, Brother Yan, be more refreshed!"

Seeing a group of bald heads clamoring for jelly, and they seemed to stop training if they couldn't get enough of it, Yun Yanhui could only look at Zheng Ping for help, because Zheng Ping had picked those succulents.

With the end of Yun Yanhui's scheduled training, the day when she will be on stage is getting closer, and everyone's pressure is also increasing. Zheng Ping often comes to take care of Yun Yanhui, and she can't bear it because she sees it in her eyes.

Zheng Ping said helplessly: "Then let's eat today."

Everyone cheered, "Madam Zheng is still refreshing!"

At this moment, the courtyard door was pushed open, and Qingran walked in.

When the monks saw him, their voices disappeared immediately, and they continued to lick their bowls pretendingly.

Liao Ran glared at them, he heard voices outside just now, it was very noisy, he came in with a straight face, "Eighth Princess gave me some ice, I brought some to cool off with you."

Yunyan looked back and found that Zhao Yunchu had also come, just behind, leading two servants to bring in a piece of ice, probably to run errands for his mother.

The monks cheered, and under Zheng Ping's command, they took the ice and put it into the remaining rock sugar mung beans.

Zhao Yunchu came all the way and got sweat on his nose from the sun. When he saw Yunyan coming back, he came to hold his hand. As soon as he touched it, he said infatuatedly: "Brother, your hands are so cold."

Yun Yanhui felt goosebumps, pulled him to the eaves, and handed him a bowl of rock sugar mung beans.

Zhao Yunchu took it with one hand, and touched Yun Yanhui's hand with the other.

Yun Yanhui had been serving rock sugar and mung beans all the time, and they were not in the sun, so their hands were naturally cold, but Zhao Yunchu was comfortable, but he was not.After pulling out her hand, Yun Yan replied, "What are you doing here to deliver ice in this hot weather?"

"I'm here to ask senior brother if you want to visit my house," Zhao Yunchu said shyly, "It's very hot this year, and I have an ice room at home to escape the heat."

"It's not necessary." This is the critical moment. Zhao Yunchu doesn't know that he is the main creator. He can't just leave the post to enjoy himself. Besides... "Actually, we are not too hot. You see, we eat it every day." I have cold food. There is a bamboo forest next to where I live, so it’s cooler than other places.”

Zhao Yunchu: "Then... then shall I stay for one night?"

Yun Yan replied: "..."

Yun Yan declined politely and said: "There are only two rooms in my house, my sister and my mother sleep in one, and my brother and I sleep in one. If you come, you will have to sleep with Bei Bei. I see, you understand It is feasible for the mage to sleep there, anyway, you brought him ice, so it won’t be hot.”

Zhao Yunchu couldn't hide his disappointment, "Okay."

Because she agreed to make jelly, Yunyan went back to calculate the time and ran to collect the dried mulberry seeds.The succulent fruit is to be made into jelly, and the first thing to do is cut it open, take out the seeds and dry it in the sun.

Pack the light yellow fruit seeds with gauze, soak them in a basin of clean well water and squeeze hard to squeeze out some gelatin.

After seeing it, Zhao Yunchu came to help, washed his hands and squeezed the seeds of the scallops together.After being squeezed, hang it in a well to freeze it to speed up the condensation, and at the same time make it very cold and refreshing, similar to modern jelly.

This kind of food has been popularized as early as the Tang Dynasty, and almost every family knows it, and it has continued to modern times. When Yun Yanhui was a child, someone still picked it and made it. The steps are exactly the same as those thousands of years ago.There are also key points in it, if the novice does not master it well, it will not condense.

After finishing the jelly, Yunyan went back to look for mint leaves.

Mint does not need special planting. There are wild mint in many places in the temple. This thing grows very well and has good reproductive ability. It can grow a large area at will.Fresh mint leaves have a refreshing taste in the mouth, which is refreshing.It can also be dried in the sun and soaked in water to drink, which is also very refreshing.

Yunyan came back after cutting a large handful of wild mint, pounded out the juice, filtered it, and poured it into the well.

There is no need to freeze the sugar water, the brown sugar is boiled, just let it cool.

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In the evening, after the evening class, the monks sat in the yard together and waited for supper.Morning and evening chanting, doing homework, and training at other times, this time is really tiring.

Yun Yan brought up the jelly, which had already condensed into a transparent jelly, which was crystal clear and very cute.

Take out all the bowls, pour some sugar water into each bowl, sprinkle some mint juice, and then use a spoon to scoop the jelly into the bowl.The monks each took a bowl and ate it in one bite, feeling cool and sweet in their mouths.

The taste of jelly is tender and cold, coupled with sweet syrup and refreshing mint flavor, it exudes the heat of the whole body, and I only feel the cool air radiating from the stomach.

At this time, sending someone with quick legs to go to the melon field in the temple and tell the senior guards to pick some melons to eat is the icing on the cake.

It was the first time for Zhao Yunchu to participate in such a "party", it was very fresh, and he ate jelly with him, but he was stopped by Yun Yanhui after eating half of it, and he was not allowed to eat any more, for fear that the children would get sick from eating too much jelly.

The monks opened their skirts to blow the air, and said to Yunyan: "Brother Yan, you said that if we go out to teach scriptures, can we really succeed?"

"Of course it can," Yun Yan replied firmly, "and it will definitely bring about a trend in Bianjing."

"If that's the case, the hard work of this period of time has not been in vain." The senior brother of the Hui family sighed leisurely.

Cicadas were chirping non-stop, the night sky was full of stars, and the whole city was still noisy, especially the Daxiangguo Temple area where they were located.The night market is brightly lit, like a city that never sleeps.

Cold drinks, melons and fruits, night breeze, Tokyo is not too hot in the dog days.