Cub Nursery

"Song Feiliang?" The snake-bodied cub was very afraid of the cold, but he was also afraid of fire, so he didn't dare to warm himself in front of the stove.

Yan Xun put the big stone in the stove, burned it for a while, and then took it out. The outside was wrapped in thick grass and cloth, and the cub with the body of the snake wrapped around the stone, with its head on top, kept warm for a long time.

The big iron pot was made exactly according to Yan Xun's requirements, and it was just placed on the stove, with a wooden lid.

Add half a pot of water to the boil, these days there is a lot of fat leftovers from practicing pork suet, Yan Xun took out some, chopped and mixed with green vegetables, semolina and noodles, made big vegetables and wrapped them in the pot for steaming.

While busy with work, Yan Xun relieved the boredom of the cubs, "Song Feiliang has a good literary talent, and he is also a famous poet madman."

The little cub stared wide-eyed, imagining the appearance of 'Poetry Maniac', and Yan Xun's face automatically appeared in his head.

One big vegetable bag was as big as Yan Xun's palm, and each cub put a big vegetable bag in the small wooden bowl after it was out of the pot.There is also the bone soup boiled in clay pots, which has been boiled for several hours until it turns milky white, and finely chopped green vegetable leaves are sprinkled on top, giving it a fragrant fragrance.

"Song Feiliang is the second hand." Yan Xun held the wooden bowl and blew hot air.

The cub with the body of a snake circles the wooden bowl with the tip of its tail, blows air on the vegetable bag, and takes a bite carefully, for fear of being scalded.

Du Xuanfeng has been worried these days. The emperor didn't say anything after eating tofu dishes that day, and directly let Du Xuanfeng leave the palace.

No reaction is the greatest reaction. Du Xuanfeng was thinking in his heart, fearing that one day he would be caught and beheaded.

The emperor naturally didn't believe Du Xuanfeng's one-sided words, and sent his confidants out of the palace to inquire.

Song Feiliang is the most popular in the capital now. He has three poems about tofu in two days. He is also a very famous talent. Once the poem is published, it will be sung about Aurora. Within three to five days, even a three-year-old child can sing it. Hum a few words of 'three-day fresh'.

Everyone knows that tofu is called Santianxian, and everyone knows that tofu comes from the hands of Du Qinsheng, the young master of the Du Mansion.

Don't let Du Qinsheng do business?Even if the wealthy family in the capital would be unwilling, they might know that the tofu came from Honglu Temple.If these wealthy families knew that the tofu they ate every day came from Honglu Temple, they don't know what would happen.

Ask Fangzi to come over?

The emperor washed his hands with soap every day these days, and the dragon robe on his body should also be washed with soap, otherwise he would feel unclean.

"The Prime Minister of Xuanhonghe Temple came to see me!" The emperor finally made a decision.

As soon as the eunuch was ordered to leave the palace, Du Xuanfeng knew about it, and hurriedly asked his son Du Qinsheng to go to Honglu Temple to look for Yan Xun in advance.

Yan Xun saw Du Qinsheng on the front foot, and ordered the eunuch to arrive on the back foot.

"Don't go." Jing Fengye told all the cubs to hide in the house, and guarded Yan Xun outside, "There are many Taoist soldiers and generals around the emperor, they..."

The palace is the most heavily guarded place, there is no chance for monsters to get close.

"I didn't intend to go." Yan Xun smiled, "I've already expected this kind of result."

Coming out of Honglu Temple, the eunuch was ordered to stand high in the distance, not approaching. Seeing Yan Xun wearing casual clothes and not changing his official robes, his face immediately turned ugly.

Yan Xun stepped forward calmly, handed over a folded piece of paper, and said, "Please trouble me, father-in-law, to help the subordinate officials to show it to the emperor." After speaking, Yan Xun handed over ten more oiled paper packages, specially for eunuchs.

The eunuch is the emperor's confidant, so he naturally knows that the soaps used by the aristocrats are very different, a kind of transparent flower soap with "flower soap" carvings, this kind of oiled paper package looks different from ordinary ones, it must be flower soap up.

Without waiting for the eunuch to respond, Yan Xun went back to Honglu Temple, the gate slammed shut, and Taoist soldiers were guarding outside.

There are ten monster cubs inside the Honglu Temple, Yan Xun dared to go in, but the eunuch did not dare, so he hurriedly turned back and reported the truth.

"Hmph!" The emperor snorted coldly, "I want to see what this Chancellor of Honglu Temple wants to show me, can't it be written in heaven?"

The messenger eunuch trembled like a sieve, this errand was not done well, he was afraid that something bad would happen, so he didn't let other eunuchs do it for him, and bent his waist, holding the paper and sent it up.

The emperor unfolded the paper and saw, "beans, stone mill, and fine cloth..." Looking behind, he suddenly saw that it was made into tofu, and the emperor was shocked. This was actually a tofu recipe.

There is also a short paragraph at the end, written by Yan Xun with a brush: the brine here is gypsum, and the specific formula needs to be tried a few times, which is quite different from the brine used in Honglu Temple.The (,) used by the lower officials is a comma (,) is a period.

Seeing the last sentence, the emperor almost held his breath, then his eyes lit up suddenly, and he said, "Ask Zhou Guang, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, to come to see me in the palace."

Yan Xun taught the cubs how to make sentences, "Use 'tofu' to make sentences, pay attention to the use of punctuation marks."

"I'll do it." The snake cub raised its tail and saw Yan Xun nodding, and hurriedly said, "The tofu is white and fat, delicious."

"En, yes, you come." Yan Xun pointed to the claw cub.

The claw cub puts away his sharp claws when he is not working, and wears small gloves, "I can make tofu."

The cubs all said the sentences they thought of, and Yan Xun nodded in satisfaction. Although most of the cubs said that the dishes made of tofu were delicious, they were already very good.

Let the cubs continue to practice with sand, and Yan Xun went outside to rest.

Jing Fengye followed, "Will there be another visitor from the palace?"

"Yes." Yan Xun said confidently, "But I guess it might be Zhou Guang who came this time. I have inquired about this person. His knowledge is comparable to that of Song Feiliang, but he is more old-fashioned and dedicated to the people. If he comes, It couldn't be better."

Zhou Guang naturally didn't read the tofu recipe Yan Xun gave the emperor, he just heard the emperor mention a few words, and immediately drew inferences.Yan Xun refused to enter the palace, Zhou Guang couldn't wait any longer, and came outside Honglu Temple after leaving the palace.

"It really is him." Yan Xun really guessed right, "I'll invite him in."

"I'm going back to the house." Jing Fengye hurriedly stood up.

Yan Xun grabbed Jing Fengye's hand, shook his head lightly and said, "The cubs can stay in the house, you wait for me outside. We are Honglu Temple here, if you only see me, then what is it..."

"But." Jing Fengye touched his face, he was no different from ordinary people, except that he had dragon scale markings.

Yan Xun rubbed the other side of Jing Fengye's cheek with the back of his hand, and said with a smile, "I think it's pretty, and others will too."

The gate of Honglu Temple opened slowly, Yan Xun stood inside but did not come out, and said: "Lord Zhou, please!"

The punctuation is extremely weird, but it is very useful, but Zhou Guang felt that there must be more than two kinds of punctuation, so he came here to ask Yan Xun.At this time, he didn't think much about it, just entered Honglu Temple with a straight face.

Seeing the tall and strong Jing Fengye, Zhou Guang frowned slightly, but didn't stop, walked directly in front of Yan Xun, and said straight to the point: "Master Yan, that punctuation is very mysterious, is there anything else?"

"Yes." Yan Xun smiled and said, "No hurry, this way..."

There is a shed in the corner of the yard, with wooden tables and benches inside.When resting, the cubs would come in to sit and rest, and Yan Xun would occasionally come to sit and eat.

Jing Fengye had clever eyes and ears, and had been standing beside Yan Xun. At this moment, he heard the cubs in the room chattering although their voices were very small.

The long-haired cub held the plate with both paws, "Just a little bit of water, it's something adults bought with great difficulty."

"I know, I know." The flower tree cub held his breath, and picked a lot of fresh and fragrant flowers from his head.

Hearing the sound was almost the same, Jing Fengye went into the room and came out with a tray, and went to pour hot water on the stove.Two pottery bowls, with a fresh flower spinning inside, and a plate, with fruit cut into small pieces, covered with a layer of crystal clear honey, which is fragrant and fragrant, and there is a wooden pointed flower beside the plate. Thin little forks.

Yan Xun took a sip from the pottery bowl, ate another piece of fruit, and then talked about punctuation.

"En." Zhou Guang listened fascinated, and asked questions from time to time, Yan Xun answered them one by one, and when he was done talking, the pottery bowl was filled with water several times, and the fruits cut into small pieces on the plate were all eaten.

Before leaving, Yan Xun gave Zhou Guang ten pieces of soap.

Zhou Guang also had this kind of extremely useful item at home, but it was not as good-looking as the one Yan Xun brought, so he took it and left without thinking too much.

Although punctuation is magical, Zhou Guang has to study it thoroughly and discuss it with the emperor before using it.But after the emperor got the tofu recipe, he hurriedly asked Yushanfang to try one or two, but it was only the ratio of gypsum and brine, and he found the right recipe in a few clicks.

"It's not as good as it is." The first time the emperor ate the tofu presented by Du Xuanfeng, the tofu made by the imperial dining room, the taste was different no matter what, he always felt that the tofu from Honglu Temple was more delicious.

Honglu Temple saved some soap and new tofu, Yan Xun asked Du Qinsheng to get them.

"Yan Xun! My father can't keep his head, how dare he do business!" Du Qinsheng had one head and two big ones.

"He hasn't lost his head yet." Yan Xun said calmly, "You sold all these soaps and tofu for me, so I will remind you a few words."

"What can you do?" Du Qinsheng muttered, "I don't even want the chance to enter the palace. If you offend the emperor, your good life will come to an end. I have already said, why do you have to enter Honglu Temple? They all eat people..."

While muttering, Du Qinsheng didn't dare not to sell it, so he hurriedly asked someone to take away the soap and tofu.

"I presented a tofu recipe to the emperor." Yan Xun said lightly, "Let your father inquire quietly. If the emperor likes this recipe, he will not do anything. If the emperor doesn't like it and prefers the tofu you sell, then call Your father enters the palace every day to offer tofu. It’s better to hand over useless prescriptions to the Honglu Temple and announce them to the world..."

Honglu Temple is affiliated to the imperial court, and after all, it will be announced to the world in the name of the emperor. When the time comes, the will of the people will naturally be towards the emperor.

Du Qinsheng was skeptical, so he came back and told Du Xuanfeng.

"Hey, my son is not as good as he is." Du Xuanfeng sighed for a long time. He had already found out that Zhou Guang had been to Honglu Temple, and he often entered the palace these days. Not safe, simply dead horse as a living horse doctor, looking for ways to inquire about the affairs of the palace.

The weather was getting colder and the mosquitoes were getting more ferocious. When Yan Xun woke up from a sleepless night, his neck was swollen and itched so badly that he scratched it just a few times.

"Jing Fengye." It was really uncomfortable, Yan Xun tilted his head and looked for Jing Fengye, "Can you see if this works?"

Swallowing, Jing Fengye nodded, "OK!"

It's okay, it's a bit slow, but fortunately it doesn't itch, Yan Xun doesn't care too much.

The big iron pot was gurgling and boiling water, scooped out from the boiling pot, and brought it into the bathhouse.The fire wall is very hot, the outer layer of the fire wall is thick, you can't feel the heat, but the inside is warm and warm, and the inside of the bathhouse is even more steaming, and you have to sweat when you go in with clothes on.

"Take a shower, take a shower." The cubs squatted outside eagerly waiting.

Seeing Yan Xun nodding his head, the cub at the front hurried in, washed and changed into the same clothes as before, but with a layer of fur inside, and came out happily.

When Zhou Guang came, only five cubs had been washed.

"What is this?" Zhou Guang glanced at the long-haired cub in a small vest and shorts, his expression was indifferent, but he looked very curious at this square little house.

When the door was opened, the heat inside immediately came out, and it was obviously very warm.

Zhou Guang's nose, hands and feet were red from the cold all the way.

"Bathroom." Yan Xun smiled, "Don't be afraid of them. I've been the prime minister of Honghe Temple for so long, so it's okay, isn't it?" Another cub came out, and the other cubs hid, Yan Xun explained with a smile .

Zhou Guang frowned slightly, and said, "I don't care, it's just that there are some problems with punctuation..."

Yan Xun could not be found outside, so Zhou Guang could only come to Honglu Temple.

"That's good." Yan Xun beckoned, letting the hidden cubs come out.

While chatting, Zhou Guang's eyes always subconsciously looked at the bubbling big iron pot and the steaming bathhouse.The cubs who came out of it all had flushed faces, and they looked hot and not cold at all.

Zhou Guang was getting old, his hands and feet felt cold when it was cold, no matter how many charcoal basins were placed in the house, he actually wanted to go to the bathhouse to keep warm.

The soap that was taken back last time was snatched by the juniors at home as soon as it was opened. At this time, Zhou Guang saw the little cubs and realized belatedly that the patterns on the soap were similar to these cubs. Chunky some.

Although he himself doesn't care much about coming to Honglu Temple, Zhou Guang also knows that Honglu Temple is in the eyes of the people in the capital, including the emperor.

"Master Zhou, what do you think of them?" Yan Xun asked suddenly.

The cub with a snake body doesn't look very scary, its face is round and its eyes are no different from the children outside.At this time, the snake cub was wiping the table bit by bit with its tail wrapped around a rag.

Jing Fengye squatted on the ground, rubbing a piece of clothing, it looked like it belonged to Yan Xun, he looked no different from a human being, except that there were dragon scale marks on his face.

A little cub in the distance didn't know what to say, it giggled itself, showing a mouthful of neat and white teeth.Suddenly realizing that there were outsiders, he hurriedly covered his mouth and looked at this side with dark eyes.

"It's rumored outside, but how many people have seen it with their own eyes?" Yan Xun said indifferently, "I haven't seen how ferocious and evil monsters are in other places, so I don't know. But the young people in Honglu Temple Cubs I have seen with my own eyes and live with them, whether it is good or bad, I know very well."

Otherwise, Zhou Guang would not have been able to enter and exit safely for the first time, and would have come for the second time on his own initiative.

"Just take it as a small request from me, can Mr. Zhou be accommodating?" Yan Xun said, taking out ten pieces of soap and wrapping them in oiled paper.

Looking at Yan Xun's quiet eyes, Zhou Guang suddenly felt oppressed. He is a scholar of the Imperial Academy and a member of the cabinet.

That is truly under one person, above tens of thousands of people, but at this time Zhou Guang felt that he was a head shorter than Yan Xun, the little sixth-rank Honglu Temple Prime Minister.

"Okay." Zhou Guang smiled suddenly, took the soap, "I'll see what you can do."

"Master Zhou, just look at it." Yan Xun also smiled.

The Prime Minister of Honglu Temple is not very old, but he has made every step of the way from the beginning of selling soap, and the Du family is willing to be driven by it, even disobeying the emperor's order, but he continues to be the little Chancellor of Honglu Temple safe and sound, seemingly not taking credit for it, But it has a lot of benefits that are shocking enough to think about it carefully.

The door was closed again, Jing Fengye dried the washed clothes, walked over to look at Yan Xun's neck, "Do it again?"

"En." Yan Xun nodded, feeling a little itchy again.

Every time I come into contact with it, I feel a little strange, but Yan Xun doesn't reject it, so that now he is habitually getting close to Jing Fengye, but he hasn't noticed it yet.

"What you just said, there is something in the words, I don't quite understand." Jing Fengye said.

"The soaps I gave to Zhou Guang all have the images of cubs." Yan Xun said, "Others may not know whether these pretty faces are cubs, but Zhou Guang saw the cubs with his own eyes."

"Will something happen?" Jing Fengye was a little worried. He didn't quite know how humans viewed monsters, how they saw the cubs of Honglu Temple, but he was clear about the situation of Honglu Temple at this time.

The little cubs also came over one by one. They had sharp ears and eyes, and they had been secretly listening to these words for a long time.

Touching the snake cub's head, Yan Xun said: "The soap we make must naturally have our appearance, it's called a sign. No matter what Mr. Zhou thinks, soap is sold in abundance and expensive, those little brothers , Miss, and young masters who are stubborn and refuse to admit it, I like them all."

The little cub's eyes are bright, imagining how popular soap is outside.

"The water has been boiled again, my lord, go wash it." Jing Fengye squatted in front of the stove, adding firewood and scooping water out.The heavy wooden bucket was filled with water and he could lift it with one hand.

Yan Xun thought for a while, he hadn't bathed for a long time, so he nodded.

The bathroom is not big, but it is very warm, Yan Xun couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief as soon as he entered.The clothes are placed outside, and there is a door inside. After entering, there are several buckets of water and a huge wooden basin in the middle.

Sitting in the wooden basin, Yan Xun simply leaned against the wooden barrel, closed his eyes and thought about things.

Outside, Jing Fengye had been guarding the door, waiting for a long time before Yan Xun came out, so he stood up abruptly and opened the door to go in.Inside, Yan Xun was still lying in the tub, the water was already a little cold.