Yangcheng

Chapter 23

What's the name of the little rabbit?

dinner.

……

Tang Jianwei, what kind of devil are you? !

Tong Shaoxuan didn't dare to look at Tang Jianwei any more, and quickly slipped away without looking back.

Tang Jianwei's fingertips brushed over the head of the rabbit in his arms. The little rabbit's nostrils opened and closed, and its eyes became blurred. It seemed to be the same as Tong Shaoxuan, trembling with fright.

Tang Jianwei walked towards the west courtyard with dinner in his arms, remembering how Tong Shaoxuan's smile disappeared and his face instantly turned pale just now, the more he thought about it, the more amusing he became.

"Sanniang, what's so happy?" Zitan and Tang Guanqiu happened to take back the dried clothes together, holding the clothes in one hand and carrying a bucket full of water in the other, seeing Tang Jianwei walking alone, laughing as he walked .

Tang Jianwei glanced at the stiff rabbit and recalled:

"That Tong Shaoxuan not only looks younger, but also less courageous, he scares away when he teases him."

"Did you meet that Tong Shaoxuan again? The mistress must not chase after you and say 'no meeting until you get married' ten thousand times?"

Tang Jianwei: "I didn't deliberately want to see her, but this child's mansion is too small, so it would be strange if I couldn't see her. A place as big as a palm took two steps and turned back to the original place. After taking two more steps, I felt dizzy. But there is no way, since After defecting to the Tong family, everything should be based on the etiquette and customs here, and people are soft-spoken. The Tong family is so poor that they can take us in, and they are very generous to us."

Zitan twisted her mouth and said: "I never thought that Tianxian has been here for six years, and there is such a thing as not being able to meet before marriage. A rural area is a rural area. There is not even a decent rouge shop, and there are horse manure everywhere on the road. , there are quite a few nonsensical things that don't make any sense..."

"Shhh, don't talk about these things." Tang Jianwei said seriously, "Even if it is a rural place, it is also a place for us to live in the future. Once we come, we will be safe, and we are not the same as before. Instead of complaining, it's better to think about what to do. How to live here."

Tang Jianwei's words were not harsh, but it still made Zitan blush, she hugged her clothes tightly, lowered her head and said in a muffled voice:

"I know Sanniang, I won't say these useless things to make you unhappy..."

Tang Jianwei elbowed Zitan, raised his eyebrows and said:

"I'll make braised rabbit meat for you at night, and I'll keep you eating your tongue too."

Speaking of rabbit meat, Zitan noticed the almost still rabbit in Tang Jianwei's arms, and immediately cheered up and said:

"Rabbit meat! I love rabbit meat the most!"

“Braised Rabbit Meat with Rice!”

"I want to eat two bowls of rice!"

Zitan is one year younger than Tang Jianwei, and Tang Jianwei bought him into the Tang Mansion since he was a child, and the relationship between master and servant is harmonious.

Tang Jianwei eats as much as she eats, and it doesn't take a day or two for the two of them to look like sisters. Zitan has some arrogance of Boling nobles on him, so Tang Jianwei can naturally understand.

There have been small quarrels between her and Zitan over the years, but they never stayed overnight.

It's strange to say that other families have slaves who cook for their masters, but the Tang family is the other way around, and it's Tang Jianwei who cooks for Zitan.

Speaking of the main reason, after all, red sandalwood cooking is too unpalatable. Tang Jianwei never dared to let her cook after eating twice.

Zitan is stronger and eats more food. No matter what unhappy things happen, as long as he eats a delicious meal made by Tang Jianwei himself, he will immediately forget them all.

Tang Jianwei brought her newly cast big iron pot all the way from Boling.

Iron is a military supply, and it is under official control, and the matter of private iron casting is strictly controlled by the court and the central government.She has many acquaintances in Boling, so it doesn't take much detour to make an iron pot.Ke Su County is not familiar with the place, and I'm afraid there is no place to cast a big iron pot, so this pot came along with it.

Speaking of which, this was the largest piece of her dowry.

Marrying with an iron pot, not to mention the Boling Mansion, even if you look at the whole Dacang, it may be difficult to find a second person.

It's a bit shabby to use an iron pot as a dowry, but Tang Jianwei feels that this is in line with his own style.

The iron pot is what she relies on to eat-no matter in every sense.

There is a small kitchen in the west courtyard. There is only a stove and a space wide for one person, so there is no way for more people to turn around.

Tang Jianwei also thinks it is quite enough, no matter how small it is, it just needs to be convenient, otherwise she would have to go to the West Courtyard if she wanted to cook a meal, and it would be embarrassing to see the Tong family coming and going.

With such a shelter, even if it is the size of a bullet, she is very satisfied.

The rabbit was peeled and cleaned, and a pot of braised rabbit meat was stewed in the pot. A few pieces of Sichuan pepper were cut into it and stir-fried to enhance the flavor.

Rabbit meat has very little fat, and the meat is tender and smooth, and it will not be greasy no matter how you eat it.Coupled with Tang Jianwei's cooking, the spiciness of Sichuan pepper and the texture of rabbit meat are a perfect match. After eating red sandalwood, his mouth is swollen, his nose and tears are flowing, and he still can't stop eating.

In the end, she didn't waste the soup on the bottom of the bowl, and asked Tang Jianwei to eat it with bibimbap.

She said that after eating two bowls of rice, she really ate the two bowls of rice cleanly, not a single grain of rice was left.

In order to suppress the spicy food, she also poured two large glasses of water into her stomach.After a heavy drink, the spiciness is suppressed, but the last gap in the stomach has been slipped away, and it is so full that I dare not stand up. As long as I stand, I can feel a bay of water in my stomach. .

With no elders around, Zitan didn't pay any attention to etiquette, and collapsed on the side of the table with his stomach clutched, groaning and screaming.

Tang Jianwei said with disgust: "As for staying like this? It's not like there is no tomorrow. Even if you drink the spicy soup, you will suffer when you go to the toilet tomorrow."

Speaking of going to the toilet, Zitan opened his eyes, as if remembering something particularly terrifying:

"Sanniang, have you been to the hut on the east side of their house?"

Tang Jianwei said: "No, I always go to the toilet in our small hut in the west courtyard. What's wrong?"

Zitan stood up: "I hope you never go. You don't know, I went to that ghostly place last time, and I was almost scared to death!"

"What do you mean?" Tang Jianwei didn't understand, "How scary can a hut be? Is it... smelly?"

"It's not as simple as whether it stinks or not." Zitan didn't dare to think about it, she still wanted to continue reminiscing about the delicious dinner just now, so she immediately stopped talking, "You will know when you go later."

Tang Jianwei: "?"

After dinner, Tang Jianwei started to get busy after eating a little bit, preparing for her early opening tomorrow.

Since Tong's family is not a local snake, then she, Tang Jianwei, came to the local snake herself.

Even without the escort of others, she still has the confidence to become an imperial merchant by virtue of her own strength.

Setting up an early stall is her first step towards becoming an imperial merchant.

Seeing Tang Jianwei go to work, Zitan stopped resting and came to help.

Hearing that Tang Jianwei wanted to set up a mobile breakfast stall, Zitan was a little puzzled:

"Why didn't Sanniang just open a restaurant? It shouldn't be too expensive to buy a shop in Su County, and with Sanniang's superb craftsmanship, the business is bound to explode. Then the income is meager early, and you have to get up early and work late, isn't it? Going after the end?"

Tang Jianwei said: "Now we do have hundreds of taels of silver in our hands. It is not impossible to spend all of it to buy a small shop or open a restaurant. But our time in Su County is still too short, so it is not too late. Knowing the tastes of people in Su County, if you spend money at will, you may lose everything.

"It's better to start a small business first, earn more capital, and learn more about the customs and tastes of this small southeast county, and then it will not be too late to spend money to open a shop."

Zitan did not expect that Tang Jianwei wanted to be more comprehensive. When she said this, Zitan praised:

"It's still Sanniang who is thoughtful."

Tang Jianwei said: "And I have another purpose for opening the breakfast stall."

This breakfast stall is the place with the most market atmosphere and the most common people. There are so many people coming and going every day, and they can chat a few words during the waiting time.

A small breakfast stand can allow Tang Jianwei to quickly learn about the city where she will live for an unknown how long from the locals, and it is more likely to find clues about the military fund case.

The big case of military funds is still a ball of thread hidden under a cloud of chaos.

Only when Tang Jianwei waved Chaos away with his own hands and pulled out the head of the ball of thread would it be possible to vindicate Ye Niang.

The eldest princess showed her the way to learn Buddhist scriptures, but Tianzhu didn't know where it was yet, so Tang Jian was too impatient to take it step by step.

In "Omnivore", there is a special part that records breakfast, and there are hundreds of kinds of snacks, as well as various grains, eggs, milk, meat...

The breakfast stall has just started. She doesn't want to make dim sum that is too complicated and expensive. She plans to start with the simplest and cheapest "fried dough sticks".

There is no such thing as fried dough sticks in Dacang, but there is a similar food called "youguozi".

The method of making oil fruit is just like its name. Put the dough into the oil pan and fry it to form a ball of golden-yellow noodles, which is quite firm when bitten into it, and the taste is far inferior to the crispy fried dough sticks.

The fritters are easy to fry, and only need noodles and some eggs, so it's easy to get out of the stall.

It is recorded in "Omniscientist" that if you want the fritters to be fluffy and crispy, you need to ferment them, and you can add yeast powder.

Yeast powder... Da Cang has nowhere to sell this stuff.

But if there is no one for sale, Tang Jianwei can make it himself.

Back then, she rummaged through all the food list classics collected by her aunt, found a recipe from them, and tried to make yeast liquid by soaking raisins in water.

After failing twice, the third time really made the face stand up.

With yeast liquid, the process of raising dough is much simpler.

After adding salt, alkali, eggs and oil, the noodles are kneaded, fermented and expanded with yeast liquid, and then cut and fried, which is convenient and quick.

When he first learned how to fry deep-fried dough sticks, Tang Jianwei used fried dough sticks as the main dish of the restaurant, and sold them in sets with soy milk or porridge, and sold thousands of sets in one morning.

She is not satisfied with just selling fried dough sticks and soy milk, thinking about more changes.

Wrap fried dough sticks and pickles in glutinous rice and knead them into round glutinous rice balls; or mince shrimp and stuff them into fried dough sticks and heat them in hot oil, then mix with pear cube cheese...

Small fried dough sticks can be changed in ever-changing ways. After a period of time, it has been popular in Boling Mansion, and you can see people carrying a deep-fried dough stick in their mouths wherever they go.

Fried dough sticks have a popular taste, and the people in Suxian County must also like to eat them.

Tang Jianwei has been making yeast liquid for four consecutive days and succeeded once.

During the four days of waiting, she was not idle, and wanted to build a small cart by herself.

She went to look at the carts in the market, and Tang Jianwei couldn't understand a word of the local dialect of the owner who sold the carts, and even wondered if he was still in Dacang territory.

The two chatted with each other for a long time, and finally Tang Jianwei got anxious and took a stone to write and draw on the dirt road before successfully communicating with the boss.

The boss finally conveyed the matter of 60 taels of silver for a car to Tang Jianwei.

Tang Jianwei almost fainted on the spot.

How many?

60 taels? !Boling is not so expensive, why don't you grab it!

Tang Jianwei was so angry that his liver hurt, and then he thought about it, probably because there were too few local car dealers in Su County, basically there was only one or two monopolies, which was different from the situation where cars were sold everywhere in Boling.

There is less competition, and the price can be set by him.

A small cart costs more than 60 taels of silver, which is too illegal.

It's just a few pieces of wood spliced ​​together, and she can do it too.Just get some wood and splice it together, and buy two spokes. As long as it can be pushed, and the charcoal and oil pan can be put on it, at least 40 taels can be saved inside and out.

"More than 40 taels of silver! More than 40 taels! What can I do wrong with this money?"

When Tang Jianwei was impassioned to Zitan, Zitan looked at her silently.

If it was in the past, a box of rouge for 40 taels of silver would not even fall on it from the corner of your eyes...

Tang Jianwei made up his mind to build a cart while waiting for the yeast solution.

After she bought the materials back and worked all night, she understood the profound meaning of the word "make a car behind closed doors".

If you want her to cook, read and write poems, then she is a first-class expert.But when it comes to carpentry, she is completely a layman, and she is also a layman who thinks carpentry is too simple and very frivolous.

The mold of the cart is almost crooked and nailed, but after the spokes are pressed, it can't roll at all.

Tang Jianwei ran to the market, met the suspicious and wary eyes of the boss, secretly observed the cars in the dealership for a long time, and went back to make another modification.

This time the wheel was able to move, but it was a pity that it was so stiff that it could only roll one and a half circles with all the effort it took.

Tang Jianwei, who was so tired and sweaty, couldn't help thinking, what kind of cart should I use, it would be easier to carry it by myself.

The car was not damaged, but his hand was stabbed, and a lot of blood flowed.

Zitan was terrified, and hurriedly asked Tang Jianwei to stop tossing and go to clean and bandage.

Tang Jianwei is cautious and high-minded, good-looking and smart enough to make the family rich, and there are few things she wants to do but can't do.

I thought it was easy to build a car, but I didn't expect that many of the key points can be achieved without imagination.

After working all night but in vain, Tang Jianwei felt sleepy and depressed, so he went back to his room and slept for a while before talking.

If it doesn't work, you can only spend 60 taels of unjust money to buy a broken car worth 20 taels.

This kind of thing is really unbearable for businessmen.

Tang Jianwei was always fighting against that broken car in his dreams.

……

"Si Niang, did you hear that too?"

Early in the morning, when Ji Xue was helping Tong Shaoxuan pack his schoolbags, he looked towards the west courtyard through the window, "When I was beating and beating last night without a break, I thought it was a rat noise, but I didn't expect to wake up this morning and listen to it." , it actually came from the west courtyard. What is Tang Sanniang doing?"

It's also because the Tong's Mansion is too small, so the movement in the most remote west courtyard can be heard clearly in the east courtyard.

As soon as Tang Sanniang was mentioned, Tong Shaoxuan immediately flinched, frightened.

She also heard the sound last night, and didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was the servants working.

When Ji Xue said this, she thought of that poor little rabbit yesterday...

The word "dinner" floated in her mind...

Does it take that much noise to kill a rabbit?

Or is Tang Jianwei not only killing the rabbit, but also torturing the rabbit?

Thinking of this, Tong Shaoxuan's already bloodless little face turned paler.

No, she can't let Tang Jianwei, a devil, do such a cruel thing!Or do it at their Tong's house!

Tong Shaoxuan planned to go to the west courtyard.

After walking halfway, I turned back and went to the chef to carry a pot cover in my hand, so that I could block it in case of danger.

Ji Xue watched her turn back after walking halfway, put an extra pot cover in front of her body, her face was full of heroism, and she was secretly amused——

Siniang is too afraid of Tang Sanniang, right?After getting married, I'm afraid they will be bullied miserably.

Ji Xue followed Tong Shaoxuan to the West Courtyard. She didn't see Tang Jianwei or the bloody scene she imagined. There wasn't even a person, only a broken car standing in the courtyard.

Seeing this broken car, Tong Shaoxuan's eyes were completely glued and he couldn't look away.

Tong Shaoxuan was quite gifted with Qimen Dunjia and manual ingenuity since he was a child.When I was three years old, I picked up a roll of cowhide while playing by the stream and gave it to my elder brother Tong Boyi.Tong Boyi saw that the quality of the cowhide roll was extraordinary, and the surface was already dry just after it was taken out of the water, so there must be something strange inside the roll.

There was a metal buckle on the roll, and Tong Boyi tried his best to open the buckle, but Tong Shaoxuan, who was three years old, made a mistake and opened it.Tong Boyi was even more surprised.

Open the cowhide roll, inside is a thin sheepskin soft book, with the words "Da Yan He Ji" written on it, the handwriting is delicate and elegant, it can be seen that it has been a few years.

Unfolding the soft book, he saw that it was full of incomprehensible blueprints, Tong Boyi casually flipped through it and put it aside, but Tong Shaoxuan picked it up and was engrossed in looking at it.

Since then, Tong Shaoxuan has carried this "Dayan Crane Collection" with him, opening it from time to time to look at it for a while.In a few more years, Tong Shaoxuan was able to describe the extremely complicated drawings in the soft book one by one.When Tong Shaoxuan was ten years old, after a few days of boredom in the bedroom, he actually made a flying wooden bird.When she released the wooden bird into the sky, the whole family was dumbfounded.

Song Qiao discovered Yao'er's extraordinary talent, so he took this booklet and Tong Shaoxuan to Su County to find his mother's eldest grandson Yin.

Chang Sun Yin carefully read the "Dayan Crane Collection", which confirmed Song Qiao's guess:

"This is indeed the painstaking effort of Ah Liao's grandmother, and it was written by her."

Grandmother's eldest grandson Ran, small character Ah Liao.A hundred years ago, my grandmother was trapped in Ming County and almost died here.In order to preserve her life's hard work for the benefit of future generations, she wrote all the ingenious secret techniques she developed in a sheepskin booklet and threw them into the stream, only for future generations to pick them up and carry them forward.

A Liao's grandmother and Cang Gaozu Wei Tingxu are extremely close friends.Wei Tingxu's literary and military strategy, and her close friend is also miraculous. The Bat Wing Army and Xiang Yuesheng created by Ah Liao back then made many miraculous achievements for the founding of the country.

"It's a pity that after my grandmother passed away, no one in the eldest grandson's family could reach her height, and no one who could even understand Xiang Yuesheng's drawings appeared. It's a pity that Xiang Yuesheng has been lost. I didn't expect that after a hundred years,

Tong Shaoxuan's health is not good, it seems that he has gathered all the essence at the top, the bigger he is, the smarter he is.

Reading with a photographic memory has been praised as nothing new, and she can also do handwork while having a photographic memory.Often after reading a book, a Luban lock is also made.

She memorized the bible-like transmission mechanisms and extremely complicated gear trains recorded in "Da Yan Crane Collection" at a glance.

More than half of Tong Shaoxuan, the interesting mechanical object contained in the book, has been built.

It is learned from it.

The title of "famous child prodigy in ten miles and eight towns" is not just for nothing.

It's just that Xiang Yuesheng, who can fly into the sky, and the magic box of heavenly soldiers, etc., are still in the grinding stage, and they have not yet succeeded, and they still need to continue to experiment.

What she plays is the ingenuity of flying to the sky and escaping from the ground, and she who demands perfection everywhere is the most sloppy thing she can see.

For example, in the broken car in front of me, the spokes are crooked, and there is no middle bone at all. When I push it, the wheels are stuck harder than a cake that has been dried for two years.I didn't dare to use too much force. If I used more force, I was afraid that the whole car would fall apart.

I can't stand it...

Tong Shaoxuan excitedly went to pick up the toolbox, asked Ji Xue to help her carry the top chair, and devoted himself to remodeling the small broken car.

Ji Xue knew Tong Shaoxuan's temper, she was a gentle and slow person on weekdays, but when she encountered these ingenious tasks, she immediately changed into a different person, and no one could disturb her.

Ji Xue didn't hinder her either, she just reminded her of the time to go to the academy.

"Soon." Tong Shaoxuan said, "The time for two incense sticks must be good."

Saying that two sticks of incense is just two sticks of incense, Tong Shaoxuan packed the toolbox and was very satisfied with his masterpiece.

Although it seems that there is no change, the jaw-dropping tricks are hidden in the dark.

Just wait for Tang San to find out by yourself.

Tong Shaoxuan patted the ashes on his hands, hiding his achievements and fame, left in a low-key manner, picked up his book bag and rushed to the academy to attend classes...

Tang Jianwei fell into a drowsy sleep, and when he woke up, the wound on his finger was still throbbing.

Walking sleepily into the courtyard, when eyes half-opened and half-closed, I saw the small cart that was still in place, and remembered that in the second half of the dream, I had turned into a seven or eight-year-old appearance, and went shopping with Ye Niang festival of lights.

Aye just carried her to his shoulders and rode on, letting her "see all the small mountains" and see the splendor of Boling clearly.When she was holding Aye's ear to watch the lantern happily, she suddenly woke up.

The first moment she woke up, she found herself in a strange room. There was no Yeniang, no Boling lanterns, nothing but the coldness and depression that made her goosebumps, and the burning pain in her fingertips.

it's a dream...

When Tang Jianwei walked up to the cart, his heart felt uncomfortable, and he felt that he was very useless.

You can't even make a pushcart, why do you want to find out the truth and take back the Tang family...

Tang Jian was so angry that he kicked towards the cart.

In fact, she didn't use much strength in this kick, let alone kicking the car, even if she pounced on it and pushed it with all her strength, she probably wouldn't be able to push it very far.

Tang Jianwei just wanted to vent a little bit.

Unexpectedly, the car that was like a rock before this foot went up, it seemed to be oiled immediately, the two spokes were hot wheels, and the whole car flew out with a "swoosh".

Tang Jianwei, this Nezha, didn't have time to step on the Hot Wheels, and almost split his arms on the spot.

In the panic, she quickly stretched out her hand to support herself and stood still, she looked up full of doubts, and saw that the cart was heading towards the red sandalwood that had just entered the door!

"Dangerous!" Tang Jianwei exclaimed.

Zitan didn't expect this thing to be so menacing at all, she still held a water basin in her arms, barely freed a hand, and "slapped" to hold down the car that was galloping without authorization.

Tang Jianwei, who broke out in a cold sweat and almost forgot the amazing strength of the red sandalwood, looked at the red sandalwood who had sprinkled himself with water.

creak.

While the stroller was stationary, a foot support that tilted outwards from the right side turned down to support the stroller firmly.

Zitan let go of the cart and took a step back, the cart was still perfectly parked in place.

There is a special layer of sawtooth boards under the foot supports, and the two-wheeled cart is firmly held in place by the sawtooth boards. Without any external force and support, it will not move forward and backward at all, and is quite stable.

Tang Jianwei forgot to blink his eyes and closed his mouth, and approached the cart.

Zitan: "San Niang, why did the cart move by itself?!"

Tang Jianwei took a closer look: "I still nailed the main frame of the cart, but the body and spokes are completely different."

Zitan was even more shocked: "Oh my mother, the cart has become a genius!"

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Tong Shaoxuan: Seeing that I can make you push the cart into a master, let's get along peacefully in the future! (〃?〃)

(cute love to survive...

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