Palace Full of Delicacies

A donkey is a must-have item for Su Yu to set up a stall every day. Without a donkey, he would have to pull fish by himself. Su Yu couldn't help but stop when he heard this.

The eldest aunt thought she had caught him, so she was very proud, and she was still babbling: "The family is almost out of control, and you still use this extravagant donkey cart..."

"Ma'am," Su Yu looked at the smug woman, and sneered, "You're right, why don't you sell the donkey tomorrow, and I'll push the cart to sell it in front of Zongzhengsi's gate to save you a long journey."

When the eldest aunt heard this, her face immediately turned ugly.Zongzhengsi is the place that manages honorable affairs. The abolition of the son, the succession of the title, and the division of the big family all have to go through the Zongzhengsi.If Su Yu went there to sell fish, wouldn't he be telling Zong Zhengsi that his uncle treated his nephew harshly?They haven't collected enough money for the gift, and the title of title has not been finalized, so there must be no mistake.

Ignoring the choked eldest aunt, Su Yu threw down the donkey cart, turned around and went out again.

The streets in the east city are obviously cleaner than those in the west city, and the things they sell are not of the same grade at all.Su Yu didn't stop in front of various shops, and went straight to a spice shop.This spice shop often sells some spices from the Western Regions, and is very popular with the noble ladies in the capital. It's just that a strange spice was introduced a few days ago. The taste is quite strange, and no one cares about it.

"Shopkeeper, the price we agreed on yesterday." Su Yu took out 280 Wen and pointed to a box of spices in the corner.

The shopkeeper looked at the box of green and yellow powder, then at the copper coin in Su Yu's hand, and sighed: "That's all, I'll sell it to you."

At the beginning, I saw the merchant from the Western Regions exaggerating about this spice, saying how much the people of the Western Regions loved it, so I bought it for a while, but I didn't know that I couldn't sell it in the Central Plains.It's just that the cost is there and I don't want to reduce the price too much, so I finally agreed with Su Yu, 280 Wen per catty.

Su Yu took the spices wrapped in oil paper and held them in his arms. He couldn't help showing a little smile. This thing is the key to his squid sales. He found this by accident yesterday, so he decisively gave up selling fish and prepared to change his career. .Because this is called Tianshanxiang, there is also a name - cumin!

It's really sad to say that, as a seafood chef, Su Yu is good at cooking Sichuan cuisine.Although the Da'an Dynasty is not any dynasty in history, it does not have everything that should be absent, such as chili peppers!Without chili, how embarrassing is it for a Sichuan-flavored cook!I searched all over the capital, but I didn't find any trace of chili, but I found cumin powder by accident, which is better than nothing, at least I can do something.

With the remaining money, he bought hundreds of bamboo sticks from Old Man Chen who sold candied haws. Su Yu was in the good mood of getting rich soon, and prepared to go home through the alley next to the palace.

The majestic Prince Zhao's Mansion and his dilapidated house are simply the difference between an old rich man and a poor peasant.This palace is the residence of the emperor's younger brother Zhao Wang, and it is very magnificently built. Su Yu looked up at the gilded plaque on the main entrance, sighed to himself as a local tyrant, and went into the alley.

"Go away, you bastard." At the side door, the impatient Yu Lao Si was swearing and carrying fish barrels to the donkey cart.

Rich and noble people buy fish every day. If it is not fresh the next day, the owner will not eat it anymore, and it will be counted as throwing away in the account. sell.The price is naturally very cheap, and many fish sellers will do this kind of business, including Yu Lao Si who has a narrow road with Su Yu.

This kind of thing is not something glorious, everyone knows it well, but if it is said, it will damage the reputation, Yu Laosi was annoyed, and when he saw Su Yu, he became even more angry, and ruthlessly slammed at the person who blocked the way. He kicked and spat: "You bastard, if you don't walk on Sunshine Avenue, you bump into Lao Tzu's feet!"

Su Yu didn't have time to pay attention to Yu Si's accusations and cursing, seeing that what he kicked was a palm-sized golden kitten, he frowned immediately, stepped forward quickly, and grabbed the small ball into his hands.

"Meow——" The little cat was very strong, and it was still waving its claws at Yu Lao Si when it was caught by Su Yu.

Seeing that he was so energetic, he should not have suffered any injuries. Su Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then looked coldly at Lao Si and said, "If you bully the weak, you won't be afraid of retribution."

"Hey, little boy, you dare to talk back to your grandpa today! How are you so cowardly this morning? There is no shrew here to support you!" Yu Lao Si rolled up his sleeves and wanted to beat him up.

Su Yu snorted coldly, hung the kitten waving its paws on his clothes, and then punched Yu Lao Si on the bridge of the nose with lightning speed.Hearing the sound of "嗤", Yu Lao Si was immediately beaten to tears, and bent down reflexively.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Yu, who succeeded in the attack, held the cumin powder in one hand and pinched the cat hanging on the clothes with the other, turned around and ran away.He hit him unexpectedly, if he really faced up to that muscular fish seller, with the small body of this noble young master, two more would not be enough for him.

Running all the way back to Su's house, Su Yu threw the cumin powder on the table, panting.After three months of continuous work, this body has strengthened a lot, but it is still not very good.

The kitten in his arms crawled out of his arms, shaking its disheveled fur, and pacing on the table without any pretense, as if the emperor was patrolling the territory.Looking at Su Yu who was already tired and lying on the table, his amber eyes showed a bit of contempt. He sat upright for a while, and seeing that the man had no intention of getting up, he turned his head boredly, and poked the paper next to him with his paw. Bag.

The finely ground cumin powder was pressed by the cat's paw, and immediately floated out of the gap and got into the sensitive cat's nose. The kitten couldn't help but sneezed.

"Hahaha..." Kitten turned around, and saw Su Yu who had raised his head at some point, looking at him with a smile on his face, and couldn't help being a little annoyed.Slowly turned around, sat down again, and stared at him seriously.

God knows how a cat's face can tell whether it's serious or not. Anyway, Su Yu didn't see it. He just thought it was funny that the little furry guy was sitting upright with his chin slightly raised. Rub it on Fen's little head.He has liked cats since he was a child. When he used to be a cook in a restaurant, he raised a group of wild cats in the alley outside the back door of the kitchen. He gave them fish at regular times every day, and he couldn't see others mistreating these little guys.

The kitten was touched on the head, Bafeng narrowed his eyes slightly, and then gave him a hard paw.

"Hiss—" Su Yu hurriedly withdrew his scratched hand. Fortunately, he was experienced, and he retracted the moment the cat clawed out, without being scratched too hard. Even so, three red marks were left behind. "Little bastard, I tried my best to save you, and I didn't even let you touch your head..."

Stretching out his hand to poke the cat who looked at him contemptuously, that small appearance seemed to say "my head can only be touched by mere mortals", which made Su Yu's heart itch, and he couldn't help but want to rub it again.

"Do you have a home? If you don't have a home, stay and live with me." Su Yu got up and began to tidy up the things in his cabinet, babbling while tidying up, regardless of whether the cat could understand or not.

A long iron box with three openings, a small bag of charcoal, and a seasoning brush made of wool. Su Yu counted these hard-earned things one by one, and couldn't help grinning.When he first came here and found out that he was poor and poor, Su Yu planned to start a small business like iron plate squid, but the reality was too cruel, and he even searched for cumin powder for three months.But to collect the money to build a cart that can hold iron plates, and don't know that it will have to wait until the year of the monkey, so I can only settle for the next best thing, and make grilled squid skewers first.

Looking at the sky, it's already past dinner time. The ancients paid attention to eating less at night, but it's not like they didn't eat. Su Yu didn't eat dinner, and no one at home cared about him.He didn't care about this, and moved the wooden barrel containing the squid to the middle of the yard, took the fish killer, and started to deal with these fat big guys.

He is very skilled at peeling, gutting, and pinching the head. He can cut the squid's body twice lightly, and then grab the triangular head to peel and pinch the squid cleanly.The kitten was sulking for a while, seeing that Su Yu no longer babbled, but was cutting something with his fingers flying, so he couldn't help looking over curiously.

After the cartilage was removed, a squid was considered ready. Su Yu turned his head and saw the kitten looking at the squid in his hand for a moment, guessing that he was hungry, so he cut off a squid's tail and handed it to it.

The kitten came up to sniff it, then turned its head with a disgusted expression, not intending to eat or watch at all.

Su Yu raised his eyebrows, but he didn't care. Some cats are picky eaters, and they don't eat all the seafood. He threw the processed ones into a small basin and continued to process the others.After all the squids are cleaned up, cut most of them into squid rings and squid tendrils, leaving about ten whole ones, cut them with flower knives, then take out bamboo sticks and string them up, and neatly stack them in a bucket with a lid. Town with well water.

"Let's go, I'll take you to eat delicious food." After doing all this, Su Yu heaved a sigh of relief, raised his hand and rubbed the kitten's head, and got another paw without any surprise.

There were very few servants in the Su family, and it was already dark at this time, and there was no one in the kitchen.Su Yu went in and looked around, and found that the pots and pans were all poor, and there was no leftover for him.

After searching for a long time, I only found some small fish and shrimps, a few small clams, and a handful of wilted vegetables.

Scoop out a ladle of noodles, mix them with water, knead them repeatedly and put them in a basin to wake up the noodles. Su Yu calmly washed the small fish, shrimps and clams, threw the small fish and shrimps into the pot to cook, and the clams Put it on the stove top and bake it.The wood fire is slow, so it needs to be cooked for a while. In this free time, Su Yu took out a white porcelain soup pot and began to put a lot of seasonings in it.

Soy sauce, salt, pepper powder, sesame oil, these simple seasonings are enough, mix these together in a certain proportion, add an appropriate amount of cumin powder, and the seasoning for grilled squid is ready.Leave a small dish out, put the remaining seasoning into a small clay pot, the noodles have already woken up.

Not in a hurry to make noodles, Su Yu picked out a few clams first.The little clams have opened their mouths and are steaming.There was very little meat, but it was delicious. Su Yu picked one out with a thin bamboo stick and handed it to the kitten squatting by the chopping board. The kitten tilted its head to look at it for a while, then slowly opened its mouth to bite it in disgust, and then chewed it slowly. The strange thing is that this guy didn't even lower his head when he was eating, and still maintained a condescending expression.

Su Yu looked funny, and picked one to dip in the seasoning on the plate and tasted it. The taste of the seasoning was just right, so he couldn't help but pick another one. Unexpectedly, just after dipping in the seasoning, the kitten next to him whined. Robbed.

"Hey, I can't eat it!" Su Yu couldn't stop it, and the clam meat with a lot of sauce had already been swallowed by the kitten.

The author has something to say: Xiaoyu: Meow can’t eat salty (serious face)

Meow Gong: Huh, mortal

Xiaoyu: Eating salty food is not good for the kidneys

Meow Gong:! ! !