By Jia Xiuzhen

Let's say that when Li Wan came out to make arrangements, he first ordered the little girl to light two charcoal stoves, and then said to Nanny Chang: "Mom, take two taels of silver and go to the kitchen, and tell them that you want two of the fattest mandarin fish, one catty." More than three catties and less. If you don’t have it right now, buy it for me quickly. The meat is removed, the fish bones and fish heads are boiled in soup, filtered, and served in a casserole; Put it together and send it to me. I also need a plate of fried vermicelli and a plate of fried dough sticks, both of which must be fried crispy. Take a small three-compartment drawer and shredded ginger for my use. Mommy can Remember it?" Chang Nai learned it again and left.

Then he said to Suyun: "Go to the side library and get the yellow wooden box on the shelf next to the door, and take a deep plate to steam things."

When Suyun came back with the things, Li Wan asked her to go to the east room to bring out a small white porcelain jar, but it was the daily rice wine.

After a while, Nanny Chang came back, carrying a suitcase by herself, followed by a woman holding a cage.He replied: "I have ordered everything, and it happened to bring fresh ones. I didn't order mandarin fish today, but he has the goods. I have already gone to pick them up after listening to grandma's orders. It will take about half an hour. What did the kitchen ask?" The right time came."

Li Wan lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "Youqian sent it."

Nanny Chang ordered the woman in the kitchen to take the message back.Then he said to Li Wan: "Grandma, the cook said that these things don't cost so much money, one or two is enough."

Li Wan said, "I don't know what's going on outside." Nanny Chang said, "Who would know this? After they said that, they gave them a tael of silver, and another five hundred dollars for drinking and eating. The rest Let Suyun accept it." Li Wan nodded at Suyun.

The little girl washed a pot and sat on the cage.Li Wan ordered Suyun to open the box to take out the shells, poured rice wine and shredded ginger and steamed them in a pan.Everyone was stunned when they saw that the Yuanbei she took out was the size of a cup and golden in color.Li Wan saw that it was still early, and told the little girl to watch the fire, and went back to the house by herself.

But seeing Madam Yan coming out of the east room, Li Wan asked her to go into the west room to talk.Entering the room, Madam Yan took out a small green leather bundle from her sleeve, opened it and took out a thin booklet, the size of an ordinary book, Li Wan knew it was the picture book.

I took the idiom as the topic first, and the source and the original text were written in the small characters below. Turn it over, and the next seven or eight pages are all the above meticulous drawing, and the words are written in the blank space three fingers wide below, and the whole string is strung together It happens to be the story of the previous idiom.

Li Wan saw that the handwriting was neat and well composed, and he knew that he had put in a lot of effort. He was very happy, and said to Madam Yan: "Very good, that's it."

Yan Momo handed her another piece of paper, which was densely written with idioms and short sentences, and said: "This is the topic they proposed, let grandma decide."

Li Wan took it over and looked at it, most likely there was a source for the story, mostly in the history books, he was even more satisfied and nodded repeatedly.After collecting the booklet, he returned the paper to Madam Yan and said, "Mama, let them follow this. How long will it take?"

Yan Momo said: "Grandma wants to see it like this, it doesn't take much time. Those stories are dismantled and written in detail, and you can get [-] or [-] in a day, but it takes a while to draw. But with the dismantling It doesn’t take too much trouble to draw a good story after reading it. I found four people to draw, and if I hand in half of it first, I will have it in about a month or less.”

Li Wan got up and pretended to "take" a golden melon seed from the small cabinet behind him, handed it to Madam Yan and said, "Mommy, give them a deposit first."

Yan Momo said: "Grandma, where is the use of gold, there is no scattered silver taels? This is more than one or two taels."

Li Wan said: "I have a lot of these around me, so let me give this, and it's easy to carry. I originally agreed to make a one-hundred-prong one, but I think this is two hundred, so let's give half of the deposit first." It was useless to persuade him, so he took the golden melon seeds and retreated.

Li Wan asked Suyun to fetch a few boxes from the side storehouse and plates, and sent her out to look at the quinces and water vegetables. He took out the palm-sized smoked shrimp, peeled and sliced ​​them, and took out the firetail rock chicken. Cut the jerky meat into elephant eye pieces, and put two or three plates on each.He ordered the little girl to take it and steam it.

As soon as he arrived at You, the kitchen sent someone to bring things over. Li Wan inspected them one by one, and asked Suyun to reward him for his hard work.He then fetched a flat round red copper pot, poured the fish soup into it, disassembled the steamed scallops and put them in the soup, added magnolia slices, put it on the charcoal stove, covered it and boiled it over low heat .

Take the steamed dried meat, smoked shrimp, green water vegetables with sesame sauce, warm quince mixed with shredded pears, put them in a food box, and ask Nanny Chang and Suyun to send them to Jiamu Fengjie.Only one dish of smoked shrimp was missing for Sister Feng.He also ordered the little maid to pick a handful of jade-colored real chrysanthemums in the yard, pick off a plate of petals, and rinse them with cold boiling water.

When Nanny Chang went to Jiamu's place, she saw that the mandarin ducks were setting out a meal, and Sister Feng was waiting on her side.Then he went forward and handed over the food box, saluted and said: "Our grandma pays respects to the old lady. These few dishes were just made in the afternoon, and the two vegetarian sesame sauce water vegetables and quince shreds were used by the old lady in the morning , Our grandma said that the old lady had a good appetite in the morning, and she was afraid that she could use a little meat in the evening. The other two were smoked prawn meat, and the other was rock chicken meat, both of which were packed by our grandma. Let the old lady rest assured."

Jia Mu heard that it was interesting, so she asked Yuanyang to take some into her cloth dish, tasted a few mouthfuls, and said: "The shrimp and dried meat are both good, neither dry nor firewood, it suits my taste." Reward the mother.

Nanny Chang thanked her for the reward, and then said to Sister Feng: "The Suyun for Second Mistress has just been delivered, it's only one shrimp shorter than the old lady's, and everything else is the same." Sister Feng thanked her hurriedly.

Let's say that in Li Wan's courtyard, Biyue, who had been serving in the east room, led the little girls to set up a round table with oak hazel wood and banana leaf pattern.Four dishes of small dishes were served first, and then a thick copper plate was placed in the middle. On top of it was a box-height box-shaped shelf. In the hollow in the middle of the shelf was a plain red copper round pot, which contained water-like water. thing.

Everyone sat down, Li Wan smiled and asked Biyue to light the torch and shake it on the pot of clear water, and a faint blue flame was ignited.Then put the boiling red copper pot on the shelf, first fry the vermicelli to make golden yellow, then the fried dough sticks, and then use the long bamboo chopsticks to put the mandarin fish slices, gently push them apart to avoid sticking, a thick The fragrance escapes from the pot, and when the milky white soup boils again, wait for a while, sprinkle fresh chrysanthemum petals, and the fragrance will overflow for a while.Several people stared at Biyue's movements with their mouths pursed. Nanny Chang and Suyun didn't even look at her when they came back to reply, Li Wan couldn't help but smile.

Suyun brought a large celadon ladle and scooped a bowl for everyone, and Biyue brought two half-foot-long cooking cups divided into four compartments, and put them on the table twice.Li Wan said with a smile: "Try this chrysanthemum-flavored mandarin fish pot. If you think it tastes bland, this is the dipping sauce. There are spicy vinegar, sweet vinegar, sour pomelo juice and light shrimp oil. Choose yourself."

Tanchun asked curiously: "Sister-in-law, didn't you say that mandarin fish are fat in peach blossoms and flowing water? Why is there still mandarin fish in this cold day?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "There is also a saying 'old mandarin fish with blue reed flowers is fat'. The season for this mandarin fish is in early spring and late autumn. Just try it, it has no thorns, so you can eat it with confidence."

Everyone tasted it, Xichun pursed her lips and laughed, and Li Wan said, "Today we're having a small banquet, so it's okay if we don't abide by the rule of 'you don't talk when you eat'."

Xichun then said, "Why does Brother Lang also use chopsticks?"

It turned out that Jia Lan also had a monopoly on the ground, and was eating fish fillets in a bowl with chopsticks.

Li Wan said: "I don't know that he is weird, he doesn't like to use spoons, I think he can use chopsticks, so let him do it."

Yingchun looked at Xichun with a smile and said, "When the fourth sister is this old, she should still be fed by the nanny."

Xichun was about to speak, but Jia Lan had already swallowed the fish, and said, "Nurse feeds too slowly, and he doesn't know what I want to eat."

Tanchun said, "Brother Lang is also quick to speak."

Li Wan said with a smile, "Lan'er is good at talking, eating and talking." Everyone laughed.

Li Wan turned his head and told Bi Yue: "Sieve out the pot of sweet-scented osmanthus wine and bring it to a boil." Turning around, he said with a smile, "I'm happy today. You are still young, so I dare not drink for you. This is reconciliation." Sweet osmanthus brewed, you can drink a little."

Jia Lan put down his chopsticks and said, "When I grow up to my second aunt's age, I can drink."

The crowd asked, "Who told you this?"

Jia Lan said: "No one said that I planned it myself." Li Wan felt deeply resentful towards those Qiling pills.

After a while, Biyue came in with a bamboo tray, on top of which was a pink celadon-glazed warming pot, and five tall cups of the same color.Poured sweet-scented osmanthus wine for everyone, the color of the wine was clear and yellowish, and it was very lovely against the cup.Xichun picked up the cup and took a sip, "It's really sweet." After tasting it, Yingchun and Tanchun both nodded and said they liked it.

Li Wan asked Aunt Chang to take several maids and mothers down for dinner, leaving only Suyun and Biyue to wait on her.A few people chatted and laughed and drank all the pot of sweet wine, most of the fish pot was gone, and there were not many left in the four dishes of side dishes.After Jia Lan tasted the smoked shrimp, he kept beckoning Suyun to give him some vegetables. Xichun liked the sweet and sour shredded quince, and Yingchun Tanchun liked the slightly sweet dried rock chicken.

Everyone stopped their chopsticks, Nanny Chang and the others also finished their meal and came up to wait for them to wash their mouths and wash their hands. Li Wan asked Suyun Biyue to go down to eat, and said: "I'm afraid the meal is not so hot anymore, the casserole is still hot on the stove. There is still a plate of fish fillets left, you can eat it. This table is also removed." Both of them agreed, and led a few people back to sit on the kang in the east room, and served tea again. Fang went down.

Li Wan lifted the lid and took a sip, and said to everyone: "This is not tea either. One is afraid that you will not be able to sleep at night after drinking tea. The other is that the fish and shrimps you just ate smell fishy. This lemon rose dew is sour. Liming, it is very good to remove the fishy smell, you guys should try it."

Yingchun drank it and said, "I like this taste."

Li Wan said with a smile: "It's rare that the second sister can say that she likes it. I'm happy to hear it. After a while, each of you take a bottle away, put a spoonful or two in a bowl, and just wash it with hot water." The three of them were busy. Get up and thank you.

After sitting for a while, the nanny came up late to say goodbye, and everyone wanted to leave.Nanny Chang brought a plate with three pairs of porcelain vases, one tall and one short. Li Wan said to the three of them, "The tall and thin one is the lemon rose dew, and the short and fat one is the honey ginger pomelo you drank earlier. They all fit this season." .I have a lot of other flavors here, let’s wait for you to drink them one by one before saying what you like.”

Yingchun said with a smile: "Sister-in-law don't think we are annoying when the time comes."

Li Wan said, "I wish you could come."

Nanny Chang smiled and said, "This is real. Grandma likes to tinker with these things, but she doesn't expect someone to play with her."

Li Wan said: "You called me Lan'er."

They went to Jia Mu's place together, talked and laughed with Jia Mu for a while, and then dispersed.

When grooming in the evening, while helping Li Wan loosen her hair, Suyun smiled and said, "Grandma is really in a good mood, so maybe the girls will come here often, so don't worry about money when the time comes."

Li Wan spat into the mirror: "Bah! Your grandma and I see it the same way."

Nanny Chang smiled: "Suyun is right to be worried. Grandma is not someone else. She doesn't need to sell it to anyone, but she really loves my sister-in-law."

Li Wan sighed softly: "I'm just thinking about myself. The best life is when my daughter is at home. After I get married, I don't have time to be free. My husband, my son, and my son serve Weng Gu. I can't do anything when I'm at home." Happy, now I put my heart on them. I only think about what they would want if I were."

Suyun chuckled, Li Wan looked at her, Suyun said: "I don't know if the girls also like to eat and drink."

Li Wan stretched out his hand to pat her and said, "Little Hoof is getting more and more courageous, try to make arrangements for me again! Nanny Chang, come and teach him the rules!"

Mother Chang smiled and said, "Grandma, it's a serious crime for this slave to organize a master. It's really hard to convict Suyun for someone who just looks at the pots and boxes in our library." out.

After everyone left, Li Wan lay down for a while, then got up and went back to the Pearl Realm.