At that time, women were not allowed to enter the main hall of the ancestral hall except to bid farewell to their ancestors when leaving the palace.
So the so-called confinement to the ancestral hall for a month actually meant that the sisters were allowed to live in the wing of the ancestral hall for a month.
The Sheng family's ancestral hall was extensively expanded and repaired in the past two years. Since it is usually guarded and maintained by dedicated personnel, it now looks very new.
Even if a wing room is not used several times a year, it will still be beautifully decorated and decorated.
Bu Nao, there are sacrificial utensils, spare incense and candles, the four treasures of the study, etc., as for bedding, dressing tables, etc., are they not allowed to appear
Fortunately, Mrs. Sheng cared about the delicateness of his granddaughters, so he had someone put a pile of straw on the ground for them to use as a bed.
The two pampered sisters spent a lot of effort to open the bedding piled with straw and spread it out.
Then, while we were walking on the mat together, we were in a daze: "Father Shun actually asked the foreigner to stare at us..."
"And all the things he gave us must pass through his legs!"
"He will secretly spit in it, mix it with sand, and put cockroaches and beans in it!"
"Maybe he'll be able to sneak in and beat us when no one is around!"
"what to do?!"
Sheng Weiqiao and Sheng Weiwu looked at each other, wanting to cry but without tears!
After a while, they couldn't think of any countermeasures, but they heard footsteps coming from outside the door, followed by Sheng Sleeping Crane who was carrying a food box on his legs and pushed in. Seeing the vigilant looks cast by the two sisters at the same time, he greeted him in a good mood: "If something like that happens tomorrow, the two sisters must not be in the mood to eat. Come on, I went to the kitchen to make some midnight snacks for my brother." , so as not to make the two sisters hungry during the long night!"
As he opened the food box, the aroma of eel noodles suddenly came out: the eel noodles are made from steamed large eels, remove the meat, remove the bones and make noodles, add chicken soup and knead them into dough, and then cut them into noodles. It is very moist when you eat it. In chicken gravy, ham gravy, and mushroom gravy [Note], its fresh aroma is evident!
The two sisters were already a little hungry, so they couldn't help but swallowed consciously due to the aroma of the liquid.
Do you think of Sheng Suihe's "guarantee" just now? Although he thoughtfully brought two bowls of noodles to his legs, he couldn't eat anything
"Two sisters, take it easy, brother, let's go first." Seeing this, Sheng Suihe packed up the food box, picked it up, and said softly, "You also took the opportunity to look out for us, lest grandfather come unexpectedly. It would be bad to find out that my brother secretly feeds us meat and fish!"
Saying this, Shi Shiran left.
After he left, the two sisters continued to look at each other: "What should I do?!"
"Let's see if there's any sand, cockroaches, or anything else in it first, shall we?" The eel noodles are already delicious, and it's very tempting to blanch the green vegetables as toppings, sprinkle with coriander and chopped green onion, and add golden peonies to the eel noodles in a bowl of red soup. The green vegetables and red noodles made people move their index fingers. Sheng Weiwu resisted for a while and then waved first, "Please don't..."
"But did he spit on it?" Sheng Weiqiao said quietly, "You shouldn't be able to tell that, right?"
Sheng Weiwu: "..."
After a moment of stalemate, the two of them put the noodle bowl on the table with difficulty.
After a while, Sheng Weiwu said: "Please put it in the corner? He can see it if you put it there."
After a while, the two sisters said in unison: "Please put it outside? He can smell it in the house!"
After the two bowls of noodles were carried to the corridor, the windows were opened for ventilation and the night breeze blew away the fresh fragrance outside. The two sisters finally breathed a sigh of relief!
but!
"Second sister, he's hungry!" Sheng Weiwu tossed and turned for a while, bit her leg fingers for a while, and finally couldn't help but whisper.
"Seventh sister, he is hungry too!" Sheng Weiqiao stared at the beams with wide eyes, and said feebly after hearing this, "Let's endure it for a while. My parents will definitely not care about them tomorrow!"
Sheng Weiwu nodded vigorously and murmured: "Tomorrow he not only wants to eat eel noodles, but also wants to eat yokan, stir-fried chicken with chestnuts, wild duck dumplings, tofu with fish, braised turtle with soy sauce, simmered three bamboo shoots, thousand-layer steamed buns, and water rice dumplings. , coir raincoat cake, soft fragrant cake, shark fin stir-fry... "
"Seventh sister!" Sheng Weiqiao interrupted her sadly, "If I go to the east again, we will be even hungrier!"
Sheng Weiwu said obediently: "Then tell him quickly - let's sleep!"
Although I couldn't sleep, the rustling sound of straw when I turned over that night gradually stopped until dawn.
After finally staying up until dawn, the two sisters were hungry when the door was suddenly pushed open. Sheng Lanci led the people in with a kind face. With a wave of his legs, the host quickly arranged a table with a diameter of more than ten feet in the open space of the wing. On the big table, as the maids poured in like water, delicious dishes appeared on the table at a very fast speed -
Wuhou Mackerel, Beef Stomach, Sichuan Sauce, Grilled Fish, Honey Pure Pan-fried Fish, Hucan Pork, Hun Yang Shihu, Brocaded Turtle, Shengping Grilled, Soup and Xiu Wan, Onion and Vinegar Chicken, Sweet and Sour Eggplant, Pineapple Yellow soup, drum sticks, hibiscus chicken, stuffed braised fish, honey stuffed clams, prawn rolls, fish with frozen ginger and vinegar, steamed goose, dried clams, minced trotters, phoenix brains, braised sea cucumbers, lotus leaf buns chicken…
When Sheng Weiqiao saw that, he couldn't help but hurried forward, picked up the toothpick and picked up the nearest honey-stuffed cricket - who! Know!
Right now!
Sheng Suihe appeared out of nowhere and slapped the chopsticks out of her legs with a grin: "Want to eat something good?! Have you asked the uncle?!"
Following "ah bah bah bah", with lightning speed, all the dishes on the table were covered! department! vomit! Got it! one! mouth! mouth! water!
Sheng Weiqiao looked at that scene in disbelief, then felt sad and cried loudly...
I was crying so hard that my heart was broken, and I was wondering why my biological father didn't come to comfort me and teach the outhouse son a lesson. Suddenly I felt myself being shaken hard: "Second sister, second sister, I wake up! Wake up! What am I doing?" Are you crying? Am I okay? Second sister, I don’t want to scare him... "
In the last sentence, Sheng Weiwu's voice was filled with tears.
Sheng Weiqiao suddenly opened his eyes and saw that the sky was indeed dark at this moment, but Men Yiqun was still drinking well.
My biological father, Sheng Lanci, is not here, and neither the host nor the maid in the dish are here. The most important thing is that in the dream, where the big table full of delicious food is, there is only a spot of spotless green bricks. Reflecting the faint morning light outside the window, the color is like frost, and it is infinitely desolate.
Sheng Weiwu, who was wearing a middle coat, was nervously grabbing her shoulders. The seven-year-old girl was obviously frightened, and tears kept rolling in her eyes.
"He's fine. He just had a dream." Sheng Weiqiao went to put his sister in his arms to comfort her, "He dreamed that his father had brought people to set a table of food for us, and he was begging for food. It turned out that the outer room had escaped. Come here and spit all the food..."
Although she knew it was just a dream, Sheng Weiqiao still felt heartbroken and almost begged to cry again as she spoke - Sheng Weiwu stopped crying, wiped her tears fiercely, gritted her teeth and said: "That outer room is really How hateful! After Zhai Luo returns to the limelight, we must also ask him to try the delicious food in Baodong Ancestral Hall!"
"That's right!" Sheng Weiqiao clenched his fists and said bitterly, "Then we will spit in his food every day!"
"It's very mixed!"
“Very Dongbalou!”
"Forget about cockroaches, they are so dirty that I don't want to touch them. Even if they are put in the food in the outer room, they are still too dirty!"
"Stupid, we can let the maid release it!"
"That's wrong! Sure enough, the second sister is the smartest!"
However, whether the fantasy is beautiful and whether the reality is cruel - while discussing how to torture Sheng Sleeping Crane, the two sisters got up and went to the water tank in the courtyard to finish washing up. When they turned around, what they saw was none other than Sheng Sleeping Crane. Zhang smiled: "Are you two sisters up? Just in time, chicken soup wontons were just made in the kitchen. Brother Wei stole two bowls while no one was paying attention, and also stole a few green beans and dried buns. Come quickly, two sisters. Eat it while it’s hot!”
While he was shutting up, he had already taken out the food from the food box one by one and placed it on the stone table in the courtyard. The base soup of the chicken soup wontons was clearly filtered through gauze and served in a black-glazed rabbit-hair bowl. It was as clear as water. There were small wontons floating on the head like clouds. The fillings were the size of fingernails and the skin was as thin as cicada wings. In the soup noodles sprinkled with chopped green onions, a handful of golden egg shreds floated.
Just one look at the two sisters, who had been suffering all morning, almost fell to their knees!
But it happened that at that time Sheng Suihe saw the two bowls of untouched eel noodles in the east of the corridor. He sighed with regret and said: "Why do the two sisters mistrust each other so much? I have said it before. You will definitely not secretly spit in our food, mix it with sand, and put cockroaches and Dongba beans in it! Let’s just eat without worry!”
"I'm going away!" Sheng Weiqiao finally broke out unbearably, stamped his feet, and pushed his clothes outwards while choking, "Who asked me to deliver food?! Ask others to deliver it, otherwise they won't eat! I'm so hungry! Let’s see how I explain to their parents!!!”
"You two sisters, please think about it carefully. Don't dare to act like a brother when others deliver food, otherwise we will disobey the old man's will!" Sheng Suihe persuaded with a heartbroken look, "Then we can eat vegetables every day. Tofu with red rice, there may not even be a drop of lard, Brother Wei can't help but be happy just thinking about it... Oh no, I feel sorry for you! Brother Wei feels so sorry for us, I think I can't even say the right thing!"
He knew that the outer room was uneasy and well-meaning! ! !
Sheng Weiqiao was so angry that he almost vomited blood and kicked him. Sheng Weiwu also came and helped. The two sisters worked together, beating and scolding, and finally drove the guy out of the door. They returned to the court and looked at the chicken soup that he couldn't take away. The two of them were so angry that they brushed the small wontons and dried green bean buns to the ground: "I can't believe it! My parents and my grandfather can't help but watch us not eating or drinking?!"
-Facts proved that their parents and grandfather were really reluctant to part with them, so half a month later, a servant finally came to deliver food.
Although what the visitor brought was what Sheng Suihe said, which was green vegetables, tofu and red rice, the two sisters who were very hungry could not help but eat very deliciously: "The vegetables are so delicious, and the tofu is also delicious! Hehehe , then the foreigner said that we can just eat green vegetables and tofu, what’s wrong with green vegetables and tofu?!"
Little did he know that Sheng Sleeping Crane, who was standing across the wall, was stroking Dongba and thinking: "Although these two spoiled little girls will definitely not be able to stand eating green vegetables and tofu for a few months... Isn't it too slow?" Got it!"
He put his legs down and showed a meaningful smile, "Although he was deceived into coming back, fortunately, the sisters are very young, Bu Mo, you can teach them!" "
He could train a gangster who roamed the seven seas and committed all kinds of murders into little red rabbits, let alone two truly innocent and ignorant little girls
[Note] The recipe and description of eel noodles refer to Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List".