All the way down from the Yantai, I have been a little dazed. Wei Tan pulled me and kept telling me to pay attention to my feet, step by step, walking slowly.
Just now on the Yantai, Wei Tan asked me if I would like to rebuild Chang'an with him.
I hesitated and hesitated, but hope seemed to fall on the sparks of weeds, slowly igniting the light. I nodded slowly, Wei Tan had a deep smile on his face, and hugged me vigorously...
His face was still hot.
His hand was held in his palm, it was very warm, and I felt that I had never paid so much attention to what it was like to hold hands with him before.
On the way, I saw a half-destroyed house being repaired, surrounded by scaffolding with bamboo poles and planks.
If you don't abandon it, it won't abandon you... My heart seemed to be touched by something, I couldn't help but glance at Wei Tan, he looked ahead, as if he was watching the snow scene.
When I got out of the Huguo Temple, I was about to get into the carriage, but Wei Tan said to his servants, "Take the carriage and horses back, and my wife and I will walk back home."
The man responded, turned and walked away.
"It's not far from my house, how about my wife walking with me?" Wei Tan turned to me and said.
I have already ordered my servants, so I came to ask me. I smiled: "Yeah."
In the cold weather, people are reluctant to go out, and there are few pedestrians on the street. Wei Tan took my hand and walked on the road, which attracted many people's attention. Wei Tan, however, didn't seem to notice anything, and continued to ostentatiously pass through the market.
I looked back, and the two following people were separated by a few feet, and their eyes were looking at other places. Embarrassed, I pinched Wei Tan's hand, but he turned his head to look at me, curled his lips, and clenched his hand even tighter.
Facing him, a peddler was selling hemp balls with a burden, followed by a group of greedy children.
"Go away!" The peddler waved as he walked.
"Want to eat?" Wei Tan asked me.
I haven't eaten Chang'an's mochi balls for a long time, and I was a little greedy when I saw them just now.
"Has your husband brought any money?" I asked.
Wei Tan smiled and pulled me over.
"How much is a catty of sesame balls?" He asked.
"Ten coins." The peddler said.
"Ten qian?" Before Wei Tan could speak, I couldn't help but said, "Your sesame balls are really expensive. I can buy noodles and oil with ten qian, and I can make more than five catties."
The peddler said: "Five catties? Madam, have you ever been to the market to see how expensive rice and noodles are now? These mochi balls of mine are made with real ingredients. They are deep-fried and crispy. It's hard to find anywhere else."
I didn't talk nonsense with him, and said, "Six qian, if I don't sell it, I'll leave."
The peddler shook his head: "Six renminbi is not enough, at least eight renminbi."
I pulled Wei Tan and left.
"Seven qian! Seven qian!" The peddler hurriedly said, "Madam, you and I each make a concession! No less!"
"Deal." Wei Tan said.
I froze and stared at him. But he continued to say to the peddler: "I want everything, wrap it up."
The hawker's face was full of smiles, he promised again and again, and packed the dried reed leaves in a hurry.
"I bought so much, how can I take it away?" I asked Wei Tan.
Wei Tan smiled: "A husband has his own way."
Wait until the hemp balls in the small basket have turned into small packets, and after weighing, they will weigh twenty catties. Wei Tan greeted someone to come over, and poured out a pile of coins from the purse.
The peddler counted the money, unable to close his mouth.
A pile of Ruo leaf parcels stood in front of me. I looked at Wei Tan and Congren, and thought that Wei Tan would ask the peddler to sell the baskets to him as well.
But Wei Tan didn't think so at all, he turned to the group of children who had been watching anxiously, and waved: "Everyone, come here, each take a bag of sesame balls."
The children's eyes lit up when they heard this, they were both excited and hesitant.
Wei Tan picked up a pack of sesame balls and handed them to a nearby child. Others immediately gathered around, and Wei Tan gave them each a bag.
"Gongtai is a kind person, and he will be full of happiness and longevity in the future." The peddler said with a smile.
Wei Tan also smiled: "The longevity of a good person can't even be said to be good. If you are not high or low, you can be content." After finishing speaking, he asked his servant to take the remaining few packets of hemp balls and continued walking forward.
I looked back at the children who were still in high spirits, and asked Wei Tan: "Your husband also brings so much money when you go out?"
"Huh?" Wei Tan looked at me, "Didn't you say 'I don't have a hundred coins, so I won't go to Chang'an'?"
I froze for a moment, thinking that this sounded very familiar.
"Seven cents a catty of mochi," Wei Tan said, "I remember four cents a catty in the past."
"The concubine also thinks it's expensive." I looked at him, "But I can't stop my husband from making quick moves."
"It's not short of that little money." Wei Tan smiled, "It's not easy to go out to sell goods in such a cold weather."
He really became a good person.
"He's not losing money." I was determined to settle accounts with him, and said, "Flour in Yongdu is 120 yuan per stone, and sesame oil is 10 yuan per catty. The imperial court implements a policy of equal losses, and the price in Chang'an is not much more expensive. Oil and flax, a catty of sesame balls cost at most three qian. The concubine just said six qian, which has already given him a lot."
"Oh?" Wei Tan said, "Madam is familiar with grain prices?"
I smiled humbly: "Since I am a wife of a grave, I should be familiar with the matter of firewood and rice."
"Accounting is also familiar."
"The concubine used to be at her mother's house, and often followed her mother to check the accounts of the mansion."
Wei Tan's eyes were deep: "I can still negotiate prices."
This choked me a bit, but I quickly found a reason: "Since I know his cost, I will naturally say so."
Wei Tan looked at me, and couldn't tell whether it was derogation or praise. After a short while, he smiled and said earnestly: "So, it is very comforting for my husband to have a wife to manage the house."
I thought this was pleasing to the ear, and I smiled and said, "Thank you, husband."
Continue to go forward for more than ten steps, and there is an intersection.
Wei Tan stopped to look around and asked me, "Are you hungry?"
I nodded: "I'm a little hungry." It's been two hours since I left the house, and it's already past noon.
"Madam, have you been to Nanshi?"
"I've been there." I replied, feeling inappropriate for a moment, and added, "I used to pass by."
Wei Tan didn't seem to feel the difference between the two answers, and said, "There's a shop there that buys tofu soup. The owner's name is Yao Sanniang. Madam, have you ever eaten it?"
I shake my head. Although I went out often back then, I also knew that every market had some famous snacks. But I don't like tofu soup, so I have no impression of what he said.
Wei Tan expressed regret: "Madam has been in Chang'an for so long, and Yao Sanniang's tofu soup is so famous that I have never eaten it."
I pursed my lips: "My concubine used to follow her boudoir precepts, and never looked closely at what Nanshi looks like."
Wei Tan looked at me and smiled lowly: "So, today, as a husband, I should take my wife to see it." After finishing speaking, he put his arms around my shoulders and walked towards one side of the road.
"Someone..." I was embarrassed, looking around hurriedly while breaking his hand.
"You and I are husband and wife, so I'm so afraid." Wei Tan said with more force, holding me forward.
Back then I lived in the north of the city, where there was Beishi. However, I had too many acquaintances, and I was afraid of being recognized, so I went to the East and West cities all the year round. I have been to Nanshi a few times, but it is not as lively as Dongxiershi, and there is not much fun there.
Most of the shops in Nanshi sell clothing materials, such as silk, brocade and silk. But now the world is in trouble. Although today is the market day, many shops are closed, and there are very few banners and signboards in the past.
In the open area, many nearby villagers came to sell their local products. After noon, some people started to leave with their goods.
Wei Tan pulled me along and recalled: "In the past, in such weather, I often came to Nanshi to eat tofu soup, which was delicious with sugar-filled pancakes."
"Yes." I replied. I have never tried this way of eating, and I rarely come into contact with the hobbies of the lower classes. Looking ahead, I said, "After so many years of war, how does my husband know that the store is still there?"
Wei Tan said: "I don't know either, I just heard that Nanshi was not seriously injured." As he spoke, he suddenly pointed to the front and said with a smile, "That's where it is."
I looked around and saw a small shop on the side of the road with a flag hanging under the eaves, which read "Yao Sanniang Tofu Soup". However, the door of the store was only half open, and there was a tiger calamus hanging on it, which seemed to be closed.
Wei Tan walked over and shouted at the door: "San Niang! Is there any tofu soup?"
His voice was loud, and I looked around again. Fortunately, it was a market and no one paid attention.
"It's not open today, no!" A female voice with a voice not inferior to that of Wei Tan came from inside, and not long after, a fat woman in her fifties came out, her round face glowing red.
She was taken aback when she saw Wei Tan.
"You don't recognize me?" Wei Tan raised his eyebrows.
The fat woman looked at him for a while, and laughed: "I recognize him! You are the Habayashi who used to come here often!" After finishing speaking, she turned her head and shouted into the house, "Master! The little boy who always provoked women in the past Your Majesty is here!"
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Wei Tan looked a little unnatural, and said: "I originally wanted to bring the woman to eat tofu soup. Since Sanniang is not open today, I will come back another day."
Yao Sanniang smiled and waved her hand, and said: "What date will it be changed! My son-in-law gave birth to a grandson last night, although there is no tofu soup today, there is distiller's grain custard, come in quickly and have a bowl!"
"So there's a happy event." Wei Tan smiled, and after finishing speaking, he looked at me: "Do you want to eat?"
I smile and nod.
Yao Sanniang looked at me and winked at Wei Tan: "Is this my wife? You are married to a wife!"
Wei Tan chuckled and looked at me.
I also smiled. Although the man's words were vulgar, I was not disgusted.
Yao Sanniang welcomed us into the room and shouted, "Master! Two bowls of distiller's lees custard! We have guests!"
There were seven or eight desk seats crowded in the small shop, and a gray-bearded man in civilian clothes came out with two bowls of hot soup and said with a smile, "Sit wherever you want."
Wei Tan thanked me and took me to sit beside the case.
"Xiao Langjun, I haven't seen you for many years." The man put down the bowl and smiled at Wei Tan.
Wei Tan nodded: "Exactly, Gongtai and Sanniang are still the same."
The man rubbed his hands together with a smile, and looked at me: "This is my wife? Back when Mr. Xiao Lang came to the store, there were always women from nearby to peek at him. I told my wife at that time that Mr. Mr. Xiao has such a character, In the future, marrying a wife must be like a fairy, as expected!"
There was some embarrassment on my face. Glancing at Wei Tan, this man will also be followed by a woman? I can't see it...
"What's the matter in the past, what can the public platform do?" Wei Tan looked at me and smiled at the man.
"What public platform, sir, don't praise him!" Yao Sanniang said while burning a charcoal stove, "I can't read big characters."
The man glared at her and said with a groan, "Why don't you know, I didn't write those words on the flag?"
"You know how to write those few, and I still ask Lao Wang to come and describe them in a copybook."
"You will! Write your name and see, I don't know where the first pen is..."
Those two were noisy and went to the back of the shop, leaving Wei Tan and I staring at each other dumbfounded.
"They used to be like this. When they make a fuss, they can be heard a mile away." Wei Tan said.
"That's it." I smiled, and gently stirred the soup with a spoon.
Wei Tan blew on the hot air in the bowl, and said: "This place used to be very lively, if you come late, you can only stand outside to eat."
I responded, scooped up a mouthful with a spoon, blew on the surface, and carefully put it in my mouth. The taste of distiller's lees is sweet and rich, and the egg flower is just right, tender and fragrant.
"Is it delicious?" Wei Tan asked.
I nod.
Wei Tan scooped out the eggs from his bowl and put them in my bowl.
"It doesn't have to be too much." I said hastily.
"Eat more if it tastes good." Wei Tan said, "This way you can feel happy."
I froze for a moment, and my face suddenly became hot.
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I buried my head in eating the soup, only to feel that the heat was getting worse. I don’t know if it was because the lees were too thick, or the heat in the bowl was too hot...