In the spring, the creatures that have been dormant on the mountain for a whole winter are awakened, and all kinds of trees, flowers and plants are sprouting and turning green, and they are full of vitality. It is really wild game if you hit it casually, and wild vegetables if you pick it casually, all at the bottom of the mountain. A good thing that can't be met.
Yu Jinnian's eyes were attracted by the colorful village and wild things beside the road, and there were many new things that Yu Jinnian had never seen before. But they had only been on the road for less than two hours, if Yu Jinnian went down to reward him, he might not be able to reach the place to stay tomorrow night.
That's why before Yu Jinnian could see what the white thing was, his own Young Master Ji stretched out his hand and took it back. He held it in his arms and stuffed a candied date into his mouth. Yu Jinnian was so teased by him that he soon forgot about it. After this matter, he lay down in the nest like an old hen, listening to him read, and daydreaming at the same time.
After walking for a few days, at noon one day, I finally crossed a mountain and walked into a small village. There were only a dozen families in the village. Naturally, it was impossible to have any guest houses and hotels. Pancake's aunt was kind-hearted, and seeing that they had come from a long way, she borrowed the old house for them to settle down and rest.
This aunt was a landlord in her ancestors, and she lived a life without worrying about food and clothing, but later the family got into some troubles, and it gradually declined, and all that could be sold was paid off, and in the end there was only this empty house left to think about. Fortunately, her son and daughter-in-law are fairly hardworking and filial, so they live their lives like this, and they haven't been bullied by others.
Yu Jinnian rubbed his eyes and got out of the car. It turned out that there was a big house in front of him. The aunt's family only lived in the few or two rooms in the front, and most of the back was empty. It was not a problem to accommodate them, but there were many The room has not been used all year round, and it is dusty, and it needs to be cleaned carefully.
Shi Xing took a few men down to fetch water and wash the rags, Qing Huan settled the little girl, and went to the front to borrow a few quilts. The two young masters of the Min's family didn't touch the spring water with their ten fingers. Yu Jinnian's excitement had long since lost Yu Jinnian's excitement during the bumpy journey, and they were exhausted. After giving orders, they went in early to rest. It was the first time for Su Ting and the others to travel far, and they fell apart when they got out of the car, and they didn't think the bed was dirty, so they both fell asleep.
At first, Ji Hong stopped the young man, saying that his subordinates should take care of these chores, but Yu Jinnian is the one who can sit still? It was really impossible to "watch the flowers bloom and fade", and he couldn't hold back after only two flowers in the yard fell. When Ji Hong came back with the tea, he saw the little thing jumping up and down directing Shi Xing and the others to work, and even stepped on a stool to clean up the cobwebs on the top of the wall, which made Ji Hong feel terrified.
Their half of the courtyard is in full swing, while the other half of the courtyard seems lifeless.
Lu Yanjia ordered someone to move a few stools in the courtyard and set up tea. Although his face was not fully displayed, it could be seen from his frowning that he was very dissatisfied with this simple place to stay. The servant came up to pour hot water, but Master Lu splashed a cup of residual tea on his face, and took his anger out on him: "You dare to serve any kind of moldy tea, if you want to kill your master!"
After finishing speaking, he kicked the boy who was stunned: "What are you doing in a daze, go down and make it again!"
The boy was wronged too, this tea was obviously his master's favorite drink of Longzhi Yunwu in the past, so he just took it out of his carry-on luggage, and it became unpalatable "mildew tea" in a blink of an eye, but he was better at serving Lu Yanjia Years, well aware of his temper, did not dare to speak back. I can't blame him for brewing "mildew tea", but I can only blame him for his "bad luck", so he was beaten and scolded, and he obediently withdrew.
Qi Wenjun next to him didn't say a word, as if he couldn't bear Lu Yanjia's temper, he stood up after a while.
"What are you going to do? Sit down." Lu Yanjia looked up at her, his tone not necessarily considerate.
Qi Wenjun said nonchalantly: "I'm not feeling well, I'm afraid this lump of flesh is making trouble, so let's take a rest."
"This piece of meat" is the hard-won blood of their old Lu family. Lu Yanjia lowered his eyes and looked at Qi Wenjun's belly, but finally said nothing, resisting the urge to get angry, and let her go.
The boy came out wiping the tea stains on his face, and when he didn't see Lu Yanjia again, he immediately changed his face, spat hard into the jade porcelain tea cup in his hand, and stared at it with hatred, Spit: "Hey, you're just a bastard, but if you climb up to a nobleman, you really think of yourself as the king of heaven—"
I didn't enjoy scolding to the fullest, but I heard someone laughing: "Oh, it's you? What, you're being scolded again?"
The boy looked up and saw that it was the young man who bullied him that day. It was really bad luck. He stared at him blankly and said, "What are you doing, look at me?"
Yu Jinnian was carrying the bucket of water and couldn't free his hands, so he put the bucket down firmly first, then took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, rolled it into a ball and threw it at him from a distance, and said with a smile: "Here, wipe it off." .”
Something was thrown at him, but the boy subconsciously caught it and held it tightly in his hands. He saw that it was a soft silk with a faint scent of balsamic powder, as slippery as a girl's apron. Although he had never touched the bellyband before, he just felt that he was being laughed at by the other party, and his neck turned red with anger. He threw the handkerchief back to him in an instant, and said irritably, "What a sissy thing! Take it back quickly." , don't get my hands dirty!"
These little things have always been prepared by Qing Huan, and he will use whatever they give him. The requirements are not high, and naturally he will not deliberately dislike it. Yu Jinnian picked up the handkerchief, put it under his nose and smelled it, it smelled a little fragrant, but it was the kind of fragrance that Ji Hong often used to fumigate clothes, and girls are always careful in doing things, and it's normal for the material to be soft, how did it get there? The little boy is a mother in his mouth.
The boy had just had a bad meal at Lu Yanjia's, but now he was angry from top to bottom that was visible to the naked eye. He threw the handkerchief back, but he always felt that slippery touch was left between his fingers. He looked at Yu Jinnian carefully, and then thought that he and the man in brocade clothes went in and out together, ate and slept together, and said Even the "inseparable" seemed unfamiliar, several times, he saw that man touching the boy's face!
He suddenly understood, thinking that he had seen through some ulterior secret, so he smiled triumphantly: "What are you doing here, why don't you 'serve' your handsome gentleman?"
He bites the word "serving" very hard, and those who are interested can naturally hear the joke in it. He just wanted to embarrass this young man on purpose, not to mention that in his short-sightedness, serving others with sex is kitsch, and serving others with sex with a man's body is even more kitsch in kitsch. Since someone has done this, Just don't blame others for poking their backs.
Yu Jinnian just smiled: "He's so good, he's waiting for me to go back and drink tea right now!"
"..." The boy didn't expect that he not only didn't refute, but also looked smug in his clothes. He punched someone's soft sandbag so hard that his mouth was almost crooked, so he walked around him to the kitchen. He murmured in a low voice, "The little man succeeds".
It's just that Yu Jinnian didn't have the same knowledge as him, and entered the backyard by mistake with the young man, then Master Lu had already entered the house, but his own Young Master Ji was standing in front of the door, looking at something, seeing him coming, he immediately straightened up Go down and pick it up.
"What are you looking at?" Yu Jinnian carried the bucket into the room, feeling that he had been busy for a long time, and his throat was extremely thirsty, so he didn't care whether it was raw or cold, so he took a ladle and poured it into his mouth.
"Just now I suddenly remembered that Mr. Lu seems to have met somewhere..." Ji Hong looked away, saw that Yu Jinnian had swallowed half a scoop of cold water, and immediately reached out to take the gourd scoop, "Why are you drinking cold water? "
Yu Jinnian smiled and said, "It was just hit from the well, it's sweet."
At this time, the water quality is good, and there is no strange smell in the well. The water scooped up is so clear, without any impurities, and even slightly sweet. The taste is softer than the well in the courtyard of a bowl of noodle restaurants. The taste of spring water.
Ji Hong was only worried that he would have a stomachache after drinking cold water, but Yu Jinnian was thinking about how to use this well water for cooking.
Just at this time, a five or six-year-old doll ran in bouncingly. It was a unique way of jumping for young children. He switched his left and right feet and tapped the ground, causing the two little claws on the top of his head to dangle with his body. Swaying, it looks like a fat baby walking down from a New Year painting. Entering the yard, she was not afraid of life, she jumped straight towards Yu Jinnian, tilted her head and said, "My mother asked you if it's cold, if you're hungry, and if you want to eat?"
Yu Jinnian touched the little baby's fur, and said cheerfully, "Who is your mother? What else did she say?"
"My mother is my mother, who else is there?" He pouted and said unhappy, "My mother said that she wanted to cook vegetables, and father wanted to chop firewood, and... oh, I forgot..." to cry.
At first glance, this little radish is very popular at home. It is as tender as a piece of tofu. With such a wrinkled face, the whole eyes are red and watery. How could Yu Jinnian dare to speak loudly? He picked him up and coaxed him, and took out some pieces of preserved fruit from his pocket for him to eat: "Okay, okay, forget it, it's normal for children not to remember! Go cook for your parents too, okay?"
"Well, okay..." Little Luobotou had a piece of candied fruit in his mouth, and his eyes were still fixed on the pastry in the lunch box in the distance. Perhaps his mother taught him not to take other people's things randomly, so seeing him I was so hungry that I didn't open my mouth to ask for it.
Ji Hong is the least able to deal with noisy things, especially children who are still eating their hands, which caused him a lot of headaches, so he hid far away, took a book and pretended to read it, but Yu Jinnian saw through him, playing tricks She hugged the carrot head towards him as if, and told him to pick out what pastries he wanted to eat.
The head of the radish was lying on the table, drooling quickly, and then picked out a piece of orchid cake.
This orchid cake is not a rare thing, that is, dough, sugar and ghee are kneaded into balls, rolled into pastry, cut out scratches with a knife, and then folded into the shape of orchids with egg liquid. After frying, the color is white It is yellow in the middle, crisp and sweet in the mouth.
Thinking of the long journey along the way, these were all prepared by Ji Hong to pass the time for him. Seeing the teenagers feeding the little doll one by one, he frowned faintly, and pulled the doll aside. pull. Yu Jinnian looked up at him, but he pretended to meet him by accident, still reading his book of sages with his eyes down.
At this moment, the little baby's hands were already full, and he couldn't take any more, just when Duan Ming came back outside, he said he had caught a rabbit, so Yu Jinnian put the little boy down and coaxed him to look at the rabbit.
Ji Hong was looking at the book, and suddenly the booklet was pulled, revealing a quirky young face: "What are you doing, I can eat some snacks from you, and my heart still hurts?"
"Why do I feel distressed?" Ji Hong turned around, changed the direction, changed the book, and continued to read calmly, "It's just some people, don't talk about being lonely when the time comes."
Yu Jinnian took the book away again, stared at him, and suddenly leaned forward to attach it, pressing his sleeve with one hand, as if he wanted to lean in for a kiss: "Why do I feel lonely in my mouth? Can you explain clearly?" Some." But when the man leaned forward, he dodged back and ran away lightly, catching Ji Hong in vain, then threw the book back into his hand with a loud smile, and ran to find Duan Ming to watch the rabbit up.
Ji Hong looked down at his pleated sleeves, not knowing what was so funny, the corners of his mouth curled up inexplicably.
The rabbit was captured alive. At this time, it broke free and was running around the yard. Yu Jinnian squatted on the threshold laughing and watching Duan Ming chase the rabbit. The little radish ran over, took out a handful of leaves, and said: "Here Play, this one can write when crumpled!"
At such a young age, he didn't even know what calligraphy is, so he knew he was going to write. Yu Jinnian patted his head and boasted: "It's so good, after seeing it, it's material for a high school champion!" As soon as Ye took a look, his eyes lit up instantly, "Tell brother, where did you pick this leaf? Let's pick some more, shall we?"
"Just behind the house..."
There are not many little dolls in this village who are the same age as Carrot Head, and the older ones think he is a childish ghost who eats fingers and plays with mud, and they don't like to take him to play, so Yu Jinnian proposed to pick leaves, and naturally regarded him as "" Good brother", immediately happily pulled Yu Jinnian's sleeves and went out. Before leaving, Yu Jinnian quietly ordered Duan Ming to skin and disembowel the rabbit and clean it, so that he could burn it and eat it when he came back.
The two naive ghosts walked around behind the old house, and they saw a green area under the hillside, and a few southern candlewood trees growing beside the road.
Southern candlewood is more common in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is much less in the north. Because these few southern candlewood trees are grown in sunny places, they grow very gratifyingly, very tall, and a few small seedlings sprouted beside them. Yu Jinnian rolled up his clothes, rolled up his sleeves and picked the leaves one by one. Although Xiaoluotou didn't know what he wanted so many leaves for, he happily followed along.
Speaking of what to do, of course I want to eat!
Because of the difference in customs, the south candle leaf is not commonly used in the north, and this tree has another name in the south, called the black rice tree. The juice from the mortar of the leaves on the tree is dark in color, which is why this little radish head used it for writing games.
Every year around the Qingming Festival, the streets and alleys of the southern cities and towns pick the leaves and soak the rice in water. The rice soaked in the leaf juice can be steamed into a kind of green and black rice, and the leaves used in this "black rice" are just It is the southern candle leaf.
Wufan is not only popular among the people, but also loved by Buddhism and Taoism, leaving many legends. However, in Taoism, this rice has an even more elusive name, which is "Qingjing".
It is said that the ancient Taoist real people created this meal in order to lighten their bodies and live long. Green is the main color of spring, and spring is when the yang energy rises, the heaven and the earth are born together, and all things are prosperous. Therefore, the word green here has the meaning of spring, and the south candlewood grows toward the sun, gathering the essence of yang, which is why it is taken It is called "Qingjing". These statements are just conjectures of later generations. As for the details, we can only ask the real person who lived thousands of years ago.
However, it is certain that Nanzhu can strengthen the body. Its branches, leaves and fruits enter Jueyin and Shaoyin, which can strengthen the liver and kidneys and increase essence. Take it and live forever.
Yu Jinnian plucked a pocket full of southern candle leaves, and led the little radish back home, just in time for his mother to come back in person.
The two met face to face, the young lady was not very old, Xu was younger than Ji Hong, and there was still some girlish tenderness on her face, who would have thought that she was already a five-year-old carrot-headed mother. The little baby rushed up and hugged him, and told him how Yu Jinnian played with him several times. The little lady thanked him and apologized, saying that her child was ignorant and disturbed the nobleman.
The two entered the kitchen one after another. Yu Jinnian soaked the southern candle leaves in water, then found a stone pestle to smash the leaves.
Turning around, he saw the carrot head and his mother taking something out of the basket. Could it be the fat white thing that Yu Jinnian saw on the roadside earlier? I really didn't think about it, so I asked humbly and studiously: "Dare to ask Madam, what is this?"
The little lady saw that he was dressed luxuriously, but he didn't regard himself as superior, so she was not so nervous, and replied: "It's just meat mushrooms, game in the forest. It just rained two days ago, and I saw a lot of cold today, so I gave it to him." Picked it back."
Yu Jinnian asked with a smile, "Since it's called meat mushroom, is it because it tastes like meat?"
Although their family seems to live in a spacious house, it is actually just an empty house left by their ancestors. In fact, it is no different from ordinary village households, and it is not possible to be late every day. The lady's face turned red slightly, and she said with a little shame: "It's just...we can eat meat all day long like the nobles, so we just eat this, just to satisfy our greed..."
Yu Jinnian didn't mean to say this, although it was an unintentional talk, but it also made the other party feel embarrassed, and it was his fault after all. He stopped talking too much, and lowered his head to carefully wash the southern candle leaves. After washing, he soaked them in a stone mortar aside.
From the car, she moved the good-quality polished round-grained rice she had brought into the kitchen. The young lady was curiously observing the pot of Nanzhu Leaf Juice. When she saw Yu Jinnian came back, she hurriedly hid aside and continued to cut her meat mushrooms. Looking back later, Yu Jinnian was filtering the juice and soaking it in the washed white rice. He couldn't help wondering, "What is this for?"
Yu Jinnian said: "Steam some fresh green rice to eat later."
Just as they were talking about what Qingjing Rice was, the aunt who had led the way for them walked in cursingly, muttering in her mouth: "What kind of nonsense, old lady, when I was the eldest lady, I saw a lot of slaves If you go, it's your turn to have this kind of thing pointing fingers! You're such a slave!"
The little lady hurried forward to persuade her, and said in a low voice: "Aniang, what are you talking about in front of the nobleman?"
The aunt said angrily: "What did I say, when I was young—" Looking up and seeing an outsider in the kitchen, she stopped her voice sullenly.
The people of Min Ji's family are all master Xiao, well-trained, well-mannered, and surprisingly aloof. If they can be solved with two words, they will never say the third word, let alone being pointed at their noses and called "diaolu" Now, with such popularity, he will not be able to get out of Daguan Lu's subordinates. Yu Jinnian said: "Auntie, don't be angry, it's not worth it. Eat some of this green rice later, soothe the liver and replenish the body, and the hair will turn green! At that time, it will be as beautiful as the little lady."
Auntie's ears are soft, and when she heard Yu Jinnian's sweet mouth, it was like melting honey. Even though she knew in her heart that it would be impossible to return to her youth, she was still beautiful in her heart, and Yu Jinnian looked young and was so attractive Lianai, then stroked her temples, and secretly took out a piece of sesame candy that was hidden for the eldest grandson, and gave it to him to eat.
After soaking the japonica rice in the southern candle leaf juice, he made another shepherd's purse and egg soup. As for the hare, he planned to start a small stove with Ji Hong at night, so he didn't bring it to the front kitchen for processing, and just waited to come back later. After leaving the room, I cook with my own small stove.
After cooking enough, the rice has been soaked into dark green by the Nanzhu leaf juice. At this time, it can be poured into the rice steamer to steam, and the rice that comes out will be black and blue. When eating, mix some brown sugar or sweetness, and the taste can be improved. More beautiful.
As soon as the Qingjing rice was on fire, the young lady of the Lu family came over with a smile, carrying a jug of wine in her hand, and said, "Mrs. Aunt, just now the young servant in my house doesn't know the rules and speaks freely. You can let us It is a kind heart to stay here, I heard that you are good at wine, this jar of Taoxi red will satisfy your hunger!"
The Lu family is full of bastards, but the two sisters have not been assimilated. Compared with the stinking boy and his bastard master, the two of them are simply unstained lotus.
Hanxiao entered the kitchen, looked around, presumably wanting to beg for something to eat.
The servants of their Lu family are not like Yu Jinnian, who knows medicine and medicine, and they are not like Duan Ming Shixing, who can fly over eaves and walls, hunt birds and animals. In other places, these people can't distinguish grains and don't work hard, so they can only rely on the dry food they carry with them, or the hospitality of their hosts.
The aunt naturally understood, and she didn't want to provoke this kind of official family, so she walked down the steps she had built with a smile: "It's just a few extra words, so why don't you ask Madam to come here in person, and see what you want to eat , we in this barren village don't have anything good to entertain you..."
Hanxiao and Yu Jinnian made a mistake, and immediately avoided it with a guilty conscience. It seemed that they hadn't recovered from the arsenic incident last time.
She didn't ask for any dishes that she couldn't make, she picked out what was in the kitchen, ordered a few homemade dishes, and left two ingots of silver as hard money. That aunt is indeed a glutton for fine wine, she smelled the aroma of the wine from a long distance away, Han Xiang was just about to put down the wine jar, when her gaze suddenly glanced at the meat mushrooms that her aunt and daughter-in-law were processing.
The aunt laughed and said, "Miss, you have to try it. This is a unique delicacy in our village! Although it looks a little rough, it is no worse than the food in the tavern outside. This is the real mountain delicacy." !"
"Really, then hardworking girl, give us foreigners a taste of it?" She said with a smile, and suddenly paused for a moment. Even Yu Jinnian thought that moment was just an illusion that her eyes were being burned by fireworks, and then her face turned red. It was so unusual that nothing could be seen.
My aunt was explaining how delicious meat mushrooms are - just a "crash"!
A good jar of Taoxihong actually slipped out of Hanxiao's hand, fell straight to the ground, and shattered into thousands of pieces.
In an instant, a strong aroma of wine overflowed from the kitchen door.
My aunt cried out in grief: "—Oh!"
With a smile on her head, she said in a panic: "I'm really sorry, I don't know why, and it suddenly fell out..." She squatted down to help tidy up, before the aunt wanted to pick up a piece of debris to lick fresh, With a smile, he quickly cleaned up all the pieces, "Look here. Forget it, if it's broken, it's broken. I still have a box of peach blossom cakes. I'll ask someone to bring them..."
As he spoke, he raised his head and found that Yu Jinnian was staring at her intently.
Hanxiao immediately looked away, got up and walked out in a hurry: "I'm clumsy, so I won't get in the way here. I'll send someone to deliver that peach blossom cake." He glanced back as he walked.
Yu Jinnian frowned, his eyes stayed on the ground for a moment on the wine stains that had seeped into the ground, and then with a smile, he looked at the half-cut meat mushrooms on the table. It didn't look like any kind of poisonous mushroom he recognized. Furthermore, if it was really poisonous, my aunt's family would have been poisoned if they ate it twice a day.
However, he always felt that there was one thing stuck in his mind, but he just couldn't remember it. He thought to himself: I seem to have seen this thing somewhere before, where exactly is it...