As the moon and eve drew nearer, restaurants and shops all over the place tidied up their fronts one after another, and some even invited carpenters and bricklayers to repair their facades. Xin'an County has the custom of putting out lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, recently, bamboo lanterns have been tied up on the street for sale. Melons, fruits, fish, insects, moon rabbits, birds and animals, all kinds of shapes, all of which are brightly colored and exquisitely crafted, even Yu Jinnian When I saw it, I wanted to buy one to have a look.
Although he is actually running for three, but the ups and downs of Daxia are new to him, and it is strange to see everything, and he has a boyish body as a matter of course, so he can't help showing a lot of children temperament.
It was almost noon now, and he was lying on the counter looking at an aunt who was selling lamps opposite. The aunt's skin was dark, and there were two spots of sunburn on her face. While wearing the bamboo lamp bone, she peddled enthusiastically, her hands turned quickly, and Yu Jinnian couldn't take her eyes off her eyes.
"Go and buy one if you like it." Suddenly a deep voice sounded from my ear.
Yu Jinnian turned his head abruptly, and saw that there was someone else standing beside his hand at some time, he squinted his mouth and said: "There is an extra idler in the family, where can I still have money to buy a lamp?" The newly made Moon Rabbit Lantern.
"It's not considered an idler. I just knocked a basket of walnuts." Ji Hong opened his mouth and made Yu Jinnian speechless. He walked to the counter and took out a gray leather book from under Yu Jinnian's elbow. Calculating the accounts is extremely slow, so ask me to help."
Yu Jinnian glared and said, "Who said that!" As he spoke, he hurriedly covered the ledger that had been taken away inadvertently.
Ji Hong's hands were quick, he had already opened it, and with a quick look in his eyes, his head grew dizzy.
Although he is not a person in the business field, he has never seen how a skilled accountant does accounts, but he will definitely not be like this, he will write down wherever he thinks of, and if he makes a mistake in his pen and hand, he will write it down at will, so that As for the daily account books that are in a mess, I can't blame the helpless expression on the Erniang's face when she mentioned the boy's appearance and asked him to come over to help the gang.
Ji Hong couldn't help frowning and said: "Didn't I teach you once yesterday, why are you still memorizing like this today?"
"... Can't people change it in a while?" Yu Jinnian said with a guilty conscience. He often boasted that he was an excellent student, but since he was a child, there was only one thing that he was not able to achieve, and that was mathematics. If he was forced to do an advanced mathematics problem, it would be worse than asking him to recite ten square songs in one breath. Disaster. Although making accounts is not as good as math, but he has never done such things as daily bookkeeping, so after Erniang handed over the account books to him, he can keep them as convenient as possible, as long as he can calculate clearly and understand, he doesn't ask for it. More aggressive.
Ji Hong shook his head, and took a pen to correct it for him.
After filling up the ink with the tip of his pen, Ji Hong began to write smoothly. The pen is the cheapest and most common small brush pen. After using it for a long time, the tip of the pen has bifurcated, but this pen is very obedient in Ji Hong's hands. It seems that if he sweeps it lightly with his sleeve, it is like a flower falling from paper. Suddenly, a page of elegant and handsome words bloomed.
Yu Jinnian tilted his head slightly, and his eyes gradually moved up from "beautiful characters" to "beautiful people".
I think that day Ji Hong said that his house was ransacked by bandits, and he was separated from his family when he fled, so he was homeless. Yu Jinnian wouldn't believe this even if he was killed. If a person like him who is embroidered with brocade can be homeless, then the newly bought pig's head in the back kitchen can also grow legs on a tree! But who would have expected that Er Niang not only didn't question him, but happily took him in, saying that she could be a helper with Yu Jinnian, and be an accountant.
It’s okay to say Erniang took him in. A bowl of noodle restaurant is already such a big place. Before forcing Yu Jinnian to take him in, it has already filled the backyard to the brim. Now that there is another Ji Hong, he can’t be with him anymore. Sui Sui slept together, so naturally he could only squeeze into the same room with Yu Jinnian, which caused him to lie in bed for a few days and couldn't handle it, sleeping with backaches and backaches.
But Mr. Accountant. Yu Jinnian rested his chin and thought again, then he must be able to read. I wonder if he can teach me how to read. Alas, but this person is usually like an ice cube, maybe he has no patience to teach an illiterate to read and write...
"You must not memorize the account, so..." Ji Hong said halfway, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the young man staring blankly at the front, wondering what he was thinking, and there was a lovely childish feeling. I silently sorted out the account pages, and saw that the young man had not returned to his soul, so he called out, "Yu... Jinnian?"
"Ah?" Yu Jinnian suddenly came back to his senses, and he didn't hear what Ji Hong said at this moment, just like a student who was caught deserting in class, nodded in a panic, and said, "I remember!"
Ji Hong: "..."
At this time, a few regular customers walked in outside, and seeing them, they all laughed and said, "Brother Xiaonian, you have today! Finally, there is someone who can cure you!" He raised his head and looked at Ji Hong, exaggerating immediately He opened his eyes wide and joked, "Hey, where did this handsome young man come from? Could it be that this noodle shop of yours only attracts people based on looks!"
Yu Jinnian ran out with a smile, served a pot of tea for one of them, wrote down what side dishes they each ordered, and said, "This is the accountant Mr. Er Niang hired, surnamed Ji."
A handsome man can always make people can't help admiring them more. Everyone greeted Mr. Ji one after another, and even their eyes lit up. Marriage, what kind of little lady do you like, you are short of enthusiastically pulling out your own girl and giving it to Ji Hong as a wife.
Ji Hong was very cautious when he was forced to ask, and he replied indifferently: "I am already twenty years old, and I have never been married. Hi—"
Before he could finish speaking, Yu Jinnian jumped out to stand in front of Ji Hong who looked distressed, and said with a smile, "Everyone, our second mother just invited a good accountant, don't bully him to be honest, he will give us money in a blink of an eye." You dug it away! Besides, I’ve been in the noodle shop for so long, why haven’t I seen anyone introduce the little lady to me?”
Upon hearing this, the troublemakers turned and threw the previous question to Yu Jinnian, and even Matchmaker Li, who had just been seated in the corner, raised her ears and stretched her neck to listen. If you want to say who is the hottest buddy in the ten miles and eight streets, it is naturally Brother Yu from a bowl of noodle shop! The daughter of this small family has nothing high to climb, the only hope is to marry a good family and be able to comfortably support her husband and raise her children? Not to mention that this little brother Yu is handsome, young and skilled, the most important thing is that he has a gentle temper and is kind to others, and he is not overwhelmed by his parents-in-law. Whoever marries him will be blessed!
It's a pity that Brother Yu is 17 or 18 years old, but he has never thought about this matter, and several matchmakers came to inquire about it, but he evaded it. This time, Matchmaker Li caught a surprise!
She listened to Yu Jinnian pondering for a while and said with her ears open: "I must say what kind of one I like... Well, it probably has big breasts, thin legs, long skin and fair skin... right?"
Everyone thought that this little brother Yu was as fair-skinned as a scholar, and he would definitely say something common among matchmakers, such as "beautiful and intelligent", "face like a peach blossom", "diligence and thrift in managing the family", but they didn't expect him to open his mouth. It was such a nasty talk, it was so spicy and straightforward, the group of people looked at each other and laughed heartily.
The eavesdropping matchmaker Li almost spit out a mouthful of tea, and hurriedly took out an embroidered handkerchief to cover her mouth, but she couldn't help going through several girls who were looking for relatives in her mind, and she really asked her to pick them out. The one that met the "requirements", she secretly remembered in her heart, then lowered her head and quickly picked up the noodles to eat.
After she finished eating noodles here, she just wanted to report a letter to the girl's family. Just as she stepped out of the threshold of the noodle shop, she bumped into a woman with a big arm and a round waist, and stepped on herself firmly. After stepping on it, the woman went straight inside, shouting "Brother Xiaonian", she didn't even glance at Matchmaker Li, she was very domineering.
This matchmaker Li is not a good person either, because when she was young, she was too arrogant to control her parents-in-law and sister-in-law, so she was nicknamed Li Yecha outside, and later changed her career to become a matchmaker, which restrained her temper a little. Today, someone stepped on him for no reason, and Yasha's temper came up again, and he turned around and was about to curse: "Hey, you're not long-".
"Matchmaker Li!" Matchmaker Li took a closer look at the sound, and it was Yu Jinnian who ran out with a small oil-paper bag, and stuffed it into her hand with a smile, "That was Aunt Wu from the alley next door, looking for me I'm in a hurry, so I'm sorry to offend the matchmaker. This is the newly made rose glutinous rice lotus root, it's still warm, you can try it."
Glutinous rice and lotus roots are often eaten by everyone, but Yu Jinnian's lotus root is filled with rose sauce. Roses can soothe the liver and relieve depression, and also have the effect of nourishing blood. It is very good to eat with a hot-tempered person like Li Matcher.
"Hey, what's the point of this?" Matchmaker Li's eyes lit up when he heard that it was glutinous rice lotus root, and although he declined on his mouth, he accepted it obediently in his hand, and his impression of Yu Jinnian in his heart was pulled up a lot. , I only secretly scolded that my family gave birth to a skinny boy who didn't seek to make progress, otherwise how could such fat water let him flow into the fields of outsiders!
Matchmaker Li took the lotus root and said goodbye with a smile. Ji Hong leaned against the door, looked at the matchmaker who twisted and walked away, and then looked down at the young man with a flattering smile, with a faint frown between his brows.
Yu Jinnian trotted back and was about to enter the door when suddenly a "wall" grew on the ground in front of him. He looked up and saw that it was Ji Hong, and was suddenly surprised: "Why are you blocking the door?"
Ji Hong stared at him inexplicably, for a moment, he backed away without saying anything, and continued to settle accounts behind the counter, but the hand that moved the beads seemed to be extra heavy.
Yu Jinnian stared at him puzzledly for a while, then said, "It's really strange."
But he didn't think too much, and went towards Aunt Wu who had hurried in just now.
This Aunt Wu is also fate. When Yu Jinnian first came to the noodle shop, he was not familiar with the place where he lived, and his heart was still in a mess. He was depressed, so he wanted to eat something spicy to have a good time, so when he was about to close at night, seeing that there was no one in the shop, he made himself a bowl of chicken shredded cold noodles with the leftovers from the back kitchen. .
He was lying on the counter and slurping the noodles, so hot that his mouth and nose were red. Aunt Wu came in at this time. Seeing the red oil noodles in Yu Jinnian's bowl, she was so happy that she ordered two bowls by name, and she was bitter. The face said that the past few days did not know how the eclipse tasted.
When Yu Jinnian heard it, he couldn't tell if it wasn't for sale, so he went to the back kitchen to make two bowls for her.
Chicken Shredded Cold Noodles are very convenient to make, just a matter of seasoning the sauce. It is to mix sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar, fine salt, mature vinegar, and the most important spicy oil in a bowl, and then boil the steamed and cooled noodles. Add some side dishes such as bean sprouts and shredded cucumbers, and finally sprinkle a handful of shredded chicken, sprinkle with sesame seeds and peanuts, and then pour a few drops of sesame oil. When you use it, you can stir it with chopsticks. Very appetizing and refreshing.
After eating one of the bowls, Aunt Wu smiled and packed the other bowl for her man to take back, before talking about herself. It turned out that Aunt Wu and his wife had fled from the famine in Shu in the first few years. When they were exiled in Xin'an County, they couldn't walk, so they found a job and settled here. Life has gradually improved in the past few years. I miss my hometown more and more, seeing the chicken shredded cold noodles Yu Jinnian is eating, and thinking of the spicy taste of my hometown, it arouses the glutton in my stomach. Yu Jinnian laughed and said it was so difficult, so he made two more Sichuan-style dishes for her. This can be regarded as acquaintance.
People in Xin'an County eat light food, and since that day when Yu Jinnian sat down here, Aunt Wu would come to a bowl of noodle shop every now and then to pack two spicy dishes and take home. The kimchi made by him was also sent to a bowl of noodle restaurants all at once, and he only regarded Yu Jinnian as half a nephew from a fellow townsman.
Seeing her coming again today, Yu Jinnian thought she was here for local food, so he naturally smiled and said, "Aunt Wu, what do you want to eat today?"
Aunt Wu let out a long "ah" and drank the cold tea in front of her. After hesitating for a long time, she raised her head and held Yu Jinnian's hand and sighed, "Xiao Nian, you can help Auntie!"
Yu Jinnian was surprised: "What's wrong?"
Only then did Aunt Wu talk about the whole story. The reason is that her family went to learn business with a fellow villager, got a fortune and made a lot of money and came back. The two of them didn't want to continue renting a house in the city, so they bought a house outside the city and planned to build a house by themselves. . Now that the house is half built, when it's time to put up the beams, the master Yin Yang was invited to show it, so today is the day.
People in the Great Xia Dynasty were very superstitious, since Master Yinyang had watched the day, no matter whether it was sunny or windy or rainy outside, no matter what, the time would not be missed. Aunt Wu talked a lot, and Yu Jinnian roughly understood that the beam-raising ceremony was complicated. It had to go through steps such as sacrificial beam, beam-raising, and beam-throwing. According to Aunt Wu, the ceremony went smoothly. But the last link lost the chain - waiting for a craftsman.
This craftsman is called "Shangliang Wine", which means that after the beam is lifted, a banquet must be held to entertain the craftsmen who worked hard that day and Master Yin Yang. It is not in vain.
The problem was that the master Aunt Wu invited to make Shangliang wine entered the yard, and just as he was preparing the ingredients, he cut his palm. As soon as the beam was put on the other side, there was blood here. Master Yin Yang frowned when he saw it, and said it was unlucky, fearing that there would be bloody disasters in the new house, so he recited a big mantra and collected money for transforming blood disasters I asked them to hire another master ladle master, who had to be born on a sunny day.
This is difficult for Aunt Wu's family. It's easy to talk about other things, but where can I find a master who was born in a sunny day in a short while! After thinking about it, she went to a few small restaurants, but finally she couldn't do anything, and then she thought of Yu Jinnian, the last straw.
"Brother Xiaonian, you are also a cook, but do you know any chef who is in the sun?" Aunt Wu asked expectantly.
I don't know if it was such a coincidence, Yu Jinnian was taken aback when he heard it, and said with a smile: "I am. If Auntie doesn't mind, I'll cook a table banquet for your family?"
Aunt Wu nodded happily when she heard this, pulled Yu Jinnian and kept praising: "That's great, that's great! It couldn't be better! Brother Xiaonian, you are really my aunt's lucky star!" Yu Jinnian's craftsmanship She had tasted it herself, so she couldn't be more relieved, so she simply took out two silver fruits and paid them for the evening banquet, told Yu Jinnian the address, and repeatedly asked him to come.
"When you come here later, bring a basket. Auntie has newly made a pot of hot peppers. Then you can bring some back!" Aunt Wu walked to the door and recalled with a smile, "After the house is repaired, I will invite you to teach Auntie how to use it." Make fish heads with chopped peppers!" After finishing speaking, he hurried home to report the news.
Ji Hong listened to the two of them talking, fiddled with the beads... I wonder if the fish head with chopped pepper is delicious
A new smoked meat shop opened on the back street two days ago. It must have been fired at this time, and there was a burst of smoky smell coming from the window. He took a choke, his lungs convulsed suddenly, he was covering his mouth and coughing, when he saw a white porcelain teacup in front of him.
He took it and took a sip, it was sweet, smooth in the mouth, with the aroma of pear flesh, and a bit of sweet and sour fragrance.
Ji Hong raised his eyes and saw Yu Jinnian leaning on the counter with a smile, tossing two silver fruits in his hands, and suddenly asked him, "Do you know Xiao Diao Li Tang?"
"..." Ji Hong glanced at the teacup in his hand, thought for a while, and really had never heard of this name before, so he shook his head, "I don't know."
Yu Jinnian said: "Xiao Diao Pear Soup is made by taking fresh and large pears with skin and cutting them into pieces. One part of pear, two parts of Ganjing water, after boiling, add one or two green plums, two liang of white fungus and earth icing, and then boil it The first half an hour. Originally, it was served in a copper hanging and heated on a warm fire, so that it will be warm whenever you drink it, and then I will put a few wolfberries in the cup with you..." he said Then, he took out a few red goji berry grains from his sleeve and sprinkled them in Ji Hong's white tea cup, "Tsk tsk, clears the throat and moistens the lungs, refreshing and refreshing."
Ji Hong lowered his head and took another mouthful of the pear soup. He wondered if there was a kind of spiritual power in the young man's words that made him feel that the pear soup in his mouth was getting sweeter and sweeter. The white fungus slipped into the throat together, as if a pair of gentle hands were caressing it, and the discomfort of being smoked just now was driven away in an instant.
He drank half a glass, and suddenly felt a heavy figure in front of him. The young man leaned over with his elbows on the counter, and looked at him with a pair of eyes with a sly smile. As if the white fungus that had just slipped into his stomach suddenly swelled, Ji Hong felt an indescribable itch in his heart.
Yu Jinnian blinked, then leaned forward again, almost touching his face, and asked mysteriously: "Mr. Ji, still want to know... how to make fish head with chopped pepper?"
Ji Hong's eyelids twitched involuntarily, and he pursed his lips.
Yu Jinnian chuckled, finally stood up straight, and raised his eyebrows: "You come with me to help Aunt Wu's mother's house, and I will make you a fish head with chopped peppers, how about it?"
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Our reporter Qing Amao interviewed Jinnian: May I ask Brother Nian, what is your first impression of your old Gong
Yu Jinnian: Weak, pitiful, and helpless...but he can eat.
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