"His Royal Highness, this new yuan is coming, how are we going to live it?" Wan'er was dangling in front of Zhu Youzhen early in the morning, but Zhu Youzhen was thinking about the people in Yansui, and she couldn't bear to ignore her. Living.
"Sin yuan? How do you live--Wan'er, it's rare for us to pass the Singapore dollar in the palace, or else, pass the people's Singapore dollar?"
"Passing the people's Xinyuan?" Wan'er's eyes widened. "Then let's make dumplings?"
"Make dumplings? Okay, just make dumplings. Wan'er, can you make dumplings?"
"Yes, I used to wrap it at home when I was young." Wan'er's eyes rolled a little, "His Royal Highness, then go to the streets to buy ingredients. Without meat, we can only eat big buns for Singapore dollars."
"Well, then you open an order and I will ask Mu Jiu to arrange for someone to buy it on the street." Zhu Youjian thought about it, too. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. There is nothing at home, and there is no festive atmosphere at all.
Wan'er took out the pen and paper, swiped it a few times, and opened a long list, "His Royal Highness, look, there is nothing left."
Zhu Youjian picked up the list and looked at it. Hey, the pork alone is forty catties. "Wan'er, don't you waste it? We only pay SGD for three people. Do you think this is a wedding wine?"
"His Royal Highness, isn't Xinyuan more lively than wedding wine?" Wan'er looked puzzled.
"Oh, let's do this! Wait, Wan'er, it seems that you don't have new clothes, right?" Ordinary people's homes will buy new clothes for their children after Xinyuan. Without new clothes, it's still called Singapore dollar
"His Royal Highness, wait for you to think of the new clothes now, the day lily is cold." Wan'er rolled her eyes at Zhu Youzhen, "Our new clothes are already ready, and the tailor is still free to make new clothes for you? "
"Oh." Zhu Youjian remembered that at this time, there was no clothing market in Shaanxi. The market only sold cloth, so you had to buy it and ask a tailor to do it yourself. "With Wan'er, I don't have to worry about these things. I will let Mu Jiu arrange people to go shopping on the street.
On the last day of the sixth year of Apocalypse, Wan'er was extremely busy. She looked down on the clumsy soldiers, and only a maid from the young lady Hu Xinxue beat her.
After lunch, Wan'er and Hu Xinxue started making dumplings. According to the habit of the people in the north of Ming Dynasty, they should make enough dumplings to eat until the seventh day of the first lunar month.
"Wan'er, it depends on you. In this cold day, you sweat so much and you are going to catch a cold. Or, let me help make dumplings too! This little dumpling, it's not difficult for me." Zhu Youjian looked distressed, saying that it was two people working, but in fact, it was mainly Wan'er, and Hu Xinxue was just a little bit hungry.
"His Majesty has the world in mind, so let's be busy with your business!" Wan'er wiped the sweat from her forehead with her cuff, and her eyes looked a little confused when she looked at Zhu Youjian. With regards to three meals a day, your Highness won’t be distracted."
Hu Xinxue knew that she was not for being a maid, so she smiled wryly.
Zhu Youjian is really busy today. Now the people spend SGD at home. Who wants an uninvited guest at home? Bored, Zhu Youjian walked into the study and began to sort out the recipe for making perfume. It's still a cold winter, and the plants have not sprouted, and it is impossible to pick all kinds of flowers for experimentation, but the prescription should be detailed first.
"His Royal Highness, eat dumplings!" Wan'er wears a white scarf and a floral apron around her waist, looking like a housewife.
Zhu Youjian came to the dining hall, and the table was already full of various dishes, as well as a large plate of steaming dumplings.
"Sister Xue'er, bring the Tu Su wine that Wen gave to His Highness." Wan'er said as she took off her apron and threw it on the sling.
"Okay, let's sit down, Your Highness!" Xueer agreed to go, and took back a delicate white porcelain jug that was steaming. Zhu Youjian estimates that if you want to fill it up, you can probably fill it with two or three taels of liquor.
Wan'er filled Zhu Youzhen with a glass, "His Royal Highness, sister Xueer and I don't know how to drink. Let's drink some dumpling soup, symbolically accompany Your Highness to drink."
"Wan'er, that's not okay. I heard that drinking soup on New Year's Eve will catch the rain this year when you go out." Zhu Youjian especially likes to see Wan'er opening her mouth and staring eyes in surprise.
"His Royal Highness, what shall we do then? How about let Captain Wang come over to accompany His Highness to drink some?" Wan'er was recruited as expected.
"It's not necessary. Captain Wang is always by my side. It's busy enough. Let them go crazy for one night today!" Zhu Youjian's goal has been achieved, "I have something to drink by myself. You can eat dumplings first. Don't get cold."
"Wait, Your Highness, make a wish first." Wan'er folded her hands, closed her eyes, and said something to her.
Zhu Youzhen was puzzled, "Wan'er, what is this?"
"His Royal Highness, Sister Wan'er put a copper purse in the dumplings. She said that whoever eats this copper coin will be able to realize the wish she made, and your Royal Highness may have a wish!" Hu Xinxue smiled shamely at Zhu Youzhen .
"Oh, it's like this!" Zhu Youzhen followed Wan'er's appearance, and put his hands together to make a wish: I hope that Shaanxi will have a smooth climate in the coming year and there will be no more droughts.
Finally, Hu Xinxue might have a wish, and the three of them began to eat.
Zhu Youjian picked up a dumpling, put it in his mouth, and chewed, "This dumpling..."
"Your Majesty, what's it like? The servant girl hasn't made dumplings for a long time, and I don't know if it suits your Royal Highness's taste." Wan'er was looking forward to it, and she forgot to chew the dumplings in her mouth.
"Well, yes, the skin is thin, not broken, and chewy; the filling is neither dry nor greasy. Not bad, not bad. Wan'er's craftsmanship is good." Zhu Youjian swallowed the dumplings in one bite.
Wan'er's eyes gleamed, "Your Royal Highness..."
"Haha, come, drink. Ao, I drink, you eat vegetables and dumplings." Zhu Youjian raised his neck and drank a full glass.
Zhu Youjian clamped a piece of deer breast, put it in his mouth, and chewed twice: "Xue'er, did you cook this deer breast?"
"Yeah! Your Highness." Seeing Zhu Youjian's face was wrong, Hu Xinxue also took a piece of deer breast and put it in his mouth, frowning slightly.
"His Royal Highness, this wild deer belongs to Shanzhen, but it has some peculiar smell. You must add more wild pepper to get rid of the peculiar smell." Wan'er thought Zhu Youjian said that the deer breast was too spicy. It's salty, "Huh? Sister Cher, did you put salt? I thought you didn't put it, so I added some."
"Huh?" Zhu Youjian looked at Wan'er's twinkling gaze, "Isn't it? This deer breast isn't fresh. Is it necessary to add salt to the braised and marinated deer breast?"
Wan'er, what's wrong here? Before I went to Xi'an, my relationship with Xueer was like turtle and Chinese cuisine. How could I maintain Xueer in a blink of an eye? Want to unite against yourself? Hehe, anyway, they are not their opponents alone.
"This deer breast can't be eaten tonight, but it doesn't matter, anyway, human breast can be eaten." Zhu Youjian picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and didn't even look at the two of them.
"His Royal Highness..." Wan'er groaned slightly.
Xue'er served Zhu Youjian full of wine.
"Hey." Zhu Youzhen bit a very hard metal, Yi, what is this
"Huh? Your Royal Highness has eaten copper stuffing." Hu Xinxue was about to applaud with excitement.
"Really?" Wan'er was surprised at first, and when Zhu Youzhen spit out the copper coins, she looked a little depressed. "His Royal Highness's wish is about to come true, what is your wish?"
"What else can we wish for? Of course, we hope that the weather in Shaanxi will be smooth, the people will be well clothed, and the government will have ample taxes. We can also return to the capital as soon as possible."
"His Royal Highness promises are some important things for the country and the people." Wan'er's brows stretched out.
After eating the dumplings, Wan'er and Xue'er went to clean up bowls of chopsticks, while Zhu Youzhen sat by the fire to bake their hands.
"His Royal Highness, what are we doing now?" Wan'er had already cleaned up the bowl of chopsticks, and came out one after another with Hu Xinxue.
"Ha..." Zhu Youjian dragged a long yawn, "Wan'er, I'm sleepy, I wash my feet and sleep. Why are you at home these few days more tired than running to Xi'an the other day?"
"Then you still..." Wan'er rolled her eyes, but turned around, "Never tonight, it's either me or sister Xueer."
"Wash your feet first." Zhu Youjian didn't argue either.
"His Royal Highness, today is New Year's Eve, but the people have to keep the year old at night." Hu Xinxue wondered if Zhu Youzhen was really tired.
"What do you want to do when you watch the year? When should you watch it?"
"Don't do anything when you keep the year old, just wait for dawn, at least, after midnight. Is your Highness really tired?"
Zhu Youzhen estimated that it would be more than an hour until midnight, "Then watch the year until midnight!" Anyway, nothing happened in the past few days.
"Sister Xue'er makes a pot of hot tea for your Royal Highness, and I'll prepare some dried fruits." Wan'er's shell lightly opened her teeth and got busy again.
In Zhu Youjian's bedroom, the charcoal brazier was already lit. This was the first batch of coal produced in Yansui Coal Mine. Zhu Youjian, who was in Yansui, was near the water and took advantage of it.
Wan'er filled the small square table with apples, tribute oranges, almonds, melon seeds, candied fruit, etc., "His Royal Highness, eat an apple! Eat apples to keep your life safe."
Zhu Youjian picked up a red apple and took a bite, "Wan'er, Xueer, what did you wish for when you ate dumplings just now?"
"I won't tell you!" Wan'er blushed and dared not look at Zhu Youjian.
Here Wan'er, what makes you blush when you make a wish? Looking at Hu Xinxue again, she also lowered her head, looking at the charcoal brazier in a daze. Do they want to single out themselves? It's impossible to think about it, it's useless to ask anyone for such a thing.
"Wan'er, Xueer, do you want to return to Beijing?"
"Where is your Royal Highness, where are the servants, it doesn't matter if you return to Kyoto." The blush on Wan'er's face gradually faded.
Hu Xinxue looked lonely, she looked at Zhu Youzhen, but she didn't say a word.
"Oh, Xueer missed her brother?" Jing Shi did have a lot of sad things about Hu Xinxue, but Hu Tingyan's guilt was conclusive, and it was an imperial case. Zhu Youjian could not vindicate him for a while, "Or, after we return to Beijing, you will be vindicated. His younger brother redeemed him and kept it in the palace."
Hu Xinxue's eyes lit up for a moment, "His Royal Highness, if my brother can be redeemed back, it doesn't need to be placed in the palace, but sent to my uncle." She is also a maid in the palace, how can she put her brother in the palace? But Zhu Youjian's words still made her cherish infinite gratitude.
The three were silent for a while, and suddenly there was the sound of "cracking" firecrackers outside.
"His Royal Highness, it's midnight, let's set off firecrackers too!" Wan'er clapped her hands and stood up with excitement. She hasn't experienced this familiar Xinyuan atmosphere for many years.
Hu Xinxue brought a long string of firecrackers, but she and Wan'er both dared not to let them go.
Zhu Youjian opened the middle door and lit the firecrackers on the bamboo poles with candles. The pungent smell of gunpowder was flowing rapidly in the air.
"His Royal Highness, until now, let's go outside to see the sky!" Hu Xinxue lightly held Zhu Youjian's big hand.
"Okay, let's go, let's see the weather."
The three of them all went out of the middle door. The smell of gunpowder had not completely dissipated. The sound of firecrackers outside was one after another, and the dark night sky was illuminated by unknown fires.
"His Royal Highness, Sister Wan'er, white fish belly has appeared in the east." Hu Xinxue excitedly pointed to the night sky in the east, where a little bright color appeared.
"Yes, but it's dim and it's not clear." Under the guidance of Hu Xinxue, Zhu Youzhen barely saw a glimmer of light.
"His Royal Highness, Misty is good, Misty is what His Highness needs. It seems that His Highness's wish tonight is about to come true." Hu Xinxue squeezed in Zhu Youjian's big hand.
"Xue'er, how do you say this?"
"His Royal Highness, the old man often said,'The night is dim, the rain is rushing; the sky is clear, and the wolf is dry.'" Hu Xinxue looked lonely again, and Zhu Youjian's wish was fulfilled, and then her and Wan'er's wish to have a baby sooner would be frustrated. Up.