"What are you doing?" Yang Sheng asked everyone in the room as if he had discovered something extraordinary.
Seeing him like that, Shen Fengming didn't want to pay any attention to him, otherwise he would definitely do something weird again.
Chen smiled and said, "Yunzhu wanted to keep accounts for her business, but none of us could read, so this young master wrote it for her." Then she asked Yang Sheng, "Did you receive the grain?"
"I collected some, but I can't take them all away by myself. So I won't collect them for now. Let's wait until my guys get here." Yang Sheng said.
Chen nodded. It turned out that their servants had not arrived yet. She asked how the two of them could sell grain.
Jiang Yunzhu was alerted. The guys Yang Sheng was talking about were the Qilin Guards! A storm was about to come...
Yang Sheng didn't want to talk about this at all. He was only concerned about Shen Fengming doing the accounting for Jiang Yunzhu. Shen Fengming, doing the accounting? He walked over a few steps, got close to Shen Fengming, and looked at the table.
“Black-faced customer, fried pork intestines, eighteen cents…” He couldn’t do it anymore. He suddenly wanted to laugh. What should he do
As the commander of the Qilin Guard, he could decide the fate of the world and life and death with his pen. How many people paid thousands of gold for a word to ask him to write something for them, but he ignored them. Now he is writing this kind of thing in this shabby house
If the high officials and noble ladies in the capital knew about this...
Yang Sheng suddenly wanted to ask Jiang Yunzhu for the account book back.
Suddenly, he shuddered, looked up, and met Shen Fengming's gaze.
Yang Sheng smiled and gave up the idea. He was still sensible in doing things. But a new idea came to his mind, and he said to Jiang Yunzhu, "Accounting is a long-term thing, and we may not stay here for long.
It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. How about asking him to teach you how to read
Now that you can write, it will be much more convenient in the future."
Jiang Yunzhu and Shen Fengming looked at him together.
Jiang Yunzhu couldn't believe it. What was he talking about? Asking Shen Fengming to teach her how to read? What was he thinking? She even suspected that he had been kicked in the head by a donkey.
"I'm afraid it will delay your work." She declined politely.
"It won't delay." Yang Sheng had no interest in investigating the mine. The affairs of the court were just a mess. No matter how you stirred it, it was still the same. It would be more interesting to watch Shen Fengming teach others to read.
"Besides, we live and eat in your house, so we should give back to you by teaching you to read. That's just right." He spoke with good reason.
"I still don't dare to trouble you. There is actually a literate person in the village. He is a scholar and I heard that he is very good at reading." Jiang Yunzhu said.
"Are you talking about Yanzhou?" Chen's eyes lit up. Gu Yanzhou was handsome and a scholar.
Yang Sheng was about to say something else, "It's okay." Shen Fengming said.
He looked at Jiang Yunzhu and said, "If you want to learn, I can teach you for half an hour every day."
Jiang Yunzhu... She wanted to learn, but she didn't want to learn from him. But he had already said this, so she looked at Jiang Lin and others beside her and asked him, "Can they learn together?" She really didn't want to be alone with him.
Of course, if he doesn't agree, that's fine.
"Okay." Shen Fengming said. He just wanted to teach them because he saw how hard it was for them. There was no difference between one person learning and four people learning. He would not stay here for too long. How much they could learn depended on themselves.
"Thank you!" said Jiang Yunzhu.
Shen Fengming didn't say anything, but Yang Sheng said anxiously, "If you really want to thank us, just make us something delicious." Thinking of the pancakes in the morning, tears came to his eyes. God knows how he swallowed that pancake.
Yang Sheng is a man who knows how to enjoy life, otherwise he wouldn't go out so much and ask the shop owner to make some soaked sparrow tongue for him.
"By the way, here's the money for our cooking." He took out a small ingot and handed it to Jiang Yunzhu.
How could Jiang Yunzhu be willing to accept five taels of silver? "No thanks." Cooking for them would cost some money, but in this era, the tuition for finding a teacher to learn calligraphy was very expensive. The four of them were learning calligraphy from Shen Fengming, and even though Shen Fengming was just an ordinary teacher, they still made a profit.
Yang Sheng stuffed the silver into her hand and said, "It's settled. What are we going to eat for lunch?" He couldn't wait any longer.
Jiang Yunzhu looked at the sky and decided it was time to prepare lunch.
She went into the kitchen and frying the carp until the skin is golden brown to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor; stir-frying the twice-cooked pork should be stir-fried over high heat to show her skill; stewing the cooked pork intestines rolling in the pot so that every inch of them is covered with the crystal clear soup; deep-frying the pork belly should be fried until the skin is blistered before it can be put into the steamer.
Jiang Yunzhu was in the middle, while Chen, Jiang Lin and Jiang Yunxue were busy around her. The small kitchen was filled with the smell of smoke.
Yang Sheng and Shen Fengming were studying the topographic map of Wuling Mountain in the house. The fragrance outside was blowing into his nose. Suddenly, he threw the map aside and gave up. With such delicious food in front of him, who would want to look at those boring things
He walked to the door and looked towards the kitchen while waiting for his lunch.
Shen Fengming knew his character and did not force him, but studied the picture himself. However, the fragrance at the tip of his nose somewhat disturbed his thoughts.
"Is the rice ready?" Jiang Yunzhu asked.
"It's ready, three bowls." Chen responded.
"Where is the lunch box?" Jiang Yunzhu asked again.
"Here it is!" Jiang Yunxue said hurriedly.
"Then take it out of the pot." Jiang Yunzhu said, poured the fish into a plate, quickly covered it with another plate, and wrapped it with a layer of cotton cloth before putting it into the food box. She told Jiang Lin, "Be careful on the way. You know where and who you're sending it to, right?"
"Don't worry, sister." Jiang Lin said loudly, he knew it.
"Yeah." Jiang Yunzhu touched his head and thanked him for his hard work.
Jiang Lin didn't feel tired at all. He walked just two miles up the mountain and trotted out of the yard with his lunch box.
Spicy meat, fragrant fish, and crispy pork intestines. Yang Sheng waited until the flowers wilted, but he watched the dishes being packed into lunch boxes and taken away. He was dumbfounded. Aren’t these dishes for him to eat
"Dear guests, please have your meal!" Yang Sheng came back to his senses after hearing a soft voice, and saw Jiang Yunzhu walking towards him with a tray.
As she spoke, she had already entered the house and placed the contents of the tray on the table.
Two bowls of white rice and three dishes in between.
The first dish has two steamed green cabbage leaves in the middle, with a piece of meat as translucent as agate on top. The contrast between the green and the red makes the meat look even more attractive.
This is cherry meat, the meat pieces are made to be as soft and sweet as cherries.
The second dish is not so exquisite, it is just a stir-fried meat, but the fiery red color and strong spicy flavor are really tempting, this is twice-cooked pork.
The third dish is both a dish and a soup. Today, Jiang Yunzhu saw that winter melons were cheap at the market, so she bought some. Now it’s a good time to make some winter melon meatball soup.
"I don't know if it suits the guests' taste. I was a little rushed today. Next time, if the guests want to eat something, they can tell me in advance." Jiang Yunzhu said. She went to the market today and bought food for Vice General Zhao and his men to make lunch. She didn't even think about cooking for Yang Sheng and Shen Fengming.
She was planning to use the pork to make meat pie tomorrow morning, but she was using it now as an emergency measure.
"Yes, it definitely does." Yang Sheng said repeatedly, and then asked, "What was that food box just now?"
Jiang Yunzhu said that it was made for customers and she wanted to do this business in the future.
Yang Sheng thought of the account book that Shen Fengming had written before, and the things about stir-fried pork intestines and braised fish, and he immediately understood.
Jiang Yunzhu stepped back.
Yang Sheng sat at the table and said, "I always feel like I'm at a disadvantage." He also wanted to eat the boiled meat and dry-fried fish, but now they were in someone else's mouth.
"Aren't these dishes enough for you?" Shen Fengming said.
"It's enough! But I feel like I've lost out." He really wanted to give Jiang Yunzhu a piece of silver and let her keep all the dishes, but he also knew that this was not a good idea. People had ordered the dishes in advance, and Jiang Yunzhu was doing business, so naturally he had to give them the money.
Shen Fengming ignored him and picked up a piece of cherry meat to eat.
"The eyebrows are like willows, the cheeks are like lotus, the mouth is like cherry, and the forehead is like lotus." Yang Sheng looked at the cherry flesh and smiled again, not knowing whether he was talking about the cherry flesh or the person.
Shen Fengming bit the cherry flesh and after hearing what he said, he suddenly thought of that person and those lips!
The author has something to say:
"He has eyebrows and cheeks like willows and lotuses, and a cherry mouth and a lotus forehead." This is from Du Renjie of the Yuan Dynasty. The original text is "He has eyebrows and cheeks like willows and lotuses, and a cherry mouth and a lotus forehead. He doesn't need to apply rouge or powder, and his appearance is natural."
"Lively green, with a few red cherry leaves" is from Zhao Yanduan of the Song Dynasty