The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty - Chapter 60

While Zhao Yunchu was still eating, Yun Yanhui also watched the performance of the Kaifeng government officials who had greatly improved the happiness of the canteen dishes, and went to the back kitchen of the canteen again. He looked at what food was left, diced the pumpkin, and cooked pork slices on the side.

When the pork is cooked, fish out the meat, throw the pumpkin into the soup and continue to cook. When it is boiled, fish it up and stir with the pork slices and cooked rice.

Finally, take a few slices of radish tassels and put them on top, and take them away.

After he came out, Zhao Yunchu had almost eaten. Yun Yan took Zhao Yunchu to Tianqingguan. Because of the special nature of his office, Bao Zheng allocated a study room for him. It is considered to be the best paid among temporary workers of this level. Up.

Liu Mao now lives here, and Yun Yan is back carrying the basket, which contains the cat rice that had just been mixed.

Some cats squatted on the desk, some were lying on the windowsill, some were lying directly on the ground, and some were licking each other’s fur in two pairs. As soon as they saw Yunyan coming back in, they meowed softly.

But as soon as Zhao Yunchu came in, the six hairs exploded, and they pursed their hips and stared at Zhao Yunchu nervously, making a nervous grunt from his throat.

“Huh?” Yun Yanhui still didn’t understand what was going on, because in his eyes, Zhao Yunchu, no matter how tall he is, is the silly white sweet who can be trampled casually.

Zhao Yunchu retired to the corner of the room and complained: “It’s the same again. My mother’s cat met me and my father, too. My mother said it was scared. Brother Yan, am I scary?”

Yun Yan came to the realization that although Zhao Yunchu was very bullied in his eyes, he was probably a huge monster with a dangerous aura in the eyes of a cat.

“How old are you, how small they are, stay there and don’t move.” Yun Yan said back, reaching out and lifting both hands and smoothing the hair, and then rubbing the foot pads along the top of the head, two Although the cat’s body is still tight, it stops purring.

Yun Yan did the same thing and silenced the six cats, and then poured the cat rice that he brought back into a large basin. When the kittens smell the aroma, they want to go to the rice bowl.

But the cat rice was still a bit hot, so it was not easy to feed them directly. For fear of burning his tongue, Yun Yanhui could only stand up with a basin. The kittens grabbed his clothes with their paws and tried to climb up.

Yun Yanhui simply took the ruler and stirred the cat rice so that they could dissipate heat faster, and waited until it was almost cold before putting it down.

Liu Mao, who had been waiting for a long time, plunged his head into the food bowl, a little excited, and even stepped in his front paws.

Liu Mao, the weakest body, was squeezed into it. It was the only male cat in this litter, and it was far less fierce than the others. After spinning around for a few times, I couldn’t find any gaps. I stepped on Sanmao’s back and jumped into the middle of the food bowl. As a result, I was arched out by a few other hairs.

Seeing Liu Mao wiping his face, Yun Yan took a ball of cat rice with his hand and handed it in front of Liu Mao.

“Meow~” Liu Mao cried out squeamishly, and began to eat in Yun Yan’s palm.

After taking two bites, Yun Yan lowered his hand along the way, put the food on the ground, and told it to eat by itself.

As soon as the food was put on the ground, Liu Mao stopped eating, and looked up at Yun Yan.

“Oh, you still love to be clean.” Yun Yan had to hold Liumao with his hands.

Zhao Yunchu squatted in the corner, watching Ge Yan sitting on the ground, touching the cat with one hand and feeding it with the other. The kitten’s tongue licked Ge Ge’s palm from time to time, and suddenly, there was something uncomfortable in his heart.

He couldn’t help comparing it from the bottom of his heart. As far as the treatment was concerned, everyone had eaten the meals made by Yan Ge’er himself, and it was fair, but Yan Ge’er had never fed him a meal.

It was not that Zhao Yunchu insisted on comparing with the cat, but the cat reminded him of Zheng Xiaobao.

When he was playing at Ge Yan’s house, Xiao Bao was tired of picking up medicinal materials, sat there and refused to eat, saying that he could not raise his hand. Ge Yan ate the food and spooned it to Xiao Bao.

Later, Zhao Yunchu did the same, claiming to practice bow-horse with his father. His arms were tired and he couldn’t lift up and couldn’t eat. As a result, Ge Yan picked up the bowl—just when he was excited, Ge Ge Yan poured the food in the bowl on a plate, and then said: This way you can eat without lowering your head with your hands, and wash your face after eating…

Thinking like this, Zhao Yunchu said sourly: “Brother Yan, once or twice, it’s just that. It’s always spoiled by this. How can he give it what he wants.”

Yun Yan said without looking back, “I know, it’s the same for you and me, so I can’t get used to it.”

Zhao Yunchu almost ran away in tears, so you didn’t even treat me once or twice!

Yun Yanhui finished feeding the last bit of cat meal, wiped his hands with a towel, walked to the table and started to write the recipe.

Zhao Yunchu didn’t know what he was writing, and wanted to walk over and look at it, but the cats lay on the table after eating, curling the wrist of Geese with their tails, and seeing him walking here, he immediately stood up and barked. Tooth.

Zhao Yunchu could only stay in place, probe his head, “Brother Yan, what are you writing?”

“Early recipes,” Yun Yan replied, “I heard you said to attend the dynasty meeting, I remembered that I should enrich Shao Yin’s earlier, but he also wants to participate in the dynasty meeting and bring it in the cafeteria earlier.”

Bao Zheng is very easy-going, eating and drinking with everyone in the cafeteria at noon, so Yun Yanhui unexpectedly did not expect to upgrade the breakfast Bao Zheng had packed when he went to the court. It seems that he is now dealing with two cooking cakes.

It is also that Yunyanhui did not increase the types of breakfast too much, only improved the quality. Now that I think about it, we still have to enrich the variety.

This is not only because Bao Zheng is the boss. After all, Bao Da doesn’t care if you are flattering or not. The main purpose is that the people who come and go at the meeting are all officials, which will help Kaifeng Mansion’s cafeteria to become famous…

As soon as Yun Yan had an idea, he wrote a recipe for a week in one breath. All can be promoted in the cafeteria, the basic version can be eaten by everyone, and the more refined depends on the level.

After finishing writing, he went to the corner and showed it to Zhao Yunchu.

Zhao Yunchu held the recipe and read the first: “Youtiao…what is this?”

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there did not exist deep-fried dough sticks, but in the future, this is already a common breakfast. If Yun Yan returned to the past, if she woke up early for interviews, she would often pick up two deep-fried dough sticks and go out without the soy sauce. Hungry.

“The practice in other places, a kind of fried fruit.” Yun Yan said casually. Basically, someone asked him where the new dishes came from, and one sentence from other places or the book seems to be able to pass it.

Thanks to the underdeveloped information at this time, no matter what he says, it’s not good for textual research. Because he has spent so many years in Daxiangguo Temple and he is known to love to eat, so no one will doubt it.

Zhao Yunchu became deeply jealous, “I want to eat too…”

“Then you copy a copy, go back and ask the kitchen in your house to do it.” Yun Yan looked back at him, still unwilling, and added, “I also leave it to the kitchen master to do it. Why do you look like I did it? The food is not for you.”

The meeting time is so early, how can he do it earlier than Bao Zheng, then make breakfast, and then go to work? That’s too hard!

“No…” Zhao Yunchu quibbleed, “I just want to come to Kaifeng Mansion to eat with Yan Ge’er.”

Yun Yan replied: “Forget it, are you tired?”

…

At five shifts, the officials and their entourage rode toward the imperial city with their entourage. There was a white paper lantern in front of the horse with the official position written on it. The lanterns walked through the dark night, like clusters of fire floating out of thin air, and finally gathered outside the imperial city. This scene was called “City of Fire” by the people of the time.

Officials from all directions cannot arrive at the same time. They still have to wait outside the imperial city to gather. Therefore, there is a “waiting leakage courtyard” outside the imperial city for officials to rest.

There are many officials and entourages, so the breakfast business in front of the hospital has been very good.

However, some officials would choose to bring their own breakfast, such as Bao Zheng, who directly asked the kitchen to pack himself a breakfast of the day.

That morning, Bao Zheng led Bao Xing to the outside of the imperial city, entered the waiting courtyard and waited for the palace gate to open, and by the way, solved the problem of the food.

Many people in the waiting yard are also eating breakfast, some are bought outside, and some are brought by themselves.

Bao Xing took out an oil-paper bag, and took a square pot and a cloth bag from his waist. Inside the cloth bag was a silver bowl. The oil-paper bag was opened, and there were small pieces of brownish pie-like food inside, and the soup in the square pot was poured into a silver bowl. Thanks to the fact that Kaifeng Mansion was close to the imperial city, the soup was still steaming hot along the way.

Bao Zheng took a look and said in surprise, “What is this?”

Bao Xing said: “Lang Jun, this is a new breakfast in the canteen, and Ge Yan has added it. Today is the roasted steamed bun slices and mushroom ham cream soup.”

“Even early to make new tricks?” Bao Zheng grabbed a slice of toasted buns in a novelty, and took a bite. In the mouth, he only felt that the outer skin was crispy, the inside was soft, and there was a crunching sound.

Immediately, the scent of the egg filled the mouth, and it could be distinguished that the pepper powder, sesame, salt and other seasonings were sprinkled on it. It was really salty and sweet and appetizing.

At this time, pick up the silver bowl and have a sip of the soup. It is also salty and sweet, with the sweet aroma of cream, the salty taste of ham, and the soft and delicious mushrooms. Each one is full of soup. When they went down, they bloomed on the tip of the tongue. They were so delicious and exquisite that they almost swallowed their tongues.

With a bite of a piece of baked steamed buns and a bite of hot soup, Bao Zheng only felt that his whole person was alive from the stiffness of getting up early in the morning, and he was eating early.

The officials sitting nearby watched silently.

…

On the second day, Bao Xing took out two fried dough sticks and a pot of soy milk from his arms.

Bao Zheng, eat fried dough sticks, crispy and soft…

…

On the third day, Bao Xing drew out a package of thick egg simmered.

Bao Zheng, ha, ha, ate a thick egg-boiled, soft and slippery…

…

On the seventh day, Bao Xing took a bag of money and went back, and told Yun Yan back: “Many officials called Xiaosi to come to me and asked me where I bought it earlier. After they knew it was made in the cafeteria, they asked me to bring one more. You also forced the money to me…”

“Unexpectedly, breakfast really opened up the situation first,” Yun Yan looked up and thought, “Well, this is also a good thing, there is a good opportunity for you to earn purchasing fees.” Those people are not good to make a detour to Kaifeng Palace. Naturally, it is best to ask someone to buy it.

“Purchasing?” Bao Xing thought for a while, “Does it mean to buy on behalf of you? I think it’s good too, Lang Jun didn’t say anything.”

As a result, Bao Xing started a professional purchasing agent early, and followed Bao Zheng to the court with large and small bags every day, which can be regarded as generating income for the Kaifeng government.

However, as the demand increased, Bao Xing became overwhelmed and could only limit the weight.

Finally one day, after Bao Zheng came back from the next dynasty, he said depressedly to Yun Yan: “Today, Wang Xianggong found me.”

Yun Yan replied: “Huh?”

Wang Xianggong, Prime Minister Wang Feng, did he make a big mistake?

Bao Zheng: “He asked me if I could help him buy a fried dough stick in the cafeteria…”

Yun Yan replied: “…”