Volume 2, Chapter 105: So Delicious
"Instant noodles" can be soaked in boiling water. There are soups, vegetables, meats and noodles. It's so delicious when you eat it hot.
When Dongmingziyu left the examination room, many people came to ask about instant noodles. He told them to buy it at his own snack shop.
So the next morning, the dim sum shop opened the door before dawn and added a "instant noodles" set. Many candidates came to buy it, and they also bought two soft cakes.
Even the soldiers patrolling yesterday came to buy it, but it was brought by Inspection Commissioner Wu.
The soldiers all knew that Dongming Ziyu was his boss's in-laws, so they were very polite to him and did not aim at the inspection.
The next day I was tested on Mo Yi, which was a question and answer question. I chose sentences from the Four Books and Five Classics to answer the meaning of this sentence. This assessment of memory is even more obvious, but the content is relatively shallow, and Dongming Ziyu completed it smoothly.
The third day was to take the exam together with Mo Yi, but the scope was wider and the difficulty became deeper. Dongming Ziyu felt that it was not as easy as the previous two days, and it was a little late to hand over the paper.
On the fourth day, the meaning of the classics was examined. This is what Dongming Ziyu is good at. He is to use the scriptures as the core, discuss, quote the classics, and explain his own understanding and understanding. However, the county examination was very simple, and Dongming Ziyu handed in the paper early.
The fifth exam for poetry and essays was even simpler for Dongming Ziyu. He handed out the papers before he had lunch in the exam room.
Today, Shangguan Ruoli brought Ling Yue and Wulang to the county town to pick up Dong Mingziyu out of the examination room. Because he didn't know when he would come out, he was waiting in the snack shop.
Dalang drove the mule cart back, pulled the snacks, and picked up the three of them.
Because of the "instant noodles", the snack shop is now more famous. Many scholars' families come to visit. By noon, the snacks they brought today were sold out.
Everyone was packing up their things, and Dongming Ziyu came in.
Goro saw him first and shouted in surprise: "Dad!"
Jumped off the chair and rushed over with his little arm.
Dongming Ziyu bent down, picked Wulang up and held it in his arms.
Ling Yue came up happily, "Dad, why did you come back so early?"
Dalang observed his expression and smiled and said, "Is the question not difficult? Is it finished answering early?"
Dongming Ziyu smiled and said, "After all the answers, it would be useless to sit there, so I handed in the paper."
Shangguan Ruoli packed his clothes and bedding, "It just so happened that the snacks were sold out and the lunch was ready. Let's go back to the village after lunch?"
So everyone had lunch, packed up, got on the mule cart, went out through the back door, and then walked around the street in front.
After passing his own dim sum shop, Dong Youliang looked at the shops on both sides and said, "Our dim sum shop business is getting better. Do you also have a plaque and name it?"
I wanted to rent a shop to buy snacks, but I didn’t want to make it big, so I didn’t name it or make a plaque.
Shangguan Ruoli said: "It's time to give a name and hang a plaque."
Dongming Ziyu said, "You take it, I'll write it."
Shangguan Ruoli thought for a moment and said, "It's really delicious, right? How about it?"
Dongming Ziyu: "..."
Well, it's his nameless wife.
Goro, who was sitting in his arms, clapped his hands repeatedly and said, "Okay, this name is good!"
Ling Yue smiled and said, "I knew that our pastries were so delicious."
Dalang said: "This name is very suitable, our pastries are really delicious."
Dong Youliang nodded and expressed his approval, "It sounds much better than the ones that are so fast or blessed. It tastes great when you hear it."
Dongming Ziyu coughed lightly and said dryly: "Okay, as long as you are happy."
After half an hour, they returned home.
Everyone was surprised to see Dongming Ziyu coming back, and asked this and that in a mule cart.
Old Mrs. Qian came out and said with concern: "Why did you come back so long ago?"
She really wanted to ask how she was doing, but she was afraid of putting pressure on Dongming Ziyu, and she was afraid that he would not do well in the exam and lose face in front of so many people.
"Fourth brother, how did the exam?" Sun quickly asked when he saw that they hadn't asked about the serious matters.
A single basket of exams costs fifty taels of silver, not to mention the pens, inks, papers and inkstones, the exam costs are really like flowing water, and they are all enough to be the income of ordinary families for several years. Of course, their family is not ordinary families now.
"Tsk!" Old Mrs. Qian tsk and glared at her with a reproachful look. Can't she go home and ask?
With the beginning of Sun, many people looked at Dongming Ziyu and asked how he was doing the exam;
Old Man Bai and Old Mrs. Qian looked at Dongming Ziyu and couldn't help but hold their breath.
Dongming Ziyu said the truth: "I have finished all the questions, I have read the answers correctly after flipping through the book, and I have basically answered it correctly. Now it depends on how the examiner gets the score."
Everyone's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, their expressions were full of excitement, and they all said they would definitely be able to get through.
Dongming Ziyu said: "The result has not been released yet, and it may not be necessary."
Old Mrs. Qian warned: "Don't talk nonsense! We seem so frivolous."
Everyone nodded, "Yes, yes."
Shuanzhu asked, "Fourth Brother, how many days will it be available?"
Dongming Ziyu said, "It will take more than ten days."
Old Mrs. Qian took the baby's test basket from the mule cart, "Anyway, someone goes to the snack shop every day, so go to the county government office to take a look."
When Goro heard the dim sum shop, he pulled the sleeve of Mrs. Qian and whispered: "Mmm, mama, my mother named the dim sum shop! Called: It's so delicious!"
Old Mrs. Qian was stunned, stumbled for a moment, and said, "This name is good! It's so suitable! It's just that I can say that."
Erlang said: "Milk, it deserves its name!"
"Yes, yes! It's so delicious, so delicious, our dim sum is really delicious!" Everyone agreed, looking at the expression, they really thought the name was so good.
Dongming Ziyu touched his nose and went back to write a plaque.
After five days of use, the plaque was made.
Hanging a plaque means that the dim sum shop has officially opened. It cannot be as plain as before, and at least a few firecrackers must be set off.
Everyone knows that this is a pastry shop, and when they hear the firecrackers set off, they gathered around to watch the fun.
Amid the sound of firecrackers, Mr. Dong and Mrs. Ma pulled off the red silk on the plaque, revealing the plaque with a black background and gold characters inside.
It contains several big characters with flying dragons and phoenixes dancing on it, with extraordinary brushwork and iron painted silver hooks, which are as agile as a dragon.
Many literate people say: "It's really delicious pastry"
Suddenly, the man who claimed to be talented and learned laughed, "It's so delicious. This name is really...rustic."
"Hahaha, it's so delicious, it's so interesting!"
"Why don't you hire a scholar to give me a good reputation!"
Old Mrs. Qian was not angry and smiled and said, "Everyone who has eaten our pastries knows that it is so delicious. This name deserves its name!"
Dalang smiled and said, "This name is easy to remember! Those who come to the store to buy pastries today will be given gifts."
Today I made a festive cherry cake roll and the font candy of "Fu Lu Shou Xi" to make a small gift box for the surrounding neighbors and customers who are patronizing the shop today.
Font candy is a new product to be launched today. The characters are not engraved or written, nor are they made of molds, but are embedded in candy cubes.
You can find the method on a modern online platform. It is very simple. You can piece together the characters like piles of blocks and roll them into the desired shape. "Bangbangbangbangbang" everything will be done.
But in this era, there is no such practice yet, and if you don’t know the trick, it seems to be something with a high technical content.
Chapter completed!