In Yunchu's gentle narrative, Chen Zhu is a very gentle man who loves his wife and children.
In Qiuci, he couldn't bear to eat or wear anything, and tried his best to save every penny. His purpose was to return to Chang'an, take his wife and children, and leave that cruel home.
After being away from his hometown for six years, he misses his hometown, his wife and children all the time. He often tells Yunchu and the others that he already has two daughters and that he and his wife should raise a few more sons...
For this reason, when he was seriously injured and about to die, he specifically ordered Yun Chu to give the 50,000 yuan he left to his wife, hoping that his wife could raise his two daughters well and provide them with money in the future. Have two glorious weddings.
After listening to Yunchu's words, Mrs. Liang cried to the point of fainting several times, and his two children screamed "Grandpa" and "Grandpa" again and again, which made people cry.
Although Mrs. Cui was moved by Chen Zhu's words in Yun Chu's words and kept wiping away tears, she still saw complete indifference in Yun Chu's eyes.
After arranging for Mrs. Liang and her daughter to rest in the guest room, Mrs. Cui looked at Yun Chu and said, "Is that Chen Zhu really as long-lasting as Lang Jun said?"
Yun Chu nodded and said, "He must be like this."
"Just because he is a dead person, you can paint him with as much paint as you want?"
Yun Chu sighed and said: "When Chen Zhu died, I was beside him. I saw a stone flying over, and he actually pushed me forward. I could have just raised my shield and knocked the stone away, and he would have survived. , after I thought about it, I felt that if a stone was thrown at me, Chen Zhu would not be able to help me resist it.
So, I gave up and ducked away... The stone crushed his head.
I piled his body on the wall for seven days. When I found him after the war, his body had almost turned into water. When I threw it into the fire, the body exploded into a sticky mess. The slimy bugs almost put out the fire..."
Cui retched, and Yun Chu stopped his detailed description.
Finally, he said: "Did you know that when Chen Zhu chatted with us, what he talked about the most was that after returning to Chang'an, he would sell his wife who can't bear a boy, use the money to rebuild a good house, and marry a rich man. The girl with a big a** and a big butt is giving birth to a new baby.
I know that what Chen Zhu did was unconscionable and not in line with my outlook on life. That’s why I sent his vicious parents to prison and took back all the property of his brothers. , I have calculated that after their family spent twenty-seven dollars, they basically had nothing left.
Chen Zhu didn't want to be a good person, so I had no choice but to help him be a good person, a good husband, and a good father.
Only in this way can he be worthy of my kindness in bringing his ashes back from the Western Regions."
"Is the IOU genuine?"
"Of course it's true. It still has Chen Zhu's palm seal on it. It's just that I helped him seal it."
When Yun Chu said these words, his eyes were slightly red, like red charcoal fire that was dying but not extinguished in the dark night.
Cui choked up and said: "Langjun will be a prince for generations to come, and he will enjoy wealth and glory, and his descendants will be endless."
Yun Chu nodded and said: "It should be like this. After all, I came to Datang to do good things."
Mrs. Liang woke up from her grief. Although she was still wearing rags, her temperament was completely different from the first time they met. She seemed to have come to life again.
Even the two girls no longer shrank, and their chapped little faces began to smile.
"I have nowhere to go now, so I can only ask my husband to allow me, my mother and my daughter to live in Jinchangfang, for the sake of my friendship with my humble husband."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "This is natural, this is natural. Now that you are rich, you can rent a small house in Jinchangfang, do some small business and sell in the West Market, and you will be able to survive."
After Fang Zheng returns, you can ask him for help, and he will naturally place you mother and daughter in a safe place."
Mrs. Liang took her two daughters with her, bowed down in a dignified manner, and then returned to the guest room.
Watching the mother and daughter go back, Yun Chu said to the old monkey who had just brought Naha home: "People who live in illusions are the happiest. No wonder so many people become monks.
Although it is a bit harsh physically, every night in the temple is a happy moment for the monks.
Because, every time darkness falls, there must be a bright water and land ashram in the heads of the monks."
The old monkey shook his head and said: "That's not the case. Only by living in Pingkangfang can I realize the benefits of having all four elements empty."
"You didn't take Naha to Pingkangfang, did you?"
"Monk Qiuji was recruited away by the Prime Minister of Dali Temple. We originally made an appointment to eat a dish called Hun Yang Mianhu today, so we brought Naha with us. Unexpectedly, we didn't eat it. I heard Qiuji talking about this dish.
It’s worth three thousand dollars.”
"Hun Yang died suddenly? Isn't this a reply to He?"
The old monkey suddenly realized: "If you don't listen carefully, you really can't tell that this means mutton buns in Huihe dialect."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "It is very similar to the roasted camel made by Huihe Khan, and it is also a good food.
So, do you know why Qiuji was called away by the Prime Minister of Dali Temple?"
The old monkey sighed and said: "On a snowy day seventeen days ago, a monk assassinated Concubine Xiao Shu on Zhuque Street when she went home to visit her relatives."
Yun Chu said: "Why did the monk want to assassinate Concubine Xiao Shu?"
The old monkey said: "I heard that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty just brought back a beauty from the monk temple not long ago."
Yun Chu chuckled, pointed at the old monkey and said, "Have you monks begun to degenerate to the point of helping a palace concubine compete for favor?"
The old monkey said: "I don't know, it's none of Da Ci'en Temple's business anyway."
Yun Chu recalled the group of assassins he met that day who had a strong smell of sandalwood on their bodies, and couldn't help but shake his head. He didn't know who came up with such a clumsy means to frame people.
Naha hoped to eat Hun Yang Shihu in the evening. Yun Chu felt that this kind of dish should not be eaten by a thrifty family like the Yun family.
Hun Yang Shihu is actually a very bad dish. The belly of a whole sheep is broken open and a goose is stuffed inside. The goose's belly is stuffed with glutinous rice, mushrooms and other delicacies, and the goose is stuffed into the sheep's belly.
Inside, the sheep's belly is stuffed with spices. After the belly is sewn up, it is roasted on the fire.
After the mutton is roasted and golden, discard the mutton and eat only the goose inside the mutton belly.
There are basically no green vegetables in Chang'an in winter. I heard that Wentang Prison has a very small supply of leeks and spinach. These quantities are probably not enough even for the emperor, so naturally they will not flow into the people.
After winter, the only vegetables that the people can eat are dried vegetables, salted vegetables, pickled vegetables, and radishes stored in cellars. Maybe some people will brave the cold to dig some lotus vegetables for a change. Other than that, eating
A decent meal is just a dream.
Yunchu's family had salted vegetables. Yunchu asked the cook San Fei to cut the salted vegetables into thin strips, wash them twice with water to remove excess salt, and stir-fry the salted vegetables with more vegetable oil.
Then cut some green garlic seedlings from the flower pot for later use, make a big piece of tofu, cut it into slices and fry it carefully in sesame oil. Take it out until it turns brown, and use the remaining sesame oil to fry seven or eight eggs.
Finally, put these things in a casserole, add water and simmer over low heat. When the soup becomes thick, grab a handful of green garlic sprouts and throw them into the casserole. Whether it is an old monkey or a greedy Naha,
At this time, everyone has forgotten the existence of the immoral dish of Hun Yang Shihu.
The wheat flour ground by the stone mill is a bit coarse, and the bran cannot be cleaned off. Therefore, the steamed buns have a lot of bran, which is similar to the whole-wheat steamed buns that Yun Chu has eaten before.
Mrs. Cui and the cook San Fei watched with their own eyes how Yun Chu made a dish of stewed tofu with salt vegetables, and recorded the making process in detail in preparation for entertaining guests when the Yun family became prosperous in the future.
After the old monkey and Naha finished a full casserole, he remembered that he still had a master.
This dish is a vegetarian dish. As long as the fried eggs are not included, it is a dish that is very suitable for Xuanzang's appetite.
Under the strong request of the old monkey, Yunchu had to continue to make a vegetarian dish of stewed tofu with salted vegetables. However, after adding yellow flowers and fungus, Yunchu finally made this dish into a dish that the poor could not afford.
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"Have you always respected Xuanzang so much?"
"No, sometimes I feel agitated on the way west. He will scold me, and I will scold him, but after the scolding, I will continue on my way."
"Since you have your own position towards Xuanzang, why do you still treat him with such filial piety and flatter him?"
The old monkey looked extremely gentle as he looked at Naha who was trying hard to find the broken omelette in the casserole.
“The only people in the world who could make the people of the Tang Dynasty not care about Naha’s appearance were the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and Xuanzang.
Although the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty could change Naha's fate, it was only temporary after all. When the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty died, the protection he gave to Naha would also disappear.
Only Xuanzang can protect Naha from anyone’s discriminatory gaze, because Buddhism has existed for thousands of years and the Dharma is boundless.”
Yun Chu nodded and sighed: "Yes, even if you put down the butcher knife, you can become a Buddha immediately. As long as Naha enters the light of Buddha, people will only be proud of her."
The old monkey smiled and put the boiling casserole into the food box, then crossed the road from the back door of Yunchu's house and entered the Daci'en Temple with the food box in hand.
Xuanzang was wearing a black monk's robe and sitting in a drafty pavilion making tea and drinking tea.
Naturally, the tea he drank did not contain things like sheep tail oil, or things like onions and ginger that could give the tea a strange taste.
The pine cones were burning brightly, the copper kettle was filled with steam, and the black pottery teacup was filled with bitter tea. Xuanzang was enjoying himself in the bleak winter.
The old monkey entered the pavilion with a cold wind, and Xuanzang sighed: "I just built a barrier between coldness and warmth in the pavilion, and you broke it."
The old monkey smiled and said: "How to reconcile the warmth brought by the stove and the cold brought by the cold wind? It's just that if you are closer to the stove, the cold will be assimilated by the fire, making you feel comfortable."
Come on, come on, pick up the chopsticks and taste some delicacies of the world."