Bai Erlang had already finished eating and was memorizing a historical book. He wanted to read it thoroughly before writing, so that it would be faster. This was the experience he had accumulated over many years of copying books.
Yin Youxiao asked Zhou Man and Bai Shan, "Do you need our help tomorrow?"
Man Bao and Bai Shan shook their heads together and said: "Forget it, there are too many people going, and our husbands will definitely be angry when they see them. Then it will be bad to punish me for another month."
Yin You nodded and did not mention the matter again.
Feng Zongping and Yi Ziyang also finished their meals. They pushed their food boxes and walked over to look at them. They asked curiously: "You were so famous yesterday. How can Shi Zhuang punish you if I don't praise you?"
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Yes, in just half a day, the news about Bai Shan, Zhou Man and Bai Cheng being punished by Zhuang Shi spread throughout the entire Chongwen Hall.
Bai Shan did not explain that he was not punished, but acquiesced.
Seeing that the three of them were silent, Feng Zongping shook his head and said, "Just because you sit on the railing and eat? Shit Zhuang is too strict..."
Bai Shandao: "We won't tell you the reason, so don't ask."
Feng Zongping hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I care about you, not just gossiping."
Not to mention the three Bai Shan, even Yin You and Liu Huan didn't believe it. I don't know if it was because his grandfather was the Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He was particularly interested in these things. He was well-informed in the palace and even Zhao Liulang
None can compare.
You know, Zhao Liulang is the nephew of the queen. There are many relatives in the palace. From time to time, he can go to his cousins to eat and talk, but he is not as well-informed as he is.
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Yi Ziyang laughed out loud and dragged Feng Zongping away, "Okay, let's go and rest for a while. We have classes in the afternoon."
Speaking of class, Man Bao remembered that she had to go to the Imperial Hospital in the afternoon to talk to Xiao Yuanzheng about the Imperial Medical Office, and then she had to go to give the Queen Mother an injection, so she immediately started eating quickly.
The rest of the ten days were very full for the three of them, and they basically had little time to play, so as soon as they left the palace, Man Bao couldn't help but lie down on his bed and sleep in.
The same goes for Bai Shan and Bai Erlang.
When they woke up, they smelled the aroma of meat floating in the air. They followed the smell to the kitchen of the West No. 1 Courtyard, and saw that Xiao Qian was arranging steamed pork with rice flour and dozens of bowls in front of them.
Man Bao opened his mouth in surprise and asked Xiao Qian, "Sister-in-law, has our family become rich?"
Why do you make so much steamed meat?
Xiao Qian said with a smile: "This is not for the family. The food for the family is steaming in the pot. I didn't steam much, I only steamed ten bowls. We three families will share one share and it's done."
"Then these..."
"This is to be taken to the restaurant," she said with a smile: "Earlier you sent steamed meat to everyone, and then people kept asking about it, and Liu Lang also said it was delicious, so the restaurant started serving it.
vegetable."
"Originally, Rokuro and the others cooked it themselves, and I occasionally went over to help, but the customers said the taste was different, so I simply took over the task and specially mixed the ingredients for them, and then they took it to the restaurant.
Just steam it inside and it’ll be ready.”
Man Bao looked at the bowls lined up on the wooden board and asked in surprise, "Can you sell so many in one day?"
Mrs. Fang brought in a bowl of ground Sichuan peppercorns from outside. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "That's more than that. This is the number set by the restaurant. We only sell fifty bowls of it a day. If there are too many, they will be gone."
She said: "Not only the customers in the store need to eat, but the people you gave as gifts during the New Year often went to the store to buy well-prepared meat and steamed it themselves. The next day, they returned the bowl and bought another one...Business
That’s great.”
Xiao Qian smiled and said, "It's also the recipe that Man Bao found before. I changed it a bit. Dad said that the recipe can't be told to others casually anymore. It will be passed down from family to family in the future."
Mrs. Fang stopped talking and thought to herself: I'm afraid it's not possible to pass it on to the family. They all followed suit, but the steamed pork made by Lao Liu has a similar taste. What they made...
It's obviously the same material, what can they do?
Bai Shan asked curiously, "Has anyone come to buy raw materials?"
"There are many people, including Mr. Tang's family, Master Yin's family, shopkeeper Zheng's family, Xiao Yuanzheng, and Dr. Liu's family." Mrs. Fang said with a smile: "Originally, the business was done in the restaurant, and the meat was also there.
The seasoning should be done over there, but we have to make so much meat and the table is not enough. Uncle Wu and Uncle Six are planning to build two more long tables and a shed in the back kitchen, so they have prepared them at home for the time being and sent them over."
Man Bao nodded, her eyes moving back and forth on the circle of bowls, and she said: "Although steamed meat is delicious, you can't always eat it. It's too greasy and is not good for your health."
Everyone looked at Man Bao together.
Man Bao said: "So sell less, especially as Dr. Liu and the others are old and have to eat less meat. After the rest is steamed, I will take a few bowls to the palace so that I can share it with my classmates."
Fang:……
Xiao Qian couldn't help but nodded her forehead and said with a smile: "It's you who should eat less. Look at your face..."
Xiao Qian couldn't help but pause after saying this. He looked her up and down and asked hesitantly: "Have you lost weight? Didn't you gain a lot of weight before entering the palace last month?"
After all, I had several days off during the Chinese New Year, and the food at home was relatively good. I didn’t even have homework, and most of my work was suspended.
So Manbao is still a little rounder, but now, the flesh she gained during the Chinese New Year seems to have almost fallen off.
Xiao Qian looked at Man Bao distressedly, reached out to touch her little face, and asked, "Did you not eat well in the palace?"
Just as Man Bao was about to shake her head, Bai Shan poked her in the lower back from behind, and Man Bao nodded.
Xiao Qian said: "It's okay. My sister-in-law will give you a supplement in the next two days. Then you can go into the palace and see if you can bring some food in."
She remembered something and asked: "Don't you still have to go to the Imperial Medical Office for classes every day? How about I ask Datou to send you some food every day?"
Man Bao’s eyes must be full, how can he still do this?
Man Bao immediately nodded repeatedly regardless of Bai Shan's stop.
Bai Shan could only say: "You only have three days of classes in the morning, and one of them ends early and you don't have lunch outside the palace."
Man Bao said: "It's good to have two more meals in ten days."
Xiao Qian nodded repeatedly, "That's right, eat two more good meals, and your body will gradually grow back."
Bai Shan could only warn, "Be careful. When you leave the palace, you can't get too close to the outside world."
Man Bao nodded, "I have an idea."
Xiao Qian said: "I asked Datou to put the food box at the door and not get close to you."
Man Bao laughed happily, held Xiao Qian's hand and asked, "Sister-in-law, are you tired from doing this?"
"If you're not tired, how can you be tired from cooking?" Xiao Qian said with a smile, "It's much easier than working in the fields."
Mrs. Fang smiled at the side and said, "I am quite tired from making medicine. My sister-in-law also asked me."
Man Bao immediately asked, "Sister-in-law, why are you tired? I'll give you an acupuncture."
When Mrs. Fang thought of the long needle, she immediately refused, "Forget it, I just need to sit by myself for a while."