Before dawn, Brother Chun got up from the bed, carefully covered Xiaoman with the quilt, tiptoed out of the room, stretched out a lot and regarded it as exercise. After hurriedly washing up, he
When I came to the front yard, I washed the huge stone groove with clean water, poured the washed peas into the groove, and vigorously pounded the peas with a huge wooden pestle.
When the sky gradually got brighter, the pea skins in the groove had slowly detached. He poured the peas into the dustpan, dusted off the remaining pea skins, and then poured the clean beans into clean water to soak.
Here are the beans for tomorrow.
Today's beans have started to stir in the pot. Brother Chun poured some blue-gray alkaline water from a wooden bucket and added it. He continued to stir the porridge with a shovel while standing on a wooden pillar, removing the date stones.
Add the fried red dates until the beans become mushy. The bean paste is mixed with the burnt aroma of the red dates and is fragrant. The beans have not completely turned into bean paste. It would be too boring if they all melted. Beans that are not completely melted will
It has a slightly harder chewing texture, which is most amazing, and the sweet bean flavor comes from this.
Remove the firewood from the stove, and when the porridge cools down a bit, Brother Chun will remove the door panel of the shop and let in the eager diners.
The diners couldn't wait to eat the gray beans with icing sugar while looking around with sneaky eyes, but they didn't see the delicious gray beans coming out from the landlady, which was somewhat colorless.
"Brother Chun, where is the boss lady?"
A wealthy man from the northwest happily slapped a handful of coins on the table and refused to leave even after eating.
A small white hand passed over the wrist of the northwest wealthy man wearing a sheepskin coat, and the copper coins fell into Xiaoman's hands. He said with a smile: "The eldest brother of the Zhang family is a famous wealthy businessman in Lanzhou City. He is famous on the camel road in the northwest."
You are so famous, why do you have time to come to my shop today to eat worthless gray beans?"
The wealthy man surnamed Zhang intentionally or unintentionally opened his sheepskin coat to reveal his bulging money bag and said with a smile: "What the landlady said is true. When I go to Kouwai, I won't make a hundred or ten taels of silver. If the landlady
If you like it, I'll give it all to you."
Xiaoman laughed so hard that he pointed at the wealthy guest surnamed Zhang and said with a smile: "Your wife is from a well-known and wealthy family in Hezhou. I can't afford to offend you. If you come to the shop once a day, my little lady will
I’m satisfied.”
Xiaoman's enchanting eyes were flying around, and while he was talking to the Zhang family's hawker, those two talking eyes had already greeted everyone in the store.
At this time, Brother Chun was silent as usual, just busy preparing gray beans for more and more diners.
This is the only kind of food in his shop. If a customer insists on eating something else, Brother Chun will go to the shop next door to order some food and settle the bill together.
Lanzhou City is not big. Ever since Marquis Yun defeated the Wu Zangpang, Lanzhou City was naturally placed under the rule of the Song Dynasty. Because it is located at the crossroads between the north and the south, it quickly became prosperous. In the small city with a radius of three miles
It was crowded with camel customers and shops from all over the place.
Whether you are going to Qingtang to exchange for cattle, sheep and leather goods, or going to Xixia to participate in the war market, you must stop in Lanzhou City to make final preparations.
Xixia originally complained about Yunzheng's forcible transfer of Lanzhou City to the Song Dynasty. Later, they found that after the Song people obtained Lanzhou City, their business routes seemed to be more convenient and they received more tax revenue, so they acquiesced to Lanzhou.
The fact that the city was taken away by the Song Dynasty.
A large pot full of gray beans was sold out in less than half a day under Xiaoman's sweet smile. Brother Chun waited for the last diner to leave and then closed the door. He saw Xiaoman burying his head in a huge wooden table.
Washing the mountains of dishes and chopsticks in the basin, he sighed and said: "The bead you lost last night is enough for us to open the shop for seven or eight years, why do you have to make it so hard for yourself?"
After saying that, he squatted opposite Xiaoman and helped her wash the dishes.
Xiaoman smiled and said: "Don't you think that life like this is a life? I know you have a lot of money. You have said it countless times. The money left by your damn master is enough for us to live for eight lifetimes, but I just don't like it.
With that money, I don’t even want to use the money brought by the Yun family, I just like the copper coins we worked so hard to earn."
Brother Chun stopped what he was doing, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and whispered: "If you are worried that the Yun family will hunt you down, we might as well make some preparations. Even in Shu, where the Yun family is the most powerful, I
There are also ways to ensure that you are thorough."
Xiaoman shook his head and said: "I have retired. Yes, that's what the Yun family calls people who don't make a living in the system. If they wanted to silence me, I would have died eighty times. Since I left the Yun family,
From that moment on, I am a free man, I owe no debt to anyone, and my foundation has been burned away by the Yun family. From now on, I will be an ordinary woman, Xiaoman, a little girl who wants to live her own life.
woman."
Brother Chun shook his head and said, "I made some preparations in advance, but they all seemed to be in vain. After you sent a letter to the Yun family, the Yun family did not send anyone to look for you. They are really worried."
Xiaoman smiled and said: "Secretary matters can only be called secrecy if a person is willing to keep it secret from the bottom of his heart. Otherwise, even if the person's head is cut off, the secret that should be revealed will still be leaked. Let everyone who is willing to leave leave.
This is what I am most satisfied with about the Yun family. They keep their word, so I have the responsibility to help them keep their secrets."
Seeing that the bowl was almost washed, Brother Chun took out some soaked dried vegetables and added meat pieces to stew a pot of meat and vegetables. He took out a small wooden bucket from the pot next to it, which contained freshly steamed rice. He took it specially
I ordered two eggs, fried them in oil, and piled them in Xiaoman's bowl. Then I invited the tired Xiaoman to eat with me. I drank a bowl of gray beans in the morning, and I was very hungry at this time.
Xiaoman happily took a few mouthfuls of rice, then suddenly put down his rice bowl and burst into tears. Brother Chun hurriedly put down his rice bowl and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong?"
Xiaoman wiped his red eyes with his hand and sniffed his nose twice. Brother Chun took out his handkerchief and carefully wiped the tears and snot on Xiaoman's face, and then waited for Xiaoman to speak.
Xiaoman laughed out loud, took Brother Chun's hand and said: "I am a female devil who has killed countless people, and you are also a male devil who has killed countless people. Logically speaking, people like us should go to the swords and the pan.
Yes, who would have thought that we would still have such a good life."
Brother Chun thought about what he had done and shook his head with a smile: "I really deserve to be cut to pieces with a thousand knives. I wasn't very afraid of death in the past. Master has long taught me that the more evil people are afraid of death, the more likely they are to die."
The faster, so every time I kill someone, I am actually risking my life.
But now I don’t want to die, and I am beginning to be afraid of death. Man’er, from the moment you agreed to follow me around the world, I cherished my old life very much. Every day I am with you feels like I have earned a fortune.
Yes, if you like to live your life now, we will live it forever. I will cook beans, pound beans, sell beans in this small shop all day long, and watch you tease those lustful guys.
If God takes pity on us two orphans and gives us a child, for your sake I would rather remain anonymous and be the owner of a gray bean shop for the rest of my life."
Xiaoman's face was red, and Brother Chun was so happy when he saw it. Just when he was about to kiss him with his oil mouth, he heard Xiaoman whisper: "Don't you think I've been lazy these days?"
Brother Chun's heart ached when he heard this, and he said softly: "Thank you for your hard work. From tomorrow on, I will take care of the business in the store by myself. You have a good rest and sleep for a while, or I will buy two maids for you."
Serve you."
Xiao Man said softly: "We don't need maids. You should invite two experienced aunts to come to your home."
Brother Chun laughed and said: "With you here, no matter how beautiful a woman is, I won't be able to catch my eye, so I'll just buy two maids. If you're worried, we don't want beautiful ones, just strong ones who can help you work."
, what do you need two old ladies for?"
Xiaoman stroked his belly with both hands and laughed and cursed: "What a fool. I'm already pregnant. The little maid doesn't understand anything. You and I don't understand either. How can we do it without finding two experienced aunts? What if something goes wrong?
What should I do? You were so rude last night..."
Brother Chun, who had a big mouthful of rice in his mouth, grew up after listening to Xiaoman's words. He stared at Xiaoman blankly, his eyes opened wider and wider, and finally he turned over from the stool with a grunt, which scared Xiaoman and hurriedly
Come over, take out the rice from his mouth, and pat his cheek hard to bring him back to his senses.
Brother Chun rolled out another ball of rice with a "click" in his throat, and his man also woke up, moved his hands and feet away from Xiaoman, supported his upper body with his arms and asked: "Really? No.
Lied to me."
Xiaoman leaned over, took Brother Chun's hand and pressed it on his belly, saying softly: "Really, you are going to be a father."
Brother Chun retracted his hand stiffly, his eyes became wild, and finally his stiff face turned into ecstasy. He knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing around, his head banging on the ground paved with blue bricks.
ring.
I don't know who worshiped those gods. After kowtowing enough, I jumped up from the ground, took off a door panel and rushed out. In an instant, I came back, holding the door frame and choking, saying to Xiaoman: "I'm really happy.
." After saying that, he disappeared again.
Xiaoman stood up with a smile, returned to her seat, and quickly ate all the rice in the bowl. She already felt full, so she lowered her head and looked at her flat belly, filled another half of the bowl of rice, and then
With the soup of meat and vegetables, I ate it in one mouthful...
It's just that there is a madman in Lanzhou City. Whenever he sees a woman nursing a child, she will stand there and giggle. In less than one meal, she has been beaten twice by the woman's husband. That's it.
He also grabbed the husband and asked if his wife could come to his house to be a wet nurse or a nanny? The price is negotiable! (To be continued)