Chapter 35 Roast Duck
Watching Jia Zhu leave, Shen Ning was silent for a long time.
She actually wanted to talk to Jia Zhu about the future of the Jia family, and wanted to tell him that Yuanchun in the palace would do more harm than good.
But the words came to her lips several times, but she could not say them out.
People who live too soberly are the most pitiable!
Many children in modern times are unable to resist their parents, let alone children today.
Just like Jia Jing back then, Jia Zhu has carried the Jia family on her back.
But when Jia Jing took over, everything in the Jia family was still prosperous, and he only needed to be excellent.
But now...
The stubborn and self-righteous grandmother, the incompetent, stupid, selfish and ignorant parents, the struggling sister who was pushed into the abyss, the huge but almost rotten family. It's his responsibility.
He studied hard and tried to memorize it, but it was obvious that he was about to be overwhelmed.
Tell him that he cannot resist his grandmother and parents, and will only fall into greater pain.
Shen Ning didn't want to be the straw that broke the camel's back.
She sighed softly.
“Grandma!”
Jia Rong finally finished today’s training and when he came to see his grandmother, he didn’t expect her to be so melancholy, “What are you looking at?”
< br>"Well, it's nothing."
Shen Ning turned to her grandson. After a period of exercise, Jia Rong had darkened a lot, and the lines on her face looked a little stronger. She looked like a young student from Guangmao. It can be further away.
She couldn't help but have a smile in her eyes, "Are you here to have dinner with grandma?"
"Yes!"
Jia Rong smiled and said, "Today I want to eat Dongpo meat, squirrel mandarin fish, Sixi meatballs and fried quail."
He still has a lot of things he wants to eat, but his grandmother said that people should cherish blessings. Now at home, Each person can only order a maximum of four dishes.
Grandma followed suit, and my father’s food had to be reduced accordingly.
In order to eat two more dishes, I heard that he often went to his stepmother's house, and the two of them could eat eight dishes together.
Jia Rong thinks this method is great. As long as he is at home, he will run to his grandmother.
“It’s done!”
Shen Ning pretended not to know about his little Jiujiu.
Jia Rong's appetite is obviously huge for a young man who lives in poverty, and because of the high consumption of martial arts training.
Eating together, she can eat half a bowl more.
Shen Ning smiled and ordered Qing Ping, "Tell the kitchen that all my dishes will be vegetarian today."
"Grandma..."
Jia Rong thought she could get two more good dishes today, so she couldn't help but roll up her sleeves after hearing this.
“Meat and vegetables, meat and vegetables.”
Shen Ning pointed to his forehead, “How many times have I told you, even if you don’t like vegetarian food, four dishes "You also have to order a vegetarian dish."
"Grandma, aren't you here?" Jia Rong said pitifully: "And I will go back to school to eat Yikusi sweet rice tomorrow. "
"That's so pitiful to say."
Shen Ning laughed, "I don't know, the so-called "remembering hardships and thinking about sweet rice" now is incomparable to what the old man used to do. It’s the home-cooked meal of some poor people today, steamed buns made with half wheat bran and half coarse flour.”
And people don’t necessarily have enough to eat, so as long as they don’t waste it, they can eat as much as they can.
Due to the inspiration from the school, Shen Ning specifically told the Mantou Nunnery that a certain proportion of corn flour or buckwheat noodles should be added to the steamed buns given out in the future.
In this way, the cost is reduced, but the daily payment is the same, and the steamed buns naturally become larger.
For ordinary people, the hungrier and chewier the food is, the more popular it is.
"Grandma, you haven't mentioned wild vegetables yet."
Jia Rong deeply hates those wild vegetables that are dark, sour, bitter and astringent.
If he didn't insist on eating it, he would have just chewed the steamed buns.
"Well, if you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten."
Shen Ning smiled, "I seem to have a plate of dandelions today."
Huh?
Jia Rong’s face turned green.
It made Shen Ning laugh.
However, his greenness completely changed when he saw the green dandelions.
"Is this the wild vegetable called dandelion?"
It's completely different from what they eat in school! If grandma hadn't eaten several chopsticks in a row, Jia Rong would never have taken a bite, "Grandma, did Mrs. Chen in the kitchen lie to you?"
"Pfft!" Shen Ning I was amused by him, "Have you ever seen dandelions?"
Now that spring is blooming, the dandelions in the wild are fresh and tender.
“Look, it looks similar.”
Jia Rong: “…”
It’s very similar.
While standing today, he also saw a dandelion in the corner.
"They are very similar, but the food we eat in school..."
"First of all, what we eat at home is refined salt."
Shen Ning said: "When you eat Yikusi sweet rice, the school uses the worst coarse salt for you. Because of the different salt fields, some of them are not only It’s sandy and slightly bitter and astringent.”
It depends on luck.
She has also tasted the Yikusi sweet rice in school twice.
At that time, I was puzzled as to why it tasted so bad.
Later she found out that the main problem was salt, and asked the kitchen to buy several kinds of salt. She checked each one.
The salt eaten in the house is refined salt from the best salt factory. It has gone through several processes. Although it cannot completely meet the standards of later generations, it is not much worse.
There are many types of coarse salt that ordinary people can eat, and the prices vary depending on the salt field and quality.
Xuetang deliberately bought the worst one because of a memory.
This makes the dish of remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet very unpalatable.
"Don't worry, I've already told your father that when the salt I bought this time is used up, I'll use the salt you normally eat in the future."
That's pretty much it.
Jia Rong picked up another dandelion with chopsticks. It felt not only refreshing, but also very fragrant.
It has a unique taste when paired with braised pork.
No wonder grandma likes to eat it.
“I have to rinse the food in school with water before eating it.”
He rewarded himself with a Sixi meatball, “There is really sand in it.”
“Hmm~”
Shen Ning was not too touched after hearing this.
These children of the Jia family, whether they have money or not, have been pampered, and they deserve to experience the hardships suffered by their ancestors.
"Didn't you hear Jiao Da say how painful it was when they ate without salt and were swollen?"
She has some ideas on how to turn the bad salt into more delicious refined salt, but she wants to She had to find a reasonable reason to take it out.
"You only do it once every seven days, so don't complain."
"I'm not complaining, I'm just saying it."
Jia Rong ate happily, "It's not the same in school." No one dared to complain, but they must have said it when they got home."
"..."
Shen Ning gave him a piece of fried quail, "Finally they learned the lesson. No one has come to see your father yet.”
“Haha, they don’t dare!”
His father is getting more and more powerful now.
Jia Rong smiled, "Grandma, I think the school is much better now than before."
In addition to the two gentlemen taking charge of them in turn, there are also house guards who are on duty.
Thirty Guards, there is one person in the school every day, no one dares to mess around.
“No one dares to bully anyone anymore. We all work very hard and want to be among the top ten in the monthly exam.”
There are rewards for the top ten, and Jia Rong is also working hard for them. That reward for hard work.
“If I get the rank in this monthly exam, grandma, I will go to the newly opened Tianxianghe in the West Market to buy you a roast duck. I heard that their roast duck is very delicious and there are people there every day. Waiting in line to buy.”
Okay!
Shen Ning smiled so hard that she lost sight of her teeth.
She and Youshi opened a new store together, called Tianxianghe.
Thanks to book friends who love Manbao, Butterfly Hudie, and I am a sister for their repeated rewards, thank you! Thanks! ! !
Thank you all for your continued company, I love you ε(><)з
(End of this chapter)