Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Jiang Shangxuan felt a lump in his throat, thinking that his mother would say that she would buy him a new one when she earned money!

However, ordinary people have to live frugally, and her mother is reluctant to do so. Maybe when Xia Zhenying earns money, she will find a way to improve her equipment.

She thought so now, but she didn't expect that in this regard, Xia Zhenying was the same as Jiang's mother. Even after she earned money, she was reluctant to buy new things. It was not until she opened a small shop and had no other choice that she bought and replaced old tables and chairs that she had bought many times.

Before going to bed, Jiang Shangxian sat cross-legged on the bed, took out the almanac again, and confirmed again that according to metaphysics, there would be no danger tomorrow. As long as she went to get off work honestly and did not run around, she would probably live another day. Only then did she tie the sleeve arrow on her wrist and sleep peacefully.

The next day, she returned home from get off work with a little corn starch she had packed from Lexianlou. There was a pile of firewood in the yard, which was brought back by Xia Zhenying. When she saw her come back, she couldn't wait to burn the ashes with her. She only behaved herself after being scolded by Old Lady Xia and Jiang's mother.

"It's almost time for dinner, and there's dust everywhere. How can we eat?!"

After dinner, the two sisters cleaned out all the wood ash from the stove, which they usually used to wash dishes.

Jiang Shangxian also scraped off the ash from the bottom of the pot. This thing is also called Baicao Frost, which is very useful. It can relieve digestive stagnation and can be used together with food relieving medicine. It can also stop bleeding, yang poison, jaundice, malaria, dysentery, choking, and sores in the throat and mouth.

After cleaning the inside, Xia Zhenying started to burn firewood. The ash from the burnt firewood is called firewood ash. Adding this makes the ramen noodles very chewy and can be pulled continuously.

Put the ash separately into a small jar, seal it with oil paper and hemp rope to prevent it from getting damp, and then Jiang Shangxian starts to make mutton soup. The soup of Lanzhou ramen must be clear enough and cannot contain too many ingredients.

Green onions (native to north-central and south-central China, harvested in July-August. I need them!), ginger (originating in the Spring and Autumn Period, harvested in early August, but I need them so badly. Sorry everyone!), white radish (harvested twice a year during the Taihe period of the Tang Dynasty, from June to August and from August to October. I need them so badly...)

As for the mutton, it is simple, but there are too many mutton offal ingredients, and the mutton offal has a strong smell. If it is not removed, many people will find it difficult to swallow. Therefore, some angelica, cardamom, and pepper have to be added to remove the smell.

These three things are already available at home, and a small amount of them are used in braised lamb.

Xia Zhenying watched very attentively from the side, muttering to herself. Occasionally, if there was something she didn't understand or couldn't remember, she would repeat it two or three times.

However, when it comes to cooking, no matter how solid your theoretical knowledge is, you still have to try it yourself to understand it.

Early in the morning of the third day, she knocked on the door. This morning's breakfast was mutton ramen. When Jiang Shangxian arrived at the kitchen, Xia Zhenying had already chopped green onions and coriander.

Jiang Shangxian took one look and said, "Peel a few more cloves of garlic and put them in the bowl so we can eat them later."

Dumplings with garlic are delicious the more you eat them, the more you like them. Jiang Shangxian thinks that ramen with garlic is also delicious!

Put a mouthful of ramen in your mouth, take a quick bite of the sour flavor, and then drink a mouthful of mutton soup with chopped green onions and coriander. All the flavors mix and explode in your mouth, so delicious that you’ll be spinning around in circles.

Apart from the smell that takes a day and a night to dissipate after eating it, there are no other disadvantages!

(Garlic originates from western Asia. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was brought back to China by Zhang Qian, the King of War, and began to be widely cultivated in the north and south of my country.)

When Jiang Shangxian was kneading the dough, Xia Zhenying frowned unconsciously. This was much more troublesome than making steamed buns.

When she started to pull the noodles, her little mouth opened so wide that a nest of mosquitoes could fly in: "Cousin, this is amazing!"

Jiang's mother and Old Lady Xia also watched carefully: "I didn't expect that Nian Nu's ramen is so amazing."

No, these noodles are very thin and long, and they are very different from the thick and wide noodles we usually eat.

Old Madam Xia felt that she could eat more today. She could never finish much of the steamed buns made by her daughter and always felt that she had had enough.

A family of five, four of them squeezed into the kitchen, watching Jiang Shangxian prepare fresh food. When bowls of mutton ramen with clear soup and fine noodles, most of which were sprinkled with green chopped green onions and coriander, and a small part of which was topped with thinly sliced ​​mutton and chopped mutton offal, were served, the four of them realized that they had forgotten to wake Jiang Wangri up.

"Zhenying, remember, when you sell, you have to calculate the amount of mutton and offal carefully. If you have too much, you won't make any money. We're in business, so we have to be thrifty, don't we?"

Jiang's mother picked up the chopsticks, took a bite, and gave Xia Zhenying some advice.

This idea coincides with Lanzhou Ramen. Jiang Shangxian smiled: You are worthy of it.

From then on, every day for breakfast and dinner, the Jiang family ate mutton ramen or mutton offal ramen prepared by Xia Zhenying. The taste was hard to describe at the beginning, but it got better and better later on. Xia Zhenying used it for six days.

Of course, if she still can't learn it, Jiang's mother will scold her because she is worried about the money!

In the past few days, Jiang Shangxian has been living a very peaceful life. She is now avoiding Jinfenmeng and has even told Jiang Wangri that if he meets anyone from Qinlou and Chuguan, he should stay away from them as much as possible.

Jiang Wangri didn't understand why, but he still reminded his stall partner Xia Zhenying out of loyalty.

Xia Zhenying had her own thoughts on this. She told her cousin confidently, "My cousin must be worried that you, at such a young age, would be dazzled by the beautiful women out there."

Jiang Wangri was not convinced by this statement. He had no interest in his wife or the young lady. Apart from the Sixteen Guards, he was only interested in selling braised mutton!

On the other side, Cui Bianxu has been eating two meals at Lexianlou every day these days. Although he is free to a certain extent, it is actually quite lively.

The work became easier, but not only was he still holding the people captive, his guards and Wang Mingqian's guards searched outside Chang'an City together. On the third day, they found the bodies of six men in a mountain outside Chang'an City.

He actually wanted to ask Jiang Shangxian to come and identify the bodies, but as soon as Ding Yuan saw those people, he insisted that these were definitely the six thugs he saw that night.

Although Cui Bianxu was a little skeptical, after all, it was possible that he couldn't see clearly at night, but Ding Yuan swore that he had been different from others since he was a child, that is, he could see more clearly than ordinary people at night.

Ding Yuan was so happy that he always had a strange smile on his face every day, with his eight standard white teeth showing and his lips unable to close. Thanks to these six male corpses, his office expansion plan was successful.

Fortunately, Wang Leisheng was a rich man, and his head was hurt by Wang Leisheng's troubles, so he sent him a lot of ice from home.

The Wang family has many family teachings, but Wang Leisheng only remembers one: Anything that can be solved with money is not a big deal.

In Luoyang, Cui Bianxu never received a reply. The day after the bodies of the nine young ladies were found, he sent another person out, and the token of the Eastern Palace was also brought with him.

No matter how you look at it, the people in Luoyang should have received the letter. Since there was no reply, he just kept the people locked up.