Back to ancient times selling biscuits

Tie Nail, took a group of yamen servants out on errands.

"Get up quickly, the officer will solve this case in a few days, and Mrs. Zhao's body will be buried at that time. Go and prepare for your mother's burial early." Zhen Qingming sighed helplessly when he saw the daughter of the Zhao family crying uncontrollably. In one breath, "Donglai Dongbao, let's go."

Taking off his white clothes, Zhen Qingming stepped out of the yizhuang, looking at the few people scattered on the street not far away, "All stalls closed? It's so late."

"Yes, it's time for dinner." Dong Lai rubbed his stomach with Zhen Qingming's autopsy equipment on his back, "Master, I've been busy for a long time, let's go to the restaurant to have some food."

"Go back to the county office first." Zhen Qingming stretched his waist, "I don't know where I'm going to live tonight, what's the rush for dinner."

"That's right. I still need to find a woman who cooks rice, otherwise there will be no tomorrow after eating today." Dongbao said, "Master, why don't you go to Ren Yazi to buy a woman who cooks rice now?"

"Don't check the time, go tomorrow." Zhen Qingming was very tired, just wanted to find a place to lie down for a while, and unconsciously took longer steps.

"What smells so good?" As soon as the three masters and servants approached the county government office, a strong smell rushed over. Zhen Qingming rubbed his nose, "Which family's mother-in-law roasted meat so fragrant." Turn around, follow the scent and walk slowly to the back of the county office, and look at the people pushing and shoving not far away, "What are you doing over there?"

Several yamen servants who came up to meet the magistrate said, "Go back to your lord, that's Sanlang's house over there, and Sanlang sells scones at the door."

"Isn't it biscuits?" Zhen Qingming wondered why it had changed.

"It's scones, the small ones can be bought by an adult to taste?" the yamen servant asked tentatively.

"No, you can go home." Saying that, Zhen Qingming walked over slowly.

When the neighbors who were waiting to buy cakes saw him, they hurriedly moved out of the way, "Master, you are here, sir!" It was completely different from the treatment in the morning.

Saburo looked up, he was so excited, God, why is this man a new county magistrate.Chong Zhen Qingming smiled awkwardly, "My lord, you, hello."

"Don't be nervous, I'm just here to take a look." As he spoke, his stomach started to growl inappropriately.

Saburo had a "puchi" and couldn't hold it back.Seeing him looking at him, biting his lips in a hurry to hold back his smile, he handed out the bread in his hand, "My lord, here it is!"

"No, no." Zhen Qingming waved his hands repeatedly.

"My lord has been exhausted from investigating the case all day, so you are welcome." Sanlang raised his hand and handed Zhen Qingming a pancake filled with meat and vegetables, "I'll make his." He pointed at the customer who had already paid.

Zhen Qingming said no, but his body was honest. When he got the warm white flour cake, he thought, "That?"

"Ah? My lord, just call me Sanlang." Sanlang was busy making noodles and selling meat sandwiches at the same time, without raising his head, "What's the matter, my lord?"

"How much is this cake, including one piece in the morning." Zhen Qingming rushed to the east to wave, and the clever boy took out a purse from his arms and handed it to his young master.

Knowing the price of sesame seed cakes, Zhen Qingming took out a small silver dime and handed it to Saburo.

Saburo jumped, the county magistrate really gave money.But how dare he ask for it.Not to mention that the new county magistrate had helped him once before, "My lord, please forgive me, I'm busy right now, and I really can't spare the change. Let's settle it together another day."

"Can't he?" He said and handed the money to Kogoro who was holding the money box.

Xiao Wulang saw that Qian's eyes were open, but he didn't see his brother nodding. He just stared at the silver coin and didn't dare to reach out to take it. Nonsense, he was just too busy, as long as he watched, Zhen Qingming wouldn't take too much of him if he took the coppers himself.

The people queuing up to buy the biscuits all heard what Sanlang meant. If Zhen Qingming couldn't hear it, he wouldn't be able to solve the case, so he simply threw the silver into the money box, "No need to look for it. I'll buy sesame seed cakes tomorrow, and I'll get them some later." Two pancakes." As he spoke, he raised his foot, "Come to Dongbao, let's line up."

"Hey, hey..." As soon as Sanlang raised his head, the new county magistrate ran away, and then looked at the boys in line behind him. When he was young, he handed each of them a bread filled with meat, "Wait a minute, this is the leftover The money." Said and handed them a handful of copper coins.

Donglai Dongbao shook his head at the same time, "The young master said, put the money with you first, if we take it back, the young master will be angry."

"But..." He dared to accept anyone's order money, the county magistrate's money was hot.

"Don't be. What if the young master gets angry and sells us out in a fit of anger." Dong Bao said, pulling Dong Lai's arm and leaving.

When Saburo heard this, he couldn't help but help his forehead, the evil feudal society said, "What is this called?"

"Isn't it good?" Kogoro asked with puzzled eyes, "Brother, the county magistrate likes to eat your cakes, why are you unhappy?"

"Because the magistrate is our parent officer, what is a parent officer, that is, we have to treat him like a filial father and mother, can you control him asking for money if he eats a cake?" Sanlang nonsense.

"Yes!" Kogoro blurted out.

San Lang staggered, "Wulang, that's our father."

"I know." Xiao Wulang rolled his eyes, "You said the day before yesterday that if a father is unkind, the son will be unfilial. I remember that."

"You!" Saburo tapped his forehead fiercely, "I've taught you so many things these days, just remember this sentence?!"

"Sanlang, don't teach Xiaowulang a lesson, he's right." The guest who was waiting for the bread to be cooked smiled cozily when he heard this, "I used to think that the old lady was exaggerating when I heard Mrs. Sun talking about your family. I didn't see your parents coming to see you, if we hadn't heard that your hometown is in Wujia Village, we would still think you have no parents."

"No, even if there is, I think it's far away from here." Everyone said in a hurry.

Saburo pretended to be very embarrassed, "My parents are weeding at home and busy with family affairs, so they have no time to relax."

"Don't say good things for your parents. We all heard what happened this morning. Your cousin asked you for money in the street. It can be fake with such a loud voice." Taoyuan County is not big, and the county There is a little trouble in here, and everyone will know it all without a meal.

Seeing the more they explained, the more they thought about it, San Lang simply shut up, and finally sold the cakes to a similar level, San Lang hurriedly closed the stall and closed the door.

When I returned to the courtyard, I saw that Grandma Sun had killed the chicken, washed the vegetables, and put them on the stove waiting for him to cook, "Grandma Sun, go to the gate of the county government office and ask the official to ask if the county magistrate has gone out again after returning to the county government office."

"What are you doing asking?" Grandma Sun gave him a strange look.

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Saburo said, "Go and ask first."

"Yes." Grandma Sun didn't dare to ask why her master didn't want to say anything, and she came back after a while and said, "Your Excellency and his two servants have been in the back yamen and have not come out. The officials at the gate of the county yamen said that your lord may have rested." gone."

"I see. Turn on the fire, and I'll cook." Saying that, Saburo stewed the chicken, quickly fried two vegetables, and finally fried a dozen or so egg pancakes.

"Brother, what are you doing so much?" Kogoro saw that he raised his hand and used up six eggs, his eyes widened.

"Brother, what do we do if we can't finish eating so much?" The big-hearted fourth sister couldn't help worrying when seeing his brother wasting so much.

"Of course we can't finish eating. This is for adults." He said and handed two pancakes to his younger brother and sister. "You two eat something first, and eat when I come back." Then he divided a large pot of chicken For the second, he walked out leisurely with a basket on his shoulders.

The twins looked at each other and followed at the same time, "Why give it to an adult?" The child didn't understand why he should give something to someone else, even if it was the county magistrate.

"Did the magistrate help us in the morning?"

"Yes!" the twins said in unison.

"Then shouldn't we know how to repay our kindness? Also, Brother Wang said that the lord will help us in the future, and the lord just came today, and the three of them, the master and the servant, investigated the case for another day, and there was a woman who boiled water in the back office." We don’t even have children, so should we help the adults?” San Lang didn’t want the two children to know his intentions of clinging to the powerful, so he deliberately induced them.

The twins moved their little heads and thought for a while, "My lord just ate the cake, I guess he must be very thirsty." The fourth sister turned her face away, "Grandma Sun, give me the hot water bottle, my third brother and I are going to visit your lord .”

"Grandma Sun, give it to me. I have great strength, and the fourth sister can't lift it." Goro was not to be outdone.

"Don't call me fourth sister, I'm older sister, I'll go."

"I'm a man, I'll go."

"Don't argue! I'll go!" Saburo raised his voice.

Wang Feng helped Zhen Qingming clean the courtyard in the afternoon and took the maid with him. Because without his permission, Wang Feng didn't dare to leave the waiters privately. Sanlang thought of this and reached out to take the kettle, "If you don't eat egg pancakes, you won't eat them if the pancakes are cold." It's delicious."

"We'll eat when you come back." Fourth Sister blurted out.

Saburo was very relieved, "I'm back to eat chicken, you go eat pancakes."

When he said this, the twins who already knew how to love their brother nodded at the same time, and said crisply, "Okay!"

Across the alley, looking at the stars in the sky, Zhen Qingming put down the file in his hand, "Has Wang Xiancheng been here?"

"Master, what time is it? You solved half of the case when we arrived in Taoyuan County today. It's nothing if you're a day and a half late." Dong Lai rubbed his stomach, "Master, are you hungry?"

Zhen Qingming smacked his lips as he smelled the scent constantly coming from the next door, "This Wu Sanlang, why is he so good at eating?"

"I want you to buy two more cakes, but you must not let me. Look, you are hungry too. I don't know if the restaurant is closed at the moment, let's go out and have a look." Dong Lai said tentatively.

"Why go to the wine shop, why not go to Sanlang's house." Dongbao replied eagerly.

"What nonsense!" Zhen Qingming glared at him, "Wu Sanlang just wants to raise younger siblings, you two are not allowed to take advantage of him in the future."

"We don't have any." Dongbao said innocently.

"No? I thought I didn't see it. The meat in your cakes is at least half a catty. Sanlang sells four pennies for a meat sandwich, and more than ten pennies for a catty of pork. I don't know!" Zhen Qingming swallowed a mouthful of saliva as he said, "Still What are you doing standing there, go to the street to see if there is any food for sale." He saw that the pancake Sanlang gave him was so big, and there were a lot of vegetables and meat in it, so he thought that eating a pancake would be enough.

How did the young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion know that the white noodle cakes were made from leavened dough? Looking at how big a noodle cake is, it actually has no more practical noodles than a sesame seed cake.This is where Saburo is shrewd. When the county magistrate found out that he was hungry after not eating for a long time, he was not only embarrassed to go out to eat, but also forced himself to hold on.

Because his mind was full of the case, he couldn't sleep for a while, sitting in the courtyard specially prepared for the county magistrate and his family, smelling the scent from the next door, the more he thought about it, the more hungry he became.

At the same time, Saburo walked to the county government office.When the officials patrolling around saw someone approaching, they asked, "Who?"

"Cao Yamen servant, it's me, Sanlang." Sanlang walked up to him with a basket, "Brother Wang said that there is not even a maidservant to boil water over there, so I will cook some extra food at night and bring it to Your Excellency."

"Hey, it's still Sanlang's thoughtfulness." Cao Yamen slapped his head, "Look, I didn't think of it, by the way, just now Grandma Sun came here for this matter, right?"

"Yes." Saburo replied with a smile, "Is your lord asleep?"

"I see that the light is still on in the yard, why don't I ask?" Cao Yamen didn't know Zhen Qingming's temper, and he didn't dare to go there. When he thought that the county magistrate didn't have dinner, he gritted his teeth and explained to the other two yamen servants. So he took Sanlang to the entrance of the alley, and said as he walked, "There is a corner door here, which is convenient for the adults' family to come and go—huh? East?"

"Who called me?" Donglai walked a few steps quickly, and licked his tongue unconsciously when he saw Sanlang, "Why are you here?"

"Sanlang saw that your lord didn't fire, so he made some food for your lord. Has your lord rested?" Cao Yamen servant said, "If we rest, we'll go back." He said turning around.

"Hey, don't." Donglai hurriedly stopped Sanlang, "Your Excellency is still thinking about the case, I will take you there."

"...Okay." Sanlang was taken aback when he saw the hand on his arm, and he couldn't run, so why was he in a hurry.

Seeing this, Cao Yamen servant said, "Then I'll go back and watch the night."

"Go, go." Dong Lai smiled awkwardly, moved his hand away calmly, looking for something to say, "Sanlang, what's in the basket?"

"Two dishes and a few cakes." Saburo said simply. Seeing the bright lights in the yard, Zhen Qingming was flipping through something like a file. He secretly rejoiced that the new county magistrate was quite good, and this meal was not in vain for him.

"Why did you come back so soon?" Zhen Qingming didn't raise his head when he heard the door opening, "Are all the doors closed?"

"My lord, it's me." Seeing Donglai winking at him, Saburo didn't understand why he asked himself to speak.

Zhen Qingming suddenly raised his head, saw the person coming, his eyes lit up, "San, Sanlang, why are you here so late?" He stood up, pulled the stool Donglai had made earlier, and greeted him warmly, "Hurry up ,sit!"

Saburo was a little flattered, because he didn't have the concept of hierarchy in his bones, so he sat down naturally after a little politeness with Zhen Qingming, put the basket on his lap, and took off the cover.

"What did you take?" Zhen Qingming noticed that he was still carrying something, and murmured inwardly, don't encounter bribery on the first day.

"Of course it's the food made by Sanlang." Donglai moved the table in front of Sanlang, and Sanlang brought out a large bowl of chicken, a plate full of green vegetables and a plate of egg pancakes, and a kettle, "Rough light rice , and hope that adults don’t dislike it.”

"Don't dislike it, don't dislike it." It's good to eat something, Dongbao hurried to get the chopsticks, "Master, here it is!"

"This..." Zhen Qingming was very embarrassed, but the chopsticks in his hand unconsciously held a piece of bread that looked very attractive, "Well, it's different from the one in the afternoon?"

"Cough..." Sanlang warned himself not to laugh, the difference between egg pancakes and white flour pancakes is so big, didn't the county magistrate say that he is very good at investigating cases, why can't he even tell nonsense.Afraid of staying any longer, he burst out laughing, "Sir, take it easy, I'm going back."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Zhen Qingming blurted out, only to realize that something was wrong when he said it, "I mean, I eat very fast, and I can free up your dishes in a while."

"No rush, I'll come get it tomorrow." Sanlang had been busy all day, and he didn't feel it before, but now seeing Zhen Qingming eating with gusto, he also felt hungry.As he spoke, he stood up, looked around, and saw that there were really only three masters and servants in the huge yard, "Come here, do you know how to cook?"

"Ah? No." Dong Lai was praying, the young master should eat less and save some for him.Upon hearing this, "By the way, Sanlang, there is a woman who cooks at Renyazi, right?"

"Yes, there are." Saburo looked at the people who wanted to bury their heads in the vegetable bowls, "I guess grown-ups might not be used to their craftsmanship."

"That's it." Donglai Dongbao was in trouble. Before coming, the master and wife had to explain everything to take good care of the young master, "Then where can I buy a better cooking woman? Go to Qingzhou Mansion?"

"Yes." Saburo nodded, rolled his eyelids, and had an idea in his mind, "Why don't you dislike it, come to my house to eat first these few days?"

"Not good?" Zhen Qingming suddenly said.

"Okay!" Dong Lai boldly cut off his master's words, "The young master is used to the food in the capital, and I don't know when I can find a decent cook. Going to the wine shop every day will not affect the young master well, and it may trouble Saburo a lot. For a long time. But don’t worry, you record how much we eat every day, and I’ll give you the money.”

"Don't worry, the piece of silver my lord gave me this afternoon is enough for you to eat for three to five days." Today, Sanlang and his younger siblings are helpless, and they can climb up to the county magistrate, not to mention a few meals, hundreds of meals. no problem.

After wolfing it down, Zhen Qingming put down his chopsticks and rested his hands, "If you don't want money, then we can only go to the wine shop. If the people see it, the big deal is that I will enjoy it."

Saburo wanted to laugh, look at what he said, it has nothing to do with me if the common people call you a corrupt official.So he pretended to be embarrassed, "Well, then I will listen to the adults."

"Great! You take the money." Dongbao ran into the room at some point and took out a silver coin and stuffed it into Saburo's hand, "Let me know if it's not enough in the future."

Saburo weighed it lightly, and couldn't help crying, "Ten taels!"

His family of four don't spend more than [-] Wen a day, and they still have a meal of meat.How long will it take to eat this!Saburo suddenly felt like lifting a rock and hitting his own foot.

But when he saw Zhen Qingming staring at him, Saburo smiled wryly, "My lord, there are, there are too many."

"It's okay, just take it." County Magistrate Zhen said in a very cool way, "I'll pay back what's left later."