Zhangjia biscuits shop

Zhang Dabing originally looked at the young man with a handsome face. Although he was wearing coarse clothes, he still did not look like an ordinary person. He thought to himself that he was a young master who was spoiled and spoiled since he was a child. Forget it, I didn't really want to learn how to make biscuits—after all, this business is also a low-end pawn industry, and not many people are willing to do it.

I didn't expect Su Qi to learn it, but he was really single-minded.Since he has to report to the "work place" every morning (Su Qi's original words, that is, to go to the morning court), he is only free in the afternoon, so every afternoon, except for special circumstances such as "the shopkeeper wants us to work overtime" (that is, the emperor and told us to stay for a meeting) and so on, at other times, I must follow the old man to learn how to make biscuits, rain or shine, and the biscuit shop is not closed in the afternoon. Then word spread that Zhang's shop had added a handsome young man as an apprentice, and Zhang Dabing's business improved a lot all of a sudden.

Among the two masters and apprentices, Zhang Dabing himself has a simple and honest temperament, and Su Qi also learned it sincerely, so the relationship between the two masters and apprentices became stronger and stronger. After a few days, Su Qi probably understood Zhang Dabing's life experience.

As we have already said, Zhang Dabing was born in a small village outside of Kyoto. The separated girl was nine years younger than him. Later, the two of them guarded the small shop together and depended on each other in troubled times. He always called her Xiaosu, and he still didn't know her real name. Hui girl was pushed by the crowd because she went to buy flour, and she accidentally had a miscarriage. The two didn't have their first child until Zhang Dabing was 32 years old. To commemorate the fetus they had lost, they named the baby boy Zhang Ergou, the troubled times had not yet passed, and the girl died of illness in a certain turbulent autumn.When Zhang Ergou was in his teens, the first emperor stabilized the Quartet, so Zhang Ergou was young and energetic, and together with a few playmates around him planned to go to the army to guard the border for the emperor. Zhang Dabing couldn't persuade him, knowing that the child was young and lost his mother I felt uncomfortable all the time, so I went with him, but I haven't come back for so many years.

When Zhang Dabing said this, he couldn't help but stop what he was doing, and wiped his tears with the towel hanging around his neck. The sisters-in-law and aunts who came to buy sesame seed cakes couldn't help sighing for a while.

Su Qi was also stunned when he heard that, and the movements in his hands slowed down. At this time, Zhang Dabing turned to look at him, and said with a smile, "If my son comes back now, you should be so old, no, it's better than you One year older."

Su Qi was inexplicably sad when he heard this, he didn't know that a man who seemed to be laughing every day also had such pain in his heart, so he also said slowly, "My father was a general who killed enemies for the country when I was young, because the kings rebelled , he rarely goes home, and when he comes back, he always smells of blood and wounds. My mother has to concentrate on taking care of him, because he is a soldier, and I rarely see him once, so I haven't been close to my father since childhood. Later, I don't know which time it was, when my father came back, my mother was changing the medicine for his injured leg, I stayed at the door to watch him, but he found out, I was very scared at first, I didn't know how to face him, I didn't even dare to look at him, and stared at him, but he just smiled slowly, waved to me, and then took out two biscuits wrapped in a handkerchief for me. His whole body was dirty, only the A handkerchief my mother gave him was still so clean and white. When he took it out, he even washed his hands first, so as not to stain the handkerchief. When I was young, I ate the biscuits as soon as I received them. It’s just out of the oven, but it’s still a little warm because my dad is wearing it next to me. When I was eating, my dad was talking to my mother. I don’t know what he was talking about, but I saw my dad smiling, and I saw that I was still looking at him. , touched my head, and said to me: "This is the authentic Xishi sesame seed cake, eat slowly." Maybe from then on, I am not afraid of my father, although he usually looks fierce, But he is still very good to me." Su Qi smiled, "Maybe the biscuits my father bought back then belonged to your family."

Zhang Dabing laughed when he heard it, "Yeah, it was so chaotic at the time, where did those soldiers get a good meal? Many businessmen in the capital had taken refuge, and it was not easy to find a biscuit shop. I also remember that there were many soldiers. I have bought sesame seed cakes from my place, and I don’t charge them money, and I also prepare cold water for them every day, and they also give me some odds and ends if they are embarrassed, and, I know, they are secretly protecting this shop on purpose, otherwise I can't live so peacefully in such a chaotic time."

So the topic was brought up, and a few sunbathing old men around slowly talked about the turmoil decades ago, how wise the first emperor was, and how well the current emperor governed.And some of the women took melon seeds and tea, and talked about their parents' family affairs. In a corner of the West Market, the atmosphere was rare and quiet and detailed, revealing the smell of worldly fireworks.Su Qi rubbed his face, couldn't help but lowered his head and smiled. He could almost understand the state of mind of the soldiers back then. He also liked this place where he could rest assured that he could have enough food and such a peaceful life. If he was there back then, he would also have The impulse to keep it going and not be destroyed is probably the softest persistence of human nature.

After Zhang Dabing taught him to knead the dough, he began to teach him how to adjust the fillings and how to roll out the dough, step by step very meticulous.Although Zhang Dabing looks tough, but at least he is approaching the age of sixty, and his body is still getting worse day by day. In the end, half of the burden of this biscuit shop fell on Su Qi, and he started to be busy every morning at three o'clock. , to help him knead the dough, except that Zhang Dabing was alone in the shop when he went to court in the morning, and Su Qi rushed over when he went to court. Sometimes even Zhang Dabing felt embarrassed, and often asked Su Qi, " Is the shopkeeper in the place where you work not strictly controlled? Does this not deduct your wages?"

Su Qi always smiled, "It's okay, he will turn a blind eye and close his eyes, he won't be too fussy, besides, I will quit that job after I learn how to make sesame seed cakes, and just stay here .”

Every time Zhang Dabing would dissuade this young man from joking about his future, he could see that the place where this young man worked was definitely not such a humble place as a biscuit shop. Making biscuits was at best a hobby and a livelihood. Maybe it will hurt the young man's future.

Su Qi is naturally not a fool, he would tell the "treasurer" to "resign", but sometimes when chatting with Bai Lilan, he mentioned this point: Can he be exempted from the morning court?

Baililan was suspicious, and also surprised that this minister was so courageous, and asked the reason, but the reason Su Qi gave made him dumbfounded, so three days later, "I heard that Su Qing fell off a horse and broke his bones unfortunately because of the investigation work. This time the injury is serious, everyone said 'a hundred days of injury', I will allow him to take half a year off, during this period there is no need to come to court early."

So Su Qi, who got the imperial approval, ignored the resentful eyes of his friends, and happily went to Zhang's sesame seed shop to report every day. Zhang Dabing saw that he was in a happy mood recently, and he didn't go to work, so he couldn't help asking him, who knew Su Qi smiled happily, and replied loudly, "My boss recently gave birth to a baby, and I'm very happy. I want to go to the south of the Yangtze River with my wife, and let us have a long vacation."

When Zhang Dabing heard this, he was also happy. It seemed that this young man didn't like the work very much. This time, some of them took a rest, so people were happy for him. But then he thought about it: What does the boss have to do with the employees who have children?Still have a long vacation?Such a good club, how could Ah Qi not like it?But he is not a person who cares about it, he just thinks that the sky is lucky, and he is happy for Su Qi. Even if he thinks of this, he just thinks that the owner's brain is a little wrong, and he doesn't have too many doubts, so he happily continues. Taught Su Qi how to make and sell cakes. [There are several "happy" in these paragraphs...]