Chapter 1860 Together
Manbao and Bai Erlang turned to look at him. He said calmly, "Not to mention the vast fields outside the city, there are also fields in the city. For example, there are several fields behind the Huguo Temple, and there are also wild vegetables around the Xuandu Temple."
"But there are many people in the city. Even if everyone has enough vegetables to eat, it may not be our turn to dig those wild vegetables, so let's go out of the city." This is just like Zhou Man's family. They have a large family, but they also grow a lot of vegetables.
In the past, they ate wild vegetables probably because there was a shortage of vegetables in the spring, but later their family grew and sold vegetables, and opened a shop in the county town, so they no longer had a shortage of vegetables.
Their family grows the most vegetables in the village, but every spring when wild vegetables are at their most delicious, Zhou Man and her nephews and nieces still carry baskets and dig wild vegetables.
He thought that there must be many people in the capital who were like their family, so Bai Shan said, "Let's pack up, take some easy-to-eat dry food and leave the city."
This is impossible. Not to mention Xiao Qian, even Old Madam Liu would not let them take dry food with them when they go out.
They lived in the palace eight out of ten days, and when they finally came back to stay for two days, their family members wanted to give them all the good food.
Even Mrs. Liu, who has always been strict with them, is the same.
So when they said they wanted to go out of town to look for wild vegetables, Old Lady Liu asked Aunt Rong to cook for them, "Put it in a food box, and bring a few more servants with you. When you're hungry at noon, you can heat it up and eat it."
Xiao Qian, who was about to go out of town to look for wild vegetables, saw the food and servants they brought with them, and silently shut her mouth. She turned back and said to her mother-in-law, "We are not going to look for wild vegetables to eat. It's just like the outing they went out for a walk two days ago. They are just going out for fun."
Qian smiled and said, "If they want to go, let them go. You should also prepare two dishes for them to take away."
Xiao Qian said worriedly, "I was thinking of just going out of town to look for them myself. If they go, I'll bake some meat patties for them to take with them, but..."
"Then make some meat patties," she said with a smile. "Although the food prepared by the Bai family is good, they may not like it very much. Just make some pancakes for them according to your idea."
Encouraged by Qian, Xiao Qian turned and went into the kitchen. She took out a piece of lean meat and cut off a small piece of white fat...
The lean meat was specially brought back by Lao Wu from the restaurant. Nowadays, the meat used in restaurants must be of good quality, so it is not advisable to use too much lean meat. Since there are many people in the family, we have to buy meat every now and then.
Just bring back the lean meat that doesn’t taste so good from the restaurant so you don’t have to spend money on buying meat at home.
With my sister-in-law's cooking skills, she can even make pork head delicious, not to mention lean meat.
Xiao Qian cut the meat into thin slices and then into cubes, and then started chopping it quickly.
Chop the two kinds of meat together. There is not much fat on that piece. When it is chopped with the lean meat, you can only see the red surface dotted with some not particularly distinct white meat grains.
She put the chopped meat into a bowl. Because the meat was stuck together, she had to use some effort to separate it.
Only then did Xiao Qian reach out to touch the waking face...
While she was busy in the kitchen, Manbao and the others received Yin Huo and Liu Huan who came to eat wild vegetables.
Bai Shan told them regretfully, "There are no wild vegetables at home, so you won't be able to eat them. But we decided to go out of town and dig some up. Do you want to come?"
Yin Huo and Liu Huan, who had been feeling somewhat regretful, immediately perked up and asked, "Are we leaving now? What should we prepare?"
Bai Shan waved his hand and said, "No need, my family is preparing."
Manbao: "Shall we bring two more baskets?"
Bai Erlang said, "Let's bring a few more. When we split up, we can find more."
Yin Huo became interested and asked, "What do wild vegetables look like?"
Liu Huan hesitated and said, "It should be similar to vegetables, right?"
Bai Shan and the other two then remembered that these two people didn't seem to know any wild vegetables. No, they probably didn't even know the vegetables that were growing?
Bai Shan took them to the garden and pointed to the vegetable patch in the corner and asked, "Do you know it?"
When the two saw the rows of vegetables without even a blade of grass in between, they guessed that they were vegetables. They squatted down and looked at them carefully, then nodded to indicate that they already knew what vegetables were.
Old Zhou was walking through the garden and couldn't help but say to Zhou Dalang, who was walking back with his hoe, "You don't even recognize a vegetable. Don't they even look down when they ride by the fields?"
Zhou Dalang said, "Dad, they live in the city and don't ride horses, they always ride in carriages."
Liu Huan happened to say to Bai Shan and the others, "If I had known earlier, I would have come here on my horse. It's spring now, and it's perfect for an outing...picking wild vegetables and riding a horse would be the best, right?"
Bai Shan said: "What's so difficult about this? You can ask your servants to go back and get it now. It's not far away anyway. My family is still preparing things."
Liu Huan thought about it and shook his head. "Forget it. I just went back to greet Grandmother and then ran away. Grandmother is already very dissatisfied. If I ask someone to go back to change horses, I think Grandmother will be so angry that she will take me back too."
Bai Shan and the other two have already decided to ride horses.
"I don't know what's going on lately, but the tutors always take up our archery and horseback riding lessons. We've only been to the Western Inner Courtyard once in the last ten days."
Originally, they had two classes of horse riding and archery and two classes of archery in ten days. However, in this ten days, these two subjects each took up one class, so Bai Shan and Bai Erlang, who loved riding horses, were unable to enjoy it to their heart's content.
However, after Manbao found out that he could not attend their horse riding and archery classes, whenever he went out of the palace to attend classes, he had to lead Chiji to the Imperial Medical Bureau by himself, and then the palace grooms would drive the carriage behind him.
If the groom wasn't Rong Si, he would never have agreed.
Manbao was a little happy when she thought about this. She asked, "Are you going to take another exam?"
"Impossible, it's just the beginning of spring. We took the exam before the New Year." Bai Erlang was frightened by this sentence.
Liu Huan also quickly said: "That's right, it should be at least June or July before the middle of the year, right? It's still early now."
Yin Huo looked at Bai Shan and asked, "Don't you know either?"
Bai Shan hesitated for a moment and then said, "Sir, you let slip a little bit that it seems that Kong Jijiu wants to compare the people in our Chongwen Academy with the students in the Imperial College."
Liu Huan: "How do we compare?"
Bai Erlang asked at the same time: "How come I don't know? Why does the master favor you?"
Bai Shan glanced at him and said, "The teacher is not partial to me. Last time, I accompanied you to hand in the book you were punished to copy. The teacher said it in front of both of us."
Manbao turned his head to look at him. Bai Erlang was confused. "Is that so? I, why don't I have any recollection of it at all?"
Bai Shan: "...You're asking me? I thought you were being cautious, knowing that it's not good to reveal such unconfirmed news, so you didn't shout it out. After all this fuss, you didn't listen to what the master said?"
I have something to do later, so see you at 11:30 pm
(End of this chapter)
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