Chapter 201 Bean Paste Dumplings (1)

In the afternoon at the public kitchen of Dali Temple, the aroma of boiled red beans filled the air from the large casserole in the center.

Wen Mingtang, A Bing and Tangyuan sat in front of the steaming casserole. While chatting, they occasionally glanced at the people sitting across from each other not far away.

Xunzhou raised his head to face the people in front of him, laughed dryly, and said, "I'm afraid it's such an important task..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Yuan, who only heard Liu Yuan say: "You can do it! What daughter of Mr. Xun wouldn't like the talent Mr. Xun gave birth to? Isn't it, Bai Zhu?"

Facing Liu Yuan's eyes that kept squeezing at him, Bai Zhu nodded, looked at Xunzhou opposite, coughed slightly, and agreed: "Young master Xun is indeed well-born. I was waiting for you while I was cooking carnivorous crabs. I saw you as soon as I saw the person eating at the table."

Facing Liu Yuantong and Bai Zhu's praise, Xunzhou didn't show any joy on his face. Instead, his face became stiffer: He was sitting in a case with the teachers, and he was the only one among them who was young, so he could see it at a glance.

As for talents and so on...

Xunzhou looked at Lin Fei opposite, who was sitting leisurely peeling sugar and frying chestnuts, and said dryly: "In terms of appearance, who can compare with Lin Shaoqing..."

Since it was a good thing for them to do it to him, why didn't their own people do such good things? Xunzhou looked at the people opposite him with an unkind expression: He Xunzhou is not a fool!

Lin Fei, who expertly pressed, shelled and peeled chestnuts, put a piece of brown chestnut flesh into his mouth and looked up at Xunzhou: "There are too many people who know me, so that's not possible!"

Liu Yuan, Bai Zhu and Lin Fei followed closely and spoke in unison.

"There are too many people who know us, no!"

It turned out that I was looking for him because I was afraid of being recognized! I thought they really thought he was talented or something! Xunzhou's face turned cold. He smelled the aroma of roasted chestnuts coming from Lin Fei's hand across from him. He touched his nose and said, "Xun is a man of integrity, how can he go and take the initiative to meet some woman?"

Lin Fei glanced at the Buddhist amulet hanging on Xunzhou's neck across from him and said, "Buddha said, 'If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?' Since you know that doing a favor can save people from fire and water, why not help?"

Xunzhou said: "I'm afraid it's not good to take the initiative to get to know a woman. If the teacher finds out..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Fei peeled off another chestnut and threw it into his mouth. He glanced at him and said, "I heard that in recent times, Huang Shizhong often invites his master and Mr. Three daughters talking about the "Tea Classic"?"

As soon as these words came out, Xunzhou's face changed slightly. Wen Mingtang and others who were cooking red bean paste soup also turned their heads to look here, with subtle eyes: Huang Shizhong! In my spare time, I heard the officers mention this Huang Shizhong. He was quite famous among the dignitaries all over the capital.

However, this "name" is not someone with outstanding political achievements, good poetry writing, or any other areas of expertise.

The reason why Huang Shizhong stood out among the powerful was because of his three daughters who all looked pretty good.

It was said that since he was born in the Huang family and was good-looking, there would be no shortage of suitors to marry him, but the reality was exactly the opposite. Huang Shizhong was very troubled by the marriage of his three daughters.

The eldest daughter, Miss Huang, has a straightforward personality, but... her preference for women and her distaste for men is known throughout Chang'an City.

The second daughter, Miss Huang Er, has long sleeves, is good at dancing, and has an exquisite appearance, but she raises her appearance in a grand and dignified way, saying that if a man can have three wives and four concubines, why can't a woman?

The third daughter, Miss Huang San, does not have the eldest sister's preferences, nor does the second sister's habit of looking good, but she has other preferences! She likes to work with others to catch and rape their first wives. She also likes to drive those men and women who have been caught or raped before they have time to put on their clothes on the street to attract people to watch. This kind of thing is naturally easy to "become famous", so it has already spread throughout the circles of powerful people.

Three daughters with good looks fell into their hands like this! Huang Shizhong had a headache: Under such circumstances, those who are willing to marry three daughters probably have other motives. But it can be said that these people are not marrying his three daughters, but this bad old man! Huang Shizhong naturally despised these people, but those he could like were unwilling to marry his three daughters.

In this way... Huang Shizhong set his sights on those children from poor families who came from a humble background but were good people. After searching around for a long time, I heard that Huang Shizhong had chosen Xunzhou.

Xunzhou has been having a headache over this matter recently!

This Lin Shaoqing from Dali Temple really doesn't speak a word, but when he does, he is always hard to refuse. Glancing at Xunzhou who was beginning to hesitate, Wen Mingtang stood up and opened the lid of the casserole. The red beans that had been soaked in advance and frozen in the ice cell were easily boiled to produce sand. Seeing that they were almost cooked, Wen Mingtang and others took another pot and put the small balls made of glutinous rice into the pot and started cooking.

After scooping out the red bean paste, the small glutinous rice dumplings also floated up.

While Xunzhou was still hesitating, Wen Mingtang and others had already prepared the bean paste dumplings and served them to the people sitting in the public kitchen.

The red beans have been boiled out of the sand. In the pure white porcelain bowl, there is a dark red bean paste sweet soup as the base, and a spoonful of shiny white glutinous rice dumplings is covered in the middle. White and red, the bright and dark colors make people's eyes light up suddenly, but the most wonderful thing is the golden osmanthus flowers dotted among the red and white.

The strong feeling of late autumn is also felt due to the golden osmanthus embellishment.

The rich aroma of red beans and osmanthus flows straight into your nose along with the sweet soup in front of you.

Ignoring Xunzhou who was still hesitating, Lin Fei picked up a spoon and scooped it out. The scooped up spoonful of sweet soup had bean paste as the base, with two small glutinous rice dumplings dotted on top. The dumplings and bean paste were also sprinkled on the surface. A few golden osmanthus flowers.

After blowing on the spoonful of bean paste dumplings, Lin Fei put the bean paste dumplings into his mouth.

Liu Yuan and Bai Zhu also put it into their mouths one after another: the taste of red bean salsa was mixed with the sweetness of beans. Master Wen thought that he had added milk to it. If you taste it carefully, you can taste the rich frankincense. The soft and glutinous boiled dumplings are mixed into the sweet red bean paste soup, which adds a different taste to the pure sweet red bean paste soup. Mixed with the fragrance of osmanthus, you really take one sip and feel as if you have swallowed it. All autumn in general.

A bowl of bean paste dumplings successfully drove away the chill of autumn. The spoon in his hand scraped all the sweet bean paste soup in the bowl. Only when there was no more bean paste left, Liu Yuan put down the spoon in his hand. Then he looked up and saw Xunzhou who was still hesitating across from him. And...the bowl of untouched bean paste dumplings in front of him.

How can this be done? Liu Yuan quickly picked up the spoon that he had just put down and stretched it out: "Master Xun, don't want to eat? Give it to me! I can't stand waste the most!"

How can the food cooked by Master Wen be wasted? no! He won't allow this to happen!

But before the spoon could reach into Xunzhou's bowl, Xunzhou moved the bowl in front of him and looked at Liu Yuan who "took the initiative to help" in front of him. , there’s no need to bother Liu Sicheng with this!”