After sending Aunt Bai off in person, Shu Shu was so excited when she returned that she asked someone to greet Xiaotang.
It really comes to whatever you want.
I just got my craving for seafood yesterday, but I felt it was not enough, so I have the ingredients today.
Xiaochun and Xiaoyu were not there, so they returned to Dutong Mansion.
Walnut and Xiaosong are responsible for unpacking, and Xiaotang is responsible for sorting.
Shu Shu sat as the commander-in-chief, watching everything with satisfaction.
It's obviously an ingredient, but the packaging is very classy.
Just like the bird's nest, it is packed in a brocade box with red silk inside.
They are all complete swallow lamps, one box contains fifty lamps, and two boxes constitutes one hundred lamps.
Xiaotang said with surprise: "This Fujin is just right for the disease!"
In the past few years, Xiaotang has studied medicinal foods with Shu Shu, and has learned a lot. He knows that bird's nest "nourishes lung yin, resolves phlegm and relieves coughs".
There were some in the two houses before, but they were split into two. Half of them honored Concubine Yi, and the other half were taken back to Dutong Mansion.
Shu Shu remembered a rumor from later generations.
Rumor has it that Qianlong's longevity also had a dietary effect, which was to eat a cup of bird's nest on an empty stomach every morning.
You can try it.
The preparations for shark's fin, sea cucumber, and abalone are all very similar.
It was when Shu Shu saw Fish Maw that she paid more attention.
This is also a holy product for beauty that is highly praised by later generations.
The way to eat it is quite complicated. It is not like soaking and blanching it in water to remove the fishy smell, and then braise it or grill it.
Instead, stew in water.
What to do with the remaining dried prawns, scallops, and razor clams.
Shu Shu didn't have any good ideas for a while, so she said to Xiaotang: "Except for the prawns, let's see if we can make side dishes with the other two..."
There are also seaweed and kelp.
There is also seaweed in the second dining room, and every time I make soup, it is extremely delicious.
But the amount of two large packages of seaweed like this is very touching.
Shu Shu also had an idea.
Seaweed can be made into seaweed by crushing it into pieces and frying it dry with sesame oil, sesame seeds and salt over low heat.
It can be mixed with rice and served with porridge, and it is also durable in storage.
Pregnant women can eat these things, such as bird's nests and sea cucumbers, but Shu Shu cannot borrow flowers to offer to Buddha.
She decided to try the dishes, preferably making them into side dishes or semi-finished products, and then return them to Ningshou Palace.
This was all given by Kangxi to the Queen Mother as a filial piety.
The Queen Mother can reward him, but she can't bear it so hard.
What she thought of was Buddha jumping over the wall.
It was originally a stew of seafood ingredients, with more of the same and less of the same.
The key is that once it's done, the taste won't change when heated.
Now that it's the twelfth lunar month of winter, we can make it.
Then freeze it into portions, and it becomes a convenient version of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall.
Shu Shu was moved, so she asked Xiao Song to take a pen and paper and draw up a recipe for Buddha to jump over the wall.
The various prescriptions of later generations are not fixed.
However, sea cucumber, abalone, and shark's fin are the main ingredients, and fish maw and scallops are indispensable. I have most of them now, and the rest should be easier to match.
Appropriate additions, such as tendons, mushrooms, and magnolia slices, are all common ingredients in the kitchen.
After thinking about it, Shu Shu asked someone to take it away.
Let’s talk about it after entering the twelfth lunar month.
Let’s not worry about it for the next two days.
The room was filled with the smell of dried seafood. It was necessary to open the window to disperse the smell, so Shu Shu went to the study.
There is nothing much to do before the New Year. It is one thing to prepare for the New Year's ceremony, and one thing is the "May 7th" funeral in Dafujin.
There is also the fifth elder brother’s birthday in the middle.
The fifth elder brother is twenty years old this year, and this is also his birthday.
Shu Shu thought of this and vaguely remembered that someone else had a birthday in the twelfth lunar month, so she opened her own note.
Wufujin told her once when she first got married.
I found the record and found out that there was also the twelfth prince, whose birthday was also the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Shu Shu paid attention to the other people. The fifteenth brother was November 28th. It was just a few days later and he almost forgot.
These little brothers really have no sense of existence.
Then it’s the end of the year. The fourteenth elder brother is born in the first month, and February has the most birthdays, with the eldest elder brother, the third elder brother, the eighth elder brother, and the cute little seventeenth in March.
Shu Shu then told Walnut: "Find a set of longevity locks and nine rings, wrap them up, and find a good inkstone to prepare..."
This is for the fifteenth elder brother and the twelfth elder brother.
The fifth elder brother is left to discuss with the ninth elder brother how to prepare birthday gifts.
Just as I was thinking about it, there was movement outside.
Brother Nine is back.
In addition to He Yuzhu and Sun Jin, there were also several eunuchs behind them, all of whom carried many things in their arms.
After everything was put down, Brother Jiu signaled He Yuzhu to give out the reward and sent people away, then followed Shu Shu and said, "Look what you brought back?"
With that said, he was about to open those.
Shu Shu knew it just by looking at the familiar packaging.
The smell in the east room hadn't finished yet. Shu Shu didn't want the west room to also smell of seafood, so she hurriedly said: "Don't worry, let's go to the east room and see..."
Brother Jiu was puzzled, but he didn't say anything. Everyone took their things to the east room.
Only then did Brother Ninth notice that the window was open.
There is still an unfinished fishy smell in the house.
"Did Khan Amma send someone to deliver it?"
Brother Jiu was a little embarrassed: "I don't know! The dining room of Qianqing Palace took a lot. Isn't it heavy?"
Shu Shu shook her head and said something about Aunt Bai coming over.
After hearing this, Brother Jiu lost his interest in showing Shu Shu the ingredients and said, "Then what are you looking at? Put them all away. Let's look at the ingredients. They are Western ingredients tribute from General Fuzhou. There are only twenty-two pieces in total. I'm so generous. It takes a lot of shame..."
He chose it himself because he was afraid that the color and pattern of the tributes would not be suitable.
Shu Shu also became interested and went to watch.
There are a total of four pieces of Western velvet, two of which are red and have lotus patterns on them. They are for Shi Fujin.
The remaining two are fragrant and have a simple swastika pattern.
"It can be made into a cloak, and it won't be stained by rain or snow..."
Brother Ninth said.
He had an old piece of clothing made of Western velvet.
Shu Shu didn't speak, but touched the material and felt that it felt familiar.
It's like the material of cashmere coats that are common in later generations, and it also has metallic luster and water ripples.
This feel and luster are both.
The pattern on the top should have been woven during weaving. There seems to be other craftsmanship involved, and it looks closer.
"Didn't it mean that the Ministry of Internal Affairs set up a weaving office in the south of the Yangtze River and no one was thinking about the craftsmanship of this Western velvet?"
Shu Shu asked curiously.
General Fuzhou supervised the Fujian Customs, so the tributes included foreign goods.
But there are only twenty-two horses.
Too expensive.
Even rarer on the market.
Doesn't it mean that merchants are selling at random prices?
But this seems to be really cashmere!
Brother Jiu said: "How come no one has thought about it, but the materials in the West are different from ours. Bird feathers are added to them, and they are dyed with orangutan blood. We have no use here... Nowadays, there are also Western materials outside." , but it’s not as exquisite as the tribute, it’s almost one tael of silver per foot!”
The current piece of cloth is four feet, or forty feet when folded.
That's forty taels of silver!
But the silks and satins that can be bought in the capital usually cost four or five taels of silver a piece, which is considered to be top quality. Most of them cost one or two taels of silver a piece.
The price of cloth is even lower, three to four hundred yuan a piece.
Shu Shu felt her flesh aching.
Shu Shu didn't say anything, and went straight to the sewing box and took out the scissors.
She wanted to see if her guess was correct.
Nowadays, the door curtain of the main house is made of wool felt to keep out the wind.
Shu Shu cut an edge in an inconspicuous place on the ground, then went into the house and also cut an edge on the baize.
Brother Jiu followed her without stopping, and asked curiously: "What did you find?"
Shu Shu handed him both sides: "Can you take a closer look?"
Wool felt feels hard and rough, while velvet feels soft and smooth.
Brother Jiu looked at it for a long time and said, "You can't see anything from this..."
Shu Shu was not idle and took the candle and the fire sickle.
Candles were lit.
She burned the wool felt first.
Flammable and smelly.
The smell of wool is stinky.
Brother Jiu had a look of disgust on his face and stepped back.
Shu Shu blew out the fire from the wool felt and placed it on clean white paper.
She lit the velvet again.
The smell is not as good as wool felt, but it is very similar.
Brother Jiu was stunned: "This velvet is actually made of wool?"
Shu Shu immediately put out the fire and said, "As long as it's fabric, like cotton or linen, it comes from vegetation, or silk, and the rest is wool, camel hair and other livestock shearings, what else can there be?"
Shu Shu said, and crushed the burned parts of the two cloth strips. They were all powder and there were no traces.
It should be natural wool, with no non-flammable adhesive added.
Brother Jiu didn't give up. He took the two remaining materials and looked at them from left to right: "But wool felt is so filthy and cheap. The price is about the same as homespun cloth, which is hundreds of times different!"
Shu Shu said with confusion: "If I could make Mongolian wool, it would be a great achievement..."
Brother Jiu's face became brighter, and he nodded repeatedly: "That's right, that's right, Mongolia is a vast country and sparsely populated, and the number of princes and princes is limited. Even if we earn their money one after another, there is still a certain number. If we really talk about the rich, there are still more people in Jiangnan... If we could imitate this Western velvet, even if it was sold at half the price, the profit would be scary..."
Shu Shu's smile froze.
Why are you just thinking about money? !
The biggest credit is not this.
The pastures of Mongolian princes are all fixed. If they raise more sheep, they will raise less horses.
This was also a way to weaken Mongolia.
It can also affect the way of life in Mongolia, with more people settling down and more people raising sheep.
When you get used to this method, you will be able to combine agriculture and animal husbandry, which will be more convenient for the court to manage.
The centripetal force towards the court is also stronger.
Just like the Karaqin tribe closest to the capital, it has become Manchu.
The palace residence has become like a small town, and Prince Taiji is proud to work in the capital.
Brother Ninth was very excited and pulled Shu Shu into the study: "Let's think about it carefully and write a plan. A few days ago, Jiangning Weaving made a brochure to invite the court. Khan Ama is sure. We should be able to come here before the year. We The plan has been made, I will meet him then and ask him how the craftsmanship is at the Weaving Mansion."
Shu Shu was also excited after hearing this.
Jiangning weaving?
Isn't that Cao Yin? !
Cao Yong’s father, Cao Xueqin’s grandfather!
Is the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" beginning to have a shadow?
The eldest brother of Prince Pingjun is in his teens, and Cao Yin, the daughter of the princess, will either be in the next draft or the next draft.
Then Shu Shu realized something was wrong.
The draft of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is not held every three years, but is selected every year.
Then I can’t tell which year it was.
"Both women are princesses" was verified by later generations of red scholars.
There may be deviations, but it is certain that both girls married into the clan.
Cao Yin was Kangxi's darling and confidant.
The daughter was promised in marriage, the son was given a worldly position, and received great favor.
As for the craftsmanship…
Shu Shu was not a textile craftsman in his previous life, so he naturally didn't know the technological process of these fabrics.
However, as a consumer, she still knows the difference between cashmere and wool.
Cashmere is the fine cashmere from goats, and wool is from sheep.
On this northern tour, the mutton they ate along the way was called "Mongolian sheep" and was all from sheep.
But there are also goats at this time.
There are goats in the capital, called "Xia sheep" or "black sheep", which are considered to be descended from "wild sheep".
The meat is more elastic, has no fat, tastes more tangy, and is more expensive than ordinary mutton.
Some gourmets are particularly proud of this bite.
Shu Shu said: "I heard my grandmother say something before, saying that in the early years in Mongolia, the fine velvet threads on the black sheep were combed, and it felt as smooth as silk... Maybe this Western velvet material is used Not wool, but the fine velvet of a black sheep..."
Brother Jiu said: "In this case, we have to get closer to the Abahai tribe. Horqin has rich water and grass, and they raise Mongolian sheep. They have to be in the north. The tribes north of Abahai are more bitter and cold, so they can domesticate them." Wild sheep, mixed and raised..."
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