"Hey, this thing is good, it's rustling, and it tastes good! How is it made?" Zhang Bao asked Xiao Han in surprise, mouth licking his lips.
Xiao Han held the duck eggs in his hand and smiled at Zhang Bao: "This is simple. If you want to learn, I will teach you! You prepare a pound of duck eggs..."
"Wait a minute, let me find a piece of paper and write it down!" Zhang Bao quickly wiped his mouth when he heard that Xiao Han wanted to teach him. He was about to get up and write down the recipe, but he was quickly stopped by Xiao Han.
"This is very simple, you will know it after listening to it!" Xiao Han said with a smile.
Zhang Bao sat upright and listened: "Really? Then tell me, I will remember it!"
Xiao Han shook the duck eggs in his hand and said with a smile: "Let me start from the beginning. There are only three ingredients for this thing: one pound of duck eggs! Half a pound of white wine and one pound of salt!"
"Duck eggs, half a pound of white wine, a pound of salt..." Zhang Bao, sitting opposite Xiao Han, was like a primary school student, clasping his fingers to memorize the materials, but when he heard Xiao Han say a pound of salt!
He immediately retracted his fingers with an expressionless expression, and then placed all the duck eggs on the table in front of him, preparing to pack them away later.
A pound of salt? Master! Do you know how expensive the salt here is now that there is no sea route? If you really do this, not to mention the ordinary people in the city, even he and Yuan Dake can eat fresh food occasionally, but if they eat it often, they have to carefully weigh whether the money in their wallets is enough!
People don’t learn anymore! Xiao Han doesn’t force it, times are different! Salted duck eggs, which could be made in every household in the past, were not even eaten by the governor of the Tang Dynasty! No wonder when I was making salted duck eggs, everyone in the kitchen looked at me like a prodigal...
The three of them continued to eat. Yuan Dake didn't have to worry about the food being bland now. Everything he ate tasted salty, and even the water he drank felt like drinking sea water, salty and astringent.
There is no way, Xiao Han has only heard of the making of salted duck eggs, but has never practiced it, so these are just primary products. The egg whites are so salty that even dogs can't eat them. They can only eat the egg yolks, and then collect the egg whites and grind them. , it is best to use it directly as a seasoning instead of salt.
Yuan Da Ke only drank water and did not eat. Zhang Bao used chopsticks to pick out the duck egg yolk cleanly!
During this period, he accidentally ate a piece of broken egg white, and immediately grinned from the salty taste. He drank a few mouthfuls of water before swallowing it down. Then he patted his swollen belly and said to Xiao Han: "Master Hou, I forgot something. Let me tell you, a few days ago, Yang Kailuo, who had offended you, came to the city to find me, not long after you retrieved his information."
"Oh? Why is he looking for you?" After Zhang Baoyi reminded him, Xiao Han suddenly remembered that he had given Yang Kailuo a task a while ago! But later on, it seemed that I was so busy spending time with Xue Pan that I had completely forgotten about this matter.
Zhang Bao picked up the chopsticks, frowned and said to Xiao Han: "He didn't do anything but invite me to a meal, and then asked a lot of random questions at the dinner table! Moreover, many of the questions were about Yours, I always feel that he is trying to find out the details about you, Mr. Marquis. Mr. Marquis, you won't cause him trouble again recently, right?"
Hearing what Zhang Bao said, Xiao Han immediately rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Go, go, let's go! I'm so free? I have nothing to do to trouble him? I just happened to see him a few days ago and gave some instructions. Just leave it to him."
"Oh? No wonder you want to retrieve his information and ask about this person's behavior and character! By the way, what is it that deserves so much trouble?" At this time, Yuan Dake, who had been listening silently next to him, also came. Interested, he stared at Xiao Han and asked.
Xiao Han took a sip of water and said casually: "It's not a big deal, I just asked him to get a few ships ready."
"How many boats? Why do you want boats, Lord Marquis?" Zhang Baoyuan and Dake were both a little strange. They looked at each other and asked Xiao Han at the same time.
Xiao Han didn't want to reveal too much about this, so he closed the topic with just one sentence: "You will naturally know about this later!"
Xiao Han pretended to be mysterious, but Zhang Baoyuan had no choice but to continue eating. At the same time, he made up his mind to ask Yang Kailue, a wealthy landlord, when he had time! "
Picking up a mouthful of vegetables and stuffing it into his mouth, Xiao Han chewed it a few times with satisfaction, and then asked Zhang Bao: "By the way, have you told him all the questions Yang Kai asked?"
Zhang Bao, who lowered his head to eat, shook his head quickly: "No, I didn't know what he wanted to do at the time, so I dealt with it casually without revealing anything related to you."
Xiao Han nodded, then thought for a while and said, "Actually, you don't have to be too perfunctory with him! Bragging to him about me might make him work harder!"
Zhang Bao nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Master Hou, since you have something to do, why don't you leave it to us? Or you can do it yourself. It makes no sense that you can't do what Yang Kailue can do!"
Xiao Han did not answer in a hurry. Instead, he took a bite of the dish slowly and politely. After a long time, he said: "There is a knowledge in this. You can't understand it yet. To put it simply: the government, nobles, and the country can guide some things, but never do everything!”
Yuan Dake and Zhang Bao didn't know why Xiao Han said this suddenly, and they couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence. They just felt that his words were very old-fashioned, as if they were said by an old gentleman who had seen countless changes in the world. The output is average.
The discussion at the dinner table ended here. After the meal, Yuan Dake and Zhang Bao, feeling that their purpose had been fulfilled, said goodbye and left.
Xiao Han stood at the door to see them off, then tightened his clothes and returned to the small room that was used as a study.
It was time for him to take a look at the administrative documents he had accumulated over the past few days.
In Hanzhong City, at the fortune-telling stall at the corner of the market, a young Taoist priest lay in front of the table, lazily looking at the streets with people coming and going.
"Infinite Heavenly Lord... I can't survive these days! How many days have we not been open? Do you have to force me to go to Chang'an to find Master Yuan?"
The Taoist lying on the table was helpless. Don't people in Hanzhong City believe in ghosts and gods? Why is there not even a girl asking about marriage? This is too strange!
However, the young Taoist didn't seem to have thought that in other fortune-telling booths, the fortune-teller would sit more upright, more dignified and more dignified! Anyway, one look at it can make people trust you!
And like him, not only does he have no hair on his mouth, he can't even stand or sit like he's sitting! The Patriarch of the Sanqing Dynasty is blind if anyone really patronizes him.
Time passed slowly, and by the time it was noon, the people going to the market began to disperse.
Although people go to the market every day in Hanzhong, most of them only go to the market for half a day, and only during the holidays they go to the market for a full day.
So basically at lunch time, people who come from all over the countryside to set up stalls and sell things are ready to pack up and go home.
"Let's go, let's go too, have a good rest! I just made a fortune for myself, tomorrow will be good and good!"
The young Taoist stood up unsteadily, muttering as he was about to untie the flags tied to the table. At this moment, a figure suddenly came to the opposite side of him and stood leisurely.
