Aunt Ye is Chang Shichu's servant. She is very good at cooking, especially plain Cantonese cuisine. Salt-baked chicken is also a kind of Cantonese cuisine. She heard that Chang Shichu wanted to eat salt-baked chicken, so she cooked it without saying a word. Two live chickens were taken and killed.
So when Wei Yu'an came back from the rice and grain shop, he smelled a strong smell of chicken, which penetrated from his nose into his lungs.
His eyes were astonishingly bright, and even the calmness he pretended to imitate Chang Shichu was gone. He jumped up and down and rushed home, shouting as he ran: "Aunt Ye! What delicious food did you make today? It's delicious. ah!"
He had been a beggar for several years, and he suffered from the sequelae of hunger. What he couldn't bear the most was the smell of various delicacies.
"Xiao An, are you back? When I brought back two chickens, I made salt-baked chicken. It will be delicious to eat at night." Aunt Ye replied with a smile.
Wei Yu'an slipped into the kitchen, took several deep breaths of the rich fragrance, and then said with a happy face: "The most correct thing I did was to follow the master."
When Chang Shichu came out of the study and heard his words, he couldn't help but joke: "I think you think so because Aunt Ye's cooking is delicious, right?"
"No way? I really feel that the luckiest thing for me is to be promoted by you, the master, otherwise I, a little beggar, would still be hungry in Shangzhao City." Wei Yu'an said very sincerely.
"Okay, okay, you have the sweetest mouth." Chang Shichu poked his forehead, and then asked Aunt Ye, "Can you eat?"
"Okay, the food is ready and can be eaten soon." Aunt Ye said quickly.
Chang Shichu gnawed on the freshly baked salt-baked chicken, sighed with satisfaction, and praised: "Aunt Ye, your cooking skills are really incredible!"
After hearing this, Aunt Ye smiled so hard that she couldn't see her eyes: "That's because my grandpa used to be the royal chef in the palace. I learned a lot of skills from him, and I will cook them one by one for the master in the future."
"Then I'll wait." Chang Shichu gnawed on the chicken drumsticks with rich meat flavor, feeling that if he could eat delicious food every day, living in this troubled world would be bearable.
Wei Yu'an ate so hard that he couldn't even lift his head, and his lips were shiny, like a starved wolf cub. Chang Shichu brought a glass of orange juice to him and said, "Don't eat too fast, be careful not to choke. No one will rob you."
Wei Yu'an quickly swallowed the meat in his mouth, blushed and took a sip of orange juice to moisten his throat.
This orange juice is squeezed from orange juice in the Chang Shichu space. It is sweet and tastes much better than ordinary orange juice. Everyone in the family loves to drink it.
Qing'an City is close to the sea, and many people go fishing in the sea to make a living. Aunt Ye bought a lot of seafood. The shrimps are as big as an adult man's thumb. When you peel one and dip it in some sauce, it is so delicious. The meat is so elastic and pliable that I often have to eat several at a time to feel satisfied.
There is also sea crab porridge, which is sweet and delicious, and you will never get tired of it.
Chang Shichu felt that Wei Yuan was loyal to him, probably because the food was so good.
Just when the wheat in the suburban fields was blooming, the new governor of Qing'an City finally took office. I heard that the new mayor was still a scholar of the previous dynasty. Later, the previous dynasty disappeared and the new dynasty was established. I don't know how to find a way to become a new mayor. Official, and slowly climbed to the position of chief of a city.
It's just that the current regime of the new dynasty is not very stable. Various warlords have separated themselves from each other and are kings. Although they are nominally under the jurisdiction of the central government, in fact most of them are acting in secret, otherwise the massacre in Qing'an City would not have happened. Well, it wouldn't be that only Pu Qirui and his team came to help contain the people who were killed after it happened for so long.
The new official took office three times, but this has nothing to do with Chang Shichu. She just occupied unowned land in the suburbs to grow grain, and opened several grain stores in the city. Most of her reputation is It was achieved by "killing chickens to scare monkeys".
But this prestige has no importance at all in the eyes of parents, not to mention that she is only a teenage girl, which is even more contemptuous.
So after the new chief took office, he invited Chang Shichu to a banquet with some prominent families, merchants, and gentry in An City to discuss the important matter of rebuilding Qing'an City.
"Master, do you know about the banquet that the new chief has given to celebrities in Qing'an City?" Wei Yu'an asked Chang Shichu mysteriously when he returned home one day.
"I know, what's wrong?" Chang Shichu asked.
"Then did he invite you?" Wei Yu'an asked again.
"No, it's probably because I'm too small and people don't look down on me at all." Chang Shichu said with a smile. In fact, it was better to look down on me. She didn't want to deal with these people because she expected it would be very troublesome.
It seems that some businesses need to be restrained, otherwise a big tree will attract trouble. Even if she does not provoke others, others will provoke her. Although she is not afraid of various conspiracies, she does not want to get into trouble.
"Then it seems that this officer doesn't have much ability." Wei Yu'an said somewhat unhappily.
When Chang Shichu heard what he said, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "How do you know that this person is incompetent?"
"If he is really capable, then why doesn't he know what you have done for the people of Qing'an City? Even if it is not because of your business, just because you helped bury the bodies of the people who died in the massacre, you should be invited. ? But he didn't. Isn't this just ignorance?" Wei Yu'an was very upset at Chang Shichu.
Chang Shi glanced at him for the first time and said: "Wei Yu'an, what we value may not be valued by others. I bury the bones of my murdered compatriots to prevent them from being exposed in the wilderness, because I think it is important to let them rest in peace; But other people don’t think so. Do they think it’s none of their business whether other people’s bones are collected or not? Do they deserve to care about the bones of humble civilians?”
When Wei Yu'an heard her words, he immediately fell silent. Although he was still young, he had been living on the streets since he was a child. He had seen everything. Naturally, he understood what Chang Shichu said. He said, "The bones of Zhumen are frozen to death on the road where wine and meat are smelly." The upper class The powerful people in China will not care about the lives of humble civilians. Even if the civilians die on the streets, they will only dislike the smell that suffocates them and the corpses that are an eyesore.
"Did Qing'an City have rich and powerful businessmen so quickly?" Chang Shichu was a little confused. "Didn't those wealthy families leave long before the massacre? Could it be that they are back?"
Chang Shichu has been busy with work recently and has neglected the situation in Qing'an City. He doesn't know who else has moved here.
Wei Yu'an nodded at this time and said: "I saw servants from a wealthy family buying a lot of rice at our rice and grain shop, and many ladies and ladies dressed gorgeously and richly went to the jewelry shop next door to buy jewelry. They must be wealthy people. "
Chang Shichu was really surprised at this moment. Will the upper echelons of Qing'an City return to their previous state of revelry and wealth so soon?
