Chapter 100 Octagonal Rice Dumpling (1)

But in a blink of an eye, it’s almost the Dragon Boat Festival. Wen Mingtang took out the rice dumpling leaves he had brought from Zhuangzi two days ago, and started making rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival with A Bing and glutinous rice balls.

There are five kinds of rice dumplings prepared: glutinous rice, fresh meat, bacon, red beans and...egg yolk and fresh meat.

When Liu Yuan came over, Wen Mingtang was making rice dumplings with Ah Bing and glutinous rice balls. The oily rice dumpling leaves were rolled up into a dustpan shape. An orange-yellow salted duck egg was placed in the same piece of glutinous rice that had been soaked into dark brown by the braised broth sauce. Fresh meat with suitable fat content.

This rice dumpling... Even before it was cooked in the pot, Liu Yuan couldn't help but start to swallow his saliva while watching. The salted duck eggs and fresh meat were submerged in the glutinous rice, then covered with rice dumpling leaves, and finally wrapped in colorful ropes. It was rolled twice into an octagonal shape and thrown into the wooden barrel on the side.

"Master Wen," Liu Yuan looked at the octagonal rice dumplings in the barrel and asked Wen Mingtang, "This is the first time I've seen this salted egg yolk and fresh meat filling. Is it delicious?"

Wen Mingtang glanced at him, and A Bing and Tang Yuan looked at Liu Yuan with strange eyes and asked him, "Have you ever seen Master Wen's cooking not taste good?"

Liu Yuan: "..." After a moment of silence, he said, "I've never seen stuffings like this before, so feel free to ask!"

Wen Mingtang said "Oh" and did not talk nonsense to Liu Yuan. He just continued to make rice dumplings with his head down and said, "We will eat rice dumplings for breakfast tomorrow. Just come over and eat them tomorrow!"

Liu Yuan nodded and said "Yeah", looked up at the sun above his head, held the file above his head to block the sun, then walked to A Bing's side, reached out and took away a green bamboo tube hanging from his waist. , shook the full green bamboo tube, opened the lid, and saw the reddish-brown sour plum drink with several golden osmanthus flowers floating inside, Liu Yuan nodded with satisfaction and put the green bamboo tube around his waist. , met Ah Bing's angry look, smiled and touched Ah Bing's head, and said: "You must be very thirsty if you have to go over the mountains today. I'd like to lend you this sour plum drink!"

After that, he took the sour plum drink and left.

Ah Bing, who was making rice dumplings, couldn't help but said: "I would have known Liu Sicheng if I had known, but now that I know him, he has become more and more rude! He said he was just borrowing it, but he really knows how to do it?"

It turns out that Liu Sicheng was not so rude when he was not a regular customer of the public kitchen.

Liu Yuan, carrying the sour plum drink, left Dali Temple and headed towards Yishan Academy.

Liu Yuan went to Yishan Academy, while Wei Fu visited the pen and ink shop and study in the city.

It was not until sunset that the two of them returned to Dali Temple after running around all day.

When he saw Lin Fei, he saw a bowl of ice powder with various ingredients on his desk, and he was slowly digging out the ice powder to eat.

Although he did not travel as much as Liu Yuan and Wei Fu, Lin Fei was not without gains in Dali Temple.

Pushing Bingfen aside, Lin Fei closed the file in his hand and looked at Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan drank the last bit of sour plum drink in the bamboo tube next to him in one gulp, and then handed several sheets of paper filled with writing to Lin Fei.

Lin Fei heard Liu Yuan talking while watching.

"The mountain behind Yishan Academy is not high. There are four or five families of mountain residents in it. I asked specifically, and they all said they had never seen Han Jun and his book boy." Liu Yuanxian picked up the unimportant things and started talking, "There is a house on the mountainside. There are two elderly nuns living in the small nunnery. I also went to inquire about it, but I have never seen these two people."

Lin Fei said "Hmm" and pointed to the different handwriting on the paper. Among the crooked handwriting, he found the two most elegant and upright names and said, "Are these two old nuns?"

Liu Yuan glanced at the handwriting pointed by Lin Fei, nodded in agreement, and said, "Yes, these are the two old nuns."

Lin Fei said "hmm", glanced at Liu Yuan, and motioned for him to continue.

Liu Yuan briefly talked about the situation in the mountains, and then got to the important point: "That Ruan Zhan is not in the academy today." At this point, Liu Yuan's face became more solemn and he said, "My classmates don't know him either." Where did he go? He never told him his whereabouts before leaving. I only know that he left the academy alone early in the morning before dawn. "

Liu Yuan paused and then said: "I really couldn't find Ruan Zhan, so I told the people at Yishan Academy that when I see him, he will be left behind for me. I have something to ask him."

Lin Fei said "Hmm" and turned to Wei Fu.

Seeing this, Wei Fu handed over the file in his hand and started talking.

"I have been to both the Pen and Ink Shop and the study. The owners of the shop and the study have some impressions of these two people. They are frequent visitors to the shop and the study. If there is anything special... the owner of one of the study is a man in his forties. A beautiful woman who still has her charm." Wei Fu said.

Because the makeup on Han Jun's face is particularly special, and Lin Fei once said that the lipstick color on his lips is mostly used by middle-aged women in their forties.

He really couldn't tell the difference between the colors of the lipstick, but... Wei Fu said, "The lady boss has lipstick on her lips. The color looks similar to me."

Of course, his is similar, but in his eyes it's just the same. It's hard to say whether they are the same or not.

After hearing what Wei Fu said, Lin Fei hadn't spoken yet, but Liu Yuan who was standing beside him couldn't help but said "Hey" and said in surprise: "The owner of the study is actually a beautiful woman?"

The owner of a business like a study has seen many scholars and literati, but this was the first time he saw a beautiful woman.

Wei Fu nodded, frowned, and said, "I see that she is wearing a dress that is fashionable in Chang'an City now, and it is... a little open and exposed." He is getting older, and he is really looking a little bit more. Not used to this, he paused and said, "I really feel a little out of place in a place like the study room."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan fell silent, paused, and said: "As soon as you said it, when I think about it, I feel that it is not like the boss who came out of the study. That study is really a bit unorthodox."

Before he finished speaking, Wei Fu said: "I was about to say it! When I passed by, there were four or five students who looked like gentleman in the study, all of them were handsome, tall and thin... "

As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan took a breath: "Is there such a coincidence?"

Lin Fei raised his chin and said to Wei Fu, "Keep talking."

Wei Fu said "Yeah" and added: "Although they looked at each other reading, they were actually fighting with each other. One of them even knocked down the book."

Liu Yuan: "..."

Wei Fu added: "The beautiful woman used her identity as the owner of the study to stop her. Although she was stopping him, it seemed more like she was flirting with some of the students' beaus."

Liu Yuan: "It's really unreasonable."

Wei Fu said "hmm" and then said: "Isn't it true? I was curious and asked the beautiful woman how she came up with the idea of ​​opening a study. She said that the study belonged to her husband-in-law, who died last month, so she Accept this study."

Liu Yuan twitched his lips when he heard this, and couldn't help but said: "Her husband died last month, and now she is dressing up with such charm and still flirting with her classmates?"

Wei Fu glanced at him and said, "Isn't that right? I can't stand it either, but this kind of thing doesn't violate the law, what else can I do? So he casually asked how her husband-in-law died, you know? What did she say?"

At this point, Wei Fu's expression became solemn.