North and South groceries

The emperor's face is naturally still to be given. After all, this is the foot of the emperor. If Luo Yong and Aunt Luo still want to develop in Chang'an City, what good will it do to offend the emperor? trouble.

So after the waiter Xu clarified his identity, Luo Yong told him that the making of this cake would take some time, and it must be too late today, and the preparations should start from now, at least until the morning of the next day. good.

"So I'm going to trouble Assistant Luo!" Xu Neishi was also relieved when he heard this.

Assistant Professor Luo has always been known as the coffin board. He came late today and couldn't buy the cake. If there is no such thing as him, it may be difficult to explain when he returns.

"It's a trivial matter, nothing to worry about." Luo Yong said with a smile: "Although the cake is not as delicious as mountains and seas, it is quite popular with women. It should be no bad for the nobles in the palace. It's just that the palace city is far away from Guangde Square. It's not too close. If you have to go out to buy it every time, it's really inconvenient. It's not too difficult if Xu Neishi comes to take a look when I make the cake tomorrow night. If you learn it, you can buy it in the future Then I can make cakes in the palace myself."

When Xu's servant heard this, he was overjoyed. The servants like them were not only physically handicapped, but also had no protection at all as slaves in the palace.

The Tian family was also afraid of eunuchs usurping power, and they were not allowed to read and write since they were young. Once they made a mistake, they would be beaten at least, or even killed at worst. In the eyes of the world, the life of an eunuch is always very low. , can still survive until the day when he leaves the palace to marry, but the eunuch has to serve the heavenly family within the palace walls until he grows old.

They are too old to use, and then go out of the palace to find their own way of life. There is no other place for them outside the palace, and most of them go to some temples to die in their dying years.

The Buddha said that all living beings are equal, and equality is very good, but these temples are not for them to live in vain. Many eunuchs planned for their old age. When they were young, they began to donate incense money to these temples, and even raised funds to renovate the temples. Yes, just to have a place to go when I get old.

"Thank you, Assistant Professor Luo, for your kindness. I have to report this matter to the saint first." The waiter Xu clapped his hands at Luo Yong.No matter how much he wants to learn in his heart, he can't make his own opinion on this matter, it depends on the emperor's will.

"Good." Luo Yong also cupped his hands to him, and said, "If the saint agrees, you can come to Guangdefang tomorrow night, and I'll make cakes here. If the saint refuses, you can come here early in the morning." , don’t be too late, I have to go to Tai Tai to learn a little bit.”

"Sanlang can rest assured that he won't miss your time for the omen." Xu Neishi assured.

After all, it was to be presented to the sage, neither Xu Neishi nor Luo Yong dared to be negligent.It would be best for Luo Yong to make this thing at that time, hand it over to Xu Neishi himself, and let him present it to the emperor. I'm sorry, if the trouble gets serious and there is a poisoning incident or something, ten heads of both of them will not be enough to lose.

It was precisely because of this that Luo Yong proposed to teach the servant Xu the skill of making cakes, and then asked them to make them and eat them by themselves. Naturally, Luo Yong didn't have anything to do.

Luo Yong had a relatively good impression of this servant Xu, at least he didn't have any bad feelings.Although until the 21st century, many people still had a deep prejudice against the group of eunuchs, thinking that they were a group of perverts with abnormal physical and psychological Crowds often admire and yearn for it, beautifying it to the utmost.

Luo Yong knows that not everyone who is physically handicapped must also be mentally handicapped, and not everyone who has encountered misfortune in his childhood will become a vicious anti-social person when he grows up, at least he himself Did not grow up anti-social.

Besides, there are scumbags in every group. Just because of the existence of that part of scum, we cannot deny their entire group. Sometimes the reason why a group is easily discredited is not necessarily because they are black, but because they are weak , unable to speak out for themselves, the group of eunuchs has been trampled into the mud from the moment they were born.

On this side, when the servant Xu returned to the palace, the emperor was chatting with a minister, and the emperor and his ministers were talking and laughing, but the servant Xu didn't make a sound, but stood aside with his hands down and waited.

After the minister left, the waiter Xu went up to report to the emperor that he went to Guangdefang to buy cakes this morning, and apologized to the emperor for not buying the cakes in time.

"It's okay, since Luo Sanlang said so, then you can go to Guangdefang to learn how to make cakes with him tomorrow night." The emperor was actually a little curious. How is it made.

"Here." Xu Neishi bowed in response.

The emperor raised his eyes and looked at the servant in front of him with his head lowered and hands down, and asked him, "What does servant Xu think of Luo Sanlang?"

"I don't know." Xu's servant's attitude became more and more obedient. He is actually a servant of high grade, and he can also be a minister to the emperor, but their grade, in the eyes of some court ministers, is nothing more than a joke, except for this The eunuch himself in the palace, who would take the eunuch's grade seriously.

"That's all, you go down." The emperor waved his hand and said.

"Here." Xu Neishi bowed his head and said, then left the room.

In fact, Xu Neishi has a very good impression of Luo Yong, because he does not feel any contempt for the other party, which is very rare, even for some celebrities who claim to be broad-minded nowadays, it is often difficult Treat these eunuchs as ordinary people.

It's just that he wouldn't be so stupid as to say these words in front of the emperor.Not only would the emperor not appreciate a person who could easily make the servants around him feel good, but he would also feel jealous.And as a servant, being thoughtful and assertive has never been a virtue they should have.

In the 11th year of Zhenguan, on December [-]th, in the evening, the servant Xu in the palace brought two followers to the Ma's guest house before the curfew. In a guest room in this guest house, he saw with his own eyes The whole process of making cakes by Luo Sanlang.

"...This is cream. After the milk has been left to stand for a day and a half, the milk and oil will be slightly separated, so I scooped the oil on top and used it. Add some syrup into it and it can be sent. Add grapefruit juice to remove The fishy smell makes it fresher, and it tastes more refreshing. If there are other fruits and vegetables in the palace, you can also try something different..."

Luo Yong taught while doing, and explained everything in great detail.

A few oil lamps were lit in the room, illuminating the room very brightly. Even the lines of the butter turning in the mixing bucket can be seen clearly, and Luo Yong's expression is also very serious and focused.

"Take a look this time. You can try to do it yourself when you get back. If you can't do it, come back on the night of the [-]th. Although I'm going to court on the [-]th, the breakfast here still has to be done." As usual, many students and women from Chang'an City will come to eat..."

"How did Sanlang think of cooking food in this way?" Xu Neishi watched and listened, and naturally asked the question in his heart.

"It's just a coincidence." Luo Yong said with a smile.It was just a coincidence that he traveled through a time, and with the memory of more than 1000 years later, he lived in this era as a teenager.

"So that's the case." Xu Neishi smiled, but didn't go any further.

Isn't it just a coincidence, this Luo Sanlang figured out such a method of making milk by chance, and he was sent by the saint to buy cakes by chance, but the cake was not bought, but Luo Sanlang promised to teach it His cake making skills.

Xu Neishi stood aside and watched Luo Yong make the cake seriously. He always had a humble and cowardly face. At this time, there was also a smile on his face. Under the light, there seemed to be some faint gleams. .

He thought of his complaints about fate in the past, and the resentment in his heart, but at this moment he felt that those resentments were totally unreasonable, God had treated him well enough, and in his humble and ordinary life, one day he could see such an incredible feeling with his own eyes. It is amazing that someone can make such exquisite food with ordinary things like milk and eggs. Not only has he seen it with his own eyes, but he is also fortunate to be able to learn such a skill.

It must be that such a blessing is really too great, that's why those days in the past were so difficult, just to save up those thin blessings in his life, and use them up once again at this time.

The rich and fresh smell of cream wafted through the room. Luo Sanlang held the tools in his hands, and on a snow-white cake as big as his arms were folded, there were colorful flowers dotted one by one. He watched those delicate flowers one by one. Blooming out one by one, he seems to have those flowers in his heart, blooming one by one in the originally barren and barren land...

He also thought of those long, seemingly endless years, the bottomless wells in the palace, the thick, round and high beams, the eunuchs who disappeared without a sound, and the young He looked down at the well and looked up at the beam countless times, thinking that his life was an endless torment.

But today he is standing here, in the sweet fragrance of the room, watching those dreamy flowers blooming one by one...