Crossing town house man and wife

After clearing his mind and settling his mind, Wu Ming remembered that he came back for dinner.

The sky is big and the earth is big, with the biggest belly, Wu Ming immediately put aside his worries, took out the ginger he had just collected, got up and went to the kitchen.

But after entering the kitchen, Wu Ming found that the tortoise shell was there, arguing with the new cook there. Judging from the few words heard before and after entering the door, it seemed that she wanted to get some fruit, but the new cook refused her access.

"Ma'am!" Seeing Wu Ming coming in, Huobi immediately pouted aggrievedly, "I got your order to come to the kitchen to get something, right?"

"Yes, what's the matter?" Wu Mingming asked knowingly.

"She won't let me take it!" Tortoiseshell stared at the new cook.

The new cook immediately fell to her knees and tremblingly said, "I... I don't know... I thought... I thought..."

"Think that the tortoise shell is the same as the Zheng family who took it without warning?" Wu Ming finished the sentence for her.

The new cook didn't answer, but buried her head lower, and her shoulders began to tremble slightly.

Wu Ming stared at the sky speechlessly. For a moment, he really felt that it would be troublesome if he was too honest. If he said something nasty, the woman would probably hit the wall to apologize. In desperation, he had no choice but to act as a peacemaker, and said: " Get up, I didn't say you did something wrong! Tortoiseshell, pull her up and talk!"

"No." The tortoise shell moved in response, and pulled the new cook up from the ground.

"Remember from now on, she - Tortoiseshell, is equivalent to a small steward in this yard. When fetching something, as long as it is not pulled by a cart and someone lifts it, then leave her alone." Wu Ming pointed with his finger. Pointing to the tortoiseshell, "And you, you only need to be in charge of cooking. For example, now is the time to prepare dinner—by the way, where can I get fresh live fish here?"

"You can catch some small fish in the stream outside the camp. If you want bigger ones, you have to go to the big river to catch them." The cook replied nervously, "You... want to eat fish?"

Wu Ming glanced at the sky outside the window, saw that the sky had turned to yellow, and immediately waved his hands resentfully, "Forget it tonight, just cook two special dishes for me to taste - by the way, I don't I love vegetables."

In fact, it's not that Wu Ming doesn't like vegetables, the key is that there are not many delicious vegetables in this year.The so-called five vegetables, that is, sunflower, leek, Huo, scallion, and green onion, were passed down to later generations, and only leeks and shallots remained. It's just that if you can be very hungry, you won't be able to eat to death.

"... promise." The new cook bowed her head in response.

Wu Ming turned his head and said to Turtle Shell: "You should do whatever you want, don't delay too long, come back early, Madam, I will do a trick for you later."

"Hey?" Tortoiseshell's eyes lit up immediately, "The servant girl is not going, let's watch the madam do tricks first!"

"If you stay here right now, you have to work. If you go out and come back, you don't have to do it." Wu Ming said intentionally.

"The maidservant has to stay, is it possible that Madam has to do it herself?" Tortoise raised her chin and said righteously.

Wu Ming raised his hand and flicked her head, "Then come."

Wu Ming's so-called trick is to use saltpeter to make ice and create a cold room to store vegetables, fruits and meat that are not suitable for long-term storage.

When he lived in this courtyard, Wu Ming checked the surroundings with his spiritual sense, and found that there was an empty cellar between the small kitchen and the wing room.The only inconvenience is that the entrance is too secret, you have to go around the bushes between the small kitchen and the wing room, remove the water tank blocking it, and then open the thick copper plate below to get in.

If it wasn't for Wu Ming's spiritual consciousness, which could be used to cheat by using spiritual power, it would be difficult to open it even if he found it.

However, the difficulty of entering also has the advantage of being difficult to enter. The air is not circulated, which is more conducive to maintaining the temperature.

Wu Ming took the tortoise shell and cleaned the inside and outside of the cellar. He wanted to put the bathtub in the clean room into it to make ice, but unfortunately the entrance was too small. I was able to get a few small containers from the kitchen, fill them with water, and send them to the cellar.

Everything was ready, Wu Ming fetched saltpeter and sprinkled it into the water.

In an instant, the clear water that had just been pumped from the well froze into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The tortoise shell immediately covered its mouth in surprise, "This...is this a fairy method?!"

"I told you all, it's just a trick." While checking the hardness of the ice, Wu Ming told the tortoise shell tricks such as putting his hands into the oil pan, bean sprouts topping the Buddha, and spontaneous combustion of phosphorus fire, which made the tortoise shell exclaim incessantly. Then let the tortoiseshell try again.

"Madam, how do you know so much?" Tortoiseshell asked with admiration.

"Read books, listen to people tell stories, and then think about it yourself." Wu Ming replied half-truthfully, "By the way, are you literate?"

"How can the maid be able to read and write." Tortoise shook her head, "Aunts don't even have that chance."

Wu Ming wanted to say I'll teach you, but when he said it, he remembered that he didn't have much impression of the "elegant words" of this year. Usually speaking, he relied on the original owner's physical instincts. If he just picked out a word for him to read, maybe What will he read as something.

Forget it, don't mislead your son.

Wu Ming immediately changed his words: "If you want to learn, I will find an opportunity to teach you in the future. It is not possible recently."

"My maidservant, Mrs. Xie." Obviously it was just empty talk, but Tortoise's face was full of joy when he heard it.

Wu Ming set up the cellar, and the new cook also prepared dinner.

Although Wu Ming said that he didn't like vegetables, the new cook didn't cook pure meat dishes just because of this.She boiled a pot of soup with mutton bones, sprinkled some chopped green vegetables for decoration, and made mutton stew with shaved meat, then slaughtered a chicken, grilled the chicken wings and legs, and sliced ​​the chicken breast, Stewed with peach meat.

Seeing the stewed chicken breast with peach meat served, Wu Ming immediately thought of pineapple chicken slices. He immediately picked up a piece of chicken with chopsticks, put it in his mouth and took a bite, and was surprised to find that it tasted sweet and sour.

Wu Ming immediately said to the tortoise who came to deliver the food: "When you have time, ask that cook how she came up with the idea of ​​cooking with peaches."

"Madam likes it?" Tortoiseshell asked.

"At least it's more to my liking than the cook in the Sheriff's Mansion." Wu Ming nodded, and tried other dishes, and suddenly had a wonderful feeling that he was eating home-cooked food in the future.

The skill of the new cook is actually not very good. The chicken and peaches are sliced ​​unevenly and thickly, the radishes come in various shapes, and the heat of the lamb bone soup is obviously not enough... In short, there are many things to complain about, but she cooks The concept and method of seasoning are quite different from the cooks of this era, more like a certain housewife of later generations who passed through.

But judging from the fact that there is no cooking, this should not be a time-traveling colleague.

Wu Ming bit his chopsticks, raised his head and asked tortoise shell, "Should I reward her with something?"

"What does Madam want to reward?" Tortoiseshell asked.

"Reward money is not acceptable. I don't have a copper coin in my hand, so I can't give her gold." Wu Ming sighed, "Forget it, you can figure it out."

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to the servant girl." Tortoise nodded in response, "It happens that the servant girl also wants to test her temper."

"If she's not bad, ask her if she would like to go back to the Sheriff's Mansion with me." Wu Ming said casually.

Although Yan Heng has already assigned a cook to him, that cook is more outstanding in terms of aggressiveness. In the kitchen of the county guard's mansion, she was originally an apprentice with a higher status than the girl who burns fire. The only thing she can do is cold dishes. However, Wu Ming does not eat raw food other than fruits at all.

Therefore, as soon as he tasted that the new cook's craftsmanship was more to his liking, Wu Ming began to poach the wall.

Anyway, he is the sheriff's wife, and no one can blame him for having more cooks.

Tortoise shell did not expect Wu Ming to be so tempted by the new cook's skill, she was stunned for a moment before recovering, then nodded again, "I understand."

Although Wu Ming was quite satisfied with the new cook's craftsmanship, Wu Ming didn't take this matter too seriously. After dinner, he took a bath as usual, breathing out and doing meritorious deeds.

What surprised Wu Ming was that Yan Heng didn't come over that night.

Wu Mingdu had already drawn the location of the nearest iron mine, and was about to wait for Yan Heng to come over to slap him in the face. Unexpectedly, this guy came to the bottom and refused to show his face.

I can't believe you'll never come here for the rest of your life!

Wu Ming angrily put away the map, slandered and undressed to sleep.

The next afternoon, when the sun was westward, Yan Heng rushed over in a filial piety.

Wu Ming is currently in the yard of the paper factory, testing the soybean ash they found.There is no ph test paper these days, and spells can't do this kind of overly scientific work. Wu Ming can only use the most troublesome method, dissolving plant ash in water, then filtering it with linen, and then heating the filtrate, waiting inside The water evaporates to a certain extent, then turn off the flame and cool it down to see if there are any crystals.

In fact, there is an easier way, that is to taste it with your mouth. The bitter and astringent taste can basically be regarded as containing alkali, and the accuracy is likely to be higher than that of rough distillation analysis.

But doing so will inevitably be dangerous, and the origin of these plant ash is also unwilling to imagine. God knows what disgusting things are mixed in it, so Wu Ming would rather toss about it than take a chance.

After some tests, only crystals were precipitated from the plant ash that Liu Qi found.

Wu Ming was about to use vinegar for further testing, but Yan Heng led someone into the yard and interrupted his experiment.

"Junshou!" Huang Dou and the others hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

Yan Heng ignored the auxiliary soldiers on the ground, walked directly to Wu Ming, and asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

As soon as Yan Heng entered the door, he was attracted by what Wu Ming was doing. It looked like he was cooking, but he didn't find anything to eat around.

"A little test." Wu Ming waved his hand and asked Yan Heng to stand back, away from the pottery plate containing the filtrate, so as not to hurt him in the event of an accident.

Yan Heng didn't know why, but he took a few steps back according to Wu Ming's request.

Seeing that everyone around him retreated to a safe distance, Wu Ming dripped vinegar into the filtrate, and at the same time released aura to protect himself.

Fortunately, both the alkalinity of the filtrate and the acidity of vinegar are very weak. After the vinegar is dripped in, the filtrate has a series of bubbles and no other reaction.

Wu Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and straightened up, "Today's reward belongs to Liu Qi. Starting tomorrow, you all go together with Liu Qi to collect this kind of plant ash—remember, it must be exactly the same!"

"Promise!" Yan Heng stood beside him, and Huang Dou and the others didn't dare to talk too much anymore, and agreed in unison.

"Okay, that's it for today." Wu Ming poured the rest of the filtrate back into the jar filled with plant ash residue, and continued, "Liu Qi will come with me to get the meat in a while, and the rest will clean up the yard, and then we can love each other." What are you doing?"

After finishing speaking, Wu Ming turned to look at Yan Heng, "What's the matter?"

"Can't you come here if you have nothing to do?" Yan Heng's mouth twitched slightly, "This seems to be my military camp."

"Oh, that's right!" Wu Mingzhang seemed to nod suddenly.

Yan Heng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and simply continued to ask, "What are you doing?"

"Alkali making." Wu Ming answered concisely.

But Yan Heng couldn't understand, and immediately asked in astonishment: "What?"

Wu Ming sighed heavily, "Stop asking nonsense, I'll just tell you what I'm going to do!"

"Good." Yan Heng nodded.

Good at your size, no matter how good you are!

Wu Mingxin slandered, but he replied, "I'm going to filter something out of plant ashes, and then use it to make something called soap, which can be used for washing clothes and bathing."

"Can it only be used to wash clothes and take a shower?" Yan Heng suddenly looked disappointed.

"It can still be sold for money!" Wu Ming rolled his eyes depressed.