Pan Jinlian's petty bourgeoisie life

It made Mrs. Chai and Li very happy, and hurriedly asked the dowry girl behind him to help the two of them back to their seats, and he couldn't help nodding and saying with a smile:

"I understand your filial piety. This is an old problem of mine. I usually see doctors, but I don't follow them. I don't bother to eat those bitter medicinal soups. But when the problem occurs, take less Things, just be patient."

The two daughters-in-law looked at each other and stopped trying to persuade them, but they secretly invited the best doctor in the city, Miracle Doctor Wang, to come over and wait outside the door for someone to accompany them.Seeing the person coming, Mrs. Chai and Li naturally couldn't drive him out. While secretly lamenting the filial piety of the two daughters-in-law, he let them invite the genius doctor in, but the two hid behind the screen first. Leave a bunch of women and maids to serve.

Pan Jinlian stood with the wives, naturally she didn't have the luck to rest behind the screen, watching the fat and white doctor with the goatee, felt the pulse of Chai Li in a serious manner, and said something that she didn't understand. In other words, it means that you need to eat some soup and medicine.Mrs. Chai and Li thought for a while, then waved his hand and declined:

"Old genius doctor, this is an old problem of mine, and you know it too. It's just not good after taking as many medicines as you can. Just make some pills. I don't take decoctions."

Doctor Wang saw that she was so resolute, he didn't dare to persuade her anymore, so he quickly agreed, and asked the family's respectable servants to follow him to the tea room for tea, and Mrs. Chai and Li ordered some new year's goods to be brought home for him, so that people surrounded her I went back to my room.

Pan Jinlian also left her errands, walked along the path to her own yard, thoughtful in her heart, but when she arrived at the small garden, she saw a housekeeper in black at home calling for people to move things to the small corner gate, and Doctor Wang stood with his hands behind his back. Watch it there.With a thought in her mind, she smiled and went up to wish Doctor Wang a blessing, and asked softly:

"Master Miracle Doctor, our young lady asked me to come over and ask her what the disease is like, and you will give us a letter so that we can take care of my wife's diet in the future."

Doctor Wang turned around and took a look at Pan Jinlian, his eyes widened immediately, and he spoke in a daze. Pan Jinlian coughed softly, and then the doctor came back to his senses, rolled his eyelids and replied:

"Madam's illness is caused by stagnant qi stagnation. It is not useless to take decoctions before, but it seems to be ineffective after the stagnant qi in the chest has just dissipated. It is also difficult to cure, but the good thing is that one white radish a day can cure it, but the fear is that it will happen again after it is cured.”

Pan Jinlian only heard that one white radish a day can cure diseases, so she came up with an idea. She thanked Dr. Wang, and immediately turned around and left. When seeing her, she even drools, which is really unbearable.But listening to what he said made me think of a good way to stop being starved and punished, so it was not a waste of time.

Back in her own yard, the gate was open. It turned out that Chai Wu had come back early because he had nothing to do during the day. When Pan Jinlian entered the house, Chai Wu was taking out many things from his bag.

"Just came back, look at what I prepared, you told me to buy some vegetables, I bought them for you right now. There are radishes, cabbage, sweet potatoes, magnolia and lotus root, as well as a piece of chicken and a piece of mutton. It’s a top-quality tenderloin, and it won’t go bad if it’s frozen in our small wing, so it’s just right for Chinese New Year.”

Things slowly piled up on the table, but Pan Jinlian was very happy, she just wanted to get what she wanted, she was thinking about going out to buy some vegetables just now, but she didn't expect Chai Wu to actually bring them back.

"It's good to have radishes, and I'll make you a dish to try."

Pan Jinlian washed her hands, saw that the sky was half dark, but there was still some sunshine, and there was still some time before dinner, so she moved the knife and bamboo cutting board from the small room to the bedroom, where no one could enter except for others. A good place to do bad things.Pick up a washed radish, finely cut it into vermicelli-like filaments along the texture, soak it in water for half an hour to deodorize, and cut magnolia shreds and chicken shreds, and smash a few mung bean cakes in the box into powder , Take out the shredded radish and put it on the line, put it on the pot and steam it, the scallops, dried shrimps and chicken are hung in the soup, and then put the steamed shreds of various colors in the soup pot to boil, and it will be fragrant when you take it out Luoyang Jelly.

"Actually, there are still a lot of seasonings missing. If you add tendons, sea cucumber, ham and eggs, it will look good and delicious. There is another name for this dish called Saiyan's Nest. How about you try it first?"

Seeing what she said, Chai Wu saw that the bowl was beautifully shaped like a peony flower, so he couldn't help picking it up with chopsticks to taste it carefully, and couldn't help pointing his fingers in praise:

"It's delicious, it's really delicious. I've never eaten such a delicious radish. It really tastes like bird's nest."

Pan Jinlian smiled slightly. Naturally, she had to be careful. Whether she could have lunch before she separated from her family would depend on this dish, but she didn't need to tell him.

The dinner delivered today is solid white flour steamed buns with braised pork, a few pieces of salted duck meat marinated into black, and fried celery powder. After eating the steamed buns, throw away the rest.After eating, Chai Wu put on his overcoat and put the food box outside the yard. When he came back, he bolted the gate, went into the house and lit the oil lamp, looked at the account book, and Pan Jinlian slowly calculated what he should buy for the New Year under the lamp. Things, it is estimated that the Chai family will not think of the two of them anymore, it is better to be self-reliant, as for that part of the people, they should come out as soon as possible.

Just as she was thinking about it, she saw a black spot on her head. When she raised her eyes, it turned out that Chai Wu was standing next to her and staring at her at some point. Pan Jinlian couldn't help but blushed, rolled her eyes and said angrily:

"You want to scare me to death, have you read the ledger?"

"It's over, Jinlian, let's finish the second half of the book."

Saying that, Chai Wumian turned red all of a sudden, but quickly lowered the curtain with both hands, and the red gauze curtain immediately covered Pan Jinlian's eyes, and then the oil lamp went out.

It's really nothing, but I don't seem to hate it... Pan Jinlian was pushed down on the bed in a daze, thinking in her heart, and then there was a rustling sound, which made it impossible for her to think anymore.

27 lunch

Pan Jinlian huddled under the thick quilt obediently, cursing Chai Wu in her heart, a black-hearted, rotten, cannibalistic scoundrel, who would have put the disaster in the stove to ignite the fire if he knew it earlier, and saved his fire brought up.

However, the quilt was much colder without one person, and she began to miss the time when she could keep warm together——Chai Wu got dressed early in the morning and went to Yanggu County, saying that it was time to finish the work there by the end of the year I can come back earlier to spend the New Year with her.It was unexpected that she would spend the first New Year here at Chai's house.

Enduring the cold, she put on a thick cotton-padded jacket and overcoat. Chai Wu had already sat on the brass kettle on the stove, poured hot water to wash up, and Pan Jinlian put on a big cloak and a hood, and carefully carried the basket. Look out from the small corner gate, it is the hectic Chinese New Year time, and there is only a half-grown boy in the corner gate watching there, and the rest of the young laborers are busy moving the New Year's goods from various shops, so naturally there are not many people see.

Pan Jinlian realized that it was really the New Year's Eve when she walked down the street. Compared with Yanggu County, this place is more bustling and bustling. The markets and shops are full of people, and the doors tied with colorful flags and red paper hang high. , I heard the sound of firecrackers from time to time, and the children took a lot of dough and candied haws and shuttled through the crowd, which was also a peaceful and prosperous world.

Pan Jinlian stepped on the hard ground and looked around, and found a big shop with a bright carved door. There are several large counters, and even a lot of them are placed on the floor. The boys are all standing behind with full of smiles to serve the customers, as if they are born with the best temper.At the end of the year, when the shops distribute money and food, these little guys often only get the money and go home to reunite with their families only at the end of the year, so they are really happy from the bottom of their hearts.

While thinking about Pan Jinlian, she picked out a few things she wanted, such as cloud leg bacon, sea cucumber, dried shrimps and scallops, chicken fir from the south, and fungus and hawthorn from the north.She and Chai Wu were the only people living in the small courtyard, and no one saw her go out, which naturally saved some quarrels.

After warming up in her own room for a while, Pan Jinlian got up and distributed all the things in the basket, put them in the small room and hung them up with ropes. Turnips, made jelly-dried vegetables according to yesterday's method, and added ham, tendons, fungus, scallops and chicken conglomerate to boil the soup for a whole morning. After covering the smell of the medicine, I put down the filaments of various colors and boiled it.

Seeing that it was already lunch time, Pan Jinlian had already locked the door, and no one could come in. Seeing that she didn't come up to serve on time, the housekeeper's wife came over and knocked on the door:

"Chai Wu's family, the lazy lady overslept, hurry up and serve lunch!"

Pan Jinlian sat down on a chair leisurely while listening, and scooped up soup with a small spoon, as well as hanging stove biscuits filled with sesame seeds and bacon in honey sauce just out of the pan, and small snacks filled with roses, naturally she would not Pay attention to what the old woman said.

After a while, the door became quiet. Pan Jinlian knew that she must have complained to Chai Li or Chai Wang in the past, so she took the pot off the fire, found a porcelain bowl and filled it with a large amount. Bowl of soup, put it in the food box carefully