[Red House] No one knows that it is lychee

When Jia Baoyu knew that he had bit off the head of something, his whole body froze.

However, it was too late, Lizhi carried out Lin Daiyu's order sympathetically, and drove Jia Baoyu out of Lin Daiyu's cabin.

Before closing the door, Lizhi also said to Jia Baoyu: "Second Master Bao, although this radish is worthless, it will bite off your head..."

Lizhi hesitated to speak, with a troubled expression that could not hide the gloating, his heart as big as Jia Baoyu could see it: "Lizhi, you... you are helping me to say something nice."

And don't laugh so happily, you make me unable to pretend like this.

Lizhi suppressed a smile, blessed Jia Baoyu, and then went back to the house.

Lin Daiyu was sitting on the couch sulking, looking at Bai Suzhen who had lost her head in her hands, the circles of Lin Daiyu's eyes slowly turned red.Lizhi originally wanted to have a joke with Lin Daiyu, but seeing Lin Daiyu's signs seemed wrong, Lizhi also panicked: "Girl, girl, what's wrong?"

Lin Daiyu raised her head and glanced at Lizhi, with an inexplicable aggrieved expression on her small face: "You...you just carved it, I haven't...read it carefully, so I called him..."

After speaking, Lin Daiyu became angry again: "If there is any good thing, I will never read it with him again."

Lizhi couldn't help laughing, she said: "Girl, you don't have to be upset about this, it's just a little thing, if you like it, I'll make another good one."

Only then did Lin Daiyu stop her tears, she looked at Lizhi curiously: "You can still carve? That's a good thing."

Lizhi's expression was a bit subtle: "...It's...it's okay, but the girl asked me to carve a stone, I'm afraid it won't work, but I can carve radish and eggplant or something."

Lin Daiyu was startled, and then burst out laughing: "That's all, since that's the case, then I want you to carve another one for me, no matter what it is, as long as it's interesting."

Lizhi smiled: "There are not many radishes on this boat, if I ruin it, won't the girl feel bad?"

Lin Daiyu had already forgotten the unhappiness just now, and she waved her hand grandly: "When we arrive in Yangzhou, I will bring you a cartload of radishes."

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On the second day, Jia Baoyu really went to the boat boss with a jug of wine, and he also asked Lychee to cook him some food.Lychee couldn't stand Jia Baoyu's soft and hard cooking, so he could only cook a few dishes for him.

The boat boss was a little surprised when he saw Jia Baoyu. He didn't expect that Jia Baoyu really came, and the servant behind him was still carrying food.

The boss of the boat was a little embarrassed for a while: "This...young master, we are inferior people, don't want to stain your clothes."

Jia Baoyu shook his head: "Father is fate, what's the difference?" He also invited the boat boss to sit down and have a drink with him.

Looking at Jia Baoyu, a young boy, with a face full of insight into the world, the boss of the boat wanted to laugh, he was a rough man, since Jia Baoyu himself didn't mind, he sat down as well - mainly because of this dish smell It tastes really fragrant, and the boss of the boat can hear his stomach growling.

Jia Baoyu and the boat boss sat facing each other. The boat boss drank a glass of wine and sighed: "I spend most of the time on the boat this year. There are really not many days where I can drink."

Jia Baoyu said: "If you like it, turn around and get off the boat, and the rest will be given to you!"

But the boss of the boat shook his head and refused: "Young master, you don't know something. There is not much space for storing things on this boat. If there is wine, there will be no room for other things. Besides, drinking is a mistake, and I will spend a while." Addiction."

Jia Baoyu nodded half-understood, the boss of the boat had another drink by himself, he felt much better, and the chatterbox opened up.He continued to tell Jia Baoyu the strange people and strange things he had seen in traveling all these years, with some stories of ghosts and ghosts mixed in, which made Jia Baoyu stunned for a while.

After drinking for three rounds, the table is already messed up, and the wine is almost drunk.Jia Baoyu was very happy listening to those stories. The boss of the boat also seemed very happy because he drank good wine.

In the end, the boss of the boat who wiped out most of the bottle of wine by himself said blushingly: "Actually, over the years, I have met so many guests, and the most powerful one is probably that Mr. Chen Yuetang."

Jia Baoyu was taken aback, and when he heard the name Chen Yuetang, he immediately woke up from his slightly drunken state.He looked at the boss of the boat, and subconsciously asked: "This...have you ever carried Chen Yuetang?"

"Hehe, isn't that right?" The boss of the boat smiled proudly, "Speaking of which, Chen Yuetang is just like you, young master, who dragged me to talk for a long time."

Jia Baoyu sighed: "To tell you the truth, I went to Yangzhou this time under the arrangement of my family to go to Chen Daru's apprenticeship."

"Isn't this very good?" The boss of the boat widened his eyes, "Oh, I see, the young master is afraid that he won't be able to worship him, right?"

Jia Baoyu nodded with a tangled expression—it wasn't necessarily because he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to worship, and a small part of the reason was that he didn't want to go.

The boss of the boat didn't notice Jia Baoyu's entanglement, he directly raised his chin and patted his chest, with a proud face: "Young master, wait for me for a while!"

After saying that, the boss of the boat ran back to his room, not knowing what to do.

Jia Baoyu sat there and waited for a long time, then the boat boss came back in a hurry, when he sat down, the boat boss handed something to Jia Baoyu: "Young master, I will give you this thing. At the beginning, Master Chen said, if I have a child who wants to go to school, I can go to him to learn from him. It’s just that my family can’t bear to have children, but now I have a good relationship with you, young master.”

Jia Baoyu quickly stretched out his hand to pick up the thing handed over by the boss of the boat. Hearing that it was given by Chen Yuetang, Jia Baoyu thought it was a token of jade pendant at first, but as soon as he held the thing in his hand, Jia Baoyu realized something was wrong.

——Why is this thing furry, and the bottom is like a round copper plate.

Jia Baoyu held the thing in his hand, looked carefully, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry - he really did not make a mistake, the boat boss actually gave him a shuttlecock!

...Are you mistaken?How can there be a shuttlecock here?

However, the boss of the boat said with certainty: "That's it, young master, you just take it. When you arrive in Yangzhou, you can take this with you when you visit Mr. Chen, and that's all."

Jia Baoyu hesitantly took the shuttlecock away, still muttering in his heart—is such a half-new shuttlecock useful?

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While Jia Baoyu was chatting with the boss of the boat, Lizhi was hiding in the small cabin on the boat, holding a carving knife in his hand, carefully looking at the few... carrots in front of him.

It was really helpless, there were not many vegetables on the boat, and the only thing that could last in winter was radishes.Lizhi took the green radish and began to think about how to carve it.

Sculpture is also a part of cooking. Different from ordinary carving, the carving at this time is more about finishing touch or icing on the cake.When lychee was still in modern times, learning cooking skills at home also started with knife skills.

Since Lin Daiyu likes it today, why not carve some flowers for her, which are also beautiful.

After Lizhi made up his mind, he first cut the green radish into several sections with a knife, and then picked up the section in the head, wielding the knife in his hand quickly, and peeled off the skin of the green radish in two or three strokes.

Then, the lychee drew two semi-arcs with a knife on the cut plane, and closed them together to make a petal shape.Then the knife sticks to that petal, and slowly cuts it off, not to the end, but leaving some connections at the root.

After cutting out a circle of evenly connected petals, Lizhi turned the green radish slightly, and inserted a knife into the place where the petals and radish connected, first cut off some of the excess, and then repeated the previous action, only this time The position of the petals should be different from the last time, slightly staggered, and appear more layered.

The carvings are not very complicated. After the lychee went back and forth a few times, several blooming flowers appeared on the table, looking fresh and lively, delicate and lovely.

It just seemed a bit off.

Lizhi thought for a while, and resignedly took another carrot.After cutting off the head and tail, the knife in his hand rose and fell a few times, and he pulled out the rough embryo of a goldfish.Then she took another small semi-curved iron ring, and used it to press and carve the rough embryo with her fingers nimbly. A few, and the head pattern of the lion head goldfish is completed.

Then continue to carve with the knife, and process the rough embryo just now to make it more like a goldfish. At the same time, the knife took out the gills on both sides, connected with the scales, and dug them out together.Just like carving rose flowers just now, don't go to the end, just leave the roots a little bit.

Then, she cut a slit on the back of the goldfish, took a slightly larger piece of carrot in her hand, drew some ravines with the horizontal knife, and finally cut an arc with the knife, and inserted the peeled radish into the back of the goldfish. This is the fish. fin.

Finally, I carved out the fish tail and the other two smaller fins with the green radish that was left just now. When Lizhi split the fish tail slightly, the two petals of the fish tail unfolded gently. happy up.

Also inserted the carved thing into the body of the goldfish, Lizhi held the goldfish, feeling that there was still something missing.

After thinking for a long time, Lizhi suddenly realized, she stood up, ran to the place where the seasoning was placed, and finally took a pepper.After returning, press the peppercorns on the fish eyes, and the final fish eyes are completed.

Lizhi looked at his work with great satisfaction: flowers dotted, goldfish wandered, it looked so poetic and picturesque.

...It's just that the smell of radish in the cabin is a bit strong.

The author has something to say:

Ask a question, I don’t know if you like to read the kind of farming and basic construction articles, I want to ask for opinions _(:з」∠)_

PS: Some people say that it is impossible for the boatman to give the shuttlecock to Jia Baoyu. I am talking about it in detail. In ancient times, as a commoner class, it was basically impossible to afford to go to school.

First of all, in the farming era, the cost of supporting a population that is completely out of agricultural labor is not low. It requires the consumption of several agricultural labors, which is by no means allowed by ordinary poor families.In ancient times, children usually came out to pick up dung at the age of seven.

Then go to Beijing to rush for the exam, which is the biggest expense.The relative cost of traveling in ancient times was much higher than in modern times. Not to mention ancient times, even in the 80s, a train ticket from Beijing to Sichuan was enough for many farmers in remote areas to earn a year’s farming income.

Such a journey would take two months, how much would it cost to stay in a hotel along the way?Moreover, scholars generally have book boys, which is also a cost.In fact, long-distance travel in ancient times was also very dangerous. Whether you can come back alive is another matter.

Of course, Chen Yuetang is a great contemporary Confucian, and he always wants to be more powerful, which is different from ordinary reading.But the boatman still couldn't afford it, which involved pen, ink, paper and inkstone and other miscellaneous expenses. Chen Yuetang was only responsible for teaching, not for money. As for the clan's supply... If the family has land and clan, why come out to be a boatman?Scholars, farmers, businessmen, of course, are based on farming.

That's why I said that the boatman gave things to Baoyu. It's not abrupt. If I explain it and still think it's not right, then I can't help it.