Tang's dining table

Cui is a good person.

Yun Chu can prove this. She is not only good to her masters Yun Chu and Naha, but also to all the people in the yard who depend on the Yun family for life.

During the day, she whipped the maid twice for breaking a pile of porcelain, but at night, she would bring ointment to help her apply the wounds and talk a lot.

Therefore, the maids in the courtyard are very afraid of Mrs. Cui, but they are willing to be the first to tell Mrs. Cui when something happens.

Ms. Cui is a person who has suffered greatly, so she knows how difficult it is to live in her current life.

After being away from Chang'an for fourteen years, now that she has returned, no one knows her. Even the people who were as close as sisters in the past are like strangers when they meet at the foot of the giant phoenix in Jinchangfang.

One is a lady with a high bun on her temples and hairpins on her head, and she is surrounded by people from behind. The other is a servant girl dressed in blue cloth and wearing hairpins.

One is walking on the road with his head held high, looking in all directions, while the other is waiting at the roadside with his head bowed, waiting for the noble person to go first.

It's not that Ms. Cui is pretending well, but, so what if they know each other?

Telling about the pain of the past fourteen years, or hoping that she can help him restore his former glory?

For fourteen years, I had been humiliated and was already haggard. Instead of joining in humble search for the remaining trace of family affection, I would rather stay in the Yun family and help this proud young man achieve great things.

At least, she has not been humiliated at all since entering the Yun family, which was an impossible thing in the past.

Ms. Cui knew that the head of the family, Yunchu, was different from all the heads of the house that she knew. The biggest difference was that this head of the house did not like slaves.

It's not that he doesn't like having slaves in his family, but he doesn't like all slaves and slave owners.

Such a family head would not have been able to survive in Chang'an and the Tang Dynasty, but he was really smart and made up for his shortcomings very well.

In the bathhouse, I watched Naha use the stupidest way to help the poor - giving out money!

She gave money to everyone she met, but she didn't have enough money, which made the little girl unhappy.

Mrs. Cui held the sullen Naha in her arms distressedly. She wanted to laugh, but she couldn't. She wanted to advise Naha not to be like this, but she found that she was not qualified and had no position to say anything wrong with this child, because she Nothing was done wrong.

Naha was secretly touching Cui's chest which was no longer full... Cui held the child who secretly missed her mother tightly in her arms, wishing she could transform into the child's mother and give her all her love. .

Di Renjie, who had not been seen for a long time, moved into the shabby room with plum blossoms and a shabby inscription.

At the same time, many students moved in. In the past, the monthly fee seemed unattainable. Now, as the value of copper coins has declined, this high price has become very reasonable.

Therefore, all the empty houses in Jinchangfang were quickly filled with people.

The old Kaiyuan Tongbao is no longer seen on the market, replaced by new money. The money has changed a level, but the prices in Chang'an City have not fallen back.

The scholars' canteen has been opened. No money is used for transactions here. Scholars usually come to eat with special bamboo chips.

Here, three meals are served a day. If you want to eat the fourth meal served at midnight, you have to spend your own money to buy bamboo chips.

Yun Chu habitually used bamboo chips to eat, just like he used to eat in the cafeteria with meal tickets at school.

Today’s meals include steamed buns, corn rice, noodle soup... a total of sixteen varieties, each bamboo stick can only eat four kinds, and there is also a free thing called Shuixiu soup, which looks like a lot of silk floating on it. Egg flowers, in fact, no one can get what they want from it.

Yun Chu packed himself some cold lotus vegetables in a box, made an omelette, and the mutton cook only gave him one piece. He also took a salt vegetable pot, inserted two whole-wheat steamed buns on the chopsticks, and found an empty seat. After sitting down, I saw that everyone was queuing up to drink Shuixiu Soup, so I went over to get a bowl.

When Yun Chu saw Di Renjie, who was sitting across from him, filling his rice plate with red roasted pork in soy sauce, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to fatten yourself to death in the future?"

Di Renjie curled his lips and said, "You charge me the same amount of money a month, but you still don't allow me to eat enough?"

Seeing the greasy pork entering Di Renjie's bloody mouth, Yun Chu shook his head and felt that it was right for this guy to be fatter. After all, except for one thin man he had seen before, everyone else was fat.

"How did you go to Chongrenfang? I got a few embroidered ribbons, but I didn't see you coming to my place to show off."

Di Renjie shook his head and said, "Something happened."

"Caught on the spot?"

"Oh, it would be great if it were like this. If someone catches you, it's just a few sticks. After all, this kind of thing is still a matter of mutual consent. As long as you don't sleep with other people's mistresses or love concubines, it's basically Nothing happened.

The problem is, Qiu Shenji, that beast, strangled a little maid to death while doing business. "

"Qiu Shenji, why does this name sound familiar to me?"

"The son of General Youwuwei Qiu Xinggong is now a student at the Imperial College, and he was there that night.

What was originally a very interesting thing, but he did it like this, which made everyone lose interest. There were a few people who cut off their ties to this beast on the spot, and I was one of them. "

"Is there no end to this matter?"

"No, that family is from Tubo. The former Prime Minister of Tibet, Lu Dongzan, lived there in my Tang Dynasty.

The woman's family didn't care that a servant girl died, and even gave Qiu Shenji a gold hairpin, saying that she didn't serve Qiu Shenji well.

Qiu Shenji used the gold hairpin as a hairpin to invite us to the Homesickness Residence for drinking and watching singing and dancing, but we all rejected him. Then, this bitch swore that if we didn't give him face today, he would definitely not give us face in the future. "

After hearing what Di Renjie said, Yun Chu finally remembered who this person was. He was the third most ruthless official in the Tang Dynasty after Lai Junchen and Zhou Xing.

"Will you participate in group activities like this again in the future?"

"No, I won't go there anymore. Many high-ranking officials and dignitaries sent their maids out of their homes in those days, just waiting for us, the imperial students, to have a carnival.

It is said that if these maids become pregnant, the family will get a seed for reading, and they will become the family's children and be slaves for generations.

It's not enough for Lao Tzu's descendants to spread branches and leaves. How can there be any extra to serve as slaves for others? "

Yun Chu was still dissatisfied with Di Renjie's words. He hurriedly finished his meal and then stood up habitually to check on the dining status of everyone in the cafeteria.

After reading it again, I realized that I was overthinking it. It seems that the Tang people here have also been suffering from Tang Dynasty food for a long time. Many people still want to eat after eating. Those who have money will take out a bamboo chip and continue eating. Those who have no money will continue to eat. , so I had to drink a bowl of Shuixiu soup with nothing in it, and drank it without a sip.

"I find that your contempt for me has deepened." Di Renjie threw the last piece of greasy pork into his mouth and swallowed it without seeing him chew it.

"What do you think about the high prices nowadays?"

"I don't have any opinion. This kind of thing happens every ten years. It's not surprising that after two years of enduring it, prices will slowly come down.

I heard some old gentlemen say that this is a good thing. It proves that people in the Tang Dynasty are rich. After we become rich, things will become less. This situation will naturally occur. We need to endure it for a few more years. When the people produce more things, the population will increase. If it is too much, it will slowly calm down. "

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Have you never doubted what the old gentleman said? Have you never thought about where the extra money comes from?"

Di Renjie said disapprovingly: "The money is naturally minted by the imperial court, where else could it come from?"

Yun Chu nodded and did not continue. Since even an elite like Di Renjie had not discovered the mystery, he naturally did not need to explain the matter so clearly. This was not necessarily a good thing for Di Renjie.

Many times, confused people can actually be happier.

In the afternoon, Yunchu received a greeting card from Pei Xingjian at home.

To be precise, what he received was a piece of white paper with writing on it. Yunchu's current official position was not worthy of a formal greeting card.

When a high-ranking official of the fifth rank comes, the Yun family will naturally need to pave the road with loess and spread clean water in the courtyard to meet his official position.

Therefore, at the time indicated on Pei Xingjian's paper, Yunchu was already standing in front of the door waiting for him.

Since Di Renjie, the bastard, had already revealed Yunchu's name, there was no reason that Pei Xingjian couldn't find out with his ability.

It took so long for the time to come, and it seemed that he was not sure whether he had been deceived.

Just as Yunchu guessed, not only Pei Xingjian came, but also Aunt Gongsun. The two rode together, looking really like a couple of gods and immortals.

Come to think of it, Mrs. Gongsun's sword dance was famous in Chang'an, and Pei Xingjian's wild grass and sword skills were considered by the government and the public to be another rising star of the Tang Dynasty after the God of War Li Jing.

When Mrs. Gongsun saw Yun Chu for the first time, she shook her head slightly at Pei Xingjian, because Yun Chu, who once again showed off the outfit that taught Liang Jianfang how to study, and the two wretched, lewd people who appeared that night There is a huge difference between the little thief and Gongsun, and even Mrs. Gongsun fell in love with Yunchu when she saw him.

"Last time we said goodbye at the entrance to the imperial city, I was planning to find an opportunity to come and pay homage. I was just ashamed that my official position was low and I couldn't go to a dignified hall. I asked Chang Shi Moguai."

There is a world of difference between the gentle and jade-like Yun Chu and the murderous Yun Chu. Even Pei Xingjian, who saw Yun Chu in official uniform, dismissed his suspicion immediately. Someone must have noticed Yun Chu's good looks and deliberately You are fooling Gongsun with your name.

"This is the warrior I told you, Yun Chu, who fought out of thousands of troops in Qiuci."

After Pei Xingjian jumped off his horse, he affectionately took Yunchu's hand and introduced him to Gongsun.

Gongsun Yingying, who had a turban on her head, bowed and said, "I, Gongsun, have seen Dr. Yun."

Yun Chu looked the two of them up and down, and sighed in admiration: "I didn't know what the scenery and the moon were before, but after meeting you two today, I finally understand the meaning. Please come into my humble home."

There is nothing else in the Yun family, but there is a kind of wine that only martyrs cannot drink, and a few dishes that only distinguished guests cannot taste, and you two must try them. "