Chapter 43 Visit

On New Year's Day, the weather was sunny with only light snow.

Zhao slept comfortably until noon when he woke up. On the first day of the new year, you must be comfortable! How can anyone rush to be a cow or a horse on the first day?

After washing his face, he was not in a hurry to eat or drink, but first gave the lucky man on the ground a slap in the face. Zhao Cai, who was idle and bored, was suddenly slapped and barked non-stop. Zhao did not comfort him, but only asked him from time to time.

"Am I prosperous this year?"

"Wangwangwang..."

What a good dog! Got to be rewarded with a big bone. A dog that can speak auspicious words so early in the morning must be a good luck dog!

The pub is not open yet, so I have no choice but to cook the food myself.

I walked into the kitchen and was busy for half an hour, and finally brought out a table of decent food. At the beginning of the new year, there must be vegetables and meat. If one person doesn't finish it, save it for the next meal, so that you don't have to cook it. You can eat it hot. Even the rice has to be cooked in a big pot. Of course, what you say must count, so I gave Zhaocai a bone as big as the meat: a whole pig hind leg.

Throw it on the ground and let the fortune-teller chew it up with a mouth full of havoc. Zhao doesn't care. The dog wishes you prosperity. How can it still fight? If you can't beat it, it will attract wealth and prosperity. What if you beat it away?

After eating and drinking, I leisurely moved the deck chair to the yard to bask in the sun.

Make a pot of tea, don't practice or think, just enjoy this leisurely feeling.

The days passed leisurely like this, on the second, third and fourth day of the lunar month.

Counting the days, today has already arrived on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It’s the Lantern Festival, and glutinous rice balls are indispensable!

Just like the previous few days, I didn’t get up until the sun was shining on my buttocks at noon. I won’t give you a slap in the face to attract wealth today. It’s been prosperous for more than ten days. Even if I don’t give it up today, it won’t work if it’s prosperous every day. My job is very stressful. If I am busy every day, I don’t know whether my customers will die or not, and I will most likely be exhausted. Besides, what if there was business every day?

Society will be disharmonious, ah, people’s hearts will be scattered, and three good young people will be gone. What a big problem!

The ancients said that not eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival is equivalent to not eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. The laws of our ancestors are immutable! Must make some glutinous rice balls!

The technology of this era is not much different from that of the Ming Dynasty. Flour is easy to make, but it is a bit yellow. But compared with the 21st century, white sugar is far behind in terms of quality and appearance. But it doesn’t matter. As for glutinous rice balls, there is no rule that they have to be sweet, so Zhao took a unique approach and made them meaty!

Just do what you say. Anyway, you have enough to eat and drink and have nothing to do. Make meat noodles, mince the meat stuffing, wrap it in, and roll it into a round shape. Hey, aren’t these glutinous rice balls?

It's just a little bigger, about the same size as an egg, but it's not in the way and you can eat it. After a lot of effort, I made glutinous rice balls for an hour or two. When I was waiting for the pot to be started, it was already dark.

After taking two bowls, Zhao filled a dozen or twenty bowls for himself and five or six for Lucky, and started eating!

After taking a bite, don't worry, the taste is okay. It has meat and noodles. No matter how you say it, it is not delicious. It just tastes like dumplings in your mouth.

Now it’s better, I’ve made up for the dumplings I didn’t eat during the New Year! Kill two birds with one stone! Thinking of this, Zhao couldn't help but give himself a five-star review. Unexpectedly, the master of time management and the god of food are actually the same person. It's really incredible!

After making forty "glutinous rice balls", one person and one dog didn't eat any. Zhao ate twenty and almost died of exhaustion! After eating three of the lucky ones, I didn't even look at them. I have no choice but to take it back and store it in the space. Next time I have time, I can flatten it and use it as dumplings!

Until the end of the first month, Zhao lived a leisurely life.

The tavern was not open, and there was no business at Liuzhi, which gave Zhao enough time to rest.

On the fourth day of February, Zhao felt very embarrassed. There was no letter from Liuzhi, which meant that there was no business yet. However, Zhao was already free. He was either lying down or half-lying every day, feeling that all the bones in his body were tender. , it will definitely open tomorrow!

On the eighth day of February, Zhao finally woke up before noon. After washing up, I opened the door of the tavern, changed the sign on the door to "Open for business", then moved a Taishi chair to sit in the yard to practice.

As for why it only opens on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, is there no need to adapt after the festival? Having only adapted to it for four days is already an innate working body!

On the tenth day of the lunar month, it has been open for two days, and the business is pretty good. People come to shop, and it is really prosperous!

As before, Zhao just moved a deck chair and lay in the yard to drink tea and read a book. As for the tavern, there were only one or two people a day, so it didn't matter. He didn't want to make money from this. The weather was nice, and I dozed off while reading.

When he was half asleep and half awake, Zhao seemed to have a hand dangling in front of him. Zhao didn't open his eyes, opened the book to cover his face, and said impatiently, "The counter is under the tree. On the far left is the flower sculpture. One or two One pot; in the middle is Chang'an's Liuxian Zui, two for one pot; on the far right is Shengjing's famous wine, half for one pot. No more vegetables or meat, no refills! I'm keeping an eye on you. "

After saying that, he ignored the man's laughter and adjusted his sleeping position. He didn't sleep well yesterday, so he got up at midnight. Lack of sleep is very harmful to the body, so don’t be careless!

When I opened my eyes again, it was already dark. I took off the book covering my face, stretched with my eyes closed, took a sip of the cold tea on the side, and then completed the nap ritual. Zhaocai was shouting vigorously on the side, and the sound sounded very cheerful.

What a silly dog ​​that can only bark, but can’t cook for itself when it’s hungry? Zhao thought to himself and sighed, "Okay, stop barking. People who don't know think you are the master and I am the dog. What's the use of raising you? Have you cooked a meal for me?"

"Master Zhao is awake?" A gentle voice sounded from the side, and Zhao couldn't help but be stunned. It sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was.

"Yeah." Although he couldn't remember it, Zhao Jue still instinctively replied, "I know who wakes up from the big dream first."

Looking back, I saw two women sitting at the table behind me. One has her hair tied up high, with a white jade hairpin, a green-purple skirt, a slender waist, a bright red cloak, and her body is covered with silk and satin. From a distance, she looks wealthy and powerful. She has black eyebrows from a distant mountain, a beautiful nose and red lips. She is better than makeup even if she doesn’t use any powder. She is really dignified and elegant.

The other one is ordinary, with a high bun, a green skirt and black shoes, and a frosty pink face. She looks like a maid at first glance.

"Mr. Zhao, are you okay?"

Zhao was shocked, rubbed his eyes, and said with a smile, "Miss Liu, I didn't expect to meet again so soon."

The dignified lady was Liu Rouwei. She was holding a tea cup and said in a calm voice, "Mr. Zhao is really different every day!"

Zhao was not cunning and let her tease her. If he did the same thing every day, he would be doomed.

"Miss Liu, why did you come to Liangzhou? How can you tell me apart?" Zhao asked doubtfully. If nothing else, he was very confident in his disguise skills. At least Liu Rouwei would definitely not be able to tell. .

Liu Rouwei sneered and said, "You showed your true face in Chang'an, have you forgotten? It's not difficult to check. I thought you had returned to Jiangnan, but I didn't expect that you were found in Liangzhou. Of course I have to come and see you."

Listening to Liu Rouwei's provocative tone, Zhao smiled helplessly, which he had neglected. He could only smile awkwardly, "Don't laugh at me. We live and die together, so please save some face for me."

"Okay." Liu Rouwei smiled brightly and said like a request, "Your tavern doesn't have much business, why don't you accompany me to visit Liangzhou while you have time?"

What else could Zhao say? Although there was a maid next to this woman, don't forget that she also had a first-class housekeeper. If I say "no", it's hard to say whether I can see the sun tomorrow, it's up to me.

After receiving a satisfactory answer, Liu Rouwei was very happy and generously invited Zhao to have a meal. Sure enough, it was Gao Qi who came to deliver the meal, and Zhao couldn't tell the truth.

After having enough wine and food, Zhao sat in the courtyard and drank tea with Gao Qi. Liu Rouwei and her maid were teasing and attracting money. It was obvious that this was his own place, and he was the one to accompany him.

The situation is stronger than the people, so there is no other way. The backyard has been tidied up for Liu Rouwei and the maid to live in. Fortunately, there are many houses, and the two more can be accommodated.

It’s just that I had to close the door just a few days after opening. With this kind of business, it’s the only one I can do!