Dress to be a celebrity

Chapter 22

Mooncakes are of course eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The cook of the Song family was brought from Beijing. He can make mooncakes filled with jujube paste, bean paste, five kernels, and Qingsi rose rock sugar.When Song Shi was studying with his elder brothers, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he happened to remember that mooncakes filled with egg yolk and lotus paste were popular in his previous life.

This stuffing has been popular all over the country in modern times, and it has amazed the Song family and their neighbors, relatives, friends, bosses and colleagues for many years. It has always been a private delicacy for gifts from their family.When their family celebrates reunion, most of the mooncakes are made of lotus paste, and other fillings should be ordered to make a few.

But now that Huan Ling opened his mouth to order jujube mooncakes, Song Shi asked the farmer to send a message to his family, asking the cook to steam the stuffing with golden shredded jujubes from home, and bake a plate of jujube mooncakes delicately-by the way, he also gave him Roast a few five kernels.

Although he likes egg yolk lotus paste mooncakes, the filling has to be matched with Cantonese-style mooncake skins. If you replace them with meringue skins, it always feels like eating egg yolk cakes, without the feeling of festivals.However, Cantonese-style mooncake skins were only available in the late Qing Dynasty, and he was reluctant to waste his precious Jinjiang balance for his stuttering, so he simply changed to the five-nut mooncakes that have the most Mid-Autumn atmosphere.

In fact, the five-nut mooncakes are also quite delicious. If you make them at home, remove all the unpalatable fillings, and the rest will be delicious, right?

No wax gourd strips and green silk roses are added, only lard is used to mix rock sugar, walnuts, pine nuts, almonds, sesame seeds and other nuts, mixed with fried heavy white noodles, wrapped in lard and white sugar puff pastry and baked.The fillings prepared in this way are extra crispy and loose without being overpowering; the mooncake skin is not too sweet, but it crumbles when touched by hands and melts in the mouth when it is just out of the oven, and it tastes just right with the sweet and non-greasy fillings.

On August [-]th, the cook of the Song family baked the moon cakes ordered by the little master, steamed half a basket of crabs, and slaughtered pigs and sheep to prepare a table full of Beizhili-style dishes.

Although Huan Ling is from Beijing, Beijing is not far from Baoding, and the taste is similar.The Song family’s table of cherry meat, stewed dried elbow, Dongpo meat, fire-roasted mutton, duck stuffed with eight treasures... is better than Li Xingtou’s carefully prepared lily bird’s nest, squid rolls, fragrant fish, shrimp balls, and steamed mussels in the flood. It's easy to say when you look at it.

Although there is no special meal such as swallow, abalone, wing and belly, but this is a family meal, so why pay so much attention to it?

own family.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, no guests were invited to the door, only a family of three in Song Dynasty and Huan Ling.They have been friends since they were young and worshiped their mother. County magistrate Song has thought about it these days, and he doesn't mention the matter of retiring the engagement. He only thinks that he is Mr. Huan's son and his son's senior brother. Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together.

The banquet is placed in the building in front of the hall. Open the doors and windows and you can see the bright moon in the sky. Someone outside has invited a prostitute, Lehu, to serve the banquet, and the sound of blowing bombs is faintly sent to the hall across the courtyard.

Although it is a festive season to miss relatives, the bright moon in the sky, the delicacies displayed on the table, and the bamboo and old osmanthus planted in the courtyard, the evening breeze comes, and the scent of osmanthus flowers and trees in the courtyard is full of nostalgia. .

As the host, Song Shi consciously opened a jar of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, first filled it up for his parents, and then stood up to respect Huanling: "These days, brother Duomeng accompanied me to work in the flooded areas, and helped me plan the drainage ditches. It’s hard work brother.”

Not only hard work, but also really helpful.

In the past few days, Song Shi asked him to calculate the amount of earth excavated by dredging, the money and food for the labor force, and the amount of earth, stone and wood used for renovating the houses of the victims... His efficiency is so high that it is comparable to a calculator—a calculator can be used. People listed the formulas, added, subtracted, multiplied and divided according to the numbers to get the results, Brother Huan Xiao did it all by himself, and gave the answer directly!

As soon as he thought that the little brother was going to work in the mansion, Song Shi had an urge to chase him to the mansion with the collection of questions in his hands to ask him for help.

Huan Ling hurriedly got up, and said with a smile, "I'm going to serve as a judge in the mansion. These things will be my job in the future. What can I thank you for? I want to thank my third brother for willing to teach me these practical things. .”

The two brothers boasted and thanked each other, and County Magistrate Song listened to him, thinking that he was a second-class Jinshi, a future relative of the emperor, and he wanted to go to the countryside to become an official in a small county because of his family's troubles. Quite a bit sorry.

After the two of them sat down, he said kindly: "Nephew, you don't have to be polite to Shi Guaner, just sit down and ask him to pour wine for you. There is nothing good in my small county, only moon cakes are golden cakes from home." The stuffing made of shredded jujube tastes pretty good. You can use some wine and vegetables as you like, and you can enjoy the moon with mooncakes later, and you can also taste the taste of your hometown."

Huan Ling thanked, "My nephew came in a hurry, and I have long forgotten about the festival. If it wasn't for Uncle Song and the third younger brother to take care of me, where would we be able to eat our northern-style mooncakes?"

Speaking of his hometown, he looked around the hall and yard, and felt that although the backyard was furnished in a southern style, elegant and unique, somehow it always made him feel at home.

He shook his head, and suddenly realized that it was the scent of mint faintly mixed in the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus in the hall that made him feel familiar.The scent of mint dew that I have often smelled since I was a child, and the mid-autumn air, the spacious hall, but the comfort of not being disturbed by insects and ants...

Huan Lingyao recalled the story of making a whole yard of mint water mixed with fishy herbal juice to smoke insects in the Song Dynasty, and a smile came out of his eyes unconsciously, and he said: "I still remember that the third brother and I lived in the same yard. At that time, we tried to produce insecticides and sprayed them all over the courtyard. The house was so clean and cool. Now the magistrate’s yamen in Fujian is also filled with the same scent of medicines, and there is no sound of insects. It’s the same as when we were young. .”

County magistrate Song only knew that when Song Shi went home to steam alcohol and flower dew, the insect repellent he made was quite effective and didn't smell too bad, but he didn't know that he directly boiled the potion and sprinkled it all over the yard in other people's homes, causing such harm to the people in front of him. The nephew almost got rhinitis.

He took this seriously, his face was full of pride, he wanted to praise his son, but he also had to be humble in front of others, and said with a forced smile: "Shiguan'er is a little afraid of bugs, and he likes to play tricks since he was a child." These things. My nephew doesn't know that this kid doesn't even allow us to eat drunk crabs in Guangxi, saying that there are worms in them, and eating them is not good for the stomach..."

Huan Ling also seemed to have forgotten the pain of being so smoked that he begged him to sprinkle less potion, and boasted together with County Magistrate Song: "It's only now that he is considerate. I think the drunk crab was pickled in wine, and the wine hurts the body. If there are worms in the crab, it will hurt, but no matter how delicious it is, what good is it? Shi Bo should listen to the words of Shi Guaner, and take care of his family and the people under his rule."

Song Shi sat at the bottom, poured wine and vegetables for his parents and Huan Ling, and honestly listened to his father pretending to complain about him, and Senior Brother Huan praised him openly.However, as he listened, he suddenly felt that Senior Brother Huan was about to raise his seniority—why did he call Shang Shiguan one by one?

He coughed, pursed the corners of his lips, and said to his father seriously: "Now that I have entered the school and become a student, it is no longer time for me to be called by my nickname. Dad will call me 'Ziqi' from now on." ?”

His father stopped calling, so he didn't have to bring the little senior brother there.

The word 'Ziqi' was created by him after he donated the prison, but his school friends are used to calling him Song Brother and Song Xiandi, and his parents still call him a nickname for their children. Huan Ling would rather have a third brother, and no one has formalized it yet. called his name.

Master Song shook his head and smiled, "This child is in a hurry to grow up. What's the use of calling words? Someday you will become a family..."

When the word "become a family" was mentioned, there was a sudden silence in the courtyard.Song Shi hurriedly stood up to smooth things over: "My character is the same as that of Xiang Ziqi, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. I might be able to be a reclusive celebrity like him in the future."

Huan Ling also forcibly boasted: "Exactly, Shi Guaner... The third brother often has new interpretations of the classics that have not been published before. A few days ago, my nephew and the third brother discussed "Spring and Autumn", and talked about "Spring and Autumn". At the time of regicide 36', the third younger brother had a new theory, saying that among the things he recorded about regicide, those who called the king were killed because the king had no way; .”

He glanced at Song Shi, his expression gradually softened, and he said with a smile: "The third brother can break free from the constraints of the theory of nature and reason in "Hu Zhuan", and spontaneously develop new theories. In the future, he will become more knowledgeable, and he will definitely be able to write a commentary that is better than that of the Song people. When the time comes, don't learn from Xiang Ziqi's seclusion, learn from his writing books and establish a theory, and start a school of your own, so what's the difficulty in being famous in history?"

He rolled up his sleeves, poured wine for the three of them, congratulated Mr. Song for being such a beautiful son, and wished that Song Shifu would become a generation of Confucian classics masters, and finally restored the atmosphere at the banquet.

After dinner, everyone went to the courtyard to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.

In order to give gifts these days, almost all the cooks make mooncakes with lotus seed paste and egg yolk, and only keep the leftovers for themselves.Only the golden shredded jujube ordered by Huanling and the five-nut mooncakes in Song Dynasty are freshly made.Song Shi took a knife and cut four pieces open, revealing the sweet and mellow jujube paste filling and crispy baked nuts, and cut four lotus paste mooncakes—each person shared a corner of lotus paste and was careful of the salted duck egg yolk, which was very delicious. Luxurious and lustful.

The moon cakes were just right, the moon above the head was just round, against the blue-black sky, the edges were so clear that they could be cut off.With such a clear moonlight, it can be predicted that the next day will be sunny.

The heavy rain that has been on and off for two months is finally about to stop, and the work of clearing Zhang Zhang's fields is about to start.

Just after the fifteenth day of August, Song Shi pushed forward the invitation of a group of scholars from Linquan Club, took the fish scale book from the county, pulled Huan Ling, a step bow and a long rope for measuring the length of the field, and finally greeted fifty Min Zhuang, who showed his skills during emergency rescue and disaster relief, went out from Jixianfang in the north of the city, starting from the intersection of Yuxi River and Hefeng River, and re-measured the land according to the atlas.

Clearing land is not an easy task.

At the Shuangxi flooding, the landmarks were blurred, so they measured the length and drew it according to the figure on the fish scale book; but the farther to the county town, there are boundary markers on the ground, and there are farmers and tenant farmers who patrol the land. When they redraw the land boundary, someone will report the news, and then the owner's family will come to intercede.

It was the owner of Zhuangzi who borrowed during the flood control in Song Dynasty, the well-known local squire Wang's family.

The number marked on the fish scale book is small, and the land occupied by the Wang family can actually be several miles wide-if Song Shi insisted on clearing out the hidden fields, the grain and grass he owed over the years would be a huge sum of money.

The ancestor of the master of the Wang family was a Zhongshu who returned to his hometown after returning to his official position, and his descendants also had a few students who studied and took exams, and relying on his grandfather's legacy, he managed to become a local tycoon.They charged [-]% of the rent from the tenant farmers, but when it came time to pay taxes, they delayed in every possible way and refused to pay the county government money.Because of his fame and sympathy in the officialdom, the previous county magistrates had nothing to do with them, they could only chase after Bili Changliang, causing the common people to lose their grain after harvesting. But he still has to go to the Yamen to face the board.

The one who came to the Wang family was the eldest son of the head of the family, a middle-aged student who had acquaintance with Song Shi at the banquet hundreds of times.He mentioned the fate in the past, and mentioned the names of a few scholars from Linquan Society with a smile, and persuaded Song Shi: "These fields were earned by our ancestors who were loyal to the court. Brother Song is also a member of the examination room of my generation. Don't you know that scholars should be Helping each other? If Brother Song lets go of my family today, I will be rewarded generously."

His hands were tucked into his sleeves, and when he stretched out his hand to pull Song, he had to give him a cash signal like a businessman.

Huan Ling at the side stretched out his sleeves to stop him, and said with a smile: "Since Mr. Wang wants to repay you generously, then shouldn't Mr. Song be at a disadvantage? I didn't have anything to do before, so I just calculated the amount of land from now on." According to the numbers, it is more than two hectares different from the fish scale book, and most of them are good flat and close to water. Wuping County is such a rare land. Ling Zu returned to his hometown 30 years ago, and last year, he requisitioned seven acres of land. Counting two or nine cents, one penny, three microns, one fiber, six sands, four dusts and seven dusts, the taxes that should have been paid in the past 30 years are at least..."

He gestured in the air with the gestures that several businessmen were good at, exposing their secret bribery methods to the light of day.

The author has something to say:

I haven't finished the math problems in the last chapter, so you may not be very clear, so I will add here:

The graph can be divided into two triangles, the right side is an approximate isosceles triangle, the right side is a little longer than the left side, and the vertical line is made from the apex to the bottom.The left side of the triangle is the longest side, and then connected to the left to form an approximate right triangle, the lower left side is shorter, and the upper left side is longer.

It is known that the right side of the figure is 26 miles long, the height is 24 miles long, the bottom side is 17 miles long, the upper left side is 20 miles long, and the lower left side is 15 miles long.

Find it with Shaoguang (Shaoguang method, approximation), set the middle length (height) by the north width (bottom length), and half of it is sent, take the middle length power (square) minus the west oblique power, and the rest is considered real, and the One is the corner (it seems to be a fraction, but it is not counted in the problem-solving steps), and the number obtained by the square root is subtracted from the north, the remainder is multiplied by itself, and (added) to the middle-length power, which is the inner rate.Subtract the middle oblique power from the small oblique power and (add) the rate (the internal rate just now), and the remainder is half.Take advantage of yourself.Subtract the multiplication rate of the small oblique power, and the remaining four approximations are true.Taking one as the corner, the sum of the square root is added, and the total is the accumulation.

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Steps, only change the Chinese characters into Arabic numerals.

The middle length is 24 miles and the north width is 17 miles to get 408, which is half of the 204 miles for sending.

The long power is 576 obtained by multiplying the middle length by itself, the large power is 26 obtained by multiplying by itself 676 miles westward, and the remaining 100 li is the real power by reducing the long power.

The square root is 10 miles.

Subtract 17 miles from Beikuo, leaving 7 miles.Multiply by yourself to get 49.

And the long exponent is 576, and 625 is obtained, which is the internal rate.

Next, multiply by 15 miles east of Xiaoxie, and get 225 as Xiaoxie power.

Also set the southeast middle oblique 20 miles to multiply by itself to get 400 as the middle power.

However, the combined rate of small oblique powers is 850, and the subtraction of middle powers is 400, leaving 450 remaining.It is 225 for half, and 50625 for self-multiplication.

Then multiply the rate of 225 by the small oblique power 625 to get 140625 minus, and the remaining 90000 miles.

It is true that 4 is about 22500.

The square root is 150.

And send 204 miles, get 354 miles for pan.

Multiplying 360 by Lifa will give you 129600 steps, and multiplying by Pan will give you 45878400 steps.

According to the method of 240 acres, 1911.60 hectares were obtained.