Chapter 100 Octagonal Rice Dumpling (1)

   In just a blink of an eye, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival. Wen Mingtang took out the zongzi leaves from Zhuangzi two days ago, and started making zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival with A Bing and Tangyuan.

   There are five kinds of glutinous rice, fresh meat, bacon, red beans and...egg yolk fresh meat for the zongzi.

When Liu Yuan came over, Wen Mingtang, A Bing, and Tang Yuan were making zongzi. The oily zongzi leaves looked like a dustpan, and an orange-yellow salted duck egg was placed in the dark brown glutinous rice soaked in braised broth sauce. Fresh meat suitable for fatty meat.

This zongzi...Even though it has not been steamed in the pot, Liu Yuan can't help but start to swallow his saliva when he watched it. The salted duck eggs and fresh meat were submerged in glutinous rice, then covered with zong leaves, and finally wrapped in colorful ropes Two circles, in the shape of an octagon, were thrown into a wooden barrel on the side.

   "Master Wen," Liu Yuan looked at the star-aniseed rice dumplings in the wooden barrel, and asked Wen Mingtang, "This is the first time I have seen the filling of salted egg yolk and fresh meat. Is it delicious?"

  Wen Mingtang glanced at him, and A Bing and Tangyuan looked at Liu Yuan with strange eyes, and asked him, "Have you ever seen a time when Master Wen's dishes were not delicious?"

  Liu Yuan: "..." After a moment of silence, he said, "I haven't seen such stuffing before, just ask!"

  Wen Mingtang said "Oh", and didn't talk nonsense with Liu Yuan, but continued to bow his head to make zongzi, while saying: "Tomorrow's morning meal, I will eat zongzi, you can come and eat tomorrow!"

Liu Yuan nodded "Yes", looked up at the sun above his head, covered the sun with a file on top of his head, then walked to A Bing's side, reached out and took away a green bamboo tube hanging from his waist , shook the full green bamboo tube, opened the cover, and saw a few red-brown sour plum drinks with golden osmanthus flowers floating inside, Liu Yuan nodded in satisfaction, and put the green bamboo tube on his waist , met A Bing's angry eyes, patted A Bing's head with a smile, and said: "I'm going to climb mountains and mountains today, I'm sure I'm very thirsty, I'll lend you this sour plum drink!"

   After finishing speaking, he took the sour plum drink and left.

  A Bing, who was making zongzi, couldn't help but said: "I knew it earlier, and I didn't know Liu Sicheng well. After I got acquainted with this person, I became more impolite! It's a loan, so it's true?"

   It turned out that when Liu Sicheng was not a regular customer of the public kitchen, he was not so rude.

  Liu Yuan, carrying the sour plum drink, left Dali Temple and headed towards Yishan Academy.

  Liu Yuan went to Yishan Academy, but Wei Fu went to Tongstudio, a brush and ink shop in the city.

  It wasn't until sunset that the two of them, who had been traveling outside for a whole day, returned to Dali Temple.

  When I saw Lin Fei, I saw a bowl of ice powder complete with various small ingredients on Lin Fei's table, and he was digging for ice powder to eat slowly.

  Although he did not go out like Liu Yuan and Wei Fu, Lin Fei did not gain nothing in Dali Temple.

  Pushing the ice powder aside, Lin Fei gathered the file in his hand and looked at Liu Yuan.

  Liu Yuan drank the last bit of sour plum drink in the bamboo tube beside him, and then handed Lin Fei a few sheets of paper full of writing.

  Lin Fei listened to what Liu Yuan said while watching.

"The mountain behind Yishan Academy is not high, and there are four or five families of mountain people among them. I asked specifically, and they all said that they have never seen Han Jun and his school boy." Liu Yuan first picked up unimportant things and said, "There is a house on the mountainside There are two elderly nuns living in this small nunnery, I also went to inquire about it, but I have never seen these two people before."

  Lin Fei said "hmm", pointed to the different handwriting on the paper, found the two most elegant and correct names among a group of crooked handwriting, and said, "These two are those two old nuns?"

  Liu Yuan glanced at the handwriting Lin Fei pointed to, nodded in response, and said, "Yes, these are the two old nuns."

  Lin Fei gave a "hmm", glanced at Liu Yuan, and signaled him to continue.

Liu Yuan briefly talked about the situation in the mountains, and then brought up the main point: "That Ruan Zhan is not in the academy today." Having said this, Liu Yuan's face became a bit more serious, and said, "I don't even know him. Where did he go? Before he left, he never said where he was going. He only knew that it was early in the morning, and he left the academy alone before dawn."

  Liu Yuan paused for a moment, and then said: "I really couldn't find Ruan Zhan, so I told the people at Yishan Academy, and when I see him, leave him for me. I have something to ask him."

  Lin Fei gave a "hmm" and turned to Wei Fu who was at the side.

  Seeing this, Wei Fu handed over the file in his hand, and began to speak.

"I have been to both the brush and ink shop and the study. The owners of both the shop and the study have some impressions of these two people. Dao is a frequent visitor in the shop and the study. If there is anything special... the owner of one of the studies is a forty-something , A beautiful woman who still has charm." Wei Fu said.

  Because of the special makeup on Han Jun's face, and Lin Fei once said that the color of the lip balm on his lips is mostly used by middle-aged women in their forties.

  He really couldn't tell the color of the lip balm, but... Wei Fu said: "The hostess has lip balm on her lips, and I see that the color is similar."

  Of course, his is similar, but in his eyes, it’s just that, it’s hard to say whether it’s the same or not.

  After hearing Wei Fu finish speaking, Lin Fei hadn't spoken yet, but Liu Yuan couldn't help but let out a "huh" and said in surprise, "The owner of the study is actually a beautiful woman?"

  The owner of a business like the study sees a lot of scholars and literati, and this is the first time he sees a beautiful woman.

Wei Fu nodded, frowned, and said, "I see that she is wearing a dress that is fashionable in Chang'an City nowadays, and... she is a little bit open." He is getting old, and he really can't see Accustomed to this, he paused, and then said, "It's really incompatible with a place like the study."

  As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan fell silent, paused, and said: "When you say it, I think it doesn't look like the master who came out of the study. The study is really not serious."

  Before he finished speaking, Wei Fu said, "I'm about to say it! When I passed by, there were four or five students who looked like gentlemen in the study, all of them were handsome, tall and thin..."

  As soon as these words came out, Liu Yuan took a breath: "Is there such a coincidence?"

  Lin Fei raised his chin and said to Wei Fu, "Go on."

  Wei Fu let out a "huh" and said again: "Although they are watching and reading, they are fighting with each other, and one of them even knocked down the book."

  Liu Yuan: "..."

  Wei Fu said again: "That beautiful woman came out to stop her as the owner of the study. Although she stopped, it seemed more like she was flirting with some students."

  Liu Yuan: "It's really not serious."

Wei Fu let out a "huh" and said again: "Isn't it? I was curious and asked the beautiful woman why she thought of opening the study. She said that the study belonged to her husband, who died last month, so she went to the study room." Accept this study."

  Liu Yuan twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this, and couldn't help but said: "She just died last month, and now she still dresses up in such a charming way to flirt with the students?"

Wei Fu glanced at him and said, "Isn't it? I don't like it either, but this kind of thing doesn't violate the law, so what else can I do?" What did she say?"

   Having said this, Wei Fu's expression became serious.

  (end of this chapter)