Chapter 457

With the command of the Wulanala clan, a little palace maid with some eyes held the tray, took small steps, and walked in slowly, followed by two eunuchs who carried a long table.

The two trays fell together, covered with a layer of translucent red yarn, and it was dimly impossible to see what was inside, but it was vaguely obvious that there were two small baskets inside, such as the small basket for women's needles and threads, which were about the same size, and any more could not be seen.

"It's a mystery. Li glanced at the tray held by the little palace maid, muttered softly, the corners of his mouth twitched, and continued to wait to see the lively Erfu, his eyes flashing with a sword.

Seeing this, the Ulanala clan smiled secretly in his heart, and commanded in a low voice: "Show the things to Master Li to see." After speaking, as soon as he raised his hand, he asked the eunuch to put the long table that had been moved in front of the Li family who was kneeling in the hall, got up and took two steps forward, and personally ripped off the red yarn covering the tray, revealing the small basket inside.

As Erfu saw, the small basket was small and delicate, with two or three handfuls of white rice placed on it, and at a cursory glance, there was little difference.

The flawless white grains of rice shimmer in the light of the night pearl, and it is the best white rice on the market today.

"Li, come forward and take a look, what's the difference between this white rice?" The corner of Wulanara's mouth smiled and beckoned to Li, and said softly.

Unlike Erfu, when Li saw the white rice in the two baskets, his heart was sudden, but he had to step forward. So he grabbed a few rice grains in the palm of his hand, smelled and looked at them. Blinking a pair of narrow phoenix eyes, he replied in a low voice: "The concubine can't see it, it looks like high-grade white rice, I don't know what Fujin means?"

"You also say it's the best white rice?" asked the Ulanala clan with a smile on his face.

"Yes. Li nodded a little apprehensively and replied respectfully.

After watching the excitement for another two minutes, Erfu was also called forward by the Ulanara clan. "Sister Guerjia, let's take a look at these two portions of rice and see if you can see something. I remember that your tongue is the most spiritual. ”

Hearing this, Erf smiled and tilted her head, got up and stepped forward.

Looking at the two white rice grains that were almost the same, she really noticed some differences. That's the difference in color. One grain of rice looks white and flawless, showing an almost transparent crystalline, while the white of the other grain of rice looks a little fake, as if those beauties who used Meitu P in later generations to appear.

With this discovery, Irf recalls a family gathering in modern times. An elder who poured grain once talked about the method of distinguishing old rice from new rice and the method of counterfeiting.

Although she doesn't remember most of the chats very well. But there are a few tricks, she still remembers.

In terms of the price of old rice, it is far lower than the price of new rice, and some immeasurable traders have developed a lot of new methods of making old rice in order to make huge profits, buying those rice that have been squeezed for many years at a low price, and then grinding a new one as a new rice for retail.

At this time, the two servings of white rice in front of Erfu should be two kinds of white rice, one new and one old.

With this discovery, Erph was as surprised as the discovery of a new continent.

In modern times, the old rice is new, not only needs the help of the polishing machine, but also needs to use paraffin wax to improve the color, in the use of special means to remove the musty smell, etc., and here, there is absolutely no such thing as a polishing machine, the smart ancient people can actually make the old rice and the new rice is almost the same, this is definitely a handicraft work!

The person who can research a new way to make Chen Mi, Erfu is very curious.

Although the difference between the two kinds of rice had already been seen, in the spirit of experimentation, Erfu still twisted a few grains of white rice, brought them to her lips, first tasted the taste of the rice grains in the two baskets with the tip of her tongue, and then bit the hardness of the two rice grains, and really found that there was something wrong.

Erfu casually threw the rice grains back into the basket, and with a gossip glint in his eyes, he looked back and forth twice on the Li family and the Ulanala family, and muttered secretly: "This time, it is estimated that the Li family is going to be a heel." ’

Greedy, this is how Erf feels about Lee and his men.

"Can you tell the difference?" asked with a smile when Ulanala saw Erfu put down the grain of rice she was holding in her hand.

Erfu pretended to be confused and shook her head, and replied in a low voice: "The concubine body really can't see it, is it that the grades of these two kinds of rice are different?"

The Ulanala clan didn't expect that Erfu would understand the tricks of Chen Mi's old age, nor did he expect that Erfu, a noble girl like her, would know about things in the market, so he didn't think much about it, and replied a little perfunctorily: "Maybe, you can go back and sit first." He waved his hand and turned his head to look at Li.

"Li, do you have anything to say!" Wulanala looked at Li with deep meaning and asked in a low voice.

When the Great Li family did not become the side of the Fourth Lord's Mansion, the Li family was at most a wealthy family, not even a rich man, naturally there was no such heritage as those heirlooms that had been passed down for hundreds of years, compared to the Wulanala clan and Erfu of the Eight Banners nobles, as a side branch of the clan, the Xiao Li family entered the mansion for the solid favor of the Da Li family, and naturally there were no shrewd and capable talents around him to marry, at most, they learned a little rough means of governing the family, so they didn't know Chen Mi at all to make new means, and they didn't expect that the purchase she arranged would secretly fool her, and she thought that the Wulanala clan was playing tricks, so she replied disappreciatively: "I don't know about the concubine. ”

"I wanted to give you a chance, but since you're still so stubborn, don't blame me for being ruthless. Hearing this, the Wulanala clan smiled coldly, said in a deep voice, and did not give the Li clan a chance to react after speaking, turned to Mama Fu and gave an order, then returned to his seat with an unfathomable smile on his face.

As soon as the Wulanala clan sat down, Qi Xiang, who was waiting next to him, led several palace maids to place translucent gauze screens in front of the women, and at the same time put down the layers of veils held by the floor cover, separating the hall from the secondary rooms on both sides. A sealed space is formed.

Erfu smiled and glanced at Yaoqin standing behind her, and raised her chin to Nu Nu in the direction of the door.

Yaoqin glanced at the door with some puzzlement, and saw Mama Fu who had just left. He had already led a middle-aged man with a green beard under his cheeks to the hall, standing right in front of the long table.

In the hall, there were suddenly a few more screens, whether it was Mama Fu, who had just gone outside to invite a strange man, or Erfu, Ulanala and others who were sitting behind the screens, they all moved a little uncomfortably.

Fortunately, there is a screen in front of him. The strange man did not see the women's gaffe.

As for why you don't worry about strange men seeing it, it's naturally because of a little trick done by the palace maid before, on the one hand, the location of several screens. Although there are some gaps in the connection of the screens, they just avoid the ladies sitting behind the screens, which can be said to block the people in the room, on the other hand. Behind everyone is also a venerable sandalwood screen and layers of veils. The light was much darker than the hall with the door wide open, so Erph and the others could see the strange man clearly through the silk screen, but it was absolutely impossible for the strange man to see the people sitting behind him clearly through the gauze screen.

"The villain Qingfeng Grain Store shopkeeper Xu Annian to Fujin, side Fujin, and all of you to say goodbye. The man who entered the hall with his head down, although he was very curious about what the woman on the other side of the screen looked like, but because of his identity, he only raised his eyes slightly and glanced at it. The juan screen embroidered with the picture of smoke and rain was busy kneeling. He lowered his head again and said in a respectful voice.

Taking advantage of Xu Annian's invitation, Erfu carefully looked at the man on the other side of the screen, but it was hazy, but she didn't see it clearly, but let her find a very interesting place, that is, the angle of the screen, which was not placed vertically along the horizontal line, but was distributed in a fan shape.

That is to say, at this time, the Ulanala clan sitting at the top of the clan, although there is a screen in front of him, can clearly see the expressions of everyone at the head of the head by adjusting the sitting posture, and Erfu and Li, who are sitting at the head of the Ulanala clan, can also see the Ulanala clan and other women sitting in the same row by turning sideways, but they can definitely not see the opposite side.

Erfu was observing the man, and so was Lee, who was more worried than Erph's curiosity, but the moment she saw that the person who came was someone she was not familiar with, she let go of her heart, and her originally stiff sitting posture became much more casual.

The Wulanala clan glanced at the Li clan meaningfully, tugged at the placket of his clothes, raised his hand with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said very politely: "The shopkeeper Xu doesn't have to be so polite.

Today, I asked them to invite you over for a public and a private matter, and there are two things to trouble you.

First, there are a lot of rice grains to be used in our house every day, rather than letting those **** purchases that work hard, it is better to trouble your account to send a batch of regular purchases to the government, so that you can not only earn the broken silver, but also allow the government to reduce some expenses and win the price of batch purchase.

This second thing is a private matter, it is really a little curious about Ben Fujin, the rice and grain distributed on the market are divided into grades, I don't know how this grade is different, and how it is defined!"

At this point, the Wulanala clan stopped talking and motioned to Mama Fu to give Xu Annian the two rice grains on the table for Xu Annian to distinguish, "These are two kinds of white rice that are available in the house, and I ask the shopkeeper to solve my doubts." ”

The villain thanked Fujin for his trust in being able to put such a large amount of rice and grain in the hands of the villain. Xu Annian first expressed his pleasure at the deal proposed by the Ulanala clan to send rice on a regular basis, and said again and again.

Immediately, he looked down at the two baskets on the table, a trace of strangeness flashed in his eyes, and he secretly said, "It's over, I'm involved in the war of the women in these deep mansions." He stroked his beard with some embarrassment, and asked softly, "I don't know the origin of the two rice grains of Fujin?"

"I asked people to take these two pieces of rice casually and use them to study the shopkeeper's skills. Saying that, the Wulanala clan seemed to be a little embarrassed and smiled, "Shopkeeper Xu, don't be angry!"

"Fu Jin is polite.

Such a big business, and to long-term cooperation, Fujin is sophisticated and sophisticated about the villain's ability, it should also be, not to mention that real gold is not afraid of fire refining, the villain has been rolling in the rice grain line for more than ten years, and nothing else dares to boast, but this little trick to check the quality of rice grain is still there. Xu Annian knew that what Wulanala said was just an excuse, but he didn't think so, originally he just wanted such a pickled matter of picking himself out of the backhouse woman's personal fighting, he arched his hand with a smile, and replied slowly with a deferential expression of "it should be like this".

After saying that, he stepped forward and came to the table, just like Erph's action just now, tasting and smelling, and quickly made a judgment.

"What does the shopkeeper think?" Ulanala noticed Xu Annian's movements, glanced at Erfu a little strangely, and saw that Erfu was fiddling with his fingers with an innocent face, so he shook his head and denied his guess, and asked softly to Xu Annian.

Xu Annian nodded slightly, "If you go back to Fujin, the villain has already distinguished the difference between these two kinds of white rice." ”

"Then feel free to talk about it. Ulanala said with a smile.

"Yes. Xu Annian arched his hand again, opened the posture, and said the difference between the two kinds of white rice one by one very professionally, and finally pointed to one of the white rice, and said in a low tone, "This white rice, although it looks almost the same as the top white rice, should be the old rice that has been accumulated for many years, but it has been washed and made new." ”

"Oh, Chenmi, what's that?" said Ulanala with an ignorant smile.

"Back to Fujin, the so-called old rice is the backlog of rice grain, not produced by the new rice produced in the year, and the biggest difference between the old rice and the new rice is the difference in taste, not as sweet as the new rice, and the taste is faintly musty.

If it is washed and covered with a lid, let it stand for half an hour, let the rice absorb the water, and then add a little peanut oil when cooking, and after boiling, stir it slightly with chopsticks and cook it over low heat, which can improve the taste of the aged rice.

In addition, you can also improve the taste of rice by adding sweet dried fruits such as red dates and adding tea, so that the aged rice is as fragrant and sweet as new rice. "I have to say that Xu Annian is worthy of being the shopkeeper of the largest rice store in Beijing, which knows a lot, not only explaining the difference between old rice and new rice, but also coming up with a solution.

"Shopkeeper Xu, please go to the wing room to rest for a while, and later, your own housekeeper will discuss the purchase with you. She just wanted to know from Xu Annian's mouth that the difference between the two kinds of rice was that she didn't care at all about how to make it delicious, so as soon as Xu Annian finished speaking, she smiled and asked Mama Fu to send Xu Annian out.

If you can not mix the matter of entering the inner house, Xu Annian is naturally a hundred willing, and he gave his hand again and again, and it was polite, so he left the upper room with Mama Fu and went to drink tea in the side room and wait for the letter.

(To be continued.) )