Section 135 Construction of the Tang Dynasty (5)

Zhou Ji Pepper Soup is a food stall, but the business is very good and the seats are full.

However, when some diners saw their appearance, they quickly finished eating and drinking and gave up their places.

They took their seats, watched the food on the shopkeeper's stove, and ordered the signature pepper soup and green onion cakes to eat.

It goes on quickly, and when it is served, it looks at the color and smells all tempting.

Mutton and pepper soup is made of diced mutton + bean skin + gluten, accompanied by pepper, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, shiitake mushrooms, fungus and other ingredients.

It's the first soup, and the store says that a big pot of soup base is cooked, and the work is completed on the day when it is sold.

And with the current flow of people, there is no pressure to sell out at all.

There's a lot of pepper and a lot of lamb, and this soup is solid!

The green onion cake is charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and when you turn it over, it is disconnected, releasing the fragrance of fried green onions.

Very fragrant and oily!

Sure enough, the recommendation is worthy of its reputation, and people who eat it with a health regimen like Di Renjie can't help but stutter cleanly, and Yao Chong called for more!

Other places are certainly not as good as here, the pepper is less, and the lamb is not like the boss here who throws a spoon into the bowl, the meat here is not worth much, it is very cheap!

The scallion cakes elsewhere are definitely not as oily as here!

From the folk food of a place, you can see many clues, and you can also listen to many contents.

A guy who should look like a small official of the government came to Zhou Ji to sit down, and someone curiously inquired about the news of the arrival of the holy car yesterday.

“…… Ahem, what a holy drive! The shopkeeper said rudely, "We only recognize our son-in-law!" He is the one who makes us live such a good life! (Wei Xina has a Turkish girl as a concubine)

"That's right! Right! Right! The diners were coaxing.

"Don't! Other! Other! The son-in-law of our family is also the son-in-law of the Holy Driver! The little official stopped, and said in a mocking manner about the visit of the Holy Driver to the ranch yesterday, he should know some inside information, and everyone listened to it with relish.

Speaking of the way the herdsmen made a profit, that is, selling horses, cattle and sheep, selling dung and eggs, suddenly a diner said: "He also said less!" ”

"Less?!"

"Sell people!" The diner smiled and said, "I got up early and served those horses, cattle and sheep there, and now the boys are willing to do it, and they all want to join the army!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" The diners are noisy.

"That kid from my neighbor's house came back with two hundred yuan a year!"

"The boys of my clan have divided three hundred!"

"Selling people is indeed a million profits, Yuan Feng of the Yuan family in the state government, everyone has heard of it, right?" The little officer said.

"I heard that he couldn't ride and shoot during the interview, and we've never been a cavalryman!" Someone said.

The little officer said: "He became a musketeer, and now he is a colonel, the same rank as his father!" ”

"Wow! How old is he? The crowd exclaimed.

The sound of everyone's discussion entered the ears of Di Renjie and Yao Chong, and seeing everyone's fanatical look, it was like the Qin people in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Yao Chong said intentionally: "Joining the army is dangerous, and it is not as good as running it at home." ”

"There is danger in the future, but our cavalry brings danger to the enemy!" An aunt dared to raise a bar with him and lectured him: "Do you know? Our son-in-law, who knows how to use soldiers, cherishes life, has many victories and few defeats, and the boys follow him, all of them are earned, and the generals of the entire Western Army are like this, and the most arrogant general Shi Wanchao has died a lot, so he will be demoted to being a small soldier! ”

This is indeed the case, Yao Chong was defeated, and there was nothing to say!

……

After breakfast, the two of them walked around the city, but they saw that the city was clean and tidy, far better than Kannai Prefecture City.

The people are all good-looking and powerful.

The store is full of goods, and the purchase and sales are booming.

Moreover, they heard the sound of Langlang books!

I was surprised to find that many of the people knew how to write, but not many were illiterate!

The style of writing is hot, of course, the martial style is also strong, it's just against the sky!

There is one detail that caught their attention: the folk here drink hot water!

Folk men, women and children, all drink boiled water.

Don't underestimate this detail, but it's remarkable!

Di Renjie has been a pro-people official (local chief official) and knows the origin of the outbreak of folk epidemics, among which drinking cold water and diarrhea is a common thing!

The consequences of diarrhea can be big or small, the light one is self-healing, and the heavy one is dead, and the death is not a minority.

The ordinary people in the customs lived, "never cooked soup to eat, only ate cold dishes for many years", and when very valuable guests came, "they would be served with empty cakes and cold dishes" as a delicacy for hospitality.

These low-level people, due to the lack of fuel, have no hot food to eat, and naturally they can't drink hot water.

It can be said that most of the people in the customs drink raw water, and only the powerful and officials drink boiled water.

This is the truth of China since ancient times, and the popularization of boiled water was only when electricity was not valuable, and every household used electric water heaters to get out of this dilemma.

But there are boiled water merchants, carrying tea bottles and boiling water, or small carts to deliver boiled water, and deliver it from door to door, even to some families who obviously don't have the most money.

Every household in the private sector drinks boiled water, and boiled water is popular!

Di Renjie and Yao Chong saw a water truck with the words "Don't drink raw water!" Illness comes from the mouth, and nine out of ten are due to drinking raw water, so we must drink boiled water. ”

Yao Chong is a ministerial-level official, and he shamelessly asked the little brother who delivered water: "How do you sell your boiling water?" ”

The boiling water brother looked at him in surprise, thinking that this well-dressed person should not be bothered by this at all, but he still said patiently: "One copper, one pound of boiling water, package delivery!" ”

So cheap?!

You know, the price is two copper coins and a baked cake, and half a copper coin of fuel can boil a pound of water?

Seeing that he was a foreigner, the boiling water brother kindly explained: "Our government has a fuel subsidy for our store, and the boiling water bill for those poor people is also covered by the government!" ”

This is a big, big virtue!

Di Renjie and Yao Chong are doers, and they both know how rare this virtue politics is and how great the benefits it brings!

If the people do not eat cold water, the related epidemic diseases are not easy to spread, and it can be said that Ze is born.

This virtue and politics didn't even see Princess Taiping report (in fact, she was afraid that others would say that she was rich), so she did it quietly, and gave it to the people, and the people benefited from it. (However, it still has its limitations, benefits are given to Tang people, and those who are not Tang people have no benefits, but they have done a good job)

The two let out a long breath, recognizing the unease in each other's eyes.

See big things in small things, Li Dan, how can you compare with your sister!

This old girl can earn money, and the policy can be implemented, which is even better than her mother.

……

The two of them wandered around, and soon discovered a new continent: folk paper money!