Back in the room, the golden ball of fur was already sleeping in the middle of the bed. The tip of its tail, which had a tuft of white fur, shook from time to time. The color of this cat's fur was very special. Usually, a yellow cat would have some stripes on its body, but this guy was pure yellow from head to toe. Only its belly and the tip of its tail were white.
"I haven't fed you anything tonight. What did you eat?" Su Yu poked its bulging belly. Obviously, it was full.
An Hong-chul slowly turned over, stretched, yawned, and sat up. It shook its tail, looked up at Su Yu's face for a long time, and then reluctantly moved a little bit into the bed.
Su Yu immediately accepted the cat's charity. He climbed onto the bed and occupied the territory that the cat sacrificed a lot to give up. He took the opportunity to hug the cat who was licking its paws and sighed, "Sauce, you definitely won't be able to guess how our Su family became the founding fathers of the country."
An Hong-chul glanced at him and continued to lick its paws. What was there to guess? In the 27th year of Chengping, Taizu went on a campaign to conquer Mang Province. He was trapped on the road. A fish seller surnamed Su offered him three carts of live fish. The fish were very fresh and delicious.
"This isn't loyal at all …" Su Yu buried his nose in the cat's thigh and hummed listlessly.
An Hong-chul lowered its head and looked at him quietly. Its amber eyes gradually showed a smile. It slowly lowered its head and licked Su Yu's sideburns. How could this stupid thing understand that the person who could offer fresh fish to the royal family was the greatest loyal minister?
The barbed tongue licked his face, and it was slightly itchy. Su Yu was a little flattered and didn't dare to move. He obediently accepted the cat's whimsical caress, and unknowingly fell asleep. Today, the Jhao Clan had told him a lot. His eldest uncle and his father were not born of the same mother. His eldest uncle's mother was a concubine who was promoted after Su Yu's grandmother passed away. He could only be considered as half a legitimate son. Therefore, his status was about the same as Su Yu's. The matter of his title had not been settled yet. However, Su Yu's daily physical work had already exhausted his energy. He really didn't have the energy to play any Otaku Fighting.
After midnight, the moon was high in the sky. Half asleep, Su Yu seemed to feel a pair of cold thin lips gently touching the corner of his lips. He tried hard to open his eyes, but he couldn't see anything clearly. He vaguely felt that it was a beauty.
Su Yu struggled to open his eyes in the morning light. The soft touch was still there. He quickly lowered his head and found Sauce sleeping soundly on his neck. This guy was very domineering. His long tail circled around his neck, and one of his front paws was pressed against Su Yu's chin, not allowing him to move around in his sleep.
Su Yu looked at the quilt on his body and was a little confused. He seemed to have fallen asleep directly on the quilt last night. How did he cover himself with the quilt?
"Rou Yu, Rou Yu, freshly grilled rou yu!"
The loud shouting spread throughout the path to the Bodhi Temple. Squid was known as rou yu in this era. Su Yu's grilled squid was selling well, and many people came to try it out.
"It's not that good." Someone ate a skewer and felt that it tasted fishy and wasn't delicious.
"Of course, it's not delicious." A regular customer saw it and pointed to the small stall under the big tree. That was the authentic Su Yu's grilled rou yu.
These days, seeing that Su Yu's business was good, many people began to imitate him. Squid was not valuable in the sea, and the cost was very low. However, recently, the peddlers in the capital were scrambling to buy squid, and the price of squid had doubled. Su Yu looked at the several grilled squid stalls across the street. He wasn't worried that his business would be stolen, because without cumin powder, it was very difficult to make grilled squid taste good. He was worried that the unpalatable squid would ruin his reputation and hinder his grand plan of opening a "chain store."
"Meow!" The sound of sauce brought Su Yu's attention back. He quickly looked up and saw a young man in luxurious clothes grimacing in pain as he touched his hand that was scratched. His slightly chubby face was full of grievance.
Because there were many customers, Su Yu didn't have time to collect the money, so he put a wooden box on the table. The customers would first throw the copper coins into the box and then eat the squid. This little fatty probably wanted to eat the squid first, but he was scratched by the "miser cat" guarding the box.
"It's a total of 30 copper coins." Su Yu rubbed the cat's head, but the smile on his face disappeared. He knew this little fatty. He was the guy who wanted to buy the cat half a month ago.
Little fatty was helpless. After searching for a long time, he only took out a silver bead from the pouch.
"This is too expensive. I can't give you change." Su Yu quickly stopped Little fatty's action of throwing the silver bead. That bead was at least 100 grams. Even with his daily income, he couldn't exchange it for zero.
Little fatty scratched his head. "I forgot to bring money today. You don't have to give me change."
"How can that be?" Su Yu couldn't take it anymore. What if this person used this as an excuse to ask for his cat? He immediately pushed the silver bead back and took back the grilled squid. He didn't plan to sell it to him anymore.
Little Fatty snatched the squid skewers that were sizzling with oil and took a bite without any explanation. Then, he quickly gave Su Yu a small jade token and said, "Go back to my residence to get the money." After saying that, he held the squid skewers and disappeared without a trace.
"Ah!" Su Yu couldn't stop him in time. He looked at the jade token in his hand, which was only two inches long, and couldn't help but frown.
The jade token was made of green jade. On the front, there was a delicate qilin carved on it. The qilin had tiger eyes and dragon whiskers, and its feet were stepping on auspicious clouds. This thin piece of green jade was enough to buy a bucket of squid. On the back, there was a small inscription that was difficult to read. There was only one big word, "Zhao".
The qilin was a prince's gift. It was obvious who the owner of this jade token was. It was the current emperor's younger brother, Prince Zhao, An Hongniu.
On the way back, Su Yu drove the donkey cart absent-mindedly. Prince Zhao's actions were obviously intentional. But why would a noble prince repeatedly look for a barbecue skewers seller? It was really puzzling.
The kitten, which was originally sitting in Su Yu's arms, climbed up his arm to his shoulder and sat steadily on it, as if it was driving the donkey cart. This cat didn't seem like a cat at all. It was more like a dog. It wasn't afraid of strangers at all, and it ran around with him every day. Su Yu realized that he had picked up a treasure. It warmed his bed, took him for walks, played with him, and even collected money. Now, let alone three taels of silver, he wouldn't sell it even if you gave him three hundred taels of silver.
Su Yu's ear was poked by the cat's fur, and he immediately felt itchy. He took the opportunity to rub against the cat's body. Out of the corner of his eye, he found that the field was full of rapeseed flowers. The yellow and orange color spread all the way to the horizon. The kitten on his shoulder was looking at the bright rapeseed field.
"Spring is coming." Su Yu stopped the donkey cart and sat side by side with the kitten on the shaft of the cart. They quietly watched the afterglow of the setting sun scatter into the flower field.
"Meow." The kitten responded, which was rare. It looked at the beautiful scenery in front of it, as if it could compose a poem right away.
A strange feeling gradually emerged in Su Yu's heart. Prince Zhao definitely wouldn't be interested in him, who was selling skewers. Everything could only be because of this special cat. For a moment, an absurd idea suddenly flashed through his mind. As a person who had traveled through time, could the golden finger that God had given him be …
"Sauce, are you some kind of monster?" Su Yu turned his head strangely and looked into the cat's big amber eyes.
"…" The cat didn't answer Su Yu's question. When it heard the word "sauce," it gave him a slap with its paw.
Stupid slave, how many times have I told you, don't call me that name!
Thanks to the cat's merciless attack, Su Yu temporarily forgot about Prince Zhao. He went home to fill himself and the cat's stomach, then lay on his bed and began to study his family heirloom.
There were more and more grilled squid stalls in the market, which made him feel a sense of crisis. After all, grilled squid wasn't a long-term solution. If he wanted to make a lot of money, he still had to make traditional seafood. However, the seasonings in this ancient world were very different from those in the modern world. As a newcomer, Su Yu didn't know much about the ingredients in this world. If he wanted to make popular food, he couldn't just rely on his craftsmanship alone.
According to his official mother, the Jhao Clan, the ancestors of the Su Family were famous chefs in the East China Sea. They were the best at making seafood from the sea. However, people in the previous dynasty weren't as crazy about seafood as they were now. Although the Su Family was well-off, they had never become a rich family. This "Su Family's Cookbook" was the secret recipe of the Su Family. Many dishes had been lost because this cookbook only recorded the ingredients of each dish, but didn't mention the cooking method. For example, the first dish – "Silk Twined White Jade Shell."
The recipe was written like this: "Fresh scallop, mung bean powder, garlic, ginger, sauce." There were nine words in total. Then he drew a picture of the finished product. It was a white outline of a shell with an open mouth and a pile of strips on top of it. It was signed "Silk Twined White Jade Shell."
Su Yu was confused. Adding mung beans to fresh scallop? What kind of method was this?
An Hong-chul, who was playing with his claws, saw the frown on Su Yu's face and suddenly felt that he was an eyesore. He lowered his head and looked at the yellowed ancient book. "Silk Twined White Jade Shell." This wasn't a rare dish. The imperial chefs in the palace could also make it.
"Mung bean powder, mung bean powder, can it get rid of the fishy smell?" Su Yu scratched his hair and buried his face in the quilt. He was puzzled.
The kitten was attracted by Su Yu's scratching of his head. It rushed over to hug his head and quickly scratched it. The already messy hair was scratched into a mess.
"Hey!" Su Yu quickly grabbed the troublemaker's front paw. Who knew that the naughty kitten would be playful and use its hind legs to quickly kick Su Yu. "Little rascal, you've scratched my hair into a fan …"
Su Yu smiled and held down the moving furball. Suddenly, he was stunned. Wait, fan!
Modern people often ate Dragon Mouth Crystal Powder. It was slender and translucent, smooth and tender. The most delicious vermicelli was made from mung beans. The so-called mung bean powder didn't refer to the powder ground from mung beans, but the vermicelli made from mung beans.
No wonder it looked so familiar. To put it bluntly, wasn't Silk Twined White Jade Shell steamed scallop with minced garlic and vermicelli?
Su Yu held the book in his hand and quickly flipped through the back pages. The ingredients were detailed and the cooking method was only a few words. However, when he thought about the dishes in his previous life with the accompanying pictures, it wasn't far off. It was just that the names of the ingredients were strange. Thinking of this, Su Yu couldn't help but slightly raise the corners of his mouth. To him, this book was a translation manual for the ingredients of this world. Although it wasn't a secret treasure, it was what he needed the most now.
"Sauce, I love you to death!" Su Yu scooped up the kitten that was still persistently kicking him and kissed the furry kitten's face.
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