The Young Master of the Chamberlain's Family

☆ 19. Sour Plum Soup

Sour Plum Soup

Wanhetang.

The pharmacy was deserted, with no customers. There was only a waiter dozing on the counter. Qingshi walked up and knocked on the counter twice. The waiter shuddered and opened his eyes suddenly.

The waiter wiped his eyes and greeted with a smile: "Do you want to get some medicine?"

Xu Anheng nodded, looked up at the waiter at the counter, and just as he was about to say something, he turned around and reached out to Qingshi for a hug.

"Get some black plums, hawthorns, tangerine peels, mulberries, osmanthus, licorice, and flowers, roselle." Xu Anheng stuttered and thought for a while before reporting the last herbal ingredient.

The clerk picked up the medicine from the medicine cabinet behind him while listening. After packing all the herbs, he asked curiously: "These black plums are mostly used to boil water to cool down, often boiled with white sugar and Amomum villosum. Young master, what disease do you want to treat with so many herbs?"

Xu Anheng grabbed the bundled medicine package and hesitated: "It's not to treat any disease, but just to boil water to drink."

The clerk in the medicine shop is also the apprentice of the doctor sitting here. He thought about the herbs he just picked up, thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but sigh: "Wonderful, really wonderful, young master... Hey, why are you leaving?"

After Xu Anheng replied to the clerk in the medicine shop, he put the silver on the table and hurriedly took people away. At this time, he and Zheng Qingyan were buying snacks in a shop not far from the medicine shop.

"Brother, I want to eat this." Zheng Qing pointed with his finger, Xu Anheng took a look and asked him to wrap it up. The two of them each held a paper bag and walked slowly home along the shade of the roadside.

When passing by the big locust tree, Zheng Qingyan deliberately looked under the tree and saw that the grandfathers had not returned home yet and were still playing chess. He also pulled Xu Anheng to stroll in front of them and shook the paper bag in his hand twice, making the old men laugh.

The two played with the old men under the tree for a while. When they heard Uncle Liu say that he wanted to eat something after sitting for a long time, Zheng Qingyan opened the walnut and date paste cake he had just bought and took out half of it and left it on the table for the old men to eat while playing chess. Uncle Liu was so happy that he held Zheng Qingyan and teased him for a long time. When the two were about to go home, he reluctantly put down the little baby in his arms.

When Xu Anheng brought Zheng Qingyan back home, Brother Xu just got off the carriage.

"Brother, are you leaving the government office?" Xu Anheng asked standing at the door.

"The Ministry of Justice has little to do these days, so I came back early." Xu Mingchuan walked up the stone steps, smiled and pinched the face of the little boy who followed him and called him brother.

"What did you do outside?" Xu Mingchuan relied on his strength to pick up the two children and walked inside. Looking at the paper bags in their hands, he asked casually.

"I went to the medicine shop to buy some black plums and some miscellaneous medicinal materials." Xu Anheng raised his hand and showed his brother the bulging paper bag in his hand.

"Black plum?" Xu Mingchuan took a look and wanted to reach out and pinch it, but his two hands were holding people and he had no free time, so he had to give up, "But do you want to make sour plum soup?"

Seeing his younger brother nod, Xu Mingchuan didn't say anything more. His younger brother loved to cook for himself, so he just let him do it. It wasn't a bad thing anyway, so he shook Zheng Qingyan on his left hand and asked: "What is Qingyan holding in his hand?"