Zhong Ziqi searched around the house and found a porcelain pot that was not much taller than a palm, it was chubby, light and cute. He washed the jars carefully with water and steamed them in a pot for a while to sterilize them. Scoop out the hot water in the pot and put it in a clean basin to dry. Wash the apples and pears, peel and core them, cut them into small cubes, put them in porcelain jars, sprinkle half a teaspoon of sugar on each layer, and repeat this until the jars are almost full and the fruits are gone.
Then pour the boiled water that has just cooled down into the jar until it covers the fruit, then cover the lid and put it in the pot to steam. After about ten minutes or so, take it out from the pot, cover the lid tightly and seal it all around to prevent air loss and then put it on Shade in the corner.
When Zhao Zhengan woke up, the sun had already set in the sky. After rubbing his eyes, Zhao Zhengan didn't find his wife in the house. He pursed his mouth, pulled his shoes and walked towards the kitchen, shouting, "Daughter-in-law? Wife?"
"Where's the kitchen!" Zhong Ziqi replied loudly, he was heating up the meal now, he was full at noon and he was actually not too hungry.
Zhao Zhengan came all the way and saw Zhong Ziqi with a trademark smirk on his face: "Daughter-in-law."
Or to say that getting used to it is a terrible thing, in just these few days, he has gotten used to Zhao Zhengan's casual word "daughter-in-law", also used to Zhao Zhengan's smirk, and even more accustomed to Zhao Zhengan's existence. Zhong Ziqi couldn't help but think in a daze, life seems peaceful now, but beneath the calm is actually a pile of tangled messes that make people confused, but they still have to bite the bullet and go on.
"Daughter-in-law?" Zhao Zheng'an's magnified face appeared in front of Zhong Ziqi, and Zhong Ziqi was stunned. Zhong Ziqi even found that this guy's eyelashes were really curled up and long. On his handsome and rough face, it was surprisingly harmonious. ...attractive
Zhong Ziqi came back to his senses with a movement of his throat, stretched out his hand and pushed away the face that was close at hand, thinking with a wooden face, what was he thinking? How could he find him attractive? It must be an illusion. He must be too tired. Let's rest early today.
But Zhong Ziqi's idea didn't come true in the end, because Zhao Zhengan was so energetic after eating that he refused to go to sleep, so he dragged Zhong Ziqi to play with him.
"Wash and go to sleep!" Zhong Ziqi said fiercely.
Zhao Zheng'an looked at him aggrievedly, pouted and muttered: "But daughter-in-law, I'm not sleepy, I want to play with you."
"..." You are not sleepy, I am sleepy! But looking at Zhao Zhengan's pitiful eyes, he couldn't help but feel soft. He is very busy every day, and he doesn't have time to play with him, and he is worried about letting him go out. It must be really boring to just stay in the small yard every day, right
Zhong Ziqi simply took two small benches and sat in the yard, and brought the hickory nuts picked from the mountains in the afternoon, found a hard brick from the yard, smashed the walnuts, and then picked out the walnut meat inside and stuffed it into the Zhao Zheng'an's mouth.
Zheng'an smashed it, chewed it twice and found it delicious, then took the turning head from Zhong Ziqi's hand, squatted there and smashed it. After smashing it out, he followed Zhong Ziqi's example and took out the walnut meat and stuffed it into Zhong Ziqi's mouth quickly. Zhong Ziqi was taken aback for a moment, then ate with the corners of her mouth raised.
On summer nights, the sky is full of stars twinkling with brilliance. In that remote small courtyard, one person squatted on the ground and smashed walnuts, and one person sat on a stool with his head supported on his hands, and looked sideways at the tall person next to him, with a soft and relaxed expression.
Until that person sat there bit by bit and fell asleep. The tall man who smashed the walnuts stopped, tilted his head to look at the sleeping man, and reached out to touch the man's cheek. Then straightened up with a very serious expression, picked up the man, walked into the bedroom and put him on the bed, and carefully took off the clothes on his body. Then he also took off his clothes and climbed into the bed, and looked sideways at the man, his resolute face looked so serious that no one could tell that he was mentally retarded.
The next day, at the same time, Zhong Ziqi woke up from sleep, shook her dazed head, got up to wash up, but always felt that something was wrong, but there was no time for him to think about it, so he got into the kitchen.
He didn't want to make anything too complicated early in the morning, so he chopped some minced meat and mixed it with cabbage to make a pie. Just as they were about to bake, Zhao Ning and Zhao Sheng came. Zhong Ziqi opened the door and saw that they were carrying a sack of things, so he let them in quickly: "Is it cucumber?"
"Yes, it's fifty catties in total, you weigh it." Zhao Sheng said as he brought in the sack and put it on the brick floor.
"No need, Ah Zhao, can I still not believe it? Let it go, I'll cook, wait a moment, Zheng'an hasn't woken up yet." Zhong Ziqi paused after saying this, and he just said, he always He felt something was wrong, he remembered that he seemed to fall asleep on the stool outside last night, but finally woke up on the bed, he carried me in? Why don't I feel anything at all!
"Ziqi? Ziqi?" Seeing Zhong Ziqi standing there in a daze, Zhao Ning couldn't help calling twice.
"Ah? Ah... You go into the room first, and I'll be ready right away." Zhong Ziqi came back to her senses, feeling that there was nothing to worry about, she shrugged and hurried into the kitchen.
Zhong Ziqi’s baked cakes are actually not skillful, but they are golden and golden, covered with a layer of oil, and they look very appetizing.
After the meal was ready, Zhong Ziqi woke up Zhao Zhengan to clean up before sitting down to eat.
"Ziqi, if you don't sell noodles, you can still sell cakes. According to your craftsmanship, you can only make money and not lose money." Don't worry, there are delicious food and wages every day, and many people are envious of it.
Before she knew it, Wen Wenjing's people who needed his protection had grown to the point where she needed him to look up to and be taken care of by him. Although Zhao Ning felt a little unaccustomed to it, she was still very happy. Who doesn't like to be taken care of? Who doesn't like having a friend who is better than themselves
After breakfast, a few people packed up, took their things and set off. Today Zhong Ziqi arrived at the pier a little later than yesterday, after he had set up his booth. Zhao Ning came over and asked, "Ziqi, have you noticed that there seem to be a lot more people around us?"
Zhong Ziqi looked up after hearing the words, and found that there seemed to be a lot more stalls around him than yesterday, and even the pastry Ah Mo, who had always looked down on him for being far away from him, had moved back the stall, seeing Zhong Ziqi looking over , that Ah Mo smiled at him. He immediately understood what was going on, he wanted to use his stall to make money, but he didn't care, as long as it wasn't causing damage, he didn't care, and he didn't have the right to control, where people would like to set up a stall Just put it anywhere, this pier does not belong to anyone.
"Well, it's okay, let's just mind our own." Zhong Ziqi said softly.
There are still about ten bowls of hot noodle soup in the morning, most of which are acquaintances from yesterday. There are also many people who came here for cold noodles, and when they saw that he didn't sell them at all, they were very disappointed and asked: "Is there no cold noodles today? Didn't you say there are yesterday?"
Zhong Ziqi looked at the sun that had just emerged in the sky, the temperature was still a little low, and it would not be too cold to eat something cold early in the morning. But it may also be because of his low firepower and his intolerance to cold. Since there is business, there is no reason to push it out, so I simply emptied a pot: "Xiao Ning, you make cold noodles, and I will make hot soup noodles." After speaking, he kindly said to those disappointed people standing in front of the noodle stall: "Those who eat cold noodles, wait a moment, it will be ready soon."
When Zhao Ning heard Zhong Ziqi's words, he became busy. Cold noodles are easy to make, and there is no skill at all, so Zhao Ning's cooking is also decent.
There was nothing lacking in this meeting, so Zhao Sheng simply helped the two of them light the fire. Zhao Zhengan had nothing to do at the moment, he yelled too hard yesterday, his voice was completely hoarse today, his voice was hoarse and deep, Zhong Ziqi sternly told him not to yell, Zhao Zhengan had to listen to his wife, just seeing that the three of them had something to do Do it, he is so boring when he is idle. Step by step, she moved closer to Zhong Ziqi's side and looked at him with bright eyes.
Zhong Ziqi was stared at uncomfortably, and seeing that he was really bored, she taught him to collect money: "Zheng'an, when the noodles are ready, serve them up, and then collect the money, a bowl of five cents is five copper coins, remember? "
Zhao Zhengan knew how to count, so when he heard his wife's words, he happily walked around the guests with his face in his face, put it on the table, imitated his daughter-in-law's smile yesterday and said, "Five cents."
Most people are happy to pay. Some people like to dawdle or give money after eating, Zhao Zhengan stood beside him stubbornly and kept urging: "Five coins, you have to pay for noodles."
The guest was so annoyed that he couldn't laugh or cry and said to Zhong Ziqi: "It's not that I don't give money, look, I'm being urged."
Zhong Ziqi was also a little impatient and amused, but on the surface he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, everyone, the main reason is that our family admits death, everyone forgive me." To be honest, he still agrees with Zhao Zhengan's approach. When Wanmian is giving money, who knows if someone will renege on it, the truth is to pay with one hand and deliver the goods at the same time.
"Left and right are given early and late, and you can't lay eggs if you keep them." Someone said.
These words immediately caused the people in the booth to burst into laughter. Those who didn't give money gave money one after another. Zhao Zhengan had a good memory and could remember whoever didn't give money and who did. Others were amazed. Some shrewd people guessed that Zhao Zhengan might have a problem when he saw his clear eyes and childish manner, but everyone was sensible and didn't ask.
"Hey, is there a new food in your stall?" The big man in bunt came over and asked suspiciously, looking at the cold noodles that Zhao Ning was making. He went to work yesterday after eating hot noodle soup, and never met Zhong Ziqi selling cold noodles, but he heard someone say that there is a new kind of food on the pier that tastes cooler.
"Ah, yes, in fact, we are going to sell cold noodles later. Uncle came here long ago and missed it, so we plan to sell them ahead of schedule today." Zhong Ziqi explained gently.
The big man was also very curious to see that half of the people in the booth were eating the new food again: "Then you also give me a bowl."
"Okay, wait a moment."
There were already two people sitting at the table where the big man was sitting, chatting. The big man sat down and found that it was an acquaintance who had worked together before. He said hello: "Are you coming to eat noodles too?"
"Yeah, you're here too. I remember you used to eat there, don't you?" One of them pointed to the noodle stall that big men used to eat in the distance.
The big man smiled and fought back: "I still remember that you two used to eat there too."
"Hey." The three smiled tacitly, they were all gluttons, and they would go wherever there was delicious food.
"By the way, I heard that a cargo ship is coming soon, and it may stop here." A person said.
"Oh, when is there no cargo ship?" The big man said indifferently.
"No, I heard that the cargo ship this time came from the south, and it seems to belong to a big family."
"Oh? Really?" The big man and the other person rubbed their chins with interest. If a big family comes to work, they will pay a lot of money. They will not be stingy with this little money, so they are willing to give such a rich People work, but the quota of workers is also a problem. There are also a number of people recruiting workers.
"Five cents." At this moment, Zhao Zhengan offered noodles to the big man and the other two and said hoarsely. The three of them stopped talking, glanced at him and handed over the money. Zhao Zhengan stood there and counted it seriously before turning away.