The next morning, Zhong Ziqi fried out the number of deep-fried dough sticks needed for the morning, put them away, greeted Ahmao Zhao and Ahmao Huang, and went out with Zhao Zhengan.
Those who came to "Pretty Good" for breakfast found that the guy who sold the fried dough sticks just showed up and then disappeared, but they didn't care about that, as long as there were fried dough sticks to eat.
Zhong Ziqi first went to the uncle who sold the meat, weighed a few catties of fresh meat, and bought a fresh fish and some seafood. Went to the tavern again to buy a jar of wine, there were too many things, Zhong Ziqi looked at Zhao Zhengan in embarrassment.
How to do
Zhao Zheng'an thought for a while: "How about...you go back first, hire a carriage to take the things back, and I'll take them home."
"Well, that's the only way to go." Zhong Ziqi nodded, and went to the car rental place with Zhao Zhengan, and negotiated a price. Zhong Ziqi got in the car and went back.
"Little brother, do you use a car? We specialize in attracting relatives and friends. The price is not expensive, and the outfit is okay." A man said to Zhao Zhengan as if he was selling. Just came up to ask.
Zhao Zheng'an originally wanted to leave, but he withdrew his feet as soon as he sold them. I took a closer look at this carriage. The cars here are divided into three grades. The lowest grade is flatbed carts, which are mostly used by ordinary people for daily transportation.
The second is a carriage with carriages, with simple decoration on the outside, and wealthy families will take such a carriage to visit relatives and shop.
The last type is the best carriage, which also has a carriage, but its structure and interior are particularly luxurious, and the price is naturally extremely high, and it is usually used by rich and powerful families, and ordinary people are respectful and far away.
The man who greeted Zhao Zhengan just now, the car behind him is an ordinary car with a compartment, with some tassels on the outside, it looks pretty good, thinking that it will be difficult to walk home, let alone sit It's too demeaning to drive a flat carriage.
"Okay, come with me." Zhao Zhengan ordered the carriage directly.
The car owner's eyes lit up, knowing that he was coming to live.
Zhao Zhengan sat on the right side of the carriage and went to Jinhua Restaurant.
Zhaojia Village was as peaceful as ever.
But on this day, someone suddenly saw a carriage with a carriage going to the back of the village. There was only one family at the back of the village, so it was self-evident who to go to.
Since Zhao Zhengan and Zhong Ziqi got married, in just a few short months, they have become people admired by everyone. Many people regret that if they gave them some help at the beginning, it would be a charity. Are they now like Zhao Zhengan? Like Baogen and the others, they made a fortune together
I regret not mentioning it, let's say that someone saw a nice carriage going to the back of the village, that person stopped wandering around, turned around and went back to the village.
"Da Kui, why are you back again?" Several people sat under the old locust tree in the village and asked, watching those who had gone and returned.
"Huh? I just saw a carriage going to the back of the village."
"The back of the village? Are you going to Zhao Xiaozi's house?" An old man said in a spirited voice.
"Hey, this kid from the Zhao family has married a good brother, and his life is getting more and more prosperous."
"It's not a big deal. Every time I enter the town, I can see that the business of their store is very good. There are people coming in and out, so I feel embarrassed to go in."
The other Ah Mo is a neat one: "What's the matter, every time I go to town, I go to their house to buy some fried dough sticks to improve the meals of our family Ah Da and the children. The two of them like it the most."
"Is it delicious? We haven't eaten it yet!" Someone asked enviously. Some of them were against each other, and some of them were not rich, so they were not willing to buy it.
"It's delicious. You all know about my dead child, but it's a pick. I'll buy him a few fritters and throw away the meat."
"Is it really that delicious?"
"That can still be false."
Zhong Ziqi was cooking in the kitchen, and he knew they had come back when he heard a voice at the door. He went to the front and opened the door with his hands free, just in time to see Shen Yubei jumping off the carriage.
"You are here, please come in." Zhong Ziqi stood at the door and said with a smile: "The house is an old house, I hope you don't dislike it."
"No, it's very nice and quiet here." Shen Yubei looked around and frowned: "Why do you live in such a remote place? How unsafe!"
There are deep mountains and jungles not far away. If a jackal, tiger or leopard comes down the mountain, it will be dangerous for them to be alone.
"It's okay. We didn't have a house when we separated, so we lived here. Now that we have money, we don't really want to move. As you said, this place is clean enough and no one bothers you."
"Let's go in and talk, don't stand here." Zhao Zhengan came over and said after paying for the carriage.
"woof woof"
"woof woof"
Before Shen Yubei's master and servant could go far, two barking dogs came from the house, and soon two big black dogs that had been raised came out of the house and ran fiercely towards the stranger. of two people.
"Dahei, Xiaohei, don't come here!" Zhao Zhengan shouted loudly, blocking the two dogs' steps.
"Wow." Dahei Xiaohei stopped and looked at him innocently, calling out to strangers from time to time.
"Don't worry about them, these two guys listen to him the most."
Zhong Ziqi smiled and said, the two guys in their family are very human, he and Zhao Zhengan simply let them play around without tying them up. Get to know them all.
"Very good, spiritual, and two good dogs."
Shen Yubei looked at the two dogs with interest, and watched the interaction between him and Zhao Zhengan. Although he had never raised a dog before, he also knew that dogs are just like people, and you treat them like sons. It is naturally also obedient to you. If you treat it normally, it will naturally treat you normally, without enthusiasm.
Hongying followed behind Shen Yubei, carefully watching the two dogs to prevent them from rushing up suddenly.
After entering the main room, Shen Yubei looked around at this small house that didn't occupy a lot of land. Although it was a little crude, it was clean and tidy. It made people feel comfortable physically and mentally after seeing it.
Shen Yubei walked around the room thoughtfully, thinking in his heart that the stubborn old man at home and Ah Mu always talked about finding a quiet place to spend their twilight years. You can talk to them.
Zhong Ziqi poured two cups of hot tea from the teapot and put them on the table. There was no tea at home, and he forgot to buy it. When he got home, he realized that he couldn’t entertain others with plain water. It was obviously too late to go to the town. .
Reluctantly, Zhong Ziqi had no choice but to go to Lizheng’s house to borrow it with a try attitude. Unexpectedly, Lizheng’s house really had it. There was a family in the village who had a good relationship with the Lizheng family. Although they moved away, they occasionally brought some things to the Lizheng family to visit.
In those few years, the real father was still alive. Although the old man came from a poor background, he had a wealthy hobby, which was drinking tea. In these years, ordinary people would spend money to buy tea only when they were idle. Lizheng was an only son, and Lizheng was also filial. They couldn't afford expensive tea, so they bought inferior tea that ordinary people could afford.
The old man is also well-known for this hobby. Many people who are close friends with the Lizheng family will definitely have tea as a gift when they come to visit during the New Year and holidays. Until the old man passed away, there were still a lot of tea left in the family.
Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zhengan didn't drink tea either, so they begged for less. The guy from Lizheng's family didn't want his money, so Zhong Ziqi forcefully gave it to him.
"The two of us don't drink tea at home, and we forgot to prepare it. This tea is not very fragrant." Zhong Ziqi said embarrassedly.
"It's good, tea is just to quench my thirst for me." Shen Yubei said indifferently.
"And you two, don't come and go, just call me uncle."
Zhong Ziqi and Zhao Zhengan looked at each other.
"Uncle," Zhao Zhengan shouted first.
"Uh... Uncle." Zhong Ziqi also called out.
"Yes." Shen Yubei nodded in satisfaction.
"Then... brother-in-law, you talk to Zheng'an first, and I'll cook."
"You don't need to make it too rich, just home-cooked dishes."
Shen Yubei stopped him and said that he didn't want to cause trouble for the two of them. He is not a person with a heavy appetite, so he doesn't have much demand for food, as long as he can eat.
"understood."
Zhong Ziqi agreed on the surface, but she didn’t think so in her heart. It’s a Chinese tradition that no matter how close the two families are, even if you are my father, it’s not okay. , it can't be like the porridge and side dishes that my family usually eats-shabby.
Zhong Ziqi had cleaned up all the fish in the kitchen, but he was too busy to do it all by himself, he had to cook the fire and chop vegetables.
Zhong Ziqi stuffed another handful of firewood into the stove, stood up, turned her head and said "ah".
It turned out that Hongying didn't know when he stood behind him and looked at him expressionlessly.
Zhong Ziqi patted her heart, thinking depressingly why this person walked without sound.
"What's the matter with you?"
Hongying said expressionlessly: "Master asked me to help you."
"No need, I can come here quickly, you can go into the room and rest." Zhong Ziqi waved her hand and said.
It's just that Hongying stood there motionless and it was useless to persuade him in every possible way. At last Zhong Ziqi gave up, pointing to the stove and said weakly: "Then help me light the fire, don't burn too much, little by little, otherwise the pot will burn." It will be mushy."
Hongying watched for a while and nodded slowly.
This makes Zhong Ziqi very worried, always feeling very unreliable, don't burn a pot of fish.
Zhong Ziqi cleaned up the other seafood she bought one by one. While cleaning, she had to pay attention to Hongying's movements, making sure that he could control the heat before concentrating on her own work.
Pick out the grass prawns you bought and start making this very simple brine shrimp dish. Boil water in a pot, add grass prawns, scallions, ginger pieces, and refined salt, and cook slowly until the color of the prawns turns red. It can be fished out.
Besides the prawns, there were still some oysters left. Zhong Ziqi marinated the oysters for a while, then cracked the eggs into a bowl, added flour and rice, mixed well to make a batter, and then put the oysters to coat evenly.
He asked Hong Ying who was standing aside to help light the fire. He poured an appropriate amount of oil into the pan to heat it up, and fried the oysters until golden brown.
He put the three prepared dishes in the cupboard and put them away. The prawns were not that hot at the moment and had cooled down. He took two of them and handed them to Hongying.
Hongying watched silently, but didn't answer.
"How about you try it?" Zhong Ziqi handed it forward again.
Only then did Hongying take it.
Zhong Ziqi didn't bother him, he cleaned the pot and prepared to cook the next dish.
Zhong Ziqi, whose back was turned to Hongying, didn't see it. Hongying quickly and skillfully picked up the shrimp, looked at it in front of her eyes, put it in her mouth, chewed it twice, and then quickly picked up the remaining shrimp with bright eyes. put it in your mouth.
After eating, Hong Ying silently babbled twice, and then looked towards the cabinet with unsatisfied interest, but unfortunately she couldn't see anything.
Smelling the aroma wafting from the kitchen, Shen Yubei put down his teacup and shook his head: "Brother Qi must have cooked a lot of dishes, please trouble him."
Zhao Zheng'an sat next to the chair and filled his teacup, and said with a smile, "Uncle, you don't know, Ziqi's craftsmanship is unmatched by ordinary people, everyone who eats it praises it, just let him show you his skills today. "
"Oh? Really? Then I can look forward to it."
People in their family, even his mother, are pampered and have never cooked before. I heard that Ziqi's cooking was taught by his brother, so he wants to see what his brother who doesn't distinguish between grains can teach him!