After seeing off the few diners in the store, the two packed up the tables and chairs. Yu Jinnian moved out a wooden board and asked Ji Hong to write "Closed Business" on him, and stood outside the store, talking to Er Niang again. After saying that, they closed the door and went out together.
On the way out of the city, Ji Hong saw the young man swaggering proudly with a basket on his shoulders, and couldn't help questioning himself secretly, how did he fall for his trick and be tricked out of the city by a fish head with chopped peppers
Yu Jinnian walked and looked up at the sun. In his previous life, he heard his adoptive father talk about some trivial things about building houses in his old home. He heard that it would be lively like a festival, so he really wanted to see it. I wonder if it will be the same here? Seeing that the sun was about noon, he couldn't help speeding up his pace.
There seemed to be a lot of people going out of the city today, all kinds of vehicles and horses and people were crowded at the gate of the west city. Ji Hong saw him running forward like a nimble little squirrel, and saw a rattan-gray sleeve shadow passing by his hand. He subconsciously tried to grab it, but it was in vain. In the blink of an eye, the boy disappeared, leaving only the surrounding Zhang Zhang noisy unfamiliar faces.
At this moment, Ji Hong felt a faint sense of loss in his heart.
He moved slowly with the flow of people, and as soon as he left the gate of the city, he heard a slightly surprised voice from a distance: "Ji Hong!"
Yu Jinnian waved at him vigorously, dragged him out of the crowd, and seemed to be afraid of being pushed away again, so he dragged him straight forward. Following Yu Jinnian's footsteps, Ji Hong walked faster and faster, and finally started to trot all the way. The willow trees with sparse branches and leaves on both sides retreated quickly in the field of vision, and when he turned his head, he could see a large area of farmland.
It seems that he has not run like this for a long time. Everyone only said that he is weak and cannot move around, so for a long time, he has been sitting quietly in front of the desk, sitting for a whole day, and what he opens the window to see is the delicate and unchanging landscape. When the door is closed, there will be only the weeping potted orchids that will never bloom before the desk.
Although he was panting badly and his lungs ached from the sudden running, Ji Hong felt very relieved in his heart, as if the thick layer of dust covering his body had been swept away.
In this way, I ran to Aunt Wu's new house, which was in a very good location, not far from the branch of the nearby Li River, and I could see many people coming to the yard from a distance, boisterously boisterously. A craftsman with a square face was sitting high on the beam, with a muscular and strong arm bare, holding a big dustpan in front of him, and shouting at the bottom of his voice: "Do you want to be rich or expensive?"
The owner of the house below said cheerfully: "Everything! Everything!"
Aunt Wu next to her was also beaming with joy. Turning her head around, she saw Yu Jinnian and the two of them, and hurriedly beckoned them to come in: "It's throwing beams, come quickly!"
The two passed through layers of people, and saw a red silk hanging from the beam in the middle, which was very festive. After the two of them walked in, they first went to congratulate the owner of the house, but they didn't notice that the noisy people were whispering behind them. Someone quietly pulled Aunt Wu, and pouting at one of the two, asked: " What kind of big man is this here?"
Aunt Wu thought about it, she didn't seem to have seen this person in a bowl of noodle restaurant before, so she smiled and said, "...probably helping the cook."
Everyone looked at him, and saw that the man was tall and handsome, although his face was covered with frost and looked a little cold, but he was really jade and gold, and the shorter man next to him was more amiable. He is also a handsome boy. If even the two assistant chefs have such a demeanor, then what kind of extraordinary person must the chef invited by their family be! Could it be the chef of the Spring Breeze Building in the city!
Everyone has been rumoring in private that the man from Aunt Wu's family got rich because he invited the real God of Wealth to live in the town house, and seeing how he behaved today, he believed in this matter deeply, and they all mustered up their fighting spirit. Grab more happy fruits to get rich.
At this time, the craftsman on the beam shook the dustpan in his arms. Inside the dustpan were some candies, peanuts, glutinous rice cakes, steamed buns, etc., which were the happy fruits that were about to be dumped, and they all symbolized good luck. , the craftsman grabbed a handful and threw it down, smiling and shouting auspicious words: "Come on! First throw a box full of gold and silver!"
Seeing that no matter men, women, young or old were rushing to snatch it, Yu Jinnian also stretched out his hand, but before the fruit fell into his hands, he was stopped by others.
He heard another shout from the top of his head: "Throw another rice to fill the warehouse!"
After a roar of laughter and noise, Yu Jinnian looked at his empty palm, gritted his teeth, and almost snatched it!
The craftsman above also saw Yu Jinnian below. He was thin and shoved by other villagers and women, so he smiled from afar and said, "Little brother, don't worry, there are more! Look at him." ... This time throwing a wealth of money will flow into treasures from all directions!"
Yu Jinnian didn't have much interest in scrambling for Xiguo at first, but he didn't get anything even after trying twice. It's like putting coins in a claw machine, but the doll is stuck by the baffle and can't get out. It's the same feeling. He was depressed, but he didn't know that the chief culprit who caused the villagers to scramble for Xiguo so frantically was the Eldest Young Master Ji standing beside him.
Ji Hong lowered his head and glanced at the boy beside him, and saw that he was pinching his fingers slightly as if he was angry with something. He was used to seeing the smiling face of the boy these days, and it was quite funny to see the boy's angry appearance at this moment.
This time before Yu Jinnian stretched out his hand, a figure beside him stood half a step forward and raised his sleeves. I saw Ji Hong tiptoed lightly and grabbed something from mid-air. Before he opened his palm, Yu Jinnian immediately rushed up with a smile on his face, and asked him what he had grabbed.
Ji Hong was thrown back and staggered, and helplessly stretched out what was in his hand—a pair of happy peanuts with red dots.
Aunt Wu looked at it: "Peanuts are good, long life and wealth!"
Suddenly, out of nowhere, two seven or eight-year-old skinboys popped out, exactly the age of seven or eight years old dogs, laughing and snatching the spoils they just got from the men, After grabbing it, he turned around and made faces at them, so arrogant! Yu Jinnian quickly grabbed the one who was running slowly, and held the kid by the back collar, the smile on his face didn't fade, and asked: "Aren't you running away, are you going to grab other people's things, huh?"
The bear kid jumped on both feet, raised his eyes to ask for help, but was facing Ji Hong's faint gaze that seemed to freeze him into an icicle, and immediately begged for mercy: "Don't dare, don't dare! Give it back to you!" Said Then he broke free, stuffed the thing into Yu Jinnian's hand, and ran away.
It's a pity that one of them has been accidentally crushed.
Yu Jinnian peeled off the other one, raised his hand and stuffed it into Ji Hong's mouth: "Here, long life and riches!" He muttered, "Originally we were each alone." He didn't really believe it either. If you eat this peanut, you can really live a long life, but I am a little unhappy about being robbed by a brat.
Ji Hong held a peanut in his mouth in astonishment, and followed Yu Jinnian into the west room where the kitchen was located.
The stove was already on fire, and there were cleaned whole chickens and pork in the wooden basin next to it. Yu Jinnian squatted down and lifted the chicken and meat to check, and confirmed that they were freshly slaughtered. He observed in the courtyard just now, there are about three or four stacked wooden tables in the corner, presumably they are used by craftsmen at night, each table must have neat dishes, meat and vegetables.
Yu Jinnian was thinking about what to cook, when he saw Ji Hong walking out thoughtfully, he didn't care, and took a knife to remove the internal organs of the chicken, planning to have a chicken and three meals with them.
These chickens are free-range chickens raised at home, they are fat and tender but not greasy, and the meat quality seems to be pretty good. The so-called three ways to eat means that one chicken can be eaten in three ways. As for which three ways to eat, there is no fixed number of ways, it depends on the mood of the cook. Because the people outside are all craftsmen who are used to rough work, and their requirements for food are not as meticulous as those in the county, and they are more pursuing the feeling of fullness in the abdomen. The claws and large skeleton continued to simmer.
He first boiled water, put a few pieces of green onion and ginger into the water to remove the smell of chicken, and a small amount of rice wine star anise to enhance the freshness. The most important thing to cook chicken is to control the heat so that the water is hot but not boiling. This is to make the chicken tender and delicious. Elasticity, as soon as he submerged the whole chicken in the water, Ji Hong came back, asked him what he did and didn't say anything, with an inscrutable look.
Yu Jinnian didn't ask, so he depressedly ordered him to wash the vegetables, while he fetched a basin of cool well water and continued cooking chicken.
Boiled chicken belongs to the category of soaked chicken in southern cuisine. The chicken must be soaked in hot but not boiling water for a while, then taken out to cool in cold water, and finally put in hot water to simmer. In the past, Yu Jinnian always disliked the trouble of cooking chicken for nothing, but now he is working hard for his livelihood, but he feels full of heart, and he is willing to present his best craftsmanship.
He turned off the fire, left the chicken in the pot to simmer, and then went out to fetch the dishes Ji Hong had washed.
It doesn't matter if you look at it, Ji Hong stood by the side of the vegetable basin with his feet soaked, staring at the celery in his hand with a serious face, and then broke the celery with the leaves with a deadpan expression. Throw the half of the celery stalk in the dustpan, and only take the remaining celery stalk to wash.
Yu Jinnian looked in the dustpan by his feet, there were already many unsightly vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage that had been peeled until there were only a few yellow tender hearts left, cauliflower that was rubbed so that the flower heads fell off, and pitted radish heads...
He seems to have heard the wailing of the vegetables: There is nothing worse than killing the father!
Ji Hong was seriously "washing" the celery, when he suddenly felt a heavy shadow around him, the young man folded his clothes and squatted down, frowning and reached out to pick the vegetables in the wooden basin, he couldn't help but stop his movements, and said in a low voice: "sorry, I… "
From the man's seemingly calm voice, Yu Jinnian could hear a bit of disappointment. He looked up at Ji Hong, and suddenly thought of the scene where he was cooking for the first time, and couldn't help laughing.
Ji Hong looked at him blankly.
While picking out the vegetables in the dustpan, Yu Jinnian laughed and said, "When I was cooking for the first time, I wanted to surprise my father. When washing potatoes, I felt that the outside was dirty, so I just took a knife I cut off one layer, and finally cut it like a peach core. The onion was broken off and washed one by one, and I was so hot that my eyes were crying. When my father came back, he saw me crying, thinking that I was being bullied outside, and he was very aggressive. Some say they are going to settle accounts with others.”
Although the ending of the previous life was painful, what Yu Jinnian thinks of at this moment is all memorable things, and because his mentality has changed a little, he is not as obsessive as he was when he was sick, and he feels those ordinary things even more. Life is so blissful, even the memory of his adoptive father sternly ordering him to endorse the book takes on a warm color.
Seeing that the boy's washing of vegetables slowed down, Ji Hong looked from the boy's hands to the boy's face, and found that those clear and beautiful eyes were a little dazed and colorless.
He heard from Erniang that the boy was wounded all over when he came to the noodle shop, and he was so weak that he was about to die. He lay on the bed for three days before fully waking up, and another two days before he regained his strength and got out of bed. The boy is not as fond of laughing as he is now, always saying no, frowning as if he is thinking about something.
Such a scene appeared in Ji Hong's mind. Yu Jinnian's scarred and distraught appearance made him feel inexplicably tense. For some reason, the young man in front of him was like a gentle sunlight. When he was by his side, he always It made people feel very comfortable, so he didn't want to see Yu Jinnian showing such an expression, as if the originally bright star palace suddenly dimmed.
At this moment, Ji Hong especially wanted to touch the boy's head, just like how the boy often coaxes Sui Sui.
Yu Jinnian reacted in a trance from the memory, as if trying to cover up his gaffe, he said with a smile of three hundred taels of silver here: "Look at me now, am I not particularly powerful?"
Suddenly a gust of wind blew by, Ji Hong narrowed his eyes slightly, he stretched out his hand, brushed Yu Jinnian's head briefly, and looked at the young man for a while, until the wind stopped, he replied: "En."
The man's voice was extraordinarily clean and clear amidst the hustle and bustle of the wind. Perhaps at that moment, the sudden gust of wind took away the coldness that repulsed people thousands of miles away, leaving only boundless deep tenderness.
Yu Jinnian was blown by the wind and closed his eyes. He didn't see Ji Hong's half-covered eyes. He just felt someone touch his head lightly. When he opened it again, he saw only a dead leaf pinched between the man's fingers. .
It must have been taken off my head, Yu Jinnian thought.
"You teach me." Ji Hong casually threw away the dead leaves, and pointed to the remaining vegetables in the pot.
Yu Jinnian nodded hurriedly, and got down to business: "For these vegetables, you only need to remove the withered and withered leaves inside, and soak them in water for a while, the soil on them will loosen, and it will be easy to wash them again. too much… "
Ji Hong listened very carefully, and Yu Jinnian was very satisfied, but for some reason, the man's eyes always glanced at his head, could it be that there is something hanging on his head? I reached out and touched it, no.
After rewashing the dishes, Yu Jinnian took the dishes into the kitchen, and didn't dare to arrange any more technical tasks for Ji Hong. Because he saw Ji Hong washing the dishes and soaking his shoes, he told him to sit by the stove and pick beans while warming the fire.
Yu Jinnian went to Master Yin Yang to borrow a pen and paper.
People here always have all sorts of strange rules. Before doing the meal, the chef in charge usually needs to make a list of dishes and check them with the hosts first, in case there are any things that the hosts taboo in the dishes. For those who are illiterate, the chef will communicate verbally, but there must still be a list, just for a formality.
The new house hadn't been built yet, and Aunt Wu didn't have any pens and paper, so Yu Jinnian went straight to find the most "educated" Yin-Yang master among these people.
I asked people, and they all said that this Taoist priest has real skills. He is proficient in drawing talismans to dispel evil spirits, catching ghosts and fixing houses, and opening a ceremony. , It is an opportunity of great fortune.
Yu Jinnian "devoutly" worshiped with others for a few words, then went straight to the east room where the Taoist priest was.
At this moment, the Taoist priest was sitting in the east room, drinking tea leisurely, with a fly whisk engraved with Yin Yang and Tai Chi diagrams in his arms, and a man in his forties stood respectfully in front of him, guarding With his left hand wrapped in fine linen, he kept worshiping the Taoist priest, chanting words.
After he finished reading, the Taoist priest raised his whisk and waved it in mid-air, and also read: "Exorcise evil spirits, protect life and protect body. Wisdom is clear and pure, and mind is peaceful. The three souls are eternal, and the soul is not lost... Urgently like a law!"
The figure of the Taoist priest then stabilized, and then he slowly retracted the whisk, closed his eyes and waved his hands, and said slowly: "Okay, you take this talisman back, after it has been melted in water, take it three times a day with your son, and that's it. Get rid of filth and filth, and keep your son healthy."
The man thanked him again and again, and offered a large ingot of silver to the table: "Thank you, Daoist, thank you, Daoist!"
Yu Jinnian walked in, smelled the oily smoke on the man's body, and looked at his injured hand, and guessed that he was the former chef who had broken Feng Shui.
The Taoist leader sent the man away, picked up the teacup, and saw a young man walking in. He was about to reprimand him for not being ignorant of the rules, when he glanced at the visitor, he suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise and said, "How could there be such a thing?" This kind of luck! Don't move, and let me take a closer look!"
Yu Jinnian was so frightened that he hurriedly stood still, letting the Taoist leader circle him three times to the left and three times to the right.
Daoist: "Rare, rare!"
Yu Jinnian wondered: "Dare to ask, what's so strange?"
"Don't say it, don't say it." The Taoist priest shook his head and pointed to the sky: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed!"
Yu Jinnian also said: "Since it must not be leaked, let's not ask. Please ask me, can you lend me a piece of paper so that I can make a meeting list with the host's family?"
The Taoist chief was surprised: "You are actually a cook? What a pity, what a pity."
Yu Jinnian laughed: "Then according to the Taoist priest, what should I be?"
The two chatted happily, but no one noticed that another person came outside the door.
The Taoist priest frowned, swept the whisk, and whispered deeply: "Your Excellency has extraordinary bones, extraordinary luck, three souls and seven souls seem to be different from ordinary people..." He suddenly opened his mouth in shock, and took a step back, "The Lord of Taiguang has already Change from the soul!"
Yu Jinnian watched him dance and dance for a while, then suddenly approached him, staring at his huge eyes and asked: "Little brother, are you willing to join my teacher's school, go to Lingshan Baofeng, learn the supreme Taoism, and leave this mortal body?" ?”
"..." Yu Jinnian was speechless for a moment, just about to speak.
"Jin Nian!"
Yu Jinnian turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that it was Ji Hong, standing by the door frowning.
"Why are you here, I'm borrowing from the Taoist priest—"
"Let's go back." Ji Hong walked in quickly, and before Yu Jinnian could finish speaking, he grabbed his wrist and led him outside, "The water on the stove is boiling, I can't."
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Ji Lao Gong's careful plan: Schrödinger's touch
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Little brother, I see that your bones are amazing, and your bones are wonderful. You are a unique talent in cultivating immortals! It is up to you to maintain peace in the world of cultivating immortals. I have a cheat book "Worry-free Medicine and Food", which is destined to be with you. Do you want to keep it