A group of people looked back and saw a porcelain bowl broken on the ground, and all the soup in the bowl was spilled out. Mushrooms, red dates, and wolfberries were all over the ground, and some pieces of tender meat fell on the plum. At Shi's feet, she saw the flesh, as if the back of her instep had been scalded by charcoal fire, she immediately shrank her feet and jumped onto the arhat bed, wrapping herself in the deep corner of the arhat bed.
While screaming, he scratched his throat with his fingers, trying to spit out something.
The housekeeper only knew that Mrs. Li, the second room, was ill, but because Yang Cai locked her up tightly, she didn't see Li's illness carefully, and only occasionally passed by the hospital, and heard faint screams of pain coming from the room. , I also believed in the "headache disease" explained by Yang Erye. It is said that the pain was so painful that I almost wanted to die, so even all the hard objects in the courtyard were removed, and the flower garden was paved with soft sand. land.
At this moment, I rushed in to look at the sound, and my heart skipped a beat, remembering that the master in white said that there was a monster in his house, and looking at Li's appearance, wouldn't it be like being possessed by a ghost
He asked in horror: "What did you eat for Madam?"
The little maid who was sweeping the ground knelt on the ground without daring to lift her head, and timidly replied: "If you go back to the housekeeper, it's a phoenix fetus, and it's full of big stuff... because the second master ordered it to be given to you." Madam cooks some healthy dishes. It just so happens that a new cook came to our small kitchen a while ago, she is from Louzhou Prefecture, so she stewed this hometown dish to eat with Madam..."
The phoenix fetus is a dish from the south, and it came from the area of Louzhou. This soup is thick and white, very salty and fragrant, and it can nourish the body. In short, it is very good.
Seeing that the small kitchen has been cooking carefully all day, the little servant girl thought that the soup was stewed for Second Master Yang. The idea of clinging to that lecherous Erye Yang came up, thinking that it would be good to be a housemaid, so she finally asked for a job of delivering soup, thinking it was a beautiful errand.
Who knew that this soup wasn't for Mr. Yang at all, but for that crazy woman, Mrs. Li.
The housekeeper is from the north, and he has never eaten the southern dish of phoenix fetus. He couldn't help being shocked, and said uneducatedly: "The phoenix is a god, how can you eat its afterbirth!"
The little maid hurriedly explained: "It's not a real phoenix afterbirth, but wrapped with chicken and pork belly..."
The name of Fenghuang Tai is just a bit strange, but it is actually a stewed chicken with pork belly in soup. Yu Jinnian once tasted this authentic dish that every local household would cook in the south. The soup is really thick and the pork belly is crispy and tender. The chicken is crispy and fragrant.
The so-called "wrapped chicken" is a special method, that is, first wash the whole pork belly to get rid of the fishy smell, and then choose a native chicken that has been slaughtered for four months. The local chicken is neither too old to make the meat tough and chewy, nor too fat to make the soup greasy.
First, wash the chicken and remove the viscera. Take half of the prepared Beiqi and Codonopsis pilosula, fill the chicken belly with two pieces of young ginger, fold the chicken head and chicken feet into the belly, and then roll it into a ball. A chicken is stuffed into the pork belly, and the mouth of the pork belly is tied tightly with a thread. Then put the pork belly chicken, the remaining medicinal materials, a few big red dates, and a handful of floating pepper seeds into the crock pot, and cook slowly with sweet well water for two hours, skimming off the slick oil from time to time, then disassemble the parts and drink the soup eat meat.
This is called "bao", because the chicken is used in the dish, so in order to take an auspicious meaning, it is called a phoenix, and the pork belly pocket holds a curled up chicken, which is not just like a chicken. Is it a reincarnation of a phoenix
Chicken and tripe are both warming and tonifying the spleen and stomach, and astragalus and codonopsis can also boost vitality. This soup really has a great tonic effect, and is very suitable for those who are physically weak, sick and postpartum.
The phoenix fetus stewed in clear water is the basic version. If you want to add more freshness, you can also use pork bone broth as the base, add a bowl of fresh milk to enhance the color, and garnish with bamboo shoots, mushrooms, wolfberries, etc. The flavor is multiplied, and the milk is rosy. When it comes out of the pot, the soup is thick and white, fragrant and sweet. The pork belly and chicken are also tender and juicy.
In addition to the phoenix fetus, there is also a dish in the South that is only one word away from it. It is called pork belly stewed chicken, but it is just a pot of belly pieces and chicken, and the whole chicken is not stuffed in the belly. I always feel that it is not as fresh and delicious as Baoji.
The steward heard that the phoenix fetus was just stewed with pork belly and chicken, not really phoenix afterbirth, so he felt relieved and waved his hand to order the little maid to leave.
He walked forward, bowed his hands respectfully to Mrs. Li who was pressing the base of his tongue, and said tentatively: "... Mrs. Li? There will be a Fa Conference at the residence tomorrow, please Mrs. Li..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Li asked excitedly: "But Master Cheng Kong?!"
The steward said, "It's a guru in white clothes."
Mrs. Li shouted: "I only want Master Chengkong, that thing is coming again, only Master Chengkong has the real pill to ward off evil spirits!... Hurry up and invite Master Chengkong!"
The little maidservant who went to give Li's warm water came back here, Yu Jinnian secretly stopped her, and asked in a low voice: "What is the real pill that Mrs. Li mentioned? This is the same as when you went up the mountain to find Master Chengkong." , and tore up the Lotus Sutra in Fengbo Temple?"
The servant girl Xiaojiao heard him mention the Lotus Sutra, looked at Yu Jinnian carefully, and then realized that he was the little brother who bumped into him at the gate of the back temple that day, and replied in shame: "It was made by Master Chengkong." A kind of black pill, every time my wife has an attack, after taking this real pill, the pain can be relieved. In the past, Master Chengkong would take the time to deliver medicine to his wife, but this month, the master did not arrive as scheduled. A few days ago One day, my wife sent me to Fengbo Temple to look for the master, but I didn’t find it. Later, the madam’s medicine box ran out of real pills, and the master didn’t come for a long time... I don’t know who I heard from. The scriptures copied by the master's father are made of colorful clothes and burned, which can dispel evil and eliminate disasters, so I... "
She lowered her head even more as she spoke, and said, "I really didn't mean to tear up the Lotus Sutra maliciously..."
Yu Jinnian interrupted her confession, and asked: "Can you bring me that medicine box and have a look? Maybe it can give me some clues about your wife's illness."
"This..." Xiaojiao servant girl looked around and saw that other people were busy around Mrs. Li and had no time to pay attention to this place, so she nodded, quickly walked into Mrs. Li's bedroom, and took advantage of the panic to grab the palm-sized wooden exquisite medicine. Tucking the box in his sleeve pocket, he secretly took it out to show Yu Jinnian, "This is it..."
Seeing that Yu Jinnian might not be as old as her, she couldn't help wondering, "Little brother, can you really cure Madam?"
"Let's take a look first. Is this box only filled with the real pill given by the mage?"
The maidservant Xiaojiao nodded again.
Yu Jinnian opened the medicine box and sniffed it closely. Maybe the wooden box is very easy to store the smell, or the real pill has been placed for too long, and now you can still smell a special fragrance. As soon as he smelled it, he frowned, only felt that the scent was very familiar, as if he had smelled it somewhere before, and after sniffing carefully a few times, he felt that it was the smell of some kind of medicinal material.
Just can't remember it all at once.
He saw that there was a little black dirt in the corner of the box, which should be the dross from the pill, so he rubbed it off with his fingers, and then he wanted to stick it into his mouth.
Seeing this, Ji Hong quickly grabbed his wrist, and lightly said: "It doesn't matter if it's medicine or poison, just put it in your mouth?"
Yu Jinnian smiled and said: "Even if it is poisonous, it cannot be extremely poisonous, otherwise Mrs. Li would have died suddenly, at most it is a small poison, so even if you eat such a small amount, it will not be a big deal , it will be discharged soon, don't worry."
How can you rest assured? Ji Hong's expression became more and more gloomy. He didn't know how to reprimand Yu Jinnian. The Yang family was not on good terms with him. Will Yang Cai's slap fall on the boy's face? How did he manage to taste the true elixir that he didn't know the details for, Mrs. Li, who was not related to the Yang family
"Just let the boy do the drug testing." Ji Hong said.
Yu Jinnian shook his head: "What kind of taste and ingredients are in this medicine, how can a young boy who doesn't understand medical science be able to taste it?"
Ji Hong beat Yu Jinnian, but could only watch the young man lick his finger that was stained with ointment residue, stared at him nervously, and said, "If you have any discomfort, you should tell it as soon as possible."
As soon as the words were finished, Yu Jinnian said "Bah, bah, bah" three times.
Ji Hong was so frightened that he raised his heart: "What's the matter, what's wrong?"
Yu Jinnian stuck out his tongue, and said strangely: "It's so sweet, what is this thing! The real pill that Mrs. Li said is this kind of sweet and bitter sugar pill?"
It turned out to be a false alarm, Ji Hong heaved a sigh of relief, closed the medicine box and returned it to the maidservant, for fear that Yu Jinnian would try it again.
Afterwards, another servant girl came to deliver the soup, but they didn’t put the belly meat in it, but just filled some bamboo shoots and mushrooms, and even tricked Mrs. Li into saying that it was just ordinary bone soup, so Mrs. Li stirred it up with a spoon dubiously. Seeing that there was really not a single piece of flesh in it, I let go of my guard.
The housekeeper looked back, saw Zou Heng who was hiding silently, walked over and said, "Master Zou, can Mrs. Li's illness still be cured?"
Zou Heng said that again: "Madam is possessed by a ghost..." Seeing the housekeeper frowning, he changed his words, "I'm bewitched."
Just as he was talking, another scream came from outside the courtyard.
Everyone hurriedly went out to check, only to see a night watchman sitting slumped on the ground, with a lantern down by his feet, pointing to the winding path between the flower beds with fear on his face, and shouting tremblingly: "Blood, blood..."
The housekeeper hurriedly asked people to light up the lamp to see, and sure enough, he saw a stream of blood dripping on the ground, and walked to the flower garden along the bloodstains. Two servants tremblingly turned over the grass, and suddenly found a dead chicken that had been cut open and died. The condition is miserable, but he was skinned and bled to death.
Because the people in the yard ran out to watch the fun, they couldn't continue to suppress Second Master Yang. The cloth ball that Yang Cai spit out also ran out of the yard and squeezed to the housekeeper. With a cry, he staggered two steps.
At this time, an old servant who was quite old said: "This death looks like I've seen it somewhere..."
After being reminded by him, some old servants also suddenly realized, and began to whisper among each other: "Isn't it true that the civet cats in the house made trouble that year, and the myna who was raised by the second master died like this."
The fact that the civet cat made a mess has long been forbidden to be mentioned, so many years have passed, except for some experienced old people, the new servants and maidservants who have entered the mansion don't know about it, and this matter is quickly forgotten by people. Today's words reminded people that this incident really happened. Looking at the tragic death of the chicken, the old housekeeper couldn't help thinking of the old incident with Aunt Lan, and felt a chill down his spine.
He hastily ordered his subordinates to deal with the dead chicken. At this moment, a ray of green light flashed across the wall in the courtyard.
A servant girl pointed her eyes sharply and said, "Where did the civet cat come from! The civet cat must have bit this dead chicken!"
The butler heard the word civet cat, and couldn't help but trembled. Since Aunt Lan's visit to the Yang family, no cat has dared to come for many years. Today, a civet cat suddenly came in during the funeral, isn't it a strange thing! Annoyed and frightened, he immediately called over a dozen servants, and before the servants had picked up a fellow to chase after the civet cat, an old maid ran over in a panic and called, "It's not good!" .
"..." Is it doomed to be restless tonight, the butler annoyed, "What's the matter?"
Panting, the old maid supported her waist and said, "Langui Courtyard, Langui Courtyard, there are..."
"What's the matter, tell me!" The butler heard that it was the Langui Courtyard, and the alarm sounded in his heart. No one had been in that courtyard for many years—it was the courtyard where Aunt Lan lived.
"Suddenly a dozen or so wild cats came to the Langui Courtyard, screaming fiercely! I don't know which little maidservant threw several dead fish and chickens into it, and they were eaten bloody by those cat bastards. There are so many hearts and intestines left!" The old maid finally finished speaking in one breath.
It's okay if she doesn't say what she said, but once she said it, she made people take three steps back in disgust.
Just as he was talking, two more civet cats jumped over the wall and ran towards the Langui Courtyard howling.
One of the civet cats quickly passed by Yang Cai's feet, as if a ghost shadow had passed by. Yang Cai was so frightened by the bloody dead chicken that he hadn't recovered before, seeing the cat shadow again, two people on the spot He rolled his eyes and pouted.
"It's a civet cat, the civet cat spirit is here..."
"Aunt Lan came back to take revenge? I said that day, don't kill that monster, you have to be like Huang Xian'er, please leave with delicious food... You see, this retribution will come soon!"
"Isn't Aunt Kelan imprisoned in the Taoist temple? Could it be that the old fairy leader couldn't restrain her, and now that she has raised her cultivation base, she overturned the Taoist temple and came back to eat our liver and lungs!"
"Oh, Big Yatou, didn't you pass the rope back to that chief?"
"You don't want to be alarmist, I just passed a rope, but you kicked Aunt Lan!"
"This nanny, what's the matter, and who is Aunt Lan?"
"This Aunt Lan..."
There were rustling voices all around, and the newly arrived and unknowing servants heard some fragments of words from the old servants beside them, and gradually pieced together an extremely terrifying ghost story. Falling into a great panic, even if the housekeeper sternly yelled to stop, it only stopped the superficial uproar, but everyone behind the scenes had already made their own plans in their hearts, and no one wanted to be Aunt Lan's revenge sacrifice.
Tonight's Yang Mansion is destined not to be peaceful.
Zou Heng was about to take advantage of this mess to apply oil on his feet, but he was stopped by the butler after he took two steps, pointing to Second Master Yang who had passed out on the ground, and said, "Doctor Zou stay here! Please ask Doctor Zou to give my second master a diagnosis and treatment." .”
"..."
Yu Jinnian pulled Ji Hong and finally squeezed out of the group of people. He didn't believe that there was such a thing as a civet cat spirit, but Ji Hong didn't care about it. They were the only ones in the chaotic Yang family who were calm and composed. People, they still walked to the small courtyard where they lived temporarily.
—
After entering the room, Ji Hong closed the door with his backhand, turned around, pushed Yu Jinnian against the door, and looked at him with squinted eyes.
Yu Jinnian gulped, his eyes flickered to the side.
Ji Hong pinched his chin and turned him back again, forcing him to look at him, with a hint of danger in his voice: "Just go to get a candle lamp, and you can be kidnapped so far away, do you still remember that you are where?"
Yu Jinnian whispered: "I didn't do it on purpose, Zou Heng was messing with me, and I didn't have time to come back to inform you..."
Ji Hong asked back, "If I hadn't arrived, how would you treat Yang Cai's palm?"
"I..." Yu Jinnian just wanted to say that his body is agile and strong, and he has learned a few tricks of self-defense. Although it is only a three-legged cat's kung fu, it is more than enough to deal with a scrawny Yang Cai. He also said that he has other plans in mind Tricks, such as knocking on Yang Cai's numbness, kicking him and breaking his son's leg, but before he could say anything, he looked up at Ji Hong's expression.
At this moment, Ji Hong reprimanded him face-to-face, without any extra tone in a cold tone. When he was angry, his eyes were hot, as if they were rolling with raging flames, but Ji Hong was colder and colder, as if to make him feel angry. There is also a layer of frost on the face.
—It seems that he is really angry, Yu Jinnian thought to himself.
Yu Jinnian couldn't help feeling timid, he blinked, rolled his eyeballs, frowned and thought about it for a while, then tiptoed towards Ji Hong, stretched out his arms and hung on Ji Hong's body, swallowing back the previous pile of excuses Going to the stomach, rubbing his head against him in a flattering manner, and said softly: "...I'm sorry, I was wrong."
The side of Ji Hong's neck was itchy from his rubbing, but his body was slightly stiff.
Yu Jinnian thought his behavior could be regarded as being coquettish, but he had never acted coquettishly with anyone, let alone with a man, and at this time he was saving face to please Ji Hong, not only did this person not respond at all, but instead The whole person froze, and when he took a peek, his face smelled bad, and he looked very unhappy.
Although he is not as tall as Ji Hong, he is still a man with a tough body. He is neither thick nor soft, and he is not pleasing at all. No wonder Ji Hong behaved like this—Yu Jinnian suddenly became ashamed belatedly. Come on, I feel that the appearance of hanging on Ji Hong's body on tiptoe must be terribly stupid.
While he was struggling, he heard Ji Hong lower his voice and say coldly, "Stand up straight."
It seemed that instead of pleasing him, it made him even more angry.
Yu Jinnian let out a low "Oh", tore it off from him, stood obediently against the door with his hands behind his back, lowered his head, and said guiltily: "Okay, you can scold me, I'll listen..."
"Keep your head up."
The moonlight was bright and clear, and the mottled carvings were reflected on the young man's side face. A five-petal plum blossom on the door extended from the young man's cheek along the carved branches, and bloomed softly on his jaw. The night wind slapped the paper window, so Flowers are also hazy, and people are also hazy.
Ji Hong looked at him quietly, although he was depressed, but he was really helpless. The defensiveness of young people and people is too weak. He has not yet realized that in this cold world, the evil thoughts in people's hearts are far more than others. He only knows how to reach out to others blindly, but he doesn't know that others may not be as full of kindness as he is. He doesn't intend to hurt others, but it doesn't mean that others also don't intend to hurt him.
Sooner or later, one day, he was hurt and betrayed, and only then did he realize how dangerous this world is.
On the one hand, Ji Hong waited bleakly for this day to come, so that Yu Jinnian would feel repentant and heartbroken, and then obediently hide in his shelter and accept his support; at the same time, he hoped that this day would never come, he had already been trapped by this The secular world binds his hands and feet, and he is destined to be unable to be free, so I hope Yu Jinnian can feel the noise and happiness of the world of mortals for him like a casual butterfly.
He suddenly remembered a sentence that his second brother had said.
"Ah Hong, if you have someone who is very important to you, then no matter what status, status, strong or weak that person is, as long as it is this person, you will never dislike him, let alone will not abandon him."
At that time, the weather was cold, the snow was vast, and the future was hopeless. They caught an injured little snow rabbit abandoned by the mother rabbit. Although the little rabbit was as cute as a snowball, they were really hungry. In the end, it was eaten up with blood and flesh.
After eating the little rabbit, they were still hungry, so Ji Yan picked him up again and continued to walk forward. He asked the second brother, why didn't he leave him behind, just like the mother rabbit dropped the little rabbit, the little rabbit was weak, small and stupid, useless at all, not even burrowing in the snow to escape, he It is said that if Ji Yan is alone, he will definitely be able to walk out of this snowy field.
It was at this time that Ji Yan said that sentence to him.
At that time, he asked Ji Yan ignorantly: "Does Brother Yan have such a person?"
The second brother replied: "Now little Ah Hong is the most important person for the second brother."
He put his arms around Ji Yan's neck, his lips turned purple from the cold, but he didn't know it, he just moved his icy little face into the warm neck of the second brother, as if to maintain fairness with the second brother, he also promised in a low voice : "Brother Nayan is also Ah Hong's most important person!"
How did the second brother respond back then
Ji Yan smiled, shook his head and said: "The most important person for Ah Hong will not be the second brother, but Ah Hong is too young, and she hasn't appeared yet. When she appears in the future, Ah Hong must not despise her, she Even if he is stupid, Ah Hong must love her and protect her..."
He was still very young, so he didn't know who the second brother was talking about, let alone what the second brother meant by loving and caring. He just thought that it meant being nice to someone, so he asked, "Like Second brother treats Ah Hong so well?"
Ji Yan laughed: "Well, but...it could be better."
At that time, he thought that the second elder brother was the best for him. When he heard that he was even better for the person he had never met, he felt very difficult. How could anyone be better than the second elder brother in this world? good
When he came back to his senses, the plum blossom had already climbed from the young man's face to his neck, and Yu Jinnian was also looking at him blankly, his eyes were shining brightly like the Milky Way.
Ji Hong raised his hand to cover Yu Jinnian's eyes, lowered his head, and embraced the five-petal plum reflected on the side of the young man's neck. Under the halo shadow was the young man's pulsating blood, pulsating under his tongue. , like a heart.
"Second brother, it's him." Ji Hong said in his heart, and he couldn't help biting hard again.
Yu Jinnian blinked his eyes frequently under his palm, both panicked and suspicious. He was waiting for Ji Hong to scold him or hit him on the hand, but how could he know that this man had thought hard for a long time, and then he bit him. What novel punishment method
There was a little pain, the feeling of teeth rubbing against the skin, as if Ji Hong really wanted to bite a blood vessel and suck blood.
Leaning his back against the door, he still thought eccentrically, if Ji Hong was really happy because of this, it would be fine if he sucked it twice.
Later, I don't know how I went back to bed to sleep. I just remember that Ji Hong gnawed his neck and then gnawed his mouth. Tightly held in his arms, as if venting something.
In short, after tossing around half the night, I can't remember clearly.
When Yu Jinnian woke up the next day, the sun was already high. It stands to reason that today the Yang Mansion has something to do, and the early morning Su Zhai also needs to be prepared, but no one came to wake them up. Could it be that they were too scared to go out by the ghost talk yesterday
Full of wonder, he was braiding his hair in front of the mirror. When he lifted his hair, he suddenly found that there was a bright red tooth mark under the left ear, which couldn't be covered or covered. When he looked carefully, It seemed that the lower lip was also swollen, bright red, as if he had done something bad the night before.
Ah, I was so ashamed and angry.
He thumped and ran back to the bed with bare feet, lifted Ji Hong's quilt, and was about to take revenge, but was dragged down by Ji Hong who was gradually waking up, wrapped him in his arms, covered him with the quilt, In the hazy and warm darkness, his head was rubbed.
"What's the trouble again, huh?" Ji Hong woke up, his voice slightly hoarse.
Yu Jinnian was cowardly again, like a cat whose belly has been touched, looked up at Ji Hong from under the quilt, and pressed the tip of his nose to his chin: "It's nothing, good morning..."
Ji Hong smiled and said, "Morning."
After washing up, the two went straight to the small kitchen. Because they were in a hurry, they almost bumped into a boy who was in a hurry to empty the toilet bucket. Looking at the direction he came from, it seemed that they were in Mrs. Li's courtyard. Fortunately, the bucket of filth was not knocked over, but the boy shook it with lingering fear, but shook off the wooden cover covering the bucket.
Yu Jinnian glanced at it inadvertently, then was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Is this Mrs. Li's drowning barrel?"
Seeing that he was so abrupt and asked such an impolite question, the boy was both disgusted and embarrassed to answer, so he just shrank his neck and nodded.
Yu Jinnian slapped his head suddenly, and said in a fuss, "I know! It turned out to be this disease."
Ji Hong frowned helplessly, this young man was slow in everything else, but he was very diligent in studying the disease.
Yu Jinnian didn't go to the kitchen anymore, but turned around and went to Li's yard, wanting to verify the diagnosis and treatment. He probably knew what kind of illness Mrs. Li had.
It's an extremely rare type of porphyria.