The morning market was bustling with people, all the fruit and vegetable stalls had been set up, chicken, duck and fish eggs were spread on both sides, and a few eggs were laid in a bowl of goose eggs from the noodle restaurant. Fishy and woody, not as fragrant as eggs when boiled, not as delicious as duck eggs when marinated, he said he was going to take it out for a few copper coins, but Yu Jinnian kept it, and took two goose eggs, and made a plate of thick eggs. .
Thick egg roast is very egg-consuming, goose eggs are big and fat, and one is worth three, so it feels very worthwhile to cook with goose eggs. He knocked the two goose eggs he had brought into a bowl, and added a spoonful of sugar and half a spoonful of salt—the ratio of sugar and salt depends on his preference for sweet and salty tastes. After Yu Jinnian finished adjusting the taste according to his usual taste, he suddenly remembered that Ji Hong was not Things to love about sweet eggs.
Forget it, he muttered, it's a big deal to give Ji Hongdan something else.
Stir with chopsticks until there is a slight layer of egg foam in the egg bowl, and then brush a thin layer of oil in the pan to prevent sticking, and then you can fry the egg skin in the pan. At this time, it is necessary to control the temperature of the fire. The fire should not be too strong, and the oil must be less, so that the egg skin can slowly become fat, so that it will look plump and well-proportioned when it is folded layer by layer after solidification.
Finally, it can be cut into sections and placed on a plate. You can dip it in osmanthus sauce, rose sauce or shrimp sauce according to your taste.
He brought the fried eggs out for Qing Huan Sui's breakfast, and he came back to make eggshell steam for Ji Hong.
Eggshell steaming, as the name suggests, is steaming eggs in eggshells, but there are some tricks in the steaming content. He cracked another goose egg, but this time the egg was slowly opened from a round opening on the top of the spire, poured out the egg liquid, and then picked a fat mushroom, a piece of lean meat the size of a dice, Two small shrimps, chopped into pieces and mixed with egg liquid, seasoned with a few drops of rice wine and a spoonful of salt, and sprinkled with six or seven Chinese prickly ash in it, to remove the fishy smell and warm.
Then pour the mixed egg liquid back into the egg shell, use a small piece of radish with the flesh removed as the base, and steam it on it. With Ji Hong's appetite, this goose egg is enough to feed him.
The steamed goose eggs still look like whole eggs from a distance. Only when you probe in can you find that there are hidden holes in the inside. You can eat all kinds of fresh food inside with a small spoon, although it is essentially not the same as egg custard. What a big difference, but it is more interesting to look at it fresh.
If he came to eat by himself, Yu Jinnian must be too lazy to do these messy tricks, but when he thought about making it for Ji Hong, he felt boundless enthusiasm in his heart, and thousands of ideas could always pop up in his mind Make him happy.
Yu Jinnian held a goose egg to steam, squatted down in front of Ji Hong who was rinsing his face by the well, and said with a snicker, "You taste it, they don't even have it."
At that time, there were still drops of water on Ji Hong's face. It was the warm water that Yu Jinnian had specially boiled for him to wash his face when he got up early in the morning. In the cool weather, there was a trace of white gas, because the water slid down his forehead, Hanging on the eyelashes, he had to squint one eye to see what the teenager was holding.
Those eyelashes were like ink, curled up slightly, they were so beautiful, they didn't look like something a big man should have, and because he just woke up, he looked a little messy, Yu Jinnian yelled in his heart that something happened, but he couldn't control his hands I went to the ground and flicked it, like touching a feather, but it was a little more reckless besides being cautious.
The drops of water hanging from the eyelashes reached the crook of his index finger, like dew rolling on the tip of a lotus leaf, Yu Jinnian stared blankly.
Yu Jinnian felt that his fingers were hot, his face was hot, his heart was hot, everything was hot, but when he raised his hand to touch it, it was not hot, as if... the impulse that was eager to try in his heart had received an expected feedback, and it seemed that It was a thread that connected his old battery that had been in disrepair for a long time.
He almost crushed the egg in his hand, but fortunately Ji Hong was quick and snatched the goose egg out.
After eating breakfast, they ordered Qing Huan to prepare for the business of opening a shop, and they went straight to the morning market to buy lamb meat, because they had said before that they wanted to steam lamb wine, and it would not be easy to procrastinate, so they came out to buy on a certain day. It's a pity that the butcher's shop is sharpening its knives at this time, and there is no blood yet, so he had to order eight catties of fat and thin lamb with meat and bones with the owner of the sheep shop, and then he and Ji Hong went to the fruit shop across the street first. Lane look.
There are many fruits and vegetables in the fruit alley, and there are also small snack shops, but they are all small workshops, not as exquisite and expensive as those pastry and sweet fruit shops in the east of the city, but most of them are honest, without too many fancy decorations.
Walking on the road, I heard someone shouting "old fruit".
Yu Jinnian heard the sound and looked, and saw that they were two tall and strong brothers, but their eyebrows and eyes were treacherous, one had triangular eyes, the other had a bad nose, and their necks were tanned as black as copper. One of them unloaded the burden on his shoulders and searched for a corner Kneel down and open your voice: "Sell old fruits! Hey, do you want some old fruits?"
Someone went over and asked, "Where is it from?"
The Zhuang brother whispered: "The golden bells from the Chunfeng Deyi Building! There was a leftover one yesterday, and the family business said they don't want it, so my mother-in-law came here to ask for a reward. No, I'll sell it to you at a cheap price for your enjoyment! "
There is such a business, the big restaurants are rich, and the refreshment fruits after the night are no longer sold, some are rewarded to the servants, and some are directly crushed into the swill bucket, so this kind of fruit was born as the times require. A kind of business - a bearer and a stall girl who sells such fruits. Most of these dim sums can be stored for four or five days without any problem, but there is nothing serious about eating them. At most, the taste is better, and they are much cheaper than new dim sums. Just because they are overnight dim sums, people jokingly call them "" "Old fruit", most of the buyers are poor people in the alleys, in order to satisfy the addiction of the rich.
As soon as the two younger brothers said that it was Jin Lingzhi from Chunfeng Deyilou, they immediately rushed over with a group of people.
Yu Jinnian also went over to take a look. The various small biscuits in the burden really looked like the golden bells that he made, but...
"You are not a proud man!"
Suddenly a delicate voice pierced through the crowd, and everyone searched for it, and when they heard the voice, they said angrily: "Brother bought Chunfeng Deyilou's golden bells for Ah Chun, it's not like this! Brother Xiaonian's pancakes have small cakes on the back. Bowl imprinted, you don't have this at all! You lied!"
Several people dispersed, revealing a petite boy with a baby face, righteously standing beside the burden, accusing Panzi of many faults.
Yu Jinnian was surprised for a moment, it turned out to be Ah Chun, that half-fool who had been following Jing Zhong all the time.
How could he run out by himself
Ah Chun is really a fool, how could he be spared when he demolished others in public like this, only to see that triangular-eyed strong man who was carrying the burden was so angry that his mouth slanted, the mess on his nose turned even redder, Raising his hand, he was about to hit Ah Chun.
Yu Jinnian subconsciously took a step forward, but heard a "whoosh", a walnut flew from a distance, and hit the man with triangular eyes right in the middle of the brow. Little, he covered his head and scolded: "Who throws you old man!"
"Achun!"
Another person pushed through the crowd and came out, carrying three or two small parcels in his hand, which should be something he bought in the future. He hurried to the young man, and carefully touched Ah Chun up and down, maybe he was looking for Ah Chun. Chun was in a hurry to find him, and he opened his mouth to cover up his anger, and scolded him: "Don't tell you to wander around, how could you run so far with one wrong eye! You..."
Ah Chun blinked aggrievedly, wrung his clothes with his fingers, and couldn't bear it after being scolded a few more times. Tears started rolling down his cheeks. He tiptoed timidly to hold the other person's face. ——In front of so many people, he kissed that person, and obediently said: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, brother, Ah Chun knows it's wrong..."
The triangular eyes yelled, "These two are the one! It's so fucking disgusting!"
"Shut up, you!" Another bad nose covered his mouth, hurriedly shouldered his burden and quietly squeezed out of the crowd, "That's Lord Zhong... Do you want to kill you!"
The others were also afraid of being implicated, so they also dispersed. The two of them slipped past Yu Jinnian's shoulders, and asked with triangular eyes, "Which way is Lord Zhong on? You're so scared!"
Bad nose said in a low voice: "The guy at the Water Transport Wharf is a ruthless guy. He used to be a beggar, and he brought a young man by his side. A few years ago, he was carrying rice on the wharf and doing rough work for others. Pick up work! Because he does a lot of work, people want to rob him of his wages, and fight with people all day long, and he didn't get a good job."
The triangular eyes snorted: "That's it? Who hasn't hit anyone yet, I think back then, I also—"
Bad nose: "He beat people to death!"
The triangular eyes froze: "Huh?"
That bad nose scratched his ears, and said with his tongue: "Originally, we would stop when we win or lose, but that time there was a beggar who refused to accept. The next day, he ran to Zhongye outside the city while he was working on the dock In the ruined temple where he was sleeping, he went to spoil that Ah Chun—it was that fool! It was a coincidence that Lord Zhong left work early that day, and the man had just taken off Ah Chun’s pants, and Master Zhong came back, and on the spot... "
"Just, what's the matter?" The triangular eyes widened and waited for the following.
Bad nose wrinkled his face into a chrysanthemum, and said with a bitter brow: "He beat people to death on the spot. The beggars fought, and the government didn't bother to ask, so it was nothing. Who would dare to provoke him from the leader of Xicheng! Not to mention the little one, that's his deathbed!"
"Ah? Oh my god." The triangular eyes hurt his crotch when he heard that, he looked back at the man, and hurriedly pulled his nose, "Then hurry up, hurry up, go! I'm such a motherfucker You're so cheap, you almost hit that little evil star!"
Yu Jinnian also heard the tightness between his legs, his brows were slightly furrowed, Ji Hong approached and rubbed his ears, and said in a low voice, "Don't think about it."
He nodded, and just as he drove those bloody scenes out of his mind, and took Ji Hong away quickly, it was best not to collide with Jing Zhong head-on, when he heard Ah Chun shout in surprise: "Brother Xiaonian!"
"..." This is really what I want.
Jing Zhong was wiping the tears off Ah Chun's face, when he heard this sound, his whole back froze immediately, he withdrew his hands and turned back slowly. And Ah Chun had already rushed towards Yu Jinnian, Yu Jinnian caught him with both hands, and coaxed him in front of him, thinking that if Ji Hong got angry and wanted to drag him into the alley and stab him, he would be able to catch Ah Chun at least. spring.
Then? Then at worst, run away with Ji Hong.
Before seeing Jing Zhong on the bed, he was so sick that he didn't even look like a human being, but now he seems to be recovering, he has a complexion and is wearing a black satin. He is indeed the guard chosen by the second elder brother. He is tall and straight. Such an aura cannot be achieved without the careful training of a wealthy family. He looks quite handsome from a distance.
Considering the same age as the second elder brother, Jing Zhong should be in his early thirties this year, but there are already some small dimples on his face, which are gathered around the eyebrows and eyes, and he doesn't look old, but has a kind of majestic momentum , as those two people said just now, is a "ruthless horn".
It's just that at this time Jing Zhong's face is not cruel, it is full of panic and helplessness, he stared blankly at Ji Hong approaching, he didn't even have the courage to take half a step back, he seemed to want to say something, his lips were trembling , still unable to say, just like a long pole that has been punched three feet to the ground, shaking tremblingly.
Ji Hong gracefully walked up to his shoulders, saying that men don't cry, but he has a cavity of water, tears of bitterness, tears of regret, or something else, really knocked over the five flavors bottle, sour, bitter, salty, spicy They rushed out in unison, and when Ji Hong was about to pass him by, Jing Zhong's legs trembled, and he almost fell to his knees in grief.
"Stand up straight!"
Jing Zhong suddenly tensed his legs, and stopped suddenly when he was a foot off the ground, and stood up straight in an instant.
Ji Hong said sarcastically: "Your legs are so noble, even my second brother can't kneel, how can you kneel me?"
Jing Zhong called out in a low voice: "My son..."
"Shut up, how can you tell?" Ji Hong suddenly kicked him on the knee, Jing Zhong shook his head, but still gritted his teeth and stood still, "That's my second brother's seat, and it's the last thing I want in my life. The two words on your back!"
"Second Young Master once told us that if he..." Jing Zhong choked up, "Third Young Master is the only son who can inherit the title, and will be our heaven and our law from now on."
Ji Hongdao: "Jing Zhong, do you still remember the second brother's method?"
Jing Zhong nodded: "If there is a betrayer... gouging out the eyes and removing the tongue, cutting off the hands and feet..."
Before he finished speaking, he fell down on his knees in front of Ji Hong with a plop, and wanted to hug the man's leg, but he dared not touch it. In the end, he only grabbed the soil at his feet, looked up at Ji Hong, Zhu Jianbai said: "I will, I will! Third son, Jing Zhong committed such a crime on impulse, and after escaping, he could not sleep day and night. …”
"After the Second Young Master's accident, I went back to the mansion secretly once, only to learn that the remaining guards were all sent out, and now they are scattered all over the world. But Duan Ming, Shi Xing and others held the Second Young Master in their hands. Perhaps the Second Young Master had expected that he would not be able to survive at that time, so he told us secretly that if he really couldn't come back with something, he would leave those things to you, but unfortunately, in the end, with I was the only bodyguard who went out—"
Ji Hong's pupils shrank suddenly, and he lifted Jing Zhong's collar. He was so excited that he couldn't restrain himself for a moment: "Second brother left me something?"
"Yes, yes," Jing Zhong bowed his head and said, "I don't know what it is. In the past few years, I have been wandering around just to find their whereabouts. It's just a huge crowd..." He paused, seeing the loss in Ji Hong's eyes. Said, "A while ago, when I was recovering from illness, I accidentally found out that Duan Ming was going to a certain town in the northwest here, and he seemed to be working as a blacksmith..."
Ji Hong seemed to be stunned. When Yu Jinnian came over, he just heard the part where his second elder brother left something for him. He reached out and tugged at the clothes on Ji Hong's waist, and the man came back to his senses, and slapped Jing Zhong hard. After throwing it away, he suppressed his voice and said, "Go away, don't let me see it again."
He spared Jing Zhong's life for Ji Yan's relic.
Yu Jinnian knew how much Ji Hong wanted one or two things that his second elder brother gave him, the kind that was specially reserved for him, instead of the piece of paper he tried to snatch from others.
Jing Zhong knelt down and kowtowed twice. Ah Chun seemed to understand that between his brother and Ji Hong, it was his brother who made a mistake, so he dared not speak. He took out a small paper bag from his sleeve and peeked at it. Glancing at Ji Hong, he stuffed it into Yu Jinnian's hands: "Ah Chun likes rice dumplings."
Children are the simplest. A piece of candy and a piece of preserved fruit are their treasures. Yu Jinnian only took two pieces, touched Ah Chun's head, and said, "Let's go, it's best not to run into us again."
Ah Chun walked away following Jing Zhong step by step, Yu Jinnian spread out his palms and pushed Ji Hong: "Eat, Ah Chun sees that you are angry, I want to please you."
Ji Hong withdrew his gaze: "What does he have to do with me? What good does his flattery do to me?"
"Then it's good for me to curry favor with you?" Yu Jinnian stopped his feet, pinched a zongzi candy, squinted one eye to look at the light, it was crystal clear, and there were small yellow and white petals nestled inside, it should be It smells like sweet-scented osmanthus, he giggled as he stared at the little flowers inside.
Ji Hong turned his head slightly to look, with some strange look in his eyes, as if he was waiting for his so-called flattery.
At this time, a carriage with purple soft curtains on all sides drove past slowly, just blocking the small corner where Ji Hong and the two were standing, there was nothing around, and the sound of the wheels of the carriage could cover most of the amorous feelings. Yu Jinnian took away the zongzi candy, and when the carriage came, he stood on tiptoe and bumped into each other.
It seemed very thrilling, but also very secretive, Ji Hong's eyes came alive, like fish in water, the look that would only appear if he was really liked, he lowered his head to give the boy a convenience. The carriage passed by immediately, and they also separated immediately, as if nothing had happened, except that there was a quiet joy on the faces of the two of them.
"En." Ji Hong responded, calmly, "Great benefit."
Yu Jinnian licked his lips: "Don't get cheap and act good."
They didn't know that the purple soft curtain of the carriage was lifted a crack from the inside, and then fell down violently. The person sitting in the carriage was Yan Rong who had just returned from outside the city—two people who passed by in a flash. Personally, he was startled, he had never seen such a scene, even with his new wife who was married to Mingmei, he had never experienced such a tense time, he suddenly felt his stomach churning, as if he had swallowed a shrimp alive, and the shrimp would It popped out of his throat, and he was so scared that he tightly covered his mouth.
He felt terrified to let him treat a woman like that, let alone a man. Yan Rong drove back to the house in a daze, and the girl waiting at the door ran over to help him. As soon as he opened the curtain, he saw a With fat white snow tender hands, a wooden bracelet was wrapped around the wrist: "I will listen to Madam later, I bought a lot of squid for my grandfather, and I will make red stuffed fish lips to eat, and my grandfather can eat it at noon!"
Yan Rong was already upset, but now his face turned pale with shock: "What, what lips!"
The girl waiting for the door said: "Red Stuffed Fish Lips... Lord, what is wrong with you?"
Only then did Yan Rong realize that it was Yu Lip, he waved his hand and dismissed the servant girl annoyedly, jumped out of the carriage and entered in, muttering in his mouth: "It's really going downhill, human relations are reversed, men and women are..."
As soon as he walked around to the back of Erjin's yard, he saw a group of maids hurrying to the side yard carrying things. They carried pots, tea, and some messy things. He reached out to stop one of them and asked: " what happened?"
The girl said: "Miss Fifth suffered from an eye disease again, and was writhing on the bed in pain."
Yan Rong heard that Miss Fifth was ill, so he hurriedly asked, "Can I ask for a doctor first?"
"Please, please, but..." the girl stomped her feet anxiously, "It's useless! Doctors from Shou Ren Tang and Ji'an Tang have been here several times. I have invited Mr. Luo, and last night I paid a lot of money to invite Zou The genius doctor came, no medicine was useless! In the early hours of the morning, Miss Wu was finally sleepy. She rested for a while, woke up this morning, only embroidered a few stitches on the wedding dress, and she fell ill again, and it was even more serious. I just said that my eyes are dizzy and I can't see anything clearly..."
Yan Rong frowned, and waved his hand irritably: "Go, go, I'll take care of you."
As soon as he stepped into the back hall, a trembling old lady came out from the side corridor, leaning on crutches, and being supported by someone, hurried towards him, Yan Rong's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran over, Bite the bullet and salute: "Grandmother!"
"Grandmother!" The old lady looked behind him, there was no one there, she immediately took the crutches and leaned heavily on the ground, and sighed repeatedly, "Look at Yaoer, this sick person is getting worse every day, this It's Xiaoding's eldest girl's house, and when the time comes to marry with illnesses all over her body, how do you let your father be a man and an official! I don't want to live a long life, old lady, and bury it in the soil with your father's old face. Forget it once and for all!"
Yan Rong bowed his head and said, "Grandmother must not be angry! My grandson will go to another county right now, and then invite another doctor."
The old lady Yan was sullen: "What kind of doctor is there! Even Mr. Luo and Dr. Zou are helpless, and you can still invite an imperial doctor from Beijing?!"
Yan Rong was in a dilemma: "This..."
Luo Qian and Zou Heng are indeed the most famous doctors in Xin'an County. He went to the nearest other county overnight yesterday to invite other famous doctors to treat Yan Yuyao. Who would have thought that it was a coincidence that the doctor had returned home? When can I come back, please go to other places to invite, at least it will take two days to go back and forth.
The old lady Yan suddenly remembered: "That little genius doctor who saved you, maybe invite him to show Yao Er?"
"No!" Yan Rong suddenly changed his face.
"Why not!" The old lady Yan knocked on her crutches as if crying, and the two maids beside her couldn't hold her in grief, "The doctor is kind, Yao'er is so sick, he must be treated as a living horse doctor! When her disease spreads to Beijing and her marriage is withdrawn, will your faces look good! Oh, what crime did I do with my old bones..."
Could it be Yan Rong: "Grandmother..."
Old lady Yan: "Grandmother! If you don't invite me, there won't be a grandmother like me!"
Yan Rong: "..."
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At this time, a bowl of noodle shop, Yu Jinnian and Ji Hong came back with some fresh and juicy fruits. Among them, there was a cart selling winter dates, red and green, sweet and crisp, so he grabbed two catties and brought them back to the girl in the noodle shop. We made snacks, and also bought crispy melon and ginger in sauce that were newly opened in the sauce shop, and a jar of eight-treasure vegetables.
Eight-treasure vegetable is also a kind of pickled vegetable. From the north, it uses seven or eight kinds of vegetables such as kohlrabi, silver bars, bamboo shoots, white peanut kernels, lotus root, cucumber, and tender ginger sprouts, and is marinated in salt sauce. brewed. Because these dishes have different dehydration and taste time, if you want to taste delicious, you need to stagger the time to marinate, and it is best to add them to the altar as a side dish at the end.
Don't look at it as just a jar of pickles, there is a saying of first brewing, second brewing, and third brewing on this marinade. After all, it is meticulous work, let Yu Jinnian work so hard to brew a jar, it is cheaper and delicious than buying a jar directly.
Back at the noodle restaurant, after noon, Yu Jinnian soaked the glutinous rice, scooped up well water and boiled the lamb meat, regardless of whether it was fat or thin, regardless of whether it was meat or bone, and almonds, and prepared to brew lamb wine. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to open the altar when it's snowing, and enjoy the moon while drinking around the stove.
Ji Hong seems to be in a good mood today, probably because he learned that his second brother left something for him, so he didn't even mention Jing Zhong's matter. The clock hanging in Yu Jinnian's heart also fell to the ground, and he nestled in the kitchen with peace of mind, letting Qing Huan help brew the wine. Since the wine was made from meat, he was extra careful, otherwise he would only see a jar of wine if he was not careful. Petri dish again.
It was night after the altar was sealed.
…
The two of them were making a fuss, when suddenly the door of a bowl of noodle shop was knocked down, and someone outside the door shouted urgently: "Little genius doctor! Little genius doctor! Open the door, please come to see me!" Yes! Miracle Doctor Yu..."
Yu Jinnian pricked up his ears, and it was really calling him. He hurriedly got up, bent down to pick up the clothes on the ground: "Don't get up, I'll go out and have a look."
"Let's go together." Ji Hong also half-supported his upper body, and slightly brushed back his long hair on his chest. His front was half-opened, but Yu Jinnian pulled it away, and when he lowered his eyes, he could see the looming waistline along the white clothes. Yu Jinnian swallowed, and hurriedly put on his clothes, "Then you put on an extra one."
The two went to the front hall one after the other, Yu Jinnian said "Come here" through the doorway, and then lowered the door panel with a gap of one person's width, and asked, "Who is it, is there any emergency in the middle of the night..." He looked at the person outside the door and asked in surprise, "Why are you?"
"..." The person outside the door also suddenly became dumb, he was stunned for a moment, flung off his sleeves and turned his back, his ears and cheeks were cooked from the inside to the outside at a speed visible to the naked eye, "This Jane, what a shame! Your clothes... can you put on your clothes well!"
Xu Shi was in a moment of impatience, but a southern dialect popped out of the mandarin, coupled with the other party's blushing face from "see no evil", it sounded quite funny.