Although Ji Hong gave Yu Jinnian an ingenious answer in another way, no matter how good the answer was, it was off the mark. Yu Jinnian rarely played with his temper. When he returned to a bowl of noodle restaurant that night, he did not prepare any medicinal food for Ji Hong. He didn't considerately pour Tang Pozi in advance, and lay on the bed, even ignoring the carelessly teasing hand at his waist.
However, this kind of cold war did not persist for two hours. In the middle of the night, there was a strong wind outside the house. Although the snow did not fall, it lifted the snow blanket that was originally on the ground. I feel cold on my toes. He got up and added another fire to the charcoal basin, and then returned to the bed, holding the candle to reflect the objects, the man really curled up into a ball.
Yu Jinnian sighed and pushed his shoulder: "Ah Hong, Ah Hong."
Ji Hong slowly opened his eyes.
"Sleep with a suit of clothes, keep it warm." Yu Jinnian woke him up, helped him put on another layer of underwear, and then let him go back to the bed. He blew out the lamp and got in himself, his hands and feet were all numb. Naughty stretched on the man, but the other party seemed to have no temper no matter how he teased him, Ji Hong wrapped the boy up with a big heart, using his limbs and body.
"Is it warm?" Yu Jinnian asked.
Ji Hong raised the corners of his mouth, his voice was low and hoarse, and he felt like he hadn't woken up. He didn't answer, but asked instead: "Didn't you ignore me?" He stared at Ji Hong with a pair of amber eyes, as if he felt that he was laughing at his childishness. Ji Hong laughed, raised his head and kissed the tip of his nose, then slowly kissed his eyes with warm and moist lips, forcing him to close his eyes: "It's warm, very warm. Go to sleep."
Only then did Yu Jinnian shrink back into Ji Hong's arms.
What does it mean to quarrel at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed? Maybe this is it, Yu Jinnian thought vaguely before falling asleep.
Although I got up to work as usual on the second day and opened the business, it was actually just a show, because everyone was reunited at home on the second day of the new year, and few people would come out to look for food. Even if there were, they would come to a bowl The noodle shop is planning to use sauced pig's trotters, sauced chicken feet and other braised meat or various dried meat and meat floss in the first month. There is a Ming and Qing Huan reception in front of them. Yu Jinnian also slept for an hour longer than usual, and did not slow down until the sun was bright. Swallow it up, dress and wash.
Probably because of his tough skin, he was stuffy after drinking ginger soup, and the cold was cured, and when he got up again, he didn't even sneeze again.
It was neither early nor late, so Yu Jinnian went to the kitchen to fry a plate of scallion pancakes. The cake is made of flour, eggs, and chopped shallots to form a dough, which is flattened with a rolling pin, then put into the oil pan for frying, and when both sides are browned, it can be eaten out of the pan. It is tender, crispy and fragrant. Afterwards, pour a portion of raw flour into a pan that has been washed and dried, and stir-fry until lightly yellow, then take out a portion of the previously ground sesame powder, drop a little vegetable oil, and stir-fry together in the pan. This becomes noodles. tea powder.
When eating, just brew it with boiling water. If you like it sweet, add honey and rose sauce, which is worthy of numbness.
Duan Ming came back early yesterday, and when he arrived at the noodle shop today, he found the third young master of the Min family sitting in the front hall. Mao, naturally thought of his clever second brother, lest Ji Hong's whereabouts would be leaked.
Although he opened a blacksmith's shop alone all these years, in fact, he did not miss any news in Beijing.
The eldest of the Min family is more than stable, but less intelligent; the third child of the Min family is too intelligent and has become a fool. Only Min Ji, the second son of the Min family, is outstandingly talented and worthy of a great job, and he is the best at observing words and demeanor, so that the emperor can't stop praising him.
Min Xiang is a loyal minister with strong bones. When he was young, his loyal words were harsh, and the young emperor still had the patience to think about them one by one. Now that the day is near, who wants to be reprimanded all day long, but it is a pity that Min Xiang still insists on admonishing. The Second Young Master Min is different from his father, he is best at twists and turns, he will get all eighteen generations of your ancestors out while talking and laughing, and beat you by surprise.
So there has always been a naughty joke in the market, saying that fortunately the second son of Min is upright and not a treacherous villain, otherwise it is hard to say how much harm he can do to the country and the people with his ability to speak with a sweet belly sword.
For example, the huge bribery case of the Ministry of Household Affairs two years ago involved a hundred and twenty officials from the capital to the localities. For a while, the East Xingtai was cut into a river of blood, and the criminals outside Beiyan Pass were exiled and mourned all over the place until a month later. Besides, the floor under the execution platform is still paved with rouge, which is difficult to clean. However, the cause of this shocking case was a few words that Min Ji heard while having a drink with the bandits who wanted to rob him when he was passing through Xifeng Mountain.
Who would believe that the thug did all sorts of crimes, but in the end he called the Second Young Master Brothers, and happily sent chariots and horses to escort the Second Young Master Min back to Beijing
Yu Jinnian drank sesame morning tea and ate scallion pancakes. After hearing the glorious deeds of his imaginary enemy Min Zhuma, he knocked on the table indifferently, glanced at Min Mao who was also gnawing scallion pancakes, and suddenly dragged the plate in front of him away. : "His brother, what is your second brother doing?"
Min Mao only needs to have delicious food, beautiful scenery, and his third brother Ji, and everything else is outside his body. At this time, he is still gnawing on the crispy scallion pancakes that Yu Jinnian personally fried in the morning, with a satisfied expression on his face. Took his plate, as if he had robbed him of his life, as if he surrendered, and said something: "Well, I guess it's a butt in the inn?"
"..." Duan Ming almost sprayed Qing Huan's face with a sip of noodle tea.
Qing Huan gave him a rare look of disgust.
"His brother, how do you speak, please be polite." There are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys want to dominate, and his second brother is away, so Yu Jinnian put on a posture of "I am your brother" and taught him every word Said, "That's called healing."
Min Mao agreed with all his face: "Brother Nian, you are right in everything you say, so can you return the shallot pancake to me?"
Yu Jinnian pushed the plate to him in satisfaction: "What did you call me?"
Min Mao took a sip of sesame noodle tea: "Brother Nian?"
Yu Jinnian shook his head: "I'll go with your third brother Ji's seniority." He leaned close to Min Mao's ear and whispered, "Look at your performance, I'll help you get a piece of calligraphy written by Ah Hong!"
Without further ado, Min Mao stared at him, and immediately changed his words: "That's it! Brother Nian, you are my real brother!" Just looking at his expression, it seems like he has taken advantage of the sky.
Duan Ming: "..."
Ji Hong made clear tea for them to clear their mouths after their morning tea. He gathered up his clothes and sat next to the young man, opened an upside-down teacup, poured half a cup of hot tea, and said helplessly, "What are you doing?" play him again?"
Yu Jinnian held the teacup with an innocent face, but the words he said were not innocent at all: "Of course it's fun."
Seeing Ji Hong coming out, Min Mao was still sitting at the same table with him, and immediately turned his elbow and poked Yu Jinnian secretly, wagging his tail like a milk dog, his eyes almost flew out. Yu Jinnian thought he was really pitiful, he was all the children of the Min family, how come that Min Xuefei next door was so miserable that he was so miserable that he didn't even dare to talk to him
"Okay, just write him one." Yu Jinnian tickled Gou Jihong's finger under the table, with an expression of wanting to listen to the wind.
"You are so proud of being favored so quickly?" Ji Hong smiled. He either ignored people or spoiled him to the sky. At this moment, the boy shook his sleeve twice, and the resistance in his heart completely collapsed. He reluctantly agreed, and immediately fetched his pen and ink, and asked Min Mao what kind of poem he wanted.
Min Mao racked his brains for a while, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration: "How about "Scallion Cake Fu?" Seeing the subtle expressions of everyone, he changed the title again, "Then "Twelfth Moon Twenty-Ninth Occasionally Tasting Maxiang Noodle Tea" "."
Ji Hong: "..."
Yu Jinnian suddenly understands why Ji Hong has been unwilling to let go of this. After a hundred years, later generations will recite the poems of Master Qingluan, and their eyes will be full of things like "one shallot and two cakes", or "sesame is fragrant and sesame is delicious." Sweet", if he were Ji Hong, he would come out of the ground in embarrassment and indignation, and tear up all these filthy poems.
Seeing that Ji Hong was about to drop ice balls from the cold, Yu Jinnian smiled and said, "Forget it, forget it, don't be as knowledgeable as him."
But innocent as Min Mao, he didn't even think about it until he died. He promised well, but he called out every brother, but when it came to the end, he regretted it if he said it! It's so bullying!
If you can’t write the scallion cake Fu, then write your own Spring Festival couplets and blessings!
Yu Jinnian took out the red paper that had been cut to size and length, spread it on the table, and squatted aside to study ink for Ji Hong. Because it is a small shop to make a living, Ji Hong wanted to write something about the prosperity of the business, but Yu Jinnian was not satisfied when he read it. He wanted something to pray for safety and everyone's health and prosperity, but he didn't care. How much money.
After the Spring Festival couplets were written, Yu Jinnian went to the back kitchen to boil the paste.
When Yu Jinnian was a child, the pairs in the neighborhood were pasted with flour paste. At that time, the paste on the market was rare and expensive, and not everyone was willing to buy that. Ordinary people used water to stir the flour paste. When it is boiled over a fire, the batter produced is no worse than the batter sold outside. If it is pasted on the wall, it will not be torn off the next year. Later, with the availability of various glues, making paste became a rare thing. Every time his adoptive father boiled the paste, the little hut was filled with the fragrance of face, which was the time he was most looking forward to when he was young. Every time he would hold the spoon and wait for his adoptive father to turn around empty, and secretly go to scoop a spoonful to eat.
It is not difficult to boil the paste, but it also depends on the heat. If there is too much water, the paste will not form a shape, and if there is too little water, it will form lumps. Yu Jinnian lit a small fire, stirred it while burning it, and two greedy ghosts ran in from that room, the older one was Min Mao, and the younger one was Sui Sui who had just woken up. of paste.
Yu Jinnian stirred a little bit for them with two spoons, and after they finished licking in a hurry, he smiled and said, "It's mushy, it will stick the intestines together."
The two of them ran away in fright.
After the paste was cooked, Ji Hong had already written a table full of blessings, big and small, while Qing Huan was stepping on the tables and chairs to hang the Baishiji on the high place. When the red couplet was changed, the two met face to face, and they both said "Happy New Year" enthusiastically. Ji Hong took the dangerous job, stepped on the ladder, first brushed the sides of the door panel with paste, and then pasted the Spring Festival couplets on it.
Yu Jinnian was holding the ladder below, and directed blindly: "Left left, right right, crooked!"
In addition to the couplets, door gods and lucky characters should be posted, and the statues of the door gods are colorful. The two generals, Shen Tu Yu Lei, are holding battle halberds and dressed in black robes, with wide-eyed eyes and domineering majesty. There was a naughty boy on the street who couldn't bear his temper, couldn't wait until thirty, and ran out to blow firecrackers, but his parents grabbed their ears and pointed at the door wall and threatened them: "If you don't obey me again, Shentu Yulei will arrest you and feed the tiger!"
Lanterns hang high on both sides of the long street, and some wealthy people bought hexagonal and octagonal gauze lanterns to hang. The lanterns are of the style handed down from the palace. Luo Sha, on the lamp, is either a graceful girl or a beautiful landscape. At night, it looks like two glazed moons hanging in the night sky, reflecting the brilliance of the residual snow, which attracts people to stop.
Yu Jinnian hadn't had such a new year in a long time, so it was as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. He was so excited that he had been enthusiastically pulling Ji Hong to paste the blessing characters. The big blessing characters were pasted outside, and the small blessing characters were hung inside the house. Yu Jinnian pasted bright red blessing paper on the kitchen stove and the stove, and even the pottery jars for storing duck eggs were doomed. He even hung a pair on the window coffin in the room.
Min Mao ran back to the inn to digest the paste in his stomach, and looked at his brother again. When he came back, his eyes were full of red eyes. Not to mention the whole front hall was hung with Baishiji, and all the doorposts were pasted with the word "Fu". Said: "Are you celebrating Chinese New Year? Getting married is not so ostentatious!"
Yu Jinnian was making a face in the back kitchen. He heard him bluffing in front for a while, so he took out a palm-sized blessing character, with a little paste on the small corner, and slapped it on Min Mao's forehead: "Where is that so?" What nonsense! Go to the door and post a message to see you when you go out!"
Like a zombie, Min Mao went running errands with a banner saying "Going out to meet you". After posting it, he entered the store and found Sui Sui Qinghuan and Sui Sui Qinghuan playing backgammon. , rolled up his sleeves and fought Qing Huan for a few rounds. It took half an hour before he suddenly remembered something and shouted to the backyard: "Brother Xiaonian! My second brother seems to be in pain, go and see."
"..." This is really a real brother. When you think about it, your brother will have to die in peace!
Yu Jinnian put down what he was doing, wiped the surface of his fingers, quickly filled a bowl of porridge and put it in a food box, and went over with Ji Hong for a friendly visit. As soon as he entered the door of the inn, he saw Min Xuefei going upstairs holding on to the railing, his legs were about to spin, his face was sallow. The poetic and picturesque two followed him cautiously, lest he fall off.
Looking at him like this, Yu Jinnian knew that the abdominal pain was caused by the effect of medicine, so he went to support him, and asked with a smile, "But did you expel the pus and blood from the hard arrow?"
Min Xuefei complained incessantly. Although the abdominal pain has improved a lot, and he can get out of bed and walk a little today, but the medicine really took away his soul, and his stomach is empty at the moment. Seeing Yu Jinnian, he seemed to have experienced the medicine delivered by Gu Dao again. Suffering from the pain of the Fa, his body suddenly felt empty again, and he complained: "Mr. Yu Xiao is really a miracle doctor..."
The second son of the Min family became famous when he was young, and it was often when he was flattered by others. However, in the past two days in Xin'an County, he really experienced the feeling of being dependent on others. He lay on the bed, clutching his aching and hungry stomach, looking forward to The little boss of the Yu family showed kindness and gave him something he could eat. Until he looked forward to seeing a bowl of gruel Yu Jinnian brought, with a thin layer of rice grains floating in the porridge, he almost passed out with black eyes.
Poetic and pictorial: "Second Young Master!"
"It's really not for you to eat." Yu Jinnian said sincerely, "It's for your own good. Eat less today, and you will feel better tomorrow."
Ji Hong thoughtfully covered Min Xuefei with a quilt: "Listen to Jinnian."
Min Xuefei groaned in his heart: I'm afraid the two of you did not work together to torture me.
Yu Jinnian smiled without saying a word. He watched Min Xuefei slowly drank the warm porridge water, and slightly increased or decreased the dosage of the medicine in the rhubarb peony soup, and because his pus had already passed out and his stool was gradually turning into thin loose stools, he defecated. The Dachengqi decoction was stopped, and Danggui Siwu was added with Caulis Spatholobus, frankincense, and myrrh, and they were ground into powder, mixed with warm white wine for external use, and applied to the pain in the right abdomen while it was hot, to promote blood circulation Dispelling blood stasis and relieving pain.
Taking the medicine for another day, it is estimated that on New Year's Eve tomorrow, he will be able to support his body and come to a bowl of noodle restaurants to celebrate the New Year.
Instructing Shiqinghuayi to grab the medicine, Yu Jinnian saw that he and Ji Hong seemed to have something to say, so he consciously stopped being in the room to obstruct the eyes of Second Young Master Min, and went downstairs with the empty food box. Just after leaving Fang's Inn, from a distance, I saw a thin figure hovering in the alley opposite my noodle shop. Originally, the little thing was hidden in the corner, so it was not easy to be found, but he was still holding a prickly eye in front of him. The incomparable red silk cloth, so he couldn't see it.
The little thing sneaked towards a bowl of noodle shop, and just about to put down the things in his arms, he heard a startled cry from behind: "Ah Chun!"
Ah Chun shivered, dropped his things and turned around, and ran away. Yu Jinnian threw the food box in front of the inn door, and immediately chased after him. He ran to the noodle shop and glanced at a familiar note wrapped on the cloth. Surprised, relying on his legs being longer than the opponent, he chased him for two streets and managed to catch him.
Ah Chun stumbled and was about to fall down on the raised rocks when Yu Jinnian held him in his arms and stepped aside for a while. Protected.
Yu Jinnian groaned, feeling his buttocks turned into eight petals, he looked down at the boy in front of him: "I'm calling you, why are you running?"
Ah Chun withdrew from his arms, anxiously hesitating: "I, I... Brother Xiaonian, can you pretend that you didn't see me?"
Yu Jinnian was surprised: "Why?" He suddenly remembered, "You gave all the medical thanks before? Duck eggs, ham, etc."
Ah Chun held back his strength and refused to say anything, Yu Jinnian rubbed his buttocks and stood up, making a gesture to go back: "Well, I'll go back and shout now, the cloth was sent by Ah Chun! Ah, there are green eggs —”
"Brother Xiaonian, brother Xiaonian!" Ah Chun got up quickly, grabbed Yu Jinnian's clothes corners with both hands, and stared at him with watery eyes, "Brother Xiaonian, please, if brother knows that I have been found , he won’t come back... Brother Xiaonian, I know everything, you just pretend you haven’t seen me, I’ll make silk flowers for you, and I can sing!”
Yu Jinnian took a closer look at this silly boy, and found that he seemed to be a little thinner than the last time he saw him. When Ah Chun raised his head, there was a thin layer of dust on the crevice of his neck, and his clothes were even more dirty and hadn't been washed for a long time.
He wondered, "How long has it been since you took a shower, where's your brother?"
Ah Chun lowered his head, wrung his fingers and said, "My brother bathed me. I don't know where my brother went. He said he was going out to do some errands, so he told me to wait at home. Yes..." He counted with his fingers After waiting for a while, I couldn't count how many days it was, so I struggled and said, "It's been as long as three gifts."
How could there be more than a month before and after these three ceremonies, Yu Jinnian frowned: "Then these things are all from you?"
Ah Chun paused for a while before nodding, and then suddenly gestured excitedly to Yu Jinnian: "Brother is so smart, he made me a booklet, and asked me to tear off one before going to bed every night, until his When you draw the circled one, I will come to give you something! My brother said, I can’t be discovered by you, and he will come back when all the booklets are torn off!”
"So... can you pretend that you didn't find me?" Ah Chun begged him with blinked eyes, "I'm about to tear up a few more, Ah Chun misses my brother so much, every day I sleep think."
Perhaps Jing Zhong was afraid that Ji Hong would unceremoniously reject the gift if he knew that the gift was from him, so he came up with this method. Yu Jinnian touched Ah Chun's head, and asked softly, "Ah Chun, how do you eat and sleep these days? How will you spend this year?"
"My brother left me a lot of delicious food!" Ah Chun laughed genuinely, he didn't understand the meaning of Yu Jinnian's question at all, and he didn't seem to know that New Year's Eve is the day when the family should be reunited, probably lonely to this little fool Say, it's as simple as "I want to be alone very much".
For him, waiting is as easy as tearing a piece of paper with circles on it.
Yu Jinnian couldn't bear to leave him as a fool to spend the New Year in an empty house, so he wanted to take him back to a bowl of noodle shop: "Don't tear it up, come to us for the New Year. We have more delicious food, including meat and candies. And firecrackers."
Ah Chun naturally likes Yu Jinnian very much, he can cook delicious food and heal diseases: "But, I promised my brother that I won't wander around. If he doesn't see me when he comes back..."
Yu Jinnian stopped in his tracks and said seriously: "Ah Chun, you have to listen to your brother, your brother has to listen to Ah Hong, and Ah Hong has to listen to me. Do the math, who should you listen to in the end?"
Ah Chun pondered for a long time, then squatted on the ground, picked up a small wooden stick and drew a strange shape in the snow. After thinking for a long time, he raised his head and answered seriously: "Well, Ah Chun should Listen to the younger brother."
Yu Jinnian was amused by him and laughed: "That's right. Then can I go home with Brother Xiaonian now?"
Ah Chun nodded, stretched out his hand to grab Yu Jinnian's little finger, and obediently followed him. Yu Jinnian is not very tall, Ah Chun is shorter than him, besides, Ah Chunsheng is cute and well-behaved. The back view of the two holding hands looks quite strange, as if Yu Jinnian has abducted an obedient child molester, but Yu Jinnian knows that he is immature and thinks that he is holding a child, so he has no charming thoughts.
But he didn't, but it doesn't mean others didn't.
The two of them hadn't entered the front hall when they heard that chatterer Min Mao knocking against the door frame with a bunch of sunflower seeds in his hands, shouting loudly, "Oh, brother Ji San! Brother Nian is back, but What is he doing holding hands with others? Hey, hey! Hey, that young man is quite pretty... "
Yu Jinnian stooped angrily to grab a fistful of snow, and flung the hood over Min Mao's face: "You're looking for smoke, shut up!"