Chapter Twenty-Nine: Eating Hot Pot
Connor lay on the bed tossing and turning, and the cold breath in the room made the sensitive Connor stiffen all over.
This cold aura is slightly different from evil spirits and demons.
Evil spirits can chill people's bodies, and demons can make people's souls tremble.
It has both.
"Mom, Mom, are you asleep?"
Elsa didn't respond to Connor's words, and Connor had to fight her courage and walk out of the room with a handful of magic phosphorus in her arms.
The sound of a TV came from the living room, and Connor hid around the corner of the second floor, peering out.
There was no one on the couch, but the TV was playing "Death is Coming" on its own, and Connor opened his yin and yang eyes to look again, only to see a blurry black shadow in the corner of the sofa trembling like a kitten.
"Can you see her?"
"Wow!"
Connor turned her head and saw Hao Yun holding two Cokes in her hands, looking at Connor curiously.
"What are you talking about?" Connor clutched his chest and leaned warily against the corner.
"Well, that's right, the only one who can see death is the dying. If you can see it, you're dying. Hao Yun walked down the stairs and sat on the sofa enjoying the movie with the invisible companion.
Connor stubbornly walked to the back of the couch, and as she passed the corner of the couch, she could clearly sense a chill. It was only at this time that Connor believed that Hao Yun really had a Grim Reaper roommate.
Connor squirmed for a long time, but never dared to come over, Hao Yun looked back at Connor, picked up a can of Coke and handed it over: "Don't stand there, come and sit." ”
Connor pursed her lips, frowned, took the Coke with both hands, and said "thank you" in a voice like a mosquito.
Hao Yun glanced at Connor, lifted his butt and moved to the side, making way for a position, he held a Coke in one hand and patted the sofa with the other.
Connor hesitated for a long time, she kept calling her mother in her heart, but her mother never responded.
"What are you doing, Airport, do you really think I'm going to eat you?" Hao Yun scolded impatiently.
Connor was furious, sitting on the couch with her ass on her buttocks, and said nothing as if she were angry. Hao Yun, Kang Na, and a Kan Na invisible Grim Reaper, no one spoke to anyone, and watched TV in silence the whole time.
I don't know why, Connor's heart suddenly has a warm feeling.
This is the first time she has watched a movie with a big living person.
Although this big living person is a man with terrifying strength, snarky and stinking of sweat, is this feeling the "home" that my mother said?
Paulie came running over in a lace pajamas, and she saw Connor sitting on the couch watching a movie, and she couldn't stay any longer. She didn't care whether Connor liked it or not, and sat next to Connor.
"What are you doing?" Connor pushed Polly away in disgust, "Don't hold me like that, stupid woman. ”
"Kang Na, I'm a little scared, it's so bloody, I'm going to hold you......"
"I'm not small, I'm not small, who says I'm small and I'm in a hurry. ”
Maybe it's because I've seen too many evil spirits and I'm not interested in horror movies, or maybe it's because I'm too young to get sleepy when the time comes, Connor leans back on the sofa and falls asleep. Even in her dreams, Connor frowned.
"She is obviously underage, why does the US government still let her wander outside alone?" Hao Yun looked at Connor and couldn't help but sigh.
Baoli shook her head and sighed, "She has a guardian, but her guardian has become a ghost." ”
"Contract spirits can remain self-aware for a short period of time, and they spend most of their time asleep. Her mother could not be a guardian either in the legal or practical sense. Hao Yun took a sip of Coke and said.
"Connor once told me about it. "She said that her adoptive father was a devil and that she would rather wander than live with his adoptive father." ”
......
The next day, Hao Yun went to a patient's home and helped a patient with an acupuncture massage. On the way home, he bought a lot of ingredients and put them in the trunk of his car.
Yesterday, Baoli and Connor moved into the house together, and Hao Yun hasn't celebrated with them yet.
After returning home, Hao Yun prepared food in the kitchen, and when everything was ready, he called Baoli and Connor downstairs.
Kang Na sat in his chair and asked expectantly, "Hao Yun, what are you going to do?"
"Hot pot. Hao Yun stacked an induction cooker on the table.
"What is hot pot?"
"A traditional Chinese cuisine. Hao Yun grinned, "Trust me, you'll like it." ”
Connor looked disgusted, but her legs swayed happily under the table.
Hao Yun didn't buy hot pot ingredients, so he could only use fish soup as the base of the pot, and also bought some regular meat and vegetables as ingredients, and used peanut butter and sesame sauce as dipping sauces.
After waiting for the pot to boil, Connor and Paulee were already eager to try.
"Is hot pot just fish stew, and why do you buy so many ingredients to put on the side?" asked Connor curiously.
"Don't worry, this fish soup is only cooked to give the soup base some flavor, and this fish will be fished out after a while, so that the fish bones will not fall into the soup. After saying that, Hao Yun scooped out the fish with a spoon and threw it aside.
"Let's eat now! This meal is like a welcome banquet that I have made for you. ”
After speaking, Hao Yun immediately took out a piece of mutton and put it in the pot, and only then did he pick it up and eat it until it was cooked.
Well...... The taste is a little worse, but it's okay.
Seeing Hao Yun's happy face, Kang Nor couldn't sit still, she picked up the chopsticks awkwardly, and couldn't hold the meat. When Polly saw this, she immediately gave Connor a demonstration: "Connor, use it like me." Haven't you eaten Chinese food before?"
Connor's cheeks flushed slightly, and she pouted, "My mother...... Didn't teach me how to use chopsticks. Can I use a fork?"
Let's go.
Hao Yun picked up a fork and put it in Kang Na's hand, Kang Na's face softened slightly, and he picked up a piece of beef and put it in the pot to cook.
"Is it okay? Hao Yun!"
"Is this ripe? Mr. Hao?"
......
"Is it cooked?"
"Mr. Hao, is this okay to eat?"
Throughout the dinner, Hao Yun heard countless such questions, and in order to prevent these two foreigners who were eating hot pot for the first time from eating bad stomachs, Hao Yun took the trouble to help them check over and over again.
Connor curiously pulled up a piece of hairy belly and asked, "Hao Yun, what is this?"
"Hairy belly. Hao Yun said, "That is, the stomach of the cow, I searched for a long time to find it." ”
"Ah, why do you eat such disgusting things. Connor immediately put down her chopsticks.
But Baoli didn't care about picking up a slice and soaking it in the pot and said, "Connor, you should taste it, this one tastes good." ”
At this moment, the doorbell rang, Hao Yun put down his chopsticks, opened the door, and Jesse stood at the door in civilian clothes.
"Hey, why are you free to come over today?, have all the injuries healed?" Hao Yun asked with a wink.
Jesse frowned, and just as he wanted to speak, he smelled a fragrance: "Are you cooking something to eat?"
"Officer Marquee, come on, we're eating hot pot!" Polly beckoned happily to Jesse.
Hao Yun tilted his head, raised his eyebrows and said, "You are really good at picking the time, just come over for a meal." ”
Jesse nodded slightly, and was not polite to Hao Yun, just said thank you and sat down on the seat, skillfully picked up the chopsticks and ate. Hao Yun watched Jesse eat hot pot one bite after another, and almost thought that this kid was Chinese.
"Well, this thing is hairy belly, right? It's not often eaten in the United States. With that, Jesse stuffed a piece of hairy belly into his mouth and ate it with relish, "Well, it's not bad." ”
"Have you ever eaten hot pot before?" Hao Yun asked curiously.
"I have a Chinese friend who used to make hot pot, but now he has returned to China. Jesse explained.
Seeing that the other three were all happy to eat, Connor finally let go of her guard and curiously picked up a piece of hairy belly to open the shabu.
"Jesse, what are you here to talk to me about today?"
Jesse blew the beef cold, tossed it in a dipping sauce and said, "We caught the wrong person." ”
"Who?"
Everyone present put down the utensils, and Jesse didn't dare to say a word when he saw this.
"Don't shy away from them. Hao Yun picked up the cola and said.
Jesse nodded, and continued, "The beggar we caught that night was disguised as Ramos using a disguise technique. It wasn't until we checked his fingerprints that we found out that we had caught the wrong person. ”
Hao Yun listened to it and spit out the coke with a pop.