Chapter 112: Barbecue
On the second day of their arrival at the villa, the Xie brothers and sisters were stimulated by the owner of the Zhuangzi next door and decided to hunt wild game and roast it together!
Shefya was a little tired, and when she was resting against a tree, she noticed someone coming from the forest.
"Brother!" Xie Fuya shouted nervously.
Xie Zhuo also saw someone coming over, and hurriedly returned to his sister with the servants and Zhuang Ding.
Xie Fuya's heart was a little calm, and she stood behind Xie Zhuo and squinted at those people.
Those people got closer and closer, and soon Xie Zhuo and Xie Fuya saw the leader clearly!
"Cheng Song. Xie Fuya was not surprised when she saw Cheng Song in a dark robe, but sighed again that this person's ghost was not gone!
"Sister, don't be afraid, it's Cheng Shizi and Zhao Xi. Xie Zhuo said softly.
Xie Fuya noticed that there was Zhao Xi among the people following Cheng Song, but Cheng Song's face was too eye-catching, and it was difficult to pay attention to other people with him!
Cheng Song and the others approached, and Xie Fuya saw that they were carrying small bows, followed by people who seemed to be servants, and several prey in their hands - hares and pheasants.
"Brother Zhuo, what a coincidence. Cheng Song stepped forward and smiled, "I didn't invite you, I didn't expect to meet the county lord here." ”
At the end, Cheng Song said hello to Xie Fuya.
Xie Fuya nodded in response.
Zhao Xi walked over and looked at the slightly embarrassed appearance of the Xie brothers and sisters, guessing that they might also come out to hunt, but they didn't find anything.
"Cousin Zo, Cousin Fuya. Zhao Xi greeted the Xie brothers and sisters with a smile, "It turns out that you are on this Zhuangzi." ”
Xie Fuya calculated Zhao Xi last time, and she always felt a little guilty about it in her heart, and she didn't dare to look at Zhao Xi's radiant eyes.
"We came over yesterday, what about you?" Xie Zuo asked Zhao Xi, "Why are you here, Cousin Xi?"
Zhao Xi looked back at Cheng Song and said, "At the invitation of Cheng Shizi, come over for two days." ”
Xie Zhuo listened to Zhao Xi's explanation, and smiled sheepishly: "Is it really to come here for fun, not to avoid saying kiss?"
Zhao Xi was teased by Xie Zhuo and blushed, and his eyes peeked at Xie Fuya.
Cheng Song and Zhao Xi appeared here a little deliberately, but not to follow the Xie brothers and sisters, but because Zhao Xi was tired of the Yongjun Marquis Mansion begging to marry his sister Zhao Qinghui, so he hit him with the idea and wanted to tell the girl in their mansion to be his wife!
This is really invincible when the face is broken! A while ago, Princess Liang rejected the proposal, and as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival passed, she invited someone to kiss as if she had nothing to do! It is said that there is a gentle and graceful girl in the house who is 14 years old, and she is a match for the fourth master of the Liang Palace!
If it weren't for the scruples of identity, status and dignification, Princess Liang would have wanted to scold the people of the Yongjun Marquis Mansion for being shameless!
Even the good-natured Princess Liang was annoyed, not to mention Zhao Xi!
The Hou Mansion of Nayong County is really thick-skinned to the point of being unbelievable! When he went to the Liang Wangfu to say that the matchmaker couldn't succeed, he deliberately blocked Zhao Xi on the road, wanting to attract Zhao Xi to meet with that young lady.
Zhao Xi had already taken precautions and avoided the growing boredom after two times.
Cheng Song saw that Zhao Xi was not in a good mood, so he proposed to go to the Zhuangzi he bought in the suburbs of Beijing to play for two days and relax.
As a result, the name and place of Zhuangzi are so coincidental that they are staggering!
The former owner of Zhuangzi is the Marquis of Yongjun! And the neighbor is Princess Anyang's Yunhe Villa, and the county lord of Jingyi and Xie Zuo are going to Zhuangzi!
Zhao Xi was a little moved, so he responded.
Cheng Song knew Zhao Xi's thoughts about Xie Fuya, so he sent someone back to the Luguo Mansion to report it, and directly took Zhao Xi to Zhuangzi in the suburbs.
Cheng Song thought that now that Xie Fuya had been reconciled and divorced, the man was unmarried and the woman had no husband, even if Zhao Xi had any feelings with him, it would not matter. It's just that the two are afraid that they can't get married, and they are destined to be dewy marriages and romantic regrets.
It is not so much that he brought Zhao Xilai, a Zhuangzi who he has never been to before, for the beauty of adults, it is better to say that Cheng Song has a little idea of watching a good show to relieve his regret that he failed to go to Chengbeiguan!
After all, it was thanks to Xie Fuya's two daggers on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he could not go to Beiguan with the army due to illness, and later the saint took care of the two generations of the Cheng family, Mrs. Cheng's poor health and other reasons, and did not allow Cheng Song, who had recovered from his injuries, to go to Beiguan.
The Xie brothers and sisters didn't know Cheng Song's thoughts and Zhao Xi's feelings at all, but they just thought it was really a coincidence.
"Since Brother Zhuo has nothing to gain, why don't you go to my side to barbecue meat and eat it?" Cheng Song mentioned a rabbit that was shot to death and said to Xie Zhuo, "If the county lord of Jingyi doesn't dislike it, why don't you join us?"
Xie Fuya naturally wouldn't go to a barbecue with a group of men, but she couldn't stop Xie Zhuo from going over, otherwise she would be talked about.
"Thank you Cheng Shizi for your kindness, I won't go. Xie Fuya said softly.
"Cousin Fuya. Zhao Xi said, "There are no outsiders, it's better to be together." ”
Zhao Xi has been a gentle and considerate child since he was a child, Xie Fuya treated him well when he was a child, but he also bullied him. When she grew up, she neglected to communicate because of her different positions, but every time she met, Zhao Xi treated her as gently as she did when she was a child. So as soon as he opened his mouth, Xie Fuya automatically remembered what happened on the cruise ship, and he couldn't refuse.
Xie Zhuo originally wanted to go to Cheng Song to eat white food, but he didn't know how to go out hunting with Xie Fuya without saying a word! Seeing that Xie Fuya was still hesitating, he also persuaded: "Sister go together." Cousin Xi is a relative, and Cheng Shizi is also an acquaintance, so he can still be your cousin!
Xie Zhuo didn't like Xie Fuya's so-called low status and despised, and tried his best to ask his sister to go over to eat meat together!
Xie Fuya was reluctant to sit with Cheng Song and Zhao Xi! One was a young man with a haunted ghost and a lot of tricks in his heart, and the other was a young man who had failed to live up to his tenderness, where would she be comfortable sitting among them! But seeing that everyone was looking at her, especially Zhao Xi's shining expectant eyes, she had to nod her head and answer.
Xie Zhuo cheered and rushed to Cheng Song!
"Cheng Ziyu, where did you get so many wild things? I haven't seen a single rabbit in this neighborhood for a long time, have you all killed them?" Xie Zhuo also called out Cheng Song's words, looking close.
Cheng Song glanced at Zhao Xi and Xie Fuya not far away, smiled and grabbed Xie Zhuo's neck and turned around, "We have already hunted a circle, and the little animals have long been frightened by us and fled, so you naturally can't catch them." ”
Cheng Song took Xie Zuo to chat and walked towards his Zhuangzi.
"That's true!" Xie Zuo said suddenly, and then said angrily, "But why did you come to my village to hunt? As the old saying goes, you will divide half when you meet! Besides, these prey of yours are hunted on my village, so naturally half of them belong to us! In this way, it is not counted that my sister and I went to your place to eat white food, nor did it count as what you invited!"
Cheng Song raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Brother Zhuo has a good calculation." ”
Xie Zhuo was just joking, and when he heard Cheng Song "praise" himself like this, he couldn't help laughing.
Xie Fuya and Zhao Xi walked behind, and saw her brother Xie Zhuo and Cheng Song walking in front with shoulder to shoulder, laughing, wondering when these two people gave up their past suspicions and were so good?
"Cousin, watch your step. Zhao Xi carefully took care of Xie Fuya's feet. "Although there are no old trees in this forest, there are many potholes, so be careful of your feet. ”
"Thank you, Cousin Hee. Xie Fuya thanked Zhao Xi after stepping through a small pit.
Zhao Xi looked at Xie Fuya's slightly sweaty side face, and his mind was a little uneasy, but he accidentally kicked on a dirt bag!
"Ah Xi, be careful!" Xie Fuya quickly helped Zhao Xi, who almost fell, and then giggled, "And said let me look at it, why didn't you get up accidentally." ”
A fragrant fragrance wafted through Zhao Xi's nose, and his heart couldn't help but waver, and a faint red cloud floated on Jun's face.
Xie Fuya let go of her hand after holding Zhao Xi steady, and when she saw that his face was slightly red, she thought it was caused by embarrassment and didn't take it to heart.
"My cousin hasn't called me Ah Xi for a long time. Zhao Xi walked beside Xie Fuya and sighed in a low voice.
Xie Fuya was slightly stunned, turned her head to look at the young man's sullen appearance, and said with a smile: "You have grown up, you are the fourth master in the palace, I don't want to call you Ah Xi again." ”
They have been estranged for a long time, and every time they meet inside and outside the palace, they just politely say hello and leave, and they have not walked side by side without worries and barriers in this way for five or six years, and talked calmly and freely.
Zhao Xi turned his head to look at Xie Fuya, and said with a little excitement: "It's me who has passed the crown, and my cousin will always be my cousin, so why not call me Ah Xi?"
Xie Fuya pursed her lips, looked at Zhao Xi's already red handsome face, and couldn't help but smile: "I know, I will call you Ah Xi when you meet me in private in the future, but it is better to call Cousin Xi when there are outsiders." ”
Zhao Xi's heart swelled with ecstasy.
Xie Fuya just catered to Zhao Xi casually, not wanting to see him embarrassed and embarrassed, but not wanting to be misunderstood by Zhao Xi.
After the Cheng family's Zhuangzi was bought, only the Duchess of Lu Guo occasionally came to live for a period of time, and the first time she bought charcoal from Yunhe Villa, the Duchess of Guo ordered someone to go.
Cheng Song came for the first time, and the servants on the village waited with a spirit of twelve points, in order to leave a good impression on this prince. After all, this is the future head of the Cheng family!
Before Cheng Song and Zhao Xi went hunting, they had already asked the servants on the village to prepare the utensils and condiments for roasting game, and when they came back to deal with the game, they could roast it on the shelf.
Xie Fuya didn't know anything, just sat at the table and watched the men go about their work.
In fact, Xie Zhuo and Zhao Xi didn't know how to barbecue, but when they saw the freshness, they circled around Cheng Song and his attendants, wanting to learn how to roast game.
In addition to the rabbits and pheasants he hit, Cheng Song also picked some mushrooms.
The attendant Zuo Chen and the others took the skinned and cleaned game and skewered it on the iron fork, and then put it on the fire pile of branches.
Cheng Song tugged the hem of his robe onto his belt, rolled up his sleeves and began to roast rabbit and pheasant meat, and the mushrooms were roasted on the charcoal grate rack on the other side.
Xie Fuya looked a little straight-eyed, but she didn't expect Cheng Song to roast game, and she couldn't help but be sucked away by his smooth operation.
"Why doesn't this chicken pluck its feathers? and still mud?" Xie Fuya asked, standing behind Cheng Song and Zuo Chen.
The two men who were pasting mud on the chickens were startled, and turned their heads to see a curious Xie Fuya blinking at the gutted pheasant in their hands.
Looking at Xie Fuya from a bottom-up perspective, there is a different kind of beauty. At this time, she opened her eyes wide like an innocent girl who was not familiar with ordinary affairs, and Cheng Song actually felt that her heart was two or three beats up!
"Cough!" Cheng Song turned his head and pasted another piece of yellow mud mixed with firewood and grass on the pheasant, explaining, "This is called a chemical chicken, and the method is to remove the internal organs without removing the hair, and fill the body of the chicken with yellow mud mixed with firewood and mud, and then throw it into the fire to roast until the mud is dry." After the mud is dried, the chicken inside is also cooked thoroughly, and the chicken feathers will be brought out when the mud shell is cracked, and the original juice oil baked in this way is covered in the chicken, which is very fragrant to eat. ”
Xie Fuya was stunned when she heard it, but she didn't quite believe what Cheng Song said.
Is it good to make roasted chicken like this?
After Cheng Song and Zuo Chen finished pasting the chicken, they put the mud-wrapped chicken in the fire of roasting rabbits and pheasants and buried it, and then turned around and went to process the lamb again.
The mutton was slaughtered and simmered overnight after Cheng Song ordered Zhuangtou to buy the lamb from a nearby farmer's house, and the four legs of mutton were put on the shelf to roast, and the sliced tender meat and the skewered meat were put on a plate, ready to be roasted on the charcoal fire.
These operations were the first time Xie Fuya saw them, and she couldn't help herself and followed Cheng Song like Zhao Xi and Xie Zhuo to watch him busy preparing.
"Why don't you roast the lamb on the fire?" Xie Fuya couldn't help but ask again.
Cheng Song, who had just put the meat skewers on the charcoal fire shelf, found that Xie Fuya had followed him again, and asked like a curious child who had never seen the world, and he raised his eyebrows helplessly and explained: "The fire on the fire is hot, and if you can't watch it for a while, it will be mushy." If you are in the wild, you can eat it by roasting it casually, but if you have the conditions at home, you can use charcoal fire to roast it carefully, and it will be more delicious with condiments. There is also this slice of meat, which is thinly cut and spread on a fine grate, and the meat is also delicious to eat with condiments after cooking. ”
"Will it be better than shabu-shabu?" Xie Fuya secretly swallowed when she heard this, and asked in disguise.
"Each has its own taste, it's different. Cheng Song said.
After speaking, Cheng Song took a piece of tender mutton slices that had been simmered last night and roasted them on a fine grate for a few times, then picked up the saucer and dipped it and sent it to Xie Fuya's mouth, "Taste it." ”
Xie Fuya was tempted by the sliced mutton that exuded the fragrance of charcoal fire, opened her mouth and bit the meat carefully, and she raised her hand to support it for fear that the meat would fall......
The white teeth opened and closed, as if it was not mutton, but Cheng Song's heart! He watched as Xie Fuya grabbed the mutton, closed his lips gently, and then ...... Look up at him.
Cheng Song's throat slid hard, and he let go of the chopsticks as if he was burned to his hand!
Xie Fuya reached out and grabbed the meat, turned her back to cover her mouth and ate it.
The meat is soft and tender, full of delicious taste of meaty aroma and condiments, Xie Fuya feels like a little hand in her throat, she only chewed three or five times, and the meat was dragged into her stomach by that "little hand"!