Chapter Twenty-Six: Night In

When the three of them returned home, Zhou Chungui and his wife were very busy. The three of them hurriedly cleaned up and hurriedly stepped forward to help.

The business of zongzi is outrageously good. Because of Ying Qi's suggestion, I don't do much steamed buns today. The zongzi specially used five small plates, peeled and cut for people to taste.

Because it's a long string again, it's very cute. The children couldn't move when they saw it.

So everyone who passed by with their children basically spent three cents to buy a bunch.

In this way, the preparation of the first day was not enough to sell, and it was all sold out at the end of the day, but fortunately, Zhou Chungui saw that the sales were excellent, and he had already started to soak glutinous rice again at the beginning of the hour. In this way, a few cages of drawers were made, and when Yingqi and they came back, there was still a long queue of people who bought them, but it is estimated that this one was sold, and everyone had already finished watching the dragon boat, and they went home in twos and threes.

After more than an hour of busy work, all the zongzi, buns, steamed buns, and rice porridge were all sold, and Shen Shi finally closed the door. The whole family is also going to have a holiday.

Now except for Zhao Yulan, who cleans up the money on time every day, everyone else is basically not interested. For a few taels or dozens of taels, everyone is used to it. Ying Qi is very satisfied with the thriving days at home. She also doesn't want her family to really live a life like a rich and wealthy life, which is very tiring. Therefore, after discussing with Zhao Yulan in private, he decided to keep opening a small shop like this, and did not say that he would open Zhiweiguan to the famous north and south of the country as he said before. If there is such a chance, let's talk about it.

After packing everything up, it was past noon, and everyone had a hasty meal and began to prepare dinner.

Now the chef is basically Yingqi, of course, it is Fu Yi who burns the fire, which Yingqi insists, and everyone doesn't understand why. Ying Qi felt that no matter what her brother wanted to do in the future, he should still maintain this quality in his hard life since he was a child.

Today's festival, I made two cold dishes, one is to catch lettuce alive, and the other is toon mixed with shredded chicken. Catching lettuce alive is very simple, that is, wash the lettuce, soak it in water for a quarter of an hour, then drain it with cool boiled water, then sprinkle with seasoning, and then chop the green pepper and red pepper respectively and sprinkle it on top. Ready-to-serve.

And toon mixed with shredded chicken, in fact, it is similar, the fresh toon, boil it twice in boiling water, take it out, drain it, and cut it into sections. Hand tear the cooked chicken breast into thin strips. Add the seasoning and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

The hot dish is made three, the first is the mugwort leaf omelette, the fresh mugwort leaves are washed and boiled in boiling water, taken out and rinsed with cold water, then squeezed out of the water and cut into pieces.

Beat the eggs and pour them into a bowl, then stir the mugwort leaves and salt together.

Bring the oil to a boil, pour the egg mixture into the pan after boiling, and fry until golden brown on both sides. Cut into triangles and serve on small plates.

The second is the home-style braised pork, the pork belly is washed and soaked in cold water and wine for a quarter of an hour to remove the fishy smell of the wine. Put the ginger slices together in a pot and cook, remove and wash. Cut into small cubes, heat the pan and put in the meat pieces directly.

Stir-fry until the surface changes color and oil, then remove the pork belly. Add rock sugar to the oil in the pan, stir-fry over low heat, and then add the meat pieces and stir-fry. Add soy sauce and rice wine, then add a little star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, simmer over low heat, and start the pot in half an hour.

The key dish is the fish that Zhou Chungui bought before. Ying Qi specially prepared to make boiled fish fillet.

The fish fillets were cut by Zhou Chungui, Yingqi couldn't get the fish, and she hated the scales flying everywhere.

Slice the ginger, garlic and dried chili pepper into small pieces. Plenty of dried chili peppers are used.

Pour an egg white into the fillet, add salt, wine, and bean flour and marinate for two quarters of an hour.

Pour oil into the pot, boil, pour in peppercorns and fry, then pour in dried chili peppers and soybean paste, stir-fry until fragrant, shovel and put aside a small plate.

After the oil boils, pour in the head, tail and bones, stir-fry repeatedly, and add the stock. At this time, Yingqi's family has already begun to have big bone broth. Add some warm water and cover the fish.

Once the soup is boiling, put the fish fillets into the pot one by one and stir slowly with chopsticks.

Cook until the fillets change color and pick up. The time is short.

Then pour all the peppercorns and other seasonings in the small plate on top of the fish, then bring a little oil to a boil and pour it directly on top.

This main dish is freshly baked, and the fragrance tempts Fu Yi's mouth.

The last side dish, tofu soup, tonight's entire dish is all done.

Zhou Chungui served a pot of realgar wine again, Zhao Yulan told everyone a story of a white lady, and everyone happily spent a Dragon Boat Festival.

In the middle of the night, Ying Qi, who had eaten too much, had a rumbling stomach and had to get up and go to the thatched house.

"Miss, I'll go with you. The snow clouds woke up.

"Oh, there's a thatched house at home, it's nothing. Ying Qi muttered, waved her hand, and went out by herself. Xue Yun didn't feel at ease when he thought about it, but he still carefully followed far behind.

After Ying Qi went to the thatched house, she felt thirsty again, so she went to the stove house in a daze.

After drinking the water, I always felt that something was wrong. If you look closely, it turns out that there seems to be a lot less food to be cleaned up at night. Frowning, I feel that the vest is a little cool, is there really a thief?

Pretending not to notice, he slowly moved his steps and prepared to walk out of the stove house. Suddenly, his neck tightened, and he was already pinched by a black shadow.

"Don't speak. Ying Qi didn't have time to call out, so she was scared.

Quickly covered her mouth with her hand, indicating to the person who came that she would not speak, and the black shadow slowly let go of her. Ying Qi coughed a few times, and hurriedly said: "Daxia, I, I don't speak, and I don't report to the official, you, what do you want to do directly?"

"Don't ......" said two words, and there was no life. Ying Qi was still saying: "If you have any requirements, I will just agree." ”

"Miss, it's okay. Then she heard the sound of snow clouds. Quickly turn around. I saw that the man in black had fallen to the ground.

And Xue Yun was holding a rolling pin in his hand. In fact, Xue Yun saw that Yingqi had not come out, so he quietly came in to take a look, this is a terrible thing, the young lady was actually hijacked, and directly from behind a hand, the man in black was unguarded, and he was hit on the spot, and he fell.

Then, for fear that Ying Qi would find out, he quickly caught the body of the man in black, and took the opportunity to grab a rolling pin on the table before the man in black fell to the ground.

"Snow clouds, it scared me to death. Ying Qi had never experienced this kind of thing after all, and ran directly into Xueyun's arms, trembling. This time I was really scared. The moment her neck was choked just now, she thought she was going to die again.

"Miss, it's okay, it's okay. It's all to blame on the slave, I should have followed you all the time. Xueyun hugged her, feeling a little guilty in her heart, fortunately she was fine, otherwise she would not have been given death by her master.

"Gee, how can I blame you for that. I didn't know that my family would be robbed. Ying Qi relieved herself after a while.

Lighting the oil lamp, Ying Qi asked Xueyun to find a rope and tie up the man in black.

"I'm going to call my father and mother, and you're here to guard him. Ying Qi was finally relieved, so she said to Xue Yun. Snow Cloud nodded. Ying Qi left.

And Xueyun guarded the man in black, but he was entangled.

At this time, he had seen the face of the man in black clearly, but it was his familiar face. "What should I do now? How can I explain it to the young lady?"

Before she could finish her entanglement, the family rushed over.

"Dad, mother, you see, it's this thief who almost strangled me. Ying Qi hid in Zhao Yulan's arms.

Zhao Yulan looked at the red mark on Ying Qi's neck, but she was frightened.

"Her father, hurry up and send this thief to the government. Zhao Yulan said.

"Mother, wait a minute. Fu Yi suddenly spoke at this time.

"What's wrong?" the whole family looked at him.

"You guys, do you think he looks like someone?" Fu Yi said with some confusion.

"Like a master. Xueyun shouted in his heart. "Oh, Brother Yi'er, you still use it at a critical time. ”

"Like whom?" several people came up.

"Oh, it seems that Xiaobao has grown up. Ying Qi reacted immediately.

"Could it be Xiaobao's father?" Xue Yun burst into tears when he heard this.

"Possibly. However, the children of rich families may also be Xiaobao's elder brother. Zhao Yulan said. Xueyun nodded hurriedly.

"Oh, isn't it a thief?" Ying Qi was a little speechless at this time.

"Mother, look, is he bleeding? Could it be that Xueyun was injured just now?" Ying Qi suddenly saw blood on the ground.

"There's no way I'm going to hurt him. I just slashed it with my hand. Xueyun shouted in his heart, this is a big wrong.

"No, it looks like I'm hurt. Zhou Chungui hurriedly stepped forward and turned the black-clothed body over.

This frightened everyone, and there was a long knife wound in the ribs, which was deeply visible. Fu Yi and Ying Qi turned their heads in fright at the same time.

"Madam, go and get a doctor. Xue Yun shouted, this can't be delayed. If this master is found to have an accident at Yingqi's house, it will not be the whole family destroyed.

So Zhou Chungui and Fu Yi immediately moved the man in black into Fu Yi's room. And Zhao Yulan went out to ask for a doctor.

Ying Qi and Xue Yun hurriedly boiled hot water and prepared clean strips of cloth to help the man in black stop the bleeding first.

Of course, the bleeding must not have stopped, knowing that the doctor came very quickly. Only a series of above-ground medicines to stop bleeding, prescribe decoctions and so on.

After tossing for most of the night, the wound of the man in black was finally bandaged, Zhou Chungui fed him medicine to prevent fever again, Ying Qi and Xue Yun guarded him, Fu Yi and his father went to sleep, and Zhao Yulan slept in Ying Qi's room.

Originally, everyone disagreed with Ying Qi to keep it, saying that it would be good to let Xue Yun guard it, but Ying Qi remembered the jade pendant that Xiao Bao left for herself, so she told everyone about the benefits of Xiao Bao, so everyone agreed After all, Zhou Chungui and Zhao Yulan will open a store the next day, and Fu Yi will go to school, so naturally only Ying Qi and Xue Yun are suitable for guarding the man in black.