Chapter 82: Mutton Soup Pot

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Zhao Ji walked into the tent and gave a military salute to the person sitting on the main seat.

"What?" The person who was called the general raised his head and swept his eyes sharply towards the other party.

General Yi is over 50 years old this year, and he can't remember exactly how old he is, but he can still get on the horse and stand up with a knife and eat four bowls of rice at a time.

He is not only the leader of the Yijia Army, but also a model in the hearts of the soldiers in the army, and a confidant of the three emperors, the minister of the humerus of Sheji, guarding the gate of the northeast for Dashun.

Zhao Ji suddenly felt like a fish in his throat, but he still mustered up the courage to say: "My subordinates will be here for three years, and I want to ask the general for leave..."

"Back to Beijing?" General Yi has seen many young generals, who are not willing to stay in this bitter cold place, and often come here to hang around, boil up some qualifications to fill the faΓ§ade, and then return to the capital to continue to learn and drill camps.

"No," Zhao Ji knew General Yi's temper, afraid that he would misunderstand him, so he quickly explained: "The subordinates are willing to guard the territory here, and they have no other intentions, but... subordinates can't be untrustworthy and let down other girls..."As he spoke, the seven-foot man blushed.

It turned out to be a marriage, and General Yi was a person who came over, although his wife is no longer there, but he also has children and grandchildren around him, and he also attaches great importance to the lifelong events of his subordinates.

"Returning to my hometown to marry a daughter-in-law?" General Yi joked with a smile.

"Yes..."Zhao Ji almost buried his head in the armor on his chest.

Frontier officers are allowed to report to Beijing every three years, and many take the opportunity to go home to visit their relatives.

"Don't forget to bring a wedding drink for everyone!" General Yi waved his hand and granted leave!

Zhao Ji nodded happily, but quickly calmed down, and he didn't know if his prospective father-in-law would agree to his marriage with Siniang this time?

However, after a few days, Zhao Ji will not have to worry about this problem, General Yi has a sudden old illness and must return to Beijing immediately for treatment, and he will not be able to leave for a while.

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With the popularity of the barbecue in front of it, the new mutton soup pot in the Happy Canteen in early winter is particularly popular.

Although there are not many tables in the restaurant, the fragrant mutton soup and exquisite dishes and the special taste of the dipping water seem to be very impressive to people's frozen taste buds in winter, many diners bring their own pots to take away, of course, there are also some people who like to come to the store to eat, can be paired with the strong handmade egg noodles of the Qinglan family.

On a warm afternoon, Shu Lao Er stared at the numbers on the abacus and finally showed a long-lost smile. Since the death of Old Man Shu, the Shu family has never seen him smile so happily.

"This mutton soup pot is such a good thing!" Shu Lao Er praised his wife and daughter sincerely, at first he didn't agree to it, and the barbecue was not impossible to sell in winter, but the daughter-in-law strongly demanded it, and the brother-in-law also insisted, so he compromised with them.

I didn't expect that the shabu-shabu shop on the street of Jinan Mansion had only a lot more business, and the orders were all lined up for a small year!

The mutton soup pot of the Shu family has been improved by Qinglan and her mother.

First of all, the base soup, not only lamb bones, beef bones, pig bones and other big bones, but also soaked in hen and crucian carp, crucian carp wrapped in clean gauze, no thorns at all, boiled out of the base soup is fresh and pure, milky white soup boiling in the casserole, the color is very attractive.

Then the mutton and haggis are cooked separately, and some marinades are added to the soup base for boiling haggis, and the fishy smell is completely dried up by the ingredients.

The most distinctive is the lamb from the grassland, frozen into a lump of meat, cut into thin slices with a large knife, and cooked in the soup for three or four seconds, and the taste is excellent.

In addition, the combination of vegetables is also very important.

At this time, there are no greenhouses, and in winter it is either cabbage or radish. Fortunately, there is a warm house in the Zhuangzi of the Qin family and the Ding family, and Xiaobao shouted that the head of the village gave priority to the supply of green vegetables to the Shu family, and each table was limited to one piece, and the green vegetable leaves looked particularly pleasing.

"Dad, how much money did we make this month?" Qinglan is most concerned about the family's "people's livelihood plan".

"More than five hundred taels!" Shu Lao Er smiled and narrowed his eyes, he can have a fat year this year!

"That's it! Then Dad, you're not going to pull coal, are you? Qinglan deliberately joked to her father that Shu Lao Er did not agree to sell the mutton soup pot at the beginning, and threatened Qinglan to continue to go to Hebei to pull coal.

"Stinky girl!" Shu Lao Er wanted to change his face, but he didn't succeed after pulling for a long time.

"Don't hurry up and study! It's not going to be a two-day exam?! "Pan Erniang is very strict with her daughters now, and she is afraid that she will waste her studies in a neat manner.

"Yes..."Qinglan grimaced at her father and staggered out.

Things are going well for the mutton soup pot, but her cycling career has suffered repeated setbacks.

When Uncle Pan came back this time, except for a large bag of food, Qinglan didn't see the ideal bicycle.

"Your grandfather said... I have to study it for two days, and when you go back for the New Year, I am sure that I can do it for you! "Uncle Pan was not idle when he went home, so he was tinkering with the old man on the bicycle.

Old Man Pan likes to pour these things, and most of the metal utensils such as incense burners at home are made by him.

But a bicycle is not an incense burner, and it may seem simple, but it is not the same thing to do.

First of all, it is load-bearing, and when it comes to load-bearing, it will inevitably involve the overall structure of the car, and the last "bicycle" is defeated here.

The second is the selection of materials, Mr. Pan prefers wood, so he runs the carpenter workshop of his eldest son-in-law.

The last is the assembly, which must be tightly fitted and there can be no mistakes.

Calculated in this way, ten days and a half months can not be made, Qinglan thought of the "premature" car and looked depressed, the thirteenth birthday is approaching, you can't lose your trust with your friends!

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"Okay, you, you're very treacherous, the place where the money is hidden is strange, it really makes the brothers insight~"

The mustache didn't smile, and whipped Ji Er's face with a whip, not hard, but just to humiliate him.

People say that the most poisonous is no more than three inches, this little chubby man, actually hid money in a woman's crotch! If it weren't for their sister-in-law who knew how to act, they would have been fooled by this family!

Ji Er's face turned pale when he heard this, it's over, the money was found by them! And... Ji Er doesn't want to think about it anymore, Yu Niang... I'm afraid that the bandits will also cause trouble.

Alas~ The woman who entered the bandit's den, how could she come out cleanly, Ji Er didn't have much hope for this.

But this time he really thought too much, although the bandits lacked women, but they were not picky eaters, Luo Yuniang's kind of goods, and Ji Er had to talk about it!

Of course, Ji Er didn't know that the money was turned over by the wife of the big boss, and what he was thinking about now was how to live. There is a way that a big husband has no wife, and it is serious to leave this ghost place first!

"Grandpa, we really don't have any money this time, can you let us go?" Ji Er cried with a sad face, he wanted to kowtow to the mustache, but his hands and feet were tied, and the action was unsuccessful.

"Letting you go?" The evil nature of the mustache's smile, the lord is still waiting to get the reward from the government, and let you go, "Dream!" ”

After the mustache finished speaking, he spat Ji Er contemptuously, killing his wife and taking money, and he still wants to go out and continue to harm people?! Phew!

Ji Er's heart became anxious, he was afraid of something, these people probably knew something, otherwise they wouldn't have left four mouths here to eat and drink for nothing.

After being locked up in the prison for a few days, Ji Er was in a state of panic all day long, afraid that he would be handed over to the government, and it would be all over.

But right now... What does the mustache mean? Is it a ransom or a bounty to hold yourself here?

The bandits want both.

first learned the details of their family from Ji Wei and Ji Chun, and asked the two to write a letter, and quickly sent it to Weixian to ask for money from the big car shop.

When the ransom is received, he will send someone to escort Ji Er to the yamen to ask for a reward.

Zhao Bingsheng was ruthless, the three brothers of the Shu family were also willing to pay money, and Ji Er's head was worth a thousand taels!

But the funny thing is that Zhao Bingsheng obviously offered a reward of 2,000 taels, and he folded it in half before he left Shandong, and he didn't know how much silver would be left when the sea fishing documents arrived in the border city.

Within a few days, Ji Da received a ransom letter from the bandits.

What a scourge!

Ji Wei paced back and forth in the yard, it was easy for the family to save this little money, and it was reserved for his son to marry his daughter-in-law, if it was all given to the bandits...

He didn't dare to discuss with his mother-in-law and son, his younger brother had already harmed their family badly, and if he lost all his family wealth...

Ji Da himself is not happy!

But if you don't give... In a fit of rage, the bandits clicked their younger brother and nephews... Ji Da couldn't give it up, he was a compatriot of his mother, and he couldn't give up.

Ji Da's mother-in-law didn't care about that, and took advantage of Ji Da's work in the thatched house to secretly give the letter to her son - she thought the letter was sent by her brother-in-law.

The two of them took it apart and looked at it, and suddenly bluffed, I drip, God, this is not to let me live!

Ji's eldest son immediately decided, "Mother, look at my father, I'll send the letter to the county office!" ”

Their family has been implicated by Ji Er enough miserably, the store is gone, the neighbors don't interact with them on the left and right, and they are stared at from time to time when they go out, and now it is a typical social cold violence.

Zhao Bingsheng took the letter, hesitated for a while, this bandit is not something he can manage, and his hand can't reach there, besides, the bandits around Cao County have become climate, and there is the cover of the villagers on weekdays, so it is useless for the government to suppress it.

But if Ji Er is released like this, the Shu family will definitely be unwilling, after all, he was slaughtered by bandits with a knife, and it would be too cheap for him.

While Zhao Bingsheng hesitated, Ji Wei also hesitated.

The mustache told him that he would send Ji Er to the county government and bring the reward back in exchange for his mother and younger brother.

To be honest, Ji Er is still good to Ji Wei, at least better than Ji Dong, although Ji Wei is not his biological child.

But compared with his mother and younger brother, of course Ji Wei still chooses the latter, and if he doesn't hand over Ji Er, he is afraid that he will not escape death.

Ten days have passed, and the bandits have not yet received the ransom for Ji Er.

The bandits lose their patience, and Ji Er falls into despair.

Judging from the food delivered every day, I must have been given up, otherwise it wouldn't get worse day by day, and now I can't even eat swill.

"Daddy."

Ji Er raised his head, and in the dim light and shadow, it took him a long time to see the person who came, he was so hungry that he was dizzy, and he didn't even have the strength to flirt with his eyelids.

"Daddy." Ji Wei called softly again, and Ji Er nodded invisibly, realizing that he had heard.

"Ming, tomorrow..."Ji Wei was deflated, and the next words were really difficult to spit out.

Ji Er still closed his eyes and didn't speak, and there was no expression on his face, as if he was asleep.

β€œ... Tell me to take you to the county office. In the end, Ji Wei's voice was almost so small that he couldn't hear it clearly.

But Ji Er understood that he was going to the county government in exchange for reward.

"Wei," Ji Er's hoarse voice swirled in the small hole, and he earnestly instructed: "In the future, your mother and your brother will have to take care of you..."

Ji Wei's tears fell, he didn't want to do this!

"Dad...", the love of the father's name is sincere, and it contains too many emotions in it.

"Although your father is not your father, you have always been your father's son in your father's heart."

Ji Wei didn't speak with tears in his eyes, and Ji Er continued: "This is not good for my father, my father has affected you..."

Ji Wei cried even more fiercely and shook his head silently.

"Dad doesn't have anything to think about, can you give Dad a stutter?" Ji Er made a small request, and if nothing else, the bandits would satisfy him, and the head would be killed.

"Hey!" Ji Wei agreed to get up, begged for the mustache, and then gathered two dishes and a pot of wine.

Ji Er ate and drank to his heart's content, quietly waiting for the next day's arrival.

When dawn was approaching, Ji Er was picked up from the prison by a strong man, tied his arms, and was escorted to the county seat.

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Cao County Ya

"Wei, let go of Dad." Ji Er looked at Ji Wei pleadingly, his eyes full of pity.

"This..."Ji Wei glanced back at the bandit who was monitoring him, and he was uncertain for a while.

The man was wearing a reed hat, and his expression could not be seen clearly, and he leaned against the base of the wall not far away.

"It's all at the county office, and my father can't run." Ji Er was silent all the way, and he walked very slowly, as if he was tortured.

Ji Wei thought about it, and loosened the rope for Ji Er, the bandits were tied to the prison, and he couldn't untie it for a while.

The bandits standing not far away were a little anxious, and they hadn't entered the county office yet, so they were in a hurry to untie the rope! But at this time, they didn't dare to come forward, and they were all registered in the county office.

It took a while for Ji Er's arm to regain his freedom.

He moved his wrist, patted Ji Wei on the shoulder and said, "Okay, you all have to live well." β€œ

"Hey." Ji Wei could only agree, and the others didn't know what to say.

"Is that a donkey meat for fire?" Ji Er pointed to a restaurant not far behind Ji Wei, and said with a smile, "Dad, in this life, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat anymore." β€œ

Ji Wei was sad, thinking of Ji Er's usual kindness to himself, he blurted out:

"Dad, you wait, I'll buy you one." After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the restaurant.

The bandit who was waiting in the distance was startled, he didn't dare to get too close, he could only stare at Ji Er's every move.

"Hi !!"

Before Ji Wei walked to the restaurant, he only heard someone shouting, which frightened him, and when he turned around again, Ji Er was gone!