Chapter 121: Return to Beijing
The days glided forward calmly and slowly, and soon it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Originally, Song Chen and Su Miao planned to go back to Tianjian Peak to spend it with their master and mother, but during the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone should have reunited and be lively, so Xiao Jingyu still decided that they would go back to Xiaojiabao.
On August 13, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu arrived. I haven't seen them for a while, Xiao Bai rushed up and rubbed and circled around them, Lin Jin put down a large bag of fresh figs brought down from the Heavenly Sword, gave Xiao Bai a few, and quietly went to the side to nibble.
Su Miao asked people to wash a plate and bring it up, and especially recommended it to Song Chen: "Ah Chen, the dried figs that you said were delicious before were made from this sun, how about you taste the fresh?" ”
The figs of Heavenly Sword Peak grew differently from other places, and they were much larger than ordinary ones. The ones Lin Jin brought over were almost as big as Su Miao's fist, but they weren't too sweet, Xiaobai liked them very much, and every time the figs were about to ripen, they often sat under the tree and waited. Originally, it was going to be self-reliant and climb the tree to pick it by itself, but it was too heavy, and every time it climbed on the big branches, it was already the limit, and the small branches with fruit could not bear its weight at all, and it had to be honest after falling a few times.
Song Chen tasted one, his eyes lit up, and the speed after the second bite was obviously faster.
Xiao Jingyu smiled and groaned, covered her mouth and whispered to Su Miao: "Your Ah Chen looks so cold and arrogant that he doesn't seem to eat fireworks in the world, but I didn't expect that when I met food, it was almost the same as Xiaobai!" ”
"It's pretty much the same, they're all foodies...... Su Miao automatically ignored the words "your home" and laughed very narrowly.
Xiao Jingyu and Su Miao's voices were not deliberately lowered, Song Chen listened to them, and was not annoyed by being called a "foodie", but blushed a little because of the teacher's "Your Achen". Xiaobai didn't understand, only knew that its name was mentioned, so he raised his head cooperatively, and then gnawed on the fruit again.
Song Chen quickly finished nibbling the fruit on his hand, and was just about to find a handkerchief to wipe his hands, when Su Miao stuffed another one into his hand: "Keep eating, I won't laugh at you." ”
Song Chen: "......" feelings, she thinks he is shy because he is said to be a foodie?
How can it be? His love of food has never been hidden in front of her, and it is not the first time she has laughed at him. Song Chen glanced at Xiao Jingyu, well, it is necessary to work harder to please the master!
Eating the fruit, Su Miao suddenly thought: "Why don't you make a fig-like mooncake?" ”
Before Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu arrived, she and Song Chen were preparing to go to the mountains to pick some fruits and come back to make mooncakes. The traditional mooncakes of Languo were originally filled with rock sugar, pine nuts, walnuts, preserved fruits, jujube paste, etc., but Lin Jin didn't like to eat them, so since Su Miao learned to cook, she made mooncakes every year.
Su Miao created a new mooncake with fruit or flowers as the filling, with a thin crust, which is very fresh and delicious.
Xiao Jingyu listened to Su Miaoyi's words, and she also felt very curious, and volunteered to pick fruits. So the four of them and a Xiaobai went into the mountains, picking back a bunch of grapes, plums, grapefruits, pestles, pomegranates, star fruit, kiwifruit, and a few large watermelons, plus apples and cantaloupes sent over by Hengqingtang in the north, there are many types of fruits, Su Miao picked her favorite cantaloupe and roses, Song Chen prefers grapefruit and kiwifruit, Lin Jin has always liked to eat apple-flavored, Xiao Jingyu has always taken the unusual road, picked pomegranates and watermelons, figs are Xiaobai's favorites.
After the eight fruits were selected, some of them were singled out. Then Su Miao began to rub the crust with the dough, while Song Chen and Xiao Jingyu started to clean and peel and remove the seeds of the fruit, and even Lin Jin, who didn't like to do it, joined in the fun. Lin Jin was responsible for preparing the watermelon filling, which was supposed to remove the watermelon skin, and then cut the watermelon into small cubes, Lin Jin slapped the watermelon directly, and then took a kitchen knife to cut out a lid, and inserted the spoon used to scoop the seasoning into the top: "Okay!" ”
“…… Master, the watermelon seeds were also shattered, and they tasted a little weird! Su Miao took a bite and commented.
Song Chen, who was about to move on the side and was about to draw a gourd to shatter the cantaloupe in the same way, quickly stopped, and honestly picked up the kitchen knife, but it looked quite clumsy to use the kitchen knife with the hand that was used to the sword.
Lin Jin gave the watermelon to Xiaobai - anyway, it usually eats watermelon with seeds.
By the time Xiaobai finished nibbling half a watermelon, Su Miao and the others had already wrapped the moon cakes, in addition to a mold of a large round moon cake, Su Miao also drew a picture, and asked Song Chen to help carve a set of molds for the image of the zodiac in advance, and the moon cakes were made into the images of various animals, which were very vivid and cute.
After the moon cakes were baked, except for the big round moon cakes that were to be kept for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the others were picked up and tasted. As soon as Xiao Jingyu ate the rose filling, she was immediately amazed: "It's delicious!" ”
Lin Jin also ate an apple mouth filling, because Xiaobai had just gnawed half a big watermelon, Su Miao didn't let it eat it again, Song Chen helped it taste the fig filling, Xiao Bai squatted next to Song Chen and watched, while Su Miao didn't pay attention, Song Chen stuffed a small half into its mouth.
Xiao Jingyu sighed: "People's lions all eat raw meat, why do we love to eat people like to eat so much......"
Su Miao and the others made a lot, and some of the moon cakes were given to the old housekeeper for him to distribute to the people in the house to try, and the old housekeeper tasted half of the cantaloupe filling, which felt very novel.
The next day was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu stayed in the house to sit in the town, and Song Chen and Su Miao took Xiaobai into the mountains again to prepare the ingredients for tonight's dinner. Song Chen and Su Miao went hunting, and Xiaobai was assigned to fishing. There is a gentle stream in the mountains, because it is sparsely populated, there are many fish in the stream, and the fat ones are not afraid of people, Xiaobai does not need to go down to the water, only squatting on the shore and waiting for the rabbits, and when he sees a fish passing by, he quickly shoots it - the fish is photographed on the shore by it, and then it goes over leisurely to pick up the fish into the grass basket prepared by Su Miao for it, and catches eight or nine in half an hour, all of which are six or seven pounds of big grass carp.
When Song Chen and Su Miao came back with two deer and a dozen rabbits, they were also surprised to see the "battle situation" that Xiaobai couldn't fit in a straw basket, Su Miao rubbed Xiaobai's head and raised it high for praise: "Good job!" ”
Song Chen made a sturdy straw basket with straw, packed the big grass carp separately, tied it with a straw rope, and put it on Xiaobai's back to let it carry it, and he and Su Miao went back to Xiaojiabao like this.
The deer, the rabbit, and the fish were all handed over to the kitchen, and the cook was ready to show off her skills, and asked the masters to order whatever they wanted. Although Lin Jin was picky when eating, he didn't have any ideas before eating. It's not that a family doesn't enter a door, Xiao Jingyu basically doesn't have any special ideas because of her average cooking skills. Song Chen is an expert in eating, so he ordered tender roasted deer breast, fragrant stewed deer tendon, braised venison, Kaiping grass carp, salted stewed chicken, three-wire fried mountain eggs, etc., with Song Chen, Su Miao generally has no ideas in terms of dishes, anyway, what he ordered is what she also likes to eat.
In the kitchen, the matsutake mushroom chicken soup was already simmering in the morning, and in the evening, drinking the fragrant chicken soup, the four of them were very satisfied.
When the moon hangs high in the sky, the ritual of worshipping the moon begins.
Under the moon, a large incense table was set up, and offerings such as moon cakes, grapefruits, cantaloupe, apples, plums, grapes, etc. were placed. According to the habits of the Lan country, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes and grapefruit are absolutely indispensable. Under the moonlight, the statue of the moon god was invited out, placed on the incense table in the direction of the moon, lit a high red candle, put the big round moon cake and grapefruit in the front, and then put the other fruits in turn, after everything was ready, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu, Song Chen and Su Miao, the old housekeeper, and the people in the whole house began to worship the moon in turn.
After everyone finished the ceremony, Xiao Jingyu cut the big round moon cake. According to the custom of Dalan, the big round moon cake of the moon sacrifice should be shared by everyone in the house, so the moon cake made by Su Miao is very large, Xiao Jingyu cut it into pieces according to the number of people in the house, and the amount of each person in the hand is still a lot, everyone ate the moon cake, Xiao Jingyu also gave the sacrifice fruit to everyone, and the people scattered, returned to their posts, and gathered together in twos and threes, admiring the moon and chatting and eating fruits. Song Chen made a sturdy straw basket with straw, packed the big grass carp separately, tied it with a straw rope, and put it on Xiaobai's back to let it carry it, and he and Su Miao went back to Xiaojiabao like this.
The deer, the rabbit, and the fish were all handed over to the kitchen, and the cook was ready to show off her skills, and asked the masters to order whatever they wanted. Although Lin Jin was picky when eating, he didn't have any ideas before eating. It's not that a family doesn't enter a door, Xiao Jingyu basically doesn't have any special ideas because of her average cooking skills. Song Chen is an expert in eating, so he ordered tender roasted deer breast, fragrant stewed deer tendon, braised venison, Kaiping grass carp, salted stewed chicken, three-wire fried mountain eggs, etc., with Song Chen, Su Miao generally has no ideas in terms of dishes, anyway, what he ordered is what she also likes to eat.
In the kitchen, the matsutake mushroom chicken soup was already simmering in the morning, and in the evening, drinking the fragrant chicken soup, the four of them were very satisfied.
When the moon hangs high in the sky, the ritual of worshipping the moon begins.
Under the moon, a large incense table was set up, and offerings such as moon cakes, grapefruits, cantaloupe, apples, plums, grapes, etc. were placed. According to the habits of the Lan country, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes and grapefruit are absolutely indispensable. Under the moonlight, the statue of the moon god was invited out, placed on the incense table in the direction of the moon, lit a high red candle, put the big round moon cake and grapefruit in the front, and then put the other fruits in turn, after everything was ready, Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu, Song Chen and Su Miao, the old housekeeper, and the people in the whole house began to worship the moon in turn.
After everyone finished the ceremony, Xiao Jingyu cut the big round moon cake. According to the custom of Dalan, the big round moon cake of the moon sacrifice should be shared by everyone in the house, so the moon cake made by Su Miao is very large, Xiao Jingyu cut it into pieces according to the number of people in the house, and the amount of each person in the hand is still a lot, everyone ate the moon cake, Xiao Jingyu also gave the sacrifice fruit to everyone, and the people scattered, returned to their posts, and gathered together in twos and threes, admiring the moon and chatting and eating fruits.
Although Song Chen has not been with his family during this Mid-Autumn Festival, he is still very happy. In his heart, in fact, the master and the master, as well as Su Miao, are already in the same position as his family.
The last time Song Henghuan came, Xiaojiabao was attacked by enemies, and although Song Chen was ready to tell his father and mother about proposing marriage to Su Miao in the morning, he still didn't mention it in the end. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, he saw the meaning of the master and the master, and they all meant to match him and Miaomiao together, and his heart suddenly settled a lot.
In fact, Song Chen didn't know that long before Su Miao went down the mountain, Lin Jin implicitly mentioned to Su Miao that he would accept him as an apprentice to teach him kung fu in the future, so that the two of them could support each other. It's just that Su Miao went to the vast rivers and lakes with all her thoughts at that time, and she didn't understand what the master meant. Besides, she was still young at that time, and she hadn't seen Song Chen for so long, Song Chen had been thinking about Su Miao, Lin Jin knew it, but Su Miao had never mentioned this childhood playmate since she went to play with Song Chen when she was a child, and she didn't seem to mention this childhood playmate much after she came back, and he couldn't figure out his mind at that time. Although Su Miao was still ignorant this time, he and Song Chen got along more and more intimately, and he was naturally happy to see it. At the age of these two people, it's time to get married.
At 20 o'clock in August, when Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu were about to leave for Tianjian Peak, a flying pigeon message arrived at Xiaojiabao, which was sent by Song Henghuan.
The letter was addressed to Lin Jin. The letter said that just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lao Jingwang suddenly fell ill! They had already invited the divine doctor Sun Zhengyuan to come over, but after using the medicine for a few days, there was no improvement, and the divine doctor began to feel helpless. Song Henghuan wanted to invite Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu to come over to see if Shi Niang had a way to save him.
Xiao Jingyu has always been known in the world about her use of poison and detoxification skills, but before she took over Xiao Jiabao, she actually had a nickname, called "Wonderful Ghost Doctor". The head of the Xiao family will first learn medicine before learning to use poison kung fu, and Xiao Jingyu has a very high talent in this area, but later her reputation in the rivers and lakes with poison kung fu was too great, and her name as a ghost doctor was covered.
And Song Henghuan, as Lin Jin's earliest apprentice, and the only apprentice for a long time, naturally knew about it.
Listening to the tone of Song Henghuan's letter, the situation was already very urgent. The sooner they can rush over, the better, Xiao Jingyu's light skills are not as good as Lin Jin's master and apprentice, so they still have to ride horses, and in the end, Lin Jin asked Su Miao and Song Chen to use light skills to rush to Shenanda City first, and he and Xiao Jingyu rode behind and then arrived. (To be continued.) )