Chapter 7 Changing Paths to Cooking

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the busiest time for tea shops, and Liansheng has been busy until the Mid-Autumn Festival. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info And over there Bi Fang Zhai Yemen Tingruo City, Bi Fang Zhai's moss moon cakes are famous, the master who made this moon cake is all old Ningbo, every Mid-Autumn Festival is always short of manpower, do handyman short time is easy to hire, the cake master is not easy to find for a while, so Gui Sheng also has to go into battle every day to make cakes, busy with anxiety, August half a day to be able to settle down to have a dinner.

On this day, the yarn factory got off work early in the afternoon, and Zhao Xingji also closed early, because he had to go back to prepare a reunion dinner. Lian Sheng and Su Youling naturally went to Gui Sheng's place to eat, and brought two mooncakes made by Lian Sheng himself. Lian Sheng's skills in making refreshments are much inferior to Gui Sheng, probably because of talent, Gui Sheng did a good job of making refreshments in Shanghai, so he brought Lian Sheng, and learned the craft in Zhao Xingji, because Gui Sheng was also born as an apprentice under Zhao Xingji's master, and now he is very green out of the blue and better than the blue, but unfortunately this Lian Sheng does not seem to have that kind of talent, Su Youling felt that his refreshment skills are far from Gui Sheng, but she didn't tell him, he himself knows that the craftsmanship is mediocre, I was unwilling to avoid doing nothing under Gui Sheng's umbrella, and I wanted to worry.

When they arrived, Yufen and Wang Ma were busy in the stove, and Gui Sheng had not yet returned. This year's reunion dinner has been decided before Lian Sheng is in charge, Wang Ma is in charge, Lian Sheng's refreshments are mediocre, but a vegetable spoon is quite good, even Gui Sheng said that Lian Sheng's two hands are quite supportive. As soon as Su Youling came, Yufen accompanied the guest hall to drink tea, and handed over to Lian Sheng and Wang Ma in the stove and cloth, Lian Sheng first stewed a pot of taro and duck soup, and the others were steamed and fried in the same order. Lian Sheng hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't play me, the three-legged cat is ......" "Why are you playing with Nong?" Don't be modest......" Gui Sheng smiled and went to the front guest hall. He greeted Su Youling while hanging his hat on the wall, saw the moon cakes they sent, broke half of them and ate them, and said to Su Youling: "This taste is made by Lian Sheng......" As for how it was done, he didn't comment on it, picked up the other half of the broken and ate it, and went upstairs to get busy.

The stove room is really a big secretary's handiwork, and the stew is full of fragrance after a while. Yufen sat in the living room weaving velvet thread, poked her needle into the stove, and gave Su Youling a look and said with a smile: "Nong is affordable, and it will become a ready-made secretary in the future...... Nong Abu said that Gui Sheng can also make refreshments, and if you want to talk about cooking and cooking side dishes, you have to be born! Su Youling helped Yufen wrap around the velvet thread, raised her eyes and smiled, "Mrs. Zhao said with a smile, Mr. Zhao is an old craft, and he still needs to be experienced." Saying that, I appreciated Lian Sheng in my heart, and I couldn't help but feel ashamed when I buried my head in joy, and Yu Fen understood at a glance.

Because there is crab, I drink rice wine. This crab must be steamed with hard work, one by one orange and red, the paste is fat and thick, and you will know that the materials are exquisite when you taste it. And Su Youling thinks the best thing is the taro duck soup, stewed with dried mushroom shoots, which is very fragrant and fatty, and she especially likes the taro in the soup, which is delicate and refreshing, and the taste is even more unique, and she has eaten a lot.

Lian Sheng and Su Youling left after burning incense buckets, and brought back a few rolls of freshly made moss mooncakes, some for them and some for Mr. Li. Today's moon is really incomparably beautiful, bright and bright like a beautiful face, innocent and pure, compared to the neon light and shadow along the way, it is much inferior. She sat in the back seat of the bicycle, carrying moon cakes through the street in the night breeze, fragrant all the way, there was a kind of comfort of returning with full wine and food, she couldn't help but squint and lean on him and hum the tune, the night was not cold, the moon was like water. When she walked to the Waibaidu Bridge, she got up and wanted to go down and walk, and went to the river with him to see the boats in the Suzhou Creek, walking all the way along the bridge, the shadow of the steel structure above her head was cast, and the light and darkness were horizontal and vertical, and the changing light and shadow were like a dream. She crossed her arms and stood side by side with him, recalling the previous Mid-Autumn Festival, she couldn't help but sigh, but she didn't say a few words, and she didn't mention it. From her few words, he seemed to know that she was unsatisfactory before, and he was silent for a while. Touching the scene, and suddenly choked, she looked at him a little embarrassed, smiled sadly, buried her head in stroking her arms, he smiled, silently pulled her hand in the palm of his hand, and walked along the bridge. Jiang Feng struck, lifted the hem of her cheongsam, and slapped him leisurely, suddenly, suddenly...... Facing a tram approaching, dragging a few wisps of color rumbling across the bridge, this is the tram bound for the Bund, she stopped to follow it and looked at the past, the Bund behind her was full of color, which made people look forward to it.

The strength of the rice wine is all from behind, and Xu is blowing the wind on the bridge, she and he are more and more drunk on the way back to Zhao Xingji, and her steps are swaying gently, only to feel that the night wind dyes the autumn, and the bright moon is infinitely better. Zhao Xingji was empty, and Mr. Li and they were also reunited with their relatives. He looked at her as if she was drunk, and wanted to put down the moon cakes and send her back to the factory, but when the back door came in, the light was not turned on, she leaned on the door and dragged his hand, he turned around, "Hmm? With a sigh, she laughed ambiguously, and the countless charms in the moon shadow were so provocative that he smiled too, and for a moment, he faded into reason.

He turned on the light and put the moon cakes, and then looked for a teacup of tea to pour tea, she opened a roll of the moon cakes he had just put on the table to eat, and went upstairs while eating. He brought tea upstairs, she didn't turn on the light, the moonlight outside was too good, she leaned on the table in front of the window to eat moon cakes, the silk texture on her body in the moonlight a faint layer of frost white, outlining a slightly bulging lower abdomen - she did eat too much today, the waist of the cheongsam was too tight after a meal, and this was a different kind of attraction to him, he came over and hugged her abdomen, and said with a smile on her sideburns: "Look at you, still eat ......" She avoided the side, obviously a little embarrassed, but also a little angry, he sat on the domino bench and smiled slightlyand sat her on her lap. Su Youling has gained weight, and she always looked a little boring like a thin wood before, but now she is getting richer and richer, and her smile is more and more full of flavor. He kneaded her two white rice cake-like soft and glutinous arms, the amulet that used to be loosely tied to the wrist no longer seemed loose or tight, he held one of her wrists and looked closely, there was actually a cinnabar mole growing where the red line was tied, a very small one, red, "Hey, when did it grow?" "I don'......t know," she was absent-minded, but he was particularly emotional, and he stroked the mole with his fingers, and he always felt that this thing had a beautiful meaning, and it was also a spiritual thing, and it must be due to some kind of obsession!

That cinnabar mole made him re-examine himself this time, facing the expectations of his beloved, but mortals must have a little ambition. For men, what to do is particularly important, refreshments, he has felt that it is not a good material, and I am afraid that if it continues, I am afraid that there may not be a big improvement, after thinking about it for a few days, he decided to change his career to learn to cook. His current cooking skills are all tricks in the east and skills in the west, plus he figured it out by himself, and he didn't learn it from a serious apprentice, but fortunately, he himself has the mind to study, and it is not bad or bad. He is now determined to make Ningbang cuisine fine first, Gao Hongnian of Hongding Fang, Qipan Street, can be said to be a well-known master in Ningbang cuisine, with an excellent reputation, and Master Gao is also picky about accepting apprentices, and it is rare to be caught by him in his life. When I came back to talk to Su Youling, she thought it was a rare opportunity and persuaded him to go over as soon as possible, why didn't he think so, but he was far away from her, and he couldn't see her often, so he was inevitably reluctant in his heart.

At that time, his mood was always a little low, and he walked along the street with her in his trouser pocket, with the faint street lamps and few pedestrians on the street at night. The two of them have nothing to talk about, it seems that people get along like this to a certain extent, on weekdays, you and I are nong, but they are silent when they are about to part. He escorted her to the factory gate and stood with her for a while under the street lamp by the wall. The parting at the beginning of the autumn breeze is always dyed with a melancholy meaning, she bowed her head and was silent, he was silent for a while, under the dim light, a few words faintly, smiled, he waved his hand and left, she also turned back to the factory.

Lian Sheng moved away soon, he had very few things, he could take care of it by himself, and Su Youling happened to go to work again, so he would help in the future. Mr. and Mrs. Li sent him outside the alley and called a rickshaw to leave. He moved to live on Sima Road, which is close to Hongdingfang, but the environment is noisy and the population is complex. The second landlord of the family he rented is Cantonese, surnamed Yan, who runs a small business, and the second landlord's wife takes care of the housework on weekdays. Mrs. Yan is an enthusiastic middle-aged woman, black and thin, wearing a half-worn cigarette gauze cheongsam, two thick gold earrings, and a Teochew Shanghainese dialect. Lian Sheng was an apprentice in Hongding Fang, and often came back very late, and he always had to trouble Mrs. Yan to open the back door, so he also gave her tea money every once in a while, so Mrs. Yan was very happy with Lian Sheng, a householder, and took good care of him.

Not to mention that it is not easy to learn to cook in Hongdingfang, and the famous teacher naturally has high requirements, and all kinds of work must be practiced at home, and there is no difference in the slightest. In the first few days, when he returned every night, he felt like he had been beaten and ached, and when he returned to his room, he fell asleep - he had forgotten everything else for a while, and his impression of her had faded as he ran between Hongding Fang and his lodgings in the form of a clockwork wound up. Originally, the distance between the two was widened, and the contact between them was estranged, and he was so busy all day that he had no time to think of her, and she did not know when he was free, and she could not see him, but there was no news for several days, and she felt more and more bored than ever.

Gu Xiaochun invited her to Gu's house for dinner, intending to let her go out for a break, so that Mrs. Gu could give her some comfort. Mrs. Gu joked that it was Xiao Biesheng's newlywed, Liansheng was ambitious, and it was a good thing for young people to go out to break through, and they should also be supported, and they praised Liansheng in front of Su Youling, and also persuaded Su Youling to be a good backing to help him more, it is not easy for him to be alone outside, after all, men, food and clothing are often not well cooked, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Mrs. Gu has two fancy books for weaving velvet threads here, Su Youling roughly flipped through them, I like them very much, the autumn breeze is gradually rising, and the scarf is about to start weaving, so Su Youling took one back, thinking about weaving one for Lian Sheng.

For a while, in her spare time, she often leaned against the window and knitted the gray scarf on the corner of the bed, and for the first time in her life, she knitted velvet thread, and the technique was rough and stiff. Listening to the autumn wind blowing outside, remembering the encounter when the spring flowers were blooming, she stopped with emotion and looked up at the sky outside, the sky was clear, the blue sky was like a wash, and for a while she missed the kite, thinking about the loneliness in her heart, and she had to continue to hold a stitch and a thread in her hand. The dull and boring days were repeated day by day, and she had forgotten how many days he had been gone, and the needle and thread in her hand were not so much a way to pass the time as a kind of emotional sustenance to make people feel comforting.

And then she saw him again It was half a month later, and that day he rarely rested for half a day, came to see her, stood under the ginkgo tree at the gate of the factory, and waited for the doorman to come in and call her. She happened to be at work, and ran out happily in the bib, and saw him slow down again from a distance, stopped there and looked at him leisurely, put her hand into the bib, and walked with a smile, the autumn afternoon sun illuminated the hat on her head bright and transparent. He smiled and beckoned to her, then nodded to the doorman next to him. He was thin and a little tired, and brought her Commander Kai's chestnut flour cake, and the two of them stood opposite each other under the tree and smiled, not knowing what to say as if they had first met. She asked him if he had been busy, and he laughed and said that he had come to see her early if he had time, and she smiled at him, and the two of them had a few words together, and she had to go back because she couldn't come out for too long. They met in a hurry, and they parted in a hurry, and when she went back, she remembered that she hadn't talked about what she had been thinking about for a while, and for some reason, she had forgotten all about him when she met him.