Chapter 13: Help
The next day, Ah Zitian got up at dawn, hurriedly freshened up and went out. I thought I could stop Liu Siqi and take the opportunity to behave, but I couldn't see anyone after looking around.
Hui Niang smiled when she saw it, and told her with a gesture that Liu Siqi went up the mountain early in the morning to collect medicine.
"So early? It's just dawn now, and he's going out before dawn? Ah Zi asked, unable to hide the disappointment on his face.
Hui Niang nodded, put down the vegetable basket in her hand, took out paper and pen from her waist and wrote: "Mr. has always gone up the mountain with the moonlight, and some medicinal herbs have the best effect when picked at night. ”
Ah Zi didn't understand this, so he could only nod and say nothing more.
Hui Niang smiled, and while asking her if she was hungry, she re-loaded the vegetable basket and prepared to go into the stove room to make breakfast.
Ah Zi had an empty stomach at this time, of course, nodded happily, accompanied Hui Niang in, and gave her a hand.
After breakfast, Ah Zi helped Hui Niang do some housework.
But the family has always been well organized by Hui Niang, and there are few things that can be done, and the two quickly finished the work at hand, and Hui Niang took the needle and thread out and started to be a female celebrity.
Ah Zi didn't know anything about this, sat on the side and watched for a while, feeling bored, got up and began to wander around the yard.
As soon as she took two steps, she was attracted by a strange fragrance, this fragrance is not as pungent as osmanthus and not as faint as the lotus, fresh and refreshing, smelling only feel that the whole person is refreshed.
Ah Zi unconsciously followed the aroma and came to a wooden house, the door of the wooden house was hidden, Ah Zi got carried away, and pushed the door in.
The moment the door opened, the aroma just now came to his face, Ah Zi closed his eyes, took a deep breath, only to feel that the aroma entered from the mouth and nose, spread to the internal organs, and even every corner of the body, as if the body and mind were covered with a faint fragrance, and the mind was also relaxed, and an indescribable feeling of comfort and tranquility emerged in his heart.
After a long time, Ah Zi opened her eyes and saw that the room was full of various herbs and dried flowers, and she cautiously stepped forward to identify the contents one by one.
Although her uncle ran a pharmacy, she also knew a little about medicine when she was a child, but after all, she was too young at that time, and she was kicked out of the house by her aunt when she was four years old, and now she has almost forgotten it.
She counted nearly a dozen plants in front of her, but the only ones she could name were the white jasmine and the citrus in the distance......
No, it looked like citrus, but it was much smaller and more colorful than the citrus she had known before, not like our usual variety.
She looked from far and near, and finally stopped at a sieve at hand, which was covered with all kinds of plants, flowers and greenery, Ah Zi looked at the other plants in the room, and guessed that it was a half-finished product that was roughly crushed by mixing the various herbs in the room.
She leaned down and sniffed closer, the scent lingering around her.
She smiled and opened her eyes, and found a note next to the sieve, with the word "drying" written on it, and the date underneath, which was today.
Ah Zi turned his head to look out the window, the sun was shining today, and it was a good day to dry.
She vaguely remembered that her uncle used to dry herbs, and he also took such a sieve and put it in the sun to dry for a few days.
It's just that the date is clearly written on it, but why is it still in this dark corner and hasn't moved out.
Ah Zi privately guessed that Liu Siqi was in a hurry to go out to collect medicine, and forgot about drying, so she couldn't help but cheer in her heart, it was better to help take out the mixed herbs and dry them, which could be regarded as a favor for Liu Siqi.
Thinking like this, she wanted to carry the sieve directly, but suddenly realized that she was a little reckless like this, this was not her home after all, and it was too rude to move their things at will.
She quickly retracted her hand, turned around and went to find Hui Niang.
Hui Niang was preparing the ingredients for the evening at this time, and Liu Siqi's attention to the ingredients themselves was far higher than the requirements for cooking skills. As long as the ingredients are fresh and authentic, even if he just takes Qing Shui Nao, he is very satisfied, but as long as the ingredients are a little bit off, even if he uses the best knife skills and cooking skills, or even the best seasonings to season, he will still taste it, at least he has a gloomy face all day long, and at worst he is furious, and directly fires the raw material supplier, and then as close as Hui Niang, as far as Xiao Hao who transports the goods, and the owner of the shop outside.
Xiao Hao has endured all the hardships in this ingredient, so he naturally does not dare to slack off. And the owner of the shop outside, although he doesn't know Liu Siqi's identity, everyone knows that this Mr. Liu is a cornucopia, as long as he can supply real materials, no matter how expensive the price is, he will buy it without blinking an eye, of course, with 120,000 points of caution, and even take a stricter process standard than the food supply in the imperial dining room to buy.
And Liu Siqi doesn't care about these things, but Hui Niang knows it clearly, usually he doesn't eat breakfast and lunch at home, and she and Ah Zi deal with these two meals at will, but she doesn't dare to slack off at all for this dinner.
If the problem is with yourself, not only yourself, but I am afraid that it will also affect Xiaohao and the owners of the shops outside.
So at this time, Hui Niang, who was concentrating on preparing the ingredients, heard about Ah Zi's intention, and didn't put too much effort into thinking about where she was talking about the herbs, thinking that it was a few third-class herbs paved next to the yard, because the grade was relatively poor, Liu Siqi explained that she could help deal with it together, and she usually put it at will, Ah Zi wanted to help dry it at the moment, she didn't think much about it, and responded directly.
Hearing this, Ah Zi happily went, and carefully moved the sieve from the wooden house and placed it on a clean and flat boulder facing the sun.
Then he simply sat aside, quietly looking at the vanilla in the sun, and stretched out his nose to smell the aroma.
On the other side, Hui Niang prepared the ingredients, and only waited for Liu Siqi to come back and start cooking, so she breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the stove room.
Thinking of the medicinal herbs that Ah Zi asked about just now, she turned around and went to the backyard, only to see that those third-grade herbs were still lying quietly in place, without the slightest trace of being touched.
Ah Zi went happily just now, why hasn't this herb been taken out to dry now?
Or is it not this batch of herbs that Ah Zi said at all?
But apart from the fact that this batch of herbs needs to be dried, what else can it be......
"Vegetarian poison incense!"
Hui Niang suddenly thought of this name, and secretly screamed in her heart, so she quickly ran towards the small cabin.