Chapter IV

In the early morning, the sun broke through the layers of white clouds and shone on the earth, illuminating Zhao Qinghan's antique house. On the balcony is a palm bamboo that means strength, and Zhao Qinghan wants to tell himself that he has been reborn and needs to live strongly. The light that should have shone into the bedroom along the balcony was blocked by the heavy blackout curtains, and suddenly the curtains moved slightly, and then the sound of "brushing, brushing, brushing-" came, and the blackout curtains were opened by the owner, and the sunlight successfully shone into the antique room, sprinkling the light of the room.

Zhao Qinghan stood on the balcony in a good mood and stretched, "Uh-ha-" It's really a good day, isn't it? Then I turned around and went to the bathroom to wash up, and by the way, I thought about today's itinerary and what I had for breakfast. After washing up and tidying up the bathroom, Zhao Qinghan opened the bedroom door and walked to the kitchen.

"What's in the fridge? I'll take a look..."Zhao Qinghan opened the refrigerator as he spoke, "Ah, there are yams, then make yam porridge, and serve it with a few appetizers... Well, it was decided. It's just right to boil the porridge first, and then make the appetizer. ”

Take a small half of the yam, wash and peel off the skin, cut into small cubes, and set aside for later use. Mix the rice and millet in a ratio of 1:1, wash it, put it in a stew pot that you took out in advance, put the yam in it, put it in an eight-quarter full of water, cover it, and put it on the stove to simmer. Boil a little water on another stove, take out a few garlic sticks from the refrigerator, remove the head and tail parts, wash them and fold them in half into two sections. After the water boils, add the garlic moss, blanch it for 2 minutes, and tear the scalded garlic moss into thin strips by hand. Stir in some salt, sugar, and chili powder, then heat some oil, pour the hot oil on the garlic moss, mix well, and sprinkle with sesame seeds. The stew pot over there has already boiled over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer. Take a piece of lotus root, remove the head and tail, peel and wash and cut into slices and put it in water for later use. Cut the green onion into chopped green onions and the dried chili peppers into small circles and set aside. Put a little oil in the pot, add chopped green onions and dried chili peppers to stir-fry until fragrant, put in the drained lotus root slices, stir-fry a few times, add salt and vinegar seasonings, put it out of the pot and put it on the plate, and finally fry a poached egg and you're done. The yam porridge that happened to be boiled was also good, and the breakfast was in place and ready to start.

After you are full of wine and food, start today's trip, go buy something first, and then go back to the old house to see Uncle Zhang. In the afternoon, I came back and began to make up for my archaeological knowledge, and in the evening I sent an email to ask the professor what vacation homework he had. While thinking about today's itinerary, Zhao Qinghan packed up his things and went out, taking his wallet keys and car keys. Zhao Qinghan said that he was still a student, and he accepted incompetence in driving a supercar. So I sent the supercar back to the Zhao family's old house, and I secretly went to buy a Chevrolet, which is suitable for daily life.

Zhao Qinghan drove his own mount, drove all the way to the Zhao family's old house, and passed by a supermarket on the way to buy some practical things suitable for Uncle Zhang. When I arrived at the Zhao family's old house, it was just nine o'clock in the morning, and the time was okay, Zhao Qinghan walked into the Zhao family's old house with the things he bought, and called out as he walked: "Uncle Zhang, I'm back." Uncle Zhang? Seeing that there was no one around, he thought that it must be in the back garden, so he put down his things and walked towards the garden. Sure enough, in the garden, I saw Steward Zhang watering the flowers and plants in the garden, "Uncle Zhang, didn't the family invite a gardener?" Why are you still bothered to do this? Zhao Qinghan stepped forward, took the kettle in Steward Zhang's hand, and watered it himself.

"Miss?" Steward Zhang called out with some uncertainty, after all, the girl in front of him was far from what she looked like before. The original red hair was dyed back to its original black, and some flamboyant hairstyles were properly trimmed and groomed, with a white short-sleeved T-shirt, jeans and canvas shoes, and the whole body was full of youthful atmosphere. is no longer the barbaric and decadent appearance before, Steward Zhang is full of relief, as if he has seen the well-behaved and lovely young lady when he was a child again.

"It's me. Why doesn't Uncle Zhang know me anymore? Zhao Qinghan quipped.

"No, no, no, no, it's just... It's nothing. Steward Zhang paused, and a relieved smile appeared on his somewhat wrinkled face, "Miss is fine like this." I knew that Miss was still as well-behaved as when she was a child, but she was taken by those fox friends and dog friends, and she was confused for a while. That's good, that's good, and the gentleman will be very pleased to see it. ”

"Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I've already broken off with those people and won't contact them again." Seeing that the flowers and plants in the garden were almost watered, Zhao Qinghan put down the kettle and said to Steward Zhang: "Uncle Zhang, I bought you something, it's not a valuable thing, just put it in the living room." ”

Steward Zhang nodded again and again and said, "Miss trouble, it's just that I can't use it at home, so I don't need to buy it." ”

"It's okay, it's just some things that are used normally, it doesn't cost much, it's a little bit of my heart, you can take it."

Seeing that there was nothing to do here, he took Zhao Qinghan to the living room, "What is Miss eating at noon, I will ask the kitchen to prepare." ”

"No need Uncle Zhang, I'll make it myself at noon, so you can taste my craft." Zhao Qinghan smiled slyly. "Living alone outside and learning to cook by yourself, Uncle Zhang, can you see if you can get into your mouth?"

"Yes, yes, Miss is smart when she is young, and she learns everything quickly. Mr. is still praising you..."Steward Zhang suddenly stopped his mouth, thinking of the matter between Miss and Mr., he couldn't help but comfort: "Miss, in fact, Mr. is really good to you, but Miss You, you are always drilling, and you can't get out if you go in." I also did those foolish things, and my husband couldn't get angry... It's not that I don't care about you, I just want you to be able to deal with everything maturely. ”

"Uncle Zhang, I know, I misunderstood my father before, and I will call my father when I have time." The conversation changed, "What does Uncle Zhang eat at noon?" ”

"Miss looks at it, and Uncle Zhang loves to eat it."

"That's okay, Uncle Zhang, you can wait."

Zhao Qinghan asked Uncle Zhang to sit in the living room to rest, and he ran to the kitchen to see what he had to eat, and asked as he walked, "Uncle Zhang, do you have anything you don't eat?" ”

"It's okay, Uncle Zhang doesn't pick his mouth." Steward Zhang paused, remembering that Miss was decorating the house before, and he didn't know what was going on, so he got up and walked to the kitchen, "Is Miss's house renovated?" ”

"Well, yes, it's renovated. I also want to thank Uncle Zhang for the helper you found for me, otherwise I am afraid that it may not be able to be renovated in ten days and half a month. Zhao Qinghan replied to Uncle Zhang's words while taking out all the ingredients to be used in the refrigerator. Uncle Zhang, I make home-cooked dishes, don't dislike it. ”

"No, Uncle Zhang likes to eat home-cooked dishes." Steward Zhang smiled.

Zhao Qinghan and Steward Zhang cheered for homework, while quickly processing the ingredients. The black fungus is soaked in boiling water, with green and red peppers, to make a light fried fungus, shrimp and celery are paired with a fresh and refreshing peach blossom shrimp, and the pomfret is purchased by the maid at home in the morning, and you can make a steamed fish. Tomatoes can be made with beef to make a tomato stewed brisket, sweet and sour tomatoes, served with stewed crispy beef, appetizing and delicious.

Zhao Qinghan saw that Uncle Zhang refused to rest, so he had to come to help, so he had to pick some easy work for Uncle Zhang to do. "Uncle Zhang, you can help me wash all these mushrooms." Uncle Zhang didn't say a word, rolled up his sleeves and began to help.

Zhao Qinghan was thinking about getting the dishes that would take a long time first, such as the chicken soup with mixed mushrooms that he was going to make to replenish qi and blood, this is Zhao Qinghan saw the old hen in the refrigerator, and wanted to replenish Uncle Zhang's body, there were just all kinds of mushrooms, so they simply stewed them together. The old hen was washed, and Zhao Qinghan also paid special attention to cleaning the inner wall, and then chopped the chicken for later use. Wash the ingredients separately, cut the oyster mushrooms into small pieces, tear the mushrooms into small pieces, and cut the mushrooms with a flower knife. Then put the chicken into the water that was boiled before, blanch it, remove the scum in the soup with a fine wire mesh, take a casserole, put the chicken pieces in, pour in the appropriate amount of chicken broth, turn the heat to low heat and cook for 40 minutes, first put in the oyster mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, wait for the soup to boil and then put in the Xiuzhen mushrooms, add a little salt after the pot is boiled, and finally just put in the wolfberries soaked in warm water before the pot, you can serve it. Finally, it is served with a mapo tofu, and the spicy aroma fills the whole kitchen, making the mouth full of hunger, and I can't wait to eat three bowls of rice on these dishes.

Uncle Zhang looked at Zhao Qinghan, who was methodically handling the ingredients and stir-fry and stew soup, his eyes were distressed and relieved, and he felt distressed that the little girl who had grown up from a pet to a big girl must have suffered a lot to learn to cook, and he was glad that the child had finally grown up and was sensible. Thinking that the relationship between Mr. and Miss can also be eased with the sensibility of Miss, Steward Zhang shook his head and secretly sighed that he really thought too much, so it's good, let them toss about their father and daughter's affairs, and it's a little bad for others to interfere too much.

Zhao Qinghan brought the last chicken soup to the table, then served two bowls of rice, and pulled Steward Zhang to sit at the dinner table and beckoned: "Uncle Zhang, come and sit." Eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold for a while. As he spoke, he used public chopsticks to hold the dishes and put them in Steward Zhang's bowl, "Uncle Zhang, this is delicious and light." This one is also delicious and fragrant. Uncle Zhang, eat some fish, this fish is tender and has few spines. ”

Steward Zhang looked at the vegetables that had been piled up in his bowl, and then looked at Zhao Qinghan, who had no intention of stopping at all, and said helplessly, "Miss, enough is enough, you can't hold it in this bowl again, Miss, you can eat it quickly." ”

Zhao Qinghan took a look, it was indeed true. A little embarrassed smiled, "I'm not that, that's what, Uncle Zhang, you can eat by yourself." ”

Seeing that Zhao Qinghan finally stopped, Steward Zhang shook his head amusedly, and then began to eat, which tasted very good. Although I have been watching the young lady's skillful movements from the side, I think the taste will not be too bad, but I didn't expect it to be so delicious. It's not literally delicious, it's that there is a warm taste in those meals that makes Steward Zhang's eyes moisten for a while.

Zhao Qinghan was busy all morning, and he was really hungry, so he devoured three bowls of rice. Fortunately, the original owner's body is not fat, otherwise Zhao Qinghan, a foodie, would be miserable, thinking about those delicious foods, but he didn't dare to eat them because he was afraid of gaining weight, it hurts to think about it.

After the meal, Zhao Qinghan accompanied Steward Zhang and said a lot of things, there were recent interesting things, troubles when he was a child, and Steward Zhang couldn't stop laughing. Looking at the time, it's time to go back, Zhao Qinghan got up to say goodbye and prepared to go home.

"Uncle Zhang, it's not too early, I'll go back first."

"Otherwise, Miss will leave after dinner."

"No, Uncle Zhang, I have something to do in the afternoon, so I won't eat. I'll come back to see you next time. ”

"In that case, I won't keep Miss. Pay attention to safety on the road, and often come back to see Uncle Zhang. ”

"Okay Uncle Zhang, I know. I'll be back often, so don't bother me then. ”

"No, no, no. Miss walk slowly, be careful on the road. ”

"Uncle Zhang, go back quickly, don't send it." Zhao Qinghan sat in the driver's seat, fastened his seat belt, and said to Steward Zhang who was standing at the door: "Goodbye, Uncle Zhang." With that, he started the car, put down the plate, and drove down the mountain.