Chapter 55: Smashing the Stall, the Festival (Ask for Subscription)
Because they get up early in the morning, the Su family usually rests after dark.
Aftertaste sat on a chair in the hut and looked out the window at the moon without saying a word. In late summer and early autumn, the weather is still hot, and the humid nights are breathless, and the insects in the grass chirp disturbingly.
Su Yan sat curled up on the bed sewing cloth curtains, but listened to the aftertaste of being silent since dinner, and suddenly asked:
"Brother Yan, who did you learn your second sister's cooking skills from?"
"Of course, I learned it from my father, who used to be a famous chef in Fengzhou, and even the head chef of the Yipinlou was willing to bow down. Because I'm young and my eldest sister is dirty, my father used to want the second sister to take over his class, otherwise he wouldn't have set that bastard line for her to be his fiancé! Su Yan said this with an indignant expression.
The aftertaste was slightly stunned, frowned, looked at him and asked, "Fiancé?" ”
Only then did Su Yan realize that he had missed his mouth, touched his lips, straightened his neck and said to him:
"Anyway, if I don't do your business, I didn't say anything, and you forgot about it!"
Huiwei looked at him with a flickering expression in his eyes, and was about to speak, when there was a knock on the door, Su Yan jumped off the ground with a cloth curtain to open the door, Su Miao walked in with a few clothes, and smiled at Huiwei and said:
"Grandma found a few of my father's old clothes, a few of them are new, and the rest are not worn hard, you will use them."
Aftertaste was silent for a moment before taking it, nodded, and thanked him softly.
Su Miao felt that he looked at him strangely, paused, and continued:
"By the way, although you are running away from home, it is better to send a letter to your family to report your safety. The incident of the capsizing of the ship in the fierce ghost gorge is known in many places, and if you don't receive the news, your parents will be worried. No matter what conflict you have with your family, don't let your parents worry about you. ”
Aftertaste frowned slightly. Without speaking, it was obvious that she was nosy. Su Miao didn't care either, and asked Su Yan, who was smiling at her with a cloth curtain, suspiciously:
"What are you doing with that cloth?"
"I'm uncomfortable sleeping in the same bed with someone else, I didn't sleep well at all last night, I want to hang a curtain to separate it, so that he doesn't peek at me at night!" Su Yan replied confidently.
Aftertaste ignored him, the corners of Su Miao's mouth twitched fiercely, her brother was really a strange problem:
"I see! You should also be mentally prepared, I will contact the school for you. Thanks to the help of the inspection, you can enter the school, and the tuition fee will be reduced by at least half, and the gentleman is also a learned person. The day after tomorrow, my eldest sister and I will take you to meet Mr., maybe there will be a question, you take out your previous books and warm up. After a pause, she suddenly remembered and asked back, "Young Master, have you ever studied?" ”
The aftertaste was slightly stunned, and nodded: "I have passed the official school before." ”
"Then please help Yan'er Wen Wenshu. By the way, teach him how to get along with his classmates, Yan'er always has someone bullying him every time he goes to school, obviously beautiful and cute, why is he always bullied? ”
"Probably because of his eccentric temperament." Aftertaste glanced at Su Yan, which looked like frost hitting eggplant. said, causing Su Yan to stare angrily.
"Anyway, you teach him how to deal with the relationship with his classmates."
Aftertaste thought about it for a while and frowned: "Why rush to please me." Wouldn't it be more comfortable to be alone? ”
The corners of Su Miao's eyes twitched fiercely: "Could it be that your popularity is also very bad?" ”
"What's the fun of a bunch of fools getting together and messing around!" He said dismissively.
...... "What a fool to ask him to, Su Miao turned his head to Su Yan and said." Find an article that you used to be most proud of when you were in school, and bring it, and Mr. will read it. After that, he patted Su Yan, who was about to pile up on the ground. Turned around and went out.
Aftertaste followed out and asked, "Do you have a fiancé?" ”
Su Miao was stunned for a moment before remembering who her fiancé was, and turned around and asked suspiciously:
"How do you know?"
"Listen to what Brother Yan said."
"That was a long time ago, and the marriage contract was dissolved a long time ago." Su Miao finished with a nonchalant smile on her face, and turned around and went back to her room.
There is no sadness at all, very frank and natural, what kind of person is her fiancé, and why did he dissolve the marriage, looking back at her back, for the first time in her life, she was very curious about something that could not be compared to cooking.
The day before the holiday, Su Yan was anxious because he was going back to school, and he was careless about what he did, Su Miao regretted agreeing to his insistence on coming out, and was about to ask him to go back to rest, when another unexpected person appeared, and violently broke the peaceful and lively atmosphere on the stall.
Sun Dalang's current wife, Su Xian's "little bitch/son" Zhao Pearl rushed over with her brother, pointed at the tip of Su Xian's nose and scolded "slut, broken shoes, shameless", and scolded sharply with a hideous face:
"I can't go on outside, I know to come back to find Da Lang, you looked at your demeanor before your father died, didn't you say that you won't have anything to do with Da Lang when you die, now that your father is dead, Sun Jiangtao doesn't want you anymore, you coax Da Lang to come to you! Don't dream, the grandson of the Sun family came out of my belly, what are you, a hen who hasn't laid eggs for three years! A rag also came to fight with me, hooked up with the uncle of the Sun family to bring a green hat to the father-in-law, if you are not ashamed, I will panic for you! The man who dares to rob the old lady, you must not die well! As he spoke, he grabbed the dishes on the table and threw them at Su Xian, and overturned the soup and water all over the ground.
Who is robbing whose man, Su Miao frowned, dodging the hot soup that was pouring in front of her. Su Xian was scalded by the splashing soup and made several blisters, where could she still hold back, she rushed up in anger, and her whole person burned, ran to Zhao Zhuzhu, who was going crazy, grabbed her clothes and pushed her to the ground!
This push was terrible, Zhao Pearl sat on the ground, and then hugged her stomach and screamed loudly, and soon, bright red blood flowed out from under her skirt and quickly spread all over the ground. The onlookers were shocked, Su Miao was stunned and speechless, no matter who was in this situation, it could be seen that Zhao Pearl was pushed and miscarried. Su Xian was also blindsided, staring blankly at Zhao Zhuzhu, who was screaming loudly, and the red blood under her buttocks.
Zhao Pearl's brother Zhao Tiezhu, who had been standing next to him and did not intervene, suddenly became angry at this time, pushed Su Xian to the ground, and kicked her foot up. Where are Su Miao and Su Chan willing to let in. Leaving the fright from Zhao Pearl behind, the two sisters pounced on Zhao Tiezhu and held Zhao Tiezhu to beat him violently. Su Xian fell to the ground and covered it before. When they woke up at this time, they were more spicy than the first, and the three sisters were stunned and pressed Zhao Tiezhu, a seven-foot man, to the ground and kicked him for half an hour. The men who wanted to help were shocked. After a while, I looked at Zhao Zhuzhu, who was still on the ground, and then I looked at Zhao Tiezhu, who was beaten by the three sisters, and I didn't know what to do.
Soon, Inspector Yu hurried over with a patrol team, quickly took control of the scene, and took a few people to the yamen. Seeing this, the aftertaste, who had been watching from the sidelines, pulled up Su Yan, who was numb with fright, and followed.
Yu inspected and got along with Su Miao, and took people to the county government to wait in his office after settling down the three sisters, and Zhao Pearl had been arranged to wait for the doctor elsewhere. On the way, Yu Patrol also understood what was going on from Su Miao's mouth. turned around and was about to order someone to go to Heshan Village to summon Sun Dalang, but when he turned around, his eyes were on the aftertaste that followed up unhurriedly, and he was obviously startled, subconsciously took half a step back, his lips moved, but he closed his mouth under the calm and deep eyes of the aftertaste, paused, and smiled:
"Childe sits inside!" Ran away in a puff of smoke.
The three sisters of the Su family sat on the stool and said nothing. After thinking about it, he also sat aside, silent.
Su Miao thought in her heart that the identity of the Sun family was a squire, and if there was collusion with the county lord. Will they be sentenced to lose money or will they be jailed? When I was depressed, I didn't expect the county lord to come in person in an official uniform, and when he crossed the threshold, he first glanced at his face without a trace. Seeing that the aftertaste was sitting like an old monk in a fixed place, he greeted Su Miao and the others. Exempted Su Miao and the grass people from kneeling to the county order, and kindly asked about the situation at the time of the crime. Su Miao told the truth. The county commander's expression became softer and softer, and he hunched his waist and said with a smile:
"There are still such women in the jurisdiction of this official, smashing the stalls that do normal business, what is the difference between this kind of behavior and the ruffians who make trouble! The eldest lady is also a legitimate defense, the girl can rest assured, this case will be handled impartially and the girl will be fair! ”
This prefectural order ...... What a sense of justice!
Although she felt that the development of the situation was strangely beneficial to her side, Su Miao was still grateful, satisfying the vanity of the county commander. Then the county commander smiled and said that they could go, and asked Yu Patrol to send them off later. When Su Yan heard that her sister was fine, she became overjoyed and ran up to hold Su Miao's hand. Su Miao led him and followed Su Xian and the others out of the inspection room, and when they passed by the next hut, they saw Zhao Pearl hugging Sun Dalang's thigh and crying, and Sun Dalang had an irritated expression.
Yu Patrol said that Sun Dalang was nearby when the accident happened, and it is estimated that Zhao Pearl mistakenly thought that Sun Dalang came to find Su Xian, so he came to smash the stall. Sun Dalang in the room heard the sound of talking outside, looked over, and his eyes lit up when he saw Su Xian, and he suddenly realized that Zhao Pearl was still holding his thigh, his eyes darkened, and his expression was obviously more irritable.
Su Xian snorted in her nose and turned her head to walk faster. Su Miao walked out of the county office and turned back only to find that the aftertaste was gone, Yu Inspector smiled and said that Bacheng was lost, promised to help her find it, and urged her to go back quickly to take stock of the loss, he would help ask for a compensation from the Sun family. Su Miao naturally thanked her again and again, and watched Yu enter the county government and the sisters went back to the stall in a relaxed mood.
It was still the office just now, at this time, there were only two people left, Zhu Xianling and Huiwei, Zhu Xianling immediately picked up his official robe and knelt down, and said respectfully:
"Xiaguan see the little master!"
Aftertaste frowned unhappily and asked in a deep voice, "How did you know about me?" ”
"The portrait of the little young master has been received by the entire yamen of Guangping Mansion."
"Really?" Aftertaste was silent for a moment, snorted from his nose, and turned around, "It's okay if you know, send a letter to the old man for me, saying that I am living a good life, and tell him to leave me alone and not to send anyone." After saying that, he walked towards the door with calm eyes, Zhu Xianling was in a hurry, straightened his neck before he could speak, and suddenly turned his head back and looked at him coldly, "If you leak my identity......"
Zhu Xianling felt a chill on the back of his neck, and hurriedly smiled: "Little master, please rest assured, the lower officials will not dare!" ”
Aftertaste snorted coldly, turned around and went out.
Zhu Xianling let out a long sigh of relief when he saw him go away, and wiped the sweat on his forehead: Why would such a prosperous and peaceful town attract such a living ancestor!
When I returned to the smashed food stall, the four sisters and brothers of the Su family were counting the losses, and Su Miao saw him come back. Suspiciously asked:
"Where have you been, I won't find you when I turn around."
"The county government is too big. Lost. Aftertaste replied in a flat voice.
Su Miao sneered: "You are really a road idiot!" ”
Aftertaste glared at her, speechless.
Report the loss to the inspection. On the next day's holiday, Su Miao and Su Xian took Su Yan to meet the gentleman of the school as originally planned, and Sun Dalang came to find them as soon as they left on the front foot, and before they could say a word, they were beaten out by the equally grumpy Hu Shi waving a broom.
After Su Xian went home, she heard about it, and she had been guarding against Sun Dalang coming to find fault again, but Sun Dalang did not come again after the inspection sent compensation, and the matter seemed to be over.
Su Yanshun went to school, and no one came to make trouble again, and the mood of the Su family improved again.
The beginning of autumn is the annual water temple festival, and legend has it that this day is the birthday of the water god of the Qingjiang River. On this day every year, the people of Changle Town, who rely on Qingjiang to live, will hold a grand sacrificial ceremony. On that day, the whole town will be lit up with lights and drums, and the men who are selected to carry the sedan chair will carry the statue of the god of water and the offerings to the god of water in a long column to parade around the town of Changle, and finally perform sacrifices in the temple of the god of water in the center of the town. Because this day is a festival for the whole town, almost everyone comes out to participate in the festival, and there are people from nearby towns who come to visit and watch the excitement, so the food business on this day is surprisingly good.
Su Miao was lucky to catch the water god sacrifice the day before the food stall contract expired.
Although the sky had already darkened, the whole town was bright and bright, and the canopy of the trees on the beams of the houses was full of all kinds of lanterns, and every night the river was full of prayer lanterns put by the women. Colorful, bright and colorful. The inspection room has twice as many people to shuttle through the crowded crowd to prevent stampede fires and guard safety.
Su Miao specially hung four red lanterns with the word "Su" written on the brush on her stall to add to the festive atmosphere. Because it is a food stall in the temple fair, most of the diners eat while walking, and the signature staple meat bun of Su Kee, a delicacy that can be eaten while walking, is naturally one. Su Yan is already very skilled in both stewing and sandwiching meat, and has reached the point where he can make one in ten seconds.
Because there are too many guests. Su Chan, Defu, and Mrs. Su were all busy greeting guests, while Hu and Su Xian were in charge of cashiering.
Su Xian leaned crookedly on the side of the cart. She is also in charge of selling sugar gourds today, last month Boss Wan in Fengzhou City sent someone to send the first batch of white sugar, which is worthy of a big sugar factory, the equipment is much more advanced than Su Miao, and the sugar that comes out of zuò is whiter than what she made herself. As soon as the sugar arrived, Su Miao scavenged a lot of hawthorns, yams, oranges and wild apples, boiled the sugar into syrup, and rolled the fruit in strings with bamboo skewers in a transparent syrup with a slight amber color, and inserted it into the scarecrow made of straw.
The red fruits, the shiny icing, illuminated by the bright lanterns overhead, shimmered with a mouth-watering sparkle. Strings of sugar gourds alternately staggered a whole scarecrow, with a tempting sweetness, most loved by children and women, looking at the past from afar, a piece of red and gratifying is even more eye-catching than those purple and red lanterns.
Sadly assigned to make grilled fish and grilled chicken thighs, as a top celebrity chef, he would not and disdained to make zuò, a more dirty and civilian snack than a commoner. Standing in front of the grill, the river breeze blew the charcoal fire under the grill net, and rushed towards him, making him look ash, choking him several times and making him want to cough, so he had to wear something called a "mask" that Su Miao lent him.
Although these barbecued things seemed extremely rough to him, he had to admit that after the fish and chicken thighs that Su Miao didn't know what they had pickled and roasted on the grill to create a fragrance, even if he had lost his sense of taste, he could smell the strong fragrance that made people want to breathe a few more times just by smelling it through his nose through the mask. It's just that the aroma can not help but make people can't help but think of the oily and shiny barbecue crispy between the lips and teeth, and then the soft and greasy melt in the mouth, and the wonderful spices spread and spread among the taste buds, so tempting that even the stomach pouch involuntarily empty.
"That's for sale, don't steal it!" Su Miao, who was frying noodles, solemnly reminded.
"I didn't want to eat it!" The aftertaste was embarrassed, and he retorted angrily at her through the mask.
Su Miao shook her head with a smile, and Hu Shi shouted again:
"Three fried noodles, ten grilled fish, ten chicken thighs, and ten meat sandwich buns!"
Su Miao responded, slipped oil in a hot pan, put eggs in it and fried it, then added green onions, rape, shredded meat and stir-fried, and seasoned with soy sauce. The aftertaste standing beside her had been fished out of the pot, rinsed with cold water, and put into her cauldron. Su Miao used a spatula made of two small wooden boards to stir the pot again and again with both hands, stirring the noodles together, and then adding eggs and chopped green onions, stir-frying well, and then removing from the pot.
Ordinary method, but with an unusual smooth and delicious taste, full of aroma, good color and taste, Su's fried noodles are the most repeat food on the entire Changle Street.
The more it got dark, the more hackers there were, Su Xian was so busy that she was dizzy, and she passed by Su Miao's side while she was looking for money, and complained weakly:
"When will it be sold out, I still want to go shopping!"
"By the time the festival starts, it's almost sold out, and even if you go shopping now, you'll see the back of people's heads."
As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden commotion at the front end of the stall, and Hu Shi, who had been cashiering, looked over, his face changed color, and he screamed! (To be continued......)