2

Although Zhong Li lives in a single-family house, it is not like a villa, but a small bungalow of 120 square meters with a small yard of 60 or 70 square meters. The brick-red wooden walls decorate the façade, the white wooden windows, the eaves, the sloping roof, the masonry and stone scattered water, the blue wrought iron handrails and the courtyard gate, which is a simplified Swedish pastoral style.

The front yard has more than a dozen square meters, a fence wall of large-leaved boxwood encloses the lawn of the yard, and there is a granite gravel paved path in the middle, which connects the stairs under the eaves from the gate, and then follows the scattered water from the west, through the wisteria trellis on the side of the house to the backyard. Wisteria trellises occupy the west side of the courtyard, and there are white marble seats under the shelves, facing the still lawn yard and climbing the rose-covered fence on the opposite side. The north wall facing the back door of the house is a dark wooden wall with some ivy climbing, and under the wall are some rosemary, nine-story towers and other plants that can be seen and eaten, and there is a one-man tall lemon tree in the rounded corner, and now there are a few lemons that have just come out of yellow.

Zhong Li's master bedroom is located due west, connected to the study in the southwest corner and the second bedroom in the northwest corner with a balcony on the west side. The kitchen is in the northeast, the dining room is in the southeast, and the living room is connected to the front and back yards in the middle, only separated by a wall in front of the entrance. Because of the relative affluence of space, Zhong Li did not apply holographic projection and furniture printing and recycling technologies to the house. In addition to intelligent light control, temperature control and other auxiliary experience content, this house is basically the same as people lived in one or two hundred years ago.

After taking the ingredients, Zhong Li hung the things on Yuandun'er's hand and went home, and as soon as he entered the house, he came to communicate again. Just thinking about what happened to Zhong Min's girl, it turned out to be a call from Yuan Xian.

After connecting the communication, Zhong Li saw Yuan Xian wearing a ponytail, revealing his slender face completely, and a pair of Danfeng eyes that were indistinguishable from those over there, he was somewhat listless at this time, and the whole person looked a little lost. "Why did you get out?"

Yuan Xianliang didn't reply for a long time, but slowly said: "I'm sorry." ”

Zhong Li was stunned for a moment, but he immediately understood why she was saying sorry, so he immediately put on a comforting smile, "What's the matter, Xiaofoal, didn't you win, it doesn't matter if I rest here for a few days, anyway, I will go back to repair." ”

"But......" Yuan Xian said halfway and didn't continue.

"But, yes, but I can't let you drink with me, or let you go up the mountain with me to fight stupid roe deer. Wait for me to go back, and when I go back, I will accompany you to drink and recite poems, ride horses and hunt, just three months is enough time for you to calm Yingyue. ”

After listening to Zhong Li, Yuan Xian shook his head.

"What's wrong? Am I not really dead? What's more, I was plotted by Dai Ying's people, and it wasn't your fault. The mistake is that the strategy I thought of at the beginning was seen through by them, and I could only adjust it temporarily, and you were also anxious. So I really said that there was a mistake, and I made the mistake first. ”

Yuan Xian still shook her head.

"Don't be upset, okay? You see, I'm not upset that I'm dead. But you're going to be unhappy all the time, and I'm not going to be happy for a while. Zhong Li said and put on a grimace with a sad face.

Yuan Xian couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth when he saw the grimace, and Zhong Li immediately changed to a smiling face, causing Yuan Xian to laugh too. "Alas, you really ......"

"What is it?"

"Forget it." Yuan Xian let out a sigh of relief as she spoke.

"Look at you, if you want to chat, I'll accompany you, as for the whole day for yourself?"

"Hmm." Yuan Xian nodded, her eyes as if the sky was clear after rain. "Are you home now?"

"What?"

"I want to go to you."

Zhong Li was stunned for a moment, although the two were tired of being together all day long, they had only met once in the real world. "But I remember the two of us were far away." He said this, but the excitement on his face could no longer be hidden.

"I know. I looked at the train reservation, and if I leave now, I can get to you in the evening. ”

Zhong Li also knows that although it is more than 1,100 kilometers from City X to City B, it can be reached in an hour by taking the vacuum pipeline train. Trains between major cities like X and B depart more than a dozen times a day, and if you book now, Yuan Xian can indeed get to herself in the evening. But he thought for a moment and replied: "Forget it tonight, it's too hasty, I don't know how to arrange you." If you want to come back tomorrow, I'll pack up here. ”

Yuan Xian nodded.

3

After chatting with Yuan Xian for a while, Zhong Li turned off the communication and found that the time had passed half past three. If dinner hadn't been prepared, the first thing that would have appeared in my sister's mouth in the evening would have been the flesh on his arm.

After dismantling the flour and pouring it into a small stainless steel basin, adding water, salt, a little sugar and yeast, and looking at the same, Zhong Li called Yuandun and asked it to knead these things evenly, and went to the side to warm the butter. The butter slowly melted like snow, and when the milky aroma filled the kitchen, the dough was almost kneaded, so he poured the butter into a small basin and let the round pier stir for a while.

At this time, he took out a square iron plate, spread plastic wrap, and then put a piece of butter the size of a girl's fist, put it on the hot water and slowly warmed it. After a while of kneading the dough, he took out the dough and put it on the cutting board, rolled it out into a square about twice the size of an iron plate, covered it with plastic wrap, and put it in the refrigerator with the melted butter.

When it was frozen, Zhong Li picked up the mushrooms and onions, and of course Yuandun'er was not idle, it peeled garlic on the side. Zhong Li ran to the backyard again and grabbed a pinch of thyme, and when he came back, he poured oil into the hot pot and put all the mushrooms and onions in. Sprinkle some salt, grind some black pepper, crumble the thyme, and slowly turn golden brown in the pan. Seeing that it was almost time for Zhong Li to add the minced garlic, and asked Yuan Dun'er to quickly open the wine.

After a "bang", Zhong Li took the white wine, smelled the garlic and poured it into the pot, and added another spoonful of vinegar. The taste of glycol alcohol and acetic acid came to his face, Zhong Li stirred it upside down, smelled the wine almost dissipated, and then turned off the heat and took it out of the pot.

"Round pier, blender. Then brush the pot and go. ”

Yuandun'er has always been Zhong Li's most effective assistant when cooking, not to mention that trivial things like peeling garlic and brushing pots that no one wants to do can be handed over to it, and the amount of food that will not add one more person is what it really likes.

After the mushroom sauce is stirred, the dough and butter are almost frozen. Zhong Li took the butter sheet, carefully put it on the side of the dough sheet, and then folded the dough sheet in half according to the position of the butter. After folding the dough in half, folding it in half, he uses a rolling pin to press the dough open, separates the middle knife, and then rolls the two dough into rectangular dough and folds it three times.

Zhong Li glanced at the time, four forty, it will be in time, because in order to make the dough crispy, this operation of freezing for half an hour after three folds has to be repeated twice. My sister should arrive home at six o'clock, and the steak can be in the oven at that time.

Zhong Li was about to rest for a while when the communicator rang for the third time. He thought to himself that it was still early for his sister to arrive home, and Yuan Xian had just explained everything to himself, could there be any change, or did Qin Lang go back here when he had nothing to do. However, the communicator prompted an unfamiliar call.

"Hello?" Zhong Li only turned on voice, although the other party applied for a video call.

"It's me, Gu Yu." The voice was as clear and flat as it was over there.

"How are you?" Zhong Li opened the video and saw that although Gu Yu looked similar to that over there, she had short hair with a medium part, slightly buttoned in, just over two cheeks, simple and capable of judging the two of them over there, although she was not a mother-in-law over there. She wears a black half-sleeved crewneck sweater, exposing her well-shaped collarbones, and matching her hair to make her neck extra long and slender.

"Don't you want to be me? I estimate the time, you should be done with your sweetheart. ”

"I didn't mean that, I mean, what are you doing here, what's the matter?"

"Something's true." Gu Yu continued: "Actually, it's still the original. Originally, you took Liaoxi, and just introduced me to Yuan Qizhi. As a result, you died, Yuan Qizhi had to guard Xuzhou again, and half a month had passed since the real time came and went, and I couldn't wait. ”

"Then it's okay for you to find Yuan Xian? She should be there after I die, isn't it difficult for you to see her? ”

"You're dead like that, teach me how to open my mouth with Yuan Xian?"

"Then you should call her, what's the use of coming to me?"

"Because if I'm not mistaken, she's supposed to be looking for you in the next two days. It just so happens that I am in City B like you, and I want to take this opportunity if you can give a referral, so that I can save a lot of tongue. ”

"She's coming tomorrow, but ......"

"Don't worry, I didn't say I'll see her tomorrow, give you time to coax her."

"Wasn't it you who was in a hurry?"

Gu Yu smiled, "Okay, arrange to call me, I'll live in Huajiadi, and I can come to you at any time." ”

4

At six twenty, Zhong Li saw Zhong Min in the kitchen walking to the gate of the courtyard facing the sunset. She changed into a casual outfit with a bright yellow fine line knit with a three-quarter-sleeved scoop neck and a blue eight-quarter dress with a vintage lily pattern at the bottom. Because of the certification, Zhong Li only had to watch her open the courtyard door and walk into the courtyard, and then the door of the house rang softly, and the sound of clattering footsteps came.

"What are you doing?" She poked out her little mushroom head and leaned it on the kitchen door frame and asked.

"What do you see?" Zhong Li said, wrapping the steak wrapped in Parma ham and mushroom sauce into the dough and brushing the egg wash on top.

"Wellington steak?"

Zhong Li smiled smugly, "Do you want to eat?" ”

Zhong Min nodded his little head and ran to Zhong Li's side, "Brother is the best." As he spoke, he stood on tiptoe and kissed Zhong Li on the side of the cheek.

Zhong Li pretended to be disgusted and wiped his saliva, "Okay, if you mess up for a while, you won't have to eat." As he spoke, he began to cut the saffiano pattern with a knife on the puff pastry.

During the time of cooling and finally roasting, Zhong Li simply made a plate of salad, baked a few slices of bread, and heated the mushroom soup that had been cooked earlier. Zhong Min helped set the plates and set the table. When it was almost seven o'clock, the oven went off, and Zhong Li asked Yuandun'er to bring out the baking tray, on which two bread-like puff pastries were baked golden brown, giving off the aroma of a mixture of wheat, cream and beef.

Steak poured on a white plate, golden puff pastry crispy complete. The pink color of the steak section is very attractive, and when you bite it, the meat is thick and soft, and the mushroom sauce and ham are dry and fragrant. If you look closely at the cut noodles, the steak, sauce and puff pastry should be tightly connected together, without any gaps.

"How?" Although Zhong Li enjoyed the taste of steak very much, it still depends on his sister's reaction.

Although Zhong Min was full of enjoyment, he seemed to be a little choked after eating, and took a sip of soup before replying: "Have you secretly learned from others?" ”

Zhong Li smiled and said nothing, indeed, he really learned from the chef of the restaurant at the door for half a month for this dish, and the steak for grilling was almost enough for a calf.

Feasting, Zhong Li chatted with his sister about the few communications just now, and Zhong Min, who had a bad smile, became serious after hearing the name of "Gu Yu".

"How did you know Gu Yu?"

"No, do you know each other?" Zhong Li asked in surprise.

"She's the other girl besides your sister who can get along in Downtown without joining the organization. No, it should be said that she is the first, and the legends about her are only known to the old people. ”