Chapter Forty-Six: Hot Pot Hot Pot!
"What do you mean?" Shi Yiqiu asked.
"I like you, but I can't like you, so please respect me and don't bother me again; Since Lin Haoyan is the person you choose, please respect him and don't cuckold him; As for yourself, don't do that to your body...... Beauty can't solve all problems. ”
Zhao Fu slowly let go of the hand that grabbed Shi Yiqiu, "I thought about yesterday's question, I didn't do that just to seek anything from you, the reason why I did it was just to follow my own wishes, and you don't need to thank me for this matter, there is no need to carry the burden of all women in the world on your shoulders." ”
Shi Yiqiu's body began to twitch slowly, and then two lines of clear tears slowly rolled down, melting away the thin layer of light makeup powder on her cheeks like snowflakes.
"What's wrong? You okay? Zhao Fu hurriedly asked.
"It's okay...... It's okay......" Shi Yiqiu heard someone say this to her for the first time, all men have always regarded her as a precious plaything, and those reforms to Qinglou are just ways to coax her to be happy and deceive her body, but despite this, she has to do it, even if she knows that those men who are full of food will turn their faces at any time when she wakes up, but there is no way, she is just a woman, she only has this immature and scarred body. Even Lin Haoyan didn't take the things she cared about seriously at all......
Shi Yiqiu was born in the Qinglou, and was also born in the Qinglou, like many children born in the Qinglou, they don't know what night their father was a flower watcher, only who their mother is. Poetry is very fast in elementary school, whether it is poetry, music, calligraphy and painting, dance or methods to please guests. However, this did not bring her any favors, and soon she became a big sign in the building, in order to attract guests with special fetishes.
Of course, Shi Yiqiu is very smart, the first time she was ransomed by a wealthy businessman at the time, and then she began to walk all the way until she came to Lin Haoyan's side, and was regarded as forbidden by Lin Haoyan.
"Do you want to eat oranges?" Zhao Fu didn't know what to do with Shi Yiqiu, who suddenly cried, so he peeled an orange and handed it to Shi Yiqiu.
Shi Yiqiu was made to laugh by the sudden orange, "How much do you like oranges......"
"Because Qin Zhirou likes it very much." Zhao Fu's answer still made Shi Yiqiu cry and laugh.
"Thank you...... Thank you......" Shi Yiqiu didn't laugh for long, but continued to shed tears, took the orange, and took a big gulp.
"Yes...... Seeds? Zhao Fu stretched out another hand and put it in front of Shi Yiqiu and asked carefully.
Shi Yiqiu was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this was about to be spit on Zhao Fu's hand, and she was inexplicably envious of Qin Zhirou in her heart, so she carefully pointed her small mouth to Zhao Fu's hand, and spit out those small fruit cores one by one.
"Wait a minute!" Shi Yiqiu stopped Zhao Fu, who was about to withdraw his hand, and then quickly kissed the back of Zhao Fu's fist, "I like you too, probably ......"
The two were speechless, Zhao Fu looked down at the snow, and Shi Yiqiu turned her head to look at the buildings of the Qin Mansion.
"What about Your Majesty?" Zhao Fu asked.
"I'm still sleeping." The poem replied in autumn.
"Hmm."
"Oh......"
The scene was still very embarrassing, and Zhao Fu was not the kind of person who would open the topic, but fortunately, Qin Zhirou cared about Zhao Fu more than her father, and soon rushed back, and Shi Yiqiu slipped away.
"You guys were chatting just now?" Shi Yiqiu raised her head and asked Zhao Fu, and there was a sour feeling between her words.
"Well, sort of." Zhao Fu replied honestly.
"What are you talking about?" Shi Yiqiu put on a momentum that would not stop until the goal was reached.
"Nothing ......"
"Hmph, I don't believe it!" Shi Yiqiu stared at Zhao Fu, and saw that Zhao Fu was even more empty-hearted.
I asked her...... Eat oranges or not......" Zhao Fu had to reply in a slurred.
"And then?"
"And she ate ......"
Lin Haoyan just caught a cold, and was forced to pour a lot of medicine by his entourage, including the soothing incense that Shi Yiqiu secretly threw in, and then slept until nearly noon. With a curious look, he drank Zhao Fu's old fire porridge, and immediately praised it. hurriedly ran to Zhao Fu to ask for the formula.
In fact, asking for the formula is just an excuse, meeting Zhao Fu is the goal, Lin Haoyan moved to the north this time, in order to meet Zhao Fu, ask about the recent situation in the northwest, and how the war is going. When he learned that Zhao Fu happened to be in the Qin Mansion now, he didn't even change his clothes, and rushed out of the door wrapped in a coat made of mink.
However, the subordinates of the Qin Mansion only knew that Zhao Fu had arrived in the Qin Mansion, where did they know where Zhao Fu was, but fortunately, Lin Haoyan didn't go far before he bumped into Shi Yiqiu, who was still in a trance.
Shi Yiqiu hurriedly asked Lin Haoyan to say goodbye, and when asked why she looked like this, she had to smile and reply that her body was a little cold.
So, while admiring the snow in the Qin Mansion, the two "looked" for Zhao Fu. Although the subordinates on the side didn't know the two, they also understood that this was a distinguished guest instructed by their master, and they didn't dare to disturb them too much.
"Ah, I seem to have seen the young master and the young lady together just now." At this time, a subordinate who had just met Zhao Fu reported and pointed to the small garden not far away.
Zhao Fu is still trying to make Qin Zhirou happy, although he is not good at this aspect, but he still has to persevere; Although Qin Zhirou was already very happy, she still had to put on an angry look.
Zhao Fu had already seen Lin Haoyan and the others standing at the door, and was thinking about how to break Qin Zhirou - in his opinion, this kind of thing should not stir Qin Zhirou into it, but unexpectedly, Qin Zhirou reacted first, "Brother Emperor!" ”
It doesn't matter if this shout, the people who followed behind Lin Haoyan were all so frightened that their legs couldn't stand and trembled, they knew that the two people in front of them were nobles from the capital, but they didn't expect it to be so expensive, they still believed the words of their own young lady. Finally, after the first person knelt down, Lin Haoyan knelt down behind him.
"Get up, and go your own way." Lin Haoyan was helpless, but since his identity was known, there was no need to deliberately hide it, but returned to normal, waving his hand a little annoyingly.
"Feeling better?" Zhao Fu took Qin Zhirou and wanted to salute Lin Haoyan.
"It's okay, I'm not that weak." Lin Haoyan smiled and rejected the courtesy of the two, "This time I came to take a private service, Brother Zhao." ”
"Understood, Brother Lin." Zhao Fu understood and changed his name.
"That'...... What should I be called? Only Qin Zhirou stood beside Zhao Fu and asked cutely.
"You just call me Brother Haoyan." Lin Haoyan touched Qin Zhirou's head like an elder.
As a result, the two people who admired the snow became four.
"You know?" Zhao Fu is most curious about this, although Qin Zhirou is Qin Shangxi's daughter, but the daughter of the commander will not be able to casually meet a person of the emperor's level, and looking at Qin Zhirou's reaction, the two should have known each other for a long time, is it ......
"Oh, we came to Lanting by the convoy of the Qin Mansion." Lin Haoyan explained: "Zhirou is a good girl. ”
Qin Zhirou also looked up at Zhao Fu proudly, and Zhao Fu hurriedly followed, "Of course she is a good girl." ”
At noon, Zhao Fu specially opened a small stove for the three of them - the four of them set up a charcoal fire in the pavilion in the garden and set up a hot pot. Qin Zhirou had long been accustomed to this way of eating, but Lin Haoyan and Shi Yiqiu watched with a strange look at Zhao Fu coming up from the room with a large cauldron, followed by many servants with plates of different ingredients.
"What is this?" Lin Haoyan looked at the cauldron, which was separated by iron sheets in the middle, with a spicy red soup on one side and a relatively light chicken soup on the other.
"Hot pot, I heard that you have a cold, so I asked people to prepare." Zhao Fu explained that he also knew that the people of the Lanhe Empire had not tried this way of eating hot pot, and they were originally going to make it for Qin Zhirou to eat, but since Lin Haoyan and Shi Yiqiu were here, he reluctantly let the two of them be diners.
Zhao Fu first prepared some condiments for everyone, including home-brewed soy sauce - there was no such thing as soy sauce in the Lanhe Empire before, which made Zhao Fu very uncomfortable, and finally decided to brew it himself, which also made Lin Haoyan's eyes shine.
Qin Zhirou was very familiar with a slice of thinly sliced lamb and soaked it in the red soup, Zhao Fugang wanted to say that the guests should be allowed to move the chopsticks first, but thought that Lin Haoyan and the others should not know how to eat, so they went with her.
Lin Haoyan and Shi Yiqiu looked at the thin piece of mutton with great anticipation, and finally, when the next snowflake fell, Qin Zhirou lifted the chopsticks, and the mutton, which was originally a large piece, had become a lot smaller, and the bright red meat color had also turned into brown-red after cooking, and the fat fat, which looked very greasy before, had shrunk a lot all of a sudden.
Qin Zhirou lightly dipped the soy sauce, put it in her mouth and chewed it, and then sandwiched a lot of mutton, vegetables, and fish and threw it in, "Whew...... Eat it too! ”
Shi Yiqiu was the first to try, she didn't think that Qin Zhirou would throw the ingredients directly into the pot as boldly as she did later, but tried to sandwich a piece of fish meat and put it in the chicken soup and soak it.
Shi Yiqiu has never eaten hot pot, hot pot is a rare novelty for her, but even so, she has to try her best to be perfect, so that she can not live up to her title of the first beauty in the world, when she watched Qin Zhirou give a demonstration before, she silently counted the time in her heart, about 23 seconds. So, she looked at the fish fillets that were tumbling and changing color in the chicken soup, and she also counted the time silently in her heart.
"Sister Poetry...... Your fish is too old! It was Qin Zhirou who reminded Shi Yiqiu, who was still counting the time, although the two knew each other, but they didn't know how to call it for a while. Shi Yiqiu hurriedly picked up the fish fillet, looked at the fish meat that was indeed a little old, and suddenly realized that the last time Qin Zhirou put in it was mutton, but hers was a thinner fish fillet, so there was no need to soak it for such a long time.