PS: I'm sorry, I'm going to post the Spring Festival couplets today, I'm just done, the New Year is coming soon, Lao Yu is here to give you a New Year's greeting, I wish you all money and a wife soon! In addition, ask for tickets and collections!

"My aunt and sister are in the kitchen, saying that they want to make food for Duo'er!" Duo'er said with a look of joy on her little face.

"Cooking, so early?" Zhou Zhong was a little surprised, although the days in winter are relatively short, but it is only three or four o'clock in the afternoon, it is a little too early to cook, right?

With the question in his heart, Zhou Zhong hugged Duo'er and walked to the wing room on the west side. Originally, the kitchen was in the east wing of the courtyard next to it, and there was only one wall separated from the west wing of Aunt Wang's yard, so Zhou Zhong chiseled a door out of the wall between the two wings, so that Aunt Wang and her family could enter and exit the kitchen much more conveniently, and they didn't have to go around to Aunt Zhao's yard.

Zhou Chong entered the west wing, this kitchen has been transformed into a food storage room, a few shelves moved from the kitchen in the front yard, there are a few bags of rice and some fish, meat and vegetables and other things, and there is also a shelf with a lot of kitchen utensils that are not used temporarily, such as pots and pans, although these things are very messy, but they are scrubbed very clean, neatly placed on the shelves, these are all cleaned up by Aunt Wang and Bang'er when they have nothing to do.

Through the small door that was carved out between the pantry and the kitchen, Zhou Zhong finally saw Aunt Wang and Bang'er busy, but strangely, the kitchen did not have the fragrance of stir-frying, and the mother and daughter just cut portions of vegetables and meat into thin slices and put them on different plates.

"Auntie, bracelet, what are you going to do here?" Zhou Zhong asked with some strange words.

Hearing Zhou Chong's voice, Bang'er turned around and smiled at him: "Big brother, we are preparing to make antique soup, Steward Xu is old, and it is inconvenient to walk on the snowy road today, and his mother said that he likes to eat antique soup and drink wine on a snowy day, so we are going to eat antique soup tonight, and there is also a stove in his room, and then the pot and materials will be sent to his yard, so as not to run back and forth at night!" ”

"Antique soup? What is antique soup called? Zhou Zhong said a little incomprehensibly, listening to the meaning of this name, it can't be a dish made of some antiques, right?

"Antique soup is antique soup, you see, you can use this pot to boil the soup, and then put all kinds of vegetables and meat slices in the pot to soak it, dip it in the sauce and eat it." Bang'er said and pointed to the two copper pots on the table next to him, for Zhou Chong's occasional 'ignorance' of some common sense of life, Bang'er and Aunt Wang have long been used to it, and now they have learned not to ask, because they will not answer even if they ask Zhou Chong.

Zhou Zhong looked at the small hand of the bracelet like jade, and found two special copper pots the diameter of basketballs, and the pots were separated from the middle, forming two semicircular spaces, in which two different colors of soup were placed, bubbling with a faint aroma.

Seeing the style of these two pots, and then looking at the plates of cut vegetables and meat slices on the table, Zhou Chong immediately suddenly realized and whispered to himself: "It turns out that the so-called antique soup refers to hot pot, eating hot pot on this snowy day is indeed a great pleasure in life, and Steward Xu will really enjoy it!" ”

Speaking of hot pot, it is also one of Zhou Chong's favorite dishes, especially sitting with a few friends, eating shabu shabu while chatting with the sea and sky, that is a real enjoyment.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong also rolled up his sleeves and wanted to help, but Aunt Wang and Bang'er were already busy, the two soup bases had been boiled before, although the peppers had not yet been transmitted from the Americas to the Ming Dynasty, but these two soup bases were similar to those of later generations, the same one was spicy and one was not spicy, among which the spicy one was made of peppercorns, dogwood sauce, ginger and garlic, although the spicy taste of the pepper was not finished, but it could also make people sweat profusely, as for the soup that was not spicy, it was much simpler, that is, with the old hen, Pork bones and various spices are boiled.

The soup base is there, the sauce is ready early, and the dishes are almost cut, so Zhou Chong can't help at all, and he has to accompany Duo'er to find the white ball, but unfortunately the dead dog ran away when he saw Zhou Chong, and after the worst, he got under the bed in Aunt Wang's bedroom and couldn't come out, and the angry Zhou Chong really wanted to catch it out and cut it into dog meat slices and throw it into the hot pot to cook and swallow it!

Until Aunt Wang and Bang'er were ready, the white ball did not come out from under the bed, and Aunt Wang asked Zhou Zhong to send the hot pot to Steward Xu, but as soon as he turned around, the white ball came out from under the bed, and then plunged into Duo'er's arms with only a butt and kept wagging his tail.

Steward Xu is a big stomach, Aunt Wang also prepared a lot of dishes for him, Zhou Zhong held a pot in one hand, a huge food box in the other, braved the wind and snow to come to Steward Xu's residence in the front yard, only to find that he was humming a small song and wearing clothes, and it seemed that he was preparing to eat in the back.

Speaking of which, Steward Xu is living a very good life now, rehearsing Journey to the West every morning and evening, going to Fengyou Teahouse in the afternoon to talk about a book, and then coming back with the tea guest's reward, and waiting for dinner to eat directly in the backyard.

"Yo! Master, why are you here? Steward Xu was also startled when he saw Zhou Chong coming in with things, and hurriedly ran up to greet him, and took over the food box and pot.

"The snow is so heavy, my aunt is worried that the road will slip and fall on you, so I am going to eat antique soup tonight, and I specially asked me to bring you one, so that you don't have to brave the heavy snow again!" Zhou Zhong opened his mouth to explain.

"Aunt Wang is really thoughtful, and you personally sent it to Young Master Lao, such a heavy kindness, it really makes the old slave very grateful, even if you are broken in the future, it will be difficult to repay the young master for your great kindness!" Steward Xu probably talked too much about books, but when he sent a meal, he could say such a meaty thing as repaying his kindness.

"Okay, I'll talk about the repayment later, you eat first, I'll eat later!" Zhou Chong has long been immune to Steward Xu's words of loyalty, and some words sound okay once or twice, but after listening to them more times, he doesn't feel it.

Seeing Zhou Chong's indifferent appearance, Steward Xu laughed twice, and then he saw Zhou Chong turn around and was about to leave, and hurriedly shouted: "Young master, I have the good wine I just bought here, why don't you have a few glasses with you?" ”

After Steward Xu made money by telling stories in the teahouse, he handed it all over to Zhou Chong at the beginning, but later Zhou Chong felt that although Steward Xu was not an outsider, he must have his own expenses, and it was not good to let Steward Xu hand over all of them, so he divided the money that Steward Xu earned every day into 30% as a reward for Steward Xu's money.

When he heard the wine, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his lips, but after thinking about it seriously, he refused with some regret: "Forget it, I won't drink the wine, the tip of the nose of the bracelet is terrible, she can smell the slightest smell of wine, and I have to write a manuscript tonight, so it's really not appropriate to drink!" ”

Neither Bang'er nor Aunt Wang like others to drink, especially Bang'er, she can't smell alcohol since she was a child, otherwise she will be nauseous and retching, and she won't even be able to eat a few meals in a row. Last time, Zhou Zhong and Steward Xu secretly drank alcohol, and when they woke up the next day, there was a little bit of alcohol left on their bodies, but after being smelled by Bang'er, they didn't eat anything all day.

After Zhou Chong finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, Steward Xu immediately got up to see him off, and walked out of the gate of his yard, so Zhou Chong asked Steward Xu to go back, and he turned around and was about to leave. But at this moment, the two of them suddenly heard the door of the front yard being smashed at the same time, and the sound was very urgent.

"Who's knocking at the door at this time?" Zhou Zhong stopped, turned around and asked with some doubts.

"It should be Wu Shan who is back, he said this afternoon that he was going to pull meat outside the city, and he should have come back a long time ago, but he hasn't seen anyone until now." Steward Xu replied, with a relaxed look on his face, after Wu Shan moved in, he also had a companion in the front yard, and the two often drank and chatted together. Wu Shan has not come back this afternoon, he is still a little worried, now he hears someone knocking on the door, who else can there be besides Wu Shan in this weather? This made Steward Xu finally put his mind at ease.

After hearing this, Zhou Chong looked at the snow-covered road, and immediately said to Steward Xu: "The snow is so big, Steward Xu, don't come out, I'll just open the door!" ”

Zhou Zhong said without waiting for Steward Xu to object, raised his legs and walked to the gate, then erected the bolt of the crossbar and slowly opened the door. But what he didn't expect was that when the gate opened, a man covered in blood plunged in, and two long bloody handprints were drawn by his blood-covered hands.

Suddenly, seeing such a person covered in blood, even if Zhou Chong had seen a lot of big scenes in his previous life, he was still taken aback, and suddenly retreated a few steps to prepare for defense. But at this time, he found that the bloody man who fell in had passed out, and when he looked out, Zhou Zhong only saw two rows of long footprints, and a paralyzed blood outside the door.

Finding that there was no danger, Zhou Chong put his mind at ease, and then frowned and carefully looked at the bloody man in front of him, only to see that the other party was burly, his whole body, including his face, was full of blood, and he couldn't see his original appearance at all, and obvious wounds could be seen on his hands, feet and back.

"Huh? Why is this person's figure so familiar? The more Zhou Chong looked at this person, the more familiar he felt, and at the moment he turned the other party over and looked at it carefully, and finally shouted, "Damn, isn't this Wu Shan, who hurt you like this?" ”