Chapter Forty-Eight: Breakfast Before the Blizzard
After passing the checkpoint, Li Yiyi found a hidden place and summoned an electric four-wheeled vehicle full of goods, and he didn't come back for a long time, so he had to make it look like he was here to load the goods.
When Li Yiyi just parked the car in front of the yard and got out of the car to open the door, the horses on the other side of the road, who she was quite familiar with, hurriedly ran over.
Li Yiyi frowned when he looked at their yellow and thin faces and very anxious looks, It stands to reason that I have also sold a lot of good things to you, why don't you even say hello when I come back.
But this kind of little emotion is just a flash, after all, people are full of anxiety, how can they care to say hello to you.
The anxious horses came up and nodded at Li Yi and said, "Boss Li, you can count it back, my brother is saved."
"Boss Li, you are merciful and merciful to save my nephew"
"Boss Li, please save my boss......"
"Boss Li, you are a living bodhisattva......"
Li Yiyi, who you said to these people, had a headache and was confused, what is this, what is it to worship her as a bodhisattva in the middle of the night?
Just when Li Yi was confused, the lights of several windows in the small building turned on.
Then after a while, I saw a few people running out of the building to open the courtyard door, Li Yiyi turned his head one by one, and all the members who came out were ordinary members of each family, although their abilities were not strong, but they were not bad, so the bosses of each family usually let them take care of their homes when they went out on tasks.
Among the few people who came out of the courtyard, there were two power-type abilities who consciously stepped forward and lifted Li Yiyi's cart full of goods one after the other and moved into the courtyard, and a few seemed to know about these horses, but it was so late now, so they asked them to go back first, and come back tomorrow during the day.
After a few horses calmed down a little, they felt that it was also the same reason, and Boss Li just came back and let them surround them without entering the door, which is really a bit unreasonable.
So a few people hurriedly bowed to Li Yiyi and apologized and dispersed, although their faces were still a little anxious, but they were much more relaxed than before, after all, Boss Li came back, then their big family, maybe they could be saved.
After a few horses left, a few people in the small building helped Li Yiyi unload the goods, and after he was done, he said to Li Yiyi: "Boss Li, I'm sorry, we're going to trouble you just when you come back, I'm really sorry." ”
Li Yiyi was very concerned about what the middle-aged man said, and she also noticed that there were only a few of them at home in Xiaolou now, and the Mu family on the first floor was not there, but it was indeed too late now, and if there was really anything, it would not be able to deal with it now.
Li Yiyi asked a few of them to go back to rest first, and come back to her at seven o'clock tomorrow morning to explain the situation, and a few people nodded and went back to rest.
Closing the door of the house and turning on the light, Li Yiyi looked down at the basket on the ground, the basket was now empty except for a few pieces of soap, Li Yiyi took a turn around the house again, and found that some places were not just accumulating some thin ash, judging from the dust that flew out of the stove every day, the fifth sister of the Mu family should leave in about two or three days.
Li Yiyi took out a new futon and laid it out, turned off the light and lay on the bed thinking about things, but she fell asleep directly after thinking about it, and when Li Yiyi's consciousness gradually blurred, she also muttered: "When the sky falls, there is a tall ...... on top"
At six o'clock in the morning, Li Yi got up and washed, and then began to mix noodles, taking advantage of the awakening effort, Li Yi began to cut the tomatoes into large pieces, because she was good at knives and fast, it didn't take long to cut a large pot.
Then Li Yiyi took out the twenty catties of beef brisket that had been divided into pieces from the ring and cut it into pieces for later use, Li Yiyi added green onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, cinnamon and red pepper to the hot oil pot and stir-fried, and then took out the seasoning after the fragrance was fried, and then poured the beef brisket into the pot and stir-fried over high heat, during which beef powder, MSG, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce and a little rice wine were added.
After the beef brisket was slightly charred, Li Yiyi poured a large pot of water into the pot, then added the tomatoes, added the lid, and simmered over medium heat.
Taking advantage of the time to stew the beef brisket, Li Yiyi took out the awakened dough and kneaded it on the cutting board, and when there was no air inside the dough and the appearance was smooth, she kneaded the dough into long strips, cut out a section and then rolled the small dough round and flattened.
Use a brush to evenly coat the surface of the dough with ghee, then sprinkle a sufficient amount of black and white sesame seeds, hook the firewood in the stove, and put the trays one by one into the oven connected to the stove, one stove for two purposes, saving firewood and time.
Taking advantage of the cooking, Li Yiyi simply cleaned the house one by one, and as for the goods, he still didn't make up for it first, I was afraid that he would have to take the goods with him this time.
After the stewed beef brisket with tomatoes and sesame baked cakes were ready, the time was almost seven o'clock, Li Yiyi put away his thoughts and got up to open the door, and saw that the few housekeepers were clearing the snow in the yard, wiping their mouths while sweeping.
Li Yiyi asked one person to call the horses outside, and asked the others to bring the big pot with breakfast to the small building, she couldn't sit so many people in this room.
Li Yiyi picked up a sesame baked cake and took a big bite, and forked a large piece of beef brisket in his bowl, mixed with the sweet, sour and fragrant soup of tomatoes.
Everyone saw Li Yi move his chopsticks one by one, so he followed to eat, the horses who had been freezing outside all night were the happiest to eat, since the incident, they could not stop eating food was already very good, not to mention that they can still eat fresh beef stew now.
For a while, everyone sitting on the ground in the small building tacitly chose to finish breakfast quietly first, and as for the boss, they would talk about it when they were full.
Li Yiyi couldn't eat much in a crowded place, but she didn't put down the dishes and chopsticks, if this was the case, these people were afraid that they wouldn't be able to eat happily, sixty sesame baked cakes and a large pot of stewed beef brisket with tomatoes were finally wiped out by these people inside and outside the building.
When he saw that they had all eaten about the same time, Li Yiyi put down the dishes and chopsticks and said, "Say, what's wrong, ah, it's simple and clear." ”
At this time, everyone looked at each other, and finally the horses elected a spokesperson, and each family in Xiaolou also elected a person to represent them, so the two of them told Boss Li what happened briefly and clearly one after another.
Ma Zai's spokesman said: "That, Boss Li, the bosses of several of our families formed a joint team a month and a half ago to go to Luoyantan for winter fishing, and they were originally scheduled to come back in five days, but we waited for two weeks, but the team didn't even have a person who came back to report safety, we didn't know whether they were alive or dead, so we really had no choice but to ask the people in your courtyard to help, but they went to a group of people to help us find it at the beginning, but after waiting for a week, these people turned out to be nothing, and then they sent people to look for it, but it was still so." , just one by one, they all went out to look for people, but no one came back, and in the end, only a few of us remained. ”
According to Li Yiyi's instructions, the spokesman of Ma Tsai told Li Yiyi what happened as simply and clearly as possible, and then took out a small kettle from his clothes pocket and poured it.
And everyone on Xiaolou's side also looked at Li Yi and nodded.
"That's what they said, we were going to go together, but the bosses of our family told us to stay and watch the house, and told us that if they didn't come back in a week, they would make us wait here until you came back, and ...... I'll give you the keys and the rent, this house is not destined for us to continue to live. As he spoke, the man was even a little choked up.
Li Yiyi glanced at the crowd and made sure that what they said was the truth, Li Yiyi asked the Ma Zai spokesman: "What is the place of Luoyan Beach, do you know how to get there?" ”
The horse boy nodded, he actually has a good ability level, but he was injured before, so he was left to watch his family this time.
"I know where Luoyan Beach is, just north of the checkpoint and walk more than 40 kilometers, and we have been there several times, there is a long section of relatively safe and stable highway over there, so it is very fast to drive there, and most of the places on Luoyan Beach are inhabited by fish or small mutant animals, and I have never heard of any powerful mutant creatures."
After Ma Zai finished speaking, even the people in the small building nodded their heads, and it seemed that they were very familiar with each other.
Li Yiyi thought for a while, then pointed to the two people and said, "You two lead the way, and set off in an hour to Luoyantan." ”