Chapter 12: The Bear Child
Qin Shen took out a bag of peanuts from his arms and stuffed them into Qiao Su's hand, took her rice, and said, "Today, the foreman has talked about some rules, and he will officially go to work tomorrow, and I will buy you some snacks on the way back." β
Qiao Su smiled immediately, "Put the things in first, I boiled hot water, just to make peanut candy for you." β
The two walked in with a smile, and when they got distracted, Qiao Su forgot the peanuts on the stone table again, and when she packed up her things and ran out to get them, she saw three more children next to the stone table.
One of the children staggered onto the stone bench, poured out the peanuts and handed them to the other child, then took out Josu's small cloth bag from his waist and poured all the spices inside on the stone table.
That kid Qiao Su really knows, isn't it the bear child who pushed her last time!
"Why, lost againβ"
"Shh Qiao Su covered Qin Shen's mouth and pulled him into the house.
Qin Shen looked out the window, a little cold appeared in his narrow eyes, and he asked, "Is it the child of Zhao's shopkeeper?" β
Qiao Su licked her lips, it seems that these bear children can't be cleaned up.
"I'll go talk to Shopkeeper Zhao, and if he doesn't know how to discipline, I'll do it for himβ"
"No, no, no, I have a way to fix them."
Qiao Su waved her hand at Qin Shen, a gleam flashed in her pale amber eyes, looking at her evil smile, Qin Shen knew what this girl had in mind.
"If it's tricky, I'll handle it for you." Qin Shen said.
"It's not tricky, I can't deal with a few bear children?"
After speaking, Qiao Su scooped up a spoonful of noodles, cut a small piece of pork fat and ran into the kitchen, and wrapped more than a dozen dumplings with the freshly boiled hot water.
All of them are filled with dried chili peppers, filled with fatty meat, and put a lot of salt, and when they are out of the pot, they are poured with a layer of lard, and they smell very fragrant.
It's just that after eating, the mouth is full of foam, and the throat is smoking, and the fire will take at least three or four days to go down!
It was still early when Qin Shen got off work, and it was time for dinner after tossing for a while, Qiao Su held the dumplings and put them on the stone table outside the door, deliberately took out a white cloth to cover it, turned his head and said to Qin Shen: "Tomorrow is the winter solstice, let's eat dumplings in advance, I will cook them and put them on the stone table, you quickly bring out the vinegar." β
After saying that, he put down the dumplings defenselessly, reflexively ran back to the house, and muttered, "I'll do it myself!" β
In the next second, three bear children scrambled to run from behind the old elm tree.
"Brother, how do you steal dumplings?"
Dumplings are not like peanuts that can be carried in their arms, the older bear child rolled his eyes, and finally picked up the plate, turned his head and told his younger siblings: "Go, go quickly, don't let them find out!" β
The three of them ran in the direction of their home with their little short legs, and Qiao Su squatted under the window and watched all this silently, smiling from ear to ear.
Qin Shen pointed at her nose with his index finger and said lightly: "This method is what you can think of." β
Qiao Su raised an eyebrow triumphantly, not feeling how naΓ―ve she was.
The next day is the winter solstice, according to the northern custom to eat dumplings on this day, Qiao Su doesn't like dumplings very much, but this is the first festival she and Qin Shen have had, so I thought about it and cooked a hot pot for Qin Shen.
They were not rich enough to be able to eat meat casually, so Qiao Su bought cheap chicken crispy bones, pork brain flowers, and blood tofu from the butcher, made minced pork into meatballs, and then filled them with chicken crispy bones, which not only locked in the meat flavor but also did not lose the taste, and when it was boiled in red oil soup, the fishy smell and greasy smell of the meat disappeared.
On the day of the winter solstice, it snowed, and the outside of the house was covered with snow, and the charcoal fire was burning inside the house, which was as warm as spring.
"What's this pot of soup? Your freshly cooked dish? β
"It's called hot pot, you put things in the pot and soak them, and then take them out to eat when they're cooked."
Qin Shen ate bowl after bowl of face very much, spicy and sweaty, Qiao Su quietly observed and asked him: "I deliberately added more sweet and sour to neutralize the spicy taste when frying the base, how does it taste?" β
Qin Shen couldn't say it for a while, the soup used to cook the meat tasted very fresh, and his tongue was numb and swollen when he ate it, although it didn't hurt anymore, but after swallowing it, his throat was still hot and spicy, and he was sweating all over, which made people feel very comfortable.
"It's already good." Qin Shen lowered his eyes and said.
"Liar, I know just by looking at your expression, is it still too spicy?" Josu poured him a cup of sweet soy milk, which was prepared for the spicy treatment.
She raised her wine glass, which was rice wine mixed with water, Rao was such a wine, three or five glasses of stomach Qiao Su was still a little drunk, her cheeks were flushed, she said, "This is the first festival we have ever had, it is very memorable!" β
Qin Shen drank all the soy milk impatiently, and the fire burning in his throat was finally suppressed. He poured himself full, clinked glasses with Qiao Su again, and said, "The coming day is long, you and I still have a lifetime of time." β
"That's not it, I want to open the largest restaurant in the country, I am so poor in Beijing that I eat dirt, and I want to be a local tyrant in Dongquanguo!" After the wine came up, Qiao Su actually climbed onto the stool and talked nonsense, and fell into Qin Shen's arms with one foot in the air.
As soon as he looked up, the man's handsome face, which had been magnified several times, appeared in front of him, and Qiao Su reached out obsessively to stroke his cheek, "I still want to marry a beautiful man and go home, who are you, handsome guy, you are so handsome-"
After speaking, he actually hugged Qin Shen's face and kissed it.
She was slightly drunk, her apricot eyes were shining, the tip of her nose was faintly red, and she was covered with a thin layer of sweat, her appearance was very cute, and Qin Shen was stunned the moment her cold lips came up, and then hurriedly hugged her on her lap and deepened the kiss.
The next day, Qiao Su woke up and recalled the events of last night, regretting that he wanted to hit his head on the tofu.
Some people are drunk and sexually disordered, some people are drunk and crazy, how can anyone be drunk and mess with relatives like her?
How much water did she mix with that rice wine? Erliang's wine made her mix a catty, how did she get drunk after a few glasses!
"It's over, it's over, the invincible and wise beautiful girl's character has collapsed, I'm finished." She got up from the bed with her waist bent, stood in the cold wind and reflected on herself, and finally decided to put alcohol in the list of forbidden items.
"Wait, did I promise Qin Shen to make him a beloved wife bento last night?"
Scattered fragments of last night flashed in his mind, Qiao Su pestered Qin Shen to talk nonsense after drinking too much, and touched him up and down his hands, stalking and hanging on people's bodies like koalas, and he had to give him what kind of beloved wife lunch-
"I'm crazy, I must be crazy."
He said no, but his body walked honestly to the kitchen and decided to fulfill his promise last night.
She didn't forget Qin's evaluation of the hot pot last night, even if it covered up the spicy taste, the Sichuan cuisine made according to the normal material ratio was still unacceptable.
So what about halving chili peppers?
Qiao Su looked at the leftover ingredients from last night's hot pot and decided to process it again.
At noon, several merchant ships had just finished unloading their cargo, and the workers were sitting on sandbags waiting for dinner.