Chapter Fifty-Four: The Prince of Manxi on Fine Wine
"Light Breeze and Light Cloud like to eat the food I cook? Then Xu Gongzi doesn't like it? Hua Manxi narrowed his eyes and asked slowly.
"Ahem, that, I'm okay too." Xu Shizi pretended to be arrogant, "Don't open the topic, you say this word, do you write it or not?" β
"Thank you Xu Gongzi for your kindness, it's just that I am a small village girl, I cook all day long, where do I have so much time to write, and this ink, paper and inkstone is also quite expensive, I might as well save it for Komatsu." Hua Manxi gave himself a more high-sounding excuse.
"This-" Xu Shizi choked.
"Don't do this, that, eat quickly, this is my new food, and I fried a small conch, hurry up and try it." Hua Manxi tugged at his sleeve.
Xu Jinfei turned around and saw that there was a bowl of steaming shou on the table, as well as a large plate of fried red, red, green and green conch.
"What kind of new food is this, isn't it just copying?" Xu Shizi sat down, scooped up a wonton with chopsticks, and said disapprerovingly.
"Then you don't know, do you?" When it comes to eating, Hua Manxi is full of energy, and said proudly, "This is called wonton, although the shape is the same as that of the hand, but the taste is different, the skin of the hand is thin and the filling is thin, but the wonton is thin and the filling is more, and the wonton also has a essence, that is, the soup base, the soup base of the wonton, pay attention to the clear, fragrant, and fresh, but the soup of the hand is relatively rich, oily, and heavy, and it is generally only used as a condiment, and it is not eaten alone." I don't believe you've tasted it. β
Xu Jinfei saw that she was right, and put a steaming wonton to his mouth to blow it, and then put it in his mouth to taste.
Sure enough, as she said, the skin is thin and the filling is more, the taste is tender and smooth, but it is similar to copying hands, but when you eat, the filling is tighter, and then you taste the soup, it is indeed clear, fragrant, delicious, and compared with copying hands, there is a different taste.
Xu Jinfei ate the dishes made by the chef for a day today, but none of them were in line with the taste, each dish was just sandwiched and tasted, and he was not full, he felt hungry at the moment, and soon drank a bowl of wonton and even the soup.
"This thing, it's not bad." Xu Dashizi commented arrogantly, but Hua Manxi didn't care about his evaluation at all, picked up a conch with chopsticks, and sucked the conch by himself.
She loves spicy food, and this time she specially put more chili peppers in the fried conch, so she specially reminded: "Xu Gongzi, I put this conch a little spicy, if you can't eat spicy, don't eat it." β
"Do I look like such a delicate person?" Xu Shizi, who swept the battlefield at the age of fourteen, expressed his dissatisfaction, and also picked up a conch like Hua Manxi and ate it in style.
And yetβ
Suck, suck, suck again-
"There's nothing in this conch? How to eat this? Xu Shizi was very puzzled.
Born in Kyoto, he was stationed in the frontier as a teenager, and almost grew up in the frontier, and never saw seafood, let alone ate it.
"You don't even know how to eat it." Hua Manxi glanced at him helplessly, and took a conch again to show him, "Like me, inhale hard at this mouth, if you can't suck it out, suck it here again, and then turn it upside down, and it will be easy to eat." β
Xu Shizi suddenly felt that his face was gloomy, but his greed overcame his face, and he sucked it with all his strength according to the appearance of Hua Manxijiao.
This time, he really sucked out the snail meat, but he used too much force, and the diced chili pepper in the snail shell was also sucked into his throat, and he immediately choked and spicy, and coughed desperately.
My goodness, he coughed like this, endlessly, Hua Manxi was so frightened that he hurriedly rushed over to cover his mouth.
"Uncle, you are a thief, can you be conscious! My family is going to hear such a big commotion! Hua Manxi lowered his voice and covered his mouth tightly.
However, Hua Manxi's hand had cut the chili pepper, and the spicy taste was still on it, which made Xu Shizi feel bitter, and tears rushed out.
Hua Manxi saw him with tears in his eyes, so he slowly let go, poured a bowl of cold water on the table and handed it to him.
Xu Shizi raised his head, but he was bored.
"You, you're trying to murder me, aren't you?" Xu Shizi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve without any image, "There are chili peppers on his hands, and they are spicy." β
"Hehe, it's an accident, an accident, a little bit of a sound." Hua Manxi smiled awkwardly and put a conch in his bowl, "Let's eat snails, eat snails." β
"In this situation, there is a little less osmanthus brew. If you eat conch, have a cup of sweet osmanthus stuffed, that is enjoyment. Hua Manxi was eating snail meat while muttering.
"Osmanthus stuffed sweet and greasy, what's so delicious?" Xu Shizi dismissed, "If you want to drink, you have to drink the strongest wine on the grassland, burn the bonfire, roast the whole sheep, and danceβ"
"I can't see it, you've been to the prairie before." Hua Manxi was a southerner in her previous life, and she also wanted to go to the grassland to play, but she was too busy every day, and there was no world at all.
She also imagined the scene Xu Jinfei said, and it was indeed a bit beautiful. She was a little jealous of her beauty.
"Hmph, the grassland is full of grass, what is there to see, the strongest wine is easy to get drunk, and it is easy to indigestion when roasting whole sheep. You say that osmanthus is sweet and greasy, and there are peach blossoms drunk in spring, sour plum wine, mulberry wine, hawthorn wine, with flower cakes made of all kinds of flowers in spring, wormwood balls, sweet and sour, fresh and sweet, indescribable enjoyment, plum wine, rose burning, peach wine, of course, it must be chilled to drink, with a bowl of wine stuffed meatballs, indescribably cool and transparent. Autumn osmanthus stuffing is indispensable, with a variety of fried snails, Mid-Autumn moon cakes, winter, it is best to snow, warm a pot of bamboo leaves, eat hot pot, meat and vegetarian, white and red - not to mention how beautiful! β
As soon as these words came out, Xu Jinfei's movements of eating snails froze.
His gaze fell on Hua Manxi's face in a daze, the oil lamp was dim, as if to coat her face with a layer of softness, and when she spoke, her eyebrows were radiant, and her lips, which had become particularly bright red because of eating chili peppers, opened and closed-
Xu Shizi's heart jumped, and the feeling of unadaptability came up again.
"You are a little village girl, you know a lot." Xu Shizi hurriedly put aside his gaze and landed on the soft moonlight outside.
However, as the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, although the moon is not yet round, the moon is cold and bright, soft and gentle, which makes his heart beat more and more.
"Of course, you can't travel thousands of miles and read thousands of books, when I was with Ding Xiucai in the past, Ding Xiucai often lent me books." Hua Manxi pondered the memory of the original body, and indeed took the book from Ding Xiucai, but it was all to secretly send things to Ding Xiucai to cover up with the book.
Xu Shizi, who was originally full of charm, was like being poured a basin of cold water on his head, which is called a cold heart.
"You, you, you-" Xu Shizi was so angry that he was speechless, "With these words you wrote, can you read a book?" β
"Just because I can't write doesn't mean I can't read! Not to mention a thousand-character text, can I read even the Four Books and Five Classics? It's too underestimated. Hua Manxi protested dissatisfiedly.
Anyway, she is also a person who has been obligated for nine years!
"It's so good that Ding Xiucai actually taught you to read. That's great. Xu Dashizi was so angry that he was incoherent.
"It's okay. In the entire Peach Blossom Village, there are more books in his house. Hua Manxi didn't notice anything wrong with Xu Dashizi at all, and praised Ding Xiucai to himself, "Although he has a more arrogant personality, it's not easy, there is a foolish brother at home, forget it, it's all over." β
She didn't want to have anything to do with the Ding family anymore, but the original body did like Ding Xiucai very much in the past, and every time she borrowed a book, she either gave him food or clothes, which just gave her the opportunity to lie.
"You pity him so much, then you marry a fool to serve him, doesn't it reduce the burden on Ding Xiucai?" Xu Shizi was so angry that he didn't choose to speak.
"I'm not a fool, why should I marry a fool?" Hua Manxi glanced at him and continued to suck the conch absentmindedly.
"Yes, you don't want to marry a fool, you want to marry Ding Xiucai, but it's a pity that people don't look down on you." Xu Shizi was so angry that he slapped the table hard.
This is unbearable, he Xu Dashizi was responsible at the beginning, she was still not happy, he didn't believe it, he was not as good as a little showman?
"Oops, uncle!" Where did Hua Manxi know why he suddenly slapped the table, so he hurriedly rushed over, grabbed his hand tightly, and said in a low voice, "Can you not be startled at every turn, can you still have a good chat this day?" β
Her hands were not soft, they were covered in thin calluses because of her frequent work, and they were so thin that she could clearly feel the touch of her bones.
But Xu Jinfei inexplicably felt his whole body tremble violently, and there was a feeling that his blood was inexplicably hot.
He turned his head and saw Hua Manxi staring at him with wide eyes, staring at him with warning eyes, she lowered her voice and said solemnly: "One last time to warn you, if you make another noise, you don't want to come in the future!" β
He stared at the unusually bright red and bewitching lips, and his mind turned white for a moment, and he didn't even hear what she said.
After Hua Manxi finished speaking, he broke his hand and made a shushing gesture at him.
Xu Jinfei suddenly came back to his senses at this time, and suddenly realized that he was out of shape.
"I, I'll go first." He was frightened by his inexplicable surging emotions, and hurriedly said a word, and was about to leave in a hurry.
When he jumped out of the window, he accidentally knocked his head.
Hua Manxi saw that his forehead instantly turned red, a little funny.
"Hey." Hua Manxi stopped Xu Shizi, who was about to jump out of the window.
Xu Shizi turned his head suddenly, banged, and kowtowed again.
Hua Manxi held back his smile, picked up the plate of conch on the table, and handed it to him: "Remember to return the plate to me after eating." β
Xu Shizi, who had two bags on his head, looked okay after a while, and returned to the Xu family's compound in despair.