Chapter 36: The Secret Recipe
The bamboo raft was hidden by Cui Jiuan in a cave near the lake, Cui Jiuan pulled the ox and prepared to go back, but the cow who didn't need to pull the bamboo raft gently rubbed Cui Ranxin's arm with its big horns, and stared at the girl with a pair of big eyes and long eyelashes.
"Okay cow, are you letting me sit on it?"
The scalper mooed twice in response.
"What a good cow with a spirit." Cui Ranxin smiled and climbed on the back of the cow, and the cow went up the stream into the deep forest, leaving Cui Jiu'an stunned in place, with a bamboo basket on his back, and the bamboo basket was still full of Cui Jiuan.
"Ugly cow - stop, don't carry me, you have to bring the back basket!" But no matter how Cui Jiuan shouted, the scalper just snorted a few times and didn't stop.
"Second brother, hurry up!" Cui Ranxin couldn't stand up with a smile on the back of the cow.
Without Cui Jiu'an, who is always gentle and smiling, he looks as angry and corrupt as he is now, but he is like the innocence that a teenager should have, Cui Ran feels that if it weren't for the people she misses in the distance, it's good to live in the valley with her second brother and father-in-law, plus this ox.
"Okay cow, let's stop and wait for the second brother, I'm a little worried." Cui Ranxin kept looking at the cow's back, why didn't he see the young man's figure, and touched the big horn of the cow worriedly.
The ox stopped obediently and slowly ate the green grass by the stream.
Half an hour later, the familiar sound of footsteps could be heard behind him, but the boy walked by the girl and the scalper without squinting.
"Second brother!" Cui Ran jumped down from the scalper and caught up with him worriedly.
"Don't call me second brother in the future, I'm not your second brother." Cui Jiuan dropped this sentence and walked forward with a faster pace.
"My second brother is tolerant and generous, and he won't deal with a little girl and a stinky scalper." Cui Ran flatteringly took off the lotus leaf hat on his head to fan the flames for Cui Jiu'an.
"Are you saying in disguise that I'm not only stingy but also calculating?"
"How so? I smell fishy, you've caught fish in a long time, haven't you? I know that my second brother loves me! Cui Ranxin said and picked up the leaves on the bamboo basket behind Cui Jiu'an, and sure enough, two palm-wide crucian carp were lying in the bamboo basket.
"I'm hungry for myself, and it has nothing to do with you." The young man was strong on his lips, but his pace was half a beat slower.
"Just like my father-in-law said, I think you are more pleasing now than when you were in the capital." Cui Ran thought of Du Youjia's words in the morning and agreed.
"I don't need to please anyone."
"Yes, people who like my second brother can line up from the Hundred Medicine Valley to the capital, and I am the number one."
Hearing this, the young man suddenly stopped and looked at the other party's ghost, and said, "Then can you call me by my name in the future?" ”
Cui Ran was stunned in his heart: "How can that work?" Are you my second brother? ”
The young man put away his dark eyes and asked, "Why do you call the one in the Hechang Palace's Mansion Brother Lang?" Everyone else is in the ranking? ”
The girl thought for a long time and shook her head slowly: "I don't know, maybe it's because he's different!" I'm going to marry him in the future. ”
Looking at the girl with a bright and unashamed face, Cui Jiu'an's defenseless and open heart was faintly stinged.
"Look at you now, like a wild boy, your brother Lang will not be willing to marry you when he sees it." Cui Jiuan said, looking up and down at the person in front of him, pretending to pick lightly.
"He dare- you are not allowed to look at me like this!" Cui Ranxin felt the young man's thoughtful gaze, and stepped forward to hit him, the young man was agile like a fox, how could the girl catch it.
A pair of figures in the deep mountains and dense forests, you chased after me, and returned to the Valley of Hundred Medicines in the frolic.
"Father, we're back! I brought a lot of good things! As soon as he entered the yard, Cui Ran excitedly showed off the things in the bamboo basket.
"Let my father-in-law see—" Du Youjia, who came out of the kitchen, was covered in chicken feathers and held a handful of chicken feathers in his hands.
"Haha-"
"Haha-" Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin laughed heartily as they looked at Du Youjia with pheasant feathers on their heads.
"Don't laugh. Laugh again, I won't make you chicken at night. ”
"Master, with your cooking skills, can you eat it?" Cui Jiuan resounded the scene of that morning, without expressing doubt.
"Stinky boy, don't eat it if you have the ability to do it, this is your master's specialty." Du Youjia sprinkled the chicken feathers in his hand on Cui Jiuan's face.
"Bah-ah-ah-ah-" Cui Jiuan, who was stimulated by chicken feathers, kept sneezing.
"Father-in-law, you see there are fish! There are lotus leaves you want, green plums, and two water snakes, can you see that this snake can be used in medicine? Cui Ranxin took out the things one by one and showed them to Du Youjia, but the two snakes were still lying in the bamboo basket.
"These two blister snakes are good, do you dare to eat snakes?" Du Youjia put away the big ones and planned to put them into medicine, and the small ones were used to make soup.
Cui Ranxin shook his head, thought for a moment and then said, "Everything has a first time, why don't we try?" ”
"Okay, it's not my daughter of Du Youjia, who has courage and courage." Du Youjia threw the snake to Cui Jiu'an, and the young man's eyelids jumped.
"Didn't you find out about this plum when you stole it?" Du Youjia rummaged through the green plums on the stone table.
"Father-in-law, you know that old man! We did get reprimanded, but he was actually a very kind man. ”
"Is he still kind with his eyebrows raised? It's true to say that he has a bit of filial piety. Du Youjia's thoughts drifted to thirty years ago.
"Father-in-law, how did you meet?"
"It's been a few years since I talked about it, more than thirty years ago! It's also that I'm ashamed of him. Father-in-law I went to the West Sea to collect medicine at that time, and the seahorses and sea cucumbers produced there were all the best products for medicine, because the fishermen there made a living by selling these, and the ancestors had a rule with the sea, and the sea cucumbers that were less than five years old should be returned to the sea and could not be brought back privately, but at that time his father was seriously ill, and the family could not open the pot, so he secretly brought back the sea cucumbers that were less than five years old, and sold them to me privately. I felt guilty and took their family to Panyang Town to live in seclusion by that lake for more than 30 years! Du Youjia sighed with emotion, thinking of the person who was expelled by the villagers and bent over his father's back and stopped talking.
"Father-in-law, don't be sad, it's not all your fault." Cui Ranxin saw Du Youjia's look for the first time, and said relief.
"Yes, it's hard to tell the difference between wrong and right, so let's cook!" Du Youjia touched the top of the girl's head.
"Huh? Father-in-law, why is it that everyone is old, but you are not old? Cui Ran asked what she had been curious about for a long time.
"You want to know the secret recipe?" Hearing this, Du Youjia has regained its former vigor.
"Mm-hmm, I'll open a shop to ensure a prosperous business." Cui Ranxin finally understood the importance of silver during this time of being away.
"You girl, your father-in-law, I tasted a hundred herbs, drank a hundred medicines, and tried a hundred poisons to have this result, and there is a second person in the world who dares to try?" Du Youjia said that he was arrogant.
"Alright! It's also too dangerous. The other party's words were like a basin of cold water that extinguished the way to make money in Cui Ran's heart.