Chapter 10 Travels to Southern Yunnan
When there were only three days left before the 10-day trip to Yunnan, Xi Yidi returned home after the special training. As soon as he came back, he took Xi Yizheng to the supermarket for a big purchase, saying that he was preparing travel items. Watching Xi Yidi buy a lot of potato chips, colas and other snacks that were completely junk food in Xi Yizheng's opinion, like a primary school student's spring outing, he was really speechless.
"Little brother, are you sure you have to buy all of these? I heard my mother say that she reported to us a five-star pure play group, alas, and the accommodation conditions are very good. Xi Yizheng pushed the cart and followed behind Xi Yidi, reminding him from time to time to avoid him being hot-headed.
"I know, it's just for fun. Five-star accommodation also only provides three meals. Xi Yidi said disapprerovingly. Because of the special training, he developed earlier than Xi Yixiao, and began to enter the voice change period in the second year of junior high school, and even his appetite was extremely strong during this period.
"Then you don't have to buy so much, do you still have time to play?" Xi Yizheng rolled his eyes, he guessed he was eating all the way. "Why don't you buy some raw squid and grill some shredded squid at home?" Xi Yizheng muttered. didn't want to be heard by Xi Yidi, so he immediately ran to the seafood area, picked a few big squid, and brought them to Xi Yizheng, "Hehe, how about you buy it back and roast it?" Xi Yizheng secretly spat on himself. But it's better than those bulking foods. So, without saying a word, she also leaned over to choose seafood, in addition to squid, she picked a few catties of fresh prawns to prepare to go back to grill dried shrimp. The exchange was conditional on Xi Yidi having to throw the pile of junk food back on their respective shelves.
Since he liked all kinds of dishes, Xi Yizheng bought a smart electric oven and went home, and learned a lot of kinds of baked products in his spare time: all kinds of dessert pies, cookies, home-style simple pizzas, chicken wings in sauce, shredded squid, dried shrimp, etc., I tried it a few times, and the appearance and taste are very good. In particular, grilled squid and dried shrimp are the most popular among families. If it weren't for the complicated and time-consuming process of preparing the grilled dishes, her family would have liked her to rotate them every day. Since she was going on a trip this time, she didn't mind taking the time to make a little snack.
So, after more than half an hour of selection, the baking materials were all purchased. The brother and sister returned home with bags full of harvests.
It was a Saturday, and after lunch, Xi Yizheng began to work in the kitchen, cleaning the squid and prawns before grilling. Cut the squid into slices, cut them into shreds with a knife, soak them in a soup made of cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger ale, sugar, and sesame oil in proportion, soak them for 3 hours, take them out to dry, and then bake them in the oven for 3 minutes. Pull the dried squid into shreds, loosely place on a plate and bake for another 1 minute. The shredded grilled squid is ready. And dried shrimp is simpler. Put the whiskered prawns into water with ginger, green onions, cooking wine, and salt and boil for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat, soak for another 20 minutes to make them flavorful, then take out the dry water, put them in the oven, take them out after 7 minutes, turn them over and bake them for another 7 minutes. The dried prawns are grilled.
Xi Yidi smelled the fragrance of shredded squid and couldn't help but sneak into the kitchen and steal a few bites. Xi Yizheng couldn't help but laugh when he looked at his bared teeth that were scalded by the freshly baked squid shreds.
"Zheng, have you packed your luggage? Is this enough to change? Xi's mother checked her packed luggage in Xi Yizheng's bedroom, and asked her daughter who was struggling to bake dried shrimp in the kitchen.
"That's enough. Summer clothes can be washed and dried the next day. I brought three sets with me, enough to change. The oven was working a bit loud, and Xi Yizheng had to answer loudly. You can't bring a lot of clothes on a summer trip, right? What's more, she still has a bracelet by her side, what are you afraid of!
"I said, what are you two doing? Isn't our family upstairs and downstairs, so we can afford to shout loudly! Xi's father was reading the newspaper in the living room, and he couldn't stand the two of them, one in the daughter's bedroom, and the other in the kitchen yelling back and forth.
"That's it, mom is eccentric, why don't you help me check my luggage!" Xi Yidi leaned against the door of the room and watched his mother help her little sister pack her luggage, while nibbling on the freshly baked grilled squid and chewing vigorously.
"Stinky boy, you don't know yet, usually the clothes are stuffed in the box, and you still need to tidy up?" Xi's mother rolled her eyes. Since Xi Yidi's special training, his usual change of clothes is basically stored in the suitcase, so that he can leave with his bag at any time.
Xi Yidi grinned and slipped into the kitchen to continue stealing food.
Xi Yizheng grilled all the 5 squid and 3 catties of prawns he bought. After leaving a small portion for the family, the rest is packed into sealed jars ready to be taken with you on the go.
The Yunnan 10-day five-star pure play group is set up for high-end tourists. Due to the five-star treatment of the whole course of accommodation conditions, it is a pure play project without shopping, and the cost is very high. Xi's mother chose this group because she wanted her children to have a good time. If it's a reward, it's important to put an end to the possibility of them coming back with a lot of complaints.
In this trip, in addition to the round-trip time, the remaining 8 days were in Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Tengchong four places to visit local attractions. Xi Yizheng looked at the itinerary at hand, which was nothing more than a tour of the mountains and rivers plus a hot spring. She couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, she still needed to run so far to soak in the hot springs, we have it in the bracelet.
In the last two days in Tengchong, in addition to visiting the volcanoes and the Beihai Wetland Reserve, a half-day free trip to Tengchong Jade City was also arranged. Of course, if you don't gamble, you can also go shopping on Emerald Street and take home your favorite jade. Xi Yizheng's dark eyes instantly brightened, jade spirit stone, I don't know if I can bet on my favorite spirit stone with the aura induction of my own bracelet? Well, this one must give it a try!
The trip along the way was smooth. Five-star standard accommodation and meals are also very popular.
Xi Yizheng lived in the same room with Fang Yue, another lonely girl in the group. Xi Yidi lives in the same room with her male friend Lin Jiaqi. So, the two pairs of people simply got together all the way. Whether it's when playing, or when you go shopping, eating, or even when you're free
When I go to the room, I rarely act alone. It may be that Fang Yue and Lin Jiaqi are still boyfriend and girlfriend who have just started to get along, and sometimes they will be embarrassed to be alone. Xi Yizheng didn't have any opinion on this, and Xi Yidi didn't care about it originally, until later, he
When I found out that the dried shrimp and shredded squid I brought were also going to be taken out and shared with them, I secretly regretted it. Xi Yizheng looked at his little brother's darkened face and secretly laughed.
On the way, what excites Xi Yizheng the most is that she found several precious and rare medicinal plants in Kunming's Xishan Forest Park, the fruit of which can treat bruises and muscle pain. She had cultivated in the Demon Martial Star, but the reproduction was not good, and the harvested fruit was only enough to make a few furnaces of elixir, and later she forgot to collect those few dilapidated incense trees in the medicine valley of the Xuan Bracelet. Who would have thought that they would find a fragrant tree in this world, and it would also reproduce a large area. Affected by the alchemist's occupational disease
sounded, Xi Yizheng happily collected a few bushes and moved them to the medicine valley of the Xuan Bracelet. Although no one noticed her small movements, out of guilt, she picked some healing herbs from the medicine valley that had not yet been planted in this park to fill the vacancy of the removed incense trees.
Every time he goes to a place, such as Dali Ancient Town, Lijiang Old Town and other famous tourist towns, Xi Yizheng will buy some exquisite and beautiful special things, such as choosing a set of four treasures made of marble in Dali Ancient City to give to Xi's father.
also took advantage of the little brother's unpreparedness to pick a few marble flower pots and vase ornaments and included them in the bracelet. I also bought a few pieces of ethnic embroidery wall hangings and Dali tie-dye painting felt, planning to put them in their own study or studio in the future, and when they are tired of studying and working, they can appreciate the national charm to adjust the tired spirit. When I was visiting the night market in Lijiang, I bought a few woodcarving handicrafts such as woodcarved pen holders and woodcarved paperweights with very delicate carving workmen, and prepared to give them to my grandfather and grandfather. In addition, I picked out a few high-quality tie-dye shawls, one for Xi's mother, grandmother and myself.
Just when Xi Yizheng was purchasing special products, Xi Yidi was obviously much more relaxed, he was a free photographer for his little sister along the way, and even Xi Yizheng did not let go of the subtle expressions when buying special products, and the background of several photos was the ancient city shops and a dazzling array of handicrafts full of ethnic flavor. In addition, Xi Yidi's task is to taste the special snacks. Not only did he taste them one by one, but he also packed everything he thought was delicious and could bring home. What yak beef jerky, braised black goat meat, milk fan, preserved fruit, etc., buy all the way and eat all the way, and you are very happy.
Originally, Xi Yizheng also wanted to buy some of the best Pu'er tea in Lijiang that is well-known at home and abroad, but later when she visited the old town of Lijiang at night, she tasted tea in a large teahouse, and then she knew that the so-called best Pu'er turned out to be the fairy tea she drank when she was in the Demon Martial Star. Even the fairy tea produced by Xuanbang tastes better than the best Pu'er sold here at a high price, so I completely stopped thinking about buying Pu'er tea. After deciding to return to Beijing, he repurposed the tea workshop that had been idle for decades at the foot of the tea mountain. In my free time, I made some excellent Pu'er and sent them out to my grandfather and grandfather to taste. She believes that her tea-making craft has not been completely abandoned. Although it hasn't been touched for decades.
She had collected a few strains of the best tasting wild tea tree kings in the Fengwu Continent of the Demon Martial Star, and after refining them into Xuan Bracelets, she collected them into Xuan Bracelets and planted them on an idle hill not far from the hot spring pool. After that, she successively collected a lot of long-aged tea trees from various continents of the Demon Martial Star and planted them with those wild tea tree kings. Decades have passed, and this originally empty mountain has completely become a veritable tea mountain. Seeing that tea leaves were all over the mountain but could not be enjoyed, she built a simple tea-making workshop at the foot of the tea mountain - a small courtyard with two entrances and three rooms, one was specially used for roasting tea, and the other was a processing and packaging room and storage room. At that time, when she was short of alchemy and refining tools, she would go to the tea mountain of Xuanbang to pick some young buds, and according to the tea-making process passed down by the Demon Martial Star, she fried several popular excellent teas of the Demon Martial Star.
After being reborn in this world, I found that the Qing tea, fairy tea, and Ming tea that were popular in the Rhine Continent at the beginning corresponded to the Longjing tea, Pu'er tea, and Tieguanyin in this world. At first, I saw Xi's father at home that the taste of Longjing and Tieguanyin was very similar to the clear tea and Ming of Mowuxing, and she also took out a little of the little clear tea and Ming tea left in the storeroom of the Xuanbang Tea Workshop and mixed them into Xi's father's Longjing tea and Tieguanyin respectively. was so frightened that Xi Yizheng didn't dare to take out the tea leaves of the Xuanjiao and drink them at home. It's better to wait for some to fry some one day and give it to your family to taste openly.
On the evening of August 12, the group arrived in Tengchong and checked into the largest five-star hotel in the local area, Tengfei International Hotel.
The two days in Tengchong were also very fulfilling, and the group visited the Volcano Park, Beihai Wetland, and soaked in the hot spring in the hot sea area. Evenings are all free and easy. Because of Tengchong's reputation as "Jade Town", there are many tourists who come to Tengchong to Taobao, and even the business of the bar at night is often so good.
Xi Yizheng and his party walked around for a long time before they found a large-scale and relatively quiet and elegant bar.
"I really don't know what to say. It's all about drinking, so why do you have to find a quiet bar. Fang Yue chattered along the way. He was greatly puzzled by Xi Yizheng's proposal.
"It's so noisy, can you still taste the wine?" Xi Yizheng glanced at her and said a faint word. She didn't want to find unhappiness in a quiet night. Yes, for her, the noisy bar atmosphere was self-inflicted.
Fang Yue touched his nose and said nothing. Well, I don't know how to taste wine in the first place. I've been to the bar a few times, and it's nothing more than a reunion with my classmates.
"Adi, how old is your sister? I can't even tell her age! Fang Yue turned his head and asked Xi Yidi.
"I'm 15, how old do you think my sister can be?" Xi Yidi replied amusedly. He knew what she meant. It's just that he doesn't think his little sister is really like a junior high school graduate, but he doesn't think his sister is bad. On the contrary, the current Xi Yizheng makes him feel more like his sister. The Xi family should be confident, intelligent, beautiful and generous.
Fang Yue held his forehead, looking like I was speechless, which made everyone laugh. Xi Yizheng chuckled, and gradually, she no longer hid her true nature in front of her family. Simply, the Xi family did not have any confusion about her changes, on the contrary, their attitude towards her current temperament was happy, happy and supportive.
A few people gathered around the bar and ordered their favorite drinks. Xi Yizheng ordered a cocktail with a bar style. Xi Yidi ordered a glass of Chivas Regal, and Fang Yue asked for a glass of rum. Lin Jiaqi is vodka. Then they chose a corner spot and tasted their glasses. Drinking a very expensive cocktail, but thinking about the delicious fruit wine and flower brew that I brewed, well, I can enjoy it in a few months. She squinted and thought happily.