It's getting late.

The fish is out of the pan. It is a sour soup plum fish, made by Zisu.

At that time, Zisu couldn't push back Sanxi's request, so he responded to the next. She put down the scroll, went into the room to scold Yu Qi, and then rolled up her sleeves and went to the kitchen to kill fish. When Yu Qi walked to the kitchen embarrassedly, he saw Sanxi helping to light the fire, and Zisu was dressing the spices on the side table. The fish was placed on the table, as if it had never died, and its tail was still beating slightly.

Yu Qi stood under the window outside the kitchen, peeking in through the hole in the paper window, her shadow was printed on the window, why didn't Zisu find it?

So, Zisu was busy in his hands, but he said in his mouth: "How can you see the whole body with a leopard?" ”

Yu Qi smiled "poof", and said through the window: "I peep at the fish with paper holes, my eyes are short-sighted, but I am also focused, focusing on my sister's technique." ”

As he spoke, he drifted into the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, and put salt, ginger and garlic into a bowl.

Zi Su said: "Can you see clearly? ”

Yu Qi said: "Even if I look at it a hundred times and thousands of times, I can't learn my sister's cooking skills." Seeing my sister do this, I think it's simple, if I really want to get it, I will definitely not be able to get it. ”

Zisu smiled: "Then what do you see?" ”

Yu Qi said: "A hole in the view, to measure the sea, imagine my sister as myself, you can urn out a piece of the sky." ”

Zi Su chirped: "I only said Liu Yiqing's four words 'peeping at the leopard with a tube', you are so sarcastic about me, why don't you say that I am narrow-minded and 'look at the silhouette of the paper window'?" No matter how big Dongfang Shuo's 'Li' is, it can't block your sea mouth, and it will purify false reasoning and heresy. No wonder the third master of Xifu is angry with you. ”

Yu Qi was embarrassed and snorted.

Zisu said: "You go out, after a while, the smoke will be sour, and people will dislike you in the past." ”

Yu Qi said: "Even if I am wrapped in Yaochi herbs, I may not be liked." I'll help my sister's hand! I was supposed to do it, but now I let my sister dirty her hands and feet, and I can't help it. ”

Zisu "go" and snorted again, and said, "Come on, don't be good!" I don't eat your set. ”

Yu Wan'er smiled, walked over to Sanxi and said, "You go out to fetch water, and prepare to wash your sister's hands." I'll do the dirty work here. ”

Three joys do not follow.

Zisu just laughed, and at the end, urged Sanxi to go out. There are two people left, and you say I will go, and continue to prepare the things prepared before the pot.

Every process of Zisu, Yu Qi sees it in his eyes and remembers it in his heart.

If you really record the preparation of this dish in detail, Yu Qi can also list some steps in detail:

In addition to omitting to kill the fish, when Yu Qi came, he saw that Zisu was preparing cooking wine, using the Yanhuang glutinous rice wine stored in Shouzhongju as the root, containing half a bowl, adding three spoons of five-year aged wine, and two spoons of Zhenhai aged vinegar, stirring it well, and soaking the new red bayberry in it when nine pieces. Then, take out three Shandong dates, remove the core and mash them, cut into half a piece of candied persimmon cake, a spoonful of pineapple paste, and then pour a bamboo leaf tea, the tea must be warm, stop, and the bowl is covered with a layer of wet water gauze towel. This is the first step. The second step is: cut the ginger slices and garlic slices into another bowl, add the sesame seeds, goji berries, coriander leaves, and stir in a little lard.

This is not the end of the story. She washed the pot, let the fire burn hot, the pot was red, poured in the lard, the oil bloomed, first put in ginger slices, garlic slices and other ingredients, after the fragrance was added, add star anise, tangerine peel, bay leaves, ginkgo seeds, and stir-fry over low heat. After a while, add oil again, add water, boil until boiling, and remove from the pot. This section she calls "boiling."

Zisu said: "The fish is not fragrant, look at this kung fu." If the fire is big, it will burn, and if the fire is small, it will not smell. If there is a little less material, the fragrance will not be strong. ”

In this way, everything is just right. It can be seen that Zisu has a calculation in his heart, every step and every material, and he knows it in his heart.

Yu Qi sighed in his heart: Once upon a time, Zisu was also a big lady daughter, how could she do these side cooking?

Sometimes, Yu Qi is very envious of her, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she is familiar with all kinds of general studies, poetry and songs, and talent and affection. I wonder who will marry her in the future? That's really a blessing for three lives.

Now that the ingredients have been cooked, she went to wash a bowl of fresh bayberry.

Yes, it was a bowl of swarthy bayberry, black and red, the same fruit grown in the south. But this is the north, how can there be? It's so fresh.

Yu Qi asked Zisu: "Where did my sister get these condiments and bayberry?" ”

Zisu said: "The condiments are picked from Shouzhongju, and this bayberry is said to be offered outside, and some are left in the East and North Mansions, and brought to the old lady to taste." I took it. The old lady has hard work, and I also have hard work, I don't know if you understand? ”

Yu Qi's expression sank, and he looked at Zisu in a daze. Yes, aren't the songs of the south often sung: plums, plums, born in the south branches, green after the rain, sour in March, sweet in April, see you every year, the most lovesick.

Zisu was very happy when she saw that Yu Qi was silent, and felt that Yu Qi understood what she meant, which was a reminder that she did not forget the source! Zi Su said: "We naturally have to be authentic to eat by ourselves, and if we give it to others, add any persimmon cake or date, I will sour his mouth and rot his teeth." ”

Yu Qi didn't hear it, and his mind drifted in the memories of the old days.

When he woke up, Zisu had already brought the fish and wine bowl ingredients to the stove.

Zisu urged: "Burn the fire stronger!" ”

When Yu Qi heard this, his hands and feet were nervous, and he randomly found some firewood and threw it into the stove. For a moment, the stove was stuffed with dry firewood, which smothered the fire and rolled out thick smoke. Sanxi came in with water from outside, and before he could get in, he had choked.

She put down the bucket and said, "Ouch, when I opened my head, I thought there was a fire in our house!" ”

As he spoke, Sanxi went to remove some firewood from the stove, and then took a blow pipe to blow inside, and after a while, the fire started.

Zisu coughed behind the stove, waited for his throat to be smoothed, and said to Yu Qi: "Girl, go up to the side, don't make a mess for me." ”

Yu Qi covered his mouth and nose and said with a smile: "I want to watch, I can't eat, I have to see enough." ”

Zisu didn't care about her, and when the fire was hot, she put the oil down the pot, put the fish in again, and fried it in oil. Slightly browned the fish skin, put in the first ingredient, stuff it for two cups of tea, and finally put fresh bayberry, and then cover the wooden pot lid.

When he was about to get out of the pot, Zisu suddenly remembered that there was something he didn't put in and asked Sanxi: "Why didn't you take the root of Houttuynia cordata?" ”

Sanxi looked left and right, looked for it, stomped his feet and said, "I forgot to take it." Wait, I'm looking for Sister Ju'er to go! ”

After saying that, Sanxi ran away like smoke, and after a while, Ju'er came back with her with a happy smile.

As soon as Ju'er entered the kitchen door, she exclaimed, "Ouch, my girl! What fish do you make, and it smells so good? ”

Zisu grinned, not as cold as usual, and said, "Plum fish." He said to Sanxi again: "Did you take it back?" ”

Sanxi was about to reply, Ju'er said: "Coincidentally, I dug up the stinky grass in the garden, and the people on the eldest girl's side didn't find it, and they knew that I took it, so they came to look for me." When he saw that it was on the table, he took it all. ”

After hearing this, Zisu was unhappy and said, "It's time to hurry." What do they want that thing for? Maybe Dongfu also makes fish? ”

Ju'er said: "It is said that the cousin's fever is not complete, and she still ate this a few days ago, so naturally she can't break it." They have them in the Dongfu Rolling Garden, I'm afraid they will be dug up! Although it doesn't have the stinky grass you want, it is so fragrant that it makes people drool, and if you really add that thing, it may not be so fragrant. Girl, teach me, tomorrow and tomorrow, I will make it for the old lady. ”

Yu Qi covered his mouth and smiled. Zi Su said: "Then you can ask the girl for a way, it's all her idea." ”

Yu Qi was slightly stunned, fortunately he had just paid attention to the practice of fish, otherwise he would not have been able to speak at this moment. So, he told Ju'er about the process. Ju'er listened, rejoiced, and stayed for a long time, and lived in the middle of her life.

Zisu smiled: "Oily things, people who worship Buddha also eat them?" ”

These words are exactly what the old lady believes in Buddhism today. When Yu Qi heard this, he smiled and said nothing.

At the moment, the fish is out of the pot, put it on the plate, wipe the oil stagnation on the edge of the plate, and quickly close the lid to keep it warm. After that, Sanxi brought the food box and put it in.

At that time, the sun had sunk in the west, and the gold outside was red and reflected in the light of the roof.

Yu Qi walked to the kitchen door and looked at the sky, and then said to Zisu and Sanxi: "It's getting dark, I'm afraid I'm going to eat!" ”

Zisu asked Sanxi to find a hot and moist cloth to cover the box, and while telling Sanxi that this would keep it fresh and tasteful, he said to Yu Qi: "Then you go, go early and come back early." ”

Yu Qi said: "Sister come with me!" After asking a few times, Zisu agreed.

After that, the three of them went to Xifu.

Seeing that Yu Qi suddenly came, the mother-in-law guarding the door warmly greeted him and informed him that the lord, wife, aunt, grandfather, and girl were having dinner in the evening pavilion.

Yu Qi came to Zhuang Mansion for nearly a year, and never knew that there was a place in Xifu as the "Evening Pavilion". So I asked the woman where the evening pavilion was. She thought it was an annex, a dining hall. Who knows, the mother-in-law said that the evening pavilion is in the west corner of Chengfu Garden, Xifu.

That Chengfuyuan is where the county lord lives.

It is said that when others are eating, they should not appear, that is the most rude. Yu Qi knows this. The three hesitated, in a dilemma. At that time, when he saw Zhuang Pu coming out of the courtyard, he was annoyed, and Xianglian followed him and dragged him, after all, he was defeated by his strength. Yu Qi and a few people followed the prestige, and just saw Xianglian being waved to the ground by Zhuang Pu.

Zhuang Putou didn't look back, and said angrily: "I'll get out of mine, why do you have to pull me to be boring." ”

He was in a hurry, there was no one in his eyes, and Yu Qi was at the door for fear that he would rush out and bump into him, so he stood slightly sideways to the door. In the blink of an eye, Zhuang Pufeng rushed out of the door.

Inside, Xianglian fell to the ground and shouted: "Second master! You're back! Zhuang Pu didn't listen, and Xianglian begged Yu Qi again: "Miss Qi, hurry up and help hold the second master!" ”

Yu Qi shook slightly, looked at Xianglian sourly, extremely unbearable, and embarrassed to chase Zhuang Pu.

Zhuang Pu had already walked out, and when he heard Xianglian shouting Yu Qi, he stopped, turned around and returned to the door, and said to Yu Qi, "What else is my sister doing?" Hurry back, lest you run into knives, guns, and ammunition, and go straight in, and come out round. ”

Zhuang Pu bowed, and Yu Li knew that he had forgiven her. She also returned the salute and said with a smile: "Where is my brother going?" ”

Zhuang Pu said: "Where to stay with the master, where to go!" Sister, I advise you not to enter this house, keep it high! Be careful that your legs and feet can't hook in, and even if you do, you have to be careful under your feet, it's full of stinky. ”

After speaking, Zhuang Pu snorted, threw down his sleeves, and said, "Sister Xie spoke a few days ago." ”

Between the words, Xianglian got up in pain, and rushed to the front, she knelt on the ground, hugged Zhuang Pu's thigh, and begged: "Grandpa, you are angry and beat me and scold me, why bother running out to find your own anger." Go back! ”

Zhuang Pu pulled out his legs and feet hard, but Xianglian held on to him and didn't move.

Yu Qi and Zisu couldn't look at it, so they came to help Xianglian and spoke out to persuade him to make peace.

Xianglian cried and said, "The girl doesn't know, no one can stop when the master's temper comes up, I don't hold his legs, and his legs will have no direction." ”

Zhuang Pu said "phew", roared Xianglian to spread quickly, and kicked Xianglian with his other leg.

Seeing Zhuang Pu being so arrogant, Zi Su was very angry, and said viciously: "It's a young master in the big mansion, such a pretentious, wouldn't it make people laugh and lose their teeth when they are placed outside." Stretched out his hand and grabbed Yu Qi, "Girl, don't pull it." ”

Zhuang Pu heard it and glared at Zisu fiercely.

Xianglian raised her head, resented Zisu, and said, "Girl, if you don't help and persuade you, why bother to brush oil on my fire!" ”

Zisu snorted: "Who is not a golden body?" Parental parenting? I think only people here can do it. ”

This was not only said by Zhuang Pu, but also scolded by the Cao family of Beifu. Yes, Zisu first entered the Zhuang Mansion, isn't it also treated like this? And it is more unforgettable than Xianglian. No wonder she was angry.

Zhuang Pu was annoyed and ashamed, and pointed at Zisu and said, "You say one more word!" ”

Yu Qi grabbed Zisu tightly, signaled her to stop talking, and said to Zhuang Pu with a smile: "Second brother, our Zisu is also kind, and I don't mean to offend you." ”

Zhuang Pu sneered: "My sister is articulate, and the people under my sister are not bad!" ”

Yu Qi's face was red and hot, and he was speechless for a while. Fortunately, at this time, Zhuang Yu and Zhuang Yu and their respective servants came out.

Zhuang Yu ran to Zhuang Pu before the others, he grabbed Zhuang Pu's arm with one hand, and beckoned Zhuang Pu and said, "Fifth sister, hurry up." ”

Zhuang Yu came out of breath.

Suddenly, Zhuang Yu grabbed Zhuang Pu's left hand, Zhuang Yu held his right hand, and underneath, Xianglian hugged his thigh, no matter how Zhuang Pu moved.

Subsequently, the county lord came, and when he came, Zhuang Pu said to his younger brothers and sisters: "Today, the emperor can't stop me!" Hurry up and let me out! ”

Zhuang Jue sighed: "Oh, brother, what are you going out to eat so late!" Let's go back, it's not an ordinary day! The old man will say it after two sips of wine, anyway, he said so much in the Red Mansion today, we don't care. ”

Zhuang Pu wanted to fight back, but the county lord was approaching, she straightened her arm, flicked her fingers, and poked straight at Zhuang Pu's forehead.

The county lord said: "Stupid and unruly stupid thing! If you do something wrong, your father will not speak of you? Are you the Ninth King or the Tibetan King? It's so domineering! I ran away without saying a word, and all the books I have read over the years have been read in Java? He shouted to the people behind him: "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and put me back!" ”

The maids and servants behind him rushed up, took Zhuang Jue's and Zhuang Yu's hands, hugged Zhuang Pu, and carried him away.

Yu Qi, Zisu, and Sanxi were by the door, stunned, and their hearts were pounding.

Seeing that Yu Qi was there, the county lord glanced at her slightly, and Zhuang Yu and Zhuang Yu had already greeted her.

I saw Zhuang Ying say: "How early and late is my sister coming?" These people also did not report it. Therefore he smiled and pretended to blame the gatekeeper.

The county lord said, "Since you are here, let's go inside and eat together." "Tell Baozhu to add dishes and chopsticks.

Yu Qi bowed, embarrassed, and whispered, "Mrs. Xie." Then he took the box from Sanxi's hand, "I heard that the master likes to eat fish, and we made a fish dish because we went to school early today." I don't want to be late. ”

When the county lord heard this, he felt a little warm in his heart, and said, "It's coming, why bother doing this." He urged Zhuang Yu again: "Don't hurry up and help your sister carry it." ”

Zhuang Jue responded happily and took the suitcase in Yu Qi's hand briskly.

Subsequently, Yu Qi and the county lord's mother and son went to the evening pavilion. On the way, Zhuang Ying and Zhuang Yu quietly told Yu Qi that the accident had just happened over there.

It turned out that several old men took turns to "teach" Zhuang Ying and Zhuang Pu brothers during the day, most of which were some training principles, and also mentioned the knowledge of writing. After the training, he asked the two brothers to write a new chapter, and then revise it after writing. They changed it word by word according to the old man's meaning. Zhuang Yu obeyed his words, Zhuang Pu was different, he had to say that the old articles were obscure, he had to make a new one, and argued with the old men about "foreign knowledge" and "vernacular poetry". The eldest master and the fourth master are naturally not easy to say, the third master is their father, and it is inevitable to avoid it. When it was about to be late, the county lord sent someone to invite the old man back to his house, saying that he would have dinner in the evening pavilion. When the old men heard the words from the county lord, they stopped scolding and dispersed from the Red Mansion.

When the three of them, the father and son returned to Xifu, and someone was already waiting at the door to greet them, saying that the wife had set up the meal in the evening pavilion. The father and son went straight there. Just sat down and didn't eat a few bites, the third master angrily brought out the matter of the Red Mansion and said that the county lord listened to it and only made persuasions, and did not blame the second son.

The third master was even more angry, and said: "I am arrogant on weekdays, but when I fall into this field today, I will make the eldest master and the fourth master see a joke." The two rebels are shameless and proud. It's really mud that can't hold up the wall, and rotten wood can't be carved! What do you eat it for the evening pavilion banquet, why should you pay tribute to him? ”

Here, there is a story. More than 20 years ago, the county lord was pregnant with a son, full-term to give birth, one day out for a walk, walked here, because it was dark and late, another crow came, I don't know how to frighten, the county lord slipped on the spot. The people who came out said that it was the seven-star golden cicada red coat, with the destiny of the champion. It's a pity that it didn't keep it. The husband and wife are sad, because they miss the "champion" too much, they will inscribe this pavilion as the "evening pavilion", every year during the mourning day, they will come to make a mourning banquet, and over time, it will become an exclusive family banquet in Xifu. Zhuang Pu and Zhuang Jue vaguely heard these stories, and probably understood that their parents hoped that they would one day become a dragon, or that they might spur them on.

The county lord lost his sons at an early age, but now he cherishes these two sons even more, and he doesn't say anything, just sit and listen. Who knows, Zhuang Pu is stubborn and anxious, and his father can't stand it after a few more insults, so the enemy goes back.

Zhuang Pu said to his father: "Morning and twilight, old and new, the law of nature, the lord controls me alone, can he control the people of the world?" With each passing day, people should also change, not be pedantic and conservative. ”

Listening to Zhuang Pu's return of respect, how can the third master of his father be happy? was originally angry, but now he was even more angry, and shouted: "You dare to say that I am pedantic? What is a roundabout? What is rot? The hair hasn't grown up, so I need you to teach you a lesson! Get lost! Get the hell out of here! ”

Zhuang Pu gritted his teeth, dropped the dinner on the table, and said, "This is a roundabout!" This is rot! ”

The sound stopped, and Zhuang Pu ran away. The county lord was anxious and distressed, and asked Xianglian and the others to quickly pull people back.

That's how things go and what happens.

Now, Yu Qi followed Zhuang Jue's mother and son to the evening pavilion, and when she saw the pavilion from afar, she thought to herself: This is a place to be sentimental and conceived.