Chapter 52: Scallion Pancakes
The sudden cold air came from farther north, and the city of Beiping seemed to freeze into ice overnight. There were hardly any people walking around on the road, only the street lamps on the side of the street lit up a miserable white light. Several patrol policemen in the police station are secretly hiding in several boiled shops that are open all day, it is cold, and no one is willing to go to the road to perform serious duties, except for Fang Mengwei, the deputy chief of the police department.
Fang Mengwei rubbed his hands, sighed at his gloved hands, tightened the police coat on his body, there was still an hour to change shifts, Fang Mengwei frequently raised his hand to look at his watch, looking a little anxious.
"Deputy Director Fang, it's a shift change!" Shan Fuming reached out and patted Fang Mengwei's shoulder and nodded at him.
"Deputy Director Shan, isn't it time yet?"
"Hey... Look at the way you keep looking at your watch, is there something urgent at home, right? ”
Fang Mengwei looked at Shan Fuming for a while before nodding slowly.
He was really anxious in his heart, there was still a guy with a high fever lying in his office lounge, and he was still worried about whether anything would happen to this guy.
"Then I'll trouble you, Deputy Director Shan, I'll help you on the night shift another day."
When Fang Mengwei opened the door and entered the house with the cold air outside the house, he didn't even have time to take off his gloves, so he ran into the lounge, and the person who fell into the bed slept grogily, and his usually keen sense of vigilance turned into a hot temperature all over his body at this moment.
"Chaozhong?" Fang Mengwei took off his gloves, rubbed his hands for a while, and waited for the palm to be a little warm before slowly putting it on Sun Chaozhong's forehead, compared to the hot temperature of his forehead, Fang Mengwei's hand was still cold.
"Hmm..." Sun Chaozhong frowned and rubbed Fang Mengwei's hand, it seemed that this touch made him feel a lot more comfortable, so at the moment when Fang Mengwei withdrew his hand, Sun Chaozhong subconsciously grabbed Fang Mengwei's hand, and then muttered softly, "Don't go..."
Fang Mengwei laughed, he touched Sun Chaozhong's shirt slightly, then put away his smile, frowned, why haven't you sweated yet, this has been burning for 3 days.
Sun Chaozhong finally woke up because of Meng Wei's actions just now, and he was a little surprised to see Fang Mengwei sitting on the side, "Aren't you on night duty?" The thick nasal voice made his voice not sound as flat and low as usual, with a hint of metallic breath, and now Secretary Sun's voice was a little coquettish.
"Deputy Director Shan and I changed shifts, and I came back first."
"Hmm..."Sun Chaozhong rubbed Fang Mengwei's palm again, turned over and was about to sit up.
"Huh... You don't..."Fang Mengwei hurriedly pressed the person back into the quilt, "What are you messing with..."
"Drink water..."Sun Chaozhong was trapped in the quilt, looking at Fang Mengwei, which made Fang Mengwei feel that Sun Chaozhong was like a few little milk cats who often nested under his jeep at the door of the police station to keep warm.
Fang Mengwei found out a little that when Sun Chaozhong had a fever, this robot-like secretary had been burning for a day, if it weren't for hearing his violent cough, he didn't expect this guy to have such a serious fever, "It must have been the food you brought me that day, and it cooled down and caught a cold." ”
Fang Mengwei was boiling ginger tea while counting Sun Chaozhong who was nestled on the sofa.
"Isn't my physique better..."Sun Chaozhong's words were swallowed back under Fang Mengwei's eyes, and he stopped talking. I said, why have you been sleeping in the police station lately? Fang Mengwei took a bite of the noodles and asked the person in front of him.
"The heating has been broken recently, and I haven't had time to fix it..."Sun Chaozhong replied after taking a sip of noodle soup.
"Hey... You can't do that! ”
"It's okay, I've been working late lately, and it's not in the way."
"Hey... I'm also on night tonight, but it's the first half of the night. ”
"In which block? Is it too late for dinner? ”
"Over there in Dongjiaomin Lane, it is estimated that you will be able to eat after the shift change."
Sun Chaozhong smiled, "I see." ”
"What? What do you know? ”
"Nothing."
Sun Chaozhong found other police officers to change shifts, and hurried home to prepare as soon as he got off duty.
When he entered the door, the cold feeling in the room made Sun Chaozhong make up his mind to find someone to fix the heating, in order to make it easier to do things, Sun Chaozhong gritted his teeth and took off his uniform, rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, and rubbed it with flour and water a little bit.
Stirring the flour with hot water with chopsticks, and after all the flour has evenly absorbed the hot water and turned into a snowflake shape, Sun Chaozhong slowly poured the cold water into the dough, and after all the cold water was poured into the basin, Sun Chaozhong began to knead the dough.
Sun Chaozhong knew that kneading the dough should not be hasty, and after kneading the dough softly, Sun Chaozhong put a ventilated cover on the dough.
Taking advantage of the awakening time, Sun Chaozhong cut the chopped green onion and lard into small cubes, and mixed the flour with the boiling lard.
After the dough woke up, Sun Chaozhong kneaded the dough into a small ball, kneaded it carefully with a rolling pin, carefully added a spoonful of ghee, sprinkled with chopped green onions, put small pieces of diced lard, and finally rolled up the dough.
After Sun Chaozhong rolled about 5 rolls of dough, he heated the pot and oil over low heat, put the dough rolls into the pot vertically, and then changed the side after the surface of the dough cake was a little hard. Sun Chaozhong used a spatula to flatten the dough little by little, and kept the thickness of the dough uniform little by little.
Five hot scallion pancakes were packed into oiled paper bags, and Sun Chaozhong hurriedly turned off the fire on the stove, washed the stove and pot, and hurriedly went out with the paper bags.
The car stopped at the entrance of Dongjiaomin Lane, Sun Chaozhong sat in the car and watched Fang Mengwei walk towards his car, "How are you..." Fang Mengwei said as he sat in the car.
"Hungry, aren't you?" Sun Chaozhong handed over the oiled paper bag and saw Fang Mengwei's eyes light up. "Eat it while it's hot."
A few simple words, a bag of hot scallion pancakes, lined Fang Mengwei's warm. After gobbling up a few bites, Fang Mengwei remembered something, "Have you eaten?" ”
"It's okay, I'm not hungry."
Fang Mengwei pushed the oiled paper bag into Sun Chaozhong's hand, "Don't be reckless, eat!" ”
Sun Chaozhong took the paper bag with a smile and took a bite, well, it was very fragrant.
"Chaozhong, your skills are really good!"
"How do you know I did it?"
"Shanghai scallion pancakes!" Fang Mengwei shook the paper bag in his hand, "In Beiping, who made this for you?" ”
"Okay, good" Sun Chaozhong stretched out his hand as he replied, gently wiping away the crumbs from Fang Mengwei's mouth, "I'll go back to the police station first." ”
"Well, be careful on the road."