Chapter 39: Feast at the foot of the holy mountain
Luo Ling was accustomed to the subtle gentleness of a local woman in the Central Plains, and he was not afraid of this woman's enthusiasm and unrestrainedness.
He stood in the room and pointed at the two children generously: "These two children have never seen the world, and they want my sister-in-law to take care of them." ”
However, the shopkeeper saw that the lady was too enthusiastic, and was stared at by the two children, a little embarrassed, and quickly explained: "Your aunt is the heel of the northern sand fox, and she has not been educated by the etiquette of the Central Plains, don't be afraid, she likes children very much." Then he whispered to his wife, "Eleni, you are scaring other people's children." ”
When Alini heard this, her whole glowing face dimmed slightly. She has heard that many Central Plains people use monsters to eat children to scare children, and they deliberately hide their tails and ears before they come out, and they don't know where to show the horse's feet.
Luo Ling saw her kindness and hugged her fists: "Mrs. Sister-in-law doesn't have to force herself, she is all her own family." Seeing that Eleini turned around to check whether her tail was exposed, she couldn't help laughing: "Mrs. Sister-in-law, my two nephews are not knowledgeable, and Fanbang people have seen less, according to your heels, this transformation is already very good." ”
Xie Tong didn't understand what "heels" and "shapeshifting" were, but Zhen Ying's eyes lit up, the beauty is really good-looking, and the shopkeeper is really beautiful.
As he was talking, Brother Shui also came out of the back kitchen, took off his hat, revealing a pair of small fluffy pointed ears.
He greeted the send-off at the inn on weekdays, and saw a lot of people, but there were very few of his peers.
Most of the merchants or herdsmen in the bazaar, the merchants have placed their families in their hometowns, and the herdsmen are dragging their families, just because they are poor, they can't afford to live in inns, as for the little girls who come to choose the saints, and because of the difference between men and women, they can't play together, and now they see two peers, the joy in their hearts is almost overflowing, and they pull the two children into the back kitchen at the moment, and find their own air-dried beef jerky to share together.
Zhen Ying eats baked naan cakes all the way, although the beef jerky is dry and woody, it is meat in the end, and it has a salty taste, and it tastes like a delicacy at this time. Brother Shui'er's official words are very good, while eating, he told them to chew slowly, the beef jerky will swell up when it absorbs water in the mouth, only eat a trace at a time, and the more you chew a few bites, the more fragrant it will be.
Zhen Ying listened, and did it according to the gourd painting, and when he entered the mouth, it was a trace of dry firewood, with a little salty taste of salt and blood, and after a while, the beef swelled, adding a bit of toughness and more chewiness. When the beef is fully expanded, the umami of the meat is fully stimulated, which stimulates the two children's mouths.
In less than a quarter of an hour, because of the sharing of food, Zhen Ying forgot to be curious, and Xie Tong forgot to be afraid.
Although Alini is a demon clan, she can cure good soup and vegetables. Fresh beef is blanched in cubes to remove the blood, and marinated with cooking wine and soy sauce.
The northern border is close to the Silk Road, and the spices of the Central Plains, which are as expensive as gold, are common here. Alini heated the oil in the pot, stir-fried the prepared green onions, ginger, star anise, minced garlic, peppercorns, cinnamon, etc., added rock sugar to fry the sugar color, added hot water and stewed with beef, and after a while, the fragrance rushed to the lobby.
Zhongzhou attaches great importance to farming, and slaughtering cattle is a felony if it is not reported, and it is the wealth of Wu Wangfu's gold and silver sea, but Zhen Ying only eats beef a few times a year, and it is still sliced.
Now chewing beef jerky on his mouth, he can still smell the aroma of beef stew on his nose, and the gluttony is aroused for a while, but he sees Alini running out of the back kitchen, with tears on her face: "Don't come here, just now, I cut the onion." ”
The onion has been recorded since Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, after all, West Asia is its place of origin, but it took a lot of effort to transplant it back to the Central Plains. Zhen Ying had never eaten this thing, and she entered the kitchen thinking about the smell of meat, and was immediately washed out of tears by the pungent smell.
She is like this, Aleni is a demon incarnation, and her sense of smell is more sensitive than ordinary people, but because of the lack of protection, she ended up so embarrassed. Zhen Ying looked over from a distance and saw that the purple-red vegetables on the board were only cut in half from the middle, and the choking smell was emanating from the middle of the vegetables.
After a short time, Alini pulled out a handkerchief from the room, wrapped her face tightly, held her breath for a long time, and finally made enough mental preparations to step into the kitchen.
The pungent smell of onions in the kitchen has faded a lot, but it was Zhen Ying who fetched a basin of water and submerged the onions in the water and cut them to isolate the pungent smell.
Alini was speechless and looked at the sky, only when the beef is boiled at home, she will cut this rausch to add color, she thought that she had practiced in the world for many years, and she had spices on her body, and her cooking skills should be well exercised, but she didn't expect to be compared to a little girl in wisdom.
Looking at the officials, it can be seen that although the fox is cunning, she is not as smart as a person, although Alini is a fox demon, but the northwest is a place of less education, she is talented and intelligent, and her life is smooth, where can she be as good as Zhen Ying?
But at this moment, there was a sound of banging on the door outside the hall that had long been closed.
"Open the door!"
As mentioned in the last book, Luo Lingluo took Zhen Ying and Xie Tong, two little dolls, and found a friend at the inn under the Holy Maiden Peak.
The shopkeeper closed early, and his daughter-in-law had a good reception, and when he was about to feast, there was a sound of knocking on the door outside the door.
Because the author's literary thinking was exhausted, the unjust seed outside the door ate the yellow sand in the northwest for three days, and then walked in front of the officials.
I saw two healthy horses parked outside, a man in black wearing a hat, holding two halters in one hand, and slamming the door with the other:
"The new saint has 'broken the ice'!"
These words were like throwing a bomb in boiling water, and the inn suddenly turned upside down.
The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper's wife were all fast with their hands and feet, and they ran out after dropping the bowl, greeting Luo Ling while running: "Three meals a day, saints are not common!" With that, he was gone.
Luo Ling looked at the two children next to him, and had no choice but to put the wine and food on the stove to warm them first, so he pulled them out of the door one by one.
The location of the inn is close to the water source, and at the moment both sides of the bank are full of people.
Luo Ling searched for a long time, but never saw the "holy woman", but first captured the big red tail of his sister-in-law.
The river is the most abundant of the tributaries of the snow melt of the sacred mountain, and when it reaches the market, the terrain is gentle and forms a huge lake.
The entire bazaar was built around the lake, and an extra staircase was built outside the inn, extending halfway through the lake. At this time, it was crowded one after another, and the crowd of onlookers was standing.
Alini was the prototype and was held high above her head by her husband, and no one could ignore the cute little fox.
Recognizing the three of them from the crowd, the sand fox happily wagged his fiery red fluffy tail.
Although there were many people, the balcony behind the inn was very strong, and Luo Ling relied on the width of his shoulders, one in each hand, and put the two children on his shoulders.
It will be the top of the mountain, and the mountains will be seen at a glance. Zhen Ying and Ali Lini glanced at each other, only to find Brother Shui riding on her father's shoulder behind Ai Lini.
Because the little fox is a half-demon, his transformation is not very good, so he can only ride on his father's neck like a child.
There are also many young children next to him watching the excitement on their father's neck, Brother Shui is not young, and his body is actually not short, but he is covered tightly by his mother's big furry tail, and he can't see the excitement in front of him clearly. After glancing at Zhen Ying, he saw the assigned seats between Zhen Ying and Xie Tong, one left and one right, and shrugged his shoulders helplessly.
With his own experience, he explained that "parents are true love, and I was just an accident." ”
Zhen Ying waited in the crowd of revelers for a moment before she saw a small boat running down the river in the distance under the guidance of Eleni.