[Red Chamber] Jagged Lin Daiyu

Chapter 204 Two Personal Hobbies

Chi Xiu expressed helplessness about the fact that his juniors began to feel happy as soon as they left Longevity Mountain.It's not Yao Yunqi's fault, it's just that they didn't have the chance to meet a woman before, but now that they saw a woman, they would naturally like it because of their fate.

He asked lightly: "How long have you known Wang Shu'e?"

Wan Tong still knelt on the ground obediently: "One day, I just saw her today."

Chi Xiu raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why do you like her?" That woman is very mediocre, not smart, not tough, she doesn't seem to have any characteristics, but has a gentleness that drowns people.You won't marry a wife faster than him in order to compete with Yunqi to anger him, will you?

Wan Tong was silent for a while: "I don't know either. She looks fine."

Chi Xiu asked again: "Are you serious? Then, you go and talk to her. If she is willing to marry you, I will go to propose marriage. Now the situation is not clear, and I would like to use power to propose marriage. Even if I marry you It’s not good to come here.”

Wan Tong was overjoyed, kowtowed and said: "More senior brothers." My life-long event has come true!

Chi Xiu said: "Let me think about your Taoist name, and I won't be in a hurry. Also, she was married in the mortal world, and she can marry at any time after going to heaven, but you can't, you are not yet an adult. Lei When the Ministry of Public Security investigates minor victims, it doesn’t care about anything, and first strikes the older one with lightning, so don’t hurt her. Even so, do you know the scale? Apart from double cultivation, a little intimacy is okay of." Why do I have to say so much...

Wan Tong bowed down again, and happily went to talk to Queen Wang about love.

At this time, Baihong came back: "Brother, I just went to meet the prime ministers we intend to hire."

Chi Xiu hurriedly asked: "Sit, what do they say? Do you want me to invite you in person?"

Baihong sat down and took out the list: "Jiang Ziya said that he is too old. If you don't mind, he is willing to come—in fact, he is going to invite you. Gan Luo is willing to come, but he is now being held as a pawn by King Qin Guang. As for the judge, King Qin Guang is not very willing to let him go.

Guan Zhong, Sang Hongyang, Cao Mengde, Guo Fengxiao, Xun Wenruo, Zhou Yu, Xie Xuan, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui, Di Renjie, Shangguan Wan'er, Zhao Pu, Kou Zhun, Zhang Juzheng, Yan Song were all willing to come, and they all hinted that they hoped to come. Brother, you send chariots and envoys to meet them, it would be even better if you can go in person. "

Chi Xiu nodded, and laughed happily: I said that if I hand over the state affairs to them, I will have time to ask how the dim sum is made. "I'll invite them in person. We don't have cars here. When will we do some supporting scenes?"

Baihong thought for a while: "When there are more people living here, and there are five elements and eight works, then we can choose carpenters and painters. If things like cars and cars are conjured, it will be too shabby."

Chi Xiu stood up: "Let's go."

Baihong hurriedly stopped him again: "Wait a minute! I just went to try it out. If you go immediately, it will appear that we are desperate, which is not good. I will try to ask them if they will not be happy working with others. Especially Cao Cao and Mantra, will they fight when they meet? After discussing these matters, it will not be too late for you to invite them one by one."

Chi Xiu: "You're right. I'll go out for a while, and you stay to preside over the overall situation."

Baihong: "Okay."

Chi Xiu said again: "I'm going out in the form of Yunqi to do something, you keep him and don't let him go."

When I came back, I told Yunqi that Master likes to eat jelly, and I learned from him, so he would not guess that I like to eat it, because he dare not confront Master, haha.Yunqi has always been careless, so he will soon forget about this matter, and he has an incarnation outside the body, even if the junior sister asks, it can explain why he is here, but he went to Middle Earth.

Any preferences can not be exposed in front of people.

Baihong frowned slightly: "What kind of thing?"

Chi Xiu said: "He recommended someone to me, I'll try it."

Baihong understood: "Brother, be careful, try to imitate him first on the road, Yunqi's unique temperament is not easy to imitate."

Chi Xiu laughed: "This is really mean, if he hears it, he will never have anything to do with you."

Baihong smiled lazily: "If Yunqi hears it, I'll tell him that Junior Sister will look for him again, and keep him from remembering anything."

Chi Xiu laughed, transformed into Yao Yunqi's appearance, and tried to roll his eyes. He hadn't rolled his eyes for thousands of years, and now he did it rather stiffly: "Does it look like it?"

Baihong took two steps back and looked carefully: "It's still a few minutes away. He tilted his shoulders a little bit, and his face had a look of 'what the hell, don't accept hitting me'. Well, it looks like this time. Senior brother, will you follow me?" Do people scold and fight each other? Yunqi is a master here."

Chi Xiu sighed rather heavily: "Can't you just hit people with your hands?" If you hit people with your real strength, it's easy to handle, I just can't learn the endless mean words like Yunqi.

Baihong suppressed a smile and said: "Also, when you mention Daiyu, you have to show that very happy expression."

Chi Xiu smiled and covered his face: "You have become narrow too. Write your law and order, don't tease me."

"Law, I plan to complete it with Guan Zhong and Changsun Wuji, they have experience and know a lot."

Chi Xiu returned to his original form and left the hall, and went to ask Daiyu to stay for a few more days. When driving past, he saw her on the swing in the backyard. Unlimited spring, but reading.Chi Xiu pressed Luoyun's head and said, "Daiyu."

Daiyu stood up and said, "Eldest senior brother."

Chi Xiu took out ten bottles of wine: "Yang Jian lost to you. He said he made a bet with the monkey. You help him cheat, and you will share some of the wine."

Daiyu blushed slightly: "Oh."

Chi Xiu looked left and right again: "You don't live here, it's inconvenient for others to add furnishings to you, they each have their own preferences, Zi Shu came over to help you plant some flowers. The room is empty, wait for you to arrange it before calling someone Slowly place them one by one."

"Yes." Daiyu asked again: "Which senior brothers are my neighbors? Where does Yunqi live?"

Chi Xiu smiled and said: "There is no his yard, your two houses are together. You can live in the same yard after getting married in the mortal world, not to mention, with Yunqi's temperament, come to your place on time every day, There is no need to build an extra house just to sleep in."

Daiyu's face was as bright as clouds, and she hung her head in silence.

Chi Xiu said again: "You stay here for a few more days. The aura in the palace is rich, which is more conducive to cultivation than in the ordinary world. If you have any questions about cultivation, you can also ask your brothers. If you have nothing to do, you can also Go to the main hall to discuss the state affairs, and help senior brothers handle government affairs."

Daiyu was a little puzzled: "Brother, do you not mind women taking part in politics?" Although the emperor listened to the queen, he asked me to help review the memorials, but it was all done secretly.

Chi Xiuyun smiled lightly: "We are only strong. It doesn't matter to me whether my subordinates are male or female. I only want strong people to do things for me. If those who are capable can't be used by me, that's mine." Loss. The mortal world always says that women are a disaster for the country. Uriel said what is it called... Survivors are biased, only staring at the wrong things done by one type of people, and not seeing the wrong things done by another type of people. What's more, you are mine Junior sister, I have read the policy theory you wrote, and I understand you."

Hearing what he said, Daiyu felt an excitement in her heart that she wanted to be loyal to her duties and to serve the country: "It's great that senior brother sees it this way. When I grow up and become an adult, if senior brother doesn't dislike me, I also want to go to the palace to discuss politics. For the brothers and herdsmen."

Chi Xiu smiled contentedly: "You don't have to wait for you to become an adult, as long as you have the ability to govern the country, you can do it anytime." That's great, I guess the lazy juniors will clamor for Qingxiu after working for decades and don't do anything. Baihong and I can't do it alone. Daiyu is lively and energetic when she is young, and her preferences are uncertain. She seems to like politics and governing the country, so she will not be tired.

Daiyu was very excited when she heard it. From the Confucian classics and history that her father asked her to read, as well as the many books arranged by her elder brother, they all focused on politics, governing the country, and family, country and world.She does have a lot of her own views on politics, but she hasn't talked to her brother, because she feels that her ideas are not mature enough, and... I'm afraid the relationship will be bad if she talks about it. De'.I didn't expect to get involved in politics now, or even participate in the governance of the country, which is really exciting.

Maybe I can also become a sheriff and give full play to my strengths so that the people under the rule can live and work in peace and contentment.If there are bandits and bandits, I can kill them myself.I will become the sheriff with the highest martial arts ever.

Chi Xiu was very satisfied with driving the cloud and left. He walked all the way to the Middle Earth and became like Yao Sanlang. He practiced rolling his eyes and sticking out his tongue to make faces in front of the mirror. It is quite difficult to say, he is a person who likes elegance.In fact, he didn't get any results in this practice. He suddenly felt that he couldn't control the flesh and expression on his face.

Arriving at the capital of Middle Earth, I pressed Luoyun's head and saw Fatty Hei and Eggplant Essence drinking among the autumn leaves of sycamore trees all over the floor.

Zhuo Donglai was wearing a purple fur coat, the weather wasn't very cold yet, Wen Zelan was still wearing a single shirt and rolled up his sleeves to drink, but he was already wearing thick clothes.Perhaps it has something to do with the food in front of him. The purple crystal cake is actually jelly made from mulberry sauce.There is also a Persian crystal jug next to it, which contains purple grape wine. "Ze Lan, the emperor plans to release your nephew as a magistrate, should I mention him?"

Chi Xiu only looked at the pieces of purple cold cakes in the light green glass glaze plate, which looked like sweet-scented osmanthus cakes or mint cold cakes, but the texture was completely different.

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake is made of Chengfen or pea flour, and the taste is similar to jelly, and this translucent cake tastes like Guiling jelly, without the bitterness in Guiling jelly, and is more similar to stone jelly (ice powder, made of stone flower seeds). But it is tougher. The last time I went to the West Sea Dragon King for a banquet, there was a stone cauliflower jelly at the banquet.So, what exactly is this made of?

Fourth Sister Wen had four plates in front of her, Dengying Beef, Cold Rabbit, Cumin Roast Meat, a plate of emerald green vegetable leaves, and a pot of shochu.She ate meat and drank wine, smiling and blowing the cold wind, and stepped on a stone bench that he couldn't see next to her: "Okay, whatever, being an official is just resignation to fate. Tell me this Why, isn't he the partisan you plan to cultivate?"

Chi Xiu: The food is too greasy, he must not be a good cook.

Zhuo Donglai frowned slightly: "I told you to read for so long, but you still use words indiscriminately."

Fourth Sister Wen thought for a while, then blinked: "A nepotism?"

"Any official who doesn't have some relatives, old friends, disciples and disciples? I am not alone. I have to cultivate party members in order to stabilize my position. It is funny to say that in history, how many ministers who were full of peaches and plums and dominated the court were not overthrown by the emperor. In the palm of your hand. Now it is your nephew who wants to be an official. He has a good character and won’t do anything that would disgrace his reputation. If he can be a clean official all his life, that would be great.” Zhuo Donglai drank a glass of wine , sighed: "I am not upright, so I can't leave a name in history."

Chi Xiu sat on the roof: the most important thing about a person is to have self-knowledge.Go away quickly, I have something to do!

Fourth Sister Wen giggled: "Brother, are you kidding me, is there a fart for leaving a name in history? Huh?"

Zhuo Donglai originally drank some wine, looked at the bleak autumn wind, and felt a little emotional. Hearing what she said made sense, so he nodded: "You're right." After a long silence, he ate another piece of ice cold Jelly: "What do you think we will do in the future?"

Fourth Sister Wen laughed stupidly: "Live for a long time, grow old together, live with the same quilt and die with the same acupuncture point."

The gloomy look on Zhuo Donglai's face relaxed: "Okay, I think it's good. But there are a few small problems."

Fourth Sister Wen impatiently ate the skewers: "The emperor is old and tends to be suspicious. There are people in the court spying on your power, and there are people in the Jianghu who are jealous of your fame and wealth. What else?"

Zhuo Donglai sighed: "You think I'm nagging again. There are also future generations who are easy to cause trouble. How many people are cautious all their lives, but they are finally implicated by their children and grandchildren. I am thinking, we don't need to have another child, we can just have this daughter. gone."

Fourth Sister Wen looked at him with a skewer in her mouth in surprise: "Aren't you afraid that Wan Guan's family wealth will be given away to outsiders?"

Zhuo Donglai sneered: "Could it be possible to keep it with a son? Ze Lan, this family business is the result of my careful planning. Look at all the living beings in the world, how many people can stand shoulder to shoulder with me? Can our children Do you have a mind like mine?"

Chi Xiu: ...that's right, luckily I won't die.

Fourth Sister Wen: "Hehe, of course it can't be done. You can see that Wen Zhengming's daughter has grown up like this. Your son has nothing to look forward to."

Zhuo Donglai nodded approvingly: "If he wasn't born like this, no matter how I teach him, he won't be able to teach him. I don't have confidence. We only need one daughter. She will have three paths. First, enter the palace and become a princess, The emperor mentioned this matter to me again, and it seems that the empress also agreed. Second, instead of entering the palace, find someone to marry and take charge of my property. Third, she is an idiot, so I will buy her a A good reputation that is unparalleled in the world will guarantee her a worry-free life."

Fourth Sister Wen bit the bamboo stick: "Well, don't you think that if there are two more children, there will be a greater possibility of smart people among them?"

Zhuo Donglai said: "It is more likely to have two more idiots, and it will hurt your health." I can't tolerate two or three idiots jumping around in front of me every day, just one of you is enough.I look at our daughter, it seems that she is not very smart.

Wen Zelan said in her heart: Brother Zhuo, you are really trendy, I want to praise you for being too advanced...but you are afraid that someone who is not as smart as you will be born, cut!Just kidding, there is no condom these days, and you can’t abstain from sex right now. Although sterilization pills are available, they are very harmful and will make people age. I won’t take them, so you just let nature take its course.Thinking of this: "Okay, I will listen to you."

Zhuo Donglai felt that something was wrong, but she never guessed the bad idea in her heart, so she stopped guessing.

Chi Xiu was too lazy to watch the two of them flirt. He suppressed his emotions and watched for a while. He just wanted to see what kind of person this competent minister recommended by Yunqi was. Take a look.He jumped down, trying his best to have Yao Sanlang's youthful sense: "Ze Lan~"

Fourth Sister Wen turned around and raised her eyebrows: "You?"

Zhuo Donglai quickly pressed her shoulders to interrupt her, and smiled kindly, but he couldn't hide the gloom between his brows: "Shenxian Yao is here, please sit down. It's a coincidence that I have something to do, so you and Zelan can get together , I heard you haven't seen each other for a long time." When did he call you 'Zelan'?

False Yunqi scratched his head: "Is there? Why don't I think so? It seems that I just learned how to cook from you."

"Okay, let's go." Fourth Sister Wen smiled and said, "How is it Yao San, the stewed pig's head in rock sugar that I just learned, is it done?"

Chi Xiu felt that the dish was disgusting, it was too greasy, sweet and oily, occupying the two flavors he hated the most.Thinking of Yunqi's bad eating habits: "It's very delicious!"

Fourth Sister Wen: "Hahahahaha, I can tell from your tone that you have failed the stew! What are you pretending to do?"

Chi Xiu forcibly changed the subject, looked at the three and a half pieces of jelly on the plate: "How are these things made?"

Fourth Sister Wen: "Why do you learn this stuff, Daiyu doesn't like it very much."

Chi Xiu said: "I don't like to eat it either, but it's fun. It shakes and shakes and shakes when you poke it... Hey, you put a box of this stuff in my elder brother's snacks, why doesn't it have this color?"

"It's not pretty enough. You see, there are finely chopped mulberries in the mulberry sauce. The color is uneven and uneven. I was thinking of putting a layer of coconut jelly on top, but unfortunately there are no coconuts this season." Miss Wen Si She curled her lips: "Daiyu told me that her elder brother doesn't like to eat, and she only tastes everything, so she has to give him the most beautiful one. Think about it, orange jelly is so smooth, whether you like it or not , I don’t say whether it’s delicious or not, how beautiful it is. I’m worried that he likes plain colors and thinks I’m too colorful.”

Chi Xiu said in his heart: I don't even have a bite of something like stewed pig's head in rock sugar. "Teach me how to do it."

"Why~" Fourth Sister Wen lay lazily on the table and looked at him with a smile: "When did I teach you for nothing?"

"what do you want?"

"What can you give me~~"

"Whatever you want...can be discussed."

"Hee hee, guess what I want."

Chi Xiu said in his heart: Let me give you a mind-reading technique, how can Yunqi endure such nonsense... Oh, he loves to talk nonsense.

Fourth Sister Wen suddenly sat up straight, staring at him with burning eyes: "You make a fortune for me. The emperor wants my daughter to be a princess. Do you think it will make her happy for the rest of her life."

Chi Xiu: "Okay. Tell me how to do it first."

"Don't be funny, you run away after teaching, I will catch you wherever I go. Count first."

He had no choice but to take out a few copper coins to make a fortune: "It's not bad, we will grow old together, and her son will inherit the throne."

Fourth Sister Wen asked again: "There are no coquettish sluts involved, right? Is the prince's character good? Hey, it's not good to marry into the royal family. The husband of an ordinary family has done something that shouldn't be done. At worst, kill him and set the blame on others." Find one, this prince and emperor, let alone kill him, he can't even beat him."

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so you don't have to worry too much."

"You know how to knit if you haven't given birth to a child. Forget it, let's go to the kitchen and teach you." Fourth Sister Wen lazily got up and walked to the small kitchen.Take off the tin can on the beam: "This is gelatin (gelatin sheet), boiled with fish bones, fish skin and pig skin. Have you cooked pork skin jelly?"

Chi Xiu looked disgusted: "No." It sounds greasy.

"Okay." Wen Zelan looked at him with disgust, opened the door and told the maid, "Go get me a piece of fresh pigskin, it will cost about half a catty."

The maid went away.

"Look, soak the gelatin in cold boiled water like this, estimate how much you put in, and then prepare your favorite seasoning, um... I still have some strawberry jam, take it out and make jelly."

She took out another clay pot from the cellar: "Take that bowl down."

He opened it and poured a bowl of jam into the porcelain bowl.Put the porcelain pot with spider webs on the ground: "Give me a ladle of water and wash your hands."

Chi Xiu was still too lazy to talk to her, so he took a ladle of water from the nearby jar and poured it into the copper basin for her to wash her hands.

After searching for a long time, she took out a piece of gauze for steaming steamed buns, and discarded all the dregs of the strawberry jam filtered through this gauze, squeezed out the bright red juice, and put it in a small casserole to cook.

After boiling, take it down, the temperature gradually drops to a hot level, throw the soaked gelatin in, the reason why it is not called a piece, because some pieces have broken foam and silk... You know the manual workshop.

"Did you bite your tongue while eating? Why do you talk so little today?"

Chi Xiu came up with the universal excuse of his junior brother: "Sleepy, want to sleep."

"Promise." Fourth Sister Wen handed him the chopsticks: "Stir it vigorously. It must have melted and stirred for a while. Take it down and let it cool. I will teach you now, do you remember?"

Chi Xiu said angrily: "Remember!" How bad is Yunqi's image?

Fourth Sister Wen said again: "Go, boil a pot of water."

He hooked his hands, the water flew into the pot by itself, and the fire in the stove automatically ignited.

Fourth Sister Wen took out another small bottle and poured some white powder into a basin of water: "This is lime."

The maid also ran back with half a pig's skin at this time: "Ma'am, are these enough?"

Fourth Sister Wen commanded him in a leisurely manner: "Yao San'er, use a knife to scrape off the fat on the pigskin as much as possible, yes, the cleaner the scrape, the better, then throw it into the pot and scald it, wash it with lime water, and wash it with soda. Rub, wash off the oil. Then cut into shreds, change the water and continue to boil, filter through a cold cloth after boiling, continue to cook until the water is dry, take it out and slice it and dry it in the sun, it will be gelatin.”

Chi Xiu: "How did you find out, why did you torture a piece of pigskin like this?"

Fourth Sister Wen sighed deeply: "This matter started a long, long time ago. More than 20 years ago, I was very poor. I had no money to buy meat, so I just stole a piece of pigskin. Pigskin is a direct It’s so bad to eat, I just want to cook a pork skin jelly to eat, at least it can satisfy my hunger. But it’s easy to get sleepy when I’m hungry, and I fall asleep when I turn on the fire. When I wake up, the pot will be boiled dry. After cooling It's not skin jelly, but something that can't stop biting, so I chopped it up and added some water to boil it, which was also very good. Later, when I had money to buy sugar, I added sugar to it, and when I got fruit, I threw fruit in it."

Of course because I am a magical time-traveling woman, a stupid little fairy.

Chi Xiu took out the scalded pigskin and threw it into the lime water to scrub. He is a logical thinker and pointed out sharply: "Impossible, who will add firewood when you fall asleep, you can't add enough to boil it all at once. firewood."

If you put too much firewood, it will go out instead.

Fourth Sister Wen suddenly felt embarrassed, and said to her brother that there was something wrong with me just now, what is the problem?

Why did Yao San become smarter?When I used to brag, unless the bragging was particularly loud, he would rarely be able to pierce me.

"I raised a dog and trained him to add firewood. Do you think I'm the only one who is hungry? The dog is also hungry."

Chi Xiu: "..." It seems that there is some truth to it? "Dogs are afraid of fire, how can he add firewood?"

Fourth Sister Wen: "Hit it in with your claws."

Chi Xiu asked: "Is it accurate?"

"You are so annoying. Why are you asking so many questions? A dog 20 years ago died long ago. Who remembers it so carefully?" Fourth Sister Wen took out a handful of melon seeds: "How is Daiyu recently? Being bullied at a young age."

Chi Xiu knew the standard answer: "Hehe, whoever dares to bully her, I, Yao Yunqi, will bite him to death." The words of the stupid junior brother.

Clap clapping: "It's a man, I like it. Hey, that's why I don't trust the prince. Don't look at the emperor in the palace who loves the queen deeply. Brother Zhuo is also crazy about me. You don't care about Daiyu." Nothing to say, but these three cases are the only ones in the world. How can there be so many loyal and good men, alas, I am so entangled, I am so entangled with my current pussy."

Chi Xiu said: "You are." His mouth was too broken.

Fourth Sister Wen rolled her eyes and took out a few disks and iron plates: "It looks like it's cooked, pour it into a plate to dry, it should become very tough but not tasty, take it back and dry it in the sun until it dries completely Just put it away. I'm going to bed."

Chi Xiu: "Huh?" This is too rude.

Fourth Sister Wen showed a smirk: "Yao Yunqi, are you sleepy?? But you have to add firewood to watch the pot here. I'm going to bed, envy~ hehehe~"

Chi Xiu cooperated and showed a little anger: "Don't go, chat with me here." You will definitely run faster.

Fourth Sister Wen: "Hahaha, what a beautiful idea hahaha~" and ran away happily.

Chi Xiu also heaved a sigh of relief happily, thinking that after boiling gelatin, drying it, making jam or squeezing juice, he felt a little troublesome.Fortunately, the small pot of strawberry jelly next to it has solidified, take it over, scoop up a spoonful, and shake it~

Spit out a ball of Samadhi real fire and throw it into the pot to speed up the evaporation, eating jelly happily.

I'm a little worried, if I invite her to be the royal chef in the future, she will know my preferences.

The author has something to say: These prime ministers are awesome, aren't they?

Big Brother: No matter how hard I try, I won’t let others know about my hobbies!

Do you guess why the big brother hides his hobbies like this?