Chapter 237 Spicy Chicken Attitude
In the past half month, the Su family's dining table has been very busy, but the dishes are incomparable to those when living in the capital. One was a natural disaster, and the other was a small county, both of which made the food ingredients relatively scarce, so we could only take into account the delicious food on the basis of food. .
There are four dishes and one soup. The one in the middle is pork ribs and winter melon soup. The four dishes are spicy chicken, pickled pork, fried egg, and stir-fried green vegetables.
Spicy Chicken is a Sichuan dish made with chicken as the main ingredient, plus green onions, dried chilies, Sichuan peppercorns, salt and other ingredients. This dish is characterized by its bright brown-red color and strong spicy taste. Salty, fresh and mellow, with a hint of sweetness, it is simply a divine dish to go with every meal.
When Zhao Lan saw this dish, his eyes almost lit up. This was very suitable for a person with heavy taste like him.
Of course, Su Ruojin saw the happy look of the little prince. There were not many peppers this year, and there were not many brought back from the capital. Every time I took them out, I felt as distressed as eating dragon meat. I really used them less every time.
To make spicy chicken, first remove the seeds from the dried chili peppers, soak them in boiled water for half an hour, then remove them and squeeze out the water, put them in a bowl, add starch, white sesame salt, and stir evenly.
Heat the oil to 50% heat, deep-fry the sesame seeds until they are slightly brown and take them out.
Cut the chicken and add cooking wine, soy sauce, starch, etc., mix well with salt, and marinate for 20 minutes.
Then heat the oil to 50% and fry slowly over low heat until golden and crispy.
In a separate pan, add ginger, garlic, peppercorns and bean paste (similar to modern bean paste), stir-fry until fragrant, add chicken pieces and fried chilies, add sugar and stir-fry evenly. Finally, add the green onions and stir-fry over high heat.
A dish of red and oily spicy chicken is ready!
On a large round table, the person in charge is still Prince Zhao Lan and Prince Zhao Xiao. Even though Su Yanli thinks that this boy may become his son-in-law in the future, in the highly hierarchical Yin Dynasty, it is still polite to put the monarch first and then the family. Sit next to the little prince.
The other people, who did not hold any official positions, sat down casually. When Zhao Lan took off his chopsticks, the table finally started to eat, and everyone was satisfied with a delicious lunch.
After lunch, before Su Yanli went on duty, he chatted with his brother for a few words. The general idea was similar to what Su Ruojin asked. When the shop was on track, he asked him when he would return to the capital. As he spoke, his eyes glanced at Shangguan Island intentionally or unintentionally.
Su Yanzu pretended that he didn't see it, but replied, "I will go back to Beijing tomorrow, but I will come back."
Su Yanli asked, "What are you going to do when you come over to the princess's errand?" ' He swallowed the words and changed his words: “Are you worried about this shop?” He said to himself, “If so, let Ah Jin keep an eye on it for you.”
He looked like he didn't want him to come to Weizhou.
Su Yanzu:…
Shangguanyu:…
While Su Ruojin was chatting with Zhao Lan, her ears were really perked up to listen to the gossip here, but her uncle said, "Ajin has her own business to be busy with, so I won't bother her."
After saying this, what else can Su Yanli say? He could only nod his head, "Oh, tell me before you leave. I'm going to the Yamen."
"Brother, go and do your own business." Su Yanzu raised his hand.
Su Yanli took Mr. Pei to the front office for duty.
Su Yanzu looked towards Zhao Lan, "Little Prince..." When will he return to Beijing?
Zhao Lan replied: "I'll be back two days before the Double Ninth Festival."
There are still a few days left, he smiled and handed over his hand, "Then I'll take the first step."
Zhao Lan nodded slightly.
After saying that, Su Yanzu said goodbye and left the Su family, preparing to return to Beijing tomorrow.
Shangguanyu sent him to the yamen gate.
Su Ruojin was curious and wanted to follow her, but was pulled by Zhao Lan, "I'm going to the teacher's study to read. Make me a pot of tea." He didn't let the little girl gossip about the matters between the two men.
"Oh." Su Ruojin had no choice but to give up.
In September, the weather was dry and we ate spicy chicken at noon. Su Ruojin made Zhao Lan a pot of honeysuckle tea to relieve the heat. She walked to the door of the study with the teapot. Just as she was about to open the door and go in, she heard what was said inside.
"Sir, there is news from the capital, saying that Mr. Yang was assassinated, but his ear was only scratched, and nothing else happened."
"Do you know who did it?"
"According to the information from Prince Wei, it seems that he was a servant of the Cheng family in Taichung, the imperial censor, who was killed by Mr. Yang."
Zhao Lan sneered: "He doesn't even let his old boss go. He's so cruel."
There was silence for a while, and just when Su Ruojin wanted to push the door open again, another conversation came out, and it was Zhao Lan's voice, "How are the people over there doing their investigation?"
"We have narrowed the scope from a few hundred people to a dozen people, but the fewer people there are, the harder it is to check."
there?
Although there was no beginning or end, Su Ruojin felt that she understood it. That was what she thought.
There was another moment of silence.
Su Ruojin glanced at the teapot in her hand, forget it, let them talk about things first, she would come back later, and turned around to leave.
"Come in."
Su Ruojin stopped in shock and called her? She held her breath and didn't move.
"did not hear?"
Really call her? Su Ruojin heard footsteps in the house. Just as she was about to open the door, Zhao Lan opened the door and smiled at her, "Like eavesdropping?"
Su Ruojin:…
She looked towards the corridor and saw that there was no guard. "Where are the two stewards?"
Santai came out and said, "I went to eat and haven't come back yet."
"Then..." She pointed to the empty corridor, "What if someone really eavesdrops?"
Santai looked at his master, smiled, and stood aside.
Zhao Lan smiled helplessly, "I saw you eavesdropping."
"I didn't eavesdrop. I came to bring you tea."
Zhao Lan reached out to take the teapot and closed the study door with a smile, "Why are you nervous? Are you kidding me?"
If he didn't want her to hear it, she wouldn't be able to fly in even if she turned into a little bird.
Su Ruojin snorted and expressed dissatisfaction, "This is my home."
"Yes, your home." Zhao Lan found two cups, poured one cup into each person, and the two sat at Su Yanli's desk to drink tea.
Su Ruojin couldn't help but wonder, "If there's one assassination, there will be a second one, right?"
Zhao Lan's eyebrows moved, "Yeah."
"Brother Jin, do you think one of your enemies will succeed?"
"Probably."
The two of them looked at each other, and the girl's clear eyes were full of the desire to make an enemy succeed as soon as possible, which made Zhao Lan couldn't help but reach out and stroke the top of her soft hair, saying that she looked like a little adult, and her appearance was too innocent. Like a girl, it makes people laugh and cry.
However, Zhao Lan did not hit the little girl.
Oops, her hairstyle, Su Ruojin quickly reached out to block it and glared at him, "This is my father's study, you are not allowed to touch it."
Zhao Lan put down his hands and chatted casually: "Shouldn't the vegetable shop be changed into a grocery store?" The farmers have planted wheat, and the number of vegetables has decreased so much that even restaurants and hot pot restaurants in the capital can't supply it.
"No change." Su Ruojin said, "When you return to Beijing, I will go to the surrounding areas to find wasteland and prepare to plant cabbage, radish, spinach and other cold-resistant things." If you can build a few simple greenhouses, you can also have vegetables to eat in winter. .
Zhao Lan said deliberately: "So, am I getting in the way here?"
Su Ruojin also said deliberately: "Yes, someone is here, isn't it just affecting my money." Someone? Zhao Lan stretched out his hand to scratch the little girl without even calling her brother, asking for a spanking, right?
Su Ruojin had quick eyes and quick hands and quickly avoided, "What I said is the truth."
She really disliked him, and Zhao Lan didn't let her go anymore. She got up and chased after him, "Do you still dare?"
Su Ruojin ran around the bookshelf.
The two were making a fuss in the study.
Outside the door, Cheng Yingzhen was worried about her daughter. She came to take a look and found that the door of the official's study was closed. The young prince's entourage was sitting in the corridor and fell asleep. She patted her heart and walked to the door of the study. Just as she was about to call her daughter, I heard the frolicking inside.
Her measured daughter is acting like Saburo or Shiro at the moment, this...
He reached out anxiously and knocked on the door: "Ajin...Ajin..."
Zhao Lan, who had long legs and long hands, had just caught the little girl and circled her next to the bookshelf. Before he could take a closer look at the little girl with a red face, he heard Mrs. Su's anxious call and had to restrain his emotions and leave the bookshelf. , sit back in the chair.
Su Ruojin:…
She came over to deliver a pot of tea, and her mother came over behind her. Why did it feel like her mother was on guard against little thieves?
He looked at someone who had picked up a book and turned the pages seriously:...
If it hadn't been for her mother just now, the bookshelf might have collapsed.
Uh... What was she thinking? She quickly shook her head and asked, "Mom, what's wrong?" She quickly adjusted her clothes, ran to the door, and opened the door.
Cheng Yingzhen glanced at her pretty daughter, and then looked inside. The little prince was reading a book, as if the frolicking just now was her auditory hallucination.
It's true that a girl can't help herself. If she is still in the capital... Thinking of this, Cheng Yingzhen paused. Even in the capital, no matter as a woman or status, it seems that she can only wait for the Jin Palace to speak. If they don't have this intention, then everything will be In vain.
Cheng Yingzhen's face suddenly turned cold, "Ajin, come out."
"mother?"
Cheng Yingzhen had a good-natured face that could make her angry. Su Ruojin was scared and guilty, so she quickly came out and said, "Mother... mother..." and acted coquettishly towards her mother.
It's a pity it's useless.
Cheng Yingzhen still had a straight face and said, "Follow me." She felt like she was going to break her legs with a stick.
Su Ruojin: ...It feels like trembling!
Of course Zhao Lan felt it too. He put down his book, took long strides, and soon arrived outside. He saluted Cheng Yingzhen, "Teacher's wife..."
"The little prince has been here for a few days." It's time to return to the capital.
She started chasing people away.
This was the first time she had driven someone away, and she was driving away the prince.
Zhao Lan smiled gently and saluted again, "Go back to Master, my father has agreed to my proposal to marry A Jin."
"Isn't it the princess who decides on the marriage?" After asking, Cheng Yingzhen regretted that she had revealed her own intentions without knowing it.
Zhao Lan said, “Mother and concubine listen to father.
"In that case, why is your mother-in-law still choosing a wife for you?"
Zhao Lan raised his eyes.
The future mother-in-law looked straight at him, as if to see what you said.
Why not stop Princess Jin from choosing a wife for him? One is to test the attitude of the person who tests the throne, and the other is of course to protect Su Ruojin, so that she will not become a target for others.
When Ah Jin is old enough, it will be great to hire a matchmaker, make an appointment, and get married in one go!
"Really?" Cheng Yingzhen still didn't believe it.
Zhao Lan saluted with a heavy bow and replied, "If not, Zhao Lan would be alone for the rest of his life."
These words were so serious that Cheng Yingzhen was shocked. So cruel?
Su Ruojin: ...she...she is so good, making this young man so persistent.
Although she felt that things like oaths were unreliable, she was still very happy at the moment. How could she feel like she had grown up since she was a few years old?
If Zhao Lan knew that she thought this way, he would definitely retort that it was his little wife who needed to be nurtured.
At night, lying on the bed, Cheng Yingzhen told Su Yanli what happened during the day.
"Official, do you think what the young prince said is true? Can what he said count?"
Su Yanli was happy at first. He just said that looking at the world, it was estimated that Prince Zhao, who was as tall as a tree in the wind, could match his well-behaved and capable daughter. He calmed down when his wife asked in return.
After thinking for a while, he said, "At the age of fourteen, King Jin asked him to work as an errand. Although we don't know what kind of errand he has been doing for so many years, I know that the late emperor admired him. Mr. Fan also praised him, so he is worth his word." A thousand pieces of gold can be taken seriously and can be counted."
"Then...then our daughter will be the princess of the county from now on?" No matter how you think about it, it doesn't feel true.
"Maybe."
Zhao Lan originally thought that he had made his attitude clear to the Su family, and that his teacher and his wife would warmly welcome him. Unexpectedly, Master Su changed his usual elegant and gentle attitude, and instead looked disgusted, "Jinzhi, teacher First of all, thank you for bringing wheat seeds to Weizhou County and relieving the hardships of the people. But the wheat has grown more than three inches tall, so it's time for you to return to Beijing. "
He actually chased people away.
Su Yanli's dislike was obvious, and Su Ruojin was not blind, so he must have seen it. Could this be the legendary "knowing that the cabbage at home is going to be eaten by a pig", so he was so angry?
On the contrary, Cheng Yingzhen, who had made a fool of herself yesterday, had a smile on her face and pushed the man, "What did you say?" Then she turned to Zhao Lan and said, "Just live in the little prince's habit and leave your teacher alone."
Zhao Lan: ...Why did the attitude of the teacher and his wife change after one night? What's wrong?
There are two common sayings among the people: "The mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, and the more she looks at him, the happier she becomes." , even getting angrier as he looks at her, so why does the father-in-law get angrier and angrier at his son-in-law?
Of course, I have worked hard to raise my daughter and treat her as the apple of my eye. However, in the end, I have to hand my daughter over to a 'strange' man. It's enough to live close to him. At most, I won't have to live together day and night. But if I marry far away, we will be separated from each other from now on. It's rare to see it a few times in a lifetime.
It is inevitable that you will have the feeling of "I finally planted a cabbage, but in the end it was overtaken by a pig." It is conceivable that the father-in-law dislikes seeing his son-in-law and dislikes him.
Fortunately, Su Yanli wanted to go on duty, so he had to catch up with others, so he went to go on duty.
Cheng Yingzhen asked Qiuyue to go to the market to buy meat and vegetables and come back to entertain Zhao Lan.
Could it be that you weren't treated well some time ago?
Zhao Lan pretended that he did not see the completely different attitudes of his teacher and his wife, and still looked calm and calm.
Su Ruojin asked narrowly, "Brother Jin, are you leaving now or tomorrow?"
Zhao Lan:…
At this moment, Santai came in from outside, his face more serious than usual.
Su Ruojin knew that he must have something to report, so he left with a smile and let them do their work.
Santai whispered in Zhao Lan's ear, "We have arrived around Weizhou County."
Zhao Lan nodded, "Then leave tomorrow."
"Yes, Master."