Delicious Delicacy of the Demon Spirit

Li Ku'er went out of the back kitchen to the courtyard, the long table had already been rolled out, and many servants had arrived, sitting at the table and waiting for the food to be served.

Xiaoqu reserved a seat for Li Kuer and beckoned her desperately.Li Ku'er went over to sit down, Xiao Qu leaned into her ear and whispered: "Guess what I saw just now? It's really scary."

"What?" Li Ku'er frowned, she clearly wanted to say it, but asked her to guess, how could she guess.

"Hey, keep your voice down. Let me tell you, I just saw Mama Zhang ask Zhang Daye to invite Sister He to watch the stars by the lake. It's really strange." Xiaoqu still has a lot of opinions to express, but due to the current people There are too many, so I have to suppress the desire to share, stop abruptly and concentrate on staring at the steamed buns on the table, and then have a quick eye.

Li Kuer frowned tightly, feeling unreasonable.Zhang Ma and Zhang Da are obviously against He Weiran, why are they asking people to watch the stars now.It’s fine on weekdays, but today is Qiqiao Festival, and outsiders seem to understand that it means that Zhang Da is interested in He Weiran... But the fact is that Zhang Da’s meaning comes from Zhang’s mother, so it makes people have to doubt One of the doorways.Thousands of thoughts flooded into her mind, did Zhang Ma want Zhang Da and He Weiran to get closer so that the oil and water from the chef of Prince Qiao's mansion could re-enter her Zhang family?Li Kuer felt that she had never been so enlightened.Anyway, she will not let Zhang Ma succeed, and Zhang Da is not a good person at all.

Xiaoqu snatched a tofu bun for Li Kuer, Li Kuer gnawed on it absent-mindedly, hated Mama Zhang's pretentious smartness, and was afraid that He Wei would be fooled by them.Although she has always guessed that He Weiran is a demon, there are many stories about men and flower demons and fox demons in the play. Men may not be so good, but fairies just like them. There is something fatally attractive about them, and they live for them. Willing to die.

So sad, so sad... Li Kuer propped his head and gnawed on the steamed stuffed bun, and when he rolled his eyes, he saw Zhang Da took two rolls of flowers into the kitchen, and He Weiran was the only one there... Xiao Qu and Li Kuer Staring at him closely, he didn't even have time to chew on the buns.They wanted to watch and listen carefully to understand what was going on, but Zhang Ma didn't have the courage to stare at the door.

Not long after, Zhang Da came out from the door, still holding two flower rolls in his hand, looking unhappy.Apparently Zhang Ma had heard everything by the door, she had already put on a serious face, and when Zhang Da came out, she rolled her eyes at the door several times with hatred, and pulled Zhang Da aggressively to have breakfast.

It seems that it didn't work...Li Kuer and Xiaoqu looked at each other, applauding in their hearts, and the buns in their hands also tasted good.

After breakfast, Li Kuer went to find He Weiran, and according to what had been agreed in advance, he was going out to buy ingredients for colorful cold noodles.He Weiran was still cooking the soup, adding some firewood from time to time, skimming off the foam bit by bit with a spoon, very carefully.Seeing that Li Kuer was ready, she called Mama Zhang to come and see the soup, and Mama Xu came to make egg noodles, told Li Kuer all the things that needed to be taken care of, and then called Li Kuer out with a vegetable basket.

Zhang's mother suppressed her anger and responded, her complexion was terribly half-yin and half-yang. Li Kuer, as an outsider who had little to do with the disputes in the kitchen, also felt scared, and couldn't help imagining Xiao Qu and A Liao queuing up in her mind. The scene of walking on the blade.

After leaving the back door of the palace, Li Kuer asked He Weiran what he was going to buy.

"It's just two things, one is white flower mushroom, and the other is the top-quality jellyfish skin. As for the other few things, only fresh ones are good. The egg skin, cucumber, bean sprouts, cabbage heart, and beef shank stewed in soup are all from the house. some."

Li Ku'er didn't know what Tianbai mushrooms looked like, but only knew that they were grown in vegetable markets or dry goods stores.As for the jellyfish skin, it may be available in the fish market, but it is not necessarily true. If not, you will have to go to Lin County, where there are fresh seafood along the coast, but the journey is far away, and it is definitely not enough to go back and forth in the morning .

She was quite distressed, not sure if she could help, but she took He Weiran to the nearest fish market first.Ah Liao's father and elder brother were doing business at the east entrance of the fish market, so Li Kuer asked them about it.

"Jellyfish..." Papa Ah Liao thought about it carefully, and said, "Yes, there is. A burden-bearing household from Donghai County comes to our market every ten days to sell some sea fish and crabs, and occasionally there are jellyfish. .But it was only two or three days ago that he left the market last time, so I’m afraid he won’t come these days.”

Li Kuer was very disappointed when he heard the words, and turned to look at He Weiran, but she didn't see any embarrassment on her face, she only thanked Ah Liao's father, and then went deep into the fish market with Li Kuer.

"Sister He, isn't there nothing here? Why do you still walk in?"

"No hurry, no hurry, I just take a look." He Weiran said no hurry, then it was really no hurry.

Li Kuer wondered if she wanted to use other things instead of jellyfish, after all, cooking requires flexibility.But I never thought that the two of them would finish shopping the whole street from east to west, He Weiran didn't buy anything in a daze, just looked around, one by one.

"Let's go, find a good dry goods store."

"Dry goods shop? Looking for Tianbai Flower Mushroom?"

He Weiran smiled and said, "Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone."

Li Kuer took He Weiran to the largest dry goods store in the town, named Huixiang Pavilion, which opened on the most prosperous Dingtai Street in the town.She didn't know that jellyfish skin was made into dried goods, and when she thought of the tender and crisp appearance when it was served on the table, she really couldn't connect it.

The two were walking on Dingtai Street. Because of the Qiqiao Festival, most of the streets were selling silk embroidery samples.The woman lingered in front of various booths to pick and choose, always wanting to choose a good-looking style to embroider to the man's heart.

Seeing the bustling scene in front of him, He Weiran had the idea of ​​making fun of Li Kuer, and said with a look of sudden realization: "Oh, look at me, I'm so heartless, asking you to go shopping today, wouldn't it bother you Do you embroider small items for your sweetheart?"

"Ah?" Li Ku'er was taken aback by the sudden words, and quickly shook her hands: "I don't have a sweetheart! Sister He, don't wrong me!"

"Really do not have?"

"No..." Li Kuer clarified with a bitter face, and suddenly felt that she wanted to marry a good man, but at the same time was very afraid of being said to have emotional thoughts, which was a particularly contradictory mood.

"Then I'm at ease, otherwise I'd be quite sorry."

"Then... does Sister He have a sweetheart?" Li Kuer admired herself when she asked this question.

He Weiran was calm and said, "No."

Li Kuer saw that she was willing to answer and was not displeased at all, so she couldn't help but push forward: "Has Sister He ever married?"

He Weiran raised his eyebrows, that expression seemed to Li Kuer to say 'you're a gossip kid'.Li Kuer's heart tightened, she was quite ashamed, but she heard her say: "Not really."

Li Kuer wondered why if Wei Ran was a monster, she should not marry, but what if she wasn't?It's strange to be unmarried at such an age.She thought and thought, and found that she didn't know He Weiran's age. She heard that older women don't like being asked about their age, so she stopped asking her and said: "Women don't need to marry." People? I thought unmarried women were either aunts or unmarried, and Sister He doesn't look like unmarried."

He Weiran thought it was funny, so he answered clearly: "That's right, I just can't get married."

"Ah?" Li Kuer deeply suspected that He Weiran was fooling her, and she was joking anyway, so she followed her words with half-truth and half-false: "It just so happens that I can't get married, I was quite worried at first, but Sister He lives well without getting married, so I'm not afraid anymore."

He Weiran was startled, fearing that he would mislead the child, he hurriedly said: "Don't worry about it, you must marry if you can. It's dangerous for a girl to live in this world."

Li Ku'er has always had her own persistence in this matter, and it is rare to show a serious expression: "Even if it is difficult to marry, I have to keep my eyes open and look for it. If I can't make do with it, life will be even more difficult." She clenched her fist and looked again. Looking at He Weiran burningly, he said: "Sister He, you must not let it go, Zhang Da is not a good person." Even if you are a monster, you should find a kind person to talk to.

"Zhang Da?" He Weiran laughed again, it was really interesting, so he asked her: "Why isn't Zhang Da a good person?"

Li Ku'er didn't mind telling He Weiran the bad rumors about Zhang Da: "He is over 30 years old, and he had a daughter-in-law who jumped into a well two years ago. Everyone said that Zhang Ma and Zhang Da forced her to death. Once you enter his house, don’t think about living a good life.”

"If you say that, could it be that you saw what happened in the morning?"

"I... I didn't peek, nor did I eavesdrop. It was Xiaoqu who heard Zhang's mother ask Zhang Da to invite you to watch the stars at night, and thought there was something strange in it, so she told me." Li Kuer betrayed Xiaoqu with a guilty conscience .

"It turns out that's the case." He Weiran didn't mean to blame, and continued: "Zhang Da thought that I personally made the purse as a gift, and asked me for it during breakfast. I didn't give it to him, and he said he would bring it at night. I went to swim in the lake, and if I said I didn't want to go, he couldn't hold back his face, and his temper was really bad."

Li Kuer agrees with He Weiran's attitude and approach, but is also afraid that Mama Zhang will get angry and play tricks on her secretly.But after thinking about it, if she is a powerful monster, there is nothing to be afraid of.

The author has something to say: the next chapter will make cold noodles.