Delicious Delicacy of the Demon Spirit

Xiaohan came, the sky was cold, and it snowed again in Qingshui Town, which was heavier than the first snow.

The day before, Qi Yuanwai invited the prince and several wives to his newly built Chunnuan Pavilion. I heard that the other courtyard was built on Huating Mountain not far from Qingshui Town. There is a natural hot spring inside, which is very refreshing. To relieve fatigue.Concubine Qiao wanted to invite He Weiran to go, but she declined politely. This time, she had a lot of free time for no reason.

The most important work in the back kitchen was gone, so He Weiran simply let Li Kuer take leave.Li Ku'er was also diligent, scrubbing and cleaning inside and out while it was snowing, her hands were red and swollen from the cold.Seeing her like this, Akui didn't go to accompany Sister Meihua any more, and held Li Kuer's hand and breathed out.Li Kuer laughed and said that Ah Kui really warms people's hearts better than the bright summer sun.

The two of them were working, when they saw He Weiran coming from a distance, holding an umbrella in one hand and carrying a food box in the other, chatting with several families along the road.Li Ku'er was pleasantly surprised when she saw her, she thought that she would not see her again these days, but unexpectedly came to the door and hurried out to pick her up.

"Look at you, it's snowing so heavily, what are you doing outside? You're not afraid of getting sick." He Weiran handed the food box to Li Kuer, and then reached out to brush the snowflakes off her head.

Li Ku'er smiled brightly: "Seeing you here, I don't care about it when I'm happy. By the way, what's in this food box? I can already smell the fragrance."

He Weiran replied: "I just came here after making some pastries in the morning, I'm afraid you won't have a good meal at home."

"Oh, I really forgot. It's already this time. I haven't made lunch yet. I'm busy cleaning up."

After talking, the two went back to the yard, and Ah Kui also ran up, licking his lips and asking Li Kuer what was delicious in his hand.He Weiran said, "Huh? Where is Akui? I thought you were looking for that plum tree spirit again. Could it be that they ignore you, and you don't care about them anymore?"

Ah Kui pursed her small mouth in displeasure: "Who said, Sister Mei Hua treats me well." While talking, she opened the food box by herself, took out a piece of jujube paste cake from inside, and began to chew hard.

He Weiran also took a piece from the food box for Li Kuer to eat, but asked Ah Kui, "How did you treat me well? Tell me about it."

"Why should I tell Sister He?" Ah Kui frowned and stared.

He Weiran covered her mouth and smiled: "Ah Kui is too naive, afraid of being bullied and neglected, I don't realize it. Sister, I also care about you."

Akui turned her head away and said unconvinced: "Sister Meihua treats me better than any other Fang Zhier of hers! That Fang Zhier originally wanted to drive me away, but sister Meihua said I was her friend and left me behind. He also made plum blossom wine for me to drink. The plum blossom wine is so fragrant that after drinking it, the whole person will float."

"Oh, I see." Li Ku'er took another bite of the sweet and soft jujube cake, and said: "When you drink alcohol, you will be speechless, so that plum tree spirit will give you wine to make you drink." Shut up."

"That's not it! Ah! You guys are so annoying!!! Ignore you!!!"

Akui squatted by the well angrily and lost her temper, He Weiran didn't intend to coax her, she just said to Li Kuer, "I'm going to visit Miss Zhier this afternoon, how about Kuer going with me? "

Li Kuer glanced at Ah Kui who was sneaking over, and said loudly, "Okay, it just so happens that Ah Kui can look after the house."

"Ah, I want to go too!" Ah Kui flexed and stretched, and she was angry a moment ago, but she gave in now.

He Weiran pondered for a moment, and said: "I know you just want to play with that plum tree spirit, so go there first and tell her that I'm going to visit Fang Zhi'er later, if she can come and listen together, I'll let you know." It's the best. By the way, you need to remember, don't show yourself in front of mortals, do you understand?"

Akui scratched her head, wondering: "Then sister Ku'er can't see me? And that Fang Zhi'er, she is so strange, even if I don't show up, she can see me."

He Weiran said: "It's just that you were born with some disturbing psychic powers, don't worry about it. Just pretend you don't know us."

Hearing what she said, Ah Kui quickly nodded in agreement, turned around and ran away.Li Ku'er asked her to eat at the back before leaving. Ah Kui, a heartless little girl, disappeared into the alley without even a reply.

At noon, He Weiran made some glutinous rice at Li Kuer's house, kneaded it into regular balls, wrapped it with blanched vegetable leaves, put half in a food box, and ate the half with Li Kuer.In winter, it was freezing everywhere, and Li Kuer held the glutinous rice balls, warming her palms.The ingredients of this rice ball are very rich, such as diced braised pork, diced shiitake mushrooms, diced winter bamboo shoots, and peas. When you take a bite, you will be greeted with fragrant heat. After the heat dissipates, you can chew it carefully and enjoy the salty taste. Fresh taste, sticky texture, especially the stewed meat and shiitake mushrooms, which are extremely tender, and when the teeth and cheeks collide, there is also an unusually delicious marinade flowing out.

Li Kuer ate two in a short while, and was about to take the third, when He Weiran held down his hand: "You can't eat too much of this stuff, it's easy to accumulate food, if you're still hungry, I'll fry two for you." A side dish."

Li Kuer thought that this would definitely make He Weiran feel that she was a glutton, so she couldn't help feeling ashamed, and said slowly: "Actually, I'm not hungry anymore, it's just... I just think this rice ball is delicious, and I can't help being greedy." .”

He Weiran bit the tip of her nose: "How can it be so delicious. If you like it, I will make it for you tomorrow, but I can't eat it now."

Li Kuer's eyes lit up, and he looked excited: "Are you coming tomorrow? That would be great!"

"Not only will I come tomorrow, but I won't leave today. I will stay at Ku'er's house for several days in a row."

"Really?!"

He Weiran smiled: "Of course it's true. It's too cold to stay alone in the house on a snowy day, so it's better to come here to be with you and Ah Kui. Besides, I'm also afraid that A Kui's little girl will be single-minded. Sister Plum Blossom, who accompanied her, forgot to return to this home, how pitiful it would be to leave you alone."

Li Kuer also put on a miserable face, wrung his fingers and said, "Isn't that right? It's really unexpected that there are also ruthless people in sunflowers."

The two of them finished their lunch and took a nap before rushing to the other courtyard of Young Master Qi San.

I heard that entertaining the princes and concubines is an important matter for the whole family. The third young master Qi and the young wife are naturally included, so Fang Zhi'er is the only one who can be regarded as the master in the other courtyard these days.

He Weiran brought Li Ku'er to visit. The concierge didn't know them at first, and looked at them secretly. Xu Sheng was afraid that his deeds would be leaked, and the person in the main house came to ask the crime while the third young master was away.He Weiran had no choice but to take out the badge of Prince Qiao's mansion, and explained that he had been lucky enough to swim through this garden, and that he and Miss Zhi'er were considered acquaintances.

The concierge saw that it was indeed the badge of Prince Qiao's mansion, and hurried in to report, and after a while, he led the two of them into the courtyard with due courtesy.The courtyard built by Third Young Master Qi must not be compared with Prince Qiao's Mansion. It occupies less than ten percent of the land, and is not considered luxurious in terms of decoration. Fortunately, although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs, and the landscape, flowers, grass, pavilions, towers and pavilions are all ingeniously arranged. It is meticulously built, and it can be regarded as a first-class courtyard in this not-so-prosperous Qingshui Town.

The two of them followed the porter all the way to the wing room, which was next to the old plum tree.A maid came to open the door and put away the umbrella for He Weiran, and invited them into the room, saying that the girl was waiting inside.

Li Kuer followed behind He Weiran, the first thing he felt was that the room was very warm.She looked around and saw that there were two copper charcoal stoves in the corners on the east and west sides. The red charcoal fire was burning vigorously, making beeping popping noises from time to time.Looking up along the corner of the wall, the wood-carved beams are very exquisite, in the shape of plum branches, covered with plum blossoms, so delicate that people can see the stamens clearly.

Before he could take a closer look, the owner of the house said, "Miss He is coming to see me, sit down quickly."

This is Fang Zhier...

"Since we parted last time, I have never been free..." He Weiran said while taking Li Kuer to sit down at the low pear tree table: "It's rare that the prince and princess are free these two days when they go out, thinking of the relationship with Miss Zhier." It was agreed, so I made some food and came to visit the door, I'm afraid I won't trouble the girl."

"Where is that..." Fang Zhi'er was only sixteen or seventeen years old, with exquisite eyebrows, red lips and white teeth. Although she was dressed luxuriously, she smiled very delicately: "My husband is also going out these few days, just to accompany the prince. Yes, it seems to be a long time before I can come back. I live alone in this courtyard, and it is very boring. It just so happens that Miss He is here, and I am too late to be happy. By the way, this is...?"

Fang Zhi'er looked at Li Ku'er suspiciously, He Weiran replied: "She is my sister Li Ku'er, she heard that I was coming here, so she followed her."

"No way..." Li Kuer defended in a low voice, and said to Fang Zhier who was kneeling opposite, "Young lady, don't take it seriously."

Fang Zhi'er covered her mouth with a blue silk handkerchief and smiled coquettishly: "Hehehe, follow along hard, don't be shy. Ah, look at my negligence, Xiang'er, hurry up and serve tea, I want you to come first." The bag of gold coins sent by Rixin cannot be found anywhere else."

"Yes."

The servant girl who was waiting on the side immediately retreated to prepare after hearing the order. Fang Zhi'er helped the filigree peacock tail silver hairpin in her hair, and said: "My sister insists on following, I think there is something recruiting in my small yard." favorite place."

He Weiran replied for Li Ku'er: "Before she walked past the outer wall of this other courtyard, she came back and told me that there must be a large area of ​​plum trees in this courtyard wall, and she wanted to come and see it with her own eyes. .”

"That's not true. There is only one old plum tree in my yard. I brought it from my mother's house. You saw it last time when you came here."

"Ah... I remembered. I thought that Kuer was short-sighted when I saw a large plum grove. But after all, has the plum tree rejuvenated in just so long?" He Weiran pretended to be puzzled Solution look.

Fang Zhi'er got up, picked up a fox fur from the side and put it on his body, moved to the window, supported the window lattice and said: "If you want to see, open this window and you can see. If you are not afraid of the cold, Why don't we have some good tea with this plum scene, wouldn't it be more interesting?"

"Very good."

He Weiran looked at the Aoxue Huangmei outside the window with a smile, and nodded, as if agreeing with Fang Zhier's proposal, and as if greeting someone.