Devil on the tip of the tongue

"This, this, and that, all wrapped up!" Xueyue City, after getting acquainted with the monsters in the queen dowager's palace, Queen Ji entrusted the acquainted monsters to buy a lot of locally available, suitable for long-distance travel. The local products transported are going to be taken back with the convoy sent by the Demon King back to Sunset City, and given to Heishuimeihe Memorial and Mother Ming.

In addition to the precious monster fur on the ice field, Queen Ji also used the method of pickling bacon in the human world to marinate the monster meat that could not be eaten every day, put it in a huge animal skin bag, and took it back to let them dry it. Bacon or sun-dried meat is very delicious when used directly in stews.

Ji Heng has been watching Grandma Ji making all kinds of pickled food since she was a child.

Grandma Ji also lived a hard life, she can cook everything, especially the marinated meat. Every autumn, she buys a lot of pork, pig's head, pig's trotters, silver carp, carp and other ingredients, wash and marinate them, Then according to the different ingredients, it is decided whether to make sauce meat, bacon, bacon or smoked fish. There is a long string hanging on the wall of the south-facing wall of the big villa at home, and there are strings of sausages of various flavors, which are very delicious. The down-to-earth atmosphere is not at all like a villa of a rich family.

Thinking back to grandma’s steps of making pickled meat, Ji Heng directed the monsters under the Queen Mother to make a lot of pickled monster meat, but it’s a pity that there is no pepper and star anise here, otherwise it would be possible to make some spicy bacon or something.

"There are still two more months before you can go back. Why do you want to do this? They live in Maicheng, so will they still be short of food?" Every time Lou Jinyu saw his queen thinking about his brother-in-law, he felt uncomfortable in various ways. It's not jealousy, little monsters can't be too used to it!The queen is so used to commemorating that little thing!

"There is no shortage, but this one is different!" As a former human race, Ji Heng insisted on certain interpersonal customs, "This is a souvenir I specially prepared for Memorial, Xiao Hei, and Ming's mother. , My grandma said that when traveling, you should prepare souvenirs for your family as gifts!"

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Amazing Grandma Ji!It seems that he will have to prepare some "souvenirs" from the devil world when he goes to visit the elders of Ji's family...

Speaking of local products, not long after, foodie Ji Heng discovered another kind of food in Xueyue City.

It is a small insect that lives in the crevices of the ice sheet. It is about the size of an ant on the earth. This insect will secrete a transparent jelly to build a nest. The large nest is attached to the crevice of the ice sheet. , like an upside-down transparent crystal pot.

The local monsters are used to this, but this is the first time Ji Heng has seen this kind of thing. Out of curiosity, he dug one up and brought it back, and put it in the corner of the kitchen with the ingredients, ready to study it when he has time.

Unexpectedly, someone moved the basket of things to a place near the stove. When cooking, the nest like a transparent crystal pot was roasted and melted. After melting, the nest solidified again, and it turned out to be pale yellow. It's like peach gum, it's soft and soft when squeezed, like a kind of QQ candy that Ji Heng ate when he was a child.

Because he didn't know if this thing could be eaten, as usual, Ji Heng asked someone to find a small monster first, and fed it with some jelly-like things. After feeding it for three days in a row, he found that the poor monster was not dead. After proving that this thing can be eaten, Ji Heng tried to use the method of stewing peach gum. He took the milk of monsters as milk, and added honey after the stew. It really tasted delicious, chewing a bit like peach gum but without peach gum the taste of.

Ji Heng thought of the QQ candy he ate in his previous life, melted and filtered it with this gum, added tree honey, and made a transparent candy. After eating, some dregs need to be spit out, just like eating sugar cane.

Cooking this kind of candy requires a lot of fuel, and it is difficult to find firewood on the ice sheet, but this has not affected the lives of the local monsters, because a long time ago, the monsters here discovered that there are many black stone-like things buried underground. Things can be ignited, and the burning time is even longer than ordinary firewood, so the fuel for cooking fires on the entire ice sheet has become this kind of stone.

Poor Queen Ji, who lived in a wealthy human family since she was a child, has been exposed to natural gas all her life. She only knows to use a gas stove for cooking. She doesn't know that there are such things as "coal" and briquette stoves in the world. Kindergartens keep pace with the times, and have not used briquettes that have long been eliminated by history as teaching tools. Therefore, when they saw this kind of "coal", they were greatly surprised.

On the contrary, it is his husband, the Demon King, who has read about this kind of fuel in human books and knows that although coal is a good fuel, it also pollutes the environment very seriously, so he does not vigorously promote this fuel in the Demon World. So so far, only the northern ice sheets have used this fuel.And because the density of monsters living on the ice sheet is too small, even burning coal all day long will not cause pollution to the ice sheet.

From this point of view, the Demon King is really a good monster who is passionate about environmental protection!

The boiled "peach gum" was appreciated by the Queen Mother: "There are a lot of this stuff on our ice field, let them find more, boil it into glue, and send some to your grandma."

"Queen, don't you go back and see grandma and uncle?" After getting to know her, Ji Heng is not as restrictive towards her "mother-in-law" as she was at the beginning, and, to be honest, the Queen Mother actually gets along better than grandma. , It's not that Grandma Lan is not easy to get along with, it's just that Grandma Lan's female devil aura is too strong, every time she faces her old man, Ji Heng can't help being a little short of breath.

On the contrary, the Queen Mother, although she looks like a goddess, actually has a very straightforward personality, otherwise she would not have heard a few rumors and ran to the hall to break the old devil's head, ahem!In short, the current atmosphere of "mother-in-law and daughter-in-law" getting along is getting better, and Ji Heng is not afraid to say anything like he did at the beginning.

"What's so interesting, anyway, your grandma doesn't really want to see me..." The Queen Mother thought it was boring.

What happened back then was that she was wrong. She abandoned her family and the relatives who loved her the most for a man. Over the years, she has been regretting it in her heart, otherwise she would not have frozen herself because of guilt. Outsiders thought that She was heartbroken by the old devil king, and she froze herself because she didn't want to see him again. Even Grandma Lan and the others always thought so, otherwise she wouldn't be so angry. In her eyes, monsters In our long years, who hasn't encountered a few scum demons?Don't you even want your family for this?Such a Queen Mother disappointed Grandma Lan very much.

However, only the Queen Mother knows that she has a family and cannot return!

When she was young, she abandoned her family for love and her mother who worked so hard to raise her. Because of her self-willedness and ignorance, the entire Lan family was ridiculed by noble monsters in the devil world. Because of her waywardness and ignorance, she caused so much harm to her family. Even so, when she was in the most difficult time, her mother still silently took Jin Yu to her side to take care of her.

It is always easy for parents to forgive their children.

No matter how big a mistake their children make, in their view, as long as they look back, they are still their children.

However, the queen mother had no choice but to seek the protection and forgiveness of her relatives with the cheek.

When her marriage with the old devil king was irretrievable, she chose to freeze herself in Xueyue City, not because this was the token of love that the old devil king had given her, but because this was all her fiefdoms. The closest place to home...

Although I can't go home, but freezing myself in the place closest to home feels almost the same as returning home.

Ji Heng was unwilling to let the Queen Mother continue to evade and deceive herself like this.

In his opinion, the queen mother will regret it if she does not return home!

"Mother, why don't you go home? Grandma and uncle miss you very much, and I miss home very much. I really want to go home to find my parents, but I don't even know. When I can go home, I will You probably don’t know whether your relatives are still alive or not, but the life span of humans is much shorter than that of monsters! The few hundred years you have been frozen in ice may be enough for a dynasty to change in the human world...” In this short-lived dynasty, the emperor has changed several times.

"Let me think about it again..." It's not that the Queen Mother is not moved by the suggestion of going home, but she is not sure whether her family will forgive her for what she has done.

"Mother, go back!" Lou Jinyu came out from nowhere, with a plain monster fur cloak hanging in his arms, and put the cloak lightly on the Queen Mother's shoulders. He put his arms around his mother's shoulders, "Go back! Everyone is waiting for you to come home."

On the empress dowager's beautiful face, crystal clear tears had already rolled down the corners of her eyes.

I don't know how long it has passed, a small but firm voice came: "Okay! Let's go home..."

Xueyue City at night is quiet and cold.

The monsters who lived in seclusion here with the queen mother got used to such a deserted life very early on.As usual, after going to the wild to hunt enough prey for a day, all the monsters went home to sleep.

Only the monsters in the queen mother's palace stayed up all night.

The old rebellious girl, Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother, who has been away from home for nearly a thousand years, finally decided to go home!

The same as when she was young, the queen mother still maintained the rashness of leaving as soon as she said it. Now that she has decided to go home to find her mother, the queen mother suppressed her tears, sniffed her nose, and called out all the monsters in the palace Get up and have a meeting!

The monsters in the Queen Mother's palace were so excited that they ran out of the meeting in a hurry without even putting on their clothes, shoes and socks.

"Gifts for the old lady and uncle, gifts for the Lan family and the clansmen, as well as the arrangements for the queen mother to accompany the monsters, security defenses, and the royal items of the king and queen..."

"Xueyue City also needs to keep a group of monsters to guard the house, as well as the frozen land of the Queen Mother, we also need to take good care of it..."

"The nests of the little bugs that Her Royal Highness likes to eat, go and order people to collect more, melt them and put them in preparation."

"You should also prepare more high-quality monster fur and bedding. If there is a heavy snowstorm on the road, you will always find a place to hide from the wind and snow. You can't let the masters lie in the ice cave, right?"

"Follow me to hunt a few more dragon beasts and take them with you. We will set off in three days!" When the sky was about to dawn, everything was finally arranged.

The Queen Mother is going back to her natal home, and Lou Jinyu and Ji Heng will definitely be with her. The son is still pregnant with the future Crown Prince, and the nutrition must keep up. The Queen Mother's dislike of the Crown Prince sounds not soft enough. , I still love this unborn first grandson very much in my heart.

Besides, the most precious thing in Xueyue City is the dragon beast, if you hunt a few more and go back, you can also give Yuqing to your mother and younger brother to taste.

Being able to provide delicious and nutritious food for the family is one thing that monsters are most proud of.

Queen Ji felt the same way.

After a night of absurdity in the bath, the demon king and his wife hugged each other and had a peaceful sleep. Perhaps it was because the monster he liked was by his side. The demon king slept unexpectedly sweetly. When Ji Heng woke up, what he saw was his side The Demon King who lay down peacefully.Lou Jinyu, who fell into a deep sleep, really deserves to be the most beautiful man in the devil world. Even the tooth marks that he had bitten and forgot to fix were extraordinarily beautiful. Of course, it may also be the psychological implication of Queen Ji's "a devil is in the eye of a beholder".

Gently leaning the left side of the face on the demon king's chest, the silk-like touch made the young queen feel satisfied and shy at the same time, she rubbed her head, raised her head reluctantly, bit her lower lip, and acted like a thief carefully crawled out from the foot of the bed.

Last night, he was wrapped in a bathrobe by the king all the way back, and all the changed clothes were thrown in the bath, but it doesn't matter, he is not a penniless wild little monster now. As a queen, Ji Heng absolutely Not just a change of clothes.

He took out a set of clothes from the cabinet and put them on, looked at the Demon King who was still sleeping soundly, Ji Heng quietly opened the door, waved at the monsters waiting outside, told them not to talk, and moved to the next door to wash his face Room.

The demon king’s insomnia is known to all the monsters who wait close to him. Therefore, as long as the demon king falls into a sleep state, the wait monsters dare not approach. Fortunately, the queen understands them and puts on her own clothes every time. They came out quietly, not because they were disrespectful to the queen mother. Such a queen is much easier to serve than when the queen mother was the queen.

"Are there any fresh ingredients today?" Ji Heng asked after casually using some prepared breakfast snacks.

"Back to the queen, last night the Queen Mother ordered someone to bring over fresh white bone fish and an aquatic beast, saying that the Queen Mother ordered the king to eat it."

"Let me go and have a look." As an apprentice cook who has little research on ingredients from the devil world, Ji Heng is now very curious about all novel ingredients, and he also wants to go to the kitchen to prepare some delicious food for Lou Jinyu himself.

"Is this the bone fish?" It sounds like a scary fish, but it looks cute.

The silvery-white fish with a length of more than one meter has been out of the water for too long and died. The climate in the northern ice field is extremely cold. Basically, as soon as fish, shrimps and aquatic monsters leave the water, their gills will freeze and they cannot breathe. Naturally, he was dead.

The skin of the frozen white bone fish is almost transparent. Through the skin, you can see two rows of pale fish bones inside, and a whole thick fish bone on the back. No wonder it is called "white bone fish". .

However, the head of this coot fish looks like a dolphin. Its long mouth and big round eyes are completely frozen. It was too surprised when it was caught, and its eyes were still round. It looks like Especially innocent, Ji Heng wasn't sure if he would be soft-hearted and put it back if he was there.

The white-bone fish, which was more than one meter long, was chopped into several pieces. The head was said to be slightly poisonous, so it was thrown away, but the tail was a good thing.

"Queen, the tail of this white-bone fish is covered with snow-white fish scales. After boiling, the fish scales are melted into the soup. It is extremely delicious. There is a famous dish in Xueyue City, fish tail soup, which is cooked with this fish tail. .”

"The flesh of the white-bone fish is not considered fat, and it is usually not eaten. It is only cut open with a knife, and the fish bones and skin are left. The fish soup that is boiled is very delicious. Cheng Yu Tang Noodles are supremely delicious!"

"This aquatic monster is locally called Mum, because the sound of this monster is Mum, the hide of this kind of monster is thick and waterproof, and it is usually peeled off to make boots, Mum's meat is very fat, Beast meat is the most delicious when grilled over charcoal, but it cannot be stewed for a long time, and it will rot into lumps, which is not delicious."

The monster in the kitchen saw that the queen was very interested in these ingredients, and slowly explained all the ingredients that the queen didn't know.

"Can I try to cook some dishes?" Ji Heng asked politely.

"Queen, please!" How dare the monsters in the kitchen stop the queen from cooking, let alone someone who accidentally spoiled and wasted ingredients, even if someone burned the Queen Mother's kitchen, no monster would dare to blame him. I didn't see Her Highness the Queen Mother Do you also like the new queen?

Take out the tail of the white bone fish separately, wash it carefully according to the instructions of the kitchen monsters, dry the outer fish scales with a dry cloth, first put the whole fish tail on the fire and bake it until the end of the fish scales has spines. There is a stinging sound, then take it down, heat the oil pan, put the grilled fish tail and seasonings together in the pan, pour water quickly when the bottom of the pan is smoking, cover the lid, and use wet Cover it with a towel, and stew like this for about two hours, and the delicious fish tail soup is ready.

The flesh of the white-bone fish has been separated, and Ji Heng, with some pity, stopped the cook who was going to throw these not-so-tasty fish flesh out to feed the monsters. He was going to try to use these fish flesh to see if he could make some fish balls or something.

After tidying up the bones and skin of the white-bone fish, put them in the pot to simmer first. Taking advantage of the stewing time, he brought the white-bone fish meat over.

The cooks are right, this kind of fish is really not suitable for cooking, because the meat quality is indeed not the "fat and tender" type that monsters like, but it should be good for making fish balls and fish dumplings, right?

Cut the fish meat into small pieces, chop it into velvet, then add crushed seasoning and water, stir evenly, add salt, stir clockwise vigorously until gelatinized, there is no egg white, and the rhizome of some kind of plant is taken The ground powder acts as egg white and raw powder, and continues to stir and beat.

After the ingredients for making fish balls are ready, find a clean large pot, put it in water and boil it to about 80 degrees, put the fish velvet in the palm of your hand, squeeze it into balls through the force of the tiger's mouth, put it into the pot, and cook on low heat until The fish balls float and can be fished out after a while.

The fish dumpling is even easier. Just use a spoon to move the fish velvet out along the edge of the large bowl. The fish velvet in the water is quickly solidified by the hot water, and it becomes a chubby dumpling shape. Got the fish dumplings.

Cooked fish balls and fish dumplings can be eaten cooked in broth or braised in soy sauce. Ji Heng didn’t like fish when he was a child. Grandma Ji often made fish balls and fish dumplings for her grandchildren. The elderly are always superstitious about eating more Fish can make children smarter.

Just at this time, the white bone fish soup was cooked. Ji Heng took a sip, and it was really delicious. After thinking about it, he simply used the fish soup to cook a small pot of fish balls and fish dumplings. I put some seasonings in, but it's a pity that there are no shallots, otherwise it would be better to cut some chopped green onions and sprinkle them on.

The meat of the aquatic monster mother was cut up and made into barbecue with traditional local methods, and a piece of Ji Heng was chopped into meat fillings for the help of dozens of soup dumplings.

Time passed very quickly while cooking, he had just finished lunch and the soup was still in the pot, and the devil wandered over to find his wife.

"Why don't you sleep more?" As the little monster who used to accompany the bed, Queen Ji is the most aware of how rare it is for her king to have a peaceful sleep. She finally slept so sweetly, and she deserved a good night's sleep. It's about noon.

"How can I sleep peacefully without you here?" The devil lazily rested his big head on the shoulder of his queen, and looked at the steaming cauldron with one vacant eye, "What is this? "

"Fish balls and fish dumplings, I'll make them for you!" Queen Ji picked up a spoon and scooped up a fish dumpling, blew a few mouthfuls, and handed it to the devil's mouth, "Try it?"

Lou Jinyu was like a lazy big cat, not moving, opened his mouth, and let his queen stuff that small fish dumpling into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it, the tender red tip of his tongue He licked the corner of his mouth: "Oh~ delicious! One more!"

Simply invisible!

The monsters in the kitchen were stuffed with dog food forcibly, and suddenly felt that they couldn't eat their lunch.

The devil king and his wife violated the kitchen hygiene rules and fed each other for a simple lunch. The soup dumpling made of mummy meat was highly praised by the devil king: "It is better than the soup dumpling eaten in the human world before." Eat." So, it was usually discarded as a food for domestic monsters, but because of the magic words of the devil king, it became the top-quality food that the king loves to eat.

Nothing wrong!The preference of the superior determines the status of the ingredients in the palace!