Become a cat [Zhan Zhao]

When Ah Lan raised her head in surprise, she saw Zhan Zhao leaning against a tree not far away, looking at herself with a somewhat unclear expression.That sentence just now might have been just a joke, but Zhan Zhao's tone seemed to carry some meaning that she couldn't understand.When the two looked at each other, Ah Lan couldn't help but blurted out, "Master...Brother."

"My surname is not Shi, my surname is Zhan." Zhan Zhao said with a smile in a teasing tone.As he straightened up and walked towards them, he casually nodded to Aunt Qi who was facing him.

Aunt Qi narrowed her eyes with a smile: "My lord, are you here to find Miss Lan?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao nodded, "It just so happens that I'm fine right now, so I want to take A Lan to the streets." He laughed as he said, "Aunt Qi must let him go."

Aunt Qi cheerfully said repeatedly: "That's natural. Miss Lan has helped a lot these days, she is really a capable girl."

"Really?" Maybe this sentence is similar to the previous one, and Zhan Zhao showed the expression that Alan couldn't understand, and he turned to Alan, "Let's go? Not only will it be dark in a while , and it will be colder."

Alan nodded quickly: "Let's go." She pulled out from the confusion, feeling a little excited.Although having work at hand will make people feel at ease, but without entertainment for a long time will also make Ah Lan feel boring.

What could be more fun and relaxing than going out with Zhan Zhao?

At this moment, there was no one in the yamen, and most of the arresting officers went home for dinner, only the officers who were still on duty at night still gathered in the dining hall in twos and threes to chat.Zhan Zhao took A Lan away from the mansion through the corner gate that he walked back to. Outside, a long street with bluestone slabs was clean, and the snow on both sides was piled up into small white hills, and some places were already frozen. Hardened.

"What did Aunt Qi tell you just now?" After walking a certain distance, Zhan Zhao asked A Lan casually. What.

Alan didn't appear panicked or embarrassed, but replied slowly: "Auntie praised me and said I was capable."

"Oh." Zhan Zhao dragged his voice, "Is it just praising you for your ability?"

Alan nodded seriously, because in her opinion, the phrase "you will be blessed if you marry" means the same thing as "capable".She naively thought that Zhan Zhao wanted to ask herself if she had worked hard these days, so she said, "I have listened to Aunt Qi and learned a lot."

"..." Zhan Zhao could only follow the words and asked, "What have you learned?"

A Lan began to point her fingers: "Steam steamed buns, bake big pancakes, grind soybean milk, and stir-fry some simple vegetarian dishes. Aunt Qi also taught me how to make dim sum, but the ones I made were either too sweet or too bland."

"Okay, it seems that you won't starve to death in the future." Zhan Zhao nodded.

A Lan said with a smile: "Yes, I can still cook for Master when I have free time. So I have to learn from Aunt Qi."

Zhan Zhao's heart suddenly missed a beat.

Alan still said heartlessly: "The big pot of rice in the mansion is not very delicious. Master, you can't eat it in the mansion all the time. It's so boring after a long time. Those yamen servants can still come back on weekdays." It’s hard for master to go home once a year for a change of taste, so you can’t just go to a restaurant if you want to change your taste. At that time, I can cook a small stove for master. Whatever you want to eat, I will make it for you.”

"En." Zhan Zhao responded in a low voice.He suddenly felt a rush of impulse, and before he had time to think about it, he asked softly: "But what if you get married? What will you do then?"

But Ah Lan smiled "puchi" and said, "I haven't cooked for Master even once, Master, you thought of going so far away?" She then paused and said willfully: "But since Master asked so , then I will not marry in the future, and I will cook for Master for the rest of my life."

"How can I do that?" Zhan Zhao blurted out again after listening to "Don't get married", and after hearing Alan finished the last sentence, he added another sentence in his heart: This is more or less the same.

Ah Lan didn't hear Zhan Zhao's heartfelt thoughts, and just said: "Why not? I don't want to get married at all." Marriage is too far away. Thinking about it now, it seems that it's okay not to get married.

After all, she didn't have a good example of starting a family since she was a child.

"Marriage is, after all, a lifelong event." Hearing this, Zhan Zhao felt that he couldn't make Ah Lan firm in this idea, so he said slowly, "Don't rush to make a decision now, maybe you will meet the right one in the future and want to marry It's over."

Ah Lan curled her lips, and said bluntly: "Why did you marry me? I don't like serving people. I spend every day around the stove and children, or I just sew, mend, and wash. How tired I am." She suddenly remembered that she said she would cook for Zhan Zhao just now, and immediately added, "But I'm happy to serve Master, I don't feel tired."

Zhan Zhao was speechless, and couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and sigh: When will this child grow up?Does she even know what she means?

But Ah Lan was still unconscious, she was suddenly attracted by a wonton stand on the street.On a very cold day, there is only a hazy and dense atmosphere around the booth, and a large pot is steaming with steam.The stall owner saw Ah Lan approaching, with the wonton wrapped in his hands, and hurriedly said: "Guest officer, sit down and finish eating the wontons! It's a cold day, a bowl of wontons will warm you all over."

However, Alan just wanted to see how the other party made wontons. She had learned all these in the past two days, so that now when she saw a cook, she wanted to learn his skills.Zhan Zhao thought she wanted to eat, and was about to speak, when Alan asked, "Boss, what kind of stuffing are you making wontons?"

"Pork and cabbage, the meat is big." The stall owner tried his best to sell it. "It seems that it will be the Chinese New Year, so I just killed a pig. It's fresh."

Alan asked modestly: "Then, should I use the front leg meat or the pork belly for stuffing?"

"Pork belly is delicious, and the front leg meat is chewy..." The stall owner realized halfway through Pi Li Pa La, his face sank, "Do you want to eat it or not?"

Zhan Zhao handed over the money and said, "Two bowls of wontons."

"Okay." The stall owner smiled, "Guest officer, sit down."

"Ah." Alan said, a little embarrassed, "I'm just watching..." Before he finished speaking, he was pushed to the seat by Zhan Zhao, who lowered his eyes and asked her, "Haven't you eaten dinner yet?"

Alan shook her head, she was busy cooking for others before, so she didn't have time to worship her five internal organs temple.Zhan Zhao casually said, "Then eat. People eat first before cooking."

This nonsense made Ah Lan laugh, and she was really hungry, so she just sat down at the table obediently.Although Zhan Zhao had taken her to more expensive and more prestigious restaurants before, and she could buy dozens of bowls of wontons for a meal, Ah Lan suddenly felt that sitting at a street stall and eating a bowl of wontons with Zhan Zhao had never happened. Unprecedented warmth.

Maybe it's because it's too cold, but my heart is easy to get hot.

The wontons are served very quickly, and they are served in a sea bowl. There are oily flowers and green onions floating on the hot soup, and a scent hits the face.The stall owner put down the bowl, wiped his hands with a towel, and said with a smile, "You two take it easy." Then he turned to Alan and said, "Little lady, to make wontons, the skin should be thin and the soup should be heavy. If it is a vegetarian filling, Celery needs stalks, cabbage needs help, green onions need to be big enough..." He talked endlessly, and Ah Lan listened carefully.At that time, the folk customs were simple, and the stall owner was not afraid that Alan wanted to steal business from him, so he picked up important matters and talked about them one by one.At the end, the stall owner smiled at the two of them again: "Use slowly, be careful of scalding." Then he returned to the pot again.

Zhan Zhao saw that Alan was still wringing his fingers to remember the points that the stall owner said just now, so he picked a spoon and handed it to Alan: "Be careful of burning."

"Yeah." Only then did Ah Lan come back to her senses, and smiled at Zhan Zhao, "I can try to do it in the future, I wonder if Aunt Qi will do it."

Zhan Zhao thought for a while, "Yes, the mansion has eaten wontons many times before."

"That's a good feeling." As Lan said, she moved to the edge of the bowl and blew on it. The soup inside was still very hot. She looked at the chaos floating in the soup, and her stomach started to growl.

Zhan Zhao couldn't help feeling amused: "You're so hungry? Why didn't you sneak some food in the kitchen before?"

"How can that be done?" Ah Lan immediately said frankly, "Those are public property, we can't just take them casually." Although these days she has seen many times that people eat things from the kitchen, or leave leftovers bring home.

Zhan Zhao also laughed. He looked at Alan's blurred eyebrows and eyes through the steam rising from the soup bowl, and suddenly felt a surge of emotion in his heart.

Fireworks in the world are indeed the most softening things.

But Ah Lan didn't have time to look at Zhan Zhao, her attention was all on the bowl of wontons.Just now there was nothing to eat in front of her, so she endured the hunger, but now that all the food was in front of her eyes, she couldn't bear it for a moment.A Lan tentatively scooped up a wonton with a spoon and blew it with her mouth. After a while, she touched it lightly with her lips. Feeling that it was not too hot, she took a bold bite.

Then it was scalded by the still hot stuffing inside, and there was a "hiss".

Zhan Zhao looked at A Lan's actions almost in ecstasy, wondering why he didn't find her so cute before?Even earlier, Zhan Zhao recalled that he had tried every means to get rid of A Lan, thinking that she was a trouble.

Why were you so stupid then?

"Master, why don't you eat?" Ah Lan finally noticed Zhan Zhao's gaze dullly, and couldn't help asking, "Aren't you hungry?"

Zhan Zhao came back to his senses, he picked up the spoon and started to eat slowly.This wonton is really delicious, Zhan Zhao even thinks that this is the best wonton he has ever eaten.

"It smells so good." A Lan obviously shared the same thoughts with Zhan Zhao, she drank the soup happily.Even though she has been with Zhan Zhao for so long, she is still the girl who was so satisfied when she ate delicious food.

Zhan Zhao laughed, and asked intentionally, "Will you be able to cook better than this in the future?"

"Hmm..." Ah Lan tilted her head with a spoon in her mouth, and muttered, "How do I know that?"

Zhan Zhao deliberately made things difficult for her: "If it's not as delicious, I won't eat it."

"Then I will do it well and do my best." Ah Lan agreed with pouting.

Zhan Zhao laughed loudly: "You're kidding, I'll eat whatever you make."

"..." Alan was caught off guard and was entertained by Zhan Zhao again, and he already felt helpless about it.

Who let her have such a master who likes to make fun of her apprentice?

After this light meal, Zhan Zhao and A Lan continued to wander aimlessly along the street.This season is actually just right, there are fewer people than when it is hot, but it is not too deserted because of the Chinese New Year.Walk a few steps casually, and you can hear people laughing and talking from the rooms on both sides.Because it was the end of the new year, even blushing and getting angry became insignificant, and everyone was beaming, looking for auspiciousness.

A Lan patted her stomach and said contentedly: "Life is like this, what more can I ask for."

Zhan Zhao smiled, and was about to speak, when he turned the corner and bumped into a half-grown child with thick head and thick brain, and bumped into Ah Lan.

"Oh!" the child yelled, covering his hat and looking up at the two, he only said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Then he was about to leave.

But Zhan Zhao reached out and grabbed him, and said with a smile, "Don't rush away, return the things you stole first."

The author has something to say: About the blah blah of cooking, I’m all nonsense, please don’t take it seriously :) The scumbag author is a good-for-nothing

PS: A new character is coming, guess who he is?