Kaifeng House Small Dining Table

Zhao Hanyan chopped up fresh onions, made green onion pretzels, and then cooked red bean soup with the leftover red bean ingredients from making dumplings.Then take out the tender mushrooms, ham and fresh bamboo shoots in the chicken belly, add seasonings and mix well, put them on the plate by classification, then take a chicken and peel off the lotus leaf and put it on the plate, and then send all the vegetables to Sansitang.

Because only Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce were in the Sansi Hall, Zhao Hanyan only prepared two people.When it was brought over, Bao Zheng was discussing the case with Gongsun Ce with a serious face, but when the delicious lotus leaf chicken came in, the eyes of both of them shifted at the same time.

Bao Zheng: Heaven fulfills people's wishes, you can eat whatever you want, Brother Zhao is very understanding.

Facing the difficult case, Bao Zheng was worried at first, but now seeing such delicious food, he felt better for no reason, maybe he was really hungry.

Bao Zheng invited Gongsun Ce to sit down together, and then Zhao Hanyan put a bowl of red bean soup in front of Bao Zheng.

"Thank you, little brother Zhao." After Bao Zheng took the red bean soup, the more he looked at Zhao Hanyan, the more he felt that this child was rare and so attractive. The Eight Sage Kings were really lucky.

At this time, Gongsun Ce also took the red bean soup from Zhao Hanyan and nodded his thanks.

At the same time, Gongsun Ce realized something.In the past, when he discussed cases with Mr. Bao, he often forgot to sleep and eat. The food was delivered to the table, and it was already cold by the time he reacted.But now it is totally different, when the food is served, both of them are attracted by the aroma, only feel that they are hungry and need something to eat, so that they can have the energy to think about other things.

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce moved their chopsticks one after another, and first took a sip of the red bean soup, which was cold with some crushed ice in it.After taking a sip, I felt cool all over, and relieved the irritability of the scorching heat.Pick up another piece of mushroom, take a bite and it is tender and juicy. When chewing, there is a faint smell of chicken lingering between the lips and teeth.There are also ham and chicken sauce, crispy bamboo shoots and chicken sauce. The fusion of different ingredients and chicken sauce has its own characteristics, and they are all delicious.

At this time, add crispy scallion pretzels or fried dumplings to the mouth, and the rice noodle fragrance gives another kind of gentle taste, which makes people feel full and satisfying at the same time.

Then, both of them extended their chopsticks to today's main dish - lotus chicken.

The chicken is so soft that it can fall off the bone when you touch it with chopsticks.Bao Zheng took a piece of chicken leg, and Gongsun Ce took a piece of chicken breast.All are fragrant but not firewood, the taste of the meat is delicious, especially the faint and unique fragrance of lotus leaves, which just relieves the fishy smell and greasy on the chicken, which makes people appetite and linger aftertaste.

After a meal, the two of them ate all the food on the table and felt a little full.Not only that, Bao Zheng also noticed that the taste of the chicken tip he accidentally ate was incomparably delicious.He didn't eat enough, but there was one on every chicken, and it was hard to say that he liked it.

"Next time, let little brother Zhao prepare less. If you use too much for dinner, you will accumulate food." Gongsun Ce knew that with Zhao Han's craftsmanship, they would definitely not be able to leave the food delivered, so in order to control them, they would not eat enough. , it is better to limit it from the beginning.

Bao Zheng nodded in agreement, thinking about Jijian again, and then said seriously to Gongsun Ce: "It's time to continue discussing the business."

In the kitchen, Zhao Hanyan, Xiuzhu, Chunlai, and Chunqu also had to eat, so they kept two chickens for themselves.The remaining five chickens were rewrapped with fresh lotus leaves and placed in the pot.When Zhan Zhao, Zhao Hu and others come back, if they haven’t eaten yet, just heat it up. The taste is not inferior to that of the lotus leaf chicken, and it will have a stronger fragrance of lotus leaves. On the contrary, it is more relieved.

After Zhao Hanyan finished his meal, he took someone to clean up the kitchen, soaked rice, and prepared for porridge tomorrow morning.Such a day's work is considered to be over, and they all go back to their rooms to rest.

In the middle of the night, when Zhan Zhao and others returned, Chun Lai went to the kitchen to light a fire, preparing hot dishes for them to eat.Chun Laiyin just got up from the bed, still a little dazed, stepped on something, almost slipped, but was lucky enough to hold the stove with his hand.Then Chunlai felt that something was wrong. After dinner, he and his younger brother Chunqu had already cleaned the kitchen floor. How could there be anything?Chunlai lit up the lantern to look closely at the ground, and it turned out to be a thin chicken bone as long as a thumb. Then he shone the lantern elsewhere, and there were many quick chicken bones near the stove.

Chunlai quickly lifted the pot, and saw that there was only one lotus leaf chicken left in the pot, and the other four were missing.Chunlai estimated the amount of chicken bones on the ground. It should be only one chicken. Besides, even if someone ate it secretly, one person would not be able to eat four chickens at once.Chunlai hurried to wake up his younger brother Chunqu, and asked if he did a good job. Of the four people in the kitchen, he was the most likely only one left.

"What chicken?" Chun went to rub his eyes, and then regained his strength, "I have a full dinner, so I will watch over what I am doing. You forgot what we two are doing seriously. I can bear the hunger for three days."

"That's right, but it can't be the two who live in the main house." Chunlai frowned.

"No matter what, let me inform you, you go and serve the rest of the food to Zhanwei and the others, and I'll tell Brother Zhao." Chun Qu and Chun Lai discussed and went their separate ways.

Zhao Hanyan then went to the kitchen, looked at the chicken bones on the ground, found mud sticking to the edge of the stove, checked every window sill, and finally found mud on the back window sill.Zhao Hanyan detoured to the back of the kitchen.At the back of the kitchen is the place where Li San chops firewood. In addition to the piled firewood sticks, there are also many sawdust and footprints.The footprints are quite messy, and it can be seen that the footprints near the woodpile are a pair of big feet, which should belong to Li San.Zhao Hanyan walked towards the wall, and finally found two smaller footprints on the wall, about seven inches.If the ratio of footprints to height is about one to seven, the approximate height of the thief is about 1.6 meters five.

Zhao Hanyan immediately thought of Jiang Ping who had just met today, and his height was just about the same.Zhao Hanyan picked up the lantern again to check the marks on the wall. During the recent rainy season, there was a lot of moss on the wall, and there were four scratches on the wall, as if he had been to the kitchen twice?

Not long after, Chunlai came back with a stack of empty plates, and said with a smile to Zhao Hanyan: "The food is very good, but I think there are too few chickens. One chicken is not enough for five big men."

Zhao Hanyan nodded. He didn't expect enough. He was born in martial arts. After running outside for a day, his appetite was bigger than others.

"Since it was stolen, I have no choice but to do it another day."

"Stolen?"

Zhan Zhao came out from the narrow passage engulfed by the dark night, wearing a red official robe with a jade belt around his waist, and an exquisite black official hat with light red silk ribbons hanging from both sides of the hat.When it got closer, the light changed from dark to bright, and the handsome facial features looked more vivid, as if a god had descended into the world.

Zhan Zhao was wondering why there was only one chicken on the dinner table today, because he knew that the little cook was careful and it was impossible to prepare only one chicken, so he felt strange, so he came to have a look, but he just happened to overhear.

"It's lost... four chickens." Zhao Hanyan didn't want to tell them this little thing and cause them trouble.

Zhan Zhao glanced at Zhao Hanyan, and went to the kitchen. After understanding the situation, he did the same thing as Zhao Hanyan, checked the stove, looked at the window sill, and then went to the backyard.

Seeing this, Chunlai couldn't help laughing and said, "Why is Guard Zhan the same as the little cook?"

After checking the scratches on the wall, Zhan Zhao turned to look at Zhao Hanyan when he heard what Chunlai said, "Really?"

Zhao Hanyan raised his eyebrows, noncommittal.

"Then what do you think?" Zhan Zhao smiled.

"It feels like a 'brother' I met today stole it." Zhao Hanyan said to Zhan Zhao, "Small things, I will ask you when I see you later. If you like to eat, I will make more tomorrow."

"It's something to do, remember to tell me when it's done." Zhan Zhao gave Zhao Hanyan a serious look, and then said goodbye to her.

After Zhao Hanyan nodded, he watched Zhan Zhao off, and then went back to his room.

Chunlai didn't understand, scratched his head, and asked Zhao Hanyan what he meant by Zhanwei.

"Catch thieves with chickens." Zhao Hanyan explained simply.

Chunlai let out an "ah" and suddenly realized.

At noon the next day, Zhan Zhao came to Zhao Hanyan again and told her in detail what they had found about Ou Dachun's identity.

"His original name was Ou Dagang. He was from Fangyuan County, ten miles outside Tokyo. His parents died early, and he took his younger sister to join the butcher Qiu Hai's family in the same county as his son-in-law. His father-in-law, Qiu Hai, was very good at butchering pigs. Violent and snobbish, he likes to please people with status, and is used to belittle and scold poor people with lower status, so he has the meaning of rampaging in the countryside.

A year and a half ago, Ou Dachun's younger sister suddenly disappeared from home, and his old father-in-law died of illness not long after. He left his wife and children and came to Tokyo alone to open a butcher shop. Regardless of giving people a piece of meat, the business is getting more and more prosperous, and there is a shop like today.We also inquired with several old customers who often bought meat from Ou Dachun. Before Ou Dachun hired Xiao Er to do things, he was dressed in white, with half a coir raincoat hanging on his chest, and cut meat for others.It is said that they love cleanliness and don't like bloody splashes.Because the method is quite special, every old customer remembers the coir raincoat very clearly.Furthermore, Ou Dachun washes his hands every time he cuts meat. "

In fact, Zhao Hanyan didn't need to judge. After Zhan Zhao said this, he felt that Ou Dachun must be the murderer.

"The original name was Ou Dagang, but it was changed to Ou Dachun later?" Zhao Hanyan's other descriptions were within Zhao Hanyan's expectations, so she didn't ask too much. She only asked about the name, "Do you think he later changed it to 'Ou Dachun'?" Is this name somewhat similar to someone?"

"Northern Xia Ouyang Chun?" Zhan Zhao asked immediately.

The author has something to say:

Chicken tip: chicken butt, you know