After I wear the book, I use the food to attract the attention of the big guys

Xie Niannian originally wanted to buy a fish.

When I got to the pier, I found that there were not only people selling fish, but also people catching shrimps on the tidal flats.

The lively shrimps were washed ashore with the tide, jumping around in shallow puddles.

Xie Niannian was moved, she really wanted to eat shrimp, even small shrimp.

So she gave up the fish, rolled up her skirt and took off her shoes, and went to the beach to touch shrimp.

Taking advantage of the clear puddle, Xie Niannian quickly grabbed a river prawn and threw it into the fish basket.

The half-finger-long prawns covered the bottom of the fish basket in a short time.Xie Niannian worked so hard that he forgot the time before he knew it.

When I looked up, the sky was already extremely gloomy.

Xie Niannian then started to get anxious, not because it was going to rain, but because she felt that Chi Qing would not wait until she would be worried.

She put on her shoes and socks, and walked towards the shore on the exposed rocks on the beach.

However, he forgot that the more anxious he was, the more likely accidents would happen. By the time Xie Niannian stepped on the slippery moss, it was too late to take it back.

Xie Niannian thumped in his heart, staggered, and successfully sprained his foot.

"Hiss—" Xie Niannian grinned in pain, unable to stand on one leg.

She simply sat down, lifted her skirt to check the injury, and sure enough, she saw the gradually red and swollen ankle.

She tried to stand up, but her injured foot hurt as soon as it touched the ground, and there was still a huge tidal flat ahead of her.

Xie Niannian sighed and could only look around, wanting to see if there were any branches or the like to use as walking sticks.

There are no branches, and misfortunes never come singly.

The rain streaked across the sky and fell on the river, causing ripples.

The sparse people on the tidal flat immediately left, leaving only a dejected Xie Niannian.

The people on the pier have also closed their stalls one after another, preparing to go back to the city.

Xie Niannian originally wanted to wait for his feet to recover before getting up and going back slowly, but he saw a sky-blue figure in the distance at a glance, tall and straight, like a bamboo like a pine.

She went against the crowd returning to the city, came through the rain, crossed the rocky beach lightly, and stopped in front of Xie Niannian.The oil-paper umbrella was passed forward to block the chaotic rain.

Seeing Xie Niannian, whose hair and clothes were mostly wet, and whose face was pale, but still smirking at herself, Chi Qing sighed imperceptibly.She gave Xie Niannian the umbrella to support, and knelt down to check the injury on her foot.

"Buy fish?" Chi Qing looked down at the fish basket next to Xie Niannian, there was no fish in it, only half a basket of shrimp.

The prawns are still alive and kicking, and they look more energetic than Xie Niannian at this time.

Xie Niannian stopped smiling and looked down at her feet, not daring to look at Chi Qing's expression: "Shrimp is delicious too." Her voice became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared directly.

"Come up, carry you back." Chi Qing didn't say any more, turned his back to Xie Niannian.

Xie Niannian was taken aback, and said subconsciously: "Oh, no need, just support me."

"Then we walked together for half an hour?" Chi Qing's voice was cooler than Ye Yu's, and Xie Niannian shivered.

She hesitated for a moment, and finally held the umbrella with one hand, and hooked Chi Qing's neck with the other, and was picked up by Chi Qing.

Whether it's a tidal flat or a wharf path, she walks on flat ground, and the people on her back can't feel the slightest bump.

Xie Niannian leaned on Chi Qing's back, watching helplessly as her dry clothes were wet by his hair which was still dripping with water.

Guiltily, she stretched out her hand to cover the wet cloth, but she heard Chi Qing say in a nonchalant way: "Hold me well."

Xie Niannian quickly put his arms around Chi Qing's shoulders, and after a while, he asked softly, "Am I too heavy?"

"not heavy."

Xie Niannian didn't believe it: "Last time you said I was heavy."

After walking for a long time, Chi Qing's breath was still gone: "Just kidding, it's actually quite light, and I can eat more."

Xie Niannian pursed his lips and was just about to laugh when Chi Qing answered, "Otherwise we won't be able to sell at a price."

"You don't need to wear a sack to catch you, you can hit your head with a word in your ear, and you can fall down by yourself if you are scared."

Xie Niannian laughed so hard on Chi Qing's back that he couldn't hold the umbrella steadily in his hand.After being jolted by Chi, he became quiet.

"Hold the umbrella higher, you can't see the road clearly." Chi Qing said helplessly.

Xie Niannian obediently held up the umbrella, the bluestone slab under his feet was soaked by rain, and the candlelight on the street shone on it, like a lamp in the water, warm but not dazzling.

And Chi Qing stepped on the dim lights and returned to the small courtyard with Xie Niannian on his back.

"Can you change clothes by yourself?" Chi Qing put Xie Niannian on her own bed, then brought a roll of blanket, and signaled Xie Niannian to dry his hair.

Wrapping the blanket around his body, Xie Niannian laughed: "I just sprained my foot, not a broken hand."

After finally tidying up, Xie Niannian instructed Chi Qing to deep-fry the caught river prawns, and cooked a pot of clear porridge for dinner.

Xie Niannian injured his leg. Originally, he just gave himself a day off, but in the end he had to rest at home for several days.

The job of recruiting people was simply handed over to Chi Qing. Xie Niannian's shop is not big, so he recruited two helpers, all young girls.He looks thin, but he works very quickly.

After Xie Niannian healed his foot injury, the Red Furnace Restaurant was ready for opening.

She uses butter pot and tomato pot as the soup base, side dishes such as sweet potato noodles, potato slices, and seasonal vegetables, and adds pork belly slices, coriander balls, etc. for guests to order.

The soup pots and dishes are prepared every morning and the store opens at noon to ensure the freshness of the ingredients.

On the opening day, Xie Niannian personally fried the hot pot bottom ingredients at the door of the store. The spicy and delicious smell wafted all over the street, overbearingly encroaching on the sense of smell of every passerby.

The folk customs in Xuanzhou are open, and the people love to try new things. Not long after the opening, Xie Niannian ushered in the first table of guests.

"Ma'am? Do you have a menu here?" The two girls picked a table and sat down, looking around.

Xie Niannian stopped what he was doing, and came forward to ask, "Does the guest want a butter pot or a tomato pot?"

"What's the difference?" one of the girls asked hesitantly.

Xie Niannian smiled: "Or the bottom of the two pots is half and half, here is the menu." Xie Niannian handed over the menu and told them that they just need to put the dishes in the pot and cook.

"Then come with both."

Xie Niannian came here to order a mandarin duck pot specially made by himself, half of which is a butter base covered with red oil, and the other half is a light red tomato soup base.

Xie Niannian also put his heart into the tomato pot. The sweet and sour tomatoes are fried until they are soft and rotten, seasoned carefully, and then the delicious big bone broth is added.

The soup in the tomato pot, whether it is used for blanching dishes or drinking, tastes very good.

After all the guests at this table were served, Xie Niannian also gave away two drinks for free.

She made her own fruit tea, brewed jasmine tea and let it cool down, adding freshly sliced ​​oranges and pears.The sweet and sour fruit is diffused in the fragrance of tea, which is very refreshing.

With the first table of guests, the people who had been waiting and watching boldly came in to order, and soon Xie Niannian was busy without touching the ground.

Several of Xie Niannian's previous guests even recognized her, and Xie Niannian even gave her an extra dish.

When she was passing two adjacent tables with two cups of fruit tea, she heard a guest asking a question from another table.

"This butter pot, is it delicious?"

Another customer was so full of food, he still couldn't bear to stop his chopsticks: "It's delicious, it's the top!"

After hearing this, Xie Niannian smiled, revealing two small pear dimples, looking sweet and obedient, and then continued to deliver meals with great motivation.

From noon to night, the business was unexpectedly good, and many dishes were sold out.

Xie Niannian happily distributed red envelopes to the two young girls who helped him, closed the shop, and went to the back kitchen to find Chi Qing.

She helped cut a lot of dishes today. This person is not very good at cooking, but he is very good with a knife, and he can cut potatoes until they are transparent.

When Xie Nian came, Chi Qing was cleaning the kitchen.Seeing someone coming, she said, "I have to recruit another person."

"Huh? It's really too busy." Xie Niannian stretched, and then asked Chi Qing to help carry the table to the yard.

The moonlight is cold, but there are warm little lamps in the yard.

Xie Niannian personally fried the fresh tomato pot base, cut up the vegetables, and had dinner with Chi Qing in the yard.

"Ding dong!" Xie Niannian dubbed manually, and brought a small jar of rice wine and placed it on the table.

She dug out two cups out of nowhere, filled them up for herself and Chi Qing, and handed them to Chi Qing with a smile: "Congratulations, good business!"

Chi Qing looked at the milky white rice wine, then looked up at Xie Niannian who was in high spirits: "Can you drink?"

As soon as the words fell, Xie Niannian drank a whole cup heroically.

"It's been a long time since I drank it!" She let out a long breath, and the sweet rice wine entered her throat, warming her internal organs.

Seeing this, Chi Qing lowered her eyes and took a small sip.

After finishing one glass, Xie Niannian added another glass for himself. Seeing Chi Qing staring at him, he explained, "I can drink a lot! I used to drink by myself when I was at home."

"I really didn't expect that I could open a hot pot restaurant here." Xie Niannian picked up a chopstick of pork belly, chewing and eating slowly.After eating and taking another sip of wine, she was taken aback for a moment, smacked it, and then said, "I think the rice wine here is sweeter than mine."

Chi Qing's eyes were fixed on the flushed cheeks of the person in front of him.

"What will Chi Qing do in the future?" Xie Niannian held on to the wine glass, tilting his head to look at Chi Qing.Before she could answer, he drank a whole glass of wine on his own, and murmured: "I always feel that everything is like a dream."

The breeze was bright and the moon was bright, the lights were flickering, Chi Qing didn't answer, but stepped forward to take Xie Niannian's wine glass.

"You're drunk," she said.Xie Niannian's cold voice in the past seemed to be covered with water in Xie Niannian's ears, making it indistinct.

Chi Qing was thinking about how to get this little drunk back to bed, but Xie Niannian suddenly slapped his thigh, eyes full of surprise: "Why did Chi Qing become three?"

Chi Qing had no choice but to forcibly carry Xie Niannian back to the room.

"Tell you quietly." Xie Niannian stood up with the table propped up, and his breath seemed to have the sweet aroma of rice wine.The shock in her eyes disappeared, replaced by a rare seriousness: "I thought it was because of the 'suspension bridge effect'."

"What is the 'drawbridge effect'?" Chi Qing absent-mindedly responded to Xie Niannian's nonsense, all she wanted was to find a chance to hug this little drunk by the waist.

"That's right, she saved me. In such a tense and exciting situation, I would mistakenly think that I saw her at first sight." Xie Niannian shook, as if he was a little unsteady: "It was love at first sight."

She looked a little confused, as if the pause button was suddenly pressed, and Chi Qing stopped all her movements: "That's wrong, that's not love."

"But why?" Her eyes lost focus, as if she was looking through Chi Qing at a more distant time, a beautiful scene that dazzled her.

"At that time, the wind stopped and the surroundings were quiet, why would I want to kiss her face?"