Strange Tale of Qingluan

In the afternoon, there was a heavy snowfall on Yuquan Mountain, and Su Zhongming and his group could only stay in the room, chatting while warming up the fire, doing nothing but full of unrestrained joy, which made people envious.

Wen Qian came here specially from the main courtyard, and brought some fruits and snacks. There are crispy sugar twists in the snacks, which she likes better. Then she sat in the middle of everyone, chatting with everyone and eating twists , seems to have completely forgotten the unpleasant things that happened in the hall before.

When the evening just arrived, Mei Yinghong began to order her servants to arrange dinner for these guests who came from afar, and prepared a hot pot feast for them.On the big square Kang, there is a bald square pier in the center. The pier is hollow, which is the same as the stove below. There are several soft cushions around the pier, which is undoubtedly built specially for hot pot in winter.

When this group of people first entered the room, several young maids were busy. Some squatted under the big kang and stuffed dry wood into the stove, preparing to light the fire; On the pier, the pot is stuck in the center by a snake-shaped iron sheet, which is divided into heaven and earth, half of which is filled with spicy soup, and the other half is ordinary soup, commonly known as "Mandarin Duck Pot".

There is also a large hollow round table on the pier, and the thin slices of mutton, beef, pork, and sashimi on the plates are placed on the table.Those fresh wild mushrooms, thinly sliced ​​fragrant winter bamboo shoots, snow-white yams cut into diamond-shaped thick slices, cubed white radish and corn, thinly sliced ​​cabbage, green, red and yellow gluten, emerald shrimp balls... ...Wait, it's all on the table too.

There are also three bowls of hot and sour, sweet and spicy, spicy and salty hot sauces in bowls on the table, a large plate of coriander, a large plate of green onion, three bowls of miso juice, three bowls of mature vinegar, two bowls of diced celery, two bowls of Fragrant white sesame seeds, four bowls of sesame oil, three bowls of fermented bean curd, two bowls of mashed garlic, two bowls of millet pepper, and three bowls of sweet sauce. Even though they are still raw and cold ingredients that have not been cooked in the pot, they are delicious in color and aroma.

"Guests, please sit down! What are you doing just standing there?" Mei Yinghong dressed up meticulously, and then arrived in a hurry with her newly-acquainted daughter, her lips parted with a smile.

Su Zhongming said politely: "The Patriarch has not arrived, how dare we take our seats without authorization."

Mei Yinghong answered, "Then please take your seats now." After speaking, she took Wen Qian to the kang first, sat cross-legged on the soft cushion, and asked Wen Qian to sit beside her. He didn't sit down for a long time.

As soon as Su Zhongming came up, Wen Qian immediately seized the opportunity to give him a hand and let him sit next to her.

Su Zhongming didn't mind sitting in this position, and when he was done, he turned around and gently pulled Li Xuan, patted the soft cushion beside him, and said, "Sit here, no one is sitting here."

Yang Bin looked at the seat where Su Zhongming was sitting, and felt very uncomfortable seeing Wen Qian sitting with him, and then found that the seat next to Mei Yinghong was empty, and that was the only one who was fairly close to Wen Qian. However, it was precisely because Mei Yinghong was sitting next to the empty seat that she couldn't help but hesitate.

Ye Shuangshuang didn't care about Yang Bin's thoughts, as soon as she got on the kang, she sat directly beside Mei Yinghong, and Fei'er didn't care about Yang Bin's subsequent expression, and called Gong He to sit beside her.

Yang Bin watched them take down the two positions closest to Wen Qian one by one, feeling more and more frustrated. Yi Yeqing passed by him and sat down in Gonghe Beside him, he also ignored him.

Su Zhongming turned his head again, he was only too busy telling Yi Tian to take A Lin Tianduo to sit in the two seats next to Li Xuan, and he had no time to pay attention to Yang Bin.Finally, there was only one seat left at the table, and Yang Bin had no other choice.

When everyone was seated, they moved their chopsticks and put vegetables and meat into the boiling hot pot soup. Only Yi Tian turned his head, and only this little ghost noticed that there was an empty seat beside him, and only he noticed Yang Bin was still standing behind everyone like a log in a daze.

"Yang, aren't you hungry? Why don't you sit down?"

Yang Bin didn't know whether to be happy or sad to be cared by a little ghost, but he just sat on the only cushion that was not occupied with bitterness in his heart.

A group of people sat and ate together, and the atmosphere was always happy, talking and laughing, but Yang Bin was the only one who was eating delicious food sullenly, and his eyes were always staring at Su Zhongming and Wen Qian.

In order to please Su Zhongming, Wen Qian picked up the spare chopsticks from time to time, volunteered to help Su Zhongming pick the meat that Li Xuan wanted to eat from the hot soup, and handed it to Su Zhongming, successfully getting Su Zhongming's smile and "thank you".

Yang Bin watched, gritted his teeth secretly from time to time, he didn't hate Su Zhongming, he just hated Wen Qian, a girl who was too blind, and only admired the handsome scholar-like kid, but didn't know how to appreciate him from the scorching sun and wind on the plateau. A masculine and masculine Toro country man made by snow.

Wen Qian didn't raise her head to look at Yang Bin at all, she didn't glance at her, her two big smiling eyes just moved back and forth between Mei Yinghong and Su Zhongming, talking and laughing as well, she didn't care about Yang Bin at all. Bin's existence.

This meal was very slow, and it took more than half an hour to eat up all the food on the table. However, because the meal was opened earlier, even if more than half an hour passed, when they came out of the dining room, the sky was still the same. It didn't turn black, it just seemed to be covered with a large haze, a little gray.

The thin snow that just fell from the sky covered the original snow on the ground. It was extremely cold, but this group of people had just eaten their fill and drank some wine. Their bodies wrapped in thick cotton, thick linen and fleece were warm. Yes, a thin layer of blush appeared on her cheeks, and she was not afraid of the cold outside at all.

Su Zhongming didn't want to move at all because he had just eaten and drank enough. He just stood in the corridor outside the dining room door, and the other men did the same. Only girls and children were the most lively. As long as one of them ran out and ran into the snow In the middle of the day, other girls and children also ran over and grabbed the snow on the ground to play snowball fights. The men just stood there and watched.

Seeing those snowballs flying back and forth in mid-air, and hitting the target with extreme force, Su Zhongming was a little worried, and couldn't help shouting at them: "Hey! Be careful! Don't throw the wrong ball randomly! Come here!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a snowball flew towards Su Zhongming. Su Zhongming's reaction was quite sensitive. When he saw a dangerous object coming through the air, he quickly raised his right hand to block it. The instigator complained: "Didn't I just say, don't throw random things here, did you do it on purpose!"

The instigator, Wen Qian, twisted her ass triumphantly in the snow, stuck out her tongue and made a face, instead of apologizing, she bullied others, and replied: "So what, so what? Here is my second My family, I can do whatever I want!" Then he showed a more smug smile.

In front of Mei Yinghong, Su Zhongming didn't dare to do anything to this lively girl, so he could only stare at her complainingly.

Mei Yinghong said to Su Zhongming: "Okay, I should go back to the small building, there are still things waiting for me to do, Wen Qian will leave it to you to watch, but don't let her play for too long gone."

Su Zhongming replied: "Master Mei Zhuang, don't worry."

Just as Mei Yinghong left, Wen Qian threw a second snowball at Su Zhongming. When Su Zhongming turned around, he saw a big snowball approaching, so he hurriedly moved away. The snowball hit Yang Yang behind him. Bin, hit Yang Bin's mouth.

Yang Bin covered the painful mouth with one hand, raised one hand, and pointed his index finger at Wen Qian, who was pouted. He wanted to complain to her, but suddenly he was dumbfounded, and wanted to change his words to remind her that there was a snowball. It was shooting from beside her, coming towards her.

However, before Yang Bin blurted out "be careful", the snowball hit Wen Qian hard on the back of the head.Wen Qian was naturally very angry, she turned her head when she got angry, raised her hand with glaring eyes, pointed at the girls and children in front of her, and blurted out: "Who did it! Who dares to hit me!?"

The strange thing is that the girls and the children waved their hands and shook their heads tacitly.

Wen Qian said angrily: "It wasn't one of you who did it, how could there be a snowball hitting my aunt on my head!?"

The girls and the children said in a tacit understanding, "it fell from the sky", "it probably fell from the sky".

Wen Qian was so angry that her eyes turned green, but Su Zhongming laughed out loud in the corridor.

"Hahahahaha! Feng Shui turns around, this sentence is not false at all!"

When Wen Qian heard the words, she turned her head immediately, glared at Su Zhongming, and cursed: "Feng Shui Wheel! If you dare to speak sarcastic words again, I will throw ten more snowballs at you!"

Yang Bin complained, "Wen Qian, the snowball you threw just now hurt me so much, why don't you care about me?"

Wen Qian rolled his eyes at him, snorted softly, and ignored him.

Yang Bin lowered his head slightly, his sadness almost turned into an internal injury, and he felt a dull pain in his heart.

The snow was slowly falling, and Yi Yeqing couldn't help but shouted at the lively figures outside, "It's snowing hard, come back quickly!"

This cry was very effective. Several people who were playing in the snow ran back together, including Wen Qian.

Su Zhongming watched the snow falling continuously from the sky, after a moment of daze, he had a flash of inspiration, and said to everyone: "That's right! Do you want to eat ice cream?"

"Ice cream? What is ice cream?" Fei'er was confused.

Everyone was confused at the same time.

Su Zhongming didn't want to explain too much for a modern vocabulary, he just said: "As long as there is butter, bowls and chopsticks, fruit juice, sugar, it is best to have cooked goat's milk, and some snowflakes, you can make ice cream, which is most suitable for summer have eaten."

Fei'er is still puzzled: "But, it's winter now, eating this food in the cold weather will definitely hurt your stomach, right?"

Su Zhongming said generously: "It doesn't matter, as long as you don't have an empty stomach, there won't be any major problems. Besides, it's just eating once in a while."

Ye Shuangshuang thought about it, and replied: "I haven't eaten this kind of food, but it sounds delicious, so I want to try it."

Su Zhongming immediately said: "We have to get the materials quickly while the snow is still falling, and then pick up a plate of white snow!"

Wen Qian is also very interested in ice cream. Hearing what Su Zhongming said, she said decisively: "Well! You wait here first, and I will ask someone to bring the things over!" After finishing speaking, she ran into the snow, braving the snow run forward.

Yang Bin hurriedly said: "I'll go with you! I'll help you block the snow!" Shouting, he quickly chased after Wen Qian, and when he caught up with Wen Qian, he immediately raised his sleeves and put them on top of her head.

After a while, Wen Qian came back with two servants. Yang Bin held an oil-paper umbrella and walked beside her, protecting her from the snow that fell from the sky.

The servants put the wooden trays on the table in the dining room. There were several bowls and plates in the tray, one plate contained several fruits, one plate contained a little sugar, one bowl contained clotted cream, and one bowl contained It contained goat's milk, and there were a few small bowls and two plates that contained nothing.

Su Zhongming picked up a handful of bishou in the tray and began to peel the fruit, Kai Lip also remembered to order: "Hurry up and pick up the snowflakes while you have the time, and pick up a big plate."

The servants looked at each other, each took two plates and went out.

Su Zhongming peeled off the peel, cut it into pieces, wrapped the chunky flesh with gauze, put it in a pounding bowl, and pounded it vigorously with a stick in his hand to get out the juice.

"How can we help?" Ye Shuangshuang looked on and asked with open mouth.

"The other guys just stood by and wandered around casually. Girls... help me mix the butter, sugar, and cooked goat's milk together, so that it tastes delicious!" Su Zhongming replied while pounding the pulp.

After Wen Qian heard this, she immediately followed suit. Together with Ye Shuangshuang and Fei'er, she used a porcelain spoon to scoop out some cream, some cooked goat's milk, and some sugar, and put them in a small bowl and stirred them evenly.

Su Zhongming smashed out the juice and put the crushed fruit into their small bowls, telling them to continue stirring.

After a while, servants came into the house and brought back two large trays of snow piled high from the outside.

Su Zhongming ordered the girls to use the bottom of a porcelain spoon to gently push the mixture in the bowl to make it parallel to the edge of the bowl, and then told them to put the small bowl on the tray, turn the plate upside down to cover the bowl, and then, Put the two large plates of white snow on the tray, submerge all these small bowls, cover them tightly, and ask the servants to pick up the snow again.

"Ice it for a while." Su Zhongming told everyone.

The girls and children stared at the wooden pallets piled with crystal-clear snow, imagining in their hearts what the result would look like inside.

Time passed for a long time, until the snow outside stopped, until it was dark, the small bowls were still hidden under the white snow, but the girls and children were still sitting in the house, looking at the wooden trays, and Waiting, even if you are bored, you don't find any topic to chat with to pass the time.

Finally, Yang Bin couldn't bear it any longer. He was the first to break the silence, and he opened his mouth and said, "My surname is Su, and you said to freeze for a while, but your 'while' is too long. Is it okay? We are not allowed to light a fire to keep warm, we are almost frozen to death."

After hesitating for a while, Su Zhongming finally decided to go over and take a look. Not afraid of the coldness of the frozen bones exposed by the white snow, he directly used his hands to scrape away the snowdrift, dug out the small bowl, and gently poked the half-frozen powder in the bowl with a porcelain spoon. After the ice cream melted on the tongue, he immediately smiled and told everyone happily: "It's done! You can eat it!"

The girl and the child immediately jumped up and cheered up, rushing to the table, grabbing a small bowl and scrambling for the porcelain spoon.

Su Zhongming added temporarily: "However, the weight of a bowl is quite a lot, it's best to share a bowl with two people."

Fei'er looked down at the bowl she had snatched, reluctant to put it down, held the cold bowl tightly, and replied stubbornly: "Anyway, it's just this time, it shouldn't matter if I eat a bowl by myself."

Su Zhongming reminded her: "Didn't you say before that you would ruin your stomach?"

Fei'er felt guilty for a while, and changed her words cheekily: "I said it according to medical theory. It's a rare time for such a delicious food. Why don't you eat it? Anyway, it's just this time..."

Su Zhongming had no choice but to say nothing.

Fei'er and Ye Shuangshuang smiled happily at each other, one said 'this color is so pretty', and the other echoed 'Yes, it must be delicious'.After the words fell, both of them scooped up the ice cream at the same time, put it into their mouths at the same time, looked at each other, and said happily, "It's ice cream, but it's so sweet and fragrant".

Wen Qian was relatively calm while holding the bowl, and she took a sip lightly by herself, with a faint smile on her lips, not casually letting others see the joy in her heart at this moment.

Yitian didn't dare to eat so much, and was always worried that if he ate too much, he would run to the latrine in the middle of the night, so he and A Lintian were more than half divided.

Gong He looked at those girls and children eating ice cream, and couldn't help laughing: "Seeing you eating, I want to eat too."

Fei'er glanced back at the table, and blurted out: "Here's another bowl, whoever wants to eat it can eat it, but I want to tell you, this thing is not only ice-cold, but also very sweet and slippery!"

"Actually, I also like to eat sweets." Gong He said, and immediately walked to the table generously, and took the last bowl of ice cream rudely.

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