By Jia Xiuzhen

Several people came to Li Wan's place again this day, and Li Wan was startled. He rushed into the east room, looked at each of them carefully, and complained: "Why is it that the sun is here? It's going to be hot, but what should I do?" Okay?" Busyly asked Suyun Biyue to serve the hot summer soup.

When everyone received it, it was hot. Li Wan saw it and said, "When you come back from this hot place, you can't drink the cold one right away. Instead, you have to use the hot one to blow it off. After that, all the fine sweat will be wiped away." , it’s just right.” After everyone drank it, it was different from what they usually drink.

Suyun said: "It's Xiexia tea, brewed with lotus flowers and a little green tea. It clears the heat and sweats." Guo felt warm in his abdomen, slightly sweaty on his forehead, and his breath became clear.

The east room is very cool, with a fresh breeze coming in through the window, the sweat gradually subsides.Li Wan looked at it and said with a smile: "The ancients said to keep in good health according to the four o'clock. In this midsummer season, you should sweat a little to be comfortable. If you just want to be cool, it's easy to stay with the ice basin and fan for a while." Sick. And this person experienced the heat, and then he felt interesting after eating some cold fruit and sweet soup."

While talking, Suyun brought up a celadon plate, and saw the bluish-yellow fruit on it, the color felt cool, it was the ice crystal fruit grown in Li Wanzhu's world.Li Wan smiled and said: "This thing is not easy to get. The fruit that can only be produced when the branches are covered by ice and snow is called ice crystal fruit. Although it is cold, it does not hurt people. You are here at this time. Fortunately, you have this thing. And Try it."

Jia Lan is used to eating it, so he reached out and took one and immediately bit it.Li Wan tutted, "What a brat."

He took the jade knife, thought for a while and then put it down, and said to the crowd: "Although he is a savage, he is all here with me now, and there is no one else, but this way of eating is the most delicious, and this fruit is not too much for one person to eat. , you can also let go and try."

After speaking, let Suyun take it to everyone, Xichun is the most unscrupulous, holding it with both hands and biting it, I feel that the skin is as thin as a cicada's wing, one bite, the flesh almost pops into the mouth, the sweet and cool taste is straight I can't describe it.Yingchun and Tanchun were all looking at her, just waiting for her to eat and say something, but she kept swallowing one mouthful and then biting another, without even looking at them.

The two looked at each other and started to eat.Daiyu is the most delicate, she just gnawed a little bit of skin after taking a small bite.After she ate half of one, Xichun had already taken the second one, and Jia Lan had already finished two, lying on the couch, stroking her belly comfortably.

After eating, Xichun smiled and said: "After eating this, I'm afraid I won't suffer from heat stroke this summer." Suyun Biyue and the others washed their hands and mouths with warm water.Daiyu is still looking at the sea-blue fruit pit, it is shaped like a peach pit, but the texture is more delicate, and there is no trace of flesh, it looks like a delicate plaything.

Xichun looked at it and said, "Sister-in-law, do you still want to plant this seed? Why don't you give it to me to play with?"

Li Wan laughed and said: "What's so interesting about this? I still plant them. These are wild fruits that grow in the ice and snow in the extreme north. I also happened to get these. Where can I plant them? If you like them, you can take them." Let's go play."

Suyun wiped Jia Lan's hands with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "At first we asked if we could carve a peach basket for my brother to wear, but we didn't expect that even if you hit it with a hammer, it wouldn't move at all. You can only play with walnuts like a man. However, it is not round."

Tanchun said: "The ones that grow in this icy and snowy place must grow slower, and they should be solid."

Suyun took another water and washed the fruit cores again, the cores were not even touched by water droplets, so everyone divided them up and looked at them carefully.Jia Lan suddenly felt hungry, Xichun said, "Didn't you just eat the fruit?"

Jia Lan said: "It's better if you don't eat it. After it's cold, it's full of water, which is more appetizing."

Li Wan asked him, "What do you want to eat? You are about to serve some dim sum."

Jia Lan frowned and said, "You won't be hungry if you eat that. Let's eat some tea." Li Wan said, "It's up to you." Then he ordered Biyue and Primrose to prepare it for him.

Jia Lan got off the kang, sat on the stool by the table, and waited for someone to serve him food.After a while, I saw two people coming in, holding large asparagus tea trays, one with a casserole, a blue and white sunflower bowl with flower and fruit pattern, and three or two blue and white small dishes, with some side dishes, rice scoops and the like; On the other are several blue and white buddha-belly wide-mouthed jars, the small ones are no more than a fist size, and the larger ones are not much bigger. There are also two or three thin-necked phoenix-mouthed bottles, I don't know what they are.

The green beetle brought over a blue-and-white teapot with cloud and dragon patterns, and had already brewed tea, using cloud green from three to five days before and after Grain Rain.Primrose took off the lid of the casserole and found Bi Yingying's rice inside. She scooped it into a sunflower bowl and turned to Jia Lan, "What ingredients do you want?"

Jia Lan said, "Be salty."

Primrose took off a few lidded pots, and put ingredients on the rice with the small spoons inside, one spoonful of golden red, one spoonful of oily brown, one spoonful of black orchid grains, and then picked a handful of shallots, held the teapot high and washed it down Hot tea, a scent spreads out.

Jia Lan took it and said, "Don't leave anything else for now." He took the ebony chopsticks and started eating.

Seeing how delicious he ate, Xichun said with emotion: "I knew I had missed one fruit just now."

Yingchun asked Li Wan, "Sister-in-law, what are those bottles?"

Tanchun also laughed and said, "It's a big battle to eat rice, and it's more trivial than the second brother."

Li Wan said: "You don't know that now he has to eat five or six meals a day. If he has to make something else every time, he doesn't have to do anything else for a day. So they thought of a way to keep this material on hand. He wants It is readily available when you eat it, and you don’t need to wait. If you want to change the taste, you only need to change the ingredients.

It’s nothing unusual, the red one is steamed dried fish with tea oil and shredded, the oily brown one is beef floss, and the slightly blue one is called roe sauce, which is the sauce marinated with caviar. They are all fish floss and ham, but the taste is slightly different.There are seasoning oils in the slender bottle, including mustard oil, pepper oil, pepper oil, and ginger juice. He can add or subtract according to his liking. "

While talking, Jia Lan had already eaten a bowl, and Primrose added another meal for him. This time, he didn't want the beef floss. He just added a few kinds of minced fish roe, and added pepper oil and mustard oil. Get sweaty.

Li Wan said disgustedly: "This sweaty appearance doesn't look like a big brother, but looks like someone who is doing a lot of work."

Yan Momo laughed and said: "Isn't it all grandma who wants to do this? Didn't grandma get my brother to eat this pepper and mustard?"

Li Wan listened to Wang Gu's left and right, but he just didn't talk to each other.Half of the rice in the casserole was gone, and Jia Lanfang said he was full, and Primrose Green waited for him to wash his hands and mouth again.

When he sat back on the kang again, Xichun smiled and said, "Lan'er, you're hungry right now, how can you go to school?"

Jia Lan said: "The time in the morning is short, I eat early, and I just come back to eat; I wake up from a nap and eat a meal before going to school, come back for dinner, and I need to eat another meal before going to bed, or at night." Too hungry to sleep."

Daiyu said: "This is really a good appetite. Lan'er has a good appetite."

Jia Lan said: "Aunt Lin, don't make fun of me. I just took a bath, and this happens every time. In the few days just after taking a bath, I can't keep up with each meal. It will take seven or eight days to slow down. , The number of meals is still quite a lot, I just eat a little less. After a few days, my mother will let me make another ingredient."

Daiyu looked at him for a while and said with a smile, "Lan'er eats a lot, why doesn't she grow up?"

Jia Lan said: "I'm laying the foundation. When my body is strong, I will definitely grow into a big man in the future."

Yingchun couldn't stop laughing at the desk when she heard this, and Tanchun also laughed and said, "How can your son grow up to be a big man!"

Jia Lan proudly said: "I'm going to practice riding and shooting tomorrow. Naturally, I have to grow up to be a big man. Only by sitting on a tall horse can I have momentum."

Xichun patted his hands and said seriously: "Lan'er is very ambitious, our great-grandfather and grandpa are all heroes who will conquer the world immediately." Everyone couldn't stop laughing when Xichun said that the Duke of the country was like a hero in the green forest.

Yingchun was still thinking about Jia Lan's five or six meals a day, so she finally stopped laughing and asked Jia Lan, "Then Laner, what do you eat for breakfast today?"

Li Wan said with a smile: "Those small things in the mansion can't stop him, now Primrose Green is busy all morning, and sometimes I have to spare Biyue."

Primrose came up and said: "The dumplings I ate this morning are stuffed with chicken and mushrooms, shrimp and amaranth."

Yingchun said: "Do you want to eat three kinds of stuffing in the morning?"

Primrose said: "Yes, ten of each kind of stuffing, we got up early to make it."

Li Wan pointed at Jia Lan and said, "You're playing tricks again! You didn't make trouble for such a trivial meal in the morning. Why don't you just eat a bowl of noodles at will?"

Tanchun said: "Brother Lan wants to eat, but my sister-in-law still thinks he is making trouble. If Baoyu wants to eat something in the morning, it may be pheasant, and the old lady will let her be caught in the woods immediately."

Li Wan said: "Second Uncle Bao is a delicate person, if he eats nonsense like him every day, the old lady will not be like that."

Yan Momo smiled and said: "If it's early today, if you get up early, you can only make a few dumplings and squeeze a few wontons. It's so much trouble. And seeing my brother eat deliciously, we are also happy."

Bi Yue also said: "That's right, we also follow Zhanguang to eat some fresh food every day."

Li Wan waved his hand and said: "Yes, yes, everyone speaks for you, and I don't know what to do with you."

Jia Lan raised her face and said with a smile: "Sister Suyun said, watching me eat, I can whet my appetite. This year, it's not a very hot summer." Suyun and Biyue nodded and said it was true.

Daiyu also said: "I usually struggle to eat plums. Today's fruit is delicious. The other is also seeing Lan'er eating deliciously. I feel that I will lose money if I don't eat more."

Li Wan said with a smile: "Since that's the case, you will come to eat with him every day. I'm afraid that the cooking rules will have to be changed."

Xichun said: "It's hard to say every day, but today I'm going to eat at sister-in-law's place. Sister-in-law doesn't need to prepare anything, I just have a bowl of tea and rice."

Yingchun put her arms around her and said with a smile: "Fourth sister is waiting for her stomach to be empty, so she can eat that bowl of tea and rice."

Tanchun said to Li Wan: "Sister-in-law, please dote on her a bit. If I can't eat today, maybe I won't be able to sleep at night."

Li Wan said: "We were discussing to have a rough meal for dinner during the day, since you have come to the door by yourself, don't cry in front of your ancestors then."

He also ordered people to go to Jia Mu's place to inform the meeting, and the girl replied with a smile: "The old lady said, as soon as she saw a few people going out, she knew that she must be at Grandma's place. I guess I can save dinner tonight. I just have a word to tell you, I'm afraid that Miss Shi will come today, so let's go back and meet after dinner." Everyone got up and accepted Jia Mu's words.

Tanchun asked, "We'll stay, does Second Brother know?"

The girl replied: "Second Master Bao is not with the old lady at the moment, and the old lady said that he will have dinner with Miss Shi, so it's all right if you think about it."

Tanchun nodded and said: "The two of them have always been good friends, I'm afraid I'd be happier if I found out."

Daiyu was asking Jia Lan what kind of rough food it was, but Jia Lan refused to say that Aunt Daolin would know by then.However, Li Wan thought about Shi Xiangyun's arrival, how to arrange the residence, I am afraid that he will live with Daiyu or Sanchun, if only in one room, it would be fine, but now they are a little bigger, and they still sleep in the same bed, others don't say, Daiyu Yuding can't sleep peacefully.I have a little bit of care in my heart, and I will only talk about it in the evening.

Seeing that the sun was getting lower, Jia Lan led everyone to play on the lawn in the backyard. It was in the shade. It was already cool, and there were green bamboos and fine grass. They all fell in love with this place.Li Wan served tea and warm drinks again, and took Jiulianhuan, Qiaoxinfang, Liuli chess and so on for everyone to play with. Daiyu and Jialan talked about the books they had read before, and talked about the ancient people's fun in summer, and lamented Jialan. Min Hui.Yingchun and Tanchun play chess, Xichun walks back and forth on the lawn with Ruhua, picking flowers for fun.Li Wan'an sat aside, with a cup of tea in his hand, savoring the tranquility of the deep courtyard in summer, with the daily door closed for leisure and serenity.