Chapter 12: Monitoring the Falling Iron Cauldron
Fortunately, Zhou Yuesheng was quick to act. He put his shoulder on her back and walked out while half-hugging her.
"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Chen Zhao's face turned pale and he wished he could slap himself ten times.
Yu Yue heard the noise and hurriedly pushed his wheelchair towards the kitchen. However, he failed to control the direction and his wheels were blocked by the door frame.
Due to inertia, he rushed forward and fell to the ground.
Seeing Yu Zhile so close, but unable to get closer, he hammered the ground in anger.
"Yu Yue!" Chen Zhao quickly carried him back to the wheelchair.
At this point, the live broadcast room was in an uproar, with viewers asking about the situation.
xxxx's brain circuit was distorted, and he regarded the special effects music of the sea of clouds as a means of awakening, and smashed more than a hundred seas of clouds.
A series of tinkling sounds rang out in Yu Zhile's mind, and his thoughts gradually came back to him.
Before she walked out of the kitchen, she grabbed Zhou Yuesheng's hand, opened her eyes suddenly, and her vision was clear.
"I'm fine." Yu Zhile smiled at the three people who were looking at her worriedly, "I remembered something about Zhang Caihong."
As she spoke, she recalled the fragment of memory that just flashed through her mind, her eyes dim.
"Put slices of ginger and green onions in the bottom of the pot, pour the mussels directly in, and turn on the fire."
The three of them didn't let Yu Zhile do anything, and the cooking job was taken over by Chen Zhao and Zhou Yuesheng.
Before going to the countryside, Chen Zhao was a young master who had never touched housework, so Yu Zhile gave him the two simplest dishes to cook.
Chen Zhao hesitated: "Sister, do we really not need to add water? Won't the dry-boiling pot explode?"
"No, there is juice in the clams, and they will be more delicious and sweet if cooked dry," Yu Zhile explained.
Chen Zhao lit the fire and kept an eye on the clams in the pot.
On the other side, the dough had been proofed for more than ten minutes. Zhou Yuesheng took it out and placed it on the chopping board, kneading it into a smooth dough.
The next step is to roll the dough into evenly thin sheets and then fold and cut into strips.
Zhou Yuesheng's movements were skillful and smooth. He cut the noodles with the knife in one swoop, as if they were measured with a ruler. It didn't seem like it was his first time making hand-rolled noodles.
Put the noodles into the pot with warm water, add cold water twice during the cooking process, rinse them with cold water after they are cooked, drain and set aside.
"Xiao Zhao, blanch the asparagus for one minute, remove it from the pot and rinse it with cold water, then add seasoning." Yu Zhile was amused when he saw Chen Zhao staring at the pot intently.
"Ah?" Chen Zhao came back to his senses in a daze and looked at Yu Zhile with a puzzled look.
She had no choice but to repeat the method of making asparagus again.
Chen Zhao took another clay pot, boiled water, and when he saw the water bubbling, he poured in the asparagus. He counted the time nervously, and soon the cold dish was ready without a second's wasting.
Some viewers laughed when they saw his appearance, and said that they also cook like Chen Zhao.
After a while, the clams were out of the pot and Zhou Yuesheng started to make yellow croaker noodles.
Heat the oil in a pan, add one third of the marinated yellow croaker and fry until it turns yellow, mash the meat, add boiling water, wait until the soup becomes milky white, add the noodles and simmer for two minutes, then divide into four bowls.
In another pan, pour a small amount of oil and fry the remaining yellow croaker pieces. When the surface is browned, cover the noodles with it.
When all the dishes were served, the different aromas intertwined together, making the audience love and hate Zhile.
"See you in the next live broadcast." Yu Zhile walked at the end and ended the live broadcast quietly.
Zhou Yuesheng looked back at her, and she blinked at him.
Chen Zhao prefers spicy crabs. The delicate and sweet crab meat is perfectly combined with the spicy taste. He eats one piece after another and doesn't want to stop even when his lips turn red from the spiciness.
The clams are sweet and juicy, the cold-mixed asparagus is crispy and delicious, and Yu Zhile prefers the yellow croaker noodles.
The yellow croaker meat is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, the noodles are chewy, and the soup is just the right amount of salty, which is truly a unique dish.
"It's amazing that it tasted so good the first time." She was satisfied with the meal and praised Zhou Yuesheng with a smile.
Zhou Yuesheng paused what he was doing and lowered his head to hide the slightly raised corners of his mouth.
After dinner, Yu Zhile went into the house and lay on the bed to check the live broadcast data.
It is too inconvenient to cook with a clay pot, so she wants to unlock the platform mall to see if there is an iron pot for sale.
The accumulated popularity of the live broadcast has reached 300,000, which just meets the unlocking conditions of the primary mall.
"Xiao Yun, how do I unlock the mall?" Yu Zhile asked.
An option appeared directly in the center of the screen and she chose yes.
After learning that it would take six hours to unlock the mall, Yu Zhile looked at other live broadcasts on the homepage and decided to close the page and go to sleep.
Xiaoyun stopped her and said, "Host, the platform is holding the first quarter anchor PK competition. The champion reward is to unlock the intermediate mall. Do you want to participate?"
The registration channel took over the entire screen along with her voice.
Yu Zhile looked at the rules of the competition. The ranking assessment criteria is the accumulated popularity in the first half month after the competition, and 5 million popularity is required to unlock the intermediate mall, so he clicked to participate.
"I wish the host to win the championship." Xiaoyun wished.
Not long after, Yu Zhile fell into a sound sleep. When he opened his eyes again, it was already dark, and the sound of a clearly suppressed argument could be heard from the yard.
"I'll do it. I know how to kill the fish. Like this, like this, and like this." Chen Zhao gestured with his hands and feet.
Zhou Yuesheng glanced at him, scraped off the scales, removed the tail, thorns, removed the gills, and cut the whole thing in one go.
"That's right! Brother-in-law, you are so smart!" Chen Zhao said excitedly, "It can be steamed now."
Place ginger slices and scallion segments on the bottom and steam over high heat for about six minutes.
A faint fragrance spread in the courtyard, attracting the birds to crawl towards the stove.
"Chop some green onions, add soy sauce after taking it out of the pot, and then pour some hot oil on it." Chen Zhao murmured to consolidate the steps he had finally remembered.
Yu Zhile was amused by him and laughed out loud, and everyone noticed her standing in front of the door.
The main course for tonight is still yellow croaker noodles, paired with steamed sea bass that is rich in fish flavor, sweet and tender, giving it a unique flavor.
Late at night, Zhou Yuesheng went out again. Today was the day he would meet his retired military friend in town.
Among his friend's family of five, four were martyrs. He himself was injured during the mission and had his lower leg amputated. After retiring from the army, he returned to the Haidong Town Armed Forces Department and concurrently managed the police station.
His life was saved by Zhou Yuesheng, who had absolute trust in him.
"My aunt Yu Peilan is the workshop director of the provincial capital canning factory, and my uncle He Youan is a retired member of the special forces, and his code name is unknown."
"Yu Zhile has been raised in the He family since he was in school, and has rarely had contact with his parents. He attended high school in the provincial capital's No. 1 Middle School, and has been back in Haiyu Village for less than a month."
"She has been an excellent student since she was young. She only has one close male friend, Sheng Lanyue. We checked and found nothing suspicious."
"I personally think the rice in her house was from Yu Haiguang."
As he spoke, Ning Tan handed Zhou Yuesheng a cigarette.
The match struck the sandpaper, and he lit the cigarette in his mouth, waiting until the smoke enveloped his face before he spoke again.
He said: "Yu Haiguang did not leave any video records."
Zhou Yuesheng rubbed the tobacco with his fingertips, and the mellow and rich smell penetrated into his nose, making him calmer.
He and Ning Tan both knew what it meant to have no video footage left.
"Generally speaking, it is unlikely that Yu Zhile is a spy, but Yu Haiguang may be the one who stabs you in the back." Ning Tan expressed his guess.
Zhou Yuesheng pondered and sorted out the known clues.
Most of the time, the ambient sound when Yu Zhile was talking to himself was quite mixed, so the eavesdropping hypothesis was unrealistic.
Jumping into the sea, talking to oneself at certain times, and fantasizing.
Words popped up in Zhou Yuesheng's mind one by one, and his eyes darkened.
Seeing this, Ning Tan patted Zhou Yuesheng on the shoulder. He also came from the special forces and could understand the pain of being betrayed by a comrade-in-arms with whom he had been with day and night.
"Check Zhang Caihong from Haiyu Village and Jiang Shangqing from the cowshed." Zhou Yuesheng raised his eyes with a calm expression.
Ning Tan extinguished his cigarette and replied, "Okay, come find me in five days."
Zhou Yuesheng stood up and left, but stopped at the door.
"What?" Ning Tan was puzzled.
"I'll send an iron pot to Yu's house tomorrow. Remember the money and I'll give it to you later." Zhou Yuesheng said this and disappeared into the night.
Ning Tan stood there in a daze, bursting out laughing.
The next two days were filled with news of the death, and Yu Zhile decided to do another live broadcast of the mountain-climbing excursion.
The wild vegetables on the back hillside have been almost picked up. There has been no rain, and there are few mushrooms.
Yu Zhile wanted to pick some mugwort to make green rice dumplings, so they changed the route to go up the mountain.
The new route has a gentler slope and the grass beside the path is lush and green.
After participating in the anchor PK competition, Yu Zhile got the opportunity to promote his homepage, and many new viewers joined the live broadcast room.
The lush green scene created a small wave in the live broadcast room, and dense barrages of comments occupied the live screen.
"Mugwort." Yu Zhile bent down and touched the fine hairs on the surface of the leaves.
The live broadcast time then switched to the first-person perspective, and a rich herbal aroma diffused around her.
[It smells a bit good, I like it. 】
【Anchor, I want to buy it. 】
[Anchor, can I eat it? ]
"It's edible. Make green rice balls." Yu Zhile straightened up.
They planned to return along the same route and go down the mountain to pick more mugwort.
Going further up the mountain, the two passed by a flat bamboo forest, where the melodious sound of birdsong was accompanied by the melodious fragrance.
Yu Zhile's pace slowed down.
"Honeysuckle, transplanted and planted in the yard, can clear away heat and detoxify." She suddenly pointed to a corner of the grass.
Zhou Yuesheng followed her line of sight and found a plant in bloom.
The white and yellow flowers bloomed brilliantly, complementing each other, and the faint fragrance wafted over your face.
He was very careful when digging, for fear of damaging the roots, and after digging them out, he wrapped the roots with wet mud.
"It can improve the survival rate of plants." Zhou Yuesheng suddenly said.
Yu Zhile agreed with a smile, his eyes sparkling.
After leaving the bamboo forest, the trees suddenly became tall and the leaves were dense. Occasionally, sunlight leaked through the gaps between the leaves and shone on the brown land.
Yu Zhile spotted a distinctive mulberry plant in the dense woods. When he got closer, he found that it was a mulberry tree full of fruits.
The branches are full of glossy purple-black fruits, which emit an enticing sweet smell.
"These are mulberries. The purple-black ones are ripe fruits. The purple-red ones are also edible, but they will be a bit sour." Yu Zhile pinched one and put it in his mouth.
The perfect sweet and sour taste quickly spread and invaded her taste buds.
To prevent mulberries from being bumped, she wrapped several large bags with mulberry leaves and carefully put them into the backpack.
"This is wolfberry leaf, slightly bitter, and can be used to make wolfberry leaf pork offal hotpot or fish head soup."
"Ferns are best when fried with bacon, but we don't have any bacon at home, so I won't pick any today."
"That's a jujube, it's a little bitter, I don't like to eat it, so I won't pick it."
Yu Zhile walked and stopped along the small slope, introducing many edible plants, but there were only mulberries in the two people's backpacks.
[Anchor, location, let me come! I love it! ]
[The poor who can't afford to go to the greenhouse botanical garden are envious. 】
[Why is there so many plants on the host's planet! They are all edible. I want to settle there! ]
Yu Zhile squinted his eyes and looked at the comments for a while, then pointed to a tree and said, "That's what I want to pick."
The densely packed black fruits lying on the tree trunk look a bit creepy.
"This is a grape from the tree. The ones that are soft when squeezed are ripe and sweet." Yu Zhile picked the nearest one and demonstrated.
Zhou Yuesheng climbed up the tree and Yu Zhile was under the tree. The two of them picked the ripe ones and picked half a basket.
After that, they wandered around the mountain for a while and introduced some edible plants.
During this period, Zhou Yuesheng occasionally said a word or two, acting as a competent supporting actor.
This time, Yu Zhile didn't pick much on the mountain. He only picked a few egg fruits and then took Zhou Yuesheng back along the same route to pick mugwort leaves and go down the mountain.
"Yu Zhile."
Near the cowshed, a girl stopped Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile turned around and saw a girl with neat short hair.
She remembered the person in front of her - Zhang Wenxin, the old branch secretary's granddaughter, who had also studied in the provincial capital.
"Yu Zhile, let's be friends." Zhang Wenxin said cheerfully.
She is a person with lofty ambitions, determined to improve the level of spiritual civilization in Haiyu Village.
She returned to the village earlier than Yu Zhile and is currently planning to organize literacy classes, but things are not going smoothly.
Yu Zhile caught a glimpse of the dodging figure, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he held Zhang Wenxin's hand.
"There's a good show waiting for you." As Zhang Wenxin left, Yu Zhile tilted his head and smiled towards where Zhang Caihong was hiding.
Her smile was no longer as warm as usual and looked a little creepy. Zhou Yuesheng just felt depressed.
The next second, Yu Zhile saw the iron pot in front of his house and his face was full of surprise.
She looked at Zhou Yuesheng first.
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