Chapter 34
After deciding to eat hotpot, Cheng Shangen started preparing. He thought that the house would be full of the smell after eating hotpot and Li Zhien was clumsy and it would be difficult to clean up, so he let her clean up and go to Cheng Shangen's house to eat.
After asking for her opinion, Cheng Shangen called Jiang Junying and Lou Zilin, saying, "Sister Jin has returned to China, so we can have fun at home today!"
Hearing Cheng Shangen say that she was going to the supermarket to buy food, Li Zhien also wanted to go together, so the two met at Li Zhien's house first.
Lee Ji-eun was shocked when she saw Cheng Shang-eun: "Oh my god, unnie! Why did you come here like this without any disguise at all?"
Cheng Shangen smiled and said, "I'm not here to have a tryst with you, what are you afraid of?"
Li Zhien couldn't help laughing and went back to the room to get a bucket hat and a mask for her to wear: "Let's go, otherwise if you are recognized, it will definitely disturb your interest in shopping in the supermarket."
Cheng Shangen also let her wear it obediently.
After going downstairs, both of them were at a private event and neither of them knew how to drive. Fortunately, the taxi they hailed was driven by an old man who didn't recognize them. He listened to their happy conversation and even joined in a few words.
After arriving at the supermarket, Lee Ji-eun finally understood why Cheng Shangen didn't pretend at all. This is a typical supermarket for rich people. The things there are twice as expensive as those in ordinary supermarkets, so naturally there are not many people.
But no matter how few there are, there are still people there, so it's better to be cautious.
Cheng Shangen and Li Zhien held hands and only let go when they arrived at the supermarket and pushed the shopping cart in to go shopping.
The two of them clearly came to buy hot pot ingredients, but they both involuntarily walked to the snack area.
"Ji'en, what flavor do you want~" Cheng Shang'en asked without turning his head while still picking things from the shelf.
Lee Ji-eun looked at the many snacks in the car helplessly: "Ani, unni, if you eat too much you will get fat. I have gained weight recently."
"Would you like some chocolate?" Cheng Shangen asked.
"Yes!" Without any hesitation.
After saying that, Cheng Shangen turned around and looked at her, and they both smiled at each other speechlessly.
So a series of snacks including melon seeds, nuts, potato chips, chocolate and plums had already occupied a shopping cart. The two were speechless as they looked at themselves. Lee Ji-eun took a photo of the shopping cart and couldn't stop laughing: "Are we really female celebrities? We will probably get fat to death if we keep going like this."
Cheng Shangen couldn't stop laughing either. He hadn't been to a supermarket for a long time, so he couldn't control himself all of a sudden. But even though they were laughing, neither of them was willing to put the things back on the shelf, so they could only push a shopping cart.
Only then did we start buying ingredients for the hot pot.
Cheng Shangen was not stingy when buying hot pot ingredients. The two of them bought a lot and took several portions of meat alone. Fortunately, the supermarket had good prices and they didn't have to pick and choose, all were good.
While Cheng Shangen was buying vegetables, his cell phone rang.
Jin Xiche called her.
"Sean, you have to go online. You haven't played the game in a long time. Aren't you itching to play?" The first thing they did was talk about the game.
"Myaneyo Oppa, we probably can't play today." Cheng Shangen said as he put the Chinese spinach into the shopping cart.
"Ah! Wei! You are a little too busy!" Jin Xiche was very dissatisfied. Cheng Shangen played the game too rarely.
Cheng Shangen replied calmly: "I'm going to make hot pot at home today and treat my friends to it."
The other end was slightly stunned, and then "Gurgle"
"I am so disappointed that my saliva starts to flow automatically when I hear the word "hotpot".
"Isn't Oppa your friend?" Jin Xicheol raised his voice.
Cheng Shangen couldn't help but laugh: "Ani, I didn't know you were free, Oppa."
"Then I can go too if it starts in the evening, right?" Jin Xiche asked. He really loves hotpot.
Seeing Li Zhien nodding at her with a smile, Cheng Shangen said, "Then I'll send you the address. If you want to eat anything, I can buy some for you at the supermarket."
Jin Xiche was very happy: "As long as there is wine, it will be fine. I won't disturb your other friends if they are here, right?"
Cheng Shangen shook his head: "No, there aren't many people, just my two assistants and Zhien, so I'll continue shopping in the supermarket."
Jin Xiche nodded, and was very happy after hanging up. Let’s eat hotpot.
Cheng Shangen and Li Zhien spent two hours dawdling in the supermarket. When they were together, they were like a newlywed couple and wanted to look at everything, including the pots and pans, and even discussed the skin care products in the supermarket.
When checking out, the two of them were vying to pay, but the cashier looked at them without rushing them and had a big smile on his face.
Cheng Shangen scolded in a low voice: "Li Zhien, what's wrong with you?! I almost thought you were Chinese. Why are you so Chinese when paying?"
Lee Ji-eun also smiled helplessly: "Ani, it's always unnie who pays. I'm also making money now, why don't you let me pay?"
Cheng Shangen signed his name mercilessly: "Because Ouni's money is endless!"
Lee Ji-eun was stunned for a moment, then her smile appeared involuntarily.
After bagging the items, the cashier took out a notebook and whispered, "Can you two sign for me?"
Cheng Shangen and Li Zhien were arguing with each other. It turned out that being too arrogant would lead to being recognized.
After signing their names, the two realized that it was so cool to buy whatever they pointed at in the supermarket, but now these six big bags of things were mercilessly laughing at the two weak women.
Fortunately, the supermarket has a delivery service. Li Zhien happily paid the slightly expensive delivery fee. Cheng Shangen was helpless: "You are so happy even after paying the money."
After returning home, Lee Ji-eun went to visit the house and Cheng Shangen started to fiddle with the ingredients.
First of all, the soup base. Cheng Shangen boiled the big bones he bought first. Although the cooking time would be a bit short now, it was still better than plain water.
"Do you live alone, unni?" Lee Ji-eun asked while visiting. Although Cheng Shangen never mentioned her family background, it can be seen from the house and her usual style and dressing that she is definitely not from an ordinary family. She has been working for so many years and the size of the house she lives in is probably half of Cheng Shangen's. But it's normal, after all, she is Chinese.
"With the agent." Cheng Shangen first washed a few cherry tomatoes, ate one himself, and then fed one to Lee Ji-eun.
"What can I do? Help unnie wash the vegetables?" Lee Ji-eun said.
Cheng Shangen nodded: "Okay, let's wash the vegetables together."
This is the advantage of eating hotpot. All you have to do is wash the vegetables and arrange them on the plates. The preliminary work is quite easy.
The two of them chatted casually while washing vegetables while waiting for the remaining three people to come over.
The doorbell rang, and Lee Ji-eun ran over to open the door. Jiang Junying and Lou Zilin were familiar with each other when they were filming "Between You and Me"
, so they are not strangers.
As soon as Jiang Junying entered the room, he smelled the aroma of big bone soup. He groaned, "Oh, Nuna, this is making soup. It smells so good."
Cheng Shangen nodded and asked him to bring the washed fruits to the table first: "You guys eat the fruits and watch TV for a while, and then you can stay for a while."
The vegetables have been washed, and now Cheng Shangen is going to cut them. If nothing else, she is still very fancy at this.
The lettuce is cut into slices, each one is thin and transparent. When put into the pot and rinsed, they are as transparent as cicada wings.
The winter melon is peeled, cored, and cut into thin slices. Shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, and king oyster mushrooms are placed on a plate to form a mushroom collection. Lettuce, cabbage, and baby cabbage are placed in a basket to form a vegetable platter.
A large piece of tofu skin is cut into 2cm wide pieces for hot pot, and the oily tofu skin is not spared.
Take out ice cubes from the refrigerator and crush them into crushed ice and put them on a plate first. Massage the colorful Korean beef you bought for a while before arranging it on the plate. By the way, put a green leafy vegetable next to it. It really looks the same as the one in the restaurant, the difference is that there is more meat than ice.
Just as Cheng Shangen was arranging the shrimp paste on a plate, the doorbell rang again.
Jiang Junying wondered who opened the door, and was shocked to see a man wearing sunglasses and a hat outside: "Oh, who are you looking for..."
Jin Xiche was also surprised. He looked up at the house number and it was right...
Cheng Shangen shouted to the door: "Oppa, it's Xiche Oppa."
Jiang Junying reacted and quickly bowed and greeted: "Anihasayo."
Jin Xiche calmed down when he heard Cheng Shangen's voice and bowed to greet him: "Ne, Ne, Aniha Seyo."
Jiang Junying took out slippers from the shoe cabinet: "Please put them on."
Jin Xiche noticed the disposable slippers in the shoe cabinet and said, "Ani, Ani, I'll just wear that."
After entering the house, Lee Ji-eun and Lou Zilin both bent down to greet them. Lou Zilin covered her mouth in shock, saying, "Oh my god, it's so good to be my sister's assistant. I can watch TV and chat with IU, and now I can even eat hot pot with Kim Hee-cheol!"
"Oppa, please eat some fruit first. I will prepare the soup base when you come." Cheng Shangen said.
Jin Xiche responded. He came to the table and looked at the vegetables and meat that Cheng Shangen had already cut and placed. He couldn't help swallowing his saliva. It seemed that he was in for a treat today.
Cheng Shangen took out the shuangxiang pot and put the hot pot base in it, then cut the green onion into segments, added wolfberry, red dates and mushrooms, and made mushroom soup in the clear soup pot.
As soon as the pot of bone soup was opened, the aroma filled the air. The remaining four people gathered around involuntarily to see how Cheng Shangen made it.
The soup wasn't boiled long enough and didn't turn milky white, but it was pretty good, with a milky white color and bubbling.
When the bone broth is poured into the pot, the lumps of hot pot base are broken up at once, and the spicy taste spreads all at once. The bone broth blends into the base and the milky white color turns into orange-red. The fiery red peppers float on the surface of the soup, indicating that it is quite spicy.
"Gurgle" The four of them plus Cheng Shangen himself swallowed their saliva unconsciously.
The color of the soup does not change when poured into the mushrooms, it is only dotted with the colors of red dates and wolfberries. The collision of red and white looks very beautiful.
"What kind of seasoning do you want? Do you want to make it yourself or do you want me to make it for you?" Cheng Shangen found it a little funny to see the four of them staring at the pot.
“Hehehe
I want it spicy, please make it for me. "Lou Zilin chuckled.
"I want something spicy too. Let Sean prepare it." Jin Xiche also said.
"Me too." Lee Ji-eun raised her hand, the spicy taste was so tempting.
In the end, they all had to eat spicy food, so Cheng Shangen asked them to rinse it first and he would be ready soon.
Pour a little balsamic vinegar, put the diced beef and minced garlic into a bowl, cut the chili pepper and green onion into small pieces and put them into the bowl, add two drops of oyster sauce, pinch some chopped peanuts and coriander, sprinkle some chili powder, and finally pour in sesame oil. Prepare the dipping sauce for the remaining portions in the same way.
After the food was served on the table, everyone was clapping their hands before they started eating.
"Wow, Sean, you're really lucky." Jin Xiche patted and praised, looking at the complete ingredients, with meatballs, meat and vegetables all available.
Cheng Shangen smiled and said, "Of course." Hotpot is one of the few dishes she can cook.
Cheng Shangen turned the pot around and pointed the mushroom soup pot towards Lee Ji-eun: "Ji-eun has a concert soon, so she can't eat anything too spicy~"
Lee Ji-eun pouted and said, "Ani, how can you not let me eat spicy food when eating hot pot?"
Cheng Shangen was not negotiable: "You can eat less, but your main battlefield is the mushroom soup pot."
Lee Ji-eun was helpless, but fortunately the mushroom soup pot was also delicious.
Soju was poured for Jiang Junying and Jin Xiche, and Coke was poured for the three girls. Coke goes really well with hot pot.
"The duck intestines are most chewy when they are boiled up and down." Cheng Shangen taught Li Zhien the secret.
Jin Xiche rinsed out the Chinese chrysanthemums, and the green leaves were stained with golden red oil. He couldn't stop swallowing his saliva before it even reached his mouth. After he finally ate it, it was so delicious that he couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Awesome, Sean."
Lou Zilin shabu-shabu a piece of beef. The color of the beef changed from bright red with blood to gray-red symbolizing that it was cooked. He dipped it in the sauce and put it in his mouth, and he could taste the wonderful flavor of crushed peanuts, sesame oil and meat.
Jiang Junying loves shrimp paste very much. The originally gray shrimp paste becomes crystal clear with a slightly orange color of cooked shrimp after being put into the mushroom soup pot. If it comes out of the spicy pot, it will be added with a little red oil. When you chew it, you can feel the beauty of the tender shrimp meat exploding in your mouth.
Everyone was chatting happily at the dinner table. First of all, the four of them would say that although Jin Xiche was only familiar with Cheng Shangen, he was not the kind of person who put on airs and was quite funny. The five of them were chatting happily.
The hot steam from the hot pot rushes up towards the warm yellow chandelier, and under the light there is delicious food and people laughing and talking happily.
At the end of the meal, the main battlefield is fruits and desserts.
Cheng Shangen was eating a watermelon and listening to Jin Xiche's nonsense when his cell phone rang.
She felt a little strange seeing the strange call on her phone, but she still went somewhere else to answer it.
"Hello?"
"Xi'an, it's me, Li Junxun." Li Junxun's voice was a little hoarse and low.
Cheng Shangen reacted: "Oh, it's Li Junxunxi, how are you doing recently?"
"I... am not feeling well." Li Junxun said.
Cheng Shangen's smile froze. How could she continue the conversation after being answered like this to a casual greeting?
"You, can you come out and see me?" After making great determination, Li Junxun finally said it.
Cheng Shangen was stunned for a moment, and then said apologetically: "Mia, I'm with my friends now..."
Before she finished speaking, Li
Junxun interrupted: "Please! Come out and meet me!"
Cheng Shangen was stunned, listening to Li Junxun's crying voice.
"Sean xi... I really can't hold on any longer, please, please meet me, I, I just want to find someone to talk to..." Li Junxun breathed hard as if he was trying hard to keep the tears from flowing out, and his tone sounded pitiful.
Cheng Shangen lowered her eyes and said nothing. He was very pitiful but she still didn't want to go. Li Junxun had always been interested in her, and if she went to be his confidant now, who knew what would happen in the future? Although he is good in other aspects except that he likes her.
"Sean Xi also knows my agent, right? You saw it on Christmas Day, right?" Li Junxun suddenly said.
Cheng Shangen was speechless for a moment, and recalled the scene he saw that day. The seemingly sunny and cheerful Li Junxun was treated like a grandson by his agent.
"Please, I really can't hold on any longer, save...save me..." Li Junxun finally couldn't hold back his tears, but then he held them back.
Cheng Shangen pondered for a moment: "Where are you?"
Li Junxun held the name of a cafe, Cheng Shangen put down the snacks slightly, it was a public place.
After hanging up the phone, Jin Xiche was still chatting happily with them, and Li Zhien's aunt laughed so hard that she didn't know how many rounds it was.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Lee Ji-eun asked.
Cheng Shangen nodded: "Well, a friend wants to see me, I have to see him, Oppa, can you go with me?"
Jiang Junying and Jin Xiche asked at the same time: "Inside?"
Cheng Shangen was helpless: "Junying Oppa."
"Of course, noona." Jiang Junying replied. He drank very little alcohol and was more focused on eating. He had eaten a lot of fruits during such a long time.
"So you're going to leave us in the room and go out by yourself?" Jin Xiche asked and then laughed: "I feel embarrassed to have two beauties here with me."
"Yeah." Cheng Shangen smiled and pointed to the snacks in the room. "I've divided them into bags with labels on them. Don't forget to take them when you leave. I can't eat that much by myself. Ji Eun, yours is the least. Female stars should eat less. You'll gain weight easily!"
Although Lee Ji-eun had no choice but to nod obediently, this was already enough to eat tonight.
When Cheng Shangen and Jiang Junying walked to the door, they reminded each other again: "Just go home after you finish talking. You don't have to clean up. An aunt will come to clean up tomorrow."
The author has something to say: It’s really wonderful to eat hot pot with acquaintances~
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