Chapter 105 When Have I Ever Lied to You
"Mrs. Jiu... Madam Jiufang." Qi Huan was speechless. His brain was extremely slow after being soaked in alcohol all night. He did not have the energy to speak eloquently as usual during live broadcasts. It took him a long time to utter a name.
He pushed away Jiufang Yu's hand that was still on his lower back and groaned inwardly. It was terrible. What should he say at this moment? How should he explain it?
Although he did nothing wrong, Qi Huan couldn't help feeling guilty. After all, he couldn't deny that he did have other feelings for Jiufang Yu.
At the critical moment, it was Si Liang who rescued him. The little guy happily broke free from his mother's hand and rushed towards Qi Huan, hugging his neck affectionately, "Huanhuan, I miss you so much~"
"I miss you, too." Qi Huan hurriedly clung to this small life-saving straw, so helpless that he didn't even dare to look at Jiufang Yan's face.
"Sister?" At this moment, Jiufang Yu also opened his eyes. Seeing that Jiufang Yu was also surprised, he quickly sat up.
His silver hair was disheveled, his shirt collar was half open, and his originally crisp shirt and trousers were now wrinkled and horribly unsightly, as if someone had ruined them last night.
Qi Huan couldn't bear to watch and silently shrank behind Si Liang, feeling extremely embarrassed. No matter how he looked at it, he was the culprit!
"Why did you come here suddenly?" Jiufang Yu frowned, extremely puzzled by his sister's appearance.
"What are you talking about?" Jiufang Yu smiled and tucked up the strands of hair that had fallen from his temples. His eyes swept back and forth between Qi Huan and Jiufang Yu with a playful look. "Do I have to get approval from the Star Lord before I can come to Waste Star No. 7?"
"Of course not." Jiu Fangyu sighed helplessly after being misunderstood, and rubbed his heavy forehead. "What I meant is that if I knew your itinerary, I could send someone to pick you up and help you arrange accommodation."
“No need. Si Liang and I are not that delicate.” Jiufang Yan lifted the hem of her skirt gracefully and sat down on the chair opposite.
"By the way, you must be hungry after getting off the starship so early, Huanhuan. Please make something for my sister and Si Liang to fill their stomachs." Jiufang Yu also noticed Qi Huan's embarrassment and gave him a wink.
"Okay." Qi Huan understood and hurriedly stood up and was about to walk out, but Si Liang grabbed the corner of his clothes.
"Huanhuan, I'll go with you." The little girl blinked her big eyes with eager anticipation in her eyes.
Qi Huan stretched out his arms, picked up Xi Liang and held him in his arms, then rushed out the door as if escaping.
"Am I that scary?" Jiufang Yan couldn't help laughing as he watched Qi Huan's back running in panic.
"It's really scary." Jiufang Yu fastened the button on his chest and nodded honestly.
"You little brat, are you itching for trouble?" With only his younger brother present, Jiufang immediately dropped his gentle demeanor, rolled his eyes at him, and crossed his arms, "Tell me, what's going on between you two?"
Jiufang Yu spread his hands, "Just as you thought."
"You bullied me?" Jiufang Yan raised his eyebrows and reached out to twist his ears. "As a member of the Jiufang family, how could you do such a thing?"
"No, you think too much." Jiufang Yu quickly clarified.
Jiufang Yan then let go and resumed his dignified and elegant posture.
"We just like each other. We were drunk last night and nothing happened." Jiufang Yu rubbed his red ears and continued to explain.
"Like? How much do you like?"
"It's just the four words my brother-in-law told me at the beginning, nothing else matters."
When Jiufang Yu was a child, he once curiously asked his brother-in-law how much he liked Jiufang Yu. The head of the Si family did not treat him as a child and perfunctorily asked him four words in a serious manner: death is the best.
The serious attitude he showed when talking about his relationship with his wife made Jiufang Yu deeply engrave these words in his mind.
Jiufang Xuan naturally knew the origin of these words, and his cheeks couldn't help but slightly heat up, "So you gave him the other jade ring?"
When people in the Jiufang family come of age, they will receive a pair of white jade rings as gifts from their elders. Everyone is used to using it as a token of love with their loved ones. Jiufang Yu's ring was naturally given to the head of the Si family. When Jiufang Yu came of age, Jiufang Yu also made a pair for him. Jiufang Yu used one and kept the other ring inside.
"Not yet, he's not an adult yet." Jiufang Yu was actually a little hesitant. After what happened last night, he seemed to have to give Qi Huan a formal promise, but he was not an adult yet and his body was in this condition. Would this promise become a burden to Qi Huan in the future?
Perhaps this is what they call worrying too much and becoming confused. He sighed. It seemed that whenever things touched upon Qi Huan, he became hesitant and not at all as decisive as he was when leading troops in the past.
"Can't you get engaged before you come of age?" What the hell, he just slept with his beloved in his arms for a night? He didn't even give her a ring? Jiufang looked at his brother with regret, "Stupid!"
Jiufang Yu: ...
Being with Si Liang, Qi Huan felt much more relaxed. He asked as he led the little guy to the next door Chen Ye's room, "Do you miss me?"
"I do. I miss Huanhuan, my uncle, and the delicious food Huanhuan makes." The little dumpling counted them one by one with his chubby little hands.
"Why didn't your uncle stay with you and your mother?"
Si Liang flattened his soft and white cheeks and lowered his voice stealthily, "I'm afraid my uncle will be punished, and I will suffer the consequences."
"Family rules?"
"The hairpin on my mother's head can be turned into a whip when pulled out, and is specially used to whip me and my uncle." Si Liang seemed to be still frightened when he mentioned the whip, and subconsciously rubbed his round little butt.
"Does your mother often beat people?" Qi Huan was surprised. Mrs. Jiufang looked gentle and calm, and it was impossible to imagine her beating people up in anger.
"That's not the case, but if she did make a mistake, she would definitely not hesitate."
"What does your mother like?" Qi Huan inexplicably felt a chill on his back. He didn't have any other abilities, so he could only try to please Jiufang Yu with food.
"Mom likes pretty things, like flowers, and she also likes to collect those beautiful square lanterns."
"No, I'm talking about food." Qi Huan quickly brought back the topic that Xiaotuanzi had strayed from.
The little girl blinked her glassy eyes and thought seriously for a while, "Mom doesn't seem to have any special favorite food. If I have to say, fish and shrimp, something light."
"It tastes quite similar to your uncle's."
"Of course, they are siblings." Little Tuanzi secretly looked up at Qi Huan with curved eyebrows. His uncle and Huanhuan slept in each other's arms, so would Huanhuan become a member of their family in the future?
Qi Huan's room was also in Jiufangyu's suite. Since he couldn't go back now, he planned to take a shower in the shower room in Shen Ye and Xu Zhi's room and borrow some clean clothes.
Chen Ye came to open the door sleepily. Early in the morning, he suddenly saw Qi Huan standing at the door with a child who looked 40% similar to his eldest son. He almost thought he was hallucinating. He rubbed his eyes in fear, and then he recognized that it was Si Liang!
"Why is the young master here?" Chen Ye squatted down with a smile and greeted the little dumpling familiarly.
"Do you know me?" Si Liang looked at him curiously.
"You have no conscience. I held you in my arms when you were a child." Shen Ye scratched his face and quoted the classic lines of adults.
"I'm sorry, I didn't have a very good memory when I was a child." Little Dumpling apologized to him in a serious manner.
The people around were amused. It’s not that you have a bad memory, it’s that you haven’t remembered yet.
Qi Huan went to take a shower. Chen Ye and Xu Zhi respectively called out their spiritual bodies to play with Si Liang. When Qi Huan came out, he saw Si Liang rolling around with a snow wolf and a green-haired little fox.
Chen Ye's clothes were too short, Tao's were too big, but Xu Zhi's could still be worn - just make it longer and roll it back.
"Master!" "Chef!"
Qi Huan changed his clothes and took Si Liang to the back kitchen. Po Ren was already preparing lunch for the cafeteria with A Tu and others. When they saw Qi Huan coming in, they all greeted him. Since Po Ren came, Qi Huan felt more and more relaxed.
"Hey, Tuantuan is here too?"
Po Ren was familiar with Jiufang Yu and had met Si Liang many times, so he was a little surprised to see him suddenly on Feixing. He immediately wiped his hands, took off his apron, picked up the little ball, and rubbed its smooth and soft face with the stubble on his chin.
"That's enough." The little dumpling was annoyed by the prickles and reached out to push his chin, which made Po Ren laugh.
Qi Huan took a look at the existing materials in the kitchen and planned to make some raw animal meat porridge, crystal shrimp dumplings, golden money animal tripe, and cold-mixed rattan shreds for Xiaotuanzi, Jiufang Yu, and Jiufang Yu to fill their stomachs.
"Huanhuan, I brought you a gift." Qi Huan had just put on his apron when little Dumpling tugged at the hem of his skirt mysteriously.
Qi Huan: ???
Si Liang stuffed a small storage ring into his hand like he was offering a treasure, "Before I left, I went to the food storage at home to get these. They are all top-quality ingredients."
Qi Huan opened it and took a look, he was dumbfounded. It was filled with rare ingredients. Judging from the quantity, the little guy must have emptied the Si family's food storage.
After preparing breakfast, in order to avoid embarrassment, Qi Huan specially asked Po Ren to help deliver it, and then he returned to the suite of Chen Ye and Xu Zhi and brought a few more breakfasts as "room fee".
Si Liang stuck to him and didn't want to leave, so he squeezed into the next suite with him to eat, and they were having a great time.
After dinner, Chen Ye and Xu Zhi went out to work, while Qi Huan stayed in the living room with Xiaotuanzi to think about the evening menu.
In order to prevent the little dumpling from getting bored, he took out a nine-grid snack box from the storage bag. There were cream plums and melon seeds, butter lace cookies, animal jerky, salted egg yolk boneless chicken wings, candied apricots, lava chocolate, golden jade egg yolk pastry, tiramisu, dacquoise and many other things in one box.
The little girl was very happy and couldn't let go of the box.
With Jiufang Yu and Si Liang coming over, it was reasonable to at least have a family dinner to welcome them in the evening. In addition to the embarrassing situation in the morning, Qi Huan was trying even harder to show off his skills at the dinner and improve his image.
If you like fish and shrimp, then start with the Taishi Glass Shrimp. Qi Huan picked up his pen and wrote down the first dish.
The original ingredient of this dish is large black tiger shrimp. After the shrimp is shelled, it is necessary to peel it again - carefully peel off the layer of fascia that will turn red when cooked, and then make three flower cuts on the back of the shrimp. These complicated processes are to ensure that the shrimp will be beautifully white as fat and curly like a flower after being cooked.
The shrimp meat is marinated and fried at low temperature to set its shape, then topped with a glass starch made with ham, caviar, and shrimp roe. As one of the easiest ingredients to cook, it is extremely troublesome to have to go through so many steps to cook a shrimp dish, which is a model of coarse ingredients being cooked with fine craftsmanship.
Of course, Qi Huan was not afraid of trouble at all in order to please Jiufang Yan.
The second dish he wrote down was called Pearl Fish Balls. The original main ingredient was the saury, one of the three delicacies of the Yangtze River. Since the saury has many fine hair-like bones, in addition to skinning and deboning the whole fish, the fish meat must be sliced and chopped finely on the hide with great patience until all the fish bones are embedded in the hide. The thin layer of fish paste left on top can then be used to make pearl-sized fish balls.
For the soup, choose the freshest spring wild vegetables and simmer over low heat until it becomes a thick green soup. The fish bones that have been removed should not be thrown away. Fry them until they are crispy and golden brown, and then serve them as a garnish. When tasting, break the bones into pieces and pair them with the white fish balls and emerald soup to enhance the color and flavor.
The soup also needs some effort. Qi Huan shook the pen, recalled the ingredients that Si Liang brought, and decided to add lotus and sea pine. This dish is an upgraded version of the Kung Fu dish of boiled cabbage. In addition to the extremely troublesome clear soup, the auxiliary ingredients are ham, matsutake, shiitake mushrooms, young bamboo shoots, chicken, pigeon eggs, and the most important ingredient, the aged jellyfish that has been three times salted with alum. If it is not aged jellyfish, it will not have that ultimate taste. Qi Huan decided to make this dish because he saw that there was aged jellyfish among the ingredients brought by Si Liang.
Remembering that Xiaotuanzi said Jiufang Yan liked square lanterns, Qi Huan casually drew a hexagonal palace lantern on the menu and handed it to Xiaotuanzi, "Is this the kind of palace lantern your mother likes?"
"Yeah." Si Liang nodded. "Isn't Huanhuan writing a recipe? Why is she suddenly drawing a lamp?"
"Who said palace lanterns can't be a dish?" Qi Huan scratched the tip of the little dumpling's nose affectionately, "I'll make a palace lantern for you to try today."
"Really?" Si Liang widened his eyes in surprise, looking adorable.
"24K Innocence." Qi Huan began to outline the pattern of the lamp in more detail. "When have I ever lied to you?"
"Three months ago." The little dumpling answered without any perfunctory answer.
"You really hold a grudge." Qi Huan sighed and pondered the selection and materials for making the palace lantern based on the sketch.
To make a palace lantern, the most important part is the lampshade. The gauze part must be light-transmissive, and the lamp frame part must be shaped. The simplest and most feasible method is to use syrup and chocolate. After melting, these two things are very suitable for carving and shaping. They can produce complex shapes and exquisite effects. The appearance of the finished product must be amazing, but that is not enough. The taste of this dessert also needs to be considered.
"Huanhuan, don't just think about mom, think about me too, I want to eat meat!" When the little girl saw that he had listed a bunch of fish and shrimp, she anxiously grabbed his arm and shook it.
"I know, I know. We must not treat our Tuantuan unfairly." Qi Huan temporarily gave up on the palace lantern dessert and quickly added stewed chicken, eight-treasure gourd duck, and crab meat lion head to the menu.
"Dongpo Pork!" Little Tuanzi couldn't help but order the dish. He had been dreaming of this dish for a long time, but the chef at home couldn't make it have the same texture and taste as Huanhuan's.
"Okay, okay, Dongpo pork." Qi Huan responded and added, "What else do you want to eat?"
“Tap, tap, tap.”
Before Si Liang could answer, there was a knock on the door.
Qi Huan's heart skipped a beat. Feixing's gang usually knocked on the door with a loud "bang, bang, bang" sound. Except for Diwuyuan, almost no one could knock with such a gentle, reserved, polite and restrained sound.
But he had a strong feeling that the person outside the door was not Diwuyuan.
He hesitated for a moment, and subconsciously was a little hesitant to go over.
He didn't move, but Si Liang ran straight to the door, and Qi Huan quickly got up and followed him.
The little girl tiptoed to hold the door handle and opened the door. When she saw the figure outside, she rushed over and called out in a sticky voice, "Mom~"
"Mrs. Jiufang." Qi Huan called out softly, his heart beating rapidly like a drum, his hands and feet were so awkward that he didn't know what to do. For some reason he felt guilty about being visited by other parents.
Jiufang Yan held Si Liang's hand and smiled at Qi Huan, "Can you please let me in and sit down?"
"Of course, please come in." Qi Huan quickly stepped aside to make way, but his eyes involuntarily drifted to the only single-headed pearl hairpin on Jiufang Yi's head. Si Liang said that this hairpin could be turned into a family whip, right?
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