Although Lin Dan specially prepared some extra dinner, everyone still didn't feel full. The main reason was that the three strong men had too big appetites and rolled up the rolls too quickly. As soon as others finished one, they had already stuffed three in a row. It was really irritating to watch.
Lin Dan still ate very little. As night fell, her cough would get worse. After taking the medicine, she would go into the carriage to sleep. Everyone also consciously moved lightly for fear of disturbing her.
The three strong men found a place with a wide view and sat down to keep watch for the convoy. They seemed to have long been accustomed to this kind of life of sleeping in the open air. Even though everyone in the convoy could no longer hold on and fell asleep, they were still very energetic.
"No wonder Old Man Shen was so reluctant to let Shopkeeper Lin go when he left. He also said that Shopkeeper Lin was sick and nothing tasted good to him. That's why." Luo Tietou lay flat on the ground, patting his stomach from time to time. "The spring three-fresh roll just now was so damn delicious, but it was a pity that there was not enough. I didn't feel full."
"Are you hungry again?" Zhao Liu poked the campfire with a wooden stick.
"I'm hungry," Luo Tietou turned over, smacking his lips and muttering, "I don't know what I'll eat tomorrow morning. I want to eat burritos."
Thinking of the taste of the wrap, Zhao Liu secretly swallowed his saliva. He also wanted to eat burritos. Burritos were so fresh that he wouldn’t get tired of them even if he ate them for three months in a row.
"Stop talking, you guys go to sleep, I'll keep watch." The handsome man said in a deep voice.
The leader always kept his word, so Zhao Liu and Luo Tietou did not refuse and soon fell asleep. After a while, a rumbling sound was heard in the dark night. Fortunately, everyone was asleep and no one noticed it.
The next day, Lin Dan's condition was much better than the day before. She got up before dawn to make breakfast for everyone. The shopkeeper has gotten up, so the employees naturally cannot be lazy and get up one after another to fetch water and light the fire.
"You kept watch all night?" Lin Dan was a little surprised to see the handsome man sitting by the fire.
The man nodded and opened his mouth, but said nothing.
Lin Dan noticed that he was hesitant to speak, so he took the initiative to ask, "What's the matter?"
"Nothing." The man hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help asking, "What are we going to eat this morning?"
Lin Dan couldn't help but smile. "In the morning, I'll make a pot of rice porridge, some noodles, and a few side dishes. If you want porridge, have porridge. If you want noodles, have noodles. It's up to you."
The man nodded and said nothing more. The two strong men lying beside him woke up and muttered, "Manager Lin, why don't you eat the burrito? How can plain porridge and noodles be as delicious as burritos?"
Lin Dan smiled and shook his head, "No matter how delicious the food is, you can't eat it every day. You have to change the taste for every meal."
Shaoyao came over and said with a smile, "Master, the noodles are ready and the porridge is cooked. You can go cook the dishes." At the end, she looked at Zhao Liu and Luo Tietou and said jokingly, "You two brothers really don't know how to appreciate the blessings you have. My master can cook different dishes for hundreds of days in a row, and we can't even finish them all, but you despise him."
"Don't mind, don't mind, we'll eat whatever Shopkeeper Lin cooks." After being glared at by the leader, the two strong men dared not express their opinions anymore, but they missed the burritos from last night very much in their hearts. White porridge and noodles taste the same, how can they be as delicious as the three fresh spring dishes?
But soon, Shopkeeper Lin showed them with his actions that as long as one has good cooking skills, simple white porridge and noodles can become supreme delicacies. She took out the oil residue sealed in the jar, chopped it up, put it into the pan and stir-fried it. Then she cut the blanched toon into cubes and added the chopped oil residue. The juice of the toon and the fat of the oil residue permeate each other and turn into a thick soup, which emits bursts of wonderful fragrance with the bursting of each boiling bubble. After the oil residue was cooked until soft and the aroma of the Chinese toon was thoroughly stimulated, Lin Dan quickly poured in light soy sauce, salt, pepper and other seasonings, stir-fried several times, and served.
"What a nice smell!" Peony and Dujuan carried away the clay basin containing the smell together, sniffing as they carried it.
Zhao Liu and Luo Tietou, who originally didn't want to eat noodles, could hardly hold back their saliva.
Lin Dan still felt it was not enough, so after frying the臊子, he steamed a large bowl of salted fish, made a dish of cold-mixed amaranth, and took out some pickled vegetables from the jar and put them on a plate one by one. Only then did he start to make hand-rolled noodles. The hand-rolled noodles were cooked and the porridge was almost done, so everyone quickly took out their bowls and chopsticks and waited for the meal to start.
"Okay, eat quickly so we can get on with our journey." Lin Dan washed his hands and slowly put down his sleeves.
The three strong men were indeed martial artists. In the blink of an eye, they had scooped up three bowls of steaming hot noodles, stirred them evenly with臊子, and started to eat them with a slurp. Both Chinese toon and oil residue are ingredients with strong fragrance. When the two are blended together, they become even more fragrant. The freshness of Chinese toon combined with the crispness of the oil residue makes the taste absolutely wonderful. The noodles were also cooked very chewy, and each strand was fully soaked with the sauce. A full bite of them, the soft, chewy, and salty taste instantly conquered the taste buds of the three people.
Delicious, so delicious! The three people's eyes lit up and they couldn't help but eat noodles faster. Since they were fast, others naturally didn't dare to slow down. Suddenly, the only sound in the camp was the snoring of food.
Lin Dan was still ill and had a poor appetite, so he only drank a bowl of white porridge and stopped.
The handsome man looked up at her and said with concern, "Manager Lin, are you feeling unwell?"
"I am much better now, but I am a little tired. I want to lie down in the carriage for a while. You guys eat, don't worry about me."
The man looked at her carefully and was relieved to see that her face was rosy and her eyes were clear. It seemed that her condition was not getting worse. Zhao Liu and Luo Tietou, who were sitting nearby, ate three bowls of noodles before slowing down their eating. Although they were already seven-tenths full, they still scooped a bowl of white porridge to clear their stomachs.
The white porridge is indeed just white porridge, it has no special taste and tastes very bland. They took some pickled vegetables and mixed them into the porridge, took a sip, and were immediately amazed by how delicious it was. This pickle is made of chopped water celery, mixed with bitter wine, sesame and fennel. It has a crisp, sour and salty taste and is slightly strong. However, if it is paired with lightly sweet white porridge, the taste immediately becomes neutral and mellow, and the fragrance is fragrant. After taking a sip slowly, the pores all over the body seemed to be unblocked and the stomach felt extremely comfortable.
Another dish that goes with the porridge is steamed salted fish with fermented black beans. I don’t know what secret method Shopkeeper Lin used to cook it, but the salted fish, which was originally a bit hard in texture, was steamed into a soft and glutinous state. The rich juice slowly seeped out of the meat and mixed with the aroma of the fermented black beans, making people salivate. Not only is the fish meat soft and glutinous, even the fish bones are glutinous. Pick it up and put it directly into your mouth to chew. The more you chew, the more delicious it becomes.
The salted fish has a strong flavor, while the white porridge has a light flavor. Bite a piece of salted fish and drink some white porridge. The food in your mouth has both the sweetness of rice and the salty and fragrant taste of salted fish. The two are a perfect match.
Zhao Liu and Luo Tietou couldn't stop eating once they started. They drank two large bowls of white porridge before wiping their mouths with a sense of satisfaction. Seeing them scrambling for food, the handsome man naturally would not miss the delicious food. Although he looked elegant, he actually scooped up a bowl of porridge quickly, took most of the pickled vegetables, and finished the remaining salted fish. After eating, he still felt unsatisfied, so he poured the salted fish broth together with the fermented black beans into a bowl of noodles and slurped it up cleanly.
Xiao Zhu was already stunned, he never expected that these three people were so greedy that each one was better than the other. Fortunately, they did not agree to stay as escorts, otherwise they would have definitely eaten up their own caravan.
"Damn, this life is so comfortable!" After breakfast, Zhao Liu and Luo Tietou lay on a big rock and rubbed their stomachs, looking very contented.
"We'll set off after a short rest, and try to reach the capital the day after tomorrow." The handsome man still stood straight, his thin waist and abdomen were flat, as if he had never eaten.
"Okay." Just as the two strong men agreed, they saw a servant of Shopkeeper Lin running out of the woods carrying two hares and a hazel grouse. He said happily, "Shopkeeper, the traps and nets we set up last night caught some game. Now we have lunch."
"What did you catch?" Lin Dan lifted the curtain and took a look, then chuckled. "Okay, let's have braised rabbit meat and stir-fried hazel grouse for lunch. Hazel grouse has a delicate texture and is known as 'dragon meat from the sky'. It is delicious no matter how it is cooked. Chop up the hazel grouse, young ginger, pickled pepper, and sauerkraut, stir-fry them in the pot one by one, then add half a bowl of water and simmer for a while. The hazel grouse fried in this way has a fresh and tender taste, and the chopped bones reveal thick and smooth bone marrow, which is completely integrated with the hot and sour soup. It is already full of flavor without the need for starch. It is delicious when eaten with white rice."
As Lin Dan continued to narrate, the crowd, who had just finished their meal, began to swallow their saliva frequently, wishing that time would pass quickly and that it would be noon the next moment.
"Lock up the rabbits and hazel grouse, and let's get on the road." Lin Dan looked at the three strong men and said gently, "Three big brothers, we bid farewell here. Thank you for your care along the way."
"Manager Lin, you're too polite." Zhao Liu quickly swallowed his mouthful of saliva and smiled awkwardly.
"Goodbye." The handsome man mounted his horse and bowed slightly.
Luo Tietou took off his boots to check and found that there seemed to be a small stone stuck in them. However, he stared at the hare and hazel grouse out of the corner of his eye, wondering what he was thinking.
Lin Dan knelt down and said goodbye, then left slowly.
Luo Tietou slowly put on his boots, mounted his horse, and said with a worried look, "Boss, how about we escort Manager Lin for a while longer? There are dense forests ahead, and the terrain is dangerous. There might be bandits. Her servants are all from the south, and they are short and thin. How can they protect five carts of goods?"
"Tietou is right. Manager Lin is a nice person, and she's a weak woman. We've already completed our mission, so it wouldn't hurt to give her a ride." Zhao Liu quickly agreed.
The handsome man turned his horse's head to look at the convoy, and after a moment he decided, "Then follow."
The three men whipped their horses, quickly caught up with the man, and explained their purpose to Manager Lin through the curtain of the carriage. Shopkeeper Lin was of course very grateful, but Xiao Zhu's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Could it be that these three gluttons saw that they caught the hare and hazel grouse and wanted to come and eat for free?
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