Northeastern rice dumplings
"Zang'er, we don't need to prepare any big dishes. Just some home cooking will do, okay?" Seeing Li Xingzang with ribs and big fish in his left hand and chicken and seafood in his right hand, Lao Guan and other old employees of the bath center were a little scared.
Although her family used to run a restaurant and her parents were first-rate cooks, she had never been a good cook since she was a child. Even when she cooked instant noodles with an egg, the egg would leak liquid. Not to mention that after she came to live here, she even had trouble burning firewood, so how could she use this big pot and stove? [1]
"Don't worry, Aunt Guan. I have been cooking for myself in the past few years. My friends all say that my cooking is delicious." Li Xingzang knew that they did not trust him, but practice is the only criterion for testing truth. They would know when she cooked it.
"Uncle, I can't control the heat well with our big iron pot. Could you please help me light the fire later?" There was no other way. She always used the gas stove when she was outside. Although the bath center also had gas, there were only two stoves. She had to cook a lot of dishes, so she had to use a big pot.
"Hey!" Lao Shi looked at the old friends around him and hurriedly brought the firewood over.
"Pa pa pa——" The bone chopping knife chopped on the ribs again and again. Soon, several ribs were quickly chopped into small pieces and soaked in the clean water on the side.
"Looking at the situation, it seems that Zang Zang can really make something." Aunt Shi and another young man in mink fur who were watching the battle outside the kitchen whispered.
You can tell whether a person can cook well by looking at what seasonings she uses or how the food tastes; you can get a rough idea of how she cooks just by looking at how she handles the ingredients at the beginning.
Looking at the way Li Xingzang killed the fish and chopped the ribs, she clearly knew how to do it.
"We'll be in a lot of trouble if we hide outside." The young man pouted, his voice choking with sobs. [2]
"Yes." Aunt Shi also sighed. Their child had never known these things since she was a child. Now seeing her swift movements, it was not difficult to imagine her life outside in the past few years. Not only Zidane, but also her heart softened.
Li Xingzang was not as miserable as they thought. Although she was so tired from working 996 in Hecheng for the past few years that she didn't know what the world was, her survival skills had been improved to the maximum level. Not only did she save some money, but she could also eat well and have enough to eat. Otherwise, she would not have the confidence to reopen the restaurant.
Although the sunlight shining on her made her feel a little uncomfortable, Li Xingzang was delighted to find that her speed became faster, her strength became greater, and even her five senses were deepened to varying degrees. It seems that good and bad things always go hand in hand.
"Okay, the main dishes are in the pot, just add a few stir-fries!" Li Xingzang was immersed in her own world. After she straightened up, she found that her family members were looking at her with distressed faces.
"What's the matter?" she asked naively. After hearing their answer, her heart warmed. She walked forward and whispered, "What's there to cry about? Guess how much I've saved from working outside these past few years?"
Li Xingzang mentioned a few numbers, causing Aunt Shi and the others to look surprised, "So many!"
She nodded seriously, "I brought gifts for you all. I was planning to take them out after dinner."
"Oh! There are only a few stir-fries left. Who doesn't know how to make them? Come on, come on, bring them out and show them to us." Zidiao quickly wiped away her tears and, along with Aunt Shi, surrounded Li Xingzang and walked back into the house. They all understood that Li Xingzang was trying to cheer them up, so they calmed down and followed her lead.
After lunch, everyone looked at the empty tables and finally gained some confidence in her opening a restaurant.
"Zang Zang, even if you want to reopen your restaurant, you still have to clean up the house, make a signboard in advance, and hire people...that's not a small task!" Aunt Guan thought to herself, this restaurant can't be opened just like that.
"Well, Aunt Guan, you're right. I plan to clean up the house first, and then go shopping in the next couple of days. There's no rush. It'll take at least a month or two. By then it'll snow, the nearby ski resorts will open, and the ice and snow sculptures will be ready. Won't the customers come?"
"Hey! Our eldest daughter is really good at what she does!" Old Shi widened his eyes and shouted with a smile.
"Of course not. Do you think everyone is like you, wandering around with big eyes every day? In fact, they have a bigger heart than anyone else." Aunt Shi looked at him with disdain and said with a pout.
Li Xingzang laughed along with the others. With her family by her side, she seemed not to feel the sting of the sunlight, but only warmth in her heart.
In the deep mountains of Yuncheng, a group of people looked at the laboratory that was bombed into ruins and sighed, "Boss, what should we do?" It's been blown to pieces, what the hell can we find?
The young man in the crowd was wearing a blue striped shirt. From a distance he looked a little thin, but when you got closer you could see the strong muscles beneath his rolled-up cuffs.
He looked at the ruins among the mountains. Although he cursed in his heart, his face still looked somewhat nonchalant. "Didn't we capture some people? We'll go back and interrogate them. There will always be gains."
"But those people were unconscious due to the effects of the drugs. Doctor Wang gave them medicine, but it was useless." The young man who spoke first was a little impatient.
"The vast horizon..." When they heard the ringtone, they all looked at their boss silently. When would he change his ringtone? Although this is a classic of our Phoenix Legend, it really doesn't match his face!
"Hello, I'm Yu Sishi." He looked up at the distant sun and squinted his eyes. "We're in Yuncheng, so we don't have time. Besides, doesn't Hecheng have a Special Intelligence Bureau branch? Why are you looking for us?"
When the others heard him say this, they looked at each other in surprise. Something unusual happened in Hecheng, and they came to their Special Investigation Office?
Yu Sishi listened quietly to the voice on the other end of the phone. He put down the phone after a while, turned around and looked at the puzzled team members and the collapsed test base in front of him, and thought for a while, "Liushao and Zhuwang stay here, and you two be careful and see if you can lead others to find something else. Lanxiang, you go help Doctor Wang, and as for Yeying, you come with me to Hecheng." As he said that, he took the lead and walked down the mountain.
"What exactly happened in Hecheng? Why do we have to go there specially?" Nighthawk asked curiously as he followed behind him.
Yu Sishi casually poured mineral water on his head and shook off the water droplets on his hair. "There's a series of cases of young people falling from buildings over there. After the Special Intelligence Bureau intervened, they found that all the souls were gone."
"Then what does Wuchang say?" If the soul is gone, one should contact the City God and Wuchang. Why look for them?
"Fengdu recently held a forum with the West to exchange ideas about the underworld. They said this incident might have something to do with the West, so they asked us to go over and help support the event."
"Hey, that makes sense. The big guys in Fengdu must have noticed something a long time ago, but they didn't want to bully the weak, so they came to us, right?" Nighthawk started the off-road vehicle, sighing in his heart that their boss had a bad reputation.
The unbroken legacy of China's ancient gods is naturally a good thing from a broader perspective, but it inevitably restricts certain matters. A single misstep could lead to international controversy. Many gods have voluntarily fallen into a state of slumber, leaving only their avatars to maintain the balance of yin and yang. Even so, they cannot act rashly, yet they cannot ignore any issues. The establishment of the Special Intelligence Bureau and the Special Investigation Office has made them their best advocates. Their leader, in particular, has repeatedly won first place in East-West yin and yang competitions. Even the most renowned demons in China in recent years have been highly cooperative with the government upon hearing his name. This time, I imagine, will be no different.
Yu Sishi lay on his back in the passenger seat, his arms folded across his eyes, but a second thought loomed in his mind. He knew exactly what the Special Intelligence Agency had been investigating all those years, yet they contacted him just as he'd discovered this lab. Could there be something else behind this fall?
At night, the Baishan Bathing Center began to get busy and the hourly workers also arrived. Li Xingzang did not appear in front of others, but came to the three-story building next to it.
When her parents first came to Xuecheng, there was only a small bungalow. They had no relatives or friends here, and unlike other people, they could not work in the factory. So they could only sell lunch boxes near the factory to support their family of three.
Hot white rice, mashed potatoes or egg sauce, or some prefer meat sauce, fragrant scallions, cilantro, and crispy fried peanuts, all mixed together and wrapped tightly in a large cabbage leaf. That's how they gradually built their own home here. Later, news came that the factory was expanding, and the small bungalow became a small building. But things change, and the factory collapsed. Countless people were displaced during those years, and they almost lost their home. If it weren't for the help of Grandma Bai and others, I'm afraid nothing would be left.
Over the years, some people wanted to buy this place, but she rejected them all. Now that I think about it, she probably had the idea of coming back to reopen the restaurant a long time ago, otherwise she wouldn't have been so diligent in learning cooking skills despite being so busy. She even took the chef's certificate exam.
"Ms. Li, is this your home?" The dark room did not hinder Li Xingzang's vision, so when the person she brought back in the backpack came out, she could see him clearly.
But even if she is a vampire now, it doesn't mean that she won't be afraid of seeing a female ghost.
"Can't you make a sound before you come out?" Li Xingzang said with a forced smile.
"But I'm a ghost now, so it won't matter how much noise I make!" She looked at Li Xingzang innocently.
Li Xingzang suddenly smiled, "You think I'm in a good mood today, so you're not afraid, right?" This person lived upstairs from her. She was originally a "girl" in a club. She had only met her a few times in the elevator, but she jumped from the top floor two days ago, which directly triggered her suppressed thirst. If it weren't for her grandmother's magic weapon, she would probably rush to the street and bite people.
"Ah!" Li Xingzang grabbed her and pressed her against the wall, ignoring her pleas for mercy and said, "I told you not to mess with me, why didn't you listen?" She was already annoyed enough trying to suppress her thirst, but that night she showed up in her bathroom in the same look she was before dying. She was beaten up by her, but she didn't learn her lesson and even dared to provoke her.
"Ms. Li, I was wrong! I really know I was wrong!" He Yishu didn't dare to act like a demon anymore and quickly slid down to his knees, still blaming himself in his heart for not being able to control his mouth!
Li Xingzang closed her eyes. After becoming a vampire, the temper she had suppressed for years burst out. Otherwise, after seeing He Yishu's miserable state, she might not have been able to hit her directly. These days, having free labor is not easy, she needs to control it.
"Look at your performance. If you act like a troublemaker again, I won't take you in anymore." Li Xingzang threw a broom to her and went upstairs.
He Yishu wiped the non-existent tears from the corners of her eyes. She had originally sensed that she was unusual and wanted to find a backup to possess her so that she could avoid those people. However, she didn't expect that she would be a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth and end up working for her in vain.
"Don't worry, if you do a good job, I will naturally not treat you unfairly." Li Xingzang's leisurely voice came from upstairs, "Don't you want to practice the ghost way?" He Yishu's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Don't worry, boss. I know what's going on! I promise to clean it up perfectly for you!"
Li Xingzang felt the movement downstairs and lamented that he had been so used to the workplace in recent years that he could easily get what he wanted.
In that case, she put her hands on her hips.
It's you! Lao Li's Restaurant's first dish—pancakes!
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