Chapter 25 New Year
Time passed quickly and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. Li Zheng didn't know what to do on New Year's Eve and there was nothing here and no ingredients, so she could only make simple dishes. She remembered that on previous New Year's Eves, she would just cook a table of delicious food and then stay up all night, and there didn't seem to be anything else to do, right?
On New Year's Eve, Li Zheng decided to take a good vacation. She had been busy practicing martial arts, cooking, collecting firewood in the mountains, and hunting. In the kitchen, Li Zheng decided to use all her skills to cook a good meal, and she would make all the things she didn't usually have the chance to make.
Li Zheng first went to the kitchen and took out the pig offal from the space. She endured the stench and cleaned the pig intestines. She put them in the pot, added onions, ginger, garlic, and a little wine, and cooked until the smell was gone. She then removed the blood foam and put them in sugar and soy sauce to stew for an hour. At this time, she took out three ducks and prepared to cook them. Fortunately, she didn't want to eat the ducks and kept them. She cut off the duck heads, necks, wings, and feet, and then chopped the duck bodies into small pieces. She blanched the ducks in another pot, removed them, and placed them in a clay pot. She added fennel, star anise, cinnamon, and seasonings, especially dogwood, which she had to use since she didn't have chili peppers. She stewed them for half an hour and then simmered them for another half hour.
Next, it’s time to cook the chicken. After all, the New Year’s Eve dinner must have all kinds of chicken, duck, fish and meat. As for the chicken, I don’t plan to make it too complicated. I will just make a cold chicken, which is quick and delicious. First, boil the chicken in cold water, let it cool, tear it into thin strips, and then use salt, soy sauce, vinegar, minced garlic, chopped green onion, and add dogwood oil to make a sauce and pour it over it. It’s perfect.
"Brother, it smells so good." Baoger smelled the fragrance coming from the kitchen and put down the pen in his hand. He didn't want to write anymore because he was too greedy.
What could Gu Chengze say? Could he say he was greedy too? Alas, even meditation couldn't calm his mind.
"Why don't Baoger go and help his sister light the fire." Baoger thought his suggestion was good and ran away.
Gu Chengze looked helpless and followed him over.
"Sister, let me help you light the fire." Baoger looked at the two burning pots in the kitchen and ran to sit next to the pot of duck that he thought smelled the best.
"Okay, just don't make the fire too big. Since you're here too, you can go and light the pot." Seeing Gu Chengze following over, he asked him to light the fire without thinking.
Gu Chengze walked to the pot where the pig intestines were cooking without saying much, silently adding firewood, and also added some firewood to the pot that Li Zheng was using.
Li Zheng didn't pay much attention to them, she was busy now!
Li Zheng grabbed two more fish, preparing to make sweet and sour fish and braised fish. There wasn't much fish to eat, so she cleaned the fish, scored them a few times, dipped them in flour, and deep-fried them in oil until they were firm. She then removed them and made a sweet and sour sauce. Without tomatoes, the presentation was average. The braised fish was much easier to make: just fry them in oil, add the seasoning, and simmer until cooked through. She also grabbed some spare ribs and made sweet and sour spare ribs and a spare rib soup, along with a few vegetable dishes. Li Zheng was a bit lazy and used the same ingredients from the sweet and sour fish for the spare ribs.
Baoger looked at these delicacies and thought secretly, I must feed them all tonight!
Gu Chengze looked at Li Zheng's smooth wrist, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Okay, that's enough, let's eat. Hurry and bring the food in before it gets cold."
"Yeah, I'll go, I'll go." Bao Ge'er quickly took the plate in.
"What about you? Aren't you decent?" Looking at Gu Chengze standing there stupidly, not moving.
"Aren't you wearing it?" Gu Chengze stared at Li Zheng's wrist.
When Li Zheng saw her wrist, her face turned slightly red. "I was wearing it before. But I put it away today because I was afraid it would get dirty while cooking. I can't wear it while cooking." This was the bracelet that Li Zheng and Gu Chengze had agreed to give to Li Zheng that day. He said that it was left by his mother to his daughter-in-law. She felt a little satisfied at the time. She thought it was more meaningful than the engagement ring used for engagement in her previous life.
"Yeah." After hearing what he wanted to say, Gu Chengze did not linger and went into the house with the food. After all, he had just seen a slight annoyance on her face.
Li Zheng thought about it and took out the bracelet and put it on, then carried the dishes into the house.
Bao Ge'er looked at the table full of dishes and was eager to eat. On the contrary, he didn't want to eat the dish that Li Zheng had spent so much time cooking.
"Sister, sister, which one is delicious?" Baoger looked at the table full of dishes and didn't know which one to eat first.
"Here, this one. This is the one I spent the longest time making. Eat it." He picked up a piece for Baoger, looked at Gu Chengze with a malicious look, picked up a piece and put it on his plate, and smiled.
Gu Chengze looked at the pig intestines on the plate. He knew it was pig intestines, and there was no doubt that Li Zheng did it on purpose, but he had to eat it. Although he knew that she had the skill to turn decayed things into magic, he had never seen it, let alone eaten it since he was a child.
Li Zheng saw him pick up the pig intestine with chopsticks hesitantly, put it into his mouth hesitantly, and swallowed it without even chewing. This made Li Zheng laugh out loud.
"Sister, what are you laughing at?" Baoger was a little surprised that there were so many delicious foods but she didn't want to eat them.
"Nothing, just stop eating sweet and sour pork ribs and eat more vegetables."
When she looked down, she saw a pair of duck wings on her plate. Well, it was her favorite. She suddenly wondered if she had gone too far. So she added a plate of sweet and sour pork ribs to his plate. He seemed to like it.
After finishing their meal, the three of them lay on the bed together, clutching their stomachs. Bao Ge'er was the most exaggerated, "I'm so full, what should I do? But I still want to eat. I clearly didn't eat any rice, so why did I only fill up so little?"
"Your stomach is so small, how much do you want to put in? If you want to eat, eat tomorrow!" Li Zheng said in a sullen voice.
Gu Chengze also smiled but said nothing.
"I feel so full. How about it? Do you want to go out and do some exercises to help digest the food?" Li Zheng looked at him, just to see how far he had gotten. He was really patient!
"Okay." He was not polite and decided to give it a try.
When they arrived at the yard, Li Zheng and Gu Chengze were ready and waiting for Baoger to say start. They didn't bring swords or knives, after all, it was just a demonstration. If they did, it would not be good to see blood on New Year's Day, as swords have no eyes.
"Ready, go." This slogan was taught to me by my sister!
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zheng rushed out and stretched out a punch. Gu Chengze was no show-off. He raised his right arm to block and attacked Li Zheng with his left hand. Li Zheng had expected this and appeared behind him on tiptoe.
"Wow, when will I be able to fight with my sister?" Baoger watched the two of them fight back and forth dozens of times, screaming and cheering for them, but it didn't take long before it was over, and of course Li Zheng was the winner.
"Not bad, you are practicing very fast." He can already exchange dozens of moves with her. He is indeed very fast and has high talent. After all, he is sixteen years old. Although he has the help of spiritual spring water, he is really good. Unlike Bao Ge'er, his talent is average. He makes slow progress even after drinking spiritual spring water. It seems that his talent is all in studying. He can only practice light skills diligently to save his life.
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