In the height of summer, I chopped up the scallions, ginger, and garlic and set them aside. I also took a handful of Sichuan peppercorns and heated the pan with cold oil.
Once the oil is hot, add the seasonings one by one, including salt and chili peppers, and then add water.
With a hiss, a chorus of coughs rose and fell all around. As the water boiled, Shengxia suddenly realized that there seemed to be quite a lot of coughing.
Outside the courtyard?
Orange Fruit heard this too, and she gestured to Eagle to go to the door to check.
The eagle stretched out its wings, its feet not touching the ground, flew to the doorway, and suddenly flung open the courtyard gate.
The yellow flowers and several males are now drooling outside.
Sheng Xia frowned. What bad luck! The people on the female lead's side never let anyone have a peaceful day!
When the orange fruit saw the yellow flower, the sworn enemy blushed deeply upon meeting.
He pounced on her and started yelling, "You shameless thing, what are you doing sneaking around the entrance of Summer Palace?"
"Trying to steal something? Have you no shame? Get lost! Get the hell out of here!" Although I didn't know what "get the hell out of here" meant, I felt really good hearing Sheng Xia curse like that. Sure enough.
Huang Hua was a little embarrassed at first, because she had nothing to lack and just loved this kind of food.
The aroma was so enticing that she couldn't resist standing at the entrance of the Summer Palace for a long time, along with the other beasts from the tribe who had come drawn by the scent.
Suddenly I feel a little envious of Chengguo, who has a friend who can cook.
She had heard that this summer, every few days, people were making delicious food from thorny beasts that were also incredibly awful and could even kill people by pricking them!
Later, other beasts in the tribe followed suit and tried to catch the Spiky Beast, almost getting stuck and killed.
The resulting spiky beasts were so fishy and smelly that no one wanted to eat them, so no one bothered to catch them anymore.
It was a good deal for Shengxia, as she and Chengguo bought them all.
Huang Hua wondered what delicious food they were making today.
She ignored Cheng Guo and subtly peered inside from the doorway.
The ground was covered with all sorts of lush green grass, and the rest were slices of meat, which looked like pork.
There was something boiling in the pot, a bright red pot of water that looked incredibly delicious.
Huang Hua swallowed hard and asked shamelessly, "What are you eating?"
Orange tilted its head back, looking proud: "Want to know?"
The yellow flower nodded frantically.
"I'm not telling you, get out!" Cheng Guo slammed the door shut, cutting off any outside prying eyes.
Looking back at Sheng Xia, he was overjoyed: "Hahaha, she's finally got what's coming to her. She used to look down on us, huh!"
"When can we eat in the middle of summer?" Cheng Guo's face was almost touching the pot, not afraid of getting burned.
The water boiled, and Shengxia added some more ingredients, then put in the shiitake mushrooms and the others first: "Don't rush, it'll be quick."
There were quite a few people, and there was only one pot, so we had to cook the food as we ate.
When it was time to eat, Shengxia went in to check on Yang Yun and found that he had already woken up.
"Are you hungry? We're having hot pot today, come on over."
The female's voice was sweet and pleasant, which made Yang Yun feel flattered. No one had ever been so gentle to him before.
He lowered his head shyly and said, "No, no, I'm not hungry."
No sooner had he finished speaking than his stomach began to protest, growling loudly, and the boy's face turned bright red.
She lowered her voice and said with a smile, "I made a lot, it'll go bad if you don't eat it. Come on, don't refuse, it's an order."
"Okay, thank you."
Sheng Xia was stunned for a moment; his voice was really nice.
Cheng Guo and the others had no objections to having Yang Yun eat with them; she didn't care whether eating with slaves was beneath her dignity.
Shengxia turned to look at the reserved Yang Yun and served him a bowl of rice: "Eat some rice first. Eating hot pot on an empty stomach is bad for your stomach."
The rice grains are really big! I cut them into smaller pieces before cooking, otherwise they probably wouldn't have cooked through.
Orange urged loudly, "Summer, come quick, can we eat now?"
"It's ready to eat."
As soon as she finished speaking, Cheng Guo awkwardly used her chopsticks to scoop out a shiitake mushroom and put it in her mouth.
It was so hot I couldn't bear to spit it out; I just chewed it and swallowed it.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she breathed out.
"Waaaah, what is this?! I've been eating stinky poop for years!"
"Eat slowly, there's still plenty left. Come and watch me." Shengxia demonstrated for the beasts.
I picked up a mushroom with my chopsticks, put it in the sauce bowl, let it soak up the broth, and then took it out and put it in my mouth.
The long-lost taste brought tears to my eyes in the height of summer.
Orange was startled: "Did you bite your tongue? Why are you crying?"
"It's okay, it's okay, it's just so delicious! Waaaaah, I finally got to eat hot pot!"
The rice was already cooked, but there weren't enough bowls, so in the sweltering summer, we simply ate rice grains the size of ping-pong balls directly as hot pot meatballs.
The beasts stumbled and scrambled, trying to imitate Shengxia's actions, picking up food, dipping it in sauce, and eating with their mouths greasy.
At that moment, the witch doctor, who had just finished eating, suddenly smelled a peculiar fragrance that made the beasts involuntarily drool.
The chief, like many of the beasts in the tribe, smelled the faint, alluring scent.
Following the scent, a group of beasts eventually gathered at the entrance of the Summer Courtyard.
The later arrivals and Huang Hua put on another show of looking at each other in bewilderment.
In the height of summer, it was discovered that a yard that was too sturdy wasn't good either; there was a lot of chatter outside, but inside you couldn't see anything, you could only hear the sounds.
She put down her chopsticks and opened the courtyard gate.
A huge, swarming herd! Beasts!
!!
What's going on?
Foreign invasion?
Hmm, isn't that chief in the front?
All the orcs have arrived?
"Chief, witch doctor, what are you doing?" Sheng Xia asked hesitantly, her voice filled with surprise and uncertainty.
"Shengxia, are you eating? I haven't eaten either," the chief said awkwardly, his face flushed.
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