Luting Canteen

Yan Ting knew that Yan Zi came here after dressing up specially, but the way Tang Meng looked at her remained unchanged.

After understanding Yan Zi's feelings for Tang Meng at that time, Yan Ting didn't say anything.An older brother can't help with this kind of thing, and Yan Ting also feels that there is no need to get involved.So when he later found out what Ye Qi was thinking, Yan Ting also just watched silently from the side.He understands that between people, sometimes there is only a straight line, you come and go, the intersecting time is short, sometimes it is like a circle, and it may go around many circles without seeing the end and the node.Yan Ting never insisted on these things, he didn't lose anything because he never desperately hoped to get anything.

Back in the kitchen, Yan Ting took a look at Ye Qi, who was obviously in a bad mood. He was washing the dishes, and Li Hui was outside talking to a few familiar guests.After thinking about it, Yan Ting still asked:

"Let's get together tonight, are you okay?"

"It's okay, what can I do?"

Ye Qi raised his head quickly, saw Yan Ting raised his eyebrows, realized that he was asking if he was free at night, slowed down his hands, smiled awkwardly, and went to wash the dishes again.The water from the tap splashed onto the dishes and wet the apron.Yan Ting went over to turn off the water, then patted Ye Qi on the shoulder, paused, and started cooking everyone's work meals without saying anything.

When there were only a few of them left in the cafeteria, Tang Meng and Li Hui cleaned up the plates together, Yan Zi followed to help, and Ye Qi also passed by.

"Xiao Zi, do you want to have barbecue tonight?"

Tang Meng asked as he took the stacked dishes from Yan Zi's hand, Yan Zi nodded immediately upon hearing that:

"I want to! I'm dying to eat!"

I regretted it just after I finished speaking - I managed to hold back a quieter look, and it took less than half an hour to show up.But Tang Meng didn't notice her small thoughts, seeing Yan Zi's lively appearance immediately after hearing the food, he thought it was cute, so he curled up his mouth and said to Yan Ting:

"Yan Ting, shall we go to the house in the Shuilu community at night?"

"Okay."

"Ye Qi, do you have anything else to do tonight?"

When Tang Meng said "Ye Qi", the person listening subconsciously began to compare the fact that he called Yan Zi "Xiao Zi" just now.Having fun with them, Ye Qi suppressed the disappointment in his heart and said loudly:

"Go, go! If you have meat, of course go!"

Li Hui glanced at Ye Qi who was abnormally happy, and asked Yan Ting in a low voice:

"Master, is Ye Qi very happy that Miss Yan Zi is back?"

"You'll have to ask him to find out, Li Hui, bring a big bowl here."

Handing over the bowl swiftly, watching Yan Ting slowly pour a pot of rice into it.Those rice grains are wrapped in thick sauce and steamed in the bowl.Li Hui couldn't help smelling it, and Li Hui felt a little hungry.

The soy sauce-colored rice was mixed with green beans, chopped green onion and minced pepper. Yan Ting brought it to the long platform and distributed it to everyone with spoons and small bowls.The three of Tang Meng and the others sat outside, and Yan Ting and Li Hui sat inside the long platform, surrounded by steaming rice. Tang Meng said with some nostalgia:

"It seems like it's been a long time since we sat together and ate hot rice cooked by Yan Ting."

"Hot, rice?"

"It's the kind of thing that uses the leftover soup and rice from various dishes to cook together, and then add some side dishes at the end. If it's at home, just use the leftovers from the last meal."

Yan Ting served Li Hui a bowl and put it in front of him.

"Ah! That's why when I was cooking today, my lord, I overcooked the soup and poured it out!"

When Li Hui was happy, he couldn't help looking at the rice in the bowl and said:

"Speaking of which, my mother used to cook this kind of miscellaneous rice, but there is no oil in the soup, and it doesn't have this fragrance..."

"Brother, what did he call you just now? Son? Mother?"

Yan Zi was about to open his mouth to eat, but stopped when he heard Li Hui's words.Li Hui was startled, and found that he had said the wrong thing, and immediately thought about how to explain it, and just said "ah", Tang Meng spoke unhurriedly:

"Li Hui has been living in my hometown. I told you before that he is the child of a distant relative. Next door to his house, there is an old man who teaches. He especially likes classical literature, and he also likes to use some ancient names. Li Hui I learned from him since I was a child, and I can’t change it.”

Tang Meng explained to Yan Zi with a gentle face, without changing his face, without his heart beating, and at the end he turned his head and told Li Hui:

"It's okay, Li Hui, my cousin will explain it clearly for you, and my sister will know."

Yan Ting and Ye Qi looked at the smiling Tang Meng, glanced at each other, and silently decided in their hearts that Tang Meng's words must be filtered several times in the future - this guy even believed them.

Li Hui nodded in a daze after listening to Tang Meng's words, Yan Zi wanted to ask Li Hui if he had long hair like this, but seeing Yan Ting staring at him, he retracted the words.Attracted by the aroma of hot rice, everyone began to eat.Yan Ting asked about Yan Zi's recent situation, but did not mention his parents.After dinner, Yan Zi said that he wanted to go to the bookstore. Ye Qi had something to do in the afternoon, so Tang Meng accompanied Yan Zi to the store.Lu Ting was the same as usual, only Yan Ting and Li Hui were left.

"Li Hui, it's time to take a nap after finishing."

Yan Ting wiped his hands dry, didn't hear Li Hui's answer, looked back, he was staring at the gas stove thinking about something.

"What's wrong?"

"Ah, lord, lord." After being hit on the head, Li Hui came back to his senses: "I was thinking, didn't Miss Yan Zi say that she likes to eat meat just now? Can I, can I make some for her?"

"It's fine, but don't make too much, and you have to go out to eat at night."

Seeing that Li Hui regained his energy all of a sudden, Yan Ting said again:

"It's okay to make too much. If there is too much, let's take it to Lanze, okay?"

"it is good!"

"But take a nap first."

"But--"

"Sleep for three 10 minutes."

Because Yan Ting had already taught the time conversion, Li Hui calculated the time in his heart, and reluctantly agreed, so it was rare to be a little anxious:

"Master, son, let's go to bed quickly!"

Yan Ting was taken aback, and laughed helplessly.Seeing Li Hui's anxious appearance, he simply picked him up and walked towards the bedroom.

When it was time to start cooking, Yan Ting finally understood why Li Hui was in such a hurry to go to bed.The little guy asked for some ham, carefully cut it into a short cylindrical shape, and then cleaned the pork knuckle bought in the morning to remove the fishy smell, and then carefully removed the bone.Yan Ting was worried that he would cut off his hand and kept staring at it, but Li Hui took the boning knife and smoothly deboned the elbow, and carefully shaped it into a circle.

Yan Ting watched as he stuffed those cylindrical hams neatly.Those are ham pieces with white glutinous fat at one end and meat at the other end. Li Hui put the fat part of the ham on the elbow meat, brushed some sweet-scented osmanthus rock sugar juice, and when the outside dries up, throw it into deep oil. It was deep-fried in the pot, then fished out and put into the rock sugar juice soaked with onion, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and other ingredients. Li Hui also added a little too often.

"My lord, my lord, can I borrow the yard? It's at the back of the house,"

After wiping off his sweat, Li Hui asked Yan Ting nervously.Yan Ting nodded, and Li Hui happily went to the courtyard.Yan Ting followed and saw that he took away the bricks left over from the previous wall repair, it seemed that he wanted to make a stove.After lending a hand, Li Hui picked up some branches from the yard and smelled them before throwing them in.Yan Ting taught him to put the paper and small wooden sticks at the bottom, lighted a fire with old newspapers and stuffed them in. After a while, a simple brick stove would be ready for use.

Li Hui took out the largest pot in Luting, poured the water in which the mushrooms were boiled, coated the elbows with a few layers of brown sugar and soy sauce for coloring, put them into a small cast iron pot and placed them firmly in the big pot, checked the When the water level was lowered, he breathed a sigh of relief and covered the large pot.

Yan Ting saw him squatting in front of the stove, after squatting for a while, he pulled some wide and flat long grass in the yard, folded it into small bundles, stared at the fire, and added some to it from time to time.

Yan Ting didn't ask him, and just sat down on the ground behind him, looking at Li Hui's thin back.His complexion has gotten better recently, but he hasn't gotten any fatter yet. It seems that he needs to eat more nutritious food.

"Master, son!"

After regaining consciousness, Yan Ting saw Li Hui saying to himself in embarrassment:

"Young master, go and rest. I'll tell you later when it's done."

"I'm fine here."

Smiling, Yan Ting got up and squatted beside Li Hui, the pot had already begun to smell a little.

"How did you get the grass?"

"Actually, it's better to use straw, because the fire needs to be adjusted like this. The master said that you can't leave people before the fire."

"Master has taught you a lot."

When Li Hui heard this, his eyes darkened:

"All, I watched them secretly. Some of them were told by the master to the brothers, so I just remembered."

Yan Ting touched his head.

"Do you want to hear about our childhood?"

"think!"

"Then tell me while you look at the fire."

"Um!"

Yan Ting talked about the embarrassing things about Ye Qi and Yan Zi when they were young, which made Li Hui laugh out loud, and unconsciously healed his elbows while talking.Yan Ting helped him take out the small cast iron pot and put it on the heat insulation pad, the aroma overflowed as soon as it was opened.When the heat dissipated, the skin of the elbows turned into a beautiful light amber color, crystal clear and shiny.After smelling it, Li Hui nodded, took out the steamed tender elbow and cut it into different shapes.

"It's good to eat like this. It's not good if it's too thin or too thick. In some places, it's better to eat thin, and in some places, it's better to eat thicker."

Li Hui whispered to Yan Ting while cutting.Yan Ting watched him stroke left and right, very skillfully.

"Young master, you first, first taste."

Yan Ting knew that he was always worried that he was not doing well enough, so he nodded with a smile, picked up a chopstick, looked at it before putting it in his mouth.Li Hui stared at him nervously.

"Delicious, indeed delicious."

It should taste better if it is burnt with straw and wood branches as Li Hui said.The skin of this elbow meat has been stewed glutinous, but the entrance is still elastic and slippery.The skin and the fat of the ham have completely penetrated into the meat. The saltiness of the ham is combined with rock sugar osmanthus and aniseed ingredients, and the layers are rich again.

"Miss Yan Zi, will you like it?"

Li Hui also took a sip and felt that the taste was good, but he was still a little worried.

"We'll find out at night."

Yan Ting could already imagine Yan Zi's expression at that time, so he smiled and wiped Li Hui's dusty smiling face with his fingers:

"Go, go wash your face."