Jiaohua

Chapter 613 Talk about everything (one more)
The kitchen is bright and clean, with several pendant lamps, and two floor-to-ceiling pear tree moon shadow lamps on both sides of the window sash next to the stove.

Xia Zhaoyi picked up the ingredients on the low cabinet and the wooden box, and talked to Shen Lie about the reason why she came back from the left, and how she met Du Xuan.

Shen Lie was cutting meat and chatting with her.

Mr. Liuhe's chopping board is made of ginkgo wood, which has a very faint medicinal fragrance. Every time he cuts it down, he can smell the medicinal fragrance.

He cuts neither fast nor slow, and the thickness of each piece of meat is very uniform, and the presentation is excellent.

After Xia Zhaoyi selected the ingredients, he went out to wash.

Shen Lie looked at the stove, paused the knife in his hand, and went to light a fire.

After Xia Zhaoyi came back, he saw him squatting on one knee behind the stove.

It was quite rough work, but he did it very smoothly, and the fire started as soon as it was mentioned, and it gradually grew bigger.

Thinking about it, they are all people who sit on the ground behind the scenes, so this small job is really nothing.

Shen Lie pushed the burning firewood in, and when he heard Xia Zhaoyi preparing to chop vegetables, he looked up, got up and said, "Mr. Liu is the only one in his family?"

"That's right," Xia Zhaoyi said while chopping vegetables, "Uncle Liu's wife died of dystocia during childbirth, leaving behind Uncle Liu and his son. His son also died in battle more than ten years ago."

"Then Mr. Liu lived alone all these years?"

"Maybe."

Shen Lie looked at the three stoves in the kitchen, and there was a row of small stoves opposite.

There are a lot of places and a lot of pots, so they won't get in each other's way when they cook together.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled, looked around, and said, "Uncle Liu is very particular about life, you see, inside and outside the house, everything is elegant, even the kitchen is extremely elegant."

Seeing her smile, Shen Lie couldn't help but also smiled: "Mr. Liu is open-minded, and if he wants to come to Uncle Liu's wife and son, he is also happy to see him live comfortably."

"That's right," Xia Zhaoyi put the chopped vegetables aside, brought fresh green vegetables and continued to chop, and said with a smile, "Uncle Liu died because his wife had a difficult childbirth, so he went to learn how to deliver babies. Up to now, he The hand-delivery work is extremely wonderful, and I don’t know how many pregnant women and livestock have been saved.”

Shen Lie looked at her, as if some enthusiasm came into his heart, and said sincerely: "I have never heard of a man delivering a baby. It is really admirable for Mr. Liu to have such an idea. Besides, his wife is dead, so he just learned it." , it is useless to him, and his actions are entirely for the sake of others."

"But there are some people who don't listen," Xia Zhaoyi said, "If it wasn't for the dystocia and death, few people would come to him. Now Uncle Liu has some fame, is respected and praised by everyone, but In the early years, he said he wanted to help deliver babies, but he was almost beaten to death. I heard from my elder brother that Uncle Liu had delivered a woman in the early years. He insisted on feeling that he was 'dirty', so he took a chance and ran into the river. Uncle Liu has been sad about this for a long time, but he doesn’t want to continue delivering babies, because those who can find him are all dying, and he can’t do nothing about it.”

"Those people are really stupid." Shen Lie said.

"But it wasn't the mother who killed the mother," Xia Zhaoyi said with a deep breath, "It was her deep-rooted thoughts, and those thoughts were not her own, they were imposed by others."

Shen Lie raised her brows lightly and nodded, "Yes."

"Say something happy," Xia Zhaoyi smiled, "Where have you been all these years?"

Shen Lie paused slightly, and said: "...It seems that it is not very happy."

"Pfft," Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile, "Then let's not talk about it, just tell me about me."

"Okay," Shen Lie also laughed, Qing Jun smiled, "Where have you been all these years, I have been looking for you."

"It's not very happy, there are not many interesting things, but I learned a lot." Xia Zhaoyi said.

Since Zhu Xian's death, she has always had knots in her heart, it's shame, regret, and hatred for her own powerlessness.

In addition, during that time, there was always hostility in her chest, so the master ordered her to temporarily put down her hatred, and gave her a few years to grow up.

Indeed, many things are really inconvenient for a girl and need to be grown up, so she agreed to Master and walked out with Zhili.

I read a lot of books, wrote a lot of small notes, visited many places, and went to find Shen Lie a few times, but unfortunately, I couldn't find them.

She also mentioned that she wrote five letters to Shen Lie, but there was no reply.

When they said this, they had already started cooking.

The heavy barbecue has changed from the rough and bold bonfire wooden frame to the exquisite charcoal grill on the three-sided small stove.

In addition to the barbecue, he also cooked a bowl of broth, and set up two grilled fish on several other small stoves.

Now seeing Xia Zhaoyi cooking vegetables in the pot from the side, he thought about it for a while, went to wash some meat and came back, sliced ​​it and fried it together with the cowpeas that he picked and washed.

The posture of cooking was a bit stiff, and the rising oily smoke stained his long eyebrows. While frying, he looked at Xia Zhaoyi's pot, and at the same time listened to Xia Zhaoyi talking about these years. The borrowed book The cookbook lay aside without ever turning half a page.

When putting in the seasoning, Shen Lie was a little confused. Mr. Liu He had a lot of seasoning here. He picked it up and smelled some, and found it to be acceptable. He was about to sprinkle it drastically, but Xia Zhaoyi quickly stopped it.

But in fact, Xia Zhaoyi, who is well-informed, can't recognize all these seasonings.

The two pondered for a while, Xia Zhaoyi took the chopsticks and dipped them in his lips, then frowned, "It tastes like sour plums, but it's really sweet. You can say sour plums, but it's not quite like sour plums."

"Would you like to let it go?"

"Just a little bit, it's strong, but not too much."

"Yeah." Shen Li nodded.

His hand was steady, he said a little bit, seriously, turned around and saw Xia Zhaoyi looking at his pot, his heartbeat was beating wildly, and he put the spoon back into the small porcelain pot with the seasoning calmly. In the cup, put it back to its original place.

The two were very close, and it was clear that there were many kinds of food aromas in the kitchen, but Shen Lie felt that it was only her breath.

There was already some food on the stove. He was afraid that she would be hungry, so he asked her to eat some barbecue first. She said that she would eat with Mr. Liu He later, so he didn't continue to persuade her.

Immediately afterwards, she said that she hadn't chatted with someone like this for a long time, and she didn't want to be interrupted by eating.

She also said that she likes to chat with him.

Shen Lie once watched a fireworks feast in Zuilu, those fireworks suddenly rang out in the sky, thousands of trees were shining brightly, swallowing the world with brilliance, it was a magnificence that shocked everything.

And at that moment, with Xia Zhaoyi's casual words, Shen Lie suddenly felt that she personally ignited an equally grand fireworks feast in his heart.

He also likes to talk about everything like this.

Especially like now, her brows and eyes are clear and bright, and she speaks with a lazy, faint expression. Once she bends her lips and smiles, the lights in the whole kitchen and the stars in the sky are not as bright as one ten thousandth of the brilliance in her eyes.

He really, really likes it like a drunk.

(End of this chapter)