Colorful

Chapter 15 Meeting at the Pavilion (3)
Shen Che is cold and serious, just like the handful of cold snow covered by the sun on the top of the sacred mountain, which makes people worship, but wants to grab it and chew it in his mouth to suppress the hotness in his heart.

Such a person with an alienated and indifferent temperament could not be imagined to be a playboy.

But at this moment, Ji Cheng couldn't care less about admiring Shen Che's handsome face, she was cold all over, her palms were sweating, and a large part of her back was soaked with sweat.

It's unlucky for people, it's really hard to drink cold water, and in such an impossible place, to be bumped into by the second son of the Shen family, Ji Cheng only feels that the future is covered with a layer of gray.

But Ji Cheng still tried to stay calm, and even forced himself to look into Shen Che's eyes.

Shen Che's eyes are slightly narrow and long red phoenix eyes, even though they are ruthless, they are naturally a little seductive, making you inexplicably have the illusion that he will take pity on you.

"Miss Ji, let's go back first, I'll take Brother Hong back." Shen Che said.

This person's voice has a sense of distance, as if it came from the sky above your head, Ji Cheng can't describe it well, as if it came from her master's voice.

However, where did Ji Cheng have any master? She realized after she calmed down that it was a sense of superior control.

In such a tone, Ji Cheng didn't say anything, just bowed his head in response, and left quickly, wishing he could disappear immediately with wings under his armpits and his feet on the hot wheels.

Ji Cheng first untied the rope tied to the double cornice, jumped to the first floor with ease, and then hung down along the rope, but this one was more than ten feet above the ground, and Ji Cheng raised and lowered the rope below. , wanted to slide the noose out from the cornice, but the difficulty was relatively high, and she was unavoidably flustered, so she couldn't get it out after a long time.

In the end, Shen Che took Brother Hong to take it out for her, and then Ji Cheng saw that Shen Che held Brother Hong under his armpit and stood firmly on the ground with a light jump. Ji Cheng didn't expect Shen Che His lightness is so good.

Ji Cheng was fascinated by it. When she heard the story of stepping on the snow without a trace and crossing the river with a reed when she was young, she was very envious and yearning for those legendary heroes, and even made trouble for her father to find her a master. Now it's natural to think about it. It's a joke.However, Ji Cheng didn't expect to see someone flying over the wall today, it's just unbelievable.

Probably Ji Cheng was too obsessed with watching, so Shen Che gave her a cold glance, and she quickly lowered her head and packed the rope silently.

Ji Cheng thought about what he had said to Brother Hong, and now wished he could dig his own grave and jump in, so he hesitated whether to say a few nice words in front of Second Young Master to explain.

And Shen Che identified her identity just now, so Ji Cheng had no choice but to muster up the courage to defend himself and strive for leniency, so he said: "Second Young Master, I..." As for the similar title of Second Cousin, Ji Cheng didn't have the cheek to shout it out yet.

"Don't bring brother Hong to such a high place next time." Shen Che interrupted Ji Cheng.

"Yes." Ji Cheng nodded hastily. In fact, she regretted it a long time ago. If Shen Che hadn't appeared in time when Brother Hong's foot slipped just now, Ji Cheng would probably have to die to thank the Shen family.In the past few years, it was rare for her to be self-willed. She did not expect this kind of ending. It can be seen that people really can't just act on their own will, "Never again, I promise."

Shen Che remained silent.

Ji Cheng almost nodded and bowed to Shen Che: "Then I'll go first." Ji Cheng turned around like a frightened deer, quickly disappeared from Hegang, and disappeared into the pine forest at the foot of the mountain.

Liu Ye'er was worried about Ji Cheng going out so late at first, so she stood by the gable wall and hurried up to meet Ji Cheng when she came back, but seeing Ji Cheng's bangs were wet with sweat and sticking to his forehead, she asked anxiously, "Girl ,what happened?"

Ji Cheng was still in shock at this moment, he just shook his head: "Don't ask."

When he was lying on the bed again, Ji Cheng still couldn't believe that he met the second son of the Shen family on the top of Deyue Pavilion, where it was impossible to meet anyone.

Ji Cheng turned over and sighed, wishing she had known that she hadn't told Brother Hong the truth at the time, but only said that he felt sorry for his mother and that she was talking about flattery with a child.This is great, it must have given Shen Che the feeling of being talkative, and I'm afraid he will have a deep impression of scheming.

Ji Cheng only hopes that Shen Che is not the kind of talkative person, and has made up his mind that from now on, whenever he sees the shadow of the second son, he can hide as far away as possible, and don't remind him that there is such a person as himself. .

Seeing that the day of April 24 is getting closer and closer, no matter whether it is a garden, a curtain, or a unique flower pot, it is ready, and there are many varieties of flowers, but there are too many flowers that can really surprise you. If there is less, an ordinary flower banquet is naturally enough, but it is not enough to be called "Hundred Flowers Banquet" and to overwhelm Wang Siniang's "Peony Banquet".

Not to mention the irritable Shen Cui, even Shen Xian was so anxious that a pimple appeared on the corner of her mouth, and all the girls were waiting for news from Shen Xun in the waterside pavilion.

Seeing Shen Xun coming out of Huawu, Shen Xian asked Shen Xun who was still panting: "Ah Xun, is there any news from Second Brother?"

Shen Xun stomped his feet and said: "I told him when I saw him last time, he only promised to do his best, but since then I haven't seen his shadow again, I only found out today by asking Tongyue, the little servant next to him. , I don’t know which vixen he became obsessed with outside recently, and he didn’t even go home, but he coaxed my mother into a cloud.”

Shen Xian and Shen Cui were disappointed for a while, leaning back heavily, Shen Xian said a little dejectedly: "Forget it, this is fine, this time I would like to thank sister Cheng for finding a few pots of rare camellia, and we The camellias here are out of season, so it’s no shame to have these few pots to support the facade.”

After Shen Xian finished speaking, Shen Xun, Shen Cui and Su Yun all looked at Ji Cheng, and Ji Cheng smiled embarrassedly: "It's nothing, but you all know that my family is in business and has contacts with traffickers and pawns. If you want to talk about news, these people are actually better informed than many people, and I only asked them to find out which flower growers have treasured flowers, which is nothing special."

Ji Cheng's attitude of not taking credit for her made both Shen Xian and Shen Xun feel good about her: "The Fifth Sister is also responsible for this, if I ask those people to give up the family heirloom flowers, I'm afraid they will still pay attention to it." If you refuse, you still have to rely on Shen Fu's face."

When Ji Cheng spoke like this, he even took care of Shen Cui's face, he was really all-round.

"Sister Cheng is so wonderful, but I can't help you with anything." Su Yun was a little sad.

Shen Xun hurriedly comforted: "You just came from the south, and you are not familiar with the place where you live in the capital, so naturally you can't find flowers in other people's homes, but sister Yun, you have a special idea in arranging the garden. We have a lot of flowers this time. It was all arranged by you, even the ancestors agreed after seeing it."

Su Yun smiled after hearing this: "Really? I'm so happy if I can help you."

In the afternoon, Ji Cheng followed Shen Yuan to Chef Liu's place to learn cooking as usual. The two walked side by side. Ji Cheng said, "Sister Yuan, yesterday the manager of my shop told me that there is a family in Yuntan Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing. , I have several pots of colorful chrysanthemums at home, and they are blooming these days."

"How is this possible? Don't chrysanthemums only bloom in September?" Shen Xian asked in surprise.

"Yeah, I also find it strange, but the shopkeeper said it in a good way. I told him to just buy it no matter how much it is, but he said that the family is not an ordinary person. It turned out to be Du Yushi who became an official five years ago. .Du Yushi is resolutely unwilling to give up, and the shopkeeper has nothing to do. Sister Xian, I think if I find someone who has an old relationship with Du Yushi, I am afraid that there is room for negotiation." Ji Cheng lowered his eyes slightly and said, " I'm sorry, Sister Yuan, I can't be of much help either."

"Nonsense, you have already helped me a lot. Du Yushi, my father just happened to have some old colleagues with him, so I will do it right away. Just tell Aunt Liu that I have something to do this afternoon. , I won’t go today.” Shen Yuan hurriedly turned around and left, it’s already April 21st, if you don’t hurry up, it will be too late.

Ji Cheng didn't expect Shen Yuan to be so impatient, so he shook his head with a smile and went to Cook Liu's kitchen alone.

Chef Liu's kitchen is very spacious. Except for the wall with the stove, there are neat cabinets standing one after the other in front of the other walls, which are filled with a variety of bottles and cans. All kinds of seasonings and sun-dried ingredients collected from traveling all over the years, as well as her own homemade seasonings.

Chef Liu's kitchen was as clean and tidy as her people, and Ji Cheng thought that if she became the master of the house in the future, the kitchen at home would have to be like this, but the cook might not be able to find a cook like Liu.Because from Ji Cheng's point of view, Chef Liu actually wanted to leave Shen's Mansion a long time ago, but Shen Mansion is so powerful that if Shen Yuan doesn't get married for a day, Chef Liu can't leave for a day.

If it was the Ji family, Chef Liu would not dump her at all, and would just leave.Capable people always have a bigger temper.

"Aunt Liu." Ji Cheng called out respectfully, and then took out his special apron from the cabinet by the door.This kind of apron was also requested by Mrs. Liu. It was in the style of an inverted gown, covering the neck and arms, and the cuffs were tightly tied, so there would be no embarrassment of dragging the sleeves into the bowl.Then there is the hat, which puts all the hair in it, because it is afraid that the hair will fall into the food.

"Did the third girl not come?" Chef Liu asked.

"Third sister is suddenly in a hurry." Ji Cheng said.

Chef Liu snorted, what an urgent matter, because Shen Xian didn't take cooking learning to heart at all.At the beginning, Uncle Zhongyi's mansion visited the thatched cottage three times to invite her into the mansion. Firstly, cook Liu wanted to use the uncle's mansion to make her name more famous, and secondly, she thought that Shen Xian was sincerely studying.

Unexpectedly, after Chef Liu entered the mansion, she found out that the third girl was only learning cooking to cope with her future husband's family, and she had no intention of learning cooking at all.And the original cooks in Shen's residence united to stumbling her, so that cook Liu was not favored in front of the master, and she was not the kind of servile and flattering person, so the more she got along, the more she felt aggrieved.

And Ji Cheng's appearance undoubtedly injected a warm current into Liu Chef's heart.

Therefore, this afternoon, Chef Liu did not arrange the usual content, but piled a pile of ingredients in front of Ji Cheng, and let her cook whatever she wanted, while she watched the little girls tidy up the utensils.

Ji Cheng thought to himself, isn't this Aunt Liu too irresponsible?Anyway, every time she comes back to learn cooking, she takes it very seriously. She has always respected those who are capable.

But Ji Cheng has an advantage, no matter how Aunt Liu treats her, she will never let herself down.Anyway, she was idle, so she took a few deep breaths, cleared her mind, and settled down to look at the ingredients in front of her. They were all ordinary vegetables and meat, but she preferred beef. After confirming that it was beef brisket, she started braised in soy sauce idea.

Braised beef in brown sauce was just an ordinary dish, and Ji Cheng couldn't help it. She took Aunt Liu's seasoning jar down and smelled it carefully.In fact, not long ago, she discovered that there was a strange dry spice in Aunt Liu's jar, which she didn't usually use in cooking, but she smelled that smell, and somehow felt that it complemented beef.I have never had a chance to try it, isn't it a good time right now?
Ji Cheng simmered the beef in an earthen pot, and when his hands were free, he couldn't help fiddling with a piece of bone-in beef, thinking about how to cook it for fun.She fiddled with the iron grid for the barbecue, and the roasted meat was softer.

But there were still a few small pieces of the same beef. Ji Cheng tried various methods, and finally used a strange flat-bottomed iron pan to fry the bone-in beef on both sides. The pot was started with the bloodshot eyes, but the beef was unexpectedly tender, but the corresponding seasoning was missing.

From cornel to pepper, Ji Cheng tried all of Chef Liu's seasonings, and finally found a kind of black pepper imported from overseas, which tasted very special.

One afternoon, Ji Cheng fried several kinds of sauces, mushroom flavored, spicy sauce flavored, black pepper flavored, and even cumin flavored.

But these are not the most powerful. The most powerful thing is that Ji Cheng still keeps his body very clean after doing all these things. There is a little sweat on his forehead, just wipe it off with a handkerchief.

"Are you having trouble with beef?" Cook Liu walked in and saw that the ten catties of beef prepared had been used up.

"Auntie, come and try." Ji Cheng excitedly handed the chopsticks to Cook Liu.

Chef Liu picked up a piece of bone-in beef and tried it: "It's not bad, it's soft and tender, and the original flavor of the beef is also prominent enough. It would be great if you add some wine to remove the fishy smell."

"Yes." Ji Cheng replied with a smile.

"What's stewing in the pot?" Chef Liu asked again.

"It's also stewed beef, but it hasn't been stewed yet," Ji Cheng said.

Chef Liu untied the lid of the crock pot and looked at it. The red piece was actually stewed with tomatoes that had just been introduced to the Central Plains. It was a very strange combination.Chef Liu frowned and tasted the soup, but the taste was not bad.

Chef Liu felt a little pity. Miss Ji in front of her was indeed a talented person. In fact, besides having excellent eyesight and a keen sense of taste, being a cook is more rare than being able to create new ideas.

But no matter how much Chef Liu cherishes her talents, she also knows that Ji Cheng will never inherit her mantle, what a pity for Miss Ji's talent.

"I tasted this piece of beef, and the taste is not bad, but the part of the meat is not good enough, it is not the most tender meat on the cow." Cook lady Liu said.

Ji Cheng nodded, naturally he also knew the weakness of the dish he made.

"But your sauce is well prepared, dare to think and make it." Chef Liu praised it generously.

Ji Cheng's eyebrows and eyes curled up in a smile. Cook Liu is very serious, and it's not bad to get a compliment from her.

"If the girl is interested, you can come to my place half an hour earlier in the future, and I will teach you to recognize the ingredients first." Liu Chef said.

In fact, cooking skills are dispensable to Ji Cheng, but she doesn't have too many skills, since she has nothing to do on weekdays, so it's good to learn.

The next day, Ji Cheng originally thought he could hear good news from Shen Xian, but he saw her frowning: "Sister Xian, what's wrong, Du Yushi refuses to give up?"

"Du Yushi loves flowers like his life, and he retired to hide in the mountains just to grow flowers. The 'Five Dragons' was raised by him for ten years, and he refused to borrow them, saying that he left Yuntan Mountain I can't live." Shen Xian complained a bit, "Even the friendship between my father and him, he would not let go at all."

"Then the people you sent have asked why the Five Dragons couldn't leave Yuntan Mountain?" Ji Cheng asked, "I think that the fog on Yuntan Mountain may be beneficial to it, and the cloud The terrain of Tanshan Mountain is high, and the climate is colder than ours. Chrysanthemums are a product of autumn. They like cold and hate heat. It is true that they may not survive if they are moved to our mountain. Why don't you send someone to ask again, and we will borrow it for a day , can you send him back overnight?" Ji Cheng said.

"I can only give it a try." Shen Xian was also helpless.

(End of this chapter)