Chapter 270 A favor from a meal (2)
"Kid, where are your parents?" As soon as Zhang Chu said these words, Jiang Feng felt that he looked like a human trafficker.
Even though he knew he had good intentions, looking at him like this and listening to what he just said, Jiang Feng felt that he had the temperament of a trafficker.
Xue Shaoheng looked up at him, shook his head, and continued looking for flowers.
Seeing that Xue Shaoheng ignored him, Zhang Chu added another sentence: "It's getting late now, you should go home for dinner."
After saying this, Zhang Chu was ready to leave.
Xue Shaoheng was reminded by Zhang Chu that he should go home to find his sister for dinner.
But he hasn't found the flower yet. He wants to find the purple flower, pick it and take it back to his sister.
"Food." Xue Shaoheng said.
"Flowers." Xue Shaoheng looked at the flowers.
"Food."
"Flowers."
"Food."
Zhang Chu heard Xue Shaoheng's words and looked at him in surprise.
Xue Shaoheng was wandering between rice and flowers like this, and he was also walking in circles. For those who didn't understand the situation, it was really easy to think that he was lost.
"Kid, are you lost? Do you know where your home is?" Zhang Chu asked again.
"Food."
"Did your parents bring you here?"
"Flowers."
Zhang Chu:......
Zhang Chu was a little hesitant, but he finally figured out that the child in front of him probably had some mental problems. He must have been separated from his family, so he was wandering around alone in the park.
"Child, are you hungry?" Zhang Chu did not hear the word "flower" clearly but only the word "rice".
"Hungry." Xue Shaoheng repeated Zhang Chu's words, "Food."
Zhang Chu thought for a while, it would be okay if he didn't see it, but he couldn't ignore it if he saw it. If you leave such a child who can't even speak clearly in the park, he is still a boy, and he will definitely be targeted by human traffickers.
"Kid, uncle, would you like to take you to your uncle's house for dinner? After dinner, uncle will take you to the police station and ask the police uncle to help you find your parents." Zhang Chu asked.
Jiang Feng, who witnessed all this:...
Although he didn't know what Zhang Chu was thinking, he really had the talent to be a human trafficker.
It is simply self-taught and natural.
Xue Shaoheng was still hesitating between looking for flowers and eating. His biological clock and daily routine told him that he should eat now, but he wanted to find purple flowers before going back.
"Food."
When Zhang Chu heard what Xue Shaoheng said, he thought he agreed. He took Xue Shaoheng's hand and pulled him towards his home.
Xue Shaoheng could feel Zhang Chu's kindness and followed him obediently.
Zhang Chu's home at this time was no different from the Zhang Chu's home that Jiang Feng saw later in Zhang Zhiyun's memory. The layout and general decoration were the same, but the furniture had changed. The house in Zhang Zhiyun's memory had obviously more furniture and color TVs. There is no TV in the current house, just a radio on the table.
"Why are you coming back so late? Xiao Yuan is already home, you-" The middle-aged version of Cao Guixiang, whose apron was still on her body, walked out of the kitchen when she heard the door opened and was stunned when she saw Zhang Chu holding a child. .
"Zhang Chu, you just went for a walk in the park, and you brought back a child for me? You quit being a carpenter and want to become a human trafficker?" Cao Guixiang said angrily, "Whose child is this? Just bring him back. His parents will be anxious later.”
"There seems to be something wrong with this child. He was lost in the park and I met him. Isn't it time for dinner? I will bring him back for a meal first, and then send him to the police station after the meal." Zhang Chu explained.
"Food." Xue Shaoheng said.
Cao Guixiang rubbed her hands on her apron twice to wipe off the water on her hands, then walked forward and squatted in front of Xue Shaoheng, at the same level as him, and asked him with a smile: "Kid, can you tell Auntie what your name is? ”
"Shao." Xue Shaoheng said.
"Shao? Your surname is Shao?" Zhang Chu began to guess.
Xue Shaoheng shook his head and said with difficulty: "Shao."
He has not yet received professional training and guidance. In most cases, he can only speak word by word. Sometimes he can say one word, sometimes he can say one word, and most of the time he can't say anything. .
"Mom, dad is back, let's have dinner, where are you - who is this?" Zhang Chiyuan walked out of the room and saw Xue Shaoheng.
"Your dad picked up a younger brother for you from the park." Cao Guixiang looked at Zhang Chu with a half-smile.
"Sister." Xue Shaoheng looked at Zhang Chiyuan.
Zhang Chiyuan:? ? ?
"Don't listen to your mother's nonsense. This child seems to have been separated from his family. I will bring him back for a meal first and then send him to the police station later." Zhang Chu and Zhang Chiyuan explained Xue Shaoheng's origins.
"By the way, wife, is the food ready?" Zhang Chu asked.
"Don't wait until you come back. I almost thought you lost me while walking. The braised black ginseng is still in the pot. I didn't dare to turn the plate to collect the juice and thicken it until you came back." Cao Guixiang glared angrily. Zhang Chu glanced at him and said, "Come in and help me."
"Okay." Zhang Chu followed happily, not forgetting to tell Zhang Chiyuan, "Xiaoyuan, take care of this little brother."
"Sister." Xue Shaoheng said.
Zhang Chiyuan:? ? ?
Zhang Chiyuan couldn't understand why his seven-foot-long man, who was a good athlete and a good athlete, secretly stuffed love letters into his drawer, even though he hadn't grown to seven feet yet, how could Xue Shaoheng be so tall? I think he is a woman.
"I am brother, call me brother." Zhang Chiyuan decided to maintain the dignity of his seven-foot-long man.
Xue Shaoheng said nothing.
Zhang Chiyuan has no choice, he doesn't know how to take care of children at all. Although he has a younger sister, his younger sister Zhang Siyu is only two years younger than him, so there is not much age difference.
"Mom, Siyu went out this morning, why haven't you come yet?" Zhang Chiyuan can only hope that Zhang Siyu will come back to play with Xue Shaoheng. He hasn't done any art homework yet, hasn't written his math homework yet, and has a lot of things to do. I have a headache.
"Siyu went out to play with her classmates and came back in the evening." Cao Guixiang said, not forgetting to scold Zhang Chu, "It's because you spoiled my daughter. You told her that it was Xiaoyuan's birthday today and told her not to go out to play. Want to go out and play.”
"This is not what you are used to. If you don't leave food for her and eat all the good food, she will definitely not go out next time and eat at home." Zhang Chu began to blame.
Jiang Feng stood at the door of the kitchen. He was in a good location. He could not only keep an eye on Cao Guixiang's actions in the kitchen, but also see what Zhang Chiyuan and Xue Shaoheng were doing in the living room.
Among the traditional top banquets of Chinese food, there must be sea cucumber, the representative of delicacies from the mountains and seas.
Ever since Emperor Qin unified the six kingdoms and fishermen presented sea cucumbers to the Emperor, saying they had the function of prolonging life, sea cucumbers have become an important palace delicacy. Before the Song Dynasty, the ginseng produced in the south was the most popular. It was not until later that people discovered the northern sea cucumber. The meat of sea cucumbers is more plump and tender than that of ginseng, and the sharpness of ginseng was not covered up.
Black ginseng is a type of ginseng. Since the nutritional value of ginseng is lower than that of sea cucumber and its price is relatively cheap, restaurants now generally use ginseng to make sea cucumber dishes.
Braised sea cucumber is a famous dish of Tan family cuisine. The preparation method is extremely complicated and it is one of the more difficult sea cucumber dishes. Black cucumber is one of the most difficult varieties of sea cucumber to cook, and it is very troublesome to handle it in advance.
The outer skin of the black ginseng is black and has an astringent and numb taste. It must be thickened properly, otherwise it will be difficult to enter the throat and cannot be swallowed. If it weren't for today being Zhang Chiyuan's birthday, Cao Guixiang wouldn't have made such a complicated task. It took her nearly an hour just to process black ginseng and other ingredients, plus two hours of slow cooking over low heat, basically a whole morning. All spent on this dish.
"Honey, this black ginseng has been stewed for more than two hours, and it's still not out of the pot?" Zhang Chu asked.
"It's less than two hours. I haven't cooked for a long time and it took me a while to handle it." Cao Guixiang glanced at the casserole in front of him and took off the lid.
In addition to a black and shiny black ginseng, there was also a whole old hen, Jinhua ham and scallops in a small cloth bag.
Almost as soon as the lid is lifted, the aroma hits your nose.
"I told you to buy three kilograms of black ginseng, but your black ginseng is only a little over two kilograms." Cao Guixiang said, taking out the other ingredients in the casserole, pouring the soup and black ginseng into the pot, and setting it on low heat. Collect the juice.
"Honey, you really can't blame me for this. I went there early in the morning, and there was no three-pound black ginseng for sale. How do you tell me to buy it?" Zhang Chu complained.
"Chop the chicken into small pieces. I'll fry it with ham later and make another dish." Cao Guixiang said.
"Okay." Zhang Chu picked up the kitchen knife and started to chop the chicken.
Cao Guixiang stopped talking and focused on the pot in front of her, controlling the heat and preparing to collect the juice and season it. (End of chapter)