Chapter 34 Night Market
At night, the lights in Nanyang Town are bright and the flow of people is sparse.
Most of the people who visit the night market are the children of rich families. Unlike those who visit the morning market, they come to buy things for life, and these rich people will not bargain with vendors and hardly hear noisy voices.
Those couples walking hand in hand also whispered sweetness, and outsiders could hardly hear them. Therefore, the night market is extremely quiet and pleasant.
When Liang Xiangling and Yan Ji saw the couple hugging each other on the street, they probably couldn't help thinking about the person they once fell in love with and thinking about what the scene would be like if they were together.
Will they also hug together like these couples on the street and whisper about love and love?
Although the two of them thought so much in their hearts, they did not show emotions on their faces, and showed a slight smile to hide them. They tried not to look at the people who were lingering together.
Yan Ji carried the injured Liang Xiangling on her back and walked along the street to look for the inn. When she passed a barbecue stall, Liang Xiangling smelled the smell of barbecue and suddenly found that she was hungry and unbearable. She couldn't help saying the word "so fragrant", and then there was a "cooing" cry from her stomach.
Yan Ji listened to both voices. After a moment, she suddenly woke up and shouted, "I remember an important thing!"
When Liang Xiangling saw that he was extremely solemn, she thought that he remembered something important and quickly asked, "What's the matter?"
Yan Ji looked at the barbecue stall next to him and turned back to Liang Xiangling and said, "Sister, didn't you say that you were waiting for me under that tree at noon? Until now, you haven't eaten anything! Must be very hungry, right?
Liang Xiangling immediately slapped him on the shoulder, smiled a few times, and said angrily, "My good brother! You finally remembered this, but it was too late to realize it, which made me very angry. If you invited me to dinner! Maybe I won't be angry."
Yan Ji smiled and said, "I have this idea!" With that, he came to the barbecue stall with Liang Xiangling on his back, put her down, helped her to the table and sit down, taking good care of her.
The owner of the barbecue stall is a young woman in her 30s, who looks elegant and beautiful. She kept busy by the oven, even though the weather was cooler at night, and there were still drops of sweat oozing from her forehead.
There is a baby sleeping in the baby on the back of the female stall owner, whose pink little face is round and lovely.
At this moment, the female stall owner was busy roasting a young couple by the oven. Seeing Liang Xiangling's sister and brother coming, she immediately greeted them with a smile, "Two guests, please sit down. When I roast these two guests' barbecue, it's your turn. Don't worry!"
Yan Ji nodded to her with a smile, indicating her understanding.
Yan Ji sat at the table and waited slowly. She looked around and found that there was a stall selling eight-treasure porridge not far away. She thought that she would be thirsty if she only ate barbecue. At that moment, she got up and said to Liang Xiangling, "Sister, you sit here for a while. I'll buy some eight-treasure porridge and come back to drink."
Liang Xiangling looked at the stall in the distance, and immediately withdrew her eyes and looked at her brother a few more times. A faint smile appeared on her jade-like cheeks and said, "Go."
Yan Ji immediately ran over and soon brought back two large bowls of eight-treasure porridge and put them on the table. He pushed both bowls of porridge in front of Liang Xiangling and said, "Sister, this porridge is warm, neither cold nor hot. Drink it quickly."
Liang Xiangling glanced at him, pushed a porridge bowl back, and said, "Don't pretend to be with me. If there is no outsider, you don't have to pretend to be so selfless, one bowl per person."
Yan Ji smiled and no longer refused. He picked up the porridge bowl and drank it. When he looked at the young woman selling barbecue again, he saw the baby on the baby on the back of the stall owner's back woke up for some reason. The little body moved a few times in the baby and cried loudly.
The female stall owner heard the child cry. She was instinctively distressed, but she couldn't concentrate on barbecue. From time to time, she looked back at the child and kept coaxing, "Baby, mother will come back to coax you later. Don't cry..."
The young man who was waiting for the barbecue in front of the stall had been waiting impatiently. Seeing that the female stall owner's barbecue was getting slower and slower, he immediately frowned, moved his head away from the woman's ear next to him, and shouted, "Hurry up! What are you doing? If we don't do business, we'll leave!"
Naturally, the female stall owner would not say anything to drive the customers away. She answered with a smile, "Please forgive me. My child is crying. I'll try to be as fast as possible!"
Liang Xiangling looked at the young man's words and behavior, looked at him very unpleasantly, glanced at the man, turned around and muttered to Yan Ji, "People nowadays are really impetuous and can't understand others at all."
Looking at her angry appearance, it can be imagined that if she hadn't been injured and inconvenient to move, she would have "theorize" with the man.
Yan Ji also looked at the oven, hesitated for a moment, and said to Liang Xiangling, "Why don't I go and help her?"
Liang Xiangling looked at Yan Ji, turned her strange eyes and said, "Do you want to help that sister-in-law take care of the child?" Or do you want to help the sister-in-law vent your anger, teach the prince a hard lesson and kill him with a sword?
"I..." Yan Ji blurted out the word "I" and suddenly stopped. He stared at the young man and said with a smile to Liang Xiangling, "I'll chop that person, then throw it into the oven to cook it, and let the stray dogs on the street have a full meal, and the world will be much quieter."
Liang Xiangling looked at Yan Ji's expression and was stunned for a moment. She suddenly smiled and waved her hand and said, "Then you go!" Anyway, I'm too lazy to see that kind of person!"
Although she said so, she obviously didn't believe that Yan Ji would do such a thing.
"I'm going now!" Yan Ji left this sentence and strode towards the oven. He walked to the oven and suddenly walked around the female stall owner and said to the female stall owner, "Sister-in-law, how about I help you barbecue? Your child is crying so much. Go and coax him.
The female stall owner looked up at the beautiful teenager in front of her. Hearing him say that he wanted help, she immediately fell in love with the teenager and was very happy, but the female stall owner was embarrassed to respond immediately and smiled, "How embarrassed is this? You are a guest!"
Yan Ji shook his head with a smile and said, "It doesn't matter. I've done this before. Don't worry, your craftsmanship will not be bad."
The female stall owner saw that the baby child on her back cried more fiercely. She hesitated for a moment and finally answered, "Then there will be a little brother."
Yan Ji nodded slightly, reached out to take the barbecue tool in the hand of the female stall owner, flipped the roasted meat with one hand, and smeared seasonings with the other. Her movements were quite skillful and sharper than the stall owner. In a moment, he took the barbecue out of the oven and served it to the table to greet the men and women, doing a good job.
Liang Xiangling sat at the dining table and saw her brother's every move, as if she had found some rare treasure. She was stunned, but then she smiled again. She didn't expect that this stupid boy, who couldn't even cook three years ago, now has such a skill and shouted in her heart, "It's rare!"
After a while, Yan Ji baked another plate of meat and came out of the oven. She took it to Liang Xiangling's sitting table and put it down, pushed it in front of her, and said with a smile, "Please take your time!"
Liang Xiangling smiled when she saw her younger brother's appearance. She couldn't wait to reach out her hand, tore off a piece of meat from the plate and send it to her mouth. She bit it down and felt that the meat was tender and burnt inside and outside, crispy and delicious. She ate barbecue for the first time in her life. She liked this flavor so much that she couldn't help eating it.
How's it going? Does it taste okay?" Seeing that her senior sister was eating with relish, Yan Ji smiled and asked, who wanted to hear about his cooking skills.
"Well, that's good!" Liang Xiangling had barbecue in her mouth and asked vaguely, "Did you learn this ability in the barbecue restaurant surnamed Shao?"
Yan Ji said truthfully, "Yes! At that time, in order to hide my identity, the master asked me to work as a helper in Lao Shao's store. After working for a period of time, Lao Shao passed on his unhement barbecue craft to me.
"Ah! The little brother is an apprentice from 'Shao Ji Barbecue'!"
At this time, the female stall owner came over with the baby coaxed in her arms, sat down at their dining table, looked at Yan Ji first, and then looked at Liang Xiangling for a long time, smiling.
Yan Ji looked at the young woman and was surprised, "Yes! What's wrong?"
The young woman shook the baby in her arms and smiled, "No wonder this little brother's craftsmanship is so good. Lao Shao's barbecue is the best in our Nanyang Town. I used to sell grilled fish. Later, I thought that the barbecue business was relatively popular, so I reselled barbecue, but my craftsmanship is not as good as that of Lao Shao's family. I can only have a few customers when Lao Shao's house closes at night.
Yan Ji listened to the young woman's words and smiled and said nothing. He had to say that Nanyang Town was selling barbecue.
Liang Xiangling saw the female stall owner sitting down and also talked to her: "Sister-in-law, can't you come out to set up a stall and give the child to your husband? How tired are you to be alone?
As soon as she said about this, the young woman's eyes immediately sank, sighed, shook her head and said, "My child and I are suffering! Girl, you don't know yet, my husband has been there for almost half a year!"
Where have you been? Your child is so young, does he have the heart to leave the child? Even if you are busy making money outside, at least you have to wait for the child to be a little older, right? Yan Ji instinctively said this sentence.
Of course, Liang Xiangling knew what this "Go" meant. She stretched out her foot and kicked Yan Ji, and then changed the topic and said, "This sister-in-law, since your craftsmanship is not as authentic as Shao, it's better to let me master..." She wanted to say brother, but later she felt inappropriate and said, "It's better to let My brother will pass on the authentic craftsmanship to you! Make your business better!"
The young woman was stunned, looked at Liang Xiangling, looked at Yan Ji, and suddenly said, "So this little brother is your brother!"