Five days later, they arrived in Yuezhou City, and Tang Chenxiao invited the three of them, "My friend nicknamed 'Xiao Mengchang', is very hospitable, so why not go there together."

"Thank you for your kindness, Young Master Tang, but I still have some things to do, so I may be inconvenient to move in." Yi Jing politely declined.

Li Luotang can go with her, but she thinks it is too restrictive to live in other people's homes, so it is better to stay in an inn.

After they separated from Tang Chenxiao, Yi Jing took the two girls to an inn that was not very large and asked for a small courtyard. They planned to stay in Yuezhou for a few more days. It would be more comfortable to live in a small courtyard than to live in a room.

There are five guest rooms in the yard, a small bathroom and a small kitchen; the yard is planted with ordinary flowers, a cluster of green bamboos, and bluestone tables and chairs are placed under the bamboo, which are quiet and elegant;

After settling down, Yi Jing went out alone to do business. Li Luotang actually wanted to go with him, but he was worried about Xi Shi. Xi Shi knew how to do martial arts, so he was a little dragged on him, and he didn't have fun traveling.

Li Luotang thought about it and made up his mind, "Shi Shi, I will teach you martial arts." The unique skills of the Li family and Wan family cannot be taught, but others can still be taught.

"Sister Li, do you want to teach me martial arts?" Sai Xishi opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

"It's very hard to learn martial arts. Can you endure hardship?" Li Luotang asked with a smile.

"Yes, I can endure hardships. Thank you Sister Li, thank you Sister Li." Sai Xishi said in surprise.

"If you want to thank me, just cook a few more good dishes for me." Li Luotang said with a smile.

"What does Sister Li want to eat? I'll go buy vegetables now." Sai Xishi said anxiously.

Li Luotang smiled sly, "I want to drink 'good soup'." When watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", she had been mouth-watering for the dishes that Huang Rong cooked for Hong Qigong for a long time, but her ability to do things... It would be fine if she didn't say it.

Sai Xishi was stunned. She had never heard of the name of the soup before, but if Sister Li wanted to drink it, she had to find a way to cook it. "What are the ingredients for this soup?" As long as she knew the ingredients, she could definitely make the good soup that Sister Li wanted to drink.

"There is another name for this soup: lotus leaf bamboo shoots and cherry turtle dove soup." Li Luotang smiled.

"Let's go out to buy ingredients." Sai Xishi pulled Li Luotang out and headed to the market.

Yuezhou is a big city, unlike those small towns and markets that are open on time, divided into morning and evening markets, where there are fixed places for markets.

The market was very lively, with people coming and going, and shouting endlessly; the first one I bought were bamboo shoots. Although it was late spring, there were still many newly tender bamboo shoots emerging in the bamboo forest on the mountain.

"Sister Li, these bamboo shoots are good. You can buy more and dry them into dried bamboo shoots." Sai Xishi squatted down to choose.

"Buy as much as you want." Li Luotang said with great integrity.

Sai Xishi did not let Li Luotang spend too much money, so he picked up fifteen kilograms of bamboo shoots, but just bought a large vegetable basket to fill these bamboo shoots.

"What a big goose egg."

"purchase."

“What a fresh water chestnut.”

"purchase."

“The mulberries are so sweet.”

"purchase."

"This eel is so big."

"purchase."

"pumpkin……"

"purchase."

Li Luotang bought everything Sai Xishi liked and bought it easily, making the vendors shout louder, hoping that the two of them would like to like their goods.

"Oh, the turtledove." Sai Xishi walked over quickly.

Although I bought the turtledove, unfortunately I couldn’t buy lotus leaves, lotus flowers and cherries in the market. I lacked ingredients and could not cook good soup for Li Luotang to drink, so I was so sad that I was about to cry.

Li Luotang hurriedly said, "I didn't buy eels, I can make fried tiger tails. I also like this dish." This dish is recorded in the travel notes.

Saisi Shi blinked, "Really?"

"Really, really." Li Luotang decided to never talk nonsense and make the honest Sai Xishi again.

The two of them each carried a vegetable basket and returned with a full load; when they returned to the inn, Sai Xishi went to the kitchen to wash the mulberries, "Sister Li, go to the yard to eat."

"I'll help burn the fire." Li Luotang sat in front of the stove and took out the flint to attract the fire.

Sai Xishi advised her for a few words, but when she saw that she was unmoved, she had to measure the rice and wash it. She poured the cleaned rice into the small pot where she cooked, then poured in an appropriate amount of water and placed it on the small stove. Li Luotang stuffed a few pieces of firewood into the stove, picked up the fire drum, and blew it in front of her a few times, and the fire suddenly became bigger.

While cooking, Sai Xishi handled the dishes to eat for dinner, cut the meat into pieces, shredded lettuce, cut the green onion into sections, and ginger slap... Finally, he treated the eel and poured half a pot of water into the iron pot. "Sister Li, boil the stove and boil the water."

Li Luotang acts according to his words and actions.

Saixishi baptizes the ingredients, cuts them aside and sets them aside. Wait until the water boils, pour the onion, ginger, essence, and rice vinegar into the pot, stir with a spoon, then put all the eels into the pot, and immediately cover them tightly with a wooden cover to prevent the eels from jumping out.

After all the eels are burned to death, uncover the lid of the pot, take a spoon and gently stir the eels to remove the mucus on the eels, and then pour in some cold water, "Sister Li, low heat."

Li Luotang pulled out two pieces of firewood, and then burned it for a while. Sai Xishi took out the eels and rinsed them with clean water. Then he placed the eels one by one on the chopping board, pinched the head with his left hand, and inserted it through the gills of the eels with his right hand, and then inserted it to the anus with a bamboo knife. Then he used the bamboo knife to stick the back of the spine and the back to the tail, and turned the fish over, cut the triangular bones, remove the internal organs, and tied the fish with the tail to the same size.

This dish is made of eel tails.

"Since you are using eel tails, it should be called fried fish tails. How is it called fried tiger tails?" Li Luotang asked curiously.

"My father said it was because it was plated in a bowl, which looked like a tiger's tail, so it got this name." Sai Xishi took a small bowl of seasonings, added wine, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, pepper... and mixed it evenly with chopsticks to make juice.

Sai Xishi washed the pot, poured water again, boiled the water, poured in the eel tail meat again, and blanched it. Remove the eel tail meat and control the water to dry it, and neatly placed it in a plate. Mix the previously prepared sauce while it is hot and mix well with the scalded eel tail meat, pour in sesame oil, sprinkle with white pepper, and then place the garlic paste on the eel tail meat; finally pour the heated cooked lard on the garlic paste, and then add the previously washed coriander around the plate.

After the sautéed tiger tail was finished, Sai Xishi cooked other dishes. When the last dish was served, Yi Jing came back, "Brother Yi, you're having dinner." It was really early, so it was better to come back.

Li Luotang didn't talk much and asked Yi Jing how he was doing. Even if he was close to him like a brother and sister, he still had to avoid things if he had something to do.

"What kind of dish was cooked? It smells so good?" Yi Jing walked to the corner and cleaned his hands with the water in the basin.

"Jiuhu's tail." Li Luotang replied.

The aroma of the blend of pepper and garlic paste is particularly unique. It is paired with the fragrant stir-fried tiger tail, which makes people feel appetite full. If you chew it for a few times, the taste of salty and fresh, fresh and sweet makes people feel endless aftertaste.

After eating it, Yi Jing also said: "Shi Shi made this dish better than your father, it is tender, crispy, fresh, fragrant and refreshing."

"Really?" Sai Xishi smiled happily and bent his eyes.

After dinner, Yi Jing and Li Luotang sat on the bluestone bench beside the bamboo bushes to rest. Sai Xishi soaked tea and brought it over, and also found a stone bench to sit, looking at the sky and the stars like Li Luotang.

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Chapter completed!