Li Qi did not expect that he would lose completely in his first game at the Northern Song Dynasty mahjong table, and he would lose at the hands of a woman. It was such a shame and humiliation. At the same time, he also understood in his heart that he was really not suitable for playing mahjong.
Whatever interest he had in mahjong was wiped out by Feng Yinu's countless blows.
And Li Qi doesn't have time to play mahjong with them all day long. He still has a lot of things to deal with now. Ji Hongnu's debut has reached the final moment, and the bar is about to open. Li Qi plans to do it before he goes to Sanya to take office.
, let’s resolve these two things first.
Early this morning, Li Qi came to Hongnu's yard. Hongnu's music class ended yesterday. Now it depends on the performance of those maids. After all, there is no TV or computer these days, and they are not intelligent at all.
, all news can only be disseminated manually.
Li Qi walked to the door with cat steps and looked inside along the crack in the door. He saw Ji Hongnu sitting alone in the house, staring at a lyre in a daze. He sighed secretly, knocked on the door a few times and said, "Hongnu
,Are you there?"
"Brother Li."
Before the sound could be heard, Ji Hongnu had already opened the door and looked at Li Qi with a look of joy.
Li Qi couldn't help but feel a little ashamed when he saw her happy look. Ever since he started taking care of Li Shishi's food, he rarely came to chat with Ji Hongnu. But now Mrs. Qin has completely woken up and spends all day in Zuixianju.
When dealing with affairs, Ji Hongnu can't find anyone to talk to in the entire Qin Mansion. How can he not be bored?
Li Qi walked in and said with a smile: "Hongnu, you must be exhausted these two days."
Ji Hongnu made a habit of making a cup of tea for Li Qi, then sat opposite him, shook his head and smiled: "Hongnu is not tired at all, and Hongnu didn't expect that teaching people to sing would be so interesting. Brother Li, Myolie
Will they come again in the future?"
"You won't come. It would be a waste to use your golden voice to teach others how to sing." Li Qi shook his head and said.
After Ji Hongnu heard this, a flash of disappointment flashed in her eyes, but she never disobeyed Li Qi's intention and reluctantly showed a smile. "Then---brother Li, how long will it take for me to go to Zuixianju to sing?"
?”
"It's coming soon. But the specific results will depend on the results in the past few days. It seems that you are ready." Li Qi smiled.
Ji Hongnu nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Li Qi smiled and said: "But before that, I plan to personally make a very delicious dessert for you, and name it after you, so that you can not only impact them visually and auditorily"
, and also in terms of taste, so that they can remember you as quickly as possible."
Ji Hongnu was surprised: "You want to make a dessert for me?"
Li Qi hummed and said, "That's why I came here today."
Ji Hongnu's face lit up with joy and he quickly asked: "Brother Li, what kind of dessert is it?"
"It's not ready yet. When it's ready, you will definitely be the first to eat it."
Li Qi chuckled and said, "But first, I have to draw a sketch for you."
"ah?"
Ji Hongnu looked at Li Qi blankly with her big eyes. She didn't understand what cooking had to do with painting, but she didn't ask any more questions. Her trust in Li Qi had now reached a blind level.
Li Qi first asked Ji Hongnu to change into a long dress. He stood up and made a pose, and then started drawing on the paper.
After about half an hour, the sketch was finally completed, but this was still the first step. Li Qi found another wooden board and carved a portrait on the wooden board according to the portrait on the painting.
By the time everything was done, it was already noon.
Li Qi breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and saw Ji Hongnu with a faint smile on his lips, looking at the sketch stupidly. He smiled and said: "Hongnu, I still have some use for this painting. I'll do it someday."
I’ll help you draw a few more paintings.”
Ji Hongnu blushed and said shyly: "Thank you, Brother Li."
"Silly girl, do you and I still need to be so polite?" Li Qi chuckled and said, "I have to rush to make this dessert for you now, so I'll leave first."
"Aren't you doing it here?"
Li Qi shook his head and said: "The conditions here are not enough. I have to rush back to my house in the western suburbs."
Ji Hongnu's eyes dimmed instantly and he said, "Then be careful on the road."
Li Qi looked at her depressed expression, smiled bitterly, and said, "Would you like to be a guest at my house?"
.......
Western suburbs manor.
"Master Li, you're here." Lu Meimei opened the door and saw Li Qi, and saluted hurriedly.
"Well, this is Ji Hongnu."
Li Qi pointed at the fair-skinned young man standing next to him and smiled. Then he pointed at Lu Meimei and said, "Hongnu, this is Madam Lu."
It was not easy for Ji Hongnu to go out. Not only did she have to dress up as a man, but Li Qi also had to arrange a sedan for her, which was really painstaking.
Ji Hongnu couldn't even remember that he hadn't gone out for a long time. He always had a smile on his face and hurriedly saluted, "Hongnu has met Madam Lu."
Lu Meimei always regarded herself as a servant, how could she dare to accept such a great gift and hurriedly returned the gift.
Li Qi smiled and said: "Mrs. Lu, you will come with me to live in the Qin Mansion later. During this period, I will trouble you to protect the red slaves."
Ji Hongnu is a girl after all, and it would be inappropriate to ask that fool from Maqiao to protect her, so Li Qi planned to let Lu Meimei be Ji Hongnu's personal bodyguard.
Lu Meimei naturally had no objection.
"By the way, where is your senior brother?"
Li Qi looked around, but saw no sign of Ma Qiao, and said curiously. After his danger was relieved, he gave Ma Qiao a holiday and asked him to go home and accompany Lu Meimei.
"Oh, when I saw that he was fine, I asked him to go up the mountain and chop some firewood."
"Well, you did a good job."
Li Qi nodded and smiled secretly. It's amazing how that guy looked when Lu Meimei and Ma Qiao went to chop wood. He then asked, "How is the preparation of the things I asked the kitchen to prepare?"
"Everything has been prepared."
"That's okay."
Li Qi nodded, then turned to Ji Hongnu and said, "Hongnu, I'm going to work in the kitchen. Should I ask someone to show you around?"
Ji Hongnu said anxiously: "I---can I go with you?"
Li Qi was stunned and said with a smile: "You will be smoked out by the smoke, don't blame me."
Ji Hongnu nodded with a silly smile.
When they came to the kitchen, they were greeted by the smell of canned meat. Ji Hongnu couldn't help but exclaimed, "Wow! It smells so good."
When the dozen or so cooks who were working by the stove saw Li Qi coming, they hurriedly put down their goods and saluted, "Master Li." Although they were still nominally members of the Taishi Mansion, in fact they had long been Li Qi's people, and their wages were
It was given by Li Qi. As long as everyone knows this kind of thing.
Li Qi nodded and told them to continue working and leave him alone. Then under the guidance of Lu Meimei, he walked to a table.
"Master Li, these are the powder made from the seaweed you gave me." Lu Meimei pointed to a small bowl of purple powder on the table.
Li Qidao: "Remember, this is called agar powder, and it will be used frequently in the future."
Lu Meimei read it in a low voice before nodding.
This agar powder is extracted from seaweed. From material selection to alkali dipping, gel boiling, filtration, water pressing, and drying, Li Qi completed it, but the step of crushing the powder was left to Lu Meimei.
The dessert Li Qi wanted to make for Ji Hongnu was a jelly that was very popular in later generations.
In fact, the method of making jelly is very simple, and the slightly more difficult thing is seasoning. This is really simple for Li Qi, but it is different nowadays. There is no necessary product for jelly---gelatin, so you have to make it yourself.
, after some consideration, Li Qi chose to make relatively simple agar-agar powder, but it still took him a lot of effort.
Li Qi first soaked the agar powder in cold water for half an hour, then heated it to dissolve it completely. Then he heated the juice mixed with sugared grape juice and a very small amount of Tianxia Wushuang over water, and then mixed the liquid agar together.
Pour part of it into the newly carved mold. Put the rest directly into the bowl and let Lu Meimei put it in the ice cellar.
Li Qi let out a long breath and said to Ji Hongnu, who was full of curiosity: "Don't worry, you have to wait for an hour before you can eat it. How about this, I will take you around."
"Okay --- thank you, Brother Li."
Ji Hongnu nodded happily and said.
This was the first time Ji Hongnu came to Li Qi's house. After following Li Qi around for a while, he saw that the house was bigger than the Qin Mansion and exclaimed: "Brother Li, you are really capable of living in such a big house."
Li Qi said disdainfully: "What does this mean? When you come to Zuixianju to sing, I guarantee that within a year, you will be able to earn a house bigger than this."
Ji Hongnu shook his head and said: "Hongnu doesn't dare to ask for this. As long as he can help Brother Li earn more money, Hongnu will be satisfied."
"What's your logic?"
Li Qi feigned anger and glared at her, saying: "What's yours is yours, why should you blame me? You are too simple, girl. How can you always think about others? You have to plan for yourself."
"Come on, you have to get married in the future and save some dowry for yourself. Don't count on me. I'm an iron rooster and never pluck a dime."
Ji Hongnu knew that he said this on purpose, so he was not angry. He curled his lips and said, "I won't get married, and I don't want any dowry."
"Not getting married?"
Li Qi asked curiously: "Then are you planning to become a nun? If your mother knew about this, she would have to ask me in a dream. I will tell you what you are thinking about when you stay in the house all day."
Ji Hongnu smiled and said, "I'm contented to be by Mrs. ---'s side."
Li Qi said angrily: "Madam? Don't use madam as a cover. Madam is not the leader of the Chastity House. She also wants to get married. How old is she? Is she really going to be a widow all her life?"
Ji Hongnu pursed her lips and said in surprise: "Madam, will you still get married?"
Li Qi scratched his head and said: "Uh... I guessed it, but you must not tell my wife about this, otherwise she will kick me out. However, you must put a stop to this idea.
What is this? I really don’t understand you."
Ji Hongnu stuck out his sweet tongue and smiled without saying a word.
Li Qi sighed helplessly, glanced at the sky, and thought it was almost done, so he took Ji Hongnu back to the front hall, and then asked Lu Meimei to get the jelly.
When Lu Meimei took out the jelly, Ji Hongnu exclaimed when she saw the jelly, covering her mouth and looking at the crystal clear and brightly colored jelly in surprise, and the shape of the jelly was exactly her graceful breasts
Her figure is like a peerless beauty transformed into a beautiful woman, extremely alluring.
In fact, when Lu Meimei went to the ice cellar and saw the jelly, her expression was the same as Ji Hongnu's. She had no idea why the grape juice became more beautiful after adding agar powder.
"Silly girl."
Li Qi smiled and shook his head, took a small spoonful and tasted it, nodded and said: "It tastes pretty good." Then he said to Lu Meimei: "I'll leave this bowl to you." Then he
Then he handed the human-shaped jelly to Ji Hongnu and said, "Try it, I'm sure you like it."
Ji Hongnu took the bowl and looked at the slightly trembling jelly inside with unmistakable affection. He turned his eyes and said, "Brother Li, can I eat it later?"
Li Qi could see the twists and turns in her belly at a glance, and said with a straight face: "What are you doing? Do you still want to keep it overnight? Eat it now. There will be more of this thing in the future. I will help you someday."
Make it a bigger one for you to hold and sleep on."
Ji Hongnu chuckled, his cheeks dizzy, he opened his mouth slightly, revealing a row of white and bright teeth, and took a bite of the jelly. It was sour and sweet, with a hint of coolness, and the taste was smooth, and the jelly moved on the tip of his tongue.
It's hard to bear to swallow it.
She tasted the sweetness and began to taste the jelly slowly, never paying attention to Li Qi again.
Lu Meimei was not as gentle as her. She scraped half of it with a spoon and put it in her mouth. After chewing it, she swallowed it with a look of surprise on her face. It seemed that she also liked the jelly, but she didn't like the other half.
Didn't move again.
Li Qi saw it and thought to himself, although Lu Meimei always had a straight face, she still cared about the guy in Maqiao.
"Master Li, what is the name of this thing of yours?" Lu Meimei asked curiously.
Li Qi glanced at Ji Hongnu, who was still playing with her tongue and jelly, and said with a smile: "Red Lady."
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