Volume 7: Frost Chapter 36: Fermented glutinous rice and milk
Jiang You put down his phone. He turned Zhao Cai around so that its head was facing him. Then he held its head with both hands and stroked its fur from the neck down.
Zhao Cai gradually narrowed his eyes and a gurgling sound came from his throat.
After settling Cao Ming and Zhai Xiaolei, Guan Nuo sat down in his seat and drank a sip of water.
Jiang You looked up at him and said, "Zhao Cai seems to have become much thinner."
He stopped, Zhao Cai tilted his head and rubbed it on his clothes, then climbed up the handrail, jumped to the ground, and finally walked to Tang Butian's feet.
Guan Nuo said: "It may be because I have been fighting with it recently. I need more actual combat and practice. Also, I saw someone on B station trained a military cat. When you lift your legs, the cat will know to jump over. I want to recruit talents..."
Hearing Guan Nuo's words, Cao Ming spoke up and asked, "Have you been training with cats?"
Guan Nuo said: "There are other trainings as well."
Cao Ming suggested: "Let's try this trick next time?"
Guan Nuo looked at Cao Ming and felt that he saw some provocation in his eyes, so he said, "Okay, we'll go there later."
"Is there no case now?" asked Zhai Xiaolei.
Guan Nuo replied: "Not yet, but there are tasks for the research institute."
Tang Butian lowered her head and glanced at the recruitment website.
She picked up the wooden sword, stretched it out, and then jumped over.
Guan Nuo saw it out of the corner of his eye and asked, "Chief, how did you do it?"
Tang Butian put away the wooden sword and said, "It's a cat on the mountain."
Guan Nuo nodded.
Cao Ming and Zhai Xiaolei exchanged glances.
"I've seen that video too," Sun Yu walked over to Zhao Cai and squatted down. He stretched out his hand, "Shake hands. Come on, Zhao Cai, shake hands."
Zhaocai raised his paw.
Sun Yu held out his hand and shook it. He said happily, "It can understand what I say."
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Jiang You stayed in the office for more than an hour and then went back.
In the next few days, he studied the food in Luozhen and the strategies for hiking in the desert at home, armed himself with the theories, convinced Tang Butian, and then ordered a lot of equipment for hiking in the desert.
At three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, Jiang You, Jiang Mo, Tang Butian and Guan Qingtong gathered at the airport.
After getting off the plane, take the bus.
When we arrived in Luo Town and checked in at the hotel, it was already past nine o'clock.
On the way, Jiang You ate a box of chicken rice on the plane and was already starving. When taking the elevator to the room, he said, "There's a grilled lamb restaurant nearby, and the reviews seem pretty good. Let's go and eat."
"Is it open now?" Guan Qingtong asked.
"It's not ten o'clock yet. It's usually open until eleven or twelve. Let me check." Jiang You took out his phone and confirmed the information. "Yes, it's open until half past eleven. Let's go after we drop our things off."
"Okay." Tang Butian agreed.
Jiang pushed Jiang Mo, who was sitting on the suitcase, into the room.
After putting his things down, he walked to the window, pulled open the curtains and looked outside. The view was average, blocked by several buildings, and he could only see some small paths.
He washed his hands, washed Jiang Mo's hands, then took his bag and went downstairs to the lobby to wait for Tang Butian and Guan Qingtong. Tang Butian arrived very quickly. They waited for more than ten minutes before Guan Qingtong came down. She explained, "I just received a phone call and was delayed for a while."
"Let's go. I'm really going to faint from hunger." Jiang You picked up Jiang Mo and walked out first.
After leaving the hotel and turning a corner, they walked less than a hundred meters to the roast lamb restaurant that Jiang Youshao was talking about. There were still many people in the restaurant at this time. After the waiter confirmed the number of people, he took them in, arranged for them to sit in a private room that had just been cleaned, and then served them eight-treasure tea.
Jiang You took a big sip of tea and began to look at the menu, "What do you want to eat?"
"You order," Guan Qingtong looked a little tired. She said, "Eat breakfast and rest. We'll set off tomorrow morning."
Tang Butian also said, "You order."
"I'm still thinking about sleeping in," Jiang You flipped through the menu. "I'll order some hand-pulled lamb, grilled lamb chops, shredded chicken, wolfberry sprouts, stir-fried Chinese cabbage with tofu, and a pancake. That's about it... I've never had this fermented glutinous rice milk before, so I'll have it as a drink..."
I called the waiter and ordered the food.
Jiang You picked out the red dates from the tea and ate them. He said, "Looking at this tea, I feel it shouldn't be called Eight Treasures Tea. There are at least a dozen ingredients in it. It should be called Ten Treasures Tea."
He saw Jiang Mo staring at the tea but not drinking it.
He said, "Do you want to drink or not? If not, give it to me."
Jiang Duan picked up the cup and took a small sip.
The first dish served was hand-pulled lamb.
The braised lamb is dipped in the sauce and put into the mouth. It is crispy, tender and smooth without any smell of mutton.
Jiang Youlian ate a few pieces and finally felt his stomach fill up.
At this time, the stir-fried wolfberry sprouts were served on the table. They tasted very refreshing when I took a bite with chopsticks.
He heard Guan Qingtong ask him, "How are you going to check?"
He raised his head and said, "I'll follow you. Shouldn't you have figured it out?"
"I had a fortune-teller."
"How about it?"
"We are in a difficult situation, but we need help to overcome it," Guan Qingtong took a sip of tea, "It was Lao Zhuang who called just now."
Tang Butian swallowed the mutton in his mouth and raised his head.
"What did he find out?" Jiang You picked up a piece of mutton and placed it on the plate with chopped ginger.
"He said that eighteen years ago, in the eighth year of the establishment of the Special Operations Department, in the autumn, Teacher Xie stayed in Luo Town for about a week."
"What else?"
"No, Zhu Wen will come and join us tomorrow morning. I will lead the way after we enter the desert."
The waiter opened the door and brought in the lamb chops and fennel cakes.
A bite of lamb chop and a bite of pancake.
Jiang You chewed and said, "When we're done, let's take some mutton back. The mutton I bought last time was delicious, but it's nothing compared to the one here."
Tang Butian looked at Guan Qingtong: "Do Xie Dong and Meng Yuanbai know each other?"
"I know him, but..." Guan Qingtong frowned slightly, "Lao Zhuang said that after he reported Meng Yuanbai's matter to Teacher Xie, Teacher Xie thought about it for a long time before he remembered that he only said that Taoist Yuanbai was involved in the incident thirty-one years ago and was a very low-key and silent young Taoist priest. If they had met in Luo Town eighteen years ago, Teacher Xie would not have concealed it, and it was even more impossible that they had agreed to meet in Luo Town."
"We'll find out eventually," Jiang You wiped his hands with a wet towel, "Hurry up and eat your fill, then have a good sleep. Once you've got enough energy, you can work better."
Guan Qingtong sighed, then she nodded again, "I was overthinking it."
The waiter came in with a large bowl of fermented glutinous rice and milk soup. "Enjoy your meal," he said, and left.
Jiang You, Tang Butian and Guan Qingtong were all silent when they saw the size of the basin.
Jiang Mo supported his head with his hands.
Red wolfberries and dark green raisins float in the snow-white liquid. Very beautiful.
"This is what you like." Jiang You said, and served a bowl to Jiang Mo, and then he served a bowl to Tang Butian, Guan Qingtong and himself.
He took a sip and said, "Hey, this is really good, sweet and delicious."
The soup in the bowl with minced ginger was almost gone.
