Goose, Goose, Goose
Can I swing my leg?
Why are you shaking?
It makes me look very youthful and cute.
"Then why are you asking me?"
"Because according to the principles of mechanics, the potential energy generated by my swaying and doing work will ultimately be transferred to you, increasing your burden. I need to know if you can handle it... hehe..."
"Is this okay? You're doing this knowingly and deliberately. Let's go... find a place..."
"No! I hate it! I'm an innocent girl, I don't understand anything about innuendo. I want to sway! I want to sway nonstop right now!"
"Be quiet."
Liu Chang'an carried An Nuan through the campus, across the path where fallen sycamore leaves danced in the air. Stepping on the black asphalt pavement, he saw the willow tree he had treated, now looking revitalized. He didn't remind An Nuan to hang herself from the willow branch for the time being.
Campus life is leisurely and carefree. There are things to do, but not too many. It has a touch of the mundane and everyday life, but it's just right so that it doesn't become too annoying. Liu Chang'an is quite satisfied with this kind of life.
After an autumn rain, the autumn pond swelled and became fertile.
The pit that Zhou Dongdong had dug under the sycamore tree was also filled up. Zhou Shuling and Liu Chang'an refused to feed her the crabs they bought there. In the end, Shangguan Dandan accompanied Zhou Dongdong to the market to buy a few loaches and put them in the pit.
Shangguan Dandan's activities finally expanded to the vegetable market, because she felt that as a mother, if she were to take care of her son's daily life one day, it would be beneath her dignity if she didn't even know where the vegetable market was.
The identity of a mother.
As the Empress Dowager, she naturally didn't need to know where the market was.
Although she had no experience cooking, the Empress Dowager had done her best because she knew where the market was.
"Why are we only feeding... one, two, three, four, five, six loaches?!" Zhou Dongdong remembered that her brother Chang'an used to buy a whole bucket of loaches.
"Because I have no money," Shangguan Dandan said, clutching the few coins she had received as change.
"I don't have any money either." Zhou Dongdong reached into her pocket. Money only has meaning if it's used to buy good food; otherwise, what's the point?
"Liu Chang'an is so rich! He gives me fifty yuan every day, that's fifteen hundred yuan a month, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty yuan a year, and eighteen million five hundred thousand yuan a thousand years!" Shangguan Dandan calculated, somewhat expectantly. "I can play cards for five cents a point, no one else in the neighborhood dares to."
"Sister Egg, your math is amazing!" Zhou Dongdong said with admiration.
"It's alright." Shangguan Dandan nodded with a slightly reserved air. "Do you know how to play cards?"
"I don't know the adult game, but I know how to play cards. I'll teach you!" Zhou Dongdong took off running upstairs.
Shangguan Dandan lifted her skirt and slowly followed behind Zhou Dongdong.
"In playing cards, it's 12345678910, from smallest to largest. The Ace is 1. Among the suited cards, the male cards are bigger than the female cards, the grandfather cards are bigger than the brothers' cards, and there are also the Big Joker and the Little Joker. That's it. We each take some cards and just play against other people's cards." Playing cards is that simple, and Zhou Dongdong is very familiar with it.
Shangguan Dandan and Zhou Dongdong played cards all morning. At noon, Liu Chang'an came back from the tailor shop and cooked for them. Zhou Shuling was usually busy on weekends. Her large meat buns were white, tender, fresh, sweet and delicious. The minced meat was soft and juicy with a reddish-brown color. They were a feast for the eyes, nose and palate. One bite and the juice would burst out, accompanied by the crispy texture of crayfish. It was so delicious that it couldn't stop eating. So far, it had surpassed the sales of Dongdong Brand Chicken Leg and was second only to rice noodles.
This is because the price of a bowl of rice noodles is much higher than that of a large meat bun; in terms of sales volume, the large meat bun is number one.
Dongdong Brand Chicken Leg have many loyal customers and are more suitable for snacking. Nowadays, people are not as fond of the snacks sold in supermarkets and counters that are mixed with too many industrial flavorings and ingredients.
"What kind of cards are you playing?" Liu Chang'an stood next to the two people, one big and one small, who were engrossed in playing cards for three minutes, but still couldn't figure it out.
Shangguan Dandan played an Ace, and Zhou Dongdong played a 3.
Zhou Dongdong played a Queen, Shangguan Dandan played a Jack.
What is this?
"We're playing cards!" Just as they finished a round, Zhou Dongdong looked up and saw the goose in Chang'an's hand.
Zhou Dongdong walked up to the goose, waved, and greeted it, "Goose, goose, goose, neck arched towards the sky, white-feathered deer on the lake, webbed feet paddling through the clear waves!"
What are you reciting?
"Goose, goose, goose, with its neck curved, it sings to the sky!"
The next two sentences.
"White-haired Lake, Deer Water, Spreading Clear Waves with a Horizontal Palm!" Zhou Dongdong recited the poem aloud. "White-haired Lake, Deer Water, Spreading Clear Waves with a Horizontal Palm!"
"What a beautiful poem! It's even more evocative than 'White feathers float on green water, red webbed feet stir clear waves.' It immediately reminds me of the legend of divine deer appearing on the lake. The misty surface of that emerald water, with Cygnus and deer appearing on the lakeshore and in the dense forest, is full of ethereal and secluded charm. The phrase 'horizontal palm' further embodies the realm of a martial arts grandmaster who lives in seclusion here. The legendary feat of splitting the lake with a single palm strike in the martial arts world back then was due to such power that it shattered mountains and rivers. What a poem! What a poem! No wonder it's Zhou Dongdong's." Since she could recite it all, Liu Chang'an praised her a few times and, too lazy to correct her pronunciation, took the goose to the kitchen.
Shangguan Dandan couldn't help but laugh. She opened her thermos and poured herself some water. She loved this Shangguan Dandan. Hot water poured into it in the morning would still be warm the next morning.
Zhou Dongdong stopped playing cards and jogged after Liu Chang'an into the kitchen, hoping to see if there was anything she could do, like starting a fire.
Liu Chang'an casually pointed downstairs, Zhou Dongdong immediately understood, going downstairs to tidy up the large stove and prepare to start a fire.
Today, Liu Chang'an isn't making Yunlin goose; instead, he's making firewood goose.
The taste of firewood-cooked goose varies, and there are many ways to cook it. The key is the feeling of sitting around a large wood-fired stove when the autumn wind blows, adding vegetables and stewing the goose while tending the fire.
This method of eating continuously until the goose broth becomes bland is not suitable for people with small appetites. It is more suitable for heroes like Liu Chang'an, Shangguan Dandan, and Zhou Dongdong.
The heroes in the story are always carrying around things like ten catties of beef, ten catties of liquor, and ten catties of steamed buns.
Liu Chang'an killed the goose, chopped the goose meat into small pieces, and first used cooking wine and ginger slices in the upstairs kitchen to remove the fishy smell and white foam, leaving behind clean and plump goose meat.
Downstairs, Zhou Dongdong took out the snakeskin bag and the table legs that hadn't been completely burned from the stove, tore up some homework, lit it with a lighter, and set the stove on fire.
This is no easy feat; for a six-year-old, it's exceptional, demonstrating that everyone is more likely to discover their potential in what they enjoy doing.
Worried that Zhou Dongdong's fire would go out, Shangguan Dandan took a small fan and sat two meters away from the stove, fanning the fire back and forth.
After Liu Chang'an came down, he washed the large iron pot clean and placed it on the stove. With Zhou Dongdong's efforts, the fire was now burning Bear Bear.
"It's not hot anymore, why are you still fanning yourself?" Liu Chang'an asked Shangguan Dandan.
"I'm fanning the stove." Shangguan Dandan waved the small fan a few times.
Liu Chang'an nodded without saying anything.
Liu Chang'an first heated the wok, coated it with oil, then added garlic cloves and ginger slices to stir-fry, sprinkled in red chili peppers, then poured in the goose meat, added light and dark soy sauce and stir-fried, and then poured in two full 1000ml bottles of beer.
The key is the beer; whole wheat is best, and the wort concentration should be high. This will ensure the goose meat tastes the most delicious.
Eat the goose meat first, then slowly add other meats and vegetables. For example, fry large slices of pork belly on the side of a hot pan first, then put them in the pan to simmer for a while to reduce the greasiness and maintain the texture of the pork belly with alternating layers of fat and lean meat.
After simmering for half an hour, the aroma of meat and the slightly intoxicating fragrance of beer infused into the broth filled the air.
Before starting to eat, Liu Chang'an first picked out the goose leg meat, poured the broth over it, and filled a bowl for Zhou Shuling.
"It's so tiring." Shangguan Dandan stopped fanning herself, glanced at Liu Chang'an, and indicated that she had already started doing housework. She was basically in a similar position in the family as Zhou Shuling, but her abilities were limited at the moment, so she was just doing her best.
Liu Chang'an nodded without saying anything.
The three of them sat down around the large stove, each taking a bowl and chopsticks to eat. Liu Chang'an wrapped a damp cloth around the edge of the pot in front of Zhou Dongdong to prevent her from burning her hands. Shangguan Dandan saw this and wanted to do the same, but Liu Chang'an refused.
Just as they were eating with great enthusiasm, Zhu Juntang ran over.
Her confinement order had been lifted, and the freed fairy was idly looking around with binoculars in her room when she saw Liu Chang'an with a beautiful girl whom Zhu Juntang didn't recognize, the two of them eating around a pot. Zhu Juntang wanted to run over and see, so she quickly descended to the mortal realm.
Upon seeing Zhu Juntang, Liu Chang'an tapped the side of the pot with his chopsticks, asking her if she wanted an extra pair.
Zhu Juntang shook her head and sat down beside the muddy stove, the edge of the pot still bearing traces of black ash and charcoal embers. How could a fairy squat in such a place to eat?
Liu Chang'an ignored her. Zhu Juntang looked at Shangguan Dandan for a while, and Shangguan Dandan also raised her eyebrows and glanced at Zhu Juntang.
Zhu Juntang stood next to Liu Chang'an, leaned closer, twisted her waist, and nudged Liu Chang'an, gesturing for him to introduce her to Shangguan Dandan.
"Her name is Zhu Juntang, and she is a fairy," Liu Chang'an said to Shangguan Dandan.
"I'm Liu Chang'an's mother," Shangguan Dandan said somewhat angrily. Did Liu Chang'an think it didn't matter if she got burned because he wouldn't let her wrap herself in a damp cloth by the pot? While it was true that she shouldn't get burned, shouldn't such a protective measure be a sign of his care for his mother?
Liu Chang'an no longer cared and continued eating on his own. He picked up a piece of foie gras and gave half to Zhou Dongdong.
Zhu Juntang was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Liu Chang'an and burst into laughter. It seems that there is a truth in this world: those who always like to act like masters are secretly acting like sons to others!
Zhu Juntang certainly didn't dislike calling Liu Chang'an "Grandpa" because she felt it was a way to vent her anger; she just thought it was fun. In fact, she quite liked calling Liu Chang'an" Grandpa" because her own grandfather had died young, so she didn't feel any psychological barrier when calling Liu Chang'an" Grandpa"; it even felt like she was being affectionate.
Girls love to act cute, especially when the person they're acting cute to is someone incredibly capable, someone they don't admit it to but actually admire. It feels really good.
Of course, it's also true that I hate him, because he really is a very awful old man.
"Stop laughing... Are you a chicken?" Liu Chang'an glared at Zhu Juntang. What's so funny? This is a ridiculous joke!
"Why are you calling me a chicken?" Zhu Juntang was stunned for a moment. She looked at her simple and clean white outfit today, which made her look like a fairy. She didn't resemble a hen, a turkey, or a roast chicken at all.
"Are you spitting on me? Adding ingredients to my pot? You think you're spitting on chicken bouillon?" Liu Chang'an waved his hand. "Go away, don't disturb our meal."
"You eat yours." Zhu Juntang didn't care about Liu Chang'an's attitude. Anyway, this old geezer had never been nice to her. Zhu Juntang's interest was in Shangguan Dandan.
"What's your name?" Zhu Juntang looked at the girl who dared to call herself Liu Chang'an's mother with great admiration.
"Shangguan Dandan, don't talk to me, I'm eating." Shangguan Dandan was taking small bites of a goose gizzard. Didn't you see she was eating? It's very impolite to talk to someone who is eating.
There were only two people there, and neither of them spoke to Zhu Juntang. Feeling a bit bored, Zhu Juntang thought for a moment, then reluctantly forced herself to say to Liu Chang'an, "I want to eat too."
Liu Chang'an fetched a bowl and chopsticks, and placed a stool between himself and Shangguan Dandan for Zhu Juntang to sit on.
Holding the bowl, Zhu Juntang seemed to be experiencing life a bit. She picked up a small piece of meat, about the size of her little finger, and tasted it. Surprisingly, it was delicious!
Liu Chang'an added the goose blood cubes, then turned around and saw Zhu Juntang had been eating happily just moments before, suddenly frown.
"Did you choke?" Liu Chang'an asked, a situation that often occurs with children.
Zhu Juntang shook her head, put down her chopsticks, and looked at Liu Chang'an with a somewhat distressed expression.
"What's wrong?" Liu Chang'an sensed something was amiss.
"I... I can't breathe." Zhu Juntang said, her body swaying.
Liu Chang'an grasped Zhu Juntang's arm, and Zhu Juntang leaned against his shoulder and fell down, then lost consciousness.
"What's wrong with her?" Shangguan Dandan looked at Zhu Juntang and Liu Chang'an in surprise, then opened her thermos and poured a cup of effervescent water. "Should we give her some water?"
"Is that some kind of elixir?" Liu Chang'an ignored Shangguan Dandan's suggestion, reached out and pressed his fingers against Zhu Juntang's neck, slightly puzzled. "Her blood and energy are extremely vigorous, her internal organs are very active, her gastrointestinal motility is disordered, and her heart is severely distended. What's going on? It doesn't make sense for a normal person to suddenly develop these symptoms."
Shangguan Dandan had no choice but to drink the water herself; she couldn't waste it.
Liu Chang'an pried open her lips and teeth, producing semen from his mouth and spitting it into Zhu Juntang's mouth. Seeing her sudden condition, Liu Chang'an wasn't sure she could hold on until she was taken to the hospital.
After waiting a while, Liu Chang'an carefully observed Zhu Juntang's physical condition. Finally, her breathing began to become rapid and then slowed down. Liu Chang'an noticed her waist-cinching dress and pulled open the collar.
"Don't provoke her!" Shangguan Dandan quickly reminded Liu Chang'an, "I have a plan!"
"I didn't want to force her!" Liu Changan asked doubtfully, "What can you do?"
Shangguan Dandan stood up, carrying the thermos, and went to her room. She couldn't just leave the thermos outside, since people were coming and going, and Zhou Dongdong was somewhat detached from reality, so she couldn't expect Zhou Dongdong to watch her things.
Liu Chang'an carried Zhu Juntang inside with Shangguan Dandan. Shangguan Dandan opened the coffin and gestured for Liu Chang'an to put Zhu Juntang inside.
"Shoes, take your shoes off!"
Liu Chang'an took off Zhu Juntang's white lace high heels. Fortunately, her feet didn't smell bad. However, her small feet were actually quite pretty and didn't look like sheep's hooves, which made Liu Chang'an slightly dissatisfied.
"Take off your clothes and socks too," Shangguan Dandan instructed Liu Chang'an.
"Come here." Liu Chang'an didn't actually mind this, but he sensed that Shangguan Dandan's direct gaze at him had some other meaning or reason behind it.
"She's your woman!" Shangguan Dandan was slightly angry. This naughty boy just liked to do bad things and then deny them.
"No!" Liu Chang'an shook his head calmly. It was absurd. He was a human now, how could he have a relationship with an Immortal Sheep?
"Then how come she has your scent on her, and it seems quite strong?" Shangguan Dandan looked at Liu Chang'an with suspicion.
"How is that possible?" Liu Chang'an suddenly remembered Su Nanxiu's talk about having children and was stunned for a moment.
"You and her... you really are with her..." Shangguan Dandan was a little excited because she caught Liu Chang'an's stunned expression.
"No... it shouldn't be. If she were my and Su Nanxiu's child, Su Nanxiu wouldn't have used the promise of having a child to tempt me that day." Liu Chang'an's mind raced. He glanced down at the coffin where Zhu Juntang lay and immediately understood. "That day, I squeezed out a drop of blood. Although I knocked her unconscious, the life force contained in that drop of blood was so strong that some of it seeped into her body and lay dormant. Just now, she came here, and this life force was awakened by something."
Liu Chang'an knocked on the coffin. This thing was acting strangely. Shangguan Dandan had also said that she could sense the person containing her aura when she was in the coffin. In fact, it was the power of this coffin.
The life force contained in Liu Chang'an's drop of blood was incredibly rich. It was the essence of life since the birth of the Earth's life system, the very essence of essence. It was absorbed bit by bit by Mrs. Karnstein, the vampire who had undergone a mutation. The overflowing life force caused strange phenomena to appear in the plants, trees, birds, and beasts on Elephant Nose Hollow Mountain. Although Zhu Juntang was unconscious at the time, which reduced the impact, she still could not truly avoid it.
"So it was made of Little Coffin." Shangguan Dandan touched his coffin.
"You knew all along that I wasn't the one who forced her, right?" Liu Chang'an looked at Shangguan Dandan, who was fiddling with the coffin, with suspicion.
"How would I know? Of course I don't know." Shangguan Dandan didn't look at Liu Chang'an, and casually pushed him. "Chu Ke, I'm going to take off her clothes."
Liu Chang'an had no evidence and was too lazy to argue with Shangguan Dandan, so he walked out. It was a little funny, though. He hadn't made any progress in his card games these past few days, losing ten or twenty yuan every day. But he had learned a few Junsha phrases from the old men and women. "Chu Ke" means "go out".
However, it must be said that Zhu Juntang is truly a blessed person. There is some truth to her claim that everything that happens around her will naturally go her way... If it were at a different time, when Liu Chang'an and Shangguan Dandan were not around, and she had her symptoms triggered by this bronze coffin, she would probably be in grave danger.
Liu Chang'an came out. He knew that the essence he had produced in his mouth had been able to soothe Zhu Juntang's symptoms. However, since Shangguan Dandan was willing to help, he let her be. More importantly, he could ask Zhu Juntang afterwards, "What is it like to be brought back to life while lying in a coffin?"
Asking Shangguan Dandan is difficult, but asking his own Immortal Sheep is usually no problem. Even if she refuses to tell, Liu Chang'an has a million ways to get the Immortal Sheep to tell the truth. It's Shangguan Dandan, who always wants to hide in a coffin, that's why she's so hard to deal with.
"Brother Chang'an, where did you go? I accidentally ate too much." Zhou Dongdong stood up unsteadily, then climbed back onto Liu Chang'an's recliner. "Oh dear, my tummy is all round."
"I see your belly button is practically popping out." Liu Chang'an sat down and continued eating.
"When can I wear Song Taozi's Ultraman costume?" Zhou Dongdong started worrying about other things after finishing her meal.
"In my dreams."
I dreamt about it last night... I forgot.
Liu Chang'an and Zhou Dongdong talked for a while, then they heard Zhu Juntang scream from the storeroom. Liu Chang'an quickly swallowed the Goose Palm in his mouth and went in to take a look.
Upon hearing the fairy sister's voice, Zhou Dongdong quickly rolled off the recliner and wobbled inside.
"Liu Chang'an... you... you really raped me!" Zhu Juntang sat in the coffin, her arms crossed over her chest, looking at Liu Chang'an walked in with utter shame and indignation.
"I wasn't even there!" Liu Chang'an had been worried about Zhu Juntang's sudden emergency, but now that he saw her recover, he felt it would have been better if she had just fallen unconscious.
The one who probably fell into a deep sleep after eating the poisoned apple must be a fairy like Zhu Juntang.
"You fled the scene!" Zhu Juntang continued her accusation, tears welling in her eyes. "No one but you would have left my little skirt and socks so tattered!"
Liu Chang'an pointed at Shangguan Dandan, Shangguan Dandan quickly and discreetly hid the large scissors in her hand behind her back.
"Weren't you going to help her take off her clothes? Why did you cut them like this?" Liu Chang'an couldn't understand. Of course, he didn't do it. He would only tear them by hand, not patiently cut Zhu Juntang's skirt and stockings with scissors.
"I'm not going to take her clothes off." Shangguan Dandan certainly had her reasons.
"What about stockings? You don't even know how to make stockings?" Liu Chang'an believed in Shangguan Dandan's intelligence.
"Just casually... I was just casually doing it." Shangguan Dandan pulled out the large scissors from behind her back again. "I saved her life, are you going to hold a grudge against me over her skirt and socks?"
That's true, so Liu Chang'an nodded and said to Zhu Juntang, "You had a sudden illness just now, Shangguan Dandan ruined your skirt and socks while trying to save you. Don't hold it against her."
Zhu Juntang withdrew her suspicious gaze from Liu Chang'an. It really wasn't him who did it. This wasn't funny at all... Anyway, as long as he didn't actually force himself on her and only tore her skirt and socks, then it would be fun.
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