Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

night,

Yu Ru was curled up on the sofa in the living room, typing code.

In her family, her mother and grandmother are the least likely to use mobile phones because they are always busy with housework and trivial matters. They don't have the energy or time to learn how to use mobile phones. The automatic operating system she wrote earlier was implanted in the mobile phones of her mother, grandmother and second father.

Nowadays, some software has been updated, and the interface and some functions have changed. In addition, her grandmother has seen more of the world since she went to college, and has become fascinated by a new software, but she doesn't know how to use it. She needs to write a new script and mount it on their mobile phones.

During this period, Yunjixing came.

Basically, every time he came to her place, he brought a lot of gifts, big and small, and this time was no exception.

"Aru, come and eat. You must be hungry after waiting for so long, right?"

Yun Jixing put all the things he brought on the table.

Yu Ru put down her computer, walked up to him, and asked in sign language, "Have you eaten?"

"I haven't yet, I was just thinking about eating with you." Yun Jixing grinned, then walked forward, hugged Yu Ru's waist and kissed her forehead.

"Aru, I worked overtime today and finished part of tomorrow's work in advance, so I can accompany you tomorrow. Let's go back to mom and dad's house tomorrow, and then go back to the old house and let Grandpa Ling check you. It's been so long since I last saw you, I need to know the effect."

Yu Ru nodded.

Yun Jixing kissed her again, then let her go and opened the gift he brought today.

"Aru, the food is still hot, let's take a look at the gifts first."

Yu Ru nodded.

The first gift Yunjixing opened was a box of gems, colorful and messy, with all kinds of gems. He briefly introduced it and put it aside and picked up the second box to open. There were also gems in it, but they had been made into jewelry, mostly rings. It seemed that the rings should not be less than eight carats.

The brilliance of these gems was so dazzling that Yu Ru couldn't open her eyes normally. She blinked hard and barely adapted to their light.

[Why so much? How much will it cost?]

Yun Jixing sat down beside her holding the box and said with a smile: "Aru, don't worry about the money. Most of these are free. Mom invested in a mining area some time ago and is familiar with the boss there. The boss gave them to me, and I just spent some processing fees to process them."

Yu Ru was relieved after hearing this, but she still emphasized again with sign language, "I don't want diamonds, I don't want luxury goods, and I don't want luxury goods made of alloys and disposable items, do you remember?"

"Of course I remember." Yun Jixing nodded with a smile, and at the same time picked up a blue tourmaline ring and put it on her hand. The blue tourmaline looked to be at least as big as a fifteen-carat gem.

"Aru, these are worth preserving. This is a blue tourmaline from Paraíba State, Brazil. It can be said that the mine is almost extinct and it is almost impossible to find it on the market. You can make a lot of money by selling it in the future. Many people are scrambling to buy it."

Paraiba, Yu Ru knows this. It is a kind of tourmaline, named directly after its top origin, Paraiba State.

Unlike ordinary blue tourmaline, the blue tourmaline from Paraiba, Brazil is not dull but very bright, with its color mainly concentrated between green and blue tones, looking like the sea water in the Maldives.

Therefore, in the decades since its discovery, it has been crazily sought after and its value has increased hundreds of times.

Where there is a market, there is demand. It is wildly sought after, and accordingly, the ore is mined wildly. However, its output is only one thousandth of natural diamonds, which is very rare, and the ore body is very fragile. It cannot be mined by machine, but only by hand, which is very difficult.

All these factors combined have made Paraiba on the verge of extinction. Nowadays, the real Paraiba is rarely seen, and its value has also risen sharply.

Yu Ru had never seen the real Paraiba, but now that she had seen it, it was indeed extraordinary. It was really like a small piece of ocean that was put into a small box by her and flowed along her fingers.

Yunjixing took her hand wearing the Paraiba and kissed it, "Aru, do you like it?"

Yu Ru smiled and nodded.

……

After looking at the gifts, Yun Jixing took out a voluntary property transfer agreement and asked Yu Ru to sign.

Now that their marriage is finalized, they can start preparing to transfer the betrothal gifts. There are a lot of things, and Yun Jixing found a professional team to sort them out for him for a month, and he picked and chose for several months, and now he has finally put together a new agreement for Yu Ru.

Yu Ru read the new agreement carefully and found that what Yun Jixing wanted to give her was even more outrageous, including 2 billion in gift money and some shops, so much that she didn't want to look at it.

She put down the agreement and asked in confusion, "Why did you add so many things? The previous one was good enough."

Yun Jixing held her arms with both hands and supported her, saying, "Aru, I prepared those things the second year I was pursuing you. Now it's been a few years since then, and I've made more money, so I must increase the betrothal gift for you. I added 200 million, and my parents gave 1.8 billion, and there are other things, so this is it."

Yu Ru shook her head, "I don't want it. I don't need so much money, and I don't need so many stores. I have them all myself."

"Aru, don't worry. Just keep the money. The store is managed by someone else. You don't have to worry about it."

Yu Ru shook her head again.

She really didn't want those things, but Yun Jixing tried to persuade her for a long time, and it seemed that he would not give up until she agreed, so she had no choice but to agree.

After everything was served and the temperature of the food had almost dropped, the two of them didn't talk any more and just started eating.

Today's meal was a mixture of fish and land, including fish-flavored eggplant, roasted chicken legs, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, beef stewed with potatoes, loofah and white clam soup, shredded cabbage, garlic broccoli, braised prawns, abalone stewed with pork elbow, and two steamed buns. Yun Jixing packed the food from his own restaurant. He wanted Yu Ru to have a richer meal, but didn't want to waste it, so the portions were smaller, so that he could finish it all.

The main dishes in the restaurant are all delicacies that have been steamed nine times and blanched three times, then slowly cooked until tender.

Like this big elbow, the Chinese have a very long history of eating elbows. In ancient times, it was called "彘肩", where "彘" refers to pig, and "shoulder" refers to the front or hind leg of the pig, that is, the elbow.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, pork elbows in soy sauce were called "菹". The "Book of Zhou" records: "In every sacrifice, 菹 is offered together." In the "Records of the Grand Historian: The Biography of Xiang Yu", there is a famous story, namely "Fan Kuai Breaks into the Banquet", which details Fan Kuai's heroic spirit of "drinking a cup of wine and eating pig shoulder" at the Hongmen Banquet, leaving us the idiom "pig shoulder fighting wine".

Through these many records, we can clearly understand the journey of pork elbow from a sacrificial item to a palace delicacy and finally spreading to the people, which further proves the important position of pork elbow in ancient Chinese food culture.

With such rich cultural connotations and historical background, pork elbow must not be cooked carelessly, and every time guests come to the restaurant for a party, one of the main dishes ordered must be pork elbow.

Su Dongpo, who was a good cook and poet, wrote in his Ode to Pork: "Clean the wok, add a little water, and cook until the fire does not rise. Wait for it to cook by itself, don't rush it, it will be delicious when the fire is enough. Huangzhou's pork is good, and the price is as cheap as dirt. The rich won't eat it, and the poor don't know how to cook it. Get up in the morning and get two bowls, and you will be full, don't worry about it."

This doggerel briefly mentions the method of cooking Dongpo pork elbow. Judging from the superficial meaning of this "Ode to Pork", to make a good pork elbow, you must be patient and control the heat well.

The pork elbow in the Yunjixing restaurant is stewed for a long time, until the sauce becomes semi-solid and semi-liquid, bubbling in the pot. Then wait for a while until the sauce is absorbed by the high fire and the pork elbow is plump up with the sauce.

Finally, some extra honey sauce is poured on it, and the abalone prepared earlier is added. It tastes so delicious, salty and fragrant in the mouth, the skin is not sticky, the meat is not mushy, it is sweet and rich, crispy and tender but not crumbly.

Life is nothing more than eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. Eating, as a major focus, makes people feel happy with just a bite of delicious food.

Today's dishes are very fragrant, and the taste is rich and refreshing. Yu Ru is not sick today, and does not have physiological anorexia, so her appetite is great.