Ye Jianqiu

Before the excited Ye Jianqiu officially "started to work" in Situ Jin's study on the first day, the serious-looking Uncle Jin hurried over on horseback and called Situ Jin away from the mansion again.

Situ Jin and Uncle Jin galloped to the government office, where many torches were lit, and soldiers surrounded a hut layer by layer, while Hai Daniu and Hua Yuan, who were guarding the door and wandering anxiously, looked both excited and excited. Worried look.

When everyone saw Situ Jin and Uncle Jin coming, they moved out of the way, and Hai Daniu stepped forward and said, "Brother! Our office has recruited a thief! Now the thief has been caught by the brothers!"

Hua Yuan's eyes lit up excitedly and said: "That thief's lightness kung fu is so amazing, I didn't expect to be a woman!"

"woman?"

Situ Jin couldn't help being puzzled. He had a lot of supplies in the inspection treasury room, so the control was very strict. Ordinary thieves didn't dare to make mistakes easily. Unexpectedly, there were still people who dared to attack in the inspection department, and she was a woman!

"Yes! We ran over when we heard the noise. Although the woman was strong and good at lightness kungfu, she didn't have much foundation. After a few moves, we kicked her into the house! Hai Daniu and I immediately tensed up. Close the door tightly, and wait for the elder brother to come and catch the turtle!"

Hai Daniu and Huayuan don't care about Hua Lianyu, so that kick was probably not light!

Situ Jin stepped forward to take a look. The windows around the hut were in good condition, and they were guarded by soldiers. It seemed that the thief was still in the room.

Jin Bo said: "Junzhi, you must be a big fish if you have the guts to steal under the watchful eyes of our inspectorate brothers!"

Situ Jin was also faintly excited, he said to Hai Daniu: "Open the door!"

"Yes!"

Hai Daniu opened the door carefully, only to see that it was dark inside, and he couldn't see anything clearly.Uncle Jin handed over the torch, and Situ Jin held the torch in one hand and the long knife in the other, and walked into the house holding his breath.Uncle Jin and Huayuan picked up their weapons and followed Situ Jin closely, with their backs to their backs, looking up and down carefully as they walked, being vigilant to the left and right.

The sergeants behind were all ready to fight, holding their weapons and guarding the door. Not even a fly could fly out of the dense array of knives and halberds.

In the center of the floor of the house, there were scattered objects, including medicinal materials, a bag of salt, and a large bag of grain. Because the bag was not tied properly, a bag of white rice spilled all over the floor.Situ Jin frowned. It seemed that the female thief stole some necessities only because of the pressure of life.

Situ Jin raised a torch and inspected the house, and found that it was empty and there was no one there. He looked up and checked the beams, and there was nothing there.

"What about people?"

Situ Jin asked.

Huayuan also said strangely: "It's obviously locked in the room, and no one came out. And when I kicked her into the room, I heard her cry out in pain very clearly."

Uncle Jin also nodded: "That's right, I heard her voice too."

But the three of them walked around the house, but they didn't find any trace of the thief.

Hai Daniu was so angry that he stomped outside the door: "It's so strange! It's obviously locked in the room, and didn't open the door until the eldest brother came! We brothers have been guarding here all the time, and we didn't dare to leave at all!"

"Yes! What's going on?" The sergeants were also surprised to see the empty room.

Situ Jin checked it carefully again, and even went out and jumped on the roof to check. The mud and dry moss on the roof tiles were still old, and there was no sign of being touched.

Situ Jin jumped down from the eaves and said coldly, "He's gone."

Everyone immediately exploded.

"Could it be that this thief knows how to escape?"

"But the ground in this room is bluestone, it can't be drilled through at all!"

"Then how did it disappear out of thin air?"

"..."

Situ Jin went back into the house again, squatted down and knocked on each piece of bluestone floor carefully one by one, but the floor was still solid, and there was no sign of prying.

He sighed, "She ran away."

Uncle Jin thought hard, but couldn't figure out why, so he said, "Then what should we do?"

"Withdraw."

Situ Jin waved his hand, and all the soldiers retreated unwillingly.

When the waiters had just exited and walked to the yard, Situ Jin, who had a keen hearing, felt a strange wave of air in the air.He immediately turned around, pulled out an arrow feather on his body like flowing clouds and flowing water, pulled his sunset bow, and shot an arrow into the air!

Before everyone could react, they saw that arrow pierced a bright light in the air and shot into the distance.

Situ Jin shouted: "Quick! Find that arrow!"

All the soldiers rushed to look for it immediately, but Situ Jin shouted loudly: "Chao Ge! Call him that black eagle!"

"Chaoge went to patrol the mountains, but he hasn't come back yet!"

Situ Jin sighed anxiously, if the black eagle was there, the thief would be sure to not be able to escape!

Soon, a sergeant ran over and said, "My lord, I didn't find any arrow feathers, but I found blood stains on the ground."

Situ Jin strode out, and the sergeants led Situ Jin all the way to the outside of the government office, only to see a few drops of fresh blood on the ground.

Situ Jin bent down, stretched out his hand to touch it, and couldn't help frowning: "The thief may not have escaped far, but it's hard for us to catch it, unfortunately..."

Uncle Jin was very surprised: "What kind of subtle numbers does that thief have? He even confused us."

Situ Jin stood up, looked at the vast night sky and said, "There is only one explanation."

Since ancient times, there has been a theory of the five methods of escaping, and there are also rumors that there are strange people in the world who will use the technique of shrinking the ground to an inch and hiding in a pot.And the thief who escaped just now may have some kind of invisibility and blindness!Or he, Situ Jin, was negligent. If he didn't rush in at the beginning, but instead splashed some lime flour in the room, the thief would definitely show up!

"Is there really a technique of invisibility in this world?"

Jin Bo wondered.

Since they came to Qingyang Town, they have encountered many strange things, big and small, unusual climate, strange animals, and people...

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Ye Jianqiu sneezed, rubbed his nose, and carried a black and bright pot-bellied round jar to the chopping board, and put the vegetables that had been marinated with salt and squeezed out of water into it.Purple cabbage shreds, carrot sticks, green cowpea segments, white radish pieces, fresh bitter gourd slices, gherkin strips, turmeric slices, white almonds, red peanuts, garlic slices, red and green millet peppers...

There are more than a dozen kinds of vegetables in the jar. After Ye Jianqiu put these vegetables into the jar, he gently poured in a large pot of sweet and sour juice that had been mixed long ago, and then sealed the mouth after stirring the vegetables evenly. .This is actually a jar of hot, sour and sweet kimchi. Apple and pear juice are added to the pickled juice. After marinating for three to five days, it can be served on the altar and become a good accompaniment to meals.

The vegetables in the vegetable garden grow too fast, and dozens of catties of various vegetables can be harvested every day.Cowpeas, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchini, etc. have elders every day. No matter how good Ye Jianqiu’s eyes are, there are still fish that slip through the net. If you don’t pick them one day, they will grow old the next day. In order not to waste them, he has to try his best to deal with them. vegetable.

After he changed the knife, the vegetables were blanched in hot water, and then dried in the sun in the yard. The dried vegetables are durable and can be used to make stuffed buns and stews in winter when there are few vegetables.

Ye Jianqiu carefully carried the pot-bellied jar to the basement, and placed it in a cool place.

In the basement, besides mushrooms, there are also crops of bean sprouts, black bean sprouts, pea sprouts, mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts... These sprouts can harvest dozens of catties every day, and they can be sold for a lot of money in the market.

Due to the abundance of goods, his small wheelbarrow was no longer enough, so Ye Jianqiu finally bought a second-hand cart.Although he doesn't have horses and leather sniper to pull the cart, he can do it himself.With the belt on the handlebar slung across his thin shoulders, he gritted his teeth and pulled the heavy cart to the market. Of course, it was much easier when he came back. Not only were the goods sold out, but he also had a lot of money in his arms.

Ye Jianqiu bent down and picked up two new, smaller jars, ready to marinate eggs.Although there are many old jars in the mansion, Ye Jianqiu is useless.

There are many small holes invisible to the naked eye on the altar made of clay. These breathing holes are filled with the smell of the first time it holds something, and it will not dissipate for a lifetime.If the jar has been filled with wine and medicinal materials, pickles or other sauces cannot be pickled, because the taste will be very strange.In the same way, if pickles are pickled and then filled with wine, the taste of medicinal materials will also change. Therefore, jars are the most beloved things in the world.

Thinking of this, Ye Jianqiu smiled slightly, he is not going to leave for the time being, because there are more important people worthy of him staying.

Ye Jianqiu brought the two small jars to the kitchen, spread the sand soaked in aniseed water on the bottom of the jars, then evenly and carefully placed a layer of eggs, and sprinkled coarse salt.By analogy, a layer of sand, a layer of eggs, and a layer of salt, two jars of eggs will be processed soon, and it will be almost ready after half a month of marinating. Eggs marinated with this formula will run out of oil and sand, and Not too salty either.

Ye Jianqiu gently shook the jar of eggs left and right, and stopped when he felt that it was almost done.If Mrs. Ma is here, she will lose her temper, because doing so will spoil the eggs.

Ye Jianqiu did it on purpose, this jar of bad eggs was specially prepared for Ye Xiaoxi.Ye Xiaoxi, a child, likes eating rotten eggs the most, as much as chasing Wang Zhi and Stinky Doufu.Ye Xiaoxi was overjoyed every time he heard a bomb-like explosion in the pot where the eggs were boiled. He finally had rotten eggs to eat, and no one in the house wanted to snatch them from him!

Thinking of eggs, Ye Jianqiu thought of her aunt again.

Once my aunt asked him to pickle eggs, he dug a lot of red oily clay, rolled the eggs on the clay, and rolled them into mud eggs. Rolled in a circle, and immediately Mudandan turned into ginkgo again.Ye Jianqiu put these eggs covered with thick clay and salt into a jar, and then sealed it in a cool place under the stairs of his home.

But before these eggs were pickled, my aunt passed away.

Later, when Ye Jianqiu was packing up his aunt's belongings, he accidentally found the eggs he had pickled.Due to too much salt, the outside of the jar was covered with white frost.After opening the jar, it was also covered with white salt crystals, and the mud on the outside of the eggs was white and hard, stronger than stones!

Ye Jianqiu pried for a long time with a screwdriver, but failed to pry off an egg.So he gave up, and secretly thought that maybe hundreds of years later, this jar of eggs would turn into fossils...