Chapter 156 Seventy one. Probably a warm breakfast

   "...they will contact investigators and re-test in the next few days."

  In the Detective Agency of Weird Luli, Lu Li told Anna about the laundry shop.

   "I've never heard of it..." Anna put down the recipe and mumbled.

   The one month that has passed by Lu Li's side is more than her past eighteen years.

   "Will you be in danger if the leaves are broken?"

   "It just shows how my body is, it doesn't make me any worse."

   "Oh." Anna nodded suddenly, and suddenly cheered: "Are you hungry?"

  Lu Li didn't speak, and asked to look.

  Anna proudly shook the cookbook that recorded the steps of cooking: "I learned to cook. If you can buy the ingredients, I can prepare breakfast for you."

  Lu Li was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "Okay."

   It will save you money if you cook by yourself.

Lu Li's permission... Or indulge makes Anna a little proud. After Lu Li went out to buy groceries, she slipped into the kitchen, prepared matches, oil paper, and firewood by the fire, washed the cutting board and kitchen knife, if not inanimate, She'd also wear that floral apron—not very pretty, but it would look professional.

  While waiting for Lu Li to come back, Anna took the time to pick up the recipe and supplement the knowledge about cooking.

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   "Five shillings a pound for freshly caught cod!"

   "Pork 16 shillings a pound, giblets only 6 shillings!"

   "Nathan Esther's Greens!"

  The market at the end of Sailor Street, the sound of selling sounds from both sides of the street. The air was mixed with the smell of fish and sweat.

  Traders with bamboo baskets on their backs set up stalls along the ditches on both sides of the street.

Although he wants to save, Lu Li's directness has not changed. He is not like most housewives. He asks the price in front of each stall, then compares and finds the lowest price, and then negotiates the price until he can buy something at a price he is satisfied with. .

  Lu Li believes that the amount of time wasted in bargaining is more important than the benefits gained from bargaining.

   He came to the first stall outside the market. Before he could speak, the owner of the stall, a stout aunt asked enthusiastically, "What does this gentleman want? Beef? Lamb? Or pork?"

   "How much is it."

   Lu Li, who has never bought vegetables, knows nothing about prices.

   "Half a pound of pork, chopped as before."

   A voice sounded next to him, and a woman walked up to Lu Li and said. The aunt responded, cut a small piece from a large piece of meat with a quick action, picked up two kitchen knives and sharpened each other a few times, and chopped it into puree.

   As she was busy, she replied to Lu Li: "Beef and mutton are 47 shillings a pound, and pork is only 16 shillings."

   "It was still 42 shillings a few days ago, when will it go up..." The woman sighed.

Aunt    replied: "There are fewer and fewer cattle and sheep, and I heard that the hurricane blew to Nathan Ester two days ago, swept away a lot of cattle and sheep, and will have to rise in a few days."

   "It's so expensive, I'm afraid those lawyers and doctors can't afford it a few times."

   The two of you talked with each other.

  The unkindness of this world is not only for human beings. The stagnation of plants is tantamount to extinction for most herbivores. Only pigs, which are omnivores, can remain stable. But it also rose a part because of the large demand.

   "Two pounds of lean pork." Lu Li said.

   "Okay, please wait a moment." Aunt helped the woman cut the minced meat, sliced ​​off a piece of lean meat and threw it on the scale, waited until it was level with the 2-pound weight on the other side of the scale, took it down and put it in a cowhide bag and handed it to Lu Li.

   "32 shillings, you can give 30 shillings."

  Lu Li handed over thirty shillings, took the cowhide bag, turned around and followed the crowd to another stall selling vegetables.

  Compared to the stalls selling beef, sheep, pigs and fish, the front of the vegetable stall is relatively deserted, and some customers also ask the price and then walk away shaking their heads.

   "How much are carrots, onions and potatoes."

   "Carrots 32 shillings, onions 36 shillings, jicama 2 shillings."

The price of   green vegetables is staggering, almost the same as beef and mutton, and the price of two pounds of pork can buy one pound of carrots. Only jicama, which is easy to preserve and yields a lot, or potatoes that do not grow much.

   Before this price, Lu Li chose to aggrieve himself: "A pound of potatoes."

   A minute later, Lu Li left the market with two pounds of pork, one pound of potatoes, and a small bag of sea salt, and returned to the Longhouse Detective Agency.

   opened the door, nodded to the friendly neighbor who passed by, put the key under the blanket, approached the detective agency and closed the door.

boom--

   The sound of the door closing awakened Anna, who was in a daze with the recipe. She dropped the recipe and greeted Lu Li, who was walking to the kitchen door.

  Lu Li put the two kraft paper bags next to the cutting board. Anna, who couldn't wait to show off her skills, came over and looked over the kraft bags. The excitement gradually cooled down: "Lu Li, did you only buy these?"

"Um."

   "Hmm..." Anna bit her fingers tangled.

"Any questions?"

   "No... no problem." Anna quickly waved her hand and pushed Lu Li out of the kitchen: "Leave it to me! Just go outside and wait quietly."

  Lu Li didn't say anything, he returned to the desk and waited in peace.

   One minute, five minutes, ten minutes. There was no sound coming from the kitchen, not even the sound of water boiling.

  Lu Li got up and walked outside the kitchen.

   "What's the matter?" he asked Anna who was in a daze.

  Anna turned her head full, her clear eyes filled with confusion and helplessness: "What should I do..."

   Lu Li shifted his gaze to the kraft paper bag that was still intact—even the stove wasn’t lit.

   "Aren't you looking at the recipe?"

Anna's eyes recovered, she picked up the cookbook that turned to a certain page and pointed at it: "It says that you need to cut the meat into pieces and put them in the pot, wash the carrots, cut them into cubes and put them into the pot, and then chop the onions. , pepper and salt, and the diced potatoes for the last thirty minutes."

   "But we only have pork, potatoes and salt."

   For a girl who only learns noble etiquette and painting, cooking is still too complicated.

   "Then make only these three kinds of food."

  Lu Li said, turned to leave the door, and when he reappeared in a while, he had taken off his woolen trench coat, rolled up his shirt sleeves, and scattered the pork and potatoes in the kraft paper bag.

  In the end, the food was successfully brought to the table under Lu Li's management.

   "We should buy a bottle of wine, I really want to know what wine tastes like."

  Pedestrians came and went outside the window. On both sides of the dining table under the window, Lu Li and Anna sat opposite each other, and the bubbling broth was placed in the middle of the dining table.

"There will be a chance."

  Lu Li watched Anna prepare a serving of broth, put the wooden bowl in front of him, picked up the spoon, scooped it up, blew off the heat, and took a sip.

   "How's it going?" The opposite Anna blinked.

  Lu Li looked up at her silently and said nothing.

   Well, at least he didn't say it was bad.

  Ana said to herself that life will always get better and better.

   (end of this chapter)