Nightwatcher

Ministry of punishment!

The two guards opened the cell door one by one, knocked on the fence with sticks, and shouted: "My lords, you can get out of prison."

When shouting, the jailers felt thankful for sticking to the rules. Every trade has its own rules, and the prison guard's rule is not to provoke warriors, unless the other party is a death row prisoner whose cultivation base has been abolished.

These high-quality warriors who have not committed any major crimes turn over when they say they turn over, and this is an example in front of them.

The first reaction of the beating men was that His Majesty's decree of condemnation was issued. They can be released from prison because the opponent's goal has been achieved, and there is no need to continue to detain them.

But when they got out of the dungeon, they were told that they could go to sign the papers and get back their uniforms and gongs.

People are very familiar with this process, which means acquittal and restoration of official status.

"Your Majesty has pardoned us? It's unlikely," someone muttered in a low voice.

The watchmen looked at each other, looking at each other's confused expressions, everyone was very confused.

This prison disaster is obviously the result of party struggle. Everyone is always fighting and changing people, even the danger and viciousness of the party struggle, seize the opportunity to beat the opponent to death. It will never be easy to settle down.

Wei Gong gave up something and replaced us from the Ministry of Punishment. Jiang Lvzhong quickly made a guess and looked at the three golden gongs beside him.

The golden gongs exchanged glances silently, all guessing about the same. For a moment, my heart was a little heavy, and then there was a sense of gratitude for dying for my confidant, and I was secretly grateful to Wei Yuan in my heart.

After receiving their uniforms, weapons, and badges, the guards left the Ministry of Criminal Justice silently, and on their way back to the Yamen, everyone finally had the joy of "surviving after the catastrophe".

From the silence at the beginning, it turned into an excited conversation, and one guy even picked up his colleagues around, saying that he would go to Jiaofang to have a good time.

The golden gongs looked at him a few more times, he was a guy walking with his eyes squinted, and he looked like a slippery and treacherous type.

"Song Tingfeng, you just got out of prison, and you can't wait to make mistakes." Tonggong beside him said dissatisfied.

"What do you know? All the clean and honest silver gongs like my boss have gone in. It doesn't matter whether you are greedy or not. It just depends on whether the adults above want to mess with you." The squinting gong made sense.

It's quite savvy, the golden gongs said in their hearts.

"If Xu Ningyan is going to go, we will go." Tong Gong said.

Jiang Lvzhong's eyes lit up, and he smiled and said to Jin Luo beside him: "Xu Ningyan is the favorite of the Jiaofang Division. Good fellow, apart from Fuxiang, there were four oirans present at the time."

Under the questioning eyes of the three golden gongs, Jiang Lvzhong, who was in a relaxed mood, rubbed the shallow crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and said with a smile, "The Oiran of Jiaofang is well-deserved of its reputation, it makes me feel like I have returned to my youth."

The three Jin Gong couldn't hide the envy in their eyes.

Although they have no shortage of women, the oirans of the Jiaofang Division are not within the scope that the Jinluos can freely enjoy. This is not to say that the power of the Jinluo is not strong enough, but that the Jiaofang Division belongs to the department under the Ministry of Rites and has the power to beat men. It doesn't work here.

It is impossible for the golden gongs to have a tea circle with the guests. If they directly ask the oiran to serve them, they will be rejected 100% of the time. It's not good to make trouble, because the Ministry of Rites can't wait for them to make trouble.

Back at the Yamen, the four Jin Luos first went to the Haoqi Building to listen to Wei Yuan's teachings and show their loyalty.

"Just in time, take advantage of this opportunity to clean up the evil spirits in the yamen and manage your own subordinates well." Wei Yuan said.

The four golden gongs bowed their heads and took orders.

Wei Yuan nodded in satisfaction, and said, "It's not me who you should be thanking for being able to come out this time, but another person."

another person? His Majesty granted an amnesty? Jiang Lvzhong and the others guessed in their hearts.

"It's Xu Qi'an." Wei Yuan said gently.

Xu Qi'an? This answer made the four Jin Gong dare to be surprised and unbelievable.

Jiang Luzhong straightened his back and said in a respectful tone, "Duke Wei, what happened while I was in prison?"

Wei Yuan informed the four Jinluos of the case of Minister of the Ministry of Industry's illicit liaison with the witch god religion, emphatically describing the importance of Xu Qi'an in the case.

When the four golden gongs left Haoqi Tower, Jiang Lvzhong looked depressed and in a bad mood.

A golden gong teased: "Jealous of that gong's repeated achievements?"

Jiang Lvzhong shook his head, closed his sharp eyes, and sighed: "I should have fought Yang Yan to the end and recruited Xu Qi'an under my command."

"Xu Tongluo is indeed a rare talent, but his strength is a bit low."

"You know shit, you don't know him at all." Jiang Lvzhong suddenly shut up.

"Huh?" The three golden gongs looked at him.

"Don't say it, don't say it." Jiang Lvzhong shook his head.

"Jiang, you are a brothel girl, you take off your clothes and twist your butt, just to seduce people, right?"

"Quickly tell me, what happened to the little gong, I also think he is strange. Wei Yuan is too fond of a gong."

"If you want to know, ask Duke Wei yourself."

No matter how the three Jin Gong questioned, Jiang Lvzhong would not say whether he was dead or alive.

After briefly asking his second uncle for his opinion, Xu Qi'an went to a dental shop the next day to buy the haunted house.

In fact, the second uncle meant to take another look, but both aunt and Lingyue were quite satisfied with the house, except for the female ghost in the well, but the second uncle Xu, the head of the family, said: Since the Sitianjian people have seen it, they will not has a problem.

Aunt and Xu Lingyue were completely relieved.

Yaxing admired Xu Qi'an's head iron very much, and was even a little embarrassed, so he specially hired people to clean the house.

During dinner, Xu Qi'an asked Xu Pingzhi: "Second Uncle, the house has been idle for many years and needs to be repaired. I took my aunt and sister to see it that day. The structure of the house remains intact, but some doors and windows are rotten."

Xu Pingzhi pondered: "Half a month is enough."

Half a month? It's not about fine decoration, why would it take so much time Xu Qi'an said: "Let's hire a group of craftsmen from the outer city, and then let them work around the clock at twelve o'clock, so that seven days will be about the same."

Xu Pingzhi was stunned: "Why is it the outer city? The craftsmen in the inner city are better."

"Because carpenters in the outer city are cheap, and they don't know that the house is haunted. They can live in it with peace of mind."

The heart is so dark, the family thought.

The job of hiring a carpenter was handed over to Xu Pingzhi. Xu Qi'an was inexperienced in these trivial matters in the market.

Uncle Xu is from the old capital, and he will be responsible for these matters, so my aunt and sister are at ease.

This man still has some hair on his mouth. Men like it, and women like it too.

On this day, Xu Qi'an, who hadn't been to the Jiaofang Division for almost a week, drove out in a carriage, met with the owner of the Shanhuo shop that he had contacted in advance in the market, and bought two baskets of shiitake mushrooms from him.

Next, he fulfilled his two promises: first, to help Chu Caiwei advance to the sixth rank of Warlock; second, to give Chu Caiwei food.

The goal is very clear, to make a simple version of chicken essence.

Xu Qi'an had watched a video before, and the person who posted the video was a gourmet, not Master Pei, but a serious gourmet.

He collected many ancient recipes and made delicacies according to the steps of the recipes, only to find that the ancient delicacies were not as delicious as imagined.

After summarizing, I found that the biggest difference between modern cuisine and ancient cuisine is not the change and addition of styles, but the reform and replacement of seasonings.

After coming to this world, Xu Qi'an deeply agrees with this statement. The chefs in Guiyue Tower are very skilled, but the food of ordinary people is very bland, even if Xu's family cooks high soup.

"The emergence of monosodium glutamate is a major breakthrough in the human gourmet industry." Xu Qi'an poured two baskets of shiitake mushrooms into a large vat to soak.

Then he went over the wall to the main house, stole an old hen, killed it, and stewed it in a small earthen stove.

Then, simply wash the soaked shiitake mushrooms, pick them up and drain them, and put them into another pot of the clay stove.

Xu Qi'an didn't plan to make MSG, because he lacked relevant knowledge and production experience, he only knew that the main ingredient of MSG was monosodium glutamate. It can be extracted from grain fermentation and kelp.

But isn't the fermentation of grains wine? Xu Qi'an muttered in his heart while recalling.

The option of extracting monosodium glutamate from kelp was directly deleted and not adopted for the simple reason that the cost was too high.

Dafengjing City is located in the Central Plains, far away from the coast. Although water transport and sea transport are available, sea goods are still a luxury in the capital that only dignitaries can enjoy.

"If you want to extract a sufficient amount of monosodium glutamate from kelp, you need an extremely large amount, and you can't extract much monosodium glutamate even if you buy it and go bankrupt."

Xu Qi'an's plan was to use chicken essence instead of MSG. Thanks to his childhood curiosity, one day, Taitai Le came to the house suddenly, and his mother no longer used MSG.

He was very curious, how did this package of yellow things replace MSG. So I looked at the ingredients carefully.

The main ingredient of chicken essence is guanylic acid, which is a refreshing substance comparable to monosodium glutamate. Guanylic acid is abundantly present in shiitake mushrooms.

Time passed bit by bit, water was added several times on the way, the shiitake mushrooms and old hen gradually boiled, and a strange umami smell permeated the small kitchen.

Xu Qi'an fished out the mushrooms, leaving a thick juice in the pot, placed the boiled mushrooms on the gauze filter, wringed them hard, and squeezed out the thick juice. After a few times, the shiitake mushrooms in the gauze were dry, looking like their bodies had been hollowed out.

The subsequent process is to mix the thick old hen soup and mushroom juice together, mash the chicken and chicken bones with a medicine pot, mix into the juice, and stir evenly.

However, just waiting for the juice to dry naturally into lumps, and then grinding the lumps into powder, the simple version of chicken essence is formed.

After doing all this, Xu Qi'an took a look at the sky, it was dusk.

At this point, the cook should be busy with dinner, just in time to try the invention of a scumbag from the 21st century.

Seek product feedback from aunts and uncles.

I had a hunch that Xu Lingyin was going to eat ten bowls today. The corners of Xu Qi'an's mouth curled up slightly, and he filled the thick juice for the whole night quite happily, and went over the wall to the main house.

PS: Today is particularly sour and refreshing. I have been fighting wits and courage with my superiors all day long, looking for every opportunity to doze off. Phew~ I finally finished writing a chapter before I get off work.

The next chapter will be coded when I get home. In addition, ask for a monthly ticket~