Xie Xun picked up his chopsticks, and under the eyes of everyone, he picked up a piece of seaweed and wrapped rice.
The crystal clear white rice is tightly wrapped by seaweed, and there is a faint smell of sesame oil under the fine smell. Cucumber, egg skin, and crab meat are sandwiched inside, with bright colors and a fresh taste.
Xie Xun put the seaweed rice in his mouth and tasted it carefully.
In order to increase the stickiness of the rice, Jiang Shuyao added a small amount of glutinous rice to the rice. After being kneaded, it was chewy and chewy. Take a bite of the cucumber mixed in the inside, it is crisp and refreshing, the fresh vegetable flavor is mixed with the mellow flavor of the egg cake, it is refreshing and not too bland.
Xie Xun didn't show any expression on his face, and clipped a few more entrances. Seaweed skin is full of seafood flavor, which is neutralized with the long aftertaste of rice. It is salty and light. It tastes rich but not greasy. After a few pieces, there is only a slight aftertaste in the mouth.
Lin Cheng saw that he was eating slowly, and looked anxious: "Give me a piece to try."
Xie Xun's eyes quickly swept over the seaweed rice, as if he was counting the number. Seeing that there were a lot of them, he handed the chopsticks to Lin Cheng.
Lin Cheng picked out a piece of salad dressing and stuffed it with his mouth wide open.
"This white sauce is novel, fresh, salty and creamy, with a strong and mellow flavor, but I don't know what it is made of."
Xie Xun couldn't answer, just as he was about to say something, Lin Cheng unceremoniously picked up another chopstick with less salad dressing and put it in his mouth. This time, the seaweed rice was not robbed of the limelight by the salad dressing. Fills the lips and cheeks instantly.
He nodded while chewing, and commented: "The method should be quite simple. When I go back in the evening, I will let the cooks in the house think about it, and I will bring food tomorrow."
Xie Xun corrected: "The difficulty is not the skill, the difficulty is the ingenuity."
Lin Cheng ignored him and instead praised: "But this white sauce is really delicious, it tastes very fresh, sweet and sour, but the sourness is not like the sour taste of vinegar, especially after eating it, the mouth There is still a mellow fragrance left in it." He also has some experience in eating, "If you take it out alone, it's better to eat it with other food."
No matter how Xie Xun praised him, his face remained unmoved. Anyway, Lin Cheng couldn't eat flowers in his own house.
Lin Cheng didn't know what he was thinking, so he approached him obscenely: "Hey, Bo Yuan, how about you bring me some sauce?"
Xie Xun avoided him: "That's not possible, let my wife cook for you, what's it like?"
After Lin Cheng felt the taste of the product came out. Eh? Isn't Xie Xun's wife that Miss Jiang from Xiangyang Uncle's Mansion?
No, if it's what he said, then he can't feel restless and can't swallow during these days, what's going on?
He was quiet, and he didn't know what kind of love and hatred he had come up with. He glanced at Xie Xun with a complicated face, and obediently returned to his seat to do things.
There were still two or three people left, Xie Xun generously handed them chopsticks, each of them tasted a few pieces, and they were full of praise.
After eating the rice with seaweed, Xie Xun opened the second layer of the lunch box and took out a small bamboo basket with small crispy meat. Although the small crispy pork has been fried, Jiang Shuyao has deliberately absorbed the oil, and the skin is crispy and not greasy, which is suitable for eating as snacks.
Jiang Shuyao prepared three pairs of chopsticks on the second floor, as if he was afraid of eating dishes with the same pair of chopsticks, which gave the gluttonous colleagues a chance to share Xie Xun's love lunch.
They stood beside them and didn't speak. They just stared at each other quietly and aggrievedly.
So the small crispy meat was snatched away, and the crispy, fragrant and slightly numb crispy skin was bitten off. The meat inside was tender and juicy, tender and chewy, and chewed together with the outer skin wrapped in salt and pepper, the more chewy the more fragrant.
The ingredients for crispy meat are tender meat that is fat and thin. Too little fat will make it old when fried, and too much fat will make it too oily. As long as the fat and thinness are just right, the fried crispy meat will be fragrant but not greasy, and the oil will be fried, and the dough shell made of egg liquid on the outer skin will also have the unique oily aroma of fat meat.
A few people took a bite, chewing kaka, crispy and delicious, salty and numb, the peppery and numb taste and meat umami make people addicted to eating.
"If there are snacks like this on the table every day, political affairs won't be boring anymore."
"Exactly, exactly."
A few cheeky ones swept away Xie Xun's snacks, and left with endless aftertastes, and stretched their chopsticks onto Xie Xun's jelly without an inch.
Xie Xun put the lunch box away, put it under the chair to watch, and waited for it to be eaten at noon.
He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Fortunately, they didn't touch the bowl of jelly. He thought that the first time he ate the chili oil made by Jiang Shuyao, he ate it all and didn't want to stop. Don't talk about these gluttons. live.
What's more, today's chili oil seems to be more delicate and delicious, and he can imagine how wonderful it is just by smelling the sour and spicy taste.
While dealing with affairs, he planned to share some of his leftover meals with Lin Cheng at noon. Mmmm, but I can't eat too much, it's enough to taste it, he doesn't have enough to eat himself.
*
At sunset, the officials of Zhan Shifu stepped out of the palace gate one after another.
Lin Cheng chased after Xie Xun while supporting his lazy waist, and wanted to go home with him.
Xie Xun always rushes home early these days, and Lin Cheng is used to it. After getting on the horse, he subconsciously walks home. Unexpectedly, Xie Xun walked out of the long street and went to the market.
Lin Cheng turned his horse's head and followed quickly, and saw Xie Xun turn over and dismount and walk towards the street lined with bookstores, and he was overjoyed.
This was the Xie Boyuan he knew.
He jumped to catch up and said, "Bo Yuan, we haven't come to this street to buy books for a long time."
Xie Xun nodded: "After all, the books here are not as good as the books in the library."
"That is, but some remnants are rare."
The two of them chatted randomly, Xie Xun led Lin Cheng into the most frequented bookstore first, turned around, didn't like it, and went into the next one.
House by house, Xie Xun searched carefully, but none of them were satisfied.
Lin Cheng was curious: "Is there a category that Bo Yuan wants to find?"
Xie Xun's subordinates kept on looking at ten lines: "Yes, but I haven't read this kind of book."
Finally, in a small bookstore at the end of the street, Xie Xun finally found a few books in the corner that no one cares about.
Lin Cheng thought it was some kind of strange book, and when he looked into his head, he saw three big characters written on the cover - "Fengyuelu"
Xie Xun's expression remained the same, as if he had some ancient book in his hand, he paid the money calmly, and carried a large bundle of words from talented and beautiful women out of the bookstore.
Lin Cheng's heart vibrated, God, what happened, so that Bo Yuan began to read such miscellaneous books to comfort himself.
Xie Xun bought the book, thinking that he would be able to read this book in the future to clear his confusion, and walked out briskly.
It was a lively time in the evening, Xie Xun shuttled through the crowd, and when he saw the candied haws from the corner of his eye, he hesitated for a while, then raised his feet and walked towards the other party.
He was about to close the stall selling ice-sugar gourd, when he suddenly saw a young gentleman in brocade walking towards him.
Unexpectedly, the noble did not ask the price, and said directly: "Give me one - two of these."
The hawker hurriedly laughed and took down two candied haws for Xie Xun.
Lin Cheng was in a daze, having the illusion that his friend for many years was possessed by a ghost.
Xie Xun got on the horse, hung a bunch of miscellaneous books on the horse, held two candied haws in his hand, lightly clamped the horse's belly, and walked leisurely home.
The setting sun shone on Xie Xun, sketching a hazy and warm circle of light for him, making his tall and straight back a little laziness. Lin Cheng looked at the lunch box and miscellaneous books hanging on the horse under him, and then looked at him holding a candied haws in a graceful manner, his eyelids twitching, although he wanted Xie Boyuan to have some popularity since he was a child, but this is not the way to do so. what.
Xie Xun returned to the mansion, and the servants rushed up to hold a book for him. He held a candied haws and walked across the courtyard under the surprised eyes of the servants.
*
Jiang Shuyao stayed in the house every day, cooking some food when he was free, and basking in the sun in the courtyard when he was lazy.
A while ago, Mrs. Xu kept her two little nephews under control, and they sneaked into her yard from time to time. Mrs. Xu was in charge of the central feeder.
Jiang Shuyao was very happy every time she saw the two little guys. When they came today, she rushed to the kitchen to make egg tarts for them.
It took some effort to make the crust, and by the time the egg tart came out, it was already dusk.
The yard was filled with the sweet milky smell of western pastries. Xie Zhao was so greedy that he was spinning in front of the bakery. When the egg tarts were baked and Jiang Shuyao took them out, he could not wait to open his mouth and wait for them to be fed.
The egg tart that just came out of the oven is very hot, the crust expands layer by layer, the egg paste on the inner layer is solidified, tender yellow and soft and fragrant, and a few bulging small bubbles are baked into a brownish-yellow color.
The egg tarts looked very tempting, and Xie Zhao's good words went straight out: "Third aunt, you are really amazing, you smell so good, can I eat a piece of it?"
In ancient times, there was no tin foil paper, and it was difficult to extract aluminum. Jiang Shuyao chose to use kraft paper instead, and the temperature of the roasting cellar was lowered a little, and it was roasted for a while longer. She took a sip first, but the final taste was still a little worse, the outer skin was not so crunchy, and the inside was not tender enough.
Xie Zhao eagerly watched her eat, her saliva was dripping, for fear that she would not give herself a taste, she pulled the corner of her skirt and acted like a spoiled child: "Third aunt, third aunt, give me a bite, okay? Just one bite. "
Seeing him like this, Jiang Shuyao couldn't help laughing: "I did it for you."
She put the baking tray on the table, picked up a piece of egg tart and handed it to Xie Zhao: "Be careful of scalding."
Xie Zhao couldn't wait to take it, Jiang Shuyao gave Xie Yao another piece, and Xie Yao thanked him in a low voice before taking it.
Xie Zhao watched Jiang Shuyao make egg tarts throughout the whole process, so he always felt that the egg tarts that used a novel baking method were nothing to eat, and they were eaten carefully.
He took a small bite first, biting off the outer layer of meringue, layer upon layer, crunchy to the point that it shattered at the touch of his teeth, with a hint of sweetness, and a light sweet oily aroma when chewing.
The meringue alone is so delicious, Xie Zhao narrowed his eyes happily and took another bite.
This time, I bit into the inside, and the egg tart that just came out of the oven is extremely hot, but also because of this temperature, the inside is softer and sweeter, and the rich and mellow milk flavor melts in the mouth, moist and soft, sweet but not greasy.
Xie Zhao took a small sip of the remaining egg tarts, and his lips and teeth were fragrant, and the mellow and tender taste of the filling seemed to remain on the tip of his tongue.
After he finished eating, Xie Yao only ate half of it, and it seemed that he was reluctant to gobble it. He just wanted to taste it slowly.
Xie Zhao smirked at Jiang Shuyao, and Shui Lingling's big eyes kept blinking: "Third aunt, hehe, give me another one."
Jiang Shuyao tapped the tip of his nose: "You were so sweet just now, now you're done talking?"
Xie Zhao shook his head: "Of course not, the third aunt is the best, um... She was born beautifully, spoke nicely, and had excellent craftsmanship."
Jiang Shuyao smirked, picked up a piece and handed it to him.
Xie Zhao hurriedly continued to flatter him: "It's good for us, and amiable to the servants. It's a great blessing for the third uncle to marry you."
Jiang Shuyao gave him another piece, and just put it in his hand, Xie Yao, who was usually quiet and well-behaved, suddenly opened his mouth and said in a low voice, "The third aunt has a blue heart and a beautiful beauty."
Xie Zhao was shocked, and Jiang Shuyao was also stunned.
Xie Yao stretched out his hands to make a holding gesture, pursed his lips and looked at Jiang Shuyao, as if to say: mine?
Jiang Shuyao was about to be made cute by these precious little nephews, so he rubbed Xie Yao's head and handed him the egg tart.
Xie Zhao felt the competitiveness and was very unconvinced: "The third aunt is born beautiful, and the country is beautiful."
Xie Yao nibbled on the egg tart and continued, "Farong Hibiscus, Yan is jealous of Yingying."
…
When Xie Xun stepped into the hospital, he heard the childish voice of a child. After listening carefully, he found that the content of these words was a bit strange.
He walked towards Jiang Shuyao's house, and saw Jiang Shuyao on the rocking chair under the tree, smiling like a flower, and the two nephews in front of him jumped out like they didn't want money for their kind words, and they were all complimenting her face.
Especially Xie Zhao, pulling her sleeves, wishing to hug her forearm the next moment, extremely intimate.
Does it really look so dazzling?
Xie Xun walked over and interrupted them: "Xie Zhao, what are you doing?"
Xie Zhao was startled, but when he saw the candied haws in Xie Xun's hand, he obediently and sweetly called "Third Uncle".
"Cough, where did the gentleman's style go? What about the rules and etiquette, have you forgotten all?" Xie Xun taught a lesson in a strict manner.
Xie Zhao was still a little afraid of him, so he shrank his head slightly, not daring to look at him.
Jiang Shuyao was the only one in the yard who was not afraid of Xie Xun, but she couldn't get used to Xie Xun's appearance of being strict and indifferent to children, and she still half leaned on the rocking chair without sitting posture, and said, "As for what?"
Xie Xun looked at her: "You too..."
"What am I?" With a previous criminal record, Jiang Shuyao thought that Xie Xun was scolding her by reprimanding her little nephew, and she was arrogantly provoking her rules, so she turned back mercilessly, "I have no rules?"
Xie Xun was stunned, but unfortunately his face was not visible, it was still the face of a coffin.
Jiang Shuyao looked at this and thought he was right, snorted inwardly, and turned to Xie Zhao: "Look at your third uncle, I'm jealous."
boom-
There was a loud noise in Xie Xun's head, and his heart was turbulent. What did she, she, she say, I'm jealous? How could I be jealous? Whose vinegar am I eating? Why does she know I'm jealous? No, no, I'm not jealous!
He was so excited that he could hardly hold the candied haws, but Jiang Shuyao continued slowly: "You only praise me, not your third uncle, he is not happy. Come on, tell me what your third uncle is?"
Xie Zhao was very responsive, and Jiang Shuyao believed everything he said. Hearing the words, he immediately answered, "I know I know! The third uncle is a peerless beauty who is a beautiful woman who is shy and shy!"
Xie Xun was stunned.
Before he could turn his head around, he heard that Xie Yao, the taciturn, quiet and polite little nephew since he was a child, rarely made his usual noise, so he answered cautiously but fluently: "The third uncle is beautiful and beautiful. Tianxiang, a great beauty with natural beauty." This sentence was a bit long, and I almost didn't catch my breath in the second half.
Jiang Shuyao was also dumbfounded. She really didn't expect these two little guys to answer like this. After she reacted, she almost rolled from the rocking chair to the ground laughing.
She laughed so hard that Xie Xun's complexion gradually turned red. She laughed so embarrassed that she gritted her teeth and said, "Jiang Shuyao."
Jiang Shuyao reluctantly stopped laughing, and looked Xie Xun up and down: "Although it's not wrong for you to say that..."
Xie Xun: ? ? ?
"...But don't praise men like that. You have to say that Sanshufeng is handsome and unparalleled."
Xie Xun didn't know how to react. He was neither ashamed nor annoyed, his ears were getting more and more red, and he didn't know if he was angry with Jiang Shuyao.
But Xie Zhao didn't have the eyesight yet, stared at the candied haws in Xie Xun's hand, and asked, "Third Uncle, did you buy this for us?"
Xie Yao heard the words and looked up at him curiously.
of course not! How could Xie Xun know that they would come to his courtyard before returning to the mansion.
He glanced at Jiang Shuyao, saw that she had no response, and handed the candied haws to Xie Zhao and Xie Yao in a fit of anger, pretending to be acquiescence.
Xie Zhao hadn't eaten the food from takeout, so he happily took it and thanked Xie Xun.
Jiang Shuyao looked at the clear sugar coating and the plump and bright candied haws of hawthorn sighed, "I haven't eaten candied haws for a long time."
Xie Zhao heard the words and handed Jiang Shuyao the candied haws: "Third aunts try it?"
Jiang Shuyao was not polite, bit off the top one, and chewed it loudly.
Xie Xun looked at their affectionate and undisturbed appearance, and suddenly a sour bubble popped up in his heart, and when he burst it, he was full of grievances.
He turned around and walked back to the study, and the excitement in the courtyard continued.
After arriving in the study, Xie Xun took out the stack of talk books he had just bought and read them one by one.
However, the opening chapter is that the talented and beautiful woman fell in love at first sight, and then the two loved each other and told each other, how Zhong's love, why Zhong's love is unclear.
He turned through all the words in annoyance, but in the end he couldn't find the answer.
He walked to the copper basin to clean his hands, looked at his own shadow reflected on the water, and had some vague inspiration.
A talented person loves a beautiful woman because she is beautiful. What about Jiang Shuyao?
He bent down and looked carefully at the reflection in the water.
He never cared much about his appearance. Back then in high school, when he was riding a horse across the long street, the sachets thrown at him would drown him, and it seemed that no one threw flowers at the No. 2 spot. At that time, he was only irritable. Think, could it be because he was born better?
Xie Xun, who didn't have a clear understanding of his own beauty, fell into confusion and even forgot about dinner. Jiang Shuyao heard his servants report that the door of his study was closed, thinking he was angry and ignored him.
By the time Xie Xun found out that the meal time was over, Jiang Shuyao had already run out of dinner.
Only then did he realize that he was hungry, and he hurriedly called someone to the big kitchen to see if there was any food left. In the end, the servant brought back only a bowl of meat soup and a plate of side dishes.
This is obviously not enough to eat, Zhimo asked: "Master, do you want to call the big kitchen to make some more?"
Xie Xun waved his hand: "That's it." He planned to eat some pastries to cushion his stomach later.
But after all, eating some pastries at night is not enough to satiate, Xie Xun was hungry again after a while.
When he left the study, he was about to call someone to the big kitchen to let the cook cook something to eat, when he suddenly smelled a strong aroma of marinade.
Xie Xun followed the aroma to the small kitchen, and found that there was no one in the small kitchen, but a pot on the stove was simmering. He was very disappointed at the moment. Smelling the rich and fragrant lo-mei, his stomach growled twice. He was so hungry that he couldn't wait for the servants to go back and forth to the big kitchen for meals, so he quickly walked towards the big kitchen.
*
Jiang Shuyao simmered the lo-mei tonight, and felt that the smell was all over his hair. After changing clothes, he slowly wandered around the house to dissipate the smell.
After she married into the Xie Guogong's mansion, she basically never went to other places except to go to the big kitchen and the Shouning Hall. The huge Guogong's mansion only walked a corner, and she didn't even know the terrain.
Tonight, the night wind is refreshing, and the moon is bright. She is in a good mood, and she is walking around the mansion with no one to lead the way.
Guogongfu is worthy of being the home of princes that has been passed down for a century. The courtyards in the mansion are exquisitely furnished, with wide roads and simple and elegant residences.
She walked around casually and found a small bamboo forest.
She didn't dare to go in, she planned to go back the same way, but she took the wrong direction and went around the Qushui Pavilion next to the small bamboo forest.
In the pavilion, there were two people sitting opposite each other, dressed in broad robes, looking very romantic. A closer look turned out to be Xie Xun's eldest brother Xie Li and second brother Xie Lang.
Jiang Shuyao didn't bring a maid, and wandered around the house at night. It was a little embarrassing to see their gazes at this time. After seeing the salute from a distance, she planned to slip away.
Xie Li stopped him: "Third brother and sister, where is your maid?"
Jiang Shuyao paused and explained, "I originally just wanted to walk around the yard, but I couldn't hold back and walked away..."
Xie Li put down the chess piece in his hand and said sternly: "This is not the uncle's mansion in Xiangyang. You can't act as willful as in the boudoir. Just go around in the backyard, don't go to the outer courtyard."
Jiang Shuyao was given a training session and left without saying a word.
Halfway through, I felt suffocated again. If nothing else, even if you want to reprimand it, it's the old lady's business, why even Xie Xun and his eldest brother got involved.
Even though Xie Li had taken them by one round, and the elder brother was like a father, there was no need to be so harsh on her, so just say no.
The more she thought about it, the more depressed she became. What does it mean that she was not in the uncle's house in Xiangyang, and she married here with her. Can't even go out of the backyard? If you are bored in your own courtyard all day, no matter how much you live in, you must be bored and get sick.
Even the original owner who was short of breath in front of the Xie family couldn't take this anger, let alone Jiang Shuyao, who had always been straight-forward.
She didn't go very far and turned around quickly.
Xie Li had just poured himself a glass of wine and was about to raise it when he saw Jiang Shuyao running back with a bad look on his face.
He put down the wine glass, frowned and said, "If it's true as the rumors say, it's going to get out of hand."
Before Xie Lang could talk to him, Jiang Shuyao spoke first: "What eldest brother said just now is inappropriate, although I am not the daughter of the Xie family, but since I am married, I am Xie Xun's wife, the third wife's wife, am I right? Don't you even have the qualifications to walk freely in the mansion?"
Xie Li has been immersed in the officialdom for many years. Although he looks handsome with the good looks of the Xie family, he feels more serious and solemn and majestic. When he acts in front of him, he will subconsciously act lightly, for fear of being picked out by him.
He frowned when he heard the words, looking more severe and awe-inspiring.
"I know I had a bad reputation before I got married, but since I got married, I didn't get into trouble, and I didn't offend my elders, so I huddled in the room obediently—"
She argued aggressively, and when she said this, she was suddenly interrupted by a warm and helpless voice.
"Brother and sister." Xie Lang couldn't hold back his smile, "You misunderstood."
The last time the bride served tea was the first and only time Jiang Shuyao saw Xie Xun's two brothers. As a sister-in-law, she didn't dare to look up to see what they looked like, but only remembered the majestic corners of their official uniforms.
Now that the moon was bright and bright, Jiang Shuyao could finally see their faces clearly.
Both of them look similar to Xie Xun, but the elder brother Xie Li is more dignified, with a light line between his brows left by his daily frown. The second brother, Xie Lang, was the complete opposite. He took off his official uniform and put on a loose robe. He was not like an old man of the Houfu, but more like a literati who loved to travel.
His demeanor was suave, his voice was warm and magnetic, and he said to Jiang Shuyao, "You are not very familiar with Xie Guogong's mansion. What would you do if you strayed into an uninhabited place and ran into a malicious servant?"
Jiang Shuyao was stunned.
Xie Lang added: "However, our mansion treats the subordinates strictly, and since we all have children, such evil things will not happen. It's just that my eldest brother and I were drinking and discussing matters with King Wu here just now. King Wu is lustful. , Acting rudely, although it won't make my younger brother and sister suffer in our eyes, but if he takes a fancy to it, it will be disgusting, right?"
Jiang Shuyao blushed with embarrassment by his gentle and polite tone. It turned out that it was not that they were prejudiced against her, but that she thought they were prejudiced against her, and she had an accident because of it.
She tugged at the corner of her sleeve, her tone suddenly softened, and she felt embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood, I just made a rude remark, please forgive me."
Xie Lang saw her face with her face down and her face hot, smiled and shook her head: "This appearance is completely different from the wooden temperament of the third one."
This elder's attitude made Jiang Shuyao even more ashamed, and apologized again: "It's my sister-in-law who just acted recklessly."
"Okay." Xie Li said, glanced at Xie Xun, motioned him to stop bullying other girls, and said to Jiang Shuyao, "Third younger brother and sister, call a maid to lead the way, don't get lost."
His tone was still majestic, but Jiang Shuyao now knew that he didn't mean to reprimand, so he should be blushing.
The more she thought about it, the more embarrassing she became. She turned and walked towards Tingzhuyuan. She happened to meet a maid on the way, so she asked her to lead her back.
Back in the courtyard, Xie Xun also happened to come back from the big kitchen. The two met at the door of the courtyard. Seeing her look strange, Xie Xun asked aloud, "Where did you go just now?"
Jiang Shuyao was still thinking about something when he suddenly called out to her, and she answered after a while, "I went outside for a while just now."
"Oh." Xie Xun nodded, and when he was trying to find something, Jiang Shuyao patted his head and hurried to the small kitchen.
Xie Xun followed up curiously.
The thick firewood under the stove has been burned, leaving only the residual temperature to slowly simmer the lo-mei. Jiang Shuyao opened the lid of the pot, and the rich and fragrant lo-flavor instantly wafted into the nostrils.
The most important thing for lo mei is the preparation of brine. Common spices such as onion, ginger, garlic, sugar, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaf, white kombu, and dried tangerine peel are essential. The missing dried chili is replaced by dogwood oil.
If you want to make the marinade taste richer, you need to put it in a special traditional Chinese medicine bag. Jiang Shuyao asked Baizhi to go to the pharmacy to grab the medicine, licorice, grass fruit, pepper, purple cloud, agarwood, angelica, ginkgo, etc., wrapped in fine gauze , put it into the bottom of the pot, and simmer slowly until the fragrance of each herb is immersed in the soup.
For the first time, you have to put some pork belly and pig trotters to ensure that the stewed soup is fat enough, so that the stewed duck neck, duck wings, stewed eggs, lotus root, dried bean curd, etc. will also have a rich and rich taste.
She picked up the big iron spoon, took out the marinated meat and put it in the bowl. The rich marinated fragrance made Xie Xun instantly regret running to the big kitchen to add a meal.
Look at the marinade in this bowl, the color is jujube red, the taste is fresh and mellow, and the skin is covered with a layer of dark red marinade, which is translucent and attractive.
Xie Xun looked at the ingredients in the bowl and asked in confusion, "What is this?"
At that time, cattle and sheep were the most expensive meat food, and cows that were not old or died of illness were not allowed to be slaughtered. Therefore, Jiang Shuyao did not marinate beef, but chose duck, pig and other meat meat.
"Luwei. This is duck wings, duck neck... and this is pork trotters chopped into small pieces." Jiang Shuyao introduced them to him one by one.
He could barely understand what he heard before, but as soon as Jiang Shuyao said the word "pig's trotter", Xie Xun suddenly looked at her in astonishment.
Although high-level nobles also eat hog meat, it is not the mainstream. Most of the ingredients are seafood, freshwater, birds, and poultry. Maybe it’s because the growing environment of pork is dirty, or maybe it’s because the unripe pigs have a strong stench. Pork is rarely seen on the dinner table. Even if there is, it is carefully processed. It's unheard of to eat pig's trotters like Jiang Shuyao.
Xie Xun looked at the pig's trotters chopped into pieces, and could vaguely outline the original shape of the pig's trotters, suppressing the greedy worm that was just about to move.
Jiang Shuyao explained: "I have handled it carefully, it's not dirty at all, and it's really delicious." Pig trotters are very expensive in modern times.
But after he finished speaking, he hesitated: "I guess the eldest brother and the second brother can't accept it either."
Xie Xun's ears moved, eh? Big brother and second brother? who?
Jiang Shuyao took out the pig's trotters, placed the rest of the gravy, poured a layer of gravy, and called the maid to Xie Li and the others to deliver it.
"It's just that I apologized. If you don't dislike it, the eldest brother and the second brother can use it to drink."
The maid should be, and left respectfully.
Xie Xun didn't think about the intersection between Jiang Shuyao and his two brothers, so he asked, "Why do you give them food?"
"Don't tell me it's to apologize." Jiang Shuyao didn't plan to go into details, he put the lid on the pot, turned around and walked out of the small kitchen.
Xie Xun reacted after a while. He hadn't tasted the taste yet, so why did he leave? If everyone didn't eat it, it would be fine.
He followed up depressed and had a general guess: "Did you meet them when you were going out for a walk just now?"
Jiang Shuyao nodded.
"They are playing chess in the pavilion again?"
Jiang Shuyao asked curiously, "How do you know?"
Xie Xun thought to himself, of course he knows, two stinky chess players sit there all year round and play chess, but their chess skills have not improved by half!
After Xie Xun returned to the room, he couldn't stop reading, thinking about the delicious lo-mei just now, and thinking about the taste of the elder brother and the second brother, whether he liked it or not.
Finally got up and went to the bamboo forest.
He knew the temperament of the two eldest brothers, one was old-fashioned and heavy on rules, the other liked to be elegant, maybe he didn't like to eat novel food, and Jiang's thought was wasted, so he would bring the bowl back and clean it up by himself.
As soon as Xie Xun went out, the lo-mei sent by Jiang Shuyao had already been placed on the stone table in Qushuiting.
Xie Lang raised his wide cuffs, put down the jasper chess piece, and hesitated: "This... looks good."
Xie Li agreed, and what he said was completely inconsistent with his serious tone: "It smells good too. I heard that the third younger brother and sister like to tinker with food. Son, I still remember the tender and sweet taste."
The two were silent.
Xie Lang took a sip of sake and suddenly reached out and picked up his chopsticks: "Then I'll give it a try."
Pick up a piece of lotus root at will, and before you put it in your mouth, you can smell a strong brine flavor, fresh, salty and spicy, and vaguely rich in medicinal herbs. Just smelling it is extremely fragrant.
The lotus root slices are still warm, and when you put them in your mouth, the fragrance of the marinade instantly fills your lips and cheeks. This is the first time he has eaten food with such a rich and rich taste. The spicy taste of the braised lotus root stimulates the palate, making the umami taste stronger and the numbness stronger. It is obviously a vegetarian dish, but it has a meaty aroma. The flavor is complex and delicious. It doesn't seem to have any kind of nasty smell.
The lotus root slices are crisp, and the long simmering fragrance becomes more intense as the chewing, but the lotus root slices themselves have a sweet taste, not to mention the richer taste, which also offset the excitement brought by his first time eating spicy food.
Xie Lang swallowed the braised lotus root, and without saying a word, raised his head and poured a glass of sake into his mouth.
The slightly bitter cold wine flowed down the throat and into the abdomen, Xie Lang could not help sighing comfortably, it was so refreshing.
Xie Li was still waiting for him to judge. Seeing that he was ready to move his chopsticks after drinking, and he was still moving his chopsticks towards the largest duck wing on the plate, he quickly picked up the chopsticks.
His younger brother understood that Xie Li had tasted cakes and recognized Jiang Shuyao's cooking skills, so he did not hesitate now.
The vegetarian lotus root is so delicious, it must be even more fishy.
Xie Lang picked up the duck wings and started eating with difficulty. The duck meat was stewed tenderly and tenderly, retaining the elasticity of the meat itself. It was fragrant in one bite. The meat is fragrant. The marinade was delicious, and the inside was salty and spicy. Xie Lang could not wait to nibble all the sticky duck meat on the bones.
It wasn't easy to pick it up with chopsticks, but after he had eaten half of it, Xie Li, who was on the opposite side, had already eaten a duck neck and two lotus root slices.
Xie Lang couldn't care less about Feng Yi, and when he pulled out his sleeves, he started to nibble.
When Xie Xun arrived at Qushuiting, he could only see the two older brothers, who were quite well-mannered in the past, were nibbling on the duck frame, and the second brother, who paid attention to appearance, actually had marinade with jujube on the corner of his mouth.
And the eldest brother who used to take the shelf slapped the table: "Come on, let's have another jug of wine."
The Xie Lang glass was empty, and the spiciness gradually came up. He could only hiss lightly and briefly: "Stop using the pot, and bring my treasured Puzhong wine."
Xie Xun walked into the pavilion and saw only two or three pieces of lotus root left on the full china plate.
Xie Li and Xie Lang put down the chopsticks at the same time and clamped the duck neck together.
While the two were in a stalemate, Xie Xun coughed, causing them to let go of their chopsticks immediately.
Seeing that it was Xie Xun who came, both of them were relieved.
"Third brother, why are you here?" Xie Lang returned to his posture like the breeze and bright moon, and asked with his sleeves.
Xie Xun wanted to save some face for them, but when he saw this, he couldn't hold back and said with disgust, "Second brother, wipe your mouth."
Xie Li was a lot more magnanimous: "Third brother, this meal made by my sister-in-law is really delicious, and it's a must for drinking."
Xie Xun did not continue, sitting on the stone chair between them, looking at the messy dinner plate, and said, "It will be worth it tomorrow, drink less."
Xie Li thought the same, nodding in agreement: "That's it, let's take a break and drink again."
"I just don't know if my sister-in-law Huo Muri would still cook this meal?" Xie Lang asked tentatively.
Xie Xun replied, "I don't know."
Xie Lang said cheekily: "Then ask the third brother to go back and ask his sister-in-law. If you still do it, please ask her to bring us a copy."
Xie Xun glanced at him coldly, and a very small humming sound came from his nose, which could not be heard unless he listened carefully.
Xie Li didn't notice that something was wrong with him. His younger brother was always looking like an old-fashioned indifference. He was used to it and didn't plan to show any emotions on his face.
"It turns out that my sister-in-law is so good at cooking, I'm really envious of my brother. Let's just say that this food is so delicious that your second brother and I couldn't help drinking several jugs of wine, and now my belly is a little bloated."
"Really? I didn't know it was so delicious." He hadn't eaten it before, humming.
It's a pity that he has been used to a flat tone for more than ten years, and he doesn't even know how to be angry.
Xie Xun let out a breath. Suddenly he suggested: "Big brother, second brother, why don't we play chess for a while?"
Xie Xun's chess skills are superb, Xie Li and Xie Lang can gain a lot every time they play chess with him, they are very happy to hear that, after all, he always shied away when they invited him to play chess.
Xie Li played a game with him first, and Xie Xun killed him with three strikes and five divisions.
"Third brother, I haven't seen you for a few days. Your chess skills are so advanced!"
The expression on Xie Xun's face remained unchanged, and he played against Xie Lang again. Every time he fell, Xie Lang's heart trembled.
"Third brother, why has your chess style and style changed so much?"
The two couldn't stop sighing.
Xie Xun said: "Stop talking nonsense, are you still coming?"
"Come on!" The two hurriedly responded.
It's a pity that Xie Xun didn't release the water anymore. In just two quarters of an hour, they tortured them to the point of doubting their lives, and could not wait to sit in the pavilion until dawn.
Xie Xun was happy and got up to leave, but was stopped by Xie Li: "Third brother, what kind of chess book did you get recently?"
Xie Lang added: "Or suddenly have an epiphany, can you tell the second brother of the insight?"
Xie Xun was very speechless when he heard the words. Although his two older brothers were not old foxes in the officialdom, it was okay to say that they were very prosperous in the officialdom, but they didn't even understand this little thing.
He had already walked outside the pavilion, and the two older brothers behind him were still calling him to share his insights and chess records.
Xie Xun couldn't bear it anymore, turned around and strode towards them: "You really don't know?"
When the two of them saw him turning back, they looked overjoyed: "What do you know?"
Thinking about the pain of being tortured by the stinky chess basket for many years, Xie Xun said word by word: "Your chess skills - really, really, very, very poor."
After speaking, he turned around neatly, his back was straight and ruthless.
Yuehua was cold, and in the Qushui Pavilion, two chess idiots sat opposite each other, their postures were stiff, and they dared not accept the truth for a long time.
Heartbroken. ,,