Mrs. Wen took Gu Yin to the study.
In the study, Mr. Wen learned that the old father had a good appetite today, and after eating a large bowl of noodles, he left with satisfaction.
Mrs. Wen sat on the top and pouted towards the chair below.
Gu Yinfu thanked him, and the two started talking across the table.
"You shouldn't be surprised about the previous incident."
While talking, Mrs. Wen looked at Gu Yin's expression. He invited Gu Yin, of course, to repay the past.
But it is not uncommon for Shengmi En to fight Mi Chou since ancient times.
Gu Yinruo showed that she wanted to repay her kindness and was very dissatisfied with the status quo. Naturally, Mrs. Wen would not keep such a person by her side, just spend some money to send people away.
Gu Yin's expression was magnanimous, "It was just a misunderstanding, nothing to be surprised at. Thank you for giving me this opportunity."
The one who chased people that day was Mr. Wen Er, who was so angry that he could not vent. It had nothing to do with the old man. And because that day was delayed, she and Wang worked together to catch the little brat she was thinking of.
Now that there is a job, and the little brat is caught, to paraphrase what she saw on the Internet before—everything is the best arrangement.
As for Mrs. Wen's worry of asking for favors, Gu Yin didn't think there was anything worth repaying for that day - after all, if Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xu hadn't kicked the old man off the stage and quarreled with him, Mrs. will faint. If they didn't find a way to make it up, and gave her a job opportunity, she already had a lot of adults.
Grandpa Wen touched the goatee on his chin and nodded, "That's right."
Gu Yin didn't know where the "good" point of the old man was, but the little old man in front of her was now her immediate boss, so she smiled back.
The servant brought two cups of hot tea, the old man took a sip, and then said, "I was worried that Chef Xu in the kitchen would bully you, but I just went to take a look, but he actually changed his face as usual, the little girl is quite good sharp."
Gu Yin hurriedly said, "It's nothing great, it's just that Master Xu asked me how to make noodles, and I gave him a few pointers."
There is an old saying that a craftsman cannot starve to death in a famine year, which is enough to see the preciousness of craftsmanship.
People at that time were taboo that the disciples of the church did not have a master. Like Chef Xu who did not have a teacher and met a serious master, it was normal that they did not succeed in middle age.
"You direct others, are you not afraid that your master will be unhappy?"
Gu Yin thought of her grandfather. Their ancestors in the Gu family were not prominent, unlike other culinary families in the future, who said that their ancestors had been royal chefs. There are more than a dozen generations in their family, all of them are ordinary people, and they have accumulated various recipes by being apprentices from all over the world.
When her grandfather was in good health, he was very willing to take apprentices. Regardless of his qualifications, as long as he wanted to learn, he was willing to teach.
But there are too many job opportunities in future generations. The income of cooks is not low or high, and it is not high. Willing to study further.
So much so that her grandfather taught apprentices for half his life, and only his son and granddaughter were really left to the end.
At that time, Gu Yin didn't understand, and asked him that he had taught for half his life and did not charge tuition fees. What was he trying to do
Her grandfather said that if a craft is only passed down in his own family, how can it be carried forward? Besides, if all our ancestors encountered teachers who did not teach with all their heart, how could there be the inheritance of our family, and the present day of our family
Thinking of her grandfather who had been open-minded all her life, Gu Yin said with certainty, "No."
Mrs. Wen jumped down from the chair of the master teacher, pointed at her and smiled: "Okay you girl, last time I asked you about your teacher's inheritance, and you asked me to learn how to cook porridge from others? You really lied to me!"
Gu Yin didn't expect that Mrs. Wen was actually inquiring about this in a big circle.
"Well... I'm not lying, I did have someone pointing it out, but it's more of a recipe school."
In her last life, when she officially started to learn to cook, her grandfather was already very old, and it was not easy to guide her every day. He couldn't teach her hand-to-hand like an ordinary person with apprentices, and more was Gu Yin's own recipes.
The old man said that you should pull it down. "I really want to say it like you. In this world, as long as you can read and write, you can practice your skills according to the recipe."
Gu Yin didn't argue with him, but said seriously, "I didn't lie to you this time."
Grandpa Wen became stubborn.
He has a large collection of books in his study, and even has a collection of food lists.
Mrs. Wen took out a copy and flipped through it, pointed it to Gu Yin and said, "Then you can do it like this."
Gu Yin took a closer look, and saw that the food list read: Minced fruit honey cake, it is better to use flour, pine nuts and walnuts instead of orange diced. Its sweetness is neither honey nor sugar, and it can be temporary or long. ①
Although Gu Yin has never done this, she has written the materials very clearly with only a few words in front of her.
So she nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll give it a try."
Mrs. Wen looked strange, and immediately followed her to the big kitchen.
In the big kitchen, Master Xu was talking to the two little apprentices with a bitter face.
The little apprentice frowned when he saw his fat face, so he persuaded: "Master has followed the second master for many years, and there is some affection in the end. I'm really afraid of being punished by the old master, so I should go and ask the second master. "
Another said, "That's right, Master, don't worry, how can anyone who works in the kitchen don't eat and drink well? If you don't eat and drink well, how can you make delicious food for the owner?"
Master Xu knocked them out, "You know shit! I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about the little master! You two are lucky, and when you meet me, you are willing to teach you everything. I have never met such a master who is willing to teach outsiders. What a wonderful person! If I were twenty years younger, I would be willing to kowtow to tea and recognize her as a master! Such a good person was fired like this... Is it uncomfortable?"
Just as he was talking, Gu Yin came back.
Master Xu quickly stepped forward and asked: "How is the little master? What did the old man say? Did you not let you do it?"
Gu Yin pursed her lips, "It's alright, the old man didn't embarrass me."
Master Xu was about to take a long breath when he saw Mrs. Wen who came along with Gu Yin.
Gu Yin went to look for the glutinous rice flour in the kitchen, but the old man still didn't look at him, just followed Gu Yin.
Master Xu thought to himself: The old man has been stalking the kitchen, so this is nothing to worry about! This is the old man who was the teacher of the late emperor and the important minister of the three dynasties! I heard that the emperor was half short when he stared at him in front of him. Isn't it embarrassing to be stared at by someone like him? !
Later, Gu Yin found the glutinous rice flour and asked Chef Xu for dried fruit. Ordinary people don’t always have things like dried fruit, but big families like Wen’s do have them. Plus, it’s the Chinese New Year soon, these things are very good for entertaining guests.
Walnuts, pine nuts, peanuts, and sesame should be available. Gu Yin also found a box of raisins and started to make them.
She first mixes glutinous rice flour with ordinary rice flour in proportion, adds water and forms a dough, wraps it in gauze, and steams it in a steamer.
Then, while steaming the glutinous rice for more than a quarter of an hour, Gu Yin smashed the walnuts with the back of the knife, smashed out the walnut kernels, then used hot water to remove the clothes, put them in a frying pan to fry them, and then put the sesame seeds in the pan and fry them until fragrant.
Chopped pine nuts and peanuts, and mixed with chopped walnuts, black sesame seeds, and raisins are the filling.
After the rice balls are out of the pot, add a little sugar and mix well, then knead various dried fruit pieces into the dough, and finally roll them into long strips, cut them into small squares, put them in the pastry mold and press lightly, a small flower-shaped pastry is formed.
The prepared mincemeat cake was presented to Mrs. Wen.
Mrs. Wen was already surprised to see a set of movements that could no longer be proficient. After tasting it, she was even more shocked: "It's soft and delicious, glutinous but not sticky. All kinds of dried fruits are fragrant. They don't affect each other, but they are natural! "
Gu Yin also tasted a piece, "It's really good. Thanks to what the old man said clearly in the recipe, and this one hundred fruit honey cake is not complicated. When I first made it, I was still thinking, since this one hundred fruit can be made into a honey cake, It would also be good to make a mincemeat cake.”
Mrs. Wen stood up again and said no, come with me again.
Gu Yin followed him to the study again, and Mrs. Wen dug out the food list next to him and ordered three kinds of milk and milk tuckahoe cake, crystal fresh milk jelly, and lotus seed paste.
These pastry steps are more complicated and take a long time, and the old man did not follow.
When Gu Yin returned to the big kitchen, she saw Chef Xu staring at the honey cake in a trance, wanting to eat but not daring to eat it.
Gu Yin couldn't help bending her lips and said, "I just tried it just now, and the old man has already used it, so let me do it. The rest is left alone, can Master Xu help you taste it? "
When Master Xu heard the words, he reached out his hand, ate two pieces by himself first, and then asked the younger apprentices to divide the rest.
After tasting it, Master Xu sighed: "How can the little master make ramen noodles and wide noodles? Although these two are noodles, their methods and tastes are completely different. Obviously, they are eaten in two places. I know how to make this pastry. I should eat this pastry from the Jiangnan side? I didn't expect the little master to be able to do so much at such a young age."
In this era of underdeveloped information and communication, it is very important to be able to master a local cuisine. It is almost impossible if you can cook all kinds of dishes.
"No, this pastry is the food list that the old man showed me. I made it as it is, and I haven't made it before."
Master Xu was stunned and said after a while: "According to the food list... Now do it?"
Gu Yin was already making the remaining three cakes, but it was not bad for someone to say something to relieve boredom, so she first repeated the sentence on the food list, and said, "It sounds very simple, doesn't it?"
Chef Xu said: "Simple is simple, but if I saw these words for the first time, I might not be able to think of what to do."
"Steamed with glutinous rice flour for more than a quarter of an hour to make dim sum, the taste is the best, right?"
"Yes!"
"Walnuts have to be undressed, and sesame seeds have to be fried until fragrant. After they are fried, they are mixed with crushed peanuts and pine nuts. That's the stuffing, isn't it?"
"Yes!"
"It's not honey or sugar, and you can't put diced oranges, so put less sugar and use raisins instead, right?"
"Yes!"
Gu Yin tilted her head and said, "If you have the skin and the filling, put them together and knead them together. If the mold is pressed, it will be done? Don't you know how to do it?"
Yeah... it's a fart! In this way, all cooks in the world can be master chefs as long as they can read and find two food lists!
Master Xu couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. He looked at Gu Yin's side and asked about it, and he also helped out.
The steps for the three dim sum dishes are a little complicated, and they were made in sequence until lunch time.
Gu Yincheng went to Mrs. Wen. After tasting it this time, Mrs. had to believe that there really is such a person in this world - you can give her twenty or thirty words about the method and ingredients, and she will be able to make something similar!
The two had eaten it separately. Gu Yin's tongue was more stubborn than the old man's. After eating, she reflected: "This fresh milk jelly has a milky smell, try to put more tea next time?"
The old man nodded casually, his mind was actually no longer on the food.
He didn't sleep after lunch, but left Gu Yin in the study to teach her to read.
Gu Yin was stunned, and Mrs. Wen said plausibly, "You are talented and smart, and it would be a pity to only study cooking skills! Come, look at this "The Analects of Confucius"."
After Gu Yin repeatedly said "I can't, I really can't", Mrs. Wen forced her to read the book for half the afternoon.
When Gu Yin went to school in her previous life, her Chinese grades were average at the middle and lower levels. Although she barely knew the traditional characters, this book was still in vertical version from right to left, and there was no sentence to read!
It was exhausting to read, and she was asked to make inferences from one thing, only if she could figure it out!
Of course, thanks to the nine-year compulsory education, Gu Yin still has some understanding of the Analects of Confucius, but this understanding is naturally nothing in front of an old scholar like Mrs. Wen.
In the end, both of them were sweating. Gu Yin read the vertical version of the book, and Mrs. Wen was helpless. How could someone know a little bit about cooking skills without a teacher. What about fools
At dusk, Mrs. Wen was too tired to look after Gu Yin, so she let her leave work early, and asked her to put the rest of the pastries in a food box and let her take it back.
Carrying the food box, Gu Yin returned to Jinyi Alley in a vain step. Wang shi didn't expect that she would be back at this moment and was collecting clothes in the yard.
Seeing her collapsed face, Mrs Wang put her clothes back on the shelf, took her food box with one hand, and led her into the main room with the other.
She went to the kitchen and poured out hot water, and said distressedly: "I said how to pay 10 taels of wages, daring is a tiring job! Look at your pale face, are you exhausted?"
Gu Yin drank a bowl of hot water, pinched the aching eyebrows, and said, "Actually, it's not that I'm tired, it was quite relaxing at first."
She has always liked to study recipes, and she has never seen the food list given by the old man, and it is too fresh. Moreover, only four cakes were made in one morning. While waiting for the cakes to come out, Chef Xu gave her his chair. It's easier than making hundreds of buns at home when doing business at home.
"You're not tired, can you look like this?"
Gu Yin couldn't explain this in a few words. Gu Yin glanced at the house and saw no child. She hurriedly asked Wang Shi seriously, "What about the child? Didn't you make a fuss during the day?"
Wang Shi waved his hand and said no, "It's good to take the child!"
Just as he was talking, Wu An came home with the child.
The child put on the cotton robe that Wang sewed for her earlier, and put on the small cotton shoes sent by Aunt Ge. Although he looked thin and small, he was full of smiles.
Wu An didn't look so good, his face flushed red, panting and sweating profusely, as if he had just run 800 meters.
This child has a quiet personality. Gu Yin has never seen him play in such an embarrassed state, so she laughed and said, "How can you sweat so much in such a cold weather, just wipe it off and be careful not to catch a cold."
When the child saw her, he was about to pounce on her, and when he moved, Xiao Wu'an moved as well.
Only then did Gu Yin notice that the hands of the two little guys were tied together by a half-meter-long rope.
She finally understood what Wang meant when she said "children are easy to take care of", because it wasn't her taking care of it at all, it was Wu An taking care of her!
Seeing Gu Yin's guilty conscience, Wang Shi explained, "He woke up in the morning and made a fuss when he didn't see you. I explained to him for a while as you said. Although he didn't look for you any more, he just wanted to go out. I didn't dare to let him go out alone, and I couldn't keep him locked up. It just so happened that Wu An told me that last night you tied your hand to the cub's hand, so I followed suit and found a rope. Tie them together."
Well, the source of the co-authorship is still Gu Yin herself.
Speaking of which, Mrs. Wang pulled her son to him again, wiped his sweat and said, "Didn't I let you take him with me? Where is the madness?"
Xiao Wu'an was almost out of breath, he held the water bowl on the table on his feet and drank a large gulp of water before opening his mouth and said, "I have been to many places, the wharf, the market, the big restaurant... the whole town is wandering. Once again. Fortunately, fortunately, I told him that my sister-in-law was going home in the dark, and he finally agreed to come back with me. "
Hearing that, Mrs Wang smacked her tongue, "This little brat is too good at running. Don't complain, Wu An, what's wrong with running two steps? You usually don't like to move, but you get sick when the seasons change, and being active is good for you. ."
Although Xiao Wu'an was tired, he was actually quite happy.
In the past, although there were mothers and sisters-in-law in the family, they all had their own affairs. He helped with the housework since he was a child and rarely went out to play. Also because he is thinner and smaller than the average person and can't climb trees to dig out eggs, other children in the village don't like to play with him.
But today this new kid took him, and he realized that it was such a joy to have someone to play with. They went to the pier to chase birds, went to the market to catch the market, and sat in a small shack to rest in the back alley of the restaurant. … all in all, a very happy day.
Later, Gu Yin untied the rope for them, and opened the food box to let them eat cakes.
Xiao Wu'an consciously took the child's hand and took him to wash his hands by the sink in the kitchen.
The child was still a little afraid of the Wang family, but maybe because he had been with Xiao Wu'an for an afternoon and had eaten lard from his hands before, he had gotten close to him.
Two little men sat on a bench, shoulder to shoulder, each holding a small snack and eating contentedly.
When Gu Yin and Mrs Wang saw each other, they couldn't help laughing and rolling their eyes.
Not long after it was time for the evening meal, the two children couldn't eat enough pastries, and Gu Yin had no appetite, so Mr. Wang cooked two bowls of plain noodles, one for Gu Yin and one for each.
After nightfall, Mrs. Wang boiled a pot of hot water and bathed the sweaty two children who could rub out putty.
Xiao Wu'an blushed and held up his trousers. His mother was not allowed to help with the washing. The child also followed suit, clutching his trousers tightly.
Wang Shi was just outside the door, listening to them screaming and laughing inside, scolding "two little bastards", and turned to look for Gu Yin.
Gu Yin had already washed and was soaking her feet in the house, so sleepy she couldn't keep her eyelids open.
When she came back to her senses, Mrs. Wang had already wiped her feet with a towel, and took out frostbite cream to apply to her.
"If you're tired, just say it, don't hide it." Mrs. Wang rarely took such seriousness. "What kind of work can make you so tired? Could it be that you are allowed to cook meals for hundreds of people by yourself?"
Seeing that she was worried, Gu Yin didn't hide it. First, he said that the employer who hired her was Mrs. Wen, and then said: "The old lady is very kind and doesn't care about the previous matters. Later, he asked me to eat according to the food list. , I only made four kinds of snacks in the morning. The original Master Xu in the kitchen was also kind and gave me the back chair to sit on. I am not tired in the morning, but in the afternoon... "
"What happened in the afternoon?"
Gu Yin remembered the fear of being dominated by vertical traditional characters again, and said with a headache: "In the afternoon, the old man insisted that I was smart and asked me to read. My dear, reading a book for half an afternoon is more tiring than wrapping 200 buns!"
After listening to the ins and outs, Wang's face relaxed and smiled: "Qingyi said the same thing back then, he would rather farm and hunt than study. At that time, I thought that he was so expensive to cultivate, and he was the only one who could learn it by himself. It's too wasteful, let him teach you at home when he is off school, and you were like this when the sky fell."
Gu Yin frowned helplessly.
Seeing that she was really uncomfortable, Wang shi said again tentatively, "Then it's still..."
While talking, the two children came in with water vapor after taking a bath.
The child blew onto the bed like a gust of wind, got into the bed, and there was a pupa in the bed. He looked at Gu Yin anxiously again and told her to go to bed quickly.
Xiao Wu'an stood in front of the bed and looked at the child, then at Gu Yin, and wrinkled his fingers: "I..."
Wang shi picked him up and said, "What are you doing today! You went to the urinal last night, and before dawn, let your sister-in-law get up and wash the bedding. You go back to the house and sleep for me."
Xiao Wu'an's face suddenly collapsed, Gu Yin looked at it with a funny look, and said, "Mum, it's fine for the two to sleep together. If they urinate separately, they have to wash the two beds."
Wang Shi also thought about it, the mattress is not easy to dry in this weather, and if you wet the bed two more times, there will be no more at home.
"You two are not allowed to drink water before going to bed, and go out to pee again."
Xiao Wu'an burst into laughter and waved at the child. The two went to the thatched hut together and lay down again.
And without waiting for Wang to speak, Xiao Wu'an urged her to take out the rope and tied their hands together.
After a while, both of them snorted.
Wang looked amused, and put the ointment on the child again, but he did not forget half of what he said before, and said in a low voice: "It doesn't matter whether it is tired of cooking or tired of reading, if it is really tired, we will not I did. There are other chores for the New Year. When you take care of the two children at home, I can make some money by going out to sew and wash.”
Gu Yin nodded and said that Mother was at ease, and added: "Mr. Wen knows that I am not a student, and tomorrow will definitely not be like today. This work is very worry-free."
However, on the second day, Mrs. Wen, who was very worry-free, said to Gu Yin, "You will know what is in the book, and you will definitely know other things that exist. Otherwise, let's do something in the book today. No, I haven't heard of it, come out!"