"Bang!" Another loud explosion sounded from the Song family's kitchen.
I saw a young man covered in stove ashes, with a disheveled face, rushing out of the messy kitchen emitting bursts of black smoke.
He was coughing while running, and those who didn't know thought he had escaped from somewhere.
"Ahem, cough, why did it fail again? It shouldn't be. I obviously made it according to Dad's recipe."
I really couldn't figure out why it failed again, just as I was standing at the kitchen door holding the recipe and studying it carefully.
A middle-aged woman rushed over with a broom at a sprint speed of 100 meters, as if she was going to eat me.
"Song Xiran, are you blowing up the kitchen again at home, do you want to burn the house down? Do you want us all to sleep on the street? Why don't you go to school!!!"
When I took a closer look, this person was not my mother. I saw sparks in her eyes, running at that speed, and giving her Hun Tianling and Qiankunquan can turn Nezha in a second.
Seeing that the situation was not good, I immediately grabbed the book bag that was placed aside and fled away in a hurry.
"Mom, calm down, I'm going first~"
I just heard her yelling loudly from behind: "Little bastard, you study hard for my old lady..." Before she finished speaking, I ran away in a blink of an eye.
In the classroom, everyone has already started to recite while shaking their heads.
"Qingqing Zijin, caress my heart. But for the king's sake, I have pondered until now..."
"What's so easy to learn about these things? It's obviously more interesting to cook. Mom, too, calls me a glorious family every day. It's really annoying to study like this every day~"
I went to the seat and sat down, and took out the textbook from the book bag. While shaking his head, he kept nagging, venting his dissatisfaction this morning.
"Song Xiran! Song Xiran!"
Seeing my absent-minded appearance, the master called my name several times.
I didn't notice it at all, and I was still immersed in my nagging.
"Xi Ran, what are you doing? The master is calling you." Wei Qi, a classmate and good friend at the side, tugged at my clothes, and I instantly woke up from my own world.
Seeing Master's serious expression, he knew he was in trouble, and stood up from his seat tremblingly.
"Song Xiran, what are you doing?"
Only then did I realize that the sound of reading had stopped, and the students all turned their heads to look at me.
I stammered and replied: "Master, I am reciting."
"Really? Then tell me where did you read it?" The Master continued to ask.
"Read Yoyo... Yoyo..."
I couldn't help frowning, turned my face to look at Wei Qi who was on the side, and winked at him frantically.
Wei Qi covered his face with a book and whispered, "Yo Yo Lu Ming, the apple of the wild food."
"Oh, master, I remembered. It's Yoyo Luming, lotus leaf duckweed!"
I confidently said the answer I heard, but unexpectedly, the students burst into laughter.
I saw my master looked at me angrily and said: "Lotus duckweed, I'm afraid you want to eat lotus seeds! Shall I bring you another bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup?! Are you reading? If you don’t read well, and you don’t finish your homework well, you only know how to be mischievous and cranky all day long, I don’t think you put your mind on your studies at all, the old man’s fame will be ruined in your hands!”
"I wasn't thinking about studying." I muttered in a low voice.
"What are you talking about? Bad guy! Bad guy! It's a rotten piece of wood that can't be carved. Go back and tell your mother that I can't do anything about this old man. I can't discipline you. Please find another job. You won't be able to use it tomorrow."
The master was so angry at my words that he couldn't speak for a long time. While stroking his beard and breathing in his chest, he said that he was dismissed from school, then turned around and left resentfully.
"If you don't come, you don't come, you think I want to come, you stubborn old man~"
I quickly packed my book bag, and called Wei Qi who was on the side to walk outside the academy.
Along the way I breathed the fresh air outside. Jumping and jumping so happy, I looked at the sugar figurines on the side of the road for a while, and touched the cloth sold by the hawker for a while.
Instead, Wei Qi, who was on the side, looked at me with a worried expression and said, "Xi Ran, you have been expelled from the academy again, how can you explain to your mother when you get home? Aren't you afraid of being beaten again?"
I didn't care about it: "Just hit it, what else can I do. I just don't want to study, and it's not like you don't know."
Wei Qi’s family lives next door to my house. From the time I can remember, we know that our two families have a very good relationship. He is a good "brother" I grew up with. My mother also likes him very much and often asks him to come to our house for dinner, so I and him The relationship between them is also very good.
He was born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he was a first-class modest gentleman, as gentle as jade. Let's have a bit of aura on his body, he doesn't look like a child from an ordinary family at all, he looks like a noble son, he looks like a champion at first glance.
I have been close to him since childhood, and he knows almost everything, except that I am a daughter.
Walking on the street, I suddenly felt a little hungry, turned around with a smirk and said to Wei Qi:
"Wei Qi, are you hungry? How about I take you to eat some delicious food?"
Seeing me looking at him with ill intentions, he kept saying that he was not hungry, and then slowly backed away, and I went over and grabbed him.
want to run? There are no doors!
"Don't run away, my good brother said that good fortune is shared, and trouble is shared. I have good things, how can I not share them with you~"
As I said that, I took him from the street to a ruined temple.
"Xi Ran, what are we doing here?"
He looked at me with a puzzled look on his face. I looked at his innocent and harmless appearance. It must be easy to deceive~
"Wei Qi, have you seen those pheasants? Go and catch one, how about I make something delicious for you."
I pointed to the free-range chickens outside the ruined temple and said to Wei Qi.
"Where are the pheasants? Aren't those domesticated?"
It seems that I underestimated his IQ, and I have to resort to some tricks.
"Look, no one raises the chickens outside the ruined temple. They look for worms to eat. The chicken lays eggs, and the eggs lay chickens. It is only for the survival of the fittest that we have such a large and huge family. .Help their flocks weed out the weak, and by the way... fill our own stomachs. Isn’t this a good thing that kills two birds with one stone? Are you right~” I winked at him and said, distorting the facts or something I’m most concerned about okay.
"But it's not stealing..." Seeing him still hesitating, I was about to be blown away, it seemed that he was going to be hard.
I put my hand on his neck and said to him:
"But what a ghost, just say whether to go or not! You are a manly man, mother-in-law and mother-in-law. You are too cowardly. I know you will definitely ask me why I don't go, because I am the military adviser here, and you have to You’re sitting here, and you’re also in charge of cooking. Go, I trust you~”
So under my coercion and lure, he had no choice but to grab a chicken and quickly deal with it.
I am very satisfied with the chicken that has been processed, and then it is my business.
I was going to cook a beggar's chicken to eat. Fortunately, when I was trying to develop a new dish in the morning, I secretly put some condiments in the book bag, just to prepare for such a contingency, and now it really comes in handy.
I evenly coated the inside of the chicken with seasonings such as pepper and salt, and asked Wei Qi to pick a few sweet and sour wild fruits with smooth and juicy flesh, mashed them and put them inside.
According to my father's recipe, the chicken baked in this way will be more tender and delicious, with a light fruity aroma.
Then I found a broken jar, dug some yellow mud, added some water to make a thick mud.
The chicken is then covered with mud until it penetrates into the root of the hair, and the surface is evenly smeared into an ellipsoid.
Then I dug a hole on the ground, buried the finished ellipsoid in it, and filled the hole until the surface of the sphere was about ten centimeters above the ground.
Finally, I built a bonfire on it, and seeing that the fire was burning vigorously, I pulled Wei Qi to chat.
After the fire had naturally extinguished and cooled down, I dug out the ellipsoid, picked up a stone beside it and tapped it lightly, and the mud on the surface of the ellipsoid shattered.
As soon as the mud was pushed away, all the hairs were taken off, not a single one was left.
In just half an hour, the delicious and juicy Beggar Chicken is ready.
Since we don't have any lotus leaves on hand, and we don't have too many condiments, we keep everything simple. Unexpectedly, the wild fruits picked locally add a lot of flavor to this beggar chicken.
Because after I peeled the beggar chicken, I smeared some wild juice on the skin and grilled it.
Therefore, its color is golden and translucent, the chicken is tender and juicy, and the honey-like wild juice has penetrated into the meat. It's different from anything I've eaten before.
Both of us were already rumbling with hunger while waiting for the chicken to cook.
In less than a while, Wei Qi and I ate the whole chicken like a storm.
After I was full, I wiped my mouth, patted my belly, and felt a sense of happiness, even if I got beaten at home, it was worth it~
Seeing that it was getting late, we planned to go back after dealing with the chicken feathers on the ground.
In the time it took to speak, I arrived at my door, and Wei Qi was persuaded by me to go home first. But I stood outside the house and refused to go in for a long time.
Although he said he was not afraid, and he was confident when he was full, but he was no match for the waves of fear in his heart.
Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles.
My mother must have known it, and I don't know what she will say. She was a real nag, and she could scare a tigress away with a fit of temper.
"Xi'er, why are you standing at the door? Why did you come back after such a long time, come in quickly." My mother called my name from the back room.
"It's over, I can't hide." I entered the house carefully, closed the door, and walked into the back room with small steps.
"I heard that you made your master angry again in school today? You were expelled from school again?" The unhappiness on Mother's face was written all over her face.
When I heard it, it turned out that it was about dropping out of school, but fortunately it wasn't about me taking Wei Qi to steal chickens.
I just said, how could I be discovered so quickly, I raised my hand and quickly wiped the cold sweat on my forehead, and I was relieved immediately.
"Tell me, what will you do if you do this again? Are you worthy of your dead father? Do you know how difficult it is for your mother to raise you up alone? In order for you to study, my mother sent you to school disguised as a man from a young age. I want you to honor your ancestors, don’t follow your father’s old ways! You’re lucky, you’re making trouble with Nyonya every day, you’re thinking about how to cook, and you don’t study hard, what else can you do after this continues... "
My mother began to count the words she often said to me over the years, and these words were enough to make my ears ring like cocoons.
"Mom!" I interrupted her nagging.
"What's so good about reading? I don't want to study anymore. I just want to be the most famous and best imperial chef in the capital like my father, and research the best and most delicious dishes in the world."
"Shut up, I won't allow you to be an imperial cook."
"But I..."
"What about you, you should study hard for me, don't you forget your father..." My mother suddenly choked up at this point.
My father's death has always been a problem for my mother.
According to my mother, my father was originally the most famous imperial cook in the capital, but he did not expect to be framed to death by an adulterer.
My mother fled to this place alone with me and raised me herself.
So she doesn't want me to get involved in anything related to the royal chef. Unexpectedly, I was gifted since I was a child, and I couldn't do anything well, but I had a soft spot for cooking.
My dream since I was a child is to become the number one royal chef in the capital like my father.
But my "extraordinary talent" hobby made my mother's head a few big.
They sent me to many schools one after another, but what I have been doing in the past three days is either teasing Liu Agou or bullying Wang Amao.
The masters in this area of the school are so angry that they are about to lose their braids, so they have already been handed out the expulsion order by several schools.
"Song Xiran, why are you so unbelievable, kid, you are so mad at me. You go to the study to reflect on me! If you don't reflect well, you are not allowed to go out! You are not allowed to eat!" My mother was so angry that her eyes were slightly red.
It can be seen that my mother is really angry with me this time, she usually just keeps talking about me, but she got so angry today, one can imagine how deep her anger is.
However, my heart is still extremely firm, if you are not allowed to eat, you are not allowed to eat, even if you don't eat, I will be the royal chef!
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This is the first time I have written such an ancient lily essay, and I am still learning and exploring. I hope you can give me more advice after reading it.