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Chapter 140: Bathing in red makeup in a small mirror, smelling of fragrant silk and sadness

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The young man didn't know the Ecstasy Knife, so he had several plum blossoms in one night. When he woke up, he felt that his waist was heavy, and he felt sleepy and sleepy.

If Bai Xue is a beauty, then He Xiaoqi is a natural beauty.

Li Muye reminded her of Lin Daiyu, a famous prostitute in Shanghai.

According to the description of the novel painting Nine-tailed Fox: "She is really a natural charmer. She is handsome and graceful. Her face is like a peach, and her waist is like a weak willow. She is a rare match among sisters. She is also thoughtful in socializing, and her answers are fluent. She is natural. There is a kind of coquettishness, from head to toe, there is no part that is not charming. No matter what you say, do something, or take a step, you all use that charming effort. So, who of the temporary prostitutes can be as good as her? He is known as the leader of brothels and the Taipan of Beili.

In the early morning, Li Muye did not get up to exercise for the first time.

I slept until midnight. When I got up, I took a bath and drank a large glass of goat's milk. He Xiaoqi had already recharged her energy and was as happy as a little swallow. She found the clothes she had bought long ago from the cabinet and put them on Ai Lang one by one. Li Muye pampered her and allowed her to do whatever she wanted.

"I also bought a lot of clothes for other people." She said happily: "Why don't we take it all together today, Xiaozhu and Xiaofen's, as well as Lao Cui's wife and children, everyone can share. I've wanted to take it for a long time, but I was afraid they wouldn't accept me."

"No, as long as I like it, they'll be fine."

"Then do you like me?" He Xiaoqi raised her face and asked.

Li Muye put his arms around her waist and said with a smile: "You are such a charming little fairy who won't sacrifice your life. I really like you so much."

"Xiao Zhu and Xiao Fen also like you, and they are no worse than me. Why don't you like them?"

"I can't say I don't like it, I can only say that I like it in a different way." Li Muye said: "I regard Wu Lanzhu as my sister, and Lu Shaofen is the daughter of a good friend. Now that we have been together for a long time, emotionally, I There’s no way to think otherwise of her.”

"You can talk." He Xiaoqi leaned into the man's arms and said quietly: "I know I can't control you, but I can't help myself falling in love with you. Although my father arranged the marriage, he didn't make the decision before he made the decision. They asked me what I thought. I did have a ridiculous and morbid time before, and I even liked Meng Fanbing, but that was not the real me. At that time, I was always filled with anger and had nowhere to vent, and I always wanted to torture bad people like Meng Fanbing. Woman, so..."

"No wonder you behaved like that last night." Li Muye interrupted her and said softly: "Forget those unpleasant things and be a happy woman."

He Xiaoqi said: "No matter what, as long as you are by my side."

Li Muye said: "Even if I am not by your side, I must continue to live a good life."

He Xiaoqi suddenly burst into tears and said sadly: "Don't be so cruel, okay? If it's a dream, can you just let me stay in the dream and never wake up?"

Li Muye sighed: "When I came yesterday, I hoped to bring you happiness, but I didn't expect that it would also bring you sadness."

"Even if it's sad, it's a dreamlike feeling." He Xiaoqi said: "Only when I have loved and been crazy can I truly live, so I feel that being a sad woman is countless times better than being a hopeless spectator. For this, I want to say to you, brother, thank you."

"You don't care even if you're not the only one?"

"It's a lie to say you don't care, but it's not true to say how much you care." He Xiaoqi said: "When I met you, I knew what kind of man you were, but women are like this, they will always pursue the best in their hearts. It is my choice to block out all the bad things, otherwise there would be so many stupid women in the society. I will never regret anything about last night."

"I can't be the only one for you emotionally, so I have to make up for it in other aspects, even if you don't particularly value your career."

"No, I actually care about my career. My father made such a difficult decision for me to inherit and carry forward Jinyuan Zhenghe. No matter what, I have to let him see that his sacrifice was not in vain. With you here, I believe I can reach the height he expects." He Xiaoqi said: "Brother, what you gave me is already the best, I am not greedy."

At night, there were only a few customers in the restaurant.

Lao Cui drank boringly. Lu Shaofen sat at the window and watched Li Muye preparing delicious food there. Zhou Ping looked grimly on the side.

Wu Lanzhu was about to go out as if she was running away. As she walked, she patted her round belly and said, "Oh, I can't make it. If I try it again, I will die." Dragging the reluctant Qiqige, she left. escape.

Li Muye brought the freshly cooked dried shredded noodles to Lu Shaofen and said, "Have a taste and give me some advice."

Lu Shaofen habitually pushed it to Zhou Ping and said, "Aren't you from a family of chefs? And it's your sister who's causing trouble. Give it a try."

Zhou Ping obediently took a chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it for a while, and praised: "It's so authentic. This dish is a relatively common famous dish in Huaiyang cuisine. This Huaiyang cuisine pays a lot of attention, especially the rigorous selection of ingredients, Pay attention to the skill of using materials according to the materials, the production is fine, the style is elegant, the pursuit of original taste, freshness and peace, the selection of ingredients pays attention to seasonal freshness, the raw materials are mainly river fresh, the drunken crab is not as good as the lamp, the wind chicken is not as good as the lamp, and the saury is not as good as the fish. It is said that during the Qingming Festival, sturgeons will not catch up with the Dragon Boat Festival.”

"I'm not asking you to drop your book bag, but I'm asking you to tell me how this dish tastes." Lu Shaofen said.

Li Muye said: "What Daping said is actually quite good. When you hear it, you can see the origin of family education. Don't interrupt him and let him continue."

"Look, do you hear me? Brother Ye still knows how to appreciate brothers." Zhou Ping looked at Lu Shaofen with an aggrieved face and said, "You are the only one who always looks down on me."

"Forget it if you don't say anything." Lu Shaofen said: "I won't know what to say if I praise you for a few words. I think it's easy for me to talk to you. You can speak with your ability."

Zhou Ping said: "I can't beat you and I can't criticize you, but when it comes to things in the kitchen, I can speak in plain English for three days without repeating the same thing." After saying that, he took another mouthful of food and continued what he was talking about before: "Speaking of this dish , I think of a poem first."

"Yangzhou is great. Guests of the tea house are welcome. Thousands of fine threads are piled on top of the ingredients, seedlings are growing in the cooked copper tobacco pouch, and the crystal dishes are made with shochu."

Lu Shaofen listened carefully, and Zhou Ping became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke.

This poem is the poem "Wang Jiangnan" written by Xing'an layman in the Qing Dynasty. It vividly depicts the scene of residents of Yangzhou tasting dried silk with added ingredients in the Qing Dynasty, which is quite like a vivid folk painting. It is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the south of the Yangtze River six times, and local officials in Yangzhou once presented Jiusi Tang to flatter Qianlong. This nine-silk soup is made of dried shreds plus shredded ham, bamboo shoots, whitebait, fungus, mushrooms, seaweed, egg skin, and chicken. Sometimes shredded sea cucumber, dried leech or bird's nest are also added. .

And because the dried tofu itself has a very thin taste, if you want to enjoy it, you must use the fresh and mellow chicken juice. After cooking, the fresh aroma of various seasonings is compounded into the dried tofu, making it delicious and appetizing. It is extremely delicious and makes people laugh. Never tire of eating.

Nowadays, boiled dried shreds have developed a lot compared to Jiushui soup. They are mainly dried shreds and chicken shreds. The dried shreds are white, plus fresh shrimps, and decorated with various ingredients. It is called assorted dried shreds. The color is beautiful. It tastes fresher.

This large boiled dried shredded silk requires extremely fine knife skills, and pays attention to the 'luan knife should be in Zuo, Huo Huo Feifei'. A piece of dried shredded rice can be cut into 18 pieces by the chef. The cut dried shredded noodles are not only neat and even, but also cannot be thicker than a matchstick. . Add color and fragrance. Therefore, this dish is not only famous all over the country, but also praised as "a famous East Asian dish" by foreign guests.

Zhou Ping is worthy of being from a family of culinary experts. He talks about dishes as if he were a different person. He quotes classics and speaks eloquently. Lu Shaofen is dumbfounded and even Li Muye listens with gusto.

After he finished speaking, Lu Shaofen couldn't help but said: "It's so lively, why don't you do it yourself to open my eyes?"

Zhou Ping shook his head and said: "I can't do this. At least compared to Brother Ye, I am far behind these two times." After a pause, he continued: "After our old man and my uncle failed to compete for the family mantle, we have been together for a long time. He ran away from home in anger, and then started a kitchenware business. From selling other people's goods to creating his own brand, it was not easy anyway. In our generation, my eldest sister Zhou Wen is the only daughter in my uncle's family. Then there is my second sister and me. Of course my grandfather hopes that I will go back and pass on the legacy."

Li Muye handed him a bottle of beer and said, "Take a sip of wine first, and then speak slowly."

Zhou Ping took it in his hand and drank it in one gulp, and then said: "I lived in the capital since I was a child. I was sent to Guangzhou when I was ten years old. I lived there for a total of two years. In these two years, I did nothing else but memorize recipes and learn basic skills. , garnishing vegetables, chopping vegetables, they are all kitchen work anyway. Later, I really didn’t want to do it, so I cried and said that I couldn’t adapt to the life there. In the end, my grandfather had no choice but to ask my father to take me back to the capital. of."

Li Muye said: "Everything depends on fate and talent. The combination of the two equals 99% success. It seems that you are not destined to be a cook."

Zhou Ping said: "Yes, but don't look at me because I haven't learned how to cook. I'm not shy about eating. I can at least be a gourmet."

Lu Shaofen said: "A gourmand is just a gourmet, and more than half of it? Isn't he just a foodie? Could it be that it has become a complicated profession?"

Zhou Ping didn't want to argue with her. Although he didn't agree in his heart, he kept silent.

Li Muye interjected: "What Xiaofen said is wrong."

There is a saying in the catering industry that someone who knows how to cook is not as good as someone who knows how to eat. It means that no matter how good the food is, it still needs people who understand to appreciate it. The person who understands is a gourmet.

Throughout the ages, the main purpose of gluttons is to pursue and satisfy material desires, while food scientists focus on cognitive explanation and theoretical induction. It is not an easy thing to qualify as a gourmet. You have rich and vivid food practice and material enjoyment, as well as profound and unique experience and artistic awareness. You are an explorer and creator of the beauty of food life that harmonizes material and spiritual, physical and psychological. By. Different from gourmands, whose main task is to fill their stomachs, and gourmets, who aim to explain the esophagus and food theory, gourmets are people who use a happy attitude towards life to conduct artistic appreciation and aesthetic taste of food, and are engaged in the exploration of ideal food.

"Big brother still has real insights." Lu Shaofen looked at Li Muye with bright eyes and said with a sincere expression.

Zhou Ping looked at her expression and suddenly felt a little discouraged. He sighed, stood up and said, "I think you don't want me to take you home anymore. I'd better take a step forward before you're drunk." , stood up, picked up his coat and walked towards the door.

At this moment, the door suddenly opened, and Zhou Jing came in uninvited again. Along with him was a tall and strong man. Li Muye looked through the window and saw that this man had a strong temperament, thick muscles, and obvious He is a practitioner.

Zhou Jing and Zhou Ping almost bumped into each other, but they showed displeasure on their faces. She frowned and said, "Go away, you daredevil." Then she pushed her brother aside, looked around and then locked on Lu Shaofen, and asked: "Are you Lu Shaofen?" Without waiting for Lu Shaofen's response, he ordered the big man behind him: "Do it!" (End of Chapter)