Chapter 180 (2/2)
A Yao sent Pei Shuo away and rushed like a butterfly. The bird's nest apologized, smiled at Mo xingle and walked to a Yao: ”it's all hairpin, and it's like a child.”
”I'm still a baby.” Ah Yao was shocked by the bird's nest, ”I don't know shame. Well, your hairpin ceremony is over, and I should go back and recover my life. ”
A Yao was stunned for a moment. ”Did the long Princess let you come?”
”Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be here.” The bird's nest wanted to rub her head, but there was nowhere to start. She straightened the flower Dian hairpin on her head, ”tell the girl I'm going back.”
A Yao quickly pulled the sleeve of the bird's nest, ”can't you stay here for a while? Let's go after dinner... Or did I hurt you because of what I said last time? ”
As soon as she spoke, she was pinched by the bird's nest.
”Don't worry, I'm fine now. You're right. Our family used to... So even if she cooked for your people, she didn't necessarily want to eat. Now she's transferred back to the kitchen to take charge of the long princess's meal. It's a blessing for me. Thank you, too. ”
The bird's nest was attached to a Yao's ear and said in a voice that two people could hear. Finally, ”now she knows the existence of you and the girl. It should be regarded as a kind of acquiescence. Come on and do well. I'm waiting to meet you in the kitchen of Princess Chang's house next time. ”
A Yao nodded. Her brain was still a mess of paste. The words of the bird's nest hidden the fundamental reason why she and Wangyue came to the capital to overturn the case. What happened.
The bird's nest greeted the others with a smile and left in an ox cart.
”Dinner!”
Li Gang shouted, and the smell of the food floated out.
Several people in sun Niang's foot shop have a table, including Aunt Wang, Yu Niang, Yu Niang's husband and Mo xingle, and a Yao Wangyue, Yan Niangzi and Ying Niang.
The chicken is nothing to say. Open the chest, take out the internal organs and wash them. Put a few pieces of mellow orange peel into the chest and apply the sauce. Put a layer of yellow mud on the whole Ji and turn it into an oval mud chicken ball. Wrap it with lotus leaves, tie hemp rope, bury it in the fire pond, bury it with soil, make a fire on it and bake it well. Before it is served, break the hard yellow mud with a hammer, and even the chicken feathers can be taken off. Mixed with the fragrance of lotus leaves, the chicken is fragrant and tender.
Fried clam with bean paste and perilla is also an alternative appetizer. When you pick up the clam and sip it, the light yellow meat and sauce will be inhaled into your mouth.
When making taro, chop ribs and marinate them into the taste. Spread taro and steam them in the pot. A little fat meat in the ribs exudes oil to allow taro to absorb. Taro powder is waxy and has the taste of gravy. The ribs are also contaminated with the smell of taro, which complement each other, just like the wonderful combination of bamboo shoots and fat meat.
Two fish a day. The grass carp takes the whole fish bone, the fish bone makes soup, and the fish meat is chopped into minced fish. Add egg white and starch, wrap minced and seasoned minced pork into it like a dumpling, rub it into a fish ball and cook it in the pot. Finally, put laver and shrimp skin in the soup, drop a few drops of shrimp oil, sprinkle scallion, clear soup and fish balls. This is one of them. Make a slightly sour appetizing fish soup, which is perfect.
Aunt Wang also sighed: ”it's much better than my cooking. I'm superb in cooking. I've seen it today.”
Mo xingle interrupted: ”that's right. The girl looking at the moon is one of the best cooks in Nanxun.”
There is also a brewing balsam pear. Remove the melon bag in the middle and brew it into minced meat. First, it feels bitter in the depths of the tongue, chews the elastic teeth and fresh sweetness of minced meat, and then the balsam pear slowly returns to sweetness.
The taste of first bitter and then sweet makes people sigh that it is not easy to eat. When they think of life, they dig out the delicious dish in their memory, which has nothing to do with value and taste. It just happens to appear at the worst time, giving them the best comfort and becoming the driving force of hope and longing for a better life.
”Eat well.” Li Gang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and smiled: ”it's like Li Rou brought me out of the mountain village. We were as happy as the first full meal we had in the capital.”
”It will get better in the future.” Li Rou said softly.
”Li Rou, when I make more money, I'll invite the cook to cook nine dishes and one soup and enjoy it.”
Sun Niang's eyes were wet. She thought that the husband and wife file in sun Niang's foot store had become her own hard support. Seeing the decline of the store's business, she had no time to take care of it. When she came to the sesame oil chicken soup noodles to bring back the dead, she bowed her head and took a few more mouthfuls of rice, blinked more to remove the water vapor, so as not to be seen by others.
Leng buting added a piece of taro to her bowl, which was song Fangjia's: ”eat taro, taro is sweet.”
”OK.”
A Yao bit her chopsticks and looked at the moon. She also thought of the original baked sweet potato and the bowl of rough and choking wheat rice, as well as the bitterness after coming to the capital. Fortunately, the bitterness she had eaten was like this brewing balsam pear, slowly returning to sweetness.
Seeing off the guests, the courtyard returned to quiet.
Wangyue and a Yao returned to the house and told her to be careful in her words and deeds in the capital. At night, the kitchen lights are bright and the cooking smoke is swirling. Wangyue is still teaching the secret method of palace cuisine, the quality of materials, which parts are suitable for cooking, and which ingredients taste good. I wish I could become a master of Kung Fu and teach what I have learned all my life overnight.
A Yao knew that the time of parting would come again. She listened more attentively and lived up to the expectation of looking at the moon.
On the third watch, there is a full moon and stars in the sky.
The continuous fire lights up the twists and turns of the mountain road. The fire light is like a long snake swimming in the mountains and forests. It turned out to be an urgent March. The leader carried the military flag, and the flying flag was illuminated by the fire, and the word ”Pei” was clearly visible. This was Pei's army, which frightened the north and the South with the holy battle.
Pei Zhengwen took the lead. Bo Bu wore Yang and rode a jujube red horse in silver armor. After his long tail, near the end, Pei Shuo followed the large team with a long gun. His merit was not enough for him to follow the leading army.
As Pei Zhengwen expected, the autumn harvest northern barbarians came to the Grass Valley again and occupied two small counties in the border city. The big city has not been broken yet and is still guarding. The news spread back to the capital. Pei Zhengwen asked for war and captured the border city. He got the Oracle, ordered troops to set out, called back his useless son before departure and asked him whether he would follow.
Since he chose the road of military merit promotion, Pei Shuo has no hesitation.
Even the notice didn't have time to tell ah Yao that he had accompanied his luggage from Yanmen and set out with the army.
The bird's nest is like walking a tightrope in the long princess's house step by step. Finally, it seeks the position of the people around it, hides its power and bides its time, works for the long Princess tremblingly, and quietly waits for the opportunity to overturn the case.
When a Yao sent off Wangyue, she was left alone in the house, but it was different from the scene when she first came to the capital. They learned that the bird's nest was in Princess Chang's house. They occasionally corresponded and could reunite with her when they met the festival bird's nest. A Yao filed a case in the fourth lawsuit and sixth Bureau of the government office and slowly managed her own business. Since others thought she was too young to invite her, Mo xingle invited her to do more family banquets, She was also recommended to other officials with surplus money. The reputation of the four departments and six bureaus has accumulated and fermented, and everything is developing in a good direction.
A miserable life is just a moment. There will always be a day when the bitter rain will end and the wind will clear up. Clear the clouds and see the sun and see the brilliance of the water washed blue sky.
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