Accountant Liu finally didn't agree on the spot, he didn't eat minced meat and egg drop soup, he didn't understand Cao Guixiang's cooking skills, even if his wife and children strongly recommended him, he said that he would think about it again.

Dinner was still simple sweet potato rice and stir-fried vegetables, but the egg drop soup was gone. Throughout the meal, Liu Sangen held the bowl and looked at Cao Guixiang with star eyes, picking up rice while watching, as if it was particularly fragrant as long as he watched Cao Guixiang eat.

Accountant Liu: ?

As Cao Guixiang expected, the captain came to Zhang Chu after dinner, saying that there were some wooden furniture at home that needed to be repaired, and he wanted to ask Zhang Chu to come over tomorrow to take a look. Zhang Chu agreed, didn't mention the money, and set the time in the afternoon.

Early the next morning, Zhang Chu got up early to check how much furniture in Accountant Liu's house needed to be repaired, in his opinion, the furniture of Accountant Liu's house was old, and there was room for repairs from straight tables, chairs, benches, cabinets and beds, but the countryside didn't pay attention to this at all.

Cao Guixiang was carrying a basin and was about to go to the river to wash clothes, but as soon as she walked to the door, she was stopped by Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law, pulled into the corner and said mysteriously: "Sister Cao, I have something I want to discuss with you." ”

"You say. Cao Guixiang nodded.

"That's the case, isn't it Sangen's birthday tomorrow? The two minced meat and egg drop soup you made yesterday are really delicious, I am convinced of your cooking skills, I want to ask you to help the spoon tomorrow, you don't have to cook a lot of dishes, you are responsible for roasting meat dishes, my level is compared to you to cook vegetables is simply a waste of pork." After the baptism of minced meat and egg drop soup, Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law has a clear understanding of her craft.

Cao Guixiang was waiting for this sentence: "Of course you can." ”

"If you have anything, I want to tell you first, you are an educated youth from Beiping, and you may not know our rules here. A few years ago, I asked others to help cook food, and I gave money, but now I don't let it, just give things, and take the leftover dishes casually. You know my situation, there is more pork left over from killing a pig, it is impossible for you to take it casually, at most you can give you two catties, you can take more corn sweet potatoes and the like, and the pig's tail can also be given to you. Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law said.

Cao Guixiang didn't expect to get much, it was more difficult to eat pork than to ascend to the sky these days, she could sit in the kitchen to help cook the rice, and taking two catties of pork was already a big profit. If it weren't for Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law who was amazed by Cao Guixiang's craftsmanship, she was afraid that she would not be able to give out two catties of pork.

"Sister Liu, you are too polite, it's no problem to be trivial. Cao Guixiang agreed on the spot, "By the way, if there is any leftover meat, can you sell me and Zhang Chu a few catties more, we will buy as much as others buy, it doesn't matter if the fat and lean meat are there." ”

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law thought about it and agreed: "Okay." ”

"But there's one more thing. ”

Cao Guixiang: ?

"I want to ask you to help me with this, my old Liu disagrees. ”

Cao Guixiang: ???

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law saw Cao Guixiang's expression and hurriedly explained: "That's the case, Lao Liu didn't eat the minced meat and egg drop soup yesterday, how could he imagine your craftsmanship with this bit of knowledge, so he was stunned and disagreed." I'm like asking you to make minced meat and egg drop soup again at noon and let him taste it, and he will definitely agree to it after tasting it. ”

Saying that, Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law couldn't help licking her mouth, as if she was reminiscing about yesterday's soup.

Cao Guixiang thought for a while: "It's no problem to make soup, but if you only make soup, I'm afraid that you won't be able to convince Accountant Liu, after all, soup and vegetables are still different." ”

"What should I do then?" Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was taken away by Cao Guixiang again.

"I remember yesterday when I was dividing the meat, I specially divided a piece of pork belly that is very suitable for fat and thin, Wanfu meat, do you know? I take a small piece to make a serving of Wanfu meat, it should be no problem. Cao Guixiang said.

Jiang Feng was shocked.

Cao Guixiang actually wants to make Wanfu meat, in this case, to make Wanfu meat, this dish is a palace dish.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law shook her head blankly: "What is Wanfu meat?"

"A delicious roast meat. ”

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law immediately understood.

"By the way, is there rice wine in the kitchen? I didn't seem to see it yesterday, and it's best to have rice wine to remove the smell of roast meat. Cao Guixiang asked.

"Some of them, I specially asked someone to go to the town's supply and marketing cooperatives to buy them, as well as star anise and peppercorns, I heard them say that the roast meat plus these delicious are all entrusted to buy some. "Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law prepared a very thorough wine for her son's birthday, but her cooking skills were not in place.

"You take out all the spices, I'll go wash the clothes first, and then I'll come back and make them when I'm done." This Wanfu meat is a bit troublesome and wastes time, if you don't start preparing it early, it will delay your cooking. Cao Guixiang said.

"No delay, no delay. Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law said again and again.

Cao Guixiang went to the river to wash clothes, and Zhang Chu was still checking the furniture. Liu Sangen didn't have to go to school today, and the pigs were killed, and he didn't have to cut the pigweed, so he was very idle, so he walked around with Zhang Chu. Cao Guixiang didn't come back, and Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law seemed a little absent-minded, she wandered around the house without working, looked at Zhang Chu from time to time, and finally couldn't help but walk to Zhang Chu's side.

"Carpenter Zhang, I have something I want to ask you. Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law said.

"Huh?"

"What kind of meat is Wanfu Meat?"

As soon as he heard Wanfu Meat, Zhang Chu immediately became energetic, and was cheered up: "Sister Liu, who did you listen to about Wanfu Meat?"

"It's your daughter-in-law, who just told me that she would make Wanfu meat when she comes back. I've been thinking about this for a long time, I've never heard of this name, I've heard of braised pork, what kind of meat is this Wanfu pork? If you do it badly, Lao Liu will definitely scold me when he comes back from work. Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law is still not at ease.

Zhang Chu said with a smile: "Don't worry, Guixiang was a ...... when she was crafting in Beiping. It is almost equivalent to the more famous cooking master in these ten miles and eight villages, Wanfu meat is our dish in the north, and you must not have heard of it in the south. ”

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was a little more relieved.

After more than half an hour, Cao Guixiang walked back unhurriedly with the washed clothes, and after drying the clothes, she went to the kitchen to start preparing for cooking. Seeing Cao Guixiang enter the kitchen, Liu Sangen immediately left Zhang Chu's fart and ran into the kitchen, looking like Cao Guixiang's little fan.

Wanfu Meat Jiang Feng is no stranger, he has seen it in Xia Muqi's memories before, and he also ate it when he went to Yongheju to fight the tooth sacrifice. As a court dish, Wanfu meat is first arranged very delicately, the meat served on the table is like a blooming flower, and the requirements for knife work are extremely high if you want to make the meat into a flower, and there are few chefs in Yongheju who can make Wanfu meat well.

Jiang Feng felt that if he wanted to make Wanfu meat truly in line with its status as a court dish and the level that was loved by Lafayette, the knife skills had to be master-level, and perhaps the average master-level was not good, and the kind with particularly high experience had to be.

Cao Guixiang belongs to the kind of experience that is particularly high.

Wanfu meat is generally the pork belly into the pot of clear water boiled until eight ripe and then taken out, and then cut into three centimeters of size of the square, and then these lumpy small meat along the side of the cut horizontal slices, the horizontal slice should be thin and even, to the corner of the knife and then sliced, the middle can not be broken, until the center.

The first thing Cao Guixiang did when he entered the kitchen was not to cut the meat first, but first found the bones that he had shaved yesterday, washed the pork bones, cut them off, put them in the pot and added two slices of ginger to start the soup.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law will feel sorry for the pork but not the pork bones at all, if she comes to make the pork bones, she will definitely cook the soup like this, but there is some waste wood. She was going to use so much pork to make birthday wine for her son, and she didn't care about this bit of firewood, so she didn't stop watching Cao Guixiang make it.

After processing the pork bones, Cao Guixiang began to look at the pork belly she had cut yesterday. Reaching out to compare the pork belly for a while, Cao Guixiang finally cut off a very small piece, rectangular, Jiang Feng felt that this amount was only enough to make two pieces of Wanfu meat.

After the meat was cooked, Cao Guixiang used a knife to cut it into 4 small squares, if these 4 small pieces of meat were used to make Wanfu meat, I am afraid that it would be a pocket version of Wanfu meat.

The smaller the meat, the more difficult it is to slice. Cao Guixiang didn't dare to cut fast, so she could only slowly cut through it one by one, and the small pieces of meat swirled in her hand like this, and finally turned into a twisted strip of meat.

It took almost an hour to cut 4 pieces of meat.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law and Liu San looked stupid when they watched from the side, they felt that Cao Guixiang was not cutting meat but juggling.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law thought of the meat she chopped yesterday, and lowered her head in shame, once again deeply aware of how bad her cooking skills were.

Cao Guixiang turned the four strips of meat back to their original shape, and the meat skin was neatly stacked in the bowl. Pour rice wine and soy sauce along the meander, sprinkle a little sugar on the meat, put two slices of ginger on the top and side of the meat, a handful of green onions, a few star anise, and seven or eight peppercorns.

After the ingredients were all placed, Cao Guixiang lifted the lid and looked at the bone broth in the pot, it was almost usable after boiling for more than an hour, only the bones had no meat, and the soup with nothing added except ginger slices could not be expected to stew into anything. Cao Guixiang scooped two spoonfuls of soup into a bowl, covered the pot to let the bone broth continue to cook, and pulled out a few firewood from the stove to keep the fire from being so big, and then put the bowl into another pot and steamed.

"Sister Liu is now mainly waiting for the meat to be steamed, and then thickened after steaming, it is estimated that it will take some time. You see that you will have to cook tomorrow, and you won't deal with this meat, even if Brother Liu doesn't agree at that time, it doesn't matter, you tell me what meat you want to use for what dishes first, and I'll help you deal with these meats first. Cao Guixiang said.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was stunned for a long time before she said with difficulty: "Isn't everything dealt with?

The latter question is asked cautiously, just like a poor student who can't answer the teacher's question.

Cao Guixiang nodded.

The level he showed when cutting meat just now has completely convinced Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law, who now only thinks that Cao Guixiang is the best cook in the world, and she herself has probably never really learned to cook, and the food she has cooked over the years is probably fake.

"I ...... I don't know, you...... You can do it. Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law didn't even dare to speak casually.

"Then I'll take care of some of it for you first. ”

Cao Guixiang began to process the pork, which should be cut into small pieces, probably marinated in advance. Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law bought a lot of seasonings for tomorrow's banquet, but she was stunned that she didn't use a single peppercorn, and she was all used by Cao Guixiang. But she also wished that Cao Guixiang would run out, she could see that the same dish, the same ingredients, the same knife, and even the same pot were not the same thing at all in Cao Guixiang's hands and in her hands. Cao Guixiang uses a knife to cut meat, which is called cutting meat, and she is killing pigs by cutting meat with a knife.

As time passed, the Wanfu pork in the pot gradually became cooked, and the meaty flavor brought out by the rice wine, light soy sauce, star anise, Sichuan pepper and pork rib soup began to spread out from the closed pot.

For Liu Sangen and Liu's daughter-in-law, who have never eaten meat dishes of this grade, this kind of meat aroma is a baptism of their noses.

The characteristic of Wanfu meat is originally fragrant, even if there is no soup stock that causes some fly in the ointment, this does not prevent Liu Sangen and Liu's accountant daughter-in-law from smelling the aroma of meat in the air with a fascinated face.

How can meat give off such a nice smell!

The meat itself is already very fragrant, I didn't expect it to be so fragrant!

The two of them almost wrote these two sentences on their faces.

Jiang Feng felt strange, this meat smelled so fragrant, why didn't Zhang Chu come over yet, so he went out to see where he was.

Zhang Chu was repairing the corner of the table in the living room, he originally wanted to go to the kitchen to have a look, but before he could get up, he bumped into Accountant Liu, who came back to get the book, and the two looked at each other, and the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing for a while.

Accountant Liu had never smelled such a fragrant smell of meat, and he almost thought that his nose was hallucinating.

"This, what does this smell like...... Accountant Liu asked in a daze.

"Guixiang is making Wanfu meat in the kitchen, it should be good now, Accountant Liu, do you want to go and see it with me?" Zhang Chu said.

"Good...... Good ......" Accountant Liu is still a little sluggish, although he is sluggish, his legs and feet are not sluggish at all, and he went to the kitchen before Zhang Chu made a move.

Wanfu meat is indeed almost ready.

Cao Guixiang stopped the movement of her hand, waited for time on the edge of the pot with her hand, and didn't even notice that Accountant Liu had come in.

The other two didn't notice either, and everyone was staring intently at the pot without the lid lifted.

Cao Guixiang lifted the wooden lid.

Accountant Liu's family let out an uninformed wow.

In fact, the Wanfu meat in the pot is not very good-looking, there are no side dishes, no plating, and it has not even been thickened, but it already has the shape of a flower.

That's enough.

Cao Guixiang used chopsticks to remove the green onions, ginger and star anise on the surface, poured the soup directly back into the pot, and turned the meat upside down into the plate. Add a piece of firewood and a little straw to the stove to make the fire burn quickly, Accountant Liu can't thicken it without starch, to be precise, Accountant Liu doesn't have any powder, Cao Guixiang can only burn the soup a little thicker and pour it on the meat at the right time.

The meat became.

4 pieces of Wanfu pork are quietly placed on the plate.

Liu Sangen was already swallowing his saliva silently.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law began to pay attention to her side, and found that Accountant Liu didn't know when she came back, and Zhang Chu also came in.

There are 5 people in the kitchen, but there are only 4 pieces of meat on the plate.

This made Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law a little difficult, although the firewood is her family's meat, and even the seasoning is hers's, so it stands to reason that her family should have the final say on how to divide it. But Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law knows very well that these things belong to her family, but after being made into Wanfu meat, it seems that they are not her family.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law was a little entangled.

As a mother and wife, she was accustomed to being humble at the dinner table, but at times like these, she didn't want to be humble.

Who knows if I'll be able to eat it for the second time in my life.

Cao Guixiang spoke: "Let's try it together." I was negligent, I only thought about 4 pieces and forgot that there were 5 of us, so I didn't eat it. ”

"That's not good. Accountant Liu and Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law said in unison.

"It's fine. Cao Guixiang smiled.

Everyone is welcome, and the saliva in their hearts is about to overflow. Liu Sangen was still a child, and he was the most breathless, so he took the lead in touching a pair of chopsticks, took a bowl and climbed the meat into the bowl, did not eat or bite, or even did not import, and licked the bowl carefully.

"You kid, what does it look like to eat like this!" Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law felt a little embarrassed for her son for the first time.

Then she found that Accountant Liu was also licking, and the movements of the father and son were even somewhat synchronized.

Accountant Liu's daughter-in-law: ......

She also licked silently.

Then the movements of the family of three were synchronized.

Jiang Feng & Cao Guixiang & Zhang Chu: ......

Zhang Chu didn't move, but Cao Guixiang urged him to eat it quickly, but if he didn't eat a mouthful of meat, it would be cold and unpalatable, so he found a bowl and chopsticks to pick up the meat and took a bite and chewed it.

Accountant Liu had already come to his senses a little, and felt that he should say something to shoot Cao Guixiang's sycophant, but he didn't know how to shoot it, after all, this question was seriously out of the outline and was not within his knowledge.

"Cao Zhiqing, your craft is really ...... Be...... You can go directly to the city to be a chef in a state-run hotel!" Accountant Liu sighed.

Cao Guixiang and Zhang Chu were stunned, Zhang Chu's expression visibly became lost with the naked eye, but they quickly stopped it.

Cao Guixiang smiled at Accountant Liu.

It's foggy.

Jiang Feng began to lose sight of Cao Guixiang's face a little clearly.

"Maybe, if I have a chance to go back to the city, maybe I can still be it. Even the sound began to become a little ethereal, like a sigh.

Jiang Feng left the memory.

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