"Sister Lulu, you can't favor one over the other, I want to eat the lotus leaf chicken you made. As for the soup, let Chef Chu come to show me a hand today, and let you taste my skills. ”

"Yes, Xiaoxi cooks it herself, I'll try it later. Without mentioning her mother's ridicule of her at the Annan base, Xing Lu smiled and agreed to her.

In fact, she didn't have much hope for Chu Xiran, she thought in her heart that if the soup she made couldn't be drunk, she would take out the stock and eat it for everyone to deal with, and there was no need to discourage her enthusiasm for cooking now.

She first categorized the harvest and did some simple processing. Pick out the more tender lotus leaves, petioles, and half-opened lotus flowers, keep them as vegetables, and then continue to clean up the rest.

Cut off the root of the lotus leaf and wash it clean. After boiling water in a pot, add the lotus leaves and blanch for 1 minute. Once it has been removed, the moisture is controlled to dry. Fold and stack up. Leave the piece you want to use tonight, put the rest in a sealed bag, seal it, and put it all in the space button.

As for the petiole below, Xing Lu plans to wash and dry it like the older lotus flowers to make tea.

Dealing with the lotus pod is the most troublesome, first take the lotus seeds off the top one by one, and then use a dagger to cut a piece on the black skin, and take out the white and fat lotus seeds inside. Put away the more tender ones without bitter taste directly, and then take out the lotus hearts of the older lotus seeds one by one, this step alone took more than an hour to complete with the help of everyone.

Thanks to Xing Lu's habit of collecting things during her travels, she bought several cookbooks in the bookstore, which introduced various cooking methods, and she was able to make all kinds of delicacies without pressure. Probably due to her natural talent, even if she made it for the first time according to the recipe, most of them were several times better than what ordinary people cooked.

This time, she is going to make a lotus feast, and make everything she gets today for everyone to taste.

The lotus petals are made into soft fried lotus flowers, the petals of the fresh lotus flowers are bleached, wrapped in egg white paste and fried, and then sprinkled with annatto. The color of the finished dish is light and elegant, white and red, and the food is soft and fragrant, sweet and refreshing. (The annatto is made with powdered sugar and edible red pigment) and some of them are folded and stuffed with bean paste filling, so that the outside is soft and the inside is soft, and there is another taste.

There were also a few buds that had not opened, and she crossed two crosses with a knife at the top, and opened the buds with her hands to look like a flower, and then oiled them twice in a row, squeezing them until they were crispy, still sprinkled with rouge sugar, and made a whole lotus crisp.

The petiole is hollow, Xing Lu stuffed glutinous rice in the petiole after boiling water and steamed it in the pot, and then cut it obliquely into small pieces of one inch long when it came out of the pot, and placed it in the shape of a flower on the plate, and the emerald green skin was wrapped in white glutinous rice, which made people have a great appetite at a glance.

Lotus leaf Chu Xiran has been designated to make lotus leaf chicken, because the current mutant chicken is too large, she can only cut it into pieces, after marinating, and then wrap the chicken pieces in lotus leaves, put it in the pot and steam it for an hour and a half before taking it out. Sprinkle some sesame oil chives on it, and the fragrance will be overflowing.

The simplest is the lotus root at the bottom, I made the sweet and sour lotus root slices promised to Xiaohua, and made a fragrant fried lotus root clip, and stewed pork ribs and lotus root soup with the ribs of the mutated pig, of course, the soup is less and more ribs.

Xing Lu, a fish caught in the pond, made a steamed mutated black fish again, sprinkled with shredded lotus petals, and called it 'lotus fish'.

After doing this, Chu Xiran on the side was about to bring out the soup. Because the current mutated lotus seeds are too big, she cut them into cubes, added the fish maw soaked in advance with lotus seeds, rock sugar and a few red dates to the boiling water and stewed for two hours, and the fragrant and soft lotus seeds stewed with rock sugar were ready.

Like a few days ago, Xing Lu sent some more cooked meals to Qiu Lin, and the exquisite and delicious dishes were admired by Qiu Lin, and the two talked for a while before leaving.

She feels more and more that she and Qiu Lin are like good neighbors: they can share delicious food with each other, and they will help each other when they are in trouble, but they will not affect each other's lives. I am very satisfied with this state.

Back at the dinner table, Chu Xiran, who was extremely diligent today, had already set up all the dishes and chopsticks, and waited for him to come back and start the meal.

Seeing that everyone was sitting at the table waiting for herself, Xing Lu was a little embarrassed, "I'm sorry, I just said a few more words to Qiu Lin, and I delayed everyone's dinner." ”

"Sister Lulu, what are you talking about, shouldn't companions who are together share weal and woe?" Luo Qi said calmly. The next sentence returned to the original form: "I was drooling at the table for a long time just now, now let's start quickly!"

"Hehe, okay, let's eat!" Uncle Cang said with a smile.

"Sister Lulu, this table of dishes really includes all the parts of the lotus, it is a veritable lotus feast!" Chu Xiran said, pointing to these dishes.

"Well, yes, that's how I arranged it today, let's try it and see if it's delicious. ”

"Please note, today's sweet soup is made by me personally, you have to give face after a while, and drink it all!"

"Oh, Xiaoxi is cooking soup, then I'm going to cheer up, bring me two bowls!"

"Hehe, okay, you have a vision. How rare it is for us to be able to drink the soup I cooked. ”

"Hehe~" Her boastful words caused everyone to laugh.

Xing Lu tasted it and was amazed: "Xiaoxi, I didn't expect you to make it so delicious, so why didn't Aunt Mo let you cook when you were at the Annan base?"

"Hehe, Miss Xing, you don't know, Miss Xiran is the only one she can take, and everything else she makes is 'dark cuisine' and can't be eaten. ”

"Hey, hey, Uncle Da, how can you say that in front of a lady, it's very rude, isn't it?"

"So, can I apologize to you and punish me for drinking an extra bowl of soup to make amends?"

"Hmph, that's pretty much it. ”

Xiaohua said sensibly on the side, "Sister Xiran, I can only drink a bowl of soup, it's not that you don't make it delicious, but Sister Lulu specially made sweet and sour lotus root slices for me today, I want to give you both face at the same time, but my belly is only a little bigger, so I can only drink one bowl of soup less from you." You can give me a few more bowls and I'll drink them later. ”

"Hehe, I know that Xiaohua is the most sensible, don't worry, Sister Xiran won't be angry with you. ”

"Brother, how is it, I played normally today, right?!"

"It's fine. Chu Yu lowered his head to eat, and he didn't even tease her eyelids.

"Then tell me, is the soup I made delicious or Sister Lulu's delicious? ”

"You're doing well, but you're only going to have these sweet soups. "And I'm not a big fan of sweets. Everyone understands what he didn't say, and he didn't give his sister face at all.

"That's what you think Sister Lulu is doing better than me! ”

"Quiet, eating. The voice was still calm. It's just that the tips of his ears are gradually reddening to let people know that he is not as calm as he seems on the surface.

Xing Lu was eating her own food on the side. It's not that she can't understand Chu Xiran's voice, and it's not that she can't feel the difference between Chu Yu and herself. Although she has never been in love, it doesn't mean that this kind of thing hasn't happened around her.

For Chu Yu, she also has a hazy good impression, but Xing Lu has her own concerns: although she doesn't look at the disparity in identity between the two, it doesn't mean that others don't care, her own orphan girl is like an ugly duckling who will never become a white swan in the eyes of the world, and she is not worthy of Chu Yu, who is like a prince on top.

Even if they broke through many obstacles, the two of them were able to walk together in the end, but in the end, they still faced an obstacle that was difficult to overcome - Xing Lu was a cultivator, and as her level increased, her lifespan would only get longer and longer. And Chu Yu, who is an anomaly, how much longer will his lifespan be compared to ordinary people?

She doesn't want to devote herself wholeheartedly to a relationship but the two are separated because of the passage of time, which will have a great impact on her at that time. Instead of relying on memories to remember, it is better not to start, so that the two of them can at least become friends and support each other.

Whether she's selfish or cowardly, she'd rather be alone when she's not sure she'll be with someone forever.