Chapter 11 Fresh meat, bamboo shoots, and roasted wheat

The next morning, Zhu Nian woke up very early, and she still combed her shawl-long hair. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhu Nian sat at the stone table in the courtyard and closed his eyes to recuperate, enjoying the fresh air of ancient times.

From now on, she needs to plan her next steps.

However, the most important thing to solve right now is...

Breakfast.

Zhu Nian knew that although he was living in Zhuyuan now, he still had no status in the Zhu Mansion, and there would be no one to bring him food.

Yesterday, after a day of tossing, I only ate two steamed buns and a piece of cake, and now my stomach is growling with hunger.

He Dachuan was even more miserable, since he was seriously injured yesterday morning, he has not eaten anything except the Chinese medicine he drank.

Just thinking can't solve any problems, so Zhu Nian just did what he said and took action immediately.

She got up from the stone bench, walked out of the bamboo garden, and hurried towards the large kitchen with her memory.

When Zhu Nian came to the big kitchen, it was almost half past six in the morning, and she smelled the aroma of food before she even walked into the kitchen.

Zhu Nian walked into the kitchen, and there were six people in the room who were busy at this time.

There are two older people who know Zhu Xinnian, they are the old people of Zhu Mansion, and they have been serving the masters of the Zhu family here since the Zhu Mansion was just built.

After these two old grandmothers saw Zhu Nian who entered the house, they respectfully shouted "Miss", while the others were newcomers who had only been recruited by Tao to serve in Zhu Mansion in the past two years.

Zhu Nian nodded to the two old ladies who greeted her, and secretly noted their appearances in her heart, and then she quickly swept around the breakfast made by these six people:

There are Zitui steamed cakes, Hu cakes, rehmannia porridge and so on.

These breakfasts are exquisite, have high edible value, relatively complex workmanship, small portions, and great health effects, and it is impossible to make them for the next person to eat.

Anyone with a little brain can see that these are today's breakfast of Tao and her son and daughter, not to mention the very brainy thoughts.

"It's a good job, this Tao is quite good at enjoying it!" Zhu Nian whispered to himself.

Zhu Nian rummaged around, planning to make breakfast for himself and He Dachuan.

The six subordinates looked at Zhu Nian, who lifted the lid of the empty pot and put it down, and they all stopped what they were doing in confusion, staring at Zhu Nian with a defensive face.

Zhu Nian noticed the strangeness beside him, raised his head to look, and saw the gaze from six pairs of eyes.

She didn't care, continued the movement of her hand, and said, "You can just do your business, don't worry about me." ”

There was still half an hour before Tao's breakfast time, and the people didn't know what to do with Zhu Nian, so they simply treated her as if she didn't exist, and continued to be busy and concentrate on preparing breakfast.

When Zhu Nian saw the bamboo shoots in a bamboo basket in the corner of the kitchen and the dumpling wrappers and shrimp on the table, she suddenly had an idea.

At this time, it is spring, most of the bamboo shoots are fresh and fragrant, which is very suitable for breakfast, plus the dumpling skin and shrimp placed on the table, Zhu Nian decided to make a "fresh meat bamboo shoots and roasted wheat".

Zhu Nian took out three spring bamboo shoots from the bamboo basket, washed them with water, peeled them, and then slice the most tender rhizome, put them in boiling water and scalded them for a while.

Then she cut the bamboo shoots and shrimp into small cubes and set them aside.

Zhu Nian looked around, found some pork filling, and then took a large pot to put it, put them in front of him, added a little sugar, salt and other condiments and stirred well.

Then she mixes bamboo shoots, shrimp, green onion and ginger into the mixed pork filling, stirs well, and pours the prepared broth, which is called siu mai filling.

Zhu Nian walked to the table with dumpling skins and pinched a dumpling skin in disgust.

Is this also a dumpling wrapper? Roll it out so thickly that you don't even eat it when you feed the pigs!

These chefs are too unqualified.

There is no way, Zhu Nian has always had high standards and strict requirements for what she eats, so she had to take a rolling pin and roll out the dumpling skin again to form a roasted wheat husk.

After rolling out the dumpling wrappers, Zhu Nian dragged the dumpling wrappers in the palm of his hand, filled the dumplings with the siu mai filling in turn, and placed a large shrimp ball on top of each sho mai.

Finally, she wraps each roasted wheat husk and puts it in an empty cauldron and keeps it on high heat for eight minutes.

During these eight minutes, Zhu Nian prepared two more bowls of red bean and barley porridge.

When Zhu Nian walked out of the kitchen with the prepared breakfast, the six people inside were staring at Zhu Nian's back tightly, and there was silence in the room.

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl broke the silence, and she said, "Zhu Xinnian can cook? ”

An aunt in her thirties next to her replied, "How is that possible! I've heard that as long as Zhu Xinnian enters the kitchen in Tianxiang Pavilion, the masters inside will hide far away! ”

"But what she makes is so strange that I've never seen it before!" Xiao Yahuan said again.

Another young girl said, "I think it's because she can't cook that she makes some weird things." In my opinion, it's not certain whether she can eat what she just brought out! Xiao Yahuan laughed contemptuously.

One of the old grandmothers who greeted Zhu Nian just now couldn't stand it anymore, and interrupted their conversation: "Okay, don't chew your tongue here, let's hurry up and send food to Madame, if it's late, we'll be scolded again!" ”

The little girl who laughed at Zhu Nian glanced at the old lady dissatisfied, and walked out of the big kitchen first with the food beside her.

Immediately afterwards, the other five subordinates also walked out of the kitchen with their food and walked towards Dow's courtyard together.

After Zhu Nian returned to the bamboo garden, she happened to meet He Dachuan who wanted to leave the bamboo garden, she saw He Dachuan holding a sword in his hand, walking in a hurry, with a serious face, and stopped him.

"Okawa, what are you doing!"

He Dachuan turned around when he heard Zhu Nian's call and exhaled lightly.

"Just now I knocked on the door in front of Miss for a long time and no one responded, I thought it was Dow looking for trouble with Miss again, and I wanted to rush over to save you!" He Dachuan replied.

Zhu Nian smiled and said, "I'm not that fragile yet. ”

Then she shook the plate in her hand and said, "I'll go prepare breakfast for the two of us." ”

Glancing at the breakfast in Zhu Nian's hand, He Dachuan was very surprised: "These are the ones you made yourself, Miss!?" ”

"Do you think there is anyone else in this Zhu Mansion who can prepare breakfast for the two of us?" Zhu Nian asked He Dachuan rhetorically.

"Let's go, let's go and try the breakfast I made, I'm starving!" Seeing He Dachuan standing in place dumbfounded, Zhu Nian urged him to return to the bamboo garden.

The two returned to the bamboo garden and sat down at the stone table in the courtyard.

Zhu Nian put down the plate and placed two bowls of red bean barley porridge, two spoons and two pairs of chopsticks in front of himself and He Dachuan respectively.

Looking at He Dachuan, who was restrained, Zhu Nian urged: "What are you still doing in a daze?" Eat it! ”

"Miss... The two of us are eating here? He Dachuan had never heard of the truth that the master and his subordinates sat down to eat together.

"It's an extraordinary time, and you still know what to do! Or is it... It's okay if you're hungry for another day? Zhu Nian said.

He Dachuan hesitated for a moment, then picked up his chopsticks and said, "Miss Xie!" ”

Zhu Nian smiled at him: "That's right!" ”

Zhu Nian pointed to the fresh meat and bamboo shoots on the plate with chopsticks and said, "Taste this I made." ”

He Dachuan looked down at the food pointed by Zhu Nian, and saw more than a dozen small bags that looked like flower buds placed on the plate, blooming on the plate like flowers, and the opening revealed bright shrimp and diced meat, which was very beautiful.

He picked up the chopsticks and carefully picked up a piece of roasted wheat and put it in his mouth to peck lightly, and suddenly a stream of fresh and sweet juice overflowed, and He Dachuan immediately showed a surprised expression.

Zhu Nian stared at He Dachuan expectantly: "Is it delicious?" ”

He Dachuan nodded excitedly: "Mmmm, it's so delicious." ”

He continued to chew a few bites and commented: "The skin is very thin, but it is chewy, and the taste is very sweet but not greasy at all." He Dachuan's evaluation exhausted all the good words he knew.

"Do you think the meat in the filling is perfectly integrated with the spring shoots?" Zhu Nian added for He Dachuan.

"Yes, that's what it feels like!" After He Dachuan finished speaking, he asked, "What's this name?" ”

"Fresh meat, bamboo shoots, roasted wheat." Zhu Nian replied.

"It's such a strange name, I've never heard of it."

"Follow me, and you'll hear about and eat a lot of strange but delicious food in the future." Zhu Nian said proudly that she has always been very confident in her cooking skills.

He Dachuan sandwiched a few more siu mai, and couldn't stop admiring while eating: "She is worthy of being the proprietress of Tianxiang Pavilion, and the things she makes are better than others." ”

He Dachuan's affirmation of the roasted wheat made Zhu Nian very happy, and he said that Zhu Nian was the proprietress of Tianxiang Pavilion, which also made Zhu Nian very useful.

Zhu Nian happily pushed the red bean barley porridge in front of He Dachuan and said, "Don't just eat roasted wheat, drink some porridge to nourish your stomach!" ”

He Dachuan followed Zhu Nian's instructions, picked up the bowl and took a sip of porridge, and praised again and again: "Hmm! The porridge was also delicious! ”

In this way, Zhu Nian and He Dachuan finished their first breakfast in Zhu Mansion very happily.