Seeking Glory (1)

It was the first day of July, and before noon, the heat had risen, and the vines by the well had been wilted. Mu Qingzheng was leaning on the bamboo couch by the sarong window, looking at a copy of "National Policy" compiled by Liu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty. I have studied it in my early years, and I saw it in Gu Li's study a few days ago, and it is better to borrow it and read it for a few days than to be pulled by the Chen family to take the needle and move the thread, and then to be ridiculed by the Wang family for a few words will not be a woman.

Seeing the addition of the painting snake, some interesting and simple allusions, I plan to transcribe them to Yinghua, both teaching the truth and recognizing the words. raised half of her body, and was about to stand up, but saw Gu Li standing alone thoughtfully outside the sarong window of her room, looking at the situation, she had been standing for a while. Seeing Mu Qing get up, he entered the house.

"Doesn't my father have to go to work today?" Mu Qing asked with a cup of white chrysanthemum herbal tea.

Gu Li took the tea and ate it slowly, his face looked very embarrassed, "There is something I want Qi Niang to help me with one or two." ”

When my father said that, he was out of sight. What can Qi Niang do, his father just asks. ”

The look on Gu Li's face settled down a little, he ate all the tea in one gulp, put down the cup, rubbed his hands and smiled: "I heard Yinghua say that you like to make some food in the kitchen, and you are good at it." Tomorrow I invited Supervisor Du at home, our small courtyard is not more than the kitchen in the house, there are these people at home, and I hope that Qi Niang will work hard, and it is not good to lose the etiquette before the father. ”

Hearing Supervisor Du's words, Mu Qing's heart sank, and he guessed that Xu is father had informed him that she and Du Ruhui were about to discuss their relationship, and she was not easy to handle after this relationship, so she had to bow her head and respond, "Father rest assured, Qi Niang will do her best." ”

Hearing her agree, Gu Li smiled and said a few words, and then said a few polite words before leaving with peace of mind. Mu Qing put down the scroll, called Ah Liu, and slowly walked to the back kitchen. Chen, Wang, and Wan were all inspecting the ingredients in the kitchen, and Mu Qing saluted and asked if the food list could be drafted. Everyone was stunned, the Wang family had never held such a banquet, although they knew what the food list was, but they had never seen it, let alone planned it, so they rolled their eyes and said in a loud voice: "It's just a banquet for one person, what kind of food list do you want." Our family is not like that big family, just a little one or two dishes that can be handled. My sister is used to staying in the house where the bell rings......"

"Qi Niang has come to see the ingredients first, to see if there is any use, if there is anything missing, prepare it tightly." Wan walked between Mu Qing and Wang without a trace, and said lightly.

Mu Qingqing she smiled slightly, then left Wang's, walked to the high case of stacking ingredients, looked through them one by one, all of them are summer seasonal melons, fruits and vegetables, the weather is hot, raw meat is not suitable for storage, so there is a small preparation, a hemp gray duck is tied to the wooden stake next to the stove, and there are four fat four-cheek perch swimming in the big water tank, with a slight flick of water with his hand, the fish bounced up violently, and swam very fiercely. After seeing everything, Mu Qing smiled and said to Chen: "It's already very complete." If there are two more early-ripening oranges, and then there is ice allocated by the government to cool off, prepare two large plates. ”

The Chen family was busy with people doing it, and Mu Qing said again: "Qi Niang is not good at cooking, only occasionally I am interested in fiddling with one or two things at will, and I just do it for fun on weekdays, and I don't know if I can serve it on the table." ”

Chen knew that he wanted Mu Qing to help cook, and his original intention was not to taste the food, but to what Supervisor Du wanted. I'm afraid that Supervisor Du is willing to put down his body and come to this civilian courtyard for a banquet, and he didn't intend to have a banquet, but he was a beautiful woman in this small courtyard. She remembered her husband's instructions, and didn't dare to miss the slightest breath, so she only laughed and nodded busily, "Just pick the one who is good at it and make one." For the rest, you have your own kitchen and your mother-in-law. ”

At breakfast the next day, Gu Li instructed the servants and maids to raise the spirit of twelve points and serve the furnishings at home, and never show ugliness in front of Supervisor Du. As she was talking, the cook hurriedly came over and brought four oranges to Mu Qing to see, "At this time, the oranges are still green, I picked several trees, and turned over the fruits one by one, but these few barely have a hint of yellow, and I don't know if they are suitable or not." ”

Mu Qing picked up one of them, and it was really very green, peeled off the orange peel, and the flesh inside had already shown the color of orange, gold and red, and then smelled the smell, and the rich orange fragrance was fragrant. "It's good, take it to the back kitchen." Saying that, Mu Qing bowed slightly to everyone, and went to the back kitchen with the cook.

On a hot summer day, the cicadas are croaking among the trees, and although the kitchen is shady, it is still hot and sweaty because of the fierce fire on the stove. Wan Shi and the cook were busy by the stove, not saying a word, and they were so hot that they couldn't speak. Mu Qing held a thin and sharp dagger borrowed from Ada in his hand, and carefully carved a perch on a piece of ice that had been washed with cold well water, and straightened up from time to time, while Ah Liu wiped her sweat on the side, so as not to drip into the fish that was being treated.

Busy until the middle of the day, the little guy next to Gu Li hurriedly ran over and asked how he was prepared. The back kitchen was ready, and when Gu Li came back with Supervisor Du, Wan Shi was busy directing the two little girls to serve food to the main hall. Ah Liu was also busy helping, and was about to pick up Mu Qingbei's food box, but Chen didn't know when to enter the back kitchen and pressed Ah Liu's hand, "Is this governed by Qi Niang, or is it appropriate for Qi Niang to serve it, what is the style of this dish, don't you have to explain it herself?" ”

Mother said this, but Mu Qing couldn't push it, the food box was still held by Ah Liu, she followed Ah Liu to the door of the main hall, stepped forward to take the food box, and carefully held it into the house. opened the food box, took out two large plates with cold celadon lotus leaf pattern in turn, and served one plate each on the food table in front of Gu Li and Du Yan. Du Yan lowered his eyes and looked at it, only to see the celadon plate with lotus leaf pattern, a knuckle thick ice chip was placed at the bottom of the plate, and the ice contained the raw sea bass meat cut into wisps, white as snow and jade, and a small white porcelain bowl with golden dipping sauce, and the whole plate was sprinkled with some fine purple flowers. Snow white lined with golden, dotted with sporadic purple, wrapped in green lotus leaves, refreshing and delicate, and through the slightest coolness, in this summer day, just looking at it is very useful.

"This is the famous golden jade fish?" Du Yan looked up in surprise and asked, "How is this golden tooth made?" What's the point? ”

Mu Qing gave a slight salute, "It is made of fresh and early-ripening oranges and tender ginger, slightly pounded with some salt." It's nothing to pay attention to, the summer heat is strong, the diet is inevitably cold, although this fish is not cold, after all, it is also a cold thing, fragrant herbs, oranges and ginger warm belly, is able to alleviate the cold of the fish, and the fragrant herb to remove the fishy taste, the lime to eliminate the greasy, with the fish fish both increase the taste and can prevent stagnant food. ”

After speaking, he presented another white porcelain plate, the plum harvested in the green plum season, mashed and pickled into plum sauce, and poured on the cucumber evenly, crisp and sweet. All of them are eaten in season in summer. Du Yan said a lot of words of praise and thanks, Mu Qing took the food box and was about to withdraw, when he saluted, he bumped into Du Yan's playful eyes, looking straight into her eyes, not obscene**, it was another shallow smile that was in control, she hurriedly opened her eyes, but she glanced at Gu Li's expression, her heartbeat jumped up a few times for no reason, almost to her throat, she couldn't tell what was wrong, she only felt flustered. When I returned to the east wing, I was depressed, and no matter how Aliu asked, I couldn't ask why.

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