Chapter 43: Shortbread

Mrs. Cao couldn't hear the answer for a long time, and when she looked up, she just saw the back of her youngest daughter, so she was so angry that she was about to complain to her eldest daughter. I didn't want to stretch out my hand but I got empty, it turned out that Sister Cao and his wife were taking their two sons to eat around the clay bowl filled with meat, and a bowl full of meat was left in a blink of an eye.

Cao Pozi was so distressed that she trembled, and quickly reached out and grabbed the pottery bowl and held it in her arms and scolded, "You people who have no conscience, your father and I haven't used chopsticks yet, and you actually finished eating the meat!" ”

The two snot boys were eating sweetly, and suddenly their grandmother snatched the pottery bowl, and immediately cried loudly, "I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat!" ”

Sister Cao didn't feel that she had eaten it, and when she heard her son crying, she couldn't help but complain to the old lady, "Mother, it's just a bowl of meat, what are you doing so distressed, I'll buy a piece of meat and pay you back another day!" ”

Mrs. Cao didn't eat this, and opened her mouth to pry, "Since you married into the Chen family, let alone meat, I haven't even seen a vegetable leaf." Hurry up and take the children back to cook, our family doesn't have much food, so we won't come to eat in the future! ”

Sister Cao was said to be faceless, so she snorted angrily and turned around and pulled the child away. Chen Lao Er secretly withdrew his hand, saluted his mother-in-law and hurriedly chased after him.

Sister Cao walked on the road with hatred, and her mouth was full of how unkind the old lady was. But she sang a one-man show for a long time and didn't see her man echo it, and when she turned around, she found that her man and her two sons each had two fried fish in their hands, and they were eating with relish. She immediately exploded her lungs in anger, slapped her eldest son on the head, and snatched his fried fish and stuffed it into her mouth.

The eldest son was beaten and lost good food, so he pulled his neck and began to cry. Chen Lao Er is still a good father, and he quickly stuffed his fried fish into his son's mouth, and finally got clean. Sister Cao glared at him and scolded, "You know how to pull it into your mouth, why don't you take two for me too!" ”

Chen Lao Er laughed dryly and refused to respond, but the second son licked his fingers and said, "My mother is the stupidest, she only cares about quarreling." ”

Sister Cao was willing to let her son laugh at herself, and she was about to smoke when she took off her cloth shoes, so frightened that the second boy ran away like a smoke.

In the courtyard of Cao's house, Mrs. Cao was scolding at the empty fish plate, "These damn white-eyed wolves, when will they take the fried fish away." If I catch you, I'll break your legs! Oh, my fish..."

She wanted to find someone to call the shots, but unfortunately the old man Cao went out early, even the second sister Cao closed the door and closed the window and refused to come out.

So, for a while, she was the only one left in the courtyard of the Cao family, cursing alone, and the birds and finches that stopped on the big tree in the corner of the courtyard were also tired of listening, and they spread their wings and flew away to find a better place to rest...

When Dong Rong returned to the mountain, Old Man Feng's master and apprentice were already full of food and drink, and they were sitting in one place drinking tea and chatting. Qingfeng was very diligent and cleaned up all the dishes and chopsticks early, and when she saw Dong Rong coming back, she moved a chair and put it under the grape trellis.

Dong Rong thanked him with a smile, and then took the tea handed by the stupid pillar and drank it in one gulp. She had an empty stomach, and the tea made her stomach rumble. Dong Rong hurriedly stretched out her hand to cover her stomach, and said with a somewhat embarrassed smile, "I'm thirsty and drunk for a while, Uncle Feng shouldn't laugh at me." ”

Old Man Feng shook his head with a smile and said, "I'm a healer, how can I laugh at this natural thing." You haven't eaten yet, hurry up and pick up some food for yourself, if you are hungry for a long time, your spleen and stomach are easy to fall into the root of the disease. ”

When Silly Zhu heard this, his face unconsciously showed annoyance, and he asked, "You went to deliver food, didn't they keep you to eat?" ”

Dong Rong no longer likes the Cao family, and it is not good to talk in front of Old Man Feng, so she replied vaguely, "My mother didn't cook too much, and I wasn't too hungry, so I rushed back early." After saying that, she added tea to the old man, and then went to the stove to simply fill some rice and pad her stomach with the leftovers.

Old Man Feng also frowned slightly when he saw that his disciple's face was extremely dark. As a high-ranking person, the most taboo thing is to be swayed and angry by others. However, the disciple, who is usually extremely cold-hearted, is angry today just because of this woman's hunger, which shows that this woman is extremely important in his heart. It's a pity that this kid doesn't know it yet, and if it goes on like this, maybe he can't hide it for long as a fool...

The small courtyard outside the city has been busy since the morning, and it was not until all the buyers who came to the door that Wang Lu and his wife had the time to sit down and rest for a while. The cuckoo hugged the sewing basket and seized the time to sew small clothes for the child in the belly. However, the cloth she brought with her when she got married was really rough, and she wondered if she should go to the street to buy a better piece of muslin.

Now the couple's monthly salary is enough for them to improve their life a little, but the farmer's frugal habits make her reluctant to spend it.

It was when she was so hesitant that she looked up and saw Dong Rong and Silly Zhu coming in from outside the door with large bags and small bags. She quickly got up to meet her and said with a smile, "Why did you come here at this time, but you went to the city to run errands?" ”

Dong Rong hurriedly waved her hand to signal her to sit down again, and said angrily, "It's not that we don't have long hands, but where do we need your help with a few packages?" It's serious for you to take care of my little nephew, if you are tired of him, I won't spare you. ”

The cuckoo was warm in his heart when he heard this, but he retorted, "They are all peasant daughters-in-law, and they still have to carry water to cook the day before they give birth, where is it as delicate as you said." ”

Dong Rong didn't argue, reached out and opened a package, picked out two pieces of fabric and a box of embroidery thread plugs for her, and said, "I bought two pieces of muslin, and my sister-in-law will make two sets of new clothes for my little nephew." ”

Where is the cuckoo willing to accept it, and refuses repeatedly, "How can this be done, if you want to buy it, I will pay for it myself." How can you break the bank? ”

Dong Rong stretched out her hand and slapped her, and quickly put the fabric and embroidery thread into the needlework basket, "This is for my little nephew, not for you, don't make decisions for my little nephew." ”

Du Juan felt that it would be a bit raw to push it again, so he pointed to the two pieces of fabric left in the package and said, "Is this the material for Brother Ping'er to make a long shirt, just leave it to me to sew together." ”

"No, this is to make a midcoat for the pillar, I'll do it myself." Dong Rong's face was a little red, and she quickly tied up the package.

Du Juan covered his mouth and joked with a smile, "Brother Ping is really pitiful, he was forgotten by his sister after only a few days in the academy." ”

"Sister-in-law, don't provoke our sister and brother, be careful that my brother Ping'er's honest child is serious. I just bought meat, and I'm going to make some food to take to the academy. ”

"What are you going to do, I'll help you!"

"No, I'll do the two snacks myself." Dong Rong rejected the cuckoo's kindness, kneaded the dough in the kitchen, and was busy preparing the filling.

Although there is a canteen in the academy, anyone who has eaten a big pot of rice knows that no matter how good the ingredients are, they will be like pig food. Dong Rong was afraid that her brother's meat fat that he had managed to raise would be no longer thin, so he pondered making some delicious and easy-to-store shortbread and sent it over. On weekdays, even if you don't like the dishes in the canteen, grabbing a shortbread and eating a few bites is a hundred times better than being hungry. Besides, there is also the poor child Xizi, eight or nine years old is the time to grow up, if you delay growing up, you will regret it for a lifetime.

In her previous life, in order to pay her tuition, Dong Rong worked everywhere in her spare time, and one of the proprietress took pity on her and took care of her. Dong Rong reciprocated the favor and worked very hard to do her work, and the proprietress did not shy away from her when she did some processes with technical content, so she let her learn a lot.

This mille-feuille shortbread is the signature food in the proprietress shop, and Dong Rong is also very familiar with it. Blanch half of the fine noodles in a large basin with water, mix half with warm water, add vegetable oil and a small amount of salt and knead them together until the surface of the dough is smooth, and then put it in the basin to wake up. At this time, another large pottery bowl is taken and put into most of the fine noodles, only fried vegetable oil is added and stirred quickly, and the final result is a sand-like shape of oil noodles.

As for the filling, the weather is hot in summer, so it is not good to add fresh meat, so you can only choose frosting, sesame seeds, walnut kernels and plum dried vegetables and bacon.

When the nuts are fried and pounded finely, the dough is ready to rise. The arm-thick rolling pin is swung up, and soon the dough becomes a large round cake, evenly sprinkled with oiled noodles and rolled into rolls, cut into small pieces with a knife, press flattened, add filling, and seal the mouth. Finally, you can put it in the oil pan and fry it slowly. Until all the moisture in the dough has dissipated, the small golden shortbread is ready.

Needless to say, Silly Pillar was naturally the first to taste. Dong Rong was afraid that he would be hot, so she broke a shortbread with plum vegetables and bacon and dried it for a long time before handing it to him. Silly Zhu swallowed it in three or two bites and shouted that it was okay, and took another one himself without waiting for Dong Rong to make a move.

After being praised for her own craftsmanship, Dong Rong was inevitably in a good mood, and after packing a few and taking them out for Wang Lu and his wife to taste fresh, she buried herself in the rest of the dough and baked it out, which was enough to fill a large food box.

The cuckoo is when she is pregnant, she vomits what she eats, but she doesn't want this little shortbread to be the right appetite, and she can't stop after eating one after another. When Wang Lu saw his daughter-in-law like this, he pushed the plate in front of her.

Dong Rong changed her clothes and came out and said with a smile, "It's not a good thing, since my cousin-in-law likes to eat, I'll come back and make more in a while." ”

Wang Lu wanted to thank him with a happy face, but he was helpless and didn't know how to say it, so he just strode forward to open the courtyard door for Dong Rong.

Silly Zhu also came out of the stove at this time, and naturally reached out to take the food box in Dong Rong's hand, and then the two went into the city side by side.

Since Sister-in-law Liu guessed that Dong Rong was her owner, she has been more diligent than before. Originally, Dong Rong also wanted to ask someone to ask about some private rules and avoidances in the academy, but she didn't want Dong Ping's admission night, and Sister-in-law Liu would report all the results of the day's busy investigation. Dong Rong was naturally happy, and after praising her fiercely, she gave her a lot of food and took it back to coax the child.

Sister-in-law Liu got food, and her mouth was crooked with a smile, which made Sister-in-law Qiu and others gossip behind their backs. Sister-in-law Liu was not annoyed when she heard this, but she only felt pity that they were still kept in the dark. ZM