Chapter 141: Honey Gourd (I)
"Miss, are you back?" Lotus osmanthus heard Cai Lotus speak inside, because it was an important thing to say that he did not dare to disturb, and only opened the courtyard door to greet Cai Lotus when he left.
"Well, I'm back." The place where someone was waiting made Liu Yiyi feel close, "Have you had dinner?" I brought you food. ”
Although the lotus osmanthus can't eat the food in the world, they appreciate the young lady's heart, "Miss, don't worry, we have all eaten, and it was Sister Caihe who brought us food." said that after eating, I didn't have to "eat" it again in front of the young lady.
Is it? Cai He didn't say it just now, but it was also a very important thing for people to tell him, "I'll thank her again when I see Cai He tomorrow, but we can't trouble people to help bring food every time, I still have to find a way to find a place for you to eat." ”
It's okay for them to skip meals...... This can't be said to humans, and Lotus smiled and said, "Miss should come and see how this room is going first, and then I'll clean it up for you if it's not suitable." ”
"That's pretty much it." Looking at it by moonlight, the courtyard is not big, only five or six square meters, one main room and two partial rooms, and the three of them can live enough.
There is not much furniture in the house, but there is no shortage of necessary wardrobes, coffee tables and the like, and the bedding and pillows on the bed are all new, to be honest, this is better than the dormitory conditions she lived in her last life, Liu Yiyi didn't pick it, because she heard that many palace maids live in Chase shops!
can have a room by herself, this bedroom and living room is twenty square meters large, Liu Yiyi knows that she is still taken care of.
Being taken care of is both a good thing and a trouble, because people take care of her for Yue Linfeng, and the people who take care of her hope that she will marry Yue Linfeng in the future, but she never had this idea.
After only half a day in the palace, she found that it was not easy to survive here, so if she kept insisting on what she had seen, would there be no one to take care of her one day, and even someone began to deliberately make her worse, so that she could realize how difficult it was to have no backer in the palace?
Thinking about her future, Liu Yiyi didn't sleep well. So as soon as the lotus outside knocked on the window, she woke up.
"Miss, it's been three days." Lotus said.
"So fast!" Liu Yiyi hurriedly got up, everyone who became the emperor was going to the early court on the fifth watch, so even the first-class officials would get up on the third watch to prepare. The kitchen in the palace was also starting to cook breakfast at this time, and she couldn't be late.
opened the door, and Osmanthus came in with hot water: "Miss, wash your face and refresh yourself." ”
"Where did you get the water?" Liu Yiyi remembered that this small courtyard was not a kitchen, and there was not even a well.
"Yesterday Sister Caihe took us to the hot water room in Inshou Palace. Sue the people there We are the new people around the female official Liu, and if you want to use water, you are not allowed to embarrass us. Lotus replied, and began to find Liu Yiyi clothes to wear today.
"Sister Caihe is really good, you will thank me for a while." I don't know if she will have this treatment if she doesn't respond to Yue Linfeng's feelings, but Liu Yiyi doesn't have time to think about the future now, she is busy washing, and she can't be late for work.
"Miss, this is the only set of clothes you wear in the palace, how do you change them?" The lotus who was looking for clothes frowned.
Liu Yiyi looked at what she was wearing now. It was given to her by Mama Chen yesterday before entering the palace, a water-red little red dress with lotus leaf green, and the ribbon tied around the waist is said to be a knot in the palace, which is forbidden by the people.
"I only changed it yesterday, so I don't need to change it today, right?" When she was in the Liu family, she didn't pay attention to changing new clothes every day, let alone entering the palace to wait for people.
"But there is a smell of oil smoke...... "Lotus remembered Mama Chen's teaching, and she couldn't smoke the nobles in the palace with a peculiar smell.
"Is there one?" Liu Yiyi lowered her head and sniffed her clothes, but she didn't smell anything, and the chef forbade rubbing the fragrance of incense powder and other things that would affect the judgment of smell, "Forget it." I'm sure I won't be able to get to the Queen Mother, so I'll deal with it today. ”
"And what about tomorrow?" Osmanthus said tentatively, "Miss, or the maid will find Sister Caihe again today to ask for a good set of clothes, anyway, Lord Yue asked Lord Lin to take care of Miss." Don't be wronged......"
"How can we trouble Lord Lin everywhere, if Lord Lin thinks we are annoyed and doesn't take care of us, won't we still be able to live?" Liu Yiyi straightened her face, "Okay, I'll pay attention today, if the clothes are really dirty." I'll wash it at night and wear it tomorrow morning. ”
Liu Yiyi deliberately ignored Yue Linfeng, and the lotus osmanthus who took the opportunity to speak for Yue Linfeng certainly found out, what should I do? Miss still doesn't like Lord Yue.
Hurried to Xiao Tang's kitchen, Liu Yiyi was glad that she hadn't been stupid enough to get home - she had only walked the road once yesterday, and it was still night, and she hadn't forgotten to get lost, so she could still survive, right?
Cheering herself up, Liu Yiyi walked into the small kitchen, and the first to salute her were a few rough women from yesterday, who were washing vegetables and dishes in the yard, and when they saw Liu Yiyi, they all got up and said blessings: "Hello Lady Liu, you are here!" ”
"Hello everyone!" Liu Yiyi hurriedly returned the gift.
"Lady Liu is also here?" Han Niangzi came out of the kitchen when she heard the sound.
"Sister Han is good." Liu Yiyi hurriedly greeted, seeing that Han Niangzi was also wearing the same clothes as yesterday, she felt relieved.
"Although the Queen Mother emphasized that she must eat it early, the Queen Mother and the Prince will not eat too much for the first meal, because she is afraid that she will not eat it, so it is best that the three of us make dim sum without repeating it, and each person only makes one thing, because the kitchen in Renshou Palace will also have dim sum, I make walnut cheese, and the Lu family sister plans to make cinnamon taro paste."
The time was the tightest in the morning, and Han Niangzi was no longer polite, and directly reported the snacks they were going to make, and let Liu Yiyi watch it.
Liu Yiyi thought about what she should make early today last night, and now she heard Han Niangzi say what they were going to do first, thought about her menu, and asked: "I plan to make honey gourd with flour, but I don't know if this crispy and sweet food is okay?" ”
"If you're only making a small dish, it should be the icing on the cake." Han Niangzi replied pertinently, because if you do too much, it is not good if the little prince loves to eat - children eat too many sweets and their teeth are easy to ache.
"I see." Originally, Liu Yiyi was going to make soft dim sum, but Han Niangzi and they had already decided first, and the three of them did the same, she was worried that people would find fault with her, a latecomer, what if she said that she didn't take the nobles seriously?
With Han Niangzi to check it, Liu Yiyi at least knew that the nobles could eat crispy food at present, she thought that she didn't ask in vain, and she had a little bit of a score about the food she made in the next few days.
Honey gourd is a fried sweet, eat a little sweet in the morning to ensure the blood sugar supply in the morning, Liu Yiyi does not know much about nutrition. She just knows that when working in a hotel, there are several times more people in the restaurant who order dessert in the morning than other food.
Anyway, she likes to eat something sweet in the morning, such as drinking a glass of milk or juice, which was not available in ancient times. It is also fashionable to squeeze juice from time to time, walnut cheese can also be regarded as a drink, will it be too sweet to eat honey gourd?
But she has already said that she will do this, and then she will not only go back on her word, but also distrust Han Niangzi...... Let's just do this. After all, Han Niangzi has never cheated her!
After making up her mind, Liu Yiyi started quickly, and the raw materials of the honey gourd were also simple, cut the lard into cubes, dipped in dry starch and kneaded into round strips. Mix the good flour with warm water to form a dough, blanch the dough with boiling water, knead it into a dough after blanching, and then blanch it again and knead it until the dough is dull, add eggs and stir into a paste.
Pour peanut oil into a sauté pan. When it is burned on the stove until it is eight mature, dip the pork fritters in the egg paste and put them in the oil, fry them slowly over a slight heat, and fry them until the hollow drum in the middle is like a gourd, and then take them out.
Then put honey in a frying spoon to boil the color darker, then pour in the pork fat gourd, hang the pulp evenly, and sprinkle a layer of white sugar and green and red silk after being put on the plate.
"It's pretty." When Liu Yiyi made the honey gourd, Han Niangzi's walnut cheese was also ready, and she praised it when she glanced at the honey gourd.
"I don't know if the Queen Mother likes it or not?" Liu Yiyi is confident in her cooking skills, so she doesn't know whether other people's tastes are picky or not.
"The thoughts of the nobles are not something we can guess, and if they pass the meal, they will not be praised. Let's just say that we didn't do well enough. "Han Niangzi is reminding Liu Yiyi that it is disrespectful to guess the holy will.
"That's what my sister said." Liu Yiyi was suddenly shocked to realize that when she was training before, Chen Huanhuan had told her that there was no need to think crankily as a waiter. If the master tells you to do what you are told, the palace is not allowed to guess the meaning of the above person and make his own opinions.
As soon as she was worried about the food she cooked, she ignored making mistakes, but fortunately, it was Han Niangzi who listened to her, and if she was someone who didn't like her, she would chew her tongue in front of Empress Dowager Lin. Empress Dowager Lin's impression of her is only afraid that it will be even lower.
Han Niangzi smiled at Liu Yiyi, worried that it was actually a common thing not to let the nobles in the palace like it, not to mention those show girls who had a purpose to enter the palace, even when she first entered the palace to cook for the Queen Mother on behalf of Tang Zhitang, she was also cautious and trembling, afraid of ruining Tang Zhitang's reputation, afraid that a business trip would cause her life and harm her family.
It's just that this kind of worry can't be said, you are afraid of dying at every turn, doesn't it imply that the nobles in the palace are unkind and careless about people's lives?
This time, the breakfast was also carried by a few waiters with food boxes, and Liu Yiyi and the three of them followed to Renshou Palace, but the food was brought in, and the three of them were left outside, and the queen mother and the prince did not summon them in and asked them what they were doing today.
"Everyone's time is very tight in the morning, the nobles are busier than us, especially His Royal Highness the Prince, who has to go to morning class immediately after eating breakfast." Han Niangzi whispered to Liu Yiyi, and it was normal not to summon it.
Sure enough, after half an hour, the little prince walked out, hugged and left with a large group of people, without even looking at Liu Yiyi and them, and then a big palace maid who Liu Yiyi didn't know came over and said to the three chefs, "You can go back." ”
The prince ignored them, the queen mother didn't summon them, and on the way back, Liu Yiyi heard Han Niangzi say, which also means that today's morning is qualified, otherwise the palace maid who came to inform them will at least say: "This snack will not be served in the future." ”
So that's the case, Liu Yiyi thought to herself that she had passed this level again in the morning.
When the three of them finished breakfast in the small kitchen and discussed what to do for lunch, Xiao Tang came over leisurely, yawning as he walked, and seemed to wake up.
When Han Niangzi saw it, she deliberately laughed at him: "The boss came so early, are you here to make dinner?" ”
"At lunch, Yu Xiao said that the prince was worried about the soup dumplings I made." Don Jr. is not angry, he has always been a good boss.
"Well, it looks like we'll be able to rest at noon." Han Niangzi said half-jokingly and half-seriously, there is food cooked by Boss Tang on the table, and others are afraid that it will be a waste of time to even look at them.
"Who allows you to get paid for nothing if you don't work, Tang Zhitang never raises idlers!" Xiao Tang straightened his face.
"Yes, yes, the little one doesn't dare to be idle," Han Niangzi was sincerely frightened, and turned her head to complain to Liu Yiyi, "See, our boss is not good at waiting, so Lady Liu is prescient and plans to have a small kitchen by herself, without looking at the boss's face." ”
It is not easy to be the master of the palace in the palace, Liu Yiyi smiled, and said to Xiao Tang respectfully: "I have seen Boss Tang, thank you Boss Tang for letting Sister Han take care of me." ”
"Miss Liu, I haven't seen you for a long time, your complexion doesn't look very good, but you have been wronged?" Xiao Tang's kitchen knife and sharp mouth are actually not bad.
How dare Liu Yiyi say that life in the palace is not good, and she is still taken care of, but she doesn't like it here and feels that her life is not guaranteed...... Of course, this cannot be said:"
"Boss Tang said with a smile, there are so many people taking care of me, how can I be wronged?" Liu Yiyi smiled reluctantly.
"That's right, we're all doing our best, and if Linfeng wants to come back, don't say we didn't take care of you." If Yue Linfeng dared to be murderous to him, Xiao Tang could not guarantee that he would be as good-tempered as Fang Xiaozhu and as patient as Li Mu.
It's Yue Linfeng again! Didn't she say it many times that she was completely bored with Yue Linfeng! Liu Yiyi was unhappy, and subconsciously rushed out: "I thought that Boss Tang took care of me because of Young Master Du's request!" ”
"Shaonan?" This rhetorical question made Xiao Tang raise his eyebrows unexpectedly.
“…… Be. Originally, she suddenly said Du Shaonan's name, which made Liu Yiyi herself startled, she hadn't seen Du Shaonan for a long time and didn't expect him, but Xiao Tang was also unexpectedly wronged for Du Shaonan, Lin Yuxiao's preference for Yue Linfeng is reasonable, they are brothers, but aren't Xiao Tang and Yue Linfeng and Du Shaonan all friends? Is it better to favor one over the other?
"I asked Young Master Du for help at the time, and I also sent eight muffins." Liu Yiyi reminded that Xiao Tang accepted her gift, so it shouldn't be for Yue Linfeng to take care of her.
Eight muffins? Xiao Tang raised his eyebrows again, this number is not right, but Xiao Tang is really a friend enough, he didn't say that there were fewer gifts, but said: "Shaonan said that Miss Liu wants to enter my kitchenette, I have made it clear on the boat, I don't dare to rob people with the Queen Mother, and Miss Liu doesn't want to have her own kitchen?" (To be continued.) )