Chapter 20: Jiangmi Roasted Wheat (II)
Liu Yiyi was worried about herself, for fear that this overly good-looking face would cause trouble, but Du Xiaobawang, who had a bad reputation, didn't entangle with her too much, and even shifted his gaze with some disgust, and asked Zhang Yufeng again: "Which one is your sister?" ”
"Ah......" Zhang Yufeng looked at Liu Yiyi intently, and only reacted when he was asked by Young Master Du, "This is Cai'er......" Seeing that his sister didn't move, he stepped forward and dragged Cai'er to Young Master Du.
"I'm not going! You let me go! Cai'er struggled hard, Li and Aunt Wang also pulled back, and at the same time persuaded Zhang Yufeng, "Yufeng, Miss Liu has agreed to accept Cai'er as a maid ring, and the five taels of silver for selling * are enough for you to marry your daughter-in-law, if you want to think that Shaocai'er can give you the monthly money in the future, you don't have to push your own sister into the fire pit......"
Hearing the word "fire pit", Young Master Du was displeased, so the family next to him who had just taught Zhang Zhuang stepped forward and asked, "Zhang Yufeng, how many families did you sell your sister?" What about playing with my young master? ”
"Don't dare! Can't! Zhang Yufeng was so frightened that he hurriedly turned around, "Which family in Mengzhou City can pity the jade more than Young Master Du, and my sister can enter the Du family......"
"What do you say!?" It was this family member who scolded, "Our young master recruited a cook, dare to talk nonsense and ruin our young master's reputation?" You don't want to live anymore?! ”
"Yes, yes, it's a chef!" Zhang Yufeng hurriedly changed his words, "My sister can be a cook for Young Master Du, it is a blessing that she has cultivated for several lifetimes, how can we find another family!" ”
Zhang Yufeng spoke along with the people of the Du family, but neither he nor Cai'er believed that Du Xiaobawang would simply recruit a cook, there was no way, Young Master Du's reputation had already deteriorated.
Young Master Du waved his hand, let the loyal family Ding step aside first, and said to Zhang Yufeng: "Young Master Ben has to recruit a chef with real talent, you took two pieces of dim sum and said that it was made by your sister, but seeing is believing everything, now that Young Master Ben has brought the ingredients, you will let your sister make a Jiangmi roasted wheat, and when it is done, she can enter the Du family as a cook." ”
After Young Master Du finished speaking, several family members cooperated with the big bags and small bags brought by the opening, large boxes and small boxes, which were filled with Jiang rice, flour, pork filling, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, green onions, ginger, garlic...... There are a lot of things, but there are not many of them, and a lot of them is enough to steam two drawers of siu mai.
Zhang Yufeng and his son were surprised and disappointed, they thought that Young Master Du brought gifts from concubines, gold and silver treasures, silk and satin, who knew that so many things were not enough to eat a little rice and meat dishes.
"What? Won't do it? Zhang Yufeng, you dare to deceive Young Master Ben, Quan Zhong, send him to the Yamen. Young Master Du sneered and ordered, he is a little overlord and not a big wrongdoer.
The man with the saber is called Du Quanzhong, and when he answered, he stepped forward and twisted Zhang Yufeng's right arm behind him, and at the same time said: "Let our young master walk such a long way in winter, you kid will still be able to mix in Mengzhou City in the future?"
Zhang Yufeng was so painful that he cried and cried, and shouted for mercy like killing a pig: "Be merciful to your loyal master!" Young Master Du doesn't dare to lie to you, Cai'er will make Jiangmi roasted wheat! She can make any snack! Cai'er, talk quickly! ”
"I don't know how to make Jiangmi siu mai." Cai'er spoke, but she didn't want to save her brother.
"Why wouldn't you!?" Zhang Zhuang, who was beaten to the side, was anxious, he didn't dare to save his son from the wolf-like Du family, but he still had the courage to teach his daughter a lesson.
"How could I? Have you ever taken the minced meat with your brother home? Even if I occasionally buy back two taels of cooked meat, I never let my mother and I go to the table, where can I learn to make meat? Cai'er retorted confidently.
Zhang Zhuang opened his mouth and stammered, Cai'er was telling the truth, it was not easy for their poor family to buy some meat, so they were willing to let women eat it.
"Okay, okay, you just don't know how to make siu mai, so Zhang Yufeng is a liar." Young Master Du came to a conclusion, "But Young Master Ben can't go out in vain on such a cold day, it just so happens that Miss Liu is here, how about you and Young Master Ben go back and apologize to Qian Bao?" Qian Bao is my brother, I can't let you go when I see you beating people, right? ”
"What are you going to do? This is the young lady of the Liu family, I can't help you mess around! "Aunt Wang and the coachman of the Liu family are nervous, their deeds are all in the Liu family, and the eldest lady will definitely kill them if she has a good old man!
"Now you can't just say it's casual? Why is she just casual when she hits Qian Bao? Young Master Du said it righteously, but his gaze at Liu Yiyi was not very serious.
Liu Yiyi panicked in her heart, trying her best to calm herself on her face, she opened her mouth and asked first: "Young Master Du, I don't know something, there are many kinds of dim sum, why do you have to make Jiang Mi Roasted Wheat?" ”
Young Master Du was stunned, he heard Qian Bao say that the eldest lady of the Liu family is a crazy girl, and she has more hands than mouths, if it weren't for her beautiful face that made men subconsciously show mercy, she wouldn't be able to run rampant in Mengzhou City at all, but how could it be different from what he saw with his own eyes today?
Thinking about it, Young Master Du still replied to Liu Yiyi: "My grandmother will be sixty-sixth birthday in the first month of next year, and she likes to eat Jiangmi siu mai the most, and I want to find a cook who can make Jiang Mi siu mai to honor my grandmother." ”
"Young Master Du is really filial," Liu Yiyi praised him first, and then asked, "But siu mai is a very common pastry, not to mention the large and small restaurants in Mengzhou City, even the Du family should have a famous chef who can do it, right?" ”
"It will be yes, but the taste is just a little bit, the skin of the roasted wheat is hot, and it will be hard if it is a little unsatisfactory, my grandmother is old and reluctant to eat, some of them are good with the noodles, but the freshness of the filling in it is insufficient, in short, none of them can compare to the taste that I ate with my grandmother in the palace!" Young Master Du has always missed the drawer of Jiang rice and roasted wheat at the state banquet that year.
This authentic analysis made Liu Yiyi more sure of the next words: "These ingredients brought by Young Master Du are Jiangmi pork, bamboo shoots and winter ru, but the materials of Jiangmi roasted wheat in the palace?" ”
Young Master Du nodded: "That's all, I can guarantee that there is no more, no less, but no one can make the same taste as in the palace." ”
"I know how to make Jiang rice roasted wheat, that is, with these ingredients, raw Jiang rice is steamed first and then stuffed ......," Liu Yiyi pondered, "Is the roasted wheat that Young Master Du has eaten in the shape of wheat ears or ruffles?" ”
“…… Ruffle-shaped ...... "Young Master Du is a little surprised, the eldest lady of the Liu family really knows how to cook?"
"It's not difficult to have a ruffle, how about discussing it? If I make siu mai no less than the one in the palace, you won't be allowed to trouble me anymore, and you won't be allowed to trouble Cai'er, how about it? "With the ingredients brought by Young Master Du, Liu Yiyi can't see other qualities, but the foodie is certain, and she relies on this to negotiate conditions.
Whether it tastes good or not is not up to me, I won't be sorry for Qian Bao, Young Master Du agreed after a little thought: "Okay." ”
"A manly man should be so refreshing," Liu Yiyi praised again, "Then you can walk around the village, and I'll be ready in a while, and the ingredients should be ready soon." ”
"What is there to visit in such a small village?" Although Young Master Du muttered like this, he still asked Du Quanzhong to let go of Zhang Yufeng first, and let the Zhang family father and son wait to find a warm and comfortable place to rest for a while.
The best thing here is, of course, the main house of the Zhang family, and the kitchen of the Zhang family is in a small room on the right side, which happens to be separated, Liu Yiyi saw that all the people surnamed Du had entered the house, and hurriedly whispered to the coachman of the Liu family: "You go back and tell my father, let him send someone to save me!" ”
"Yes, Miss be careful." The coachman should come down, hastily separate the horses from the carts, and get on their horses and hurry to the city.
The coachman can even ride a horse? This made Liu Yiyi feel more confident, and it took an hour to make a drawer of roasted wheat, which was enough for her family to rush to the rescue.
"Miss, didn't you talk to Young Master Du? With Miss's cooking skills...... there must be no problem" Aunt Wang was worried, she was afraid that Master Liu would blame their family if he knew that he had brought Miss out and encountered this kind of thing.
"I have confidence in my cooking skills, but I don't have confidence in whether that Young Master Du is true to his word." Liu Yiyi said that she was trading to make roasted wheat just to delay time, and she didn't have any expectations for Young Master Du's promise.
Liu Yiyi is also a little displeased with Aunt Wang now, before Aunt Wang asked her to save Cai'er's motive was simple, because no one would have thought that Du Xiaobawang would come to the village in person for a country girl in this cold day, but now Du Xiaobawang's goal turned to her, and Aunt Wang's first consideration was to let Master Liu know that this matter would be punished?
"Miss, everything has been moved to the kitchen." Cai'er is still the most diligent and simple, she moved all the ingredients brought by Young Master Du into her own kitchen, and firmly believed that Miss Liu would make the matter of roasted wheat.
"Oh, I see." If you don't do it, waiting for someone to come will make Du Xiaobawang suspicious, and at the same time, Liu Yiyi also wants to try her cooking skills and who is better than the imperial chef of the palace...... Lin Yuxiao grew up in the palace.
Check the ingredients brought by Young Master Du, it is really the same raw materials for making Jiangmi roasted wheat, no more, no less, can be prepared so completely, I am afraid that not only the old grandmother likes it, but Young Master Du himself is a foodie!
Liu Yiyi steamed the Jiang rice in the pot separately, this is for filling, and it has to be steamed again after a while, so it is steamed hard for the first time.
Then chop the coagulated lard, winter bamboo shoots and winter ru are also chopped, the pork is ready-made stuffing and do not need to be cut, the lard and green onion ginger and other seasonings are boiled in the pot, and then the meat filling, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms are fried in the pot, seasoned, and mixed well with the steamed Jiang rice after being served.
Blanch the flour with boiling water, knead it into a single agent, press it flat and sprinkle some flour, and roll it out into a lotus leaf-shaped edge.
Liu Yiyi's movements were crisp and neat, and the agent almost spun like a fly under her rolling pin, Cai'er looked dazzled, and couldn't help but say: "Miss's cooking skills are so good, she must have been taught by a famous teacher and worked hard, right?" ”
It is indeed surprising that a young lady uses a rolling pin so well, Liu Yiyi's heart jumped, it is not difficult to prevaricate Cai'er, but Aunt Wang, who has worked in the Liu family for decades, is also on the side, will Aunt Wang be suspicious?
"Cai'er! Cai'er? How are you? I've brought someone to save you! Suddenly, someone shouted outside.
"Xiao Shang!?" Cai'er was surprised and delighted.