Chapter Ninety-Seven: Dry Button Meat (I)
"I think I told you before, right? Xiao Tang and Yu Xiao have known each other since childhood, I don't know much about Xiao Tang's origin, probably the representative of the hidden family in the capital, anyway, because of Yu Xiao's relationship, he has also run to the palace since he was a child, and the emperor also trusts his cooking skills, you know, the emperor is a teenager who ascended the throne...... "In the end, he lived for more than ten years in ancient times, and Du Shaonan also learned that it is better to hint at things in the palace."
She didn't know how old Li Mu was to become the emperor, it wasn't written in the novel, and she couldn't find relevant books in Mengzhou, but she knew that food was easy to poison, so Xiao Tang was mainly trusted to cook for the emperor, so the question came: "If I go to the kitchen, I can ensure that the food I make is clean and hygienic, but I heard that there are a lot of procedures for the emperor to pass on the meal?" ”
What does she mean is that she is afraid that someone will put something unclean in the food she has made and frame her? Du Shaonan smiled: "Xiao Tang has been cooking in the palace for more than ten years, what situation hasn't happened?" The reason why he has set up an independent small kitchen is to guard against people who don't trust, so don't worry, as long as you can guarantee yourself, I can guarantee Xiao Tang and his men. ”
"How many people are there in the kitchenette? Can I get in? "Guaranteed not to carry the black pot, Liu Yiyi has no confidence in her cooking skills.
"There are currently five people in the kitchen, two men and three women, it won't look too special if you go in, as for Xiao Tangtong who disagrees, I suggest you take the muffins to your liking, try it, I think I think there is more hope for success." Du Shaonan is comparing his heart to his heart, when he eats muffins, his heart is instantly moved, and he almost wants to marry Liu Yiyi home. Of course, it was just a thought for a moment.
If Xiao Tang's kitchen is really a peach blossom paradise for refuge, let alone try it with muffins, she is willing to let her make a full banquet of the Manchurians. "Okay! But...... Where does Boss Tang live? I'm just going to go to him, will I be presumptuous? Liu Yiyi thought about it, she and Xiao Tang were not familiar with each other, and she didn't know how much Xiao Tang was defensive of men and women.
She's a big girl who hasn't left the cabinet, and she goes to the residence of an unfamiliar young man - Xiao Tang will definitely not let her in! Du Shaonan volunteered: "I'll go for you, Xiao Tang and I also grew up together, this is not a big deal, I believe he will give me this face." ”
How is it not a big deal? For Liu Yiyi, this is a matter of life. So Du Shaonan took the initiative to help, she was grateful and strange: "Young Master Du, why bother you......"
"You forgot that we were all married. Isn't helping you just helping me. Speaking of this, Du Shaonan's heart moved again, the two traversers can be regarded as having met in another country, or they will ......
"......" he doesn't bring up the old thing. Liu Yiyi really forgot about their marriage. This is also "blamed" Du Shaonan is too gentleman, Master Liu has verbally agreed to give his daughter to him, and his speech and demeanor will not be a little closer?
"The muffins are baked!" Fortunately, Liu Yiyi was the first in her heart, and she would never forget that there was something on the stove, so she turned around to get the muffins, just to hide her embarrassment.
The freshly baked muffins need to be cooled before being put into the food box, Du Shaonan looked at the neat and orderly cakes with an attractive fragrance, and only felt that each one was beckoning to him. It's a shame not to eat them and give them to someone else!
"Is it okay to just give muffins?" There are only eight in one furnace. Liu Yiyi thinks that the ceremony is too light.
"Or else? Do you dare to accept gold, silver and jewelry for Xiao Tang? Du Shaonan blocked it back with a word.
Today, probably to make it easier for Liu Yiyi and Du Shaonan to make things clear, Master Liu didn't let Yahuan follow Miss, but coincidentally, Du Shaonan also came to the Liu family alone, and no one was there.
So Du Shaonan carried the food box out of Liu's house to find Xiao Tang, of course the eight muffins were not sinking, but when he thought that Xiao Tang was temporarily living in Lin Yuxiao's yard, and because he didn't like Yue Linfeng's relationship, he often went out, and he might not come back at night, could he complete the task today?
If you can't do it today, there will be tomorrow, but won't the muffins be cold? Du Shaonan looked at the food box in his hand, no one followed, only food accompanied, his self-discipline couldn't help but decline, in fact, there is no need to send eight, isn't it good to send six? Six-six-smooth.
So the muffins were comfortably missing two.
I haven't eaten such a pure bean paste filling for more than ten years, and it's not bad to send four, so make a fortune in all seasons!
So the muffins were comfortably missing two more.
The word four doesn't seem to be very good, good things should come in pairs, Du Shaonan thought of a reason again, but the problem is that he ate muffins and nuts at Liu's house before, and his mouth was not idle, and he ate four more along the way, and his stomach was already full, so he couldn't fit it in!
Du Shaonan walked to Lin Yuxiao's residence and knocked on the door, should he say that he was lucky? Lin Yuxiao and Yue Linfeng were not there, and it was Xiao Tang who opened the door.
"Yu Xiao and Father-in-law Yan went to the bamboo forest, the eldest lady of the Mu family will go back to Beijing with us, Yue Linfeng went to the dock to keep an eye on the boat arrangement, originally Second Young Master Mu said that he would return to Beijing on horseback, but he immediately vetoed it, you were not present, Second Young Master Mu's expression at that time was really wonderful." Xiao Tang said while leading Du Shaonan into the house.
If you are not there, you can imagine that Mu Qinglang has more Yue Linfeng, who regards him as his younger brother, after his own sister suddenly became abnormal, Du Shaonan expressed sympathy, and he handed out the food box to Xiao Tang: "Muffins, taste what is the authentic bean paste filling." ”
Don't look at Xiao Tang likes to cook very much, but people's mouths are not as greedy as Lin Yuxiao and Du Shaonan, took the food box and opened it to see the muffins inside, he was not in a hurry to send it to his mouth, and went to wash his hands first, then took a piece and broke it in half to look at it and smell it, and then asked: "Why is there only four yuan in a box, which is not enough for the firewood money of a stove, who did this, is it stingy or generous?" ”
"Eight pieces out of one furnace, people are not bad, I ate four pieces, how can I know if this bean paste filling is authentic if I don't eat it?" Du Shaonan was full of words, deliberately ignoring that this muffin was the second stove, and he didn't eat less in the first furnace.
Xiao Tang is not Lin Yuxiao, so he won't hold on to the four muffins missing, "It seems that the ability to master the heat is okay...", he took a bite after speaking, "I didn't add anything else, but I feel that the person who stuffed it is a little uneasy, and some of the bean skins have not been cleaned, who made this?" It wouldn't be because the person didn't have the heart to add it, right? ”
Don can check the emotions of the people who make the food just by the food. Du Shaonan didn't know if he tasted it or speculated, anyway, he didn't have this ability, and he didn't want to learn. As long as the food is delicious, it depends on the person who makes it.
This thought was in the past, and now Du Shaonan is really coming to the door for the cook, so he gave a thumbs up: "I guessed right, the person who made the muffins is in a bad mood at the moment, but the bean paste filling she made happened to suit my taste, so I decided to help." Help her ask if you are still short of people in the kitchenette in the palace? ”
"Going to the palace? Miss Liu? It's easier to guess this, Xiao Tang frowned, "You've never been a good woman." Yue Linfeng is the same, it will be different when he meets this Miss Liu family in Mengzhou, what good is she about? ”
"She's cooking good food, you should know I've already married someone. What's wrong with caring about your fiancée? But Yue Linfeng cares about my fiancée. And get people into the palace, what does he mean? Du Shaonan sneered, emphasizing "mine".
Xiao Tang didn't like Yue Linfeng, but it was Lin Yuxiao who handled this matter, and he had to say two words: "What fiancée?" Parents are in charge of marriage matters, can you make Ling Tang nod? ”
Xiao Tang doesn't like Mrs. Hu, and even hates it to put it bluntly, you think about it. He was only five or six years old at the time, and he saw Du Shaonan brought by Lin Yuxiao. Out of friendliness to new friends, he personally cooked, entertained Du Shaonan and ate a ton of South American beauty, and didn't eat a bad stomach at all, why did Mrs. Hu find him with a fierce momentum, pointing at him and scolding?
A woman who is almost 30 years old bullies a child of five or six years old, does she want to be embarrassed?!
The Du family is also a member of the country, why did they marry such a rude woman?
Xiao Tang didn't care what Mrs. Hu had to do to become like this, no matter how beautiful she was back then, it was not her fault that she couldn't get out of the sludge without being stained, or was it his responsibility?
As soon as he talks about the Du family, Du Shaonan can't help but be three points shorter in front of people, there is no way, there is no one who is the best relatives who are dragging his feet, but he has three.
"Even if I don't get married, you can guarantee that Miss Liu will definitely marry Yue Linfeng after entering the palace, don't forget that she is entering the palace!" Du Shaonan deliberately emphasized "entering the palace" this time.
Xiao Tang heard it, so he sneered at him: "If she goes to the Queen Mother's palace, I promise she won't have any chance, but if she goes to my small kitchen, I can't watch her from time to time, don't worry?" ”
Li Mu's head won't be pumped, right? If you change to another man, after having dozens of wives and concubines and three or four children, it is difficult to become the male protagonist in a romance novel, but the emperor has the right to make exceptions.
Du Shaonan doesn't know what Li Mu will become in this time and space, he only knows that Li Mu has the talent to govern the country and the country since he was a child, and when he grows up, he has a queen concubine, and he also respects his wife and son-in-law, and he will not indulge any little wife who is pampered and arrogant.
Such a standard emperor would send the queen into the cold palace for a woman and disperse all the three palaces and six courtyards? Maybe he's just normal now because he hasn't met true love yet?
Xiao Tang sat comfortably on the chair, took a sip of muffins and a sip of tea, and took a moment to appreciate Du Shaonan's distressed appearance, here he is again, since he was five or six years old and Du Shaonan met, Du Shaonan, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, suddenly frowned and worried.
Not to mention how discordant the adult-like sadness on the little face of the seven or eight-year-old with baby fat is, the look of "I'm worried about your future" and "your future will definitely not be good" makes people want to beat him up - your future is up to you!?
"You think about it slowly, I still have work in the kitchen." Xiao Tang only ate two muffins and was ready to cook, he was far more dedicated than Du Shaonan.
"What did you make again!?" Du Shaonan immediately left the emperor's future behind, not to mention whether he had room to eat just after he had eaten.
"Dry button meat, you've eaten it." Xiao Tang walked to the kitchen to take care of himself, obviously not planning to entertain Du Shaonan.
But Xiao Tang didn't drive people away clearly, relying on the fact that he did have serious things and brought gifts, Du Shaonan followed Xiao Tang to the kitchen, and asked as he walked: "I remember to smear honey after cooking dry button meat?" ”
"It's already boiled and wiped, and it's drying." If the meat was still in the pot, Xiao Tang didn't have time to open the door for Du Shaonan.
Du Shaonan also knew this, so he sighed that it was wise to eat four muffins halfway - the time was just right, "I still remember that Yu Xiao, like me, doesn't like sweet meat." ”
Lin Yuxiao is more delicious and edible than Du Shaonan, and he is also a picky eater, but as long as it is a good dish, he can't bear to give up, at most, after eating this is not very palatable, just eat some delicious ones and press it, anyway, he has to go into his stomach.
Xiao Tang has been cooking for Lin Yuxiao for more than ten years, in order to prevent this person from being full and saying that it is not delicious, he has always only made what Lin Yuxiao is most willing to eat, and today is no exception: "The dry button meat only has the skin of the meat smeared with honey, and the inside is still salty, and the sweet skin of the meat also has a place." ”
"You mean Yue Linfeng?" Even if Du Shaonan doesn't like to eat sweet meat skin, but when he heard that Yue Linfeng could eat the dishes made by Xiao Tang, why was he so upset?
"He? Can he taste good or bad? "Xiao Tang also doesn't like Yue Linfeng, it's not Yue Linfeng's fault that he has been a beggar, but he can't tell the difference between what he does and other imperial chefs, he only has no talent as a surname Yue, but he dares to say that it's nothing, it tastes like a taste, it's a big mistake, and the sin is unforgivable!
"Yu Xiao has a new pet, he can eat anything, and he loves sweet meat the most." Xiao Tang thinks that Xiao Baibai is more humane than Yue Linfeng.
Favorite sweet meat? These words made a thought suddenly flash in Du Shaonan's mind, but unfortunately they happened to walk to the kitchen door while talking, and the habit he had developed since childhood made him hurriedly retract his right foot, and then the thought naturally disappeared.
Xiao Tang also ignored Du Shaonan who was standing at the door, he wanted to make sweet and salty meat that was convenient to take care of today, so he thought of dry button meat, Lin Yuxiao and Yue Linfeng went out in the morning, and he also went out, and turned several butcher shops to pick a piece of pork belly of good quality, came back and scraped it and cleaned it and cooked it in the pot until it was eight ripe, and then took it out and coated it with honey while it was hot and waited for it to dry naturally.
While waiting, Du Shaonan came, Xiao Tang just had a snack and rested for a while, calculating that the time was almost as long as he went into the kitchen, the honey on the pork belly was already dry, he stabbed the fire between the stoves, heated the iron pot on the shelf, poured peanut oil, and fried the pork belly skin down.
This fried, the aroma of meat and oil and the fragrance of honey dispersed together, and Du Shaonan at the door couldn't help but swallow his saliva, really, how could Xiao Tang and Lin Yuxiao be so good, they have known each other since childhood, why can't Xiao Tang respond to his requests, and what he wants to eat?
Xiao Tang didn't have time to pay attention to what happened to Du Shaonan at the door, as long as Du Shaonan didn't go into the kitchen to hinder him, he took out the fried pork belly, let it soak in the water to soften, and then took it out to cool.
During this period, he pounded the shrimp into the dust, and then turned his head and told Du Shaonan in his free time: "For the sake of friends, I remind you, don't get involved with Yue Linfeng and Miss Liu's family, Yue Linfeng is twenty-three years old, only one year younger than the current emperor, but the current emperor has four children......" (To be continued.) )