It didn't take much time for Xiao Xiaoshen to bring firewood and fill it into the stove, Gu Yunxi lit the fire, and Xiao Xiaoshen sat down and pushed the bellows. Gu Yunxi sat on the stove with a kettle and hurried to do other things.

After the fire rises, there is still some time before it burns. Taking advantage of this free time, Gu Yunxi began to make Chongyang sugar cakes.

Measure the sand and gravel from the bowl of glutinous rice through a rice sieve, wash it repeatedly with clean water, and soak it in cold water for later use.

Then go and pick up the rice noodles in the clay pot. Because the cook deliberately mixed hot water into the basin, the noodles were basically fully cooked, and they were not in a ball.

Gu Yunxi poured out all the things in the clay pot and went to the storage cabinet to find a new one.

The bag of Jiang rice noodles is empty, and the white rice noodles climb at the bottom of the cloth bag, and there is not much left.

Gu Yunxi gritted his teeth, annoyed that the three cooks were too ruthless. It's just a stumbling block in secret, and she feels distressed when she spoils food.

Seeing Gu Yunxi standing in front of the storage cabinet with a confused expression, Xiao Xiaoshen turned his head and asked, "Sister Yunxi, what's wrong with you?"

"It's fine."

The moment he answered, Gu Yunxi quickly came up with a remedy in his mind. Quickly turn out the bean noodles and white noodles from the cabinet, take the amount in proportion, sift them one by one with a fine sieve, and then mix them with the remaining Jiangmi noodles and pour them into a clay pot.

Take an appropriate amount of water and mix it into the basin, mix the three noodles evenly, and then sit the pot on the fire.

"Brother Xiaoshen, the fire is okay."

Xiao Xiaoshen stopped pulling the bellows and stood up to watch Gu Yunxi busy.

Gu Yunxi held a cooking spoon and slowly stirred the white pulp in the clay pot, and the direction of stirring was always the same, and it was not changed at will. Following her movements, the white pulp on the edge of the clay pot continued to bulge small bubbles, and the white pulp became thicker and thicker, and the color gradually darkened until it was turmeric.

Almost-

Gu Yunxi knew in his heart, so he took two pieces of water-soaked drawer cloth and wrapped them around the edge of the basin.

Xiao Xiaoshen pulled her away: "I'll do this job!"

Helping her take the big clay pot off the stove and put it on the wooden table, he stared at the hot and bean-scented dough inside, his eyes lit up, and he asked suspiciously:

"What are we going to do now?"

"Leave it to me here, you go and make the fire more vigorous, and sit on two drawers of steamers."

"Okay!" Xiao Xiaoshen readily agreed and went to work.

Gu Yunxi touched the dough in the clay basin, the temperature was very hot, and it was inconvenient to start, so he turned around and went back to his house, and took two small porcelain bottles and a big bag of dry goods.

These are the chestnuts, red dates, and dried sweet oranges that she bought back on the street with a few blockers, as well as the melon seeds and walnut kernels that she and the Overseer peeled before.

Inside the glass bottle is a dye that she extracts from different flowers, vegetables and fruits, which is not only natural, but also has the fresh fragrance of flowers and fruits.

Gu Yunxi found a pounder, put the dry goods in the big cloth bag into the pounder, smashed it hard with a wooden pestle, and mixed it with honey and osmanthus sauce.

"What a sauce, it's so fragrant!"

Xiao Xiaoshen's nose is the most smart, and he has long smelled the fragrant osmanthus sauce~ mixed with a different fragrance of hundred fruits, the charm is tangy, and every wisp is sweet.

He leaned over to Gu Yunxi, reached out and grabbed the wooden spoon she used to mix the sauce and stuffed it into his mouth.

"What are you doing, give it back to me!"

Gu Yunxi was so angry that he slapped him with his hand: "This is the sugar filling for making flower cakes in a while, be careful that you get dirty!"

Xiao Xiaoshen looked at her deeply, and was infected by her surprised and angry look, leaned up with a hippie smile, and teased her without shame:

"That'...... You let me take a bite! ”

"See if I can't kill you today......" Gu Yunxi's cheeks suddenly turned crimson, and he picked up the rolling pin on the desk and raised it above his head.

"Good sister, I was wrong," Xiao Xiaoshen raised his two solid palms above his head, and bowed his head to Gu Yunxi to beg for mercy:

"It's not a joke, how dare I really gnaw......"

"You still say!"

Gu Yunxi's rolling pin was aimed straight at the bridge of his nose, and his red face was menacing.

"Hey...... I really don't dare! Whoever doesn't know that you are the Overseer's man, I dare to be lively at best......"

"Go! What nonsense! Why don't you hurry up and see if the water in the steamer is hot? ”

Hearing Xiao Xiaoshen deliberately mention Leng Qingtang, Gu Yunxi's heart trembled slightly, as if the calm lake water was dotting shallow ripples, and he was ashamed and uneasy.

Throwing the rolling pin, she glanced at Xiao Xiaoshen fiercely, and hurriedly twisted her burning face to the side.

Xiao Xiaoshen had already lifted the big lid of the steamer, and there was immediately billowing and sultry white smoke coming out of it.

The timing was just right—

Gu Yunxi soaked the two drawers in cold water and spread them one by one at the bottom of each drawer's steamer. Take advantage of the wet cloth, pour some of the soaked white and swollen glutinous rice on each of the two drawer cloths, press the porcelain, sprinkle a layer of sweet sauce on each layer of glutinous rice, and then spread a layer of glutinous rice, press the porcelain, repeat the sweet sauce, spread the glutinous rice, and sprinkle some rock sugar particles on the top of the glutinous rice layer, and then roll up the edge of the drawer cloth and cover the top layer of the glutinous rice cake to prevent the whole cooking process of the cake body from tilting out of shape in the cage drawer.

After everything was done, she instructed Xiao Xiaoshen to cover the lid of the steamer and steam it for a quarter of an hour.

The production of Chongyang sugar cake is over.

This will go to the son to see the tile pot on the wooden case, and the Jiang rice paste inside is already warm, which is the most critical moment to make flower cakes.

The noodles used to make the flower cake are different from the Chongyang sugar cake, and the main ingredient is mixed with bean noodles, so the batter should be cooked before wrapping to remove the fishy smell of the bean noodles. However, in this way, there is an inevitable drawback to the slurry dough mud, if the dough mud is completely cold, it will completely harden and stiffen into a lump, and it can not be wrapped in the filling.

The whole process of Gu Yunxi's steaming sugar cake is difficult to control if he does not have full experience, and the final result is usually that the sugar cake is steamed in the drawer, and the bean flour paste in the clay pot here has become cold and hard.

At this moment, the softness and hardness of the mud are suitable, grab some of them, and the texture is soft and flexible without sticking to your hands.

Gu Yunxi pinched up a small ball of noodles and put them in a porcelain sea, pulled off the stopper of the yellow vial he was holding in the house, and dripped two drops of bright yellow dye onto the dough in the porcelain sea. Then knead the dough with your hands so that the yellow dye is fully integrated with the dough. Soon, a ball of yellow bean dough was kneaded out.

Pull off the cork of the pink bottle, drip a few drops of pink dye into the pot, and knead vigorously in the same way until you knead a pink bean dough.

Take the board and apply a thin layer of cooking oil to it, so that the cake will not stick to the board when you prepare to place the cake later.

The next step is to make the flower cakes.

Gu Yunxi took a little pink dough and quickly kneaded and flattened it between the palms of his two hands. Take a spoonful of the sugar filling and put it in the center of the pink bean dough cake, carefully pinch the corners, wrap the sugar filling tightly, and then turn it upside down.

Use the thin tip of a bamboo skewer to press a chrysanthemum pattern on the surface of the smooth dough and place it on an oiled board to dry.

In the same way, Gu Yunxi wrapped twenty-eight dumplings, and the pattern on the surface of each dumpling was different. There are delicate peonies, delicate moon seasons, seductive roses, rich peonies, Qingye jasmine, and luxurious pomegranates......

Xiao Xiaoshen looked at the flower cakes of different shapes on the board, and the intestinal ringing in his stomach was clearly audible while envious.

Just as he was about to pinch a piece and taste it, Gu Yunxi opened his thief's hand with a palm.

"Don't be in a hurry, the cake hasn't dried yet!"

Xiao Xiaoshen had no choice but to step aside aggrievedly and continue to wait patiently.

The last step is to stick the wood rhino.

The wood rhinoceros, also known as osmanthus, is an indispensable flower for the celebration of the Double Ninth Festival. The process of making a wood rhino from bean noodles is very tedious and requires some effort.

Before making it, Gu Yunxi first asked Xiao Xiaoshen to extinguish the fire on the stove.

The Chongyang sugar cake in the steamer has already oozing the unique sweet taste of glutinous rice, indicating that the cake is completely ripe.

After extinguishing the fire, it is perfect to rely on the heat in the steamer to rebuild the fire!

Gu Yunxi cleaned his hands with clean water, dragged the porcelain sea containing the yellow bean dough over, pinched a small bit of yellow dough from it and held it in the palm of his hand, and began to hand-carve the wooden rhinoceros with a slender bamboo skewer in the other hand.

Xiao Xiaoshen leaned sideways next to the wooden case, staring intently and appreciatively at the busy goddess in his mind.

Her little hands are white and jade, and the orchid fingers that frequently provoke the bamboo sticks are making elegant hooks, with gentle movements and a different kind of charm.

A few rays of sunlight poured in through the gaps in the window lattices and cast them on these dexterous and soft hands, making them like fine mutton fat warm jade, hazy with crystal and brilliant brilliance.

At this moment, she was concentrating on fiddling with the work in her hand, and the clear cherry lip flap on the upper piece was slightly provoked, always with a warm and confident smile.

Although she was dressed in men's clothes, Xiao Xiaoshen felt that it did not affect her own beauty, on the contrary, the impression that was difficult to distinguish between male and female added a layer of mystery and temptation to her, which made people reverie unstoppable.

After a while, a cluster of bright yellow and slender wood rhinoceros flowers was born in Gu Yunxi's palm.

She held it in the sun, looked at it proudly and repeatedly, and the jade white hand put on the delicate flower and put together the beauty's face, it was really a pleasant and expressive work——

"Brother Xiaoshen, look ......"

She held up the small yellow four-petaled flower to his eyes, looking refreshing and happy.

"Beautiful!"

Xiao Xiaoshen didn't even glance at the small flowers in her palm, but stared at her face intently in admiration.

Although he was fascinated by it, Xiao Xiaoshen understood that such a girl with such a beautiful heart could never be owned by him.

Gu Yunxi carved a total of twenty-seven wooden rhinoceros. She divided the flowers into groups of nine, and the stems were pinched together to form three clusters.

The whole carving process not only tests handwork and patience, but also pays attention to skill. If the wood rhino carving in the back is slow, the flowers carved first will dry up and can no longer be pinched together to form a cluster.

After carving the wooden rhinoceros clusters, Gu Yunxi went to look at the flower cakes dried on the board. Fingers touch the cake body, it is not sticky or collapsed, and the flower cake has been completely dried.

Gu Yunxi embellished the top of three of them with wood rhinoceros. The pink and round flower cake is paired with golden wood rhino clusters, and the color is full and bright.

Xiao Xiaoshen stretched his neck and watched, sniffing repeatedly with his nose, and couldn't stop swallowing saliva into his stomach. The color of these flower cakes was so delicious that it completely aroused his appetite, but because they were so beautiful, he couldn't bear to open his teeth for a moment.

"Brother Xiao Shen, you help me open the lid of the steamer, and the Chongyang sugar cake can be taken out. After a while, you will eat, and then take some points to a few heads, today's Double Ninth Festival, I am filial to the elders, everyone celebrates the festival together is the most interesting! ”

"Okay—"

Xiao Xiaoshen happily did as Gu Yunxi instructed and lifted the big lid of the steamer. The white heat poured out with a fresh aroma of rice, and the smell overflowed to the outside of the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard, the three cooks smelled the fragrance and began to whisper to each other.

Gu Yunxiquan didn't hear it, took a big knife and dipped a little water, cut the rice cakes in the cage drawer into several small pieces, and stacked them into the big plate in turn.

With a little effort, the Chongyang sugar cake cooled.

The beige cake is covered with a five-color filling, one layer deep and one shallow. During the steaming process, the rock sugar particles on the surface are fully dissolved by heat, and the sticky sugar solution penetrates into the Jiangmi layer. After cooling, the syrup condenses and wraps in a sticky layer of Jiangmi, and when placed in a bright place, the cake body is like a layer of oil, constantly rolling with a round and clear light.

PS: In the next chapter, someone is going to be molested by the sullen eunuch, welcome to watch! Also, the day when the two will confirm their relationship is not far off-