When she arrived at the kitchen, Hua Qing knew that what Mo Huaijin wanted to show her was a mother-in-law with the surname "Sun", and Hua Qing called her Grandma-in-law.

Grandma Sun has black and white hair on her head, and when she smiles, her eye wrinkles bulge obviously, and she looks old.

"Grandma Sun, Hua Qing will follow you to learn cooking from now on, there is something in my army, so I will take the first step, and ask my mother-in-law to be more patient."

Granny Sun nodded in agreement and said, "That's as it should be." ”

So, after Mo Huaijin left, Hua Qing stayed in the kitchen and learned cooking skills from Grandma Sun, who asked:

"Miss, do you have any special specialties or favorite dishes?"

"Me? I don't actually know how to cook, my mother only taught me to cook clam porridge, so I can't cook anything other than how to cook clam porridge. ”

Grandma Sun listened, pinched her fingers and said:

"Miss, the female virtue examination is divided into the preliminary examination, the general examination and the palace examination. The first exam starts in eight days, and although you learn cooking from me, it is difficult for me to guarantee that you will be able to enter the palace exam. Since you represent the Zhaowang Mansion, you can't lose the face of the Zhaowang Mansion. In this way, you can cook a bowl of clam porridge for the first time, and you can cook a bowl of clam porridge for me to taste today. ”

Hua Qing obediently did so. She skillfully prepared the ingredients and cooked the porridge. When she handed a bowl of thick and fragrant clam porridge to Granny Sun, Granny Sun glanced at the color of the clam porridge and frowned:

"Food is full of color, aroma and taste, and color is the first place. Miss Hua, the clam porridge and leek leaves you cooked have lost their bright green, and the color of the porridge is not white enough. Lost at the beginning. ”

Granny Sun scooped another spoonful and put it in her mouth to chew, frowned and said:

"The porridge only has a faint salty taste, no layering, and it is not soft and glutinous enough, and the strengths of clams have not been brought into play, and the leeks have also lowered the taste bud experience."

When Hua Qing heard this, her mood couldn't help but feel a little heavier.

"So what should I do?"

"Refine your own recipes. For example, umami can be enhanced with carrots, shiitake mushrooms, chopped green onions, etc., and the aroma can also be enhanced with broth and shiitake mushrooms, and these ingredients themselves have a bright color, except for the green onions, which are added when they are ready to cook. There is also the rice before cooking porridge, you can soak it in advance, wait until the water in the pot is boiling, then put the rice in, cook until the rice boils, and then add sesame oil and a little fine salt, so that the cooked rice will taste softer and glutinous. Do you understand? ”

Hua Qing nodded.

"You try to do it first."

"Okay."

Hua Qing was busy looking for the ingredients that Grandma Sun said, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, and chopped green onions, but what kind of soup is the broth? She couldn't figure it out.

She first soaked the rice, then turned around to soak the dried shiitake mushrooms, then picked a fresh carrot, peeled it, cut it into sections, and then diced it.

Grandma Sun watched her work from the side, and it seemed that she still had some skills, so she was relieved.

"You do it yourself first, I'll go to Granny Li's to beg for tea, and come over later." If you have time, you can try stir-frying a few dishes, and I'll come back and pick them out when the time comes, and see what kind of dishes you are suitable for. ”

"Yes, mother-in-law."

After Grandma Sun left, Hua Qing started to make her clam porridge wholeheartedly. In order to save time, she started a stove to fly the clams before the porridge boiled.

When she added the ingredients to the porridge and began to simmer over low heat, she remembered what Grandma Sun had told her to try stir-fry a few dishes when she was leaving.

She looked at the remaining ingredients on the table, and thought, why don't you just cut some diced lotus root and fry it, and scramble some eggs.

She turned on two stoves, and when the fire was blazing, she poured oil into each pot. I was afraid that when I started stir-frying later, the fire would not be enough, so I lowered my head and went to add firewood. Then she went to wash her hands, washed her hands and then went to scoop up the lotus root soaked in the water, and just threw the lotus root into the pot, she heard a "collapse" sound, and the oil pot caught fire.

The splash of hot oil flew towards her, and she hurriedly raised her arm to cover her face, but the back of her palm and arm were burned. It hurts.

She didn't care about the burns on her body, and thought to herself, at this time, the fire in the stove was booming, and if she didn't pull out the firewood, she was afraid that the pot would burn through the bottom in a while, so she hurriedly lowered her head to remove the firewood in the stove, and put out the burning fire before throwing it back to the pyre.

But she was so flustered that she didn't notice the firewood that seemed to be extinguished but still had a red star, and throwing it back to the pyre was "letting the tiger return to the mountain", when she felt that her back was a little hot or even hot, she turned around and saw that the kitchen was burning! And the culprit was the pile of firewood mixed with the red star.

It's over, we have to put out the fire right away.

She went to the tank to get water, but found that because she had used water too hard just now, there were only a few spoonfuls of water left in the tank, and she splashed a spoonful of it, and the fire was not extinguished. Another spoonful, poured over, the fire intensified. She was dumbfounded as she looked at the raging flames in front of her.

Seeing that the two oil pots were on fire together, the firewood behind him was also burning together, and the casserole porridge that had just boiled the clams was also burned and exploded. Her heart was like an ant on a hot pot, anxious and tormented. What can I do?

All the dry things in the kitchen burned together, and it didn't take long for thick black smoke to start emitting.

Gotta find a way to extinguish the fire. She tried to put out the fire, but after stepping on it a few times, her shoes were burned and the soles of her feet were burned, and she didn't put out the fire. On the contrary, on the way to extinguish the fire, the dress also followed the fire, and the maid who heard the noise came in and looked at it, and was frightened.

hurriedly dragged her out, putting out the fire for her as she went, and the maid kept shouting:

"It's out of the water! Someone! Walk the water! ”

Hearing the noise and seeing the black smoke, the people in the house rushed to the kitchen.

Mo Huaijin had just come back from going out, and when he heard someone say that the kitchen was running out of water, he remembered that he had asked Hua Qing to follow Grandma Sun to learn cooking skills in the afternoon, and rushed to the kitchen without getting wet.

When I arrived, I saw that although the kitchen had not burned down, the items inside had turned into black charcoal, and some items had resurfaced and occasionally sparked. He grabbed one of his subordinates and asked:

"Did you see my scholar?"

"Miss Hua has been helped back to the Chengjian Palace."

Mo Huaijin didn't have time to take care of the disaster scene, turned around and rushed back to the Chengjian Palace, only to see the purple kite holding the water, and the green pothos wiping Hua Qing's face with a handkerchief. When the two saw Mo Huaijin coming in, they hurriedly put down their work and said:

"Lord Wang!"

Hua Qing felt that she was embarrassed and embarrassed, and it was the first time she cooked in the palace, but she burned down someone's kitchen.

Mo Huaijin walked up to her and saw that the water in the purple kite basin was black.

Hua Qing always covered her face with her hand, and Mo Huaijin broke it hard to open her hand that was covering her face, black and white unevenly, that look, like a flower cat, cute and pitiful. A burning smell spread in the air, Mo Huaijin's nose was looking for the source of the burning smell, and when he smelled her, he hurriedly turned around and ordered:

"Put water in the bath for Miss."

"Whoa."

The purple kite and the pothos went out to prepare water, and Hua Qing opened her mouth at this time:

"I'm sorry, I accidentally burned down your kitchen, I tried to put out the fire, but I didn't expect the fire to get bigger and bigger."

"If you burn it, burn it, and it's okay if you're okay. You should take a shower later, it is not enough to wash your face, otherwise you will feel uncomfortable sleeping at night. Because you also have ash stains on your neck, and your hair smells burnt, and you will have to change your clothes after a while. ”

"Hmm."

"You said you tried to put out the fire? Do you have burns? ”

Hua Qing was silent. Mo Huaijin noticed that the shoes under her feet had been burned with a few holes, so she lowered her head to take off her shoes. She subconsciously shrank her feet, and her face burned red again.

"When is it? You're still going to defend me against these men and women? Moreover, in southern Xinjiang, I have seen men and women walking barefoot, and I don't think that southern Xinjiang should abide by these etiquettes and stick out their feet like we do in the Central Plains. ”

Hua Qing gritted her teeth, and watched it if she wanted to.

"Your feet are blistered."

He frowned in distress.

Seeing that Hua Qing had been holding her behind his back, he knew her too well, and he must have deliberately avoided it because he didn't want to let him see it, so he took her hand and looked at it, and it was okay to see that it was okay, but when he saw that the back of his hand and the palm of his hand were also heavily burned. He couldn't help but frown even deeper.

"Someone, Chuan Su asked."