Chapter 2 The Oily Oil

The dry flour is stir-fried and has a very beautiful golden color.

The aroma is soft, with hints of sweetness and ripe heat.

Chen Er shoveled out the fried flour and served it in a glass bowl.

"There's another way to make this simmered noodle."

"Add a little mutton fat to the pan and stir-fry the flour over low heat."

"The simmered noodles that come out of this are also called oil tea."

"Which approach you choose is a matter of personal taste."

Then start preparing the other ingredients.

Dou Yitong brought over the purple casserole for making soup.

Remove the lotus root and yam, drain the water, and put them neatly in the pot.

Then pour in a small bowl of prepared astragalus.

Chen Er picked up a bowl of dark red scum for everyone to see.

"It's one of today's secret weapons, sake lees."

"Sake lees are the residues left over from brewing rice, wheat, sorghum, etc."

"Today's sake lees, but I bought it when I bought wine."

Chen Er poured a little dark red wine lees into his hand and twisted it with his fingers.

"It's kind of like sand, but not as handy as sand."

Look down and smell it again.

"The aroma is very strong, and there is a bit of natural sweetness after fermentation. It's not intoxicating, but it tastes a little sour and bitter in the aftertaste. ”

After pouring the lees into the pot.

Chen Er cut two more pieces of palm-sized mutton into the pot, both of which were very small, about the size of a thumb.

"Now it's almost all the ingredients that should be put in."

"Yam, lotus root, astragalus, mutton, sake lees."

Chen Er stretched out a finger, "The ingredients to be put in now are still the same." ”

Dou Yitong brought a wine jar.

Chen Er patted his bulging belly, and then pulled the wine cork.

He took a deep breath and nodded.

"This is Jimo old wine."

"The sake lees just now are the lees of Jimo old wine."

Chen Er hugged the wine jar and poured more than half of the wine into it.

Cover all the ingredients until you can't see anything.

"Jimo old wine is today's secret ingredient two."

The pot is almost full.

All the ingredients were pressed to the bottom of the pot, and only the rich aroma of rice wine could be smelled in the kitchen.

"Rice wine is one of the oldest liquors in the world, originating from China, and only in China, and is known as the world's three ancient liquors along with beer and wine. About 3,000 years ago, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese people created the original compound fermentation method of koji and began to brew rice wine in large quantities. ”

"Jimo old wine is the best variety of rice wine."

"It has the characteristics of magnificent color, rich smell, unique fragrance, warm nature and mellow texture."

Chen Er put the lid on the pot, then brought the pot to the stove and simmered on low heat.

"Because rice wine is added to the ingredients, you can only use low heat, otherwise the aroma of the wine will volatilize too quickly, and the ingredients in this pot will be wasted."

Chen Er glanced at the time.

"Half an hour is up, and you can put lily petals in the mutton soup."

Chen Er walked to the stove where the mutton soup was boiling with a small basket of lily petals.

As soon as the lid of the pot was lifted, a large puff of thick white smoke floated out.

It's like a small town in Jiangnan where it rains for a month or two.

The fog was thick and light smoke shrouded in light.

It seems that even the scent in the air carries a touch of moisture.

Chen Er grabbed a handful of lily petals and reached through the thick mist in front of him, the lily petals were stained with a thin layer of mist, and then fell into the pot one after another as if they were being beaten down by raindrops.

After putting all the petals into the pot, Chen Er didn't stir it, and directly covered the pot.

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to the bowl of simmered noodles and a bowl of yellow oil on the table, "These two things have to wait until they are almost cooked." ”

Dou Yitong picked up the bowl of yellow and clear oil, sniffed it, but was choked.

"Master, this oil is so sassy......"

Lustful oil, what an adjective is this.

"It's mutton fat, right?" Dou Yitong put down the oil in disgust.

Chen Er nodded, "This is sheep's tail oil." ”

Dou Yitong muttered, "The sheep's butt is so fat, no wonder the oil boiled out is so angry......"

At this time, the restaurant is already a bit lively.

Ji Qingqing (sunny day) and Guan Shan (big eat) have already entered the restaurant.

Taking advantage of the gap when Shen Yinian went to the restaurant to serve tea, Ji Qingqing chatted with Guan Shan for a few words.

Ji Qingqing looked at her young age, she should have just started college.

The upper body wore a very simple white T, and the lower side wore an ankle-length silver-gray gauze skirt, with a few small white flowers embroidered on the corners of the skirt.

The whole person looks very clean and refreshing, with the liveliness and cuteness unique to a young girl.

Guan Shan's age looks like he's going to be older, it's estimated that he looks like twenty-eight or nine, and he looks like a sullen IT elite man.

often asks Ji Qingqing to say ten sentences before he answers.

Ji Qingqing looked around and talked to Guan Shan.

"Chen Laoshi's restaurant is amazing, and it is decorated like a costume theater in Hengdian."

"Have you ever been to Hengdian?"

"It's pretty there, but there are too many people! I went there to squat a little, find some popular artists to sign autographs, and then sell them! ”

"You don't know how difficult it is for a popular artist to wait, once I waited from 8 o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock in the evening before he came out of the studio......"

“……”

Guan Shan sat very calmly, but his heart was not so calm.

Isn't it talking about the renovation of the restaurant? Why did you suddenly pull it elsewhere??

Seeing that Guan Shan didn't answer himself, Ji Qingqing was not angry, but continued to look at the restaurant.

She stared at the silver floor tiles on the ground and said, "This floor tile is silver, the carving is so exquisite, it can't be silver, right?" ”

As he spoke, he bent down and reached out to touch a floor tile.

I didn't find a reason for touching it for a long time.

Then he muttered, "You just can't pick it off, if you can pick it off and take a bite, you should be able to know if it's made of silver!" ”

When Guan Shan heard this, he finally had an expression on his face.

He looked at Ji Qingqing in shock, and seemed a little speechless.

Ji Qingqing set her eyes on a few pots of green peony flowers on the side of the wall.

"Huh! You see! Green flowers! ”

"Is this true or false?"

Ji Qingqing leaned over and sniffed it very curiously, and smelled the faint fragrance of flowers coming from her nose.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, "It's amazing!" It's true! It's the first time I've seen a green flower grow so big! ”

Guan Shan finally couldn't hold back his mouth.

"This is a peony, a green peony, it should be a precious variety of peonies, bean green ......"

Ji Qingqing blinked her eyes, looking very interested.

"Bean green, the name is good, but I think the green of this peony is a bit like jasper, not so pure green."

Ji Qingqing asked Guan Shan, "What do you think?" ”

Guan Shan heard her say this, and then carefully looked at the pots of green peonies.

I saw that the petals were very thin, the flowers were in full bloom, the leaves were small and many, and from a distance, the flowers were very shallow, and the flowers and leaves overlapped, and for a while I couldn't tell where the flowers were and which were the leaves.

As Ji Qingqing said, the green of this peony flower is indeed not pure green, green with green, and blue in green.

Speaking of which, it's more like a turquoise.

Ji Qingqing dragged her chin with both hands, admiring those pots of words.

Guan Shan's eyes suddenly widened as if he thought of something.

"Could this be Ou Jiabi?"

"But isn't the breed of Ou Jiabi lost?"

Ji Qingqing didn't understand what Ou Jiabi was, and thought it was a personal name.

Guan Shan was in a rare mood to explain.

"Ou Jiabi is a peony variety in the Song Dynasty, which was lost in the Ming Dynasty, and later generations replaced it with 'rain and sunny weather'. Doulu is a variety of the Ming Dynasty, out of AH Bozhou Deng's. ”

Ji Qingqing was surprised, "How do you know so much?" ”

Guan Shan glanced at her, "Because my family specializes in selling peony flowers." ”