In the middle of the morning, Meituan, the little maidservant girl of the Shen family, watched the movement in the alley, took an ox cart hired by a neighbor who opened a spice shop, and went to Fanlou.

"Fan Building" was originally called "Alum Building", because the boundary was originally the place where alum was stored, and after becoming a restaurant, "Alum" was also changed to "Fan".

Fan Lou is a restaurant at the aircraft carrier level in Kyoto in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is usual, and the sales of pigs, sheep, fish, shrimp, chickens, ducks, and quails are also the best in Kaifeng City. These days coincide with the Dragon Boat Festival, the public holiday, the folk frolic, Bianjing City is crowded with people, the business of restaurants is blowout, Fan Lou is such an industry leader, and the ingredients in stock are naturally abundant.

On the food list of Fan Lou, there are three signature chicken dishes: splendid shredded chicken, crystal chicken breast, and fried stuffed pipa legs.

Meituan has several fellow villagers who fled from the north of the Yellow River to work in Fanlou's kitchen and stove, and they often interact with Meituan on weekdays, so they can't help but boast of Fanlou's exquisite cooking skills.

We mean it when it comes to making chickens.

It will never be like a low-end restaurant that only knows how to cook soup and eat it.

Meituan is a wise little girl, even if she can tell that her fellow villagers have a disdain for the restaurant, she is not angry, but follows them to ask a few words, and contributes five or six points of intellectual worship.

Meituan got the task assigned by the little master last night, and when he went to bed, he had a plan, and prepared to go to Fanlou today, and ask for chicken feet from the villagers who can't get a high-end restaurant menu and will definitely be cut off and abandoned.

At this time, in the stove room of the Shen family's small courtyard, Yao Huan was raising the stove with great interest.

When she went to the farmhouse for the company's team building, other colleagues were playing cards or taking selfies to retouch pictures, and she liked to go to the spacious stove of the owner of the farmhouse and watch the local cooks cook.

It has been tested in practice to be a useful living facility, and people will not change it when they are full.

Yao Huan went into the stove of his aunt's house and found that for thousands of years, this equipment that supported the fireworks in the world looked similar.

Yao Huan roughly watched Meituan demonstrate the use of the ignition last night. At this moment, she picked up the bamboo tube containing dried reeds and white phosphorus by the stove, pulled out the lid and blew lightly, and the reed flocs that poked out of her head were like the core of a lighter, bursting out of small clusters of flames.

Yao Huan held the torch in one hand, lifted the iron tongs with the other, clamped a ball of puffy pine needles, and approached the torch. The pine needles were on fire.

Yao Huan quickly pincered the pine needle fire ball into the upper layer of the stove, and concocted it in the same way, igniting the second and third regiments......

In a moment, the orange in the stove was bright and dazzling.

The cost of pine needles and dead leaves stored in winter is not high, and the dry firewood cut into thin strips should be saved. Yao Huan pinched a few firewood sticks in, and observed the well water in the iron pot on the stove, just like the soup base of the small hot pot in the restaurant, there were obvious signs of boiling, so she was reluctant to add more firewood, only added a few more clumps of pine needles, and then got up and crossed her waist to look at the water surface.

A victorious start!

Many famous scenes of costume dramas that are worried about being smoked and choked have not appeared.

Yao Huan's confidence increased greatly. Sure enough, as long as the fuel is dry enough and fully burned instantly, it is safe.

In Aunt Shen Fuzhi's stove, there are peppercorns, cinnamon, shallots, onions, ginger and garlic. Yao Huan twisted a set of seasonings and sprinkled them in the pot, and soon smelled the spicy steam that every real chef would be sensitive to.

This taste is like a clarion call to encourage a chef to show his skills.

At this time, Meituan, a little maid with super individual combat ability, returned triumphantly with a big bag of chicken feet.

"So much!" Yao Huan was surprised and delighted.

Meituan smiled indifferently: "They are all fellow villagers who have suffered together, so they naturally take care of it, not to mention that I usually wear high hats for them......"

Yao Huan knew that Meituan went to Fanlou, and in later generations, it was impossible not to mention the food of the Northern Song Dynasty.

She once again stamped Meituan as a personal essence, and she could even imagine the scene when these Hebei (Yellow River North) compatriots got together.

It must be like a common alumni association in later generations, with successful people who are interested in scolding Fang Xuan, and there are also Luther who is lonely and speechless in the eyes of everyone, and there are even members like Meituan who are not in the autumn, because they are actually satisfied with their lives, so they smile freely, praise this and that, and enliven the atmosphere, and they have no loss.

Not only is there no loss, no, good popularity can also be exchanged for real convenience.

Yao Huan checked a few chicken paws and said strangely: "This chicken foot is not small." ”

Meituan smiled: "This is not a little boy chicken, it is a gelding." Fan Lou could afford the price, so the chicken dealer took the little rooster gelding, spent a few more months of food, raised it and sent it to Fan Lou. The rooster gelding, not fierce, lazy, grows very fast, the meat is many and tender, and the claws are naturally thick. ”

Yao Huanxin said, too, the job of gelding does not need modern equipment, and in a society like the Northern Song Dynasty that strives for excellence in eating, the existence of steers with delicate meat is also in line with the logic of foodies.

The master and servant stopped gossiping, poured the washed chicken feet into boiling water with condiments, and boiled for a quarter of an hour, and the stove was filled with the rich aroma of chicken soup.

Meituan, who is well-informed in cooking, couldn't help but admire: "Mother, it turns out that the chicken feet are boiled, so fragrant." ”

Yao Huan was also a little convinced, such as the fake free-range chicken is really of excellent quality, she used to cook the batch chicken feet from farms that are common on the e-commerce platform, but it is not so fragrant.

Meituan scooped up a chicken foot with a fence and gave it to Yao Huan to look at.

"When it's cooked, put it all in the well water."

Three catties of steaming chicken feet were neatly soaked by Meituan into a huge basin filled with well water. The cold well water quickly cooled the chicken feet, and a shallow layer of oil splashed on the surface of the water.

"Let's go to the courtyard to clean up, the stove is too dark, and I cut my hands carefully." Yao Huan said.

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Shao Qing got out of the ox cart with the medicine box, turned around and nodded to the coachman to thank him, and paid the fare.

"When is the gentleman going to use the car, the small one will pick it up." The coachman wiped a handful of sweat, and his tanned black and red face was full of flattering smiles.

Those who make a living in this way, coming and going in the wind and rain, or teaching the scorching sun to faint, are not great sufferings, and they are most afraid of encountering rude and unreasonable guests who pick quarrels and provoke trouble. Due to the lack of living and the fare earned by the driver every day, it is not easy to support his wife and children, and he has no money left to decorate the carriage and prepare soft brocade curtains, so it is difficult to pull the citizens of a good family who travel. His ordinary guests often have prodigal children and even hooligans, if they drink or are in a bad mood, don't say that they rely on the fare, it is good not to kick you a few times when you get out of the car.

But today, the driver really felt lucky to receive such a gentleman who was decent and got off the car and gave him double the fare. When Fang Cai Langjun came to hire a car, he deliberately took the initiative to open the door panel of the carriage for the guests to take a look, for fear that the other party would dislike the dirty and ugly inside, and stain the silk robe embroidered with green bamboo patterns. I didn't want this Lang Jun to say much, so I just boarded the bus and reported my destination.

Shao Qing had already turned around to leave, and when he heard the meaning of the coachman's words, he turned around and smiled, and after a little thought, he said warmly: "You go elsewhere first, and after an hour, I will still get in the car here, how about it?" ”

The coachman couldn't help but be overjoyed, and shouted at the ox cart to leave.

Shao Qing entered the alley, paced a few steps unhurriedly, and saw a child squatting under the eaves peeling broad beans, so he stepped forward and said, "Brother, which is Sister-in-law Shen's house?" ”

The child looked up at him and said in a childish voice, "Is there a bride who is looking for the family to die?" Well, a hundred steps forward, there is a row of wormwood hanging on the little red door. ”

Shao Qing thanked the doll, walked faster, and arrived at the door of Shen Fu's house, but saw that white smoke was rising from the chimney on the roof of the courtyard, and before he could knock on the door, he had already smelled a strong fragrance of chicken soup.