Xie Mulin only learned about Mrs. Lin's fooling of Mrs. Xie from the servant of the old mansion who went to the city to buy it the next day.

Mrs. Lin specially brought a letter to her, reassuring her that she and Pearl would work hard to persuade Mrs. Xie to reconcile and live in harmony with the Xie clan as much as possible.

Xie Mulin is actually not very obsessed with reconciling Mrs. Xie with the Xie clan, but he is a little tired of the former's state that the Xie clan will rebel and the Song clan will scold. Mrs. Xie's attitude is quite in the way, and it somewhat affects Xie Mulin's daily life. Although she feels that living in the old house and not having to be regulated by her elders makes her life easier, she has to get together with her relatives, go to school, and take care of social interactions with relatives and friends in the clan.

She was consciously guiding Mrs. Xie to let go of her resentment against her clansmen, after all, what happened back then was that Mrs. Xie owed more to her clansmen, and she was not qualified to lose her temper. At the same time, Xie Mulin is also assisting his mother Wen to establish a good relationship with the clansmen, and like his father Xie Pu, within the scope of his ability, he compensates those clansmen who have been damaged by Mrs. Xie's actions and calms the resentment in their hearts. So far, so far, everything is going well. As long as Mrs. Xie puts down her body first, the Xie clan vents a few words and vents her anger, and the matter is over.

It's good for all.

After Xie Pu was imprisoned and released, he changed his unhurried mind in the past, and desperately hoped to restore normal and good relations with the clan, get help from it, and repay them for what they had done for him. On the other hand, Xie Pu is indeed the most accomplished person in the officialdom of the Xie family so far, after the Xie family's children came out, there was a high-ranking official to guide and shelter, and many things could become much smoother. The two complement each other, one loses both, and the other prospers, and can no longer be alienated because of Mrs. Xie's selfish temper.

However, this matter cannot be done in a day or two, and Xie Mulin can only slowly "train" Mrs. Xie. The work on the clan side has the Wen family, the clan and the Song family, so she doesn't need to worry about it, she only needs to be in charge of Mrs. Xie alone. Now, Pearl and Mrs. He have secretly expressed their loyalty and are willing to do things for her, so why shouldn't she do it?

Now Shermulin's attention was on the dim sum. Xie Yingfen and her cousin Yang Yuan's birthdays were both after the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and they discussed celebrating their birthdays together, setting up a dim sum banquet, and making a few dim sum that they had never eaten before.

Xie Yingfen flipped through the dim sum recipes copied from the "old books" that Xie Mulin bought from Suzhou, and felt that there were several that were easy to make, but there were also some materials that I didn't know what they were. However, this did not prevent her from taking out her sister's dim sum recipe to show off to her new friend Yang Yuan.

Yang Yuan has lived in Huyin since he was a child, and he is used to seeing pastries in the Taihu Lake area, as well as a few northern dim sum passed from his grandmother Song from his hometown of Beiping, and he feels that he also has the capital to show off in front of his new friends. So the two little girls just made a fuss.

When Xie Mulin returned to the new house from the old house, he found that the two of them had collected all kinds of raw materials, ingredients, and tools, and even prepared a new steamer and oven. The pot is freshly made, and the stove is newly built in the kitchen yard of the two-bedroom house after consulting the Song family, which is said to be the style commonly used by ordinary people in Beiping thirty or forty years ago. Xie Mulin went to visit and found that although this furnace is a little smaller, it can really be used, and it is quite convenient to use, although it is not on his own territory, but he can't ask for more.

So she began to take her two bear children to study and make dim sum.

The easiest thing to do is to steam dim sum. All kinds of steamed buns, flower rolls, xiaolongbao, and dumplings from the north and south of the Yangtze River were tried by Xie Mulin with his two younger sisters, which was regarded as a warm-up. Although the fermentation technology of this era is still relatively backward, there are no modern commonly used materials, and even the types of flour are not so meticulously divided, the various pastries made under such simple conditions still make Xie Yingfen and Yang Yuan excited. Even the Song family, who was quite familiar with the northern side, was full of praise for what they had made.

In fact, Xie Mulin felt that every time the three of them learned to make a new kind of dim sum, the things they tried to make two or three times at first would definitely not be delicious, but later they became proficient, and because of the lack of materials, the taste could not be compared with the dim sum she was used to eating in modern times. But the Song family is so face-saving, of course she has to accept this love.

After Xie Mulin took his two younger sisters and tried all kinds of big bags, xiaolong, dumplings with different fillings, wontons, as well as flower rolls and steamed pies, he began to challenge the slightly more difficult yellow cakes, rice cakes, bee sugar cakes, mille-feuille cakes, mille-feuille cakes, bean paste rolls, three-color cakes and so on. Of course, in the process of manual operation, the link that requires hard work and patience is done by the girls. Of course, the ladies don't bother to make that effort.

Yang Yuan didn't know where to get some stone cauliflower, and boiled out the agar, giving Xie Mulin a chance to challenge almond tofu, mountain slag crystal cake, osmanthus crystal cake and other dim sum.

Originally, Xie Yingfen and Yang Yuan were already very satisfied, and began to discuss what method to use to make the dim sum they learned more delicate and small, and the presentation was beautiful when feasting, but Xie Mulin turned to stir up the baked dim sum.

At the beginning, all kinds of shortbread were baked, as long as there was flour, sugar, lard or soybean oil, plus some sesame seeds, peanuts, green and red silk, bean paste and other ingredients, you could bake a shortbread with a good taste, but because there were no ingredients such as baking soda, the taste could not be compared with what Xie Mulin had tasted in modern times, and I felt that the noodles tasted dead and not sweet enough, but Xie Yingfen and Yang Yuan, and even Song and Wen were very satisfied.

After Xie Mulin added eggs and buffalo milk to the dim sum, they almost began to scream, and said repeatedly: "This must be the secret recipe of a time-honored dim sum brand!" How did they end up outside? It was even printed as a book to sell! ”

Xie Mulin had no choice but to pretend that the book was not printed, but copied, and it was also so badly eaten by insects that he could not read it anymore. Song sighed: "It's a pity! Such a thing should have been passed down from generation to generation and kept secret, but who knew that it was left in the bookstore and ignored. If it weren't for the real sister, you had a relationship with it and found this book, God knows how many years it would have been buried? This is a good thing that can be passed down to the family, and you must put it away carefully. ”

Then she began to sigh that the child's family was not sensible, so she casually took out such a secret recipe for her sisters to play, and felt that her granddaughter had taken a big advantage. She specially copied a copy of several big dishes handed down by her family and gave them to the Wen family to collect: "I used to think that these things can only be given to Jinzhi's daughter-in-law in the future, but they cannot be passed on to the real sister." But the child is generous, and I can't let her suffer as an elder. You keep these prescriptions for her, and make makeup when she gets married in the future. ”

Wen solemnly put away the recipe and said to his daughter in private: "You really took advantage of it!" These recipes, when I was young, I saw the second room for the New Year and the festival, and they appeared on the banquet, but I don't know if I haven't eaten them for a few years. I heard that it is something handed down by the ancestors of the second old lady's mother's family, and there are a few things that are still passed down from the Yanwang Mansion! Especially the Buddha jumping over the wall, I grew so big, I only ate it twice. With these as a dowry, no matter what kind of family you marry into in the future, you can cook and honor your in-laws during the New Year. You have to remember the great kindness of your grandmother! ”

Xie Mulin remembered several different versions of the Buddha jumping over the wall in the study space, touched his nose, and responded with a smile.

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