Diancui opened one of the snack boxes, and there was nothing in it, only four or five large crabs, which were bundled with thatch and could not move. In the other snack box, there is a small cup of fat and thin minced meat, another small cup of ginger, garlic, and green onions, and then there is a small clay pot with a narrow mouth of raw oil, lard, soy sauce, and sealed with oil paper.

Originally, Aunt Xing prepared some roast chicken and goose fried meat with her, but they were all rejected by Diancui, and when she was a maid who was favored by Aunt Xing and ate some good things, outsiders would not say anything, but when she went outside, she couldn't be so public. Right now, it's the time for crab fat, and it's cheap, two big money can buy a basket, the master has leftovers, and he can't eat it the next day, so she takes this as a meal.

The crabs were washed in the stream with a small brush, put them in a pot, boiled in boiling water, and peeled them off one by one, put the crab meat, crab roe and crab paste in one place, mixed with five points of fat and lean minced meat, re-wrapped in the shell, put the soy sauce, ginger, green onion, garlic pepper and flour, the crab shell swirled in it, and immediately put it in hot oil and fried it......

The sound of sizzling and cheering, followed by the unique fresh fragrance of crab roe, instantly wafted away. Scattered around this elegant and quiet ginkgo tree, the wisps spread farther and farther.

The fragrant salty silk is crunchy, and when you bite into it, the crab meat inside is soft and juicy......

Diancui ate three and was full, the other two took advantage of the tropics to return to the workshop, the others were resting and eating tea, and Su Xue should also take a rest. Yueniang sat at the stone table in the courtyard, and Diancui quietly stuffed the two into Yueniang's hands.

Yueniang blushed, and said I'm not hungry, but I can't bear the pouting of the green, and the taste is too fragrant, so she turned her back and ate it small and fast.

"Can you eat this tomorrow?" Yueniang suddenly asked after eating.

Diancui smiled and said I'll eat next to it tomorrow, Sister Yueniang will still be waiting for me in the courtyard tomorrow, Yueniang is not polite, and nodded with a smile.

On the second day, Diancui ate simply, only brought a piece of lean meat, cut the lean meat into thin slices, washed with soy sauce, put it into a red pot on the fire, stir-fry until it was white, then take it out and cut it into shreds, and then add pickled melon, bad radish, garlic, sand kernels, grass fruit, pepper, orange shreds, sesame oil and stir-fry. Drizzled with aged vinegar, it is served with a thin sheet of bread, and it is very delicious.

Of course, Diancui didn't forget to leave a copy for Yueniang.

On the third day, I ate yellow finches.

On the fourth day, I ate a small fish caught from the stream, and I don't know what ingredients she put in, in short, Yueniang felt a strange fragrance when she ate it, and even the fish bones were crispy.

At noon on the fifth day, Diancui brought another food box and put it under the ginkgo tree to find the hidden pot and stove.

Didn't find it.

But under a tree, I saw a drunken old man, and the old man looked dirty and dirty, but his face was clean.

"Old man, who are you, and how did you come to the homecoming workshop?" Diancui asked curiously.

The old man glanced at her, to be exact, he glanced at her with the corner of his eye, and said, "Which little girl are you, who come here every day to steal food and disturb my rest, which is really annoying." ”

The old man's voice was low, and he was not angry.

"So this is your chassis! Disrespectful, disrespectful! My name is Diancui, when I first came to your land, I only made some food to eat, and I left after eating, and you still rested yours, don't worry about me. Dian Cui didn't demolish him, this is obviously a place to return home, she has never seen this grumpy old man, but Dian Cui thought he was interesting, so he deliberately said that.

The old man snorted, and there was nothing he could do about a faceless little girl like Diancui.

"The old man can see my pot and stove?" Diancui searched around, but still couldn't find it.

"What are you going to eat today?" The old man didn't answer the rhetorical question, not to mention that the food made by this girl could arouse the cravings in her stomach just by smelling it.

Dian Cui smiled, the pot and stove must have been hidden by this old man.

"The crab roe that Aunt Xing bought today is particularly fat, or make crab stuffing, if the old man is willing to give me the pot, he will make two more crabs for you to make wine and food!" Dian Cui said and took out the lid of the snack box, and sure enough, there were several fat and big crabs.

"Hmph, who is rare about your crab roe...... the old man looked disdainful, but he staggered to his feet, and took out the set of cooking utensils from the branch above his head with her.

Dian Cui ignored his cold words, only took the pot and went to the stream to fetch water briskly.

The old man looked at the little cui and took the kitchen knife to chop it, chopped the raw crab in an instant, boiled it with sesame oil first, and took out various seasoning powders from a small clay pot, and then added green onions, salt, and vinegar, which had more than ten flavors, and mixed them in the crab......

"It's a terrible thing to use a good pair of jewelry-making hands to do such rough work...... the old man frowned.

Diancui weighed the crab sheng plate, and was about to serve him wine, when he listened to the old man's mean words, and he hesitated.

When I got closer, I saw that although the old man's clothes were dirty and wrinkled, they were precious Hangzhou silk!

Thinking that it was a willful old man from a rich family who ran out to play, Dian Cui thought to himself, and looked at his own hand because of his words.

The palms are small and round, the fingers should be thin and long, but the joints are protruding, the hands are calloused, and in winter they should be full of chilblains...... Diancui was overshadowed, she didn't know how important these hands were as a jewelry craftsman, but what kind of identity she was now, what kind of life she had before, it was good to live.

Stuffing the plate into the old man's arms, Diancui stopped talking to him with his head bored, and he didn't have the energy to make crab stuff as before.

It's been five days, Diancui looked up at the Miaoshou Pavilion, but there was no movement at all, but three days ago, there were still people looking through the windows of the pavilion, but the windows were closed tightly for the past two days.

It seems that he thinks simply, how can those masters pay attention to this little idea.

The old man ate some crab sheng made of cui, and then took a sip of wine, squinting beautifully, and then looking at some cui ignoring himself, he looked for something to talk about.

"You cook food in the backyard of this Miaoshou Pavilion every day, and it's all delicious, but what are your plans?" The old man's expression changed to see through the little trick.

Diancui was depressed, and when he heard the old man say this, he snorted: "Yes, I just want to use these foods to lure the masters in the attic down, what's the matter, can't you?" ”

The old man glanced at her and said You are honest, do you want to enter the Wonderful Hand Pavilion?

He didn't raise his head and snorted.

"But as far as I know, without extraordinary talent and hairpin-making skills, ordinary people will not be able to enter the Miaoshou Pavilion." The old man said slowly while eating crabs.

"Even if you can't go in and be an apprentice, it's ...... to do chores and cook food for the masters," Diancui whispered dejectedly.

The old man sneered and said, "It's really useless, if you don't learn to make hairpins when you enter the pavilion, what's the use of entering?!" "The old man has some hatred that iron does not make steel.

It's better to make food for these mediocre people, it's better to make food for my old man, the old man thought with disdain.

In the Miaoshou Pavilion, Mrs. Liu sneezed, and took a breath and said: "Such a fresh and fragrant taste, why do you have to close the window, and if you can't eat it, you can't let people smell it?" ”

Yu Niangzi glanced at her: "Open the window, what kind of window to open, smell the smell, you can't eat it, it's even more uncomfortable!" ”

"Hey, why does that little girl have to cook food on the other side of the stream, come to our side, and I'll go down and take her as an apprentice at once." Mrs. Liu sighed.

"Master!" Liu Xiaoyu, the only apprentice of Liu Niangzi, frowned and was displeased: "Do you have to change apprentices for the sake of eating with ideas?" ”

Mrs. Liu forgot that Liu Xiaoyu was still by her side, so she had to stop talking, but she was still thinking about what the little girl was doing today.

"The two junior sisters have rested their minds, they are making such a fuss for the sake of eating for ideas, and it won't chill the lady's heart when it reaches the ears of the lady." They enjoyed the best treatment in the Miaoshou Pavilion, and they were satisfied, and the two meals a day were also well-cooked eaters, but it was inevitable that they were a little tired at noon, and then asked about the strange and fragrant food cooked by the little maid, and they lost their sense of proportion for a while.

Besides, on the other side of the stream, that is where Guo Lao is, his old man is quiet and temperamental, and he is not allowed to cross the stream, how dare they go over and be scolded?

Let's say that Cui took a lesson from the old man, and laughed angrily.

"There are only three masters in the Miaoshou Pavilion, and each master also has an apprentice, what can I do if I don't do chores?"

The little green gas returned to anger, but the work in his hands did not fall, and the crab stuff was fried neatly with his hands and feet, and he put it in his mouth and ate it as if he was angry.

The old man swallowed his saliva at the crab stuffing, knocked on the empty plate in front of him, and said, "You just want to learn how to make hairpins?" ”

Of course she wants to, otherwise what is she doing here with so much effort, of course, in addition to learning hairpins, she can't just tell others about the other purpose of wanting to enter the Miaoshou Pavilion.

"This crab stuffed, your old tooth ......" Dian Cui looked at the old man and was just in a bad temper, but as a person who was also a good eater, Dian Cui had no ill feelings towards him.

"Hmph, don't underestimate the old man." The old man bared his teeth.

Diancui snorted and laughed, this little old man is quite interesting.

"You can't eat too much if your teeth are good, you come back tomorrow, I'll make something soft and delicious." Diancui handed him only one.

The old man took it awkwardly, and saw that this girl was still kind-hearted.

Dian Cui didn't care what he thought, and saw that the side door of the Miaoshou Pavilion was still not open, so he had to pack up the food box and go back to the workshop.

For half a month, the side door of the Miaoshou Pavilion was never opened, and even the windows above were tightly closed at noon.

Seeing this, Diancui finally became discouraged, it seems that this method does not work.

Saying goodbye to the old man, the old man followed the half-moon meal, and was always weird at first, but he saw that this girl had a good temperament, didn't like to be angry, and had a sweet mouth, and either ignored his strange temper or deliberately didn't put salt in the dishes he was given......

These two tricks can really restrain this old man.

The old man is no longer weird, and turned to inquire about Dian Cui's life experience, the old man is actually an extremely good chance to talk, Dian Cui met him is a little fox met the old fox, as long as he wants to know, there is nothing he can't inquire.

Diancui's idea, except for her rebirth and her life experience, she didn't say anything about these two points, and the rest was clearly and cleanly covered by this old man's words.

The old man knew about Dian Cui, and Dian Cui sometimes asked him, but the old man either pretended not to hear, or looked left to talk about him.

"The little girl won't come in the future?" The old man was very reluctant to eat what she cooked.

Diancui nodded, since this method couldn't be her entering the Miaoshou Pavilion, she had to try other methods, and she couldn't come again for a while.

The old man saw that she had packed up her things, and finally sighed and said, "Tomorrow you will bring some hairpin-making utensils and materials and come here to find me." ”

After eating food for so many days, you can't eat it in vain.

"Really?" Dian Cui's originally drooping shoulders straightened suddenly, and his eyes turned into squinting eyes: "Thank you, Guo Lao, no!" Thank you, master! ”

"You, you ......" the old man pointed to the little fox cub, you have been for a long time, looking at the back of Diancui who was afraid that he would regret running away quickly, and then quacked and laughed.

His apprentice can't be a fool, and he can't guess his identity after so long.