Chapter 10: Space
One of the characteristics of welcoming customers is that the main food changes every day. Because of Xiaobai's unimaginable cooking skills and unbridled ideas, many admiring guests will stay for a few days to try the various pastries that can surprise people.
This day has just ended a day's business, and Xiaobai was going to continue to make sweet steamed buns that must be made every day. But it just so happened that a few days ago, there was a large piece of red, white and fatty pork sent by Geely, and she used the fat part to practice a small jar of oil and put some spices, thinking that the taste would be very different today. So I decided to make some sesame shortbread.
You only need to use the dough that has been sent once, roll it out, spread the lard evenly, sprinkle some chopped green onions and sesame salt, roll it into a cylinder, cut it into small pieces, press it flat, brush it with a layer of raw oil, and wrap it with sesame seeds. Place on a baking tray and bake in the oven.
Xiaobai's kitchen actually doesn't have an oven, but she has left a space on the stove of the big four joys, just enough to fit sixteen palm-sized baked cakes. She can't say how many guests she will have tomorrow, but the number of preparations can't be enough. By dawn the next day, it had only been baked twenty times. She sighed and said that making yakiniku was not the right choice. But she's tired enough now. I don't have much energy to do anything else. I had to pack up and open the door to welcome guests.
"Little white girl! What's going on today? The uncle who drove the car put his pocket aside and took a sip of the coarse tea handed by Xiaobai.
"Today's sesame pancake is made."
"Sesame pancakes? Fortunately, my eldest son loves this. Go ahead, fill me with ten, and another one every year, and a pack of salty peanuts. This trip slipped me away! I was finally able to go home, and I was able to go and see my uncle's eldest grandson halfway through. ”
"Uncle, where did you come from?" Xiaobai took the food box and told him that this is a regular house, there are not many guests at this point, and Xiaobai is relatively relaxed.
"Conghaixing, ouch, you haven't seen that battle, our Huixian is really going to show your face to the emperor this time! But I just feel aggrieved and panicked! It's not just me! A lot of people are complaining! Why let our Huixian Chamber of Commerce come out with this! I didn't see other chambers of commerce send so much food, and the eldest young master of the county magistrate's family was too anxious! It's really an embroidered pillow, and it doesn't work. The uncle thought that Xiaobai had some special relationship with the Lin family, and swallowed back the unpleasant words that came to his lips, and only said one sentence after holding back for a long time: "What's the use of only provoking the little girl?" Do business! It's not a handsome face, it's coming, and no one says he's good! ”
Listening to the uncle's complaints, Xiaobai deeply experienced Lin Wenhai's difficulties again, everyone really has their own hardships. "Uncle must be very tired after such a long journey, sit down for a while, and I'll go and prepare."
After sending the uncle away, a young guy who was not too old hurriedly ran in. He asked politely: "Sister, we have been on the road for five days, Mrs. is a little uncomfortable, can't eat, our young lady asked me to ask, do you have any refreshing and delicious soup here?" ”
When Xiaobai heard the child call him his sister, he felt a little intimate in his heart. "You sit down a little, there is hot tea at the door, and you come to drink it yourself. I'm going to make a hot and sour fish soup for your wife. Right away. ”
"I'm tired of my sister." The little guy thanked him. Xiaobai smiled and ran into the kitchen.
Only then did she remember that the fish in the kitchen were all used up, so she had to run to the small yard again, but when she saw the situation in the fish tank, she was stunned, she didn't expect the fish to be consumed quickly, picked up a fish, turned around and noticed that the firewood was also empty, which made Xiaobai, who has always been happy to hoard goods, a little unacceptable, and thought for a while before reacting.
"It's the seventh day of junior high school, I said. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid Two more days to deal with. Then he ran back to the kitchen, cleaned up the fish, took out half of the slices and made them into fillets, coated them with a layer of egg wash and cornstarch, and fried them in the pan first. Set aside. Start making hot and sour soup. Heat a pan with canola oil, then add a large handful of chili flakes and a few spoonfuls of balsamic vinegar, followed by two bowls of boiling water. When it boils, pour in a little soy sauce and a little salt. Finally, put the fish fillet in the pot and wait for the soup to become thicker and the sour and hot flavors become one. It's ready to come out of the pot. When it comes out of the pan, add a little coriander. It's an unusually appetizing dish.
In less than half an hour, the hot and sour fish soup packed in a bamboo tube was brought back to the carriage by Xiaobai, and there was a bag of hawthorn cake made by Xiaobai himself. The lady didn't want to eat. But the taste of the fish soup is so real that people can't refuse. I ate most of it.
After the sun went down, Xiaobai packed everything and began to plan what he needed to bring with him when he went out this month.
White noodles, multigrain noodles and some seasonings have to go to Huixian to buy, but she is busy from morning to night every day. Sometimes Xiaobai really wants to find a running person to watch the business, but her ability to see people is really poor. Lin Wenjuan told her very early on that she would either give her a girl by her side, or buy one and come back to sign the death deed, but she didn't want to do it, her life here was really hard.
Lying on the bed, the soft quilt made her drowsy, but the sweet steamed buns were still steaming on the stove.
"Hey." She rolled over, and a warm breeze blew in through the window, carrying the cool smell of the yard, which cleared her sleepy mind a little.
As usual, her right hand made a circle in the air, only to see some colors gradually reveal in the unreal. Then a peach with dew still hanging appeared in her palm.
"Click." Xiaobai took a bite, the peach had been stored in her space for months, but it was still as crisp and sweet as if it had just been picked. This space is Xiaobai's biggest secret. Like the dreams she had every night, because she didn't understand the cause, she didn't insist on pursuing the cause.
The space is huge, it is a three-story space with no boundaries in sight, the first layer is like the polar region, the thick ice covers the entire ground, and the sky is always full of snow that never stops. The fresh fish and shrimp bought by Xiaobai are stored here. The second layer is covered with fine snow, where the food is stored so that it does not spoil, but it does not freeze either. The third floor was the most ordinary, no different from the bedroom she was in, it was her belongings, and she could put anything in except for the living creatures.
After eating the peaches, Xiaobai jumped up and rushed to the kitchen quickly, and after doing this, he could go to bed early.
But the situation in Lin Wenhai, the county magistrate's mansion, is not very good. After the auspicious day came back from welcoming guests, the second day began to feel uncomfortable, and the stomach turned upside down, and I wanted to vomit all the things in my stomach.
The doctor said that he was drinking too much, and he prescribed some sobering medicine and turned back, who would have thought that such a situation would not improve for several days.
The wine given by Xiaobai has not been reprocessed by her. The bottle that Geely took away was the Fengyue with the highest degree in the Xia Family Distillery, and Xiaobai added dozens of medicinal herbs to it. One cup a day strengthens the body. But if the whole bottle is dry, the consequence will be what Geely is now.
Lin Wenhai saw the bottle when he went to see Geely that day, but in addition to telling him to rest well, he thought it was better not to tell Geely. Looking at Geely's increasingly yellow face, Lin Wenhai felt very funny. He didn't know if Xiaobai deliberately didn't tell him how to drink this wine. But he didn't ask about the situation of delivering things that day, and it is estimated that Geely made Xiaobai unhappy.
Lin Wenhai guessed this correctly, Geely, a little guy, has been by Lin Wenhai's side for many years, and he can be regarded as clever and likable. But there is just one point, if she drinks too much, there is no one on her mouth, and she and Lin Wenjuan's gossip from beginning to end will be repeated. She was angry.
In the blink of an eye, it will be the ninth day of the new year, and tomorrow will be the day to welcome guests to take a routine rest, and ten days after she left, a certain amount of specific food would be placed in the vending machine at the door.
The vending machine is connected to the counter in the lobby and behind the counter. Five exits were left on the outside wall, each with a wooden sign for the month. There is an entrance on the far right that is used to put in silver taels. All you need to do is put in the silver, pull the wooden sign, and the food will fall through the exit.
This organ was told to Xiaobai by Lin Wenhai after he came back from going to sea.
A hundred years ago, Qingguo opened the fog on the sea, not only discovering countries outside this land, but also opening the door to overseas trade. And to make all these contributions, is Haixing enjoy a hundred years of reputation of the big man - Jiaolong, Jiaolong has been loyal and emperor for generations, guarding this sea area, but for some reason, disappeared, otherwise where would it be the turn of the county king's mansion to take power in Haixing? But in fact, there are rumors that the former Jiaolong is the king of the county in the past, but no one knows what the real situation is.
While the sweet steamed buns and steamed dumplings were steaming in the cage drawer, Xiaobai rummaged through the inventory in the kitchen and warehouse, and finally ordered five kinds of food for sale. Beauty eggs, walnut crisp, white sugar cake, dried vegetable pot, honey bean cake.
Because the materials are really limited, the big four happiness only has a hundred years left. Thinking that it might not be enough to sell later, she took some simple food from the shelf and set it aside.
Before she could clean up, there was a knock at the door.
"White Maiden! White Girl! ”
"It's coming!" Xiaobai hurriedly ran out. When I opened the door, I saw an eager face. "What's wrong?" She didn't stop moving, and let the man sit down on the bench outside the door.
The man said anxiously: "Ouch, it's all this day, you see, it's suddenly raining, our young master coughs as long as the sky changes, there is still a long way to get to Haixing, Mrs. is in a hurry, I can't help it, I suddenly thought that the little white girl is good at cooking, can you think of a way?" ”