Chapter 9 Stewed bamboo shoots with good local chicken
"Then you drink a glass of water first, it will take some time to stew the chicken soup." Hua Manxi thoughtfully poured a bowl of water and handed it to Xu Jinfei, and said with some flattery.
"Thank you, girl." Xu Jinfei took the water bowl and thanked him calmly.
"It should be, it should be." Hua Manxi nodded again and again, "Then I'll kill the chicken first." β
Although Hua Manxi was a well-known gourmand in his previous life and had his own restaurant, he was a chef in the end, and the occupational disease in the service industry came out immediately when he saw the money.
Now her situation is that she is not familiar with life, if she wants to live a comfortable life and take the flower family out of the predicament, silver is a must, this person's identity is definitely not simple, either a prince or nobleman, or a son of a family, a hundred taels of silver is definitely easy to take.
The abacus in Hua Manxi's heart was crackling, and he couldn't help humming a song, took the lamp and walked to the stove room, first lit the fire and boiled the water, and then rummaged through the cabinets in the kitchen to find some sun-dried bamboo shoots and soaked them in a wooden basin.
There are not many chickens in the chicken cage, two hens are kept to lay eggs, two big roosters, one is kept for the New Year, and the other is reserved for my cousin Da Yang Xiaojing.
Hua Manxi looked left and right, and it was actually a little difficult to start! She hesitated for a while, but still gritted her teeth, caught a hen, and bled neatly.
Plucking and dissecting, cleaning the internal organs, Hua Manxi killed not 10,000 chickens in his previous life, but also 9,000, so the whole process took only ten minutes.
The house where Hua Manxi lived was originally used as a firewood house, and even the stove room was made separately, so it was some distance from the main house, and she was very skilled, so she didn't make much movement, and she didn't wake up the family.
She carried the cleaned chicken into the stove room, the firewood in the stove was still red, Hua Manxi washed the casserole placed on the side, filled half a pot of water, and put it on the firewood.
The washed dried bamboo shoots and chicken offal are stuffed into the belly of the chicken, and the whole chicken is potted under cold water, add some ginger, rice wine, and start to stew the soup.
Taking advantage of the interval between the stew, Hua Manxi found some dried vermicelli in the kitchen, according to the memory of the original body, this vermicelli seems to have been sent by the Ding family when they gave a gift, and they have been put for more than half a year, and I don't know if they can eat it.
I can't care so much now, Hua Manxi washed the dried vermicelli with clean water, and soaked the vermicelli with the hot water left over from killing the chicken just now.
The chicken soup was boiled over the fire, and the smell of dried bamboo shoots mixed with the fragrance of local chicken wafted through the small kitchen.
Hua Manxi looked left and right vigilantly, for fear that the smell would be too strong and wake up the sleeping Uncle Hua's family.
She turned the chicken in the pot with a spoon and boiled it over low heat for a while, until the flesh and bones were separated and the soup was orange and bright, then she added salt, turned off the heat, and brought the pot out.
The soaked vermicelli was taken out and drained, and Hua Manxi scooped out the layer of oil on top of the chicken soup and the chicken broth, poured it on the vermicelli, and sprinkled some chopped green onions.
The local chicken in the pot, Hua Manxi divided it into two with chopsticks, only half of it was filled and put in a large bowl, and some soup and dried bamboo shoots were added.
She brought the things to the room, and Xu Jinfei, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, smelled the rich fragrance.
He opened his eyes suddenly, and his gaze fell on the two rice bowls that Hua Manxi placed on the table.
One bowl is vermicelli, soaked in oily chicken broth sprinkled with green onions, which is full of appetite, and in the other bowl is half a local chicken, stewed to the point that the flesh and bones are separated, mixed with the aroma of dried bamboo shoots.
"Master, it's time to eat." Hua Manxi saw him open his eyes, and said in a low voice, "I secretly killed the hen in the house." β
Xu Jinfei's handsome eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he stopped talking, but finally collected the cold color in his eyes, and said calmly: "I'm bothering the girl." β
"Don't bother, don't bother, as long as you have silver, it's easy to say anything." Hua Manxi came to Xu Jinfei with fans, "It's inconvenient for you to have a wound on your back, do you want me to feed you?" β
Xu Jinfei watched Hua Manxi suddenly squat on the side of the bed, and a face covered with black ointment suddenly enlarged in front of him, facing him-
"I'll do it myself, I'll just come by myself." He forcibly suppressed the disgust in his heart and sat up from the bed of Hua Manxi.
However, as soon as he sat up, he suddenly felt a chill.
Xu Jinfei looked down, but saw that his robe had been cut into pieces, his back was completely naked, and the clothes in front of him also fell off, hanging on his waist in a nondescript manner.
However, the girl did not panic at all in front of a shirtless man, but put the rice bowl in her hand firmly on the table, and said calmly as usual: "Then come here to eat." β
Are the girls in this rural place so bold and bold?
Xu Jinfei secretly slandered in his heart, but his face was calm and walked to the table.
He was indeed hungry, he was hunted down and killed in the past few days, lost contact with his subordinates, slept in the open, and was injured again.
Although the things on this table are not very good, there are no good things in this rural place, and it is the limit to be able to kill a chicken for him to eat.
He is not a person who has not suffered hardships, and he did not pick and choose at the moment, so he directly picked up the chopsticks and ate the vermicelli.
I don't know how long this vermicelli has been placed, it's not very formed, a bowl of vermicelli is sparsely broken, but this chicken soup is sweet in the mouth, and it complements each other with this bland and tasteless vermicelli, and each has its own benefits.
After a bowl of vermicelli, Xu Jinfei ate the chicken soup and chicken in the other bowl.
Although this local chicken is simple, it is better than the delicious meat, and the chicken soup is filled with the fragrance of dried bamboo shoots, which makes the somewhat greasy chicken soup sweet and delicious, which surprised him.
I didn't expect the food cooked by this little village girl to have a bit of taste.
"How's it taste?" Hua Manxi asked hurriedly when he saw him finish the food on the table with graceful movements.
Xu Jinfei had just eaten enough, and he really didn't want to face her black face, but he had received the kindness of others, and he didn't dare to show his dislike too obviously, so he had to quietly look out the window, and said in a warm voice: "The girl's cooking skills are good, and she is a bodhisattva, Xu is grateful, and she will definitely be rewarded with a lot of money in the future." β
What bodhisattva heart? Is this going to be a debt? She's not a bodhisattva, she's all for the sake of silver, okay? Don't think that just because you're good-looking, you can just go into someone's room and eat chicken!
"Hehe, false praise, false praise, in fact, I am a philistine and secular village girl, and I saved my son for the sake of this jade pendant." Hua Manxi smiled and solemnly reiterated, "Really, I am by no means a bodhisattva, I am all looking at the silver, and I hope that the uncle will not repay the account in the future." β
Xu Jinfei: "......." He was a little speechless!
Seeing that he was suddenly silent, Hua Manxi thought that he wanted to repay the debt, so he chuckled in his heart, took out the jade pendant he had just given him from his arms, and approached the candle flame to observe carefully.
This jade pendant is translucent, warm and warm, the patterns on it are fine and complicated, and a Xu character is also engraved, which is the surname of this uncle, and it looks like a good thing.
"This lord, do you really mean a hundred taels of silver with this jade pendant?" Hua Manxi looked at him suspiciously, and cautiously opened his mouth to ask for verification.
Xu Jinfei's eyebrows jumped again, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
This rural village girl just doesn't know the goods, and his jade pendant is dignified-
Forget it, what is he doing like a small village girl? Isn't it a compromise of one's identity?
"I don't change my money." He slightly suppressed the impatience in his heart, and said in a cold voice.
Hua Manxi saw that he was serious, so he took the jade pendant a few times, put it back into the inner pocket in his arms, and said with a smile: "Then I will believe you for the time being, after all, people also need the most basic trust, do you say?" Lordβ"
"You can call me Xu Gongzi." Xu Jinfei really couldn't bear her vulgar title, so he interrupted Hua Manxi in a hurry, "Can I sleep?" β
"Yes, yes, please, please-" Hua Manxi hurriedly stopped talking, pretended to make the bed for him, and helped Xu Jinfei to lie back on the bed.
Hua Manxi hugged an old quilt again, got up a few stools, and blew the lamp to rest.
After a while, she heard the sound of even breathing, but Xu Jinfei had pain in her back, and she was irritable and couldn't sleep.
This girl also has a big heart, but she is not afraid that he is a bad person.
Hehe, the village girl, is simple-minded.
Hua Manxi woke up the next morning, was woken up by himself, even though he had told himself thousands of times before going to bed, but the tiger also dozed off, this sleep died, where do you remember what kind of situation you are, accidentally turned over, and turned over to the ground.
Fortunately, she rolled off the quilt, and it didn't hurt too much. Hua Manxi lay on the ground and was confused for a while before he sighed and got up.
She is not a flower chef worth tens of millions now, but a small village girl from a strange dynasty, and she still owes a debt, if she can't pay it back, she will sell herself.
Besides, he got into trouble and came back.
Hua Manxi glanced at Xu Jinfei on the bed, and saw that his eyes were slightly frowning, and he seemed to be sleeping unsteadily, she got closer, only to see that the scars on his back were still intertwined and hideous, and he was not half a point better.
It seems that the herbal mud used to treat bruises has no effect on his wounds at all, and if the wound is left to rot like this, it may cause inflammation and high fever.
"Xu Gongzi, I'm going to work at the master's house, first get you some food and put it on the table, eat some when you're hungry, don't leave my room, my uncle and aunt are honest people, don't freak them out." Hua Manxi woke up Xu Jinfei and whispered.
Xu Jinfei only opened his eyes in a daze, and nodded vaguely, he only felt that the pain in his back was numb now, but his brain began to be chaotic, and he was a little shaky when he saw things.
But Hua Manxi's face covered with ointment, he still recognized it.