Chapter Eighty-Seven: Chicken-flavored chili sauce
Speaking of Xu Gongzi, a strange look flashed in Hua Manxi's eyes, and she forcibly suppressed her suddenly accelerated heartbeat, and asked, "Then what do you say?" ”
"I, I said that you have earned money and paid off your debts, so naturally you don't want to show up like this anymore, stay at home and embroider, and get ready to get married." Li Qiuqiu smiled inappropriately and teased.
"You're just embroidering, you're ready to get married!" Hua Manxi pretended to twist Li Qiuqiu's ears, so frightened that Li Qiuqiu jumped three feet high, laughed and ran, "You're almost sixteen, you don't marry yet!" You're going to be an old girl at home! ”
"I'm still young." Sixteen years old, in modern times, he is only a high school student, and he is an adult at the age of eighteen, right? Hua Manxi feels powerless, it is really difficult to communicate with the ancients, this insurmountable generation gap!
"You're still young, you're really not ashamed, I had two nephews when my sister was your age!" Li Qiuqiu turned his head and grimaced at Hua Manxi.
"Then you are a few months younger than me, and you will get married soon!" Hua Manxi was amused by her, and chased after her and teased.
Who knows that a good joke will kill the day when it comes to this.
Li Qiuqiu's face turned red, stopped, and said in a low voice: "I want to marry, but Xu Gongzi doesn't look down on me." ”
Hua Manxi: "......"
What about being reserved?
"How many days have you known that Xu Gongzi? Why do you like it so much? Isn't it just that you need to be good-looking? Hua Manxi said speechlessly.
"Chromophobia, too. There are only two criteria for me to get married, one is to be good-looking, and the other is to be rich. Li Qiuqiu said bluntly.
So the person she liked in the past was Ding Xiucai, who was the best in the village, but after Xu Gongzi came to Peach Blossom Village, he became Xu Gongzi! Of course, if she meets someone better looking than Xu Gongzi in the future, she will still empathize with her!
Hua Manxi saw Li Qiuqiu thoroughly, what kind of liking is this, but it is similar to the modern little girl's mind of chasing stars.
The two talked and laughed, and soon arrived at Uncle Li's house.
Uncle Li's hand has not recovered yet, it is Aunt Li who is watching the house, she saw Li Qiuqiu and Hua Manxi coming over together, stared at Li Qiuqiu and said, "Didn't you say eat wonton?" Why are you still entangled in the people, the river is to make money, it's like you are idle and crazy all day long, don't delay people's efforts! ”
"Mother, how dare I pester her, she's here to buy something." Li Qiuqiu said coquettishly, "Manxi wants to buy a few chickens, you see how many we have at home, let's take them out for her." ”
"There are three more in the cage, you want all of them?" Aunt Li was surprised.
"Yes, I want it." Hua Manxi nodded, "And how many tempeh you still have at home, I want them all." ”
"All wanted? I have a big vat of tempeh at home! Aunt Li was so frightened that she almost didn't stand still, "Why do you want so many tempeh!" ”
"I'm useful, you can help me install it." Hua Manxi suddenly asked again, "By the way, Aunt Li, is this tempeh made by Uncle Li himself?" Or did you buy it? ”
"The last time you bought it was bought at the market, and now he is idle at home, and there are beans at home, so he made a vat, a vat! Do you really want it all? Aunt Li asked uncertainly.
"It's all about it, by the way, let Uncle Li make me three more jars of tempeh, I want it, I'll get it in a few days." Hua Manxi said.
"Oh my God, Manxi, what are you doing here, I heard that Uncle Liu you collected a lot of chili peppers two days ago, and now you want tempeh-" Aunt Li looked at Hua Manxi in disbelief.
"You, you're not going to sell chili sauce, are you? I just ate wonton at your stall and ate that chili sauce, it seems to be made of tempeh? "It's still Li Qiuqiu who is smart, and he guessed it.
"That's right, that's what I'm here to make chili sauce." Hua Manxi didn't hide it, and said it directly.
"That Manxi, can I go and see it?" Li Qiuqiu remembered the taste of the chili sauce just now, and felt that her tongue was full of relish, Xu Gongzi seemed to be a northerner, if she made this chili sauce, would she still worry that her food would not be liked by him?
"Qiuqiu, what are you talking about, that's Manxi's secret recipe!" Aunt Li immediately sank her face and reprimanded.
"It's okay, it's okay, if she wants to do it, she can follow me, but she will follow me in the future." Hua Manxi didn't care, and said directly.
"Really? Then I don't even need any money for this tempeh, I'll give it to you! Li Qiuqiu was very happy, she was already stuffy at home these days, and it would be great if she could follow Hua Manxi, someone could talk, and she could steal the teacher to learn art by the way.
"How much should tempeh cost, or how much, I don't buy it once or twice, I will buy tempeh for a long time in the future, Aunt Li, remember to tell Uncle Li to make a few more cylinders, otherwise I can buy it elsewhere." Hua Manxi smiled and said.
After tossing for a while, Aunt Li weighed the three chickens, and a whole tank of tempeh was filled with several large wooden pots, and Hua Manxi still dispatched the small board car that had just started to set up a stall, and then he and Li Qiuqiu transported this thing back to their homes together.
When I got home, my aunt had already sold out of wontons and was eating the dishes in the stove, which were fried by Jin Daliu, and they didn't eat two bites, so they kept them all.
"Manxi, how did you cook so many dishes today, your uncle won't come back until the evening." The eldest aunt wondered, "Where did you buy all these seafood?" ”
"Oh, this was brought by the golden shopkeeper last night, and our business is settled." Hua Manxi said.
"Really, it's all talked? How much chili sauce did he ask? The eldest aunt was overjoyed.
Hua Manxi stretched out a palm.
"Fifty cans! So much. The eldest aunt was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.
Hua Manxi shook his head and said, "It's five hundred, uncle." ”
"What! Five hundred cans! The eldest aunt was so shocked that her voice couldn't help but raise a few degrees, "It's really five hundred cans?" ”
"Could there be anything wrong? I bought all the jars of tempeh from Uncle Li's house, and then I started frying, and when my godfather bought the cans, I just came back and put them on the cans and labeled them. ”
"Labeling, what is labeling?" The eldest aunt seemed to be getting more and more unable to understand this niece.
"I know this, I know! It's just to put the introduction and provenance of this chili sauce on the jar, right? Li Qiuqiu came back from the shock and said to Hua Manxi as if he was invited, "Am I right?" ”
"Yes, yes! You're right! Let's get busy, Miss Li, wash your hands and wipe them clean first. Hua Manxi nodded again and again, and then turned back to the eldest aunt and said, "Auntie, I'm going to do things first, and you have to go to the stall when you're full, right?" ”
She heard her aunt and godmother discuss last night, make more wontons, sell them later, and make more money.
"Yes, I have to change your godmother to eat it after I eat it, but you have made so many dishes today, I can just bring some to her to eat." The eldest aunt said vaguely.
Seeing that the eldest aunt and godmother got along so well, Hua Manxi was very satisfied, so he beckoned Li Qiuqiu to the stove room and began to fry chili peppers.
She first put all the dried peppers in the yard into the stone pang and crushed them, the peppers were all raw and large, but after a while, Li Qiuqiu's tears flowed.
Finally smashed the chili peppers, Hua Manxi didn't dare to scoop them directly with his hands, so he took a rice spoon and scooped the crushed chili peppers into a wooden barrel that wiped clean the water, and filled three buckets.
Then, she cleaned the tempeh, dried it for later use, and washed the peanuts, garlic, dried mushrooms and other ingredients, and then began to boil water to kill the chicken.
Li Qiuqiu helped her light the fire, saving her a lot of trouble.
Soon the three chickens were killed, Hua Manxi took out the chicken offal, chicken heads and chicken feet, and cut the other chickens into chicken cubes, put in salt, peppercorns, ginger slices, garlic slices, green onions, cooking wine, and marinate for a while.
Or Li Qiuqiu burned the fire, she put in bean oil, fried the chicken until it changed color, and then continued to fry on a slow fire, until the chicken was slightly browned and the water was dry, and then she scooped it up, and used the remaining oil in the pot to fry the peanuts again.
After the peanuts are fried, take them out and use a stone to chop them into crushed peanuts and set aside.
Put oil in the pot, add tempeh and chopped mushrooms and stir-fry to dry the water, add minced garlic, salt, a little sugar, soy sauce, pepper, pepper, chopped peanuts, diced chicken and stir-fry together, and finally pour in the chili pepper and fry together until the chili pepper is slightly charred and dry, and then you can get out of the pot.
"It's spicy, it's spicy, but it's so fragrant." Li Qiuqiu wiped a handful of tears, very aggrieved.
"Gluttony." Hua Manxi took out some with chopsticks and put them in a bowl, tried the salty taste, and then fished out all the chili sauce boiled in the pot and put it in a wooden barrel, which filled four or five buckets.
Fortunately, the pot of the flower family is big enough!
The jar that Hua Manxi and Uncle Liu talked about is about a two-pound small jar, and these buckets can be filled into hundreds of cans.
There are still a lot of crushed chili peppers left, and when the godfather comes back from buying beef, Hua Manxi plans to make dozens of more cans of beef-flavored chili sauce, and the pork-flavored ones will be made again tomorrow morning, and they will also make a hundred cans.
In this way, if you go down tomorrow, you can send two hundred and fifty to the Golden Jade Hall first, and then send the rest in two days.
Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, Hua Manxi just thought about it, and Uncle Liu came back.
"Girl, the meat was bought, the cans were delivered, there were only three hundred, the store served them to me, and the rest will be delivered in two days." Uncle Liu carried dozens of catties of meat and came back with a sigh.
"Wow, you just fried the chili sauce, it's so fragrant, hurry up and make a bowl of noodles for my godfather, I'm busy all day, I'm afraid of delaying your time, and I won't even have time to eat." After Uncle Liu put down the meat, he gasped, but he didn't stop catching up, beckoned the two guys who sold the clay pots, unloaded the three hundred clay pots, and put them on the eaves.
"Okay, Qiuqiu, pour a bowl of water for the two eldest brothers and my godfather, and I'll make a few bowls of noodles." Hua Manxi felt that although Li Qiuqiu talked a lot, he was deaf and sharp, and his hands and feet were nimble, so it was still good to be a little assistant.