Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fragrant Osmanthus Rice
Hua Manxi will hang on the dustpan osmanthus to remove the stems and branches, carefully remove the impurities, and then wipe the dust on the osmanthus with a damp cloth, and then with rock sugar and wolfberry, put the osmanthus in a bowl to marinate for a while, and then slowly pour the osmanthus nectar into the wine jar, seal the mouth of the altar, and wait for fermentation.
After brewing the wine, Hua Manxi washed the remaining osmanthus with well water, and then cut some of the sausages and bacon drying on the eaves, intending to make a fragrant cured osmanthus rice.
Bacon and sausages are scalded in boiling water, brushed and cut into thin slices. This sausage is very well done, the casing is crystal clear, and the flesh of the sausage is bright red.
After cutting the sausage and bacon, Hua Manxi then began to wash the rice and release the water, put the sausage and bacon slices on the rice, and steamed them directly in the pot.
After a while, the smoke in the steamer was billowing out, accompanied by the aroma of rice, which was about to be steamed, she lifted the lid, put the honey-pickled osmanthus on the rice, sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions, dripped in sesame oil, covered the lid and simmered for a while.
Just eating, some dry, Hua Manxi picked some green vegetables from the garden and cooked a green vegetable soup.
Wash the greens, chop them, boil them in cold water, add the greens, drip in sesame oil, add some salt, and beat an egg to get rid of them.
The soup is cooked, the rice in the pot is already ready, Hua Manxi takes a big bowl, puts the rice in the pot into the bowl, the fragrant cured meat adds the aroma of osmanthus, which makes people hang down three feet, the yellow osmanthus, the white rice, the dark red bacon and sausage with oil, the contrast is stark, and it is very appetizing to look at.
Hua Manxi fished out a few more eggs that had been marinated yesterday, cut them in half, put one in each bowl, put the rice in the basket, and specially packed one more, planning to take it to Xu Jinfei.
She came to Xufu first, but she didn't expect that those workers would start to complain when they saw her.
"This little girl, you are so unkind, why don't you sell noodles for a few days, we are waiting for you to sell noodles! Bringing food from home will be cold after a while, and it will be time-consuming and laborious if you walk home to eat! An uncle who often buys noodles began to complain, and took out a steamed bun wrapped in oiled paper to show her, "Look, if you don't come to sell noodles, we can only eat steamed bread. ”
"Yes, little girl, the owner of this house does not pack food, and even the cook has not been invited, this construction period can be several months, I heard that the house has been repaired, as well as the orchard, the garden, and the mountain behind have been bought. Eating steamed buns like this is not the way to go. The other eldest brother also said.
"That's it, little girl, your craftsmanship, I really didn't say it, I ate your noodles, and when I go home and eat the dishes made by my mother-in-law, it's not a taste."
"Yes, yes, sell noodles! Hurry up and sell noodles! The workers chimed in.
Hua Manxi couldn't imagine that the noodles he made were so remembered, and he immediately said embarrassedly: "I have some things in the past two days, so I haven't come out of the stall, uncles and brothers, don't worry, I will be out of the stall tomorrow, but I am not selling here, after all, there are no tables and chairs here, and it is troublesome to sell, I asked my uncle to build a shed on the official road, and your uncles can go there tomorrow to buy food." ”
"The official road, oh, when I came, I saw someone repairing the shed, it turned out to be your uncle." The uncle became happy, "What kind of noodles will the little girl sell tomorrow?" ”
Hua Manxi smiled and pretended to be mysterious: "Don't sell noodles tomorrow, sell something that none of you have eaten." ”
"Ouch, no matter what you sell, as long as you can eat your stomach, you'll be fine! I'll rest later, and I'll call a few buddies over to help you build this shed. The uncle said arrogantly.
"Then Manxi will thank Uncle first." Hua Manxi didn't shirk either, saluted him, and said very sincerely.
"You're welcome, you're welcome, you can just make more food to sell tomorrow!" The uncle smiled.
Hua Manxi nodded, walked past the workers, and walked to the Xu Mansion.
The gate outside the courtyard was not closed, and she went straight in, through the courtyard of Nuoda, and walked to the front of the inner house.
However, this is embarrassing.
Because Li Qiuqiu was also carrying a food box and standing in front of the gate, it seemed that he was also delivering food to Xu Gongzi.
"Sister Manxi, why are you here?" Li Qiuqiu glanced sharply at the food box Hua Manxi was carrying, and asked tentatively, "Sister Manxi, who are you?" Do you want to deliver food to Xu Gongzi? ”
Hua Manxi was a little uncomfortable by her hostile gaze, Li Qiuqiu's gaze was like she was robbing a man with her.
"When Xu Gongzi sent me home last night, he picked a handful of osmanthus flowers and gave it to me, saying that he wanted to eat osmanthus rice, and asked me to help make it." Hua Manxi pulled it over half-truthfully.
"Osmanthus rice?" Li Qiuqiu was surprised, "Is this what the Northland does?" Isn't osmanthus used to make osmanthus cakes? Can you still cook? ”
"Everything is an ingredient, as long as you want to do it, you can cook anything." Hua Manxi nodded, handed the small food box in the basket to Li Qiuqiu and said, "I still have to deliver food to my uncle and godfather, since you are here, I will bother you to give it to Xu Gongzi." ”
"Okay then, I'll definitely send it to Xu Gongzi." Li Qiuqiu breathed a sigh of relief silently in his heart, and watched Hua Manxi walk away in a hurry, then turned around and knocked on the wooden door of the house, and said in a soft voice: "Young Master Xu, are you there?" ”
"Miss Li?" It was a light breeze that opened the door, and I was a little surprised.
"Brother Breeze. Is Xu Gongzi here? Li Qiuqiu lowered his eyebrows and chuckled, and said in a coquettish voice, "My father said that Xu Gongzi has just arrived, and he doesn't have everything, so let me send you some special food from Peach Blossom Village for you to try." ”
"Well, thank you so much, Miss Li." Qingfeng stepped forward very politely and took the basket handed over by Li Qiuqiu.
"There is also the food box that Sister Manxi gave to Gongzi Xu, Sister Manxi said that she wanted me to hand it over to Gongzi Xu." Li Qiuqiu smiled slightly, and said softly.
"Ah, this, ah, then please come in." Qingfeng was stunned for a moment before he reacted and invited Li Qiuqiu into the house.
Li Qiuqiu originally wanted to see Xu Jinfei's side, so naturally he didn't refuse, and followed the breeze into the house with small steps.
This house is really big, and there are cloisters, rockeries, flower beds, and then you can live in it.
"Miss Li, please sit down for a while, and I'll go and invite my son." The breeze brought Li Qiuqiu to the stone table where the guests were entertained, and poured a cup of tea politely and thoughtfully, "Coarse tea, I hope Miss Li will not dislike it." ”
"Don't dare, don't dare." Li Qiuqiu hurriedly picked up the teacup with sincere fear, and took a small sip in front of the breeze.
The breeze then went to the back room.
Xu Dashizi dreamed again last night, the dream was an osmanthus tree, he was picking osmanthus flowers on the tree, and the little village girl raised her eyes and looked at him under the tree.
He accidentally fell from a tree and smashed directly on the little village girl's body.
Then, his lip flap was printed on her lips.
At this juncture, Xu Dashizi woke up.
He sat on the bed in a daze, in a trance.
"Childe." The breeze knocked on the door and whispered, "Miss Manxi has sent food—"
Before he finished speaking, the door had already snapped open, and Xu Shizi, who was still in a daze just now, straightened his collar gracefully, already refreshing, with a brilliant temperament, he slowly hooked the corners of his lips, and said lightly: "Go." ”
However, when Xu Dashizi came to the stone table, the person he saw was Li Qiuqiu, who was happy and shy, she blushed and greeted him delicately: "Young Master Xu." ”
Xu Dashizi's face suddenly darkened, he turned his head, his eyes were a little colder, and he said in a low voice: "Didn't you say that the little village aunt sent food?" ”
Qingfeng inexplicably received the eye knife from Lord Shizi, and said that he was very wronged: "I haven't finished talking yet, it was Miss Manxi who sent the food, and Miss Li brought it." ”
Xu Dashizi's already unsightly face could drip ink at this moment, and he glanced at Li Qiuqiu suspiciously, and said concisely: "What about eating?" ”
Li Qiuqiu suddenly remembered his cold warning on the mountain that day, and suddenly his body trembled, and he hurriedly said: "Here, here." ”
Xu Jinfei took the snack box, opened the food box directly, and sat down at the stone table to eat.
The little village girl is really good, and a handful of osmanthus flowers can make such an attractive meal.
This oily meat, with dry and chewy, white rice, contains the fragrance of osmanthus, eat a bite of rice, there is both meat fragrance, and floral fragrance, sweet, salty and fresh, all kinds of taste-
If the little village girl goes back to Kyoto with him and opens a restaurant, she will definitely make money every day, and she will make more money than his bank!
Xu Dashizi ate and fell into a beautiful imagination about the future.
"Young Master Xu, I also brought some food, why don't you try it too?" Li Qiuqiu opened the basket that the breeze had placed on the stone table and took down a few side dishes.
She looked at Xu Jinfei with her eyes, Xu Dashizi was a little annoyed by her, stretched out her chopsticks and took a bite of shredded chicken and fried mushrooms, and said unceremoniously: "This chicken is too old, the mushrooms are not soaked, and there is a smell." ”
"This green vegetable is not ripe yet."
"The eggs are fishy."
Qingfeng: "......, Childe, can't you save some face for other girls?"
"That Miss Li, our son-in-law's appetite has been tricky since he was a child, and eating depends on his mood, even if it is a meal made by the best cook, sometimes it can't enter his mouth, I see that these dishes made by the girl are delicious and fragrant, and the taste must be good."
"Really?" Li Qiuqiu looked at the breeze with tears in his eyes, and then stopped his eyes on Xu Jinfei's face, who was eating osmanthus rice by himself, and said in a surprising voice, "Is the osmanthus rice made by Sister Manxi so delicious?" Xu Gongzi, can you give me a taste, I will learn to do it when I go back. ”
Breeze: "......" This girl is going to cause trouble!
Sure enough, Xu Dashizi hugged his food box nervously, and resolutely refused: "You want to be beautiful!" No one can touch my food! ”