Chapter 31 Crabs and Buns

After a few months of practice, Xia Meizhen's speed of writing calligraphy has become very fast, and ten sheets of paper are quickly written.

At this time, it was almost time for dinner, Xia Meizhen finished writing, put the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the warm pavilion next door, and went to the small kitchen.

At this time, when there were really many people in the small kitchen, Xia Meizhen walked over, and a little girl took a charcoal stove and handed it over, and said shyly: "Sister gives it to you, it's cold outside." ”

Xia Meizhen thanked her and took it over to roast her hands.

After writing for so long, my hands are indeed freezing now.

There are not many people in this small kitchen, just a cooking Zhou Pozi and a little girl. Mrs. Zhou is the wet nurse brought over by Aunt Chu, because she was worried that Dai Xue'e in the big house would give her a secret hand, so she was personally responsible for the diet in Chaohui Courtyard; Cai'er is the daughter of the big kitchen manager, who is a mother-in-law, who is thin and small, but she is smart.

"Mother Zhou, when your dishes are cooked, let the dishes come and call me, and I'll deal with those crabs." Xia Meizhen said with a smile.

"That's great," said Mrs. Zhou, "I've never seen anything like this in most of my life, and I don't know how to burn it, but the girl has solved my problem." ”

Since Xia Meizhen often helped the small kitchen to do some small things, Mrs. Zhou liked this diligent girl very much and praised her.

Xia Meizhen nodded, didn't bother them to work, and went to the dining room on the side.

After a while, Cai Er came to call her, and Xia Meizhen went to the small kitchen. She first cleaned up the crabs, then took them to steam, and then went to pick two yellow croakers, cleaned them, steamed them and deboned them, and then seasoned them with egg white, cooking wine, salt, and ginger, marinated for a while, and finally heated the pan with cold oil, stir-fried over low heat, and the starch was thickened.

The little girl couldn't turn her eyes away, and then she saw Xia Meizhen take the steamed crab over and take the crab meat, stuff the fish into the crab shell, and put it on the plate.

"Alright, you can bring these over, I'll make a little snack here and go over." Xia Meizhen did not feel guilty at all and handed the pseudo-crab filled with fish meat to Cai'er, and the crab meat here, she planned to make another kind of food - crab meat bun.

The method is similar to ordinary steamed buns, but now her main thing is to avoid the eyes of Cai'er and Mrs. Zhou, and swallow these crabs for herself, so she made two kinds of fillings.

Because this time the thing was so rare, when Aunt Chu and Dai Qi had lunch, the small dining room was full of people, all of them wanted to see what this crab tasted like.

And while they were eating, Xia Meizhen wrapped the buns with crab meat and pork and eggs, and also put them in the steamer, waiting to be cooked.

After a while, the buns were ready, Xia Meizhen put the two kinds of stuffed buns on separate plates, and because she made a large number of steamed buns, there were many of them, so she was not afraid of being seen that there was any difference.

After doing this, Xia Meizhen brought the pork and egg stuffed buns to the dining room.

When she went, Aunt Chu's mother and son were also eating a good meal, and at the same time, she also saw that there were crab shells next to the bowl in front of Dai Qi, but there was no in front of Aunt Zhu, so it was guessed that Dai Qi didn't let Aunt Chu eat.

Xia Meizhen quietly put the bun on the table, and then stepped aside to wait.

"What's your stuffing for this bun?" Sure enough, before she could stand up, Dai Qi asked over there.

"It's crab buns." Xia Meizhen's face was not red and her heart was not beating, and the corners of her eyes were biased Dai Qi picked up a bun and sent it to his mouth, and the aunt Chu watched him eat, "Young master, this crab is cold, you should eat less." ”

Dai Qi hummed, ate the buns in two or three bites, and then drank some tea before leaving the dining room, without saying a word to Xia Meizhen.

Seeing that her son was gone, Aunt Chu asked Xia Meizhen, "You obviously know that I can't eat cold things, so how can you still serve it to me?" ”

Xia Meizhen knew that Aunt Chu was blaming herself, so she hurriedly said: "Madam, the coldest part of this crab is its pair of crab claws, so I used yellow croaker instead of crab meat to stuff it, so that I not only have the fragrance of crab meat, but I will not be afraid of its cold and dare not eat it, and I have made the remaining crab meat into buns, so that the young master can eat it when he wants to eat it." ”

She said it sincerely and thoughtfully, and Aunt Chu had nothing to say, but the anger in her heart did not disappear much, so she asked again: "Then aren't you afraid that I won't eat this crab and eat steamed buns?" If something happens to me and the baby in my belly, can you take responsibility? ”

Hearing this, Xia Meizhen immediately lowered her head and said more sincerely: "If Mrs. wants to eat steamed buns, the slave will naturally pick whether to put crab meat for you to eat, I made two kinds of stuffing for this bun, so naturally I won't let Mrs. eat something that shouldn't be eaten." ”

She didn't lie about this, but she made two kinds of stuffed buns, but the buns in front of you, Aunt Chu, are all buns without crab meat, so no matter how you choose, what you eat is not crab meat buns.

When Aunt Chu heard this, she was in a much better mood, pointed to the buns, and said, "Then you pick a bun for me without crab meat." ”

Xia Meizhen chose one and handed it to her, Aunt Chu took a bite and felt that it was delicious, so she asked again, "What do you put in this stuffing?" Why is it different from what I used to eat? ”

"I put shiitake mushrooms and green onions, as well as ginger and shrimp, pork, and there is no fishy smell, so that you won't be sick to your stomach when you eat it."

Aunt Chu nodded, put down the half-eaten buns, and said to her, "What kind of stuffed buns did the young master eat just now?" ”

"It's crab meat."

"I think he likes to eat a lot, so you can leave all the crab meat to him, and I eat this, you can take a few and eat it." Aunt Chu said suddenly, and walked out, "Presumably Madame has crabs to eat anywhere, but I don't know that without your skillful hands, they can eat as well as mine." He laughed even more.

Hearing this, Xia Meizhen was a little funny, and at the same time she was very surprised, she didn't expect that Aunt Chu would actually reward her with buns, and she really didn't even need to find an excuse to take the crab meat buns for herself.

Aunt Chu had someone to serve over there, and after Xia Meizhen thanked her, she went to the small kitchen to get all the crab meat buns, and took them to the dining room where the people over there were eating.

On the way, I happened to meet Ling Yang coming out of the tea room to make tea, so I gave two to her, and the remaining three gave Cai'er another one, and one for herself and Furong.

The two of them sat on the beauty leaning on the corridor outside.

Fleur took a small bite of the bun, and the delicious gravy quickly dripped down, and the aroma was permeated. With a bun in her mouth, she asked, "What kind of bun is this?" So fragrant? ”

Xia Meizhen ate with a smile, and when she heard the question, she leaned into her ear and said, "This is a crab meat bun, I finally got it, eat it quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold." ”

When she heard that it was crab meat buns, Hibiscus was even more pleasantly surprised, and took a big bite hard. She heard as soon as possible that the big house had bought crabs back, and she had eaten crabs for so many years, but she didn't expect Xia Meizhen to have such a good fortune this year.

Eating the steamed buns, Xia Meizhen whispered: "Don't tell people that it's crab meat buns, otherwise you will be unlucky." ”

"Yes, yes." Naturally, the foodie Fleur will not ruin her own mouth.