Chapter 516: Autumn Pear Paste
"Okay, okay, I will come back safely, Jinfeng also said, when we come back from Dacheng, we will get married, and my sister must come to drink the wedding wine at that time!" Speaking of this, Qi Ling stuck out his tongue a little embarrassed.
"Why is it so sudden!" Wan Lin looked surprised, and nodded again and again: "Don't worry, no one can miss me when the time comes!" And I'm going to give my sister a big gift! ”
It was easy to persuade Wan Lin to say it, she was not as angry as before she came, I heard that she was going out to buy some daily necessities tomorrow and it was irrefutable that she was asked to prepare, Qi Ling was already a little guilty about hiding her, so she smiled and responded.
The watchman walked through the streets and alleys, it was almost time at this moment, but the imperial city was still brightly lit, in a side hall, the ambergris incense rose in the huge incense burner, and when the curtain was opened, he saw Hengzong and Xu Yu each holding chess pieces, both frowning and thinking, as if they had encountered a bottleneck.
Hengzong touched his chin, carefully looked for flaws on the chessboard, and after half a sound, he still put down the chess pieces in his hand and sighed: "I lost, Xu Qing's chess skills have really improved a lot recently!" ”
Xu Yu smiled slightly: "Your Majesty praised it falsely, I just met a master and learned some from it, but this time I took it out to show my ugliness." ”
Hengzong raised his eyebrows, "Oh? What master did you meet? ”
"It's the kid who was appreciated by His Majesty before, and his chess skills are much higher than the minister's, so he learned a few moves."
Hengzong thought for a moment and suddenly said, "You're talking about that Gu family kid, right?" At a young age, he is both talented and beautiful, when will he be announced into the palace to play chess with me, and he will definitely have extraordinary chess skills if he can be appreciated by Xu Qing like this! ”
Xu Yu responded with a smile, Hengzong found Ah Fu and put away the chessboard, picked up the fog tea on the side, took two sips, and then asked about Lu Ye.
"How's that guy doing now? Still won't reveal half a point? ”
Xu Yu got up and knelt in front of him, which surprised Hengzong: "What is Xu Qing doing?" ”
"The minister entered the palace this time to ask His Majesty for his guilt, and asked His Majesty to forgive the minister's first cut and then play."
Hengzong chuckled: "Get up, I have already heard about Lu Ye's matter, what are you guilty of being able to induce him to tell the secret of Dacheng?" But what means did the Qi family girl use to make Lu Ye tell this secret at the risk of rebellion? ”
Xu Yu said respectfully: "The minister and the girl Naqi have only met a few times, and I heard that she has good craftsmanship, and everyone admires the food she makes. ”
"Now that you've made all the arrangements, let's wait and see what happens." As he spoke, he waved his hand, and Xu Yu bowed with a playful salute.
It rained again near midnight, and Qi Ling slept deeply with the sound of the dripping rain, and had no dreams all night, until Qingyu called out to her the next morning and woke up in a daze.
"How long has it been?"
Qi Ling rubbed her eyes as if she hadn't woken up, Qingyu took a warm handkerchief and put it on her face and said with a smile: "It's already three o'clock." ”
"Ah, it's so late!"
The hazy drowsiness that was smoked by the heat on the handkerchief suddenly dissipated, she quickly got up and got dressed, there are still a lot of things to be busy today, the morning time always flies, and she has to grasp it well!
After a simple dressing, she took Qingyu to the nearby vegetable market, since she was going to go far away, it was best to make things that were easy to preserve, speaking of which this season is quite suitable, lukewarm, if it is changed to summer, today's tomorrow will be rancid.
All kinds of butcher shops are a must, it is perfect to take a cushion to be hungry on the road, this time she is ready to make more other flavors, what spicy, spiced, honey, sauce each of them to a few catties!
In addition, chili sauce or something also needs to be made more, think about Dacheng's barren place must not have this, how to make fragrant braised mutton without chili sauce?
So when she bought chili peppers, she added a few pounds more than usual, and soon the basket was full.
When passing by a stall selling it, Qi Ling saw the autumn pear as big as the palm of his hand, and he moved his mind.
Autumn because of the hot weather and fluttering flocculent is easy to make people suffer from cough, autumn pear is sweet and delicious, used to make autumn pear paste is very suitable, which adds a lot of medicinal materials, such as Chuanbei honeysuckle monk fruit and other things, boiled out of brew and take, cough has a good effect.
She stepped forward and asked, "How do you sell this autumn pear?" ”
"This is just picked today, guaranteed fresh, five cents a pound, you look at it!"
Qingyu was a little puzzled: "What did the girl do when she suddenly bought pears?" ”
She smiled mysteriously: "I have my own tricks, get me six big ones." ”
"Great! A total of 20 articles, thank you for your patronage! ”
took the heavy autumn pear, which made the basket sink a little more, and when passing by the pharmacy, I went to buy some medicinal materials for boiling autumn pear ointment, and the two went back to the yard with a smile.
The autumn pears I bought back are large, the kind that I can't hold in the palm of my hand, wash them, cut them into thin strips, put them in a pot and add an appropriate amount of water to start boiling, and then you can process others.
Cut the ginger into strips, add a little Chuanbei and Luo Han Guo, put it into the slightly bubbling pear water and boil for two hours, the pear water in the pot has become black, you can take a sieve to separate the soup and pear flesh inside.
Add a little pear pulp residue to water, add a little red dates and lilies and continue to boil for an hour and a half, filter the soup again, leave a little residue, and finally add dried honeysuckle and water to boil for half an hour......
Qi Ling wiped the hot sweat on his forehead, lifted the lid of the pot, and poured out the third soup, which was mixed with the soup of the previous two times, and then he got a pot of dark black liquid, with the fragrance of autumn pears and the mixed aroma of various medicinal herbs... It smells good!
Then let Qingyu move to a small charcoal stove, and then it is the highlight of making autumn pear paste, you need to slowly fry the soup in this pot into a viscous shape, and the process needs to be constantly stirred, otherwise it will be easy to paste the pot, and then it will not be called autumn pear paste.
The original loose aroma gradually became concentrated with the constantly shaking spoon, and when the autumn pear paste can stick to the soup spoon without falling, it is boiled, and then honey is added to add some sweetness, and a large pot of soup finally becomes a small jar of autumn pear paste.
Qingyu leaned in and sniffed, revealing a rich mixed aroma, a little autumn pear aroma, but smelling and sniffing the fragrance of honeysuckle and red dates.
It smells good, but I don't know what it tastes like.
Qi Ling naturally wouldn't let her help in vain, scooped a spoonful and threw it into the warm water to stir it up, and soon the transparent water turned dark brown, and the slight heat seemed to be floating with pear fragrance, so that she couldn't wait to pick it up and taste it.
A mouthful of slight sweetness blooms on the tip of the tongue, and the first thing you taste is the pear aroma, followed by the aroma of red dates and monk fruit, until you swallow the throat and the aftertaste is the fragrance of honeysuckle...... After swallowing it for a while, my throat was slightly cool, and I felt that my throat was a lot fresher!
"How's it going, is it good?"
Qingyu nodded: "It's delicious, it's sweet in the mouth, and after drinking, it feels a little cold in the throat, if you are suffering from cough, it should be perfect for people to drink this." ”
Qi Ling smiled: "If you feel uncomfortable in your throat, you can always drink a cup to nourish your throat and clear your lungs." ”
After the autumn pear paste was boiled, it was almost afternoon, and he originally wanted to give Gu Jinfeng a cup, but Qingyu said that he was picked up by the carriage early in the morning.