After all, the Yang family is not as good as a wealthy family with hundreds of slaves at every turn, plus there are only three masters, so there is only one big kitchen in the mirror garden, and there are four cooks in total. The leading housekeeper's daughter-in-law, You Bao's family, is the former Jiang family's dowry girl, and she has followed the Jiang family and Yang Jin Zhou's mother loyally for many years. She has a firm eye on her own one-third of an acre of land, even if it is Mother Zhuang next to the Jiang family, rashly entering the kitchen will attract complaints, not to mention other people. But at this moment, she was blasted out of the kitchen.

Looking at the other three kitchen ladies who were full of curiosity and probeing their brains, she couldn't help but scold them angrily, seeing that none of them paid attention to herself, she suddenly muttered in a low voice: "The old lady is really, Mrs. was born in the Hou Mansion, and she was named the county lord, where can this kitchen do things, and there is no reason to waste those rice and noodles ......", there are only two Jiang and Chen Lan in the kitchen. Jiang Shichu just supported Chen Lan to hand over the plate tools, but after all, she couldn't resist her insistence on picking up the knife to chop the stuffing, she had to give up the kitchen knife, and looked at it in horror for a while, seeing that her daughter-in-law's movements were still a little rusty at the beginning, but it didn't take long for her to gradually become familiar, she couldn't help but secretly surprise herself, and couldn't help but praise after arriving.

"It seems that people are really smart and know everything, even you can master this cooking skill, I really don't know what else you can't learn."

Chen Lan smiled and said nothing, although her hands were already a little sore, but that indescribable feeling made her feel relaxed Of course, the meat filling was originally almost prepared, otherwise she really couldn't do it with more than ten catties of meat filling, so it was easy to mix the fillings and prepare them, she washed her hands cleanly, and came to Jiang again, watching her roll out one skin after another as if she was turning over the bottom of her hands, and taught her how to wrap it hand in hand.

For this process, she showed a rare clumsiness, either the wrapped dumplings couldn't stand at all, and she couldn't get up when she fell asleep, or the filling was exposed everywhere.

"Your one dumpling is worth two others." , although Jiang joked, his face was full of satisfied smiles, "It's not easy to do this for the first time, it's not easy, take your time, don't be anxious, it's still early for dinner at this time." "Hmm.

Chen Lan responded, but looking at the dumpling's expression, he was ruthless. She even got through so many difficulties and obstacles, and she didn't believe that she couldn't help the little dumpling! Thinking of this, she couldn't help but carefully observe Jiang's simple movements, "Although it may not be like that, at least it is much better than when she could only ponder it alone before." The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy in the hot kitchen, taking out a coin from a bowl and wrapping it into the dumplings from time to time, "I didn't care about the people outside."

Outside the kitchen, the other three cooks all went to the other room to be lazy, but You Bao's family was still pacing back and forth at the kitchen door, and several times they wanted to go in but they counted on the door. Just when she was really impatient to wait, and one hand had already touched the thick blue cotton curtain, she suddenly heard movement behind her, and when she looked back, it was Zhuang's mother, and she was immediately relieved.

"Sister, you're finally here!" , You Bao's family held Zhuang's mother's arm and pulled the person aside, and said like a cannon, "Usually the old lady makes dumplings, so I still have you by the side, but today I changed to Mrs. "God knows when this meal will have to wait?" It's not early in the morning, and my sister has to go in to persuade the old lady, let you and I go in and make a ......", Zhuang's mother didn't speak, and smiled for a long time: "You don't know the old lady's temper?" This is said to be the first day of the new year, and it is never fifteen. Madame just heard about this request and said yes, you can't go and sweep the interest of the two of you. Besides, the fourth young master of the Yangning Hou Mansion also came, "As soon as he heard about making dumplings, he immediately followed me here, and he was also waiting for his wife's craftsmanship." Hearing this, Fang of the You Bao family looked around in surprise, "I saw a young man in a royal blue straight coat who didn't know when he entered the courtyard, and was standing at the door of the kitchen at this time, opening the curtain and looking in." Before she could scream, he suddenly slipped into the kitchen. Faced with this scene, even though she used to be the overlord of the big kitchen, she became dumbfounded at this moment.

Chen Yan crept into the kitchen, and saw that his sister was busy behind the wooden table, and after a while, there was a white dumpling on the large boxwood plate on the side, and his eyes widened for a while. My sister has one set of big truths after another, she doesn't have to say anything about needlework, and her knowledge is deeper than herself, but now she has even learned to make dumplings? Thinking that his sister had learned a good cooking skill and could have countless good things to make for his brother-in-law Yang Jinzhou to eat, he couldn't help but feel a little jealous, but then he thought that today's first dumpling should be his own soup, and his brother-in-law was far away in Xuanfu, he suddenly laughed proudly.

Unlike Chen Lan, who was focused on dumplings, Jiang was used to doing this job after all, rolling dumpling wrappers on the one hand, and listening to the six directions and seeing all directions on the other hand, so Chen Yan appeared as soon as he entered the house, but he didn't drink it at first. Seeing that he first looked around curiously, then stared at Chen Lan, frowning and gritting his teeth, but then secretly laughed, she couldn't help but be angry and funny, and opened her mouth and shouted: "Brother Yan, is this kitchen for you men to come?" ”

Chen Yan saw that Chen Lan also raised his head, and he didn't know when his face was stained with flour, so he immediately stepped forward, handed her a handkerchief flatteringly, and pointed to her forehead. Seeing that she was scrambling to wipe up, he looked at Jiang and smiled, "Auntie, didn't I hear that my sister followed you to make dumplings, so come and see?" I never knew my sister could make dumplings, so I was curious, "..."

"Curious about what? Just keep it for a while you'll eat! Chen Lan threw out the handkerchief angrily, which happened to be thrown on Chen Yan's head, and when she saw him salivating and quickly grabbed it, she said with a straight face, "Okay, don't get in the way here, go outside and wait!" I'll wrap it up later, and you can eat it! ”

Seeing that Chen Lan couldn't help but say that he had driven Chen Yan out, Jiang couldn't help but laugh as well. only stepped forward to inspect Chen Lan's two plates of dumplings, and she had to give a few more words. After working for half an hour, seeing that there were about one hundred and fifty or sixty, she went out and called Zhuang's mother to come in, and asked You Bao's family to call the other three cooks. These many people started as soon as they got started, and they almost finished wrapping the remaining meat filling, and then boiled the dumplings separately.

After working for a whole hour and a half, Chen Lan sat on the kang as soon as he returned to the house and didn't want to get up, feeling that he was already hungry. When Hongluo smiled and served a large plate of dumplings, she almost didn't look at it and sandwiched one, and she didn't even have time to dip it in vinegar. And Chen Yan was still interested in observing the shape and appearance of the dumplings, and muttered quietly while watching, until he was absent-minded. Biting something, he almost broke his teeth, he collected his thoughts, spit it out and looked at it, but saw that it was a yellow copper coin.

Jiang saw Chen Yan holding the copper coin and looking at it repeatedly, she couldn't help laughing and said: "Yo, among the hundreds of dumplings, there are a total of ten rich dumplings, this is called Brother Yan'er, you have eaten it, and it must be good luck to catch Ming'er!" ”

"Hey...... I'm so lucky, sister, I got a lucky dumpling! ”

Chen Lan saw that Chen Yan suddenly changed from stunned to ecstatic, and couldn't help glaring at him more and more angrily, but he didn't pay attention, and he suddenly felt that he had bitten a hard object in his mouth, and quickly spit it out, this is now a silver coin. Seeing Chen Yan's eyes glaring at the boss on the other side, she picked up the silver coin with a smile and turned it around in front of his eyes, and then said with a smile: "Fortune is also divided into gold, silver and bronze, and my luck is a little bit stronger than yours." ”

"Sister, you have to compare with me in this!"

Chen Yan was suddenly a little depressed, but thinking that he had come just in time today, his mood improved again. In response to this mentality, he ate two large plates of twenty or thirty dumplings in one go, until he couldn't hold it anymore with a full burp, which stopped Chen Lan's chopsticks under the white eyes. But then he saw the three-tiered food box delivered to him, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"What are you doing? Today is the winter solstice, and it is also the day of reunion, so you have to go back early. These dumplings are for my grandmother's elders and a few younger siblings, and I made them myself, so you can take them back and give them a taste. Okay, it's not too early, you can hurry up. After saying this, Chen Lan ignored Chen Yan's bitter face, and drove people out of the door without saying anything. Only when she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, she couldn't help but stretch out a hand and press it on Chen Yan's shoulder.

"The third aunt is sick like that, you have to be sensible, and you usually have to pay attention to your diet and daily life. You must know that the body is important, and remember to use those prescriptions that are given to you, and do not be lazy. ”

"Well, sister, I remember." At this time, Chen Yan put away the hippie smiling expression and nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, I will definitely be able to take care of myself!" ”

A meal of dumplings makes the mirror garden a little more festive, and the reward is the top priority.

There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as the year, and the reward for this night is almost the same as that of the New Year, so everyone is happy. And Chen Lan went back to the house after accompanying Jiang for a long time, and after easily digesting the pork and cabbage dumplings in a belly. Cleaned up and got into bed and got into the bed. Although she was already covered with heat, she still had a trace of indescribable anticipation in her heart.

If he can come back, then the festival will be interesting...,"

Maybe it was because she was full, maybe she had made up for the exhaustion of last night in the afternoon, and she rolled over in bed for a while and closed her eyes in a daze. I don't know how long it took, but she suddenly felt as if there was an extra person around her, and suddenly a spirit woke up. The moment she opened her eyes, a tough side face came into view, and she suddenly showed an unbelievable look.

"Lanlan, I'm back!"