Those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid.

For Dong Xiaowan, this sentence is more beautiful than 10,000 reasons.

He's a reader!

It's just that I don't know why I ended up working as a small guy in the kitchen?

"Jing is clear and turbid, Jing Wei is in and clear and different. ”

She couldn't help but say this.

In her sentence, "Jing Qing Wei Turbidity" comes from the "National Style, Shao Feng, Gu Feng" of the "Book of Songs", and "Jing Wei is in harmony and clear and turbid" is from the "Book of Songs" "Mao Biography", which just echoes Ivan's sentence.

Dong Xiaowan, who is familiar with poetry and books, naturally knows the origin of Ivan's sentence.

This is also the reason why she treats Ivan as a reader.

If you are not a person who has read poetry and books, it is impossible to summarize such profound words.

Ivan simply didn't know what to do.

The reason why he knew that sentence was because it was a common saying that everyone in later generations knew, but he didn't know that it was derived from the Book of Songs.

He didn't understand the Book of Songs at all.

His silence made Dong Xiaowan misunderstand again.

Noble people, needless to say!

She couldn't help but treat Ivan as a confidant.

is also a person who reads poetry and books, one is reduced to the Qin Mansion to laugh, and the other is depressed in the back kitchen, becoming a kitchen boy who is a "gentleman and a chef", and the two are sympathetic to each other.

She couldn't help but say quietly: "If I can, I really want to leave this filthy place, and then marry a scholar and live an ordinary life." ”

Ivan: "......"

Who do you want to marry and what kind of life do you have to do with me?

I'm just here to do the task, and once the task is completed, I will never have anything to do with you, how can I control you so much?

He never expected that a few words he said casually would cause Dong Xiaowan to open the spit mode to him.

Could it be that this is also related to the completion of the task?

According to his original idea, after the maid came back, he would leave quickly after teaching Dong Xiaowan the crystal skin and go to Tie Niu to practice the basic skills of knife work.

But now he wasn't sure.

Because it was a quest and the quest was a chain, he knew that the completion of the quest had to find clues based on the progress of the quest.

Therefore, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately replied: "It's useless to be a scholar." ”

This is in response to Dong Xiaowan's statement that he wants to marry a scholar.

"What do you mean by that?"

Ivan: "......"

He thought to himself, you Dong Xiaowan has already fallen into the middle of the family, and you are still dreaming of the eldest lady in the past, isn't this a typical body that is thinner than heaven and paper?

You have such a good talent for cooking, why don't you develop in this area and open a restaurant to support yourself!

Of course, this can only be thought about, and it is not appropriate to say it directly.

Let's put it another way.

"What's so good about a scholar? What can you do other than reciting poems and being elegant? You can't fight when you go into battle, you can't work in the field, you can't work hard in the field, you don't divide the four bodies, you have to go to the land of fireworks at every turn to waste money, if you marry such a person, do you want to raise him upside down?"

Dong Xiaowan was stunned.

The reason why she likes talented readers is naturally because of her previous habitual thinking.

In the education she received, talents have always been worthy of beautiful women.

But when Ivan said this, she felt that there was some truth.

In Qinlou, she is not uncommon to see people who read, but the people she sees who read are indeed the kind of people who are dissolute and elegant, which makes her very unhappy.

Yes, I am in a filthy place like Qinlou, how can I meet a scholar who is clean and self-conscious?

She suddenly came to her senses.

No, isn't Derpy just a clean reader?

What is the reason for him to hide in the kitchen?

Why does he refuse to admit that he is a scholar and look down on him?

Could it be that there is a story?

Dong Xiaowan's curiosity was immediately aroused, and she asked, "Derpy, what did you do before?"

Ivan: "......"

I'm just here for a task, do you need to get to the bottom of it?

Where does my origin stand up to scrutiny?

"I am from the mountains and wilderness of Songzhou, because I like to make food, I entered the Qinlou kitchen to learn skills. ”

Because his background does not stand up to scrutiny, Ivan is becoming more and more vague.

But Dong Xiaowan didn't want to let him go: "Who else is there at home?"

"No one is gone, and the family is in the middle. ”

As everyone knows, this sentence made Dong Xiaowan feel sympathetic again.

It turns out that Derpy is worse than me!

I still have a home and a mother alive.

"Derpy......

When she wanted to ask something, she heard a knock on the door: "Miss, I'm back." ”

It's the maid who went out to polish the mung bean flour and came back.

Ivan breathed a sigh of relief.

If you dig it down with the girl on your back, it will soon be exposed!

Alas, it seems that it will take some time to reserve a little knowledge of the Ming Dynasty, and the task will have to continue for a whole month!

Although he had already learned the method of pouring soup dumplings, he was really not sure if the subsequent part of this task would intersect with Dong Xiaowan.

"Miss Dong, since the mung bean flour has been returned, let's make crystal dough first!"

Ivan finally found an excuse to change the subject.

In the absence of flour and cornstarch, making crystal dough is really a troublesome thing.

Fortunately, Ivan has also studied and knows how to extract flour from flour.

The process is a bit cumbersome.

Ivan first made a little salt water and dough, mixed the flour into a dough, then found a large basin, added an appropriate amount of water, and began to rub and knead the dough vigorously in the water.

After rubbing for a while, a large ball of noodles was left in Ivan's hand, and only a small ball of gluten remained.

"It's called gluten, fried in oil and then fried meat, it's delicious. ”

He handed the by-product to Dong Xiaowan.

"Really?"

Dong Xiaowan was a little surprised.

It was clear that Ivan was doing more than she understood.

In this era, the concept of gluten and gluten-free flour has not yet been circulated.

She pointed to the pot of batter again: "What about this?"

"Bring to a boil over low heat to dry the water. ”

If it was in the later generations, the powder would definitely be dried by machine, but in this era, Ivan could only use the most primitive method.

Fortunately, when making crystal dough, the flour originally had to be mixed with boiling water, which saved a little time and did not need to boil the batter into flour.

But even so, it still took Ivan a lot of effort to boil a ball of clear noodles.

Next, mung bean flour must also be prepared in the same way, and the mung bean skin and bean dregs in it are separated and filtered out, and then boiled and dried over low heat.

Alas, perhaps only a person like Dong Xiaowan, who pursues perfection in food, would accept such a complicated approach!

Ivan couldn't help but sigh.

As everyone knows, Dong Xiaowan is also sighing at this time.

Derpy, like me, is a perfectionist when it comes to food!

Also, his focused look is really charming!

She suddenly had the feeling of sympathy and confidant again.