In the kitchenette:

Qiu Tian leisurely crossed Erlang's legs, took a sip of tea indifferently, she slightly glanced sideways at Angelica who had just entered the small kitchen, and asked softly, "It's done?" ”

"Yes! I have already consulted the queen mother, and the queen mother asked the slave to bring the message back. Angelica glanced at Xu Song, who was sharpening the kitchen knife, Qiu Tian half-propped his head, "What did you say?" ”

"The queen told the young lady not to move around, not to go up to the house to uncover the tiles, to lift the pot on the ground, not to touch the kitchen knife and small sword, and remember that there are still wounds on the body." Angelica suddenly turned into a queen, and said this with a gentle and irresistible look: "And! ”

"And?!" Qiu Tian straightened up in shock, and her voice rose even more, but she didn't want to see the smile on Angelica's face in the next second, she glared at her angrily, "Stinky girl, dare to tease me!" ”

She said, when did the queen become so chattering?

She sat down again, and Xu Song on the other side also sharpened the knife, and after washing it clean, "Miss, it's already sharpened." ”

"Try it!"

Xu Song obeyed the order and was about to take a piece of winter melon to slice it and try it, but he didn't want Qiu Tian to let Angelica take a strand of hair and gently put it towards the blade, and the slender hair was suddenly split in two by the blade, and its sharpness was incomparable to that of a knife.

"It's so sharp!" Qiu Tian couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this knife sharpening skill was handed down by the ancestor of the blacksmith family, "Little stone, your ancestor has passed down the knife sharpening skills really well!" ”

Xiao Shizi was praised by Qiu Tian for the first time and touched the back of his head embarrassedly, "These are just small skills that can't be put on the table, and it's enough to be disliked by Miss." ”

"Come on! Look at you now being praised by the young lady, and your mouth is grinning to the sky. Angelica teased Little Pebble, Little Pebble glared at her dissatisfied, but she didn't want to be frightened by Angelica's cold look.

Xu Song looked at the shiny fish-scale kitchen knife in his hand, "This kitchen knife is also the first time I've seen it!" ”

"Fish scale kitchen knives, as the name suggests, are like fish scales, which can not only protect the blade of the knife, but also present a streamlined knife shape, which is used to handle meat, and it is like a fish in water, handy." Qiu Tian replied lightly, "I also entrusted a small pebble to help me build this knife, and after four or five revisions, it was only sent back to Kaifeng today." ”

"It turned out to be a knife designed by you, master, and now it is used by me, isn't it just ......" Xu Song frowned, knowing how important a knife is to a cook.

"Master! This knife is still ......"

Qiu Tian looked at Xu Songyi with an expression of wanting to speak, and yawned, "Give your second apprenticeship gift for the teacher, do you like it?" ”

"Send me? Apprenticeship gifts? Xu Song was stunned for a moment, and suddenly his face was full of excitement, "Really? Master, did you really send me? ”

"Hmm!" Qiu Tian grabbed the design in his hand, and he could make a few if he wanted to, why worry that he didn't have a fish scale knife, but he didn't have anything to give to Xu Song, the little apprentice who she temporarily recognized and helped him run errands and make dishes, so he could only give this fish scale knife.

"Today, use this winter plum blossom carp and this high-quality golden rice paper to make a long-lost paper-wrapped fish!"

"Good! But master, how do you need apprentices to cooperate with this paper-wrapped fish? Xu Song touched the fish scale knife, and his eyes burst into a determined gaze, sweeping away the haze of self-denial before.

"Xu Song, you first remove the fish scales of this winter plum carp, but the fish scales are kept and not thrown away, and it will be useful in the future. After that, the belly is disemboweled, the filth and the black coat on the inner wall are removed, and the poisonous line that is unique to the carp must be removed. ”

"Carp line? What is it? Angelica suddenly asked curiously.

"The fishing line of this carp is actually not unique, other fish also have it, but ordinary fish will not deliberately come out, and the poisonous fishing line of this carp is weak and cold, and it is okay for strong people to eat it, but people with weak bodies will vomit and diarrhea at light, and they will be dehydrated and comatose if they eat it." Qiu Tian was very satisfied, Xu Song's movements were neat and crisp and reversed, just one breath, the fine fish scales fell on both sides of the cutting board like snowflakes, and the whole fish was clean and silvery-white.

The fish scale knife slashed slightly on the silver belly of the fish, and the flexible fish belly was suddenly broken, and the organs and swim bladders inside flowed out, and the fishy smell of the plum carp in winter was not as fishy as that of ordinary fish, which made her a little stunned.

But as Xu Song's fish scale knife broke lightly at the junction between the fish spine and the fish head, his right hand quickly groped for the fishing line hidden near the fish bone, and pulled it out little by little with the feminine power of his wrist, and then slapped the fish body rhythmically with his left hand.

Every time she slapped it, the fishing line came out a small inch, and it took almost half a stick of incense to completely remove the entire fishing line, when Angelica just pinched the fishing line with her hand, the fishing line was split in half in her hand and fell on the cutting board, and she couldn't help but exclaim, "It's so soft!" ”

Just now, she didn't use a trace of strength in the past, and the fishing line was broken.

Suddenly, she looked at Xu Song with disbelief in her eyes, "How do you catch the fishing line and keep it open?" ”

"This ...... There doesn't seem to be any trick! Xu Song scratched his face, "If you talk about the trick, you just think that you are a wind that can come out with a fishing line, instead of cutting it off." ”

"Aren't you talking about it?" Angelica frowned, tried again, the fishing line was still broken and both ends fell on the cutting board, "You take it!" ”

Xu Song frowned, but because of Angelica's eyes, he still honestly picked it gently, let the fishing line stick to his fingertips, and slowly lifted it, and the fishing line was lifted by him like this.

"How so?" Angelica exclaimed in disbelief, and said in his heart: Why did you pinch it so easily? Could it be that Xu Song's martial arts are above me?

Qiu Tian, who was watching this small game, smiled, "Angelica, if you observe it carefully, you can also lift the fishing line." ”

Here she uses "mention" instead of "pinch", if it is a conspicuous person, it would have understood the difference between the words and created different results.

But Angelica was stunned and suspected that Xu Song's martial arts were better than his own, and he didn't listen to Qiu Tian's prompts.

Qiu Tian didn't care much about angelica, then glanced at the material table, and ordered: "Xiaoshizi, go and chop the Chinese cabbage and wash it for later use, wash and set aside the tangerine peel, chop the green onion, ginger and garlic for later use, cut the artichoke, sweet potato, and carrot hob into pieces for later use, and cut the celery and green onions into sections for later use." ”

"Okay!"

"Xu Song, after you wash the plum carp in winter, draw a flower knife on the inside of the fish maw, marinate the fish body with salt, pepper and starch, and finally stuff the green onions, ginger and garlic into the fish maw."

"Subsequently, the cold oil in the cold pot is started, add the dried red pepper segments, Sichuan pepper, star anise, bay leaves, cinnamon, and the pot to bring out the flavor, pour in soy sauce and Huadiao wine and stir-fry the wine aroma, pour in the soaked tempeh, add water and boil together to make a thicker sauce." Qiu Tian knocked on the bowl with tempeh in his hand, tilted his head to look at Xu Song, who was barely following and panting, said, "How is it?" Follow? ”

"Do you want me to slow down?"

"No!" Xu Song wiped the sweat on his forehead, quickly cooled the pot and the cold oil got up, the bellows of the pedal was stepped on by him, and the spatula in his hand was quickly stirred in a clockwise direction to make it heat up faster and evenly.

Then sprinkle in the dried red pepper segments, peppercorns, star anise, bay leaves, and cinnamon in the order that Qiu Tian said, and quickly set fire to the pot, and suddenly the whole small kitchen seemed to have fallen into a spice pit, and the air was filled with a choking spicy aroma, and even Qiu Tian was smoked by this pot to cover his nose.

But this kind of pot is a classic, in the moment before the zooming and paste, the top aroma in the spices is completely squeezed, spicy and choking, and the eyes are confused, which fully explains the excellence of Xu Song's hand-made pot.

Subsequently, Xu Song poured in soy sauce, Huadiao wine and water, killed the pot to remove the smoke, and quickly poured in the tempeh and tempeh water prepared by Qiu Tian, and was about to increase the heat to boil, Qiu Tian covered his nose and took out his treasure for him.

"What is this?" Xu Song looked at the small earthy brown jar curiously, Qiu Tian had been choked to the point that he couldn't make a sound, and asked him to give it a try.

He opened the jar with puzzled eyes, the brownish color and pungent smell made him frown, and his mind quickly flashed to the common things of the latrine, and questioned, "Can you eat it?" ”

"Ahem......" Qiu Tian cleared her throat, "You can eat it!" Put two spoons in there! ”

This is according to the bean paste of a certain county in the present world, which can be reproduced as a seasoning. If you don't put in this bean paste, this paper-wrapped fish will lose its soul.

Xu Song half-convinced and spooned two spoonfuls and poured them into the pot to boil together, Qiu Tian quickly put the golden rice paper that had been soaked in oil, put it on the table and put a small pebble to cut the spare side dishes at the bottom, and then put the winter plum carp on it seriously, and finally just poured in a spoonful of boiled sauce, while the sauce had not yet flowed out, quickly tightened the two ends, turned around and put it in another clean pot, and said to himself: "Because there is no pan, and I am too lazy to find an iron plate, we will order it!" ”

"Pebble, slow boil!" Qiu Tian shouted, hid in the pebble behind the stove, and after quickly pulling the bellows, he stuffed a small handful of firewood into the stove.

"That's it, master?" Xu Song looked at the paper-wrapped fish in the pot without any reaction, "Why don't you increase the heat?" ”

"It's mushy!"

Qiu Tian turned her head and glanced at the little white sheep who had been lowering her sense of existence and was tied to the corner, she licked her tongue and said faintly: "Xu Song, you go and cut some arm-length signatures, let's eat kebabs tonight!" ”

Suddenly, everyone's attention fell on the little white sheep. Suddenly, several pairs of eyes paid attention, and the little white sheep shivered and hid in the corner, trembling "bleating".

"Miss Qiu, there are two palace maids who want to see you." Mama Li shouted respectfully in the courtyard, Qiu Tian raised her eyebrows, "Who?" ”