Chapter 53: Steamed Crabs

The group happily carried their things and walked back, playing with the sour plums that had not yet turned yellow and ripe, and He Xiaoqiao, who remembered the sweet and sour taste, did not know that he had become an outlier in the eyes of others, let alone that after she left, the people on the street immediately passed on her casually and deduced countless classic versions of the autopsy process.

It is said that she was an orphan whose parents died, and she was a small beggar and wandering, and finally on a snowy night that could freeze to death, she was sympathetic to the old man in a place where her merit and fame were deeply hidden.

It is also said that she was an uncivilized barbarian outside the Saiwai, and she lived a life of drinking blood every day, so she could describe the scene of digging out her heart and lungs without blinking an eye; even described her as a demon from the underworld who wore human skin, and when it was dark, she grabbed the child as a snack to eat, and was so scared that the child cried.

In addition, women in the capital who have sons of marriageable age in the family also began to spare no effort to inquire about He Xiaoqiao - not because they admired her high-quality personality of 'upright, kind, helpful and uneven', but purely to warn their children with handles, 'marry chickens, dogs, marry flowers, don't marry this family!'" ’

Love to joke! Even the old man can fall and step on it - if such a fierce woman marries home as a daughter-in-law, then the mother-in-law has to live in fear every day?

It's okay to be fine, but what if one day she accidentally annoys her, and people get angry and beat her in-laws directly?

Please, that's a nightmare!

This kind of thing must be stopped! If it doesn't work, the mother would rather die!

Outside, He Xiaoqiao's 'true identity' was spread loudly, and in the Changning Palace, which was several streets away, Jiang Fenghao, who had heard the whole story from Feng San, couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth, and his eyes flashed with burning brilliance, "I miscalculated, I knew that there was such a fun thing, and this king should also follow to see the excitement." ”

The corners of Feng San's mouth twitched, thinking to himself, when didn't you say that?

Probably laughing enough, Jiang Fenghao lazily leaned back on the back of the chair, holding the file in one hand, holding a cup of tea in the other, and his slender legs were crossed at the ankles, and they were raised on the table together.

"Is there anything else besides this?"

"It's gone." Feng San shook his head, thought for a while, and then spoke, "But my subordinates found that the princess seemed to have trouble writing some time before returning home. ”

"Oh?" Jiang Fenghao's eyes narrowed slightly, "What do you say?" ”

"The subordinates don't know too well," Feng San paused, trying to recall the situation at that time, "At that time, we were about to leave, and the princess suddenly turned around and looked behind her, her expression was very puzzled, like ...... It's like I'm looking for something. ”

Looking for something?

Jiang Fenghao remained silent, his eyes still fell on the scroll, but a thousand thoughts had already turned in his heart.

Seeing this, Feng San hurriedly added, "The princess asked the princess what she was looking at, but the princess didn't answer positively, only saying that she might be too sensitive. ”

Jiang Fenghao didn't think He Xiaoqiao was looking for something, and according to her reaction, it was most likely that someone was staring at her somewhere at the time, making her feel uncomfortable.

Putting down the teacup, Jiang Fenghao frowned slightly, and unconsciously tapped the table with his finger bones, "...... Find someone to check and see who was in the neighborhood at the time, and give me all those suspicious people. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

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Under the banner of wanting to learn from a teacher, he quietly entered the Fengzhu Garden.

Although he didn't expect Jin Zhiyuye, who had never been in the kitchen, to do anything to help, but with the idea of giving it a try, He Xiaoqiao still handed over the task of selecting vegetables and washing vegetables to her, and he went to turn over the basket with crabs in the shade, picked out a big fat paste from it and put it together, put it all into the diluted liquor to get drunk and fishy, and then brushed it with pig bristles, and tied the nine female crabs on both sides of the crab navel with a thin thread, and put them directly into the steamer to make steamed crabs.

The slightly smaller ones are put back in clean water and raised, planning to wait for two days to spit out the sediment, pour wine into the mouth, add an appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine, green onions, ginger, sugar, put it into a small jar and seal it to make a drunk crab.

After doing this, He Xiaoqiao took the time to wash, peel and chop the fresh old ginger, and pour it into a small bowl with a little sugar and rice wine, as well as white vinegar.

Steaming will not destroy the nutrition of the crab itself, but also maintain the most delicious taste, and the crab meat without any seasoning will be carefully blended with the dipping sauce, the taste will be further improved by several levels.

"Aunt Seventeen, the dishes are washed."

The two sleeves were rolled up high, and the hem of the clothes was wet, and Jing He was panting, and under the guidance of Cai Lian, he washed and sorted vegetables, put them in a wooden basin, brought them into the kitchen, and then put them on the stove with a bang.

He Xiaoqiao stretched out his hand and rummaged through it, but he didn't see a little black mud and yellow leaves, and immediately gave a very reward, "Yes, it's very clean, and it has a future." ”

Jinghe, who was complimented, instantly smiled into a flower, "Hehe." ”

"Okay, after washing vegetables, it's time to learn to chop vegetables." Taking the time to pick up all the leeks in the wooden basin and put them on the cutting board, He Xiaoqiao handed over the kitchen knife, waited for Jing and stunned to take it, and then called Cailian over to help, "Cailian, you are watching from the side, don't let the princess cut off her fingers." ”

"Yes, miss."

Leaving the heavy responsibility of supervising and guiding Jing and cutting vegetables to Cailian, He Xiaoqiao took out the dough that had been hungry for more than half an hour from under the gauze, scooped out half a spoonful of flour and sprinkled it on another large cleaned cutting board, cut the dough into small dough pieces with a knife, and then used a rolling pin to roll out a slightly thicker dumpling skin in the middle and thinner around the periphery.

Wait Jing and the other side hurriedly cut and chop the leeks, and add the lean meat that has been minced to make a filling.

He Xiaoqiao was busy stir-frying, Cai Lian and Suo'er were in charge of making dumplings, Jinghe was watching from the side, and finally couldn't help but follow along, but the dumplings that came out were either belly or skinny, and the huge gap between the rich and the poor was very challenging to people's facial nerves, He Xiaoqiao shook his head and sighed, and Cailian and Suo'er were so smiling that their faces were red.

After the frying was done in a hurry, it was time for the crabs in the steamer to come out of the pot.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "crab meat is served lightly", in order not to take away the original flavor of other meals, but also to avoid the problem of waiting for the crab to be not full, so He Xiaoqiao did not serve the crab to the table at the beginning, but asked Cailian to send more than 30 white and fat leek dumplings first, together with the fried lamb and fried kale fried over the fast fire, to cushion everyone's stomach.

Jiang Fenghao, who went to the kitchen to forage for food to no avail, was already hungry and screamed, and most of the dumplings were wiped out as soon as they were put on the table, and Jinghe, who had just come out of the kitchen, couldn't care about wiping his hands when he saw this, so he went up and pulled the remaining dumplings to his plate with chopsticks.

Jiang Fenghao glanced at her with threatening eyes, Princess Jinghe pursed her mouth, and finally couldn't match the eyes of her seventeenth uncle, and obediently divided the remaining dumplings into two parts, one for himself and the other for He Xiaoqiao.

After eating the dumplings and stir-fried dumplings, he Xiaoqiao brought the steamed crabs to the table, took the washed scissors and cut off the crab claws one by one, and then peeled off the crab shell and crab navel by hand when it cooled, cleaned up the crab gills and other debris, divided the crab into two, dipped it in seasoning, and sent it to Jiang Fenghao's plate who was waiting to be eaten.

In the golden autumn of October, it is the time when the crab meat is thick and tender, and the crab oil is yellow and abundant.

He Xiaoqiao's picks of these crabs are all of the highest quality, not only the meat is delicate, but also the paste is like clotted fat, the orange-red crab paste is dazzling, stained with a special sauce, sweet and delicious with a little sauce unique to the slightly spicy, this taste, is simply amazing!

Jiang Fenghao's eyes lit up, almost the first bite fell in love with this wonderful taste, he couldn't wait to finish the first one, and began to march towards the second, not forgetting to give half of it to his hard-working relatives and ladies to enjoy.

On the other side, Jinghe also performed the same, the uncle and nephew invariably threw away the dining etiquette, and swept all the crabs to their plates with both hands and enjoyed them exclusively.

However, the crab meat is cold, He Xiaoqiao didn't let them eat more, at most three per person, and there would be no more.

I picked a few cosmos flowers from the garden and threw them into a pot to boil into water, just enough to wash away the smell of crabs on my hands.

He Xiaoqiao had just finished washing her hands, and when she turned around, she saw that her uncle and nephew were both looking at her with a complaining look of 'desire and dissatisfaction', and the corners of her mouth couldn't help twitching, and in the end she was still entangled and had no choice, so she had to steam the crab roe xiaolongbao that she had planned to save for the evening.

The crab roe xiaolongbao with thin skin and filling, and the soup with fresh juice naturally won unanimous praise from everyone, and Jinghe even kept shouting that she must take He Xiaoqiao back to the palace, so that she can eat delicious xiaolongbao every day.

Regarding his niece's nonsense, Jiang Fenghao just looked at him calmly, and immediately someone secretly entered the palace to report the news.

After half a tea time, he was still holding He Xiaoqiao's arm and imagining the tranquility of a better day in the future, so he let the teaching grandmother sent by the Queen Mother put him in a sedan chair, and he was quickly taken back to the palace to fend for himself without even having a chance to struggle.

The whole process is so clean and neat that people have to sigh - even their own nieces can be sold so lightly and beautifully, Jiang Fenghao's precipice is a black-bellied master!

It's just that I pity Princess Jinghe, who was used as a gun by Jiang Fenghao for a while, and finally the seventeenth uncle who was black-hearted on the other side of the river demolished the bridge before crossing the river - He Xiaoqiao couldn't help but cry for her when she thought about it.

After a few days, Princess Jinghe did not appear in the palace, but He Xiaoqiao received a letter that was said to be written to her by Jinghe.

said that it was a letter, but in fact, it was just a few sketch villain pictures, and He Xiaoqiao even guessed to see a rough idea.

It turned out that the Queen Mother didn't know where she learned that Jinghe's writing was too ugly and was trained by Taifu, and she called someone to confront her and found that she had sneaked out of the palace, so she was furious and ordered Mama to take her back to the palace to face the wall and think about it, not only that, but also had to copy the hundred family names and the three-character scripture two hundred times, and you were not allowed to leave the palace if you didn't practice the words well.

Eyes fell on the side of the villain picture like an earthworm crooked and missing arms and legs of the narrator's note, He Xiaoqiao silently closed the letter, thinking that no wonder the Queen Mother was angry, just this word......

Let's decisively close Jinghe for a few more days!