289 All tenderness is paid for the water
Ling Xiaorou gave a salute to Mo Hongjin, "Second Miss, dinner time is coming, and the little one has to go back and prepare." ”
Mo Hongjin didn't seem to hear it, "Ling Xiao, in your opinion, how is Miss Ben's piano playing?" ”
How is it possible for a cook to know such a high level of skill? Even if Ling Xiaorou could understand, she pretended not to understand, and replied: "The little one sounds very good, the second lady is so good, she can play such a beautiful sound with her fingers, and the little one admires it so much." ”
Mo Hongjin frowned, and suddenly felt how unreliable it was for her to want to find a chef to join her, she was different from her sister who was a general, she had been with her gentle and talented mother since she was a child, and she thought that she was good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
But now I have chosen a cook, but the piano sounds good, if he is asked to play a song, I am afraid that it is not better than playing cotton, and it is really tender.
Mo Hongjin suddenly lost the mind to leave Ling Xiaorou again, it was really a bit of a big blow, and he was thinking about playing the piano with him, is it considered to play the piano to the cow?
Signaling that Zhenqiao could take Ling Xiaorou down, the second lady still needed to be melancholy by herself.
Ling Xiaorou breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Mo Hongjin's disappointed look at herself, she really didn't want to be a husband to a woman, if Mo Hongjin found out that the man she liked one day turned out to be a woman, would she cut herself off in a rage?
For the young lady of the general's family, no matter how gentle she is, her combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.
I can't imagine that I was dressed as a man for fear of trouble, and I still have trouble finding the door when I dress up as a man, and sure enough, people are too beautiful, and both men and women love to mess with peach blossoms.
Back in the kitchen, seeing that time was running out, Ling Xiaorou hurriedly got busy and instructed the assistant chef to start selecting and washing vegetables.
Dinner in Mofu was simpler than lunch, and Ling Xiaorou had thought about what to do before.
Braised beef, fried chicken, sauced potatoes, cold kelp, and a bowl of winter melon pork rib soup, four dishes and one soup, meat and vegetarian matching, made several masters in the house happy, but unfortunately except for the pair of earrings, no one came to reward her again.
Of course, except for the second lady and the eldest young master, who ate four dishes and one soup, the rest of the concubines ate two dishes and one soup, and when they arrived at the concubine, there was only braised beef and winter melon pork rib soup.
After Ling Xiaorou finished the master's meal, the assistant cook began to cook the meals of the people in the house, looking at the potatoes, tofu and vegetables, Ling Xiaorou felt that the Mo Mansion was really poor, but fortunately, there were not many people in the Mo Mansion, even the second lady Mo Hongjin was only four maids, and the eldest young master was surrounded by two maids and two little maids.
There are two maids next to the young lady, and there is only one maid and a small servant next to the young master, and there is only one mother-in-law waiting for those concubines.
The rest of the people who did rough work in the mansion were only about two dozen people, including her, but six were in the kitchen.
Compared with other big families, the people in Mofu are really simple enough, even so, it can be seen that the money is not enough, otherwise the personal maids of ordinary big families eat better than the young masters and young ladies who are out of the house.
It seems that she really applied for a job in a poor mansion, but fortunately, she didn't come to Mofu to get oil and water, but to hide from the second master of He Lou, as long as she avoided the limelight, she would not stay in Mofu for a lifetime.
When Ling Xiaorou was cooking for the masters before, the five assistant cooks who followed her, Ling Xiaorou didn't let them just look greedy, although the portion was not much, each person also had a small bowl of dishes, and they ate them all with rice, and then they didn't feel hungry when they looked at the dishes without meat and oil made for the next people.
Ling Xiaorou sighed: "Chef Ling, it's better to follow you, in the past, we helped in the kitchen, and that's what we ate every day, how can any chef be willing to look at us more?" Not to mention eating the dishes made by the chefs. Besides, looking at the dishes made by those chefs in the past, even the good ingredients are not as fragrant as the potatoes and eggplants made by Chef Ling, which is really blind to the valuable ingredients they used. ”
Ling Xiaorou smiled, "Precious ingredients have their own reasons for being expensive, but how to make ordinary ingredients into the feeling of precious ingredients is the true meaning of Meiliang." ”
Seeing that a few helpers showed incomprehension, Ling Xiaorou saw that she couldn't explain it to them clearly, so she simply took matters into her own hands.
Cut the tofu into cubes, boil in boiling water and fry until golden brown on both sides. Put oil in a pot and boil until it is 50% hot, boil the garlic, bean paste, soy sauce and sugar over low heat to bring out the sugar color, pour in the tofu cubes and stir-fry quickly. Add the green and red peppers, add salt, stir-fry slightly, add a small handful of chopped garlic sprouts, stir-fry a few times and then remove from the pot.
It looks like a simple tofu, but it has a different flavor.
In the past, when the cooks made tofu, they were all stewed in water, and every time they let the people in the house scold while eating, but how the tofu made by Ling Xiaorou looked different.
A cook sandwiched a piece of tofu and put it in his mouth, and it seemed to have a meaty aroma in the fragrant aroma, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "How can this tofu still have a meaty aroma?" ”
Ling Xiaorou smiled, "This dish is called vegetarian roasted bear's paw, so naturally it is to make tofu meaty." ”
A few cooks even sandwiched a few pieces of tofu to the mouth, which was really delicious, so they begged Ling Xiaorou to teach them a few more vegetarian dishes, so as not to listen to the scolding of the people in the house all day long.
Ling Xiaorou didn't shirk it, and asked them to peel and slice the potatoes that had been boiled before, and fried them with green and red peppers, the red sauce was very appetizing when they looked at it, and they made a spinach egg drop soup, which was obviously the cheapest ingredient, but the dishes made were appetizing.
Later, people came over to cook one after another, and when they saw the different dishes from the past, they knew that it was from the new chef, and they thanked Ling Xiaorou one after another, and finally ate an unforgettable meal.
Originally, there weren't many people in the house, so it wasn't too difficult to let Ling Xiaorou cook more of these people's meals every day, and Ling Xiaorou also loved to cook, if it weren't for the fact that it was really uncomfortable to be hot at this time, she really wanted to hide in the kitchen all day long to study those delicacies.
Since these people love to eat the food she cooks, she doesn't mind cooking two more pots a day.
After dinner, Ling Xiaorou returned to the room to rest, although they had only been together for one day, several assistant chefs had a good impression of this chef who had no shelves and cooked better than others.
personally brought the bath water to Ling Xiaorou, and also sent a large bath bucket that was cleanly washed, after Ling Xiaorou thanked her, she immediately felt itchy all over her body.
It was already hot, and she was covered so tightly on her body, and she roasted in front of the fire for another day, how could it not be hot? It is estimated that the chest will be covered with hot prickly heat.
After refusing the kindness of the cook to help rub their backs, after sending them out, Ling Xiaorou locked the door, dragged the bath bucket behind the screen, poured cold and hot water into the bath bucket, and jumped into the bathtub after untying her clothes.
Soaking in the warm bath water, Ling Xiaorou felt comfortable all over her body, and she broke up her combed hair bun, and her whole body was refreshing, but she was still reluctant to jump out of the water.
Until there was a knock on the door outside, "Ling Xiao, open the door!" ”
Immediately afterwards, someone was shaking the door vigorously, Ling Xiaorou hurriedly jumped out of the bathtub in fright, and didn't care that her body was still wet, and she changed into the clothes she had prepared before, and she didn't even have time to tie the white cloth on her chest.
Seeing that the door was shaking louder and louder, as if it was about to be shaken away, Ling Xiaorou hurriedly responded: "It's coming, it's coming." ”
Quickly pull your hair into a bun and hold the changed clothes in front of your chest, so that you are not afraid of being seen on your chest.
Ling Xiaorou opened the door and saw the eldest prince who was a little impatient outside, "So slow?" What do you do that is not seey? ”
The corners of Ling Xiaorou's mouth twitched, "Taking a bath should be considered an unsightly thing, right?" ”
The corners of the eldest son's mouth twitched, "This prince is here to tell you, get up tomorrow morning and make a few more breakfasts, and the eldest lady will go home tomorrow." ”
Ling Xiaorou 'ah', and asked who else else to prepare breakfast besides the eldest lady, after learning that there was only the eldest lady, Ling Xiaorou was very strange, and besides, several sons would not get up early, why should they make a few more breakfasts?
But since the eldest prince has confessed, she can only do it, maybe the eldest prince is afraid that there will be many people returning to the house with the eldest lady, so let's prepare first.
After the order, the eldest prince looked Ling Xiaorou up and down a few times, "What are you holding your clothes for?" Not too hot? ”
Ling Xiaoju said: "It's not that I just took a shower, I have to go and wash the clothes I have changed." ”
The eldest prince didn't delve into it, and after explaining that he must not forget to cook a few more meals, he turned around and left.
Ling Xiaorou thought of the first day when she came to the mansion, the eldest prince cried wolf and cried to the second lady that the eldest sister wanted to come back.
I thought: Is this eldest lady difficult to get along with? But think about it, the eldest lady doesn't like red makeup and loves arms, a woman has become a general, and if you look at these unsuccessful younger brothers in the house, she must not give them any good face when she comes back, so I understand his deep fear of the eldest sister.
If the eldest lady wants to come back, Ling Xiaorou will have to put some thought into the food, and it is definitely impossible for the eldest lady to leave after just one meal when she comes back, in addition to tomorrow morning's breakfast, you have to think about it for lunch.
The next morning, in order to welcome the eldest lady and cater to the taste of the second lady, Ling Xiaorou made a large pot of fresh shrimp porridge, with fried beef dumplings and steamed vegetarian buns, a few beautiful and delicious side dishes, in addition to the food of the twelve masters, Ling Xiaorou really made a few more servings, and it was almost enough for twenty people to eat together.
So he sat on the side and thought about what to eat for lunch, and soon the dishes and chopsticks for breakfast were taken back, Ling Xiaorou asked if the eldest lady was satisfied with the meal, and heard the cook who went to collect the dishes and chopsticks smiled: "The eldest lady ate very well, ate two large bowls of porridge, four plates of fried dumplings, and two plates of vegetarian buns, but the breakfast was less, and the eldest lady didn't seem to have eaten much." ”
Ling Xiaorou didn't feel anything at first, but she was startled when she tasted it carefully, she didn't think that the two big bowls of porridge that the cook said would be the small bowls used by the young lady on weekdays, look at the two big bowls for porridge, how can one bowl hold three small bowls of porridge, not to mention four plates of fried dumplings and two plates of steamed vegetarian buns, Nima, how can this be enough for four people to eat, right? I haven't eaten enough yet, is the amount of food of the eldest lady going to be close to a certain hum?
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