Chi Tao understood that Chi Xing's psychology was exactly the same as that of parents who watched their children become more and more promising, on the one hand, she was proud, and on the other hand, there was also a subtle sense of loss, she pulled Chi Xing into the house: "My new job, I really can't do it without you...... I only know how to do it, but you have to come to chop vegetables and cook vegetables! ”

Chi Xing was happy: "Okay!" You tell me what to do, I'll do it! These days, she makes the dried tofu in the morning every day, and cleans up the house in the afternoon, so she has nothing to do, and she is uncomfortable.

At this time, it was almost noon, Achu walked out listlessly with his hair uncovered, and saw Chi Tao say hello: "Brother." "After getting along for a long time, "brother" and "sister-in-law" have been called very smoothly.

Chi Xing was startled when she saw that her eyes were red and swollen: "What's wrong with your eyes?" ”

Achu sat at the table, poured a bowl of water, drank it woodenly, and was stunned for a while before crying: "I, I dreamed of my father!" And the mother, who has long since passed away...... I dreamed that she was holding me...... "Thinking of my family, and thinking of myself falling in the rivers and lakes, I don't know when I can see my relatives, and I can't help crying."

Chi Xing hurriedly pulled the handkerchief and wiped it for her, feeling very distressed: "Don't cry, it's not like we're all trying to find a way, we will definitely send you to the capital." When the time comes, you will still be the county lord, and if you want to see your family, it's not a matter of words? ”

Achu cried for a while, and when he saw that Chi Tao just didn't say a word, only Sister Xing was a good person, so she felt bored, so she gradually stopped crying and glanced at Chi Tao: "I'm really not sympathetic!" ”

Chi Tao said idly: "I haven't had time to tell you yet, today I was favored by the young master of the Xie family and wanted to be his private chef." As for him, he happens to be from the capital, and he will go back in a month, and he will take me with him......"

Before the words fell, Ah Chu jumped up: "Really? ”

Chi Tao nodded.

Achu was overjoyed: "Oh, if you don't say it earlier, it will cause me to cry in vain!" ”

Chi Xing was also happy for her: "This is really ...... If you want to fall asleep, someone will bring you a pillow! ”

Chi Tao smiled: "So, this month, I want to behave well, but I can't let Gongzi Xie think that I will only do that." When the time comes, let's go to Beijing with them, and the road will be much safer. ”

Knowing that Chi Tao was going to deliver supper to the Xie family at night, Chi Xing and Achu surrounded her, and the two girls sat beside Chi Tao one left and one right holding their faces, frowning: "What should you do?" ”

Chi Tao felt that Xie Yao seemed to have lost his appetite because of something, so it was difficult for ordinary food to arouse his appetite. What's more, this incident also left a psychological shadow on him, leading to some resistance to eating.

can only slowly figure it out, at present, it is still necessary to make some food with fresh and fragrant flavors, so that his appetite can be revived first.

Chi Tao looked at the weeds that poked their heads out timidly under the stone slabs in the yard, and made up her mind: "Let's go to the outskirts of the city for some food, pick some wild vegetables, do you want to go?" ”

Achu clapped his hands happily: "Every day at home, I am bored and suffocated!" ”

Chi Xing was a little worried: "Wild vegetables? That kind of person Xie Gongzi, are you used to eating? ”

Chi Tao was full of confidence: "I just haven't eaten it, so I have to do it - besides, the fragrance of wild vegetables can't be grown!" ”

After eating, the three of them cleaned up, and went out to hire an ox cart to go to the outskirts of the city.

Chi Tao asked which side of the grass grew well, and the driver thought that the three of them were going out for a walk, so he kindly pointed out Mantou Mountain outside the city: "The scenery is the best over there!" ”

When I arrived at the place, Chi Tao got out of the car and saw that although it was called a mountain, it was just a slightly undulating hilly land, but the vegetation was luxuriant, and there were several huge peach trees, and the wind blew, and the petals fell all over the ground.

Achu screamed and jumped happily, and Chi Tao gave her a basket: "Don't run around, just under this peach tree, collect some clean petals for me." He and Chi Xing lowered their heads and carefully searched for wild vegetables.

When she was in Qingshan Village, Chi Xing also often went to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, and she was very skilled, and soon found a bush of wild vegetables: "This can be eaten!" ”

Chi Tao glanced at it, purslane ...... The taste is too strong, and I am afraid it is not easy to accept.

After looking for a while, Chi Tao's eyes lit up, and he was born on the ground, with feathery leaves and white fluff on the edges..... it turned out to be a shepherd's cabbage!

Chi Tao was like a treasure, picking the shepherd's cabbage in his hand, Chi Xing ran over and looked: "It turned out that you were looking for this?" There are many more over there! ”

The two of them picked a basket before they stopped, and Chi Xing picked some maran heads, purslane and other things - I think the city is rich, and only in the famine era people will spend time and effort to eat wild vegetables, at this time it has been a long time and a long time for the people to pick wild vegetables, and the people are mostly ashamed to pick wild vegetables, and no one picks wild vegetables everywhere in the suburbs.

Over there, Achu also carried a bamboo basket and jumped over to offer treasures: "You see I picked up a lot of peach blossoms!" It's so fragrant! ”

When Chi Tao saw the sun setting in the west, he woke up the coachman who was waiting below: "Go to Mule and Horse Market!" ”

Luomashi Street was originally a place dedicated to animal trade, so some people came here to sell some vegetables and vegetables while they were popular, and gradually more people bought and sold, and it became the largest vegetable rice and noodle trading place in the city.

Generally, housewives come out to buy in the morning, and when it is almost time to close the stalls, some shops have half of the door panels, and the prices are much cheaper.

Chi Tao bought some wheat flour, bought a piece of fat and lean meat in the meat shop that closed quickly, weighed a pound and a half of shrimp in the fish shop next door, and bought a pair of chicken racks for five cents in the chicken and duck shop.

Returning home with a large bag, Chi Tao announced: "Make wontons today!" ”

Achu jumped out: "What chaos? ”

"It's ravioli. You go back to the house and rest, and then you come out to eat. ”

The chicken skeleton is blanched first to remove the droplets, and then boiled water is added to boil the soup base - in the era when there was no monosodium glutamate and chicken essence, it all relied on the broth to improve the freshness.

Here, the peach in the box pond cut the fat into small dices, fried the oil directly in the pot, picked up the fat shuttle, and poured the net oil into the crockpot for storage.

Chi Xing has already peeled out the shrimp meat, removed the shrimp line, and chopped the shrimp meat and a piece of lean meat.

The shepherd's cabbage is also blanched and chopped finely, sprinkled with some salt and marinated for a while to kill the water, mixed with the meat filling, beat an egg into it, and poured the filling into the large pot that has just been refined with meat oil, and made full use of the meat oil remaining in the pot into the filling.

The secret weapon is a spiced pickle that Chi Xing bought for dinner earlier, and it is very flavorful. The pond peach is cut and chopped into fine pieces and mixed with the filling, which can greatly enhance the umami without even realizing it.

I stirred clockwise with chopsticks for a long time until the filling was strong and all the meat and vegetables spontaneously and automatically formed a large ball.

According to Chi Tao's instructions, Chi Xing rolled out the wheat flour and cut it into half a palm-sized thin skin with a knife. Chi Tao picked up a piece of skin and put the filling, and then wrapped it in a sip, and a round wonton like an ingots was wrapped.

Chi Xing is ingenious, and after reading it once, she will be very proficient when she packs three or five, and the two sisters have their fingers flying, and they will wrap forty or fifty after a while.

Looking at the sky, it was already dark, and it was estimated that Xie Yao and Murong should have arrived home. Chi Tao poured the boiled chicken soup into the crockpot, spread oilcloth in the bamboo basket, put about 20 in the basket, and said to Chi Xing and went out to Xie's house.

When he arrived at Xie's house, Xie Yao had just come home, but he was hungry but refused to eat something to make up for it first - he was already anorexic, and the food in the morning was too fragrant, and he couldn't eat other food!

The old servant who guarded the door saw Chi Tao as if he had found a treasure, and took Chi Tao to the kitchen. Lao Wei had already burned the stove and waited, and hurriedly boiled the chicken soup, and the wrapped wontons were cooked in the soup for a moment, and two bowls were steaming and put into the box, and the pond peach went to the Songzhu Courtyard.

When it was brought to the table, Xie Yao and Murong had already sat upright, and looked down: "Is it Gu'er?" ”

Chi Tao has some black lines, it turns out that Achu has never heard of "wonton", not at this time, but just changed his name: "Yes." ”

The tip of his nose lingered with the heat of the clear chicken soup, Xie Yao picked one up and took a bite gently, savoring it carefully: "Yes, there is the umami and chewiness of fresh shrimp, but the dish can't eat anything, but it is very fragrant." ”

"It is a shepherd's cabbage, which can nourish the heart and spleen, clear the liver and clarify the purpose. When I got up in the morning, I heard my son say that he didn't sleep well last night, and staying up late hurt his liver the most, so he specially made this ..... bone with shepherd's cabbage and shrimp filling. ”

Xie Yao nodded, ate a bowl of soup with wontons, and then put down the bowl and rinsed his mouth with a cup of tea.

Listening to the rain is almost a little tearful, since the son has hurt his appetite since he was a child, he has eaten less, and most of the food is either tasted and thrown aside, or even smelled and felt disgusting. Mrs. is this one son, I don't know how many doctors have been asked for this, how many Buddhas have been worshipped, and even the cook who entered the palace to ask the queen mother for reward is not useful, if it were not for God's mercy, I sent that person to leave the prescription, I am afraid that I would have starved to death. In the morning, he was sick and rushed to the doctor, which provoked Chi Tao to prepare meals for his son, he was just afraid that his wife would blame and shirk his responsibility, but he didn't expect that he could let his son finish a bowl of noodles. I was worried that this kid would just make that yellow croaker noodles, but I didn't expect there to be a surprise in the evening!

This is a great achievement, and when you go back, don't you give yourself a beautiful maid to be a mother-in-law?

Do you want red jade, or do you want green warp?

Listening to the rain, he suddenly hit his head with a fan: "What are you thinking, your mouth is grinning to the back of your head!" ”

Hearing the rain come back to his senses, he saw his son-in-law and Murong both standing in front of him and looking at him, he opened his mouth wide: "Huh? What do you say? ”

Xie Yao kicked him lightly: "It's dark, why don't you light the lantern and send Brother Chi back?" He said to Chi Tao again: "Tomorrow Fuxi and I will go outside the city in the early morning, and we will return in one day." You don't have to come here for morning and afternoon, just send supper according to today's hour. Xie Yao knew that his body might not be able to withstand three meals at once, and he had eaten two meals today, which he couldn't have imagined before, although he didn't feel uncomfortable now, it was better to pay attention. After all, with this pond pottery by his side, he doesn't have to worry about not being able to slowly recuperate from this problem of not eating in the future.

Listening to the rain stupidly "oh", he ran to Chi Tao's side, took a lantern in the gatehouse, and sent Chi Tao all the way home - naturally, Chi Tao listened to the glorious deeds of Xie Yao's son Guangfeng Jiyue and the gods descending to earth.

Early the next morning, as soon as I arrived at Chenzheng, there was a knock on the door of the Chi family.

There is nothing to do today, Chi Tao is used to getting up early, so he moves his fists and feet in the backyard. Achu was naturally still asleep, Chi Xing was washing pots and dishes in the front stove room, and when she heard the knock, she thought that she had made an appointment to deliver tofu every day, so she brushed her hair and went to open the door.