Chapter 4 – Mountain Cuisine
"Home to you? What can you do with this weak body that can't lift your shoulders and can't resist? In the future, you will be relieved to take the baby, and the father will solve the matter of money. ”
Ye Hao knew that Ye Hongxi loved herself, and the private school was run for Ye Hao back then.
The ancestor of the Ye family is definitely a scholarly family, Ye Hao was trained by Ye Hongxi in a traditional way before she went to junior high school, and she is proficient in the subset of history, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Ye Hongxi held her in her hand like a pearl, and never let her suffer a little, Ye Hao, who was pampered and raised, did not touch the spring water with her fingers, and now where would she agree to take on the heavy responsibility of the family.
"You're going to solve it? How do you fix it? Have you sold several sets of furniture in your home? What happens when it's sold out? ”
Seeing Ye Hongxi lower his head, Ye Hao eased his tough tone, "Dad, I'm in my twenties, if I don't learn to be self-reliant, what will I do when you get old in the future?" ”
"You can go to ...... in the future" Ye Hongxi subconsciously wanted to say something, but stopped talking in time, buried his face in the shadows and remained silent.
Ye Hao's intuition is related to the Ye family's family background, but since Ye Hongxi is silent, she doesn't ask much.
"Dad, let's do it, you just look at my performance, if I'm tired and tired, you will have the final say in family affairs in the future, okay?"
Ye Hongxi looked at the little girl in front of her in a trance, when will she grow up?
He waved his hand, "Old, old, you will know how tired you are when you are home for two days, so Dad will rest for two days first." ”
This is a disguised consent, Ye Hao saw that Ye Hongxi said that he would rest for two days, but his hand was still cleaning up the soup bowl, Ye Hao held his hand, "Dad, you just rest, I'll wash the dishes." ”
Ye Hongxi's hand stiffened, he snorted, let go of the bowl, and made up for it: "I can tell you, there are only two hundred yuan left in the family." ”
"Got it, I'll earn you back in two days." Ye Hao brushed the bowl and responded casually.
"Grandpa, I'm hungry, what's for lunch?" Ye Baini tugged at Ye Hongxi, and pressed his deflated belly with his little hand, "Grandpa, it's calling." ”
"Hmph, I don't care about family matters, ask your mother to go." Ye Hongxi pretended to throw up his sleeves and left, and sat by the window after arriving in the study, glancing here and then from time to time.
Ye Baini kicked her little short legs and ran to Ye Hao, "Mom, I'm hungry, what's for lunch?" ”
"Mom, I want to help you wash the dishes, but it's too high, I can......'t reach it" Ye Qingyun frowned, his expression was very distressed.
"Mom, Nini wants to help you wash the dishes, too." Ye Baini was not to be outdone.
"Glutton, that's not what you just said, don't learn from me."
"Who learns from you, I also want to help my mother wash the dishes, I'm still hungry!"
"Okay, don't argue, Mom is going to cook for you." Ye Hao stopped the two cubs from bickering, picked them up one by one, and went to the vegetable garden in the backyard.
In summer, there are many fruits and vegetables, and this backyard is a treasure garden, with strings of red tomatoes like small lanterns bending the shelves, verdant cucumbers hidden in wide leaves, and fiery red peppers, chubby green eggplants, mustard greens, lettuce, leeks, and small greens covering a vegetable patch.
The corner of the wall climbed all over the wall, with purple-white flowers, and hung with small flat, sickle-shaped dark purple peas, with a long, curved beak at the top.
There is a small river outside the backyard wall in the innermost part, and clumps of cress grow from the damp roots of the wall, green and delicate.
There are also a few trees planted on the side of the backyard, toon trees, cherry trees, pomegranate trees, and jujube trees, red and green, and fruitful.
Ye Hao remembered that there was also a stout peach tree in the front yard, with fist-sized red and white peaches hanging from the branches, and a shaded aisle covered with grapevines made of long stone slabs, which was covered with green grapes.
Ye Hao picked a basket of vegetables, she has a world that has traveled all over the world and practiced cooking all her life, but it is really a collection of everyone's achievements.
The kitchen is divided into two sides, with an old-fashioned rural earthen stove on one side and appliances such as rice cookers on the other.
The two cubs had never seen their mother cook, and they all gathered around Ye Hao and watched curiously.
"Mom, I know it's celery." Ye Qingyun saw Ye Hao pick up a handful of green vegetables and said.
"This is water cress, also called water ying, I will make you a green stream soup." Ye Hao chooses the cress and cleans it.
"Bijian soup? What is that? Ye Baini, who was stealing cherries, was immediately attracted when she heard the name of the novel food.
"It's a soup made of cress, which tastes fragrant and smells like a green stream in the middle of a mountain valley, which makes people happy. Du Fu has a poem: 'Fresh crucian carp and silver silk, green celery and green stream soup', which is what he is talking about. ”
"Wow wow, mom do it, it sounds delicious!" Ye Baini Cherry didn't eat it anymore, wiped the saliva that flowed out, and stared at the water celery in Ye Hao's hand.
Ye Hao blanched the cress in boiling water, took it out, marinated it with vinegar, ground sesame seeds, a pinch of salt and fennel and set it aside.
found that there was still an old tofu in the refrigerator, so Ye Hao took it out and made a dish of Jiang Shilang tofu.
Peel the tofu on both sides, cut each piece into 16 slices, dry, boil with lard, get the tofu off with green smoke, sprinkle a pinch of salt flowers slightly, turn over, use a glass of sweet wine, a handful of dried shrimp, add a pinch of sugar, roll twice, cut half an inch of green onion and sprinkle it, slow up the pot.
The fragrance wafted out along the kitchen, and Ye Qingyun, who had always been reserved, couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "It's so fragrant......"
Ye Hao made the leftover dried shrimp into fried leeks, blanched the tender bamboo shoots, small wild mushrooms and wolfberry heads in boiling water, and mixed the three crispy cold dishes of Daoshan family with shrimp oil, pepper, salt, soy sauce and vinegar from the fried shrimp.
Cut the pickled cress into sections and boil the soup, and use the plum water to boil the cherries, remove the pit, mash, wrap in the dough and roll it into a thin cake, put it in the steamer for two minutes, and sprinkle the sugar out of the basket.
At this time, the rice in the rice cooker was boiling, and Ye Hao poured the diced peach flesh into it, covered the pot and suffocated for a few minutes before it came out of the pot.
Three dishes, one soup and one dessert are all ready.
The two cubs followed Ye Hao inch by inch, their eyes were shining, and they sucked saliva from time to time.
"Is it time to eat?"
"Is it time to eat?"
Two immature children's voices shouted in unison.
"Go and call your grandfather over, and you can eat." Ye Hao wiped the dishes and chopsticks, put a few bowls of peach rice, and instructed the two cubs.
As soon as they heard that their grandfather was coming, they could eat, and the two cubs ran faster than the rabbits and went to the study.
"Grandpa, look, look! It's Mommy's Lunch! Super fragrant! Ye Baini chirped like a sparrow, excited.
"Grandpa, hasn't Mom really been in the kitchen before?" Ye Qingyun's eyes were also shining.
Ye Hongxi looked at the table full of food, sadness came from it, and the corners of his eyes were moist.