Chapter 173

A Yao carrying Jiuzi zongzi, obviously saw the surprise of Mo xingle's family.

What's so surprising?

She couldn't figure it out. She smiled and brought up the dessert: "I think today is the Dragon Boat Festival and after dinner, so I make the zongzi smaller, one by one. The old man may need to divide the zongzi into two and have a taste. "

It was a long plate. The branches were drawn with sauce, decorated with nine dumplings, like the results, and finally decorated with Acorus calamus.

Jiuzi zongzi dumplings are of different colors. My nephew looked at the lovely and stretched out his fat hand to touch it. He failed and was carried away by Mo xingle's mother.

"Zongzi have different colors and different tastes?" Asked Mo xingle's mother.

"The black Zongzi on the left and right sides are made of black rice. The fillings are jujube with a little sweetness and free duck egg yellow with a rusty taste. The brown ones are alkaline bean paste zongzi, the jade ones are mung bean salted meat zongzi, and next to the eight treasure zongzi, there are glutinous rice, millet, oats, red beans, mung beans and lotus seeds. The taste is sweet, and the middle one is fresh meat zongzi. There is only one fresh meat zongzi, and the others are two. "

She asked Mo xingle whether he should pay attention to the taste of zongzi in advance. She learned that every year, their family always comes to the proposition of "do you eat sweet zongzi or salty zongzi", regardless of the final two flavors of zongzi, pinch it first before that.

"Yes, yes." Grandpa and grandma each have a black rice dumpling. Grandpa eats sweet and grandma eats salty. Mo xingle's father eats salty zongzi, his mother eats sweet zongzi, and his nephew tangles between Babao zongzi and Dousha zongzi.

Mo xingle's mother: "little girl, you made it today. Isn't it very expensive? How old is it this year? "

"Brother Mo helped our family a lot when he passed Nanxun. Later, when I came to the capital, he solved the nuisance of gangsters. I don't have any special skills. Only my cooking skills can be on the table. Thanks to brother Mo's admiration, I invited me to your house for a family banquet. I'm too happy to accept money. " A Yao explained, "fourteen this year..."

She thought that the people of the Mo family thought she was young and couldn't afford a family dinner alone. She quickly added: "although I'm young, I'm seven or eight years old. I've studied cooking with my master for seven years. I can cook many dishes."

At the age of 14, she was in the waiting room at the age of 14. Without even stepping further in the kitchen, the little girl could already make a good dish. Mo xingle's mother saw a Yao with slightly fat cheeks and hurried to explain. She tried her best to pretend to be an adult, but she was still childish. The more she looked, the more she liked it. She said softly, "the little girl's house is really powerful. She often comes home as a guest in the future."

A Yao just took it as a polite word and agreed.

Later, she was invited by Mrs. Mo to cook several dishes. Many of her former colleagues from Mo xingle's father came to cook a table of small dishes. Don't say you don't know, Mo xingle is a three Jinshi in the Mo family. Mo xingle is in Dali temple, and his brother also holds a heavy position in the Ministry of punishment. His father retired as soon as possible to pave the way for his two sons, but his influence is still there. Moreover, Mo xingle also works hard with his brother and is favored by the big guys. This comes and goes, and the group of people who make friends with the Mo family know that there is a cook who is very comfortable and appetizing in their family.

There are many cooks who can cook delicacies, but it is difficult to find a cook who can adjust people's mouth and everyone can eat comfortably and happily.

A Yao gradually became famous without knowing it.

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Now that I know that the bird's nest people are in the princess Chang's house and have become a dignified servant girl, I am worried that the bird's nest doesn't know where it is in that corner.

Keep in mind the instructions in the bird's nest letter and don't contact her. Quan thinks she hasn't seen her. Ah Yao does. In contrast, she feels satisfied with the status quo. She's a little salty fish. You don't see how long it took the bird's nest to go in and out of the princess's house with a eunuch with a high status. It's difficult. Ah Yao can't imagine how much she paid, but she knows very well and doesn't go up, If you don't get into the eyes of noble people, there will never be a chance to turn over the moon.

The identities of her master and her elder martial sister were involved in the affairs of the previous dynasty. She worshipped under the moon gate and gave it to the moon. She couldn't draw a clear line and walk on both sides of the road. At present, what she can do is to practice her cooking skills, participate in cooking exchanges on September 9 after hairpin, enter the four divisions and six innings of the government office at one fell swoop, and then slowly figure it out.

Time flies to the Mid Autumn Festival.

She'll be hairpin in another month!

But the cooking conference is in Chongyang, the ninth day of September, and her birthday is on September 15... Ah Yao thought of this fork and hurried to inquire. Fortunately, they seem to be really thirsty for talents. As long as their birthday is in September, they can sign up before or after Chongyang.

Beautiful!

The two brothers and sisters in sun Niang's foot shop can see that ah Yao is in a good mood recently. She is so good that she sometimes instructs them. Li Gang and Li Rou are flattered. Many cooks in the restaurant are unwilling to let others learn their cooking skills, but ah Yao is willing to instruct them.

"Just teach me one or two. Aren't you afraid we've learned to take your place?" Asked Li rou.

A Yao laughed: "if it's so easy to take it away, your cooking must be very talented and can be cultivated again. Well, don't think about it. Help knead dough to make moon cakes and sell moon cakes at noon. "

Sun Niang knew that ah Yao had signed up for the cooking competition in Chongyang. She asked, "won't you come back after four lawsuits and six innings?"

"I can continue to work here for a while. No matter what, I can't leave until I find a good cook." Ah Yao smiled.

She inquired that several cooks who stood out in the cooking competition were invited to dinner for officials and dignitaries, which was the reward for participating in the cooking competition. For cooks registered in the fourth division and sixth Bureau of the government office, if they are idle cooks and cooks, the fourth division and sixth Bureau of the government office can distribute work to them. The pricing is determined by the fourth division and sixth Bureau, and the tax is also out of the remuneration. Customers can buy materials in the fourth division and sixth Bureau by the way.

In general, the government runs the fourth division and the sixth bureau with its back to the imperial ship. It gathers the cooks in the capital for easy management. There are pricing standards, which effectively restricts some cooks from asking exorbitant prices. People can afford to hire cooks. Cooks with no reputation can find jobs through the fourth division and the sixth bureau without signing a deed of sale. If they don't want to go to the fourth division and the sixth Bureau, they can't go. It's similar to a toothshop.

The pros and cons only depend on whether their identity is the people at the top of the pyramid or the people at the bottom of the tower.

"How kind of you." Sun Niang smiled.

After noon, there were not many people in the store. Sun Niang sent a basket of fruits and moon cakes: "today's festival, go back early."

"OK, thank you, landlady." A Yao and Li Gang and Li Rou went back to their homes with baskets. Only song Fang didn't move. He touched his head and blushed: "I'm the only one at home. If you don't dislike it... Can you cook more for me?"

Sun Niang was stunned and said with a smile, "you fool! OK, I'll cook and you can help look after the big baby and Xiaobao. "

Song Fang laughed foolishly.

A Yao came home with fruit. All kinds of small lanterns were hung in the alley in the afternoon. Everyone's face was filled with a smile, as if it were the new year.

Infected with the joy of their family reunion, ah Yao also smiled and bent her eyes.

When she got home, she opened the door, two dogs wagged their tails, and the big white goose ran with its wings to welcome her home.

"Today is the Mid Autumn Festival. Do you want to eat moon cakes? Ah, I forgot that you can't speak. You should stop eating. " A Yao said with a smile that the dog and the big white goose seemed to understand and made a dissatisfied voice.

"Woof!"

"Ga!"

A Yao gently kicked the dog with her foot: "don't make trouble, I'm busy." She brought the lotus leaf porcelain plate and put the fruits in the basket on the porcelain plate. Pomegranates, grapes, oranges, taros and a handful of chestnuts. The golden osmanthus floated away from the branches and fell on the cyan porcelain plate. The golden osmanthus embellished the broken half to reveal the red pomegranate seeds and the fragrant osmanthus fragrance. She subconsciously looked up and the osmanthus tree was in harvest time.

Spread a piece of cloth on the ground and use a bamboo pole to knock down the sweet scented osmanthus on the branches, just like an urchin sitting on the branches sprinkling gold powder. It is full of sweet scented osmanthus fragrance. Shake with a dustpan, filter the dust, dregs and flower stems, wash slightly with clean water, mix in salt, pave and dry on a bamboo sieve.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, she began to prepare dinner tonight. Although she had only one person, she had to eat well so as not to worry about the moon and the bird's nest.

This autumn, I heard that there was a bumper harvest everywhere, and the prices of new rice and glutinous rice on the market did not rise. On the contrary, due to the abundant supply, the prices decreased slightly. A Yao bought more and shipped them back, made rice vinegar and wine, and then stockpiled some rice for the winter.

After the Mid Autumn Festival, crabs appear on the market. At this time, the female crab roe is full. It's a good time to taste fresh. How can we miss it!

But crabs are cold. She can't eat much alone. With a small steamer, she can just put a crab. Put a piece of ginger in the belly of the crab and steam it in a pot, which is enough to highlight its delicacy.

Another steamed spare ribs with glutinous rice. There is meat and rice. The weight is also a small steamer. Fry a lotus pond in the moonlight. After dinner, the sweet soup is osmanthus sugar taro.

A good taro is small and almost as big as tangyuan. A good taro is soft and does not stick to its teeth. It is refreshing than Tangyuan and has a trace of sweetness. A Yao doesn't like taro very much. It's either powdered or hard, but the taro is just right.

Peel off the taro soil, expose the white fat meat, and cut it into hob pieces. Add a spoonful of alkaline noodles to the water and cook it together, which will turn taro red. The brown sugar in another pot will be melted in the water and boiled into a pot of brown sugar water. Pour taro blocks into it. When the chopsticks poke it down, it feels soft. Pour the boiled lotus root powder water into the pot, the sugar water will be clear to thick, and finally add osmanthus sauce.

When dinner was ready, before the sun set, she turned over the sweet scented osmanthus on the bamboo screen. It was estimated that it would take one night to dry it to make sweet scented osmanthus sauce and sugar sweet scented osmanthus.

The door is always open. Every family is cooking one after another. The children are playing with lanterns. Ah Yao looks at the children outside the door and mutters to herself, "while it's not dark... Do I want to make a lantern?"

Since you think of it, do it.

The paper lantern she wants doesn't know how to start, but the grapefruit lantern is very easy to do. Like stewing pears with scallops, cut a cover for the grapefruit first, cut four knives from top to bottom, insert a bamboo spoon into one of the knives, easily separate the peel, and the pulp will be eaten later. Put a small board and candles at the bottom of the grapefruit, and firmly connect the two sides of the opened grapefruit peel with bamboo sticks, Don't let the sign protrude and the peel prick your hand.

The outline of the moon rabbit is carved on all sides of the pomelo skin. Cover the cover and light a candle. The light comes out from the gap and the outline of the jade rabbit.

When the grapefruit lantern is finished, the bamboo sticks exposed in the gap are tied with colorful thin ropes, gathered at the top, twisted into a knot, and finally tied to a straight bamboo pole, so that you can carry it.

The sunset glow is gorgeous, and the full moon quietly appears on the East branches and slowly climbs up.

A Yao went back to the house and lit the lamp. The grapefruit lantern was put on the stone table and brought out the dinner.

In the steamer, the green crab turned into a red crab. She cut off the crab claws, removed the crab cover, and peeled off the crab cover. The crab yolk almost overflowed. The clear yellow crab yolk made ah Yao greedy. She immediately drank down the gills, crab heart and crab stomach on both sides, scooped a small spoonful of Zhejiang vinegar and poured it on the crab yolk, which was more delicious at the same time.

A Yao was very happy when she opened the crab. After eating the crab roe, she broke the crab body, and the white crab meat burst out. It was fresh, sweet and delicious.

After eating the sugar taro, the dog chewed the ribs, and the big white goose ate the rice in broth. The last ray of afterglow scattered into the clouds. Only the moon in the sky was bright, and the lanterns were hanging everywhere in the world. It was not lonely.

A Yao looked up at the full moon and hummed softly:

"... people have joys and sorrows, and the moon has cloudy, clear and round. It's difficult to complete this matter. I hope people will last for a long time and share the beauty of thousands of miles."

Fuhai.

Qu Yunhe cooked a table of good dishes, looked at the moon and prayed for the moon. The table offered a light fragrance, three plates of fruits and vegetables, apples, grapefruit, taro and pueraria, and one plate of three plain lotus moon cakes.

I hope bird's nest and a Yao are well.

When she finished worshipping the moon, she looked at Qu Yunhe with a smile and sat down for dinner.

"You leave the day after tomorrow. I think you'd better prepare more sets of clothes. The capital is no better than Fuhai. It's easy to catch cold in the morning and night of autumn." Qu Yunhe finished and stopped talking.

"What else?" Look at the moon and blink.

Qu Yunhe sighed: "come back early, I miss you very much."

She chuckled, "I didn't even start. You just want me back."

Before her words were finished, Qu Yunhe hugged her, looked at the moon and bumped into his arms. Counting the heartbeat under his chest, he only heard him say: "I could bear it before. It was that we separated for too long. I was numb. Even the blood flowing in my body seemed cold. Because you come back to me, like a lost treasure, like a return to the earth in spring and a flood of peach blossoms, how can I bear the solitude of the lost? It's a terrible feeling. "

The moon hugged Qu Yunhe, "so do I. But ah Yao's hairpin ceremony doesn't work. I've promised her. " Her forehead is against Qu Yunhe's forehead, "I promise you, I'll come back after the hairpin ceremony."

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At the middle of the month, the teapot on the red clay stove boiled water and purred. The moon cakes were at hand, and the candles in the grapefruit lantern burned half. The dog and the big white goose went back to their place to doze off. Ah Yao didn't know what he was going to do sitting in the yard.

The little dolls outside the door are energetic and still playing. Three or two dolls have built a simple stove with bricks. Below are several candles with banana leaves on them. On the banana leaves are small taro and cooked snail at home.

There was a movement from the wall.

She looked up and someone didn't go through the gate to climb the wall.

"Ah Yao, you are still there. The moonlight is so beautiful today." Pei Shuo crossed the wall with one foot and hung half of his body on the wall. Looking down, he smiled at ah Yao's black line. He turned down from the wall and landed steadily: "I slipped out secretly. Look, I brought you Dongshan orange and we'll eat it together!"

Ah Yao suddenly smiled, "OK, I still have grapefruit."