Chapter 207 Shaomai
Having spent all his strength to forge iron, the money earned is hard-earned money. Now Lu Qiyan actually has to work hard on his own. How will he do business?
I found out that the couple at home really turned against each other.
Ms. Xia is in business, but every time she comes to his blacksmith shop, she does business quickly and quickly, without pushing down the price, as long as the things are good and the layout is quite large.
On the contrary, this Lu Dutou was in the military camp and his position was not low. He should have been an open-minded person, but he turned out to be a fussy person.
I really don’t know what to say.
When Shopkeeper Guo looked at Lu Qiyan again, there was a bit of disgust in his eyes.
Lu Qiyan, "..."
Touching his nose in embarrassment, Lu Qiyan said, "Don't worry, Shopkeeper Guo, I won't miss your money. I just want to do a few blows myself. That's all."
When Shopkeeper Guo heard this, his expression softened a lot, but he still didn't quite understand that Lu Qiyan wanted to hit the kitchen knife himself.
Blacksmithing is a laborious job. After paying for it, no one is stupid enough to put in more effort, but Lu Qiyan is such a fool.
As expected, there are not many people in the military camp who are sophisticated, they are all weak and have no place to use them.
Shopkeeper Guo curled his lips, but nodded, "Okay, since Lu Dutou said so, I can't refuse, but I will do whatever I ask Lu Dutou to do later. .”
Don’t cause trouble.
"Okay." Lu Qiyan nodded in agreement.
The two agreed and started forging kitchen knives.
According to Lu Qiyan's request, this kitchen knife should be strong and durable, have a certain weight but not too heavy, and be made of good materials.
Seeing this, shopkeeper Guo decided to use his special skills and forge a good steel-clamped kitchen knife.
Forging a kitchen knife requires more than a dozen procedures, including rough forging, heating, steel clamping, melting, rough rough forging, and blade cutting, which is quite troublesome.
And to punch out a kitchen knife, it takes more than two thousand blows.
Such kitchen knives are expensive, and no one usually wants them. Shopkeeper Guo is too lazy to make them. At this moment, there happens to be free labor, so shopkeeper Guo is not polite and plans to let Lu Qiyan hammer down more than two thousand dollars to make enough. .
Lu Qiyan looked lean and full of strength. At first, because he couldn’t control the strength of the blacksmith, shopkeeper Guo said a few words. After a little adjustment, he was able to roughly control the strength and strength. Accurate.
Next, each hammer hit more accurately than the last.
Shopkeeper Guo’s eyes gradually softened from being picky at first, and later even showed some admiration, “When I first learned this blacksmithing skill, I practiced for ten years just to practice the accuracy of the hammering. Tomorrow, I will practice strength control again In half a month, Lu Dutou can do so well in just one hour. He is really a good talent for blacksmithing."
If Lu Qiyan was not already the Dutou in the army, Shopkeeper Guo would have said anything. Lure him into working in the blacksmith shop.
Just give me more wages!
Lu Qiyan smiled after receiving the compliment. Seeing that the blank on the anvil was almost beaten, he followed Shopkeeper Guo's instructions and placed the rough blank in the furnace to continue heating.
Then there was another beating...
The clanking sound of beating, the whirring sound of wind direction, the sound of crackling, peeling and burning flames made the whole blacksmith shop look quite eerie. lively.
Lu Qiyan was busy in the blacksmith shop until noon, and the kitchen knife on the anvil had begun to take shape.
Shopkeeper Guo picked up the kitchen knife and looked at it carefully, "It's dinner time. Lu Du should go back to eat. There are still some finishing touches left. I'll do it later. Lu Du is halfway done. Just come and get it in the afternoon."
"Shopkeeper Guo, why don't you stop and wait for me to come in the afternoon?" Lu Qiyan said. Since we have already started, let's just make a complete kitchen knife. This can be regarded as making it by ourselves, which has some meaning.
Shopkeeper Guo, "..."
There really is no place to use all the strength.
Or maybe Lu Dutou's hobby is blacksmithing, so he has to do it now, which makes him feel comfortable?
But no matter what the reason was, it was Lu Qiyan who exerted his strength, so he could just stay away and take some time off, so why not?
Shopkeeper Guo nodded hurriedly, "Then just do as Lu Dutou said, and we will wait until you come in the afternoon to continue."
"Okay." Seeing this, Lu Qiyan left with a smile.
Seeing him walking away, Shopkeeper Guo frowned and shook his head, "He is really stupid, I don't know how he got fooled."
"I think it's not that everyone is stupid, it's you who are stupid." Shopkeeper Guo's wife Ge Shi curled her lips.
“Where am I stupid?” Shopkeeper Guo was dissatisfied.
“You still can’t see it?” Ge Shi’s eyes almost rolled to the sky, “This Lu Dutou is the best in the army, and now he is running to you to give you a beating with his own hands. Kitchen knife, you still haven’t lost a penny, why?”
Why?
Shopkeeper Guo almost scratched the back of his head and muttered for a long time, "I think he is just stupid. If he wasn't stupid, why would he have the strength to come here for nothing?"
Gurdjieff, "..."
Forget it, don't get angry with the fool!
Geshi waved his hand and went to the backyard angrily.
Leave shopkeeper Guo spreading his hands.
He was not wrong, why was he angry?
It's really hard to guess what this woman is thinking...
When Lu Qiyan returned home, Xia Mingyue was making lunch.
Shaomai, all in one place.
Duyijiu Shaomai was once famous for the plaque given by Emperor Qianlong. It is also famous for its skin as thin as cicada wings and as white as jade. Each shaomai skin has twenty-four pleats and looks like a flower. Wonderful and famous.
Qidu Yichu Shaomai does not stick to the rules, and the fillings of Shaomai also change with the seasons. In spring, there is Jade Shaomai with shepherd's purse as the main ingredient, in summer, there is winter melon Shaomai, and in autumn, there is There are shrimps, glutinous rice and shaomai in winter. The products are different in each season, but they all taste wonderful.
What Xia Mingyue cooked today was glutinous rice and siomai, or to be precise, glutinous rice and meat siomai.
Soak the glutinous rice for half a day in advance, steam it in a pot with bone broth until it is cooked, take it out of the pot and let it cool, then add it with soaked and chopped diced mushrooms, diced fungus, diced carrots, and stir-fried until fragrant Thin, three, fat and seven minced pork minces are mixed with soy sauce, salt, pepper and other seasonings and stirred evenly to make the filling for Shaomai.
Mix the flour with some flour into a smooth dough, cut it into small dough pieces, roll it into a round dumpling wrapper with an ordinary rolling pin, then hold the dough wrapper with one hand and use the other hand to roll it into a round dumpling wrapper. Gently roll the end of the rolling pin into a wrinkled lotus leaf shape.
Put the filling into the center of the siomai skin, tighten the siomai skin at the edges of the folds, and gently press the filling with your fingers to ensure that the entire siomai skin is upright and has a good-looking shape.
The wrapped siomai is boiled in water and steamed over a cup of tea until the siomai skin becomes translucent and translucent, then it is ready to serve.
This was Xia Mingyue's first time trying to make shaomai, so she took one and tasted it first.