Chapter 225 Mule-walking
This Pei Chenghe is not bad.
Lu Qiyan lowered his eyes and said with a smile, "That's good. I guess with this lesson, Yueran Restaurant will be able to be more at ease in the future."
"Yes. "Xia Mingyue nodded.
Zou Fuquan is naturally not a man of peace, but now the public opinion is one-sided. Whenever there is some trouble, everyone will think that Yueran Restaurant is causing trouble behind his back.
Therefore, even if Zou Fuquan was unwilling, he could only swallow his anger at this time and did not dare to make mistakes.
Besides, there will definitely be no trouble in Xia Ji before and after the Chinese New Year.
"How are you doing there?" Xia Mingyue asked.
“Everything is going smoothly.” Lu Qiyan said, “Except for Master Fang’s recent opinions.”
“Why?”
"I hate that the mutton soup in the kitchen is not as delicious as yours. I hate that the mutton soup steamed buns made by the cook only scratched the surface and didn't learn the essence at all. Then, I complained that the sugar and garlic had already been eaten. I asked when I can eat sweet garlic again." Lu Qiyan answered truthfully and took a big sip of fermented egg drop soup.
The wine has a mellow aftertaste and a full wine aroma.
Good guy, none of it is about building a bridge.
This guy Lin Wang is really a foodie through and through.
Xia Mingyue held her forehead, "There is nothing we can do about it. The teaching time is too short. It is very rare for the team leader and the others to be able to stew the mutton soup to that level. As for the sweet garlic, I'm afraid it's We have to wait until April or May next year.”
When the new garlic comes out, you can start again.
“But since Master Fang likes to eat this sweet garlic, he also likes to eat all kinds of pickled vegetables. When you go this time, I will prepare some pickled mustard greens and watermelon soybeans for you to take with you. Go ahead. ”
Mustard greens are plentiful and common, and can be pickled at any time throughout the winter, as much as you want.
Xia Mingyue pickled a lot of watermelon sauce beans at that time. After excluding those given away, there wasn’t much left, but it was still okay to give away a small can.
But speaking of this...
"How many days will Brother Lu stay at home this time?" Xia Mingyue asked.
"Leave early tomorrow morning." Lu Qiyan bit the donkey meat in his hand and burned it, and replied in a deep voice.
Xia Mingyue was suddenly startled.
Tomorrow morning?
Then Lu Qiyan came back this time just to take a look at her current situation and see if everything was okay with her?
Lu Qiyan...
Care about her very much?
Xia Mingyue lowered her head awkwardly and tugged her sleeves again and again until she saw Lu Qiyan gulped down three stuffed donkey meat roasts and a large bowl of fermented egg drop soup. After he was clean, he changed the topic, "Are you full?"
"Yes."
Actually, he was not completely full, but seeing that Xia Mingyue only prepared this There were too many, so I thought it must be because the ingredients were limited, so I didn’t ask for more.
At night, don't eat too much, otherwise it will be bad for your stomach.
Lu Qiyan was so relieved that he stretched out his hand to help Xia Mingyue clean up the dishes and carry them into the kitchen.
Seeing that Xia Mingyue was about to wash out the dishes and chopsticks, Lu Qiyan took a bucket and went to the water tank to fetch water.
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the water in the water tank is freezing cold.
Lu Qiyan frowned and grabbed Xia Mingyue who was tying her apron, "Let me do it, the water is too cold."
After saying that, without waiting for Xia Mingyue to react, she poured the water into the basin, rolled up her sleeves, and picked up the loofah on the table next to her.
Loofah is soft and removes oil, and is a useful tool for ordinary people to wash dishes and wash pots.
Lu Qiyan is quick with his hands and feet and is also very skilled in washing dishes. "When I first arrived in the military camp, I was a junior soldier. When the kitchen was short of manpower, I had to help from time to time. I have done all these tasks." Lu Qiyan explained.
That’s it.
Xia Mingyue took the bowls that Lu Qiyan had washed, wiped them clean with a towel, and put them back one by one on the cupboard shelf next to them.
After everything was cleaned up, Lu Qiyan and Xia Mingyue went back to the house to rest.
Lying on their own beds, Xia Mingyue blew out the lights.
The night sky tonight is not too clear. The clouds cover the bright moon and the whole earth is dark.
At midnight, gusts of cold wind began to blow, causing the branches of the apricot trees in the courtyard to sway and make a swishing sound.
Even in the early morning of the second day, the wind was still blowing bitingly, and it hurt like a tiny knife when it hit someone's face.
Xia Mingyue got up early and prepared breakfast and things to take away for Lu Qiyan.
Breakfast consisted of steaming hot spicy soup and fragrant pan-fried buns. In addition to the pickled mustard greens and watermelon beans prepared for Fang Linwang, what Lu Qiyan took away was also the food for Xia Mingyue. Lu Qiyan prepared some braised pork elbows, braised pork head meat, and some braised eggs.
These things are all packed in earthen pots, wrapped in something like a small basket woven from cotyledon leaves, tied with a cloth bag, and hung on the horse's back.
In this way, the earthen jars will not collide with each other, nor will they rock back and forth on the horse's back.
The only bad thing is that the good horses look a bit like pack mules, and they seem to lack the heroic feeling that many horses should have.
Fortunately, Lu Qiyan didn't care about this. After getting on his horse, he galloped all the way west. After leaving the city gate, he went straight to Xiaohe Village.
Riding horses along the way, Lu Qiyan arrived at the Yongfeng River before the sun was in the sky.
Fang Linwang was watching the soldiers working by the river with his hands behind his back. When he saw Lu Qiyan, who was dusty and chilly, he snorted, "How comfortable can Lu Dutou sleep comfortably?"
"I didn't sleep in, I just went back quickly yesterday afternoon." Lu Qiyan said.
Did you go back?
Fang Linwang immediately became energetic and even had a smile on his face, "Since Lu Dutou went home, did he bring back sugar and garlic?"
"No."< br>
Fang Linwang’s face immediately drooped.
Lu Qiyan touched his nose, "But my wife prepared some pickled mustard greens and watermelon soybeans and asked me to bring them over."
"I didn't tell you earlier!" Fang Linwang complained, glanced at Lu Qiyan, but smiled happily, smacked his lips, and asked, "Then did Madam Xia prepare some mutton stew?"
Stew here in the kitchen. The mutton and mutton soup are really not as good as those made by Mrs. Xia.
“No.” Lu Qiyan said.
The smile on Fang Linwang's face suddenly faded a little, but he sighed after thinking that there were pickled mustard greens and watermelon beans.
No matter what, it’s not impossible to make do with it anyway.
"My wife has prepared some braised pork knuckles and braised pork head meat." Lu Qiyan said slowly.
Fang Linwang, "..."
Can you finish what you said? Can you!
Think of him as a mule, just walking around here with nothing to do!
Infuriating!
Fang Linwang had a stinky face, and his eyes almost rolled to the sky.
Here, Xia Mingyue is busy cleaning pig intestines at home.
Tear off the fat, scrape the grease, soak it in coarse salt, rub it with plant ash, and rinse it with water... After more than an hour of non-stop work, the pig intestines, which were originally dark pink, became... It was slightly transparent, and the original smelly and bitter taste was gone.
The author has been recharging his batteries recently, do you have any recommended books~