Chapter 163 Hard Dishes
While drinking soy milk, Zhang Lu handed five copper coins to Jiang Shuyi: "Shuyi, this... Zhou Zhi said... I can trouble you..."
"Well, what is this?" Jiang Shuyi reached out and took it, waiting to see you later There were five copper coins: "Making money strings, right? It's simple, my grandma taught me."
Zhang Lu has always admired Jiang Shuyi very much, but even though they have been together for so long, this This is the first time since I came back from studying in Shudu that I didn’t have Zhou Zhi Accompanied by her, when talking to Jiang Shuyi alone, her expression turned out to be quite nervous: "That... is... what Zhou Zhi also said..."
"Tongzi, why are you so nervous? "Jiang Shuyi disliked how difficult it was for Zhou Zhi to get Zhang Lu's nickname. Listen, so no matter Zhang Lu is called Passepartout, he chooses another one based on the style of Hong Kong drama: "Don't worry, leave it to me, I will make it up for you soon. Do you want plum blossoms or money strings? He likes elbows." Those who are strings of money, those who dislike plum blossoms are too big.”
"What are you talking about?" Zhang Xinyi came over. She also didn't like to be called by nicknames: "Zhang Lu, I see you have been searching all morning. What are you looking for?"
"Looking for copper coins?" "We've found it all." Jiang Shuyi spread her hands.
"Is there anything weird about copper coins?" Zhang Xinyi took them and looked through them: "They are all Tongbao. It seems that the Qianwen is different. These are the reign names of five emperors."
"Yes, these are the Five Emperors of the Qing Dynasty. There is a powerful one at the elbow, the Five Emperors of the Qin, Han, Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties."
"Really? Where is it? Let me see?"
When Jiang Shuyi took out Zhou Zhi's Five Emperors Coin String, Zhang Xinyi couldn't help but said: "Oh, this is quite beautiful. Shu Yi, do you know how? Then make one for me too!"
Ye Xin also came over , he didn’t even know what it was, but he said, “I want whatever it is!”
Zhou Zhi placed the coal sand pot filled with chicken and water on the small fire hole on the stove, and covered it with mulberry paper came out: "I don't even know and Is it possible for the Shang family to collect so many sets of copper coins? In fact, the three emperors' money and the single emperor's money are all fine. "
" Let's pick it up later," Ye Xin said. : "It would be great if we could pick up all the twelve emperors of the Qing Dynasty."
"That's impossible. The first three generations of Tianming, Tiancong, and Chongde Tongbao, let alone seeing the real objects, I guess everyone even knows their names. Never heard of it.”
"Then you can make up whatever you want." Ye Xin was not picky.
"Actually...Guangxu Xuantong...I'm afraid he doesn't have much magic power and still attracts goblins. Forget it, just like it..."
The ancient coin collection is also a very big one. Category, if you really have to study the knowledge systematically, there is a lot.
Zhou Zhi did not study it as specialized and necessary knowledge. His research direction was "History of the Song Dynasty". The Song Dynasty was an era of raging money shortages and rampant money printing. Money in the Song Dynasty was abundant and abundant. Not even worth clearing money.
Zhou Zhi has a purely overflowing grasp of the Twelve Emperors' money purging. In He Shiqing's words, it is "weird and useless cold knowledge."
Not as important as cooking duck and eel.
Of course, old ducks are much more delicious than young ducks, but there is a problem with old ducks, that is, it is difficult to cook well. Therefore, when processing old ducks, the meat must be chopped into smaller pieces and then heated It must be burned enough.
First put water in the pot, put in the konjac cubes and bring to a boil, let it become a little tougher, drain out the water, and cut into thin strips.
Add additional water to the pot and bring to a boil, add duck pieces, blanch and remove.
Then add vegetable oil and heat it up, add the watercress and stir-fry until red, add ginger slices, onion knots, star anise, and cinnamon until fragrant, add duck cubes, shiitake mushrooms, soy sauce, and Shaoxing wine and stir-fry until brown, add water first The fire is boiling, and then the fire is reduced to a small fire.
When the duck meat is cooked until it is cooked, add the konjac cubes and refined salt.
After it is cooked until it is fragrant, add red pepper, monosodium glutamate, and pepper to thicken the soup, thicken it with wet starch, sprinkle with minced green garlic, and serve. Today's hard dish can only be regarded as embellishment. There is no other reason because the eels caught yesterday... were a bit too much.
So today Zhouzhi is going to make two eel dishes - raw fried shredded eel and grilled eel with green bamboo shoots and garlic.
The braised eel with green bamboo shoots and garlic can be made into two flavors - home-style bean paste flavor and sweet and sour flavor.
Thinking that the folks around him might not be able to accept the sweet and sour roasted eel, Zhou Zhi finally decided to make homemade Douban flavor.
In the same way, first heat the oil, fry the eel meat, take it out and set aside.
Then leave the oil part, throw in a handful of Sichuan peppercorns and fry them first, then add bean paste, chopped pickled peppers, chopped pickled ginger, stir-fry until the red oil precipitates, add garlic, continue to stir-fry until fragrant, add water and boil open.
Then add eel and green bamboo shoots, cook until the green bamboo shoots are almost soft and cooked, add celery and green onion knots, and finally add salt and a small amount of sugar to adjust the taste, and thicken it into a thin gravy. Pot.
Two tables were placed on the open dam, one for the neighbors and one for the friends.
The neighbors have already arrived, and they are all observing the beater.
Then there are some people who are pantothenic, knowing that Yang He bought this machine for his family with the money he earned in the city, they say that the beater is not as useful as the rice mill, and ask Yang He why he doesn’t give it to him. I got a rice grinder at home.
There is only one purpose in saying this, which is to make others uncomfortable because I want to say a few mean words.
Some people’s mentality is like this. When you feel uncomfortable, I feel comfortable.
A beater costs more than 100 yuan, which was not a small expense in rural areas in 1992. However, a multifunctional rice mill has much higher power, and also has blower and other devices, and accessories. There are many more. Zhou Zhi also asked Dad Jiang about it. To be able to provide services to outsiders, the cheapest one would cost around 400 yuan.
Zhou Zhi saw many such people in his last life. Some people would ask similar questions after knowing that Zhou Zhi wrote a book.
I know that you write books and ask if you have royalties. I know that you have royalties and ask you if they are much. Knowing that your royalties are more than his salary, I ask why you don’t make TV series. I know that someone has contacted you to write a script and asks you. When will you win the prize...
Zhou Zhi knows that even if you win a small prize, they will ask you why you don’t win the big prize. Maybe even if you win the big prize, what else will they ask you? Time to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
What Zhou Zhi cannot understand is, why don’t these people ask themselves?
As long as they ask themselves less than one-tenth of this way, the achievements of these people will not be as good as when they asked Zhou Zhi.
Whenever encountering that kind of situation, Zhou Zhi would become more and more humble, and then quietly watch those people perform.
However, Zhou Zhi really didn’t expect that adding a small beater to his home would lead to such questions. I can only say that wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Yang He was introducing the machine to the villagers. He raised his head after hearing this. He did not look at the person who spoke, but looked at Zhou Zhi.
Seeing Zhou Zhi looking at him at the kitchen door, he explained calmly: "The rice mill is too expensive. I am still studying, so I really don't have the ability."
"The idea of buying this beater is simple. It has been a burden on my family for several years. I have to use a little force if I can. No matter how much or how little, it shows my intention and attitude..."
Zhou Zhi laughed when he heard this, "Monk Yang, you Gui'er look very much like I did back then!"
(End of this chapter)