Chapter 94 New Year’s Eve (3) [Fourth update! ! ! 】
The photo taken by the Western photographer was the one Jiang Feng had seen in the album before.
After taking the photos, the New Year’s Eve dinner was ready to be put on the table.
There were many Li family members, and there were three large tables, one for the men and two for the women. The dishes were all the same, but Jiang Feng could clearly see that the quality of the dishes on the table of several concubines and distant cousins was obviously not as good as the first two. On the table, even big dishes like sweet and sour carp were cooked very perfunctorily.
During the New Year's Eve dinner, the family was enjoying themselves happily. The younger ones made some witty remarks at the dinner table to make the elders happy. Even Liu Xiuzhen gave her eldest daughter a good look, which made her eldest daughter, who had always been frightened, a little flattered.
"Mom, please try more of this tofu. Master Chen's best dish is this. It's very light and you will definitely like it." Jiang Huiqin diligently scooped a spoonful of the tenderest tofu for Liu Xiuzhen.
Jiang Huiqin has a sweet mouth. She grew up in Tai Feng Building. She has seen a lot of guests from all walks of life. She has been in contact with people from all walks of life. She has a clever mouth and is eloquent, and she can chat with everyone.
She knew that Liu Xiuzhen was unhappy because she went to the kitchen to cook for the old lady, so she kept praising Liu Xiuzhen openly and secretly, which made her happy, so she didn't pursue the matter of going to the kitchen before.
Liu Xiuzhen actually didn't have much objection to this daughter-in-law. If the Qing Dynasty was still there, their family would be a family of officials, so she would naturally look down on the sister of a cook. But now the world has changed and New China has emerged. Her husband has become the lowest class of businessmen among scholars, farmers, and merchants. Jiang Chengde is a famous chef in Peiping and has a wide network of contacts. Jiang Huiqin has also gone to school and has good cooking skills. Even the female celebrities are good, but she has nothing good. Disgusting.
After chatting too much with other wives, Liu Xiuzhen also knew that times had changed. In the name of free marriage, everyone divorced, divorced, and abandoned their husbands and children, and they had to report it to the world. She couldn't understand the thoughts of today's young people, and she was even a little lucky that Jiang Huiqin was not the kind of social butterfly who talked about free love and free marriage.
Liu Xiuzhen had always scorned that kind of people. They talked about equality in love, but instead of rushing to be someone else's concubine, she still pretended to be the main wife outside, saying that she was the true love and that the first wife was just feudal dross.
Thinking about this, Liu Xiuzhen felt that Jiang Huiqin's daughter-in-law was actually pretty good.
"Huiqin's mouth is so sweet." The old lady had eaten three pieces of shredded sweet potato before. In fact, she was almost full and didn't use her chopsticks much. "You can make it for me again tomorrow. I haven't eaten this much in a long time." Something that tastes good.”
"Grandma, the sweet potato is too sweet and it's not good for your health to eat it. I'll make Lantern Festival for you during the Lantern Festival. It's sweet stuffed and I'm sure it will be better than today's sweet potato!" Jiang Huiqin said with a smile.
"Okay, okay." the old lady said repeatedly.
"Where's Girl Fen?" Liu Xiuzhen turned to ask her eldest daughter sitting in the corner.
"She said she was full, so I asked her to play in the yard." The eldest daughter whispered.
"There are no rules. Fortunately, you are still her mother. How could she be full after just eating a few mouthfuls? Xiaohe, go and call Fen girl back now. Later, go to the kitchen and tell her to make a bowl of egg custard and send it to the eldest lady. Go to the room, girl Fen will definitely be hungry at night," Liu Xiuzhen said.
"Thank you, mother." The eldest daughter still lowered her head.
On New Year's Eve, no one will deliberately say depressing words to spoil the mood during the reunion dinner. Even if they are unhappy in their hearts and are hiding some depressed thoughts, they will smile and say nice things and talk about happy things on the surface. The whole family had a happy reunion dinner and stayed up late on New Year's Eve.
In fact, everyone was almost full, but they were required to eat until late at night, so they pretended to eat.
There was no Spring Festival Gala to watch at this time, and a group of people were just chatting together. The old lady was old, and she couldn't bear to go back to her room after a while. Not long after the old lady left, girl Fen started to cry sleepy.
The eldest daughter was afraid of being scolded by Liu Xiuzhen and did not dare to let Fen girl go back to the room first.
Liu Xiuzhen glanced at her and said, "Girl Fen, since you're sleepy, go back to your room first."
Jiang Feng discovered that Jiang Huiqin's mother-in-law was a typical talkative person.
When the time came, the men, women, and children in each room were all too sleepy. The maids and women began to clean, and the rest of the people went back to their rooms.
Jiang Huiqin took Li Mingyi and ran to the kitchen while others were not paying attention.
There was no one in the kitchen and the door was locked. Jiang Huiqin took out the key and unlocked the kitchen door. After entering, she carefully closed the door and secretly lit a few lamps like a thief.
Li Mingyi was actually a little sleepy and said: "Huiqin, why don't we go back? Actually, I don't like to eat shredded sweet potatoes."
Jiang Huiqin said: "I know you like to eat yam, so I will make carrot yam for you. I saw yam before, but there is no yam dish on the table today. The yam should still be here."
Li Mingyi was stunned: "How do you know I like to eat yams."
He has never told anyone about his taste. When anyone asks him, he always says that he likes fish.
"A few days ago, you said you couldn't eat the yam stewed with pork ribs, so you ate all the yams in the bowl and left the ribs alone. And last month, your favorite sweet and sour carp and stir-fried yam were both on the table. You only picked up the carp with two chopsticks and ate less than half of the plate of yams. How could I not see that you like to eat yams?" Jiang Huiqin said, taking out the yams from the basket, picking through them with a kerosene lamp, and selected one. Root to deal with.
"Help me take down the kerosene lamp. It's inconvenient for me to hold the lamp." Jiang Huiqin pushed the kerosene lamp to Li Mingyi.
Li Mingyi took the kerosene lamp blankly. He was obviously distracted and had a silly smile on his face.
Jiang Huiqin felt that the light was wrong. When she looked up, she saw Li Mingyi holding a kerosene lamp instead of lighting the yam and grinning stupidly. She pushed him: "Stop giggling. What are you thinking? If I can't see the yam clearly, I'll cut it later." Hands, my mother will really scold me when she sees it tomorrow.”
Li Ming came to his senses and held up the kerosene lamp obediently.
The steps for carving yam are similar to carving sweet potatoes, but this time Jiang Huiqin burned two pots at the same time, frying yam and frying sugar at the same time.
The kerosene lamp was placed next to the stove. Jiang Huiqin first lit the fires of the two stoves and told Li Mingyi: "Mingyi, wait a minute and I will tell you which side to turn the fire to a smaller one. Just pull out two firewood. I will say a bigger one." , just put a handful of straw in, don’t pile the firewood together and put out the fire.”
Li Mingyi nodded solemnly.
It is much more difficult to fire two pots at the same time than to cook them separately before. What's more, it is night and the light is not good. The color of the fried sugar and fried yam must be judged by the color.
Jiang Huiqin looked a little nervous, always paying attention to the two pots, and her hand movements were still deft. At this time, if you are not careful, the two pots will overturn.
The most critical step has been reached.
The yam had just come out of the pot, and the fried sugar in the other pot had reached a critical moment. Soft bubbles appeared one after another on the surface of the syrup, and soon, a faint burnt aroma began to waft out.
Jiang Huiqin poured the still-hot yam into the pot and said to Li Ming: "Lower the fire."
Li Mingyi hurriedly drew firewood.
Jiang Huiqin quickly stir-fried the yam, and Jiang Feng noticed that the syrup on the surface of the yam had begun to peel.
Remove from pot and plate.
This time, the drawing was quite beautiful, each root was as thin as a silk thread. The sugar threads were wrapped around the yam that had been fried to a slightly yellow color, and a small handful of white sesame seeds were sprinkled on it. Li Mingyi was a little hungry even though he was not hungry at first.
As soon as Li Ming picked up the chopsticks, he heard movement at the door. Both of them were startled, thinking that someone had discovered the thief in the kitchen.
The Fen girl who came in didn't look like she had just woken up, but had already planned it.
"Uncle, aunt, I want to eat it too." Girl Fen looked straight at the yam on the stove.
Jiang Huiqin suddenly remembered that when she was in the back hall, Girl Fen seemed to have been staring at the sweet potato on the plate. Maybe she didn't eat it because she didn't dare to say it, but how did Girl Fen know that they would be in the back kitchen at this time.
Li Ming picked up Girl Fen and asked, "You can eat if you want, Girl Fen. You tell your uncle first. How did you know that your uncle and aunt are here?"
"I heard it. When I went to take pictures, I heard my uncle and aunt talking secretly behind the scenes." Girl Fen said.
Jiang Huiqin laughed. The two of them really didn't notice that girl Fen was right in front of them.
Children all like to eat sweets. Jiang Huiqin knew that her eldest sister was very strict with girl Fen. She wouldn't even let her eat cakes on weekdays. It was normal for girl Fen to be greedy for sweets.
Jiang Huiqin gave Fen girl a piece of shredded yam with chopsticks. The sugar shreds were stretched to a full foot, so she dipped them in cold water to avoid scalding her mouth.
Fen girl exclaimed and a piece of carrot yam was stuffed into her mouth.
Li Mingyi also took a piece, which was stretched longer than the piece Jiang Huiqin just took. He also dipped it in cold boiled water and took a bite. It was crispy, sweet and refreshing.
Everything around him began to become unreal. Li Mingyi looked at Jiang Huiqin and smiled sweeter than the carrot yam in his mouth.
Sweet but not greasy.
Jiang Feng returned to the room, still lying on the bed, eagerly opening the properties panel to read the menu.
【Drawing yam grade C】
Producer: Jiang Huiqin
Dishes details: It is an excellent dish in terms of both the selection of ingredients and the production techniques. The difficult sugar-frying and carving techniques are the highlights of this dish. It was originally an ordinary dish of shredded yam, but because of the love Jiang Huiqin had for Li Mingyi, it became an unforgettable dish in Li Mingyi's life. The dish will taste better after the producer falls in love.
Number of productions per day (0/6)
Friendly reminder: The technical requirements for sugar-frying and wire-drawing of this dish exceed the player's current level, and there is a high chance of failure during production.
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
What kind of bullshit game is this? A single producer is eating your rice?
Jiang Feng clicked on the recipe details and wanted to see Jiang Huiqin's making process again.
"Ding, get 99 experience points."
Jiang Feng:? ? ?
"Ding, the player has reached level 10 and the game has started to update. After the update is completed, the illustrated book function will be enabled."
The property panel suddenly changed to the interface during the update, with the update progress at 0%, and on the progress bar was a crying bun that had been bitten.
This is not the point. The point is that the recipe for caramelized yam that Jiang Feng clicked before has not disappeared, but the interface is a little smaller. It is still hanging on the property panel together with the update progress bar. It can even be clicked, but it cannot exit.
Jiang Feng turned the attribute panel on and off several times and it kept coming to this conclusion.
This garbage game is full of bugs.
One minute ago, Chen Xiuxiu’s home——
Chen Xiuxiu looked at Pan Ling, squinted her eyes, and said, "Pan Pan, you seem to have a small piece of chili peel on your teeth."
Pan Ling's tongue licked all over his teeth and asked, "Is there any more?"
"No more." Chen Xiuxiu said.
Pan Ling swallowed and swallowed the pepper skin he had just licked off.
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