Delicious Delicacy of the Demon Spirit

The next day, Li Ku'er was about to collapse from crying as expected.Early in the morning, I pulled out the incense sticks in my courtyard, and I had to tidy up the huge courtyard of the palace.There are places here and places there, places you can see and places you can't see at a glance, I don't know which one it is, and I don't miss every corner, but it's easy for her to find.

"What is this kind of place plugged in for?" Li Kuer muttered while pulling out the incense, "No one can see it, and neither does Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva." She recalled the dream she had last night, which is still clearly reflected in her In my mind, her father and the portrait of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva in the painting opened his eyes.Is it day and night dreaming, or is it that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva really saw her? Li Kuer hopes it is the latter, so this year, she and Ah Kui can go through smoothly.

It was time for breakfast, and the incense holders in the courtyard were only half cleaned up. Li Kuer was so tired that she could hardly stand upright, but when she thought that the prince and concubine came out later and saw the courtyard still looked like this, she had to blame it .She continued to work, and she didn't plan to eat any food. There were several dustpans in the purple incense handle. Li Kuer thought again, if Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva also saw King Qiao's mansion, would they join them as house servants? Bless go in.

After finally cleaning the courtyard, Li Kuer hurried to find He Weiran again.She did not forget the entrustment of the river god Ah Yan, and asked He Weiran for a hundred zongzi.

When we got close to the back kitchen, we heard that there was a lot of noise inside.She rushed in to have a look, and there was a crowd of people chattering around a bunch of eggplants, and those eggplants were the ones left over from making Luosu lamps yesterday.

"Tsk, what's so good about leaving so much?"

"Could it be possible to eat eggplant these two days? Roasted eggplant, steamed eggplant, fried eggplant, eggplant soup, eggplant with meat..."

"That's bad enough. This eggplant won't last long, and it will collapse after a while."

"Oh my God, I hate eating eggplant the most. It seems that I should go home and eat it these days."

"No, Ah Liao, don't try to run away."

"That would take several meals."

"Let the prince and the others eat too."

"But there can't be more than two eggplant dishes in one meal, or the prince will treat them as sister He and send them away."

"Sister He is such a powerful person, there must be a way, right?"

He Weiran happened to come out of the kitchen and joined the crowd to see what was going on. When he heard Ah Chu's words, he blinked and saw that everyone was looking at her. , an eggplant is an eggplant after all, and it’s fine to eat it all at once, but there are several eggplant dishes in one meal, and I get tired of thinking about it.”

"Hey, that's right. It's all you, Dashun, why did you buy so many?"

"Hey, are you blaming me now? The county lord ordered this to be bought."

"I don't blame you, who do you blame? Did the county lord let you buy so much?"

"Bah! It's that A Cai who said she wanted to buy more, why didn't you go to her, you little girl, and started looking for my business instead."

Several people quarreled, Li Kuer couldn't say a word, He Weiran sighed, and stopped with a headache: "Okay, okay, it's not a big deal for each of you to give in. Later, I will make a pot of glazed eggplant, and you will send a few plates to the front as snacks. She will definitely like the taste of the little county owner. I will decide if there are more, and the servants will share them. Mama Zhang will make a few more at noon and evening today. The eggplant dish should be almost ready."

Everyone listened to her arrangement, and they stopped arguing after the matter was settled.He Weiran said again: "Mama Xu will prepare red date paste for me, and anyone else will peel the eggplant when they have time. Remember, the eggplant needs to be washed in salt water after peeling, so that it won't change color after a while." After she finished giving instructions, she went in The kitchen prepares the rest.Li Ku'er followed in and talked about the River God, naturally she didn't miss the reward she was talking about.He Weiran thought for a while and said, "I can't think of what to ask her to buy these one hundred zongzi for a while, so I'll ask her to write a white note this time, and I'll find her later if I need it."

Li Kuer knew that He Weiran had agreed when he heard the words, and happily went out to help peel the eggplants.Xiao Qu was also peeling eggplants. Li Kuer moved a small bench and sat beside her. Seeing her listless look, she asked, "What's wrong with you today?"

Xiaoqu sighed: "Annoying..."

"What's bothering you? Didn't you take Fang Hancai home for dinner yesterday? Why, it's not going well?"

"It started off pretty well, and my parents are very satisfied with him."

"and then?"

Xiaoqu sighed again, frowning tightly: "Later, my father asked him when he was going to come to my house to propose marriage. He was so scared that he couldn't speak! He squeaked for a long time and said he hadn't done it yet. Whether it will be successful or not depends on the wishes of parents. My father is going to die of anger. I saw that his hand holding the wine glass is trembling, and he almost didn't have a seizure. I am also going to die of anger. Why do you think this person is like this! "

"This..." In fact, Li Kuer felt that Fang Hancai's reaction was not so difficult to understand: "After all, you two have known each other for less than a month, and it is understandable that you have not thought of getting married."

When Xiao Qu heard that Li Kuer was still helping Fang Hancai, she was so angry that she looked at her like a spy, and said, "Whose side are you on! Let me tell you, that person is such a jerk, I think I saw him at that time At the first glance, I started to want to marry him, but he is fine, he has no plans, so why not go home with me for dinner! The most annoying thing is not this, I asked him later, do his parents know that there is He actually said he didn’t know about me! I asked him again, so he came to my house for dinner, but his parents didn’t ask about it? He told me that he told his parents that he would follow Dr. Mao to make a doctor’s visit at night. Come to my house for a visit? Really? Terrible! Am I so bad, you say, Kuer? Do you still want to hide it from his parents?"

"Oh, then he is too much, no wonder you are angry, let's just pretend we don't know him." Li Kuer pursed his mouth to share his hatred, and suddenly thought of how this Fang Hancai dared to say everything truthfully. Not so silly.

Not wanting Li Ku'er to persuade her, Xiao Qu softened again, dodging and said: "Actually, it's not that far, he's still pretty good in some ways."

Li Ku'er didn't see anything good about Fang Hancai other than his looks, but she didn't want to ask.The current situation is very embarrassing, she seems to be standing on the bridge, Fang Hancai is on the east bank, and Xiaoqu is on the west bank, Xiaoqu beckoned her to go there a moment ago, and when she and Xiaoqu are standing on the west bank together, Xiaoqu went to find Fang Hancai on the opposite side.

Li Kuer lamented that love is like a thick fog, people in the fog can't see clearly, and people outside the fog can't see clearly. In the future, they can no longer just stand in line.

After peeling the eggplants, Xiao Qu's mood improved a little because of Li Kuer's "relaxation". Several maids peeled dozens of eggplants, soaked them in salt water and drained them before putting them in baskets and sending them to the kitchen.In the kitchen, He Weiran is preparing the ingredients, flour, starch, eggs, sugar, salt, peanut oil, and white sesame.Mama Xu is cooking red dates, a big red pot, the smell of dates is extremely sweet.

Several people handed some green eggplants to He Weiran, and she didn't mind so many people watching. She took an eggplant and began to cut it into small triangles, and then sliced ​​it from the middle, leaving one side still sticky Attached, it looks like a small clip.After a basket of dozens of eggplants had been cut up like this, the dates on Mama Xu's side had just boiled and came out of the pot.Before the dates were put into the pot, the pits were removed, and Mama Xu had to peel off the skins of the dates.He Weiran asked the maids to help Xu Ma remove the jujube skin, while he started to mess up.Li Kuer watched He Weiran make the paste while peeling the jujube skin, but saw that she cracked a few eggs, broke them up, added flour, starch, a little salt and peanut oil in turn, and kept stirring forward and backward alternately, gradually, The custard has a uniform bright yellow color.

The jujube skins are all gone here, He Weiran said to Xu Ma: "First saccharify, then pour the sugar water into the jujube paste, add some sesame oil and mix well before frying, pay attention to the heat, don't fry it."

Mama Xu stirred and stir-fried as she said, until the sesame oil and sugar water were all absorbed by the jujube paste, and it was ready to use.Fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls like sweets the most. They couldn't help but pick some date paste with their fingers and put it in their mouths. It was so sweet that their bones were almost crispy.

He Weiran glanced at them reproachfully, but was not dissatisfied, and said with a smile: "A group of greedy cats, don't bother to eat, each of them will bring a chopstick, like me, stuff the red date paste into the eggplant holder, pay attention, you can't Too much, too much will be exposed, and not too little, too little, and the taste will not be enough."

Li Kuer sucked her fingers and brought a handful of chopsticks.One per person, and imitating He Weiran's movement, first use the tip of the chopsticks to touch a small ball of date paste, then open the eggplant holder, and spread the date paste into the eggplant holder.This is also a lot of work. After all, there are dozens of eggplants, and each eggplant can cut out a dozen or twenty eggplant clips, which is not a small number.Fortunately, there were many people, and most of them were resolved in a short while.

He Weiran handed over the rest to a few maidservants, and started to turn on the frying pan again.Heat the oil until it is half mature, evenly hang the eggplant clips stuffed with red date paste on the egg paste and fry in the oil pan until the paste on the surface of the eggplant is set. The shaped eggplant clips are deep-fried in the pan until the skin is crispy and golden, remove and set aside.

"The eggplant is fried, and then we have to make glass."

Li Ku'er and the others didn't know what the colored glaze was referring to. You looked at me and I looked at you, but they still didn't know anything.

Knowing that they were puzzled, He Weiran said, "Let's put it bluntly, it's covered with a layer of syrup, and the surface looks very transparent after being covered with syrup, that's why there is such a thing as glass."

As she said, she changed the stove, and there was a small fire under the stove, and a big pot was placed on the stove, put some oil in the pot, spread it out, pour three big bowls of white sugar, then pour a bowl of water, and stir gently with a spoon , until the syrup changes color, fry the fried eggplant in the pan, let the sugar juice evenly coat the eggplant, and finally pour in the white sesame seeds, continue to stir fry for a while, and take it out of the pan to serve.

The maids looked at the crystal-clear glazed eggplants on the plate, and swallowed non-stop. If they were eaten, they would be so sweet.