Rebirth of Private Chef Xiao Ai

Chapter 14

On the afternoon of Lunar New Year's Eve, Song Cheng opened the kitchen door as soon as he woke up from his afternoon nap, went in and hurriedly opened it.He thought about it for most of the night last night, and suddenly figured it out.Since he won't deny that he likes Gu Lousheng, no matter how Gu Lousheng will react one day, he just needs to treat him as best he can.

"What are you doing?" Just when Song Cheng was about to start working with a few wooden basins, Gu Lousheng pushed open the kitchen door and walked over, looked around, and asked Song Cheng, "What are you doing with the wooden basins?" ?”

Song Cheng asked Gu Changxin to take those wooden basins.Early this morning, Song Cheng went to Chang Xin and asked him if he had a clean wooden basin at home. He wanted to make more meatballs for storage. On New Year's Eve or the first lunar month, when would he want to eat them, deep-fried or braised? Or stew it together with cabbage vermicelli or something. In short, there are many cooking methods and it is very convenient.

Chang Xin told him that there was a cabinet in the firewood room next to the kitchen, and there were two wooden basins in it, which should be enough. Song Cheng took it out and looked, it was really big enough, it should be almost enough.He was washing the two wooden basins again and again, and when he felt that they were finally cleaned, he put them aside to dry.

"Shall I help you?" Gu Lousheng asked Song Cheng excitedly. Song Cheng thought about it, and Gu Changxin couldn't help, let alone Gu Linsheng.Dou'er went out to play, and all the servants in the family went home from vacation, Gu Lousheng was the only one who could be counted as a helper.Gu Lousheng watched Song Cheng's mouth twitch, thought about his destructive power, and swallowed: "I don't do unnecessary things, so it shouldn't cause too much damage."

"You know how to wash rice." Song Cheng didn't answer him directly, but asked him if he knew how to wash rice.It is very laborious and time-consuming for him to fry meatballs today. If he is alone, he probably won't be able to finish it until dinner time.Gu Lousheng breathed a sigh of relief, walked over and said he would.Song Cheng bent down and took out a rice bag from the side, and motioned to Gu Lousheng: "Use the rice ladle to scoop up half a pot of rice, and then wash it a few times."

Following Song Cheng's instructions, Gu Lousheng scooped up half a pot of rice: "Why don't you cook more for lunch, so you can cook less now?" Gu Lousheng heard what Chang Xin said, Song Cheng only came here to make fried dumplings, but he didn't understand why he had to cook.

Song Cheng turned his head to look, nodded in satisfaction, and continued to work again: "What I'm asking you to scouring now is glutinous rice, not the kind we usually eat. Glutinous rice tastes very sticky and sticky, and you need fried meatballs." The corner of Gu Lousheng's mouth twitched, he shook the water off his hand, ran out and brought two pairs of rain boots, handed Song Cheng a pair for him to wear, and put on a pair himself.Most of the rice in the pot was hard to wash, and the kitchen floor would definitely get wet. It would be hard to deal with wet cotton shoes in winter, so Gu Lousheng simply brought rain boots over.

Song Cheng praised Gu Lousheng for being smart, he wanted to take it just now, but he forgot the rain boots after taking the basin.Song Cheng was cutting meat on the chopping board. Fat meat was first cut off and put aside. Lean meat was first cut into slices, and then cut into thick strips.Gu Lousheng was squatting on the ground, washing rice carefully.

Gu Linsheng supported Chang Xin and watched outside the door. The two smiled at each other and quietly walked back to the room without making a sound.

"The rice is ready, and then what?" Gu Lousheng basically didn't do these things. He squatted on the ground for a long time just now, but when he stood up now, he felt uneven force on his waist and a little soreness.Song Cheng ordered without looking back: "Bring up the washbasin, pour it into the pot inside, add water and boil it." Hearing this, Gu Lousheng raised both hands, picked up the whole basin, and walked to the stove. Going to cook.

Song Cheng saw Gu Lousheng bringing the pot over, and glanced at it in surprise. He didn't expect that Gu Lousheng was quite strong, so he brought it over and poured it into the pot in one go.The weight of a basin is not much, but half of the basin is filled with rice and water, so the weight should not be underestimated.Gu Lousheng emptied almost all the rice in the basin, and he used a spatula to remove the remaining rice sticking to the wooden basin.After putting down the wooden basin, pouring water into the pot, and covering the pot, Gu Lousheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, it was really heavy!

The sound of "crack cluck cluck" kept ringing, it was the sound of Song Cheng chopping up minced meat with a kitchen knife in both hands.He is chopping the shredded meat he just cut into minced meat stuffing.I saw him waving the knife up and down with both hands, chopping continuously on the chopping board. After chopping for a while, he picked up the meat with the kitchen knife, turned it over, and then sharpened the two kitchen knives to remove the sticky meat. Come down, and then wave the kitchen knife again, chopping non-stop.

Gu Lousheng didn't have any instructions, and watching from the sidelines, he felt that Song Cheng had been chopping it up for a long, long time.Looking at it, Gu Lousheng felt his hands were sore. Just when he wanted to ask Song Cheng if his arm was sore, Song Cheng said: "Bring over the other clean wooden basin just now." Gu Lousheng got the instruction , handed over the other pot and put it on the stovetop, Song Cheng poured all the minced meat into it.Then proceed to chop the rest of the meat.

"Lousheng, go to the burner at the back of the stove, add two handfuls of straw as thick as an arm, and just stuff it in, don't worry about it." Gu Lousheng nodded when he heard this, and walked around Song Cheng to pick up two handfuls from the corner. The straw pile was clamped with tongs and stuffed into the stove.But he didn't listen to Song Cheng's advice to stuff it in and leave it alone. He fiddled with the pliers for a while, as if he thought it was fun.

Song Cheng smiled, and didn't care about him, as long as he didn't burn himself, he continued to mince meat.The sun outside can still shine into the yard, even the kitchen.The sun was shining on the back of Gu Lousheng who was squatting and tinkering with the stove. Song Cheng raised his eyes and felt his whole heart warm up. "Aren't you tired of squatting, stand up and walk."

"When are you going to chop this minced meat? It feels like it took so long to get a little bit." Gu Lousheng stood up obediently, and stood near the door, blocking the sunlight that came in.Song Cheng narrowed his eyes, kept waving the kitchen knife, and replied, "It's still early, and I'm about to make half a pot of minced meat in this wooden basin. You can sit in the main room first, and I'll do other things after chopping it up." I’ll call you when it’s done. You’ll come here wearing dirty clothes later, and the oily smoke will be heavy later, and it’s easy to get your clothes dirty.”

Song Cheng knew that Gu Lousheng was curious, and also knew that the Gu family had forbidden him to enter and leave the kitchen before, so he was a dangerous person.Gu Lousheng didn't say much, and nodded, "Then you will call me later, and I'll go to the room to settle the bill." Song Cheng nodded and watched Gu Lousheng go out.In fact, there was a reason why he kicked Gu Lousheng out. If Lousheng was in the kitchen all the time, he would always be distracted to see him.Not only because he was afraid that Gu Lousheng would hurt himself and the kitchen, but also because as long as Gu Lousheng was around, his eyes would unconsciously stick to it.It affected efficiency too much, Song Cheng looked at the kitchen knife in his hand and smiled helplessly.

When Gu Lousheng was called back to the kitchen by Song Cheng again, the sun was almost setting, and there was more than half of the meat stuffing in the wooden basin. "Why is there so much fat?" As soon as Gu Lousheng entered the door, he saw that the minced meat in the wooden basin was covered with finely chopped white fat meat.

"You'll know it when you eat it. It's half fat and thin, and it tastes better. Don't worry, it won't be greasy, I promise." After finishing speaking, Song Cheng sent Gu Lousheng to wash his hands, and ordered him to wash it several times. clean.Out of nowhere, Gu Lousheng came back after washing his hands in the kitchen, and saw Song Cheng pointing, as if asking him to stand beside the wooden basin.

Only then did Gu Lousheng realize that the two wooden basins were filled with stuffing.It's just that the one in front of Gu Lousheng seems to have been adjusted, and the one in front of Song Cheng is still quite distinct.

"What do you want me to do?" Gu Lousheng was puzzled, but Song Cheng said there was no rush and told him to wait.Gu Lousheng waited obediently, stretching his neck to look at the things in the basin in front of Song Cheng.In addition to the meat stuffing, there are boiled glutinous rice, green onions and eggs that have just been beaten in and not stirred in the wooden basin.The glutinous rice also looks like it has been chopped, because there are no rice grains at all.

Song Cheng reached into the wooden basin with both hands, stirring like kneading dough, watching Gu Lousheng playfully.He looked at the pot in front of him, and found that it must have been stirred well. It smelled like green onion, mixed with eggs and meat, and the smell of glutinous rice, so he leaned over and said, "Let me try it?"

Song Cheng was stirring clockwise in the basin with his hands, but now he smiled and asked him: "Don't wash your hands because your hands are sticky later! You can only wash after making round balls." Gu Lousheng After ordering, he stretched out his hands, Song Cheng grabbed his hands and taught him: "Just stir in one direction, use more force, yes, the palm of your hand should hold the stuffing, if you come across uncooked glutinous rice, you can use it hands apart..."

The feeling of palm-to-palm contact is nothing.The sticky egg and the oily minced meat slipped through the fingers under the stirring of the palms of the two.Song Cheng supported Gu Lousheng's palm, and the tactile sensation brought by the stuffing moved his mind, and quickly took out his hand: "Try it yourself."

Originally, the sticky feeling after touching the meat and eggs did not make Gu Lousheng feel disgusted, on the contrary, being wrapped in Song Cheng's callused big palms and stirring the meat stuffing made the tip of his nose turn red.Just now, the palms of the two people were not tightly held, so when they were stirring, the minced meat would slip through the palms of the two.Song Cheng's palm wrapped around the back of his hand, and being stirred by the meat stuffing made his heart itch.Gu Lousheng felt that he wanted to go out and calm down that day again.

"Come on, you don't know how long you're going to be stirring like this." Song Cheng coughed and laughed, Gu Lousheng pulled out his hand, and there was a lot of stuffing on the back of his hand, the palm of his hand and between his fingers.No wonder Song Cheng told him not to regret it and not to wash his hands, this sticky feeling is really uncomfortable.

Song Cheng took two bowls, poured starch, added cold water, stirred them with his fingers, and gave one to Gu Lousheng. "Watch me do it." Song Cheng bumped Gu Lousheng with his elbow, motioning him to follow him: "Make a fist with your left hand and grab a handful of minced meat in the basin." Gu Lousheng then grabbed a handful in the basin .

"Then throw away what you think is redundant." Song Cheng held the meat stuffing in his left hand, wrapped it into a ball, and threw the excess meat stuffing back into the wooden basin with his right hand. Gu Lousheng also took care of it clumsily. Done. "With the other hand, go to the bowl filled with starch to get some water, yes, that's it, then pour the meat stuffing directly back and forth between the two hands."

Gu Lousheng stared at him, not understanding what Song Cheng meant, so Song Cheng just smiled and showed him a demonstration.Gu Lousheng didn't understand it the first time, so Song Cheng had no choice but to do it the second time.The hand that was dipped in the starch water and the hand holding the minced meat held the minced meat together into a ball, and then the two hands held it in a semicircle, and poured it up and down, back and forth.The minced meat gradually became a roughly round ball as it went back and forth between the two hands.Song Cheng poured it a few more times, then lifted the lid of the pot, and the oil pan beside it was almost ready.Song Cheng dragged the minced meat, and slid it into the pot along the side of the pot——"呲啦", the meatballs that were put into the pot rolled up in the oil pot.

Gu Lousheng also tried to make a meatball, although the shape was not very good, but for the first time, it was barely passable.Gu Lousheng stretched out his hand in front of Song Cheng as if offering a treasure, and asked, "Is this okay?" Song Cheng nodded and asked him to put it in the oil pan and continue cooking. Gu Lousheng smiled and stretched his hand into the oil pan Above, lean back and try to stay away from the frying pan, preparing to let the meatballs fall freely.

"Don't!" Song Cheng glared and wanted to stop him, but Gu Lousheng had already thrown the meatballs into the frying pan.Song Cheng also didn't care about the meatballs in his hand, and threw the minced meat into the basin, and at the moment when Gu Lousheng threw the meatballs into the oil pan, he pulled Gu Lousheng to block him behind.As for Song Cheng himself, his back was facing the oil pan, blocking the splashing hot oil.

"..." Gu Lousheng was dumbfounded. It was too late when Song Cheng called out just now, and he had already let go of his hand.At this moment, he was still thinking foolishly, didn't he just throw it in like that!

Song Cheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but luckily the cotton coat he wore in winter was thick, and it didn't blow up much, but he felt like there were a few greasy spots on his back, but luckily Foresight was wearing dirty clothes today.Gu Lousheng coughed seriously, and went over to his wooden basin to continue making meatballs: "Sorry, I didn't do it on purpose." Song Cheng couldn't laugh or cry, of course he knew he didn't do it on purpose, so why not do it on purpose?

Gu Lousheng fiddled and tinkered for a long time, and made another one. He leaned close to the frying pan, held the meatballs in his hand, and asked Song Cheng who was staring at him, "How do you put it?" Song Cheng stretched out a hand and shook it. Watching Gu Lousheng stretch his wrist to the edge of the oil pan: "That's it, stay closer to the oil, and roll down the pan so you won't be blown up." Gu Lousheng let go of his hand obediently, and sure enough, the meatballs rolled down the pan. The oil pan rolled down, and the oil star did not fry up at all.

Gu Lousheng got the hang of it, and felt so happy for the first time, at least he also participated in the cooking once!Song Cheng didn't notice Gu Lousheng's happy expression, all he could think about was, Lousheng's wrists are a little thin, and there's not much meat on his hands, should he do something good to make him fat?