[Red Mansion] A little chef came to the Grand View Garden

Prince Zhongshun Shiqing saw Liu Mei, and the two looked at each other from a distance for a moment, then looked away from each other.

Liu Mei also knew that she had to leave in front of the gate of Changcui'an - it's okay to see it by chance, but after a long time, it is inevitable that other people in Jia's mansion will find out.

So she hurriedly shrank in a hidden place aside, and quietly looked around.Among the people entering the garden, apart from Shiqing, only Baoyu caught a glimpse of Liu Mei.

Shiqing probably saw Liu Mei, so he felt more at ease. He turned around, nodded at She and Zheng, and praised the snow scene in the garden for the first time.

Now both Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng are two catties lighter - it must be known that this loyal and obedient prince himself has never made friends with the dignitaries in Beijing and China, but also has a high position and authority, and is the object everyone wants to curry favor with.

Jia Amnesty: I really don't know what kind of wind is blowing today to bring His Royal Highness into the mansion.

Jia Zheng: The north wind, it is the north wind!The north wind blowing this night is really wonderful!

The two hurriedly said a few words, and then walked forward with Shiqing.Behind Jia Zhenbaoyu and others also followed in a mighty way.

Liu Mei looked at the group of people who seemed to be going to Luxue Temple, and suddenly realized: No, her mother is probably still in the small kitchen at the moment.If the higher-ups in Jia's house ask Mother Liu to cook snacks for Shiqing... Shiqing must not scare his mother!

Thinking of this, Liu Mei identified the path, and hurriedly turned around the wall of Changcui Temple, looking for a way down the mountain.

I only heard a sister-in-law from the nunnery inside asking Miaoyu for instructions: "There are only three small bottles of snow on the plum blossom petals. Is Xiangu planning to wait for the snow to melt and bury it under the tree?"

Inside, Miaoyu pondered for a moment, but said: "No need, the three bottles you got, you can give away a bottle each of Yihongyuan, Xiaoxiangguan, and Hengwuyuan in the morning... Actually, it doesn't matter how long the plum blossoms are kept. Those who drink may not be able to wait..."

Liu Mei didn't have time to think about what the words meant, but her feet slipped and she almost fell face down in the snow.

She hurriedly supported the wall to stand firm, seeing that there was no serious problem, she forgot Miaoyu's words for a while, and hurried down the mountain from behind Changcui nunnery, rushing to the small kitchen.Naturally, along the way, there were also people who stopped and asked questions.Liu Mei naturally knew that it was Shiqing who came to the garden to see the scenery, and all the female family members of Jia's family had to avoid it.

However, Liu Mei only said that she would go to the kitchen to help entertain the "distinguished guests", and she didn't dare to neglect the convenience, so she let her go.

Liu Mei thought, probably the entire Jia mansion has been blown by the wind, knowing that this "honored guest" who came was an extremely picky gourmet, so no one dared to neglect food and drink, and they all let him go.

When he arrived at the small kitchen, Liu Mei pushed the door open and saw his mother worrying in the kitchen.

"Mei'er!" Seeing Liu Mei, Liu's mother seemed to have seen a savior, "You have always had a lot of ghost ideas, you should help mother think about it."

She was pacing back and forth on the spot while rubbing her hands, and murmured: "It's too urgent, there's no news at all, and it's too urgent, there's no time to do anything right now!"

Liu Mei took a look, and saw that there were a lot of high-quality ingredients in the small kitchen, even jellyfish and yuan scallops, but most of them hadn't been processed, and they might have to wait for a long time to use these ingredients.

"Mother, can't you make dim sum? If you use these ingredients to make dishes, I'm afraid they won't be served until dark!"

Liu's mother also said: "That's what I said! But the superior said that the distinguished guest came over without having lunch, so I'm afraid it would be too negligent to greet you only with snacks. Then I told people that 'a good woman can't cook without rice ’, others pointed to the materials in our kitchen and said, this, this...isn’t this rice? Who told you to cook without rice? "

Liu Mei was angry, "Who said that?" This is really too difficult, not the way to solve the problem.

"Wang Shanbao's family..." Mother Liu said the name depressedly, and then quickly brought back the topic of going off the rails, "Mei'er, tell me, what should I do?"

"Mother, let's think about it first, what can we do in a short time!"

When Liu Mei said this, she sniffed the air and asked, "Mother, what does it smell like? It smells weird."

"This is some of my son's rouge rice that I just got in the kitchen in the morning. Someone from your courtyard told me that it was for Master Bao. I was thinking that it would take the most time to cook porridge with this rouge rice, so I put it in the pot first. up."

Hearing this, Liu Mei regained her spirits, turned around and took off the lid of the pot.Immediately, a strange fragrance mixed with dense water vapor rushed to the face, and the porridge in the pot had been boiled to rouge color.

"Mother, this porridge is fine. The heat is just right now, so you don't need to boil it any longer. If you boil it any longer, it will damage the aroma of the rice."

Liu Mei knows that this kind of rice is called Yutian rouge rice. Compared with ordinary purple rice, it has a more ruddy and brighter color and a stronger rice fragrance. It was originally a high-grade tribute rice, but now there are a few in the market, but the price is high, and it is difficult to get a bucket. Please, the small kitchen in Jia's mansion can't afford more than this, and cook it for a son like Baoyu.

It's not a loss of dignity to present this.

"Besides this porridge, can we have any side dishes to go with the porridge?"

Mother Liu thought for a while, then said awkwardly: "Mainly, the girls in the garden have used up all the better materials, and I can't use the new ones today... Now, I can make a pheasant melon pot now." .”

The pheasant melon is actually quite varied, because this dish is to use the chicken breast of the pheasant to stir-fry a variety of minced pickles.

Just imagine, fresh pheasant chicken breast, stir-fried tender, mixed with minced mustard sauce, milk melon, radish and dried kohlrabi-it is indeed very delicious with porridge... But, can you serve it to Shiqing?

Liu Mei imagined the taste out of thin air, and said, "Yes, mother! Do you still have the bit of son's scallop sauce you used last time?"

Recently, the small kitchen has been using a lot of scallops. In order to save trouble, Liu Mu mixed the leftover scallops with dried shrimps to make a small jar of scallop sauce.Fortunately, the weather is cold, and the ones made will not be easily damaged, so it comes in handy at this time.

"Okay, Meier, I'll listen to you." Liu's mother trusted Liu Mei's full stomach of "ghost ideas", and immediately cut the ready-made pheasant breast meat into cubes, seasoned it with a little seasoning to remove fishy and starched meat, and put it in the pan for a while. , and then take out a little of the scallops, add a spoonful of scallop sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then add chicken and melon diced seeds.

While her mother was preparing the pheasant and melon dish, Liu Mei went to cut some fresh winter bamboo shoots and mushrooms, planning to make a double winter—although this is just a simple vegetarian dish, but in this season, these two ingredients are very delicious. It's the best time.Shuangdong is cut, willow eyebrows are boiled in a hot pot, and the seasoning is thickened immediately. This dish-only eats a "fresh" taste.

Liu Mei did it with great care: Since Shiqing came here to see her on a snowy day because of her, she should at least do her best as a landlord. Even if the ingredients are simple, she wants her sincerity to make the other party See you.

For a while, the mother and daughter cooperated sincerely, and the two dishes were prepared quickly.

Someone from Lu Xue'an has come to urge her again.

"Mother, then I'll go to Luxue Temple to deliver the food box!" Liu Mei put away the three-layer food box and was about to take it out.

But Mother Liu had a firm expression, shook her head, and said, "No, Meier, your mother is in charge of this small kitchen, if the higher-ups think it's not good enough or grand enough, that's your mother's responsibility... We must not let people blame me. on my son's head."

After speaking, Mother Liu raised her head, carrying the food box with a look of resignation to death, and followed the people who came to remind her to go to Luxue Temple.

Liu Mei: Please mother, it's not so scary, okay?

It's just that when she watched her mother go out, her legs went limp and she felt a little unsteady.At this time, she realized that her shoes and socks were all wet by snow water earlier, and her feet hadn't warmed up until now, and now they were a little numb, so naturally she couldn't stand.

Liu Mei simply moved a small scorpion and sat in front of the stove. On the one hand, she stretched out her feet from under the skirt, close to the stove to warm her. On the other hand, she kept holding a small stone mortar and quickly steamed The glutinous rice is crushed into powder, ready to make a soft cake.

When enjoying the snow in winter, if you can hold a bowl of hot porridge water with some side dishes for porridge, drink a bowl of porridge, and drink a cup of hot tea when the stomach is not empty. Baked, fluffy sweet cakes—the afternoon Shiqing spent in the Grand View Garden should not be so difficult!

Liu Mei was thinking, even she didn't know that she was staring at the fire in a trance, thinking about it, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Not long after, Mother Liu came back, and as soon as she entered the small kitchen, she immediately closed the door of the small kitchen, leaned against the door panel, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Oh, that distinguished guest, the prince, always has a cold face. Although I don't see him getting angry, it's really scary!"

Mother Liu took a breath and made such a comment.

"Mom, he didn't... lose his temper, say something scary!"

Liu Mei looked at her mother worriedly, hoping that Shiqing, who always gave people the first impression of being "violent", would not continue to deepen this impression on her mother.

"That's not true," Mother Liu said, wiping the sweat from her forehead, "instead, the elder in our mansion patted the table first, saying that it was too slow to send it up. You haven't seen that posture, if the prince speaks late In an instant, the food box was tossed off by the old man."

Liu Mei imagined what Jia She looked like when he saw a porridge and two vegetables in the food box, thinking, how can that guy who only loves gold and stones and only knows how to steal people's fans understand the delicacy in these foods?

"Thanks to the smell of the chicken and squash, the prince came to see it in person, and said that this home-cooked dish is the best. The prince also asked me if there was any special sauce in it. I just answered A little bit of my son’s scallop sauce to freshen it up. The prince nodded and said, what does it mean to be gold or silver in it, and ordered someone to take the food box over.”

Having said that, both the speaker and the listener let out a long sigh of relief.

When Liu Mei thought about it, she naturally knew that Shiqing was not talking about gold or silver, so she must have said the word "dotting".Thinking that he can understand his care in such small details, Liu Mei feels very comforted.

"Then... then has he finished eating?" Liu Mei was most concerned about this.

Mother Liu didn't answer, because the elder mother saw Liu Mei's wet shoes and socks: "Mei'er, why didn't you say earlier, did you get wet when you came from the garden just now?"

As she spoke, Mother Liu blamed herself again and again, "It's all my fault. I was so busy with myself that I didn't take care of you. Your shoes and socks should have been changed a long time ago, otherwise, not to mention the cold, your feet will be prone to frostbite in the future."

Saying that, Mother Liu quickly snatched the mortar from Liu Mei's hand, "Silly girl, don't worry about other errands, just clean yourself up first! When I deliver the snacks later, mother will go!"

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