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

Chapter 3 Chicken Skin Soup with Sour Bamboo Shoots and Green Japonica Porridge

It was only at this moment that Liu Mei gradually realized - what?Baoyu begged Aunt Xue for her?And Aunt Xue plans to inform Mrs. Wang?

Oh sweetie, how could she be so unlucky!

She doesn't want to go to Baoyu's yard at all, okay?

Count it, how crowded is Baoyu's courtyard?The big girls include Xiren, Qingwen, Sheyue, Qiuwen, Qianxue, Qilu and others; under the big girls, there are rows of little girls, Bihen, Chunyan, Jiahui, Xiaohong, Huixiang, Zhui'er, Dian'er, Liang'er...

More importantly, Liu Mei is very clear about what her mission is here, she is here to eat——

And where is food more accessible than in the kitchen?

At this time, Mother Liu hurriedly brought up all the hot dishes. After Baoyu tasted the bad dish of goose feet and duck letter, he had a preconceived idea, and when he smelled the aroma of the food, he yelled first.

Liu Mei also recognized the aroma, it was the taste of sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup.

There was a strong sour fragrance in the air, and the sourness seemed to go straight into the person's stomach, making the saliva gush out uncontrollably.

Baoyu moved his index finger, drank two bowls of the soup, and praised: "Excellent, excellent!"

Liu Mei was on the side, and when she saw Baoyu's cheeks were slightly red and there was a little sweat on her forehead, she knew that the soup made by Liu's mother was delicious and strong enough.After drinking only these two bowls of soup, Baoyu's wine was relieved a lot.

Only Baoyu continued: "This soup... the chicken skin in it tastes like fish maw."

Upon hearing this, Liu Mei's eyes lit up, and she felt a little sympathy for Baoyu—this is the mutual appreciation of foodie to foodie!

Sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup is made from marinated sour bamboo shoots and boiled in oil; at the same time, the oil pan is set up and the pre-treated chicken skins are cooked until the chicken skins are crispy but not yet burnt, then add the chicken skins Add it to the bamboo shoot soup and cook together; the sour bamboo shoots that were originally used to make the soup are discarded, and the soaked magnolia slices are added to the soup, and a bowl of soup is done.

Liu Mei had tasted Liu Mu's craft before, and felt that the chicken skin was cooked and then boiled in soup, and chewed with magnolia slices after cooking, it really had a familiar taste.

This kind of taste is the same as Jin Shengtan said that peanuts and dried tofu taste like ham when chewed together.

But at that time, Liu Mei's heart was fuzzy, and she couldn't tell what the taste was - the chicken skin in her mouth was so smooth and elastic, it was no longer a simple chicken skin.

Today, Baoyu woke up the dreamer with a word - Liu Mei couldn't help giving Baoyu a thumbs up, it really smells like fish maw!

Now, Liu Mei no longer dared to regard Baoyu as a playboy who only loves to hang out in the inner curtains all day - he is a real foodie!

Since then, Liu Mei has always admired Baoyu.

But even so, she still doesn't want to go to Baoyu's yard - even if Baoyu is a foodie, he has to be responsible, and he can protect the people around him.

It's just... Is this why she doesn't want to go?

While Liu Mei was thinking wildly beside him, Baoyu drank half a bowl of green rice porridge with side dishes, and said it was delicious.

In fact, Liu Mei was originally resistant to eating soup with porridge.It was mainly due to the old master Gao E's torment, who gave sister Lin ham and cabbage soup with glutinous rice porridge.Unexpectedly, Baoyu first drank two big bowls of sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup. After drinking the soup, he finally drank half a bowl of Japonica porridge.In this way, Baoyu sobered up a lot from the wine, and his stomach was full.

Xue and Lin also accompanied Baoyu to eat some green rice porridge.

Liu Mei noticed that Daiyu really didn't have much appetite, so she only ate half a bowl and put it down.But Baochai didn't eat too much, but only ate half of the shallow bowl, so he put down the bowl.

——Sister Bao, are you losing weight?

At this time, Baoyu's wet nurse Li Shi came to remind her. Seeing that it was getting late, Baodai and her two bid farewell to Aunt Xue and Baochai.

Before leaving, Daiyu helped Baoyu put on the gorilla felt hat.Baoyu bent down and let Daiyu tidy up for him, and she didn't forget to turn her face to remind Aunt Xue once again, "Auntie, that little girl from the Liu family..."

Aunt Xue smiled and said: "This child is still worried, Auntie remembers."

Liu Mei pursed her lips, thinking: There should be no such thing in the Red Mansion!

——But there shouldn't be a little girl like her in the red building.

When Baoyu and Daiyu went out together, Mother Liu, who had been accompanying her all the time, cautiously went to Aunt Xue and asked, "Mrs. Xue, what Second Master Bao said earlier was..."

Aunt Xue replied with a smile: "Baoyu wants to beg this girl of your family to serve him in his room!"

Liu Mei immediately pursed her lips, and the corners of her eyes twitched: Listening to Aunt Xue's ambiguous words, it's as if she was asked by Baoyu to be a housemaid.

But Mother Liu immediately smiled from the bottom of her heart, clasped her hands together and lowered her body: "It's all because of Mrs. Xue's care, it's our Liu Mei's blessing!" There is a daughter in the family, who can serve a phoenix egg like Baoyu!

Aunt Xue also came from a wealthy family, knowing that this is human nature, she followed Mother Liu's words and praised Liu Mei a few words.When Baochai saw Liumu's appearance, she was even less interested in Liumei, so she went to the kang table to get needles and threads to make.

And the only stakeholder present, Liu Mei, was in a somewhat tragic mood at the moment.

She secretly thought, if she objected at this time, would it be effective?

"Ding!"

The system prompt in my mind came again, "Please check and receive the upgrade gift package immediately, it will expire after expiration."

Liu Mei was frightened, she was really afraid of missing something, seeing that Mother Liu was already bowing to Aunt Xue and others, she followed Mother Liu down.

As soon as she returned to the kitchen, she immediately went to check for her upgrade gift package.One click, and the straight and indifferent voice of the system immediately rang out: "Congratulations, you have been upgraded from level 0 'unnamed helper' to level 1 'second-class maid', and you have obtained kitchen equipment: several fresh-keeping boxes and fresh-keeping bags. "

I fell!

Liu Mei was very angry all of a sudden, what kind of level system is this? Level 0 is an anonymous servant, and level 1 becomes a second-class maid?

Shouldn't the upgrade system in the big kitchen be that different types of work are classified into different levels, and those in charge of cooking are divided into one pot, two pots, and three pots according to their level; Is it standard?

Is this the promotion route of the Red Mansions Gourmet Road, or the promotion route for the maids at the bottom to climb upwards? Will there be some first-class maids, girls, aunts, aunts and other ranks in the promotion?

Liu Mei felt that the system must have been flooded and broken.

Besides, what the hell is it to equip her kitchen with crisper, plastic wrap, and fresh-keeping bags?

These plastic things are not available in the world of Red Mansions, which means that she can't use them all in a grandiose manner.Besides, even if she took it out and used it, how could these things help?

What she needs, first of all, is a refrigerator!

At this time, the cold voice of the system rang again: "Your task is to eat all over the Red Mansion. The name of the level will be adjusted at any time according to your fate in the world of the Red Mansion."

That is to say, she can follow the path of her aunt's support to complete the task, if Jia's mansion doesn't end so soon; she can also choose to continue to take the kitchen route and find a way to eat all over the Red Mansion.Of course, the latter will be much more difficult.Because in this world of Red Mansions, there is a distinction between high and low, and the treatment of masters and servants is very different, and the limitation of the cook is that she can hardly make things that Jia's kitchen can't make, such as those given by the palace. tasted.

"And the reward for your next upgrade will be—fresh storage space."

The system prompts in her mind.

Isn't the space that can keep fresh the same as her personal refrigerator?Hey, this is good!

Thinking of this, Liu Mei was full of fighting spirit and confidence, and began to look forward to the next opportunity to upgrade.

She was so happy that she didn't notice that the system went offline again with a "ding".

After Mother Liu finished cleaning up the kitchen with Liu Mei, the two went back to their residence together.Liu Wu'er was still lying sleepily on the kang, seeing her mother and younger sister coming back, she managed to get up from the kang.

Liu Wu'er under the lamp, her hairpins were loose and her temples were loose, and her blouse had faded. Although she looked sick, she was beautiful and very eye-catching.Liu Mei couldn't help deserting, thinking that this cheap sister of hers was rumored to be in the secondary book with Xiren Qingwen and others, but now Baoyu might not know that there is such a character as Liu Wu'er.

"Wu'er, get up quickly, your sister has been working all day, so at least you should pour some tea for her to rest on the kang!" Mother Liu ordered Liu Wu'er to come in as soon as she entered the room. To the sisters Liu Mei, their attitude suddenly turned 180 degrees for no reason.The painting style of the Liu family changed suddenly, and both Liu Wu'er and Liu Mei seemed uncomfortable at the same time.

"Mrs. Xue agreed, she will go to the second wife to say hello, and your sister will go to work with the second master Bao tomorrow! So, take care of these two days and five children."

Mother Liu said with special joy.

Liu Mei didn't care at first, but at this moment, she felt that Liu Wu'er's eyes brushed towards her face with a "swipe", but then turned away slowly and nonchalantly.

Then, Liu Wu'er climbed down from the kang very slowly, looked at Liu Mei, and said word by word: "Mei'er, come here and rest at my sister's place."

Liu Mei has been in this world of red chambers for so long, and she has never received such "preferential treatment" from Liu Wu'er.Seeing Liu Wu'er like this now, I was really surprised.

After getting along for a while, Liu Mei knew that Liu Wu'er had a high spirit, and always felt that she was no worse than Ping, Xi, Yuan, and Zi, and Liu's mother was always around, so it was inevitable that she had some "climbing high branches". son" idea.But Liu Wu'er never imagined that it was her younger sister who took the lead and climbed to Baoyu's "high branch".

Liu Mei looked at Liu Wu'er with her eyes, and immediately realized that this sister was actually very thoughtful, and she never told outsiders what she was thinking, even her parents and relatives.

So Liu Mei didn't want such Liu Wu'er to "take care" of herself, so she quickly said, "It's okay, I'm not tired. Sister, let's rest!"

At this time, Mother Liu had already brewed a pot of strong tea and put it on the kang table, looking at Liu Mei, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that Liu Mei had a bright future.She smiled and said, "Mei'er, I really have you. Just one piece of bad food can make Second Master Bao open his mouth to beg you."

She continued happily: "Original mother wanted you to follow Miss Xue for a good life. If Miss Xue enters the palace to choose female history, maybe you can follow..."

As soon as Liu Mei heard Liu Mu's plan, her head immediately became dizzy.

This is really a cheap mother, those "shady places" in the palace, Mother Liu also pointed to her own daughter and followed her...

"...But now Mrs. Xue has said that Miss Xue doesn't need to choose. It just so happens that there is no better place than Second Master Bao's." Mother Liu said excitedly, "Going back to Second Master Bao There, remember to say good things to your sister, and when your sister recovers, let your sister also go to Bao Erye's errand!"

In fact, Mother Liu still has a subtext that she didn't say: Wu'er looks better, and working with Second Master Bao, I'm afraid it will be easier to please Second Master Bao.

Liu Mei almost staggered—she really thought Mother Liu had changed her temper, and when she saw that Baoyu appreciated her, she looked up to her. It turned out that this was still laying the groundwork for Liu Wu'er!

It's a pity that when Mother Liu said this, Liu Wu'er was expressionless and was slowly lying back on the couch.There was a younger sister who was not as good as her own and entered the mansion as an errand first, and even went to the mansion to intercede for her. Liu Wu'er's self-esteem probably couldn't bear it.

"Mother, you haven't written your horoscope yet, you are too happy!" Liu Mei said depressedly, "Didn't the Mrs. Xue family mention this to the wives in the house?"

But she knew in her heart that entering Baoyu's courtyard should be a certainty.After all, she has been promoted to a level in the system and has become a second-class maid.

But Liu's mother said cheerfully: "Yi Niang sees, this matter is accurate. No wonder there was a magpie calling at our house for a long time this morning..."

What Mother Liu said was not wrong.After noon the next day, Zhou Rui's family came again, saying that the wife wanted to see the daughter of the Liu family.

Mother Liu, who is good at drilling, naturally knew which one Mrs. Wang wanted to see, so she quickly pushed out Liu Mei, who was neatly tidied up.

The author has something to say: Sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup. I always had the impression that Mr. Deng Yunxiang once wrote that the chicken skin tasted like fish maw in "A Little Record of Red Mansions". I read it again a few days ago. Only then did I realize that what Mr. Deng wrote was not the chicken skin in the sour bamboo shoot chicken skin soup, but the fire meat skin in the fire meat and cabbage.So... I remembered it wrong, so I rewritten it as chewing with magnolia slices and it tastes like fish maw... The chicken skin in the sour bamboo shoot chicken skin soup is also said to be shark skin soup with chicken sauce. In the end, I didn't choose this method-because I I always feel that the dishes of the Red House are often made of ordinary ingredients, but the methods are more luxurious, such as eggplant.As for shark skin, if there is no sale, there is no killing, so I won’t write it like that.