Chapter 89
Gu Rao, "..."

She remembered that she gave Bieye fifty Wen pocket money not long ago, and she spent it all so quickly?Although he was a little skeptical, Gu Rao didn't dwell on this topic any longer.

Let others know that Bieye has a wife who is very strict with money, so as to prevent some irrelevant relatives from trying to find Bieye to borrow money.

Yu Xiang thought that she had said something she shouldn't have said, so she smoothed things over, "Didn't you ask us to help? Let's start now, or we will be rushed tomorrow."

Gu Rao said to Bie Ye, "Come and see the booth, I will go to the kitchen with them."

Bie Ye replied, "Okay."

Xu Yuanyuan watched them talking, and obviously felt that she was an outsider, and her heart was lost and at a loss. Could it be that she really had to give up?
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Gu Rao went out in the morning to buy the vegetables that will be used tomorrow, and in the afternoon they were delivered one after another, and they were all neatly placed on the cutting board and the vegetable basket in the kitchen.

Zhang Cuihua was surprised to see the dishes in the kitchen.

"Why do you prepare so much?"

Gu Rao said, "I don't know what to cook for the treat, so I just buy some more according to my own. If these dishes are not used up, you can keep me and my husband to eat slowly at home."

Zhang Cuihua thought so too.

"You are renting a house, not buying a house, so if you invite people from the village to eat at home, you don't need to prepare too much. Tomorrow, two meat dishes, three vegetarian dishes, and a bowl of soup will do."

"So many dishes will definitely not be used up. I'm afraid you will have to eat for several days."

Gu Rao said, "Dishes are easy to spoil this day, and they can't be stored for three days. I also bought a lot of meat. I'm going to make four meat dishes, four vegetarian dishes and one soup."

"I've already figured out what to cook."

"For meat dishes, we will cook steamed white meat, steamed pork with rice noodles, diving rabbit and stewed chicken with potatoes. For vegetarian dishes, we will make three delicacies, potato shredded pancakes, braised eggplant in oil, and hot and sour potato shreds. Finally, we will make a sour radish and old duck soup."

Zhang Cuihua's heart ached from hearing it.

"How much does it cost? If you calculate it, there are five meat dishes in total. Isn't that sour radish and duck soup also a meat dish?"

"Just make a sauerkraut soup."

Yu Xiang had a different focus, and said to Gu Rao, "I've never heard of the dishes you mentioned, except steamed roasted white and steamed pork with rice flour, but I know they are delicious just from the name of the dish."

"Did you figure it all out by yourself?"

Without waiting for Gu Rao to reply, he said again, "I almost forgot, you used to be a girl from a rich family, and you must have more knowledge than us country people. Do rich people eat like that?"

Gu Rao, "..."

Rich people eat delicacies from mountains and seas, and those are just what ordinary people in that world like to eat.

However, it was a nice misunderstanding, which saved her the trouble of explaining the origin of these dishes, so she said conservatively, "Our family used to love these."

Yu Xiang was already looking forward to it.

"Tomorrow I will have a good fortune too." Thinking about the first half of my life, I said with regret, "I have never eaten what rich people eat in my life."

Gu Rao, "..."

She couldn't take that.

Yu Xiang tugged at Zhang Cuihua's sleeve, and said to Zhang Cuihua who was still in pain, "The reason why Mrs. Gu prepares so many dishes is because of her grandeur, and at the same time because she is a favorite of the villagers. How can you ask her to deal with it casually?"

"The vegetables are all bought. If we don't eat them, they will stink if we keep them. Don't worry about her. They are doing business in the town. How can they even feel sorry for the money for buying vegetables?"

"We don't eat for free. When we come to her house for dinner, we must give gifts. I'm afraid of taking advantage of them. The gifts should be a little more expensive."

Gu Rao quickly said, "It's fine if the person comes, there is no need to give gifts."

Yu Xiang disapproved and said, "Come to your house empty-handed to eat, it's the dishonest people who fight the autumn wind. The people in our Taohua Village are all decent people, and we don't want to eat other people's meals for nothing."

"However, people in our village have been digging for food all their lives, and the family doesn't have much money. I'm afraid you won't like the gifts."

Gu Rao smiled and said, "Where did it come from?"

"We live in the town, and we have to spend money on food and drink. I envy you who have houses and land in the village before it's too late. How can you look down on the things you send?"

Zhang Cuihua said, "Since you have decided what to cook, let's do it quickly, don't just talk too much, there are so many dishes, and there are so many people eating, I'm busy this afternoon."
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There are 220 people in Taohua Village, all the old and young. Some families come alone, some families come together as a couple, and some come directly as a whole family.

At least 150 people are expected to come tomorrow.

Zhang Cuihua was in charge of washing and cutting the meat, Xu Yuanyuan was in charge of lighting the fire and peeling potatoes, and Yu Xiang was in charge of killing chickens, ducks and rabbits, and plucking the hair after the killing.

In total, eight chickens, eight ducks and fifteen rabbits were killed.

While directing them how to do it, Gu Rao chopped vegetables and prepared other ingredients. After an hour, they could finally start cooking.

Harder dishes can be prepared today, and simpler dishes can be eaten and cooked tomorrow.

She planned to finish the two more time-consuming dishes of steamed roasted white and steamed pork, as well as the large dish of potato shredded pancakes, and cook the rest tomorrow morning.

The first thing to do is steamed Shaobai, this time it is salty Shaobai.

Prepare six catties of pork belly. After the iron pan is heated, put the pork belly skin down into the pot, and fry the skin of the pork belly to golden yellow over low heat to remove the residual pig hair and skin smell.

After the pork belly is roasted until golden brown, remove it and put it in a basin to clean it.

Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, put the washed pork belly into the pot under cold water, add an appropriate amount of cooking wine, ginger slices, green peppercorns, and finally add shallots into knots and put them in the pot. After boiling on high heat, turn to low heat and cook for a stick of incense time.

Chop the washed sprouts and put them in a pot for later use.

Put minced ginger and minced garlic in a bowl, add green pepper, dried chili and star anise.

Spread an appropriate amount of light soy sauce and soy sauce on the pork belly pork skin, and then apply a layer of salt.

After the pot is heated, add oil, heat the oil until it is [-]% hot, and fry the processed pork belly skin down until the pork skin is golden brown.

Take out the pork belly, soak it in cold water for a cup of tea, take it out and cut it into thin slices, put it in a basin, add appropriate amount of salt, chicken essence, sugar, cooking wine, dark soy sauce, soy sauce, and stir the seasoned pork belly evenly spare.

Place the pork belly skin down in the steaming bowl, and pour the prepared soup into the steaming bowl.

Stir-fry the sprouts to dry out the water and set aside.

After heating the pan, pour oil, put the prepared minced ginger and garlic, dried chili, and green peppercorns into the pan, and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in sprouts and stir-fry until fragrant, add chicken essence, salt, sugar, and soy sauce and continue to stir-fry.

Put the sprouts evenly on the steaming bowl that has been placed with meat, put it into a large pot, steam it on high heat for a quarter of an hour, and then steam it on a low heat for half an hour.

After steaming the attractively colored roasted white meat, take it up and place it on the stove, cover it with a steaming bowl, heat it again tomorrow, and then put the bowl on the table.

Zhang Cuihua said with emotion, "There are too many seasonings in your kitchen. I didn't recognize many of them. It seems that you can't learn skills by stealing from others."

Pointing to the chicken essence in the porcelain jar, he asked, "What's that little yellow thing?"

(End of this chapter)

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