Shangshi female official

Chapter 27 Crystal Three Eats 1
Shen Ci hesitated and couldn't speak, Wang Yifu stared at her and winked, beckoning her to hurry up.

Shen Ci had no choice but to put on a bitter face, and followed her plan and said: "Yes... Mother Chen taught me... the secret recipe, she said that the oil boiled in this way is fragrant and moist, and it is definitely top grade."

"Secret recipe, what's in the secret recipe?"

"I specially asked for this to meet the assessment. If you want it, you can ask for it yourself..."

Wang Yifu pretended to pester Shen Ci, and asked her to tell her what the secret recipe was, but Shen Ci really couldn't say it. This was a made-up story. In addition to the fragrant onion, ginger and garlic in the oil, it was the medicinal materials that Wang Yifu specially threw. .

After Shen Ci poured the boiled oil into a white porcelain jar, put it in a cloth bag and took it away, Wang Yifu sneakily picked up all the leftover ingredients from Shen Ci's boiled oil.

She wrapped her things in oiled paper, and when she walked to the door, Qiu Nanxue stopped her first, grabbed her arm, hid a knife in her smile, and said, "What do you want to do?"

Wang Yifu deliberately pulled the leftovers to the right, broke away from Qiu Nanxue's hand, and responded with a smirk: "What do you want to do?"

"You stole something from Shen Ci, and you still want to run away?"

"She didn't tell me the secret recipe for cooking oil, so why don't I study it myself?"

Wang Yifu leaned forward, as if she was talking about some great secret, and said: "I heard that Madam Chen was in Shangshi Bureau back then, and she made the Holy Majesty want to eat the dishes she made every day because of this skill. You also know that Nanny Chen has always liked Shen Ci, I'm afraid she is partial to her and only told her this secret recipe."

"You open the leftovers and let me see."

"I do not want."

"If you don't show it to me, I'll tell Shen Ci to go."

"You can sue. This is what she threw out. Is it something that she doesn't want, and no one is allowed to pick it up?"

"If you tell me what's in it, I won't tell her. How about you stealing her things?"

"Why should I tell you? The day of the examination for entering the palace is coming soon, let's each rely on our own abilities and stop gossiping."

After finishing speaking, Wang Yifu took the things and ran away, afraid that Qiu Nanxue would be entangled for too long, if these residues were exposed, they would be exposed, and these things had to be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise Qiu Nanxue would know , I was afraid that she would not be caught.

In the last four days, Wang Yifu asked Shen Ci to keep the jar of oil next to her body, put it aside when cooking, and take the oil away when she left, and asked her to come and watch when she was about to go to the bathroom.

Anyway, keeping the oil in his eyes, it seems that Shen Ci attaches great importance to this secret recipe oil, not to mention Qiu Nanxue, the more than [-] preparatory maids in Shangshi Bureau are all curious, what is the secret of Shen Ci's jar of oil?
On the penultimate day, they went to Nanny Zhou to get ingredients in the morning, and Wang Yifu specially asked Shen Ci to ask for a few more chickens.

After the chicken is processed, it needs a lot of time to dry, repeatedly pouring crispy sugar water, and eating hot, it is best to get up early to cook.

And her crystal elbows had to be made into soup jelly in the cool of the night. It had to be prepared the night before, and then hung in a well water urn in the morning. The juice could not be served to the examiner until noon.

She asked Shen Ci to make two more chickens, she could help dry them in the early morning and water them with sugar water, and Xu Xinyan could also help, so that if there were any accidents with Shen Ci's glazed chickens, there would be a way out.

After such an agreement, Wang Yifu went to the West Hall first at night to make crystal elbows first.

The elbows were sent by Guanglu Temple in the morning according to Mother Zhou’s list. Wang Yifu carefully cleaned the elbows and meat skin, put them in a pot under cold water to remove the blood foam impurities, and changed to a pot of underwater soup with green onion, ginger, and peppercorns. .

The boiled soup had to be used as a spare, and Wang Yifu had to cut off some unsightly corners, and then cut the elbow into small pieces, blanch the skin and wash it.

At this time, the time passed, and a few more people came to the west hall, it became a little lively, and Shen Ci also came.

Wang Yifu gave Shen Ci a wink, indicating that she can put the oil aside and don't have to watch it so closely.

Shen Ci put the pot on the table behind her stove, and felt relieved, finally she didn't have to carry such a heavy thing around.She tapped her arms, then went out with a wooden basin to clean up the whole chicken.

Efu continued to cook her own dishes. In order to look good, she specially asked someone to make a square mold, and put the elbow and pork skin into the mold for the time being.

The next step is to chop the chicken feathers. The chicken feathers are used to smash the soup. The oil and impurities in the soup will be adsorbed on the chicken feathers, and the soup will be clear. The clear soup can be as clear as crystal. She also takes extra care in this process.

Shen Ci cleaned up her ingredients, came back with a wooden basin, and asked, "How is it?"

"It's going well, and the clear soup will start immediately."

While talking, a few young eunuchs came to play around, begging for food with a white bowl.

Wang Yifu was a little wary, Shen Ci patted her on the shoulder lightly, and said: "It's like this every time, when it's time to enter the palace for assessment, I know that we people must put all our effort into making delicious food, so there are little eunuchs who come to beg for food Yes. According to them, it’s probably only at this time in your life that you can eat some delicious food in the world, and it’s not a problem.”

"It's better to be careful, you'd better wait for them to leave before doing it."

"My dish can only be eaten in the morning at the earliest. Now it's all raw. Are you afraid they will snatch it?"

"What if I put something on your ingredients?"

"It's been wiped on now, can't it be washed off? You, you are too defensive."

"Be careful making the ten-thousand-year ship."

Wang Yifu has been paying attention to those eunuchs, the eunuchs may also be embarrassed by her stare, they beg for some ready-made things and leave.

At the side, Shen Ci began to concentrate on making glazed chicken and soaking in salt water. Wang Yifu glanced at it. Although the eunuchs had come, the seasoning was not passive and it was safe, so she also concentrated on her own soup.

She was stirring the clear soup with chicken feathers on a low fire, carefully watching the soup skim off, when a few eunuchs came to beg for food, they walked around the big table in the middle, and swarmed past.

Wang Yifu looked at Shen Ci again, and seeing the table behind her, she couldn't help giggling.

Shen Ci was attracted by her laughter, and asked, "What is so funny?"

"Look back."

Shen Ci turned her head to look at her table, and the big white porcelain oil jar was gone, "I thought she wouldn't be fooled by this."

"If you hadn't asked you to hold this jar and never leave it, she would have stolen it long ago."

"Why didn't you let her take it earlier?"

"If she had taken it away earlier and used it to try the dishes, she would have been exposed. It is just right to take it away now. Now that she has taken it away, she will definitely use it. Since she wants to use it, Buddha Jumping over the Wall will take so long, and there is no time for her to try it. It’s ready. And the lard you boiled is already very fragrant, she smells it enough, and she can’t wait to use it.”

Seeing that the jar was gone, Wang Yifu felt much more relaxed and happy when picking up the froth. When she turned around to get a clean big bowl for clear soup, she was dumbfounded when she turned around.

The table behind her was empty... Her elbow, her skin, her mold were gone.

(End of this chapter)