Beloved Concubine

The meat is being marinated and the melon seeds are being cooked.Chen Xiao started to knead the dough.

The dough of Xiaomahua does not need to be fermented, but she put some baking soda for crispness, added a few eggs, a little sesame oil, a little salt, and a little sugar, kneaded it into a smooth dough, and let it wake up.

Next, she cleaned the wooden table and prepared to use it as a chopping board. Only then did she realize that there was no rolling pin in the kitchen.

The cook and mother-in-law were called away by Su Xiaowan after packing up their things. She didn't bother to learn Chen Xiao's cooking skills, and she didn't want to leave anyone to help her. At this time, Chen Xiao was the only one in the kitchen.

Where can I find a rolling pin?

Chen Xiao called the postman and asked him to go to the kitchen of the compound to see if there was a rolling pin.After a while, the postman came back and said no.

It's strange, the kitchen in the small courtyard is usually not used, but this time the grandson came to cook.It is reasonable to not have a rolling pin here, but there are usually guests living in the compound, and they cook every day, so there is no rolling pin?

But think about it, South Vietnamese people don’t like to eat pasta, and they don’t know how to make pasta. Most of the people who come to stay in the official post are South Vietnamese. It seems possible that the kitchen doesn’t make pasta.

There is a rolling pin in Chen Xiao's space, but just now she asked the postman to look for it and said no, now she suddenly turned into a rolling pin, wouldn't it be strange?
After thinking about it, Chen Xiao went to Luo Qing and asked him to go out and help her find a rolling pin.

Luo Qing has been in Xiling for more than ten years and once served in Huotou Army. He is very familiar with rolling pins.

"What kind of rolling pin are you going to do?" Luo Qing asked.

There are many kinds of rolling pins, such as one-handed stick, two-handed stick, walking mallet, etc., depending on what you want to do and how much dough you want to roll.

"It's about as long as it is." Chen Xiao compared it with his hands, and it's about [-] to [-] centimeters long for ordinary households.

"Understood. You help me guard the grandson, I will be right back."

Luo Qing spoke to Taisun and rushed out.

In fact, Taisun didn't have to guard him, he just chatted with him to kill boredom.

The melon seeds in the kitchen had already been boiled and were soaking, so Chen Xiao didn't have to watch over the stove, so he went to the grandson's room to have a look.

"I have seen His Highness." Chen Xiao saluted.

"You don't need to be too polite." The grandson lay on the bed, "Luo Qing said you want a rolling pin, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to deep-fry doughnuts. After kneading the dough, I realized that there is no rolling pin." Chen Xiao smiled ashamedly.She is similar to Fang Yuxian in grinding pea flour.

"Twist?"

"A pasta snack, fried in fragrant oil. It can be stored for many days after making it. If you are hungry or hungry, you can eat it anytime you want."

"Oh, that's very good, give me a taste when it's ready?" The grandson always has snacks in the prince's mansion, and he is hungry in the morning and has nothing to eat here.

Chen Xiao said with a smile: "I just heard that His Highness woke up hungry in the morning, so I thought of fried twist."

"I have a heart." The grandson stared at Chen Xiao's face, feeling that her smile was particularly bright, like a blooming lotus flower, pure and white, soft and pleasant.

"By the way, does Your Highness like sweet or salty food?"

"Can mahua be made sweet or salty?"

"Yes, the sweet ones are made into brown sugar twists, and the salty ones are made into salt and pepper twists."

"I like sweet desserts, but I'll try some salty ones if you make them." A few days ago, Taisun was seriously injured and had no appetite, but in the past two days he has started to have an appetite.

Not only did he start to have an appetite, but he also started to think about women.Although the current physical condition does not allow it, it does not hinder thinking.Of course, he knew that Chen Shi was Fang Yu's wife, so he would not have any unreasonable thoughts about her, but the other woman made it clear that she wanted to give it to him.

Chen Xiao chatted with Taisun, telling her that she was making spiced melon seeds and pork jerky, which made Taisun hungry.

"Fang Yu went to grind pea flour. With pea flour, it can not only be fried crispy, but also can be made into pea jelly."

Chen Xiao started talking about pea jelly again, about the essential chili oil in the jelly, and then about growing chili.

Taisun said: "I'll try some pea jelly later. If it tastes good, I'll find you a state capital to grow chili." He was referring to ordering the whole state to grow chili.

Chen Xiaoxi smiled: "His Royal Highness, let me tell you, chili is really a good thing! No matter it is fresh or dried, there are hundreds of ways to make it! From now on, the diet of the people will change! Hot day."

Taisun laughed."Eat fragrant" means to eat meat, and "drink spicy" means to drink wine.Chen is using vocabulary.

The two chatted happily, and Luo Qing came back.

Chen Xiao got the rolling pin and was ready to roll the noodles.

Taisun said: "Can you move here to do it? I want to see how you do it." He was really bored and wanted to find something interesting.

Chen Xiao thought about it.She can understand Taisun's boredom, since he wants to watch it, let him do it.

She brought the desk, the dough, and even the stove, oil pan, earthen basin, etc.

She took the rested dough to the chopping board and kneaded it, then rolled the dough into a rectangular cake shape with a rolling pin, then cut the dough into long strips, and kneaded the long strips to make them long.

She pressed both ends of the slender strips on the chopping board, rubbed her hands in different directions, picked them up and closed them, and the strips twisted together automatically.Then put it back on the chopping board and rub it a few times, pick it up and close it again, and a small twisted peanut is ready.

Seeing her proficiency, Taisun praised: "People in Xiling really have a way of making pasta."

Chen Xiao said with a smile: "Your Highness forgot that we run a small restaurant! We cook noodles every day. There are three South Vietnamese guys in my shop, and they are also very good at making noodles."

Luo Qing watched her do a few, and understood roughly how to rub, and said, "I'll help you."

Chen Xiaodao: "No need, you are responsible for the bombing."

She told Luo Qing to fry slowly on low heat.So one person was in charge of making twists, and the other was in charge of frying twists, and soon the grandson's room was filled with a smell of oily smoke.

The first wave of mahua came out of the pot, Taisun wanted to taste it, but Chen Xiao said that it would be crispy when it was cooled a little, but now it is not crispy when it is hot.

Finally, the first twist was cooled, and Taisun couldn't wait to taste it. It was fragrant, crispy and very delicious.

"Didn't you say that there are sweet and salty ones? Why did I eat this, but it turned out to be sweet and salty." Taisun felt that this twist had a salty taste, and it seemed to be a little sweet, but there were two flavors. Neither is obvious.

Chen Xiaodao: "It's fried and then processed. The sweet ones are coated with sugar juice, and the salty ones are sprinkled with salt and pepper."

"Oh." Taisun chewed the mahua, thinking that this snack was really good.In the future, I will always keep some in the house, so that I will have something to eat whenever I am hungry.

Speaking of being hungry, he felt that Ms. Su was not a woman after all, so she was not very good at serving others.Looking at Mrs. Chen, one can imagine that she must have served Fang Yu very well.

Just thinking of Fang Yu, Fang Yu appeared at the door with a bag.

Seeing Chen Xiao frying mahua beside the grandson's bed, Fang Yu raised his forehead.