Border Cook

Chapter 176 Scolding

"Madam Xia, I have an unreasonable request..." The team leader felt a little embarrassed.

After all, cooking is a specialty.

Even if there was no such thing as Xia Mingyue teaching her apprentice and then starving herself to death, but the value of a signature skill would decrease as more people learned it.

Especially in the team leader's opinion, they could not bring any equivalent benefits to Xia Mingyue.

"Want to learn from me?" Xia Mingyue asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes." The team leader did not expect Xia Mingyue to see it clearly, nor did he expect her to ask so directly. He nodded even more embarrassedly.

"Sure." Xia Mingyue agreed readily.

If the mutton soup cooked this time can successfully convince Fang Linwang, I guess I will have to make it again in the future. Teaching the cooks in the kitchen will be of great help.

"Although I don't think you can learn the essence of it just by following it this time, it's almost edible. You guys follow me first and I'll write the recipe for you later."

Seeing Xia Mingyue being so generous, the head waiter was quite excited. He just nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Okay!"

Then he thanked Xia Mingyue and called the cooks to come over and watch carefully.

But one of the cooks curled his lips and said, "How can we save our dignity by learning cooking from a woman?"

He is a grown man...

As soon as he finished speaking, the team leader first gave him a slap on the head and then scolded him, "If you want to learn, learn. If you don't want to learn, get out!"

"What's wrong with being a woman? Isn't your mother a woman? Without women, how can you, a bastard, live in this world? You crawled out of a woman's belly, and now you're disgusted with her?"

"If you have the ability, you can jump out from the cracks in the rocks. It's also your ability. I respect you for once. It's really a honor for you to be so picky here!"

After scolding him, the foreman still felt unsatisfied and did not let him work anymore. He just sent him to fetch water and fill up the water tanks.

If you look down on women, then don't be an eyesore here.

Otherwise it will affect their learning of skills!
The person who was scolded looked embarrassed and dared not say anything. He just took the carrying pole and bucket and left.

Xia Mingyue was unaware of this little commotion and was just organizing the necessary seasonings and processing the necessary ingredients.

Cut the lamb leg into large pieces and soak it together with the lamb spine in clean water for half an hour, changing the water twice during this period to fully remove the unique fishy smell of lamb.

Put the mutton and mutton bones in cold water, add scallion and ginger slices, and pour in a spoonful of rice wine after the water boils.

As the water in the pot continued to boil, white gray impurities gradually came out and were pushed to the edge of the pot by the boiling bubbles. Xia Mingyue deftly skimmed off the foam with an iron spoon. After a cup of tea, she fished out all the mutton and bones and rinsed them with warm water.

Put water, scallion segments, ginger slices, star anise, peppercorns, cinnamon and other stewing spices into the pot again. When the water boils, add rice wine and simmer slowly for one hour.

Taking advantage of this break, Xia Mingyue mixed the dough with cold water and white flour, kneaded it into small pieces, and then rolled it into round cakes the size of an outstretched palm.

Put the round cake in the pan without oil, and just fry until the surface is flowery and it is 80% done.

By the time all the dough cakes were out of the pot and placed in a small basket, the aroma of the mutton and mutton bone soup was gradually wafting out.

Xia Mingyue then cut the soaked black fungus, vermicelli, etc. into appropriate strips or segments, and prepared salt, pepper, chili powder, etc., packed them all and put them in a clay pot for later use.

After checking that the mutton and mutton bone soup in the pot was almost cooked, Xia Mingyue scooped all the soup, meat and bones into another earthenware jar and did not stop until the jar was eight-tenths full.

After taking the pancakes, the prepared side dishes and seasonings, and the charcoal stove, Xia Mingyue was told to take out the mutton from the pot and stew the mutton bone soup for half an hour. Lu Qiyan then helped her get on the carriage that had been prepared. Zhang Anyuan, the driver, and two soldiers were also there.

The carriage was not big. Apart from the various things they were going to bring, it was already full with Xia Mingyue and Lu Qiyan sitting inside.

In order to avoid the heat from the charcoal stove and the boiling mutton and mutton bone soup in the earthenware pot, Xia Mingyue had to move away a little.

In this way, he was very close to Lu Qiyan, almost shoulder to shoulder.

This was the first time the two had been so close since arriving here and getting so-called married to Lu Qiyan.

Maybe it was because there was a charcoal stove in the carriage, but the inside of the carriage seemed a little hot, which made Xia Mingyue move a little to the side.

This action caught Lu Qiyan's attention.

After frowning for a moment, Lu Qiyan raised his hand and wanted to lift the curtains on both sides to let in some of the cold wind from outside.

Just as she raised her hand, the wheel seemed to have crushed something, and the carriage shook violently, causing Xia Mingyue to lose control of her body and fall towards the charcoal stove.

Lu Qiyan was quick to put his arm around Xia Mingyue's shoulders.

Having avoided the danger of colliding with the charcoal stove, Xia Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, but she realized that she was being hugged tightly by Lu Qiyan, and her whole body was leaning on his shoulder...

Xia Mingyue's cheeks flushed slightly. She quickly stood up and tucked some of her scattered hair behind her ears. "I'm fine."

"That's good." Lu Qiyan exhaled, and the light in his eyes dimmed slightly.

Reaching out to lift the curtain, he instructed the soldiers to drive the carriage more steadily, and Lu Qiyan pushed aside the small curtains on both sides of the carriage.

A cold wind blew in immediately, instantly dispersing a lot of the heat in the car.

Xia Mingyue no longer felt that uncomfortable, she just sat up straight and asked, "How far is it?"

Lu Qiyan raised his eyes and took a look. "About half an hour."

"About the right time." Xia Mingyue opened the lid of the earthenware jar, checked the slightly boiling soup inside, and then put the lid back on. "It should be just the right time."

"Yeah." Lu Qiyan nodded and sat down next to Xia Mingyue calmly.

Ok?
Xia Mingyue tilted her head and looked at Lu Qiyan.

Lu Qiyan just turned his head to look out the window, as if he knew nothing.

Xia Mingyue touched her nose and turned her face away.

The carriage drove all the way to Liujiazhuang.

After some inquiries, Zhang Anyuan and the soldier driving the carriage found the place and parked the carriage in front of Fang Linwang's home, west of Liujiazhuang Village.

Fang Linwang's yard is small and dilapidated, and the two tiled houses are a bit old. A lot of moss has grown on the blue bricks used to build the houses, and some have even turned pink due to weathering.

The courtyard wall is low, only half a person's height, but there is a fence gate at the entrance.

The fence gate was closed tightly at this time, and the door of the house was also closed, so it was not certain whether anyone was at home.

"I'll go in and take a look." The soldier said as he was about to step over the wall.

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