The cook is very busy

Chapter 35 Don't Break the Rules

Erya was wearing a green dress, she was a little less charming, and her face was expressionless.

She pushed the plate on the side of the desk in, and came over, "What orders does Mrs. Zhang have?"

If he hadn't met Erya before, Ziqing would still think that the little girl with slender eyebrows and almond eyes was not Erya.

That small, low-browed and pleasing-eyed figure looks like a different person.

Zhang Meng's family pointed to Ziqing and said that Ziqing would follow her from now on, and told her to be more helpful in everything.

Erya obediently responded, and when Zhang Meng's family left, she took a look at Ziqing, then turned around to do other things without saying a word.

Ziqing scratched the back of her head, somewhat embarrassed, she would rather Erya chatter like before than stare like this.

Yesterday, when she left the hospital to pack her bags, she thought that she would meet Erya, just now she was thinking that Erya might have to joke a few words with her when she saw her.

But this little girl was stunned and didn't say a word of resentment. Could it be that she really changed her temper?

Ziqing thought about it, and followed first. There was a half-grandmother in front of the counter, and when she saw the new Ziqing, she didn't ask, and pointed loudly at her, Erya, and several other young women. .

"Erya, go to the meat cellar to get three taels of fine beef, mince it together with radishes and onions, and put it in the old lady's porridge... Dong Cui'er, what the eldest lady wants today is Baiziren porridge, go and get some The honey pot in the cupboard is brought...from Changgu's house, from Guo Zi's house, the red clam seaweed brought by the second wife yesterday was soaked, and you two cut it up...you, newcomer, go and remove the new honey in the pot Wash the sweet-scented osmanthus you picked, this is the black rice osmanthus porridge that the third wife wants, carefully even out the leaves!"

"Yes, Aunt Chen."

After the few people finished speaking, they all went to work. Fortunately, there are everything here, such as ladles, dustpans, large sieves, and a dozen wooden buckets filled with water.

Ziqing can see where to put everything at a glance, without having to stumble around.

She found sweet-scented osmanthus, washed it with water, picked a few leaves and put them in front of the stove. Mrs. Chen looked at them and found them quite satisfactory, so she asked Ziqing to put them down and fetch a jar of rock sugar from Dongcui.

Ziqing glanced back, and saw that Dongcui should be the little daughter-in-law in gray cloth, standing timidly in front of a four-season flower and wood cabinet, staring at the rows of blue and white jars inside.

When she walked to the cabinet, Dong Cui seemed to have found it. She tiptoed and stretched out her hand to hook the blue-and-white flower-bird bee jar on the top, but she tilted her hand and almost squeezed the one beside it. Luckily, Ziqing was quick to help her Stop it, there is no danger in the end.

Dong Cui was probably frightened, she hugged the pot tightly in her arms, Ziqing looked at it, smiled at her, and pointed to the various rows of blue and white pots.

"Well, Mrs. Chen asked me to find a sugar jar, this..."

Dong Cui's slightly whitish lips moved, and she pointed to the blue and white pot with flat chrysanthemum pattern in the third column, then bowed her head and walked away quickly.

Ziqing wanted to thank her, but the woman was very shy, she shrugged, hugged the jar and left.

Mrs. Chen has been watching the fire in front of the pot and stove, watching Ziqing and the others prepare everything without doing anything, just waiting for half an hour.

At this moment, the number of people in the back kitchen gradually increased, busy carrying water and chopping firewood, coming and going, while Mrs. Chen just looked at the door, as if pinching points, looked at each stove, and added some to the pot from time to time What.

Zi Qing, who was not interested in the other sweet-scented osmanthus porridge, beef porridge, etc., stared at the pot in Mrs. Chen's hand.

Ziqing looked carefully. There was a river at the entrance of her village. There were fish, snails, and mussels in the river. People in the village seldom eat these, and they don't know how to cook them.

Today, she is watching how Mrs. Chen is picking up the red clams. If she can really make porridge, the river mussels can almost be used in the pot. If she opens a restaurant at that time, is this also a dish, catch up with the ones outside the village There are in the river, and you can cook them if you fish them up, and you don’t need to spend money!
Mrs. Chen added a small bowl of washed peanuts to the pot where the black rice was boiled. Seeing her stirring with a large spoon, Ziqing could see that there were still lotus seeds and red beans in the pot.

"Erya, scoop the minced beef into the first pot of porridge and stir it... Then who, is the rice milk ready? Hurry up and bring it here, I'm waiting for the pot!"

The door curtain next to the firewood room was raised, and a fat woman answered, and came over with a porcelain basin, and there was a stone mill in the room.

Mrs. Chen muttered a few words, and then yelled for Zhang Gu's family to hand over the cut seaweed and red clams, and pour them into a pot of boiling water to cook.

"Oh, Miss Dujuan, you are here, why is it so early, give it to me quickly."

Zhang Meng's family appeared out of nowhere, rushed up to greet them, and took the food box from Du Juan with a pile of smiles.

"Today, the old lady sleeps lightly. She got up early and strolled around the garden. Now she is going back to the front yard. Maybe she wants to eat some hot porridge after taking a break, so I came here," Du Juan smiled. With both hands free, he walked forward, "Well, it smells weird, but it's okay."

Without waiting for Zhang Meng's family to speak, Mrs. Chen also grinned and bent over halfway, wiping her hand on the apron, "Okay, okay, it's over a long time ago, the old lady, it's always the first big thing .”

Du Juan half-covered her silk handkerchief, smiled and frowned, Zhang Meng's family gave Mrs. Chen a look behind her back, and asked Erya Dongcui to bring the food box to serve the porridge.

Du Juan happened to look over and saw Ziqing, and nodded as a greeting, Ziqing also smiled at her, and then Dongcui sent the food box up, Du Juan didn't raise his hand, Zhang Meng's family took a look and said hurriedly.

"Dong Cui, why are you so blind, why don't you hurry up and let Miss Du Juan carry it, you are lucky, you can go to the front yard to have a look, it's a feast for your eyes!"

Du Juan stroked the spa with a smile, turned around and left, Dong Cui looked at this and that dully, and followed closely with a food box.

Zhang Meng's family went about their business without saying a word, while Mrs. Chen just stared at the pot of Baiziren porridge in front of her, and called Erya to guard the pot next to her, and asked Ziqing to add sweet-scented osmanthus and rock sugar to the black rice porridge, And I didn't tell her how much to add, but only said that it would be served after the saccharification.

Staring at the heat, Mrs. Chen scooped two tablespoons full of honey from the honey jar and added them to the pot, stirred them with the spoons, then took a white porcelain soup pot on the counter, and poured out the porridge in the pot .

Ziqing also took a basin to scoop the porridge, but instead of staring at his hands, he kept looking at Erya's pot.

Not to mention, this wakame red clam porridge looks really good. The sticky white porridge is wrapped in green wakame, and the finely chopped red clams are even more bright red. Very fresh.

Ziqing was talking greedily when he suddenly heard a call, "Sister Ziqing!"

Cuizhu trotted over carrying the food box, the well-behaved Tuanzi had a smile on her face, Mei Xiang came behind her, saw Ziqing, and turned her face to one side.

Ziqing smiled at the two of them, thinking that these two girls were passing meals to the second and third.

Mrs. Chen grinned before she wanted to say something, she glanced at the person behind, hurriedly let Er Yaziqing take over, leaving the green bamboo and Mei Xiang behind.

A decent maid wearing crescent moon silk came into the courtyard, with bright red eyes and small red lips, holding a food box in one hand and fanning the wind with a handkerchief in the other.

Seeing Mrs. Chen approaching courteously, she only stuffed the food box in her hand to her.

"Hurry up and serve the porridge. Grandma didn't sleep well yesterday, so she's going to light it up and drink this today!"

"Hey, Miss Jin'er, how are you doing?"

Mrs. Chen smiled so much that only her mouth was left, she put the porridge into a food box with all her hands and feet, and brought it to the maid.

"Why, is there a newcomer in the kitchen today?"

Jin'er stretched out her hand, bypassed the food box suddenly, and then helped a hairpin on her own head, and slowly looked at Ziqing.

"Hey, yes, the magpie from the Fourth Young Master's house was brought here today," Zhang Meng's family carried a basket of eggs into the yard, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that it was Jin'er from the grandma's room, and hurried forward. Catch up on the conversation.

She pointed at Ziqing, "This girl originally belonged to the old lady's house, she said she was a helper for the kitchen."

"Oh?" Jin'er took a few more glances at Ziqing before taking the food box, and then put on a smiling face.

He said to Zhang Meng's family, "Since it's from the old lady's house, it must be good. Sister-in-law Zhang, please teach her well, don't break any rules!"

Zhang Meng's family understood, put down the basket and echoed a few words to send Jin'er out.

At this moment, Erya and Ziqing also brought over the food box, Cuizhumeixiang picked it up and left...

(End of this chapter)