peasant young lady

Chapter 216 Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion Dinner

Cheng Xia naturally didn't know what they were discussing, she was thinking about what to do to celebrate at night.After all, this is her first Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ming Dynasty, so she has to prepare well.

It's getting late now, so we have to hurry up and cook.Cheng Xia looked at a bamboo basket that Mrs. Zhang asked her to bring back. She didn't pay attention at the time, but looking at it now, it was really full of seasonal vegetables and fruits.

Cowpeas, eggplants, chestnuts, grapes, pomegranates and taro are really rich.Cheng Xia was thinking about what to cook when she saw Eucommia swaying into the kitchen with her hands behind her back, smiling mysteriously, "Miss Cheng, guess what I'm holding in my hand."

Cheng Xia gave him a funny look, the crab claws behind his back were about to pinch his hand, and he was still twitching, Cheng Xia waited for a while, then heard Du Zhong howl, and shook the big The crab was thrown on the ground.

Seeing Cheng Xia's overwhelmed look, Du Zhong was suddenly annoyed, the most poisonous woman's heart, woman's heart, Du Zhong hummed twice to express his anger, turned and left.

Although Cheng Xia was curious about where Eucommia got the crabs, but it was just right, and eating crabs during the Mid-Autumn Festival was a perfect match.

Cheng Xia grabbed the four big crabs that were crawling around on the ground, poured some white wine to make them drunk, scrubbed the crabs with a brush, rinsed them, then chopped each crab into four pieces and put them in a bowl. Season with a little salt and pepper.

Cheng Xia looked at a bamboo basket of vegetables, thought for a while and decided to make spicy crab, flavored eggplant, chestnut roast chicken and sauerkraut fish soup. As for the staple food, he made taro sausage rice with fruit garnish. It is delicious in color, fragrance and taste.

Cheng Xia first cleaned up the whole white striped chicken bought today, chopped the chicken into large pieces, then marinated it with ginger slices, scallion knots and soy sauce, and put it aside for later use.

These dishes all need ginger, onion, garlic, and green and red peppers, and Cheng Xia prepares each of them, so that they can be cooked quickly without wasting time in the middle.

Yang Dalang didn't eat much at Yang's house at noon, and asked him why he didn't move his chopsticks when he came back on the way. It was obvious that Zhang's and Dahua's cooking was delicious.Yang Dalang only glanced at her leisurely, and said lightly, "I don't even want to eat dishes that aren't made by you."

Damn, Cheng Xia is still blushing and heart beating when he thinks of his serious look at that time. This is a proper cold and domineering president. Although they are just an ordinary rural couple now, who can't have a little fantasy ah.

Fearing that Yang Dalang would be hungry, Cheng Xia decided to get some chestnuts to fill his stomach first.Cut each chestnut into a cross with a knife, and then put it in a large pot to cook. Cheng Xia liked to eat chestnuts fried with sugar in his previous life. Later, he tried it himself and cooked it. After cooking, put it in the refrigerator to freeze. When it rises, it turns into frozen chestnuts, which are soft, glutinous, sweet and cool, very delicious.

After the chestnuts were cooked, Cheng Xia removed all the chestnut shells, and kept a small part to make chestnut roast chicken, and sent the rest to Yang Dalang and Du Zhong. After entering the room, the two of them were very relaxed and comfortable. He moved the table to the door and drank wine facing the moon.

When Du Zhong saw that Cheng Xia brought something, he quickly took it, threw one into his mouth, and immediately nodded, "It's delicious."

Cheng Xia returned to the kitchen, poured oil into the hot pan, and sautéed the ginger, onion, and garlic until fragrant, then put the marinated chicken pieces in and fried them, added soy sauce and a small amount of rock sugar in the middle and fried them until the aroma of the sauce was released, and then put the peeled chestnuts Pour into the pot, continue to add white wine and pepper and stir-fry.When all the aromas are bursting out, add a lot of boiling water, the amount of water will cover at least half of all the ingredients, just cover the lid and simmer.

While the chicken was stewing, Cheng Xia quickly cleaned and sliced ​​the only grass carp in the house into fillets, marinated with ginger, onion and garlic.Then cut the long strips of eggplant into hob shapes, coat with some flour and set aside.

It was almost a quarter of an hour later, Cheng Xia opened the lid of the pot, put it on high heat to collect the juice, and finally sprinkled green and red peppers for decoration, and it was ready to serve.

Cheng Xia sent the brightly colored chestnut roast chicken to Yang Dalang and Du Zhong, "This chestnut roast chicken is not only delicious, but also has great effects. It nourishes qi and blood, nourishes the stomach, nourishes the kidney, and strengthens the liver and spleen. Kidney fruit, it’s okay to eat a little more.”

Du Zhong smiled, pushed all the chestnuts in front of them to Yang Dalang, and put this plate of chestnut roast chicken within his confinement, "Brother, did you hear what Miss Cheng said, it's right to eat too many chestnuts." Your kidneys are healthy, you should eat more."

Du Zhong's words were deliberately ambiguous, Yang Dalang and Cheng Xia looked at each other, Cheng Xia raised his eyebrows, Yang Dalang understood, seeing that Du Zhong was holding chopsticks to pick up chicken nuggets, he kicked Du Zhong's stool quickly with his feet.

Seeing that the chicken was in his mouth and suddenly kicked to the ground, Du Zhong kicked the table angrily, "I'm leaving tomorrow, and I won't let me have a good meal today."

Cheng Xia was taken aback, and looked at Yang Dalang, "Is he leaving tomorrow?"

Seeing Yang Dalang nodding, Cheng Xia understood a little bit, handed the chopsticks to Du Zhong again, and went back to cooking.

However, Cheng Xia pursed her lips, and Du Zhong went back, maybe it was because of Ming Xianzong's affairs?He will die on the [-]th of next month, and there are only [-] days from now. It is said that Xianzong suffered from illness for a long time before his death, and his mood was also very depressed. It is estimated that the government and the opposition are all blown up by now.

But what's the use of Du Zhong going back, he is just the son of a minister who doesn't even have an official position.

Cheng Xia shook her head. In fact, she also wanted to go to the capital, to witness it, but the current situation was full of obstacles, how could she get there.

Hey, Mid-Autumn Festival, ah Mid-Autumn Festival, was originally a day for family reunion, without her, how can her modern parents reunite?

Cheng Xia sighed, reheated the oil pan, put eggplant cubes cut into hob shapes and dipped in a little flour, poured them in and fried them until they were lightly browned, took them out and drained the oil for later use.Leave a little base oil in the pot, put the dried chili, Chinese prickly ash and star anise into it and fry until fragrant, then add minced ginger, onion, and garlic, and finally put the fried eggplant and sliced ​​green and red peppers into it and fry together. Xia has already been prepared. It is made by mixing one spoonful of sugar, three spoonfuls of vinegar, one spoonful of soy sauce and a small amount of salt. Pour them all into the pot, and finally sprinkle some sesame seeds to serve.

Sauerkraut fish is easy to make, and now only spicy crab and taro sausage rice are left.Coat the marinated crabs with flour and fry them in oil until they change color, then serve them out for later use.Leave the bottom oil in the pot, add minced ginger, onion, garlic and peppers cut into small pieces, sauté over low heat, then pour in the fished crab pieces, add the seasoning sauce prepared with soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and salt, turn over Just fry it to taste.

The smell is very fragrant, and Du Zhong ran over to wait for the plate.

The final taro sausage rice is also simple to make. First, steam the rice, cut the taro, shiitake mushrooms, carrots and sausage into small pieces, and mince ginger, onion and garlic.Heat oil in the pot, pour in all the ingredients and stir-fry for a while, then cover the ingredients with rice, cover and simmer for a quarter of an hour.

Cheng Xia was burning the fire while smelling the aroma continuously overflowing. Cooking in this big pot stove is really more mellow than the rice cooker, and the ingredients are more original. It's good to eat without worrying about various problems.

The aroma became more and more intense, Cheng Xia removed the lid of the pot, the aroma was strong, mixed the rice and all the ingredients evenly, and finally sprinkled the chopped green onion leaves for decoration, and it was ready to be served.

Bringing the last taro and sausage rice to the room, Cheng Xia looked at all the untouched dishes with satisfaction, even Du Zhong was drooling greedily, Yang Dalang still kept all the dishes covered and kept warm to prevent him from eating, the angry Du Zhong was dry stare.

Cheng Xia put the taro rice on the table, and put the fruits and mooncakes on the table, so that it looked a bit like the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is called the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, the Moon Festival in Thailand, the Moon Festival in Japan, the Chuxi Festival in Korea, the Moon Worship Festival in Cambodia, the Desai Festival in Nepal, and the Hanukkah in Myanmar. I just hope that the family can be reunited on this day, and let the moon bring all the blessings to the moon palace and bring them to various bodhisattvas, hoping that they will bless the living beings and make the family live forever.

Du Zhong watched Cheng Xia toast to the moon for a while, then smiled slightly, "Miss Cheng seems to have something sad in her eyes."

Cheng Xia turned her head and stared at him, her eyes are so poisonous, he could see it even if she was a little dazed.

Yang Dalang gave Du Zhong a cold look, "Let me hear Miss Cheng again, and you won't want your tongue."

Yang Dalang's tone was too gloomy, and Du Zhong decided to shut up. He kept picking at each dish, looked at Cheng Xia vaguely and said, "Did I say that your cooking is really delicious, Bi Yu, uh , It’s better than the chef’s cooking.”

Cheng Xia pursed her mouth, it was not surprising to hear Eucommia's praise, this buddy, as long as you give him something delicious, he will immediately praise you.

Du Zhong sucked a piece of crab leg, and said to Yang Dalang who was beside him, "I came here on horseback today, and the carriage is at my house. I will leave this horse for you tonight, take good care of it for me, and wait for me next time." Come back, if it is a little thinner, I will not let you go."

Cheng Xia was taken aback, "How do you leave the horse?"

"Someone took me away, uh, that, I have another way," Du Zhong hurriedly buried himself in the food.

Cheng Xia shook her head, obviously they both knew each other well, and they had to lie to her.

Du Zhong cleaned up all the food and left. Cheng Xia leaned on the door frame and quietly looked at the bright moon hanging high. She only bit a bit of the moon cake in her hand. More than half a hundred parents.

Yang Dalang made the bed, went to the door and wrapped Cheng Xia in his arms, knowing that she had something on his mind, he didn't ask, but lightly kissed her on the forehead, and said against her ear, "Early tonight!" Go to sleep, I will give you a surprise when I wake up tomorrow morning."

Cheng Xia suddenly turned to look at Yang Dalang, "What surprise?"

Yang Dalang patted her tall nose, "You will know when you wake up tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)