The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 54 New Year's Eve Dinner ([-])
"More than that!"

In order to reassure his family, Gan Tiantian tried his best to make his life in Yujinfang smoother: "Mr. Qiao is very kind to me. This old man gave me this bacon."

"The apprentice we entered this time, I was selected by the chief steward as a disciple. Mr. Qiao was originally the steward of our Xiangfang in Yujiang Mansion. If it wasn't for the purpose of returning to his hometown for the elderly, Yujinfang wouldn't be able to invite him to come."

She also told how Master Qiao taught her art and how to take care of her in life.

Of course, she would not use the expression "The old man is so crazy that he forced me to copy the book countless times", but said very sincerely, "Master, the old man is urging me to learn art day and night", which also enriched a lot of warmth. Touching details—I really want to use the powerful joke of "passing by the teacher's window in the middle of the night, the teacher is still grading homework under the dim light, and a few strands of white hair blowing in the wind" that was often used when writing essays in elementary school in my previous life...

It's useless to hold back... Cough cough.

Seeing that it was still early, Gan Tiantian immediately took out the vegetable basket from the kitchen, and happily went straight to the market with his elder brother and younger brother.

Facts have proved that there is no way to take care of a woman at home.

The New Year's goods prepared by the uncle and brothers are indeed very rich. There are chickens, ducks, and half a piece of pork. The white rice is full of tanks, but...how about the fresh fish?What about tofu with vegetables?The ingredients are not complete!What about candied fruit, what about melon seeds, don’t you nest on the kang to eat snacks during the Chinese New Year?

Also, I only bought rice wine, not sweet wine and stuffed fruit.She doesn't want to get drunk on the deadly rice wine.

Bad review!

The two purchasers, Gan Qiu and Gan Dong, originally expected their sister to praise them, but Gan Tiantian looked at them with disdainful eyes, so they could only obediently pull cows, take money, and act as servants to accompany their sister shopping, uh no, I went grocery shopping.

Live red fish, let's have a few first!

Tender green vegetables, wow, more expensive than meat?It doesn't matter, come a few catties!Oh, and winter melons, pumpkins, and hairy melons, all come in a few catties!

How can you not buy more of the juicy fruit?Among other things, the ancestors always have to put it on the New Year's Day, right?

Alas, these three careless men.

Gan Tiantian and his two attendants walked straight from the east end of the market to the west end, Gan Qiu Gandong's hands and body were covered with drape.

She hopped lightly in front of her with her arms crossed, turning her head and smiling at her brothers from time to time, as if she enjoyed seeing them exhausted like dogs.

"Brother, I can't move anymore, why does Tiantian buy more and more..."

Gan Dong was really exhausted, so Gan Qiu said, "Then put all the pumpkins in your hands into my arms."

"Oh, no need, brother, the things you are carrying are already very heavy." Gan Dong saw that the elder brother was also struggling, and thought that the younger sister was too cruel to buy things, and even the elder brother who had always had excellent physical strength could tire himself out like this.

"Bring it. I'm not tired at all."

"Uh?"

"I did it on purpose."

Gan Qiu took the pumpkin, smiled foolishly, and continued walking.

Oh... the eldest brother thinks that the younger sister likes to see the tired look of the two brothers is fun, so he deliberately pretends to be like this for the younger sister to make the younger sister happy?
The elder brother really loves the younger sister to the bottom of his heart.

When the three brothers and sisters came back after buying half an ox cart of vegetables, the streets had already begun to smell pungent of sulfur.Many impatient children couldn't hold back, and before it was time to burn the cannons and set off fireworks at night, they sneaked out a few scattered small firecrackers and came out to burn them for fun.

Pedestrians rushing home one after another, laughing and chasing children playing, many people come in and out with their doors open, busy posting couplets and peach charms...

The smell of Chinese New Year gradually became stronger.

"You guys are back!"

Tan Yushu had been waiting at the door of the house for a long time, waiting for the three brothers and sisters to come back and post couplets together.

The couplet was written by Tan Yushu himself. The calligraphy is very beautiful, and Gan Tiantian couldn't help but praise it.Each of the Gan family brothers took a couplet and was busy spreading rice paste, asking Gan Tiantian to help him check the height with his eyes.

After posting the couplets, post the door gods, and change the window grilles after pasting the door gods.Even the rice jars in the house were labeled with the word "福" in red by Gan Tiantian. The whole family looked at each other happily and smiled as they looked at the rice jars that were almost full.

"Okay, I'm going to cook! Brother, hurry up and put the rice in the pot, and be careful not to put too much water! Brother, help me wash the fish...Little uncle, our kitchen is small, so you should take care of it." Go back to the house and rest, why don't you take out the bowls and chopsticks first? I guarantee it will be done in half an hour!"

"Hey, our young mother-in-law is getting more and more capable."

Tan Yushu was joking, and went to clean up the dining room first.

Originally, Gan Tiantian's cooking skills were quite average.In fact, it's really not her problem, it's because she's not used to the stoves of this era, and it's hard to control the heat!

However, she now has a big killer, the bellows!

A few days ago, when she asked her elder brother to go to the carpenter's shop to build a big bellows for her to send to Yujinfang, she also asked him to make one for her family.

Although this little bellows was left in the corner collecting dust before she came back from this trip, but when she uses it...they will know the benefits of this thing!
She asked her brothers to clean up the dishes first, and then she started to fry the lard residue by herself.

In this age when condiments are relatively scarce, lard residue is the soul that makes the dishes of ordinary people delicious.

The palm-sized pig suet was cut into small pieces by her.

When the pot is hot, pour the meat into it.After the pot creaked and smoked, she added half a bowl of water and urged her elder brother to turn up the fire.

The pots at this time are probably thick iron pots for their strength, which conduct heat slowly, and the temperature of the stove is not easy to control.

But for a new stove with a bellows installed, it is not too easy to increase the furnace temperature!
Under Gan Tiantian's guidance, Gan Dong began to pull the bellows one by one, and it didn't take much effort, but the flames rose slowly, and the temperature of the furnace rose quickly.

The bellows worked, and Gan Tiantian heaved a sigh of relief, and began to carefully turn the pork pieces in the pot with a spatula to prevent them from sticking to the pot.

Soon, a strange smell of meat filled the kitchen.

"Tricky", Gan Dong hastily wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, but his mouth was still very hungry.This taste is really... really delicious!
Although I usually feel the smell of meat is very fragrant, but compared with the aroma in the kitchen now, it is really nothing.The same meat, how can it be so fragrant?

Even the steady Gan Qiu couldn't help swallowing.

Gan Tiantian counted the time in his mind, and after frying for about a quarter of an hour, the pieces of meat in the pan had shrunk into slightly yellowish diced meat, and a puddle of yellow lard gave off an attractive luster under the weak candlelight.

"Brother, don't pull it anymore, the fire is enough."

At this time, if the fire is turned on again, it will be over, and it will be burnt black, destroying the taste and texture of the oil residue.

After a while, she took out the oil residue in the pot and put it in a bowl, sprinkled a pinch of coarse salt and mixed well.

Fragrant!

(End of this chapter)