Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 32 Fried Lotus Flower
After dinner, Li Xin and his siblings enjoyed the cool in the backyard.There are stone tables and stone benches beside the lotus pond. The benches are long, and two people can sit on each side. The five siblings sit on the stone benches.

There is already a lot of food on the table, including fruits, various candied snacks, and some nuts such as melon seeds and peanuts.In the middle is a big birthday cake without too many decorations, so Li Xin just made a flower pattern with cherry tomatoes in the middle.But it still looks very good, the fluffy cake looks soft and delicious.

"What is this? Is it a snack you bought?" Wen Hao looked at the cake on the table curiously.

"It's a cake. I made it with Yuexiang. I put eggs, white flour, and sugar in it. I'll try it later." Li Xin lit a small red candle on the outside of the cake while talking. There are no edible candles, so I can only use ordinary candles instead, but this kind of candle cannot be placed on the cake. It would be bad if the candle tears dripped on the cake.

It was Yueting's fifth birthday, so she lit five candles.Li Xin asked Yueting to make a wish quietly, and then blew out the candle.

"What wish did Xiao Ting make?" Wen Hao asked impatiently after Yue Ting blew out the candle.

"Eldest sister can't say it, it won't work if you say it." Yue Ting shook her head like a rattle as she spoke.Yuexiang tied a red ribbon on her bun, and when she shook her head, the ribbon swayed, really like a rattle drum.

"Okay, Wen Hao don't ask Xiao Ting anymore, it won't work if you say it. Let's cut the cake!" Li Xin took out a few plates, handed the knife to Yue Ting for the first cut, and then she He took the knife and cut the cake into pieces.Although it was just an ordinary chicken cake, the children still enjoyed it very much.

"Sister, the cake is delicious, let's make it tomorrow!" Wen Hao said while chewing on the cake.

"Elder Sister said, this is only done on her birthday, how can she always do it?" Yue Xiang responded to Wen Hao while eating the cake in small bites.

"Oh, then on our birthdays, will the eldest sister do it?"

"I do it, no matter who celebrates their birthday."

Sitting together, talking and laughing, the time passed quickly.Not long after, Yueting became sleepy, so Li Xin hugged her to sleep and told Wenbo and the others to leave.Yuexiang also cleaned up everything on the table before going to rest.Go to bed early and get up early in the morning.Now that there is nothing to worry about at home, Li Xin's sleep quality is getting better and better.There are no entertainment activities here at night, and it is almost a little while after dark that I am ready to go to bed, so I go to bed very early.

There is always dew in this season, so early in the morning, there is always a cool and moist feeling in the air.The weather in the south is relatively humid, not to mention the rainy season in summer and autumn, so the air is always humid in this season.There are dewdrops on the lotus and lotus leaves, and the lotus fragrance is lingering, and the whole yard looks particularly beautiful.

The petals of the lotus bloom gently, very soft, looking at it makes people want to take a bite.Li Xin suddenly thought of fried lotus flowers. Although lotus flowers are beautiful, she is not a lady who caresses flowers and willows.So she learned to make a lot of cauliflower by herself, such as peony, magnolia, lotus, chrysanthemum and so on.

Crispy fried lotus is a snack of the Han nationality in Jinan, Shandong.When the white lotus is slightly open, take the tenderest petals in the middle layer as raw materials.Drag the lotus petals into the egg and sugar roux, and then fry them in oil.There are also bean paste on the inside of the lotus petals. When the oil is [-]% hot, dip the bean paste petals into the egg white paste and put it in the pan.

Thinking of fried lotus, Li Xin felt hungry.She picked a few white lotus flowers that were slightly blooming, and a few lotus leaves, and went to the kitchen.By the time Wenbo's children got up, Li Xin's breakfast had already been prepared.A pot of lotus leaf porridge is eaten with fried lotus flowers, and the taste is really good.

"Elder Sister, what is this made of?" Yuexiang asked curiously while biting the fried lotus flower.

"Is it tasty?"

"It's delicious, it seems to have a flowery fragrance, sweet and delicious." Wen Bo answered this question.

"I fried it with lotus petals. Seeing that the lotus bloomed well, it felt very tender. I thought it should be delicious when made into a dish, so I made it. If it tastes better, eat more. I made a lot of it. "

"Master likes lotus flowers the most. If there are any more, eldest sister can make some, and we can bring them to Master to taste!" Wen Hao suddenly exclaimed.

"Okay, I'll wrap it up and send some to your master, you don't have to be so excited!" Master Zhou is very serious in teaching, Wenbo and Wen Hao can write a lot of words, and can understand a few simple articles. Master still has a lot of credit.Moreover, there are not many Shuxiu in the academy, Shuxiu has always been neither expensive nor very cheap, since ancient times, too much or too little is disrespectful to the master, so there is a limit to Shuxiu.However, Shuxiu is something that is put on the bright side, so there must not be much received anywhere in the whole country, but in private, some masters still accept money from some students' parents.

But Mrs. Zhou is very good. For a long time, besides accepting Wenbo’s apprenticeship ceremony at the beginning, she also asked Wenbo and them to send some small objects. In fact, they are just inkstones or wolf hairs, which are not expensive. However, the academy also used it, but that was the case, Mr. Zhou returned them one by one, and Li Xin did not give them away again.

So, all along, I wanted to thank Master Zhou, but I didn't know what to do.If you order a simple meal made at home, Mr. Zhou will not refuse it!Li Xin thought about it, so she got up and took lotus leaves to wrap some crispy fried lotus flowers, then went to the backyard with scissors to cut some lotus flowers, and put them into the food box along with a few lotus leaves.

Mr. Zhou is not only a scholar, but he is also an elegant person, so sending a few lotus flowers should be suitable for him!

Wen Bo and Wen Hao finished their breakfast, and went to school with their food boxes and schoolbags on their backs.Li Xin cleaned the house, then took Yuexiang and Yueting back to Osmanthus Village.She made a lot of food yesterday, so she packed it up and brought some back, including some chicken and fish, and a few pieces of cake, so she took the things to Aunt Zhang's house.

Aunt Zhang's house is in the middle of the village, surrounded by people with the surname Zhang, and several of Uncle Zhang's elder brothers live next to Uncle Zhang's house.Back then, when Uncle Zhang's family split up, the elder brothers built another house and moved out, so Uncle Zhang's family still lived in the old house.Zhang's old house is also very old, but Uncle Zhang will clean it up occasionally, but it is not too dilapidated.

But it's not a good thing. When it rains, the common things like rain leakage have never been repaired because there is no money.

(End of this chapter)