Meal Sweet Home: Farm Lady

Chapter 22 White Fungus and Lotus Seed Porridge
The hot water boiled, and while Nan Yan was scrubbing the new bathtub with a clean rag, she was always thinking about how to make tremella and lotus seed porridge.

Soaking white fungus and lotus seeds in water for several hours, she naturally knows this, but she is at a loss as to what other ingredients and the order of adding them to the pot.

In addition, Yu Ranyue is too picky, if she doesn't do a very good job, she must be angry with her again.

Thinking of this, Nan Yan couldn't help but sighed helplessly, feeling really tired.

"You servant, have I cleaned my bathtub?" Yu Ranyue, who was full of food and drink, took advantage of Qi Yuhao's time to go back to the room to rest, and asked in a low voice in front of the busy Nan Yan.

"It's almost over, Miss, don't worry." Nan Yan responded angrily.

After Nan Yan cleaned the inside and outside of the new bathtub with a hot rag, she also rinsed the inside with boiling water many times.I have pity on her thin arms, and I don't know how many times she hit the well water back and forth.

After working for a long time, the sky has completely darkened.Under Yu Ranyue's angry urging over and over again, Nan Yan finally filled her with bath water, and the temperature was moderate.

Unfolding the screen, Yu Ranyue took off her clothes with a whimper, and soaked in the new bathtub.

"It's so comfortable!" Yu Ranyue couldn't help but sigh, after all, Qi Yuhao bought this bathtub specially for her, of course she likes it very much.

Finally settled the big Buddha temporarily, Nan Yan wiped the sweat from her forehead with her arm, and accidentally touched the bruise injured by Yu Ranyue's bowl in the afternoon, she let out a soft sigh of pain.

Just as she was about to walk out of the kitchen, Yu Ranyue stopped her loudly.

"Where are you going, my servant? Don't leave, and heat the water for me at any time." Yu Ranyue ordered in a strong tone.

Nan Yan ignored her, and continued to walk outside the house on her own, "Miss, don't worry, I'll be right at the door, if you need anything, just tell me."

She rubbed the bruises on her forehead and sat on the stone bench in the yard, making a soft "hissing" sound.

"Take some medicine." At this moment, Qi Yuhao's lowered voice suddenly came from beside him, as if afraid of being heard by Yu Ranyue who was taking a bath.

Nan Yan raised her head, took the small bottle of medicine powder hesitantly, and thanked in a low voice.Qi Yuhao didn't answer, and walked back to his room.

"He's such a handsome guy, why does he always put on a cold face?" Nan Yan complained softly, but she was still very relieved looking at the medicine powder in her hand.

She poured out a little and rubbed it evenly in her hands, and then gently applied it to the injured part of her forehead.Cool and cool, very comfortable.

Now is not the time to be concerned about bruises on the head. After tonight, Nan Yan will start making tremella and lotus seed porridge for Yu Ranyue. How can I make this stuff so that Yu Ranyue won't be picky?
There was a crisp "ding" sound when the carved jade bracelet on Yu Ranyue's left hand touched the gray-white stone table.

That's right, doesn't she still have this magical jade bracelet?Why didn't I think of it.

Since she only used it once before, Nan Yan didn't think about this jade bracelet for a while.

As if she had found a rare and rare treasure, she took off the jade bracelet from her left hand, put it in front of her face and leaned it fondly.

She still remembered that the last time she accidentally rubbed the whole body of this jade bracelet with her hands repeatedly, the jade bracelet appeared, so she tried again.

Nan Yan thought back to the way she sat here and stroked the jade bracelet last time, rubbing the jade bracelet in a circle.Gradually, the whole body of the jade bracelet became cold, its surface flickered, and finally a ring of fluorescence suddenly appeared.

Really, it's all true!It is really the jade bracelet that will manifest.After the jade bracelet appeared last time, Nan Yan still didn't believe it. She thought it was a very realistic dream that she was lying on the stone table, but she didn't expect that the jade bracelet was really miraculous.

"Great, now I'm not afraid that I won't be able to make white fungus and lotus seed porridge!"

Just as Nan Yan said the name of this porridge to herself, a picture of a pair of hands preparing tremella and lotus seeds suddenly appeared in the fluorescent circle on the surface of the jade bracelet.

"It's amazing, it's amazing!" Nan Yan couldn't help but sigh.

The ingredients displayed in the fluorescent light are not only white fungus and lotus seeds, but also round glutinous rice, longan meat, red dates, rock sugar and so on.

Nan Yan was a little dazed, glutinous rice, longan, and red dates were easy to talk about, because Qi Yuhao brought some for Yu Ranyue, who loves dim sum, at the market.But where to get this rock sugar, this is ancient times, there is no ability to process rock sugar.

She didn't go on with the difficulty, but continued to carefully watch the whole process of making tremella and lotus seed porridge.After all, only when you learn how to make it first can you consider the specific ingredients in it.

It took about 10 minutes, and the whole process of tremella and lotus seed porridge displayed in the fluorescent light of the jade bracelet was almost over.

"Nanyan, you servant, hurry up and heat the water for me." Yu Ranyue also called out in the kitchen at the right time.

"I'll come." Nan Yan raised her head and responded casually, and was about to put away the jade bracelet.

And just when she was about to get the jade bracelet on the stone table, the fluorescence on the surface of the jade bracelet suddenly turned into a beautiful and soft blue light, and a cloth bag appeared from inside, which grew from small to large, and finally landed on the stone table above.

"Hey, what's this?" Nan Yan stood up, carefully opened the small cloth bag, and looked inside, it turned out to be several pieces of rock candy.

"Oh my God, this jade bracelet can not only teach me how to cook, but I didn't expect it to conjure ingredients that are not available in this era. It's amazing!" Put it on your chest, excited.

With this jade bracelet, Nan Yan can learn any dish she wants!
She carefully put the jade bracelet back on her left hand, and put away the bag of rock sugar.

It took half an hour, and Yu Ranyue, the eldest lady, finally came out of the bath as a beauty, so she stopped bothering Nan Yan to add water for her again and again.

The next step is to wait on Qi Yuhao to take a bath. He is much less troublesome than this Yu Ranyue, and he is not so particular about it.

After bringing Yu Ranyue, the big Buddha, into the house, Nan Yan prepared Qi Yuhao's bath water, and then took some utensils from the kitchen to the stone table in the yard.

As night fell, Nan Yan lit the oil lamps for illumination.

Qi Yuhao, who had already taken off his gorgeous coat and was about to go to the kitchen to take a shower in his inner lining, saw Nanyan talking around the stone table, he couldn't help being curious.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Miss, don't you want to eat white fungus and lotus seed porridge tomorrow morning? I'm making preparations." Nan Yan replied without raising her head, "I've prepared hot water for you and put it next to the tub. You can add water yourself."

Nan Yan's attitude was the same as when she was preparing Yangzhou fried rice last time, Qi Yuhao curled her lips helplessly and went into the kitchen.

Qi Yuhao would only do some small actions that were not discovered when he was behind others, so Nan Yan still thinks that he is expressionless.

Nan Yan put the washed lotus seeds aside, pitted the red dates, and washed the glutinous rice.

The next step was physical work. Nan Yan took some of the sweet-scented osmanthus that Qi Yuhao bought back to make sweet-scented osmanthus cake for Yu Ranyue, and put it in a medicine pot and mixed it with water to mash it.In order to maximize the aroma of sweet-scented osmanthus, it must be mashed evenly.

After a long time, the sweet-scented osmanthus was finally mashed evenly. It was taken out of the medicine jar, poured into a bowl soaked in glutinous rice, and stirred by hand.

Tremella and lotus seeds are both dry goods, so they also need to be soaked in water for a long time.

After soaking these ingredients overnight, there will be strange changes in the next morning.

Nan Yan became cheerful on her own, after working for a long time, she finally made some progress.

Qi Yuhao had already come out of the shower at this time, seeing Nan Yan fiddled with things in front of the stone table, he didn't say much before going back to his room.

"Remember to pour out the water in the bathtub and wash the dishes and chopsticks." He still did not forget to order.

"Understood, Mr. Qi." Nan Yan responded impatiently.

The busy day is finally over, Nan Yan just wants to lie in bed and have a good sleep, and then get up in the morning to make a meal of white fungus and lotus seed porridge.

But what she never expected was that Yu Ranyue, who had been sleeping all day, was very energetic at the moment. As long as she didn't sleep, she wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully.

"This, this, and this, take them all to wash! Go, go now!" Yu Ranyue threw all the clothes she wore when she first arrived in West Lake Village into Nan Yan's hands.

"Can't I wash it again tomorrow?" Nan Yan frowned slightly, really wondering what Yu Ranyue was thinking.

"No, I want you to wash it now, I'll wear it later." She said unreasonably.

"But even if I wash it for you now, I won't do it tomorrow." Nan Yan explained.

"You servant, you can wash it as soon as you are told, so much nonsense! Do you want me to leave a bruise on your left forehead?" Yu Ranyue clenched her fist impatiently.

Nan Yan didn't want to talk nonsense with this unreasonable person anymore, but she also didn't want to wash her clothes right now, so she walked out of the room without saying a word, and went to Qi Yuhao's place.

Qi Yuhao heard a small knock on the door, got up and opened the door.

"Look, this lady wants me to help her wash clothes now. I go to the hillside to chop firewood during the day, and when I come back in the evening, I am busy serving you for bathing and preparing the ingredients for white fungus and lotus seed porridge. I am really tired. You can't rest in the middle of the night."

Nan Yan has learned to be smart, and knows that she can't clean up with Yu Ranyue, so it's easier to let the love brother in Yu Ranyue's eyes to persuade her directly.

Without saying a word, Qi Yuhao put on his coat and came to the door of the room where Yu Ranyue was.Yu Ranyue saw him through the half-closed door, and shyly pretended to be a gentle little woman for a while, and called him in.

Qi Yuhao didn't go in, but said at the door: "Ran Yue, there is something you don't know. If you hang your laundry outside at night, you will be haunted by ghosts who died unjustly. There is a young man at the entrance of the village because of Drying clothes at night, then the ghost lost his mind, fell into the river and drowned."

Don't say it, this trick is really useful.The ancients were still very convinced of the theory of ghosts and gods, let alone Yu Ranyue, who was only 15 years old and immature.

Yu Ranyue rolled her eyes in fear, then called Nan Yan loudly to come in, and took back the clothes that were thrown to her just now.

"Forget it, let's wash it tomorrow." She pretended to be calm.

The reason why Qi Yuhao used this trick to lie to her was purely to protect Nan Yan.If she didn't make up such a scary joke, and just said that she can't do laundry at night, Yu Ranyue would definitely not let Nan Yan go to sue, and Nan Yan wouldn't be able to sleep well.

(End of this chapter)