Chapter 72 Rice Cake (1)

After making a good sale to Wen Mingtang, Liu Yuan also took away a bowl of ice powder and found the nearest empty food table to sit down. Then he couldn't wait to reach out with his chopsticks to pick up the mixed ingredients on the plate.

The nose was filled with the spicy and fragrant smell. Liu Yuan, who loves meat, naturally picked up the thin slices of pork with his chopsticks without hesitation. The specially processed pork slices are far more delicious than ordinary pork slices. Tender, with the aroma of red oil and sauce hitting your face, the minced fish meatballs are delicious and rich, the fish meat is tender and slightly elastic; the potato slices soaked in the sauce have a fragrant and waxy taste, and the lotus root slices are crispy, The cabbage and other leafy vegetables are blended with the sauce and completely integrated into this "all-inclusive" spicy pot.

Among them, what surprised him the most was the vermicelli that he used to eat when he was full. The soft and tough vermicelli was wrapped in the red oil of the sauce and brought into his mouth. The slight viscosity mixed with the elasticity made Liu Yuan unable to bear it. Stop shouting.

"This is called spicy hotpot. It's delicious!" Liu Yuan ate with his mouth full of sauce and red oil. He didn't even bother to wipe his mouth and kept nodding while eating.

Bai Zhu, who walked to sit across from him, glanced at him and said, "The garlic pork ribs yesterday were not delicious?"

When I mentioned the name "Garlic Spare Ribs", I thought of the rich aroma of garlic yesterday, especially the fried golden garlic, which made people salivate just by mentioning the name.

After swallowing his saliva, Liu Yuandao said, "How could it not be delicious? It's also delicious."

Bai Zhu asked him, fearing that the world would be in chaos, "Which one is more delicious?"

Liu Yuan put the vermicelli covered with sauce on his chopsticks into his mouth and said vaguely: "They are all delicious, I want to eat them all!"

He is no longer a child, what choice should he make? Can't you choose them all?

Bai Zhu continued to eat the spicy hot pot with his head down.

When the evening meal was about to end, Li Yuan hurried to the public kitchen with Shuangxi, took the last portion of the spicy hot pot, walked to Lin Fei who was about to finish the evening meal, sat down, and picked up a piece of pork slices. , while eating, he said: "I'm late today, and I went to Brother Zhao's house again. My father and grandfather were watching so closely that they almost couldn't escape."

Lin Fei, who was opposite him, put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth slowly, and said, "The relationship between your two families is quite good!"

There was obviously no big fluctuation in the tone of this sentence, and the tone was flat, but for some reason, when Lin Fei said it in his mouth, it sounded a bit "yin and yang strange".

Li Yuan bit into the pork slices and raised his eyelids to look at him: "They are all from the same clan. Moreover, I heard that something happened to an old steward of his family. The house lacked a capable steward who was in charge, which caught people off guard. Brother Zhao 'Uncle Song' became red-eyed when he talked about this accident. How pitiful! In just a few days, the Huaishan County Prince's Mansion suddenly lost two people..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Lin Fei say from the opposite side: "Then Uncle Song is not dead, we captured him and locked him in the cell where you were detained earlier."

Li Yuan: "..."

Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan: "..."

Wen Mingtang and others, who knew only a little about the case: "..."

After coming back to his senses, Li Yuan stared at Lin Fei, his face turned red. He didn't know whether he was angry or choking. He could only take a bite of the pork slices to relieve the hatred in his heart.

Lin Fei is really too much! If it weren't for this bite of food, who would be happy to come to Dali Temple and see Lin Fei's cold face?

Li Yuan, who liked to snort coldly, snorted countless times during this evening meal. When he finally sent Li Yuan away and started to clear the table, Ji Cai bought it.

Without beating around the bush, Ji Caimai said bluntly: "Master Wen, there is still some old glutinous rice left in the warehouse, and it needs to be used up soon. It just so happens that the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, so that we can buy a new batch."

When Wen Mingtang heard this, he immediately understood and said, "Okay, I will use these glutinous rice for breakfast tomorrow."

This answer made Ji Caimai nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's good that you are so skilled in craftsmanship! For us Caimai, if the purchased items are wasted too much, we can go to the Internal Affairs Yamen every month to collect them. When buying money, you will rarely be looked down upon and scolded harshly."

He had to endure a lot of eye-rolling because of Master Sun and Master Wang.

But when it came to Master Sun and Master Wang, Ji Caimai once again said something more, reminding Wen Mingtang: "When they say this, although they can't steal the chicken, they can lose the rice. But since those people know your existence, you need to get it." Be careful."

The previous plan had not taken Wen Mingtang away, but Master Sun and Master Wang had to be taken away first, so he had no choice but to stop his tactics. But for those people, it couldn't be easier to target an ordinary girl. I'm afraid there will be endless means of insulting her in the future.

Ji Caimai actually didn't want to say more about these words. After getting along with her these days, she really felt that this girl was quite nice, and what happened to Wen Xuance back then had nothing to do with her, so she couldn't help but say more. Two sentences.

Of course Wen Mingtang knew Ji Caimai's good intentions, and after hearing this, he thanked Ji Caimai again: "Thank you Ji Caimai, I'll be more careful." After saying this, the girl's eyes flashed, and she said to Ji Caimai: "Ji Caimai Let's go shopping. I'm going out after breakfast tomorrow. I'll make the ice powder and sour plum drink by Ah Bing and the glutinous rice balls. Is that okay?"

As long as it can be done well, who will do it? Ji Caimai nodded, but looked at Wen Mingtang, with a hint of surprise in his eyes: The girl just came out of the palace, who did she want to see when she went out alone?

But even though it was unexpected, Ji Caimai didn't ask any questions.

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With a "stab" sound, the square bricks of glutinous rice were put into the oil pan and were immediately covered tightly with countless tiny bubbles.

Yesterday, Ji Cai promised to buy the old glutinous rice, and Wen Mingtang made rice cakes for the morning meal today.

Although there is only one word difference with rice balls, they are completely two different things. After the glutinous rice is steamed, take it out. Use a stone mortar to pound the remaining shrimp skin from the previous making of salted soy milk into crumbs and stir it into the glutinous rice. Add salt to taste. After it cools down, cut it into square bricks and then cut them into pieces. Put it in a frying pan and fry.

The square bricks of glutinous rice sank to the bottom of the pot as soon as they were put into the pot. After frying until they floated slightly and took shape, Wen Mingtang gently turned them over with chopsticks until both sides turned completely golden. Wen Mingtang fished it out.

Smelling the aroma of the fried glutinous rice, Ah Bing and Tang Yuan couldn't help but began to swallow their saliva. When the first pot of glutinous rice cakes was picked up, the two of them immediately reached out and grabbed it. rice cake.

The rice cakes that had just come out of the pan were a little hot to the touch even through the greased paper, but the two of them didn't care about the hotness. They blew on them briefly and then took a bite.

With a "click" sound, the outer layer is too crispy, but the inside is soft and sticky, which is completely opposite to crispy. The addition of the salty glutinous rice flavor and the crumbs of shrimp skin is the real finishing touch. The salty aroma There are shrimps in the middle, and the whole piece of rice cake lined with it is simply too delicious.

It's just that this rice cake is good everywhere, but it's too full and it's not good. After two or three pieces, I can't eat anymore.

Wen Mingtang hurriedly made rice cakes. He did not sit down with them behind the counter to eat the morning meal slowly as usual. Instead, he said to Ah Bing and Tang Yuan: "I have something to go out today. I will share the meal with the morning meal later." I’ll leave the matter to you two, okay?”