Beloved Concubine

Chen Xiao and Fang Yu returned to the post house.

Chen Xiao said to go into the space to get something, flash into the black stone.

Along the way, Yu wanted to explain a few words, but felt that he had already confessed everything, including what the little princess said to him last night.

Is there anything else to add? ...Fang Yu tapped his finger on the table.Suddenly, he thought of the sachet given to him by the little princess last night, and he put it in his pocket at that time.

Take it out of your pocket, it's a beautifully crafted sachet.Open the sachet, there is a powder of medicinal materials in it, pinch some and smell it, it is probably a mixture of medicinal materials such as mugwort leaves, cloves, mint, and rugosa.

After checking that the sachet was fine, Fang Yu was relieved.He was worried about stuffing something that could not be explained clearly.

After a while, Chen Xiao came out with a few packages in his hand.

"Hey, whose is this?" Chen Xiao saw the sachet on the table.

"The little princess gave me a mosquito repellent sachet last night."

Chen Xiao glanced at the brocade bag, said nothing, and put down the things in his hand.

"Let's pack the ingredients first."

Among the things Chen Xiao took out was a soup gauze bag, which was specially used to hold the "five spices".

Fang Yu had seen her stewed meat before, and knew how to make it. He opened a few packets of herbs and asked, "How do I mix it?"

"Let me do it." Chen Xiao casually grabbed a dozen star anise, a few pieces of cinnamon, a lot of cumin, a little peppercorns, and put in six or seven fragrant leaves.

Fang Yu asked: "Do you want to break up these seasonings? Let others not see what it is."

"No, an insider will know what's in it once he tastes it."

"Won't the recipe be learned like this?"

"They don't have fragrant leaves." Chen Xiao said with a smile: "Let's talk about five-spice melon seeds, it's not a big deal."

Fang Yu saw that there was a small paper bag in the things she took out, and when he opened it, there was some powder inside.Smell it, it smells like star anise and cinnamon.

"What kind of powder is this?"

"Five spice powder."

Fang Yu smelled it and felt that it was a little different from the "five spices" of five-spice melon seeds.

"It's all five spices, why the taste is different?"

"'Five spices' is just a name. The specific five spices have different uses and different combinations."

"What is this five-spice powder used for?"

"Make pork jerky."

Chen Xiao fastened the gauze bag: "Okay, now wait for the main ingredients to arrive."

Fang Yu saw that she hadn't mentioned the little princess until now all the way back, worried that she was holding back something, and asked tentatively:
"What did you think when you met the little princess in the medicine hall?"

"She probably didn't go there on purpose to meet you by chance."

Fang Yu was speechless: "That's not what I meant."

"She wanted to identify herself to me."

"What... what do you think?" Fang Yu was a little flustered.

"I think you two are a good match."

Fang Yu Fu forehead.

"But what about a good match?" Chen Xiao asked again.

"You..." Fang Yu really didn't know what she was thinking now.

"For a man like you, there should be many women who like you. However, they have no chance. "

Fang Yu's expression loosened, and he could tell that she regarded herself as her husband.

"You are mine. Remember you have sworn so many oaths, beware of lightning strikes."

Just as Chen Xiao finished speaking, the sky exploded with thunder.

Boom!This sound came very abruptly.Both of them paused.

Chen Xiao thought to himself: It really fits the occasion.

Fang Yu suddenly felt guilty.

He knows that there is no master in this world, and there will be no consequences if he "swears to the sky" casually.But... Chen Xiao is the owner of the black stone, and her black stone comes from her parents.Those who can own the Black Stone must be related to the "Nangong Family".Because "Black Stone" was created by the Nangong family, and "Xiaofang World" was also created by the Nangong family.The world they live in is the "small world".

Boom!Another thunderclap.The sky quickly darkened.

Bean-sized raindrops fell, crackling, and made small holes in the soil on the ground.

After a while, it turned into a downpour.

"Oh, it's raining and I can't dry my five-spice melon seeds." Chen Xiao looked out the window at the heavy rain.

"It shouldn't rain for long." Fang Yu got up and closed the window, and the rain from outside floated in.

Chen Xiao took a look at the sachet on the table and asked, "That's all you guys talked about last night?"

Fang Yu returned to the table, hesitating for a moment: "She asked me if I liked her before, and I said I just regarded her as my younger sister."

Chen Xiao put down the sachet and said nothing.

"Xiao Xiao, I told you everything." Fang Yu waited for her to say the next sentence, but Chen Xiao didn't say anything.

Chen Xiao minded that the two of them met alone, and wanted to know what they all talked about. Even though Fang Yu said it, she still didn't believe that was all.

Think about it, forget it!Don't overdo it, or you're asking for trouble.Emotion depends on self-consciousness, not interrogation and persecution.

Chen Xiao stared at the rain outside the window in a daze, watching the raindrops splashing on the tiles, and the rainwater rushing down in the tile ditches.

The rain did not last long, and the rain gradually subsided in about half an hour.The cook brought lunch.

After the rain stopped, the steward delivered the purchases.

After lunch, Chen Xiao decided to make pork jerky first.

The two are doing it in the kitchen.Pork jerky needs lean meat. Chen Xiao cut off the fat on it. Fang Yu asked, "What should I do with the fat?"

"Oil refining."

"Besides refining oil, can fatty meat be made into something delicious?"

"You can fry the crispy crisps. But the crispy crisps should be deep-fried in fragrant oil. After frying the crispy crispy oil, you can fry the twists, and the taste of the twists will change."

"Then fry the mahua first, and then fry it crispy."

"Pea flour is needed to fry crispy crisps, and there is no pea flour here."

"Then grind it now. You wait, don't refine fat meat, there is enough lard here. I'll grind pea flour."

After Fang Yu finished speaking, he ran out.He first needs to buy peas, and then find a stone mill.

Chen Xiao smiled and shook his head.There is really a feeling of "digging a hole when you want to go to the latrine".

The cook asked Chen Xiao: "How do you fry the crispy crisps?" As a cook, I am very interested in new cooking tricks.

Just as Chen Xiaowan was about to speak, Su Xiaowan said to the cook in displeasure, "Pack up everything quickly and leave the kitchen to them."

Before the steward sent a lot of pork, flour, melon seeds, etc. to the kitchen, Su Xiaowan wondered, she didn't ask the steward to buy these.The steward said that Mr. Fang wanted it, and his wife wanted to cook for everyone.

Su Xiaowan was unhappy at the time, she was responsible for the food in the small courtyard, when would it be Madam Chen's turn?For this couple, it is not enough for the man to please the grandson, he also wants to push the wife out.

Although she was upset, she didn't stop it.Because it would make her appear narrow-minded and immodest.

Chen Xiao put the fat meat aside and cut the lean meat.

She cut the lean meat into small strips, added ginger slices, salt, five-spice powder, white wine, Chinese prickly ash, and chili noodles, kneaded and marinated.

It takes four to five hours to marinate the meat strips. Chen Xiao puts the marinated meat aside, and then washes the sunflower seeds.

The method of five-spice melon seeds is very simple. First wash the melon seeds, add salt and water with "five spices", boil for half an hour, soak for three or four hours, let the melon seeds completely absorb the flavor of the spices, and then pick up the melon seeds to dry.After the water is dried, fry it with salt, and the fragrant and crispy spiced melon seeds are ready.

Both dried pork and spiced melon seeds need pickling and drying steps.It's just that melon seeds are first boiled and then dried; pork jerky is first dried, then steamed, and then dried.

In short, these two small snacks cannot be made at once, it takes time.