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Chapter 228 The Secret Recipe of Silly Pillar! !
Zhang Chenfei went to the kitchen and neatly took out various things from his net bag, among which the spices he grabbed from the drugstore.

After soaking the peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, strawberries, cloves, etc. in cold water, Zhang Chenfei began to process the peppers again.

Seeing that the old lady was idle, he ordered her to cut the butter while cutting the peppers.

"Old lady, you are so old, why don't you wink at all? Didn't you see that Zao'er and I were busy? Can't you find something to do by yourself???"

The old lady curled her lips and stuck the pipe and pot in her waistband: "You have to mobilize the whole family to make a meal, and you have to boss everyone around."

Although he complained in his mouth, he neatly took out two kilograms of butter and started processing it.

In the past, when the old lady saw Zhang Chenfei buying so much butter, she would scold him for being a prodigal.

But now that the conditions at home are good, the old lady has become less stingy.

While Zhang Chenfei was working, he curled up his lips and said with a wicked smile: "Old lady, look carefully at your pipe and pot.

There is an ancient saying that if something is in your trouser pocket or not in your trouser waistband, it means that it is something you don’t want. Carefully, the little thief stole it for you. "

Grandma Zhang said that she had never heard of this ancient man and said that what he said was all nonsense.

"That's right, Da Fei is just talking nonsense, old lady, please whip him!!" Tian Xiaozao encouraged while plucking the chicken's feathers.

"Tian Xiaozao, do you want to be beaten?" Zhang Chenfei threatened, waving his fist as big as clay pot.

"Zhang Chenfei, do you dare to touch the jujubes and try it???" Grandma Zhang said and reached for the tobacco pouch and pot at her waist.

The three of them worked together and soon the preparations were ready.

When preparing to fry the hot pot base, Zhang Chenfei suddenly remembered that the most important bean paste was missing.

It wasn't that he forgot to buy it, but that he walked around the vegetable market and didn't find any for sale.

Putting down the kitchen knife, Zhang Chenfei told the old lady and Tian Xiaozao to work hard and not be lazy: "I will go out for a while and check the results of your work when I come back. If anyone dares to be lazy, be careful I will come back to punish her later."

punish?

Grandma Zhang and Tian Xiaozao looked at each other and curled their lips at each other, not taking Zhang Chenfei's threat seriously at all.

After exiting the kitchen door, Zhang Chenfei headed to the middle courtyard.

After walking a few steps, he heard footsteps behind him, and then Qian Tiezhu hugged his shoulders from behind.

"Da Fei, what's going on between you and your neighbor Tian Xiaozao?" Qian Tiezhu said with a wink.

Before his aunt passed away, he would come to play in the courtyard several times a year. He and Tian Xiaozao also played house several times, and they were no strangers to each other.

The relationship between Tian Xiaozao and Da Fei was quite good before, but they were just ordinary friends.

During this meeting, he clearly felt that the atmosphere between Tian Xiaozao and Zhang Chenfei was different from before. To put it simply, it had sublimated.

Qian Tiezhu couldn't help but feel sour when he thought that his younger cousin actually had a partner before him.

"You kid! Why doesn't the rabbit eat the grass next to its nest? Why are you hooking up with Tian Xiaozao?"

Zhang Chenfei raised his eyebrows high, gritted his teeth and said, "Can you talk? We are childhood sweethearts, how can we hook up together? Bah!!"

Qian Tiezhu asked curiously: "Isn't Tian Xiaozao just like your child bride? Don't you feel a knot in your heart when you are with her?"

It has been four years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Who is a good person still living with his child bride? Isn’t this reversing the course of history?
Zhang Chenfei glanced at him sideways: "You're just saying sour grapes when you can't eat them."

Not to mention that Tian Xiaocao was not his child bride at all, so what if she was? The two of them are in a comfortable relationship. You love me and I love you. What can others say?
Qian Tiezhu said in a dull voice: "No, why do you want a child bride?"

This sentence again? ? Zhang Chenfei was happy.

He replied with the same words he used to answer Xu Damao before: "What are you doing? Do it!!!"

Dry? ? What are you doing?

Qian Tiezhu was not stunned at first. After reacting for a few seconds, he suddenly realized: "Fuck, Dafei, fuck. You are just... your brain is as dirty as a public toilet!! I should give you soap for your brain." Take it off and wash it."

Zhang Chenfei was happy now and didn't feel embarrassed at all: "Washing powder won't work, I think it will work better with scouring powder."

This is shameless.

Qian Tiezhu was completely speechless now. He had never seen anyone with a thicker skin than Zhang Chenfei.

No wonder the old lady in law said that his face was thicker than a brick on the corner of the city wall! ! !
The two brothers walked to the middle courtyard while making trouble, and Zhang Chenfei kicked open the door of Shazhu's house.

The door crashed against the wall with a loud noise.

"Who the hell?? Brother Da Fei, you scared me to death." Silly Zhu on the bed poked his head out from under the quilt. After seeing the person clearly, he patted his chest.

It was so scary, I thought that the old godly woman Jia Zhang found out that he was watching her daughter-in-law take a bath and came to retaliate...

"No, what's there to be afraid of??? Are you still afraid of people robbing you? Or are you feeling guilty???" Zhang Chenfei teased.

"I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense." Silly Zhu directly denied Sanlian.

Zhang Chenfei didn't bother with him on this topic. His eyes wandered on the chopping board of Sha Zhu's house: "Si Zhu, where is your Doubanjiang?"

"Doubanjiang, what Doubanjiang?"

Silly Zhu's eyes flickered, and he was constantly reviewing in his mind, when did he reveal that he had Doubanjiang in his family? ? ? Obviously I have been very cautious all along.

Not many people in Forty-Nine City know how to make doubanjiang these days, and his recipe is passed down from the master's family.

When leaving the place where I learned the art, the master warned me not to show the doubanjiang to others easily, let alone let others learn the recipe secretly.

Although Sha Zhu felt that Zhang Chenfei would not appreciate his prescription, he still had to be on guard against others...

For a moment, all kinds of thoughts in Silhu's mind surged like waves.

Seeing that Si Zhu was playing tricks on him, Zhang Chenfei strode over and pulled him out of the bed.

"Si Zhu, are you too ungrateful? Brother is just lending you some doubanjiang, and he's not going to reveal your secret recipe. What are you afraid of?"

Silly Zhu looks silly at ordinary times, but he actually has a lot of wisdom at critical moments.

In the original drama, he took on two apprentices, Xiao Pang and Ma Hua, and ostensibly taught them skills, such as cutting and cooking, and taught them step by step. He looked very conscientious.

But there was a trick behind his back.

The seasonings used every time were ground into powder, and neither the formula nor the dosage was told to the apprentices.

Even when buying seasonings, he would go there secretly by himself and never let his apprentices do it for him.

Also relying on this hand, Shazhu made Yan Jie, who wanted to plot against him, become a couple.

While watching TV, Zhang Chenfei didn't comment much on the plot.

The Yan family couple wanted to kill the donkey, but Silly Zhu tricked them. Both parties are not good friends.

Shazhu finally felt relieved when he learned that Zhang Chenfei just wanted to borrow some doubanjiang for cooking, not for other people's use.

As he rolled out of bed, he told Zhang Chenfei to wait.

Then he put on his shoes, walked to the big wardrobe, and took out a small earthen jar about twenty centimeters from the bottom of the wardrobe.

Carrying the small crock pot and walking to the chopping board, Silly Zhu picked up an empty bowl, scooped a large spoonful of bean paste into the bowl, then carefully closed the lid of the bowl and jar, and walked to the closet.

Seeing his cherished look, Qian Tiezhu couldn't help but ask: "Da Fei, what is this Doubanjiang? It looks quite valuable." Zhang Chenfei thought for a while and told him that Doubanjiang is from Shu. A kind of seasoning, whether it is used for stir-fry, stew or spicy hot pot, it can give the dish a unique taste.

While talking, Shazhu had already handed over the small bowl with bean paste.

Qian Tiezhu couldn't wait to take it and sniffed it vigorously: "This smells a bit strange."

Silly Zhu glared: "What are you talking about? What is weird? Let me tell you, the essence of Sichuan cuisine is in this bean paste!!"

Without Doubanjiang, quite a few Sichuan dishes cannot be cooked.

Speaking of this, Shazhu seemed to have remembered something, and showed off proudly:

“When I was learning from my master, he had five apprentices, but only one of them told me how to make doubanjiang.

Why? ? Isn’t it because I have the most talent? "

Cooking has always been Shazhu's pride, and he has always been proud of being a cook.

Silly Zhu was just about to show off his experience of being praised by his master when he was an apprentice.

Before he could say a few words, he saw Zhang Chenfei pulling Qian Tiezhu out.

"We haven't finished talking yet, so why are you two leaving?"

Zhang Chenfei didn't even look at him, but just waved his hand: "Next time, next time, I'm still waiting to go home and cook."

Silly Zhu: "..."

Don't you give people a chance to show off? ?

……

With Doubanjiang in hand, Zhang Chenfei started frying the hot pot base when he returned home.

After he poured the butter into the pot and melted it, he added the chopped bean paste, soaked spices, scallions, onions, ginger slices and garlic cloves in sequence.

Put all the ingredients into the pot and fry slowly over low heat, stirring constantly with a spoon to prevent it from sticking to the pot.

quickly,

The aroma of butter overflowed from Zhang's kitchen, starting from the front yard, and filled the sky above the entire courtyard.

Although everyone's life in the past few years has not been as hard as it was in the three years, ordinary people can only have enough food and clothing. It is good to eat meat once a month.

Except for Silly Zhu, no one else in the courtyard had ever smelled such a domineering and strong smell.

They couldn't help but walked out of the house one after another, looking for the source of the smell and talking about it.

"It smells so good. Who is making something?"

"Are you making beef soup? It's so fragrant, it makes my mouth water."

"It seems to be coming from the front yard. Could it be the old Yan family?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? How can the old Yan family eat beef? It must be the third uncle Zhang Chenfei's family."

"When I came back this afternoon, I saw guests coming to Da Fei's house. I guess I wanted to prepare delicious food for the guests."

"Let's go and have a look. See what Da Fei is doing. This scent is so overbearing that it goes straight to your nose."

Silly Zhu opened the door and heard everyone talking, and he suddenly became happy:

"If you want to know what Da Fei is doing, ask me. I am the only cook in our courtyard."

When Xu Damao heard this, he immediately sneered: "You still have to ask?? You are just a guy who can't hide leftover steamed buns in the doghouse.

If you know, even if no one asks, you have to tell it, otherwise you will choke to death. "

Damn it! ! !
Being squeezed by him like this, Shazhu immediately became angry, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to convince others with his virtue.

Liu Guangqi on the side saw this and hurriedly stopped him: "Okay, stop making trouble and go to Brother Da Fei's house to see what delicious food he is making."

yes! ! Silly Zhu quickly retracted his fist:
"Making spicy hot pot base requires skills. I have to give Brother Da Fei some guidance."

Although Zhang Chenfei is better than him in other aspects, Silly Zhu believes that he can definitely crush him in terms of cooking skills.

The group of people then walked to the front yard. The closer they got to Zhang's house, the stronger the smell became.

Zhang Chenfei saw that the hot pot base in the pot had been cooked, and took an aluminum lunch box and put half of it in it.

Then when I looked up, I saw a bunch of heads outside the kitchen window.

"Hey! I was shocked. Why are you picking up the windows of our house when you are not going home to cook?" He was speechless.

"Brother Da Fei, are you making spicy hot pot?" Xu Damao asked after swallowing his saliva.

"Yes, it's cold today, so I plan to make hot pot." Zhang Chenfei said, nodding at the various ingredients prepared on the chopping board.

Xu Damao and others looked over impatiently, only to see that the chopping board was filled with duck blood, tofu, chopped chicken pieces, various vegetables, etc.

Yan Jiecheng rubbed his hands: "Brother Da Fei, how do you eat this spicy hot pot?"

"It's almost like hotpot mutton."

"Then the smell of this soup is much better than that of boiled mutton." Yan Jiecheng added.

He really saw that all the base material floating on the surface was butter! ! Not to mention boiling mutton or Chinese cabbage, anyone who can taste the insole of a size 42 shoe will be stunned! ! !
"This stuff is made from butter, so of course it's fragrant." Zhang Chenfei said as he added boiling water to the remaining hot pot base and added the chopped chicken pieces.

After finishing it, when he saw Shazhu and the others looking greedy and drooling, he said:
"I still have some of the hot pot base left over. We, the five young gentlemen of the courtyard, haven't gotten together for a long time... Let's have a hot pot meal later if we have a chance."

hiss! ! Eat hot pot with this base that is fragrant even for shabu-shabu mats? ? ?

Yan Jiecheng, Xu Damao. Liu Guangqi and the others looked at each other and suddenly became happy: "Okay, Brother Da Fei, you go ahead and we'll leave first.

"When we get together for dinner later, just bring the hot pot base, and we'll prepare the rest of the dishes."

"I'll fry some crispy meat for everyone, it will be delicious!!!"

"Don't fight with me, I'll have enough of the mutton by then!!!"

The last sentence was said by Xu Damao. He has always been wealthy and never stingy.

After talking, a few people left happily, and the other neighbors also left after seeing the excitement.

Only Jia Dongxu, who was holding the stick, saw his eyes turned red with jealousy.

Xu Damao, Yan Jiecheng, Silly Zhu, and Liu Guangqi have enjoyed a lot of delicious food since they became sworn friends with Zhang Chenfei.

Why? Why don't you all play with me and look down on me?

Don’t bully young people into poverty! ! ! Sooner or later.

After the hot pot soup base was boiled, Zhang Chenfei moved the pot to the briquette path in the outhouse.

Tian Xiaozao and others also brought out the vegetables to be cooked. Several people gathered around the briquette stove and put vegetables into the pot.

As soon as the mutton and tofu were cooked for the first time, the door of the house was suddenly opened, and the four people turned to look over.

(End of this chapter)