peasant young lady

Chapter 138 Lotus Leaf Chicken Rice
"Second sister, you."

Just as Cheng You was about to speak, Cheng Xia hurriedly hissed, Cheng You closed his mouth cautiously, Cheng Xia listened coldly to Cheng Shang slandering Mrs Zhang in the back room, stood there for a while, then went straight into the kitchen to marinate chicken went.

Remove the bones from the chicken and cut it into very small pieces. The chicken has already been cleaned and there is no need to soak it in water to remove the blood. Cheng Xia directly put the chopped chicken into the basin and poured Cooking wine, salt, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, pepper, and Chinese prickly ash were marinated together with minced ginger, onion and garlic. Cheng Xia put the marinated chicken aside, and cut the only shiitake mushrooms and carrots in the kitchen into equal pieces. The size of the small Ding, set aside for later use.

After the ingredients were prepared, Cheng Xia soaked the rice she brought with water, and then put it on the stove to start steaming the rice. She was going to make a lotus leaf chicken rice.In the previous life, Cheng Xia's father made it, and she liked it very much. She always wanted to try it in ancient times, but it's not the season of lotus blooming. Now it's ready, so naturally she can't miss this dish.

Seeing through the kitchen window that the big flowers outside had cleaned the lotus and lotus leaves, Cheng Xia walked out of the kitchen, but bumped into Cheng Shang who had left the back room. Cheng Shang was obviously startled, and Cheng Xia Seeing her terrified appearance, I found it funny. It seems that Mrs. Zhang and Cheng You didn't tell her that they were at home just now. It's really embarrassing to say bad things behind people's back and be caught straight when they turn around. ah.

But who is Cheng Shang, who would not take Cheng Xia seriously, she snorted coldly, and sat directly on the chair, drinking tea with the old god.

Cheng Xia didn't bother to look at her face, so she called out to Dahua to let her bring the lotus and leaves into the house. When Cheng Shang saw it, he immediately sneered, and shouted loudly to Mrs. Zhang in the back room, " Mother, my little sister brought this thing you picked up casually for no money to see you, it's really outrageous."

"Young girl is not." Dahua anxiously wanted to explain, Cheng Xia directly dragged her into the kitchen, it was unnecessary to talk to such a person.

"I don't know how to flatter you." Cheng Shang followed closely to the kitchen, looked at the marinated chicken on the cutting board, and jumped up immediately, "Who told you to use it? Are you ruining the food? I'm going to tell mother." He could take this chicken home when he left, why did Cheng Xia use it now, damn it.

"I can't use the things I bought myself. Why don't I bring them back to you? It's a dream!" Cheng Xia replied coolly, then turned around and cut the tenderloin in half with a knife. What are you going to do, is this also what you brought?"

"Of course." Cheng Xia didn't even bother to turn her head back to talk to her, and chopped the tenderloin into pieces, chopping one piece and then chopping another piece.

"Eldest sister, what did you bring here?" Dahua couldn't help asking, seeing Cheng Shang wishing she could eat her younger sister.

"Hmph," Cheng Shang stared at Da Hua coldly, turned and left.

As soon as Cheng Shang left, he saw Cheng You appearing at the door of the kitchen, and whispered to the two people who were busy in the kitchen, "Eldest sister brought two buns, and said they cost a lot of copper coins, and told mother to hide them, don't let them I stole it with my sister-in-law."

cut!Cheng Xia shrugged and glared at Cheng Xia, "You're young, don't keep spreading the word, go out and play."

"Okay," Cheng You saluted mischievously, and took orders to go out.

Cheng Xia asked Dahua to continue chopping the tenderloin into the form of stuffing for buns, and then Cheng Xia began to process the skins of the buns.

Crush half of the lotus and squeeze out the juice, then put a small half of the flour in the juice and stir well, and wait until the flour turns pink and keep it awake.Spinach was planted in the yard, Cheng Xia picked some, squeezed out the juice, put the same amount of flour into the spinach juice, kneaded it to wake it up, and finally made pure flour without any mixture to continue to wake it up Then, he stretched a little.

"What are you going to do, little girl?" Da Hua chopped the stuffing for the buns, watched Cheng Xia knead three kinds of dough, and asked curiously.

"Make three-color steamed buns, put pink, green and white together, so that they look like lotus flowers, very beautiful."

"How?" Dahua asked anxiously.

Cheng Xia tried the dough, and spread out the three pieces of dough when it was almost done. The pink, green and white pieces did not blend together, but the pieces of dough stuck to each other, so that the colors were distinct and would not be mixed.

Cheng Xia made more than a dozen bun skins, Dahua started wrapping them, and planned to steam them in a pan after wrapping them up, Cheng Xia quickly stopped them, seeing that Dahua was puzzled, Cheng Xia quickly mixed the chicken that had just been marinated with the preparation Stir-fry the diced mushrooms and carrots in an oil pan, then put the steamed and cooled dry rice on the bottom of the lotus leaves to spread a layer, spread the fried chicken, mushrooms and carrots on top of the rice, and wrap the lotus leaves Form it into a square, press it with something, and then give it to Dahua, let her steam it with the three-color buns.

The three-color steamed stuffed bun and lotus-leaf chicken rice came to an end. Cheng Xia started to wrap lotus petals with batter to make deep-fried lotus flowers, and Da Hua started to prepare some other simple side dishes, so that the family would not be afraid of not having enough food.

Cheng Xia wiped the surface of the cleaned lotus petals with a clean cloth to ensure that there were no drops of water on the petals, and then began to put the petals into the batter, wrapped them and put them in a frying pan.

Wipe off the water droplets on the petals to ensure that the petals fully wrap the batter. If there are water droplets, the batter will easily slip off and fry.

After frying the lotus and putting it on a plate, Cheng Xia sprinkled some salt and pepper on it, and asked Dahua to try it. Dahua said it was delicious, and Cheng Xia was satisfied.

It happened that Father Cheng and Cheng Zuo both came back from the field, and they were curious to smell the scent coming out of their home. Seeing Cheng Xia bring delicious and delicious meals to the table, their eyes widened .

The aroma of fried lotus is tangy, and the three-color steamed stuffed bun is exquisite, especially when Cheng Xia brought the lotus leaf chicken rice to the table and opened the tightly wrapped lotus leaf, Cheng You salivated, "Second sister, smell good."

"Sweet fart!" Cheng Shang sat next to him and snorted disdainfully. She has always been the center of the family, and she does not allow this person who is trampled by her to receive more attention. "Why don't you use the things at home as yourself of."

Hearing Cheng Shang's words, Father Cheng's face suddenly changed, and Cheng Xia chuckled, "Father, I saw that my mother was not in good health, so I brought two pieces of tenderloin and a bag of rice to see my mother, this chicken is also Last time at the market, I bought some for my sister-in-law to bring back to honor my parents."

Father Cheng's expression softened a lot, and he nodded in satisfaction.

Cheng You helped Mrs. Zhang up and sat on the chair. When Cheng Shang saw Mother coming, he hurriedly said, "Mother, I brought two buns for you and Dad, and they cost three Wen each."

Da Hua curled her lips, "My little sister bought more than [-] Wen for these things."

"What do you mean!" Cheng Shang immediately slapped the table angrily.

"Sit down for me!" Father Cheng said, "It's rare for our family to have a good meal today. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will get out of here."

Cheng Shang stopped talking, Cheng Xia smiled, and handed each of the three-color buns to Mrs. Cheng and Mrs. Zhang, "Father and mother, try it, the green one on the bun skin is spinach juice, and the pink one is lotus juice. The stuffing inside is made by my sister-in-law, pork and mushrooms, try it to see if it tastes good."

Father Cheng was very satisfied with Cheng Xia's actions. He took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun. The skin was thin and the filling was filled with gravy. Smile at Cheng Xia.

Cheng Shang looked angry and gritted his teeth, "Mom, why don't you take out the buns I bought for you and give them to Dad?"

Mrs. Zhang took a spoonful of lotus leaf chicken rice and tasted it, with a gratified smile on the corner of her mouth, and then she said gently to Cheng Shang, "Your father and I ate vegetarian buns in the morning, and we will have it in the evening."

"Have you eaten?" Cheng Shang was puzzled, "Mother, is our family's condition so good?"

"Girl Xia bought it." Mrs. Zhang patted Cheng Shang's hand, knowing that she had a lot of resentment towards Cheng Xia in her heart, but she was no longer like before, she just listened to what Shang Er said.

Cheng Shangqi's chest was smoking, and his teeth were itching with hatred, "Little sister, why didn't I know you were so rich."

"Eldest sister doesn't know much." Cheng Xia said with a pun.

Mrs. Zhang quickly glanced at Cheng Xia, afraid that she would tell about Liu Wen.Cheng Xia curled her lips, this mother still hurts Cheng Shang so much.

"Little sister," Cheng Shang resisted the obvious change in the attitude of his parents, and said to Cheng Xia with a smile, "Since you are so rich now, let me lend you some money, and when your brother-in-law buys a house, I will give you all and take it in.”

"Oh," Cheng Xia raised her eyebrows and looked at Cheng Shang with a smile, and asked with interest, "How much do you borrow?"

"Not much, not much, just 100 taels." Cheng Shang said with a smile when he heard that there was something interesting.

"100 taels!" Dahua opened her mouth wide, "Sister, you are robbing."

"Well," Cheng Xia followed Dahua's nod, "Eldest sister may think that 100 taels is nothing, but elder sister, if I have this money, I can go to the county town to buy a house by myself, and I even need to lend it to my brother-in-law. That's right , Didn’t it mean that my mother could buy the house and land for my brother-in-law, why is my eldest sister still raising money everywhere.”

Cheng Shang chuckled, and waved his hands awkwardly, "Your brother-in-law wants to buy a house by himself to be filial to your mother, without using your mother's money."

"Oh, if you don't use your mother's, why not use mine? Didn't you say you have to buy it yourself?" Cheng Xia said coolly.

Cheng Shang completely shut up, and stared at Cheng Xia bitterly, wishing he could tear her to pieces.

Cheng Xia ate in a good mood. It turned out that Liu Wen hadn't given up on this idea. It seemed that there would be another good show in the future.

After eating and drinking, he was pestered by Cheng You until it was dark. Cheng Xia picked some lotus flowers and lotus leaves along the way, thinking about bringing them to Yang Dalang in the evening. When he entered the house, Cheng Xia was Seeing Yang Lihua and Headhunter Yang chatting in front of Yang Lihua's door, Yang Lihua was quite proud, while Headhunter Yang was very anxious.

(End of this chapter)