cook maid concubine

Chapter 150
The girl curled her lips, showing a trace of disdain, then turned around and left.

He Xiaoxiao trembled at the corner of her mouth, looked at the girl's back, she was so angry that tears came out, she stomped her feet and said, "They, they... are too much."

But Qian Hongxian felt nothing, and only motioned He Xiaoxiao and Lin Yuyan to take those things into the small kitchen that Zhang Guan mentioned in advance.

Although no one has used the small kitchen for a while, it still looks clean. It should be cleaned all the time, and it can be used after a little tidying up.

Qian Hongxian asked He Xiaoxiao to check the ingredients to see which ones could be used, and pick them out first for later use.She wandered around the small kitchen herself, checking what was there.Compared with the outside, the small kitchen is not big, but it should be said that although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.

In addition, she found some dry goods and Chinese herbal medicines in the cabinet in the corner. After checking them, these things are still usable. It seems that this Madam Guan is also a master at making medicinal meals.

Then she found some palace-specific dishes and bowls in the cabinet on the other side. No matter the shape or pattern, they were much more exquisite than the outside.

Seeing this, Qian Hongxian's originally depressed mood suddenly calmed down a lot.

He Xiaoxiao rummaged through the ingredients in the basket, and even though she had a good temper, she couldn't help but throw the basket on the table, and said angrily: "They are deceiving people too much. These ingredients are either bad or rotten. , Picking out all of them is not enough to make a dish."

"Okay, instead of complaining here, why don't you think about what you can do with these things." Qian Hongxian poured out all the ingredients in the basket, and began to choose by herself.

There are quite a lot of ingredients in it, such as celery, spinach, tofu, tofu skin, and some mushrooms and yams, but there are not many that can be picked out and used.In addition, Qian Hongxian found that there was a chicken and a large piece of pork inside.

Seeing the chicken and pork, Qian Hongxian couldn't help but turn cold, and then said to He Xiaoxiao: "Don't worry, these things are enough."

"What can you do with just such a small amount?" He Xiaoxiao pursed her lips. None of the ingredients in it were enough to make a dish, unless she was planning to make assorted dishes.

Qian Hongxian smiled and said, "I'll do as I say." Then he told Lin Yuyan to start washing rice and cooking porridge.I took out some dried chrysanthemums, preserved fruits, red dates, and some walnuts and peanuts from the cabinet I found earlier.

He Xiaoxiao watched her take these things out of the cabinet as if by magic, her eyes lit up, and she finally had a hint of joy.But soon he became worried again: "These can't be cooked!"

Qian Hongxian smiled and said, "You'll know in a while." After speaking, he started to work. First, soak the bean curd in cold water, wash and peel the yam, pat them loose and cut them into pieces.The red dates are pitted and cut in half, and the preserved fruit is cut into cubes.Then mix jujube, preserved fruit, a little sugar and yam.Add appropriate amount of water and flour and mix well.Then roll the mixed stuffing with bean skin and put it on the steamer.

Then pick out a little spinach that was picked out before, and wash it.Put it in a pot of boiling water and take it out.Rinse with cold water and drain the water.Put in the seasoning, mix well, take out the cup for drinking tea, compact it, and put it upside down on a white jade porcelain plate.Then crush the cooked peanuts and sprinkle on the surface.After finishing this, I carved a rabbit with the only carrot and put it on the edge as an embellishment.The whole board suddenly enriched.

Qian Hongxian looked at it, and made another appetizer with the remaining ingredients.

Although there are not many ingredients, Qian Hongxian has given full play to her plate-setting skills, making the dish with a very small portion more pleasing to the eye.

After finishing this, Qian Hongxian calculated the time, opened the previous steamer, took out the bean curd rolls inside, dipped his hands in cold water and used a drawer cloth to pinch the stuffed oily skin rolls while they were still hot, straighten them into a round shape, let them cool and cut them Put the pieces into the oil pan, and take them out when they are deep-fried until they are burnt brown.Add a little oil, water, sweet-scented osmanthus, and white sugar to another pan and cook over a low heat to make syrup. Pour in the fried curly fruit, wrap it in sugar juice, and sprinkle white sesame seeds and walnuts.

For a while, the small kitchen was full of aromas.

An hour later, Qian Hongxian put the boiled chrysanthemum porridge into a bowl, and then the fried fruit rolls, baby spinach with sesame oil, a plate of appetizers, a plate of vegetarian roast chicken, and a bowl of double-eared Ganoderma lucidum soup Put together in a food box.After finishing this, he asked He Xiaoxiao to go outside to see if anyone who brought the old lady breakfast had come.

He Xiaoxiao went out and walked around and came back and said that he didn't see anyone.

Qian Hongxian couldn't help showing doubts. She had inquired specifically yesterday that the old lady usually sent someone to pick up breakfast at this time.

Lin Yuyan's expression was a little dignified, she glanced at Qian Hongxian and said, "Let me go out and have a look!"

"I'm with you." Qian Hongxian also untied the kneecap on her body, and walked out with Lin Yuyan.

As soon as he walked to the door, he saw Guanshi Li coming out of the small kitchen next door. Qian Hongxian hurriedly greeted her and said, "Guanshi Li, are you done too?" A little fierce, and seemed to have a little hatred, and then walked past her without looking sideways.

Li Guanshi looks about 30 years old this year. I heard that her husband is also the steward of the palace.The couple gave birth to a daughter, and they were married years ago, so she married the youngest son of the accountant of the Wangfu. Now the whole family can be regarded as a prominent figure in the Wangfu.

Qian Hongxian reckoned that those leftovers should have been given to him by the other party. After all, if he really wanted to investigate the lack of kitchen ingredients, the first person to investigate was the person in charge of purchasing.Everyone knows that the kitchen is the place with the most oil and water, especially the person in charge of purchasing. If this job is lost, the loss will be more than a little bit. No wonder she looks at herself like that.

This is just the beginning. If she wants to gain a firm foothold in the East Kitchen, she will have to fight a lot of tough battles in the future. Thinking about it, she feels so depressed!
Qian Hongxian took a deep breath, and said it silently in her heart: others have abused me thousands of times, and I treat others like first love.After consoling himself, he continued to walk outside with a smile.

Compared with coming in in the morning, the staff in the east kitchen is obviously much less at once.The doors of the other small kitchens were also closed, and there seemed to be no one there. The more Qian Hongxian looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he grabbed a girl who was cleaning and asked, "The Bodhi House is responsible for providing meals for the old lady. Has the man not come yet?"

The girl raised her head and glanced at her with disdain in her eyes, and said in a cold tone: "Sister Yun Ruo who is beside the old lady has already taken back the old lady's breakfast."

"You said that someone has taken back the old lady's breakfast?" Qian Hongxian frowned, thought for a while and soon realized what was going on. Looking at the girl, she didn't know what to say for a while. .He Xiaoxiao said in surprise from the side: "But we have just finished it, and we didn't see the person you said?"

The girl looked very impatient, she pulled back her sleeve from Qian Hongxian's hand roughly and said, "I don't know if you ask me, anyway, I already left."

He Xiaoxiao was about to argue with the other party, but Qian Hongxian stopped him and said, "Forget it."

He Xiaoxiao glared at the girl's direction angrily, and said unwillingly, "Why forget it? It's fine if they don't give us the ingredients. We spent a whole morning working hard to make these, and they said casually What does it mean someone has already taken it?"

Qian Hongxian glanced in the direction of the other small kitchens behind her, and said calmly, "There should be other work in charge."

He Xiaoxiao exclaimed in surprise: "What? How could they do this? The prince clearly said that we were responsible for cooking for the old lady. They, they... didn't they deliberately take away our work?"

Qian Hongxian glanced at her calmly and said, "What's the hurry? You also said that we were brought back by the prince to cook for the old lady, not to mention that the old lady nodded in person, so someone will naturally ask about this matter. If they want to do it, just let them do it." Left and right won't keep doing it.

Qian Hongxian noticed that since this girl came to Beijing, her temper became more and more irritable, which is not good.

He Xiaoxiao said with a bitter face: "How can we not be in a hurry? What if they talk nonsense in front of the old lady, making the old lady mistakenly think that we don't want to cook, and we don't want us to cook in the future?"

Qian Hongxian said indifferently: "What can I do? I don't need to cook, and I have a silver collar, isn't it great?"

He Xiaoxiao was about to cry in a hurry, "What's the matter, if we really don't want to cook at that time, we can only be like other people, sweeping the floor, washing vegetables and so on, it's rare that you really don't care at all. Don't you worry?"

"That's pretty good." Qian Hongxian replied calmly.

How could this man be so open-minded?

He Xiaoxiao was speechless for a moment, and stared at her blankly. At first, she thought she was just joking, but the more she looked at her, the more serious she looked.She really thinks that's good.He Xiaoxiao felt powerless for a while, and only she was worried that it was really not good. After a long while, she pointed to the food box in her hand and said dejectedly: "Then what should I do about these things?"

Qian Hongxian smiled and said: "You have been busy all morning and you haven't eaten anything yet, take it back and let's eat by ourselves."

(End of this chapter)