Meal Sweet Home: Farm Lady

Chapter 9 Neighborhood Race Campbell

Yangzhou Egg Fried Rice was also known as Broken Golden Rice in the Sui Dynasty. After repeated stir-frying with rapeseed oil, the grains of rice and the beaten eggs turned golden yellow, just like broken rice. It is like gold, so it is called Broken Gold Rice.

Now is not the time to study the long history of Yangzhou egg fried rice, but how to make a plate of innovative egg fried rice that the ancients have never heard of.

Nan Yan with an excited face began to prepare.

The 21 yuan bowl of egg fried rice in the five-star hotel in the 2000st century uses selected Thai basmati rice, which is generally large in size, transparent in color and uniform in density.

In such an ancient time that was still very closed to the outside world, it was absolutely impossible to use Thai fragrant rice.Nan Yan could only use the ready-made white japonica rice in the kitchen instead. Although it was just ordinary white japonica rice, she still carefully selected the better rice grains one by one by candlelight.

After choosing the rice for a long time, I finally had half a bowl of rice, and Nan Yan's forehead was slightly sweaty.

"Okay, the next step is to soak for half an hour!" Nan Yan smiled and washed the selected white japonica rice in the water, and then put it aside to soak.

"Hot water, I want to take a bath." Nan Yan was busy with high spirits, while Qi Yuhao gave another order.

Fortunately, Nan Yan boiled the hot water while selecting rice, so she knew that the clean freak would yell for a bath.

She carried a small bucket of water to the side of the screen where Qi Yuhao took a bath, put it down, turned around and walked out of the room without saying a word.

"You...fill me with water."

Nan Yan's abnormal state made Qi Yuhao a little speechless. If it was normal, Nan Yan would find something to say when she had nothing to say, and would always ask him about something.

"I'm busy, I'm not free!" Nan Yan replied as she walked away without turning her head.

Qi Yuhao thought to himself, could it be that tonight she said that the dinner she made was unpalatable, and her tone was a bit harsh, so this little girl took it to heart and got angry?

He shook his head, thinking that a woman is a woman, and her heart is small.He reluctantly stood up from the clear water, exposing his white and stylish upper body, bent down to pick up the bucket of hot water that Nan Yan had just brought, and slowly added it to the bathtub.

After Nan Yan came out of the room where Qi Yuhao was bathing, she went straight to the kitchen.The next step required the use of eggs. She reached out from the high platform to get down to the egg basket, and found that there was no egg in it.

"What can I do, I need eggs right now." Nan Yan muttered to herself, scratching her ears and cheeks helplessly.

She suddenly remembered that Aunt Zhang next door had more than a dozen fat grass chickens at home, and that the kind and easy-going Aunt Zhang took good care of her and Qi Yuhao on weekdays. Nan Yan thought of borrowing some eggs from her.

Nan Yan pushed open the fence door of Aunt Zhang's house at night and found candles burning in her kitchen.

"Aunt Zhang, Aunt Zhang, are you home?"

"Hey, here! Which one?" Aunt Zhang responded, wiped her hands on her gray apron, and walked out of the kitchen, "Oh, it's Yanwazi."

Aunt Zhang's eldest son is two years older than Nan Yan, so whenever she sees the sweet and lovely Nan Yan, she can't help but affectionately call her "baby".

"Aunt Zhang, it's me." Nan Yan walked up two steps with a smile.

Aunt Zhang smiled all over her face, and asked, "Yanzi, it's so late, what can I do with Auntie?"

Nan Yan showed a look of embarrassment, and said, "I want to borrow some eggs from auntie, I'm..."

"Oh, eggs, Auntie thought it was a big deal." After speaking, Auntie Zhang turned around with a smile and went back to the kitchen to get it before Nan Yan finished speaking.

After a while, Aunt Zhang came out with a basket of eggs, and there were about twenty eggs in it.

Seeing this, Nan Yan quickly waved her hands, "Auntie, there are too many eggs, I only need a few at the moment. When Qi Yuhao comes back from the market tomorrow, buy them and return them to you."

As she said that, Nan Yan was going to take some eggs out of the basket.

Aunt Zhang put her hands away, shrank the egg basket back, pretending to be unhappy and said: "Why don't you return it, this basket of eggs was originally picked up by the aunt to send to you. The day before yesterday, my youngest child and a few children I went to play in the fish pond at the entrance of the village, and my foot slipped and fell into the pond. If Brother Yuhao hadn’t passed by there and rescued my Yaowazi, my Yaowazi would have died a long time ago.”

The Yaowazi in Aunt Zhang's mouth is Xiangmei, the youngest daughter of her family, who is 12 years old this year.There are three sons and one daughter in Aunt Zhang's family, so the only little daughter is very much loved.

And this thing?Nan Yan recalled that Qi Yuhao was really wet the day before yesterday, and there was still a lot of mud on the hem of the brocade robe. It took Nan Yan a long time to wash the robe to clean it.

Nan Yan asked him what was going on, Qi Yuhao glanced at her, and walked away without saying a word.This may be Qi Yuhao's personality, no matter he has done a good thing or a bad thing, he feels that there is nothing to talk about.

"No, no." Nan Yan came back to her senses and continued to evade, "He saved Meier, that's what he should do, anyone who meets him will go up and help."

"You can't say that, Brother Yuhao is really a good man. A month ago, my man took three boys in the family to go out to sea with the merchant fishing boat. It took about [-] days to go there. My sister and my wife were the only ones at home. Those few days It has been raining heavily, and the house is leaking, thanks to the help of Brother Yuhao. People say that the neighborhood is good, and Sai Jinbao is right."

Nan Yan really didn't expect Qi Yuhao to have Aunt Zhang speak so well.In her eyes, this guy is just an idler who only wants to have fun all day long, has a picky taste bud, and has a good skin.

"Take this egg, don't be polite back and forth with auntie. Auntie has a lot of chickens, so I don't care about it. If I need help in the future, I might have to trouble you."

Nan Yan really couldn't resist Aunt Zhang, so she had no choice but to accept it openly.

"Thank you, auntie! Auntie, what are you working on in the kitchen this evening? It smells like chicken soup, right?" Nan Yan asked curiously when she found a basket of eggs.

"That's right, it's chicken soup. Yanwazi has a really good nose. My Yaowazi has been running a fever since she fell into the water, and I've given her some rice cereal these days. The fever subsided just now, and she asked for chicken soup, so I told her now." She did the killing." Aunt Zhang explained.

"Yes, yes, Mei'er fell into the water and became cold, so she should drink hot soup to make up for it." Nan Yan agreed.

In fact, in this ancient rural area, every family valued male children, and female children had no status in the family.This Xiangmei was very lucky, she was reincarnated into Aunt Zhang's house, not only the above three were elder brothers, but she was also the youngest, so of course she was very favored.

"Yanwazi, come in and get half a bowl and try it. You look thin, and your little arms are not as thick as my Yaowazi's big arms." As she said, Aunt Zhang enthusiastically pulled Nanyan into the kitchen.

"No, no, this is for Mei'er to replenish her body, I don't need it..."

Although Nanyan kept trying to evade, in the end the small slim board was dragged into the kitchen by the sturdy Aunt Zhang without any difficulty.

Entering the kitchen, the aroma of chicken soup wafting from the large stove is even more enticing.

Nan Yan thought to herself, don't be too polite, it's true that she hasn't had chicken soup for a long time, so it's worth getting half a bowl.

Aunt Zhang lifted the lid of the pot, and the hot steam rushed straight into the air, overflowing with aroma.Holding a small bowl, she used a spoon to skim off the thick layer of oil floating on the chicken soup, and scooped the clear yellow chicken soup into the bowl.

"Enough, enough, we agreed to try half a bowl." Seeing that the bowl of chicken soup that Aunt Zhang scooped up was almost half full, Nan Yan hurried forward to grab the bowl and stopped letting her fill it.

Aunt Zhang smiled, and poured a little salt into Nan Yan's bowl, "Drink it, this chicken is freshly killed, so it's fresh."

Nan Yan nodded, happily took a sip while blowing on the cold.While enjoying the delicious chicken soup, she still did not forget to praise Aunt Zhang for her cooking skills, which made Aunt Zhang laugh from ear to ear.

Nan Yan was drinking chicken soup at the side, and Aunt Zhang scraped the thick layer of oil floating on the chicken soup with a spoon, and was about to pour it into the sewage bucket next to her.

"Auntie, don't, why did you pour out the oil?" Seeing this, Nan Yan quickly stopped Aunt Zhang, "This chicken oil is a good thing."

Aunt Zhang smiled, and said helplessly: "It's not because of my sister-in-law. She doesn't eat a little meat oil, lard, chicken oil, etc. She can eat it in one bite and then vomit. The aunt's family cooks only You can use canola oil."

So it is!For the sake of little sister Yao, the whole family only eats vegetable oil.At this moment, Nan Yan suddenly thought of something, and her eyes lit up.

"Auntie, don't waste this oil, give it to me, I need it." Nan Yan had already finished the chicken soup in the bowl, and handed an empty bowl to Aunt Zhang.

"Yes, I can take it back for you to use." Aunt Zhang suddenly realized.

Because the neighbors in the past were not of good temper, Aunt Zhang had never had any interaction with them.Now that Nan Yan and Qi Yuhao live next to each other with enthusiasm, it can be said to be a great blessing.

Aunt Zhang took the bowl, and carefully skimmed the thick layer of oil on the chicken soup into the small bowl, filling most of the bowl in a short while.

"Yan baby, take it!" Aunt Zhang handed the bowl of chicken oil back to Nan Yan for a face-to-face kiss.

"Thank you, auntie, you are really the best person I've ever met." As she said that, Nan Yan approached Auntie Zhang affectionately, making her giggle.

Taking a basket of straw eggs and a bowl of golden pure chicken oil, Nan Yan walked out of Aunt Zhang's kitchen contentedly, ready to bid farewell and leave.

"Auntie, tell Mei Er to let her recuperate well. When she recovers, come and play with Sister Yan." Nan Yan and Xiang Mei had met in the past. Apart from the four-year difference between the two, they have very similar personalities. hit it off.

"Understood, Auntie will tell Sister Yao. Be careful on your feet, don't spill chicken oil." Aunt Zhang reminded, then narrowed her eyes and said, "Yanzi, brother Yuhao is really a rare good person, you She looks so handsome, she is really a golden boy and a jade girl."

Nan Yan understood the meaning of Aunt Zhang's last words, turned around and gave her a hey smile, and left in a daze.

(End of this chapter)