Rise From the Humble

  Chapter 1638 Evil dignitaries

   "I didn't ask you to donate all your family money, but I just don't want you to have the reputation of being rich and unkind. It would be a bit extravagant for the five of us to eat such a big table of delicacies from mountains and seas..."

  Witch girl Ruoan lacks confidence, and her aura is also weak. If it was the fighting chicken mode at the beginning, it is now the little quail mode.

   Before Li Shu said anything, the girls in the room couldn't listen anymore, and couldn't help but retaliate.

   "If you are a boy or a girl, I advise you to go and see the doctor. What kind of eyes are there, what is rich and unkind, this has nothing to do with our lady and uncle. Our lady and uncle are living Bodhisattvas and great benevolent people."

   "The girls in our house, the old lady, and the servants in the front yard add up to more than a hundred people, all of whom are supported by young ladies and uncles, and our monthly income is more than double that of the nobles in the capital."

"The various industries in our mansion have supported hundreds of shopkeepers and assistants, and their salaries are more than half higher than those of other shops, indirectly supporting thousands of them to join in, so that their whole family has no worries about food and drink, and lives an enviable life. Live well."

"What's more, my lady has opened a lot of pharmacies called 'People's Medicine Hall' in many places. They provide free consultations and free medicines for poor people who can't see a doctor. I don't know how many people benefit from it every year. Countless lives."

   "My son-in-law served as an official, benefiting one side, saving floods and fighting Japanese pirates, and tens of millions of people have benefited from my son-in-law."

   "The young lady opened the people's medicine hall?" The demon girl Ruonan couldn't help being surprised when she heard what the girls said.

At the beginning, there was a people’s pharmacy in Jingnan. Although it didn’t open for a long time, it was very famous because it gave free consultations and free medicines to ordinary people who could not afford to see a doctor, and saved many poor people. Dashantang.

   Yingtian also has a common medicine hall.

  A few days ago, she also discovered that there was a new common people's pharmacy in Taohuaji Town, and it also offered free consultations to ordinary people who couldn't afford to see a doctor.

   It turned out to be Li Shu who opened it.

   "Also, this table of food is a waste? Hehe, if a man and a girl have been to other rich and wealthy families, they will know how frugal my young lady and uncle are."

"That's right, you're just ignorant. If you've seen the lives of other officials and wealthy families, you wouldn't say that. You can't get tired of fine food, and you can't get tired of fine meat. That's the most basic thing. What kind of eggplant (xiǎng) and stuffed bean sprouts? Not to mention boiled water and white cabbage, any meal would be many times richer than this. Not to mention, this is the reunion of my young lady and uncle, a family reunion banquet."

"These dishes are all ordinary meals, and they don't cost a few taels of silver in total. My uncle lives in a fourth-rank official residence, with a monthly salary of twenty shi; Not counting the dividends that our master gives to the young lady from time to time every year. According to the conditions of my young lady and uncle, it is normal for every meal to be full of gold and jade. If you let other people know about such meals at the reunion banquet, you still don’t know Why are you laughing at my uncle and miss for being stingy behind your back?"

   "If my master knows that my young lady is so frugal, he will be so distressed that he can't eat, and he will definitely send someone to give the young lady money."

   All the girls said in a hurry.

   "Ahem." The witch Ruonan was beaten by the girls, and her momentum became weaker, and her confidence became even weaker.

  But she still insisted, "It's not as exaggerated as you said. Eggplant, stuffed bean sprouts, and boiled white cabbage. Are other officials and rich people also living frugally? They just eat eggplant, bean sprouts, and white cabbage."

  Witch girl Ruo just finished her voice when she found that the whole room was quiet, and when she looked up, she saw a group of maids and women looking at her as if they were aliens.

   "Am I wrong? Isn't it just eggplant, bean sprouts and white cabbage?" The witch Ruonan raised her eyebrows.

   "Hehe, Ruoan girl, do you know how to make eggplants?" A girl rolled her eyes and asked with a sneer.

   "It's just an eggplant, how can it be complicated and wasted? At most, you can eat eggplants without the skin, or eat young eggplants?"

  The enchantress Ruonan said disapprovingly.

   "Hehe, it's not complicated, that is, peel the small eggplants that have just come down, remove the flesh, and only use the eggplant meat inside"

  The little girl said.

   "That's right, it's just peeling and removing the flesh." The witch Ruonan shrugged her shoulders and interrupted the little girl.

   "Miss Ruonan, listen to me." The little girl sneered.

   "Say it, I'll listen." The witch Ruonan disagreed.

"After peeling and removing the flesh from the tender eggplant, cut the eggplant meat into small cubes, then freshly slaughter three fat and beautiful old hens over the age of five, take the chicken oil in the chicken belly and boil it into oil, and put the diced eggplant in the oil Fry in a pan until fragrant and set aside, then freshly slaughter two half-year-old pullets, take the two tenderest chicken **** and cut into cubes, then soak the dried pine mushrooms and chop into cubes, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, five-spice tofu Dried and dried fruits of various colors are all diced, simmered in chicken soup, poured with sesame oil to collect the juice, then poured some bad oil and mixed well, and finally put it in a blue and white porcelain jar, and when it is time to eat, take it out and mix it with five spices Once the chicken feet are mixed, they can be served on a plate. Ruo Nan girl, what do you think of this eggplant dish? It’s just peeled? Hehe.”

  The little girl explained step by step how to make eggplant to the demon girl Ruonan in detail.

  After listening to the demon girl Ruonan, the corners of her mouth twitched several times.

This cold eggplant actually consumes three five-year-old hens, two and a half-year-old pullets, as well as precious dried matsutake, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, five-spice curd, dried fruits of various colors, as well as chicken soup and sesame oil. , bad oil, five-spice chicken feet. All evil dignitaries, all evil rich people, really enjoy it!

   "Ahem, the stuffed bean sprouts should be simpler, right?" It took a long time for the witch Ruonan to recover from the eggplant.

   "Hehe, brewing bean sprouts doesn't cost money, it just takes effort." Another little girl glanced at the demon girl Ruo Nan, and giggled.

   "How much effort does it take to make a dish?" The enchantress Ruonan didn't think much of it. In her mind, she would spend most of her time choosing good bean sprouts that are white, tender and crystal clear.

   "For this dish, bean sprouts are selected first, and the heads and tails are removed, leaving only the white, tender and crystal-clear sprouts," the little girl said.

  Well, I have to pinch the head and the tail. Although it is troublesome, it won’t take much effort.

  The witch Ruonan still didn't take it seriously when she heard this.

"Then use shrimp eye water, that is, when the water has been boiled until the bottom of the pot has bubbled and has not boiled, quickly put in the bean sprouts and blanch the water. If the temperature is too high, the blanched bean sprouts will not be crispy; put the blanched bean sprouts Drain the bean sprouts, use a toothpick to pass through the middle of the bean sprouts, and then embed a hair-thin ham. The toothpick that wears the bean sprouts is very particular, it must be soaked in salt water, and you need to change a toothpick once you wear it. It is necessary to add flavor to the bean sprouts without mixing flavors, each bean sprouts is unique; the ham is more particular, must use fat pigs that grew up with distiller's grains from snacks, smoked and roasted ham with fruit wood branches and pine branches, must be The most precious ham is the upper ham, and it must be steamed with top honey. The bean sprouts stuffed in this way are quickly fried on high heat, and this stuffed bean sprouts is ready.”

  The little girl wrung her fingers and preached to the witch Ruonan step by step.

It doesn’t cost money, pigs have to eat distiller’s grains to grow up, how much distiller’s grains have to eat, pigs have to be raised to be big enough to smoke ham, and bean sprouts need to be threaded with toothpicks one by one and embedded with shredded ham. What a waste of life!

   "Where's the boiled cabbage?" The little girl is going to explain the method of boiling cabbage to the witch Ruonan.

   "No need, it must be a waste of money and effort." The enchantress Ruonan waved her hand to stop the little girl's narration.

  Witch girl Ruonan suspects that if she continues to listen, her mentality will explode.

  It seems that compared with other dignitaries and wealthy families, Zhu Ping'an and the others are indeed saving a lot.

  (end of this chapter)