fish street dad

The Orangery is worthy of being the favorite of the Holy Majesty today. Even in the early spring when the flowers have not sprouted, the inside is full of beautiful flowers, splendid and splendid, a royal garden scenery.

Although the emperor specially granted the Orangery to them to live temporarily in order to improve the status of the eldest son in the eyes of the clan, but the Orangery covers a very large area, and it is impossible for them to run around at will. The inner prisoner took them to a place The courtyard named "Tonghuatang", this is the courtyard rewarded by His Majesty for them to live temporarily.

"It's so stingy~ I thought it was a whole yard, but I didn't expect it to be such a small yard!" Uncle Yulin muttered, but was pinched by his elder nephew, and shut up immediately.

In the eyes of the emperor's uncle, Tonghuatang is just a "small courtyard", but in Bai Chunsheng's view, it is a super luxurious villa with its own small park!

No way, who would let a small row house with an area of ​​more than 100 square meters be called a "luxury house" in their time and space?

There are a total of three entrances in the Tonghua Hall, about a dozen rooms, and there are delicate small gardens in the front and back, which are self-contained after closing the door. There are two huge paulownia trees in the courtyard.After the inner eunuchs brought them back, they left and went back to the palace to resume the order, and the steward who looked after the orangery came to serve them.

The stewards here should be His Majesty's confidantes, and the attitude towards them can be seen. His Majesty values ​​them, and the stewards are naturally more respectful to them. A small steward of the outer courtyard, after setting up all the daily necessities, he led the people away tactfully.

After a while, two servants came over with a bamboo basket of tangerines, and they only said that it was a gift from His Majesty. Uncle Yulin rubbed his nose awkwardly, looked at his friend He Lianji, and thought it was because of worry. They went to the cellar in the middle of the night to steal oranges, so why don't they just send some over here to silence them?

They ate lunch together. The chefs in the Orangery were very skilled, and the table was full of delicious food, which whetted everyone's appetites. However, perhaps these dishes were too delicate, and it was not unusual to eat two meals. So, Uncle Yulin ordered his niece and daughter-in-law to help make some fried sauce and dried smoked fish for dinner.

With Dr. Mao, the apricot grove master, Bai Chunsheng's allergic symptoms were quickly relieved. Last night, after applying herbal medicine for the last time, when he got up this morning to take a shower and change clothes, the rash on his body had completely disappeared.

After eating porridge and side dishes for several days, Bai Chunsheng was also a little greedy, and there happened to be Yulin Huangshu who was beside him, so he decided to go buy some river seafood and come back, so that everyone could have a good meal to satisfy their hunger.

Uncle Mao spent the past two days discussing affairs in the palace during the day because of conscription, so Bai Chunsheng, Uncle Yulin, Sanlang, and He Lianji went out to buy ingredients with their wallets in their pockets.

This place is not like their countryside. The open-air vegetable market is just a short walk away. The place where they live now belongs to the core of the core of the imperial city. It is definitely the inner ring of the first ring. Big businessmen didn't dare to come in and disturb them, so they had no choice but to drive the carriage and go all the way to the outer city.

After walking for more than half an hour, I finally found a market for buying and selling seafood!

"It's better to go to Qinghe. If you want to buy fish, you can go to Yujie Street. If you want to eat fresh food, you can walk a few steps to the pier." Uncle Yulin has a more irritable personality and hates traffic jams the most, but Fangshi in the imperial city There were many people and horses and carts, and there were people driving donkey carts, ox carts, and mule carts. There was no traffic police to guide the traffic, so they were stuck on the road for a while and couldn't move.

"How about this, let's get off the car and go buy fish and shrimp first, and ask the driver to drive the carriage to the intersection in Fangshi to wait for us." Bai Chunsheng hadn't encountered a traffic jam for a long time, and he was not used to it for a while. Looking at the time, if he didn't go back, he was afraid that the meal would be delayed in the evening, and worried about starving their cat master, Bai Chunsheng immediately decided to abandon the car and walk to buy vegetables.

Uncle Yulin also nodded in agreement, and the people in the car jumped out of the car, walked through the crowd, and looked at the stalls one by one.

Since a great Confucianist in this dynasty proved that eating more fish and shrimps can lead to a longer life with theory and practice (this mortal lived to be 118 years old), all kinds of fish, shrimps and shellfish have been included in the household. For the daily purchase list of ingredients, the most numerous stalls in the market are the stalls selling all kinds of fresh fish, shrimp, shellfish, and river fresh goods.

Because Uncle Yulin wanted to eat fried sauce, Bai Chunsheng first went to buy two catties of dried shrimps, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find any sellers selling snails, so he had to settle for the next best thing, and bought some dried seafood similar to snail meat. The seller of dried kelp bought another box to take with him.

It's not that they don't like to eat fresh fish and shrimp, it's just that after asking all the way, the prices in Beijing really shock them.

"What? These finger-length shrimps cost two taels of silver a catty?"

"Isn't this fish sold by the catty? By the strip? One string of money?"

"This sea fish doesn't look very fresh, but it costs four taels of silver a catty?"

Thinking that they could buy a bunch of fresh fish just landed in Qinghe for a few dozen copper coins, the stingy shopkeeper Bai silently stuffed the money bag back into his sleeve.

"No wonder Your Majesty wants to reward them with so much silver. In this capital, if there is no silver, I really can't afford it!" Shopkeeper Bai looked at Uncle Yulin Huangshu and Saburo beside him, reluctantly took out his money bag, and bought two Arm-long fresh fish, plus a small basket of leftover shrimp picked by others.

"What meat does this shrimp have besides the shell?" Uncle Fishscale said in distaste.

"Small shrimps taste like small shrimps. Don't worry, Uncle Huang. Have you ever been disappointed by my cooking?" Bai Chunsheng smiled, pretending not to see the super prawns sold for eight taels of silver a catty next to him.

Uncle Yulin swallowed his saliva at the super prawn, turned his head away, eight liang of silver per catty, such a prawn can only weigh a dozen or so at most, and it is not enough to take it back. He has just resumed his title now, and he has It's also a little tight...

He Lianji suppressed his smile, it's not good to take out money at this time to refute Shopkeeper Bai's face, thinking about going out to buy ingredients by himself tomorrow, if the money is not enough... I wonder if I can go out to rob the rich and help the poor tonight?The people living near the orange groves on the left and right are rich and powerful families. If you think about losing some money, you won't be able to break into His Majesty's beloved orange grove to search for suspects, right?

Fortunately, not too far away, I saw someone from the countryside selling loach. The loach usually has a smell of earth when it is cooked. Not many people eat it, and it is cheap to sell. Twenty copper coins a catty, although compared to Qinghe It is several times more expensive, but in the imperial city where the price is often valued in units of "one tael of silver", it is already considered an extremely cheap food.

Bai Chunsheng bought a lot of loach in one go, almost rounding up all the loach sold on the street.The corners of Uncle Yuscale's mouth twitched. There are so many loaches. Does the nephew and daughter-in-law want to make a loach feast?

When he went back, Wang Kunfeng had already returned from the palace, and he brought a basket of fresh sea crabs rewarded by His Majesty, each of which was the size of a small plate, with plump claws, and a lot of meat.

"Brother Huang is in a good mood today?" Uncle Yulin said, there are not many sea crabs of this size even among the tributes. I'm afraid you won't be able to get any of them under the four concubines of the harem, but His Majesty is so willing to do so. A big basket for the eldest nephew?

"The recruitment order to recruit half-demon recruits has been sent out, and the responses from all over the country are enthusiastic. I am afraid that some half-demons will come to Beijing in the near future. The recruit camp is in Xingyuan, fifteen miles outside the city." Wang Kunfeng was still wearing After talking about the complicated and heavy court clothes, he went into the house to change his clothes. This court dress looked majestic, but in fact it was very painful to wear, especially because he had thick hair on his legs, so it was extremely uncomfortable to be tied up by the clothes.

This sea crab doesn't last long, so it must be eaten as soon as possible. Bai Chunsheng looked at the loaches that were still frantically fleeing in the barrel, and decided to let them live for another two days, and eat the sea crab first today.

Different from river crabs with tender meat, sea crabs are slightly thicker, so they are not delicious when steamed. Bai Chunsheng asked He Lianji for help, and used the kitchen knife to tear apart a basket of huge sea crabs , each part is connected with two crab claws, and two large pots are filled.

Heat the oil pan, sprinkle a lot of sliced ​​dried chilies into it, add some hot sauce brought by myself, after the onion, ginger and garlic are fragrant, pour in the sea crab, and instantly, it is fragrant and spicy, with sea crab A delicious smell wafts from the kitchen.

The quiet and elegant Orangery is immediately filled with the mundane aroma of spicy crab.

For the remaining half of the crab meat, Bai Chunsheng cooked a large pot of japonica rice porridge, added shredded ginger and scallions, and when the rice grains inside boiled, he added crab meat and cooked a large pot of crab porridge. This is Sanlang His favorite, they don’t have such big sea crabs as a tribute in a small place like Qinghe. His Majesty finally rewarded some of them. Naturally, Saburo has to eat them to his heart’s content. The meat of sea crabs is more than the crabs they usually eat. Much more!

The bought small shrimps, pick out the impurities and aquatic plants inside, wash them with clean water, heat the oil pan, add green onion and ginger and sauté until fragrant, pour in the washed dried shrimps and stir fry, add two spoons of miso, wait until the dried shrimps turn When it turns red, pour half a pot of hot water into it, bring to a boil over high heat, beat a few eggs and stir evenly, pour in and keep stirring with a wooden spoon to form a beautiful egg flower, add salt to taste, after boiling again, mix the sweet potatoes with cold water Pour in the rice portion slowly, and stir quickly while pouring. When the sweet potato rice portion becomes transparent, sprinkle a handful of chopped green onion on it, and it will be a delicious shrimp soup.

Uncle Yulin was very disgusted with those small shrimps with no meat at first, but when the shrimp soup was cooked, he couldn't wait to drink two big bowls full, and when he wanted to serve it, the soup bowl containing the shrimp soup was already empty up.

"Didn't you buy a lot of dried shrimps? I watched my niece and daughter-in-law make a big pot full of dried shrimp soup! Where's the soup?" Uncle Yulin hopped while holding the empty bowl.

"Uncle Emperor, Your Majesty and several clan relatives are here too..." Wang Kunfeng pointed to the big cats in the garden outside who were squatting on the stone table without raising their heads, and shook his head helplessly.

He didn't know when his father and the clan members came over. By the time he changed his clothes and came out, his family's mussels had already filled several plates of shrimp soup, and ran to the yard to feed the cats.

Shopkeeper Bai was also very innocent. He saw those big cats with bright coats, they didn't look like wild cats. Then he thought that the Orangery where they lived was a royal garden. Maybe these cats were royal cats raised by His Majesty. Seeing that A few big cats squatted on the window sill of the kitchen, staring at the freshly cooked shrimp soup in the pot, and couldn't help but feel soft-hearted, and secretly sent some out for them to eat.

Never thought--

"Then, is that His Majesty and the clan members? Which one is Your Majesty?" Looking at a bunch of big tabby cats with similar coat colors and patterns, the mussel spirit suffered from face blindness in an instant.

"Cough! The one with a tuft of white hair on his forehead is Your Majesty~" Uncle Yuscale was stunned for a moment and then returned to normal. He stood next to his nephew and daughter-in-law with the bowl in his arms. This time he will never leave the cook again, and must guard the kitchen!

Follow the cook to have fish to eat! ! !

His Majesty the Emperor finished eating a plate of shrimp and rice soup, and he was still a little unsatisfied. However, in front of his son and younger brother, it was not easy to be cute and asked his daughter-in-law to ask for food. He squatted next to the empty plate and meowed very coldly. With a sound, he turned around and jumped off the stone table with a few clan relatives and disappeared.

"Your Majesty ordered me to discuss matters with the emperor's study, Chun Sheng, cough! You cook a few more dishes. Your Majesty and the clan members should stay for dinner tonight." Uncle Mao was in a bad mood. To make dinner for so many people and cats, after he goes out to battle, he will let the mussel close the door to thank the guests, and no one will want to come over to eat and drink while he is away!

Shopkeeper Bai heard the words, and looked reflexively at the two buckets of loach hidden in the corner of the kitchen. It seems that these loaches probably won't survive tonight...

To make food for so many cats at once, it is impossible to rely on him alone. He called the cooks from the Orangery to help, first slaughtered and cleaned the loach, and then killed the two fish. After thinking about it, from now on I took out one of the countless clay pots I brought, took out a bowl of sauerkraut, washed it and cut it, and prepared to make a pot of sauerkraut fish and a pot of original fish soup.

After slaughtering the loach, pick out the biggest one, save two dishes, and make a large plate of stewed tofu with braised loach. The delicious loach and tofu soaked in the fresh loach soup exude an attractive aroma.

The medium-sized loach was all braised in soy sauce, and some extra soup was specially reserved, soaked in a handful of vermicelli and sprinkled in, it was a braised loach vermicelli soup.

The smallest loach is fried with egg white and batter. Sprinkle a layer of crushed salt foam on the fried loach. It is the simplest fried loach. The freshly slaughtered loach has the most delicate meat. Yes, it is so crispy that even the bones can be chewed and swallowed.

Smelling the smell of fried loach in the air, His Majesty the Emperor looked at his eldest son with a complicated expression. Unexpectedly, in the end, among his many sons, this was the only one he was least optimistic about, who married a man with such outstanding skills. Daughter-in-law, hum!It's even better than the royal chef's skills in the palace!When I entered the palace a few days ago, I didn't even think about cooking a pot of fish soup for my father...

"Have you discussed the matter? The fish soup for my niece and daughter-in-law is the most delicious..." Uncle Yulin, who had turned into a big cat, fidgeted and walked around the table several times. He had already smelled fresh fish. The smell of sautéing in the pot is gone.

"We'll discuss it tomorrow!" His Majesty the Emperor snorted coldly, glared at his son, and turned into a human behind the screen.

Seeing that His Majesty had turned into a human being, the other clan members also became human one after another. His Majesty the Emperor personally led them to the front hall for dinner.

"My niece and daughter-in-law made fried sauce!" Uncle Yulinhuang's nose was the most sensitive, and when he smelled the familiar fragrance of fried sauce in the air, the whole cat immediately became happy, and his walking pace became much lighter.

Shopkeeper Bai deserves to be a diligent and thrifty housekeeper. Although his cat master asked to invite His Majesty and several clan relatives to dinner, but thinking of the hardships master cat suffered when he was a child, the narrow-minded shopkeeper Bai suddenly became unhappy. In the menu handed over by the steward of the Orangery, he resolutely discarded the high-end seafood imperial meals that cost dozens of taels of silver, and hypocritically told the steward that he wanted His Majesty and clan members to often have their special snacks in Qinghe, so he used ten A catty of shrimp skins for a copper plate, plus worthless shellfish soaked, made a big bowl of fried sauce.

I made another pot of hand-rolled noodles and deep-fried some scallion oil, because I don’t know if His Majesty and the clansmen are still eating in the shape of cats, so I ordered someone to take a shallow plate and scooped some hand-rolled noodles first. , drizzle with scallion oil, scoop a few tablespoons of fried sauce on top and mix well, make a scallion fried noodles, deliberately leave some space beside the plate, put some fried salt and pepper loach on it, the rest of the vegetables They were also distributed according to the head, and just as I was busy, I saw His Majesty the Emperor in a dragon robe bringing the clansmen over.

"Grassmen pay homage to Your Majesty, and to all princes..." It's so hard to be without a title, and you have to salute everyone you see.

"Mianli Pingshen, in a few days you will be married to Dalang. From now on, you and Dalang will call my father the emperor. Come and meet the elders in the family. This is the uncle of Emperor Yong'an, and this is Cheng Ping." Uncle Huang, this is Uncle Cheng An, this is Uncle Cheng Ning." His Majesty the Emperor introduced them one by one, and the Uncle Emperor and the three Uncle Emperors all gave a gift of meeting, a jade pendant that is very valuable at first sight, like a fist For the big gems, the emperor's uncle was the most honest, he took out a stack of bank notes from his sleeve without counting them, stuffed them all into his hands, and asked him to buy some "serious fish" with a smile.

Shopkeeper Bai took the stack of banknotes with a black face. What is "serious fish"?Soul light!You say that, what do you think of loach, yellow eel, clam, snail, razor clam, and sea melon seeds?

Are they not serious fish in love?

Small seafood is also dignified! ! !

"Nephew and daughter-in-law are good at cooking, and everyone will have a good time for the imperial meal!" Uncle Cheng An looked at the meals that had been divided on the table, and swallowed casually, "Your Majesty, I have been busy all day. Now, Your Majesty's dragon body is important, why don't you have a meal first?"

"Let's eat! Dalang's daughter-in-law will also come together." His Majesty the Emperor said kindly.

"Then thank you very much, old man. The food I cook myself requires your permission to eat it?" Shopkeeper Bai silently rolled his eyes in his heart, and sat down obediently. In front of him was Sanlang's favorite fish. Soup.

His Majesty and several clan members couldn't wait to roll up their sleeves and start eating. The butler, who had just ordered someone to go to the wine cellar to fetch His Majesty's favorite orange honey wine, sighed silently when he saw that His Majesty and several clan members had already devoured it. , ordered people to take back the secret orange honey wine made by the palace.

"Nephew and daughter-in-law? What kind of oil is added to this noodle? Why is it so fragrant?"

"This is scallion oil fried with chives. It's the best to make noodles."

"In my opinion, this fried sauce is delicious!"

"Brother Huang, don't you have a lot of fine wine made last year in this Orangery? This fried loach is a rare and delicious dish to drink with, how about..."

The emperor looked at the butler who was waiting beside him, and the butler immediately ordered someone to fetch some stronger green fruit wine. The clan members immediately raised their wine glasses happily. They were all eaten clean.

"Sanlang, hurry up and drink the soup!" Seeing that the elders were all drinking, shopkeeper Bai hurriedly brought a bowl, filled a bowl full of fish soup for Sanlang, and added several pieces of tender meat from the belly of the fish to him. he.

Saburo glanced at him gratefully. It was the first time he had a meal with his father and the elders of the royal family. He had been very nervous since he sat down just now. It's not like Wang Kunfeng, who automatically turned into a rebellious second-year kitten when he was with the emperor. As an obedient meow, Saburo ate today at the same speed as a blind date. The delicious food was almost finished, the shopkeeper Bai felt very sorry for his uncle, and immediately secretly brought some food for him.

Master Cat glared at him unhappily: "Father and clansmen are all watching here. How decent is it for a sister-in-law to flirt with her uncle in public?" !

"Father, why don't you make some appetizers?" Seeing the few dishes on the table disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, Bai Chunsheng couldn't help asking.For the sake of those precious stones and silver tickets, His Majesty and the elders of the royal family must be fed... Cough!It's not that he's stingy, it's that the price of goods in Beijing is too high, he, a small shopkeeper in the countryside who runs a small business, really can't bear to support such a large group of cats!

Upon hearing this, His Majesty the Emperor put down the chopsticks that he had been waving all the time, and gave him a meaningful look, a satisfied smile slowly overflowed his cold eyes: "Darang really found a good wife, go!"

The person in charge is indeed an old man who has served His Majesty for more than ten years. Seeing that His Majesty and clan members love to eat the dishes made by Mr. Bai himself, he immediately ordered someone to send all the urgently purchased first-class seafood to the kitchen. , for Mr. Bai to choose.

Young Master Bai: "..."

If I had known that there were free ingredients available in this orangery, why did the labor and management go out and buy them for themselves? !

With free sponsored ingredients, Shopkeeper Bai, who just said with certainty that "small seafood is as delicious as high-quality seafood", immediately gave up the principle without any moral integrity, and ordered people to dismantle a dozen seafood as big as plates on the spot. Crab, made two large pots of hot and fragrant spicy crab, and fried some simple version of French fries with sweet potato strips. After eating the spicy crab, the French fries underneath were full of spicy The taste of crab soup is even more delicious than crab meat.

Seeing that there was a large fish more than a foot long in the ingredients, I took one out and sliced ​​the fish meat separately, then put the fish head, fish tail and the sliced ​​fish bones together in an oil pan and stir-fried them to make a soup. Put the slices into the soup, and it will be cooked in a moment, and it will be a very delicious sashimi soup.

"Dalang, I think you don't have to return to the fief when you come back from the expedition. His Majesty will definitely give you a mansion when you return to the court after victory. Saburo and Auntie are still young. Where can there be any good masters in the countryside? Come back and live!" After drinking two large bowls of sashimi soup, the emperor's uncle tried to persuade him because of his age.

The emperor silently sighed in his heart, this is the emperor's great uncle, what a pity, he cannot be reprimanded...