Mr. Minguo's kitchen

The weather is getting hotter and it's time to make sour plum soup again.Fenglaiju's Osmanthus Sour Plum Soup has always been the favorite drink of young and old women in Xiangcheng.

This year's sour plum juice was not brewed by Lin Weirui himself, but by his nephews. They boiled a big pot, put the thick sour plum juice into a sealed jar, and put it in the ice cellar for more than half a month.The most authentic way to drink it is without adding any water, and you can still taste the soft taste of ebony, sweet and sour.However, some people think it is too thick, adding some ice cubes or ice water is more suitable for their own taste.

Lin Weirui is greedy for cold and afraid of heat, so she must add ice cubes to drink sweet-scented osmanthus plum juice.

The ice dug in the winter in Baihe River was stored in the cellar until May, and it still did not melt. Take a large piece of ice and put it in a special iron bucket. Put clean spring water in the outer bucket, and add some Lingtan water to the spring water. Baihe ice The block melts to absorb heat, and in a short while the water in the outer bucket is frozen into ice, which can be cut into small ice cubes for later use.This is how people needed ice cubes before refrigerators.

At the moment in the back kitchen, the sounds of knives chopping to sticky boards are endless and full of rhythm. Only Lin Weirui is sitting on a chair with a glass of sour plum juice in his hand. The effort of the hand.

This is an assessment of the batch of help chefs recruited before.Previously, the assistant cook only cut and served vegetables, and had no right or opportunity to learn Youfeng Laiju's cooking skills.Today's assessment is a test of whether they can learn cooking skills with Dabao and the others.

Chefs from Fenglaiju don’t like small tricks like coir raincoat cucumbers, so what they are cutting now are shredded shiitake mushrooms, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shredded ham, shredded chicken and shredded green vegetables. The standard is that each shredded Thin as a hair, the same size.The same size alone is rare enough, let alone one as thin as a hair.

Sure enough, many people were wiped out in the first round, and in the end there were less than ten people left.The next assessment is shredded tofu, that's right, a piece of tender white tofu is cut into hair strands.Before the assessment started, it was Dabao's demonstration. Lin Weirui asked him at this moment: "Do you want to try blind cutting?"

Dabao knew that the young master wanted to show his prestige, so he nodded without hesitation.For a square piece of tofu, the knife is first dipped in water, then sliced, and then gently wiped and shredded with the back of the knife. During this process, Dabao kept his eyes closed. The knife in his hand is not in his hand at the moment, but in his heart. , Every uninterrupted sound of the knife is a perfect cooperation of heart and hand, the unity of heart and matter.The sliced ​​tofu shreds are scattered in the water, and the misty and nimble figure looks like the best landscape ink painting.

Seeing the big brother closing his eyes and cutting, even Xiao Bao was a little surprised, his eyes showed admiration: "The big brother's knife skills have improved again!"

With Mingzhu in front, the next few people's assessments became even more tense.Some people even cut several blocks of tofu.However, after Lin Weirui looked at it, she nodded and agreed to keep five people.The final lighting of the pot is more like a ceremonial procedure for collecting people. Each of them will cook the six shreds cut earlier, and finally add the boiled chicken clear soup and shake it, and the assorted tofu soup will be out of the oven. It has another more famous name - Wensi Tofu.These people are all brought by senior brothers like Dabao, so Lin Weirui won't bother them at all.

It was time for dinner, and everyone in the hotel dispersed to go back to their posts.Lin Weirui looked at the big sun outside, just now she drank another glass of sour plum juice, she really couldn't eat any big fish and meat.He simply made beef balls.After a while, someone will come in and ask him for instructions: "Young master, the commander-in-chief sent someone to say that he will send a car to pick you up for lunch in the camp later."

Lin Weirui was still beating the beef ball in his hand, upon hearing this, he threw the beef ball as Ye Honghu.

"Go back to him, it's hot." Everyone knew that the place where Ye Honghu was staying must be in the open suburbs.

The person who notified was really impressed by the young master's ability to be afraid of heat. It's only May, and the heat is sweating a little from walking outside. Even the baby is not afraid of the sun, but the young master seems to be dehydrated Yu, unwilling to move even half a minute, so lazy that he even swears less.

But the words still need to be brought, he continued to convey: "The commander-in-chief said that the soldiers over there caught a few rare ghost-faced fish when they were fishing, don't you want to go and have a look?"

Lin Weirui's eyes flickered for a moment. The ghost-faced fish is also an anglerfish. This kind of fish is rare and generally lives in the deep sea. It has been hunted and almost extinct in modern times. Even he has never cooked this kind of fish, which is said to be extremely delicious. The ingredients of "foie gras in the sea".

The water in the pot boiled, and mist came out. Lin Weirui squeezed, dug, and threw with her hands. The three actions were done in one go, without a break in the middle. Soon, the beef balls in gray and black clothes were vying for each other. After being scared, they jumped into the boiling water, happily finished the bath at the bottom of the water, slowly floated up to the surface of the water and began to take a sauna. The fine pores and textures serve as a unique decoration.

Pho, called kway teow in the Chaoshan area, is a kind of pure white wide noodles that are steamed and cut into a paste made of rice flour.It is collectively referred to as river fun, but the kway teow is thicker than ordinary river fun, and the slices are wider.A bundle of kuay teow is boiled in the pork bone soup for ten seconds, then scooped up and placed in a wave-patterned blue-glazed sea bowl, and then scooped into another pot of clean pork bone clear soup and the essential beef Pills, with a few blanched green vegetables garnished at the end.

This is what Lin Weirui did in the school cafeteria when he was in high school. Many years later, even if he travels through time and space, he still remembers the taste.Thick pho tastes a bit chewy, and the soup is stained with the taste of pork bone soup, so it is no longer tasteless. After biting down, the beef balls that are red and oily inside, and even the light pork bones The soup is so delicious that it warms your heart.After graduation, he only went back there once. After attending the funeral of the chef of the hotel, he sat alone on a simple iron stool and finished a bowl without disturbing anyone.It was also the last time he returned to the place where he was born.

Lin Weirui packed the lunch she had prepared and took a few side dishes before saying to the messenger soldier who was standing next to him who had been afraid to speak, "Let's go."

Lin Weirui looked strangely at a car from the Marshal's Mansion following behind, "Why is there an extra car later today?"

The driver was Wu Wen's subordinate, he just kept his mouth shut and said, "For the safety of the young and old, just in case."

Lin Weirui felt something was wrong now. After being in Fengtian for so long, Fourth Brother Ye never asked him to visit the military camp. Why did he suddenly force him to have dinner with him today?Just in case, what exactly is it preventing?