The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

Speaking of this roast duck, Wang Guizhi thought of the time when she and Feng Zimu went to Quanjude, Beijing to eat it. According to her old friends in Beijing, it was the best roast duck she had ever tasted.

In fact, roast duck masters can be cultivated, and lychee fruit trees are not rare. The most important thing is a particularly important raw material, which is the duck used for roast duck.What they ate were only the great-grandchildren of breeding ducks. The real breeding ducks were the original species, fatter and fatter, rich in fat. Such ducks would be plump and not collapsed after intensive roasting. No sinking, the duck skin has a full eight millimeters of fat that has been combined with the belt and meat. When you bite it down, it is fat but not greasy. The subcutaneous fat has already melted into the skin, and it melts in the mouth. !

Aftertaste, Wang Guizhi seemed to have smelled the rich aroma of the roast duck, almost drooling.

Seeing that his wife had a rare appetite, Caixia hurriedly peeled fresh longan for her, "This roast duck will take more than an hour, why don't you have some snacks first?"

"It's fine to eat some fruit. This person has to be hungry to feel that something is delicious. If the stomach is full, no matter how delicious it is, I'm afraid it's just that." Wang Guizhi refused, preferring to suffer such a meal. Even when she was hungry, she had to eat what she wanted.

Only when you are full of food can you think... Bah, no, eating and drinking are two major things in life.

"Since we have to wait, I'll bring you the red-painted stickers, how about big girls to write in red?" Wang Guizhi didn't want Yuan Chun to enter the palace, but he never thought of leaving behind her education. Even if she wanted to learn something else in the future, that's okay She has to wait until she grows up to choose for herself.

Jia Yuanchun nodded obediently, this is her daily homework, "OK."

Watching his daughter write, Wang Guizhi also wrote a few pages. After all, as an adult, he can barely write better than this child (in fact, it is more correct and stable).

"Grandpa, the second wife ordered a roast duck." Li Gunian's second grandson Li Guo ran over and shouted.

Li Gunian nodded, "Got it." Responding, he put away the cigarette stick and put it on his back, rolled up his sleeves with both hands, and went to the livestock barn in the back kitchen to choose a fat duck.

Seeing this, the eldest son, Li Jiang, hurriedly chose a clean large basin to scald his hair with boiling water to help him. He has always been taciturn.

"Father, brother, it's just a roast duck. You two master chefs need to do it yourself. Even if you do it, you don't need to pluck the hair, right? Let Guoer Quer do it." Li Suan opened the steamer and tried it with his hands. Trying the soup cup with the lid on, he nodded towards Li Feng who was holding the tray, "It's about time now, bring the salt."

"Second uncle, which salt to use?" Li Feng is only 13 years old, and he can't even distinguish the five flavors.

"Use well salt from Sichuan." When Li Gunian was talking to Li Jiang, a feathered duck had turned into a bare duck. After washing it with water, there was still a little hair on the duck's head. "Take bee wax. .”

The old man hasn't cooked dishes himself for a long time, and now half the people in the big kitchen want to go and see them. Feng Dao is cooking and shouting, "If you want to see it, work quickly, don't you know that roast duck is a waste of time!"

Everyone woke up and continued to be busy.

Feng Dao stared intently at the vegetarian fried bean sprouts in the pot. Seeing that they had just been cut off, the steel spoon with crystal salt in his hand turned and put them on the plate. He watched quietly, his wife actually liked the original It tastes as good as any vegetable, so he specially squeezed soybean oil from the outside... His craftsmanship is not as good as Li Gunian's, so he can only find another way to suit his liking.

He didn't pay attention before, as long as he treats his wife respectfully in the future, if he behaves like his wife this time, he won't be afraid of losing his way out.

Feng Dao touched the menu in his arms, this is his vote certificate!

The fire in the hanging stove flickered and licked Li Gunian's face from time to time. Seeing the old man's posture was heavy, everyone in the Li family gradually became restrained.

"Father, are you nervous?" Li Tang was pushed forward by Li Yan, she is Li Gu Nian's elderly daughter, and her senior aunt, at this moment, she is the only one who dares to ask questions.

Li Gunian came back to his senses, seeing that it was his youngest daughter who smiled, "What? Your rose sauce is ready."

"Not yet... Dad, why do you have to pickle so much all at once? My eyes are sore from picking petals." Li Tang said coquettishly.

"Let your brothers help you, where are your nephews and nieces?" Li Gunian touched his daughter's eyes in distress, "You think it's hard work, and you still want to go into the kitchen?"

"Father~" Li Tang stomped her foot, and she asked curiously, "Father, what are you thinking?"

"Have you written my menu?" Li Gunian asked back. He couldn't write, but once he was a teacher, he made all his children know how to read and write when he had money.

Li Tang nodded, "It's finished, Dad, can you hand it in? I compared it with last year's one, and there is no change." She whispered again, "Didn't you say it was only 2000 taels of silver? Why do you pay it back? Buckhoof lips..."

"What do you know?" Li Gunian said a word, and seeing his sons and daughters looking at him eagerly, he said, "What do you think the second wife means?"

"A birthday banquet for the old lady."

"Yeah, isn't it just a banquet?"

"I want to take power well."

Li Guyian patted their heads vigorously one by one, "Everyone doesn't use their brains." These people are so stupid, alas, they were all born by themselves.

"What year does the old lady not have a birthday? It was one year when the empress dowager passed away, and our Jia's family opened fifteen tables. Our Jia's kitchen knows how to write the menu and how to cook those dishes with our eyes closed." Li Gunian was speaking.

"That?"

"The wife is the daughter-in-law, or the second daughter-in-law. She is virtuous and doesn't like to show off. She has been married to our Jia family for nearly 20 years. She doesn't know anything about the housekeeper's kitchen, and she can't even order a menu. Why? Just ask the people in our kitchen to come up with this menu by ourselves?"

"Yeah, why?" Li Guo asked in a daze.

Li Suan patted his silly son, "Don't interrupt, listen to grandpa."

"You guys, the masters are busy and don't know anything! Why don't you think about it, why is it always the eldest wife butler? Why is our wife taking over the three most important things, the kitchen, the purchase, and the warehouse?" Li Gunian saw the oven The room is full of his children, so he lowered his voice and said, "The wife said she was sick for two days when she left Zhuangzi, but no matter whether it is the wife, the uncle or the eldest girl, they all use food and snacks." With a proud expression on his face, "Something must have happened in Beijing. You guys have been taking care of me recently. We will do whatever the masters say, and we must not be careless."

"...Father, you haven't explained it yet!" Li Tang still didn't understand.

Li Lian probably understood, that is to say, the wife is pretending to be sick, and the eldest wife has been divided by the old lady...

"I see, it's about to roll in the Dragon Palace." Li Gu Nian is an old man, even if he is nested in the kitchen, he guessed it right.

"I remember, the eldest wife is from the Li family..." Li Yan was about to say, but Li Lian covered her mouth.

Li Gunian took out the tobacco rod, Li Tang quickly stuffed him with shredded tobacco, Li Jiang lit the fire and let him smoke, "Anyway, follow the master, they know more than us! The wife also made it clear that she just let the money let him smoke." We all act honestly according to her rules, but if anyone dares to disobey her and make mistakes in her business, hmph, then he is really looking for death!"

"Yes." Everyone nodded quickly.

Li Tang was only a little nervous, but then said happily, "That must be the best written by you, Dad, and my wife will definitely let you do it."

"Probably." Li Guyian took another puff of cigarette.

Li Yan pushed Li Suan down, "Looking at Dad like this, it must be done."

Smelling the aroma, Li Gunian took out the roast duck with a hook, and placed a clean lotus leaf on the stone plate roasted in the early morning fire, "Jiang'er, take care of the housework, according to what my wife said, now Give her a taste."

"Come on!"