[Red Mansion] A little chef came to the Grand View Garden

The Xue family moved into Lixiangyuan that day.

This Lixiangyuan was originally the place where Duke Rong rested in his old age. Although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.There are more than ten houses, which are divided into front hall and back house. There is a door leading to the street for Xue's family to enter and exit; there is another corner door leading to the east of Mrs. Wang's main room.It is very cheap for the Xue family to live in.

It's just that Xue's family is a big family in Jinling, and they are particular about food and drink, and their tastes and habits are different from those in Beijing.Therefore, when the Xue family first arrived, Mother Liu was under a lot of pressure on the stove, for fear that the dishes she made would not suit the Xue family's taste.

In the first few days, Aunt Xue had some complaints about the taste of the food, and she never thought of going out to find a cook who can cook Jinling dishes.But not long after, for some reason, the entire Xue family began to praise Liumu's craftsmanship, and felt that the dishes cooked by Liumu were novel and suitable, and they knew how to use them according to their aptitude—no matter what No matter what ingredients the Xue family buys, Mother Liu can always serve decent dishes.

Aunt Xue only thought that Mother Liu was excellent at cooking, but she didn't think much about it.Xue Pan, the son of the Xue family, is a person who does not stay at home all day long. One day he drinks, the next day he watches flowers, and he doesn't know much about the food in Lixiangyuan.Only Miss Xue's family, Baochai, pays attention to family affairs, and probably knows some truths in her heart.

Liu Mei, on the other hand, has been following Mother Liu, circling around the stove in the Lixiangyuan kitchen all day long, getting to know the stoves and kitchen utensils that she has never touched before. While learning, she misses all kinds of modern kitchen tools: electric appliances Oven, refrigerator, range hood...

There are still some uncertainties in Liu Mei's heart——

She "raised some" of the dishes made by Mother Liu, and even the dishes made by her "outsider", can they be regarded as the dishes of the Red Mansion?

"Just do it with peace of mind!"

With a sound of "ding", the system suddenly popped up such a sentence in Liu Mei's mind, which made Liu Mei jump.

"What you make yourself, as long as it meets the standard of the original dishes and is popular with others, it can be regarded as the gourmet food of the Red Mansion." The system explained to Liu Mei in this way.

"That's a good relationship!" Liu Mei was overjoyed when she heard this - this is definitely good news for her.At first, she was always worried, as a little girl in Rongguo Mansion, how could she have so many opportunities to try the diet specially made for the princes and ladies in the mansion.Now I heard that she can do it by herself.

Her hard work for so many years was not in vain!And the lofty goal of "eating all the red buildings" seems to be getting closer all of a sudden.

Liu Mei couldn't help but gear up.

"Is that why you want to leave this world of red chambers?" the system asked in her mind calmly.

Liu Mei raised her eyebrows, "That's natural!"

It has been a while since she came here, and the "portable" system implanted in her mind has always been in a lukewarm, neither salty nor light state.This system can read all the thoughts in her mind, but it rarely interferes with her actions, and is dormant most of the time.

Unexpectedly, the system's question today seems to have a little emotion.

"What's the matter? Could it be that you still miss me if I left here one day earlier?" Liu Mei felt a little complacent, and went back honestly and provocatively.

Hearing a "ding", the system once again prompted to go into hibernation, which made Liu Mei grin her teeth angrily—this is really a cool-looking system!After getting along with it day and night for so long, it still has such a heartless and cold face.

Liu Mei lowered her head to inspect the ingredients bought by Xue's family, and said fiercely in her heart: "White-eyed wolf! White-eyed wolf! White-eyed wolf system!"

In a blink of an eye, the weather turned cold and the New Year's Eve was over.On this day, Baoyu came to visit Baochai in Lixiangyuan. They sat and laughed for a while, and Daiyu also came.

Aunt Xue immediately ordered someone to bring up tea fruits, and left Baodai to drink tea.Baoyu mentioned that the duck with goose feet that he ate at sister-in-law Zhen in Ningfu a few days ago was very good. Aunt Xue and Baochai looked at each other and smiled.

"Come here, someone, get our yard's bad letter of goose palm and duck, and give it to Baoyu to taste!" Aunt Xue ordered with a smile.

When Baoyu saw the letter of goose palm and duck, which was so bad when he was young, he was a little surprised.

"It looks great—" Baoyu praised.Good goose palms and duck letters are bright in color and bright red. When you smell them together, you will feel a sweet and fresh fragrance, with a faint floral fragrance, which is different from the bad stew you have eaten in your life. Cold dishes are a little different.When Daiyu saw it, she was also surprised.

After another sip, Baoyu was overjoyed and hugged Aunt Xue with a smile, saying that it was a perfect wine pairing.Naturally, Aunt Xue had nothing to do, so she hurriedly ordered someone to fetch the wine, and brought it after it was warmed.

"How do you make the goose-footed duck letters here?" Baoyu drank three glasses of wine in a row before remembering to ask Aunt Xue.

"The cook on your stove did it herself, why did you ask Mom instead?" Baochai replied with a smile.

"My family?" Baoyu shook his head in disbelief, "If it was made by my cook, I should have eaten it!"

Aunt Xue ordered someone to go to the kitchen to invite the Liu family. Baochai shook her head and persuaded with a smile: "Mother Liu is busy at the moment. In my opinion, go find the girl who is helping the stove in the Liu family and ask her." Got it."

When Liu Mei came in, Baoyu saw that she was a little girl in her teens, and she had only kept her hair for a while, so she immediately laughed and said, "A little girl at such a young age!"

Liu Mei ignored him - such a little girl, her real age is almost twice as old as your old man?

She bowed to Aunt Xue and Baochai, and quickly took a hard look at Daiyu—what a god, this is the real Sister Lin, she has never seen her before!

Liu Mei lived in this Lixiangyuan for half a year, and Aunt Xue and Baochai were already acquainted.Baoyu also came to sit down from time to time.Because I have seen her many times, Liu Mei doesn't think much of Baoyu even though she looks good.

But it was the first time seeing Sister Lin.You know, Liu Mei was a full-fledged fan, a full-fledged fan before wearing it!

I saw Daiyu wearing a light gold and peach red two-color flower-spread beanie, sitting on the left side of Baoyu, holding a small hand stove brought by snow geese in her arms, looking at Liumei with a smile, and knocking melon seeds at the same time.

When Liu Mei saw her, her eyes were full of love: Sister Lin, how could it be... so cute!

Before transmigrating, Liu Mei always loved to be unfair to Lin Daiyu——she hated Mr. Gao E, who was the continuation of the book, the good sister Lin, who had to eat some ham and cabbage soup for others, even ham and cabbage soup, with dried shrimps in it , green bamboo shoots and seaweed, with glutinous rice porridge! Excuseme?Daiyu is a daughter of the Lin family from a wealthy family in Gusu, and she grew up in Yangzhou. How can she stand such random food mixes?

So Liu Mei always thought, if what old man Gao E wrote was true, then Daiyu must have been tortured to death by the Jia family with food.Thinking of this, Liu Mei was gearing up, feeling a little urge to cook for Daiyu Zhangluo.

On the other hand, Baoyu was neglected by Liu Mei, but he always valued girls. Even though Liu Mei kept staring at Daiyu, he was not angry at all, instead he asked softly: "This is a bad goose-footed duck." Xin, did your mother do it?"

Liu Mei flattened her mouth, and said honestly and bluntly: "This is called rose stewed goose feet duck letter. My mother doesn't have time to make this. I made it."

"Hey, it's really not easy. A young girl at such a young age can cook such exquisite food." Aunt Xue spoke first.

She originally thought that Mother Liu was responsible for all these meals, but she never thought that this dish was made by a little girl like Liu Mei alone.

Aunt Xue praised her, and Baoyu happily followed her, saying that Liu Mei was young and talented in craftsmanship.

Baochai knew Liu Mei's abilities a long time ago, so she just smiled and didn't speak at the moment.Daiyu looked at Baochai, but didn't open her mouth. She just held the small hand stove and slowly tasted the tea fruit that Aunt Xue caught for her.

Liu Mei was very calm, she didn't feel bad when Aunt Xue and Baoyu praised her - she knew that the cooking was delicious, she didn't need others to remind her.As a result, in the eyes of Bao Daichai and the other three, she seemed a bit flattered or humiliated.

Just Baoyu asked: "This bad goose palm duck letter, what is the special way to make it so sweet?"

Liu Mei thought to herself: Hehe!

——This kind of lousy lo mei is really a trivial matter to her.

"There is nothing special about Hui Bao Erye's words. It's just adding rose marinade to the original marinade used to make it, which brings the sweetness of flowers, and sets off the salty and freshness of goose palm duck letter, and then adds color with red yeast rice. , it’s just a side dish to go with the wine.”

"In the final analysis, this dish is delicious because of the good ingredients!"

What Liu Mei said was from the heart.

The rose marinade and distiller's grains purchased by Xue's family are of good quality and mellow taste, which Liu Mei has never seen in her life.I don't know if the Xue family, as an imperial merchant, purchased ingredients for the royal family, and bought some for their own family by the way.

However, in the eyes of Baoyu and others, Liu Mei's statement was slightly different from ordinary people.

The master has already praised her, so even if she doesn't put some gold on her face, most of the maids will show some pride.What's more, Liu Mei is still so young.

Unexpectedly, instead of seeing any complacency, she magnanimously praised the ingredients bought by Xue's family.

Baoyu and Daiyu didn't pay much attention, but Baochai paid attention and sized Liu Mei carefully for a while.

At this time, Baoyu drank a few glasses of wine, and gradually got a little drunk, so he begged Aunt Xue and said, "This girl is really a wonderful person. If Auntie loves me, she will give this girl to me so that I will be happy." Every day there is such a delicate lo mei to eat with wine."

Aunt Xue couldn't help but laughed, "This is your own maid, so there's no reason to beg for it from the guests..."

When Aunt Xue said this, Baochai was still staring at Liu Mei.

I saw Liu Mei listened to Baoyu's request, and suddenly, there was some joy in her eyebrows and eyes.

In Baochai's mind, she stopped thinking highly of Liu Mei in an instant - she thought she had something extraordinary, but now it seems that she is just an ordinary person.But Baochai thought about it again, it is human nature to want to climb high branches, and Baoyu is the serious master of the Jia family, so there was nothing wrong with Liu Mei's reaction.

So Baochai put Liu Mei away in her heart, went to hold Aunt Xue's arm and said, "Auntie belonged to us. If Mom doesn't speak up, Brother Bao will have the nerve to ask for someone. Why don't you ask Auntie tomorrow?" In a word, isn't it cheap?"

Aunt Xue agreed with a smile, and made a fuss about pouring wine for Baoyu.

Liu Mei frowned quietly.

It was just a coincidence that when Baoyu spoke to Aunt Xue, the system in her mind happened to be activated, and she sent two lines of words to her with a "ding".

"Introduce the old and bring forth the new, improve the existing dishes, success! Congratulations on the upgrade, and get an extra gift pack for the upgrade."

That's why Liu Mei inadvertently expressed some happiness: It turns out that you don't have to stick to the original dishes written in the book, and the improved dishes can also be recognized by the system!

But now she gradually realized - what?Baoyu begged Aunt Xue for her?