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

When Liu Mei said this, Lian Hua'er was indeed fooled.

"Why am I still falling behind?"

Seeing that Liu Mei spoke so confidently, Lian Hua'er was a little apprehensive, so she hurriedly asked.

"My mother said that she treats your sister Siqi as the second-tier master. Naturally, she will take care of her when the first-tier master is done with work. You respect your sister Siqi so much, why don't you see yourself doing it yourself? Cook a bowl of eggs for Siqi sister?"

"Me?" Lian Hua'er was a little silly, pointing at the tip of her nose. "Can I cook eggs too?"

Liu Mei flattened her mouth: "What can't be done? Stewed eggs in a bowl, what a simple dish."

She turned around as she spoke, and said to Siqi and the maids, big and small: "The rules of the small kitchen, when we are busy with the meals for everyone in the garden, we don't care about the dishes that any sister or sister suddenly came to order. Let's talk about it, isn't this reasonable? However, my mother also knows that most of the big guys hide a few hands, and they have done cooking at home, so if you are really anxious and want to do something, you might as well use it We've never objected to stovetops in kitchenettes."

She said it like a chicken thief, saying that she "never objected", but the small kitchen had never said that outsiders could use it before.

However, Liu Mei knew in her heart that this matter must be fooled away today, otherwise the small kitchen would inevitably be smashed.

"So, you only come here to embarrass our little kitchen, but you don't really want to do something for your sister Siqi." Liu Mei scolded Lian Hua'er in a teasing tone.

Lian Hua'er stayed for a while, but she wasn't really stupid—"Aunt Liu also said that the materials were not in hand, and she still had a lot of eggs, but she refused to give any of them to our courtyard." After walking a few steps forward, he stretched out his hand to open the cage, pointed into it and said loudly, "Here, isn't this..."

Of the dozens of chickens that Lianhuaer saw earlier, there are still seven or eight chickens left.

At this time, Mother Liu brought out several food boxes with someone, "Here! Lianhuaer, how many of the chickens you saw earlier are in this food box."

As she spoke, Mother Liu opened the food box, and a scent of seeds immediately hit her nostrils.

Mother Liu made a dish of scrambled eggs with dried shrimp and garlic for dinner today. The egg is golden yellow, the dried shrimp is bright red, and the garlic sprout is green.

"So, why don't you give any of them to your courtyard?" Liu Mei smiled beside him, "If you have enough materials, you can ask for them, there's nothing wrong with that, but how does my mother know about the big guys? How much is left after the rice is done? My mother said that the ingredients are not in hand, that’s what it means, what do you want to do, Lianhuaer?"

At this time, the women who were helping in the kitchen also talked on behalf of Liu's mother, and persuaded Siqi together, saying: "Even if Aunt Liu has seven or eight courages, I dare not offend Miss Siqi. But the egg It’s rare to be true. If there are any leftovers, always have a few more to prepare, or the second master Bao came back late, or Lang Ge’er was hungry at night. You will use up all of them later, you can’t tell Aunt Liu to become empty-handed Eggs!"

During this time, Liu Mei kept criticizing Lianhuaer, while Siqi kept staring at Liu Mei.

But at this time Mother Liu came out with the food box from Zilingzhou, Siqi took two steps forward, waved his hand, and said: "First take the food box, and go back to serve the girl's dinner. The rest will be done later. Let's talk again."

As he said that, someone from the little maid under the chess player immediately came up to pick up the things, while the rest rushed out of the kitchen with a "hula".This group of people came and went quickly, and in an instant, they retreated completely, only Mother Liu and a few women were in the small kitchen, breathing a sigh of relief together.

Liu Mei shook her head and said to her mother: "No, mother, I will come back later."

She frowned and said, "Siqi is so unhappy, not because of others, but because, mother, you mentioned the second girl at the end." It was because Liu's mother casually mentioned a word of welcoming the spring that Siqi made such a big move. anger.

"Then what should we do? Do you want Mother to go out of the garden at this time and report to the superior?" Mother Liu couldn't help but feel a little guilty when she thought of the way a group of people were about to smash the small kitchen just now.

Liu Mei knew that she could only report to Sister Feng, and Sister Feng didn't care now, at most she could only tell Ping'er, Feng'er and others, "Come on, mother, even if you report to the higher-ups, the higher-ups heard that we don't even care about such small things. If you don't agree, you will only blame us more for being unfavorable and incompetent!" Liu Mei understood Sister Feng's temperament very well.

"..." Mother Liu fell silent for a moment, thinking that it was very possible.

Sure enough, after Siqi had served the Spring Festival dinner, a group of people came from Zilingzhou again.

As soon as Siqi entered the small kitchen, he immediately put on a dark face and sat down on a chair.Lian Hua'er waited for a few "boys", and gathered behind Si Qi.

"Aunt Liu," Lianhua'er said with a straight face, "Sister Siqi said, I want a stewed egg, and it needs to be stewed tender."

She was repeating the original words she asked Mother Liu when she entered the small kitchen earlier.

Now the small kitchen has passed the busiest point, and there are still eggs in the cage, Mother Liu has no reason to refuse Siqi, so she can only sigh and go to fetch the eggs.

"Wait a minute, mother!"

Liu Mei stopped her mother, since the small kitchen has established rules, she will use chess as the first to test the rules.

"The rules of the small kitchen, except for the rules, if you want to open a small stove, you have to pay—"

Liu Mei dragged out her voice honestly and bluntly.

Siqi stared at her without speaking.It was the group of "horses" behind her who blew up the pot, "What kind of rule is this, we have to eat something from my son, and we still need money?"

Liu Mei emphasized it loudly: "It's food that is outside the quota! If it's within the quota, it will be sent to your yard on time. If it's a little late, or something is missing, it's our small kitchen's fault. "

"But if it is an exception, should I give my mother some hard-earned money? Otherwise, I will come to the door every now and then to ask my mother to eat, and my mother is not the mother of all of you!"

Liu Mei stared and said it, blocking everyone's words.Mother Liu and the women couldn't help laughing when they heard it, but the little maids behind Siqi also felt that there was some truth to it.

Siqi sat on the chair, instead of being angry, he smiled: "Then... how much is a bowl of stewed eggs?"

Liu Mei stretched out both hands, "Ten coins! It's not egg money."

Ten Wen is really not expensive, even an ordinary little girl who pays a monthly penny can afford this price.

"Then I'm not willing to pay, so what?" Siqi didn't let go.

"If you don't want to pay, you can do it yourself!" Liu Mei raised her eyebrows and said jokingly, "We didn't stop you."

"Lianhuaer, go! Crack two eggs, let's make a bowl of stewed eggs." Siqi raised his chin.

Lianhua'er cried and said, "Sister Siqi, I don't know how to do it!"

Liu Mei heard this, and said with a grin: "No, it's okay, I can teach you. There are more people in the church, and we will live a lighter life in the future."

Liu Mei didn't seem to care about the leakage of cooking skills and recipes, she really brought a small bowl over, took out two eggs and handed them to Lian Hua'er, saying, "Anyway, I'm rich today, and you won't be charged for the ingredients for these two eggs." Alright. Here, you first break the eggs into a bowl, then add [-]% of water, then use the bamboo chopsticks to beat in one direction, beat a thousand times, and it will be steamed in the pot."

Lian Hua'er's jaw was about to drop, "A thousand hits?"

"That's right! One thousand beats, didn't you just say it yourself, the stew should be tender. Only when you beat it a thousand times, will the stewed eggs be tender."

"If I don't do it, why do I need to hit it a thousand times?" Lian Hua'er put the bowl and bamboo chopsticks on the table for a meal.

"Hey, you guys are so easy to say, when you came to us, you said, you want a bowl of stewed eggs, and you want tender ones, you are so precious when you work, and our work is not considered work?" Liu Mei said freely I turned back and thought to myself, little girl Lianhuaer, you are the one I bullied.

Lianhua'er was so stunned at this time that she didn't know what to say, so she could only turn her head and look at Siqi.

But Siqi sat on the chair as firmly as Mount Tai, and said: "The reasoning sounds reasonable, but I don't believe you can play a thousand times!"

Liu Mei stretched out her hand, "The rules are there, ten yuan, as long as ten yuan, if you act in line with our rules, I will call you immediately."

Siqi paused, then sneered: "So you use me to establish this rule today?"

Liu Mei also stared at her: Isn't this rule exactly what you want?

Si Qi questioned Liu Mei earlier, thinking that she was too partial to Xiaoxiang Pavilion and Yihong Courtyard, and was afraid that the small kitchen would treat Yingchun, who has always been unfavored, slowly.

However, she did not expect that Liu Mei would actually set up a rule in the small kitchen to level the bowls of water everywhere in the garden.

To be honest, this is indeed what Siqi wanted, but Liu Mei used Siqi as a raft, and Siqi felt that it was difficult to face it.

So in the two fights, the unlucky one is Lianhua'er.

"beat--"

The little maids behind Siqi rolled up their sleeves together when they heard the words, but Siqi was telling Lianhuaer, "Beat the eggs!"

Lian Hua'er was dumbfounded, "A thousand times... Sister Siqi!"

"Don't you always say you listen to girls and me on weekdays? You don't want to do such a small thing?" Siqi faintly broke out.

Lian Hua'er had no choice but to hold up the porcelain bowl again, knocked two eggs into it, then raised the bamboo chopsticks, and beat down extremely clumsily - almost knocking out the yolk of one of the eggs.

Liu Mei pretended to point out kindly, "The gesture is like this, with such force, it's not difficult to hit in one direction..."

Someone next to him asked Lianhuaer, "Is it fun?"

Lian Hua'er cried and said, "A thousand strokes... you come and try?"

The person who spoke immediately shrank back.

Liu Mei comforted her: "Beat a few more times, practice makes perfect, and it will be fast. But this stewed egg really needs to be beaten a thousand times, and only after a thousand times, will it feel smooth and tender in your mouth. It won't work at once..."

Lianhua'er was about to cry when she heard this.

Seeing that she was almost done teasing people, Liu Mei stretched out her hand to grab the bamboo chopsticks in Lianhua'er's hand, "Since it's your first time doing it, I'll show you a demonstration."

As he spoke, Liu Mei exerted a slight force on his wrist, and the porcelain bowl in Lianhua'er's hand immediately rang like popping beans, crisp and continuous, "Da da da da da", before everyone could react, it was already at least a hundred and eighty words Ten beats passed.

"It's amazing!" Lian Hua'er was half stunned when she saw Liu Mei's technique.

Then Liu Mei stopped, and mercilessly stuffed the bamboo chopsticks back into Lian Hua'er's hands, saying: "Come on, try it, it's like this at the beginning, just beat more eggs and it will be fine. I just started learning When I was cooking, I didn't know that I had to beat eggs a thousand times, so I always wanted to be lazy. But the stewed eggs I made were not as tender as my mother's, and I always owed something..."

Mother Liu was stunned when she heard it. She usually makes stewed eggs, and she never seems to have calculated whether she has beaten them a thousand times, but she always beats the eggs very thoroughly until the surface of the egg liquid thickens. With a thick layer of fine foam, the stewed eggs are smooth and tender.

"...But, one day I will have to compete with myself, that is, I will beat a thousand times, and then I will put this egg in the pot and simmer it. It is so delicious that I want to cry!"

"From that day on, I realized a truth: what is meant by sincerity, gold and stone are the same; only when you pay, will you be rewarded..."

Ever since, Lian Hua'er was in Liu Mei's chattering chicken soup for the soul, gritted her teeth, and beat eggs slowly and bit by bit.The "boys" who came with her even helped her count together, leaving no room for her to be lazy.

"Nine hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand..." Amidst the cheers and cheers of the crowd, Little Lianhua'er really hit a thousand strokes, and when she stopped, she already felt that her arm didn't belong to her.

At this time, Mother Liu had already stewed the pot on the stove, and the water in the pot had already boiled.The mother and daughter of the Liu family came together to help Lian Hua'er. First, they filtered the egg liquid she had beaten through a thick sackcloth, and then sprinkled a layer of finely chopped shallots and finely chopped hair on top of the egg liquid. The diced shiitake mushrooms are steamed in the pan.

It takes time to beat eggs a thousand times, but steaming is very fast.When the lid was lifted again, the aroma overflowed, and the stewed eggs inside were ready.

"Sister Siqi, it's the first time I've made Lianhua'er's stewed eggs, and I don't know if it's delicious or not!" Lianhua'er tremblingly held the stewed eggs to Siqi with a pious heart. before.

Liu Mei can understand this mood very well. It was like this when she was cooking for the first time. She was looking forward to and nervous, but if she was affirmed by others, the feeling of elation was really hard to come by. forgetful.

Siqi stretched out his hand and raised a spoon to taste it, and instead of commenting immediately, he called the other little maids behind him, "Everyone come and taste it, this is made by Lianhua'er herself."

"Well, really!"

"It's really tender and delicious!"

"Lian Hua'er, you are so powerful, I will ask you for whatever we want to eat in the future!"

Lianhua'er was so scared by the last sentence of that companion, she quickly shook her hand, "I can hardly lift my hand!" But suddenly, Siqi stuffed a spoonful of stewed eggs into his mouth——

"Did I do this myself?" Lian Hua'er was stunned.At this time, the little girl felt that what Liu Mei said was right, it was so delicious that she was about to cry...

Liu Mei watched from the side, feeling very proud of her success in turning a crisis into a successful example.

"This... Aunt Liu, I'm really sorry!" After a commotion, Lian Hua'er took the initiative to apologize to Liu's mother, "I saw that you did it so simply, and I thought it was nothing serious. I tried it myself today. , I realized that it took so much effort...well, we won’t come here to ask you blindly for this or that in the future, and if you have time in the future, give us more advice.”

"What's the point?" Mother Liu stretched out her hand to touch the lotus on Lianhua'er's head, and said, "When Auntie is free, I will be more than happy to make you some delicious and early adopters. When it comes to materials, I need you to be more patient."

When the farce ended, Mother Liu stayed in the small kitchen to tidy up, while Liu Mei sent Siqi and others out.

"Liu Mei!" Si Qi stayed at the end, seeing Liu Mei sending it out, he couldn't help sneering in her ear twice.

"You are so skillful! You actually treated Lian Hua'er like a fool and played around." Si Qi stayed away from Lian Hua'er, as if he was afraid that his words would be heard by the little girl.

"So what? Anyway, I've established this rule in the future, so you don't have to worry about us treating the second girl slowly." Liu Mei didn't care, and mocked back.

"At Qingwen's end, you came here after asking!" Liu Mei asked Siqi.

Just now, Siqi didn't mention a single word about Liu's mother giving Qingwen and others a little trouble, so Liu Mei was sure that Siqi must have asked Qingwen, and Qingwen responded as agreed with her in advance, He answered Siqi.So when Siqi heard about the new "rules" of the small kitchen, he was not surprised at all.

Siqi nodded, then sneered again, "I hope you can always abide by this rule. If one day you can't abide by it yourself, then I'm sorry, I will be the first to step on you."

Liu Mei responded to Siqi with an eye for an eye: "I hope you can always protect the second girl..."

Hearing this, Siqi's expression changed drastically, and he squeezed out a few words, "What did you say?"

"Look at you," Liu Mei looked at Siqi with a bit of contempt, "the thorns are all on the teeth, but have you ever thought that with the second girl's temper, you can protect her for the rest of her life? "

Seeing Siqi's appearance of being stabbed in the heart and jumping around with both feet, Liu Mei knew that her guess was right.Siqi always looks arrogant, aggressive, even rude in front of people, which forms a huge contrast with Yingchun's cowardly and uncontested character.Zilingzhou, on the other hand, formed a delicate balance between this huge contrast.

She felt early in the morning that Siqi showed his claws and fangs at every turn, and his fierce appearance was actually for the purpose of welcoming the spring, so that Yingchun would not be treated poorly and neglected by the servants in the house, and to remind people that when they remembered Yingchun, they would realize, " Alas, there is a chess player in their courtyard who can't afford to mess with."

But what's the use?

So Liu Mei reminded Siqi, "You understand, you also have a good man, and you want to spend the rest of your life with him. How long can you protect your girl like this? If she doesn't become strong herself, can you count on her?" Have you met such a well-behaved good person like me all your life?"

——Liu Mei has always put gold on her face.

But Siqi was stunned by Liu Mei's words, and remained silent for a while.

Suddenly, Siqi grabbed Liu Mei's arm, threw her back, and said coldly: "Don't worry about it! You have so much time to think about our girl, you might as well think about yourself first, that Huai brother outside insisted." In order to beg you, what are you going to do!"

Liu Mei almost forgot about Qian Huai, but at this moment Siqi was reminding her.