Chapter 216 Master Zhang, it seems you are the one

Chen Hanxing looked at Cheng Lesheng: "You don't plan to order it?"

"I still want to play for two more years. As for you, I thought you would be the same as me. Who would have thought that you would be the most unexpected."

Chen Hanxing raised the corners of his lips slightly: “If I encounter it, do I have to give it to others?”

Cheng Lesheng was stunned, then turned his head away from him and vented all his resentment on Xia.

When Wen Zhenyi came out, he saw him gritting his teeth while peeling shrimp: "Master Cheng, how much hatred does it have for you?"

Cheng Lesheng looked at the shrimp in his hand, which had been destroyed beyond recognition, and quickly let go: "It will be easier to taste this way."

Shen Hanxing turned to look at her: "What can I do for you?"

"Can you kill a chicken?"

Shen Hanxing shook his head: “No.”

Wen Zhenyi turned to look at Cheng Lesheng: "Master Cheng, it seems that it has to be you."

Cheng Lesheng's face was now grim, and he felt uncomfortable when he thought of the experience of killing the chicken last time. But there was no other way now, because he had sent the only servant he brought with him back to get tea.

"Must kill?"

Wen Zhen looked at his constipated face and said, "I was just kidding. The ingredients you sent include a slaughtered chicken."

Cheng Lesheng held a shrimp in his hand and pointed at her: "If you do this again next time, we, we."

"We what?"

"We can't even be friends."

Wen Zhenyi crossed his arms and looked at him: "That's perfect, one less person to eat for free."

"No, no, no, I was just joking." Cheng Lesheng immediately gave in.

Shen Hanxing almost got a stitch in his side from laughing.

Cheng Lesheng kicked him and said, "Brother or not, you won't help me."

Shen Hanxing touched his nose and shrugged to indicate that he couldn't help.

Cheng Lesheng reacted and realized that this was someone's unmarried wife, and she could still help him? He could only blame himself for being unlucky. How could he have run into these two people?

Wen Zhenyi saw that it was getting late, so he went to prepare other dishes.

Ah Xiang returned to the shop at this time: "Master, I have brought the things and told the old lady."

"It didn't scare them."

"No, they were originally going to come, but when they knew you were going to invite Eunuch Mo to dinner, they decided to come tomorrow."

"It's good that I didn't scare them. I was afraid that I would scare them."

Wen Zhenyi took out carrots, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, lean meat, and tofu, washed them, and cut them into thin strips.

Ah Xiang watched her cut the tofu into thin strips and asked, "Master, is the tofu cut so thinly?"

"You can also cut the tofu into flowers. I don't have time to make the broth today, otherwise it would be a good dish."

Wen Zhenyi added salt, starch and sesame oil to the shredded meat and marinated it for the time it took to drink a cup of tea.

"Axiang, please help me debone and dice the chicken."

"Okay." Ah Xiang was also good with a knife. She removed the chicken frame completely without any shredded meat on it.

Wen Zhenyi added salt, soy sauce, cooking wine and starch to the diced chicken she had chopped.

"Ah Xiang fried the diced chicken until golden brown."

Wen Zhenyi started to process Wensi tofu again.

Add appropriate amount of water to the pot and bring to a boil, put in bamboo shoots, add salt, pour in shredded carrots and shredded mushrooms, blanch for a few moments and then remove from the pot.

Then heat the oil in a pan, add appropriate amount of water, add shredded bamboo shoots, shredded carrots, shredded mushrooms and shredded meat, and add salt to taste.

She looked at the ingredients and found that one dish, seaweed, was missing. The people in the fishing village here could indeed catch kelp and seaweed, but they didn't know how to process them, so they had to throw them away if they couldn't sell them.

It seems that she really should take some time to go to the fishing village and eat seafood with them, otherwise she will miss out on a lot of things.

The water in the pot had been boiling for a while. She poured in water starch to thicken it, and finally poured in shredded tofu and cooked it for a while. When removing the dish from the pot, sprinkled it with chopped coriander and drizzled with a little sesame oil.

After Axiang fried the chicken, he started steaming the rice.

When Wen Zhen started making spicy chicken, he left some oil in the pan, put red peppers, green garlic sprouts, and Sichuan peppercorns in the pan and stir-fried them, then poured in the fried chicken and stir-fried them together.

Pour in the prepared sauce and drizzle with sesame oil.

Eunuch Mo and his group have already arrived at the store.

When County Magistrate Lei saw Chen Hanxing and Cheng Lesheng, he was stunned for a moment: "Are you here to help?"

"Yes, all the aunts in the store went back today, so we were caught and came to help."

Magistrate Lei looked at the two men and stroked his beards, laughing and saying, "That's quite unusual."

Eunuch Mo looked at the two young men and asked, "County Magistrate Lei, who are these two young men?"

County Magistrate Lei smiled and said a few words to Eunuch Mo.

Eunuch Mo looked at the two of them with a smile: "That's rare."

Wen Zhenyi came out of the kitchen and said, "My lords, please sit in the hall for a while. You can eat soon."

When Eunuch Mo came in, he could already smell the fragrance that filled the courtyard: "I'm sorry to cause trouble for Miss Wen."

"It's not a big deal, I just don't know if it suits your taste."

"You can tell Miss Wen's cooking skills just by smelling the aroma."

Wen Zhenyi asked A Xiang to serve them tea: "You guys sit down first, I'll go make the rest of the dishes."

She went back to the kitchen and put the Danai cake on the steamer, steamed it for a while, and asked Axiang to bring out the prepared dishes.

She divided today's meal into two portions, one for them to eat later, and the other for the adults.

Wen Zhen started by making candied golden dates and Longjing shrimps.

The shrimps have been washed, add salt, stir the egg white until sticky, then add some starch.

Longjing tea has been brewed with boiling water.

Pour oil into the pot, and when it is 40% hot, pour in the shrimps, then pour in tea leaves and tea water to cook until they are tasty.

The jujubes for the candied golden dates have been cooked in the pot until they are 80% cooked. Use a knife to cut them open and take out the core.

Hawthorn slices should have been added here, but she chose to use hawthorn, cut it into shreds, and stuffed it into the dates.

Pour the eggs into a bowl and beat them. Dip the dates evenly in the egg liquid and flour.

Fry the jujubes in oil until golden brown, then remove them and keep the oil in the pan. Add sugar and fry until golden brown. Quickly add the golden jujubes and stir-fry until they are coated with sugar juice. Sprinkle with sesame seeds when serving.

Today's dishes are all ready.

When all six dishes were served, Eunuch Mo's eyes lit up: "Miss Wen, please introduce us."

Wen Zhenyi pointed at the Wensi tofu and said, "This dish is characterized by its delicate knife skills. It is tender, mellow, and melts in your mouth. It also has the effects of regulating malnutrition and nourishing the body."

"Then I have to try it." As soon as Eunuch Mo finished speaking, a younger eunuch next to him had already served him a bowl and placed it in front of him.

The others also filled a bowl and ate slowly with a spoon.

Eunuch Mo took a bite and nodded repeatedly: "It's just as you said, it melts in your mouth. Please introduce other dishes to us."

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Tips:

Wensi tofu is said to have been created by Wensi, a monk from Yangzhou during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

It is also called "Assorted Tofu Soup" in "Diao Ding Ji". It is said that this dish was once tasted by Emperor Qianlong and was praised by him. It also became a famous dish in the Qing Palace for a time.

Spicy Chicken: Geleshan Spicy Chicken is the most famous Jianghu-style dish in Sichuan cuisine, named after its origin in Leshan.

Longjing Shrimp: According to legend, a chef in Hangzhou was inspired by the line in Su Dongpo's poem "Looking at Jiangnan" that goes "Let's try the new tea with the new fire, and enjoy poetry and wine while we are young", and cooked it with Longjing new tea and fresh river shrimp before the Qingming Festival.

Candied Golden Jujube: It is a famous dish of Confucius Mansion. It uses the round red jujubes from Ningyang Geshi Town, which is known as the "king of fruits", as the raw material. The finished product is delicious, sweet and tasty, and the flesh is delicate and can be pulled into threads.

The above four dishes are all from "A Bite of China - A Complete Guide to Preparing Traditional Delicacies".