Su Qingluan went home with a feeling of coldness and gossip in her heart.
Originally, she wanted to have a barbecue or something in the evening. After all, she had finally managed to bring back two sauerkrauts. Sauerkraut with barbecued pork belly is simply amazing, right?
However, after this freezing attack, Su Qingluan's hands and feet were now numb from the cold. She just wanted to drink a bowl of hot soup to warm herself up, so she made a temporary decision to have sauerkraut and pork soup with hot rice tonight!
As for Yaoguang, no matter what Su Qingluan asked before, she would say in a cold manner, "It's all right," "I can do anything," "Girl, please feel free to do as you please," etc., not to mention that she was the one who actually cooked.
Su Qingluan’s principle is that giving in is a courtesy, but if the other party is not picky, then she, as the chef, can do whatever she wants.
Although Su Qingluan is already familiar with making sauerkraut and pork, because the fat needs to be stewed until it is completely absorbed into the sauerkraut soup, this dish, although simple to make, needs to be simmered slowly over low heat so that the sour and bitter taste of the sauerkraut can be eliminated, and the fatty meat can eliminate the greasy and heavy feeling.
Yaoguang was not a thick-skinned person after all. Although she had a subtle hostility towards Su Qingluan, after observing her for a long time, she found that she was just a cheerful little girl. According to her master, she was only sixteen or seventeen years old, even younger than herself.
She held a cup of hot tea and watched Su Qingluan wash rice and then go outside to get a piece of frozen meat. She was humming a little tune that she had never heard before and was enjoying it. Yaoguang was becoming more and more uneasy.
After a while, she finally couldn't sit still anymore and lingered outside the kitchen: "Madam Su... do you need my help?"
In fact, Yaoguang was still a little nervous. She could assassinate, poison, hide and disguise herself, but asking her to really help with the cooking... maybe cutting vegetables was what she was best at?
Although she thought so, Yaoguang always felt uneasy watching a girl younger than herself busying around serving her tea, water and food.
Su Qingluan watched Yaoguang wring her fingers with an embarrassed look on her face as she asked for help. She guessed that Yaoguang must be too bored sitting alone, so she pointed to Mu Xingzhi's study in the back and said, "Look, that's where Mu Xingzhi keeps his books. If you're bored, you can go there and find a few books to pass the time."
The other party is Mu Xingzhi's very capable subordinate. In Su Qingluan's mind, such a person is definitely more important than herself, who is responsible for covering the periphery of the "Central Intelligence".
So since he could freely enter and exit the study, it made no sense that his trusted subordinates couldn't go there. Moreover, after a period of close contact, Su Qingluan was even more certain that if Mu Xingzhi really wanted to hide something, he would definitely not leave any obvious handle for others to catch him.
So even though the "inner room" is a relatively private space in this house, Su Qingluan also believes that at least Mu Xingzhi did not place any confidential items here that he cares about or is very important to him.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing Su Qingluan's suggestion, Yaoguang showed a look of astonishment: "Absolutely not! Without the master's permission, how can we enter and leave the inner room at will!"
Su Qingluan: "...but I've been in and out many times...there shouldn't be a problem..." Although it was Mu Xingzhi's book collection place that she entered for the first time and he led her there, to be honest, in that messy-looking library, if there was no one to lead the way, it would probably be difficult to find anything there, right?
Unexpectedly, Yaoguang was a stubborn person and kept repeating the same thing: no one is allowed to enter without permission. Su Qingluan was so annoyed by her that she didn't force him - after all, she wasn't the one who was bored.
But there was a person standing next to her like a door god, staring at her straight. Su Qingluan still felt a lot of pressure, so she said, "Since Yaoguang you want to help, please rinse these pickled vegetables with water!"
The surface of the sauerkraut that has just been pickled should be rinsed lightly. This can wash away the film formed by fermentation on the surface and remove the overly strong sour taste.
Su Qingluan can't stand the overly strong smell of fermented sauerkraut, so she will rinse it twice with more water. However, some people just like that smell and will rinse it less than twice.
Because she was unsure about Yaoguang's cooking skills, Su Qingluan asked her to do basic helping jobs like washing vegetables, and specifically instructed her to peel the leaves apart one by one. If she couldn't peel them apart, she should cut the roots with a kitchen knife.
After giving the instructions, Su Qingluan turned around and started cutting the "recipe meat".
The so-called "fangzi meat" is different from pork belly, which is a kind of "fat" with almost no lean meat. Because it looks like a white square brick after being cut and frozen, it was nicknamed "fangzi meat" by Su Qingluan's family in her previous life.
The meat in this position is generally used to make lard, and the remaining oil residue is dipped in sugar or salt to make snacks. It is fresh, crispy and very satisfying when chewed in the mouth.
However, this kind of meat must be cut into thinner pieces when it is half-thawed. If it is completely thawed, the meat will become thick and greasy, and it will be difficult to cut it into thin pieces.
However, once affected by the temperature of your hands, the surface of the meat will melt quickly, affecting the feel of the knife, so the speed of cutting the meat must be fast, otherwise it will not be cut thinly.
So Su Qingluan took a deep breath and slowly cut the whole piece of square meat into thin slices, one knife at a time. The slices were crystal clear, as if they had been measured, with uniform thickness, and each slice had a translucent luster - that was because of Su Qingluan's superb knife skills, so that the thickness of the fat could let light through.
After cutting a piece of meat, Su Qingluan breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Yaoguang: "Miss Yaoguang, have you washed the pickled cabbage... eh... what are you doing?"
Su Qingluan looked at Yaoguang - or to be more precise, at the large basin in front of Yaoguang - and the corners of her mouth twitched: the water in this basin was about to bubble up, with pieces of pickled cabbage floating on it, and Yaoguang seemed to be afraid that the pickled cabbage would bite her, so she carefully fiddled with it again and again.
Hearing Su Qingluan's words, she turned around a little awkwardly: "Wash the leaves of... this vegetable? This vegetable seems to be cabbage? Why does it smell sour? Is it already spoiled?"
Su Qingluan's face was full of black lines: Where did this young lady who is out of touch with the world come from?
"Are you...trying to teach sauerkraut how to swim? Besides, this sauerkraut isn't bad, it's just fermented. Have you ever eaten fermented sauerkraut?"
Yaoguang shook her head blankly: "I haven't eaten it."
"Then what do you eat?" Su Qingluan asked curiously, "Since you are one of the 'Big Dipper', you must have gone through very rigorous training, right?"
Mu Xingzhi had heard Su Qingluan talk about many bizarre "legends" about "secret guards" and "shadow guards" before. He also told her that although his own attendants were not as omnipotent as Su Qingluan imagined, they still had to go through layers of screening, and the elimination mechanism was very cruel.
Yaoguang glanced at Su Qingluan and said, "During the most difficult times, we even ate tree bark and grass roots!" There was an imperceptible pride in her expression.
Su Qingluan's expression was indescribable when she heard this.
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