With eggs and these wild mushrooms, Xu Qinyu planned to make mushroom egg drop soup. The Pei family had been eating multi-grain cakes along the way, which were dry and hard, and their spleen and stomach were weak. Eggs made into egg drop soup were easier to digest.
Mushroom egg drop soup is also easy to make. After the water boils, add the shredded mushrooms. After the mushrooms are cooked, add a spoonful of lard to dissolve it, sprinkle some salt, and finally pour the beaten egg liquid evenly into the soup.
After pouring the egg liquid on, the fire was immediately turned off. However, even if the open flame was turned off, there was still charcoal fire under the stove, and the high temperature would make the egg flowers become old, so Xu Qinyu directly took the big pot off the stove, and then gently slid the egg liquid with a spoon to dissolve it, becoming silky and tender egg flowers. Finally, sprinkle some chopped green onions on it, and it has color, aroma and taste.
Xu Qinyu took a bite and found it very delicious, but the ingredients and seasonings were limited. Otherwise, she could have added some shredded wood ear mushrooms and day lily, and thickened it with starch to make the soup richer and the taste more abundant.
Ma Liu became greedy again after smelling the delicious food. The stewed bacon and winter bamboo shoots were not enough to fill him up. He had the biggest appetite among them and he ate twice as much bread as others at every meal.
Xu Qinyu poured the soup into a large bowl and waved to the Pei family to come and eat.
Apart from the absence of this historical dynasty, she felt that there were not many changes in other aspects. For example, in terms of food ingredients, she had also tasted these raw wild mushrooms, and they tasted the same as in her era. In fact, because the land was not polluted, the taste was even fresher and sweeter.
Pei Jianing was already starving, so she took Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er to eat. However, Wen Shi grabbed her daughter's clothes, looking embarrassed. She whispered, "Ning, Ning Jie'er, those soldiers just said that the wild mushrooms here are poisonous and can kill people if eaten. Even if Yu Niang can cook, she is not from here. Even the locals themselves cannot distinguish between poisonous and non-toxic mushrooms. I, I am worried. It is best to ask your fourth sister-in-law not to eat them."
She was a soft-hearted person who didn't like gossiping, but her face flushed red at what she had said.
Pei Jianing impatiently pushed Wen away and said, "Fourth sister-in-law said she could tell the difference. I believe her. Besides, it will take several days to get there. If I don't nourish Feng'er and Yan'er, they will definitely not be able to make it."
Not only the two children couldn't bear it, they couldn't bear it either. Compared to dying of exhaustion and starvation, she would rather eat her fill and be poisoned to death.
Wen's eyes turned red and she stopped talking.
Pei Jianing felt very sad when she saw Wenshi like this, but she did not try to persuade her mother. She just wanted to pick up her brother and niece and go to her fourth sister-in-law.
Pei Weixuan stood up, took the two children from his sister's arms, and followed them to Xu Qinyu.
Xu Qinyu brought two bowls of soup and handed them to the two of them, "Feed Feng Ge'er and Yan Jie'er first."
It's cold, and these bowls of soup have been sitting around for a while, so now's the perfect time to eat them.
Pei Weixuan nodded, took the large bowl, and fed one child each. The two children took a bite and began to gobble it up voraciously.
Xu Qinyu also felt sad. The two children were as thin as refugees and malnourished. If they didn't get some food, they would not be able to survive. There happened to be four eggs left from making the soup just now. She would boil them later and save them for the two children so that they could eat them when they were hungry at night.
Xu Qinyu handed another bowl to Wen. Wen mumbled a thank you, and Xu Qinyu returned to the stove to continue eating.
There was a bowl of mushroom and egg drop soup left, and Xu Qinyu planned to leave it for her adopted husband. He seemed to be only nineteen this year, and it was still the time for growth. His original body was only fifteen, and in her time he would still be a half-grown child. Yet he had to endure such hardship, and he had to endure this hardship for his own elder sister.
The Marquis Dechang’s Mansion is really a terrible family. Xu Qinyu complained about the Marquis Dechang’s Mansion in her heart while drinking soup.
While they were enjoying their meal, the two children on Anping Gong's side were making even more noise, saying they wanted to eat the food in their bowls and even asked people to come and snatch it away.
These two boys, one about seven or eight years old, and the other about two or three years old, are the legitimate great-grandsons of Old Master Wen. They were spoiled to no end when they were in the capital, and even after being exiled, they still have the same temper.
Mrs. Wen was a little annoyed by the crying of her two great-grandchildren. She pointed out the problem and said, "Why are you crying? You can't just eat these mushrooms casually. Be careful not to eat them to death."
Xu Qinyu rolled her eyes inwardly when she heard this, and drank the soup even more with relish.
The family was eating when Ma Liu ran over with a big grin on his face. He squatted in front of Xu Qinyu and shouted, "My dear, you have an extra bowl of soup. Is this really good?"
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Of course, General, you can see that we are all fine." She picked common edible mushrooms, which were not toxic at all.
Ma Liu was so greedy. He hadn't expected that a bowl of mushroom and egg soup could have such an alluring aroma. He couldn't help but ask, "Then the young lady, do you still have one bowl left?"
Xu Qinyu already knew what the general meant, and said with a smile, "There are still extra bowls, please drink it, general."
Ma Liu didn't hesitate to pick up the large bowl and took a sip. He was delighted by the deliciousness of the soup as soon as he took a sip. He praised, "It's so delicious." He had never tasted such a delicious soup.
He finished the bowl of soup in just a few mouthfuls.
The Pei family still ate with hard coarse-grain cakes, otherwise a bowl of soup would not be enough to fill them up.
After Ma Liu finished drinking, he said goodbye to Xu Qinyu and left with satisfaction.
Pei Jianing looked at Xu Qinyu and couldn't help but say, "I didn't know Fourth Sister-in-law's cooking skills were so good. She seemed like a different person after she got sick."
When Fourth Sister-in-law entered Fourth Brother's palace in her wedding dress, she looked lifeless and lifeless, as if she had lost her soul. After that, even when she was on the road to exile, Fourth Sister-in-law never said a word. Even when she was bullied by the Wen family, she just shrank her neck, just like her mother. What she hated most was people who were too weak, so she also disliked Fourth Sister-in-law a little.
But I didn’t expect that my fourth sister-in-law would change after she fell ill.
Xu Qinyu sighed, "I was thinking in the wrong way before. I have become more open-minded after this serious illness. As long as I am alive, anything is possible. I don't want to die, I want to live well. As for cooking, I learned a little when I was at home. I didn't expect that it would become a skill for me to settle down and build a career in the future." She was looking for an excuse for her drastic change in temperament. At the same time, she was also telling the Pei family that when she arrived at the place of exile, she planned to cook food to settle down and build a career.
As for the original body's cooking skills, he did have some.
The second branch of their family was not favored in the Marquis' Mansion, and their food was much worse than that of the other two branches. Sometimes when she felt greedy, she would learn to cook a little, but she didn't know how to cook much.
When Pei Weixuan heard this, his hand holding the bowl paused slightly and his eyelids slightly opened, but he did not look at Xu Qinyu. He lowered his eyes and continued eating.
Pei Jianing didn't think about anything else. Even her own temperament had changed drastically. It would be abnormal if she didn't have a drastic change after experiencing such an experience. Naturally, she believed what her fourth sister-in-law said.
After dinner, Xu Qinyu washed and put away the pots and bowls.
Ma Liu enjoyed his meal today and even shared some of the firewood with the Pei family so that they could make their own fire to keep warm.
With the fire, everyone's clothes were dried, and after eating and drinking enough, they huddled under a huge rock and slept for the night.
This was almost the most comfortable night they had during their exile.
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The next day, just as the sky was turning pale and Xu Qinyu and the Pei family had just woken up, Ma Liu trotted over to Xu Qinyu and laughed, "My dear, what are we having for breakfast today?"
He was worried that he would be poisoned by the mushroom soup at night, but after drinking a bowl of mushroom soup, he felt about 70% full and slept more soundly at night.
In this era, ordinary people only had two meals a day, breakfast and evening, without lunch or midday meals. Rich families, or aristocratic and royal families had three or four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner and evening.
Xu Qinyu smiled and said, "Today we're having scallion egg pancakes."
Scallion omelet is also easy to make. Wash and chop the wild onions picked yesterday, pour them into the prepared egg batter, and finally add salt to season.
All you need to pay attention to when making this dish is the heat and the ratio of the batter, which are both very simple things for Xu Qinyu.
While she was cooking, the officers and soldiers first helped to boil a pot of hot water, filled everyone's kettle, and then went to the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots and wild vegetables.
When the officers and soldiers came back, she had already spread a thick stack of scallion egg pancakes, and the aroma was fragrant.
It tastes soft, fragrant, delicate and easy to digest.
The scallion egg pancake she made was quite large. Each of the officers and soldiers received two, and she and the Pei family each received one. They ate it with hot water and regained some strength.
After another day of travel, she prepared dinner in the evening. She made mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and bacon stew. The stew was simple to make but very delicious. Because of the addition of mushrooms, it had more flavor than the bacon stewed with winter bamboo shoots yesterday and was more delicious. Everyone in the Pei family got a bowl.
After walking for another five or six days, Xu Qinyu prepared breakfast and dinner along the way. The officers and soldiers were impressed by her food, and they became more polite to the Pei family. The Pei family also brought hot water and food every day. After a few days of this, Xu Qinyu and the Pei family looked better.
At first, the Wen family could tolerate the food made by Xu Qinyu, but later even Old Master Wen could not resist the aroma. Thinking that it was food for the officers and soldiers, they always bought some hot water and food from these officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers would sell it to them. So they asked their family to negotiate with the officers and soldiers to buy some food, but they were directly rejected by Deputy Captain Chen, who said that it was not enough even for them. The Wen family was very angry, and hated Xu Qinyu and the Pei family even more.
After eating like this for five or six days, the officers and soldiers had eaten up all the food in the carriage. Fortunately, there were mountains all around, so they could pick fresh wild mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots every day. Even without bacon, white flour and eggs, the young lady could still make a soup and a dish with wild mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots.
I don’t know how this young lady cooked it, but these wild mushrooms were simply boiled in hot water, with some salt and lard added, and they were incredibly delicious.
Only then did they believe that many wild mushrooms were edible, but it was really difficult to distinguish them. They didn't know how this young lady could be so good. Sometimes they went to help pick them and found that they were no different from those picked by the young lady, but the young lady told them that they were poisonous mushrooms and could not be eaten.
And the winter bamboo shoots were cut into thin slices by the young lady, stir-fried with lard, and only a little salt was added. They tasted crisp, refreshing and sweet.
Ma Liu sighed as he ate, thinking that their journey back to the capital would be difficult because he would no longer be able to eat the food cooked by the young lady.
For these officers and soldiers, it was Ma Liu who usually cooked for them. Xu Qinyu was also generous. She taught Ma Liu the recipes of the food she had made in the past few days, and also taught him some simple tips for stir-frying and stewing soup. As for other exquisite dishes, it was useless to teach him. It was impossible for him to cook such exquisite food while he was in exile.
Ma Liu was particularly grateful to Xu Qinyu. As they were about to reach the border city, he secretly ran to tell Xu Qinyu, "My dear, don't worry. You are a commoner here. You will definitely live well with your skills. When I return to the capital, I will help you send a message to your parents to let them know you are safe."
Xu Qinyu said solemnly, "Thank you, General. Please tell my parents that I will live well and will never give up. Please don't worry about me and take care of yourself. We will have the opportunity to meet again in the future."
Since she lives on in place of her original self, and her original self's parents dote on her very much, she will also be filial to them on her behalf. She was exiled to the southwest along with the Fourth Prince's lineage, and her original self's parents must be very sad. They are afraid that they will get hurt, so they can only comfort them first.
Ma Liu said: "Don't worry, young lady, I will inform them if I don't need to."
On the seventh day, everyone finally saw the shadow of Raozhou, a southwestern border town.
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