Chapter 138
After Xiao Yue bought the house, the first thing he was busy with was buying furniture. She chose the one that fits...
After Xiao Yue bought the house, the first thing he was busy with was buying furniture.
She chose things that suited her aesthetics and preferences, and also customized many different things. In the end, the look had a modern Chinese feel.
Because the interior decoration was already complete, it was almost finished in two days.
Xiao Yue took a walk around by herself and was very satisfied.
The last thing she did was to move her belongings from Yueting Self-service House there. To be honest, after living there for so long, she didn't have many things.
There was no need to hire additional staff, Xiao Yue could handle the problem with his own carriage trip.
The moving day is set for the day after tomorrow. On that day, it is natural to invite relatives and friends to have a meal to add popularity to the new home.
Xiao Yue specially bought red paper to write the invitations, using a relatively modern format, after all, it was his first time buying a house in ancient times.
After writing, Xiao Yue sent them out one by one.
When it was delivered to the home-style restaurant, everyone gathered together with the invitations in their hands, and the scene was inexplicably funny.
September 1st, the day of moving.
Xiao Yue booked a dinner party, and Fang Sanhong and her friends rushed over without stopping after closing the shop.
Except for Fang Sanhong, everyone else was here for the first time. As they walked around, they were amazed at the courtyard layout and beautiful environment.
"Wow, no wonder Sister Xiao took a liking to me as soon as she came over!"
“This house is so beautiful!”
"More than two thousand taels of silver, how can it be bad?"
“…Excuse me.”
Xiao Yue could hear their chattering from afar in the kitchen. The content of the chattering made her laugh out loud. She stopped what she was doing and went out to entertain them.
It was still early, so Xiao Yue took them for a walk.
As expected, everyone particularly liked the small garden and stopped there.
“It’s so beautiful here!”
Xiao Lian immediately found a spot and placed the housewarming gift, which was a carefully selected potted plant.
A pot of daffodils and a pot of chrysanthemums are perfectly integrated into the small garden.
The more Xiao Yue looked at them, the more she liked them. She stayed to chat with them for a while and then prepared to go back to the kitchen to continue cooking.
As soon as Su Xiaoxiao and the others heard this, they immediately wanted to help.
Xiao Yue didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and quickly refused: "The kitchen at home is not bigger than the store, you can stay here and eat some snacks and fruits. If you need anything, go get it from the side."
"Oh well!"
"We won't be polite!"
However, although the kitchen is not big, it still needs someone to help. In the end, Xiao Yue took Fang Sanhong and Lu Ran away.
What to eat tonight is the most discussed topic among everyone, after all, someone’s cooking skills are so obvious.
However, unlike the various high-end dishes they had guessed, Xiao Yue decided to make home-cooked dishes.
The people coming tonight can probably sit at five tables, with about ten people at each table, so it's a lot of people.
In such a lively and lively atmosphere, Xiao Yue felt that nothing could compare to home-cooked meals.
She listed the menu last night. The first dish was "soybean and pig's trotter soup" which took time to cook in advance.
A simple but versatile dish with a soft and glutinous texture and thick white soup that is sure to be unforgettable.
Wash the pig's trotters, blanch them, and finally add green onions, ginger, angelica, white angelica and other spices, then put them into a specially exchanged large casserole to boil.
You need to add hot water at any time during the process, and add the soaked soybeans in the last half hour, so that the color of the pig's trotter soup will be thick and white.
Xiao Yue quickly covered the casserole and prepared the second dish.
Salty, fragrant, oily, fatty but not greasy - stir-fried ham.
This ham is not ordinary ham, but the kind of ham that has only been used once before and added to Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
It is often said that the highest-end ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods.
Xiao Yue thought there was nothing wrong with it, so he directly chose a home-cooked stir-fry.
The first step is to cut the ham into pieces and prepare ingredients such as garlic leaves, garlic slices and ginger slices; the second step is to melt the lard in a hot pan, put the ingredients into the pan one by one, pour in a circle of rice wine and simple seasonings, and finally add the garlic leaves and stir-fry until cooked.
Step three...there is no third step, just serve!
It was so simple and crude that Fang Sanhong and Lu Ran were speechless, but the fragrance was impeccable.
The third dish is a little more difficult and is also a novel dish - salted egg yolk spare ribs.
This is a home-cooked dish that Xiao Yue has always wanted to add to the menu of the restaurant. Unfortunately, he no longer has the time after opening the hot pot restaurant. It seems that he will have to find a free time to replace it later.
At this moment, the ribs were cleaned, Xiao Yue used paper to absorb the moisture and began to marinate.
Onions, garlic, soy sauce, pepper and rice wine. You also need to add some dark soy sauce to add color. Finally, a small amount of starch is used to lightly wrap the ribs.
After marinating for about a quarter of an hour, the ribs can be fried in the pan.
Xiao Yue controlled the oil temperature at 40% to 50% and put the ribs in one by one.
There was another pot in the kitchen, and Fang Sanhong was frying food at the same time, which would be faster.
When the ribs are golden and crispy, the two people will take them out and set them aside for later use. There is no need to fry them a second time.
The next step is the relatively important step of frying the salted egg yolks. The egg yolks are steamed and crushed in advance, and you can just pour a little oil into the pan and start frying.
The whole process needs to be cooked on low heat so that the salted egg yolks will not get burnt. Once the heat is too high, the whole dish will be affected.
Xiao Yue gently stir-fried the salted egg yolk until fine bubbles began to appear and the color changed from dark to light. Then he added the fried pork ribs and stirred evenly.
There is no need to add salt in this step, because the salted egg yolk itself has a fascinating salty aroma, which is a perfect match for the ribs cooked at high temperature.
The salted egg yolk is fine particles after being crushed, but after being fried, it becomes like foam and wraps the ribs layer by layer together with the oil.
This bite is a taste you have never experienced before. The combination of egg yolk and meat blooms on the tip of your tongue, and even the bone head makes you want to eat it together.
Just by smelling the scent, Fang Sanhong and Lu Ran could already guess in their hearts that it was definitely something special!
Xiao Yue wiped his hands, moved to the steamer, and continued to prepare the next dish.
It is still a meat dish, but it is very simple - steamed prawns.
The seafood produced by the system has no fishy smell. You only need to put a few slices of ginger to dispel the cold, put the pre-processed shrimps on it, and then put it into the steamer.
In comparison, the sauce is more important.
Add enough chopped green onion, ginger and chili pepper to the bowl, then add balsamic vinegar and soy sauce, and finally pour the hot oil directly into it.
“Sizzle—”
Not only does the sound of oil and water coming into contact be heard, but its wonderful smell also spreads throughout the kitchen in an instant.
When the time comes, dip the prawns in this sauce and you can eat them one by one!
Xiao Yue mixed the dipping sauce evenly and set it aside to divide into small bowls later.
After making so many meat dishes, it's time for something lighter.
The sweet and sour tomato stewed with yuba, the refreshing green stir-fried rapeseed, and the stir-fried shredded potatoes that I made a long time ago...
The sounds of knives and spatulas were heard in the kitchen again, and waves of smells seemed to start a feast in the nasal cavity in advance.
Xiao Yue also prepared two spicy side dishes and some cold dishes to ensure that there would be something to taste on the table tonight.
Fu Xunzhou came in at this time and saw Xiao Yue in the bustling kitchen at a glance.
"Azhou?"
Xiao Yue also noticed him. The dishes for the dinner were all ready and she was preparing drinks.
"Is there any wine?" However, when Fu Xunzhou saw one of the wines, he couldn't help but ask.
Xiao Yue knew what he meant, and said with a curled lip: "I can't drink, but you guys still have to drink, right? Can't I just drink something else?"
In addition to the wine, there was also a sweet and sour grapefruit mango juice, which was her destination for the night.
Fu Xunzhou saw the little emotion in her eyes and chuckled quietly: "I won't drink either. I'll drink another one with you."
"It's settled?"
"It's settled."
Xiao Yue was satisfied. Noticing the gazes of the other two people in the kitchen, he coughed and said, "It's almost done. We can start eating."
Fang Sanhong: “Oh.”
Lu Ran: “Yeah.”
Xiao Yue: “…”
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While I was cooking, many people came to the house one after another, all of them were friends invited by invitation.
Some people even brought their families to celebrate their new home.
Xiao Yue was on the way to the small garden where everyone was gathered when she heard what Fu Xunzhou said.
For example, Zhang Feiyun brought her daughter, who didn't cry or make a fuss and was very likable; Uncle Meng brought his wife, and they chatted about gossip... no, they chatted about family matters, which attracted many people; finally, there was Sun Wen, who brought her sister.
Only then did Xiao Yue realize that Fu Xunzhou had been here quietly for a long time and had been entertaining the guests for her.
She chuckled, and when she arrived at the small garden, her eyes were drawn to a familiar figure.
It was a woman, standing next to Sun Wen, holding Xiaoju in a lazy posture, and her eyes and eyebrows were very similar to Sun Wen.
Xiao Yue was stunned and slowed down his pace: "This is... Sun Shan, Miss Sun?"
He was the veterinarian who treated Xiaoju and told her that Xiaoju was invincible and was not the one who pitied the stray cat.
She is actually Sun Wen’s sister!
Xiao Yue suddenly remembered that Sun Wen had said a long time ago that she and her sister lived together at the school.
At that time, Xiao Yue felt that it sounded familiar, and when he added the last name... he didn't expect it to be true!
"Madam Xiao." Sun Shan also saw her. He scratched the little orange in his arms, not daring to move, staring at Xiao Yue with big eyes, and said with a smile, "You have taken good care of the little orange. He has gained more than three times the weight. If the cats in the academy saw him, I wonder how envious they would be."
It was rare for Xiao Yue to see Xiaoju being so well-behaved. He really deserves to be a veterinarian.
That’s what I said…
Xiao Yue laughed: "Xiaoju isn't that fat, it will be warm to hold him in the winter!"
Sun Shan nodded, thinking: "It is indeed warm, and its fur is smooth. What does Madam Xiao feed it on a daily basis, and how many times a day?"
“Hey… a few times…” Xiao Yue looked away: “Well, why don’t we go eat first, haha!”
Fu Xunzhou laughed, and was poked by Xiao's elbow, which made the smile in his eyes even deeper.
As one of the people who feeds the cats "several times a day", Fang Sanhong coughed lightly and quickly invited everyone to sit in the room at the side.
Sun Wen even chuckled and pulled her sister to her side: "Sister, being able to eat is a blessing! Look at this little orange cat, it looks so much like a cat!"
Sun Fan: “…”
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
Sun Shan rubbed his forehead and clearly saw his friends looking away one after another with guilty glances. What else didn’t they understand?
Never mind. Xiaoju's weight is still within the normal range. Maybe...
You can’t eat a cat car, right?
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