Chapter 220 Case File 3: Twin Butterflies Dance at Rose Villa (8)
Late at night, the lights in the villa gradually went out, and the owner, guests and servants all returned to their rooms to rest. The huge villa gradually returned to tranquility.
The corridors were lit only by a few dimly lit magic night lamps. The mansion itself was dimly lit, and a thunderstorm raged outside the windows. The entire villa seemed immersed in an ancient, eerie horror.
——Squeak.
Suddenly, a door in the corridor opened and a man hurried out.
He tried to walk lightly as he passed through the dimly lit corridor. When he reached another door not far away, he hesitated for a few seconds. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he raised his hand and knocked on the door.
The knock on the door only sounded twice, and before it could wake up the guests in the surrounding rooms, the door was suddenly pulled open and a tall figure appeared at the door.
"What is it?"
"I, I know your secret." The man who knocked on the door raised his head slightly, revealing a sinister smile from under his overly long bangs. "Will you make a deal with me, Madame Butterfly?"
The tall figure stood at the door for a long while before opening it: "Come in."
The man walked into the room triumphantly, as if he had already secured victory. The door slowly closed behind him, and a magnetic and captivating voice rang out, as alluring as a demon from hell: "Let's talk about this... What do you know, and what do you want?"
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Jiangyou slept soundly and was woken up again by Xiao Nian Gao's peck at five in the morning. She yawned loudly, got up, changed into chef's clothes, wiped her face and went to look for the housekeeper.
Richard didn't know what time he got up. When Jiangyou arrived at the kitchen, he was directing several tall puppet servants to bring in buckets of live shrimp.
Yesterday, the housekeeper only prepared shrimp for the golden shrimp rolls at the dinner party, a mere twenty or so, so Jiangyou had to count them carefully. But today, with several buckets of live shrimp specially ordered, things are different. Shrimp dumplings, shrimp rice rolls, seafood porridge, everything can be prepared!
"I thought it was raining heavily outside and there would be no shrimp today." Jiang You fished a shrimp out of the bucket to check, and was immediately splashed with water in the face by the fresh shrimp. "Wow, it's alive and well, and it's huge!"
"There's really no seafood in town today. But the master has his own fleet," the butler said proudly. "These shrimp were caught from the sea last night and brought over from the cliffs at low tide. Besides these buckets of shrimp, there's also a bucket of fish and a bucket of crabs, all of which were caught along the way. I wonder if they'll be of any use."
"Yes! Absolutely!" After looking at the seafood, Jiang You immediately wrote down today's menu. "I saw some rice in the storage room, so I can make seafood porridge!"
She handed the menu to the butler and said with a sly look on her face, "By the way, now that the dinner has concluded successfully and the guests are very satisfied, I wonder if I could settle the payment of ten gold coins first? Of course, I will do my best to the end."
"Oh, of course." Ten gold coins weren't a lot of money for the butler, so he could make the decision himself and pay the money on the spot. He wasn't worried that Jiang You wouldn't work hard. After all, the butler knew how much the guests had tipped him yesterday.
A good cook who could earn fifteen gold coins just from tips naturally couldn't keep her company by being stingy and splitting up the money. If he simply gave her the money generously, she would do her job well for the sake of the tip. But if he had to split up even this small amount of money with various excuses, he would be asking for trouble and turning a good cooperation into something offensive.
With the money in her pocket, Jiang You was very satisfied and worked much harder. She thanked the housekeeper and went into the kitchen to prepare her Cantonese snacks.
Shrimp rice noodle rolls, red rice sausage, shrimp dumplings, barbecued pork buns, shrimp steamed buns, fried dough sticks and seafood porridge... bake some egg tarts and boil some pearl milk tea, and you won’t have to worry about not attracting these nobles who have not had many good meals!
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Andre followed Leila for most of the night and didn't fall asleep until after four in the morning. When he came to the kitchen yawning, it was already half past eight in the morning.
The hardworking Little Bone had already prepared most of the meals. The steamer on the stove was puffing out steam, the small noodles in the frying pan were sizzling and turning into golden "sticks" several times larger, and a thick "soup" was cooking in the casserole.
The whole kitchen was filled with a rich and unfamiliar aroma. Andre thought it smelled particularly good, but he couldn't tell what it was.
"Good morning, Andre. Would you like to try today's seafood porridge with fried dough sticks?" As soon as Jiangyou saw him, his eyes lit up. The food taster was finally here!
"Yes." Andrei decisively sat down in front of the kitchen island and looked at the dishes he had never seen before with curiosity: "What are these?"
"Cantonese-style tea!" Jiang You made him a pot of black tea. "Butler, we only have ordinary black tea here, but it tastes pretty good. Hehe, how can we have morning tea without tea?"
——Although it’s not as good as Pu’er or jasmine tea, it’s still just as good.
She first filled a bowl of thick seafood porridge for Andre. This porridge was made with shrimp oil from fried shrimp heads. The rice grains were cooked until they were blooming, and a thick layer of rice glue floated on the porridge. The golden shrimp oil and crab oil had seeped into the porridge. It was served with fresh shrimp and crab meat, celery, chopped green onions, and a freshly fried, hot, oily, crispy and fragrant dough stick. It was simply beautiful to the sky.
"The ingredients are limited. We don't have any preserved vegetables, and we don't have time to pickle them." Jiang You still felt a little regretful, "But it's delicious enough."
Andrei had long since moved past his initial doubts about Takumi. Now, Little Bone had completely mastered his tongue and stomach. No matter what novel food was served, Andrei subconsciously assumed it would be delicious; the only difference was how delicious it was.
After taking a mouthful of the hot porridge, Andrei almost let his tongue slide down his throat because of the delicious taste.
The sweet, warm porridge, rich with the aroma of the ocean, exploded on my tongue like fireworks. The tender, springy shrimp and crab meat, crispy celery, and crispy fried dough sticks created a wonderfully satisfying texture. The rice had completely melted, making it effortless to drink. Even without milk or cream, it tasted even sweeter and more delicious than yesterday's creamy soup.
The Principality of Huntington has a long coastline, so the people here often eat seafood, but Andre has never eaten shrimp and crabs that are so delicious and not fishy. What's more, Jiangyou was very kind to use shelling magic to remove the shells of the shrimp and crabs.
——You no longer have to worry about being pricked by shrimp or crab shells when drinking porridge!
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