Chapter 226 You two don't act like relatives.
But Wang Ziru smiled coldly, thinking that when the couple went to Baiteng Town, the child left in the family compound almost starved to death. In this huge family compound, no one was willing to give her son a home.
I'm afraid these women also laughed at her son for being a country bumpkin.
"The army spent money to buy this fat pig. If you want the grease, go find the kitchen staff. I am not qualified to be the head of the family."
After saying that, Wang Ziru walked out from the circle of women and went home to get brine.
Behind me, the unpleasant voices of several women cursing filled my ears.
At the corridor on the fourth floor, Zhu Yan stood there not knowing what to do. She also heard that Wang Ziru went to the kitchen to help with cooking. It seemed that Zhai Ximo and Wen Yiting's tryst did not cause any bad impact.
After a while, she saw Wang Ziru coming home as if to get something, so she quickly locked the door and went downstairs, waiting for Wang Ziru at the stairs.
"Sister Ziru, are you helping with cooking in the kitchen tonight?"
Wang Ziru was slightly stunned, thinking that Zhu Yan had helped her before, she smiled and said, "Yes, Commander Duan and his officers have two tables tonight. Do you have time? Come with me to the kitchen to work."
"Can I?" Zhu Yan was so excited.
"Of course! Go back and get your apron, and follow me to the kitchen to have a meal." Wang Ziru smiled brightly, "The troops' pork soup is really rich, so we can have a good meal tonight."
Several military wives stood at the stairs, staring at Zhu Yan as she turned around and ran back to the fourth floor, took her apron, and walked downstairs and out of the compound hand in hand with Wang Ziru.
"Hey! We don't have any fellow villagers, and they won't take care of us."
"I knew what was going to happen today. I went to Zhai's house a few days ago to help with some things."
"That woman must have been jealous of us because her family had just joined the army and she didn't take care of her son."
The women were talking at once, all sighing.
Some people also want to learn how to cook, but without a chef to guide them, they have no chance to cook in the kitchen.
They all knew that there was a military wife in the family compound. She knew how to cook at home, and when she arrived at the army, she volunteered to help cook. Later, she joined the army as a cook, and both husband and wife became soldiers.
It's really enviable.
Commander Duan was smoking in a secluded place among the troops. Not far away, he saw his young wife running home excitedly.
Not long after, she took her fellow villagers to the kitchen.
There was something in my chest that was slowly being pulled away.
In the kitchen squad, all the cooks were busy preparing for the evening reward dinner for the entire army.
Wang Ziru had only been home for a short while when she led Zhu Yan back to the kitchen, where she saw that squad leader Wang and two other cooks had already moved two iron buckets and a stove made of yellow mud out of the kitchen.
There were also several wives of soldiers in the family compound who cooked on the stoves. They also lit up the beehive coals and started the stoves.
"There's firewood burning in the iron bucket and a big stove. Sister-in-law, do you think we should use this to cook meat and steam vegetables later?"
"Yes! A high fire can be started quickly. I'll use some bones to make soup and put kelp in it."
Wang Ziru was very satisfied with Squad Leader Wang's work efficiency. She introduced him to Zhu Yan, who was Captain Zhang's newlywed wife, and asked her to come and help with the cooking, otherwise everyone would be too busy.
Squad Leader Wang could see that they were just looking for trouble.
"You don't need to burn the skin of your pig's feet. Just burn off the hair on the outside and wash it with hot water. And burn the pig's ears for me too."
In the small courtyard behind the kitchen, Wang Ziru walked over to see a cook who was roasting pig's trotters.
"Okay, sister-in-law."
Wang Ziru asked Zhu Yan to look at the menu first and then see what she could do to help.
Zhu Yan went to take down the menu from the wall of the kitchen. She was dazzled by the densely packed dishes on the paper.
There were some dishes that she had never even heard of, let alone eaten.
Wang Ziru picked out all the meat needed for cooking that night, put it in a sample porcelain bowl, selected two pieces of pork belly with the right amount of fat and lean meat, and asked the cook to roast the pork skin together with it.
"Zhu Yan, go to the mill next door and use the stone mill to grind half a bowl of glutinous rice flour for me. Prepare some cornmeal. It doesn't matter if the cornmeal is a little coarse. Cut some pickled mustard greens and prepare some shredded potatoes for me. Also..."
Zhu Yan's head tingled when she heard this, but she nodded quickly. This was a good opportunity to practice with the chef.
He quickly wrote down everything Wang Ziru had asked him to do in a notebook, and then did them one by one.
Wang Ziru gave some instructions, found an aluminum steamer, placed it on the stove, poured half a pot of water into it, wrapped the broth with gauze, threw it into the pot, and began to boil the broth.
He turned around and put the pig tripe and liver in a porcelain basin to wash.
When the brining ingredients started to smell fragrant, Squad Leader Wang came over and asked, "Sister-in-law, I was wondering if pork head meat can be made into brined meat?"
"Of course you can! But you have to burn off the hair of the pig head beforehand, wash it clean and cook it until it's done, then take off the skin and put it in brine." Wang Ziru said.
Squad leader Wang's eyes lit up. "I'll ask them to do it right away! I'll prepare some brined pork head for everyone tomorrow at noon."
Two cooks brought over the roasted and cleaned pig's trotters and ears, and Wang Ziru began to marinate Dongpo pork elbow. It was very simple to marinate the elbow, and several cooks stood by and followed to learn how to make Dongpo pork elbow.
Soon, all the brisket was cooked into the broth.
Zhu Yan came into the stove room carrying cornmeal and a bowl of glutinous rice noodles and handed them to Wang Ziru, "Is this enough?"
"That's enough! That's enough!"
Wang Ziru first marinated the pork elbow, put it in an extra-large enamel plate, and put it in the steamer.
Brush the cooked pork belly with soy sauce, put it into the pot, add sugar and fry the pork skin. Soon, the iron pot will make crackling sounds as the pork skin explodes.
A circle of cooks gathered around the stove, watching the cooking of pork with preserved vegetables.
Turning around, Wang Ziru told the cook to cut the pork belly, and then she mixed the marinated ribs with glutinous rice flour and corn flour and put it in a bowl.
In the end, there were ten bowls of braised pork with preserved vegetables and ten bowls of steamed pork with rice flour.
Wang Ziru deliberately made a few extra bowls and saved them for the kitchen staff to eat at the end.
Squad leader Wang stood beside the chopping board, helping Wang Ziru. Although he was a little confused, he did not ask why there were so many broken bowls for two tables of food.
All the steamed dishes were put into the steamer, and the salsa was also in the pot.
Wang Ziru finally had time to count the vegetarian dishes. "Tonight we prepared some vegetarian dishes for Commander Duan and his men. There are two cold dishes and four vegetarian dishes. Have you picked them all for me?"
"Sister-in-law, here, here. The eggplants, cucumbers and beans are all washed. All that's left is to cut the potatoes into shreds." A youthful cook came over with a basin of washed vegetables, smiling.
"The only thing left is the oil residue, right?"
"The oil residue is almost done!" Squad Leader Wang hurried to the stove at the back of the stove room and took a look at the oil residue in the big iron pot that was almost done.
The cook who was in charge of boiling lard had an oil can on the earthen stove in front of him.
As soon as I saw lard coming out of the pot, I would scoop it up with a spoon and pour it into the oil can. So in the end, only half of the pot of fat residue would be seen coming out, and there would be very little lard left.
Wang Ziru smelled the aroma of lard and felt a little hungry, so she took a pair of chopsticks, picked up a few lard residues from the pot and put them into her mouth.
Suddenly, there was a crisp sound in my mouth, and the delicious aroma of pork fat filled my teeth. I chewed it for a few times and swallowed it down. I smacked my lips, feeling unsatisfied and full of happiness.
"I'll mix some seasoning on the oil residue later and put it in two plates and eat it separately." Wei Fuli put down his chopsticks and said.
The cooks standing by the stove swallowed hard.
They all thought that it was delicious when eaten alone, but if it was sprinkled with some seasoning, wouldn’t it be even more delicious than that eaten by the emperor?
Wang Ziru got some pepper powder and chili powder, added a little salt, fried a little shredded ginger and minced garlic in the iron pot, and mixed several seasonings together.
When all the fat in the pot has been boiled out into lard, scoop it into two enamel plates and sprinkle with seasoning.
Seeing the two pots of golden, pork-scented greasy residue on the chopping board, the cooks in the kitchen were almost drooling with anticipation.
Time passed quickly, and while the kitchen staff were still busy in the kitchen, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
Five o'clock is also the time for the first batch of soldiers to have their meals.
The soldiers lined up to enter the cafeteria. Inside, each round table was placed with two pots of fried pork and mixed grain rice.
"Wow, I smell something nice in the kitchen."
"Tonight we have not only pork but also bone soup?"
"It seems like their officers eat differently from us."
"You are not an officer, so of course you can't eat good food! Look, isn't that Deputy Colonel Zhai's wife? She must be cooking for Commander Duan and the others..."
Sitting at the table closest to the kitchen, they were discussing heatedly in low voices while the warriors at other tables were still seated.
After the first batch of soldiers finished eating, the second batch entered the cafeteria.
The soldiers happened to see that on the two round tables closest to the kitchen, several cooks were carrying trays, one after another, bringing out full enamel plates from the kitchen and placing them one by one on the two round tables.
Just by taking a look from a distance, I knew it must be a delicacy.
But they knew very well that those two tables must be filled with delicious food for the cadres.
Squad leader Wang of the kitchen squad sent someone to the regiment headquarters to invite Commander Duan to come down for dinner. Soon, he saw all the officers walk into the cafeteria and go straight to the two round tables at the back.
Everyone walked to the round table and couldn't help but gasp for the aroma!
"Wow! What a rich meal! The kitchen staff are so good at cooking?" Teacher Wen couldn't help but sigh as he stared at the delicious dishes on the table.
Commander Duan was in a bad mood, but when he saw the two tables were decorated with exquisite dishes, beautifully presented in red and green, and emitting all kinds of tempting aromas, he looked at Han Suijing sideways and said, "You are enjoying life with me today."
"Ah?" Han Suijing saw his grumpy boss sitting down, so he sat down too, but he didn't quite understand what his boss meant.
The other officers sat at two round tables in order of their military rank.
Commander Duan picked up his chopsticks and hovered over the dishes on the table, hesitating. He turned around and looked at the young wife in the kitchen, "Why don't you come out and introduce us what dishes you have?"
Everyone turned their eyes to Wang Ziru.
Wang Ziru wiped her hands as she came out of the kitchen. Her eyes passed directly over her man who was sitting at the table next to her. She quickly walked to Commander Duan's table and asked with a smile, "Commander, do you have any other instructions?"
Commander Duan glanced at Han Suijing and asked, "Does this dish have the flavor he likes, or do I like it?"
Standing beside, Wang Ziru looked confused and said with a wry smile: "Commander, this is just a table of the most common home-cooked dishes, and the taste is acceptable to everyone. Please taste it to see if it is too salty."
Commander Duan picked up a piece of oil residue and put it into his mouth. Immediately, a crisp sound came out of his mouth. "I think it's okay. Han Suijing, you don't want to eat it, or you don't like this kind of food?"
Han Suijing didn't answer. He picked up a piece of halved pig's ear with chopsticks and said, "Mm, the saltiness is just right, not too strong."
"Chi!" Commander Duan couldn't help but let out a cold taunt. He turned around and glanced at his young daughter-in-law, whose face was as beautiful as a hibiscus. "I can tell, you are making the dish based on Han Suijing's taste!"
Teacher Wen, who was sitting on the other side, laughed and said, "Such a rich dish, let's eat it quickly."
As for Han Suijing, he still had that calm and composed expression. Even when the three officers beside him laughed, his eyes only softened a little.
"You also steamed the spareribs? Why are they spicy?! Does Han Suijing like spicy spareribs?!" Commander Duan slammed his chopsticks on the round table in anger, turned around and glared at his wife, saying sternly: "Cook two more dishes for me!"