Chapter 26: Fragrance Spreads Ten Miles Away
Aunt Xue glared at Lu Huaiyun and Lu Zhiyi angrily and said, "Where do I have the money? Please stop slandering me."
"Bitch, you have money but you don't use it to buy medicine for me. Do you want to watch me die?" Lu Yingxun was in pain all over, but he didn't care about being gentle with women. He went up and kicked Aunt Xue.
"Dad!" Lu Chengxuan stepped in front of Aunt Xue and said, "You can't treat Mom like this just because of their one-sided story. Don't you know who my Mom has in her heart?"
Lu Zhiyi said sarcastically, "I don't know who she has in her heart. I only know that she always sneaks into the woods with the police in the middle of the night."
"You bitch!" Lu Yingxun ignored his son's attempts to stop him and went over to grab Aunt Xue and started beating her. "How dare you cheat on me? I'll kill you today."
Outside, the second branch of the Lu family was in chaos, and the third branch of the Lu family was also not peaceful.
Regardless of the noise outside, Jiang Tangtang closed the door, took out the remaining wolf meat and the cherry tomatoes she had just picked from the space, which she had hidden under her bag, and said, "Are you all hungry? Eat something first. I'll go cook."
"I'll help you!" Lu Shiyan came in with hot water. After hearing this, he hurriedly handed the bucket to Su.
Lu Shili and Lu Zhixi also stood up and said, "I'll go too."
"You two are injured, so just rest in the room and don't cause trouble." There were too many people, and it was difficult for her to get food out of the space.
"If you want to help, just take good care of your injuries and then go help your sister-in-law." Lu Shiyan also said.
We are borrowing the kitchen of the village head's house to cook tonight.
When the two of them went over, the kitchen had already been cleaned up.
The officers' food tonight included a few pheasants they had shot in the morning, as well as some rabbits they had caught in the woods while on the road in the afternoon.
The staple food is still brown rice.
The food of the Lu family's eldest wife was the same as before, a three-grain flour made of bean flour, sorghum and millet flour.
While Lu Shiyan went to kill the chickens and process the rabbits, Jiang Tangtang, as usual, secretly took out cornmeal, eggs and other things from the space to knead the dough.
He took out some marinated wolf meat and chopped it into minced meat, planning to make meat patties with the fermented three-in-one flour later.
While I was chopping the meat, Lu Shiyan came back.
Jiang Tangtang left the task of chopping the meat to him, and went to prepare meals for the officials.
She first soaked the chopped rabbit meat in clean water to remove the fishy smell, and then stewed the pheasant and mushrooms together.
The wild mushrooms were brought by the village head's wife. In addition to the wild mushrooms, she also brought a piece of fat meat, dried beans, cornus officinalis, sauerkraut, radishes and other vegetables.
It can be seen that the village head has a good relationship with these officials.
Jiang Tangtang even suspected that since the headman's house fees were so high, he might even give half of the money to the officials.
But this was not her business. All she wanted now was to get to the place of exile comfortably.
They heard there was a small town a hundred miles further ahead, so Jiang Tangtang tried to persuade Liang Jiamin to allow them to get a donkey cart.
However, the imperial court exiled prisoners to the point of making them suffer the hardships of exile. Openly buying an oxcart to ride in would probably be difficult to convince Liang Jiamin.
Jiang Tangtang put her thoughts aside and focused on cooking.
Rabbits and pheasants were the most common prey for officials. Some time ago, Jiang Tangtang had already made braised rabbit meat, roasted rabbit meat, and rabbit meat cooked with radish.
Today at the village head's house, there are many side dishes, and Jiang Tangtang plans to make a dish of spicy and sour rabbit meat.
There were no chili peppers in that era, so Jiang Tangtang used Cornus officinalis instead.
Refine the fat into oil, fry the rabbit meat until golden brown, then put the spices such as cornus officinalis and sour ginger into the oil pan and stir-fry until fragrant, then add the previously fried rabbit meat and stir-fry.
The sour, spicy and fragrant smell drifted from the headman's kitchen to the village, and the villagers all sniffed.
"Whose family is cooking? Why does it smell so good?"
"It seems to be the smell coming from the village head's house."
"Although the village head's family lives a better life, the cooking skills of his wives are not very good and they can't make food like this. This tastes even better than the best restaurant in the county. I don't know who has this skill."
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The villagers were talking about it, but the officials and prisoners who were staying in the village knew that Jiang Tangtang was cooking again.
The prisoner could only swallow his saliva, secretly envious and jealous in his heart, but the official came to the headman's house with chopsticks and bowls, waiting for the meal to be served.
After Jiang Tangtang fried the rabbit meat, she also made meat patties, prepared a few vegetarian dishes, and stewed the pheasant and mushroom soup.
The dish of pheasant stewed with mushrooms does not require any technical skills. As long as the ingredients are fresh, it will taste delicious no matter how it is stewed.
But she secretly used the water in the space.
I don’t know if it was her illusion, but she felt that today’s chicken soup was particularly delicious.
As soon as the lid of the pot was opened, the officials gathered around and praised Jiang Tangtang for her improved cooking skills.
Liang Jiamin scooped out a large bowl of chicken soup and handed it to Jiang Tangtang, saying, "Take it to the children!"
There are three big chicken legs and a few pieces of chicken in the big bowl. This bowl of chicken soup is very substantial.
After spending some time together, Jiang Tangtang felt that Liang Jiamin was humane. He was not the kind of corrupt official who only knew how to extort money from prisoners, but he was not a kind-hearted person either.
If there were no great benefits, he probably would not have taken the risk and agreed to let them buy the donkey cart.
Looking at the wolf meat being prepared for braising in the evening, Jiang Tangtang suddenly had an idea.
The original owner was a person who loved to eat. She could be found in almost all the big restaurants and roadside food stalls in the capital.
But after eating in so many places, I have never eaten braised pork.
What if she made the braised meat and negotiated a business deal with the official?
Jiang Tangtang became excited as she thought about it.
After thanking Liang Jiamin, he hurried back to his room with the food.
In the room, Su and others had already smelled the fragrance.
Seeing Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan coming back, they all showed expressions of anticipation and excitement.
"This is the chicken soup that Lord Liang gave us." Jiang Tangtang placed the soup on the small table and served a small bowl to each of the children. "Drink some hot soup first, then eat the chicken legs. One for each of you three."
Looking at the fat chicken leg in the bowl, Lu Shili and Lu Zhixi swallowed unconsciously, and then looked away together.
That is food for my nephews and nieces. They shouldn’t be jealous. Just eat the cakes! The cakes made by my sister-in-law are also delicious.
Today's pancakes are filled with meat filling, which makes them taste even better.
Everyone looked very satisfied after eating.
Jiang Tangtang ate the meat pie and secretly observed the children.
"Mom, this chicken soup is so delicious. You should have a sip too." Lu Tiantian moved the bowl over to give it to Jiang Tangtang.
Jiang Tangtang took a sip, smiled and touched her head, "Thank you, little darling, you can eat it yourself, mother has already eaten."
Seeing his mother gently touching his sister's head, smiling at her and calling her little baby, Lu Jingheng suddenly felt a little envious and wanted to feed her the soup in the bowl.
But he turned to look at his elder brother out of habit. Lu Jingcheng had a cold face as usual, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.
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