Chapter 78: Stir-fried Sauce
The lunch was so sumptuous that the men were discussing Qin Huiyin's cooking skills while working in the afternoon. Those who went home to eat were salivating, and Tang Yichen and Tang Dafu received the latest news from the kitchen and gave the men who were looking forward to dinner a heads-up in advance, saying that it would be sumptuous because it was the first meal, and their family didn't have the conditions to eat like this on normal days.
At dinner, Qin Huiyin served multi-grain steamed buns and pickled vegetables fried with minced meat, and then a serving of filling fish fillet porridge.
When the men saw the food, they sniffed the air and said, "It smells so good."
After tasting the steamed corn bread, they not only did not dislike it, but also praised it very much.
"If my wife had such a skill, I would rather eat wowotou every meal."
"Don't dream. It's just pickled vegetables, but look at how much meat is fried in them. Would your wife be willing to eat it like this?"
"Huiyin, how do you make this fish porridge? Teach your aunt and ask her to make it for me."
The fish is in the river. Tang Yichen can catch it, and so can other people in the village. But everyone thinks that fish is not oily and has a fishy smell, so they are too lazy to catch it. If they had known that fish can be made into various delicacies, I am afraid that the river would have been extinct long ago, and it would not be the Tang family's turn to catch fish.
Qin Huiyin smiled and said, "Okay, let my aunt come to me tomorrow and I'll do it for her."
"Huiyin is indeed a girl who has seen the world. She is generous and decent." The man praised her endlessly.
Li Taohua rolled her eyes beside her.
These men are as snobbish as women. They are generous and decent when it benefits them, but they are a burden when it does not benefit them.
Before the men left, Tang Yichen paid everyone their wages and counted the number of people who would eat tomorrow.
The men went back and told their families about it at noon, and as a result, only two of them agreed with their wives to stay at Tang Yichen's house for dinner. The remaining four had to go home and drink the wild vegetable corn porridge made by their wives.
After work, Qin Huiyin started to busy herself in the kitchen.
Several people from the Tang family went to Tang Yichen's room to learn how to read.
Li Taohua walked into the kitchen and asked, "My daughter, we have already eaten, what are you doing now?"
The ingredients will be prepared tomorrow, there is no need to rush today.
"I'm going to make some sauce. It can be used not only for rice but also for noodles."
"Mom, come and light the fire." Li Taohua heard her say this and sat down to help.
An hour later, Qin Huiyin poured the fried sauce into an empty wine jar that had been washed and left to dry for half a day.
"There is still empty space in the wine jar. Why don't you fill it up and put it into the bamboo bucket instead?" Li Taohua asked.
"These are gifts."
"Who are you sending it to?"
"secret."
"You little girl..." Li Taohua said unhappily, "There is so much meat and mushrooms in this sauce, plus green peppers and pickled vegetables. Although I haven't eaten it yet, I'm sure it tastes good. If you sell it, ten cents a bucket is cheap. You still want to give it away, who is worthy of your generosity?"
"Mother knows him too." Qin Huiyin said, "Oh, don't worry, mother, I know my limits."
Li Taohua couldn't do anything about her and said nothing more.
"I won't go with you this time. If you're too busy, find someone to help!" Li Taohua said, "How is Tang Sanmei?"
"Not many people know about our business in the city. Even if they knew, they don't think we can make much money. If we hire people, we can't keep it secret. Forget it. We have Third Grandpa to help us anyway. No matter how busy we are, we won't be busy for long. The worst that can happen is that we have one less person. We can move slower than before and sell for a longer time."
Qin Huiyin sealed the sauce, cleaned up the kitchen, and then made small dumplings to reward the Tang father and son who had exhausted their brain power.
Li Taohua took a sip and said in surprise: "This taste is made from the spoiled rice in the basin?"
"It's not bad, that's the taste I want. In fact, this is also a kind of rice wine, sour and sweet, suitable for women, and you will get drunk if you drink too much!"
Qin Huiyin made distiller's grains. When Li Taohua smelled the smell, she thought it was the leftover rice that had gone bad and was about to throw it away, but Qin Huiyin saw her and she didn't waste anything.
"Girl, where did you learn all these things?" Li Taohua said, "I never thought my daughter is such a genius."
Qin Huiyin smiled and said, "As long as you like it, I will cook it for you often in the future."
Li Taohua knocked on Tang Yichen's door and said from outside: "Huiyin made food, come out and eat something before studying."
The Tang family father and son (and daughter) came out dejected.
Tang Yichen looked sternly at Tang Yixiao and Tang Luwu, "You are still not satisfied with the reduction from three words to two words. If you can't even handle this little difficulty, then don't go out and do business with me. Plant crops all your life like other people in the village. The farthest place you will go is the town, and the most you will see is loess."
"Brother, you are too fierce." Qin Huiyin said helplessly, "Eat first, then I will accompany you to learn."
"Aren't you tired yet?" Tang Yichen frowned. "You've been busy all day, and you still have to clean up the mess for them at night. Do they have to rely on you for their survival for the rest of their lives?" Qin Huiyin: "..."
She just felt that as a veteran in the education field of the 21st century, she had her own learning experience and might be able to teach them some methods and approaches.
"Brother, you are so fierce, they will be scared by you." Qin Huiyin handed the rice dumplings with fermented rice wine to Tang Yichen, "Eat something first and calm down, Master Tang."
Tang Yichen took it.
The others breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
"It's delicious." Tang Dafu was the first to praise it.
He likes drinking, and the glutinous rice balls with rice wine have the taste of rice wine, sweet but not greasy. He drank two bowls in a row.
Li Taohua was so disgusted that she finally forced him back to his room to learn how to read.
Tang Dafu was the dumbest among the Tang family. Li Taohua didn't want to care about his study, after all, she didn't expect him to study for the imperial examination, but seeing that her daughter was affected by the study of the Tang family, she had no choice but to take over this mess and personally take him back to the room to study.
"Wife, I have a headache and I really can't learn anymore."
"Learn a word and I'll let you kiss me..."
Tang Dafu: "...Wife, I can learn."
Qin Huiyin: “…”
The Tang sisters: "..."
After eating the rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice, Qin Huiyin collected the dishes, washed them, and went to Tang Yichen's room to find out about Tang Yixiao and Tang Luwu's academic performance.
"How about I give it a try..." Qin Huiyin endured it and said to Tang Yichen, "Let them learn from me in the next half month, and you can take over later."
If you don't have a study method and just memorize by rote, it's really a bit too much. Since the general method doesn't work for the two older students, let's use her method.
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