Chapter 38: Date Pastry
The method of making jujube paste crisps is actually not complicated. There happened to be jujubes at home, so Xu Qingmeng planned to make some for the little one to try.
She first washed the red dates, then put them into a pot, added water and boiled them.
Let the cooked red dates cool down a bit, remove the core, and then chop the red dates into small pieces. Then put lard and chopped red dates into the pot, add white sugar and stir-fry slowly over low heat. Soon, the sweet date paste filling is ready.
Then she mixed lard, flour and water in a bowl and kneaded it into a smooth and extensible dough. If a thin film that was not easily broken could be pulled out from a small piece of dough, it was successful. Then she let the kneaded dough rise for half an hour.
Next, make the oil pastry. Knead the flour and lard into a dough, and then divide the water-oil dough and the oil pastry into 30 portions, with each portion of the water-oil dough weighing about 46 grams and each portion of the oil pastry weighing about 22 grams.
Take a portion of water-oil dough, pinch it into a small bowl shape, put a portion of oil pastry in it, push it up slowly with your thumb and thumb, pinch it into a ball, put the wrapped dough on the diaphragm, and let it rise for half a quarter of an hour.
Roll the dough into a tongue shape, about the length of a tiger's mouth, and then slowly roll it up. After everything is done, let it rise again for half a quarter of an hour.
Then turn it 90 degrees and repeat the previous steps to roll it into a cow tongue shape again. Try to roll it a little longer. After rolling it up, relax it for a while again.
Then take a dough, press it lightly in the middle, pinch the two ends to the middle, roll the dough into a round shape again, and try to make it thick in the middle and thin on the sides.
"If the children are disobedient, they are spoiled. If they are spanked twice, they will behave. Is it necessary to go to so much trouble? You are here to give them guidance and make snacks for them."
Gu Yunyi walked into the kitchen and said as he looked at her busy figure.
Xu Qingmeng glanced at him and said, "Fortunately, Yun Sheng and the others are just your brothers and sisters. If they were your children, it would be terrible. When they grow up, you might teach them to be unreasonable and violent barbarians."
Gu Yunyi looked bewildered:...
The next second, Gu Yunyi stared at Xu Qingmeng's belly and suddenly smiled: "If you have a child, I'm sure my wife will teach it well."
Xu Qingmeng was stared at by Gu Yunyi, and she suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart. Did he find out? Impossible, she didn't feel anything. How could he, a nerd who only knew how to study, find out? She quickly calmed down.
Can it be said that because of her change, he is no longer angry about the original body drugging him? He even wants to be a real husband and wife with her. He was vague before, but now he is openly agitated?
If that was the case, the man was indeed untrustworthy, and she was even less in a good mood to deal with him. "It's hard to say. I heard that some mistresses deliberately let their illegitimate children run wild and taught them to be useless. You should study parenting skills carefully."
Gu Yunyi glared at her and laughed out of anger, "My concubine hasn't even shown up yet, and you're already worrying about me. You're really virtuous."
"Thank you for the compliment." Xu Qingmeng said hypocritically, and then looked at him with a smile, "Didn't I dream before that you would be an official in the future? I think there will be many beautiful women in your harem in the future. Am I not reminding you in advance?"
When Gu Yunyi heard Xu Qingmeng say this, he really wanted to slap himself. He was really asking for trouble!
At the beginning, I told her not to have any improper thoughts about me, but now, although she is getting better and better to her mother and brothers and sisters, she really seems to have no thoughts about him. She has already thought about her future plans. With her cooking skills, she can live a good life even after the divorce.
Gu Yunyi stood there, feeling mixed emotions. He had agreed to her opening a restaurant only after she said she agreed to divorce him. Who would have thought that she suddenly became a different person, and he was attracted to her unconsciously.
Xu Qingmeng looked at Gu Yunyi's expression, laughing in her heart, but with a faint smile on her face, "Things in this world are unpredictable. Now that I think of it, of course I have to remind you. If you really have concubines in the future, don't neglect the education of your offspring because you pamper them."
Gu Yunyi, however, was determined to make it through. He took a few steps closer and looked at her from behind. "Madam, your words are quite meaningful. If you give birth to a legitimate son, I will definitely teach him well. What do you think?"
Xu Qingmeng: Shameless! You didn't let me get close to you before! Now you want to be my real husband and wife and have a baby with me. As expected, all men are superficial!
"What legitimate son? Meng Niang is pregnant?"
He had just returned and heard what was happening vaguely.
He was very surprised, but then she felt that she must have heard something wrong. What kind of stupid question was she asking? How could she not know whether Meng Niang existed or not? She was really crazy.
The two have been living in separate rooms since they got married. Yun Yi was sick and not very willing, so they never consummated the marriage.
Later, Meng Niang became a different person, and Yun Yi also got better, but they still lived in separate rooms. Meng Niang was always with her during the day, and she had almost no time alone with Yun Yi. How could they be together? Where could they go?
Xu Qingmeng looked embarrassed. After all, in He's opinion, they had not slept together yet.
Gu Yunyi was also a little embarrassed, Xu Qingmeng quickly waved her hand and explained, "Mom, you misunderstood, it's nothing?"
He walked into the kitchen, looked the two of them up and down, and saw Xu Qingmeng's slightly red face and Gu Yunyi's uncomfortable expression, so she didn't say anything.
Xu Qingmeng did not say anything either, and continued with the work in her hands. She put the prepared date paste filling into the rolled dough, sealed the top with her thumb and index finger, and then shaped it. Since there was no kiln at home, she could only bake it slowly over low heat.
Gu Yunyi leaned close to Xu Qingmeng's ear and whispered, "Tell me, is it possible that you were already pregnant when you drugged me?"
When Xu Qingmeng heard Gu Yunyi say this, she was so scared that she dropped the things in her hands and said quickly: "What nonsense are you talking about? How is it possible? How is it possible just once..."
Xu Qingmeng stopped talking suddenly, she realized that she almost let the cat out of the bag.
In fact, she knew the plot of the book. After that physical intimacy, there are indeed two little lives in her belly now.
Xu Qingmeng pretended to be calm and continued, "Don't guess randomly. How can you get it right in one try?"
"What's wrong?" He heard the noise and saw the two people whispering to each other, and she became more and more confused.
"Mom, it's okay, I just dropped something."
Xu Qingmeng quickly picked up the things that had fallen, trying to hide her panic and ignore him. However, she was very nervous. Gu Yunyi's words sounded unintentional, but only she knew that he was right.
After listening to this, Gu Yunyi was also stunned, thinking about what he had just said. He looked at Xu Qingmeng's panic. In fact, he just said it casually, but seeing Xu Qingmeng's big reaction, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. He always felt that she must be hiding something?
But thinking back to that time, judging from Xu Qingmeng's performance during this period, he felt that he was not that great to let Xu Qingmeng win the prize in one go. But looking at her performance, he still felt that there was something wrong?
Just when Gu Yunyi wanted to ask something, he heard Yun Mo come in and said,
"Brother, a young man said he is here to see you."
(End of this chapter)
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