Chapter 64 Beef Jerky
Seeing Gu Yunyi like this, He didn't want to criticize him in front of Xu Qingmeng.
Seeing that it was getting late, He stopped nagging and told him to go to bed quickly.
After Gu Yunyi stood up, Xu Qingmeng also went out.
In the yard, Gu Yunyi seemed to know and was standing at the door waiting for her.
Xu Qing dreamed that Xun Ge'er also returned to the room and pulled Gu Yunyi to his room.
Gu Yunyi looked at Xu Qingmeng and smiled, "Madam, are you so impatient?"
Xu Qingmeng blushed immediately, "What are you talking about?" Then she patted him lightly and said, "Be serious."
After making sure no one came out, he said, "Didn't you say you were pretending to be a nerd? What's going on with that Mr. Liu?"
Gu Yunyi touched his nose, feeling helpless: "Maybe I'm too honest, so they think I'm a fool."
"What do you mean? What do they want you to do?"
Gu Yunyi immediately became serious and lowered his voice: "Promise me a thousand taels of gold to take his place."
Xu Qingmeng's face changed.
Taking the exam for someone else?
These people are so brave. After all, the provincial capital and the county town are not on the same level.
"You...why does the Liu family trust you?" Xu Qingmeng was very confused and asked.
Gu Yunyi and Mr. Liu have only known each other for half a month. How dare he casually tell them such an important matter? Does the Liu family have no scruples in Yan County? Does Mr. Huang know about this?
Gu Yunyi was actually also very surprised. The few times he had met her, he had only done some poetry writing and the two of them had rarely talked to each other, and he had not revealed any other plans.
The time after he came back from burning incense, although he didn't say it explicitly, he just mentioned it vaguely in front of him, so when Mr. Liu came to see him tonight, he thought it must be about this matter.
Gu Yunyi finished talking to Xu Qingmeng, and then said at the end: "Whether he is testing me on purpose or for other reasons, I think it is not a bad thing. Don't worry, I am prepared."
Xu Qingmeng's frown relaxed a little, but she was still very worried.
She said cryptically, "The provincial examination is scheduled to be held in the provincial capital. Since Young Master Liu dared to propose it, it is obvious that the Liu family must still have power in the provincial capital, or the Liu family must have a superior."
Gu Yunyi understood what Xu Qingmeng was worried about when he heard it, and said with a smile: "My lady, don't worry, they may not have got through to the examiner, at most they bribed the examiner, otherwise they wouldn't have found someone to take the exam for them, I know what's going on."
Having said that, Xu Qingmeng said nothing more.
After all, they are just ordinary people now and have no power to fight against these people.
Xu Qingmeng remembered that the book only briefly described the process of Gu Yunyi becoming the Prime Minister. Now it seems that he must have put in a lot of effort to get to that final step.
Xu Qingmeng was about to go back to her room with a heavy heart, when Gu Yunyi suddenly asked, "Madam, why don't you sleep here?"
Hearing this, Xu Qingmeng paused, her cheeks flushed, and then she said, "Well... you have to get up early tomorrow, you should go to bed early." After that, she quickly returned to her room.
Gu Yunyi looked at Xu Qingmeng's fleeing back, a bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. It seems that he has a long way to go in his pursuit of his wife.
He sighed softly, watched the light in Xu Qingmeng's room go out, then turned around, closed the door, quietly opened the courtyard gate, and left in the dark.
Xu Qingmeng lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. It turned out that some things were better not to know.
The next day, the Gu family restaurant business was still booming. Gu Yunyi had already started preparing, and he would leave for the provincial capital the next day.
Xu Qingmeng made the pies and prepared the stuffing for the buns in the morning, and then prepared to go to the market to buy some vegetables. However, when she finished all that, it was already a little late, and the vegetables were not very fresh, but she did get to see the beef.
The last time we met, the beef we bought was eaten up early. It just so happened that Gu Yunyi was going to go on a scientific expedition the next day, so I could make some beef jerky for him to take away.
Xu Qingmeng directly bought 20 kilograms of beef and 5 kilograms of beef spine, and went back to make soup for the two little ones. This surprised the butcher.
Cows are precious animals and are not allowed to be slaughtered, but accidental deaths do not count, so the cows are sold at a very high price. But people also want to eat fresh ones, but usually they weigh half a pound or a pound to taste them. There are almost no people like Xu Qingmeng who buy so much at once.
A woman who knew Xu Qingmeng asked with a smile, "Madam Gu, how are you going to eat all this beef?"
Xu Qingmeng thought for a moment and said, "We can make some braised beef at home, or stew it with potatoes. The tenderer ones can be fried or made into beef jerky as a snack. The spine can be stewed into soup. It tastes delicious no matter how you eat it."
Others shook their heads and sighed, "One person's hands are different from another. Madam Gu's hands can make anything delicious, but when we buy it back, we can't even get rid of the fishy smell."
There was laughter all around.
Xu Qingmeng smiled and said, "If you want to stew it, blanch it in water first and then stew it. Add some spices, rice wine, green onion and ginger as seasonings to remove 80% of the fishy smell."
Originally everyone thought that cooking skills should not be passed on to outsiders, especially since the Gu family made their living from food, no one had any intention of snooping.
I didn't expect Xu Qingmeng to say it directly, so I didn't hesitate and asked a lot of questions about the kitchen.
Xu Qingmeng did not hide anything and answered everyone's questions one by one. In her opinion, they were all simple common sense questions, but here, they seemed to be of great benefit to people.
After Xu Qingmeng finished speaking, several women looked at her with more friendly eyes. Some aunts even stuffed the things they bought into her hand, such as an egg or duck egg here, a handful of vegetable leaves there, or two pieces of candy, making her laugh and cry.
On the way back, there were many people who were passing by, and they were talking about gossip about someone's family in the alley. Xu Qingmeng listened carefully and said a few words from time to time. The atmosphere was very good for a while.
When Xu Qingmeng got home, she began to prepare for the lunch business. After the busy lunch, Xu Qingmeng made beef jerky without an oven. There were both spiced and spicy ones, but she made them anyway. The appearance and taste were no different from what she ate in modern times.
"If only there was a kiln, we wouldn't have to go through so much trouble."
He said at the side: "Why waste time? We have already prepared a lot."
Xu Qingmeng took a piece of non-spicy beef jerky and stuffed it into Yun Sheng's mouth. Yun Sheng stood aside and looked at the delicious food eagerly. For the first time, Yun Sheng turned aside when facing delicious food: "Sister-in-law, I don't want to eat it. Let my brother eat it for the exam."
After all, it was Xu Qingmeng's first time making it and she was still figuring it out. It was very complicated and the quantity was not much. Although Yun Sheng was still young, he saw it all. In addition, with yesterday's experience and He's advance notice, Yun Sheng still held back even though she wanted to eat it.
(End of this chapter)
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