Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 72 Rice Cake (1)

   After a good sale to Wen Mingtang, Liu Yuan, who also took away a bowl of ice powder, found the nearest empty food table and sat down, then impatiently stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the mixed ingredients on the plate.

The nose was filled with the spicy and delicious smell, and Liu Yuan's first chopsticks, who had no appetite for meat, naturally picked up the thin slices of pork meat without hesitation. Tender, wrapped in the aroma of red oil and sauce, the meatballs chopped into minced fish are delicious and rich, and the meat of the fish is tender and slightly elastic; the potato slices soaked in the sauce taste glutinous, and the lotus root slices are crisp. Cabbage and other leafy vegetables are completely integrated with this pot of spicy hot pot that can be called "all-inclusive" under the blending of sauce.

Among them, what surprised him the most was the vermicelli used to fill his stomach on weekdays. The soft and tough vermicelli was wrapped in sauce and red oil and sent into the mouth. The slightly sticky and elastic mixed made Liu Yuan unable to bear Stay applauded.

   "This is called spicy hot pot!" Liu Yuan ate his mouth full of sauce and red oil, and he didn't care to wipe his mouth, and kept nodding while eating.

  Walking to him and sitting down opposite him, Bai Zhu glanced at him and said, "Is the garlic pork ribs from yesterday not tasty?"

  As soon as the name "garlic pork ribs" is mentioned, I think of the strong garlic fragrance yesterday, especially the fried golden garlic, which is called tongue-stimulating just by mentioning the name.

   Swallowing, Liu Yuan said: "How could it not be delicious? It is also delicious."

  Bai Zhu was afraid that the world would not be chaotic and asked him: "Which one is tastier?"

  Liu Yuan swallowed the vermicelli covered with sauce on the chopsticks, and said vaguely: "They are all delicious, I want to eat them all!"

  You are not a child anymore, what choice do you make? Can't you choose both?

  Bai Zhu continued to bow his head to eat spicy hot pot.

When the evening meal was about to end, Li Yuan hurried to the public kitchen with Shuangxi, took the last spicy pot, went to sit down in front of Lin Fei who was about to finish the evening meal, and picked up a piece of pork meat , said while eating: "I'm late today, and I went to brother Zhao's house again. Father, grandfather and the others watched closely, and almost couldn't slip out."

  Lin Fei on the opposite side put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth slowly, and said, "You two have a good relationship!"

  The tone of this sentence obviously didn't fluctuate much, and the tone was also flat, but I don't know why when Lin Fei said it, people could hear a bit of "yin and yang weirdness" inexplicably.

Li Yuan bit the pork slices and looked at him with raised eyelids: "They are all of the same clan. Besides, I heard that something happened to an old steward of his family. The mansion lost a capable steward who is the master, which caught people off guard. Brother Zhao Speaking of this accident, Uncle Song's eyes are red. Poor! In just a few days, Huaishan County Prince's Mansion suddenly lost two people..."

  Before he finished speaking, he heard Lin Fei on the opposite side say: "Then Uncle Song is dead, we arrested him, and he will be locked in the cell where you were imprisoned earlier."

  Li Yuan: "..."

  Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan: "..."

  Wen Mingtang and others who knew little about the case: "..."

   Li Yuan, who came back to his senses, stared at Lin Fei, his face flushed, he didn't know whether he was angry or choked, he could only bite down a slice of pork meat to vent his hatred.

   Lin Fei is really too much! If it wasn't for this bite of food, who would be happy to come to Dali Temple to see Lin Fei's cold face?

   Li Yuan, who always liked to snort coldly, hummed countless times during this evening meal. When he finally sent Li Yuan away and began to clean up the table, Ji Cai bought over.

   Without going around in circles, Ji Caimai said bluntly: "Master Wen, there is still some old glutinous rice left in the warehouse, which should be used up sooner. Just as the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, I can buy a new batch."

  Wen Mingtang understood immediately when he heard the words, and said, "Okay, I will use these glutinous rice for the morning meal tomorrow."

This answer made Ji Caimai nodded in satisfaction, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's good to be as skilled as you are! For my purchases, if the purchases are too much waste, I will go to the internal affairs office every month to collect them." When you buy silver, you have to be stared at and criticized."

  Because of Master Sun and Master Wang, he often endured rolling eyes.

But when mentioning Master Sun and Master Wang, Ji Caimai said something more, reminding Wen Mingtang: "The two of them said it together, although stealing chickens is not enough to lose money now. But since those people know about your existence, you need to Be careful."

  The previous trick hadn't gotten Wen Mingtang away, but had to get Master Sun and Master Wang away first, so he had to stop. But for those people, it's really easy to target an ordinary girl. I'm afraid that such dirty methods will emerge endlessly in the future.

In fact, Ji Caimai doesn’t want to say more about these words, that is, after getting along these days, I really think this girl is pretty good, and what happened to Wen Xuance back then has nothing to do with her, so I can’t help but say more Two sentences.

Of course Wen Mingtang knew about Ji Caimai's good intentions, and he thanked Ji Caimai again after hearing this: "Thank you Ji Caimai, my provincial capital will be careful." After saying this, the girl's eyes flashed, and she said to Ji Caimai again: "Ji Caimai Shopping, after the morning meal tomorrow, I'm going out for a trip, the ice powder and sour plum drink will be made by A Bing and glutinous rice balls, okay?"

  As long as it can be done well, who will do it? Ji Caimai nodded, and just looked at Wen Mingtang, with a look of surprise in her eyes: The girl just came out of the palace, who is she going to meet when she goes out alone?

   It's just that although it was an accident, Ji Caimai didn't ask too much.

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   With a sound of "stab", the square glutinous rice bricks were put into the oil pan, and immediately wrapped tightly by countless tiny air bubbles.

  Yesterday I promised Ji Cai to buy those aged glutinous rice, and Wen Mingtang made rice cakes for today's court meal.

  Although there is only one word difference between the same as rice balls, they are completely two things. After steaming the glutinous rice, take it out, and pound the shrimp skin left over from making salty soy milk with a stone mortar into crumbs, stir it into the glutinous rice, add salt to taste, let it cool and set, cut into square bricks, and then piece by piece Put it in an oil pan and fry it up.

The square bricks of glutinous rice sank to the bottom of the pot as soon as they were put into the pot. After being fried until they floated up slightly, Wen Mingtang gently turned it over with chopsticks, and waited until both sides turned completely golden yellow. Wen Mingtang fished it out.

Smelling the aroma of glutinous rice that was thoroughly stimulated after deep-frying, Ah Bing and Tong Tangyuan couldn't help swallowing. When the first pot of glutinous rice cake was scooped up, the two of them immediately reached out and grabbed the pot. Rice Cake.

  The rice cake that had just come out of the pan was a bit hot even through the oil paper, but the two of them didn't care about the hot hands, so they blew it a little, and then bit into it.

There is a "click", the outer layer is too crispy, but the inside is soft and sticky, which is the opposite of crispy. The original salty glutinous rice fragrance and the addition of the dried shrimps are the real finishing touch. The salty fragrance With fresh shrimp in it, the whole rice cake lined with it is so delicious.

   It's just that this rice cake is good everywhere, but it's not good if you are too full. After eating two or three pieces, you can't eat it anymore.

Wen Mingtang hurriedly made rice cakes, instead of sitting down with them behind the table and slowly eating Chaoshi as usual, he said to A Bing and Tangyuan: "I have something to go out today, and Chaoshi will share the meals later. I will leave the matter to you two, okay?"

  (end of this chapter)