After teaching her younger brother who was ignorant and arrogant, Su Qingluan turned around and put on an apron to go to work in the kitchen.
Liu Yunniang often cooks meals at home. Although her craftsmanship is definitely not as good as that of Su Qingluan, she is better than her quick hands and feet, so she wants to at least help Su Qingluan.
As a result, Su Qingluan pushed her out of the kitchen, held her shoulders and said with a smile: "You will officially 'join' tomorrow. Don't worry, you will have a lot of work to do by then. But you can rest first today. Just leave it to me - and my mother will help me later, she probably coaxed my sister."
Sure enough, within a moment, Mrs. Yang, who had calmed Su Xueyan down, came to the kitchen.
Seeing Su Qingluan busy handling the chicken she just bought, she looked at her side by side.
Even without looking up at Yang, Su Qingluan could feel that someone was looking at her. At first she was busy as if nothing had happened, but after a while she said helplessly: "Auntie, if you stare at me like this, I won't be able to work anymore."
Yang took the knife used to scrape the pork skin from Su Qingluan and helped her scrape it, smiling: "I usually see you smiling, so I don't want to get angry at the moment. You are actually very bluffing."
Of course, Yang was not really afraid of Su Qingluan, he was just teasing her.
However, Su Qingluan was worried that the Yang family would protect the younger ones like other families she had seen, and felt that the older ones should be more humble, so she patiently explained: "Even though those senior brothers in Xuanhe have arrogant personalities, maybe they were born into a wealthy family. Do they have someone to rely on at home, or maybe they are outstanding in learning. In short, they may have a reason to be arrogant."
"But our Su family has no power and no strong financial resources. Xuanhe himself is only a half-grown child. If he develops a arrogant temper at a young age, it will be of no benefit to his future academic progress - just As the saying goes, if we learn from the strengths of others, there must be one teacher among us. If you look down on this and look down on that, then gradually no one will look down on you."
In this way, whether it is the knowledge learned, the increased knowledge or the life experience, there will naturally be some incomplete deflections.
Although it is impossible for people to be completely free from prejudice, Su Qingluan thought that at least when Su Xuanhe was still young, he could be exposed to as many people as possible from different walks of life and with different cognitions, so that he could have a more comprehensive understanding of the world around him.
Even if this doesn't make Su Xuanhe a visionary, it can at least keep him away from being narrow-minded and short-sighted.
In fact, there is another thing that is not easy to say - maybe some of Su Xuanhe's senior brothers are just talking arrogantly, but in fact they are just ordinary people like her stupid brother.
But what does that have to do with Su Qingluan? Su Qingluan said that it was not something she, a little girl, could control about the lives of those strangers, and besides, she didn't want to.
But these words cannot be spoken.
Su Qingluan was still struggling to explain here, but Yang over there smiled and wiped her hands with her apron, and touched Su Qingluan's shoulder: "You don't need to explain so much, 'A sister is like a mother'" , you are the elder sister of the two younger ones, even if you discipline them on our behalf, there is nothing wrong - I believe you have a sense of propriety."
This sentence made Su Qingluan feel relieved, and asked with a smile: "Auntie helps me skin the meat, what should I do?"
"I made the old noodles this morning, and they should have been made by now. They are placed under the window sill." Yang tapped the direction of the window sill with her chin, "Let's steam the steamed buns today."
Su Qingluan smiled and said: "That's a good feeling. This stuff is made from yeast and is easy to digest. I bought a lot of big fish and meat today, and I'm afraid that the two little ones will feel uncomfortable if they eat too much."
Yang also nodded and said: "I will cook some millet porridge later. This is warm in nature and easy to digest. The girl from the Liu family has just come here and she will not be used to it. She will not feel uncomfortable eating it."
Su Qingluan nodded: "My mother-in-law has thought it through." As she said that, Su Qingluan took out the dough that had been risen from the big basin - the weather is getting colder now, although it took a whole day to make the dough. But there was no sign of overdoing it.
Su Qingluan dug her finger into the dough. It was soft but not too loose, just right for steaming the steamed buns.
While she was steaming the meat dough, Yang, who was peeling off the skin of the meat and starting to handle the live fish, turned to her and asked her, "Are you still making that color today?"
Su Qingluan didn't know why: "What color?"
"It's the same color I got when I was making jade dumplings."
Su Qingluan was stunned: It turned out to be that time.
Yang sighed: "You know, since these two little ones didn't have to worry about food and clothing at home, they started to be picky. White flour steamed buns have a bland taste and have nothing special in appearance, so they can't eat them. many."
Children's metabolism is relatively fast. If they eat too little staple food at night, they will be hungry in the middle of the night.
Naturally, there are no snacks that can be put into the mouth at any time in this era. Most of them are preserved fruits, which can be eaten as a late-night snack. Not to mention that it will lead to excessive obesity. If these two little guys get dental caries, then It’s no joke – dentists in this era basically rush to extract teeth!
Su Qingluan thought about it for a while. Although she was a picky eater and could only eat two meals, she was also an ordinary person and could not bear to say "hungry" to two little guys of several years old - especially to a little kid like Su Xueyan. Guy...
Forget it, she thought of a toy that would allow the two children to exercise and use up their energy while playing with toys every day.
After physical exertion, you will naturally feel hungry.
But for now, she still had to think of a way to let the two little guys eat this meal first.
Looking at the old pumpkin placed in the corner, Su Qingluan had an idea.
Over there, Mrs. Yang prepared two pieces of pork, a fish, and a chicken according to Su Qingluan's requirements, marinated them, and then finished cutting them. She turned to look at her eldest daughter and said happily: "Hey, this green one I know the dough is made with vegetable juice, but what about the yellow one?"
As she said that, she went up and smelled it: "Pumpkin?"
Su Qingluan nodded: "I put steamed pumpkin puree in it, and it turned into this light yellow color!"
"You still have a lot of clever ideas." Yang said in novelty as she watched Su Qingluan use yellow, white and green dough to make various buns in the shape of flowers, small twists, or leaves. Hey, how did you kid think about it? Even steaming a cake is different from other people’s!"
Su Qingluan smiled and said: "Today is Yun Niang's 'welcome banquet' after all. Although the main food is dumplings, it needs to be cooked in a unique way to be considered a 'banquet'!"
After Su Qingluan finished styling, the remaining steps of steaming the steamed buns were left to Yang - after all, even with the additional styling, the basic steps and heat of steaming the steamed buns remained the same.
Su Qingluan has already started to change a piece of pork belly - she is going to make a bowl of pagoda pork.
In fact, pagoda pork is not much different from braised pork in essence, but its shape is more unique, so it requires higher knife skills. But it is not particularly difficult for Su Qingluan.
While things were busy here, Su Qingluan heard the laughter of her younger sister in the high-pitched voice of a young child behind her.
Su Qingluan turned around and saw Liu Yunniang holding Su Xueyan's armpits and holding her in the air. Because Su Xueyan was only three or four years old, she was relatively light, and Liu Yunniang had a lot of strength, so she circled left and right, swinging the little girl in mid-air, as if she was about to fly out.
Probably because the little girl has never experienced such a "flying feeling" in her whole life, she couldn't help shouting excitedly. Her little face was flushed with excitement, and she looked very happy. Her little mouth even said, "Hello, Sister Yun." Great!" "Sister Yun Niang is so awesome!" "Sister Yun Niang made me fly!" Such words.
And Liu Yunniang could see with the naked eye that she had no ability to resist the cuteness of this milky-white little cute baby. Her face always had the same expression as those cat slaves and dog slaves in the previous life when they saw cute cats and dogs. She was just lost in the crisp " In the call of "Sister Yun Niang".
Su Xuanhe, who was facing the wall and thinking about it, although he should have been facing the wall with his back to the courtyard, now his whole body was twisted into a twist. Although his toes were still facing the wall, his eyes would look back from time to time. I saw that I was very envious of my little sister.
Moreover, this little guy still quickly glanced at the kitchen every time before turning back, lest Su Qingluan would find out that since he had just witnessed Su Qingluan's anger, the person Su Xiaoer was most afraid of in the family had changed from the mother-in-law to the sister-in-law. .
Su Qingluan pretended not to see her stupid brother's little move, but secretly laughed so hard that she almost cut the cooked and compacted pagoda meat with a tilt of the knife.
In fact, pagoda meat will be easier to cut if it is frozen for three hours - but that is for people with average knife skills. Su Qingluan was very good at knife skills, so naturally he wasn't so strict.
As for the prunes that were originally going to be added, Su Qingluan didn't like the taste, and there were no ready-made prunes, so the seasoning was completely based on the braised pork.
Although the cooking of this pagoda meat is a bit nondescript, she is the original creator of this dish here, and no one can find fault with her, right?
Liu Yunniang was here for dinner today, and it could be considered as "entertaining guests", so in addition to millet porridge and flower steamed buns, the Su family also made eight meat and eight vegetarian dishes.
Even if Su Qingluan had three heads and six arms, he might not be able to prepare eight dishes in such a short period of time. So Yang not only helped Su Qingluan with the meat dishes, but she also undertook the vegetarian dishes.
Today, Su Qingluan cooked pagoda pork, pot-roasted pork, garlic fish fillets and smoked chicken. The vegetarian dishes were stir-fried spinach, fried eggplant with green beans, stir-fried leeks and stir-fried mushrooms.
When all the dishes were put on the table, Liu Yunniang sighed: "Even the emperor's concubines in the palace will only eat dishes like this, right?"
Su Qingluan said to her heart that the skills of the royal chef may not be as outstanding as a person like me who has transcended time and space. However, she still said modestly: "How is that possible? Mother Yun, you are really good at praising others!"
