Su Qingluan went home filled with cold wind and gossip.
Originally, she wanted to have a barbecue or something at night, but after all, she finally brought back two sauerkraut. The sauerkraut and pork belly barbecue are perfect, right?
However, after this freezing attack, Su Qingluan's hands and feet were now numb from the cold. She just wanted to drink a bowl of hot soup to keep her warm, so she made a temporary decision to eat sauerkraut and white meat soup tonight, with some hot soup. cooked rice!
As for sister Yaoguang, no matter what Su Qingluan asked before, she would always say "anything is fine", "I can do it", "girls can do it" and so on with a cold face, not to mention she is the one who is really in charge.
Su Qingluan's principle is that it is polite to give in, but if the other party is not picky, then she, the chef, can do whatever she wants.
Although Su Qingluan is already familiar with the dish of making pickled cabbage and white meat, the thick fat needs to be simmered until it completely penetrates into the pickled cabbage soup. Therefore, although the preparation process of this dish is simple, it still needs to be simmered slowly over low heat. Let the sauerkraut eliminate the sour and bitter taste, while the fat meat eliminates the greasy heaviness.
After all, Yao Guang is not a very thick-skinned person. Although he has a subtle hostility towards Su Qingluan, after observing him for a long time, he found that she is just a little girl who is always cheerful, and according to the owner, she is not much older than Su Qingluan. Sixteen or seventeen, a little younger than himself.
She held the hot tea and watched Su Qingluan going to wash rice for a while, and then going outside to get a piece of frozen meat. The other party was enjoying himself humming a ditty she had never heard before, but Yaoguang was getting more and more on pins and needles.
After a while, she finally couldn't sit still anymore and walked outside the kitchen: "Ms. Su... do you need my help?"
In fact, Yao Guang is still a little nervous. She can assassinate, poison, and stay in disguise, but if she is asked to really help with the cooking... maybe cutting vegetables is what she is best at?
Although he was thinking this, Yao Guang always felt restless as he watched a girl younger than him busy serving himself tea, water and food.
Su Qingluan looked at Yaoguang with an embarrassed look on her face, wringing her fingers and saying that she wanted to help. He guessed that she was too bored sitting alone, so she pointed to the study room at the back where Mu Xingzhi kept books: "Here, over there. This is where Mu Xingzhi keeps his books. If you are bored, you can go there and find some books to pass the time."
The other party was a very capable subordinate of Mu Xingzhi. In Su Qingluan's mind, such a person must have a higher priority than himself, the person who was responsible for covering the periphery of the "central intelligence".
So since I can enter and leave the study freely, there is no reason why my close subordinates cannot go there. What's more, after a period of close contact, Su Qingluan was even more certain that if Mu Xingzhi really wanted to hide something, he would never leave any obvious clues for others to catch him.
So even though the "inner room" was a relatively private space in the house, Su Qingluan believed that at least Mu Xingzhi didn't place anything confidential that he cared about or that was important to him.
Unexpectedly, after hearing Su Qingluan's suggestion, Yaoguang showed a very shocked expression: "Absolutely not! How can we enter and leave the inner room at will without the master's permission!"
Su Qingluan: "...but I have been in and out many times...there should be no problem..." Although the first time he entered the place where Mu Xingzhi collected books, he was led by the other party, but to be honest, it looked very messy. If you don’t have someone with you in the bookstore, you’ll probably have a hard time finding anything, right?
Unexpectedly, Yao Guang was a die-hard person, and she kept saying the same thing over and over again, no trespassing without orders. Su Qingluan lost his temper after being told by her, and he didn't force it - after all, he was not the one who was bored.
But there was a person standing next to him like a door god, staring straight at him. Su Qingluan still felt a lot of pressure, so he said: "Since Yaoguang you want to help, please rinse these pickled vegetables with water." !”
The surface of the freshly pickled sauerkraut should be rinsed slightly. This can not only wash away the film formed by fermentation on the surface, but also remove the too strong sour smell.
Relatively speaking, Su Qingluan can't stand the strong smell of fermented sauerkraut, so she will rinse it twice with more water. However, some people just like that kind of taste and will rinse it twice less.
Because she was not sure about Yao Guang's cooking skills, Su Qingluan asked her to do basic work such as washing vegetables, and specifically told her to peel the vegetable leaves into pieces. If she couldn't do it, she would Cut the roots with a kitchen knife.
After the explanation, Su Qingluan turned around and cut the "square meat".
The so-called "square pork" is different from pork belly, which is fat and thin. It is a kind of "fatty meat" with almost no lean meat. Because it looks like a white square brick after being cut and frozen, it was jokingly called by Su Qingluan's family members in his previous life. It is "Fangzirou".
Generally speaking, the meat in this position is mostly used to make lard, and the remaining oil residue is dipped in sugar or salt to make snacks. It is delicious and crispy to chew in the mouth, which is very satisfying.
However, this kind of meat must be cut thinner when it is half-thawed. If it is completely thawed, the meat will become thick and greasy, making it difficult to cut it as thin as cicada wings.
However, once it is affected by the temperature of your hands, the surface of the meat will melt quickly, which will affect the feel of the knife. Therefore, the speed of cutting the meat must be fast. If it is slow, the meat will not be cut thin.
So Su Qingluan took a breath and slowly cut the whole cube of meat into thin slices. The slices of meat were crystal clear, as if they had been measured, the thickness was even, and each slice showed a translucent luster. ——That's because Su Qingluan's superb knife skills allow the thickness of the fat to shine through.
After cutting a piece of meat, Su Qingluan breathed a long sigh of relief and turned to look at Yaoguang: "Miss Yaoguang, have you washed the pickled vegetables...what...what are you doing?"
Su Qingluan looked at Yaoguang - to be precise, the big basin in front of Yaoguang - the corner of his mouth twitched: the water in this basin was almost coming out, with pieces of pickled cabbage floating on it, and Yaoguang seemed to be afraid of pickled cabbage. Like biting someone, fiddle with it carefully, then fiddle with it again.
Hearing Su Qingluan's words, she turned around awkwardly: "Wash the leaves for...this vegetable? This vegetable seems to be cabbage? Why is it sour? Is it spoiled?"
Su Qingluan's face was full of dark lines: Where did this eldest lady come from?
"Are you... teaching sauerkraut how to swim? Besides, this sauerkraut is not bad, it's just fermented. Have you never eaten fermented sauerkraut?"
Yao Guang shook his head blankly: "I haven't eaten it."
"Then what do you eat?" Su Qingluan was curious, "Since you are one of the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, you must have gone through very rigorous training, right?"
Mu Xingzhi had heard Su Qingluan tell many very bizarre "legends" about the "Dark Guard" and "Shadow Guard" before, and he had also told her that although his own attendants were not as high in the sky as Su Qingluan imagined, It is omnipotent, but it also has to go through layers of screening, and the elimination mechanism is very cruel.
Yao Guang glanced at Su Qingluan: "In the most difficult time, I also ate bark and grass roots!" There was an imperceptible pride in his expression.
When Su Qingluan heard this, his expression was hard to describe.
