What surprised Pei Ningyuan, the village chief, the most was that the water in the kitchen did not have to be fetched from a well or carried from the river. When water was needed, sweet spring water flowed into the water tank when the plug was pulled out.
Only now did he understand why Ji Qingyao wanted to buy the hillside at the foot of the mountain. With the water source, it was convenient for anything. What Pei Ningyuan didn't expect was that the girl found someone to dig a well in the yard, and water came out. The water is sweeter than the water from several other wells in the village.
There were only a few people invited to the greenhouse today. Ji Qingyao cooked by herself, Mrs. Jiang took her eldest daughter-in-law with her, and her second daughter-in-law helped her.
In the end, Ji Qingyao made ten dishes: Kung Pao chicken, spicy rabbit, boiled pork slices, large plate of chicken, soy sauce beef, spicy and sour potato shreds, chicken egg rolls, cold wild vegetables, tofu with green onions, and braised fish. .
Today there are mainly men, so Ji Qingyao can only eat meat. Everyone sat at two tables, one for men and one for women.
Everyone was shocked when the food was served. They didn't expect it to be so rich. They originally thought that one or two hard dishes would be enough, but seeing that almost all the food on the table was meat, except for the two people brought by Hong Gu, Shopkeeper Qin and the others swallowed their saliva unconsciously.
The wine the men drank was Wuliangye bought by Ji Qingyao from the space. When the bottle was opened, a fragrance rushed into everyone's noses.
None of the dishes on the table had ever been seen before. They all started using their chopsticks at Ji Qingyao's greeting. They were fresh, fragrant, numb and spicy. They had never tasted this kind of spiciness before, but they still wanted to eat it. Everyone no longer bothered to ask about the seasonings in the dishes. They just lowered their heads and were busy eating the dishes, for fear that if they were a little slow, they wouldn't be able to eat.
Shopkeeper Qin looked at the delicious dishes on the table, and as he ate, he lamented in his heart that the owner had mistaken the pearls for fish heads, and even the dishes like Yatou were not popular at Yipinxuan.
Shopkeeper Qin originally thought that Ji Qingyao was a brat, but it was only after being checked by Liu Yuan that he found out that the person who had been sending game to Yipinxuan for almost a year was actually a little girl.
He thought it was his boss joking before, but he didn't expect that Ji Qingyao had recently changed into simple women's clothes when sending game, and her hair was tied up high, giving people a heroic look.
The meal was a feast for both the guests and the host. The wine was rich and mellow, and the dishes were all fragrant. At the end, everyone looked like they were full but still unsatisfied, which made Ji Qingyao's mouth twitch.
Her cooking skills were only above average. If she didn't have so many seasonings in Space, she wouldn't have the confidence to cook this meal well. In short, Ji Qingyao was very grateful to Space for being a cheating tool.
When shopkeeper Qin left, he shamelessly asked Ji Qingyao for a portion of soy sauce beef and a large plate of chicken. Originally, Ji Qingyao had left a separate portion for the village chief to take back, but this time shopkeeper Qin asked her to have a hard time refusing. I was thinking of making something else to send to the village chief’s house later.
The most important thing is that the beef was bought with the help of shopkeeper Qin. In ancient times, the control of cattle was very strict, and it was even more difficult to buy beef. At that time, she just mentioned it to shopkeeper Qin, but she didn’t expect that the day before the greenhouse Shopkeeper Qin asked someone to bring her a large piece, which weighed almost ten kilograms.
Given how much Shopkeeper Qin treated her, she wouldn't refuse such a small request. In the end, she even made an extra portion of spicy rabbit dices for him to take back.
When shopkeeper Qin left, he asked Ji Qingyao how he got the spiciness. It didn't taste like dogwood. Ji Qingyao opened the kitchen cabinet and took a small bag of dried chili peppers to shopkeeper Qin.
Shopkeeper Qin opened the paper bag and saw something brightly red inside. He looked at Ji Qingyao in surprise and asked, "Girl, you said the spicy flavor is made from this spicy eggplant."
"Uncle Qin recognizes this thing. I picked these from the mountains, dried them and stored them. I went to the shop and asked, but no one had seen them before." Ji Qingyao knew that peppers in this time and space are called spicy eggplants, and they were introduced from Fanbang. Rich people buy them for viewing.
Uncle Qin said excitedly: "I know, I know, there are several pots in the garden of my boss's house, and the fruits they produce are red and green, but I didn't expect that the dishes would be so delicious."
Ji Qingyao can understand shopkeeper Qin's mood very well. Peppers and potatoes are exotic species. No one knows them after they are introduced from outside. They don't know how to eat them. They should either be thrown away as garbage or kept as bonsai.
"Girl, I took these dishes with me. I must let my boss try them and show them to him. Who makes him look down on your recipes?"
Shopkeeper Qin later learned about Ji Qingyao's recipe from Liu Yuanqing's mouth, but he was just a small shopkeeper. The restaurant did not belong to him, and he had no right to be Liu Yuanqing's boss. He only hoped that it would not be too late.
