"Old man, I see you're being honest today. I'll stew pork ribs for you later." Hu Suhua saw that Xiang Nan had been busy seeing a doctor for a long time. After seeing the doctor, she didn't even think about flirting with the other door. She was happy and walked around smiling. road.
"Don't, don't, I don't dare bother my wife. I'll take care of the braised pork ribs." Upon hearing this, Xiang Nan quickly waved his hand.
Hu Suhua's cooking skills were not good, and the dishes she cooked were either salty, sour, bitter, or raw, making them inedible. This is one of the reasons why Xilaile always misses the lion head from the opposite door.
After all, who wouldn’t be afraid of eating dark food?
"Hey, how can a grown man cook?" Hu Suhua waved her hand and said, "You have been busy for most of the day, so just sit here and wait for the ready-made food."
"It's my husband's honor to be able to cook for Madam~" Xiang Nan said with a smile, "Just me, Defu'er, you stay here and keep an eye on me. If you have any incurable diseases that can't be cured, just call me."
"Hey, I understand. Master." Defu immediately responded, turning back to another waiter, Takako, and said, "It's over. Master's cooking may be worse than what my wife cooks."
Guizi, Anzi, Luzi and other clerks all looked embarrassed when they heard this.
The mistress has learned to cook at least, but Xilaile has never learned to cook. After all, in that era, the emphasis was on the male leading the household and the female leading the household, with the gentleman staying away from the kitchen.
So it’s no wonder that his cooking is delicious!
"Defuler, what are you talking about?" Hu Suhua, with sharp ears, immediately scolded her.
"I said I must guard the counter and take good care of the doctor~" Defuer quickly changed his words.
"That's pretty much it." Hu Suhua nodded.
…
Xiang Nan immediately went to the backyard kitchen, washed his hands, put on his apron, and prepared to cook.
"Old man, are you okay?" Hu Suhua asked worriedly when she saw this.
"Oh, I've watched my wife cook for so long, and I've learned how to steal it." Xiang Nan said with a smile. To be honest, he is really no stranger to cooking.
As a contemporary social animal, in order to save money, cooking is a necessary skill. After all, no matter how cheap a lunch box is, it only costs ten yuan. The cost of cooking the same meal yourself is no more than five yuan. And when you cook your own meals, the quality is guaranteed.
Xiang Nan immediately chopped the ribs with a knife, blanched, put them in the pot, stir-fried, colored, stewed, and seasoned... While stewing the ribs, he simmered the rice first, and then fried two vegetables, one garlic beans and one celery. .
Stir-fry the vegetables, simmer the rice, and add salt to the pork ribs to reduce the juice...
"Okay, Luzi, let's greet everyone to dinner~" Xiang Nan shouted immediately.
"Eat, eat~" Luzi greeted immediately.
After a while, everyone filled up the rice and sat at the table, ready to eat.
In ancient times, most apprentices had a miserable life. After becoming a master, your life basically belongs to the master, and you can be beaten, scolded, or punished. Dead and on the run, each has his own destiny.
Do whatever the master tells you to do, work during the day and keep watch at night. Without enough to eat or warm clothes, they were like slaves.
However, the Xilaile couple were kind people and did not treat their apprentices harshly, so the apprentices and servants were able to eat and drink well.
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"Brother Defuer, did Master make this dish? It looks okay~" Shengzi said doubtfully.
"It looks okay, but who knows what it tastes like~" Defu frowned.
"That's right, that's right." Everyone nodded, feeling psychologically affected by the mistress's dark dishes.
"Come on, old man, you've been working hard for a long time, sit down~" Hu Suhua said while helping Xiang Nan sit down.
In fact, as long as Xilaile doesn't confront him, Hu Suhua really has nothing to say to him.
"Madam, sit down too, madam, sit down too." Xiang Nan said with a smile, "Come, madam, try my cooking~" As he said that, he picked up a piece of ribs and put it in her bowl.
"Yes." Hu Suhua nodded with a smile and put it into her mouth without hesitation.
No matter how bad the old man's food is, it was made by her herself, and it tastes both delicious and unpleasant.
"Hiss~" When the disciples and maids saw this, they all took a breath of cold air.
The look in the landlady's eyes showed a kind of admiration, as if she was a divine farmer who tasted hundreds of herbs.
"Master's wife, how does it taste~" Defu asked with concern.
"Hey, it tastes good." Hu Suhua chewed it twice. It tasted salty and the meat was crispy. It was really delicious.
"Really, let me try it~" Seeing that her face didn't look fake, Defu quickly stretched out his chopsticks and said.
"Pah~" Hu Suhua knocked on his chopsticks, "No rules, let your master eat first~"
"Hey, Master, you eat first." Defu quickly changed his words.
Xiang Nan nodded, picked up the ribs, and took a bite, "Well, it tastes pretty good. Okay, you all can eat~"
When all the disciples heard this, they took off their chopsticks one after another.
“Hey, it’s really delicious~”
“It tastes really good~”
"Master, does he still have this skill?"
They said in surprise while eating.
The master's cooking skills are much better than the master's wife.
"Old man, when did you learn to cook? Could it be that you were taught by a friend of mine?" Hu Suhua asked suspiciously.
The old man's cooking was even more delicious than hers, so it was obviously impossible for him to steal from her. It's possible with the vixen from the opposite door.
"Hey, look at you, you are so narrow-minded, aren't you?" Xiang Nan said with a smile, "To be honest, cooking is the same as prescribing medicine. They both require a king, a minister, and an envoy, the proportions are balanced, the color is observed, and the smell is smelled.
Yi Yin, the ancient miracle doctor, was a cook and was good at making spoons; the dumplings we usually eat were invented by Zhang Zhongjing, the medical sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty... I am good at prescribing medicine. Naturally, cooking is no different. "
Seeing that he had a nose and eyes, Hu Suhua couldn't help but believe him 70% to 80%.
"Since your cooking is so delicious, you will cook all the meals at home from now on." She said with a smile.
"Okay, just watch it, madam." Xiang Nan nodded.
"Defu, Luzi, after dinner, give your master a good pat on the back. Don't let him get tired." Hu Suhua said again.
"Yes, Master." Defu and Lu Zi both said.
…
After finishing his meal, Xiang Nan returned to the front hall, leaned back on the chair, and took a rest with his eyes squinted.
Defu and Luzi, one pinched the shoulders and the other beat the legs. There is also a purple clay pot on hand to soak in fragrant tea and take a sip to moisten your heart and lungs. Although there is no mobile phone, WiFi, or TV, my life is quite happy.
While Xiang Nan was enjoying it, he was thinking about how to marry Sai Xishi.
He originally had two ideas.
One is to divorce Mrs. Hu and leave the house on her own, so that she can be with Sai Xishi openly; the other is to elope with Sai Xishi. With his good medical skills, it is not difficult to make a name for himself even if he lives in a foreign land.
It was only after traveling through time and inheriting Xilaile's memory that Xiang Nan realized that neither of these two paths worked.
Xilaile, like Defu, was an orphan back then. He was taken in by his master since he was a child and taught him medical skills. Later, he was recruited as his son-in-law and handed over all the family property to him.
This is a great kindness to Xilaile. Therefore, even though Hu was arrogant, unruly, poor at cooking, and barren, Xilaile never thought of divorcing his wife.
Therefore, if Xiang Nan divorces his wife or elopes, even if he completes the task, it will be difficult for him to be recognized by Xilaile. By then, the rewards will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, we must think of something else.
