The soup had to be stewed two hours in advance. As soon as Jiang Yanyi mentioned the ingredients he wanted to use at noon, Liu quickly ordered the kitchen people to go out to buy it.

Jiang Yanyi took the time to go to Jiang Yangui's yard to see him. When she entered the door, she saw him holding a book in his hand and a thick stack of books piled up by the bed.

The charcoal basin was burned in the room, and there was a small gap in the window, but this made the warmth in the room dissipate a lot, but the air didn't circulate much.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't help but think that if the earth dragon in Fengfu could recover from the wounds in such a yard, it would be much better for Jiang Yangui's injuries.

"Did your leg hurt better today?" Jiang Yanyi asked.

Jiang Yangui was very focused on reading. It was not until Jiang Yanyi spoke that he realized that someone had entered the house. "It didn't hurt much anymore."

When Jiang Yangui smiled, he showed a little shyness with two dimples on his cheeks.

Jiang Yanyi asked him: "What book are you reading?"

"I'm reading all the miscellaneous books, so I can pass the time to have fun." Jiang Yangui hesitated for a while and said, "Sister, I want to invite a gift. We can give it our own money."

He wanted to study, so Jiang Yanyi was naturally happy. She said, "Okay, I'm looking for a house these days, so we can move out to live there."

Jiang Yangui frowned: "Didn't you say you should move to the house behind Ajie's shop?"

Jiang Yanyi said: "There is a little noisy there, which is not conducive to your recovery. If you start studying, it is even worse to live there."

Jiang Yangui was afraid of the huge expenses, so he hurriedly said, "As long as I can be with my sister, I am willing to live anywhere. Sister doesn't have to spend money to accommodate me."

"I originally planned to change to a larger store, not all for you." Jiang Yanyi comforted him.

At this moment, Chu Zhong, a guard who cared about Jiang Yangui's daily life, came in and said, "Miss Cousin, a girl came to the mansion with a fish at the gate and said she was looking for you."

Jiang Yanyi was wondering. He didn't know many people in Xizhou. Who came to the door? When he went to the gate, he saw that the person who came was okra.

She was dressed like a ball, carrying two bass in her hand. When she saw Jiang Yanyi, she grinned: "Huahua, Master Yao bought fish and asked me to send you two."

Now it's cold and fishing is not easy, and it's hard to buy fish on the market. I think the fishmonger who used to work with often brought it to him, so I specially brought it to him when he got the fish.

"Master Yao is intent. You come here on a heavy snowy day. It's frozen. Come in and roast the fire." Jiang Yanyi smiled and led the okra into the door.

Okra is like a small tail. Jiang Yanyi wants to go to the kitchen to deal with the pork bones bought by the servants. Okra is still following him consciously like he was in the store before.

Jiang Yanyi thought she was afraid of life, so she was left to it.

When Liu heard that someone came from the antique soup shop, he followed Jiang Yanyi to the kitchen. He immediately thought that Jiang Yanyi could not cook food and soup at all. She specially invited the person to help her get through it.

Liu quickly rushed to the kitchen from his yard.

The first thing she said when she entered the door was: "Oh, I heard that a guest came to the house?"

Okra's identity is not a guest to the Chu family. Liu's words will only embarrass Okra.

Jiang Yanyi has always been protecting her calf. She didn't look at monks and Buddha's faces before, and was willing to do superficial work with Liu, but now she is obviously tough and alienated: "The girl who helped me in my antique soup shop comes to deliver fish. It's cold weather, I'll let her come in and roast the fire."

When Liu saw Jiang Yanyi suddenly changed his attitude, he felt secretly happy and became more and more sure of his guess.

She smiled and said, "Since I am a person in Ayi's store, I can't neglect it. Let this girl go to the guest room and sit there, so how can she stay in the kitchen?"

Although Okra was a little stunned, Liu's words still made her feel uncomfortable. She pinched the corner of her clothes and said, "I won't go, I'll help Huahua here."

She glared at Liu angrily and decided that Liu was a bad guy who bullied Jiang Yanyi. Her thinking was different from that of ordinary people, but she had her own little world in her head.

After Jiang Yanyi left yesterday, Cook Yao shook her head and sighed and said a lot. Okra heard that they were saying that Jiang Yanyi was not doing well here. She felt that if she left now, Jiang Yanyi might be angry with this noble lady.

Liu was glared at Okra and instantly thought that it was Jiang Yanyi who said something bad about her outside, but she also found that this girl seemed to be in a bad mind. She looked at Jiang Yanyi: "Ayi, the person in your store..."

Jiang Yanyi didn't want Okra to be treated like a fool, and interrupted Liu: "Why don't your aunt help me? Peel a few garlic."

When Liu used to cook, the ingredients were processed by the servants. Whatever the steps were done, and the master on the stove gave her guidance. She just needed to put all kinds of ingredients into the pot by herself, and she almost made it herself.

Jiang Yanyi asked her to peel the garlic, but Liu was stunned for a moment, "Pick... peel the garlic?"

Jiang Yanyi originally wanted to find something for Liu. Seeing Liu's expression, she thought Liu was unwilling to do it, so she didn't say anything, so she asked a servant from the kitchen to help her peel it.

Because Jiang Yanyi and Liu cooked in person today, it seemed very fresh to the eyes of the servants, so many servants looked at the kitchen door.

Mrs. Liu was afraid that the news here would reach the old lady's ears, and the old lady had a worse impression of herself, so she quickly stepped forward and snatched the garlic on the little maid's hand, "Isn't it just peeling garlic? I'll just peel it."

She glanced at Okra and sneered in her heart, thinking that Jiang Yanyi was just delaying time with her, trying to get her away, and then let the girl who rushed over from the store come to cook for her.

Therefore, when she peeled the garlic, she felt a little more relaxed.

However, Liu's hands are rarely touched by spring water. Various balms need to be applied every day countless times, so that they can maintain their hands as if they were a girl with Double Ten.

The skin on her hands was fragile and she didn't have nails. When she peeled the garlic, she hurt the garlic cloves several times. The garlic juice was soaked into the cracks of her nails, and it hurt like a fire inside.

Liu had not suffered such a crime yet, and he felt that the crack in his thumb was painful and spicy, and he couldn't help but scream: "My hand..."

Jiang Yanyi had just blanched the pork bones, but when she turned around, she was about to cry when she saw that Liu had peeled garlic. She didn't know what to say for a moment, and said, "Auntie, you go down and soak it in cold water and add some medicine."

Liu thought this was Jiang Yanyi’s plan to help her out. Isn’t it just a bit of garlic juice? Compared to exposing Jiang Yanyi, what’s the pain?

Liu endured the pain and said, "A little redness and swollen, it's okay. Ayi, please cook faster, I'm still waiting to learn!"

Jiang Yan thought that Liu was covering his thumb with silk in one hand, and his face was painful, but he still refused to leave. She was quite puzzled.

The process of making pork bone soup is the same as yesterday. After Jiang Yanyi put the soup into the pot, he began to process the two fish brought by okra.

She weighed it with her hands, and both of them weighed more than three pounds.

Thinking that Mrs. Chu and Jiang Yangui had no appetite, she decided to make sauerkraut fish.

The weather is too cold and the fish is away from the water for too long and has been frozen to death, which saves Jiang Yanyi the trouble of knocking the fish with a wooden hammer.

The chef of the Chu family wanted to help Jiang Yanyi deal with the fish, but when he saw Jiang Yanyi lifting his knife, he broke his stomach and scraping the fish scales in a few seconds. His technique was so cruel, but his movements had to be said to be straightforward and neat.

After washing the fish, separate the fish meat and the bones, and wash the black mucous membrane on the fish skin. A large part of the earthy smell of grass carp comes from this mucous membrane. The chopping of fish bones and slicing of fish meat, can be said to be very exquisite in knife skills.

In the chef industry, laymen watch the excitement, while inexperienced people watch the tricks.

Liu had been looking at it for so long, even though Jiang Yanyi had already cooked the soup, she still couldn't see any reason.

Now that I have left, all my efforts have been wasted. Liu is determined to monitor Jiang Yanyi for finishing this lunch.

She felt that now was a question of who could wait more. Jiang Yanyi wanted to wait for her to leave and find someone else to do it. She was waiting for Jiang Yanyi to make a fool of herself. Liu had achieved this and said that she would not give up.

Jiang Yanyi didn't have time to guess Liu's little thoughts. She marinated the fish bones and the fish meat separately, washed the sauerkraut and cut it into thick slices half a finger wide, put it in a pot and blanched it to remove the earthy smell of the sauerkraut.

Pickled fish is a classic Sichuan dish. When Jiang Yanyi used to cook, she always had a fishy smell when she cooked it. However, she had obviously completely removed the fishy smell. She couldn't figure out this problem for a long time. Later, she learned from a master who made Sichuan cuisine that pickled vegetables also had a fishy smell. If you want to make this dish authentic, you can't be afraid of trouble. Pickled vegetables have to be blanched in water and stir-fry to remove the fishy smell.

After processing the sauerkraut, Jiang Yanyi heated the pot, increased the oil, and when the oil was melted, added some sesame oil to heat it up, stir-fried onion, ginger and garlic, vegetable oil and animal oil to stir-fried ginger and garlic. The fragrance was really domineering. Everyone in the kitchen was sniffing and looking into the pot.

After Jiang Yanyi stir-fry the green and white peppers, he put the fish head and bones into the pot and stir-fry the water vapor. Then he stir-fry the sour smell. At this time, the aroma of fish meat in the pot and the fragrance of various seasonings had already come out. Jiang Yanyi sprinkled a spoonful of rice wine along the edge of the pot to cook the aroma of wine. Finally, he poured a pot of boiling water, and the pot instantly began to bubble. The fish soup was thick and white, and the fragrance jumped up along the heat of the boiling soup.

After Jiang Yanyi added the seasoning, he cooked for a while, took the fish bones and heads into a soup dumpling, and started to put the fish fillet while the soup in the pot was boiled. The fish fillets were coated with egg white when marinated, which tasted smoother and tenderer. There was a layer of thin starch on the skin, which could fully lock in the moisture of the fish, and it was almost cooked when put into the pot.

After she poured the fish fillets, soup and meat into the soup, sprinkled with chopped garlic chopped green onion, green pepper, dogwood, and boiled two spoons of hot oil and poured it on, and it instantly stirred with a "wavy" sound.

The fragrance attracted people to gather in a pile at the door, praising them all.

Liu's face was dreamy. She clearly stared at her all the way, but when the pot of fragrant sauerkraut fish was placed in front of her, she still felt like she was dreaming.

Jiang Yanyi wiped her hands on the apron and asked her: "Auntie, have you learned these two dishes today?"

Liu woke up like a dream: "Ah?"

The eyes seem to know, but the hands seem to have not learned it yet.

She covered her thumb, which was no longer painful, and said, "Oh, my hand hurts so much, I'll go back and take some medicine first."

As soon as Liu left, Okra saw that it was about to go to dinner, and also told Jiang Yanyi that she wanted to go back. Jiang Yanyi kept her for dinner, but she refused to say anything.

The servants in the house always looked at okra with strange eyes. Jiang Yanyi also knew that she was uncomfortable here, so she pretended to have a plate of snacks and took them back for her to eat.

Jiang Yanyi only cooked these two hard dishes. The servant came to report that there would be guests at the mansion today and they wanted to add dishes. Jiang Yanyi didn't have the time to continue working in the kitchen, so he gave the position to the chef on the stove.

When the meal started, only female relatives ate together in the inner courtyard. The men of the Chu family seemed to be with the distinguished guest in the front hall, and Chu Changping also rushed back from outside.

Liu didn't know what news he could hear, but when he left the kitchen, he was still calm, but now he was secretly happy between his eyebrows and eyes.

Jiang Yanyi guessed that it was probably related to the distinguished guest at the mansion. She also found that the pot of pickled fish she made was directly divided into half!

She didn't even hold a few chopsticks while eating, and only soup was left in a basin of pickled fish.

Liu's youngest daughter used wooden chopsticks to scoop around the soup bowl, and finally picked up only one pickled cabbage, and both eyebrows drooped.

Seeing that she seemed to want to make soup and rice, Liu whispered: "Huibao, please eat less for me. You will have to discuss hiding in two years. Who will marry a fat girl like you?"

Chu Huibao bit the chopsticks and looked at her sister pitifully.

Chu Shubao was gnawing a big bone. When he saw Chu Huibao's eyes, he said, "Mother, my little sister is still growing."

When Liu thought of what Chu Shubao had to do for a while, she saw that her belt was tightly stretched, she said with a headache: "You can eat less too!"

Mrs. Chu was happy to have this meal today. When she saw Liu scolding her two granddaughters, she said, "How can you be a mother like this? The children nowadays as girls, how can they eat wine? When they get married, how can they live like this when they serve their parents-in-law?"

Liu was scolded by Mrs. Chu, so he had to do so.

The old lady Chu had already eaten it and wiped her mouth with a silk trouser and said, "You have learned to learn dishes from Yimei. From tomorrow on, I will also make these dishes for my old lady to try."

Liu knew why Mrs. Chu didn't say anything when she was troubled by Jiang Yanyi before. It turned out that she was waiting for her here.

Liu secretly complained in his heart, saying that he wanted to learn to respect Mrs. Chu was what she said herself. Now Mrs. Chu kept bringing this out intact, and she couldn't even refute it even if she wanted to refute it. Maybe she would have to bear a reputation of being unfilial.

Not to mention how bitter it is to cook, the key is that she doesn’t know how hard she can at all!

Liu knew what it means to shoot himself in the foot.
To be continued...