Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

Chapter 94 Jealousy is completely overturned

After copying the hot pot base ingredients, there is no need for fire in the stove.

Jiang Chen put the burning briquettes into the stove, and the temperature in the room quickly rose.

Luo Xue and Liu Yue both took off their heavy coats to make it easier to work.

All of a sudden, the kitchen was full of birds and butterflies, and it was very eye-catching just to look at them.

There were several women in the kitchen, but Jiang Chen was free.

Apart from occasionally talking about how to prepare certain dishes, there is almost no chance to do it.

He Yuyu said to Liu Yue: "Sister-in-law, I have prepared the ingredients for the spicy beef. Pass me the coriander and I will wash it."

Liu Yue nodded and handed the coriander she just selected to He Yuyu.

Luo Xue asked: "He Yuyu, who did you call sister-in-law?"

During the time when He Yuzhu was cooking in the steel rolling mill, the two of them met and knew that he was He Yuzhu's sister.

But she and Liu Yue were the only outsiders here. Who was He Yuyu calling his sister-in-law?

He Yuyu pointed at Liu Yue: "She!"

Luo Xue couldn't believe it: "She and your brother?"

No, it's impossible, right?

Didn't Liu Yue confess her love to Jiang Chen in public? Why did she become He Yuyu's sister-in-law again?
  He Yuyu said: "Don't think blindly, my brother is not worthy of me! My name is Brother Jiang Chenchen, and I have always called her sister-in-law."

Luo Xue felt that her heartbeat had slowed down by half a beat: "Huh?"

"Always, have you known each other for a long time?"

After figuring out the reason, the jealousy jar has been completely overturned.

He Yuyu nodded: "Sister-in-law has been here many times and has eaten the food I cooked."

Luo Xue's heart just kept falling.

I couldn't believe it, I didn't want to believe it, but I seemed to have to believe it.

E Jiangchen, who was smoking outside, saw Lei Jie coming in with a big jar in his arms and asked, "What did you get?"

Lei Jie said: "My father has collected the wine for many years. It is said that it was originally gifted to my great-grandfather by the palace. I thought about leaving it alone, it is better to drink it."

"Oh, palace jade liquor?" Jiang Chen subconsciously thought of one hundred and eighty cups.

This big jar of wine may weigh ten kilograms.

Lei Jie was stunned: "Is this wine called by this name?"

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I'm just saying it casually. This old guy, Malotov, is in a good mood today!"

"Who, who is talking about me?" A very loud voice sounded outside the house.

It was Malotov who had arrived.

Although he could only understand a limited number of flower language sentences, he could still recognize his own name.

Jiang Chen laughed: "Look, say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will be here."

Jiang Chen got up and went to the outer room, saying in Russian: "Finally you are here, everyone is waiting for you to arrive and start!"

"Well, why are you here alone, where is Yankovsky?"

Malotov said: "He has no interest in this kind of private banquet, and he can't eat spicy food."

"Dear Comrade Jiang Chen, I wanted to come a long time ago, but I didn't know when your dinner party usually starts, so I came a little late. Please forgive me."

Jiang Chen said: "It doesn't matter! Let's go to the kitchen and start!"

Malotov nodded: "It's really warm in your house."

Jiang Chen waved his hand: "No, the decoration cost a lot of money."

Entering the kitchen, Malotov looked at the room full of Yingying Yanyan and was stunned: "Mr. Jiang Chen is so lucky."

Then he took something out of his coat pocket like a magic trick.

A bottle of Maotai, two packs of White Rabbit, two packs of Huazi, and a box of mung bean cake.

Jiang Chen was a little dumbfounded: "What are you doing?"

Malotov chuckled: "I bought some on the way. The wine was given to me by someone before. Let's drink it tonight."

Jiang Chen was too lazy to be polite to him: "We are not drinking Maotai tonight. I have better wine here."

Malotov's eyes widened: "Is there any better wine than Maotai?"

Jiang Chen smiled and said: "Of course, this wine was drunk by the emperor of our country in the past. It has been stored for decades, and it smells good."

"You are in luck!"

If he were an ordinary person, Jiang Chen would be reluctant to entertain him with such good wine.

But Malotov's trip to the No. 3 Steel Plant this time was busy with repairs, overhauls, and improvements. It really helped a lot.

Jiang Chen would naturally not be stingy when others showed friendship.

When he got to the kitchen, Jiang Chen once again added some briquettes that had been boiled in the stove, then took out a flat-bottomed cooking pot and placed it on the stove.

Pour in water and add the hot pot base ingredients you just fried.

Then add onions, ginger, garlic, a small amount of dried sea pepper and dried Sichuan peppercorns, and wait until it boils before serving.

While waiting for it to boil, Jiang Chen took Liu Yue to get everyone dipping water.

Add onion, ginger, garlic, some chili, salt, and some burned soybean oil, and it's done.

Jiang Chen did not prepare sesame sauce. Since he was eating Sichuan hot pot, the dipping water was also prepared according to Sichuan standards.

Everyone took the prepared dipping water and gathered around the pot to wait for it to be eaten.

The chili peppers boiling in the pot that week made me feel a little scared.

In fact, Jiang Chen was merciful and used chili peppers bought on the street, which were not too spicy.

If it’s not spicy at all, then why eat hot pot? Why not just make it a soup pot?
  Even in later generations, people who eat hot pot or order Yuanyang pot bottoms in Sichuan area will be looked down upon.

If he puts in some of the sea pepper noodles he brought from home, he estimates that there won't be enough food for more than three people in this house.

Two of them were him and Malotov.

Only Luo Xue felt mixed emotions in her heart when she saw Jiang Chen so close yet so far away.

Jiang Chen went to bring the wine jar over again. Lei Jie quickly reached out to take it, opened the mud seal, and poured wine for everyone.

Jiang Chen said: "We are not urging you to drink today. Everyone can drink as much as they want."

"But this wine is good. If you miss it, you won't have it. I suggest everyone drink a little appropriately to avoid getting drunk." As soon as the wine jar was opened, a strong aroma of wine wafted out.

Lei Jie looked inside: "It has been there for too long, and the full jar of wine is now only half full."

Lei Jie was very careful, for fear of wasting a bit.

The thick transparent wine flowed out from the mouth of the pool and entered the quilt.

Just looking at it is wonderful.

This kind of wine tastes particularly good, but it also has great staying power.

After pouring the wine, Jiang Chen raised his glass: "The pot hasn't boiled yet, let's go first. No matter where we are in the future, I hope our friendship will last forever."

"Everyone is welcome, just express your feelings, you don't have to do anything."

Everyone raised their glasses and took a sip.

Everyone doesn't know much about wine, and they don't have much experience with it. It's a bit like chewing peonies.

Malotov, on the other hand, took a sip of wine and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Good wine!"

"It's really good wine!"

After saying that, he took another big sip.

Jiang Chen also took a sip, and it was indeed delicious.

The taste is mellow, the fragrance is rich, the mouth is fragrant, round and full of layers.

Compared to Maotai, it is countless times better.

While talking, the water in the pot boiled.

Jiang Chen said: "When serving dishes, start with meat dishes. You can eat beef or something as soon as the water boils."

"Put the duck intestines on your own and scald them. You can eat them in a few seconds."

He Yuyu poured some meat vegetables into the pot as instructed. When the water boiled, Jiang Chen said "start" and then put a piece of beef in the bowl.

It tastes pretty good, no worse than what I ate at hot pot restaurants in later generations.

The main reason is that the ingredients are better now.

Whether it is meat or other dish seasonings, they are basically natural and pollution-free, and the taste is naturally not comparable to the technology and hard work of later generations.

The host took a stand, and others also took action.

They all picked up the beef, followed Jiang Chen's example, rolled it in the seasoning, and then put it into their mouths.

"Sha."

Luo Xue, who couldn't eat spicy food the most, was yelled at after taking the first bite.

Half spicy, half hot.

However, she didn't give up because it tasted really good.

Liu Yue took a bite and felt so comfortable that her eyes turned into crescent moons.

Malotov took a bite and gave a thumbs up: "Refreshing, hot, spicy and fragrant. It's really comfortable to eat this in this weather."

Jiang Chen said: "Everyone, eat quickly, otherwise it won't taste good after it's cooked."

After that, I ate another piece of beef.

Then he picked up a piece of duck intestine and put it into the pot, shook it up and down for a while, picked it up and put it in his mouth.

Mmm, delicious.

Malotov said: "What is this?"

Jiang Chen said: "Duck intestines, duck intestines."

Malotov said: "How can this thing be so late?"

After that, I also tried to put a piece of duck intestine into the pot.

Jiang Chen smiled and said: "In our Sichuan, everything can be permed, such as folding the roots of ears."

Many people can't accept one bite of Zhe'er root, which is one of the best delicacies in Sichuan. If someone you don't have a good relationship with comes, they can give you pork, but they will never let you eat cold Zhe'er root.

But for people who don't know how to eat this stuff, it can be fatal.

One bite will make you spit out the whole night's meal.

He Yuyu said: "What is the root of a folded ear? Pig ears?"

Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I will show you some things when I have the opportunity in the future."

He Yuyu snorted: "It's the future again. The pine nuts and small fish you promised to my sister-in-law haven't been fulfilled yet, and now you're making empty promises again."

Luo Xue suddenly felt that the beef in her mouth seemed a little bitter.

Malotov imitated Jiang Chen's behavior, and then put the duck intestines into his mouth: "Wow, it's so delicious."

Lei Jie also followed suit and boiled duck intestines.

Liu Yue summoned up great courage and then cruelly pinched one.

She cleaned the duck intestines before.

But when the duck intestines were put into my mouth, my eyes suddenly lit up: "Wow, it's crunchy and so fragrant."

"I learned it. It turns out that duck intestines taste better this way."

Everyone chatted while eating.

Let’s talk about the factory and our hometown.

Liu Yue and He Yuyu also gossiped about the young men and women in the factory.

It's snowing heavily outside and it's freezing cold.

The temperature in the room was pleasant and the atmosphere was fiery.

Due to Malotov's language barrier, Jiang Chen was busy eating by himself and was too lazy to translate with him.

He put all his efforts into hot pot.

My face was red from eating and I was sweating profusely.

Pick up the cup and take a sip of white wine, feeling comfortable.

Hotpot is how you should eat it.

(End of this chapter)