There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 234 It's easy to think
Luo Cheng looked at her, at her face.

Now when he looks at Jiaoniang, the more he looks at her, the more she looks more beautiful, the more he looks at her...

Heartbroken.

Li Jiaoniang blinked her big watery eyes and looked back at Luo Cheng, "What am I? Just looking at me and not talking? It's inexplicable."

She touched her face, "What's wrong with my face?"

"Nothing?" Luo Cheng hummed and walked away.

Recently, even though they slept on the same bed, Jiao Niang no longer rolled into his arms.

And a big pillow was placed in the middle, blocking his arm and preventing him from stretching it.

Luo Cheng didn't like the pillows between them. For husband and wife, one plus one equals three, or four five six seven eight.

It's not that one plus one, plus one, always equals two.

He is one, Jiaoniang is one, and the pillow...is one.

"Faulty man." Li Jiaoniang shrugged her shoulders, smiled again and hurried away.

At this time, a family of three walked in, calling for three bowls of broth noodles.

"Come on, objectively drink a cup of herbal tea first, and the noodle soup will be here soon." Li Jiaoniang poured three bowls of herbal tea and put them on the table, hurriedly walked into the kitchen.

Luo Cheng followed into the kitchen to help.

He has always been the one who serves the noodle bowl.

On a hot day, he was afraid that Li Jiaoniang would burn herself.

After the family of three left, a few more people came, some with wine and meat, some with noodle soup.

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng quickly entertained them.

After they left, Chen Laiqing came back.

As soon as he entered the door, he smiled and said, "Niu'er is a small problem, I will take care of it, and the master will pay the wages."

Li Jiaoniang was sorting out the money she earned in the morning, she smiled and said, "That's not bad!"

"It's just not many, only eighty." Chen Laiqing shook his head.

Bashiwen, calculated according to purchasing power, would cost about 80 yuan in modern times.

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "It's a small problem, of course the money is low. Uncle Chen was listed as a doctor on the first day, and he started to earn income. The momentum is good. It's a good start, let's celebrate directly."

Luo Cheng also said, "As time goes by, more people invite Uncle Chen, and the income will increase."

Chen Laiqing was very happy, "I think so too." He poured a bowl of herbal tea and drank it, then thought of something, and said, "By the way, Jiao Niang, Luo Cheng, that old cow herder told me something, Ask if you would like to do business."

Li Jiaoniang hurriedly asked, "What business?"

"It's like this. A member of the old man's village is going to celebrate his mother's [-]th birthday tomorrow. The family has to make a big fuss. I had an appointment with a chef from a restaurant to come and cook, but the chef went out this morning. At that time, I fell into a ditch in a donkey cart and broke my leg. The member was looking for someone to replace him. I think Jiaoniang’s dishes are delicious and delicious, so why don’t you try them?”

Li Jiaoniang became interested, "How much does the member's family pay?"

"Two pennies a day."

Luo Cheng frowned, "Not too many."

What he thought was that working as a part-time job for someone else's family, not to mention the anger, the money was not too much, and it was very hard to walk back and forth under the sun.

It's better to sit in a tavern and earn as much as you can.

Quiet and at ease.

He felt sorry for Jiao Niang.

But Li Jiaoniang was happy.

Today and tomorrow are not market days. This morning, the gross income is less than [-] Wen, plus the afternoon, the gross income of the day will definitely not exceed [-] Wen, which is consistent money.

After excluding the cost of materials, and excluding the wages of her, Luo Cheng, and Chen Laiqing, the income would be around three hundred Wen at most.

Tomorrow's income may also be the same.

It's better to work part-time for someone and earn him a couple of dollars.

She became famous, maybe more people will invite her to be a chef in the future.

That would be a decent income.

"Okay, I'll go. Where's the address? Uncle Chen?" Li Jiaoniang asked.

"It's Shuanghe Village. The surname is He's family." Chen Laiqing said, "It's easy to find. Shall I take you there?"

Li Jiaoniang smiled and waved her hands, "No need, Brother Luo Cheng and I will go. Uncle Chen will take care of you in the store, right?"

Chen Laiqing can also cook. He has cooked for Mrs. Luo for many years, and he also cooks for his own family.

Although he doesn't know how to make complex dishes for banquets, he is very good at general home-cooked stews and stir-fries.

The taste of the noodle soup is not as good as Li Jiaoniang's, but it is better than ordinary people's.

When the shop was very busy, Chen Laiqing also helped in the kitchen and cooked some simple dishes.

Chen Laiqing nodded, "Okay, I'm here to look after the shop."

Li Jiaoniang asked Luo Cheng with a smile, "Brother Luo Cheng, after the noon wave of business is over, let's go to He's house and ask."

Luo Cheng shook his head, "You, you, you don't know how to rest for a while? It's such a hot day..."

Li Jiaoniang has seen the farm banquet in the modern world.

Being a chef is actually easier than being a chef in a tavern.

There are so many people on hand, you only need to take care of the pots and prepare the dishes, and you don't have to wash a bowl by yourself.

In addition, the main thing is to please people, because the chef is too hard and will be perfunctory in cooking, so that they can't hold their heads up in front of the guests.

"It's not tiring at all. It's a member's family. There are servants and helpers at home. How can they ask the chef to do things? Let's go and see?"

Luo Cheng frowned, "Okay, let's go together."

Jiao Niang has become addicted to making money recently, as long as she hears that there is money to be made, it will be over immediately.

In fact, they are not short of money now.

But Li Jiaoniang didn't think so. She often counted with her fingers how long it would take for the Mongolian army to reach the Central Plains.

How much money would it take to allow her descendants to live until the peaceful period of the Ming Dynasty.

Feeding future generations is a daunting task.

Therefore, she never let go of any opportunity to make money.

Change all the money into non-perishable gold, silver and jade, and bury them in the mountains.Draw a treasure map to let future generations know how awesome their grandparents were, and they even took care of their descendants 200 years later.

Yunhe County is a small and remote county in the south of the Yangtze River, suitable for evacuation.

……

After entertaining the two tables of guests who came at noon, Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng drove the carriage to Shuanghe Village near the market.

The members of the village are all rich and wealthy.

Either someone in the family is a high-ranking official in the state capital, or the ancestors were officials, holding the huge wealth of the ancestors in their hands.

They have at least one hundred acres of fertile land in their hands, dozens of large brick houses, or dozens of shops in the city.

The wealth is above ten thousand guan.

There are only one or two people in each village.

Once you enter the village, you can find out if you ask a little bit.

Li Jiaoniang asked an old lady who was sitting under a tree enjoying the cool air, and the old lady immediately told her Yuanwai He's home.

"Go straight along this road, and you will see the most affluent house. There is a stage shed in front of his yard. It's going to be a wedding, so it's easy to find." The old lady said.

Li Jiaoniang thanked her and continued walking in the carriage.

Sure enough, she and Luo Cheng saw a row of luxurious houses.

It is richer than Yuanwai Huang's family in Jinshan Village.

Because the house is taller and the walls are taller and longer.

The courtyard door is wider.

The stage at the entrance of the courtyard has been set up, and some children are climbing up and down and playing around.

The courtyard door was wide open, and people carried things in and out from time to time.

Luo Cheng parked the carriage in a shady place, "I'll go ask, Jiao Niang, you wait here first."

Li Jiaoniang took off the bamboo hat and used it as a fan to fan the cool breeze, she smiled and said, "Okay."

Luo Cheng walked to the gate of the courtyard and asked a middle-aged man who was directing the carrying of things.

That dress looks like a helper in this house.

The middle-aged man is the housekeeper of the He family. He looked at Luo Cheng in surprise, "You know how to cook? We are a big family, and we can hold a banquet for hundreds of tables. Can you handle it?"

"It's not me, it's my wife." Luo Cheng nodded to Li Jiaoniang who was in the carriage.

Li Jiaoniang walked over with a slight smile, "Hello housekeeper."

The butler was even more surprised, "You?" The little lady in front of him was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he snorted softly, "Did you hear that the old man in my family paid a lot of money, so he boldly came to ask about the job of the chef?" ? Stop making trouble, you can't handle that job."

He waved his sleeves, signaling Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng to leave quickly.

Li Jiaoniang was not discouraged, she still smiled slightly and said, "Housekeeper, you don't believe in my ability, you can test it, if you can't, then drive us away and let us lose heartily."

The butler hesitated.

Li Jiaoniang smiled again and said, "To tell you the truth, we are a couple from the Shishi Tavern in the village. A passer-by mentioned He Yuan's family to us and said that the family was looking for someone who can cook, so I recommended myself. "

The housekeeper sized up Li Jiaoniang, and said, "So you are the cook of Shishi Tavern?"

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "That's right."

The housekeeper looked at him with admiration, "That's all right, you come with me. Although you have experience in cooking, whether it suits our master's wishes depends on your ability. Our family has always hired cooks from the county, but this It was only because of an accident that I recruited a cook from my hometown."

Li Jiaoniang and Luo Cheng followed the butler into the He family compound.

The building scale of this house can catch up with the level of Wang Yuan's family in the county. Needless to say, the family is very rich.

Of course, in the country, the land is vast, and you can build it casually. In the city, every inch of land is expensive, and you have to spend many times the money to build a big house.

Walking along the winding road, Li Jiaoniang came to a row of houses.

These are two brick houses.

There is also a well at the door, and a tall sweet-scented osmanthus tree is planted beside the well.

In a flat bamboo basket the size of a table, sweet-scented osmanthus flowers are drying in the sun.

There is a pool the size of a bed built in the corner of the courtyard. There are a few lotus leaves growing in the pool, and many fish swim in the pool.

Under the eaves, there are strings of dried smoked fish and dried bacon.

Dried meat includes rabbit meat, pork, beef, chicken, duck and goose, as well as wild boar and badger meat.

A woman was sitting on a small stool, washing dishes.

In the room, there was an aggressive sound of cutting things.

Obviously, this is He Zhai's big kitchen.

"This is the kitchen, come with me." The housekeeper nodded to Li Jiaoniang, and then said to the woman washing dishes, "Mother Zhang, I'm here to test my skills, come and see."

Zhang Ma first looked at Luo Cheng with a surprised expression, and then at Li Jiaoniang, also surprised, what a beautiful little lady, she said to herself.

Seeing that Li Jiaoniang followed the butler into the kitchen, and the young man was only standing at the door of the kitchen watching, Mama Zhang became restless.

A girl in her teens came to try her cooking skills?
Hehe, she is in her forties, and the master is not satisfied with the food she has cooked for 30 years. How many years has she been cooking for a girl?Dare to take the test?

Overcome!

In the kitchen, there was another woman of the same age who was also surprised.

"Mother Li, you take charge of the stove and let her try cooking." The housekeeper pointed at Li Jiaoniang.

Mama Li is a fat woman who is usually in charge of the kitchen in He Zhai.

She glanced at Li Jiaoniang with disdain, and walked away.

"There are vegetables here, you can watch and burn them yourself." With hands on hips and raised eyebrows, he looked contemptuous.

Li Jiaoniang rolled up her sleeves, and quickly looked around the kitchen.

As expected of a rich family.

The kitchen of this house was larger than the main hall of her tavern.

There are three stoves, one big and one small two stoves.

All kinds of seasonings are piled up in the cabinet with a height of one person, and baskets of fresh vegetables are piled up in front of the cabinet.

Li Jiaoniang went to a basket and picked out three eggs.

The two cooks blinked and thought to themselves, what does this little lady want to do?Scrambled eggs?
Alas, their ten-year-old can cook, and they use it to show off their cooking skills?

I laughed so hard!
The fatter Cook Li also laughed out loud.

Li Jiaoniang didn't speak, took a beautiful big bowl, rinsed the bowl with cold boiled water, and knocked three eggs into the bowl.

Then, she added a little salt, grabbed five chopsticks, and stirred quickly.

After stirring for a while, she poured cold boiled water into the bowl and took a spoonful of lard.

Then stir again.

As the stirring action intensified, a layer of fine white foam floated in the bowl.

Li Jiaoniang took a spoon and gently scraped off the foam.

Then, she added water to the big pot, put a steamer on it, put the egg bowl in the steamer, found a bigger plate, put it on the bowl, and then covered the pot.

"Let me light the fire." Li Jiaoniang smiled at the fat woman.

When steaming egg custard, the fire should not be too high, otherwise it will evaporate to dryness, and it should not be too small, otherwise the egg liquid at the bottom of the bowl will not solidify.

She was worried about this fat woman who kept curling her lips at her.

This was a test of craft, and she didn't want to screw it up the first time, she had to do it herself.

The woman was very happy, clasped her hands together, walked to the side and stood idle.

Standing with that mother, muttering to talk.

Li Jiaoniang quickly lit the firewood in the stove. She first boiled the water on high heat, and when the water steamed, she immediately changed to medium heat, and after half a bowl of tea, she turned to low heat and simmered slowly.

After about a moment, Li Jiaoniang lifted the lid of the pot and took away the covered bowl.

In the steaming heat, inside the steamer was a bowl of golden-yellow, tender egg custard exuding the fragrance of eggs.

There is not a single honeycomb on the custard.

The two cooks were surprised, why is there no honeycomb on her egg custard?
Li Jiaoniang poured a few drops of sesame oil, a few drops of seasoned soy sauce, and sprinkled a few scallions, then found a clean cloth, brought out a bowl, and placed it on the stove.

"Housekeeper, please take a look." She smiled slightly.

The butler had been watching Li Jiaoniang making egg custard, and he didn't take it seriously.

There are so many ingredients in the kitchen, why does she want to make a bowl of egg custard?

It's just steaming a bowl of soup, can this show its ability?
But since he is here to ask, he will introduce it. Whether it will be successful or not depends on what the master and madam want.

"You wait." The butler beckoned to the fat cook, "Mama Li, take the egg custard and follow me to ask the master for instructions."

"Yes." Li Ma replied.

She found a tray, put the egg custard bowl on it, found a spoon and put it on the plate, picked it up and followed the butler away.

Another cook who was washing the dishes came over, shook her head and said, "I said, young lady, I'm afraid your bowl of dishes won't catch the eyes of the master."

"Oh? Why?" Li Jiaoniang smiled slightly and looked at her.

Luo Cheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the cook.

He was also worried, because the housekeeper's expression was not approving.

Chef Zhang let out a "ah", "Our He family, what delicious food have you never seen before? Chicken, duck and fish meat, even the long-term workers in our family are tired of eating, let alone the master and wife? You want to make something they have never eaten. Dishes. But you made the most common egg custard, this kind of dish can be eaten every day by poor people, right? "

So he laughed at her for making a bowl of ordinary dishes?

Li Jiaoniang smiled, this cook, do you know that you should do what you like when cooking food?
For those who are afraid of spicy food, if you give him Sichuan-flavored oil and spicy hot pot, he will turn against you and will not appreciate your kindness.

Seeing a mainlander with little seafood, if you give him a whole table of raw shrimp, salmon slices, cold caviar sauce or something, he will turn the table angrily.

A one-year-old baby, if you give him a steamed Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, he will stare at the crab with big eyes and squawk, but if you give him a candy, he will immediately smile.

An 80-year-old lady, if you give her a plate of Dengying Beef, she will scold the cook for ulterior motives.

Li Jiaoniang looked at Chef Zhang, still smiling slightly, "Let's talk about it when the butler comes."

Chef Zhang rolled her eyes, and thought to herself, "You're thinking beautifully! It's probably telling you to get lost."

After waiting for a moment or so, the butler came back.

Cook Li, who was following behind him, had a strange expression on her face. On the tray in her hand was still the big blue and white porcelain bowl, but the bowl was empty, and the eggs in the bowl seemed to be scraped with a spoon, so they were very clean.

Chef Zhang blinked, came back with an empty bowl?
Still so clean?

Li Jiaoniang smiled relaxedly, and said to the butler, "Butler, how does Master He judge this bowl of egg custard?"

(End of this chapter)