Lingquan after kitchen

Chapter 37
At dusk, smoke billows from the rows of one-story houses beside the wheat fields, and the family of the tenant farmers is getting ready for dinner.This year, Ouyang Jinhua put down his words as early as summer, and charged one less rent per mu of land, and one less harvest per mountain.The tenant farmer added her reward to his daily rations, and he could have a less watery batter for dinner.

Zhuangzi, which was hundreds of feet away, was brightly lit, and the strong smell of meat wafted from the dining room in the backyard, causing several local dogs looking at Zhuangzi to bark non-stop.

The servants of Leng's family and Dongfang Xuanyi's entourage devoured the food on the table.

Fist-sized vegetarian shrimp buns, roe deer and rabbit meat stewed with big pieces of red dates with a slight aroma of wine, and refreshing garlic with fungus, pumpkin and lily porridge.

Leng's family has these ingredients, but the food they make is not as good as Ouyang's family even riding a thousand-mile horse.

"We have traveled all over the country with Miss, and we have never eaten such delicious buns, meat, or porridge."

"Miss married into Dongfang's family, at least she has a good fortune."

Everyone was swept away, their stomachs were round and they enjoyed their faces. They were full of praise for the cooking skills of the Ouyang family's kitchen, but they were not afraid of being laughed at by the servants of the Ouyang family who passed by outside.

The servant of Dongfang Xuanyi even specially pulled a young servant over and asked solemnly: "Brother, what are you eating tonight?" It seemed that they were inquiring about something important.

The young servant rubbed his head and replied with a silly smile: "Vegetarian steamed buns, mixed cucumbers, and pumpkin porridge."

"What kind of stuffing are the vegetarian buns?"

The young man looked at the sunset in the distance, as if he was recalling the food he had eaten just now, and replied: "Spinach stuffing and vegetable oil are so delicious."

"You guys are really lucky!"

The boy nodded proudly, and said with a smile, "I've gotten fat from eating."

When the young servant left, everyone laughed heartily.

"Ouyang's family gave us roe deer and rabbit meat, shrimps in the stuffing of buns, fungus from the mountain as a cold dish, and even more lilies in the porridge."

"I don't know what food the Ouyang family feeds the young lady, the young master, and the world?"

"It's definitely better than our food!"

"Our food is already so good, the food of Miss, Young Master, and Shizi should be able to attract gods to come down to steal it."

"I think it's because you want to steal it!"

In the dining room of the main courtyard, the mahogany round table is full of delicacies and wines.

Six cold dishes, ten hot dishes, one soup, three main dishes, meat and vegetables are served in twenty plates and bowls, exuding an incomparably attractive aroma.

With such delicious food, Leng Ningshuang, who is known as the number one eater in the Leng Mansion, does not feel that it would be embarrassing to let go of eating in front of her future in-laws.

She and Leng Liyu were born in high families, and their eating postures have been practiced since childhood, even if they eat a lot and eat quickly, they are more elegant.

Dongfang Xuanyi often sleeps in the wild, forcing himself to learn how to cook and eat. He is best at grilled fish and game. The level is very high. The grilled fish and meat are very delicious, but compared with the grilled roe deer meat on the dinner table today It's just too far away.

He plans to marinate the fish in spirits the next time he makes a grilled fish kebab.

This is the second time for the Hong family to come to Ouyang Mansion to enjoy delicious food. Seeing the shocked and happy expressions of Aunt and Nephew Leng Ningshuang and Dongfang Xuanyi every time they ate a dish, Hong's heart was finally balanced.It was the same with the Ding family at the birthday banquet.

Several guests had a great time eating under the warm hospitality of the host. They heard that there was a delicious supper, and they said they were very full and hoped that there would be no surprises.

After dinner, Ding deliberately took Leng Ningshuang to walk around the village alone to digest food, talked to her, and asked her what she wanted from Ouyang's family.

Leng Ningshuang said that there is no such shop in this village, so she said, "Auntie, I have eaten in Brother Yue's mansion a few times these days, and none of them were as delicious as the one just now. I am married to Brother Yue After that, it would be great if I could eat [-]% of the food just now."

"Half of the meals here are cooked by Jinhua himself, and half by the cooks she has spent a few months teaching little by little." Ding saw Leng Ningshuang looking forward to it under the moonlight, and smiled. Said: "I'll go talk to Jinhua and let her find a way to satisfy you."

Ouyang Jinye accompanied Dongfang Xuanyi and Leng Liyu out of Zhuangzi to take a walk by the river.

Dongfang Xuanyi, who was silent for a long time, asked: "Did you see Ouyang Jinyu today?"

"Big brother has recently opened a restaurant, and the number of visits to Zhuangzi has been reduced. Does the prince know my brother?" Ouyang Jinye had no idea that Dongfang Xuanyi had obtained a huge amount of silver from Ouyang Jinyu by tricks.

Dongfang Xuanyi said calmly: "When he went to the south of the Yangtze River this year, we met once." Seeing the endless wheat fields by the moonlight, he asked: "These are all lands in your mansion?"

Ouyang Jinye smelled of alcohol, gestured with his hands, and said, "The fields with a radius of one thousand mu, dozens of mountains and Zhuangzi belonged to my aunt, and they belonged to my elder sister since the year before last."

Dongfang Xuanyi couldn't help but praised: "Your sister's cooking skills are really exquisite."

"My son suddenly talked about cooking from the field." Ouyang Jinye asked with a smile: "My son, I heard that you planted rice in the south?"

"My master didn't want our brothers to eat and drink for free, so he ordered us to have all kinds of rice and vegetables." Dongfang Xuanyi didn't say that the old man Xuantian asked them to raise pigs and feed chickens, and even dig out manure to fertilize the land.

Ouyang Jinye was amazed that the prince of the state would farm the land and grow vegetables like the tenant farmers in the mansion. Thinking about it, he said: "Mr. Ling is an expert in the world. Both the previous emperor and His Majesty today respected Master Ling very much. Master Ling respects your teacher very much." It must be a good intention for brothers to do this.”

Leng Liyu said loudly: "There are people living there, it looks like there is little light, it doesn't look like a village, what kind of place is that?"

"That's a few rows of houses my sister built for the tenant farmers." Ouyang Jinye said specially: "In summer, there were only nearly a hundred people here, but now there are nearly 150 people. The poor families who were hit by the flood nearby heard that my sister treated the tenant farmers well, and they came one after another. Come here as a tenant farmer, so that there is not enough food in winter, and my sister will help me, so I can survive."

Leng Liyu boasted: "Jinhua is really kind."

Dongfang Xuanyi secretly said in his heart: Selling a recipe for making ice can earn millions of taels of silver, and the money spent on building a house for the tenant farmers is only a fraction of a penny, but they have gained a good reputation in a radius of hundreds of miles. She is very good, but I can't say that she is kind.

(End of this chapter)