Chapter 138

"Fish out the roe deer meat, pick out the ingredients, don't throw away the soup, put it in a basin and use it later."

After instructing Li Xuewu, Sha Zhu put the sliced meat back into the boiling pickled cabbage pot.

"Look carefully. The seasonings are roughly these. I haven't measured how much, because if you are really that serious, you won't be able to make this taste."

As he spoke, he added seasonings to the frying pan: salt, star anise, bay leaves, peppercorns, and cinnamon. These were all brought by Sha Zhu, and he didn't have them himself.

Li Xuewu roughly remembered the amount of Sha Zhu's addition, and the specific details would have to be practiced slowly in the future.

Sha Zhu covered the frying pan, cleaned the stewing pot with clean water, heated the oil in the pot, put in peppercorns, star anise, onion, ginger, garlic, and red dried chili, stir-fried the fragrance, put in the cut onion, and then put in the roe deer meat and stir-fried it.

When the meat changed color, he added light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, white sugar, five-spice powder, and soybean paste, and added the meat soup he had just scooped out to cover the meat.

After Sha Zhu finished this set, he instructed Erhai: "Brother, don't stop the fire. Boil it with a high fire, put in the cut potatoes, and don't add fire anymore. Just keep the fire."

"How about it? Is it hard to be a chef?" Sha Zhu asked Li Xuewu with a smile while wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Looking at Sha Zhu, who was sweating, and touching the sweat on his own forehead, Li Xuewu laughed, "I never dare to underestimate anyone. Different trades are like mountains."

Sha Zhu took the towel handed by the Hearing Hearing Da Lao, thanked him, and continued to say to Li Xuewu, "It's not that mysterious. It's just a proficiency. If you eat more, see more, and practice more, you can do it too."

Li Xuewu said politely, "I still have a lot to learn from you."

Sha Zhu and the two chatted for a while. The pickled cabbage with white meat was also stewed. Sha Zhu held the long handle of the frying pan with his left hand, lifted the pot, and poured the pickled cabbage with white meat into the large bowl prepared by Erhai twice.

Li Xuewu said to Erhai, "Take one bowl to our table, and cover the other bowl with a lid first."

Sha Zhu had already cleaned the frying pan and heated the oil.

"There should be wide oil in the pot, and you can only stir-fry after the oil is smooth."

As he spoke, he put the prepared chicken shreds into the pot, and put the washed bean sprouts into the pot.

"Hey, add seasonings, add a little white vinegar and sugar to enhance the freshness. This is the reason why I said this dish has a plum flavor. Look, after stir-frying, add a little water starch and bright oil to add luster. Of course, if we eat at home, it doesn't matter if we don't put bright oil."

As he spoke, the dishes in the frying pan were ready, and they were served in two plates. Erhai already knew what to do without being told.

Sha Zhu cleaned the pot and put it aside, covered the stove opening with a stove plate, took a handful of salt, opened the lid of the stewing pot, and sprinkled it in.

"Remember, stew it on a low fire for an hour, and sprinkle salt a quarter of an hour before it comes out of the pot."

Sha Zhu said and covered the stewing pot again, washed his hands, and started to clean up the hygiene that had just been messed up in the kitchen. Erhai wanted to help, but Sha Zhu didn't let him.

He packed up the seasonings he brought and put them aside. At this time, the meat in the stewing pot was also ready.

Sha Zhu's hands were really strong. No wonder Xu Damao couldn't beat him. He held one ear of the stewing pot with a wet rag in his hand, used the spoon to hold the other ear, and directly dragged the stewing pot and the stewed vegetables out of the stove opening.

"Remember when scooping stewed vegetables, try not to let the pot continue to touch the fire, because the more you scoop out, the less soup there is, and it's easy to burn the bottom of the pot."

As he spoke, the braised potatoes with roe deer meat were already out of the pot.

Erhai carried the pickled cabbage with white meat, Silver Bud Silver Spine, and braised potatoes with roe deer meat to Li Xuewu's house in the front courtyard.

The few people here were all at the table. On the table was a large bowl filled with hot water, and a white porcelain liquor pot was sitting in the large bowl.

Beside the large bowl was a plate, which contained cut radish strips, white onion strips, and fried frozen cabbage, and beside it was a small bowl of cooked sauce.

This was the signature dish of the Li family.

On the side were the three hot dishes just made. Everyone let each other sit on the kang table, all sat cross-legged, and Erhai also came back, carrying a basket of two-mixed-flour buns.

"Hurry up and sit at the table, sit next to your Brother Guodong."

The Hearing Hearing Da Lao called Erhai to sit on the kang to eat. Erhai promised, picked up the hot white porcelain liquor pot, and filled the liquor cups in front of everyone, only he didn't pour any for himself.

Erhai's liquor capacity was not good, which might be related to his congenital condition. His stomach hurt badly after drinking. Wen San'er was afraid that something would happen to Erhai's body, so he specifically instructed Erhai not to drink.

"My Healing Game"

After Sha Zhu and the Hearing Hearing Da Lao moved their chopsticks, the few of them started to pick up dishes.

Seeing that everyone had taken a bite of the Silver Bud Silver Spine dish, Sha Zhu grinned and asked, "How is it?"

The Hearing Hearing Da Lao and the others nodded repeatedly, while Li Xuewu understood the difference between the palace cuisine chef and the regional cuisine chef that Sha Zhu had explained earlier.

"Indeed, the taste is rich, smooth, tender, and elastic, and there is really a hint of plum flavor."

Li Xuewu and the others ate deliciously, naturally forgetting the 'well-diggers', and frequently toasted Sha Zhu.

When Li Xuewu entered the room, he saw it. A large white liquor bucket was placed in the corner of the room.

He didn't see it because he left in a hurry in the morning. It looked like these few goods had pulled the remaining half-bucket of liquor over, ready to drink it themselves.

The few of them chatted while drinking, and slowly got to know each other. Old Biaozi, who had social anxiety, called him 'Brother Zhuzi' one by one, and the two chatted very warmly.

After eating and drinking, Shen Guodong and Erhai cleaned up the mess and sat down to drink a mouthful of hot water.

Lao Biaozi was a bit uninhibited after drinking. He pulled everyone to go to the bathhouse at the door for the reserved program after the social meal - soaking in the bath. They had been busy recently and hadn't bathed for more than 20 days. These few people all brought clean underwear to change.

Shen Guodong and the others had been working continuously recently because they were busy clearing goods, and their hair could be refined into oil.

There weren't many people in the bathhouse at this time. The few of them soaked in the large pool, didn't talk about things at home, but chatted about gossip on the street.

It was either who set up a small gambling stall, or where there was a 'hidden door' again. These were all things Li Xuewu had never heard of, but they were happening in reality now.

Wen San'er and the others liked to brag, but they didn't dare to tell lies or brag in front of Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu felt that the street was a bit out of shape. Thieves and petty thieves dared to call themselves 'Fo Ye', and they were rampant again with the care of 'Wan Zhu'. If these people didn't cut off their roots, they would never stop.

Unless it was like later generations, no one carried cash when going out. Stealing a mobile phone? Directly lock the location, or automatically turn on the camera to take pictures and save evidence. The cost of crime was too high, so such things happened less.

Now that the street was chaotic, all kinds of ghosts and monsters dared to come out and jump around. This was also why Li Xuewu's Type 54 never left his body wherever he went, always ready to fire.