Chapter 444

It's not good to be heard by someone who has the intention to make the young master's money because of his low status. Especially after yesterday's affair with Xiaolian, Xia Xiaoran knows the personality of Wang family that listening to wind is rain.

After a few more chats with the master, when it's time to go shopping, Xia Xiaoran gets on the cart of the Wang family and goes to the market. Along the way, Xia Xiaoran racked his brains, thinking about what he could buy to make food. Think all the way, even the scalp is about to break, did not come up with anything.

Xia Xiaoran decides to buy some lotus roots first. He has already boasted Haikou in front of Wang Zhiwen, saying how delicious the lotus root spareribs soup is. This time, he must show it to him.

Lotus roots are sold in the east of the market. Most of them are aquatic products. Xia Xiaoran picked a few lotus roots with better quality, which cost only 20 Wen in total, and sent several green lotus pods. Xia Xiaoran continued to walk along the roadside stall, in front of the stall is a girl. There are several back baskets on the stall, which are full of black ox horn like things.

"It's water chestnut!" Xia Xiaoran's eyes lit up.

The skin of water chestnut is crisp and the meat is beautiful. It also has the function of diuresis, detoxification and anti alcohol. It's really a good thing.

Xia Xiaoran stopped in front of the stall and pretended to ask casually: "girl, how much is this water chestnut?" At this time of the year, lotus roots can be transported from hot and humid places in the south, while water chestnut is not specially cultivated. Xia Xiaoran is worried that the girl in front of him will say the sky high price of one or two water chestnut or two gold.

There are not many stalls selling water chestnut. Maybe people in Shengyuan town seldom see water chestnut. They are not interested in this kind of black, small and expensive thing. But Xia Xiaoran is the wrong big head, see water chestnut, don't buy a little back to cook heart uncomfortable.

The girl behind the stall's eyes flashed, staring at Xia Xiaoran, and said with a smile: "Fifty Wen, one liang."

Fifty Wen one liang is more than twice as expensive as the lotus root on Xia Xiaoran's hand, but the rare is more expensive. This season's water chestnut sells this price already to calculate low.

Xia Xiaoran took out his money bag in the surprised eyes of passers-by and bought dozens of water chestnut from the stall. Xia Xiaoran, who spent hundreds of words, was not distressed at all. Looking at the girl carefully putting the water chestnut that Xia Xiaoran had picked into a white cloth bag, Xia Xiaoran became interested. "Girl, did you make this bag?" The bag used to hold water chestnut is made of two pieces of white cloth, which is easy to take.

Did not expect that Xia Xiaoran would use this tone to talk to himself, sell water chestnut little girl Leng for a while, looked up at Xia Xiaoran in surprise. Xia Xiaoran felt that something was wrong. She was 15 years old now. She was still thin and looked two years younger than the girl in front of her. In addition, Xia Xiaoran's psychological age is not small. Every time he sees a little girl, he wants to speak in the tone of an elder. No wonder people look at him like old monsters.

Think of here, Xia Xiaoran face a red, unnaturally in front of the people smile. When Xia Xiaoran was in distress, unexpectedly, the girl on the opposite side laughed first, "yes, I did it with my grandmother."

The voice is clear and crisp, with a slight smile, all of a sudden eased the atmosphere. Xia Xiaoran also followed with a smile, pointed to the water chestnut and asked: "as far as I know, this water chestnut is not the product of this season, I don't know why there is one here?"

"This is my grandmother's medicine." The girl in front of her has bright eyes. When she answers, she adds a handful of wormwood to Xia Xiaoran's bag.

Xia Xiaoran saw this subtle action, "thank you."

After parting from the girl with bright eyes, Xia Xiaoran went back to the Wang's house with a bag of lotus roots and water chestnut.

Then it's time to show off. Xia Xiaoran wants to make a lotus root and spareribs soup, shocking the cooks in this small place, so that they can know the difference between himself and the real Hubei cuisine.

To drive Wang Zhiwen out of the kitchen, Xia Xiaoran first took the cut ribs Wang Mingyuan had sent and soaked them in water. Remembering that the radish ribs soup was a little greasy last time, he cut some green onion and ginger and put them in.

After Xia Xiaoran changed the water three times, he remembered that today's meat was sent directly by Wang Mingyuan, not the usual Xiaolian.

Since knowing that there is no hostess in the Wang family, Xia Xiaoran specially asks Wang Mingyuan about the situation of the Wang family. Wang Lu, the father of the Wang family, has only one wife, that is, Wang Zhiwen's mother. However, this woman, who is noble and gentle, died before Wang Zhiwen was ten years old. Wang Zhiwen also has a younger brother, Wang Zhiwu, who is three years younger than Wang Zhiwen. Unlike a nerd, Wang Zhiwu has a lively mind and has been in business with Wang Lu for a long time.

Xia Xiaoran broke his fingers and thought, now Wang Lu and Wang Zhiwu are not at home. The only one who can do this is that man. Xia Xiaoran looked out of the kitchen window and saw Wang Zhiwen sitting at the stone table in front of the pear tree with a general guide of Zizhi.

Sparse light and shadow fell on his face, but his expression was very focused, and he immediately had a sense of transcendence. Xia Xiaoran vomits his tongue to this figure, and the influence of his heart on his appearance is really great.

Take out the fully soaked spareribs from the water, put them on the tip of the nose and smell them. As expected, there is less fishy smell. Put it aside and control the water. Xia Xiaoran lights the fire. Heat the oil in a pan. When the oil is 30% hot, add ginger slices and stir fry them. As soon as the fragrance comes out, pour in the spareribs with controlled water and stir fry them.

While frying Xia Xiaoran, I'm glad that this ancient pot is big enough, otherwise the oil splashed on the ribs can make Xia Xiaoran hot. In this way, Xia Xiaoran's cooking has been struggling with his life. After wiping a sweat, Xia Xiaoran takes up a big shovel to stir fry vigorously. After a while, the color of the heated spareribs becomes lighter. Xia Xiaoran first adds a spoonful of sugar to stir well, then adds a spoonful of salt to stir fry, and finally adds Xia Xiaoran's special cooking wine to remove the smell and improve the taste. With the smell of fried meat, Xia Xiaoran sniffed the fruits of this labor. Pour the spareribs into the soup pot borrowed from Wang Mingyuan, add a large amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, and then simmer over low heat. Lotus root is prepared by cutting in advance. The lotus root that has been salted for half an hour has shrunk a little. Xia Xiaoran rinsed the lotus root in water twice. Control the dry water into the soup pot, stir well, then boil with high heat, skim the foam, change to low heat simmer. Xia Xiaoran was almost exhausted when he got here. Fortunately, the lotus root spareribs were only slowly stewed here. After a rest, Xia Xiaoran suddenly sees the water chestnut in the corner and thinks that it's a waste if you don't make something so expensive. Then he stood up and took up the sharp water chestnut to watch it carefully. I want to do something different“ What's this? " Wang Zhiwen, attracted by the aroma of lotus root ribs, looks at Xia Xiaoran's hand and asks, "ox horn?" Xia Xiaoran a black line. It turns out that the young master of the Wang family can't help but eat without knowing. He broke off the water chestnut and put it into Wang Zhiwen's hand. Xia Xiaoran raised his eyebrow and said, "it's food." With the fragrance of lotus leaf and the white and lovely appearance of water chestnut, Wang Zhiwen liked it more and more. He wanted to taste the peeled water chestnut in his mouth.