Chapter 42: Dumplings
The Chinese New Year is coming soon.
Although there is one less person in the family, but this year still has to be lived, otherwise life will be too boring, after a few days, the mood of the charcoal girl is gradually better, no longer hiding in the room and crying every day, when Li Xin is busy in the kitchen, the little girl will also wear a clumsy cotton clothes, and follow Li Xin to help.
Li Xin bought more than a dozen catties of pork from the market, chopped it into minced meat, and added egg liquid and other accessories to make it into dumpling filling, and after making a full half pot of dumpling filling, Li Xin rolled out some dumpling skins, and then taught the little girl how to make dumplings.
This dumpling is Li Xin's favorite food in his last life, there is no one, when he used to celebrate the New Year at home, he could eat three bowls of dumplings alone.
Of course, part of the reason for this is that when I was a child, my family was poor and couldn't eat meat, and I could eat such a meal of meat during the Chinese New Year, so I naturally thought it was a delicious delicacy, and when I grew up, I couldn't change this image.
In this era, this kind of dumpling is called slots or glaive-shaped wontons, but this thing can only be eaten by well-off families, in the past during the Chinese New Year, it would be good to be able to eat a little meat and fish, and the old people are not very good at making these exquisite meals, so the little girl has never seen these things.
She sat in Li Xin's arms, learning from Li Xin's appearance, wrapping dumplings one by one.
Li Xin held her little blackened hands and taught her hand in hand.
The little girl was only five or six years old at this time, and due to malnutrition, the whole person was extremely thin, sitting in Li Xin's arms, like a rag doll.
One by one, the dumplings are formed under the hands of two people.
After getting about thirty or forty of them, Li Xin felt that it was almost over, after all, there were only two of them, so he put the little girl down and said softly: "After eating dumplings, you will become smarter, and when the girl eats dumplings, my brother will teach the girl to read tomorrow, okay?" ”
The little girl was still a little uncomfortable in her heart, so she couldn't laugh very well, she nodded at Li Xin, and then went to the back of the stove with firewood.
She was well-behaved, which made Li Xin feel a little distressed.
The water boiled quickly, Li Xin poured the dumplings into it, and then waited for the dumplings in the pot to boil, and then poured cold water into it, and when the water boiled for the third time, the pot of dumplings was considered cooked.
Li Xin came out with two large bowls, and was about to put down his chopsticks when a crisp voice came from the kitchen door.
"What to eat?"
Li Xin froze, because the voice was very familiar to him.
Li Xinmuran turned around and saw Xiao Jiu girl, dressed in a cloud white jacket, standing at the kitchen door with a smile, looking intently at the dumplings on the table.
Li Xin put down the chopsticks in his hand, took a few deep breaths, walked up to the little nine girls, and said with a smile: "How did you get in?" ”
"The door didn't close, so I'll just come in."
What Miss Jiu said was reasonable.
Li Xin rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Thank you for reminding me, I will definitely pay attention to closing the door in the future, is there anything wrong, you can go back if you have nothing to do." ”
The little nine girl held her head high, pointed to her nose, and said in an extremely proud tone: "Li Xin, you dare to talk to this girl like this, do you know who this girl is?" ”
Li Xin frowned.
This girl, is this going to show her identity?
Just when Li Xin was thinking nonsense, this maid of the Wei Palace's mansion raised her head, looked down at Li Xin, and said triumphantly: "This girl is a special maid of the Wei Palace, specially to convey to you the meaning of His Royal Highness the King of Wei, seeing me is like seeing the King of Wei!" ”
After that, she didn't wait for Li Xin to react, so she just crossed Li Xin in a moment's time, sat down in Li Xin's original position confidently, and after glancing at the food on the table, her eyes couldn't help but light up.
"It turned out to be a slot."
After that, she unceremoniously grabbed Li Xin's chopsticks, put one into her mouth, and after chewing a few bites, her eyes lit up, and she said: "It's much fresher than what I used to eat!" ”
After that, the girl lay on the table and began to bury her head in destroying the dumplings that originally belonged to Li Xin.
Li Xin stood behind her, speechless.
This girl is not only a foodie, but also an inexplicable self-acquaintance, and she has only seen her three times, and she no longer regards herself as an outsider.
The dumpling stuffing made by Li Xin is made of pork, egg white, and soy sauce, and the taste is indeed more fragrant than in this era, but even so, there is not too much difference, and the reason why the little nine girl eats so fragrant is because she has not eaten much pork, or has not eaten pork at all.
can't afford to eat pork, naturally not because of poverty, many times it is precisely because they are too rich, especially those high-ranking officials, they rarely touch such a thing as pork, the higher the status, the more likely it is that they have not eaten pork.
The little nine girl has grown so big that she even eats pork for the first time.
Li Xin sat beside Miss Xiaojiu a little speechlessly, watching this girl eat dumplings so sweetly, Li Xin had no choice but to get some dumplings for himself to eat.
After eating, the little girl rushed to clean up the dishes and chopsticks to take to the kitchen to clean, these days, the little girl has come over like this, and after the little girl left, Li Xin turned his head to look directly at the little nine girl, and said with a wry smile: "Little nine girl, didn't you say good last time in the Wei Wangfu, the distance between us is farther?" ”
This girl is a real troublemaker, and she must not get too close to her, otherwise with Li Xin's current power, she may not even know how she died.
The little nine girl put down the chopsticks in her hand, glanced up at Li Xin, and said, "Li Gongzi, you said it to yourself, but I didn't agree." ”
She smiled mischievously: "You still have to help the prince pass orders to you, how can you stay away?" ”
As she spoke, the dumplings in her bowl had been eaten clean, and the little nine girl knocked on the edge of the bowl with her chopsticks.
"Li Gongzi, I haven't eaten yet..."
Li Xin looked at the girl speechlessly.
Although I don't know what her identity is, it is certain that she is definitely more than just a maid in the Wei Palace.
Thinking of this, Li Xin shook his head and said softly: "The dumplings are gone, I have to get some more." ”
Xiao Jiu stood up with great interest, and his voice was excited: "That's great, I'll also get some out with myself, and I'll give it to me when the New Year Festival comes...... Make some tastings for some of the elders in the family. ”
Li Xin shook his head and began to teach her how to make dumplings step by step, now, it is no longer realistic to get rid of this nine girls in a short period of time, for the sake of today's plan, I can only drag it for the time being, there is no other way.
This little girl's origin is definitely not simple......