Chapter 194 Summer Drinks (Part 2)
"Ahem, Li Rou, see what's going on outside?"
While looking for cold water, she asked Li Rou to see the situation in a hoarse voice.
Li Rou lifted the curtain slightly and glanced at it a few times: "Someone outside was impatient and shouted at our old diners, saying they were too noisy."
“Is it familiar?”
"No, it seems to be a new person. He is so ugly, his face is full of pockmarks, and there is still a lot of oil. Oh..." Li Rou said disgusted, and suddenly noticed that A Yao grabbed a few handfuls of medicine and put them in the lid bowl. The red dates were broken into two petals and half. He threw the one-quarter of the red dates into the lid bowl, carried a copper pot and poured hot water into brew, quickly poured out most of the hot water, then poured in cold water, covered the lid and handed it to Li Rou. "Let Li Gang come over and let him send a message..."
"Our cook said this is for you to drink. Don't get angry in hot weather, as it can easily hurt your body. Drink a cup of tea to relieve your anger."
Li Gang presented a bowl of tea, and the man glanced at the old diners proudly: "See, Miss Yao invited me to drink. Oh, I still use the best tea."
He deliberately opened the cover bowl and waved around in front of the diners, "Miss Yao still feels sorry for me."
Li Gang wanted to speak but stopped.
Several old diners' mouths trembled, and they wanted to curl up, but they had to take into account the mood of this "scholar" who was not diligent in grains and was not diligent in their limbs, and they could not laugh for the time being.
Old man, your mouth is about to open to your ears, close it, and if you want to laugh, at least you have to wait until he finishes drinking before laughing.
They reminded each other with their eyes, and couldn't help but laugh so hard that they simply stood up and turned their backs to the "scholars".
The "scholar" who knew nothing about this took a sip and immediately sprayed it out. The cover bowl hit the table hard and made a clanging sound: "Bao, what's the thing? It's so bitter! Did you get it wrong?"
"Our chef said that the weather is hot today. I specially made lotus seed heart dandelion tea for you. I added a very small amount of coptis chinensis powder to clear heat and detoxify and remove heart fire. I was worried that you would find it difficult to eat. She also added red dates to it, which was slightly sweet." Li Gang said, "She said that after drinking her tea, if the guests dare to harass the diners at will, our shop will not be entertained."
"good!"
The old diners applauded, "Young man, this lotus seed heart dandelion tea is a good thing. It clears the heart fire and relieves the heat. If you drink it with a cup, maybe the one on your face... will be better."
"Shut up!" He was poked at his indescribable weakness, and the "scholar" became angry and shaking, and his heart was shaking. The problem with his face was what he cared about the most. What if it worked if it was drunk?
Just when he was in a stalemate, Li Gang brought a tray from the kitchen and walked away from the scholar: "The drink you ordered is here."
His shout attracted the eyes of old diners, who were looking forward to rubbing their hands, "Let me see."
There are white porcelain bowls of cockfighting cocks, blue and white bowls, chrysanthemum pattern bowls like straw hats, and also bowls with similar styles to those of the scholar's hands.
While registering the name of the dish, Li Gang delivered the blue and white bowls to the corresponding person: "The iced ones are sand sugar and mung beans. Please use them slowly, don't eat too fast."
The edges of the bowl are cool and seem to be placed in ice water to cure the mung bean paste. The mung bean paste tastes rustling. The sand-sugar mung beans made by others are made of mung beans and sugar. A Yao's mung bean paste uses the method from her previous family. Adding kelp to mung bean paste is cold and diuretic; mung beans are cool in nature. The two are placed in summer to clear heat and relieve heat, clear the liver and reduce fire. The thickness, width and thinness of kelp directly affect the people who eat this bowl of sugar water. If you cut it too thin and too long, it will be difficult to scoop the kelp. It is difficult to chew it when it is thick, so she chose thinner kelp and cut it into a size that is half less than one finger and one finger.
After the bowl was prepared, I put it in the ice water that had melted and was still floating in ice slag.
This guest asked for ice.
Sugar mung beans are iced. If there is more water, less beans, it will taste better than thicker. The cool mung bean water with a trace of ice slid across the throat. In this ghost weather where you are sweating while sitting, with this bowl of iced mung bean water, you feel that your pores are relaxed, and you also feel a cold wind blowing towards you.
Li Gang handed out a white porcelain bowl: "The sweet soup is red beans, lotus seeds and lilies."
Compared to mung beans, there are more water and less beans. The ingredients in the sweet soup are more water and thicker. Each spoon is scooped into lotus seeds and lilies, which are slightly chilled. It is not as hot as it has just been out of the pot. A Yao took it out until it was cold.
Li Gang: "The sour and sweet thing is orange and lemon."
It is normal to talk about this, and there is no particularly outstanding place. When they thought so, they heard Li Gang serve two light brown drinks without oil, one of which had a few pears, and said-
"Slightly bitter and sweet, add some salt, don't have tea, or licorice, drink bitter melon and fried"
"It's the sweet thing, not too sweet. Houttuynia cordata Fengshui pear soup."
Old diners: “…”
It’s understandable to fried bitter melon, wait, what does Houttuynia cordata come with? Houttuynia cordata is not the Houttuynia cordata they think of?
Seeing that they looked confused, Li Gang's little light bulb lit up and explained: "Houttuynia cordata is just a folded ear."
The diner who ordered the sweet drink was very repulsive to the taste brought by the folded ear root itself. He resisted and screamed: "No! I refuse! Yaozhu, what do you think? Can this thing be drunk?"
After A Yao finished her work, she opened the curtain and walked out, wiping her hands: "It can be drunk, of course it can be drunk, it is really sweet. If you smell it, there is nothing else except the smell of pears and rock sugar. But if you really don't like it, I'll replace it with sand sugar mung beans?"
"Change it, change it." He nodded quickly, and A Yao went back to exchange him for mung bean paste.
The diner next to him who had fried bitter gourd came over and was eager to try it: "Give it to me, I want to taste what it tastes."
"That's good." He rejected the Folding Ergen. At the same time, he was also curious about what it would be like to cook the Folding Ergen with pears. Now some people are willing to devote themselves to being a guinea pig, and he can't ask for it.
The other two got the normal sweet soup and joked: "Look at your two bowls, they are bitter and sweet, what are you going to drink?"
Diner: "Try fried bitter melon first, bitter and then sweet. If it is sweet and then bitter, I can't stand the taste."
A Yao smiled and said, "The taste you mentioned is really good. On the south of Caiyun, the local people served three dishes of tea at a reception for distinguished guests. Bake half a cup of bitter tea. The sweet tea is made of brown sugar, cinnamon, milk fan, milk fan is a kind of cheese. The sweet tea is added with brown sugar honey. The last dish of pepper leaves is a sweet tea, one bitter, two sweet and three sweet.”
Diner: "It is also a life principle to be bitter first and then sweet again."
A Yao only smiled but abandoned the philosophy of life. If she talked about the taste alone, she prefers to drink it backwards. The sweet tea tastes strange. The sweet tea is too sweet and greasy. Instead, using bitter tea to make sweet is a good choice.
He took a sip, felt its taste, and sniffed it... and swallowed it.
"How about it?"
"So I'll try it."
In this way, one bite after another, Guru Guru Guru and bowl were at the bottom, and he sighed comfortably, "It's very refreshing and comfortable, the temperature in the entrance is just right..."
"Did we hear you say this? The taste, the most important taste."
"It's not hard to drink at all, not surprising. It's slightly bitter and not astringent. The point is that after entering the throat, it slowly produces sweet fragrance. This taste is different from tangerine peel or licorice. Add a little salt to enhance the flavor, just like drinking soup. Girl Yaozhu, is the only bitter melon here?"
A Yao listened with a smile, got up and walked to him and introduced: "I used dried bitter melon. When I boiled water, I added dried oysters and a candied date. It is also a good choice to make soup with bitter melon and pig bones. It is the best choice for drinking in summer. Try pear soup again."
The "scholar" looked at A Yao for a long time, her eyes were straightened, and A Yao couldn't feel it. As soon as the diner asked questions, she walked to the old diners calmly, and the people felt safe.
"Miss Yao..."
The scholar spoke, and the taster slapped his thigh and shouted, interrupting him: "Oh, Yaozhu, you didn't tell him that it was Folding Ergen Fengshui pear soup at the beginning. I really can't taste it. It's sweet and refreshing. It will feel sour after drinking it. Is it easy to make?"
"It's easy to make, you can make it at home. Cut the pears into pieces and remove the core, cook them with rock sugar, and clean water. Cook until they boil and put them in the ear root for two quarters of an hour. After cooking, there will be no more fishy smell. The pears have the effect of moisturizing dryness, and you can drink this soup in summer and autumn."
"Okay, okay."
"It's really so delicious?" asked the diner next to him.
A Yao's eyes turned, she went back to the kitchen to pack up a few small cups, scooped a spoonful and divided them into each small cup, and took them out: "You can try it, and taste it until what he said is true or false, and it is free."
Free!
Just a small bite, try it and you won’t lose anything. Diners, you drink one cup and one cup, and the tray will be empty.
"Well? The taste is really good. It feels like drinking pear water. It tastes different than pear paste. Do you use rock sugar? It seems a bit expensive..."
"It feels quite comfortable after drinking it, and you won't feel like you want to drink water. How much does a bowl cost?"
"Two cents."
Whenever the "scholar" wants to talk to A Yao, he is taken first by the enthusiastic and curious diners. Or his voice is drowned in the crowd, so he has to look at A Yao with burning eyes.
He hoped that A Yao could notice him and talk to him aside. In public, he couldn't bear to ask A Yao why she disagreed with the marriage. He told others to know that he was a scholar and was rejected by a cook. He was so shameless!
After all these people left, when Yaozhu returns home, he will ask for it.
All of this was watched by Sun Niang.
"Yaozhu, Dabao wants to eat a little, come and help me." Sun Niang called her from the kitchen and walked into the kitchen by herself. A Yao responded. As soon as she walked in, Sun Niang pulled her to the side. She looked out through the gap in the curtain, and it turned out that person...
"What's wrong?"
Sun Niang silenced her and said whispered:
"You are going home from the back door now. Be careful if someone will follow you on the way. I paid attention to the afternoon. The person with a pockmarked face has been watching you for a long time, and his eyes are not right."
Watching you for a long time.
When A Yao heard this, the anxious-looking person appeared in her mind. Her scalp suddenly became numb. She hugged her arm and solemnly thanked Sun Niang: "I know, thank the boss lady for reminding her."
A Yao stopped staying and immediately slipped away from the back door.
The sun is hiding behind the clouds, but it still cannot hide its light and heat. The stone road is hot. When I step on the cloth shoes with several layers of soles, I can still feel the endless heat coming up from the soles of my feet, and the top of my head is also hot.
A Yao speeded up her pace, looking around nervously, and the plants and trees all the way were shocked, and she arrived home safely.
After that, when she went to the foot shop every day, she brought Ergouzi with her, and the number of times she usually reduced to the lobby. She heard Li Gang and Song Fang say that the "scholar" with a stingy face did not arrive in the store after that day.
After being so tight for a few days, the string quietly loosened.
Chapter completed!