Chapter 224: Fanwai 1: Mo Xingle's Wife (Part 2)
Would she be willing?
Mo Xingle's palms were sweating all over his palms, and his heart was hanging high in the air, waiting for the bird's nest's answer.
Bird's Nest did not look at Mo Xingle, and walked to the eldest princess to salute: "If Lord Mo welcomes me with the tribute of his wife, Coral is willing, if it is next to him..." She spit out two words: "I don't want to."
As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Xingle couldn't wait to answer, for fear that Bird's Nest would misunderstand him: "Of course it's the real wife, the media is just marrying you! You will never let you down!" Then he seemed to be unable to grasp the truth, so he carefully confirmed with her, "Did you really agree to marry me?"
Bird's Nest then looked at him, and a thoughtful smile appeared on his lips. Mo Xingle's heart was so thrilled. He always felt that he had nothing to do and cheated him. Then he heard Bird's Nest say, "There is a condition."
"Why do you want to be happy about digging pits?"
Mo Xingle sighed, wishing he could go back a few hours ago and woke him up with a big slap. What questions should I ask? Waiting to happily welcome the bride home to warm up the quilt? I have to ask, you are a slut! You deserve it, what can you do now? Bird's Nest asked him to make a dish that suits her wishes.
I'm worried about cooking - forget it, let's go!
My mother and grandmother sat around, holding an embroidered fan in their hands, covering their lower half of their faces. Look at me, I look at you, and glance at someone busy in the kitchen, and smiled together, "This time I'm concerned. It's rare that someone can control him, and I don't know what the girl looks like?"
"Mother, please rest assured. My wife asked someone to inquire. The girl's original name was Shangguan Yan. She was the daughter of the doctor of the department of the previous dynasty and the Xu family of Sishen. In order to overturn the case for the family and the daughter of the imperial chef Wu Qiu, the imperial chef of the previous dynasty, she entered the Princess's Mansion. She was clever and had good cooking skills. In less than a few years after entering the mansion, she was already the first-class maid next to the princess."
"You said this, I'm really curious about that girl. Hey, Xingle hasn't come out for so long, what he has to do is not very simple?" The old lady remembered that Mo Xingle had been in the kitchen for a long time. As usual, it shouldn't be difficult for him to make a round one. "Go and have a look?"
After this, Mrs. Mo, who is the daughter-in-law, helped the old lady to find her son. Mo Xingle then carried the lacquer plate through the corridor and shouted: "Here, come, delicious food is here!"
The two of them who had just stood up sat back again and couldn't help but burst into laughter when they saw his appearance.
Mo Xingle's apron on his waist was not untied. He had a lot of flour on his face and waist. A few strands of hair on his forehead were wet with sweat and pressed against his cheeks. Not only that, his nose was a little gray-black ash, which was very embarrassed.
"Mom, grandmother, try it. This is the Lantern Festival I made." He put two bowls in front of them and looked at them as they delivered the Lantern Festival to their mouths: "How does it taste?"
The two laughed without saying a word.
In the blink of an eye, the Lantern Festival is coming.
There are lanterns on the main road of Imperial Street. Looking up, there are various lanterns. The stalls along the street guess lantern riddles, small garlands woven with jasmine and small flower hairpins. The sweet fragrance is mixed in the middle, which can easily arouse tourists' memories of Lantern Festival or Tangyuan. The Tangyuan is sweet and glutinous. After taking a bite, the sesame filling inside will flow out. The white skin and gray-black inner filling have excellent visual effect. Travelers from the south prefer this bite. People in the capital still like Lantern Festival with a harder taste.
But no matter who is, during this lively time, I will give this New Year a perfect end to a bowl of sweet soup, children can eat happily and adults can eat.
The water in the pot was already a little turbid. The glutinous rice flour attached to the white balls melted and dissolved in the water. The water was boiling, and snow-white balls rolled and floated in the pot. The spoon was used to push apart from time to time, so that several balls would not stick together and never separate. Once a customer asked for a point, quickly scoop out four small balls from the pot, add a spoonful of sweet water melted by brown sugar, sprinkle a small spoonful of sugar and osmanthus on the surface of the balls and it was finished.
Mo Xingle brought two bowls of dumplings to the seat next to the stall. The bird's nest was already waiting for him. The dense and black hair was wearing crabapple silk flowers. The silk flowers were very simulated, like the clouds in the sky at dawn. The orange light of the lantern made her look particularly beautiful. Mo Xingle's face turned red, his eyes staggered, and he fell to the side and said, "Eat while it's hot. The dumplings in this restaurant are delicious. I used to buy a bowl every time I walked here at Lantern Festival."
"Yes." Take the bird's nest with both hands and blow away the heat.
"How?" Mo Xingle asked.
A smile appeared on her face, "The brown sugar water of sweet soup is added with ginger. The ginger tastes strong, so it won't feel particularly greasy when it tastes good. The sugar osmanthus adds a bit of fragrance. The snow-white and soft glutinous rice balls, the slightly red brown sugar water, and the finishing touch of sugar osmanthus, which is golden and delicious. The sesame filling is thick and slurry, which is quite delicious. When we were in Nanxun, we would make glutinous rice balls every Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. One year I don't remember that I made too many glutinous rice balls, or something, A Yao made it in another way, and the taste was pretty good."
"It's delicious." Mo Xingle saw that the bird's nest was really satisfied, and he felt relieved.
But he was still too relieved, and asked the next sentence of the bird's nest: "What about you, have you decided to do?"
“…”
Facing her cheeks, a small piece of jade-white wrist was exposed from her sleeve, and her eyes seemed to be trapped into the bird's nest with lights in thousands of families. Mo Xingle had no reverie at this moment, holding her breath, and still felt sweating on her forehead. "This..."
"No?" Bird's Nest lowered his eyes, and his disappointment was beyond words.
"I……"
The Dali Temple Queen, who has always been quick-witted and knows the little knowledge, was speechless at this time. When he was disappointed in the bird's nest, he was even more busy. He thought he was about to throw apart the jar. A little girl came over and pulled the bird's nest's skirt, which made the bird's nest look at her and said, "Sister, there is a scholar brother who asks me to give you this letter."
The little girl is very eloquent and explains the identity of the person who sent the letter clearly.
Bird's Nest smiled and took the letter and thanked him. He took out the pine nut amber candy wrapped in glutinous rice paper from the sleeve. He also had a few cents to hand it to the little girl, asking her to choose by herself. Seeing the little girl biting her fingers and falling into a tangle, she couldn't resist the temptation of candy. She grabbed the amber candy, opened the glutinous rice paper to eat, and urged Bird's Nest to read the letter quickly, so she could go back and reply to the scholar.
She opened the letter and understood what was going on at a glance. She deliberately said, "When is this night? I see this good man. Zi Xi, what about such a good man?"
"Brother Xiucai also said, if you are interested in reading the letter, please go to the second floor of the teahouse to talk about it."
Mo Xingle was instantly stiff. Today is Lantern Festival. "Since the night is at dawn, men and women are confused", with crowds of people and lanterns shining on the beauty, which is the most likely time to fall in love at first sight. If you look at it, you can express your love boldly. Bird's nest is in its prime, beautiful and dignified, and anyone will be moved when you see it, let alone an old man in his thirties - a huge sense of crisis is coming on him. He doesn't hurry up. If Bird's nest goes to another house, he will be lonely for a lifetime.
no!
He wanted to say no, but he was not qualified to make decisions for bird's nest.
"Well, please tell me something." Bird's Nest said. Mo Xingle pretended to eat dumplings, but his ears were pricked up, and his skin was tight, so he didn't dare to come out. Bird's Nest glanced at Mo Xingle, "I will have my own wife, and Luo Fu will have my own husband. I wish him a happy night."
The little girl repeatedly carries the poem and runs into the teahouse to reply.
The sudden crisis suddenly shook the sun again, and the shock made Mo Xingle make his mind, "You wait for me here and I'll come back soon."
"?" Bird's nest watched him walk towards the stall owner, but didn't know what he said. He persuaded the stall owner to make a place for him. Mo Xingle picked up his sleeves. The stall made dumplings instead of Lantern Festival. The fillings used were different. The fillings of the dumplings were relatively single, focusing on the taste of the ingredient. The fillings of the Lantern Festival included sesame and walnuts and mixed with sugar osmanthus and red bean paste. Mix them well with sesame oil and squeezed them into solid meatballs. Then dip them in water and start shaking the Lantern Festival fillings. The dark Lantern Festival fillings rolled in the white glutinous rice flour and gradually drenched in different colors. In the end, it could be seen that the white balls were not white. They were like glutinous rice balls, and they were cut into black.
Shaking Lantern Festival is not easy. He practiced at home for a long time. His mother and grandmother said on the side that they should move quickly and evenly and easily say it, but it was not the same thing. When he shook the house and even the servants didn't want to eat... he finally found the feeling and pretended to be able to become a teacher.
Use bamboo sticks to make some holes on the prepared Lantern Festival to prevent oil from splashing when putting in the oil pan. When the Lantern Festival in the oil pan is golden and there are still a circle of small bubbles on the surface, then you can pick it up and control the oil. The Lantern Festival will smell it. No surprise that the smell will remind you of the fragrant and crispy feeling.
"Boss, give me a blow-up...oh, Lord Mo?"
The person who came to smell the aroma of fried Lantern Festival stared at the golden meatballs in the oil pan at the first time. The smell floated from here, and he was drooling. He paid to find that this "boss" was not an ordinary person, but his colleague! He couldn't help but stare at, "Sir Mo... why are you here?" Selling Lantern Festival at the Lantern Festival Night Market?
Is it because I'm tight? Shouldn't it be? I'm still trying to investigate the case, so I pretended to be a hawker? My colleague thought it, glanced at him from left to right, and nodded seriously: "I understand, I understand."
"I just borrowed the boss's oil pan, your Lantern Festival." Mo Xingle saw his misunderstanding and did not intend to say more to avoid any extraneous branches. He quickly tied a few bamboo sticks into a string, and then handed them to his colleagues with the rice dumpling leaves as a entrusted one hand, handing them to his colleagues, paying the money and the other hand, and driving him away.
My colleagues were actually curious. Seeing Mo Xingle's reaction was not like handling a case. I didn't go far. I saw Mo Xingle familiarizingly rigging another lantern festival. He handed it to a woman with both hands. From his position, he could only see the side faces of the two. Mo Xingle was very nervous and could feel his nervousness from a distance. This guy was on the same scientific examination with him and went to the palace examination together. The palace examination was still easy and not as serious as others. Who is this woman? She actually subdued Mo Xingle?
I saw the woman looking at the fried lantern skewers in her hand, then looked at Mo Xingle and seemed to hesitate. With his encouragement, she tasted a little, showed a silly smile, and seemed to have a starlight in her eyes, and then she nodded slowly.
"Aowu-Bird's Nest! Madam!"
"Oh! Mo Xingle, please put me down!"
A man and a woman's voice came from front to back. A happy feeling said that she wanted to invite a passerby to have Lantern Festival. A angry but more shy. There was also the collision of a bench falling to the ground. Her colleagues were so surprised that their eyes were glaring out-
Chapter completed!