Chapter 16: The Girl's Admiration
Qiaoguo, also known as Qixi fruit, also called Qiaoqiao fruit, is a festive food during the Qiaoqiao Festival. Sound of Nature novel
In addition to eating, there are also women who will throw the fruit on the roof with colorful threads. On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, magpies will carry it to build a bridge, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will cross the magpie bridge to meet each other at night.
The method of making Qiaoguo is not complicated. The main materials are sesame oil, flour, and icing sugar. Of course, it would be better if you can add a little honey.
Xiaohuan has just told Li Yi how to make Qiaoguo. First, put the icing sugar, that is, sugar in a pot to melt it into syrup, then add flour and sesame seeds, and use molds to carve out various shapes from the mixed dough. Just fry it in sesame oil until cooked.
Flour and honey are common ingredients. As for sesame oil and icing sugar, they are more expensive. Ordinary families in the village don't always keep them. They only raise money to buy some during the Qiqiao Festival or the Chinese New Year every year.
These things were all put together with great effort by the girls in the village who had not yet left the palace. They were the only ones who would pay so much attention to the Qiqiao Festival. Li Yi brushed off the clay pot filled with sesame oil and said, "Isn't it just a matter of frying Qiao Guo? It's useful." It’s such a waste to wear so much oil!”
He took out an empty clay pot from the kitchen and folded it in half.
"White sugar... Eating too much sweets is not good, it will lead to tooth decay..." Just like that, the frosting jar next to it was half empty.
"The quality of these flours seems to be pretty good. If each fruit is smaller, we should be able to save a lot... We just don't have enough food at home." About one-third of the flour was kept by Li Yi.
After all the preparations were done, Li Yi started making noodles.
He had already done this whole set of actions smoothly. After making the noodles, he took a look at the Qiaoguo mold put aside...it's too ugly, so don't use it!
As soon as he thought about it, a modern instruction book on how to make pastries immediately appeared in front of his eyes. Countless pieces of information poured into his mind. After Li Yi closed his eyes and digested it for a while, he cut off a small piece of dough and moved his fingers. He stopped kneading, and after a while, a model of a jade rabbit appeared in his hand.
With this incredible cheating device in his head, the time for transforming theory into practice is greatly shortened. At this moment, Li Yi is like a pastry chef with many years of experience. His hands move quickly, and each piece of dough is in his hands. After a short time, it will turn into a lifelike little animal.
As his movements became more proficient, the shape of a woman in palace attire gradually appeared on his hand. The woman looked up at the sky, her fairy skirt fluttering, as if she would disappear in the next second.
Even the expression of the face-faced woman is very detailed. If you look carefully, you can vaguely see that this woman's appearance is vaguely similar to Liu Ruyi's.
There is no way. It is of course impossible for Li Yi to come up with the image of a Weaver Girl out of thin air. There is no such thing as imagination in the world. He must rely on a familiar person or thing. The ones Li Yi often sees are Xiao Huan and Liu Ruyi. Sisters, among the three of them, Liu Ruyi's temperament is more consistent.
"Uncle, sesame oil...why is there only so little left?"
Xiaohuan, who had just walked into the kitchen from the outside, saw that there was obviously too much sesame oil missing in the pot, and looked at Li Yi with wide eyes and asked.
"You don't need too much oil, just enough." Li Yi finished pinching the last fruit, clapped his hands, touched the little maid's pretty face, leaving a white mark, and said with a smile: "Okay, what's next You can handle things yourself..."
"Uncle..."
The little maid's voice of dissatisfaction dragged out for a long time. Her uncle sometimes has the same temperament as a child, always teasing himself... His face was stained with flour. Xiaohuan was about to wash her face aside when she noticed the Qiaoguo that Li Yi had just squeezed. Above, the beautiful eyes couldn't help but widen, her footsteps stopped there, and she yelled "Yeah".
"Xiaohuan, is the Qiaoguo ready?"
Several girls of about the same age as her walked in from outside, and a moment later, small exclamations sounded in the kitchen.
"These sweet fruits are so beautiful, I can't even bear to put them in the pot..."
"Xiao Huan, did you do all this? When did you learn how to do this?"
"This is the Jade Rabbit, this is Chang'e, this... should be the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd!"
"These are more beautiful than the ones I saw at the market. The Weaver Girl they made doesn't look like anything at all. They cost five cents each!"
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Rows of fruit are neatly placed on the chopping board. They are different from the molds they prepared. The animals or characters are all new shapes. The animals are all cute and naive, which is exactly the type that girls like.
What surprised them even more was the lifelike characters. Not only did they have all kinds of clothes, but their expressions and demeanor were also very vivid and exquisite, which they had never seen before.
Xiaohuan was drowned in the praises of everyone. Although she was not the one who made these tricks, the young lady said not to let outsiders know that her uncle was the one doing the cooking on weekdays. Even though the little maid felt a little embarrassed, she still No explanation was given.
My uncle is my uncle. If I praise my uncle, I still praise Xiaohuan. It’s the same thing...
The little girl thought so sweetly in her heart.
"Hey, Xiaohuan, is that... your uncle?" Just as Xiaohuan's heart was bubbling with beauty, a girl suddenly came to her side, pointed at the handsome young man who was reading in the corner of the yard, and asked in a low voice road.
After hearing this, the other girls also gathered around.
The girl has long been curious about the son-in-law of Xiaohuan's family, who has a strong presence in the village recently.
This is still an era where everything is inferior except for reading. Scholars are like first-class protected animals in the country. You can't meet so many of them even if you walk through ten miles and eight villages.
Girls generally like scholars. This is almost an eternal law in ancient times. Even if it is a poor scholar, there are a lot of young girls willing to commit themselves to him. It doesn't matter what kind of life they live now. What they value is the potential of scholars.
If they are lucky enough to pass the imperial examination and get promoted, good days will come. Even if this possibility is very slim, it is enough to make many girls rush forward.
Of course, Mr. Qin, the only scholar in Liuye Village, who is over 60 years old, is not within the scope of interest of the girl.
He is handsome, well-educated, and gives people a refined feeling, which is completely different from those rude men in the village. The interesting stories he tells to the children have long been circulated among the girls. Every time they hear the wonderful parts, the girls' hearts itch... For girls who have never seen a serious scholar, Li Yi almost satisfies all their fantasies.
There are also many women in Liuye Village who admire him.
However, no one dares to snatch the husband of the village owner. All the girls can do is hide in some invisible corner and peek with red faces.
"A-choo!"
Li Yi, who seemed to be studying hard but was actually in a trance state with a book in his hand, sneezed for no reason, scratched the back of his head in confusion, and murmured: "It's only July, is the weather getting cold so quickly?"
