The Daily Life of the Daughter of a Minor Official

 Chapter 256 256 Sautéed Noodles

When Huaping was about to enjoy a big meal, the sound of horse hooves was heard on the gravel road. Everyone looked outside and saw a dozen tall horses coming, and two carriages following in the distance.

Everyone stood outside the wooden house.

Mang Zhong shouted: "It's the little prince." He hurriedly greeted him.

Huaping looked behind him and said, "It looks like Ning Qilang and Ning Baniang are behind them."

Su Ruojin also saw it. Zhao Lan came. She thought it was normal. Why were the Ning brothers and sisters here again.

In the blink of an eye, the group arrived at the cabin parking lot.

Ning Ning jumped off the horse with a vigorous posture, raised her chin, and smiled brightly, "Looking at it like this, Second Lady Su doesn't seem to welcome us."

Zhao Lan, who was walking in front, turned to look at the young lady who was making strange noises. The young lady raised her eyebrows and said, "It's not a joke!"

Zhao Lan snorted softly, turned back and looked at Su Ruojin, with gentle eyebrows and a smile on her face, "It smells so good. What delicious food did Ah Jin make?"

Foodie!

Su Ruojin smiled and said, "I didn't say anything in advance when I came. If I came a step later, I would have finished eating."

Ning Baniang came up to the two of them and said with a smile: "Brother Jin wants to surprise you!"

Su Ruojin:…

Zhao Lan:…

Squeezing in front of a pair of young lovers, don't you feel redundant?

Ning Qilang saw the extra sister and coughed lightly, "Aning, don't make trouble."

Ning Ning is not really sweet, so how could she not know that she did it on purpose, and she didn't know why. She felt that it was quite evil to disturb other people's sweetness.

In mid-February, at noon, the sun was warm. Zhao Lan, Ning Qilang and others arrived. Su Ruojin moved the table to the door of the cabin, prepared soup stock and sauce, set up a pot on the small clay stove, and washed the various vegetables she had purchased. Cut it cleanly and put it on the table, directly making a simple version of hot pot.

"Wow, you're going to make a rosy offering?" Ning Baniang seemed to like this way of eating. She asked the maid to wash and slice the mutton she brought and put it in the hot pot for soup. She couldn't stop simmering it.

Zhao Lan and Ning Qilang can play together, apart from the friendship of fighting, it must be eating, boiling meat, eating meatballs, dipping mushrooms, and blanching vegetables. The two of them eat without making a sound.

Su Ruojin had always felt that something was missing around the vegetable field. After eating the good mutton, Su Ruojin suddenly realized, "Uncle Hua, tomorrow we will buy a few lambs, a few pigs, and hundreds of ducks and chickens to raise."

Huaping looked surprised: "Aren't you afraid that they will eat up all the vegetables?"

"No, definitely not."

More than one hundred acres of land, without herbicides, grew one after another. The villagers paid money to allocate it. They had originally taken it back to raise chickens and ducks, and she could also use it to raise chickens and ducks.

While eating, Ning Ning listened curiously to Su Ruojin and Hua Ping's chat about the vegetable fields, and said with a smile, "Second Lady, do you think my mutton is delicious?"

Su Ruojin admitted, "I wonder where Miss Ning bought her mutton?"

"They are raised in my village." Ning Ning said proudly, "When I get back, I will give you a few lambs, but there is a condition. After the lambs are raised, you must treat me to a Boxia offering like today."

"Of course." Su Ruojin immediately agreed, let alone one meal, as long as she was as tall as a sheep, she could eat ten meals.

Ning Qilang pointed at the sauce and said, "The sauce prepared by Miss Su is so delicious. I don't know what the spiciness in it is made of. It doesn't have the pungent taste of dogwood at all. It's very refreshing in the mouth."

Your young master openly praises the sauce, but actually he wants the recipe for the sauce. Su Ruojin bared his teeth and smiled, "If the young general likes to eat this sauce, you can go to the hot pot restaurant of the young prince to buy it. You can buy a small jar for two taels of silver separately."

Ning Qilang: ...are you promoting your fiancé’s store?

He looked at Zhao and Su. They were not yet a family, but their tacit understanding was like that of an old couple who had been together for many years. They were really childhood sweethearts! Why doesn't he have Qingmei?

Quite interesting!

The young people showed off their food. It was really a 'half-grown man who eats the poor'. Su Ruojin prepared the ingredients for three days, and it was almost ready in one noon. Fortunately, both Zhao Lan and the Ning family brothers and sisters brought their own ingredients.

Su Ruojin also saw the bedding they brought, "Are you here on vacation?"

Ning Ning smiled and said, "Second Lady, you guessed it right."

Su Ruojin looked at the small wooden house behind her. Although "the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs", the place is really not big. How can people live in it?

"There are cabins on all four corners." Ning Ning smiled and pointed to the surrounding cabins.

The other three are all occupied!

No choice, Su Ruojin vacated the four corners of the cabin for the three charming guests. Huaping, Mang Zhong and other men slept side by side on the floor of the cabin where Zhao Lan lived. Ye Huaizhen and other women slept in the cabin where Su Ruojin lived. on the floor.

The remaining two cabins were occupied by the Ning family brothers and sisters, each with their servants.

Fortunately, in order to better manage the more than 100 acres of vegetable land, cabins were built at the four corners. Otherwise, it would be difficult to live in other than renting a farmhouse.

In the evening, the spring weather was chilly, and the conditions outside were not as good as those at home in the county. Su Ruojin made a simple noodle dish—soyzi noodles.

Saozi noodles are a special traditional noodle dish in the northwest region. Wash and peel the pork belly, slice it with a knife, then cut it into cubes, mince the onion, ginger, garlic, dice the radish, cabbage, etc., add hot oil to the pan and stir-fry the pork belly, and then Add aniseed, bay leaves, etc. and stir-fry until fragrant, then add bean paste, chili pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, etc. and sauté until fragrant. Add water and salt and other seasonings. Finally, bring to a boil over high heat. Add in the cut noodles and cook until fragrant. In a bowl, pour the prepared marinade over the noodles.

The characteristics of saozi noodles are that the noodles are slender and even in thickness, the saozi is delicious, the noodle soup is oily and rosy, and the flavor is rich but not greasy. Zhao Lan and others were so excited that everyone ate two bowls, even the little lady Ning Ning is no exception.

Probably realizing that she had eaten too much, the little girl was embarrassed and said stiffly, "I came here on horseback just like you, and it took the same amount of energy. What's weird about eating more."

Not surprising, not surprising at all. Su Ruojin also ate two large bowls. She was so full that she needed to take a walk to eat.

Finally got rid of the Ning family brothers and sisters.

Su Ruojin had time to ask, "Brother Jin, why are Master Ning Qi and Ning Baniang here with you?"

Zhao Lan smiled and said, "Ning Guogong's palace is discussing the marriage between the brother and sister. None of the people they want to marry is what they like. When they heard that I was coming to find you, they joined me."

"I haven't seen Brother Jin play with them before. Is it because of last year's Northern Campaign? Are you familiar with it?"

Zhao Lan nodded, "Yes."

Su Ruojin asked again: "Brother Jin has been reinstated to his official position now, right?" The implication is that he has time to go out and play.

As if he heard the young lady's thoughts, Zhao Lan turned his head with a smile on his face: "What about pretending to be a public servant for personal gain?"

Su Ruojin:…

"What if the emperor knows?"

Zhao Lan smiled and said, "If there is no special criticism, the Holy One will pretend that he doesn't know about it."

Whether they are a leader or an emperor, sometimes they have to learn when to be discerning and when to be confused. They cannot focus on such trivial matters.