border cook

In July, the midday sun is like a fire.

There is an ice kettle in Jiang Yanyi's bedroom, in which there are sour plum soup, mung bean soup, pear syrup and other secret cold drinks for relieving summer heat, but after drinking for a few days, she will inevitably get bored, and now she has no appetite at all.

The white mist that rose after the ice melted brought a bit of coolness to the hall, and several young maids stood beside the ice kettle and played fans, fanning the cool air from the melted ice to her.

Chen Yu squeezed Jiang Yanyi's shoulders and said: "The old people in the palace say that this year's winter is not as cold as in previous years, and this summer, it's already so hot before the dog days."

As the old saying goes, a calm mind naturally cools down, and the hot weather made Jiang Yanyi panicked, so how could he be calm.

She turned over on the recliner: "It would be nice if there was ice cream or ice cream at this time."

"Is ice cream a pastry? If my lady wants to eat it, I will go to the imperial dining room and ask if there is an imperial chef who can make it." Shen Yu automatically interpreted ice cream as pastry, and as for "ice cream", she didn't know what it was.

Jiang Yanyi lay on his back for a while, lazily: "I'm afraid no one in the imperial dining room will do it."

Chen Yu asked full of anticipation: "Ma'am, can you do it?"

Jiang Yan replied with two words sadly: "No."

She is best at Sichuan cuisine and hot pot, and she learned many health-preserving dishes from Chefs Li and Yao in Xizhou.

Ice cream and ice cream can’t be counted on. Another delicious snack in summer—she knows how to make rose ice powder dumplings. When she was preparing to open a hot pot restaurant in her previous life, she also learned how to make rose ice powder dumplings. , I plan to serve it for free at my own hot pot restaurant in summer.

The reason why I opened a hotpot restaurant here and didn’t serve small rice balls with rose ice powder is mainly because ice in summer is really a rarity in this era, and where can I afford it for free.

As soon as the glutton came up, he successfully drove away the summer fatigue.

Jiang Yanyi went to the imperial dining room and asked the chief chef if there were ice powder seeds in the imperial dining room, but the chief chef had never heard of it.

The ice powder seeds used to make ice powder in later generations are actually stone flower seeds.

Jiang Yanyi asked the palace servants of the imperial dining room to go to the imperial hospital to get stone flower seeds, while he himself began to prepare other ingredients for making rose ice powder dumplings.

In order not to let herself want to eat in the future and have to do it herself, she directly asked several chefs from the imperial dining room to cook beside her.

The step of "kneading" noodles and making small glutinous rice balls Jiang Yanyi only needs to move his mouth, and the cook of the imperial dining room will do it. If he can be an imperial cook, the skill of "kneading" noodles is so delicate, and the workmanship is fine and cumbersome. Jiang Yanyi can only feel that he will have a good fortune later.

The higher the level of cooking skills, the more it brings not only the delicious taste on the tip of the tongue, but also the visual enjoyment of showing off skills.

The cooked glutinous glutinous rice balls are white, waxy and fragrant, even in size, floating in boiling water like a pot of pearls, scooped up and placed in cold water to cool for a while, then mixed with fermented glutinous rice and placed in an ice kettle to chill.

There are ready-made rose sauce in the royal dining room, which needs to be boiled.

The little eunuch brought stone flower seeds, and Jiang Yanyi asked someone to soak a small spoonful of lime powder, which is a coagulant for making ice powder.

Before making ice powder, she washed the stone flower seeds, wrapped them in steamed and sterilized cotton cloth and tied them tightly, and soaked them in cold boiled water for a while before rubbing them.

The mucus produced by the stone flower seeds comes into contact with the air, and there will be more air bubbles after the ice powder is formed. When Jiang Yanyi rubs the stone flower seeds, try to soak the cotton cloth under water to rub it, so that there is no contact with the air, and there is not much inside after the ice powder is formed. bubble.

Feeling that there was no more mucus in the stone flower seeds, Jiang Yanyi stopped rubbing. If the stone flower seeds were rubbed too hard, the ice powder would turn yellow.

She poured out the clear part of the limestone water, used a clean cotton cloth as a filter, poured the clear limestone water into the stone flower slurry, and let it stand for an hour, and the ice powder was completely solidified.

During the waiting time, Jiang Yanyi also joined in the fun and watched an imperial chef make his specialty dessert "Sugar Steamed Crispy Cheese".

This custard is made by boiling milk with sugar, then pouring rice wine into it, and then steaming it in a steamer for a quarter of an hour. The steamed custard is not completely solidified, so the chef puts it in an ice kettle Iced it, and fried pine nuts, chopped almonds, chopped peanuts and white sesame seeds. It is said that these auxiliary materials can be added when eating, and the taste is even better.

These auxiliary ingredients are also delicious when added to the rose ice powder dumplings, Jiang Yanyi asked the chef to make a few more, and said to send them to Feng Shuo later.

When the ice powder is solidified, the sugar steamed cheese is almost solidified.

Jiang Yanyi dug a few spoonfuls of ice powder and added them to the cooled brown sugar water. Brown sugar ice powder is a summer snack, so she asked the little eunuch to smash some crushed ice into the bottom of the bowl, then scooped in the chilled fermented glutinous glutinous rice balls and poured them into the bowl. Spread white sesame seeds, crushed peanuts, pine nuts, chopped almonds, rose sauce and diced watermelon on top.

Just holding a bowl of small rice balls with rose ice powder feels cool, and the heat in my body seems to disappear after eating it.

Ice powder with brown sugar water has an indescribable sweetness. The sweetness of watermelon is slightly less than that sweetness, but it is very greasy. The fried sesame seeds, peanuts and almonds are full of flavor, and the cold and soft glutinous rice balls are very delicious. Chewy, with a touch of rose fragrance, just two words: Absolutely!

Jiang Yanyi dug a few spoonfuls and ate them, squinting her eyes comfortably. After eating the rose ice powder rice balls, she went to scoop up sugar and steamed crispy cheese. The milk was only slightly solidified, and it melted in the mouth. The tip of the tongue is cold and refreshing, and the almonds, peanuts and raisins sprinkled on the milk surface add layers of taste, sweet and crisp.

Jiang Yanyi asked the people in the imperial dining room to pack a set of rose ice powder dumplings and sugar steamed cheese, and she delivered them to Feng Shuo herself.

Now that the court has just entered the right track, and everything is waiting to be done, Feng Shuo is often too busy to take care of food.

When Jiang Yanyi passed by, several adults of the Imperial Academy were leaving from the Imperial Study Room. They all saluted after seeing her, with strange expressions on their faces. After saluting, they hurried away. Looking at their backs, Jiang Yanyi felt concerned.

She asked the waiter in front of the imperial study room: "Is Your Majesty angry?"

The waiter nodded in fear and trepidation: "I heard His Majesty scolding several adults, but I don't know what it is."

Jiang Yanyi nodded to express his understanding, and took the food box from Chen Yu's hand, "Your Majesty may be troubled, let's go in alone."

Chen Yu didn't dare to go to Feng Shuo's side when he was in a bad mood, she wished so much.

Jiang Yanyi went in carrying the food box, because she didn't let the waiter at the door inform her, and she kept her movements very lightly. Feng Shuo was playing at the desk, thinking it was the waiter who added tea, and didn't look up at all.

Fu Xi was originally born in the palace, and after Feng Shuo succeeded to the throne, he became the head of the palace.

Seeing Jiang Yanyi coming in, he was about to talk to Feng Shuo when Jiang Yanyi made a silent gesture at him.

Fuxi nodded knowingly, and after Jiang Yanyi approached, he helped take out the contents of the food box one by one, put them in the corner of the desk, and then quietly retreated out.

Feng Shuo didn't look up all the time, he thought that the one who went out was the little eunuch who came in to refill the tea, after several hours of continuous reading, he rubbed the center of his eyebrows a little tired, "Fuxi, tea."

There was an ice cauldron in the imperial study room, but he scolded a few ministers of the Imperial Academy angrily. In order to save face for those ministers, he shunned the little eunuch who was fanning the ice cauldron before cursing them.

Now the cold air from the ice cauldron can't reach here, the dragon robe he wears is tight, and with the anger in his heart, he only feels the hot air attacking his heart, making him uncomfortable everywhere.

Jiang Yanyi pushed the rose ice powder dumpling with crushed ice to him, and said softly, "It's hot, Your Majesty eats this to cool off."

It was only then that Feng Shuo realized that it was Jiang Yanyi who was standing beside him, his brows furrowed and relaxed, he turned slightly to his side, and slowed down his tone: "When did you come?"

Jiang Yanyi mixed the ice powder and glutinous rice balls in the bowl with a spoon, "I just came."

She scooped up a tablespoon and fed it to Feng Shuo, Feng Shuo chewed it a few times before swallowing it, and the anger that filled her heart seemed to dissipate along with the coolness that spread from her throat to her stomach.

Jiang Yanyi asked him, "What happened to make you angry?"

Feng Shuo took the small bowl and ate it up in two or three bites, "There is a severe drought in Shuzhou, and the reservoir that was repaired by the imperial court two years ago has not been filled with water. The crops cannot be relieved from the drought, and I am afraid that they will be harvested after autumn."

When he said this, Jiang Yanyi understood what he was worried about. The Great Xuan Dynasty fought for two consecutive years, and the people fled everywhere, and there was no crops at all. It's almost the same, and we can't get so much relief food.

Repairing the reservoir is a big project, and the national treasury probably took a large sum of money to let people from the Ministry of Industry do it, but the repaired reservoir has not been able to hold water for two years, obviously it was the original repairer. People filled their pockets and swallowed the money, which led to the reservoir being such a tofu project.

Two years ago, when Feng Shiyan came to power, after the war, after Feng Shuo succeeded to the throne, the people in the six departments had already changed a group, and now it's a bad debt to investigate.

Jiang Yanyi pushed the sugar-steamed crispy cheese to him, "The matter of repairing the reservoir can be slowed down a little bit. Your Majesty might as well send someone to investigate this matter secretly. The most important thing is to solve the severe drought in Shuzhou. If it is not God, if there is no rain, we will have nothing else to do." The other way is to try our best to recover the loss. Hengzhou has a lot of fertile land near the sea. After asking for harvest this year, His Majesty will collect a batch of grain and send it to Shuzhou to relieve the urgent need. Even if Hengzhou does not produce much rice this year, it is still far away from harvesting. For several months, we have enough time to buy a large amount of rice from outside the customs.”

Feng Shuo pulled Jiang Yanyi closer, hugged her and sat in his arms, and gently rubbed her temples, "Is this married to a counselor?"

Jiang Yanyi touched the green stubble protruding from his chin with his hands, wrapped his hands around his neck, and leaned in his arms: "It was already hard enough when you were the king of Liaonan." , now there are more memorials than at that time, and my heart aches."

Feng Shuo caressed her fair and tender cheeks: "When I was the king of Liaonan, I only ruled Yu, Heng, and Xizhou. Now I have to guard the entire Daxuan River and Mountains. Naturally, I have to be more diligent."

His fingertips stretched from the chin to the back of the neck, and then all the way down, and lightly pressed against her back.

The summer dress is thin, and Jiang Yanyi is wearing a pear-blossom white thread-pick corset dress, covered with a snow-rolled gauze dress, Feng Shuo's palms are scorching hot, just sticking so close, Jiang Yanyi has a kind of back. The illusion that a piece of skin was about to be burned by his palm.

Noticing that his eyes had darkened, and he was already an old couple, Jiang Yanyi naturally knew what he was thinking.

She didn't mean to hide, she just picked up the bowl of cool steamed cheese on the desk, and cast a sideways glance at Feng Shuo: "Do you still want to eat?"

Feng Shuo didn't answer, but raised his eyebrows dissolutely, his expression clearly said "Hello".

Jiang Yanyi dug a spoonful and fed him.

Cheese is a bit less refreshing than ice-flour glutinous rice balls, Feng Shuo: "It's better to cool off with the bowl of glutinous rice balls just now."

When he said this, he had already wrapped one hand around her chest, squeezed in from the corset and held it.Jiang Yanyi is now married and a woman, and when she combs her hair in a bun, she puts her hair up in a bun, exposing her slender neck, which is more convenient for someone to make trouble.

He pressed his thin lips against the tender skin of the back of her neck, exhaled harshly, watched her shiver slightly because of the itching, and then sucked and kissed her lightly or hard.

Jiang Yan was slightly panting: "Then I'll make you another bowl tomorrow?"

Feng Shuo let out a "hmm", he didn't unbutton her skirt, but under the cover of the dragon case, he pushed her lower skirt up, and piled it on her waist.

He kept letting Jiang Yanyi hold the small bowl of steamed crispy cheese with sugar, even when she was so messy that she almost had to support the dragon table to stabilize her figure, the inferiority attack was indistinct and kissed her earlobe: " Hey."

Jiang Yanyi turned her head to look at him, her autumn-like eyes seemed to be covered with mist.

She finally dug out a spoonful of shortbread cheese and tremblingly wanted to feed it to him, but he suddenly lowered his head and kissed her like crazy.

In the end, the bowl of sugar-steamed crispy cheese was knocked over to the ground, and Jiang Yanyi was carried to the ear room behind for a temporary rest.

When Feng Shuo got up, he accidentally knocked over a pile of approved memorials, Jiang Yanyi unintentionally glanced at it, and the light in his eyes suddenly changed.

The one that fell to the ground and spread out happened to be the one that the courtier advised him to draft girls to expand the harem.

Although it had been expected that the courtiers would force Feng Shuo on this matter, Jiang Yanyi still felt a little sudden when this moment actually came.

No wonder the ministers of the Hanlin Academy looked strange when they saw her.

Feng Shuo lost his temper, there should be reasons for the draft.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't be more clear about who he married.

Since Feng Shuo assured her that there would be no one else in the future, and kept her secret from her about being pressured by the ministers of the Imperial Academy, he would certainly not bother her.

This person always carries her behind his back.

This time she was especially pampering Feng Shuo, and she cooperated with him in any position he wanted, and for the last time, she just rolled over on top and forced Feng Shuo to disarm.

She suddenly became abnormal, Feng Shuo, even a fool, could sense something was wrong.

When he was lying on his side and kneading her waist to help her massage, he was half joking: "It would be great if Ah Yi always treats her husband as he does today."

Jiang Yanyi was so tired that he didn't want to move a finger anymore, he just opened his eyelids to look at him, and said, "Okay."

This time Feng Shuo lost all of his charming thoughts, he stared at her for a while, and asked, "Did you hear something?"

Jiang Yanyi said: "Isn't it because the courtiers used the emperor's heir as an excuse to 'force' you to draft? Now that we have children, those old-fashioned people have nothing to say, right?"

Feng Shuo felt that his heart was filled with something soft, and he leaned over and kissed Jiang Yanyi's temple: "Silly girl, I didn't let you know this, I have already figured out a way to deal with it. You are stuck with me This nine-fold palace has already wronged you, how can you be angered by others? Even the elders of the three dynasties will not allow it."

Jiang Yanyi was indeed moved by these words, but the touch was only temporary. When someone used her today's "feather" every night to make the arrow do whatever he wanted, Jiang Yanyi regretted it.