Chapter 410 Mushroom Stewed Chicken and Chicken Soup Noodles (2)

Although Wen Mingtang vaguely knew that the trouble left by Wen Xuance was not small, he did not expect that the problem would be so big, so he was not in a hurry, and together with Tang Yuan and A Bing, they spent a day cracking melon seeds and drinking water. We had tea and chatted about food for a while.

From the cold dishes before the main course to the main course to the snacks at the end of the meal, several people chatted a lot. Although they didn't explicitly talk about opening a restaurant, they talked about it in such detail, which was obviously not intentional. Tangyuan and A Bing were very happy about it.

This is the case in the first month of the year. I either go out to watch temple fairs or go shopping, get close to the gods and Buddhas in the temple, and pray that the other person will look at me more favorably, and have good weather in the coming year; or I just go out to visit relatives and friends. If I don't go out or visit relatives, then Just like Wen Mingtang, A Bing and Tang Yuan, they were chatting while munching on melon seeds.

Today's three meals were made by glutinous rice balls and Ah Bing. The two of them have become proficient in many of the dishes they have learned in the past year, which is more than enough for one meal.

After dinner was over, Wen Mingtang got up and went to the kitchen, where he began to prepare the late-night snacks that Lin Fei and others would come to eat at midnight.

Put the washed and chopped chicken into a large casserole, add ginger slices and wine, wait until it boils, skim off the floating powder on top to make the soup clearer, then add wolfberry, black dates and soak Good mountain mushrooms are stewed slowly.

After doing this, Wen Mingtang returned to the house, sat down and continued to drink tea and chat with the two of them.

Seeing Wen Mingtang coming and going for less than a stick of incense, the two of them were a little surprised: "Master Wen, are you ready for the supper?"

Wen Mingtang nodded and said with a smile, "That's almost it."

For late night snacks, for tired people like Lin Fei, the important thing is to iron the clothes quickly, a bowl of fresh and clean mushroom stewed chicken soup with a handful of rice noodles, and the hot soup and water are brought up and served quickly. The belly is ready.

If on a normal day, if Lin Fei and others came here just to satisfy their craving, Wen Mingtang would be willing to take a charcoal basin and make a barbecue or something like that, but for now... let's forget about it for now!

Wen Mingtang's guess was right. Halfway through Xu Shi, there was a knock on the Yuan family's door, and Lin Fei, Liu Yuan, and Bai Zhu appeared outside the door with Zhao Youtong and two other servants.

Looking at the visible fatigue on the faces of the group of people and the dust and mud on their boots, it was clear that they had walked a lot today.

When he walked in, Zhao Youtong and two other guards were still carrying baggage behind them. When Wen Mingtang, Tang Yuan and A Bing welcomed the people in, they were still curious about what was in this huge baggage. After a few people sat down and put down the baggage, they looked at the shape of the baggage and immediately understood that what was inside was Files, files full of baggage.

I don’t know where this group of people got so many files.

Although he was curious, Wen Mingtang didn't ask any more questions. He couldn't help but look at the baggage a few more times, then withdrew his gaze. When he was about to leave for the kitchen, Lin Fei said, "We went there today." A trip to the household department."

Although it was just this sentence, Wen Mingtang understood that these files came from the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But Hubu was not outside the city, so why were there so much mud on his boots?

"I went to look through the old files of the Ministry of Finance from many years ago," Lin Fei said. He raised his head and glanced at Wen Mingtang who was leaving, and said in a voice that she could just hear, "I went to the warehouse of the Ministry of Finance outside the city."

The Hubu Yamen, one of the six yamen in Da Rong, is naturally not small, but there are hundreds of records in Zuo in Da Rong. There will always be a time when the files, sundries, etc. are piled up to the point where the warehouse in the yamen cannot be piled up. At this time, they will Some files from the early years that were rarely read again were moved to a warehouse outside the city in case of emergency needs.

The files that were moved to the warehouse outside the city were naturally either old or unimportant.

Unexpectedly, where did a group of them go today... Wen Mingtang, who was just a bystander to the case, could not imagine or guess the intention of this group of people going there, but most of them were related to Zhao Mengzhuo's case.

She has a specialization in the art, so... all she had to do was prepare this midnight snack, so that this bowl of warm soup could drive away the fatigue of Lin Fei and the others after running around for a day.

After an hour and a half of slow simmering, the pot of mushroom and chicken soup was completely flavorful. Wen Mingtang only came over halfway through and added some salt but nothing else.

Compared with the more complicated and elaborate methods she used to do in the past, this method is simple and simple, and it is not much different from the methods of most chefs in Da Rong.

If there is any difference, it's probably that the soup looks clearer.

After opening the lid and taking a look, Wen Mingtang put the lid back on and began to prepare other items.

Start with a bowl of delicious mushroom stewed chicken soup, then add a handful of smooth and chewy rice noodles. The hot soup is the best way to dispel fatigue.

But...it's more than that. After all, when Wen Mingtang came back from a trip to the market today, he brought a basket full of vegetables and meat. Even if glutinous rice balls and Ah Bing ate some for lunch, there was something different about each. Little leftover.

Wen Mingtang deliberately took out the small plates from the Tangyuan family, placed the nine small plates neatly on the square tray, and then added side dishes to each small plate in turn: thinly sliced ​​pork tenderloin, black fish Slices, cooked pork loin slices soaked in water, bamboo shoots, quail eggs, mushrooms, pea tips, tofu skin, fungus, etc. Although there is something on display, there are both meat and vegetables.

When the table was finished, Wen Mingtang looked at the "nine-square grid" side dish tray and couldn't help but pursed his lips and smacked his lips.

Although it is just an ordinary bowl of rice noodles, after finishing it like this, it has a unique sense of sophistication. What's more important is that it can be boiled and eaten right away.

In fact... this is an imitation of the cross-bridge rice noodles, but it's not authentic. As for the more authentic ones, let's keep them to sell for now. Maybe we can open a restaurant later... Just like the golden rice, it's a gimmick to attract customers!

In the wing room, because Lin Fei opened his mouth, two guards, Zhao Youtong, also sat down. The six of them were sitting around the largest food table in Tangyuan's house, waiting for Wen Mingtang's supper.

Because Master Wen had mentioned before he went to the kitchen that he would stew chicken soup and add a handful of rice noodles today. It was not like they had never eaten these in the public kitchen before, so everyone was not curious and just waited for the chicken soup and rice noodles to be brought over. Talking about today's rush.

"Those people in the Ministry of Household Affairs are too careless. Files from decades ago are piled up there casually. They don't care about pests. Many files are infested with insects!" A policeman couldn't help complaining. , “Many of them have been hollowed out.”

"But fortunately, the files that Lin Shaoqing asked me to look for are still there!" Another officer breathed a sigh of relief, answered the call, paused, and couldn't help but mutter, "If Lin Shaoqing hadn't mentioned it, we would never have thought of going through the household transfer process. The old treasury of the ministry! I think of the case that Mr. Zhao handled that was related to the Ministry of Household Affairs. Mr. Zhao was seriously injured and suffered from old illnesses. Every winter in these years, he had to wear two thick coats to carry You can live there. There was no sign from the Ministry of Finance and no one asked about it. It’s really chilling.”

Lin Fei, who was flipping through the files with his head down, did not raise his head to react to the guards' mutterings and complaints. This is not surprising, Lin Shaoqing is a man of few words. However, Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan on the other side, especially Liu Yuan, who had always talked a lot, unexpectedly remained silent and did not answer the conversation. They just kept to themselves and poured cups of tea into their stomachs with Bai Zhu, as if they were running away. After a day, I was really exhausted.

Zhao Youtong and the other two officers didn't wait for a response. They looked at the three people on the other side who didn't answer in confusion, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.