As If Married to a Sample Chapter 2

On the first day of the New Year, there is still heavy snow falling outside, but a few small buds are faintly revealed on the branches covered with snowflakes. The plum blossoms in the yard are in full bloom, and the branches and leaves are almost invisible. The plum blossom petals are everywhere. The wind and snow are flying, especially beautiful.

There was a lot of noise outside early in the morning.

Lachlan Shangguan frowned unhappily, squinted his eyes, pulled up the quilt to cover his head, and turned around to hug the person next to him. Jasper Murong had just returned from a trip to visit relatives yesterday, so both of them were a little more indulgent, but at dawn I just fell asleep.

But with this touch, he found that the seat next to him was empty. He was startled, and he suddenly lost all sleep. He hurriedly sat up, lifted the quilt, and found that the person who was supposed to be sleeping next to him had disappeared without knowing when. He couldn't help but frown. Raising an eyebrow, he went to bed so late, why did he get up so early?

The yard was very lively. Although snowflakes were flying, the warm sun in the sky was shining brightly. The snow seemed to be stopping soon, and the sky was blue. It was a rare good day.

Elara was leading a few girls around to collect and select falling plum blossom petals. Each of them was holding a beautiful small bamboo basket in their hands.

The setting sun and others were also directing things to be moved outside from a distance. It was extremely lively, and occasionally heard sounds that sounded like animals, which felt a bit like a chicken and a dog jumping around.

Seeing the door open, Lachlan Shangguan came out and was standing at the door looking at them with a frown. Elara squinted her eyes and said hello with a smile, "Good morning, Master."

"What are you doing?" Lachlan Shangguan's eyes fell on the baskets in their hands. The snow in the garden was filled with plum blossom petals of various colors.

If there is anywhere else in the world where you can see all the different types of plum blossoms blooming in winter, it is only here. The flowers on each plum blossom cannot be measured in gold. They are watered and cultivated with rare and exotic medicines.

Elara smiled extraordinarily brightly, "Master Feng told me to make plum blossom dumplings."

"Oh?" Upon hearing that it was Jasper Murong's order, Lachlan Shangguan suddenly lost his impatience, his eyes widened, and he felt particularly kind and pleasant when he looked at those plum blossoms again, "Making dumplings? Oh, by the way, today is Yuan Zhengri, Where is he in the kitchen? "

Lachlan Shangguan said as he walked towards the kitchen.

Elara said quickly, "No, many people sent dumplings this morning, and Master Feng is accepting the distribution. I heard that there are at least dozens of food boxes, all of which are rushed to deliver various dumplings from various countries. "

"Huh?" Lachlan Shangguan raised his eyebrows. He was not surprised. It turned out that the people carrying things over there were carrying dumplings. After thinking about it, he walked towards the lobby.

"Your Majesty." When they saw Lachlan Shangguan approaching, everyone saluted, but their actions were slow.

Lachlan Shangguan nodded and entered the lobby, and sure enough he saw the elegant and elegant white figure busy in the lobby.

There are about fifty food boxes on the ground. They are steaming when opened, and various dumplings complement each other inside.

There was a circle of plates placed on the large round marble table. Jasper Murong was greeting people to pick out a few dumplings from various food boxes and put them on the plates. Then he put the others away and prepared to take them out to the villages down the mountain for distribution later. .

But despite this, the plates on the table were still occupied by dumplings. There were so many dumplings that it would take a whole family two or three days to eat them.

"Why are there so many? Who sent them all?" Lachlan Shangguan walked over and looked at the shiny dumplings. He also felt a little hungry, so he took the most beautiful and attractive one from the large plate next to Jasper Murong. He threw the dumplings into his mouth, chewed them twice and swallowed them. He couldn't help but nod. He stretched out his hand to take another one and nodded, "Well, not bad. The bamboo shoots are crisp and tender, and the meat is smooth and fresh. Whose are these? His chef's cooking skills good."

Jasper Murong couldn't help but smile, raised his eyebrows, and said with a half-smile, "That's right, senior brother's craftsmanship has always been impeccable. It's very difficult to eat the food he cooked by himself. Master and his elders have said, When he forced his senior brother to become his apprentice, it was partly because of his cooking skills. "

Lachlan Shangguan choked on half a dumpling in his throat. He couldn't get it up and couldn't spit it out. His face wrinkled as if he had swallowed a fly. The corners of his mouth twitched, but he still tried to swallow the dumpling. He suddenly felt that the taste in his mouth had changed.

Archer Qian, who was picking dumplings and eating them secretly, added fuel to the fire with a smile, "Yes, Your Majesty, this Holden Yun is really rare. He is really good in the hall and in the kitchen. His craftsmanship is really incredible. It is simply better than The ones in our villa are much higher. I didn’t expect him to have such a skill. With his skills, he can capture the hearts of many people with just a plate of delicious food. "

Lachlan Shangguan's face suddenly darkened, and he narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Archer Qian, "Oh, then why don't you just go to him, and what are you doing here?"

Archer Qian swallowed another dumpling with a mischievous smile, and said with a smile, "Oh, even if I want to eat it, he may not be willing to do it. It's better not to bring trouble to yourself, but you can go and steal it. I heard there is such a saying If you want to capture your lover's heart, you must capture his stomach first." With that said, Shi Shiran walked out with a plate of dumplings and stood next to the setting sun who was directing outside, and you and I ate them one by one. .

Jasper Murong looked at Lachlan Shangguan like a rooster that was defeated but refused to admit defeat. He could only lower his head but smiled silently.

Lachlan Shangguan stared hard at the big plate of dumplings that Jasper Murong had recently, and suddenly said, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or to Jasper Murong, "Huh, what does it look like for a grown man to cook in the kitchen all day long?" "

Jasper Murong snorted and couldn't help laughing. She turned to look at him with raised eyebrows, "Oh, really, can't men enter the kitchen?"

"Ugh..." Lachlan Shangguan touched his nose, almost forgetting that Jasper Murong seemed to like going to the kitchen to study various dishes recently, and quickly added, "Of course, except for some people."

"Oh, thinking about it, these people definitely don't include you, Your Majesty. So, would you please, Your Majesty, go out for a walk outside the village and come back in the evening, because I have already ordered you to leave in the morning, and everyone who stayed in the village today will be packed together. Dumplings, this shouldn’t vary from person to person, so please, my lord.”

"Ugh..." Lachlan Shangguan was stunned for a moment, then he quickly and shamelessly ran to his side, put his arms around his waist and said, "It really doesn't vary from person to person. Besides, as long as it's the baby's command, it can be anything, including mountains of swords and seas of fire. What's more, making dumplings? What's so difficult about making dumplings? I can't wait any longer. You'll definitely be addicted to it. "

Jasper Murong was amused by his shameless appearance and shook her head helplessly.

After being busy until noon, everyone finally completed the task at hand. They collected a lot of plum blossoms and dew. The hunters also came back. The vegetables and seasonings were all ready. Then the real start began.

Elara is responsible for preparing plum juice, and the cooks at the villa are responsible for cutting vegetables. As for the meat, the men are naturally responsible for it.

For a moment, the lights and shadows of swords outside the kitchen courtyard were very strange. It was easy for those guys to kill people, but it was a bit difficult to let him do such detailed work.

Speaking of this meat, usually in the wild, it is usually disemboweled and eaten whole, roasted or stewed. Now it not only needs to be cut into small pieces, but also minced, and it must be chopped evenly to match the fat and leanness.

Seeing that the people in charge of the dishes are already cooking in an orderly manner, some of the grown men over there are still plucking the feathers of the pheasants. It can be said that the chickens are really jumping up and down, the feathers are flying everywhere, the swords are dancing, and the meat is broken. Flying around.

Elara's side is the simplest and most meticulous work. It is still very easy for her. There are several buckets the size of bathtubs, with liquids of various colors poured into them. The fragrance of flowers and wine is mixed, and the taste is intoxicating, and she has The little girls who came out from the professor were also nimble with their hands and feet.

Lachlan Shangguan was not much better. Jasper Murong took him to several master chefs responsible for rolling out the dough. He pointed at the bags of flour with a smile and said, "This is your task."

Lachlan Shangguan trembled his eyebrows and watched the powder flying around in disgust. He wrinkled his nose and thought that it would be better to go out and kill pigs than to get rid of this soft thing. But I heard Jasper Murong continue to speak.

"Making dumplings and rolling the dough is the most important and difficult task. How well you roll the dough affects the texture of the entire dumpling. My senior brother taught me how to make the dumplings. Unfortunately, I have never been able to learn how to roll the dough to perfection. Breaking is extremely flexible."

Lachlan Shangguan suddenly felt a rush of heat rushing to his forehead. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, raised his chin, raised his hands and rolled up his sleeves and said, "Huh, it's just rolling out the dough."

Jasper Murong pursed her lips and watched him angrily walk away with a big bag of flour in his arms. He started asking for advice from the old masters, and his eyes became even crooked. Then he rolled up his sleeves and went over to help.

After fussing for a long time, I finally got everything ready near evening.

All the quick hands and feet were assigned to make various dumpling fillings, and the remaining clumsy masters were gathered on the long table in the kitchen to roll out dumpling wrappers together.

The swords in the hands of several grown men were replaced with rolling pins, and they were gesticulating back and forth immediately. Looking at the lump of dough, they had no idea what to do. They could only stare at the old master in front of him with bright eyes, and imitate.

The old master was so beaten that his spine trembled.

But it was difficult at first, but later it became quite enjoyable for them. They laughed at other people's works and had great fun. Soon, stacks of strange-shaped dumpling wrappers appeared.

The old chef stared at the dumpling wrapper, his eyes twitching.

Jasper Murong pointed to Lachlan Shangguan with a smile. Sometimes it would be thinner here, and sometimes it would be thicker here.

The setting sun on one side stretched out his neck, twitched his eyebrows in surprise, and praised, "Oh, I didn't expect you to be really good at it, Your Majesty. This leather is really standard, round and thin. It really is good to have a good master to give you guidance." With a look of disgust, he turned aside Archer Qian, who was busy around him.

Lachlan Shangguan's vanity was greatly satisfied. The sullenness that Holden Yun had suppressed all afternoon was wiped away. He ignored the last sentence and looked at Jasper Murong with raised eyebrows, as if to say, 'Look, what's so difficult about this?'

Jasper Murong couldn't help laughing.

What is the biggest and most important part of making dumplings? In fact, it is not the filling or the skin, but the final wrapping. If the wrapping is not done well, everything else will be wasted.

Pots of dumpling fillings were brought out, and now everyone was even more in trouble.

Making dumplings is not just about stuffing the meat into the skin and wrapping it up, there is a lot more to it.

Seeing the master chef skillfully and quickly making beautiful colorful dumplings appear on the plate one after another, I was immediately dazzled. I just looked at Jasper Murong and followed the instructions carefully.

But you can’t learn this thing just by looking at it. I pulled it hard on one side and the skin cracked and cracked. I accidentally pinched it on this side and finally wrapped it tightly, but the stuffing came out again.

There was a hole here and several holes there. Seeing that the pile of dumpling wrappers in front of me was almost used up and not a single dumpling was formed yet, I was anxious.

Amid the headache, a burst of laughter woke everyone up.

"Ah ha ha, ha ha, oh my God, ha ha." I saw Can Yang laughing so much that he almost leaned on the table, hammering the table wildly, pointing at the dumplings on Lachlan Shangguan's plate next to him from time to time, "Wang, Wang Ye, hello, you , Is this a dumpling... Haha, it made me laugh so hard, it must be dough, haha."

Everyone couldn't help but look at Lachlan Shangguan's plate curiously, wondering if his dumpling wrappers had been praised just before. When they looked at it, everyone started laughing.

I saw a few of Lachlan Shangguan's dumplings, almost all of which were three-layered inside and three-layered outside. They were similar to rice dumplings. The meat filling did not come out, but it was a bit difficult to eat the filling inside.

Jasper Murong tilted his head and covered his mouth to hold back laughter.

Lachlan Shangguan's face darkened again and again, then he narrowed his eyes and glanced over coldly.

Everyone who was laughing immediately lowered their heads and continued making dumplings, but everyone's shoulders were still shaking.

Only Asher was still laughing unscrupulously, and in the end Archer Qian covered his mouth and pulled him aside to be taught a lesson.

Jasper Murong's eyebrows were curved and his mouth was smiling. He looked at the dumplings and said implicitly, "Shall I teach you?"

Lachlan Shangguan shook his eyebrows and said firmly, "No, I just want to find a new way. Who stipulates that the skin of dumplings must be thin? Who stipulates that dumplings can only have one layer of skin? Taste is the most important thing."

"Uh-huh, huh, huh, okay." Jasper Murong smiled and turned back, lowered his head and continued to make dumplings with a smile.

When the dumplings finally came out of the pot, a lot of people gathered around the kitchen and stared nervously. It was my first time making dumplings. Needless to say, I felt a sense of accomplishment. They all wanted to eat their first creation.

Several maids and the old master and the old lady covered their mouths and looked happily at a group of masters, all covered in sticky faces, staring at the dumplings like colorful-faced cats, and they all felt very happy.

Soon, plates of dumplings of different colors were brought out, and everyone immediately stepped forward to claim them. Because the colors were properly distributed, it was not difficult to identify them. Among them, Jasper Murong's was probably the most beautiful, crystal clear. .

"Pfft~ahem, um, prince, your dumplings." Asher and the others took out the dumplings that had been divided into several plates and placed them on the long table.

There are almost three dumplings in each plate, and each dumpling is about the size of a fist when it rises. It doesn't look like dumplings, but more like steamed buns.

Everyone was trying so hard to hold back their laughter that they were almost hurt.

Lachlan Shangguan squinted his eyes and stared at the things that couldn't be seen as dumplings. He threw up his sleeves and went out in anger.

Everyone immediately acted in unison and looked at Jasper Murong with a smile.

Jasper Murong looked at them amusedly, then looked at the dumplings, shook his head and laughed, walked over and picked up one of Lachlan Shangguan's plates, then picked up a few from his own plate and took it out.

Lachlan Shangguan was standing under the plum tree sulking. When he saw Jasper Murong coming over with a plate of strange-shaped dumplings, he felt a little better, but he still turned around and ignored him angrily.

Jasper Murong walked over with a smile, stood beside him, picked up a dumpling and took a bite, "Well, it tastes pretty good, although it is a bit thicker, but thickness also has the advantage of being chewy and making you less likely to get hungry." "

Lachlan Shangguan finally turned to glare at him, then looked at the big fat dumpling he took a bite of, frowned and said, "If it doesn't taste good, don't eat it."

Jasper Murong smiled and said, "Who says it's not delicious? It's very fragrant. Otherwise, you can try it." He said and took another bite.

Lachlan Shangguan raised his eyebrows, opened his mouth and bit into it, but instead of biting the dumpling, he bit his lip. Their lips and tongues immediately intertwined, and all the dumplings in Jasper Murong's mouth were sucked into his mouth. He didn't leave until all the dumplings were wiped out, and returned it smoothly. He picked up half of the dumpling on his chopsticks and sighed, "It tastes really good."

In fact, it's really good. Although it doesn't look good and is a bit thick, everything from the dumpling filling to the wrapper has been deliberately processed. The wrapper still carries the fragrance of plum and wine. No matter how delicious it is, it won't be unpalatable. Where to go.

Jasper Murong immediately blushed and glared at him.

At this time, several doors and windows in the kitchen were opened, and several people were exposed, holding a fat dumpling that had been bitten into their hands. They said with a smile, "Your Majesty, it's chewy."

Now it was Lachlan Shangguan's turn to blush. No matter how thick-skinned he was, he would feel embarrassed. He immediately raised his eyebrows and shouted, "A bunch of B@st@ards, don't you think they have a long life?"

The entire villa was in a happy mood, with joyful laughter everywhere.

Jasper Murong and Lachlan Shangguan sat under the plum tree, eating one bite at a time. Maybe these dumplings were not as delicious as others, but when they ate them, they thought they were the most delicious dumplings in the world. .