After being abandoned by the educated youth, I became rich in the 80s

Chapter 117 One More

When she thought of this, Lan Xin couldn't help but want to run out to gather all the ingredients. She even wanted to cook a pot of tea eggs tonight to try.

"Star anise, chili pepper, Sichuan pepper, bay leaves..." Looking at the braised pork recipe in her hand, Lan Xin muttered to herself and pondered in her mind.

"Why don't we just make some braised meat to eat together? I haven't eaten it for a long time." Just looking at this piece of paper, my mouth started to water.

Bah, that's not right. You should think about serious things, like what to eat.

Well, maybe only chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns are available in Lanjia Village. The possibility that the other seasonings are specially grown is very small. Instead of looking for them all over the village, it is better to buy them directly from the supply and marketing cooperative in the city.

In addition to these things, as for tea, it seems that Lao Lan’s family has it.

White tea is a popular tea variety in this area, which is a rare tea variety that has mutated from green tea. Not to mention far away, there are many wild tea trees planted in the back mountain, and they are quite old. The villagers take care of them and apply fertilizer from time to time, and they can harvest hundreds of kilograms of tea every year.

Old Man Lan has some new tea from around the Qingming Festival this year, and Lan Xin decided to pick some from him later.

"As for the rest, just go to the city and buy them."

Lan Xin tore the paper with the recipe written on it from her exercise book and flicked it with her nimble fingers, making a crisp sound.

Since you are going to the city again, it would be wise to deposit some of the money in the bank.

So while Yingying and Yueyue were still sleeping, Lan Xin took out the money hidden somewhere, sorted it out and put it in a cloth bag. Everything was ready, and she was just waiting for the two little kids to wake up.

"Ah, you're going to the city again?"

After waking up, Yueyue rubbed her eyes and asked confusedly.

She had a feeling that her home should be in the city, otherwise why would her mother go to the city every day?

"Mom has to go do some serious work."

Lan Xin reached out and rubbed Yueyue's messy hair, making it even more messy.

"Just go out and play with your sister. You are not allowed to play under the sun, play in the water or climb trees, okay?"

Lan Xin warned.

Oh, being a mother is troublesome. I have to report and give instructions before going out.

Although Yingying and Yueyue were reluctant to leave their mother, they still nodded obediently.

Lan Xin washed their faces, combed their hair, put on hats, and then let them go out to play.

Lan Xin took her backpack and went to the minibus.

After arriving in the city, Lan Xin went to the bank as she was familiar with the place and deposited all her money there. After depositing the money, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative, which had all kinds of things. Lan Xin also bought several kilograms of things at one time.

After all, it is too troublesome to come to the city, so of course it is best to prepare everything at once.

After thinking about it, Lan Xin bought some other seasonings before packing her bag and going back.

As soon as she got home, Lan Xin put down her things and started to cook tea eggs.

Lan Xin washed the pot and lit the stove, thinking of giving some to Old Man Lan and the others, so she quickly washed the half basket of eggs that Lan Yi brought, put them in a pot with cold water, and started to cook them.

Fortunately, the pot is big enough, otherwise more than 20 eggs would not be able to fit in.

After the water boiled, Lan Xin boiled it for a few more minutes before pulling out the firewood and simmering the eggs with the hot ash, charcoal and hot water. This way of simmering the eggs saved firewood and the yolks were also delicate and not overcooked.

While the eggs were stewing, Lan Xin wiped her hands and went to Old Lan's house to bring back a few pounds of old man Lan's tea.

Thinking that the tea leaves would be used to cook tea eggs, and that too good tea would be wasted, Lan Xin specifically asked for tea leaves produced after the Qingming rain. Even so, Old Man Lan was still reluctant to leave.

He kept chasing Lan Xin and asking her what she wanted the tea for.

Lan Xin didn't tell him that she was using it to cook tea eggs, and planned to bring it out after it was cooked later.

"When I bring it to you in the evening, you'll know what I'm going to do with it. You don't even take out this tea to drink. It's so precious." Lan Xin couldn't help but complain.

Old Man Lan turned his head away angrily, thinking, of course he must keep such a treasure and savor it carefully.

After getting the tea, Lan Xin hurried back home, and the eggs were ready by that time.

"Shouldn't eggs need to be blanched like meat?"

Lan Xin thought about it, and seeing that the water was clean, she just boiled it. She took out a spoon and cracked the eggs. With a few "bang bang bang" sounds, the eggshell cracked into spider web-like patterns. After cracking the eggs, Lan Xin reignited the dim firewood.

She took out another bowl and mixed a bowl of seasoning from the packets according to the proportions of her previous stewed meat recipe. Lan Xin poured all the seasoning into the pot, then tentatively grabbed a handful of tea leaves from the jar and poured them into the pot to cook together with the seasoning.

The water boiled after a while. Based on her experience, Lan Xin took out some firewood and simmered it on low heat for another twenty minutes. The aroma of the tea eggs gradually wafted out.

The fragrance made Lan's mouth water.

"Well, let's try one first to see how it tastes."

As the chef, of course she had to taste the food first to see how it tasted, and there was nothing that needed to be adjusted.

Estimating that the time was about right, Lan Xin lifted the lid of the pot. The aroma of tea leaves mixed with the aroma of aniseed wafted towards her along with the steam. Lan Xin felt as if she had been marinated in the flavor. The smell was much better than the tea eggs she bought at the bun shop.

Upon closer inspection, the originally white eggs had turned dark brown, with spider web cracks particularly evident on them.

Lan Xin scooped up an egg and placed it in a bowl, then put the lid back on the pot.

The tea eggs just out of the pot were steaming hot. The fragrant smell tempted Lan Xin so much that she couldn't wait any longer. She blew on the tea eggs twice and picked them up.

Lan Xin tossed the egg with both hands and felt her fingers were about to be scalded. A hissing sound came from her mouth and the shell of the tea egg was finally peeled off.

After peeling off the shell, the egg white, which had turned brown, was covered with crisscross patterns and looked particularly tasty. Lan Xin took a bite.

The fragrant smell of eggs, the bitter and fragrant aroma of tea, and the sweet and fragrant seasonings come one after another, and the taste is very rich.

Lan Xin took bite after bite and bit into the egg yolk. The egg yolk was earthy yellow, but had a delicate texture and was not dry or old at all.

All of a sudden, a tea egg was put into Lan Xin's mouth. She swallowed her saliva and wanted to continue eating.

"I shouldn't be so greedy..."

Lan Xin muttered to herself, and finally came to the conclusion, well, it must be that this body has been damaged too badly and has never eaten anything good, so when the taste buds come into contact with the tea eggs, it is like being exposed to a new world and she can't stop.

"I haven't even tried the flavor yet, give me another one."

Lan Xin ate three tea eggs in a row before stopping to drink a cup of boiled water.

Finally, she concluded that this tea egg was much more fragrant than any other tea eggs she had eaten before.

I don’t know if it’s because there is enough material, or the tea is good, or if it’s the pure natural farm eggs that are good.