mtlumby2d Chapter 118 Moving
Chapter 118 Moving
After a few more days in this atmosphere, we were finally able to move into our new home.
Not only An Qiao, everyone was excited.
"My dear, will our kitchen be over here or over there? Do you want to take this with you?"
"My dear, is this little shop still open? What about the pots and pans?"
Everybody was very excited and packed their clothes and personal belongings. An Qiao looked around the small courtyard. She had lived here for more than half a year and was reluctant to leave.
When everyone moves out, this small yard will also be demolished.
The original plan was to keep it here to build a new small store in the future, and keep it here like the milk tea shop. But now the weather is getting colder day by day, so I can only convert this place into a chicken coop, duck coop, rabbit coop, and the small yard at the door can only be used to grow vegetables.
With so many people, we have to survive even if we don’t open for business.
An Qiao looked at the small courtyard and said, "Let's move."
Everyone moved to the new yard excitedly. In order to move today, An Qiao gave the helpers a holiday and closed the restaurant.
Because of the need to deal with the backyard, it was not convenient to open the restaurant, and it was closed for the next few days.
It was a rare holiday, and Anqiao thought that after everyone had moved and packed up, those who wanted to go home to visit their families could go home, and those who wanted to stay and play in Kyoto Prefecture could also do so.
"My dear, this building is so beautiful." Qiufen exclaimed hurriedly while standing downstairs of the dormitory building.
An Qiao waved her over and said, "It's snowing so heavily, aren't you cold?"
When everyone arrived and stood in the corridor, An Qiao pointed to the yard and said, "This is the dormitory building. There are long corridors from the dormitory building to the building in front and the courtyard, which makes it convenient to travel. But since this is the case, there is no way to prevent impolite guests from going to the backyard. I will post notices between the front yard and the backyard saying no one can pass through, but if someone really does, it is hard to prevent. So we girls live on the second floor and the boys live on the first floor. What do you think? Do you have any objections?"
Everyone shook their heads. What objection could there be?
The first and second floors are the same, and you can tell at first glance that they are very comfortable to live in. With such a good room to live in, what else is there to complain about?
"Also, everyone needs to share a room with two people, because we may need to add more people later, and I'm afraid it won't be big enough." An Qiao said as she looked at everyone.
No one had any opinions and had already started choosing who they would live with.
The girls were paired up in pairs, and none of them approached Qi Tao tacitly. Qi Tao said aggrievedly, "Why doesn't anyone want me?"
An Qiao grabbed her clothes and pulled her back, "Because you have to live next door to me, understand?" Then he joked, "You have to bring me tea and water, buy me food and drinks, understand?"
Qi Tao knew An Qiao was joking, so he played along and said, "Okay, okay, I'll follow you for the rest of my life."
Everyone quickly divided the rooms and moved their things into the houses. In the end, Lichun was the only one left alone on the girls' side, while Tong Yiyi was the only one left alone on the boys' side.
Lichun is bold and steady, and often keeps to himself, so it's nothing for him to live in a room by himself.
An Qiao asked, "Do you want to move to the courtyard house?"
People are like this. If there is a single room, everyone wants to have their own independent space.
But if everyone lives together, the one who is left alone will feel a little uncomfortable.
"No need, young lady. We live so close to each other, we won't be afraid. Besides, didn't you say you would buy someone else later? I have to enjoy my life alone." Lichun could speak, and everyone was amused by her.
An Qiao also felt relieved.
Everyone was busy until the afternoon. An Qiao thought it was a happy occasion for moving into a new house, so she made some food.
Speaking of which, everyone has never sat together to eat hotpot, so Anqiao prepared a lot of dishes for us to eat together.
In addition to the dishes that everyone loves for hot pot, there are also fried fennel dough sticks, brown sugar rice cakes, pepper and sesame crispy pork, fried sweet potato balls, and bell rolls...
Anqiao plans to try these snacks tonight, which have never been sold in the store before. If the results are good and they can be made quickly, she will add them to the hot pot menu.
Fennel fried dough sticks are considered a must-order dish for hot pot in modern times, but as for how to make it, no one has ever carefully replicated it, so we can only replicate it based on the taste and appearance in our memory.
Wash the fennel you bought in the morning, set it aside to dry, and when it is almost dry, cut it into small pieces.
Knead the dough as you normally would for making fried dough sticks. After the dough has risen for a while, add in chopped fennel and knead it again.
An Qiao thought it smelled good, but she didn’t know how it would taste when fried.
Roll the kneaded dough into small strips.
Pour oil into the pan and put the fried dough sticks into the pan one by one before the oil is hot. Oil vapor will rise and the fragrance will spread.
"It smells so good, what delicious food are you making, young lady? Hey, isn't this fennel? Why would anyone eat this? It tastes weird. In our countryside, unless we have nothing to eat it, it's just a wild vegetable." Qiufen asked, looking at the fried dough sticks in the pot.
Qiufen was the one with the least cooking skills after Anqiao bought her. She could only make trouble in the kitchen. After struggling for half a month, Anqiao really had no idea what to do with her, so she asked her to go to the front hall.
I thought that the girl who was so reckless in the kitchen would not be very good in the front yard, but unexpectedly, she was very familiar with the place.
No matter how difficult the guests were, she was not at a loss. She was both enthusiastic and smart.
An Qiao couldn't help but sigh, there really is always a suitable job for everyone.
"This is delicious. I made it. Don't be jealous if you can." An Qiao picked up a fried dough stick and said with a smile.
Qiufen refused and immediately said with a smile, "My dear, my dear, I was wrong, I was wrong. This smells so good." Then he pointed to the glutinous rice on the side and asked, "What kind of delicious food is this?"
"Brown sugar rice cake." An Qiao replied. Seeing that Lidong had finished cleaning up and came back, she gave the job of frying the dough sticks to Lidong.
Everyone was busy moving things today. Since most of the things in Anqiao's house were canned food, they were given to Dahan and Dongzhi to move, so Anqiao only took one trip to get all the things.
An Qiao kneads the glutinous rice dough into small strips, puts it into the pot, and turns it over and over with chopsticks. Fry it until the whole glutinous rice strip is bulging, and then picks out the glutinous rice cake.
Boil some brown sugar syrup on one side, sprinkle soybean powder on the boiling hot glutinous rice cake, and drizzle with brown sugar syrup and you're done.
An Qiao handed the batter to Li Dong who had just fried the dough sticks. "Just coat it with flour and fry it. It's delicious. Crispy meat with pepper and sesame flavor."
Everyone packed up and went downstairs one after another, only Dahan and Dongzhi were still moving cans.
"It smells so good, girl. I'm so hungry, how can it smell so good? If I sell it, I can sell ten pots a day." Qiufen couldn't help but say after smelling it.
"You're the only one who's greedy." Lidong joked with a smile. Qiufen was not in a hurry and continued to breathe in the smell in the air.