Her younger brother Xia Xinghe was already lighting the fire, and Xia Qiyue started to put seasonings into the pot. She didn't know how to cook tea eggs, but she had always cooked them this way before.
Put all the seasonings in and cook to get the flavor, then put the eggs in and cook. After they are cooked, break the eggshells one by one to let the flavor in, then you can eat it.
But to be honest, the tea here was too precious. She went to the tea shop and inquired for a while, but she still felt that she couldn't get it.
Good tea is expensive. If she buys the tea that costs one tael per pound recommended by the tea shop owner, the cost of tea eggs will be too high. If the eggs are more expensive than meat, she will definitely not be able to sell them.
Finally, the boss of the tea shop saw her concerns and looked at her clothes. He knew that her condition was not very good and she couldn't afford good tea, so he directly introduced the broken tea leaves to her with the lowered tea bag.
It costs sixty cents per catty, and it’s not much. The store only takes out three or four catties at most.
Xia Qiyue's eyes lit up when he saw it. This is great. Even though it's just tea foam, you can buy it and sew it into a cloth bag, put it inside and tie the mouth of the bag. It's perfect.
Regardless of whether it is expensive or not, the taste of tea is always there. Tea is so expensive, and she believes that most people cannot afford to drink such good tea.
Moreover, tea eggs not only taste like tea, but also have the texture of five spices. She has already gathered all the seasonings, is she still worried that they won’t be cooked well?
She couldn't cook the delicacies of a five-star hotel. It was just a boiled tea egg. She believed that it would satisfy an ancient person and still want to eat it.
Pour more than half of the water into the large iron pot, put the tea bags, various seasonings, fine salt and soy sauce into it, then after the water boils, take out the eggs and put them in to cook.
The hard-boiled eggs were cooked in ten minutes, so Xia Qiyue began to crack the eggs with the rolling pin placed next to the stove.
Xia Xinghe kept lighting the fire silently, and he could not ask a single word about what his sister was doing.
This big pot is filled with salt and soy sauce, but there are so many tea leaves in it, and there are many strange medicinal materials in it.
But guess who she wanted to treat? She didn't, and she even took out so many eggs and threw them into the strange soup to boil.
Xia Xinghe's eyes widened when he saw so many eggs. He had never seen so many eggs in Lao Xia's house. It was strange to see them so suddenly.
Looking at the big pot of eggs boiling in the dark soup, Xia Xinghe felt that no matter what the soup was for, if his eldest sister asked him to eat it, he would definitely eat it with the eggs in mind.
No wonder he finally concluded that this was a pot of medicine, because he followed his eldest sister and bought a lot of medicine from the drug store.
Adding salt, soy sauce, and even tea leaves, Xia Xinghe was thinking wildly in his mind while lighting the fire.
But not long after, when he saw his eldest sister cracking the eggshells one by one, he couldn't help it anymore and said weakly:
"Sister, eggs are a good thing, don't waste them like this."
Xia Qiyue was cracking the eggshell seriously for a moment, then burst into laughter, "What are you thinking? Sister is making tea eggs, they are delicious, the eggs are cooked, now crack the eggshells
, wait until the flavor is cooked in the special soup and you can eat it! I guarantee you won’t be able to stop eating one!”
Xia Xinghe already said that he was boiling tea eggs. Although he didn't know what tea eggs were, he was relieved that he could eat them without wasting them. After all, there were two to three hundred eggs in such a large pot.
But as the water in the pot boils and the steam comes out, the aroma comes out.
It didn't have a weird smell like bitter medicine soup, but it was particularly fragrant, which Xia Xinghe didn't expect.
"Okay, just take out the fire a little and let the pot warm. I'll go in and cook!"
When all the eggs in the pot are cooked and the eggshells are cracked, all that's left is to warm the pot. After she finishes cooking, she can take out the tea eggs and put them in a bucket for sale.
Xia Qiyue took out the clothes she had bought for Xia Xinghe in Liulin County before from the space, combed her hair, took out the things she bought from Rouge Shop, and after tossing herself a little, she became an ordinary farmer.
The boy's look comes out.
Although he had changed into new clothes, they were only clean and made people think that he looked like a hard-working farmer.
Xia Jiuyue and her two children had been watching her instructions. When she saw her eldest sister turning into her eldest brother, she covered her mouth in surprise.
"Sister, you are so awesome!" I couldn't help but give a thumbs up in praise.
"Okay, I'll help Xinghe cook the tea eggs later. I'll sell the cooked ones first!" Xia Qiyue put everything away, told her sister and walked out.
The two children behind them followed suit and said, "Mom, can I go with you to sell?"
Xuan'er's little face was full of worry, she was afraid that her mother would be bullied when she went out to sell tea eggs alone.
"Xuan'er, I'm a man now. I can't call you mother, otherwise my secret will be exposed! Just wait at home with peace of mind, mother will be back soon! Oh no, dad will be back soon!" Xia Qiyue
While making the child laugh, he already left the house with his hands behind his back.
The yard is filled with the fragrance of tea leaves mixed with the fragrance of soy sauce, star anise and aniseed.
Xia Xinghe heard the noise and walked out of the kitchen. When he saw his eldest sister turning into his eldest brother, he turned around and looked at her in surprise. He liked it very much.
"Okay, I'll put this outfit on for you when I'm done with it! I bought it for you originally!" Xia Qiyue pushed her brother away in a funny way.
"Forget it, I'm afraid of being robbed when I'm dressed so well!" Xia Xinghe was a rare smart person.
"Bring the wooden bucket and put the tea eggs in it!"
Xia Qiyue didn't waste any more time and walked to the kitchen while explaining to her younger brothers and sisters.
The wooden bucket was half a body taller than the bucket for fetching water. She took out all 200 tea eggs and put them into the wooden bucket. It was just full, and she also put some soup for boiling the tea eggs into it.
There were ten more cooked in the first pot, making a total of two hundred and ten. She took out the extra ten and put them on the stove aside, leaving them for lunch for four people. She was not hungry yet, so she didn't eat.
"You just stay at home and cook tea eggs! Cook two hundred more!" Xia Qiyue pointed to the basket in the corner of the kitchen, "I put the eggs there! Handle them with care and don't smash them! Okay, I'll go
Tea eggs are sold!”
He struggled to carry a bucket of tea eggs and walked out the door under the worried eyes of four people.
Her two little eyes were always staring at the courtyard door. Ke'er's eye circles were red: "Auntie, will mother be okay?"
The little guys had all their worries written on their faces. If they weren't afraid of their mother being angry, they would have followed her all the way.
"It's okay, your mother is so powerful, she won't be bullied! Can you two play here for a while? My aunt will help uncle cook the tea eggs! When the tea eggs are cold, you can try the tea eggs cooked by your mother.
Yes, it looks very delicious!" Xia Jiuyue coaxed the two little guys.
Every time the eldest sister had to go out for something, she was the one who coaxed the two children, so she already had experience with the two of them, and it was very easy to coax them.