Chapter 35 The Master Picked Up

Wu Laosan clapped the log and blurted out: "Isn't it just an apprentice? Just take it!"

Xu Xinger was originally just a joke, but she didn't expect Wu Laosan to respond like this. She quickly restrained her playful attitude and asked, "Uncle Wu San, I don't know what are the rules for worshipping teachers?"

When Wu Laosan saw Xing'er, he suddenly thought of this problem and had a better impression of her. He said seriously, "It's just my own business to accept you as an apprentice, not on behalf of the Wu family. I will teach you hard, but how much you can learn depends on your own creation. That's all for today. When I go back, I'll ask you. What do parents need to prepare? Go to my house to worship a teacher, and it's done.

"Thank you, Uncle Wu." Xing'er hasn't worshipped her teacher at this time, so naturally she can't call her master, so she still calls her according to the original name.

"Oc's it, you can go and play by yourself." When Wu Laosan saw a guest coming in, he left his two children to greet them.

"What else do you want to buy?" Shanzi turned around and asked Xu Xinger.

Xu Xinger went through a few pickles she had thought of before, and planned to try them first to see how the response was, so she broke her fingers and said, "I also need to buy Sichuan pepper, big ingredients, ginger, garlic, fennel, tangerine peel, and salt."

"Did your aunt ask you to take it back?" Shanzi said casually, "Why, what's up at home?"

"Confidential!" Xu Xinger put the food index in front of her lips and made a boo gesture.

Shanzi accompanied Xu Xinger to buy what she wanted and sent her back to the place she had made an appointment with Xu Laosan.

Xu Laosan, Lingzi and Xu Yingzi have been waiting here for a long time. Xu Laosan knew that Shanzi was a reliable person, so he was not in a hurry and squatted under the root of the tree to smoke a bag.

Xu Lingzi sat on a stone, looking over the newly bought pattern, thinking about which position and which needle method is the best and where to use the color is the most vivid.

Only Xu Yingzi had nothing to do. He walked around and sat down for a while and stood up again. He couldn't sit steadily like burning his buttocks. When he saw the two of them coming back side by side, Shanzi still held a large string of paper bags tied with straw ropes in his hand. He was angry, but it was not easy to show it. He hurriedly greeted him and said, "Xinger, you child. Why is Zi so ignorant? He has been pestering Shanzi. Isn't this a matter of delaying others! We waited so long to see you come back. We are so anxious!"

Xu Xinger ignored her and said directly to Xu Laosan, "Dad, I've bought all my things. Let's go home."

"Oi, let's go back." Xu Laosan knocked the soot in the cigarette pot and tied it to the car. "Shanzi, thank you very much for this time. I will often come home to play in the future and ask your third aunt to make delicious food for you."

"Hmm!" Shanzi did not refuse. He won and waved his hand to Xu Xinger with a smile before leaving.

Xu Yingzi looked at Shanzi's back running away, and his face looked indistinguishable. His silver teeth clenched his lower lip, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Xu Xinger didn't see this scene. She has been in a state of excitement since she saw the herbal stall at Shanzi's house. When she got on the car and walked home, she had been telling Xu Laosan about those herbs, and finally said, "Dad, what do you need for the teacher's ceremony?"

"You can ask what to do with this." Xu Laosan shook his shoulders and changed the thick strap hanging on his shoulder.

"Uncle Wu said that he would accept me as an apprentice, but he also said that this was not the old Wu family's apprentice, but his own apprentice. He also said that he would try his best to teach me, but how much he can learn depends on my creation." Xu Xinger didn't know anything about these words, and she didn't know what the ancient teacher was like. Since Wu Laosan asked her to go home to ask her parents, she couldn't help asking questions on the way.

"Worship is a big deal. You child, you don't discuss it with your family, just so confused..." Xu Laosan complained a few words, but still answered Xu Xinger's question, "Normal teacher worship should follow the ancient etiquette. You have to write a teacher's post seriously, come to kowtow and salute. The master wants to change his apprentice's name. At that time, the apprentice will move to the master's house to live for a few years. During this period, he is in charge of food and accommodation, but there is no wages, mainly to let the apprentice learn craftsmanship. In the past few years, he generally can't officially become a teacher, and he has to be a clerk in the master's shop for a year or two. At this time, he has already got paid to wait until it is true. Only when you can take over the work by yourself can you be regarded as a formal apprentice..."

Xu Xinger was stunned and couldn't help saying, "It's really complicated. So... Am I going to live in Brother Shanzi's house?"

Xu Yingzi was already in a bad mood all the way. Hearing this, she scolded, "Xing'er, you are such a big girl. You should pay attention to what you say. If you live in a man's house, you can say it casually."

"It's enough to know what I mean, and there is no outsider to do anything so critically." Xu Xinger said something unhappily.

"Blow, blow what?" Xu Yingzi didn't understand the meaning of the word just now. She thought that Xu Xinger was scolding herself. She stamped her feet and said to Xu Laosan, "Third uncle, look at Xing'er. I kindly taught her, but she said these messy words to squeeze me."

"The meaning of nitpicking is to deliberately criticize others and find faults." Xu Xinger took a deep breath and said that I didn't have the same experience as her. She turned around and asked Xu Laosan, "Dad, you haven't said yet. How can I be a teacher?"

"Since Shanzi's third uncle said that he only accepted you as an apprentice, naturally there is no need to follow such complicated etiquette and learn crafts. However, we still have to choose a good day, prepare some gifts to see his third uncle, kowtow to determine the name of the master and apprentice, and then you can learn from him in the future. ." Xu Laosan was very surprised that his daughter would worship Wu Laosan as his teacher, but he did not express it and planned to wait until he went back to discuss with Ye.

Xu Xinger didn't have so many ideas. When she got home, it was almost evening. She took all the things she bought from the car, hung them up in the sun, and put the rest in the shade and began to prepare five-spice powder.

She took out the spices such as Sichuan peppers she bought before, estimated the amount of mixed dishes, weighed the required catties of each, shook the hand at home, grinded them out, finely ground them into powder, and finally stirred them together, dipped them with her little finger and put them in her mouth to taste. She felt that although the taste was the same as she had made before. There are some differences. But the slightly spicy taste is still very delicious.

put away the five-spice powder, Xu Xinger took out half of the pepper she bought, took out some garlic and peeled it, and finally rinsed it with water, then dried it with a clean cotton cloth and removed the chili handle.

Xu Xinger greeted Xu Laosan and helped her move out a vegetable board that had not been used for a long time. Because there was a curtain on it, it looked very new and the surface was still very clean. She washed and dried the kitchen knife before she began to chop pepper and garlic.

"Oh, my little ancestor, what are you doing?" Ye heard a sound in the room and was smoked into tears by Xu Xinger's chopped peppers. "What are you going to do?"

"Mom, I want to make hot sauce." Xu Xinger said a little lack of confidence, because after all, she hasn't done it for too many years, and she doesn't know whether she can succeed. If she can't eat it, then so many things will be wasted.

"To make hot sauce?" Ye strangely wanted to come over and have a look.

Xu Xinger quickly stopped her and said, "Mom, this pepper is too choking. You'd better go back to the house first. I'll go in a minute."

Seeing this, Ye had to say, "You packed up all your things and let Taoer accidentally rub it. She is most afraid of spicy food."

"Don't worry." Xu Xinger said this, and her men were not idle. The peppers and garlic cloves were soon chopped. She put the chopped things in a clean basin, then added a few spoonfuls of salt, and stirred them with chopsticks to make the salt fully melt and evenly distributed in the garlic hot sauce.

After mixing it like this for a long time, Xu Xinger saw that there was not much soup in the basin. She nodded with satisfaction, put her foot on the bowl rack, removed Xu Laosan's burning knife wine jar, and poured some wine into the spicy sauce. This is also a tip she learned from others. The hot sauce with wine is not easy to break down and can be kept for a long time. And when you eat it, it will not smell like alcohol, but it will have a different fragrance, but only the wine brewed from pure grain can have such an effect.

The preparation of the hot sauce has been completed, and the rest is to be bottled and sealed for a month. At this time, Xu Xinger thought of the most critical problem. Now she is in ancient times, without glass bottles with lids, sealed lunch boxes, or even plastic bags. What should I do?

Xu Xinger's eyes swept around the stove, but she couldn't find anything suitable. The more anxious she thought about it, the more she became. The sweat on her forehead came out. She raised her hand and wiped her forehead and suddenly jumped up.

Just now, my hands were making garlic and peppers, but now it was already hot. I suddenly rubbed against my sweaty forehead, and all the skin I touched felt hot and painful.

Ye ran out to see when he heard the sound, and knew what was going on. He quickly scooped two ladles of cold water and poured it into the washbasin and greeted Xu Xinger, "Come and wash it quickly. Fortunately, he just wiped his forehead. If he touched his eyes and saw that you could still scream powerfully, he would have cried to death."

Xu Xinger's hands were still hot, and she didn't dare to rub them casually, so she looked at Ye with tears and said coquettishly, "Mom, my hands are still full of chili juice. Please wash them for me."

Ye raised his hand and poked Xu Xinger's forehead and said, "How old are you to be coquettish? Let Taoer see that she can't laugh at you."

"How old is it? I'm also my mother's daughter. When my mother is over 100 years old, I will be 80 years old, and I will still be coquettish with my mother." Xu Xinger deliberately exaggeratedly to coax Ye's happiness.

Ye Shi helped her wash her forehead with water and said anstrately, "If you live more than 100 years old, you won't be an old goblin."