Chapter 199 Fried Chicken, Fries, and Hamburgers
Chapter 199 Fried Chicken, Fries, and Hamburgers
Those maids and servants with indentures were all arrested, and everything in the prefect's mansion was confiscated.
Luo Nanzhi was brought in after being knocked unconscious by the wealthy man; she wasn't considered a member of the prefect's household, but rather an employee.
She was then dismissed from the mansion.
Watching the maids and servants who had worked alongside her being taken away, Luo Nanzhi felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
Some of these servants might be exiled along with their masters, while others might be sold off by the government, since their masters had been confiscated and they would then become the government's private property.
But it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death.
With mixed feelings, Luo Nanzhi recently took a look at the prefect's mansion, which was declining from prosperity.
She left, intending to go home and confess everything to her father.
She had just walked into the alley when someone called out to her. She turned around and saw that it was Chef Zhang who had called her.
It turned out that Chef Zhang, like her, had not signed a contract of servitude with the Grand Tutor, so he was also dismissed from the mansion.
Luo Nanzhi looked at him in surprise.
Chef Zhang asked her what her plans were for the future.
Luo Nanzhi thought for a while and realized that she really didn't have any plans.
However, more than that, Luo Nanzhi wanted to know why the Prefect's Mansion had collapsed so suddenly. Chef Zhang had been in the Prefect's Mansion for a long time and actually knew what had happened.
It turns out that the prefect was imprisoned for embezzlement, and the prince came to investigate this matter, but he had always told the outside world that he was there to investigate a case.
Unexpectedly, the prefect presented potatoes, and the heir apparent, feigning to join him in corruption, tricked the prefect into revealing his true colors. The embezzled ledgers were found, and the prefect was arrested.
Later, Luo Nanzhi learned that the wealthy man's house had also been ransacked.
It turns out that everything was traceable. She was knocked unconscious and brought into the mansion by the wealthy man in order to curry favor with the prefect. Once the prefect fell from power, it wouldn't be long before the wealthy man's property was confiscated.
It's a case of reaping what you sow.
After chatting with Chef Zhang for a while, Luo Nanzhi and Chef Zhang parted ways.
Luo Nanzhi also returned home, and on the way she kept thinking about how to explain to her father.
As a result, all her attempts at self-suggestion were completely ineffective.
It turned out that not long ago, when his father went to the city to buy groceries, he spotted "Xianyu" sitting on a horse, looking very proud of himself. His arrogant demeanor and the group of seemingly powerful guards surrounding him made his father afraid to approach.
When Luo's father heard the people around him calling him "the heir," he became somewhat suspicious.
Luo's father tried to approach him despite his fear, but he was stopped. However, Xianyu didn't recognize him at all and coldly had him driven away.
Later, when he learned about the raid on the prefect's mansion, he couldn't care less about this bizarre incident. If Luo Nanzhi hadn't sent someone to tell him that everything was alright, his father would probably have been worried to death.
However, after Luo Nanzhi returned and told him about it, Luo's father finally understood that the young master at the time was Xianyu, and that their family had really offended a powerful figure.
Fortunately, he seems to have lost his previous memories, otherwise they would be in deep trouble if they were to settle scores later. Although they don't believe that the prince would do such a thing after regaining his memories, they genuinely treat him like family.
But for powerful and wealthy people like them, this act of "submitting" to a commoner woman is a humiliation.
Just to be on the safe side, Luo's father and Luo Nanzhi left their hometown, took their travel money, and returned to the city to rent a house.
They returned to town, and naturally, they couldn't just sit around doing nothing and let their savings run out. So, Luo Nanzhi started planning to set up a food stall.
She decided to get started right away, but she didn't know what to cook.
She mentally reviewed the dishes she had tried to make before.
In the end, I decided to make French fries and fried chicken.
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What are French fries? Fried chicken?
"I don't know, I've never heard of it."
Some people are already rubbing their hands together, eagerly anticipating the arrival of the delicious food.
Everyone watched with excitement and curiosity.
The potatoes that had been left in the yard had sprouted. At the time, Luo's father was home alone with nothing to do, so he took the sprouted potatoes and planted them. Unexpectedly, even without much care, they grew quite well.
Later, they moved back to the city and transplanted the seedlings that had grown into their new yard.
The yard is quite big; there's absolutely no problem planting these things.
Luonanzhi can now use potatoes to make French fries.
But before she can make fries, she has to render the oil.
Why do you say she wants to refine oil?
She discovered a crop with a high oil yield that was cheaper than lard.
While most households were frugal with oil, Luo Nanzhi's family was quite generous with it because she discovered that sesame seeds could produce oil.
Everyone knows that peanuts and soybeans can be used to extract oil, but the oil yield is extremely low; only nine catties of oil can be extracted from one stone. With current low production capacity, it is obviously impossible to extract a lot of oil.
Lard is good, but pork is expensive, and many ordinary families can't afford to eat lard.
As a result, rapeseed from the south became a staple on people's tables, and now most of the oil used by people is extracted from rapeseed.
Luo Nanzhi used to like using rapeseed oil, but she later discovered that sesame oil yielded more oil than rapeseed oil, and the oil yield was incomparable to that of sesame.
Luo Nanzhi obtained sesame seeds and began to plant them on a large scale in the fields of her hometown village.
Occasionally, they can sell this oil to earn some money.
After the sesame oil was pressed, she prepared the potatoes, which were cut into strips.
The potato strips are cut to a medium thickness. After the water boils, they are cooked until just done. After draining the potato strips, her special sauce is used to coat them evenly.
Then pour in the sesame oil she had just pressed, and once the oil is hot, put it in to fry.
Fry them twice and they'll turn golden and crispy; one bite and they'll be crunchy.
After successfully making the fries, she couldn't wait to give them to her father to try.
Luo's father had never eaten anything so crispy before, and he ate all the fried fries in no time.
But she still felt something was off, so she adjusted the sauce.
However, she didn't plan to prepare a lot of fried chicken. Chicken was a bit expensive, costing one string of cash per chicken. After removing some unusable parts and internal organs, there was still quite a lot of chicken left to use.
Therefore, her price will be higher, and ordinary people probably won't easily try it under normal circumstances.
So she prepared a chicken, cut it into small pieces, marinated it for an hour, and when it was almost fully flavored, coated it with a powder made from flour, a thickened sauce, eggs, and other seasonings.
Finally, it is deep-fried in oil.
It tasted good. While making fried chicken, she had a sudden inspiration: cut a steamed bun in half, put some vegetables and fried chicken inside, and brush it with the prepared sauce.
Sandwich them together layer by layer.
She thought it tasted good, so she quickly let her father try it. Her father had just finished eating fries and then started eating a steamed bun with meat filling.
"This is delicious! It's so good to eat it sandwiched between slices of steamed bun; it won't be too greasy!"
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