Chapter 170 – Making a Humble Version of Chicken Essence

Ministry of Justice!

Two jailers went from one to the other, opening the cell doors, banging on the bars with their sticks, and shouting, “My lords, you may leave the prison.”

As they shouted, the jailers were glad that they stuck to the rules. Each line of work had its own rules, and the guideline for the jailers was not to mess with martial artists, unless the other party was a death row inmate whose cultivation had been abolished.

These high-grade martial artists who hadn’t committed any major crimes said they would turn over, and there was an example in front of them.

The first reaction of the crowd of watchmen was that His Majesty’s decree of demotion had been issued, and that they could be released from prison because their opponents’ goal had been achieved, and there was no need to continue to imprison them.

But when they got out of the dungeon, they were told that they could go and sign for their uniforms and gongs.

This process is familiar to people who beat the clock, which means acquittal and restoration to official status.

“His Majesty has pardoned us? It’s unlikely, isn’t it ….” Someone muttered in a low voice.

The night watchmen looked at each other, looking at each other with confused expressions, each one confused.

This prison sentence is obviously the result of the party struggle. The people are all old beat people, and even the party dispute is sinister and venomous, seize the opportunity to put the opponent to the death. Definitely will not easily put things to rest.

Wei Gong gave up certain things and exchanged us from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs …. Jiang Lizhong quickly made a guess and looked at the three golden gongs at his side.

The golden gongs exchanged silent glances, all pretty much guessing the same thing. For a while, their hearts were a little heavy, and then the gratitude of a soldier dying for a friend surged up, secretly giving thanks to Wei Yuan in their hearts.

Receiving back their uniforms, weapons and belt tags, the night watchmen left the Ministry of Justice in silence, and on the way back to the government office, they finally felt the joy of “life after the robbery”.

From the initial silence, it turned into excited conversation, and one guy even went around picking up his fellow officers about going to the Church Office to have a fling.

The gold gongs sized him up a few more times, a guy who walked with squinted eyes and looked like an oily, conniving type.

“Song Tingfeng, it’s only just out of jail and you can’t wait to make a mistake.” The gong at his side said in dissatisfaction.

“What do you guys know, my head of this clean silver gong have gone in, whether you are greedy or not, it does not matter at all. It only depends on whether the adults at the top want to screw you or not.” That squinty-eyed gong perked up.

Rather enlightened …. The golden gongs said to themselves.

“Then if Xu Ning Banquet goes, we’ll go.” A gong said.

Jiang Ruzhong’s eyes lit up, smilingly said to the Jin Gong beside him, “Xu Ning Banquet is the favorite of the Church Department, the object that the Flower Leaders compete to pursue, a while ago Yang Yan and I took this group of little guys to the Church Department for a drink, and goodness gracious… in addition to Floating Fragrance, there were four other Flower Leaders present at the time.”

Under the questioning gazes of the three golden gongs, the relaxed Jiang Ruizhong rubbed the shallow crow’s feet at the corners of his eyes and laughed, “The reputation of the Flower Leader of the Church Department is true to its name, ah, it makes me feel as if I have returned to my younger days.”

The three gongs could not hide the envy in their eyes.

Although they were not short of women, the flower girl of the Church Department was not in the realm of the golden gongs who could enjoy them with abandon, it was not that the golden gongs did not have enough power, but the Church Department belonged to the department under the Ministry of Rites, and the power of the night watchman did not work here.

It is impossible for the gold gongs to play tea round with the guests, and if they directly ask for a flower girl to serve them, they will 100% be rejected. And it’s not good to make trouble, because the Ministry of Rites hates it when they make trouble.

Back at the Yamen, the four golden gongs first went to the Haoqi Building to listen to Wei Yuan’s teachings as well as to show their loyalty.

“Just in time, take this opportunity to clear the crookedness of the government offices and manage your own subordinates.” Wei Yuan said.

The four golden gongs bowed their heads and led the way.

Wei Yuan nodded his head in satisfaction and said, “It’s not me who should be thanking you guys for coming out this time, it’s another person.”

Another man? His Majesty’s grace and amnesty? People like Jiang Luzhong guessed in their hearts.

“It’s Xu Qi’an.” Wei Yuan said mildly.

Xu Qi’an? This answer made the four Golden Gongs dare to be surprised, and incredulous.

Jiang Lizhong straightened his back and spoke respectfully, “Lord Wei, what happened during our imprisonment?”

Wei Yuan told the four golden gongs about the case of the Minister of Public Works’ fornication with the Witch God Cult, focusing on describing Xu Qi’an’s importance in the case.

The four golden gongs left the Haoqi Building, and Jiang Lizhong’s face was depressed and in a bad mood.

One gong flirted, “Jealous of that gong’s repeated success?”

Jiang Lizhong shook his head, closed his sharp, knife-like eyes, and sighed, “In the beginning, I should have fought Yang Yan to the bitter end and recruited Xu Qi’an.”

“Tongluo Xu is indeed a rare talent, it’s just that his strength is a bit lower.”

“What do you know, you don’t know him …. at all.” Kang Ruzhong suddenly shut up.

“Hmm?” The three golden gongs looked at him.

“Unspeakable, unspeakable.” Jiang Lunzhong shook his head.

“Surname Jiang, you’re following the example of a greenhouse girl, taking off your clothes and wiggling your ass, purely seducing people, aren’t you.”

“Quickly, what’s going on with that little gong, I also find him strange. Wei Yuan is overly favorable to a gong.”

“If you want to know, ask Wei Gong yourself.”

No matter how much the three gongs pressed, Jiang Luchong was dead set on not saying anything.

…..

After briefly asking his second uncle’s opinion, Xu Qi’an ran to the dental office the next day to buy the ghost house.

In fact, the second uncle meant to look again, but the aunt and Ling Yue are quite satisfied with that mansion, except for the female ghost in the well, but listen to the head of the family’s second uncle Xu said: since the people of the SZTU have seen it, then there will not be a problem.

Auntie and Xu Ling Yue were then completely relieved.

The dental firm admired Xu Qi’an’s head iron, and was even a little embarrassed to have hired men to clean the mansion for this purpose.

During dinner, Xu Qi’an asked Xu Pingzhi, “Second uncle, the mansion has been idle for many years, it needs to be properly repaired, I took my aunt and sister-in-law to see it the other day, and the structure of the house remains intact, only some of the doors and windows are rotten.”

Xu Pingzhi mused, “Half a month would be enough.”

Half a month? It’s not like we’re doing fine decoration, where do we need so much time …. Xu Qi’an said, “Let’s hire a group of craftsmen, find them from the outer city, and then have them work twelve hours in a row, so seven days will be about right.”

Xu Pingzhi froze, “Why the outer city, the craftsmen in the inner city have better craftsmanship.”

“Because out-of-town carpenters are cheap and don’t know the mansion is haunted. They can live in it without fear.”

What a black heart…the family thought to themselves.

The job of hiring carpenters is given to Xu Pingzhi to do, Xu Qi’an in these small matters of the city, belongs to the mouth is not hairy to do things, inexperienced.

Uncle Xu was an old capitalist, and it was reassuring to his aunt and sister that he was in charge of these matters.

The man’s got to have some hair on his mouth, men like it and women like it.

….

On this day off, Xu Qi’an, who hadn’t been to the Education Department for almost a week, drove his carriage out and met with the owner of the mountain goods store that he had contacted in advance in the bazaar, and purchased two baskets of shiitake mushrooms from him.

Next he honored his two promises: one, to help Chu Caiwei advance to the sixth rank of Warlock; two, the following to Chu Caiwei to eat.

The goal is clear, to make a humble version of chicken extract.

Xu Qi’an had watched a video before, and the person who posted it was a foodie, not a beyotch, but a proper foodie.

He collects a lot of ancient recipes and makes food according to the steps of the recipes, only to realize that the ancient food is not as delicious as he imagined.

Upon summarizing, it was found that the biggest difference between modern and ancient cuisine is not the change and addition of styles, but the reform and replacement of seasonings.

After coming to this world, Xu Qi’an deeply agreed with this statement, the chef of Gui Yue Lou’s skills were very good, but the meals of ordinary families were very bland, even if the Xu family had boiled high soup.

“The appearance of MSG is a major breakthrough in the human food industry ….” Xu Qi’an dumped two baskets of shiitake mushrooms into the vat to soak.

Then he went over the wall to the main house, stole an old hen, killed it, and stewed it in a small clay oven.

Next, the soaked shiitake mushrooms were briefly cleaned, fished up and drained, and thrown into another pot on the clay stove.

Xu Qi’an did not intend to make MSG because of the lack of knowledge and experience in making it, he only knew that the main ingredient of MSG was monosodium glutamate. It could be extracted through grain fermentation and from kelp.

…. But wasn’t what was fermented from the grains wine? Xu Qi’an muttered in his mind as he reminisced.

The option of extracting MSG from kelp was simply removed and not adopted for the simple reason that it was too costly.

The capital city of Dafeng is located in the Central Plains, far away from the coast, although there is a waterway and sea transportation, but the sea goods in the capital city is still a luxury product that can only be enjoyed by the dignitaries.

“Trying to extract a sufficient amount of MSG in kelp requires extremely large quantities, and you can’t buy a dump to extract much MSG.”

Xu Qi’an’s intention was to use chicken essence instead of MSG, thanks to the curiosity of a child, one day, the family suddenly came to Mrs. Lok, mom no longer need MSG.

He then wondered how the yellow packet had replaced MSG. So took a closer look at the ingredients.

The main ingredient of chicken essence has guanosine acid, which is a freshness-enhancing substance comparable to MSG. And guanylic acid is found in large quantities in shiitake mushrooms.

Little by little, adding water a couple of times along the way, the mushrooms and old hen gradually cooked down, and an oddly fresh flavor filled the small kitchen.

Xu Qi’an fished out the shiitake mushrooms, leaving thick juice in the pot, the boiled shiitake mushrooms rested on the filtering gauze and twisted hard to wring out the thick juice. After a few times, the shiitake mushrooms in the gauze were dry, with a look of their bodies being emptied.

The process after that is to mix the thick old hen broth juice and mushroom juice together, pound the chicken meat and bones with a pounding jar, mix it into the juice and stir it evenly.

However it’s a matter of waiting for the juice to dry naturally into chunks, then grinding the chunks into grist, and the humble version of chicken essence is formed.

After doing so, Xu Qi’an looked at the sky, dusk.

At this hour, the cook should be busy with dinner, just in time to try out the inventions of a schoolboy from the twenty-first century.

Seek product feedback from your second uncle and aunt.

I have a hunch that Xu Suoyin is going to eat ten bowls today …. The corners of Xu Qi’an’s mouth curled up slightly, and he quite happily served a night’s worth of thick juice and went over the wall to the main mansion.

PS: Today is particularly sour, all day fighting with the superiors, looking for every opportunity to doze off. Whew~ finally managed to code a chapter before work.

I’ll code the next chapter when I get home. Also, I’m begging for a monthly pass.