Chapter 104: A Seafood Feast?

When the young servant boy heard this, he was overjoyed to have a girl who could come up with an idea! He almost cried tears of joy.
He quickly pushed the front door wide open from a small crack and warmly and respectfully welcomed them into the mansion. Seeing that they didn't have much luggage, he recommended the various daily necessities for girls that were sold cheaply and in a complete range at the miscellaneous shop in Dayu City while walking with them.
This instant change in personality amazed Xiaonan and Qiner, thinking to themselves: the Great Ming Empire is indeed a magnificent country, with many talented individuals and a blessed land. Even the servants' minds are brighter than those on Coconut Island.
"This is the kitchen."
"We've arrived. The boy sighed with relief and smiled at the two of them."
"These are the freshest seafood brought in this morning. Madame Bafu has been craving seafood these past two days. The chef borrowed from Liuchao Building is used to inland cooking and is not very skilled in handling these. How's your cooking? Shall we have a seafood feast tonight?"
Sure!" "
Little Nian agreed without hesitation.
Qin'er was so happy that she almost laughed out loud.
They grew up on Coconut Island since childhood, and they have seen all kinds of seafood. What seafood dish haven't they ever cooked? No one knows seafood better than Little Nian! She believes that her sister Little Nian will definitely impress everyone in the Mansion tonight.
"By the way, I forgot to mention something very important!" the young man remembered something important. "My name is Ding Mao, and I am the steward of this Xue Residence, assisting Madam Ba in managing both internal and external affairs. May I ask how should I address you two?"
Xiao Nian and Qin'er glanced at each other and began to introduce themselves -
"My last name is Ren, my first name is Xiao Nian."
"My last name is Li, my first name is Qin'er."
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The steward Tao also gave some instructions about what should be paid attention to when working in the master's house, and then left the kitchen to take care of other matters.
In the spacious kitchen, which is about thirty to forty square meters in size, only Xiaonian and Qiner were left. After the unrelated people left, they instantly felt the air become fresh and their mood became relaxed.
Xiaonian walked around in the kitchen, scanning every corner with her peripheral vision, roughly assessing the place where she would be working for some time.
Dingmao is right. Those two big bowls of seafood are indeed freshly caught from the sea, including eels, mussels, gui fish, spider crabs, and conch, etc. She could tell at a glance.
"Oh dear -"
With a slap on her forehead, Xiaonian remembered something important she should have asked Ding Mao but didn't. She anxiously said, "Qin'er, Ding Butler shouldn't have gone far by now. You quickly go catch up with him! Ask him how many people will be eating at the mansion tonight?"
"Alright!"
With that, Qin Er quickly chased after him.
At this time, the sun was close to setting in the west, and dinner time was approaching. Xiaonain looked at the almost one-meter long top-grade white eel that had been killed, and started to work.
She swiftly grabbed the eel, cut off its head to let the blood drain, threw it into boiling water for a brief moment, then quickly took it out and used a knife to scrape off the additional layer of mucus that had appeared on its skin.
The mucus is dense and mist-like, it is a self-protective fluid generated by the white eel when it is on the verge of death, and it feels very slippery to touch. Once the mucus is generated, it becomes difficult for ordinary people to catch hold of it.
However, Ren Xiaonian is not an ordinary person.
No one knows fish better than her, all kinds of fish.