Qiao Xuan thought for a while, and instructed Liu Yan to kill the chicken. She went to the flower field to pick some wolfberry sprouts, and then to the vegetable yard to get some fresh loofah, and beans. She also dug out some yams from the cellar, cut a handful of leeks, and went home. She made Liu Yan wash them all.
Then, she went to the yard to pick two large round watermelons and let them soak in the spring water. She picked some egg-sized tomatoes.
The two young masters were lucky. Even she herself had not eaten the ripe tomatoes yet.
For lunch, she stewed chicken with boletus and Hericium erinaceus, and battered the crucian carp with a thin layer of paste and fried it in oil. After that, there were many small river prawns that were braised and baked two days ago. In the meanwhile, there was steamed mandarin fish, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and loofah soup.
Beans, wolfberry sprouts and yams were all served as cold dishes.
