Ma Wenbing served the dishes one by one, more or less with a sense of pride, those contestants who had not yet done it saw that Ma Wenbing's soup had been served, and their own had just known how to do it, they were anxious and impatient, and they couldn't wait to blow two mouthfuls of fairy gas into the fire.

One of the eunuchs took out a silver needle and inserted it into Ma Wenbing's soup, then took it out and looked at it, nodded, and motioned to put Ma Wenbing's soup down, and he could also stand aside and wait.

Next, the eunuch took several small bowls, each filled a bowl of soup, and handed it to the emperor, the red-clothed and pink-clothed Niangniang in turn, and finally to the Rui Gonggong and the eldest person.

Everyone began to taste Ma Wenbing's soup, when a mouthful of soup entered the throat, there was immediately a taste of bitter gourd, and when they were about to say that the soup was not delicious, they immediately had a little sweetness, and they were very surprised, and then they ate a peony petal wrapped in Yin peach puree, and bamboo shoot wrapped lotus seed puree, each with two flavors, began to praise.

The emperor first said, "This soup is very creative, I don't know if it has a name?"

"Good soup, or also called Guan Ju soup. Ma Wenbing replied.

Then the lady in red asked, "How do you solve this?" ”

Ma Wenbing immediately read out the poem of "Guan Ju", as soon as this poem came out, those who knew poetry were shocked, especially the emperor, he is an emperor who loves literature and ink, how can such a good poem not be happy?

The emperor was overjoyed and immediately gave Ma Wenbing's soup a hundred points, if not for anything else, just for this poem and the magic of this soup.

"The soup is a good soup, and the poems are also good poems, but we don't know if there is anything in this soup according to the rules of our competition?"

Ma Wenbing began to explain, "The main ingredients of this bowl of soup are peony petals, Yin peach, bamboo shoots and lotus seeds, among which peony petals imply the meaning of prosperity in this rich country, Yin peach and lotus seeds can imply sweet love, and bamboo shoots have the meaning of longevity and health." ”

"Although your soup has four ingredients, it only has three meanings, which doesn't seem to be in line with our rules of competition?

Ma Wenbing explained, "The little one thinks like this, this fourth meaning is not embodied in ingredients, but in form, wrapping rose petals in peach mud balls, wrapping lotus seed mud balls with bamboo shoots, I want to express a kind of happiness in my heart, this is the feeling of happiness." ”

"Well explained, well explained. The Emperor immediately replied, "It is much more clever to embody in form than in kind, what is your name? Tell me about your experience, I would like to know now." ”

Ma Wenbing hesitated for a moment, he didn't expect the emperor to ask about his own experience, how to talk about this comparison and rules? He didn't know for a while.

"Don't be informal, just tell me where you live and where you learned how to cook. The lady in red saw Ma Wenbing's embarrassment, so she said with a smile.

In Ma Wenbing's heart, he immediately determined that the lady in red clothes was much kinder, although she was almost forty years old, she was still beautiful and surprising.

The lady in red is much better than the lady in pink, and the lady in pink is a traitor, and her beauty is full of intrigue and trickery.

Ma Wenbing nodded, and then dared to say, "My name is Ma Wenbing, I live in a small town called Shilong in the southwest border, I have no father and mother since I was a child, it was the master who took me in and taught me cooking." ”

Hearing Ma Wenbing say that he had no father and no mother, the lady in red, that is, Concubine Xiang, was very sympathetic to him, thinking that his fate when he was a child was also extremely tragic, and he didn't know why, he immediately had a small idea in his heart.

Concubine Xiang said softly to the emperor: "Whether this Ma Wenbing wins the first place or not, can he stay in the palace? He is a very creative boy, and he will definitely be able to make delicious dishes." ”

The Emperor nodded, and just as he was intending to do so, he then asked, "Who is your master? Is he here today? Can you let us meet? The apprentice's cooking skills are so good, the master must be better." ”

Ma Wenbing immediately said, "My master didn't come, he wasn't here, I came with two friends, and they helped me." ”

"Oh, that's a shame. The Emperor said, "I have given you a perfect score for the soup, and you have all drunk it, what do you think?" ”

The emperor gave a full score, and others naturally didn't dare not score high, Concubine Xiang liked Ma Wenbing very much, she could learn to cook well at such a young age, and she was a child without parents, she scored ninety-nine points.

The sweet potato Niangniang scored ninety-five points, and the Rui Gonggong and Xian Yiren were naturally lower, so as to show the benevolence of the emperor and the maidens, one scored ninety-three points, and the other scored ninety-two, for a full score of 100 points, such a score is already very high.

Ma Wenbing was naturally happy to receive such a high score, especially when the emperor gave him a full score, which gave him a lot of confidence.

Next, the others also scored their own works in turn, but none of them were as high as Ma Wenbing, only the soup made by Tang Dingxian got a few more than 90 points, and no one else exceeded 90.

Although it is a good thing, Lord He Yiping He is slightly worried, a few people in the Western Regions have not been poisoned this time, and I don't know what they think, and the two imperial chefs are not more than ninety points, don't they have a backstage?

This was the end of the first race, and Ma Wenbing won in first place.

The second game is about to start, and Lord He Yiping can only put his hope on the second game, in fact, the soup is the best medicine, and he can't figure out what the reason is for a while.

Next, Grandpa Rui began to open the second test question, the second test question is a cold dish, this cold dish is very special, please make a cold dish that makes people cry when you eat it, and the ingredients are not limited.

If that soup is deliberately embarrassing, then this cold dish that will make people cry and laugh and cry is still a dish? It's really embarrassing.

This dish was conceived by Concubine Xiang, and the emperor asked her to think of a cold dish, where did she come up with any dish? It's just that she often thinks of sad things, so she thinks about whether there is a dish that makes people eat sad, and the emperor is happy when he hears it.

The Emperor said that the dish sounded strange, but it could test the soul of a chef's creation and bring out the best in him.

It's really because of the absolute support of the emperor, so there is this strange test question, when Father-in-law Rui said the test question, everyone was surprised, they have never made such a cold dish, I really don't know how to do it.

Tianxiang gently asked Ma Wenbing, "Eat a dish that will make you cry, have you ever made this dish before?"

Ma Wenbing shook his head and said softly, "Don't say if you have done it, you haven't even heard of it, this time it really made me difficult, I'm really confused now, I don't know what to do." ”

Tianxiang comforted, "It's okay, just think about it slowly, you see that they are also confused, I think you are the first to come up with it, come on, I believe you." ”

Hearing Tianxiang's comfort did give Ma Wenbing some strength, but this power was not in how to cook, and it couldn't help at all.

Ma Wenbing fell into deep thought, in his concept, eating vegetables is a kind of enjoyment, a kind of happy enjoyment, should be happy, how can it be sad? If the person who can eat vegetables is sad, then why does he still eat vegetables?

Since a dish can bring happiness to a person, can it also bring sadness? Ma Wenbing seems to have some truth in thinking like this, but how to make people sad is a key question.

Ma Wenbing thought of onions, because onions are a kind of ingredient that can cause tears, and people who are sprayed with onions in their eyes will shed tears, is this a method?

Ma Wenbing planned to give it a try, walked to the place where the ingredients were placed, found the onion, washed and peeled it, cut it, and shook it in front of his eyes.

The irritating gas of the onion drilled into Ma Wenbing's eyes, and Ma Wenbing's eyes immediately gave birth to tears, but Ma Wenbing didn't take the onion away, and kept staring at it with his eyes.

Tianxiang didn't know what Ma Wenbing was doing, so he didn't answer when he asked, he was very anxious.

La Sisi, who was on the side, also had no clue, and turned his head to see Ma Wenbing holding onions, so he came over curiously and asked, "Do you plan to use onions?"

Ma Wenbing didn't answer her, but continued to say so, the irritating gas kept drilling into his eyes, and the tears became more and more, but they never fell out.

Ma Wenbing was very disappointed, although onions can make you cry, but they can't make you cry, and more importantly, the tears produced by onions are not real tears, not sad tears, real sad tears are sent from the bottom of my heart.

But how can a vegetable eater cry from the bottom of his heart? Unless the vegetable eater is reminded of the sad things, but he doesn't know the sad things of the vegetable eaters, even if he knows the sad things of one of them, it is useless, because there are five people who taste the food.

Unless there is a possibility, the sad things of the five people are the same, and arousing their sad things can make them cry when they eat food, but Ma Wenbing doesn't know what sad things they have in common.

Ma Wenbing walked to Lord He Yipinghe's side, because he was old and experienced, so he told Lord He Yiping He his thoughts, and wanted to ask the emperor and the ladies what sad things would be?

When Lord He Yiping heard Ma Wenbing's words, he fell into deep thought, and said lightly, "I can't be sure about this, but I can only roughly guess, I think their common sadness is probably loneliness." ”

"Lonely?" Ma Wenbing was puzzled and asked, "How can it be lonely? They are high up, they have everything, they lack nothing, how can they be lonely?"

Master He Yiping He explained, "You don't understand this, although they are high and have everything, but I always see loneliness in their eyes, if it is not for careful people, it will not be able to see." ”

Since Master He Yiping said that they were lonely, there should be nothing wrong with that, and Ma Wenbing asked again: "What about Grandpa Rui and Lord Xian, are they also lonely? Doesn't this seem very reasonable?"

He Yiping He said, "I can't guess what sad things are about the two of them, I think those two people are two people who love money, people who love fame and fortune, and if you want to say that the sad thing about them should be when they are poor, when they have no money, they are discriminated against by others." ”

According to what Lord He Yiping He said, this is troublesome, one is lonely, the other is discriminated against, it's different, how to make this dish?

Time was lost little by little, almost a quarter of the time was lost, but no one thought about how to make that dish.

In fact, if you can't do it, it's nothing, it's equivalent to a tie game, and no one scores, but Ma Wenbing doesn't want to be like that, as a chef, guests must meet their needs, so he is a really good chef.

After everyone's long-term discussion, in the end, Lord He Yiping He gave Ma Wenbing an idea, which is to focus on the emperor and the ladies, and make a dish that can arouse the lonely heart.

But another question arises, what kind of food can arouse the lonely heart? As the saying goes, if you want to arouse the lonely heart, you must come up with a food that stimulates the feeling of loneliness, and you can use your brain in the name and shape.

Ma Wenbing carefully looked at all the ingredients, and finally, his eyes were fixed on the meat of the mandarin duck bird, the mandarin duck bird is the animal that knows love the most, they will only be a pair in their lives, it is because of this, they often come to symbolize love, hoping that each other's love will last forever.

Ma Wenbing thought, since it is such a pair of affectionate birds, if one of them dies, then the other party must be extremely sad, the lonely shadow, Manman has a long road, and he will always miss it, and that feeling is probably the biggest loneliness.

Ma Wenbing suddenly thought of an idea in his heart, that is, to make the meat of mandarin ducks, so that the people who eat them will think of the animal mandarin ducks, and he has come up with a touching story, which should be worth a try.

As for what story to say" Ma Wenbing thought about it, the first thing he affirmed was that this story must be about love, and it was a very poignant love, there are many stories about love, Ma Wenbing first thought of Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo, Peacock Flying Southeast, Tianxian Pei, White Lady and Xu Xian and the like.

Mandarin ducks are birds, so it is better to have similar elements, considering very factors, Ma Wenbing's final choice is Tianxiang with the story is better, especially the ending, the cowherd and his niece can't get together across the galaxy, how lonely is that?

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