There were five people in the row in front, namely the two chefs in the imperial dining room, as well as Dong Tiantian Yiping, Lu Xiang and Master Tang Dingxian, who could see strong confidence on their faces, and they were not smiling.

There were also five people in the back row, namely Ma Wenbing, Lasisi, and three people from the Western Regions: Amat, Chekesi, and Longkeyou.

Among them, the two people from the Western Regions who met in Kelaixiang's inn were also inside, one old and one young, they were a total of seven people, and they were really seven people who were secretly talking in the pile of rocks.

There were two people standing on the left and right of each person, helping to lay down their hands, and standing next to Ma Wenbing were Tianxiang and He Yipinghe.

Standing next to La Sisi are two girls, and I don't know if La Sisi did it on purpose, the stove she chose was close to Ma Wenbing's side, or was it not peeping at Ma Wenbing's side, I don't know what I want to do?

Tianxiang kept her head down, not wanting to look at the emperor and the two maidens, even Xianyi and Rui's father-in-law didn't want to look at it, for fear of being recognized and ruining the whole rare plan.

After everyone had chosen their own stove, Gonggong Rui looked at the emperor's meaning, and took out the first chapter like a holy decree, which was packed in a box, and there was a seal sticker on it, and a few words were written on the cover, which was the title of the first dish.

The three topics of this competition are the emperor and the two mothers themselves, the box is packed, the seal is sealed, no one has touched this box before, and there will be no leakage.

Father-in-law Rui opened the first topic, only to see that it was written: make a soup with four meanings, four nutrients, four tastes, and four ingredients.

Father-in-law Rui was also surprised, he had never seen such a question, and he didn't know if it was from the mother or the emperor.

There is no need for Grandpa Rui to think about this kind of problem, anyway, it is not that he wants to participate in the competition, so he said this topic, the time is an hour, and the timer will start immediately.

After hearing the title, everyone shushed at each other, this strange topic can be said to be not novel, but very strange, I don't know who came up with it? I'm afraid it was deliberately difficult for everyone.

Now that the topic has come out, everyone still began to think about how to make this dish, and Ma Wenbing also began to sink into thinking.

Tianxiang and Master He didn't disturb Ma Wenbing's thinking, and there was no need to ask anything, Ma Wenbing was definitely thinking about how to make this dish.

Ma Wenbing first thought of the four meanings, thought about it, and thought of longevity, wealth, love and happiness. As long as people will chase these four things, these four things will never go wrong no matter what.

Ma Wenbing was thinking about how to express the meaning of longevity? Ma Wenbing was thinking that the most representative master is longevity noodles, that is, noodles, but noodles are a staple food, and it is impossible to use them to make soup.

There are also some ingredients that represent longevity, such as turtles, ginseng, white cranes, deer, peaches, and bamboo.

Turtles, cranes and deer do not seem to be suitable, and it is better to use vegetarian food in general soup, the main function of soup is to appetize, clear the throat, replenish water, relieve greasy and other effects, and it is really not suitable if it is too greasy.

Therefore, Ma Wenbing's choice is peach and bamboo, and the peach birthday celebration and the bamboo are both meaning longevity.

Next is wealth, there are a lot of ingredients that represent wealth, the most representative of which is peony, so Ma Wenbing plans to use peony petals.

There are also many ingredients that represent love, such as peach blossoms, Yin peaches, lotus seeds, lilies, red dates, etc., but he has already chosen peony petals on behalf of wealth, and it is not appropriate to choose another petal here, so peach blossoms and lilies are excluded. Then you can choose Yin peach, lotus seeds, and red dates as options.

The last one is happiness, and there are many ingredients that represent happiness, but the three meanings in front of Ma Wenbing's mind all have the meaning of happiness, so the happiness here contains the first three meanings, and there is a better relationship between layers and packages.

There must be four flavors of the four ingredients, and this one is not to be said, but it is not good if the taste is similar, and it is better for the taste to have an obvious collision, such as sweet and bitter taste, you will know it as soon as you try it.

Ma Wenbing's thoughts were running at high speed, and he came up with hundreds of combinations of ingredients just now, and he came up with what kind of taste each situation would be, and finally Ma Wenbing chose one of the solutions that he thought was the best.

Wrap the peach with the petals of the peony, choose the freshest bamboo shoots and cut them vertically, put the lotus seeds on each section of the bamboo shoots, and wrap each other with the meaning of happiness, just like lovers hugging each other, so that the four meanings are reflected.

As for the taste, Yin peach is sweet, fresh bamboo shoots have a bitter taste, if the bitterness is not obvious, you can drop a few drops of bitter gourd water, although the petals and lotus seeds have a taste, but not very sure what it tastes like.

Ma Wenbing was the first to walk to the table where the ingredients were placed, the peony petals were not found, he found the lotus seeds, tasted them, the green taste, this taste and the taste of bamboo shoots overlapped somewhat, and its taste had to be changed.

Now there is a sweet and sweet taste, which means that bitterness comes from the sweetness. Now the best taste is the taste of sour and fragrant, which together has the same meaning as bitter and sweet, just like the first experience of love at the age of youth, and like a fragrant after the youthful.

The fragrant taste of the petals, but this floral fragrance cannot be cooked, so it must be kept fragrant.

After thinking about it carefully, Ma Wenbing changed his position, wrapped the lotus seeds with peony petals, and used bamboo shoots to carry Yin Tao, which was the best choice.

Just do it, Ma Wenbing first whispered to Tianxiang: "I need fresh small bamboo shoots, lotus seeds, Yin peach and peony petals." ”

Hearing Ma Wenbing's words, Tianxiang was very happy, because Ma Wenbing was the first to figure out how to do it, and his promise was really trustworthy.

So Tianxiang and Ma Wenbing began to look for these four things, the small bamboo shoots, lotus seeds and Yin peach were selected, but the peony petals could not be found, because no one used the peony petals as ingredients, but there was nothing wrong with using them, some people like to drink peony flower oil, and there is no problem in eating peony petals.

Tianxiang searched for all the ingredients, everything, but there were no peony petals, she was a little anxious, and asked softly: "There is no petal, can you change one, there are lotus petals over there, okay?"

Ma Wenbing shook his head and said: "Peony petals symbolize the meaning of wealth and wealth, you can bless people, lotus petals do not have this meaning, you can't use lotus petals, you help me think of a way, I will think of a way to make soup." ”

Coming up with ingredients is only the first step, how to do it is very important, this needs to be tested, a hundred attempts must not be done, but five or six trials should be done.

Ma Wenbing gave Tianxiang a problem, there are no peony flowers here, how to find peony petals? Tianxiang sighed deeply, a little stuffy.

I thought that Ma Wenbing could create a new dish, so why couldn't he come up with a solution?

Tianxiang observed the entire hall, except for the emperor and the ladies on the platform, who did not look carefully, and looked at the other places carefully.

There are bonsai in the four corners, all of which have bright flowers, which are red, I don't know what kind of flowers they are, and you can only see them clearly when you get closer.

Amaka walked towards the corner of the wall and was stopped by a soldier, who pointed to the bonsai over there, and the soldier hesitated, not knowing what to do.

Grandpa Rui's eyes were sharp, and he saw what Tianxiang and the soldier were talking about, and it seemed that the soldier was hesitant, so he walked down and asked what was going on?

The soldier replied, "This contestant is going to pick that flower." ”

Grandpa Rui personally asked, "Why did you go and pick that flower?"

Tianxiang replied, "There are no ingredients that need us here, we need fresh peony petals, and I want to see if that one is a peony flower." ”

Rui Gong said fairly: "That's not a peony flower, there are no peony flowers here, you better choose other ingredients." ”

Tianxiang said: "We can't come up with a dish that is easy for us to come up with, we can't give up without the ingredients, right? I think you should give me this kind of ingredients, shouldn't you?"

Grandpa Rui looked at Tianxiang's appearance carefully, and there was one where he had seen it, but he couldn't think of it, because he only saw it once when Tianxiang was very young, and he couldn't think that the girl in front of him was Princess Tianxiang.

Grandpa Rui looked at her like this, Tianxiang was also stunned, very worried that he would see his identity, but she had already seen her face clearly, and now she could only stay calm in this situation, as if she didn't know him.

Grandpa Rui couldn't think of anything from the past, so he didn't continue to think about it, "There is everything here, but there are no peony petals you want, you can only choose the ingredients on the table, and there are no other requirements here, understand?"

After Grandpa Rui finished speaking, he walked towards his seat.

Just now, when Gonggong Rui and Tianxiang were talking, he was seen by the emperor, and asked curiously what happened, and Gonggong Rui told the emperor that Tianxiang wanted peony petals.

The emperor thought it was incredible, "Can peony petals be used for cooking?" No one has ever tried this, but if you think about it, it should be able to be used as an ingredient, since there is no one here, you can help her find a little, this food competition, as long as the ingredients they need must be satisfied, so that it can appear fair." ”

The emperor's words were a holy decree, so Duke Rui ordered people to look for peony petals, so a few little eunuchs went out to find peony petals.

With the help of the eunuchs, and it was the emperor who spoke, so the matter of peony petals was settled, Tianxiang happily told Ma Wenbing that he no longer worried about the matter of peony petals.

Ma Wenbing didn't take the matter of peony petals to heart at all, but put all the things on how to cook a new bowl of soup, tried three or four times, and was not very satisfied.

Although there are only a few ingredients, the taste is very light, and all the flavors do not blend with each other, just like simply putting them in.

How can you make a flavor that all four ingredients can blend with each other? Ma Wenbing was thinking about this question, but he couldn't think of it, and he rarely thought about soup in normal times.

Ma Wenbing thought about all the soups he had made before, whether it was heavy cooking or light cooking, it was not very suitable, although it could be flavored if it was boiled again, it also lost its nutrients, and it lost its color, and if it was cooked lightly, it could not be tasted, and there was no taste of soup.

All had to come up with another method, and this method couldn't be thought of for a while, Ma Wenbing couldn't wait to smash his head, this was a critical moment.

Seeing Ma Wenbing's very sad appearance, Tianxiang said lightly: "Now the peony petals haven't come yet, and when the peony petals come, maybe they can be made, don't worry first, we still have a lot of time." ”

At this time, La Sisi hadn't figured out how to do it, seeing that Ma Wenbing knew what he was going to do so quickly, he was very jealous, and he also wanted to probe the wind to find inspiration, so he asked: "What are you doing here? ”

Tianxiang was immediately in the middle of Ma Wenbing and La Sisi, mainly because she didn't want La Sisi to disturb Ma Wenbing's thoughts, and now was the most important moment.

Tianxiang said softly, "You still have to think about what you should do, right? By the way, have you figured out what you are going to do?"

La Sisi shook his head and said: "I'm confused, I haven't figured it out yet, I can only make skewers and the like, is it possible for me to skewer four different foods with a stick?"

La Sisi really can't think of how to make such a strange soup now, mainly because she is not good at this, but what she is good at is something spicy, and the soup is basically not spicy.

Tianxiang deliberately made it bad, and said to La Sisi: "I have a good way, do you want to listen to it?"

La Sisi was begging for it, but she thought that she could tell herself what good way she could? She must have told that Ma Wenbing a long time ago, but she was still very happy and said, "What is the best way?" ”

Tianxiang said: "You can find that soup Dingxian, he is a master of making soup, he must have a good way." ”

Hearing Tianxiang's words, La Sisi seemed to have found a bright light, and did not say anything to Tianxiang, but went to find Tang Dingxian for some help.

But at this time, unfortunately, Tang Dingxian also thought of how to make this soup, and also went to the wooden table to start selecting ingredients.

Instead of giving up, she followed him and was very careful with his words, hoping that he could give him a little inspiration.

But the shrewd Tang Dingxian didn't fall for her, because helping others is to erect a strong enemy for himself.

At this time, a few little eunuchs got some freshly picked peony petals, because there are a lot of words planted in the back garden of the palace, and peonies are the main words, symbolizing wealth, so there must be this kind of flower.

The eunuch took the peony petals to Tianxiang and asked, "Do you think you need these petals?" This is what we just picked, if not, I can help you pick them again." ”

Tianxiang took the peony petals, handed them to Ma Wenbing and asked, "Is this okay?" “