Yang's six-room, the kitchen in the outer courtyard, is brightly lit. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Several cooks are all people from Shuzhong, who are ordinary cooks, and they have been assigned by the sixth lady, the ninth girl and Aunt Xiu, all of whom have specialized in the art industry and have made achievements in cooking.

In addition, the nine girls are obsessed with extracting various flavors from plants, blending all kinds of wonderful flavors, and customizing special pots and stoves. These ordinary cooks have become famous in Shu in a short period of time.

Yang's six rooms have several big banquets, namely the plum banquet, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, the hearth listening to the snow banquet and the banquet of Yang Yunzhu's marriage. These four banquets made the chef of the Yang family's sixth room famous.

Later, the sixth master was promoted, and the family wanted to go to Chang'an to ask about the whereabouts of these cooks. Only two of them had no choice but to follow the Yang family because of the large number of local families in Shuzhong, and the remaining five cooks all expressed their willingness to follow Yang's six rooms.

These cooks are all cultivated by the Yang family's six rooms, and such skills have entered Chang'an, even if they invite guests to banquets in the future, they must be famous in Chang'an. The Yang family was reluctant to lose it, so they brought their few family members, anyway, even if the Yang family's six rooms were entered in Chang'an, it would take people to buy a new house.

Yang Wang applied for various procedures from the local government, and then took these cooks back to Hongnong for a while, and then went to Chang'an together.

"When I go back to the ancestral house, I am afraid that there will be a lot of banquets, and I will have to invite you back for a meal or two, so you can start doing it when you return to the ancestral house. When Yang Wang was still at the Yingxi Inn, he gave orders to several chefs.

As soon as these five chefs entered the Yang family's ancestral house, they began to prepare a banquet list, and specially consulted the Yang family. Yang Wang asked Yang's housekeeper and Qing Mama to supervise the fresh ingredients.

Today, five chefs were preparing ingredients in the kitchen, and the King of Shu, who was going to the banquet, suddenly came to the kitchen.

As soon as the kitchen was done, the king of Shu bowed his hand and said, "I have nothing else to do." It's just that the weather is about to change, and the spring cold is also expected to be steep. I went to the old lady's side with the ninth girl for a banquet, and I guess I couldn't eat enough. You can prepare some hot pot ingredients, red clay stove or something. ”

"Yes. The kitchen staff answered in unison.

How to boil and mix the bottom of this small hot pot is given to them by the nine girls, and how to fry the dipping sauce is also the recipe made by the nine girls herself. Last winter, when I was in the six-room house in Jinyuan County, no matter the masters or their subordinates, they always ate hot pot every once in a while, and the taste was really wonderful.

"Red clay small stove, green ant new wine, late day snow desire, can drink a cup of nothing", the nine girls love to read this poem. Those of them who have never read a book also think it is wonderful.

But the ninth girl held the cup and smiled: "I didn't make this poem. I can't drink green wine that is hard to drink. ”

As soon as he did it, he laughed, and secretly felt proud: I don't know what the wine brewed by the ninth girl herself, but it is clear and pure, how can it be like green wine.

After the king of Shu left, the people in the kitchen were busy. For them, the King of Shu is not only the husband of the Nine Girls, but also the King of Shu of the Tang Dynasty. The orders of the king of Shu must be done.

From dusk to dusk, no one came to the kitchen to eat hot pot.

"Lao Cai, this, this hot pot, what should I do with these dishes?" Lao Yu, who was in charge of cooking fish in the kitchen, asked Lao Yu, who specializes in preparing hot pot.

Lao Cai looked solemn, leaned against the kitchen door, looked at the direction of the inner courtyard, and then looked at the main hall of the outer courtyard, before slowly turning his head and saying, "Keep it, we'd better not move around at will, just wait for the master's order here." ”

Lao Yu moved his mouth and sighed lightly, and An Su on the side also came over and stood beside Lao Yu, and asked a little uneasily: "Uncle Yu, tonight, the sixth room does not seem to be peaceful." ”

"Who doesn't know!" Lao Cai sighed and answered, "I have long vaguely heard that our sixth master is not born to the old lady, but the child of the previous lady. ”

"Hmph, but now, where is the sixth master's family in the way of them? I don't fight for them, I just come back to worship my ancestors for the marriage of the three girls. Lao Yu's tone was very bad.

"Didn't you see the day of the Yingxi Inn, then Yang Qingjun targeted Xiao Langjun everywhere. Isn't that the implication that Xiao Langjun will take away his title?" An Su pursed his lips and said disdainfully. On that day, he was ordered to make a few dim sum dishes in the kitchen of the Yingxi Inn and take them to add dishes, and he happened to hear Yang Qingjun's aggressive questioning.

"Phew, Xiao Langjun is the chief of the Gewu Academy, and he is afraid that he will not be able to get the title in the future?" Lao Yu is straight man pouted.

Lao Cai looked solemn, looked at the sky that was reflected by the lights like daylight, and muttered: "Except for major banquets, there has never been such lights in the sixth room. Tonight, I'm afraid I'll be able to get through it. ”

The hearts of everyone in the kitchen were raised, An Su was impatient, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Cai, you, what do you mean?"

Lao Cai shook his head and said, "Go and prepare the ingredients." After the hour, put the ingredients aside and change the batch. ”

"Yes. The answer to him was Yu Erniang, who was in charge of preparing the ingredients in the kitchen, and it was Lao Yu's sister.

Yu Erniang turned around to prepare, but the people didn't speak again, and then the door of the kitchen courtyard creaked open, and Xiao Song, who was carrying a lantern, walked in. Xiao Song is the youngest of the five chefs, with beautiful knife skills, supernatural skills, and kung fu that is higher than that of ordinary guards.

"What's wrong?" the crowd gathered around with concern. Xiao Song went to the outer courtyard to get tomorrow's morning recipe before, but not long after he went, the six rooms were not very peaceful, and Xiao Song did not come back directly.

Xiao Song handed the lantern to Mama Song, who was chopping vegetables in the kitchen, and said angrily: "Those thieves are really wolf-hearted. ”

"What's wrong?" Lao Yu immediately grabbed Xiao Song. Although this Xiao Song is the youngest among the cooks, he has the most calm temperament and rarely likes or anger. Now, he is angry, it can be seen that the matter is very serious, so Lao Yu is even more anxious.

You must know that they left their hometown to follow the Yang family Liufang to walk more roads, see more scenery, and grow more knowledge. Or if the six houses have made a fortune, they may also have achieved something. Now, if anything happens to the sixth room, don't talk about their future, even their lives can't be saved.

"Don't say it. Xiao Song shook his head.

"What do you mean?" Lao Yu was even more anxious.

Xiao Song looked around, lowered his eyes and said, "It's better not to talk about this matter." ”

"Alas, you are in a hurry to die. Lao Yu was even more anxious.

Xiao Song straightened his shirt and said, "I'll go drink saliva." ”

He said and went to the small hall in the kitchen yard, Lao Cai understood people, and knew that Xiao Song meant that there were many people and mixed mouths, and it was inconvenient to say something, so he wanted to go to the small hall to say.

He said to Lao Yu and An Su: "Let's also drink saliva in the hall." Atta, come along. ”

Atta is one of the five chefs in charge of steaming, who used to hold a banquet in the countryside, and was later brought back to the sixth room by the Nine Girls by chance. Atta got the order of the nine girls, created a lot of dishes by himself, and also thanked the nine girls for their kindness and Mr. Wang's life-saving grace to his wife and children, so the whole family went into the sixth room to do things together.

Atta is usually silent and rarely spoken, and is nicknamed "Stuffy Gourd". When this happened tonight, he squatted there silently to make tamales and didn't participate in the discussion.

"Good. He replied, and then washed his hands with the grass juice he had prepared before, and went into the small hall.

The five cooks were all in the small hall, and this little Song lowered his voice and said, "A thief entered the inner courtyard, and it is said that he assassinated the nine girls." As soon as the thieves were taken down in the compartment over there, the elders of the Yang clan in this compartment brought people to come, and the fourth room also brought people to a group, and they actually wanted to search the inner courtyard, and insinuated that the inner courtyard of the sixth room was not in order and was not clean!

"his mother's, these pieces of garbage, Lao Tzu cut them down. "Lao Yu is hot, although his knife skills are not as good as Xiao Song, but he is also one of the best. Ku Ding's ox is just a legend, and his knife work with Xiao Song is real.

"Uncle Yu, don't be excited, we just know these things, we can't make a noise, we can't take action, but it will ruin the arrangements of the masters. "Ansu has always been calm.

"Alas. Lao Yu sighed and slapped it heavily on the table.

"Xiao Song is right, let's just keep our duty, and we have to believe in our master. Lao Cai said.

Atta, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Then we must be cautious and guard the world of our kitchen." ”

Everyone was stunned, and they all thought that if the thief poisoned the kitchen, it would be impossible to prevent it, and it might even implicate the entire kitchen.

Atta was right. We used to be cautious and cautious, but tonight is not peaceful, and we must be even more cautious and cautious, and we must be 120,000 points in spirit and use our housekeeping skills. Guarding the field. After Lao Yu finished speaking, he patted his chest and took the lead in shouting, "Start work." ”

The rest of the mermaids came out one after another, sorted out the ingredients prepared earlier, checked them, and replaced the stale ingredients.

"How many days is it?" Lao Yu put a lively fish fillet into a crystal clear thin slice on the plate, put the chopped shallots around it, and straightened up to ask.

"It's almost four. Mama Song, who was chopping vegetables, replied.

"It seems tricky. Lao Yu is not worried.

Mama Song glanced at him and said, "Do your duty." ”

Lao Yu doesn't care much, this Mama Song is Xiao Song's wife, and Xiao Song's knife work is from Mama Song. Mama Song has been bad at it all these years, and she can't do such meticulous knife work, but cutting vegetables or something is still not a problem.

Just then, there was a knock on the door. Lao Yu suddenly came to his senses, the kitchen door had gone to open the door, and what came in was the porter pod.

Ma Pole strode to the door of the kitchen, and asked at a distance: "Is there any hot pot that the King of Shu wants?"

"It's all ready. Ansu replied.

"Then you have to send it to the main hall of the outer courtyard, the king of Shu feels that the spring cold is very domineering, and the hot pot can warm up. Ma Pole said.

"I'll send it right away. Lao Cai said with a smile. A stone fell in his heart, and in his opinion, the master still wanted to eat, that is, things were not as bad as they thought.

"Well, you guys hurry up. After saying that, he reported the number of diners to the kitchen, and then left quickly.

When the five chefs heard about the meal, they felt relieved, thinking that everything had been solved and full of joy. Now listening to the number of people reported by the hemp pole, the ninth girl, the third girl, and the sixth lady have not returned to the inner courtyard, and this matter is probably not so simple.

"Do our part. In the end, it was Atta who said with a blank face.

The rest nodded silently, and then sent the hot pot and wine to the main hall of the outer courtyard.

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In the main hall of Yang's six-room outer courtyard, the kitchen is very complete with hot pot, two small stoves per person, and good smokeless charcoal. A small stove cooks hot pot, and a small stove cooks wine.

There are wine vessels, fresh meat and vegetables, exquisite porcelain bowls and plates, various condiments, and of course, exquisite snacks.

"A few hard work. Tonight is special, and it also makes a few people tired until the fourth watch and haven't fallen asleep, I'm really sorry. Yang Shuyue was pleasant.

The five chefs came to cloth the dishes in person, and when they saw that the masters were safe and sound, the King of Shu was still handsome and extraordinary, and his heart also fell. Of course, what made them even more upset was the twenty or so corpses in the outer courtyard.

The guards told them that it was a thief who had tried to assassinate him tonight. The young guard in charge of guarding the corpse in the Shu Palace's mansion said to them very confidently: "Don't worry, we will protect you." ”

They just smiled and said, "It's hard work." ”

Hearing those confident words made their hearts lighten again. Now hearing the words of the head of the family, these five people are all excited. It's just that Atta, Xiao Song and Lao Cai are more restrained and quiet, and they don't show it on the surface.

Lao Yu became excited and said, "Back to the sixth master, you are not only our masters, but also our family. We don't work hard for our families. ”

Yang Shuyue is still kind and pleasant, very elegant.

"Don't talk nonsense, you're a slave. Atta calmly reminded. Among the five chefs, Lao Yu is the only one who has been bought and sold from the market with a slave status.

"I like Lao Yu's statement very much. Our six rooms are a family, and we should be so united. Yang Shuyue chuckled.

"Yes. The five chefs replied.

Yang Wang also said kindly: "You have been worried for a long time, now go back and rest in peace, don't forget, you have to get up early tomorrow to prepare breakfast." ”

"Yes. The five chefs spoke in unison, and then took their leave, leaving only a few maids who were waiting for the hot pot.

"I'm a shallow drinker, but I don't drink. It's not good to be drunk and miss the show. Jiang Chengzi put the wine aside with a grin, and directly took the full plate of bonuses and nibbled on it.

Li Ke looked at her and smiled slightly, his handsome face reflected the candle flame, which was really like a person in the painting. Jiang Chengzi also looked at him and smiled. The more Yang Shu looked at the situation, he couldn't help coughing twice.

Jiang Chengzi lowered his eyes embarrassedly, but Li Ke was already quite thick-skinned, and said to Yang Shuyue with a calm expression: "I went back to Chang'an in those days, but I missed the six-room hot pot very much. ”

"Then please ask the King of Shu to taste a few new flavors. Yang Shuyue smiled.

The two talked about all kinds of conversations, just talking about the customs of Chang'an and the officialdom of Chang'an. Jiang Chengzi listened on the sidelines and secretly wrote down some information.

Of course, she was also listening carefully to the voices outside the sixth room, such as someone saying: "Childe said that the sixth room is not peaceful tonight, and we have to cheer up the spirit of 120,000 points." ”

"Why does Childe care so much about the Yang family's sixth room?" the other asked very gossipingly.

"I don't know. It is said that Childe and Liufang Xiaolangjun are old acquaintances. The other is also unsure.

This man does not seem to be an enemy, but he does not know whose family it is.

Jiang Chengzi was still thinking about it, when he heard a person lower his voice and said, "Someone." ”

Jiang Chengzi closed his eyes, calmed down, and sure enough, he heard the sound of rustling running towards the sixth room, and there were a large number of people. (To be continued.) )