The arrival of the newcomer did not cause much turmoil in the palace, at least on the surface.

The cooking in the kitchen is still according to the original rules, at most, it is just to cook more than ten people's meals.

The big mama means to come as usual.

But this dish is very big.

For example, they are both pork, and braised pork and stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots are two completely different dishes in terms of quantity, workmanship, and taste.

Naturally, small dishes such as stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots are naturally in charge of the kitchen, and the dishes in the five courtyards are all made by two chefs in the kitchen.

The kitchen and the back house are far away, but the back food is served every day, and many things can be seen from this.

Since Ying Xintang was erected, the prince's meals have been sent over there.

The master's diet was naturally put in the first place, and the prince was also there, and the two cooks used their housekeeping skills.

Although the prince is no longer in the mansion now, the master of Ying Xintang is even more open.

As soon as the morning food was used, Xia Chan and Qiu Shui were ordered to cook and order.

The summer heat does not go away, Xie Wu wants to eat mung bean porridge and pickled radish, plus a bowl of steamed eggs with shrimp and a steamed fish.

The dish is very simple, but this shrimp is a difficult task.

In order for Gu Xie Wu to eat shrimp, the kitchen of the palace is to buy fresh prawns from the largest restaurant in Liangzhou.

Over there, all the year round, the farmers in the countryside have found the river shrimp from the river, picked up the best water for farming, and put them in the freezer as soon as the weather is hot, so as not to kill the shrimp from heat.

This can satisfy Xie Wu's idea of wanting to eat shrimp steamed eggs from time to time.

The person who received Xia Cicada was Qian Xiaosi, the little apprentice of the chef Feng Dagui, who was now holding two spoonfuls, and usually cooked for the courtyard of the concubines in the south, and Xie Wu often ate the red bean paste he made when he was still in that yard, and he was also half an acquaintance.

Therefore, Feng Dagui let him take charge of Ying Xintang's ordering.

As for Feng Dagui, who is busy opening the warehouse and counting the sea cucumber wings and humps, Mrs. Xu is going to hold a small banquet in the courtyard and let him prepare.

Feng Dagui discussed the menu with Niu An, another chef in the kitchen.

In fact, both of them understood in their hearts that the face that Mrs. Xu wanted, and the dishes naturally wanted to be good.

It's just that the prince is not there, the things in the library are all customized, and Mrs. Xu is not a serious master, and it is not easy to deal with the long history of using too many high-quality ingredients.

After such a small banquet, the backyard will not be able to see dry goods for at least three months.

Outside the door of the warehouse, Niu An's apprentice Ding Ku guarded and would not let people in.

Only then did the two of them open the skylight and say something bright.

Feng Dagui took a box of bird's nest and said: "This bird's nest has to be left for the Jin Ru and Wang Ru people, and half of the abalone and dried scallops have to be left for the Gu master, and Mrs. Xu likes to eat fresh and fresh ones, but there is no need to prepare them." ”

Niu An was always a little undecided: "There is no need to keep the bear paws and humps in the ice warehouse? ”

Feng Dagui sighed: "When they come out, they have to wait for the prince to come back, there is still half a year! Besides, there is also Master Gu on top, and the newcomers have almost been rectified by Mrs. Xu after half a year, where will there be anything." Besides, isn't there no way around it right now?"

Niu An looked at the things in Curry and nodded in response.

can only do this, their kitchen has always wanted a bowl of water to be flat, but who can tell the things in this palace, I am afraid that it will be the result of the chicken flying egg, it is better to be red and white.

Back in the kitchen, Qian Xiaosi told his master Feng Dagui.

Feng Dagui Bai said: "I will make these dishes ordered by Master Gu, and you can cook some red bean paste, make some yogurt, and prepare seven or eight kinds of snacks commonly used by Master Gu on weekdays." Prepare a snack after the host's nap. ”

When Xia Cicada and Qiushui came to the food box with the green and red flowers, they first looked at mung bean porridge, pickled radish, shrimp steamed eggs, steamed fish, and then checked the duck soup, steamed cakes, fried dumplings, spicy cold noodles, cold noodles, fried vegetables, fried shredded pork with green peppers and other dishes prepared by the kitchen in the other food box.

The masters generally don't order full, and the rest is done by the chef himself.

However, when the people in the kitchen watch it themselves, it is natural to see what everyone does.

For example, on Zeng Yuan's side, in addition to the dishes ordered, there are only steaming bowls that are always prepared in the kitchen.

The meat is large and greasy, and it is usually something that is served out and brought back, and even the maids around the master do not eat it, and most of them end up in the stomach of the rough eunuch.

Xia Cicada and Qiu Shui covered the lid and let the green and red help carry it.

Qian Xiaosi saw that Xia Cian was very satisfied with the dishes they prepared in this way, and stepped forward: "Hello two sisters, Xiaosi has also prepared red bean paste, yogurt, and a few snacks, I don't know if I will take it back or let the people in the kitchen send it over." ”

Xia Cicada gave him a dime of silver, and Qian Xiaosi was happily rewarded.

A dime of silver is enough to buy a noodle in the palace, but this Ying Xintang rewarded it, that is the face, and he also relied on this idea to get the position of two spoons from the master's many apprentices.

Xia Chan said: "How can I be free at this time, besides, it's lunch time." I'll come back later, but remember that the red bean paste and yogurt have to be chilled, and the yogurt has to be served with rose marinade to be delicious. ”

Qian Xiaosi said yes.

Only then did she lead Qiushui, Wan Qinghong, and Ying Qinghong back to the backyard Yingxintang.

Halfway through, I met Yunmeiyuan who came to pick up vegetables, and the food boxes in their hands were ridiculously large, and they contained a lot of things at a glance.

The maidservants had just arrived, and they didn't know which yard was carrying the food, but they didn't dare to offend.

They all stood on the edge of the corridor, so as not to collide with Xia Cicada who was holding something in their hands.

Xia Cicada naturally knew where they came from, and their nostrils wanted to look up to the sky.

Wan Qing and Wan Hong are young, but they are also disdainful.

These maids all followed their own young ladies out of the major mansions, and the girls were the first to follow the girls before they went out, otherwise they would not have followed them out of the pavilion to the Qin Palace, and they were looked down upon so much, but they were resentful in their hearts, and they had nowhere to hold their anger.

The maidservants couldn't see Xia Chan's back, so you said it word by word, and I didn't know which yard it was, such a big shelf.

It's not far from the kitchen, and their voices are naturally heard by the people in the kitchen.

Yunmei Garden's meals were handed over to Niu An's eldest apprentice Ding Ku to do.

It's just that today Ding Yu wants to keep an eye on the seafood, so he asked his little apprentice to chop vegetables to help him, and he was too lazy to get started with some seasonal stir-frying.

Each master is three dishes and one soup, fried meat with magnolia slices, stir-fried beef with sauerkraut, stir-fried vegetables, a pot of duck soup, and a pot of rice.

This Ding Ku was originally boiled beef bone soup, but the little apprentice was afraid that the newly arrived masters of Yunmei Garden would not be used to drinking it, so he asked Qian Xiaosi for some overcooked duck soup.

Gu Jiewu likes to drink soup, but the soup is too greasy for her to drink, and the soup specially made for her is very light.

The maidservants looked at the three plates of almost identical dishes on the long table, and there was a rush of anger in their hearts.

The people in this kitchen are too perfunctory, and they don't even have a selection of dishes.

Ding Ku was finding that some sea cucumbers were rotten as soon as they were soaked, and he was not happy, and suddenly heard the little apprentice say that those maids disliked the poor color of the dishes and wanted to redo them in the kitchen, and he became angry all of a sudden.

When he walked into the pantry, he said, "If the girls dislike the bad food, you can tell Changshi or Mrs. Xu and make noise in the kitchen?

Do you still think that this is your own house, and if you want to eat dragon meat, everyone in the kitchen has to go to heaven to catch it?"

Ding Yu was originally a small servant in the outer courtyard, and he injured his face in an accident, and a scar was pulled from the eyebrow bone to the bridge of his nose.

After going back, he didn't dare to say what happened, for fear that his master would know that the dish he ate was made by an ugly person and would be disgusting and he would not be able to eat it.

Ding Xu's little apprentice cooked according to his wishes, but he was afraid that he would be angry, so he quickly admitted his mistake: "It's all the apprentice's fault, which makes the master embarrassed." ”

Ding Yu was a clear right and wrong, and said, "It's none of your business. Hurry up to the sugar depot to find Shigong, and say that there is a problem with this seafood, and let him hurry over to take a look. ”

When things were put into storage, they were inspected by Niu An, and now they have been replaced with fakes, and he is the first to be implicated in accountability, as his apprentice, he naturally does not want to see such a thing happen.

As soon as Niu An heard this, he locked the sugar depot and went to the big kitchen.

There is no one in it, and his eldest apprentice is doing well, and the less people know about this, the better.

It's a big deal to pay for it yourself.

But who did this?

Feng Dagui?

Probably not, he has always been in charge of white cases, and he doesn't understand dry goods.

The rest are the old cooks who don't fit the stove.

The palace has to come to pay respects to the state capitals every year for the New Year, so there have been a few old cooks, so as not to have enough manpower during the New Year.

Niu An thought all the way, and when he saw the sea cucumber that was rotten into a puddle of mud in the water, he quickly asked Ding Yu to change his clothes and go out to buy as many as he wanted.

Ding Ku was embarrassed, there was no long history of cards, and he couldn't get out.

Niu An had no choice but to find Feng Dagui and asked him to let Ding Ku go out to buy things to make up for the stock in the name of buying fresh shrimp. Feng Dagui has always had a pair of cards on his body.

Feng Dagui is a smart person, he didn't ask Ding Yu what he was doing when he went out, he just wanted him to bring back a bucket of live shrimp.

Ding Yu took Feng Dagui's pair of cards, and then he was able to go out.

After a while, Mrs. Xu saw that there was an extra brine prawn on the menu sent by the cook.

She has never eaten shrimp, to be precise, she does not eat things with shells, and she only eats shrimp when she eats shrimp.

So he asked Begonia: "Where does the fresh shrimp come from in the kitchen on this hot day?"

Haitang just heard that the second chef in the kitchen went out to buy fresh shrimp, and also knew that Ying Xintang loved to eat this taste.

How dare she say it.

smiled: "It's because it's hard to find on this hot day that you can show the difference between you, Madame." ”

Xu Chaoyun set up this small banquet with this meaning, and when he heard Haitang say this, he didn't think much about it.

Lilac glanced at her disapprovingly, but Begonia had already made a decision about this matter, and now she said that it was time to dismantle Begonia's platform.

I had to be silenced.