Ning Xi asked Rong Daquan: "Brother Rong, do you know what the princess likes to eat most before she loses her appetite?" ”

Rong Daquan thought for a while: "I was not very old at the time, and I didn't know very well, but my master was also in the Qi Palace, and I seemed to have heard him say that the princess likes to eat bamboo shoots." ”

"Bamboo shoots?" Meng Shuangshuang suddenly slapped the table, "I remembered, I bought some jade finger bamboo shoots in the kitchen this morning, each one is only as thick as a finger, it looks particularly crisp and cute, I also want to ask Ningxi what to do!" ”

Ning Xi smiled: "You little gluttonous cat, you must be greedy again!" Jade finger bamboo shoots are a rare good thing, once you buy them, you will make a chicken pith bamboo shoots for you to eat at night! ”

"Chicken pith shoots? What's this? ”

"You'll know by then, help me prepare the bamboo shoots first, then prepare a piece of good chicken breast and two chicken legs, and I'll start making it later."

"I'll go get ready!" Feng Zhihai took the initiative to finish speaking, and immediately ran out.

Meng Shuangshuang smiled: "Why did this kid suddenly become so positive?" ”

Rong Daquan thought for a while and said, "I think this kid is a little bit unscrupulous. ”

Ning Xiqi said: "How could Brother Rong say that? ”

"In the past few days, he has been working in the kitchen a lot, and I have taken a closer look, and it turns out that he is peeking at other people's cooking."

Ning Xi breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, Brother Rong, you know that I don't care about this here, as long as it doesn't delay the work you arranged for him, if he can really learn it, that's his own ability." ”

Since Ning Xi said so, Rong Daquan couldn't say anything more, so everyone dispersed and went to do their own work.

It didn't take long for Feng Zhihai to find all the raw materials that Ning Xi needed, rubbed his hands and said, "Miss Ning, can I stay and help?" ”

Ning Xi saw his excited appearance and nodded.

After rinsing and rinsing, the bamboo shoots were cut vertically to remove the hearts of the bamboo shoots, put them in a pot of boiling water and roll them thoroughly, and instructed Feng Zhihai while busy: "You help me peel and remove the tendons of the chicken breast and beat it into chicken minced." ”

Feng Zhihai answered, and happily got busy, and Ning Xi continued to put the rolled bamboo shoots into the soup to simmer.

Remove the leg meat from the chicken thighs, knock the chicken thigh bones apart with the back of a knife, carefully remove the bone marrow with a bamboo skewer, add rice wine, ginger juice and sugar to roll through, remove the fishy smell, and then change the clear soup and simmer thoroughly.

Feng Zhihai showed Ning Xi the chicken he had pounded: "Do you think this is okay?" ”

Ning Xi took it: "It's okay." "Add the broth, egg whites, salt and scallion oil to the minced chicken and let him stir vigorously in one direction.

After the chicken bone marrow is cooked, cut into evenly sized strips for later use, Ningxi smooths the stirred chicken minced chicken one by one in the heart of the bamboo shoots, and spreads it out in the dish to form the shape of a flower, the bamboo shoots are dotted with chicken bone marrow on the tip, and the coriander leaves on the stem are dotted at the bottom of the bamboo shoots.

"It's so pretty." Feng Zhihai sighed sincerely.

"It's almost ready, you see if their dinner is ready, and when it's ready, we'll take it out and eat it together." Ning Xi commanded casually.

Feng Zhihai answered, but he refused to move his steps for a long time, Ning Xi glanced at him and understood: "Okay, let you finish reading it, like you, you are so studious, it seems that in less than two years, you can become the pillar of our Shuangxi Building." ”

Feng Zhihai's face turned red: "Miss Ning has won the award, it's good if you don't dislike me." ”

Ningxi poured the clear soup on the bamboo shoots on the plate, steamed it in the cage drawer for a while and then took it out, the original soup was put into the pot, after the flavor was adjusted, it was thin with water starch, poured chicken fat, and then evenly poured on the bamboo shoots, and a dish of chicken pith shoots with full color and fragrance was ready.

It happened that dinner had already been prepared in the big kitchen, and everyone was eating in shifts, Ning Xi asked Feng Zhihai to bring this plate of chalcedony bamboo shoots, and invited several chefs to taste it with Meng Shuangshuang, An Mingyue and others, and everyone agreed that this dish was excellent, not only delicious, but also delicate and elegant enough, and it was the most suitable to present to the princess.

Since everyone thinks it is good, Ning Xi also decided to use this dish to participate in the food conference, according to Rong Daquan, the Qi Wangfu has held food conferences over the years, for the people in the capital, has gradually deviated from the original intention of the King of Qi, and regarded this as a grand event of the world's food gathering, so there are a lot of gourmets to participate, and they are all high-powered and very convincing, Ning Xi thought, even if her dishes can not arouse the princess's appetite, but can get a word of praise from these gourmets, for Shuangxi Lou, it is already excellent publicity.

However, she is just trying to make it today, and the chicken used is ordinary, in order to make the best effect, the raw materials need to be carefully selected, and the bone marrow of the chicken leg bone must be selected from the leg bone of the black chicken.

"Do you know where to buy black chicken?"

"Black chicken?" Everyone shook their heads in unison, they hadn't heard of it.

Ning Xi patiently explained: "It's just that the feathers all over the body are snow-white, but the flesh and bones are black, have you ever seen it?" ”

In the end, Rong Daquan was well-informed: "I remember, such chickens have indeed been sold, but because the flesh and bones are black, there are not many people who dare to eat them, even if the price is cheap, they can't be sold, and gradually no one raises them, and now they can't be seen on the market." ”

Ning Xi said regretfully: "Black chicken nourishes blood and kidneys, and is the most nourishing, why doesn't anyone know how to eat it?" Brother Rong, can you help me inquire, who has raised black chickens, I want to ask, maybe there are still people left! ”

Rong Daquan said: "Nowadays, the most chickens are raised, and the most complete varieties are none other than the Chetian Chicken Farm opened by the Yang family on Chetianling in the suburbs of Beijing. ”

Ning Xi said excitedly: "Great, Shuangshuang, help me go and ask for a carriage, I'll go and have a look." ”

Meng Shuangshuang was stunned: "Now? It's getting dark! ”

Ning Xi smiled "hehe": "Yes, then let's go again tomorrow!" ”

"Okay, I'll go with you." Meng Shuangshuang said happily.

Rong Daquan hurriedly said: "I'll go too, Chetianling is a long way, the carriage has to go in the middle of the night, I'm afraid I have to spend the night outside tonight, I don't worry about you two girls going." ”

"No need, I still want you to stay and help me take a good look at Sungai Tower, and Brother Rong, you are the pillar of our place, and you can't leave. And you," Ning Xi glanced at An Mingyue, who was eager to try, "I don't dare to take your eldest lady out, if something goes wrong, how can I afford it?" ”

"Then what should I do, who can accompany you?" Meng Shuangshuang said with a bitter face.

Ning Xi said with a smile: "I'm not afraid to go alone, now that the world is peaceful and prosperous, I am walking on the official road, and people come and go, am I afraid that something will happen?" ”

Feng Zhihai, who had been staying in the corner, suddenly said: "Let me go, no matter how I say it, I am also a manly husband who can protect Miss Ning." ”

"You?" Meng Shuangshuang glanced him up and down disdainfully, "With your small body, you really met a villain, do you protect Ningxi, or do you protect you?" ”

Ning Xi clapped his hands: "Okay, okay, it's decided, Feng Zhihai will accompany me, and I'll leave early tomorrow." ”

The carriage was invited by Meng Shuangshuang from the largest carriage and horse shop in the capital, and the coachman also had very old experience, Ning Xi sat in the carriage, Feng Zhihai sat with the coachman, and all the way to Chetianling was very smooth.

It turned out that Chetianling was a small village, and the coachman asked someone at the intersection, and the others pointed to the most decent blue brick house in the village and told them, which was the Yang family's house.

So I knocked on the door and greeted them with a young man in his early twenties, claiming to be named Yang Jiabao, it is said that his family was originally very poor, and later the imperial court encouraged the breeding of poultry and livestock, so he contracted the mountain behind the door at a very low price, used to raise chickens, and was originally worried that he could not sell it, but he did not expect that more and more people would eat chicken in the past two years, and the business was getting better and better, and the chickens were a little in short supply. Now the days are getting more and more prosperous.

The coachman is an elderly person, he likes to pull some homely things, and when he said that, he asked him if he had married a daughter-in-law, Yang Jiabao was a little embarrassed and said, the original family was poor, and no girl was willing to marry, but now life is better, but he is very busy, and he has not had time to think about it!

The coachman laughed at him, he had to hurry up, such a big family business had to give birth to a son so that he could inherit it.

Yang Jiabao blushed, took everyone up the mountain to see their chicken farm, Ningxi found that the Yang family's chicken farm is actually very primitive and simple, only with a bamboo fence to enclose a small piece of mountainous land, the chickens will be free-range, in addition to feeding once a day, the rest of the time let them forage for their own food, these chickens are extremely wild, as soon as they find that someone wants to catch them, they "cluck" and fly to the tree, run very fast, it is really not easy to catch one!

In modern terms, this is a real free-range chicken, the meat is firm, delicious, and the most popular, but such a feeding method, no wonder he said that it will be in short supply.

Suddenly, a white shadow flew in front of him, Ning Xi was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Yang Jiabao: "Is that a black chicken?" ”

Yang Jiabao said: "That chicken is a different species, don't look at the white feathers, but the flesh and bones of the whole body are black, and they can't be sold in the market, but I think the stew is still very good to drink, so I left a few to eat at home." ”

"Great, the purpose of my visit this time is to find black chickens, so let's do it, you can help me raise more after this time, and I want as much as you have here in the future."

Yang Jiabao's face showed a little embarrassment: "It's not difficult for us to raise chickens, but there are not many people who love to eat this black chicken, how many can you really want?" ”