Ning Xi really thought about it a little, what should he do for Jun Wuye for this first dish?

If you want to talk about innovation, in fact, many of the dishes in Ning Xi's mind now are unheard of in this world, and it is not difficult for her to make thirteen new dishes to complete this agreement, but this time he helped himself so much, Ning Xi didn't want to fool him at will, thinking about it, Ning Xi decided to make a dish that seemed to him in his previous life in the novel, and then made some improvements in his actual operation - Jade Flute Who Listens to Meiluo.

However, Ning Xi has not been in contact with many scholars in this world, I don't know if there is a poem at this time, "Who listens to Meiluo on the jade flute", but fortunately, Xiao Ze has already returned home because he wants to change the academy for him, and he is studying at home to prepare to participate in the interview of Bailu Academy.

Ning Xi brought him over: "Xiao Ze, I once heard someone read a poem, I think it sounds very good, I want to use it to make the name of our restaurant, but I don't remember it now, I'll read it to you, see if you know." ”

Xiao Ze nodded hurriedly: "Second sister, you can say it, as long as it is in the book, I will definitely remember it." ”

Little guy, will you be overconfident? Ning Xi couldn't help but educate him: "There is no end to learning, have you remembered?" Don't just say you know it in the future. ”

Ozawa's face flushed: "Yes, second sister." ”

"Listen, there's a sentence in this poem that is a jade flute or something to listen to Meiluo, like this, have you ever heard of it?"

Ozawa searched carefully in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he blushed: "I'm sorry, second sister, I really haven't heard of this poem." ”

"I haven't heard of it, then forget it, I just said it casually, you go back and read a book."

"Yes!" Ozawa answered very sincerely this time, the second sister is right, there is no end to learning, you must not be complacent, you must study harder in the future.

Ning Xi was also muttering to herself, it seems that this poem still doesn't exist, so she can't say it, this dish still has to change its name.

After deciding what to cook, Ning Xi slept peacefully, and when he got up early the next morning, he took Meng Shuangshuang to the market to buy the raw materials used in cooking.

Usually, everyone buys vegetables in the market, that is, a place where rice and vegetables are sold and meat is concentrated, and the ingredients that are usually used can be bought, but some special ones, such as all kinds of game hunted by nearby mountain people in the mountains, cannot be bought in the market.

The rules of the Great Zhou, every five and ten is the day of the market, at this time, the villagers in the nearby villages will take the vegetables, chickens and ducks, as well as the fish and shrimp caught in the river to the market in the city to sell, if you are lucky, there are also the spoils of hunting by the mountain people, these may be anything, in short, there are all strange things, once Ningxi also saw someone catch a snake to sell, but no one dared to buy it.

The next time he saw someone selling snakes, Ning Xi decided to buy a snake soup for Jun Wuye to eat, to see if he had the courage.

Today, Ning Xi was lucky, and she bought all five kinds of meat needed to make that dish, especially roe deer meat and rabbit meat, these two things are not something that can be seen in the market every time someone comes to sell, so she still thinks that if she really can't buy it, then she has to change it to other meats instead.

After strolling around for a while, Meng Shuangshuang said to Ning Xi: "Don't you think there are a lot fewer people rushing to the market today?" ”

Ning Xi was only looking for her to get meat, but then she took a closer look after listening to her, and sure enough, not only were there fewer people setting up stalls, but even there were many fewer people rushing to the market. In this case, I was able to buy all the meat I wanted to use, and I was really lucky.

"Could it be because it's still early?" Ning Xi guessed.

"Maybe!" Meng Shuangshuang nodded.

On the way back to Shuangxi Building, Ning Xi found that the road was also a lot more deserted, almost no one was wandering outside, and occasionally a few passers-by who had to go out were also in a hurry, but there were a lot more beggars on the street corner, and they all seemed to be some new faces, men, women and children, their clothes were tattered, and their expressions were numb.

Some beggars and children saw them passing by, and they all stared at the basket in their hands, with a light of hunger and longing in their eyes, which made Ning Xi panic, and Meng Shuangshuang also held her hand tightly: "Let's go quickly!" ”

Ning Xi nodded, the two of them quickened their pace, and almost ran back, until they returned to Zhengyang Street, where Shuangxi Building was located, and they could see the gate of Shuangxi Building, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, God knows how terrible those people's eyes were, staring at them as if they were two pieces of walking meat.

There was even a child who stretched out his little black hand to them, but fortunately, Ning Xi walked fast, so he didn't catch the corner of his skirt.

It's not that Ning Xi is ruthless to see people starving and dying and indifferent, she has really suffered a loss, when she first arrived in the capital, she had tried to see a beggar child who stopped her looking pitiful, so she gave him a meat bun, but when she turned around, more than ten little beggars in the same ragged clothes came out of nowhere, hula and out of nowhere, surrounded her, making her unable to move an inch, and finally had to take out all the money on her body, buy food and give it to them before she was able to get out.

Since then, Ning Xi has not dared to give anything to the beggars when she sees them on the street, especially in a situation like the one just now, she believes that if they dare to give the food in the basket to any of them, the others will definitely pounce on them and tear them apart.

Back at Shuangxi Tower, Ning Xi found Rong Daquan and asked him if he knew what had happened in the capital recently.

Rong Daquan said: "I also want to sue you, the business of the restaurant has been much worse in the past few days, less than half of what it used to be, and there are fewer people on the street, and now everyone is reluctant to go out." ”

"Oh, why is that?"

"It's not because of those homeless people." Just like the last time in front of the Shuangxi Tower brawl of those homeless people, now there are more and more homeless people in the capital, these people lack clothes and wear less, naturally they will inevitably do some theft and robbery, directly lead to the current capital security is very poor, if the people have nothing to do at home and dare not go out, on the one hand, they are worried that the business will not make money, on the other hand, they are more afraid that the homeless people will make trouble in the store, in short, more and more panicked.

"If it's like this, the government doesn't care?"

"Anyway, no matter what, I have arrested a lot of people these days, but there are many displaced people, and they can't be resettled for a while, and the government can't do anything about them."

In the end, Rong Daquan also persuaded Ning Xi and Meng Shuangshuang to go out less these days.

Of course, Ningxi can't manage so much in this kind of environment, fortunately, Shuangxi Lou's business was good before, and the foundation is quite thick, even if the business has deteriorated now, it will not go out of business for a while, so I can only act at the opportunity and see how it will be said in the future.

Jun Wuye came to Shuangxi Building at nearly noon, and Ning Xi had already finished the dishes she was going to make today, along with several other dishes that he usually liked to eat.

Ning Xi opened the lid on the plate in front of him, and inside was a plate of inch-long and about the thickness of a little finger of roasted pork, which was stained with sauce and exuded a lustrous luster.

"This is the first dish I made for the fifth master, the jade flute listens to the plum, please taste the fifth master."

Jun Qianyu said: "This name has a meaning. Stretched out his chopsticks and put one in his mouth, chewed it a few times, "Soft and juicy, delicious and delicious, but what kind of meat is this, I can't eat it?" ”

Ning Xi smiled slyly: "Why don't you take a guess?" ”

Jun Qianyu took another one, closed his eyes and savored it: "It seems to be like mutton, and it's a bit like beef, no, there is a little crispy bone in it, not as soft as ordinary meat, what are you giving me to eat?" ”

"I'll give you a hint, each piece of meat here is made up of four small strips of meat, but there are five kinds of meat in total, guess what?"

It was rare that Jun Qianyu also played with her with great interest: "There are beef, mutton, and that crispy pig's ear, what are the other two...... Finally, he shook his head, "I really can't eat it." ”

Ning Xi smiled: "I can identify three of them, it seems that the fifth master's taste is really powerful, so can I pass this dish?" ”

"Well, it's okay, but you have to tell me what kind of meat the two are left."

"These four small strips of meat, one is a lamb sitting on the rump, a calf kidney, a little pig ear, and the other is a roe leg meat and rabbit meat kneaded together."

Jun Qianyu sighed: "You are not too troublesome! ”

"Cooking for the fifth master is naturally excellence, how can it be troublesome? And the name of this dish is also said! ”

"Oh? What is the statement? ”

"Although there are only five kinds of meat, but there are more flavors to match, such as beef and mutton mixed together is a taste, roe meat and beef chewed together is another taste, if regardless of the order of change, there are just twenty-five changes, together with the number of five or five plum blossoms, you look at the shape of this meat strip like a flute, so the name of this dish is called Jade Flute Tingmei."

Jun Qianyu couldn't help but clapped his hands and said, "This is interesting." ”

"So I'm a passer, right?"

"Count you in!"

"But why does the fifth master seem to be not very happy, is there anything else that is not satisfied?"

"It's not your problem, it's something troublesome."

Since the last time the two of them went to Lezhou together, after facing each other in pairs on the carriage for six days, Ning Xi felt that this person was much more cordial, and he dared to speak more casually: "Is it because of the troubles of the homeless people?" ”

Jun Qianyu looked up at her: "How do you know?" ”

Ning Xi said: "Now that the emperor is in the prime of life, it is a peaceful and prosperous age, and the biggest thing in the capital recently is the matter of the displaced people disturbing the people of the capital, so I casually guessed that the fifth master was worried about this matter, but I didn't expect it to be true?" ”

Jun Qianyu smiled bitterly: "Isn't it? The emperor was angry with me and ran out for several days without saying a word, and as soon as he came back, he gave me this errand to settle the homeless. ”

"This is definitely not the first time this kind of thing has happened, there are precedents for how to deal with it before, you can't just do it, what is there to worry about?"

"It's natural and easy to deal with it according to the previous practices, but I don't think those practices are very good, and I don't want to do it just like that."