Chapter 259: The Living and the Dead
It's false to say that you're not depressed, it's like if you stand in a corner and scare someone, but that person doesn't scare, but scares himself.
Just like before, the moment the vegetable cover was opened, Su Ran was almost frightened, even if he was not so frightened that he ran away, his heartbeat was faster or something, there were still some.
"Haha! However, you are really naughty, you don't know that place in southern Xinjiang, there are many forests, birds and beasts, reptiles and snakes, and naturally the indispensable thing is the insect feast snake soup, but like Jiang Guo, a grasshopper can make such a trick, it is indeed very rare. "Su Chan attaches great importance to Jiang Guo's imperial dining room.
"Aunt Xiaohuang, you are really good, from southern Xinjiang to this side, I haven't eaten the special dishes of southern Xinjiang, today I can feast, it's really good." From the moment he opened the dish cover, his eyes never left, although Su Chan didn't let him move the chopsticks first, but it didn't prevent him from salivating at the dishes.
Su Ran and Murong Lian'er looked at each other with Xiangxiang and Weiwei, and there was such a bizarre thing, that place in southern Xinjiang was really magical, and they actually ate insects, and the world was really big.
"Hah! I think we should taste this dinner first and then talk about it. Su Ran clapped his hands and directly beckoned everyone to move their chopsticks.
At the beginning, Brother Hong didn't eat at noon, and almost everything he ate was fragrant when he was hungry, especially when the grasshopper banquet he wanted was displayed in front of him, he was going crazy.
So Brother Hong, who was sitting in his seat, showed a posture of not being able to sit still, and his body was twisting vigorously, like a little monkey who couldn't sit still.
When Su Ran opened his mouth to say that he could eat, he was the first to stretch out his chopsticks, you must know that on weekdays, Brother Hong'er basically relies on coaxing to eat, and others coax him for a long time before he reluctantly eats half a bite, and then people don't know where to run.
But in today's state, before the palace people serving around him could do anything, he had already picked up the chopsticks and did it himself.
First, he stretched out his chopsticks to the plate of fried grasshoppers, picked one up and threw it into his mouth, and then closed his eyes and tasted it seriously.
Su Ran and Murong Lian'er looked at Brother Hong blankly, and then a scene that exploded people's eyes appeared, Brother Hong popped and spit out the grasshopper that had been eaten in his mouth.
And that's not all, he's spitting out the stuff in his mouth, as if if he doesn't spit it out, it's like he's going to die.
It seems that this reaction is quite normal, Su Ran and the two county lords looked at Brother Hong'er in unison, and saw that Brother Hong'er's face was quite red, and he complained to Su Chan for a while: "Mother, their salt and pepper grasshopper is fake, that one is not a grasshopper at all, and it is still very spicy." ā
The taste of children is still very light, eat a little chili, that is particularly spicy, will be spicy crying tears, without three or two glasses of water, it is absolutely impossible to dilute the spicy taste in the mouth.
The second princess Su Chan poured two cups of warm water for Brother Hong in distress, handed them to Brother Hong and drank them, looking at Brother Hong'er's little face gradually recovering, Su Chan asked: "I know that the salt and pepper will be spicy, you can eat it without processing, and how can the grasshopper be fake!" ā
"Fake is fake, if you don't believe in the mother, you can also sing." In order to show that what he said was true and that he was innocent, Brother Hong used his chopsticks to clip a salt-and-pepper grasshopper to Su Chan, and handed it to Su Chan's plate: "Mother, try it to see if I'm lying." ā
The second princess Su Chan frowned slightly, stretched out her chopsticks, put the grasshopper in her mouth, and chewed it lightly twice, Su Chan's eyebrows were directly raised: "What!" The grasshopper in this salt-and-pepper grasshopper turned out to be noodles, and the grasshopper made of noodles is also the chef of the imperial dining room who has such thoughts and skills, no wonder Brother Hong wants to say that this is fake! ā
Noodles! Su Ran sandwiched a salt-and-pepper grasshopper into his plate, and when he got closer, he saw the clues, this grasshopper that is not big or small, it is indeed pinched out with noodles, the key is that this craft is too ingenious, and even after making it, the eyes of the grasshopper are made vividly.
It's no wonder that a small salt-and-pepper grasshopper has deceived everyone, so the superb level of cooking skills is that it is obviously a vegetarian dish, but it tastes like eating meat dishes.
deceived the eyes of the eater, is the cook not very skilled, in the same way, it is obviously a salt and pepper grasshopper, it is a meat dish, but the key grasshopper is still pinched, this is a plate of meat dishes turned into materials.
Nodding slightly at Murong Lian'er and Xiangxiang, it was said that this dish was not cooked by grasshoppers, or the grasshoppers with salt and pepper were too similar to real grasshoppers, and the big guys had been deceived.
At that time, Murong Lian'er and the two little county lords kept complaining in their hearts to the people in the imperial dining room: "These people really have a lot of tricks, it is difficult to make a pepper and salt grasshopper, and there are still no ingredients." ā
Inadvertently, they complained about the truth all at once! Those people in the imperial dining room really don't have the ingredients.
At that time, the little princess gave an order to the imperial dining room, so today she will prepare a grasshopper banquet for Su Ran, as for whether to eat it or not, it is Su Ran's business.
Temporarily looking for grasshoppers, this is a rather difficult problem, for a while and a half will be crazy to collect grasshoppers, that is also very limited, to find more grasshoppers, you have to go to the countryside, the suburbs of Jiangdu City, after all, the conditions are very limited.
The head chef of the imperial dining room asked the palace people to collect grasshoppers almost immediately, but when the time came, the grasshopper collector also returned, and all the grasshoppers fell together, but they could only make half a table of grasshopper feasts.
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and at that time, the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and there were not a few of them.
In the end, it was a young imperial chef who said to Wang Zhijian, the head chef of the imperial kitchen: "Since the real grasshopper can't be found, then I'll find some substitutes." ā
Wang Zhi also went to the doctor after all, and now whoever says that what method is effective, just follow what he said.
The young imperial chef didn't expect that he would mention it so simply, and Jian yƬ was accepted by the head chef, which was like being in front of a group of top bosses, his plan was successful, and he was still pinned on high hopes.
The young imperial chef was also sent to the palace when he was a child, but compared to the people who were generally sent to the small yellow gate as a little eunuch, the young Song imperial chef was still relatively lucky.
He was directly sent to the imperial dining room to do chores, and Song Imperial Chef was learning cooking skills while doing chores, and later he was photographed by Chef Wang and became a real imperial chef.
At the critical moment, the people around him are still reliable, according to Song Yuchu's idea, the next step is simple, knead the dough with the dough, wait for the dough to be even, it is the process of kneading the grasshopper.
The people in the imperial kitchen are naturally ingenious, even if they can't pinch it at first, see how others pinch it, learn a little, and it will be.
So when the grasshoppers with realistic shapes are placed on the plate, not to mention making a table of grasshopper feasts, it is no problem to make seven or eight tables.
In order to keep improving, Wang Zhi, the head chef of the imperial kitchen, also carefully screened and picked the most similar ones and collected them together.
Like the salt-and-pepper grasshopper that Brother Hong ate in the first bite, it was a masterpiece from the chefs of the imperial dining room, which was so similar that it deceived everyone.
Of course, it is not absolute, not all dishes are grasshoppers made from noodles, and there are dishes that are really cooked with live grasshoppers.
Just like at this moment, Murong Lian'er stretched out her chopsticks to pick up the chili pepper and fried grasshopper, unlike Brother Hong'er who can't eat chili peppers at all, Murong Lian'er is a chili fanatic, she doesn't eat spicy for a day, she panics, she doesn't eat spicy food for two days, and she walks with a flutter.
Something happened after eating this one, and Murong Lian'er just took a bite, just like Brother Hong before, she vomited it directly.
Su Ran handed her the water in surprise, looked at the death on her face, and the things that spit out, and immediately swallowed the words that came to her mouth.
It turns out that people's luck is really unpredictable, like Brother Hong's heart wants to eat live grasshoppers, but it turns out that it is grasshoppers that eat in his mouth.
And when Murong Lian'er was frightened and wanted to eat noodles and grasshoppers, the first chopsticks turned out to be eating live grasshoppers, this luck was really a bit against the sky.
"Alive, this is alive, oops, it's really going to die, how did I eat a live grasshopper!" It's just weird, these grasshoppers are too realistic, the so-called fake is true when it's true, and it's true when it's fake!
Brother Hong, who was on the side, heard what Murong Lian'er said, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was worried that he couldn't eat live grasshoppers, but he didn't expect Murong Lian'er to eat live grasshoppers, God was really naughty, and he knew that he would have fun with them!
Brother Hong smiled and stretched out his chopsticks towards the dish, and then when he was about to catch the dish, his hand directly stiffened, and the little baby's heart was now extremely broken: Nima! Why is the live grasshopper fried, it will be a broken thing like chili peppers, and it will not give people some way to live!
If it was any other thing, Brother Hong might be able to use chopsticks, but it was too late for Brother Hong to avoid peppers like snakes and scorpions, let alone take a bite, so he ate a mouthful of food twice as much warm water, and when the dish didn't get two bites, the whole person was blown up by water, and it was estimated that if he poked his stomach lightly, he could get water in his mouth.
Thinking about that picture, Brother Hong just shuddered, in order to eat like that, it was really not cost-effective, so he knew that in the grasshopper fried with green peppers, the grasshopper was real, and he couldn't move the chopsticks.
The little guy is still quite conscious, if ordinary people can't help their appetite, they will definitely eat it regardless of the consequences.