Chapter 22: The Contest Begins
As soon as she climbed into her bunk, she fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow, and when everyone got up in the morning, all kinds of noisy movements failed to wake her up, until everyone finished washing, only to find that there seemed to be one person missing.
Yao Mei rushed into the room to take a look, sure enough, Mengmei slept like a dead pig, it took a lot of effort to wake her up, and then threw her down to wash herself, Yao Mei hurriedly rushed to the kitchen, because no one waited for her to wake up Mengmei, they had already left.
Mengmei hurriedly washed her face, her hair was messy, and ran to the corner door of the kitchen, taking advantage of the fact that everyone was busy and the stewards didn't notice her, she slipped into the handyman who was working, and lifted the bucket as if she was busy fetching water, fooling her about being late.
After breakfast time, the warehouse came to deliver today's ingredients, and after Wengushan snacks, he arranged the dishes and ingredients that everyone was responsible for, and he went with the people in the warehouse to see the chief of the warehouse to inquire about the competition, and what ingredients the eldest lady planned to prepare for the competition.
But I didn't expect that the chief of the treasury didn't know, and the eldest lady didn't give him the list, nor did she say when the list would be given, and it was estimated that she would not know what ingredients to prepare until the day before the game.
So Wen Gushan hit the idea to the old lady again, and at lunch time, the old lady's girl came to the kitchen, and Wen Gushan gave her two extra dishes and asked her to help mention them.
At the end of lunchtime, the girl sent the food box back to the kitchen and told Wen Gushan that the old lady had never paid attention to the apprenticeship competition, and she didn't know what the eldest lady was thinking, but she only knew that she was preparing ingredients for several feasts after the end of the filial piety period during this time, and it was estimated that the ingredients for the competition would be taken directly from there.
This information made Wen Gushan suddenly enlightened, and immediately went to the head of the treasury to inquire about what ingredients were prepared for the banquet after the end of the filial piety period, and to find some inspiration, so that he could arrange the menu.
The head of the warehouse still shook his head, and asked Wen Gushan to take out the menu for the eldest lady to see, and if there were any special ingredients added to the list, the warehouse was just replenished at one time.
In short, Wen Gushan went back and forth twice today, and he didn't hear any useful information.
At night, free practice after supper time, Bai Ko still went back to sleep after finishing his work, Lu Doudou thought of a recipe at the right time, and wanted to practice, but she was small and weak, inferior to tall and strong boys and girls, and couldn't grab the ingredients, so she had no choice but to follow Bai Ko's footsteps to sleep.
In the middle of the night, the apprentices went back to the small courtyard to sleep one after another, and Mengmei ran to the small courtyard of Wengu Mountain after everyone was asleep and asked him about the results.
"Mr. Wen, you haven't told them how to win the way you promised to teach them." Mengmei stood by the door with her waist straightened, and proudly saw Wen Gushan breathing rapidly.
"Oh, little girl, the way is so simple, except for me, no one knows the tastes and preferences of the old lady and the old lady."
Wen Gushan put one hand around Mengmei's waist, and the other hand touched her breasts.
"Then you teach others a dish that must win, okay~~~~"
Mengmei bent one leg slightly, her knee against Wen Gushan's legs, and gently rubbed the fatal part.
Wen Gushan's breath suffocated, and he walked to the side of the bed with Mengmei in his arms, and the monkey hurriedly pushed her on the bed and began to pick up her clothes.
"Okay, good, teach you a sure win, hehehehe."
Meng Meijiao smiled and stretched out her arms, untied Wen Gushan's trouser belt, and the two rolled into a ball after a while, and were turned over by the red waves, a **.
With the experience of the previous two times, this time, Mengmei tried to stay awake, deliberately not letting Wen Gushan enjoy it so easily, and insisted on asking him from his mouth about the method of winning dishes, and then served him wholeheartedly, making him feel refreshed to the extreme, turning over and falling asleep comfortably, snoring loudly.
Mengmei turned over and got up, went to the courtyard to fetch well water to clean her lower body, put on her clothes and ran back to the small courtyard to sleep.
At noon the next day, the apprentices gave themselves time to cook, and Mengmei made a sweet and sour live fish, but the time expired, and when she finally finished it, the taste was not adjusted well, and it was a complete failure.
Wen Gushan taught Mengmei that it was this dish that won the appreciation of the old lady with this dish, and he finally had the opportunity to climb to the position of the kitchen manager.
Mengmei deliberately cooked slowly, she had learned this dish in the workshop, but Wen Gushan's guidance was slightly different from the instructions of the masters in the workshop, and the subtle differences in the heat of the fried fish and the sweet and sour seasoning were the key to her victory, so she didn't want others to steal it.
Bai Ko glanced at the process of Mengmei's frying fish a few times, and felt that her movements were not smooth and a little jerky, as if she was not familiar with the way this dish, but she didn't think much about it, anyway, it was none of her business, if she could practice it in the last few days left, it would be Mengmei's own ability.
Lu Doudou thought of a few dishes and wanted to try his hand, and Bai Ko didn't want to be too calm and out of place, so he helped Lu Doudou grab the stove, grab the ingredients, grab the pots and pans at every opportunity, and it seemed as if the two of them had reconciled again because of the upcoming game.
Wen Gushan was not idle, for the sake of the past few nights, he asked the warehouse manager a few times to inquire about the list of ingredients, but the manager kept his mouth locked, either saying that he didn't know, or saying that the eldest lady didn't give the list, and turned around to urge Wen Gushan to quickly draw up a few menus for the eldest lady to see.
Everyone in the house knows that after the end of the filial piety period, there is a banquet for the lord and a banquet for promotion, but the most urgent banquet is not these two, but on the day when the three-year filial piety period is over, a family banquet that is only limited to the clansmen will be held.
There is not much time left for everyone to prepare, but Wen Gushan, as the kitchen manager, has not even taken out a menu, and he complains that the warehouse manager will see him and urge him once.
Wen Gushan didn't want to give a good menu, he was a little inspired to think about new dishes behind closed doors in the small stove, but the progress was not satisfactory, he was also in a hurry, and the consumption rate of tobacco leaves was much faster.
As the days passed, the day finally came.
That morning, after breakfast was busy in the kitchen, Aunt Nie San, with two strange mothers-in-law, walked in to assemble the team and took the twenty-four of them to the courtyard where the old lady lived.
The house has a large population, and now only Lao Taijun has an idle place for so many people to play together.
Everyone came to a side courtyard where the old lady was old-aged, and the courtyard was surrounded by walls, with a simple stage and a colorful shed for shading.
At first glance, you can see that this is a place for the ladies to watch the play, and when they are not singing, such an empty courtyard can be used for other purposes.
The high stage was now arranged as a spectator seat, full of chairs and coffee tables, and there were twenty-four simple portable stoves under the stage, like utensils used by large families when they went out on outings, and a long table next to the stove was used to process ingredients, and pots and pans and various knives were all on it.
Just looking at the on-site arrangement, everyone understands that the eldest lady attaches great importance to this game.