When Mama Zheng arrived at Feiyun Tower, she didn't need to pass it on to the small maid at the gate, and went directly into the hospital. After that, go up the stairs from the east side of the building, and then enter Yun'er's hall.

Coming to the living room on the west side of the hall, the rough maid guarding the door directly brought Mama Zheng into Yun'er's room, and whispered to Yun'er who was painting: "Master, Mama Zheng in the front yard is here." ”

"Please come in."

"The slave and maid greet the master of the cloud, and the master is auspicious." Mama Zheng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.

"Mama Zheng is too polite, Sister Shui'er will get an embroidery pier for Mama Zheng."

"Thank you, Master Yun, for giving me a seat."

"Mama Zheng, please use tea, this is the roses that our master personally picked in the garden, the tea made with honey, can you taste it?" Shui'er brought Mama Zheng a rose-colored soup.

Mama Zheng hurriedly took it: "Thank you, Master Yun." ”

"Mama Zheng, sit down and rest, I think Fujin has something to order?"

"Yes. Fu Jin wanted to try to make the vegetarian book you gave her, but she had read the book and didn't know many words, so she ......"

"Fujin is going to try the dishes? It's so fast. ”

"I tried to make vegetarian dishes first. Why is it that the words of the place where you and the prince went are different from those of the Qing Dynasty? ”

"It's another country, and the writing is different from ours. They use fewer Chinese character strokes than we use, probably because there are more people there, the competitiveness is too strong, and the pace of people's lives is much faster than ours. In fact, decades ago, they still used this kind of script of our Qing Dynasty, called traditional characters, and they simplified the strokes and called simplified characters. I gave Fu Jin a very thin booklet, which is a comparison between traditional Chinese characters and simplified characters, and Fu Jin understood at a glance that there are actually rules to follow. ”

Yun'er took a thin booklet of about twenty or thirty pages from the drawer and handed it to Mama Zheng. smiled and said to her: "This booklet is a crutch to help Fu Jin cross this hurdle, take it back and let Fu Jin see, she may figure out a shortcut." ”

"Fujin already has one."

"This is for the prince."

"Thank you, Master Yun. And the slave and maid withdrew. ”

"Don't worry, Mama Zheng drank rose tea and left."

"Thank you, thank you." Mama Zheng picked up the teacup, looked at the rose-colored soup inside, and drank it in a few sips. If you don't drink it, the cloud master will be distracted. She knew that Yun'er would never harm people's hearts, and she was just a messenger, a slave, so she drank it with confidence, and then gave a salute and retired.

"Mama Zheng's arms and legs are still very neat, and she came back so soon?" She didn't miss the opportunity to tease Mama Zheng at all.

"You get out of here!" Mama Zheng was not polite to Mama, the booklet in her hand "snapped" on the door of her head, and hurriedly entered the inner room of Fujin.

"Fujin, this is a comparison table of traditional Chinese characters and simplified characters given by Master Yun to the prince."

"Great, great." Fu Jin took it and flipped it over, with a look of relief. ”

"Master Yun said, the foreign land used the word "our Qing Dynasty" decades ago, but later it seemed that there were many people and strong competitiveness, so it was simplified, and the slaves and maids didn't understand it at all."

"We're not exotics, what's the use of figuring it out? I still continue to read and write, the books that Master Yun gave me are all simplified words, how can I read the books over there if I don't recognize? With the comparison, you can know which character is written in the Qing Dynasty. It doesn't seem to take long to try the dishes while reading the words. ”

"You can do it, you are not afraid of such a big obstacle."

"This kind of obstacle can only be if I eat it, and it can still eat me?"

"Makes sense!"

So Fu Jin settled down and prepared to figure out the comparison table. If you look closely, it's not as difficult as you think, everything has rules to follow, and you can draw inferences. For example, the simplified character "block" is "攔" in traditional Chinese, and the traditional character for "fence" is "欄". That is to say, the radicals on the right are the same for traditional Chinese characters and simplified characters, and they can be treated equally. For example, the traditional Chinese character of "bei" under the word "greed" is "貝", so everything with "bei" can be reduced to "bei". Not all of the exotic scripts have been simplified, only some of them have been simplified. For example, none of the words "culture" have been simplified, and the words "no", "is", "have", "use", "direction", "peace of mind", "can", "has" and so on are all recognized by the Qing people.

Fujin's literacy level is still not low, and he has already recognized thousands of words when he is four or five years old, which is not a problem at all.

While overcoming the simplified characters, I copied down two or three recipes for vegetarian dishes from the cooking book in traditional Chinese characters every day, and asked Mama Liu and Chef Xu from the small kitchen to try them.

Just because it is a vegetarian dish, it saves a lot of money, and the meat of Daqing is still very expensive. Being so trusted by Fujin, Master Xu and his family were happy and proud in their hearts. The formula written by Fu Jin himself is naturally what the prince meant. Cooking vegetarian dishes is Master Xu's best skill, and Master Xu, who was originally the chef of the imperial dining room in the palace, was given to the prince by the emperor and specially made vegetarian dishes for the prince. Don't look at the chef who came out of the imperial dining room to the palace, on the surface, he was demoted, but Master Xu was very happy, because he no longer had to live with trepidation every day. It is very beautiful to be the imperial chef for the emperor, the queen mother, the queen and those concubines, but if something goes wrong, then the little life will be lost, and the board is still light.

Yun'er's cooking book for Fujin is not only a vegetarian recipe, but also sweet in the south and salty in the north, spicy in the east and sour in the west, and there are probably more than 100,000 recipes for various provinces and various famous dishes. The books are coated and have renderings of dishes on plates with color pages. There are at least 1,000 recipes in each book, and these books include home-cooked recipes, holiday feast recipes, stir-fried recipes, soup-making recipes, traditional recipes, new recipes in exotic places, and even foreign fast food...... That's a lot of them. Frying, stir-frying, cooking, frying, boiling, stewing, sauce, stewing, Fujin was dazzled by these thick books about eating. It is because this Master Xu's vegetarian dishes are particularly good, and he can make the green vegetables without a bit of meat and smell delicious, and they are not inferior to the fragrant meat dishes at all. It's not that Master Xu doesn't know how to cook meat dishes, it's that he does very well in vegetarian dishes. At the same time as cooking vegetarian dishes, meat dishes are also made, that is, those brothers and nephews who entertain the prince want to make meat dishes, and the big kitchen in the house is mainly for the guards, personal soldiers, eunuchs, small servants, maids, and mothers-in-law to cook and cook, if there is a large banquet, of course they have to go into battle. The cooks who work in the small kitchen have a lot more money per month than the ones who work in the big kitchen. There are three small kitchens in the house, and Fu Jin, Yun'er and Mrs. Chen all run their own kitchens. But the official chef is only Master Xu, and Mr. Chen is the father-in-law of the prince, so naturally he can't go to the big kitchen to eat. Yun'er is a side room, or a side room that gave birth to a son, naturally she can't cook from the big kitchen, and the cook has always been Yun'er's trusted Jiang Mama.

Master Xu was beaten three times in ten years as an errand boy in the palace, all because of small things, and some of them were even nitpicking on the emperor's concubines or making fun of people. Once, he made mapo tofu for a young master whose father had just died. The management of the tofu workshop in the palace is quite strict, and the dishes for the emperor, the queen mother, and the concubines are strictly inspected, and it is impossible to mix sand, small stones and other things. It may be that this noble man is in a bad mood, not that there is a small stone in the tofu that has broken out a piece of her tooth. Is this worth it? Master Xu was pressed on a stool to hit the board at that time. If his apprentice hadn't secretly given the eunuch who was beating the board a silver coin of ten taels, the man would have shown mercy, and he would probably have been killed and paralyzed. It has been ten years since he came to the palace, and Master Xu has not only not been beaten once, but he has not even been reprimanded. It is not at all the same thing to live in fear and to live with your eyebrows raised!

Fu Jin handed over the recipe copied from the book and the money for the purchase of ingredients to Master Xu, and asked him to do it with confidence, and if he didn't succeed once, he would do it a second time until he was satisfied. Master Xu was so moved that he choked up: Fu Jin is quite serious and caring for the prince's meals, and how much trust is there to be in being able to give himself the recipe for cooking? Who doesn't know that learning to shave the head has to be given to the master for two years, to the master to watch the children, do housework, and even pour the night pot, that kind of skill has to be taught to the apprentice for two years. But Fu Jin just handed over the formula to himself, what kind of trust is this? No matter how simple and easy the recipe is, it is also a recipe for eating. Some people will only have one skill in their life, and they are very beautiful, "one trick is fresh and eaten all over the world." ”

The first exotic vegetarian dish made by Chef Xu is Di San Xian, which is a Northeast dish, and the ingredients include potatoes, eggplant, and green peppers. Because the first time I do it, I don't have a certain certainty of doing it well, so I try one of each ingredient and gradually increase the amount when I am familiar with it. The method is: cut the potatoes into cubes or slightly thicker slices, cut the eggplant into hob pieces that are not too small, and cut the green peppers into diamond-shaped slices.

Pour oil into the pot, fry the potatoes in the pot after the oil temperature is suitable, fry them until golden brown and take them out, fry them for two to three minutes, fry them for two to three minutes, put the green peppers, take them out immediately when they go down to the pot, and put the three ingredients into a plate. Then drain out the oil, put a little oil again, fry the green onion and the patted garlic in the pot, and then pour the three fresh into the pot, and then follow the daily stir-fry in order of light soy sauce, rice wine, chicken essence, salt, if there is pork rib soup and pig's foot soup, you can take a spoonful, don't cook too hard for a minute, add a little starch and fry slightly, out of the pot.

Chef Xu gave the finished three fresh dishes to Mama Liu to taste first, and Mama Liu took a piece of potato with chopsticks, carefully put it in her mouth, chewed and tasted it slowly, with a smile on her face, and praised it sincerely: "It's delicious, it's delicious." You use the second method to try to make three fresh places. I heard the prince say, Di Sanxian is the signature vegetarian dish in the north over there, let the two of you make it successfully, when will the emperor come to the house to taste it for the emperor. ”

"Huh? Can the dishes made by the minions reach the emperor's mouth? ”

"Aren't you the imperial chef in the first place? Haven't you ever eaten for the queen mother or the emperor? ”

Master Xu laughed hehehe: "How sooner or later is that?" ”

"Do it, do it, do it boldly, Fu Jin said, there are many ways to do it in this place, you can try it one by one, this is a vegetarian dish, and the three ingredients are available in the house, so you don't need to go out to buy it." What is written on this piece of paper is another method of three freshness. You can use this recipe, use it repeatedly, use it well, memorize it, memorize it, and then you have to return the recipe to me, the prince said, this is a trade secret, whether it is a big dish or a snack, it can't be leaked. ”

"Mama Liu, don't worry, even if we don't have our lives, we can't leak the formula."

"I believe in you, and Fujin also believes in you, otherwise can I give you the formula? You prepare first, the main ingredients are potatoes, eggplant, green peppers, you look at the recipe, be careful not to be scalded by the oil, do it slowly, I will go upstairs and give the three fresh dishes you made to Fujin to taste, and put it in the food box for me, Qing'er, you carry the food box. "Mama Liu is a senior mama, and the matter of carrying the food box is done by a rough maid. Qing'er is a rough maid who helps in the kitchen, and she is thirteen years old this year.

Master Xu's woman packed the food box for Qing'er, and Qing'er and Mama Liu left.

"I said in charge, do you know what Fujin means? How did I leave all the recipes to you? Sister-in-law Xu asked.

"child, there's no one else here for me to tell you, but don't tell anyone you know?"

"What's so hidden? When did I tell someone about what you told me? ”

"Didn't I tell you a word for nothing? You weren't there that day, Fu Jin came, Fu Jin said that the prince wanted to do business, and he would open a restaurant and restaurant in the future, and he would train a group of chefs to go there to cook. We are the ones who train chefs, you say, the prince can't trust us, can he hand over such a big matter to us? Fu Jin is usually very concerned about the food and clothing of the prince, and the prince handed over the matter of tasting and tasting the dishes to Fu Jin, can Fu Jin himself come to the stove? Just send Mama Liu over to help us. What is lacking and what is missing, tell Mama Liu that Mama Liu also likes cooking. ”

"Let's train chefs? Can you? Will the monthly rate go up a little bit after that? ”

"The business of restaurants and restaurants is good and can make money, can the prince forget about me, the head of the sect? Okay, don't think about it so much, it's serious to learn the craft. This recipe is not the same as what we did first, the main ingredients are the same, the seasonings are cooking oil, soy sauce, sugar, salt, chopped green onions, minced garlic, corn starch, and broth, which seems to be a little more complicated than the previous one. ”

"What kind of oil is cooking oil?" Sister-in-law Xu is illiterate and does not understand some things well.

"It's soybean oil, peanut oil, these fried vegetable oil. You know the soy sauce, chopped green onions, corn starch, and broth, but the sugar and garlic are not yet there, so you have to ask Mama Liu for this. ”

As she was talking, Mama Liu came back with Qing'er, holding several things in her arms: "This is the light soy sauce in the seasoning, this is the soybean oil, soy sauce, sugar, seaweed iodized salt, minced garlic that the prince brought back, this is monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, hey, take it, why don't you stand stupidly and have no eyesight." ”