"Niangniang, these are the most common ingredients, cabbage, radish, lotus root, and these sun-dried acacia flowers, Your Majesty is used to eating brocade clothes, will you eat these?"

Melodious looked at the ingredients selected by Feng Luoli with some surprise, those delicacies in the palace were full of delicacies, and Tuoba Jun had no appetite, how could these mountain and wild vegetables enter his mouth?

Feng Luoli smiled, "Who said that I only use these, you go and call Zhang You to go to the mountains to pick and write about the newly haired pine needles and snow-covered white plum blossoms." ”

"Mother, what do you want to do with those?" Melodious is even more puzzled.

"Just go!" Feng Luoli picked up a piece of lotus root and ordered while peeling it.

"Oh! Slave and maid, go now! ”

After saying it melodiously, he bowed and faded away.

Since the incident in the prison, Melodious has changed a lot, his face is not so lonely, and he talks a little more. Thinking of coming to this world, only falling in love with a man like Murong Baiyao would make her willing to be reborn.

"Lord Ming, everyone is gone! Are you still hiding there and not feeling cold? ”

After leaving, Feng Luoli did not stop the work in his hand, but said lightly. Ming Chong, who was hiding at the corner door of the kitchen, walked out embarrassedly and bowed in front of Feng Luoli.

"Wechen meets Niangniang!"

Feng Luoli chuckled, "Lord Ming is really naughty!" The corner gate is the most ventilated, and hiding there is not afraid of the cold wind blowing the brain, this brain that thinks about the people in every way is wasted. ”

Ming Chong smiled awkwardly, "Niang Niang said she laughed!" It's just that Weichen doesn't know, how did Niangniang know that Weichen was at the corner gate? ”

Feng Luoli turned his head to look at Ming Chong, and then washed the lotus root in hot water and cut it into small dices, "This huge pavilion has never been bathed, and the other has not been cut." And it happens that the emperor is patrolling here, if you want the kitchen to be empty, I'm afraid that only Lord Guan Chengming can do it! ”

"Huh!" Ming Chong smiled, "Niang Niang Mingjian! Sure enough, he has a good eye. Nothing can be hidden! ”

"Master Ming doesn't need to buckle the hat to the palace, what is the so-called matter of such a big effort? Just say so! ”

Ming Chong hurriedly stepped forward to keep the distance between the monarch and the minister, and helped Feng Luoli choose and wash vegetables on one side, observing Feng Luoli's expression while working, and seemed to have done a long ideological struggle before slowly speaking: "Niangniang." Weichen is afraid that he will anger His Majesty again, I don't know if I should talk about it or not? ”

Feng Luoli raised her eyebrows and glanced at Ming Chong, and said in a stern voice: "Since it is about Your Majesty, Lord Ming just needs to find Your Majesty to speak clearly." Besides, His Majesty is so kind to Lord Ming, I won't blame you if you think about it. ”

Ming Chong was so frightened when he heard the words that the dishes in his hands fell. Hurriedly knelt down in front of Feng Luoli, and arched his hand: "Niangniang! Weichen Mingchong begged Niangniang to help! ”

"Help?!" Feng Luoli didn't stop the movement in his hand, and put the finely diced snow white lotus root in the white porcelain disc, "What did Lord Ming do that is worthy of saving his life in this palace?" ”

"! The crimes committed by Weichen are all for the people, and please let the mother be generous! ”

"It's cold on the ground, Lord Ming, get up quickly!" Feng Luoli was still faint, "Stand up and speak, and by the way, help Bengong wash those radishes in cold water." ”

"Yes!" Ming Chong stood up, picked up the radish stained with sludge and put it in cold water and began to wash it, not wanting to freeze people. But the opportunity to speak is rare and I can't care so much, so I said while washing: "Do you know how much this hotel costs a year?" Tens of thousands of taels of silver! The ingredients needed for this kitchen alone and the amount of food required by the chef every year are no less than 1,000 taels! The emperor's tour is okay so far, at least these ingredients and cooks are used, and the cost of the need is recognized. But the emperor's tour is only a few days a year, and the rotten ingredients are not allowed to be used for other purposes, and the cooks are not allowed to do other things when they are bored. Isn't this a waste of people's fat and people's ointment? ”

"So what?" Feng Luoli turned his head to look at Ming Chong, "You just said that the ingredients supplied to the hotel every year are used elsewhere or to fill your own pockets?" ”

"Niang Niang Mingjian! Wechen had the courage to use the royal silver taels privately, but the silver taels used for purchase every year were distributed to the people of Zhongshan by Wechen in other forms. ”

"How can this palace be trusted?"

Ming Chong wiped his hands on his body, and tremblingly took out a notebook from his arms and handed it to Feng Luoli. "Niangniang, this is where those silver taels have gone over the years, every stroke is remembered clearly, and every stroke can be confirmed. Wechen would never dare to say a lie. ”

Feng Luoli stopped, took the notebook and put it on the stove beside him, "What about the cooks who were allocated?" What are you doing? ”

"This?" Ming Chong scratched his head, as if he was a little embarrassed to speak.

"Huh?!" Feng Luoli hummed lightly, and looked at Ming Chong with clear eyes.

Ming Chong's eyebrows and eyes were almost blurred, and the deep lines of his mouth and nose showed his embarrassment. "Wechen asked them to go to the restaurant here to work to support their families!"

"Part-time job? Bring home the bacon?! "This statement is very fresh, let the royal chef work for an ordinary restaurant, and it is still called supporting a family?

Ming Chong nodded, "Those cooks are all local people, but the emperor Chrysostom became the royal chef in this hotel as soon as he opened it, and they are all people with families." Among the hotel expenses, they have very little money, so Weichen came up with such a method. ”

"It is a capital offense to use the royal family privately, do you know?"

Ming Chong nodded, "Da Wei's law has been read by Weichen, but he can't find a way to save himself before he came to ask Niangniang for help!" ”

"You're clean! Is it difficult or the law is indebted to you?! ”

"Weichen doesn't dare, please save your life!"

Feng Luoli saw Tuoba Jun's comment on Ming Chong, and it was really an out-and-out 'troublesome essence'. This wave and the second wave have not yet settled, and the third wave will come soon. I can't help but take a closer look at this pavilion from a mediocre family, a typical Chinese face, and his character is also good, but there are always countless 'troubles' in those eyes that flash and flash.

"Lord Ming, according to this palace, it is not just the kitchen that you have a lot of tricks, right?"

Ming Chong nodded very honestly, "Yes!" Wechen has almost changed the system of this hotel! ”

Feng Luoli wanted to scold Ming Chong bitterly, but he didn't realize that the corner of his lips smiled, "Why is Lord Ming sure that this palace will help you?" ”

"Wechen is not sure at all!" Ming Chong knelt down solemnly, his back was very straight, like an iron-clad man, "Wechen specially came to beg Niangniang to listen to Wechen's words, if Niangniang feels that Wechen's life is unsavable, Wechen is still grateful!" (To be continued.) )