83_83499 "Your Majesty, the mourning family is just asking on a whim, you don't have to worry about the result of the competition." Empress Dowager Zhang Hui wiped the crumbs on her lips with a handkerchief, as if what she said just now was really unintentional.

"Then let the waiter judge, it's not good for everyone to sit here all the time in such a hot weather, it's better to finish it quickly." Ju Yanyang nodded, and didn't seem to care about what Empress Dowager Zhang Hui said just now.

Seeing that Ju Yanyang was a little unhappy, the waiter hurriedly took away the paper on which the score was written, and hurriedly evaluated it when he took it to the back.

Ju Yanyang's youngest prince is called Ju Wenzhan, only three years old this year, although the rules of eating on weekdays are very good, but children have always been a mess with cream cakes, and he can't be fed by others on such occasions, so in the end, when the cake is finished, there is already a circle of cream on his mouth.

Seeing that the grandmother quietly wanted to use a handkerchief to help Ju Wenzhan wipe it clean, Ju Wenzhan's small eyes rolled slightly, and saw that there were still some leftovers from making cakes on the stove where Du Qiyue worked before, and immediately pointed there and shouted: "Father, I still want to eat that cake!" ”

Ju Wenzhan suddenly spoke like this, but the grandmother was startled, and the handkerchief that wiped Ju Wenzhan's small mouth with a shake of his hand slipped to his face, leaving a white cream beard, and the grandmother was even more scared, and quickly knelt on the ground to plead guilty.

"Mama, what's wrong with you?" Ju Wenzhan wrinkled his chubby smile, looking at Grandma Granny with puzzlement, not quite understanding why Grandma Granny knelt on the ground.

"Wen Zhan, don't make a loud noise, go back and copy the book ten times." Ju Yanyang glanced at the little son with cream on his face, shook his head helplessly, and looked at the timid grandmother speechlessly, and said, "Get up, help him wipe his face clean." ”

Mama hurriedly got up and quickly wiped the cream off Ju Wenzhan's face with a handkerchief, and whispered a few words in Ju Wenzhan's ear. Ju Wenzhan pursed his lips when he heard the grievance, but he didn't dare to speak again, but his little eyes kept meowing to Du Qiyue's stove, obviously looking greedy.

"Can you still eat the rest?" Ju Yanyang pointed in the direction of the stove with his chin, looked at Du Qiyue and asked.

"Back to the emperor, you can still eat. Although the cake is incomplete, it still tastes good, and there is a lot of cream left. Du Qiyue nodded, in order not to travel cuò, he deliberately did more.

"Then go and help make another one for that kid, that kid is a problem." Ju Yanyang said, looking not very happy, but it could be seen in his tone that he was very fond of Ju Wenzhan.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Du Qiyue responded, walked to the stove and made a plate of cake for Ju Wenzhan, but this time he only made a little bit, because Ju Wenzhan had eaten a lot of food just now, and the cake was so easy to make people full, Du Qiyue didn't dare to let him eat too much.

The little eunuch brought the cake that Du Qiyue had made again to Ju Wenzhan, Ju Wenzhan was a child, and he was very unhappy to see that the cake on the plate was only a small piece, but as soon as the cake was brought to him, he became happy again, clapped his hands and said: "Little bird, it's a little bird!" ”

The children in Ju Yanyang were only ten years old, and when they were greedy, they were all greedy when they saw a cake of a cream bird standing in front of Ju Wenzhan. The little princess Mengzhu, who was only five years old, saw that Ju Wenzhan would have a cake to eat when she shouted, so she shouted when the grandmother couldn't stop her: "Father, I want to eat cake too!" ”

Mengzhu is a little princess born to the queen, and the queen disciplines her very strictly on weekdays, seeing her rude like this, she is afraid that Ju Yanyang will leave a bad impression, so she hurriedly said to Du Qiyue: "It seems that Chef Du's cake is really good, and the children are fascinated." Since Princess Mengzhu wants to eat it, Chef Du will make some more. ”

What Queen Zhang said was obviously normal, but Du Qiyue sounded like Queen Zhang was blaming him for making the cake too delicious, so that her children would be rude in front of everyone.

Ju Yanyang frowned, and also heard the implied meaning of Empress Zhang's words, he glanced at Empress Zhang unhappily, and said to Du Qiyue: "I don't know if it's enough to make a portion for each of the children?" ”

Du Qiyue glanced at a few princes and princesses, counted the number of people, counted the remaining materials, and said, "Back to the emperor, the rest is enough." ”

"Then go make some for them." Ju Yanyang said with a smile.

Du Qiyue walked to the stove to make cakes for the princes and princesses, and the attendants had already calculated the ranking. There is no problem with the rankings of the three groups of chefs, including cold chef, hot chef and soup chef, but there are some problems with the pastry chef group, Du Qiyue and Qi Zining's rankings are exactly the same, and the waiters don't know what to do, so they truthfully wrote down the rankings and brought them to Ju Yanyang.

"Your Majesty, Chef Du and Chef Qi in the pastry group are in the same ranking, do you want the two chefs to have an extra game?" The chamberlain whispered in Ju Yanyang's ear.

"The same" Ju Yanyang sighed, and looked at the ranking on the list with some surprise, he thought that Du Qiyue was firmly first. "Who is Qi Zining?"

"Back to the emperor, the little one is Qi Zining!" Qi Zining, who originally thought that he was going to lose, heard the emperor call his name, and hurriedly walked out from behind the stove and made a bow respectfully.

Since listening to Princess Xunyu talk about Du Qiyue's identity, Ju Yanyang sent someone to Du Qiyue's hometown to investigate Du Qiyue's past, and sent a secret guard to protect Du Qiyue quietly in the dark, so he knew that Qi Zining and Du Qiyue had a good relationship, and seeing that others were not bad, he said to Qi Zining kindly: "You and Chef Du have the same ranking, and now that the weather is hot, there will be no competition, and the first place will be counted." ”

"Thank you for your grace." Qi Zining's face was full of joy when he heard this.

He is very confident in his craft, but he is really not confident in whether he can win against Du Qiyue. If he and Du Qiyue make the same dim sum, Du Qiyue's dim sum may not be better than his cooking, but if he makes different dim sum, it will be difficult for him to win Du Qiyue. Now that there is no need to play in the competition, Qi Zining has really made a lot of money, you must know that the reward for the first place is much more than that for the second place.

After the ranking came out, it was a reward, and the five cooks who got the first place all received two thousand taels of silver and a jade ruyi the thickness of an index finger as a reward, and the rest of the people reduced the number of silver according to the ranking, but the worst also got eight hundred taels of silver, which was also a great reward.

After the reward was sealed, Yang Gonggong, who had led Du Qiyue and them into the palace before, began to ask everyone if they were willing to stay in the palace as the imperial chef.

"Chefs, if you are willing to stay, then I will send someone back to the inn with you to pack up your things, enter the palace tonight, and then go to the Imperial Catering Division to register and make a book. If you don't want to, I'll send someone to send you back, so you can think about it quickly. Yang Gonggong still spoke softly, but his attitude towards everyone was much better than when he came, after all, there will definitely be people in this group of cooks who are willing to enter the Imperial Diet, this is the position of Jipin, although it is not as good as him, but he doesn't want to offend people casually.

Among the sixteen chefs who came, except for Du Qiyue and Qi Zining, the rest were older, they were all famous chefs in their respective hometowns, quite respected, and they all had families, most of the people who came here this time only came to see and see most of the world, so only five people agreed to stay, and the others shook their heads directly.

In the eyes of most cooks, they are now rich and famous, and if they continue to be cooks when they return to their hometowns, relying on the name of the emperor's reward this time, their original good reputation will definitely be greater, and their wages will definitely be more than before, and their lives will definitely be richer. If they no longer work as cooks, they can also buy hundreds of 80 acres of good land in their hometown with this reward, and build a good house, and they can eat and wear without worrying about relying on the rent of the land every year, and the people in the village will definitely respect them because of their name, and then they will live happily. Where is it comparable to staying in the palace as a cook, even if you are an imperial chef, you have a grade, but in the end you are a minion, or a slave who is locked up in a big mansion and can't get out for a lifetime, what's the point.

When he was about to walk out of the palace gate, Qi Zining patted Du Qiyue's arm, leaned over to him and asked, "Alas, Le Ya, what do you want to do with this money?" ”

"Me?" Du Qiyue was staring at the two little eunuchs who were carrying the silver to him, and was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Qi Zining nodded and said, "Well, it's just you." I want to double the size of our restaurant, and I want to make our restaurant the largest in the county! Qi Zining said proudly, as if expanding their restaurant was a great cause.

Du Qiyue thought about it for a while, and said loudly: "I want to keep it and marry my daughter-in-law!" ”

"Marry a daughter-in-law?! Do you need so much silver? You are married to a fairy! Qi Zining widened his eyes and said, That's two thousand taels of silver, it's enough to marry a room of wives in the countryside.

"It is indeed a fairy." Du Qiyue nodded seriously, Zhao Yiyun was a good-looking person in his eyes, "So I want to save money." ”

"Hehe, don't blame me for being too talkative, Le Ya is just your little body and you have a good temperament, can you really hold it down if you marry a fairy and go home?" Qi Zining said with some concern, he thought that Du Qiyue had a crush on some official family or a young brother of a wealthy businessman, otherwise how could he ask for so much silver as a dowry, but Du Qiyue is a white-bodied scholar, and his family has no power and power, how can he suppress it if he marries such a young brother and goes back.

Du Qiyue glanced at Qi Zining, and said nonchalantly: "If you can't suppress it, you can't suppress it." "Anyway, he is not a man of the Dafeng Dynasty, no matter when he is away at home, he has a strong face, and few of the men he came into contact with in his last life can really suppress his wife, and it is normal for him to spoil his wife. Besides, if he can really marry Zhao Yiyun, he is willing to let him be a little low at home for the rest of his life.

As the two were talking, they saw that they were about to walk out of the palace, but before they could step out, they were blocked by a little eunuch who ran over panting.

"Little Liuzi, why are you here?" Gonggong Yang shook off the dust and asked.

The little eunuch who called Xiao Liuzi was out of breath and said, "The Queen Mother... The Queen Mother, please... Chef Du is invited to go to Xian... Xiancheng Palace! ”

"Chef Du......" Gonggong Yang looked at Du Qiyue and shouted meaningfully.

"Call me?" Du Qiyue pointed his finger at his face, and was very surprised, the queen mother obviously didn't really like his cooking skills, what was he asking him to do now, did she deliberately ask him to make things difficult?

The little eunuch estimated that he didn't run much on weekdays, and he basically panted out after a while, lowered his head and said: "Yes, please ask Chef Du to leave the palace later, and now go to Xiancheng Palace with the slave first." ”

Du Qiyue didn't want to say how bitter it was, he really didn't want to see the queen mother, but the facts obviously didn't allow him to refuse, so he had to reluctantly smile and let Da Mao wait for him at the palace gate, and then helplessly followed behind Xiao Liuzi.

"Chef Du, please go slowly! The emperor wants to see you, please follow the minion! ”

At this time, another shrill voice came, and Du Qiyue followed the sound and looked over, and saw that the big eunuch who had been standing beside the emperor during the game was coming from the other side