85. 【084】Self-service barbecue
Su Wuxian lifted the corners of his eyes slightly: "If you call the prince the most beautiful man in the world, I believe that no one will be able to beat him." ”
Mu Chen was quite satisfied with this answer, but it was expected, so she pretended to be confused and looked at Su Wuxian with a pair of big beautiful eyes, and continued to ask, "Really?" But why does Hua Si Si Na Mei like you and disdain this king? Could it be that this king is the first in the world, and he can't compare to a major general? ”
Su Wuxian was speechless for a while, and thought for a long time before replying: "This is Miss Hua's eyes." ”
At this time, Mu Chen finally applauded, and laughed: "Well said, really good, it is true that she has no eyes, so ...... This king is the future son of heaven, and he must not marry such a woman with eyes and beads. ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Ren Shaotian, who had just been immersed in his own world, heard Mu Chen's laughter, and heard her say that she couldn't marry a woman with eyes without beads, and finally came back to his senses and echoed Mu Chen's words, "You must not marry a woman, women have eyes without beads." ”
Is that what it means? How did it come to Ren Shaotian's mouth, and the meaning changed?
Forget it, anyway, Mu Chen has a special happiness every time he teases Su Wuxie, and Su Wuxian finally let go of his heart because he clarified his mind, and both of them were in a better mood, so they indulged Ren Shaotian's presumptuousness and didn't care about him.
Ren Shaotian brushed the steaming pot with slices of meat, and said casually: "By the way, I'm going to tear down the stage." ”
"Demolition?" It was rare for Mu Chen and Su Wuxian to speak in unison.
"yes, that's what I thought."
"You're not singing anymore?" Mu Chen's reaction was especially big, and he felt that he had heard it wrong?
Because she only knows that Ren Shaotian has always pinned his feelings for his sister on singing, and pretended that his sister is still alive with a woman's clothes, which is really affectionate, but she doesn't know that he is determined to put aside the past and no longer indulge in the unreal world because he likes him.
"yes, I figured it out." Ren Shaotian chewed a large piece of meat in his mouth, and his speech was a little slurred, "Xiaojuan is dead, this is an indisputable fact, I shouldn't deceive myself anymore, besides, I don't sing well again, and only Lao Su has always applauded me." ”
"If only I could figure it out." Mu Chen nodded again and again, but she didn't understand why he hadn't figured it out in the previous two years, but now he suddenly figured it out again.
But it's good to figure it out, it's good to be able to figure it out.
"In fact, you don't have to rush to dismantle the stage, even if you don't sing, you can invite the troupe to come back and sing, maybe you can increase the number of customers." Su Wuxie's proposal was also an excellent idea, and Mu Chen also agreed.
But Ren Shaotian shook his head without thinking: "Let's tear it down, although I have figured it out, I am afraid of touching the scene, anyway, the business is quite good now, and there is no need to hire any more drama troupes." ”
That's right, if you invite an opera troupe to come back and sing and see the young and beautiful Hua Dan, maybe Ren Shaotian will think of Xiaojuan's past again, and those sad nerves will be touched again.
"What are you going to do with this place after it's demolished?" Su Wuxie's problem is also quite real, originally the stage was set up in a large open space, and the dining seats were surrounded on three sides, if the stage was dismantled and not used for other purposes, it would be too wasteful.
"I haven't thought about it yet, let's think about it again after dismantling it." The boss only thinks about demolishing, and hasn't thought about the follow-up yet.
Mu Chen raised his eyebrows, and a flash of inspiration flashed: "I have a good idea." ”
The two men looked at her at the same time, eager to see what a good idea was.
Mu Chen grinned with a smile full of foodie temptation: "Barbecue." ”
"Barbecue?" Ren Shaotian stared at his round eyes like a curious baby, "What is barbecue?" ”
Su Wuxian had participated in barbecue a few times in the East Palace, and he already knew what barbecue was, but he didn't expect to be able to move to Fulai Hotel.
"It's just to light a stove, and then everyone around the stove puts the food they want to eat on the fire and cooks it, and when it's cooked, you can eat it." Mu Chen was still stunned when he saw Ren Shaotian, and added an explanation, "In fact, many times you will barbecue in the wild, but it is just a little more primitive, use firewood to make a fire, and then roast the whole pheasant, but in the restaurant, we have to be more advanced and safer, so use a small stove instead of firewood, and the meat can also be enriched, and it will be fragrant and delicious, which is absolutely popular." ”
"Well, that's a good idea." Su Wuxian also agreed, "The barbecue should not be indoors, it must be an open area, and each stove should not be too close to each other, and it is conservatively estimated that there are just six stoves in that large open space." ”
Mu Chen patted Ren Shaotian on the shoulder: "That's it, after the stage is dismantled, I will slowly teach you how to barbecue." ”
Ren Shaotian was overjoyed, nodding and applauding. Of course he was happy, and he had the opportunity to contact the prince more and get close to the prince, which he couldn't ask for.
It's just that Su Wuxian frowned a little, and he didn't know why, Mu Chen's more contact with Ren Shaotian would make him feel uneasy.
He has had many abnormal feelings recently, all of which are related to the prince, the prince is too close to him, he will feel his heart beating, and the prince is too close to others, he will feel relative.
Like a frog boiled in warm water, the prince's charm has unconsciously softened his heart.
He wasn't completely unaware, especially Ren Shaotian's confession and Hua Sisi's intervention, which stirred his nerves, and his heart like the prince was like five thunderbolts, so he had to face up to his feelings, and then, how shameful the matter of breaking his sleeves and peaches was in this era, how much was looked down upon by the world, even if he was willing to abandon all his identities and go away to the end of the world, could the prince have it?
Thinking about it again, maybe it's only when I have met the prince a lot recently that I have such an illusion, but in fact, this is not love, just a very ordinary care and care.
His intellect and emotions were constantly tugging.
It's not easy to love someone, and it's even harder to be clear about how much you love someone.
Fortunately, he is still the closest person to the prince, often going in and out of the East Palace, and when he goes to Fulai, the prince is also used to being with him, because the prince likes to be lively, especially when eating.
Don't look at Mu Chen is very smart, but she is very slow to deal with emotional matters without experience, she regards Ren Shaotian's pleasing to her as her nature, which is the same as being good to Su Wuxie, and she regards Su Wuxian's concern as the work of a loyal and loyal minister, so she didn't notice the subtle changes that the two beautiful men had for her at all.
The days have passed in a vaguely ambiguous atmosphere, although there is no progress in the relationship between everyone, but it seems to have entered a state of equilibrium, so I feel comfortable and happy, and no one wants to pull this well-placed rubber band.
Under the guidance of Mu Chen, Fulai Hotel has become the premier hotel in Beijing, although other hotels have seen its success and have rushed to imitate it, but there must be a quality distance between genuine and pirated versions, so Fulai has never been surpassed.
The weather is getting cooler, and barbecue is more popular.
At the last family banquet, Mu Chen promised Emperor Yonghe and Concubine An that she would be responsible for planning the next family banquet, so she just brought the barbecue to the family banquet this time and set the family banquet in the imperial garden.
In the open space of the Imperial Garden, several small stoves have already been prepared, and dozens of plates of fresh food of all kinds are placed next to it, among which meat is the majority, beef, chicken wings, fish balls, sheep whips, snail meat, prawns, fresh shellfish, ......
The dazzling array of food has long made people droop, and Emperor Yonghe and his ladies have long been curious about how to eat.
Mu Chen ordered someone to light the fire of the small stove and spread a layer of barbed wire on the stove.
Emperor Yonghe asked: "Prince, what do you want when you start the stove and put out all the fresh food?" ”
"Back to my father, this is called a buffet barbecue." Mu Chen began to introduce the practice and eating method of barbecue, she picked up an iron fork and a few meatballs, and immediately skewered them into meat skewers and placed them on the barbed wire of one of the stoves, "The so-called barbecue is to put the food on the fire and cook it, and the so-called self-service is to choose what you like to eat." Erchen will demonstrate now, grill this skewer of meatballs, put it on the barbed wire and heat it slowly, but you can't heat only one side for a long time, so you have to turn it over like this, for a while, and turn it over again......"
Although the royal relatives are accustomed to the life of clothes and food, almost everyone is excited to try it when they see such a fresh way of eating.
After listening to the prince's personal demonstration and seeing the birth of a fragrant meatball skewer, everyone couldn't wait to start putting the theory into practice.
Emperor Yonghe's sentence "Don't be restrained", everyone is like a bird released from a cage, picking up an iron fork and looking for their favorite food.
The so-called five fingers have long and short, and of course there are good and bad talents for barbecue, and the choice of ingredients is different, and the difficulty of grilling will be different, so some people reap success the first time, and some people always burn the meat, and it takes several attempts to succeed.
This kind of buffet barbecue is the first time for everyone, Mu Chen tirelessly ran around, teaching them skillfully hand in hand.
Everyone had experience and introduced each other, and the kung fu of the barbecue progressed rapidly.
You don't have to sit in the hall upright, you don't have to be rigid in status etiquette, you don't have to be afraid of saying the wrong thing to make the emperor angry, and you can choose your favorite ingredients at will.
Emperor Yonghe naturally sat with Concubine An, you roast chicken wings, I roast sheep, and I praise you for feeding them.
Everyone is accustomed to Emperor Yonghe's favorite concubine, and Concubine An treats everyone in the harem equally, and everyone is sincerely convinced of her, so no one is jealous, and no one will pick quarrels and provoke trouble.
Except for Concubine Hua.
She looked at her husband and another woman not far away, you and me, she was already on fire in her eyes, this fire was more vigorous than the fire of the barbecue stove, where did she still have the heart to barbecue, the chicken wings in her hand had already been scorched and scorched, and became a piece of black charcoal.