Fang Qi decided to follow the plan step by step, the first thing was that she had to get out of bed.

There are only two maids who can be called her confidants now, March and August, which is actually a birth in March and an August birth, which shows the power of naming in the Fang period, that is, how to save worry and how to come.

Fang period as a father does not love the mother does not love the concubine, naturally "unworthy" has the right to choose the maidservant, all the maids around her are assigned by Mrs. Wang, but in March, August two have served by her side for a long time, and already have the character of loyalty, only to develop into a confidant, and after Fang period's efforts, March and August are two of her four big maids.

She called these two today, it was to go to the most remote corner of the back house of the Xiangdi, where there was a small courtyard, and there was not even a plaque, but it was the place where Fang Qi's biological mother Su Xiaoniang once lived, and Fang Qi lived here before she was ten years old.

When she was ten years old, Fang moved to the Autumn Cool Pavilion, her little lady followed and invited herself to the Grange, this small courtyard because of the desertion, no one is willing to live, even the servants do not usually come here, the paint on the courtyard door, has been mottled and peeled, only the yard of vines and roses has been left unattended for many years, but it has added to the vigorous trend.

Fang Qi usually doesn't come here, she is afraid that if she comes too much, her grandmother will think that she is missing her little mother.

Another tragic situation of the concubine is that the person who gave birth to you is obviously someone else, but only the grandmother is your mother, filial piety should be filial piety to the mother, respect and respect for the mother, that is, like the fourth mother Qin Fangfei, her little lady has been favored for a long time, but she never dared to be presumptuous in front of her mother and sister-in-law, let alone presumptuous, seeing her mother treat Zhou Xiaoniang like a servant, Fang Fei can only swallow her anger, not to mention the Fang period?

Whenever she shows a little attachment to her biological mother, in the eyes of Mrs. Wang, she is a sin.

The last few times I came back to the small courtyard during the fang period, it was all for the precious ingredient of chili peppers.

The first batch of pepper seeds awarded to her by the system are very strange, they grow buds one day after planting, become plants in three days, bloom in three days, and can be harvested in a total of 11 days, but they wilt quickly, and then leave for planting, this specificity does not exist, and there is not much difference from ordinary crops, and they need to be planted in the right way, and they cannot be grown quickly.

The aromatic period has been left to plant, and the remaining peppers have been dried, today she is for use, and then she also wants to take the dried peppers back to the Qiuliang Pavilion - she chose to plant peppers in the courtyard because of the remoteness here, but after tomorrow she will no longer be the "first daughter" trusted by her mother, there may be many eyes and ears around her, the small courtyard is not safe, such a precious condiment must be received in the Qiuliang Pavilion, where is only under her nose.

She first took some dried chili peppers and put them in the suitcase, and once again told the maids to especially store the chili pepper seeds before going to the blistering kitchen.

Xiangdi's blister kitchen is on the east road opposite to the ancient building garden, and the main entrance is open to the west of the road that distinguishes the outer house from the inner house, and the blister kitchen is arranged in a word with the blister kitchen as the center of the frying bureau, fresh fruit bureau, candied fruit bureau, dim sum bureau and so on, and the food supply is concentrated in this row, and the owner class of the Xiangdi is only the only one who often runs to the blister kitchen during the fang period - her family's cook, but her grandfather spends a lot of money on gifts, and the salary alone costs six hundred taels of silver a year. The kitchen lady Wen Damiang earns at least 800 taels of silver a year.

Dare to ask for such a high salary, Mrs. Wen's cooking skills are naturally not ordinary, Fang Qi's past plan for himself was to marry the Peng family, Peng Zizhan said that the eldest son of a family, the pocket money in the purse did not exceed two taels of silver, with the foundation of the Peng family, of course, I can't afford to hire a celebrity chef like Mrs. Wen, but Fang Qi's mouth has long been raised by Mrs. Wen.

So in order to enjoy the food after getting married, Fang Qi tried her best to stubbornly do what she liked, and finally begged Aunt Wen to nod and promise her to teach her some cooking skills.

Some are really some, only a few home-cooked dishes, as well as quiches, soup dumplings and other pastries, all of which are stingy.

Fang Qi is familiar with Aunt Wen.

To put aside the ordinary, Mrs. Wen is not in the blister kitchen at this time, not even in the Xiangdi, as a rich man, is not rare to send people under the fence, she bought a house in Lin'an City to live, she is only responsible for the morning and evening two meals, sent by the Xiangdi to take over, but today is different, because there is a banquet tomorrow, Mrs. Wen will prepare a day in advance.

At this time, there were twenty or thirty servant women in the courtyard of the blister kitchen who were busy in an orderly manner, and there was no figure of Mrs. Wen, and she didn't ask anyone, so she walked directly to the back courtyard, and just entered the moon gate, and sure enough, she saw Mrs. Wen sitting in a pavilion in the courtyard, with a square table in front of her, the table was full of dishes, Mrs. Wen didn't need to prepare lunch, but she wanted to eat lunch.

When Aunt Wen saw Fang, she smiled: "Sanniang is really spiritual, it's the right time to rub me for lunch." Then he instructed the little maid on the side: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you go and prepare a set of dishes for Sanniang." ”

Fang Qi sat down generously: "These dishes are all cooked by the lady herself?" ”

"That's natural, I'm not used to eating your dim sum bureau."

Xiangdi's lunch is not cooked by Mrs. Wen, but it doesn't mean that you don't eat lunch, but lunch is called a meal in David, and the food eaten with a meal is collectively called dim sum, and dim sum is not just a pastry, such as Xiangdi's food is provided by the Dim Sum Bureau, and lunch generally includes seven meals, five fresh vegetables, ten boxes of tea and fruits, and five small plates, but in this way, it is still disgusted by Mrs. Wen "can't get used to eating", and the mouth of the chef is indeed enough.

Aunt Wen disliked the snacks of Xiangdi, and emphasized again: "I don't care about Xiangdi's lunch, and I don't eat Xiangdi's white food, but I asked my own people to prepare these ingredients, and I didn't even use a spoonful of Xiangdi's salt, it was nothing more than a few pots of vegetable washing water, so Sanniang, this meal at noon today is indeed your rubbing mine." ”

Fang Qi was obedient and listened to the sound, not to mention that she also saw that Aunt Wen's eyes were barely chiseled into the box she brought, and said with a smile: "It's the chili pepper from the last time, I have dried it, and the spicy taste of the stir-fry should not be reduced." ”

Aunt Wen hurriedly moved the suitcase to herself, as if she was afraid that Fang Qi would regret it.

How can they not know the importance of rare ingredients, not to mention that the taste brought by this chili pepper is far from the common spice condiments, such as Sichuan pepper, dogwood, pepper can be compared.

Mrs. Wen had never seen chili peppers, so she was naturally curious, and asked where Fang Qi got it from, and Fang Qi Hu made up a story - this story was also used to cope with the past March and August.

It is said that on the third day of March, Fang period went to the West Lake with his brothers, and saw a monk from Bahrain Feng outside the Qingliang Temple and that fate, David people do not pay attention to foreign monks who chant the scriptures, so the monk and the chanting for a long time no one cares, Fang period saw that he was both hard and pitiful, and offered a hundred copper coins, the monk said that she had a relationship with her own Buddha, gave her pepper seeds, and taught her how to plant.

Although Aunt Wen is rare in chili peppers, she is just a person with integrity, so she didn't ask how this ingredient should be grown.

At this time, he only said: "You are willing to give me chili, of course I will not only use a lunch as a reward, take the time for you to come to my house, I will teach you two specialty dishes, this time it is a real specialty dish, the kind that can hold a banquet in the future." ”

Fang Qi was naturally overjoyed, Aunt Wen refused to let her thank her, waved her hand and said: "When I promised to teach you to cook, I forced you to swear a poisonous oath, without my permission, you can't teach the cooking skills I taught to others, even your future children are no exception, you have not broken your promise in the past few years, you treat me sincerely, I treat you like this." Sanniang, let me ask you a word, don't you take out this chili pepper? If you want to take out, you won't use your own name. ”

"Offering peppers in large quantities, at least until next year, I have some in my hands now, and if I don't want a lot of them, I can still provide them, but the lady has the idea of being a middle-aged person, so it's best not to mention my name and surname."

Mrs. Wen bowed her head and said: "You are the daughter of the Prime Minister's House, it is necessary to be cautious, I am a cook, and others will not make a fuss if they have rare condiments at hand." That's the case, I have a little sister, last time I ate the radish skin I shredded with fresh chili peppers, I was amazed, I gave her this box of chili peppers first, she was willing to pay fifty taels of silver, I don't charge you money, as long as you promise me to grow chili peppers again next year, think about supplying me first, I won't shorten your penny of money. ”

"How can I collect my mother's money?" Fang Qi hurriedly said: "I also pointed out that the lady could teach me a few more specialty dishes." ”

Aunt Wen thought about it for a while, and she was not reluctant: "Then I will give this box of chili peppers to the family first, you remember to bring me another box when you come to my house another day." ”

Fang Qi casually asked where the banquet hall was located tomorrow, and heard that it was still in the Boundless Building, and Mrs. Wang also instructed that after the luncheon, she would send snacks to the bow field, so she happily tasted the food, and after eating, she returned to the Qiuliang Pavilion with satisfaction.

It was an unexpected good thing to be able to exchange chili peppers for fifty taels of silver after a trip to the blistering kitchen, and her purpose was actually to learn two big dishes, so that she could show her hand at the Dragon Lunch Banquet at home - to please her grandfather and grandmother.

Don't look at it 20 years ago, David's capital Kaifeng fell, the emperor and the prince were captured, and almost did not lose the country, but since today's son was proclaimed as the new monarch in Jeju, after several years of conquest, he finally broke the offensive of the Liao State to protect half of the country, and it has been too peaceful for more than ten years.

The remnants of Kaifeng have moved to Lin'an one after another, and Lin'an City seems to reproduce the prosperity of Tokyo in the past.

David up to the king, down to the common people, most of them are good food, Lin'an City in the large and small restaurants and restaurants are lined up, take Xiangdi as an example, except for Fang Qi's father Qin Jing seems to have no big requirements for three meals a day, they are all foodies, so Fang Qi developed a strategy to please her grandfather with food, of course, she can't act too utilitarian, and she can't leave her grandmother aside because she has no interest in pleasing her grandmother.

Fang Qi also knows very well that food can only be the icing on the cake, and she wants to really win her grandfather as a backer, and the battle in the next two days is quite crucial.

Fortunately, I earned fifty taels of silver today, and I can sleep more peacefully at night, which is greatly conducive to recuperating and recuperating.