"Lychee?"

Chef Liao frowned when she heard Gu Yunxi talk about "lychee paste", and said to herself:

"Niangniang won't know, lychee was originally a fruit in mid-May, and it's July, where do you get lychees?"

Aunt Li next to her pulled her sleeve with her hand, and snickered at Gu Yunxi's end.

Seeing this, Chef Liao woke up, dodged to the side, and gloated at Gu Yunxi:

"Hey, since the mother told you to do it, you can do it. There is only one thing, not to mention our small kitchen at the moment, even the dining room and the imperial dining room can't find fresh lychees! ”

Since the mother intends to make things difficult for this newcomer, why bother with the small kitchen, and see how she can make lychees empty-handed in a while!

Gu Yunxi and Chef Liao looked at each other, and they had already read out her inner thoughts, pursed their lips and chuckled lightly, and there was a trace of essence blooming in their shallow eyes:

"I wonder what kind of ice water lychee paste is used in our small kitchen?"

Chef Liao couldn't help laughing. As soon as she heard the girl's questioning, she knew that she was a layman and didn't know how to make lychee paste at all.

It can be seen that the "Crisp Mountain" is also her luck, and she only knows how to make an ice product and she has the opportunity to show off her skills in front of everyone.

Chef Liao put on a lofty posture, and did not come to answer Gu Yunxi's question, but turned her head to look at Aunt Li.

Aunt Li took a step forward with a very sad face, and said to Gu Yunxi stiffly:

"The girl made a crispy mountain, why haven't you heard of the origin of lychee paste? Take five catties of fresh and tender lychees to take the core pressure juice, simmer with osmanthus and Jiangmi noodles and cook them slowly for one hour, filter out impurities through a fine sieve, and put the batter into the mold for two hours, and it can be eaten after demolding. ”

Gu Yunxi lowered his eyes and smiled, his expression confident:

"You're talking about the most traditional way to make lychee paste. Slaves and maids do not need half a lychee to make lychee paste, and the taste is the same as that of traditional lychee paste. ”

"Heh, it's not a small tone."

Chef Liao sneered:

"I have been serving in Chuxiu Palace for many years, and I have never heard of lychee paste without lychees in the main ingredient. Okay, let's open our eyes today. ”

"Aunt Lao, please give the slave half a catty of black plum, twenty coins of rock sugar, and one penny each of ginger juice, sand kernels, cinnamon, and cloves."

"I'll help you."

Lan Xin walked over, pulled Gu Yunxi to the front of the storage cabinet, and returned to the stove with some required materials.

Gu Yunxi began to move.

Half a catty of black plum into the water to fry the juice, sand kernels, cinnamon into the water to fry the juice, a quarter of an hour later, two thick juice out of the pot, filter out impurities.

Mix the black plum juice, cinnamon juice and ginger juice into a clay pot, mix it with rock sugar, and then simmer slowly.

Gu Yunxi grinded the cloves into powder, and sprinkled them into a clay pot to stir.

Immediately, there was a bubbling white gas out of the mouth of the can, with a magical sweet fragrance of lychee.

Seeing that the heat was enough, Gu Yunxi took a wooden spoon to stir up the paste-like sweet sauce in the jar, and knew that the lychee paste was made by looking at the viscosity, and moved the clay pot off the stove one by one.

The cooks are all here.

Aunt Li, who was still disdainful of Gu Yunxi just now, was looking at the clay pot with her eyes shining at this time, and said to herself:

"It's weird, I can smell the smell of lychees all over the house, but this Nizi really didn't put a single lychee......"

Chef Liao looked incredulous, snatched the wooden spoon and put some sweet amber sweet sauce in the sun to look at it carefully, then stretched out the tip of her tongue and licked it, and her pupils immediately lit up.

But soon her face was gloomy, and without saying a word, she threw the wooden spoon on the board, and walked out of the kitchen in a rage.

Doing too much can lead to jealousy. This truth was already understood by Gu Yunxi when he and the three cooks in the South Courtyard of the East Factory had a trick.

Seeing the chef of Chuxiu Palace leaving the scene angrily, Gu Yunxi silently hooked her lips with a slight smile.

She put the thick sauce in the clay pot into a five-petal crystal plum blossom bowl, and asked Lan Xin to store it in the ice cellar.

When he returned to the ear room to rest, Lan Xin brought two bowls of rice. Seeing that Gu Yunxi had been busy all morning, and she hadn't even eaten lunch on time, Lan Xin deliberately left her a meal to eat together when she was free.

The two faced each other, eating and chatting.

"Twilight, thank you for helping me this morning. Without your crispy mountain, I would definitely have been taken to the violent room by Aunt Jinzhu to be punished. ”

Lan Xin finished gratefully and gave the big duck leg in his bowl to Gu Yunxi.

Gu Yunxi swallowed a mouthful of food, frowned slightly, and did not have a trace of joy in his complexion, but seemed to be pressed by several layers of melancholy clouds:

"If I do this too strongly, I will definitely make Aunt Liao unhappy."

Lan Xin disagreed, and rolled her eyes:

"Ignore her, she's just jealous. You don't think she was born with a harsh face, she has little knowledge, and she sticks to the old rules, and she is jealous when others are more capable than her.

But I really admire your lychee paste recipe, it's amazing......"

Gu Yunxi smiled far-fetched, lowered his eyes and fell into memories, and said lightly:

"Lychee is expensive, when I was a child, I watched others eat it, and I couldn't eat it, so I pondered it repeatedly, and tried to mix it with different spices many times before I came up with this recipe, and the right to look at the plum to quench my thirst......"

At that time, the first lychee in her life was secretly stuffed to her by Gu Yunyao. The sweet smell rubbed the sisterhood and made her remember it for a lifetime.

"You're so capable!"

Lan Xin smiled innocently, and then asked:

"Twilight, will my daughter be fun in the morning? Are all the emperor's women gorgeous and like fairies? ”

Gu Yunxi put the bowl down, and his complexion showed a little sadness:

"Don't mention it, they are extremely beautiful, but they are ruthless in their hearts, and they will fight if they don't agree with each other, which makes the atmosphere boring."

"What is this? So many women serve a husband, and naturally they want to make themselves more outstanding. It's normal for them to step on others and climb up. ”

Lan Xin said lightly, shook his head, and continued to pick up rice in his mouth.

Gu Yunxi was silent for a moment, and raised his eyes to look at Lan Xin:

"Tell me what that Jinjieyu is. When I was studying at the Gongyuan, I often heard the Gongnu talk about Yu Zhaoyi, how she was favored, but I didn't hear that she had a younger sister. ”

In order to find out about Gu Yunjin, Gu Yunxi simply made up a lie.

Lan Xin knew everything about her good partner, wiped the oil on her mouth, and said seriously:

"It is said that Yu Zhaoyi and Jin Jieyu were originally a pair of sisters, and Yu Zhaoyi entered the palace earlier than her sister. When she was favored, Jin Jieyu was a talented person, but she was cold by the emperor for a long time.

Then she will naturally not be reconciled. On the night of last year's Cold Food Festival, I caught up with the emperor who was hungry and passed on some cold food.

As a result, guess what, the person who carried it into the Qinming Hall turned out to be Jincai. At that time, she was defenseless, and her body was tightly wrapped in all kinds of vegetables and fruits, Qingtuan, and Wuni rice, and she was placed in front of the dragon case by the eunuch.

Most of the women in the harem abide by the palace rules, and no one has ever given the emperor such a treat. The emperor couldn't stand it when he saw that Jin was so interesting.

After that, he ate and wiped the rice together, and the next day he raised the position of Jincai, and gave the name of the human meat dish, what is it called...... Oh, the meat plate! ”

Meat plate?

After Lan Xin finished speaking, he saw Gu Yunxi, who was the opposite head, as if he had been fixed, with an embarrassed and disgusted expression of misplaced facial features, and laughed for a moment before continuing:

"You think it's going to be done, don't you? But the emperor likes it. If it weren't for his taste, how could the Queen of the East Palace tolerate Jin Jieyu? However, some people say that Jin Jieyu is behind the Wan Huang Princess. ”

Gu Yunxi was silent, his teeth biting the head of the chopsticks, and his heart was constantly moving.

There is some truth in those rumors.

Once Gu Yunjin offended Lord Leng and was disqualified from entering the palace. Later, Xichang took over the Gongyuan, Gu Yunjin successfully entered the palace to accept the favor, and used shameless means to compete for favor, it can be seen that he should be on Minglan's ship. Isn't the force behind Minglan and Xichang the imperial concubine?

At this time, Gu Yunxi sighed secretly, thinking that in this palace, all kinds of relationships and strengths are intertwined, joining forces with each other or fighting with each other, it is really complicated.

If you make a wrong step, what awaits you in front of me is probably the abyss from which you will never recover-