Hmm, what's next? ”

"Oh, chopping vegetables, like this." Chi Wan held the knife in her right hand, her thumb against the knife surface, and she cut a carrot into thin slices with three or two brushes, and Xie Yutang could even faintly see the opposite side through the carrot slices when she picked it up.

"Wan'er, you're too powerful!" Xie Yutang praised.

"What is this," Chi Wan said, "every chef in our flavor building can do this, it's okay, you don't have to learn so hard, just cut them neatly and you'll be able to pass the test." ”

Chi Wan snickered, although Xie Yutang can cook, but he only makes a big pot of rice in the barracks, what wild vegetables are washed and thrown directly into the pot to cook and eat, and the fish is caught and the fish is cut open and the internal organs are probably the only place to use the knife.

So now it is really embarrassing for him to let a man like him, who usually cooks five big and three thick, hold a knife to the carrot in front of him, which is not as thick as his arm, and cut it into slices of the same thickness.

"Come on, Yutang, you can do it!" Chi Wan cheered him on the side, and several chefs also came over to cheer for Xie Yutang, and Xie Yutang felt great courage.

Good! There is nothing in this world that I Xie Yutang can't do! Hey! When it was too late, Xie Yutang cut the carrot in two with a knife as if he had made up his mind, and then the two sections became four sections, and the four sections became eight sections.

When it became sixteen paragraphs, Xie Yutang put down the knife and waved his hand and said, "I can't cut it, I can't cut it." "He had been in a state of nervousness just now, for fear that he would cut unevenly or cut his own hand.

Chi Wan looked at the carrot cubes in front of her that could be used to cook curry, smiled and said, "It's good, I'll make a dish with this carrot you cut later, if you're interested, you can stay and watch." ”

"Really!" Xie Yutang was very excited in his heart, this was the first time that Chi Wan offered to cook for herself, or did she use the carrots she had just cut by herself.

Xie Yutang was so happy that he couldn't even hide his happiness so much that he had a smile on his face for several minutes. Seeing that Chi Wan took out a pot and took out a piece of yellow fast-shaped unknown thing that looked oily, she asked, "Wan'er, what are you going to do here?" ”

"Curry." Ji Wan replied.

"What is curry, and why have I never eaten it or heard of it?" Xie Yutang was confused, he found that Chi Wan always had some strange words popping out of his mouth, all of which he had never heard.

"Of course you haven't eaten it, because it's a ...... Forehead...... Central Plains cuisine! Chi Wan scratched her chin in embarrassment and said, "I also consulted him specifically for this, he is the deputy shopkeeper of the flavor building, and he has opened a Central Plains flavor restaurant before." ”

"I'm glad I will."

Xie Yutang gave a friendly fist hug to the other party, and the shopkeeper of the Central Plains also used the courtesy of the Central Plains to salute Xie Yutang, and told him: "This curry was conceived by me and the shopkeeper of the pool, I am only in charge of the spices, and the shopkeeper of the pool is in charge of its preparation." ”

"The yellow cube next to it is the most indispensable thing in the future, also called curry cube, if you don't have it, then the thing you make is not called curry. Its main ingredient is turmeric, so it looks yellow when it is made. ”

Here, the shopkeeper of the Central Plains is explaining to Xie Yutang, and Chi Wan has already started cooking. Although she is a shopkeeper who doesn't need to cook on weekdays, this does not mean that her cooking skills are not good.

On the contrary, her cooking skills can be said to be unrivaled in the flavor building, even Lin Nanyi can't compare.

Why? Because the recipes on the recipes in the flavor building are all written by Chi Wan alone, if this is not powerful, then what is powerful?

Chi Wan first cooked potatoes and carrots in the water, and the documents recorded that the potatoes were absolutely like Wuzhongluo peanuts and taro, and they were also like taro, and this difference was loose, so there were potatoes in this era, but they were not as popular as in modern times, but they were rare things that only some nobles could afford.

After cooking, the water is strained and boiled again, but this time the curry cubes are added and then other seasonings are added, and the stirring is kept in between.

The process of cooking curry needs to be less than an hour, because only when the ingredients are cooked soft enough to be delicious and delicious, if you can't wait to cook it for half an hour, then not only will the taste rustle, but the ingredients inside will not taste good, and it will be very unpalatable.

Ji Wan was still thinking about how to pass the time when she was bored, and things came to her like this. The shopkeeper outside looked a little panicked, and he came in and told Chi Wan, "Shopkeeper Chi, there's a ...... outside The official is looking for it. ”

The official master is the official, from the small official to the big official, he can be called the official master, especially for this shopkeeper who has not seen the world much, and he is full of admiration for the official, so he will call the official master.

Chi Wan came out of the kitchen and walked to the door of the flavor building, and saw several local officials wearing simple official uniforms of a single color standing at the door of the flavor building.

Generally, this kind of local official is the most free, and the best thing to say is that it is a sesame petty official, which is similar to modern urban management to put it bluntly.

When the order came down from the upper level, they began to collect taxes from the shops and residents in the vicinity, and collected all the taxes, which was their main job, and the secondary word was to manage the order of a place, and that's it.

In short, where can this kind of idle official position be called an official in Chi Wan's eyes? But today is not the day of tax collection, since they came to the flavor building must be because there are other important things, so they greeted them with a good face and said, "I'm afraid a few people came to eat, right?" What's the matter? ”

"What's the matter? Don't you have a point in your heart as a shopkeeper? One of them asked, "We found out that you have evaded taxes and have not paid a lot of taxes." ”

The ancient system of paying taxes was the most unreasonable, sometimes unpredictable, and basically decided on the basis of the fullness or emptiness of the treasury. The treasury is empty, so today the common people will pay more taxes, and the treasury will be full, so they will pay according to the usual basics.

But Chi Wan asked herself, she has always opened the store for so long to avoid causing trouble, and paying taxes according to the amount said by these local officials will not evade taxes.

Chi Wan saw that they were not good, and Zhengse said: "I think a few people are probably mistaken, our flavor building pays taxes on time every time, and never evades taxes. ”

"Poof!" Several local officials couldn't help but laugh, it was really ridiculous that the other party would say such a thing to let them know it, it was really ridiculous, "Does this still need to be investigated?" We are also impartial, and we have a record of each family's tax payment records. ”

After that, they took out a booklet prepared in advance and handed it to Mao Mao, and said, "Well, look, this is clearly written in black and white, you can read it for yourself." ”

Chi Wan opened it and saw that there were several pages with words written that the flavor building owed two hundred taels, the flavor building owed three hundred taels, and so on, which made her feel very puzzled.

"The two of you have account books, and we also have account books in the flavor building," Chi Wan stretched out her hand, and the maid on the side handed her a thick account book, she opened the book in front of those local officials, showed it to them, and said, "Please see, the tax payment and the number of taxes in the flavor building are all above." ”

Chi Wan's ledger looked more carefully than those local officials, and the rules and regulations clearly wrote on it the silver taels given by the date item and the remaining silver taels and so on.

It's not like the one in the hand of the local official, which has a few lines written on it, how much tax does someone owe to a certain shop, and nothing else.

But no matter how serious you are, the local official laughed mockingly and said: "Shopkeeper, you said that this account book must be based on ours, and you should not take out your book." ”

Chi Wan felt uneasy in her heart, the other party seemed to be obviously deliberately looking for fault, but she still remained calm on her face, and said: "So the two of you mean that according to your account books, our flavor building is evading taxes?" ”

"Exactly." Another official opened the account book and flipped through his fingers to calculate, and said, "During this period of time, the flavor building has owed about 10,000 taels of taxes and fees, and the shopkeeper, if you can't get this money now, then we may have to let your store close now." ”

"Ten thousand taels?" Chi Wan couldn't believe her ears, "The tariff has always been paid once a month, but it is only three hundred taels, why is it ten thousand taels?" ”

"Well, why don't you have 10,000 taels?" The local official stretched out his hand and Chi Wan listed them one by one, "This house rental tax costs 500 taels per month, and you are a restaurant, and you also have to pay taxes on the purchase of ingredients, this is a new policy that has been issued recently, you don't know, and what kind of opening tax there is, etc., it is too much."

"So if you don't pay taxes now, it's not that we won't let you open this store, but the emperor won't let you open it, so you better pay taxes quickly!"

The local officials said that the head of the road was the truth, and they saw that the victory was in hand, but Chi Wan was not afraid of them at all, she asked rhetorically: "Why? Why should I listen to you and believe what you say, just because you are wearing official uniforms now, that's all? ”

"You! How dare you question us! Several officials looked at each other, and crooked their necks and pinched their fingers to make their bones rattle, "Do you know what the consequences of questioning us are, you have to think clearly for yourself!" ”

"I'm not afraid of you, I want to report this matter to the official, let the people in the government investigate thoroughly, I will naturally make up for the leaks, but I can't allow some unwarranted people to be demons here in my shop!"