Chapter Ninety-Seven: Pretending to be a Pig and Eating a Tiger

I believe in your craft, and when you teach me how to do it, I will do it. Seeing that Yunyan finally agreed to teach herself, Yunchan was excited, thinking that she must be being humble if she said something that tasted bad.

It's not a matter if I haven't tasted her craftsmanship, but she has actually eaten it several times, and the taste is much better than what she makes.

"The first one, called Gyokuro cake, is to first slice and dry the smallpox pollen, kudzu root, and bellflower slices, beat them into fine powder, mix the mung bean flour and sugar into the water and mix thoroughly, and then put it into the porcelain bowl stained with oil, and finally put it in the steamer to steam for half an hour, and when the steamer is out, you will carve its appearance more exquisitely, it will be better."

Yun Yan said lightly, every step was explained in great detail, and Yun Chan listened very carefully, writing them down one by one.

Then Yunyan said a few more pastries to let her remember them, and Yunchan nodded again and again, excited.

"When the pastries I make are liked by the palace ladies and girls, I will cover you if I have a higher status."

Yun Chan put one hand on her shoulder and said proudly.

Yunyan smiled, as long as she could protect herself and not cause any trouble, she would already be thankful, how could she let her cover herself?

"These pastries sound simple, but they are not necessarily easy to make, you have to practice more."

Yunyan originally wanted to say that it was best for her to have a good relationship with the palace people there in Yilan Garden, and not to offend people because of her temperament, but after thinking about it, she might not be able to listen to it, but would blame herself.

Thinking about it, she had no choice but to give up, and only instructed this.

"I know, I will practice hard, I will definitely make the taste good, I will not be out for a short time, I am going back, I will not bother you, next time I have something to come to you."

Yun Chan waved her hand impatiently and left in a hurry.

Seeing someone come out, the figure flashed and hid behind the rockery, and when Yun Chan walked out, she was so excited that she didn't notice it at all.

"I hope nothing happens to this flower-viewing feast."

Looking at Yun Chan, who was getting farther and farther in front of her, Yun Yan couldn't help but sigh lightly, hoping that this time was just a temptation by Zhao Guifei, and she didn't really want to do something to Yun Chan.

When Yunyan also left here, the people in the rear walked out slowly, and seeing that he was dressed as an imperial chef and looked young, this was not Li Zimo.

He didn't have any opinions or experiences, but when he saw who Yunyan was talking to, he came over curiously to listen, but he didn't think about it, but he heard something he was very interested in.

"The pastries that Yunyan said are not something that can be eaten by the people, but only in the palace, and they have been lost for a long time, how did she know about it?"

Li Zimo's lips were slightly raised, and he looked at the direction where Yunyan left, and there were some doubts in his eyes.

I clearly heard that the main vein of the Yun family is Yun Chan, but Yun Chan believes that the pastries that Yun Yan said are researched by herself, and she doesn't know anything about the secret recipe of the palace, so she doesn't look like a descendant of the Yun family at all.

On the contrary, Yunyan, her mind is calm and delicate, and the bland pastries she made earlier are afraid that they are deliberately restrained, right?

Li Zimo returned to the imperial dining room, and saw Yunyan learning the carving of pastries with an imperial chef, but several times his hands were slippery, and the patterns were miserable and not meticulous at all.

"You're also a Yun family, why can't you even carve this?" Li Zimo stepped forward and complained about her intentionally or unintentionally.

"I'm sorry...... I'll try to learn. ”

Yunyan quickly admitted his mistake, and lowered his head, but he saw that Li Zimo's heart moved slightly, and he blamed himself a little for whether his words were too serious.

"Aren't you gentle with those palace maids on weekdays? How will this be spoken, and if you don't do it well, you won't be allowed to learn hard? ”

The imperial chef couldn't look at it, so he pushed Li Zimo aside, walked quickly to Yunyan, patted her shoulder, and comforted her softly:

"Don't take his words to heart, in fact, you can do okay, as long as you practice more, you will definitely do well."

Deng Hao, who spoke, was as his name suggested, bold and atmospheric, and had also received the favor of the Yun family, and he also took good care of Yunyan.

"Thank you, senior." Yunyan bowed down to thank him, and as soon as his voice fell, he turned his head to look at Li Zimo, and his voice was a little hoarse:

"He's right, I'm really clumsy, and I can't even do something as simple as carving......"

"Who is born with it? Don't listen to his nonsense, how can it be so bad? It's cute! ”

Another imperial chef took the pastry she had carved earlier, looked at it carefully, and praised her vigorously, which made her laugh.

Seeing her like this, Li Zimo in the rear aggravated the suspicion in her heart, thinking that she was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, which must have been intentional!

As soon as Yun Chan returned to Yilan Garden, she made pastries as Yun Yan said, but the taste was always not very good.

"You can't lie to me on purpose, right?"

After taking a bite of Yun Chan, she quickly spit it out, the taste was worse than the mung bean cake she made casually, and it was called Yulu.

"It's no good to lie to her, maybe it's because my ingredients aren't good enough to do this?"

Yun Chan thought about it, and then interrupted this speculation, simply rolled up her sleeves again, and started to work again.

"I'm preparing a flower viewing feast for the first time, can you ......?"

After a few failures, Yun Chan simply went to find the other people in the dining room, wanting them to do a favor, and it was much better to prepare together than for her to be busy alone.

"This is what Niangniang gave you to do, which means that Niangniang believes in your craftsmanship, and we dare not take your credit."

A woman hurriedly waved her hand, this is the task assigned to her by Zhao Guifei, if she helped her, wouldn't the credit be all on her head?

She's not that stupid.

"But no, Niangniang believes in your ability, and we believe in you, you should work hard." Another maid also answered.

Yun Chan was about to say something, but she saw that those people walked out quickly, and she didn't want to help her at all.

Yun Chan had to start again, and after doing it for a long time, the taste finally gradually improved.

After the success of the Yulu cake, she also made several other pastries very smoothly, and she realized that she really didn't grasp the amount enough, and the taste would be so bad at first.

The flower-viewing banquet soon began, Yun Chan went to the dining room early in the morning to prepare pastries, and with the experience of doing it countless times earlier, she did it very handily this time.

"What kind of pastry are you making? It's quite fragrant. ”

Xiang Wan was ordered to get pastries, and when she saw that Zhao Guifei and the emperor both thought that the taste she made was very bad, she didn't have much hope for her, thinking that she would be punished this time, but as soon as she came to the dining room, she smelled a faint fragrance.

Different from the greasy and fragrant other pastries in the palace, this aroma is very light, but it arouses the gluttony in people's hearts.

"With sour dates and plums added here, and some medicinal herbs mixed in, I think the ladies are used to eating all kinds of delicacies, and this kind of pastry with appetizing effect must be very suitable for their appetite."

Yun Chan explained the effect one by one according to what Yunyan said earlier.

"You're smart." Xiang Wan glanced at her, and asked people to send those pastries to the imperial garden.

Sure enough, these pastries with a different aroma also aroused the joy of the ladies of the palace.

"What kind of pastry is this? I've never seen it before. ”

Concubine Yu smelled the smell and took the lead in asking, and was quite interested in the pastry with a medicinal fragrance.

"This dish is shaped like gyokuro, and some fine powder is added, which is also a novelty." Another concubine also sighed softly.

"Presumably, you should also know about the Yun family sisters' entry into the palace earlier, these pastries are from the hands of the Yun family, come, everyone try it, do they fit the taste?" Zhao Guifei said with a smile.

With her permission, the rest of the concubines tasted the pastries, and they all praised them without hesitation.

"It's sweet and sour, mixed with a medicinal aroma, it's really good, it's medicinal but not bitter, it's really amazing."

"It's soft and glutinous, and it melts in your mouth, which is also good."

Zhao Guifei's eyebrows moved, and there were bursts of doubts in her heart, especially after tasting these pastries, which confirmed her guess in her heart.

As a member of the Yun family, she said that how could Yun Chan's craftsmanship be so bad, this would make her make a clear and excellent taste!

Could it be that she deliberately made it unpalatable earlier? is a good Yunchan, but her courage is not small!

"I wonder what the names of these pastries are? What is it? Another day, I will ask the palace maids in my palace to come over and learn and see how they are done. ”

"Me too."

After the concubine said this, many people also responded, all of them expressed their desire to learn how to make these pastries.

Zhao Guifei also doubted whether Yun Chan deliberately wanted to hide it, so she gladly responded to it.

After Yun Chan came after a while, she patiently explained the things asked by the concubines one by one, not only explaining the practice in detail, but also attaching the efficacy.

"Earlier, Bengong wanted to taste your craftsmanship, and what you did was not a little worse than today, why, did you deliberately hide it from Bengong?"

Seeing that she answered so well, Zhao Guifei narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly and asked her in a cold voice.

"The slave doesn't dare, it's just that these pastries are something I have only recently figured out, so that Niangniang's flower-viewing banquet can be held better, how dare I hide anything from Niangniang?"

Yun Chan's heart trembled, and she hurriedly bowed down and explained anxiously.

"How can a person who has just entered the palace dare to be disrespectful to your sister?" When the concubine saw this, she couldn't help but say good things for her.

"You see that her hands are injured, maybe she was accidentally injured when she was thinking about pastries, she definitely didn't dare to be disrespectful to her mother."

Zhao Guifei saw a few people speaking for her, and she also suspected that Yun Chan was deliberately concealing it, and before she found out her purpose, it was not good to move her, so she simply chuckled and eased the tense atmosphere.

"This palace is just trying to make a joke, why are you all serious? Get up quickly, the pastry you have made today is very much to our heart, it is for merit, and this bracelet should be regarded as a reward for you. ”

Zhao Guifei's jade hand was lightly raised, and she took out a jade bracelet with excellent color from her wrist and handed it to Yun Chan, Yun Chan was overjoyed, but soon waved her hand again and again.