"Niu Erniang, in fact, I'm not a few years older than you," Yang Huairen pursed his lips and returned to a young man's relaxed mentality, "If you apprentice, it's not necessary, right?"

I have already built a large-scale kitchen academy in the western suburbs of Beijing, which is a large institution specializing in teaching cooking skills, so why don't I arrange for you to go to the academy to learn cooking skills?

That one...... Although there are no female students yet, I will tell the gentlemen that they will take special care of you, including life and study, by the way, your brother Niu Da can also accompany you to study, and the tuition is free......"

Yang Huairen thought that Niu Erniang would gladly agree when he heard such an arrangement, but as he spoke, he found that Niu Erniang's eyes had dimmed again.

Yang Huairen wanted to brag that he understood women, but even he couldn't deceive himself with this big nonsense, Niu Erniang's performance made him a little confused, so he gave Lan Ruoxin a look as if asking for help.

Lan Ruoxin is a woman, and the communication between women and women may be smoother, she asked gently, "Sister Erniang, what's wrong with you?" Isn't it a good thing that Brother Ren arranged for you to go to the Culinary Academy to learn cooking skills, and you can also take your brother with you without charging you tuition? ”

Niu Erniang thought for a while before replying, "Madam, you are also a woman, you should know that women going to the academy to study *** will be looked down upon, not to mention that there are many inconveniences in life......"

Yang Huairen thought from her words that in this era, women will not go out to school, even if they are girls from official families or large families, they just followed boys to study in private schools when they were children, and they only learned the level of literacy and stopped reading.

A woman is virtuous if she is not talented, although this is the words of those sour Confucians in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but in the Song Dynasty, there were similar thoughts.

In an era when most women don't even have names, let her go to the academy to study with a group of boys, for Niu Erniang, such a psychological burden is too heavy.

Yang Huairen wanted to say that a small area could be set aside in the academy as a place for female students' accommodation and activities, but before he could speak, Niu Erniang suddenly raised her head and said to him, "The slave family doesn't go to the academy, the slave family only needs to worship Yang Daguan as a teacher." ”

The tone was very firm, and there was a look of admiration and admiration in his eyes, which made Yang Huairen a little unable to refuse, and in his opinion, Niu Erniang was indeed a very talented girl, and he personally taught her to learn cooking, and he could give full play to her talent.

In addition, Lan Ruoxin also felt that this girl was good, and stared at Yang Huairen with a coquettish look, so he nodded happily, "That's fine, but I'll take you as an apprentice, and those cumbersome understandings will be avoided, you will follow us first, and when you return to the capital, you will go to Suiyuan to learn basic cooking knowledge from your senior brother first." ”

Niu Erniang was so happy at this time that she immediately stood up and turned around in front of Yang Huairen, respectfully bowed to the master, and said excitedly, "Apprentice Niu Erniang thank the master for taking it, in the future, the apprentice will be diligent and hard to learn cooking skills from the master, and will do his best to serve the master and the master." ”

Lan Ruoxin was embarrassed on the side, Niu Erniang didn't know her current identity, but through her observation, she found that Lan Ruoxin had been by Yang Huairen's side, and the two of them were very intimate, so they decided that this was her master's wife.

"That, my sister is ...... now Temporarily...... It's not your wife, there are two more in your master's family, but it's just because they just gave birth recently......"

Having said that, Kelan Ruoxin was very happy that others called her "Mrs." and "Mrs.", thinking that maybe she would officially pass through the door after returning from Yang Huairen's errand, she couldn't help but blush.

Yang Huairen sighed while shaking his head, and once again stretched out his hand to help her up, "You just need to study cooking diligently, I have hands and feet, and I don't need you to serve as an apprentice." ”

Yang Huairenxin said that he had only been in the Great Song Dynasty for less than two years, and he had already married two wives and concubines, and there was a Lan Ruoxin waiting to pass through the door, and the peach blossom debt owed was enough, but he didn't have the heart to accept a small one to enter the door.

If a female apprentice often wanders around him, I am afraid that it will cause the wives in front of him or the future wives to be nervous, in case one accidentally touches the vinegar jar, it is enough for him to drink a pot.

Niu Erniang was happy in her heart, perhaps because she felt the meaning of Yang Huairen's words, and she also knew that her words just now were a little easy to be misunderstood, and she was afraid that others would misunderstand and ruin the master's reputation, so she sat back next to Lan Ruoxin and said with a smile, "Master doesn't need to serve as an apprentice, then the apprentice will serve the future master." ”

Lan Ruoxin pretended to be angry and slapped her, but Yang Huairen had no choice but to continue to sigh, saying that this girl is really clever, sweet-mouthed, and good at life, I am afraid that in the future, those apprentices in the family will know that Yang Huairen has accepted a junior sister for them, and their hearts will be happy.

Yang Huairen suddenly remembered the beef noodles made by Niu Erniang that he had just eaten, so he asked curiously, "Where did you learn the recipe for your beef noodles?" Or...... Did you figure it out yourself? ”

When Niu Erniang saw the master's question, she immediately accepted her excited and happy smile, and bowed her head seriously, before slowly replying, "Back to Master's words, how do you say Niu Ji beef noodle recipe...... Both of the situations mentioned by Master are a bit bit. ”

This answer is a bit ambiguous, Yang Huairen became more curious, Niu Erniang saw this, and then explained: "When the apprentice was a child, his family suffered a natural disaster, and he and his brother had no parents since they were young, so they had to follow the homeless people to escape the famine, and fled all the way from their hometown in Mianzhou to Xijing City.

In order to let me eat, my brother took my host to beg the west, and finally met a kind shopkeeper who took us in, let us stay in his restaurant to work, and only then did we have two meals a day.

Originally, we also did some chores in the back kitchen, and since then the apprentice has been interested in cooking, and after staying in the back kitchen for a long time, I have seen a lot of dishes. ”

Yang Huairen nodded in recognition, a talent like hers, it is not an exaggeration to say that she can see it, but the key is that she is not just a simple imitation, but knows how to use her brain to think, think about different ingredients or seasonings, and use different combinations to create different deliciousness, which is a rare talent.

"And then?"

Lan Ruoxin asked curiously, "It has only been more than a year since beef noodles became popular, how did you learn the taste of ninety percent of Suiyuan beef noodles?" ”