The Manchu and Han Dynasty banquet can be said to be a table of dishes that integrate the east, west, north, south, and middle, the tastes of various places, various cooking methods, and various ingredients, and gather the spiritual treasures of heaven and earth.

There are more than 40 dishes in total, covering almost all the essence of Chinese cuisine.

The Manchu and Han banquets belonged to the Qing court dishes in the previous life, and the emperor and the prefect must not have eaten them, the traditional Manchu and Han banquets have a total of one hundred and eight dishes, He Jingjing feels that if she makes so many of them, she will definitely not be able to eat them today.

It took too long and was wasteful, so I decided to condense and streamline it, select the most representative dishes for cooking, and let the emperor eat it once and think twice.

He Jingjing brought a pen and paper, wrote down all the dishes she wanted to make on paper, and listed the ingredients and seasonings she needed.

After writing it, He Jingjing and He Xiaoxiao began to walk around the kitchen to see if there were any things needed on it in the prefect's kitchen, and if not, they immediately asked the family to go out and buy them.

Of course, the account is counted on the head of the prefect, He Jingjing and He Xiaoxiao glanced at each other, is this considered wool?

It should be normal to spend more money on inviting the emperor to dinner, right?

As soon as He Jingjing and He Xiaoxiao left the hall, the emperor, the prefect, the crown prince and Ye Haixuan began to drink tea and talk about world affairs.

However, He Jingjing went out with his front foot, and the emperor immediately put down the teacup in his hand.

"Okay, you Ye Haixuan, you are really a troublemaker, you won't stop if you don't find something for me to do for a day. I finally finished dealing with General Zhennan's mess, and I was thinking about resting for two days, but you stabbed Lou Zi to me, what should you be guilty of!"

The emperor's scolding made Ye Haixuan stunned, and he didn't hold the teacup in his hand, nor did he put it down, and he was really in a dilemma for a while.

"Your Majesty, dare to ask Haixuan what mistake he made? I have been in this Linzhou Mansion well, and I have never been anywhere, so why do you want to cause trouble?"

The emperor looked at Ye Haixuan with disgust, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hurriedly explained when he saw this.

"Brother-in-law Huang, did you kick out a neighbor in public in the Lotus Leaf Building a few days ago, and said that the Lotus Leaf Mansion Western Restaurant will not accept neighbors in the future?"

After the prince reminded him like this, Ye Haixuan remembered that there seemed to be such a thing.

"That's right, this matter has alarmed the emperor? Isn't it just an illiterate neighboring barbarian?"

Listening to the words in Ye Haixuan's mouth, the emperor was almost angry and vomited blood, but for the sake of He Jingjing's face, the emperor still endured it.

"Brother-in-law Huang, do you know the identity of the neighboring country?"

The prince couldn't cry or laugh, this Ye Haixuan was really a master of art and bold, and he started stabbing Lou Zi just a few days after he left the army.

"I don't know, I just know that the man came on purpose to find fault. Ye Haixuan shook his head.

"Oh, deliberately finding fault, aren't you maliciously discriminating against your neighbors?" the prefect hurriedly asked.

"Naturally not, my lotus leaf building is open for business, and all the people who come are guests, and it's too late for neighbors to consume more and I'm happy, so how can I discriminate against them for no reason. ”

Ye Haixuan shook his head and told the ins and outs of the matter, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the prefect looked at each other, this matter is really annoying.

"At that time, that person made a lot of nonsense, maliciously slandering my lotus leaf building, Jingjing was almost angry with him and cried, I persuaded myself so that I didn't beat that person out, but just gave a verbal warning. ”

Ye Haixuan was still very angry when he mentioned this, as if he had been greatly wronged.

"You kicked him out, but you were happy, and the mess was left to Your Majesty and us. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sighed helplessly to Ye Haixuan and said.

"What do you say?, do the neighbors still have a big background?" Ye Haixuan heard the voice of His Royal Highness the Prince, it seems that he has provoked someone who should not be provoked this time?

"That person was originally an envoy of a neighboring country, and heard that the dishes of the Lotus Leaf House in Linzhou Mansion were very delicious and innovative, so he came to taste them, and wanted to increase the friendship between the two countries through food. ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince explained, and it turned out that the person was actually an envoy of a neighboring country.

After Ye Haixuan heard this, he suddenly regretted it very much in his heart, wouldn't this have affected Lotus Yelou and Jingjing? It's really impulsive, it's the devil.

"After all, the Lotus Leaf House Western Restaurant, the thing of eating without chopsticks is very famous, everyone wants to come and see it, and now you have completely cut off this idea of the neighboring country with one sentence, and the emperor and envoys of the neighboring country have come to the emperor to protest. ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still a little afraid when he recalls the menacing appearance of the envoys of neighboring countries in the Jinluan Palace that day.

If it weren't for the prefect's power to protect Ye Haixuan, and in front of the ministers, he would have fought with the envoys of neighboring countries for 300 rounds, and Ye Haixuan might have been punished by the emperor in desperation.

"Xiaoxiao, have you finished counting all the dishes here?" In the kitchen, He Jingjing was doing her work in an orderly manner.

Now there is only one hour before the meal, and the task of preparing the full banquet of the Han Dynasty within one hour is still very heavy.

Fortunately, He Jingjing also had the experience of doing important banquets in such a short period of time in her previous life, so everyone who could be used by the commander performed their duties.

"I'm done, and now I'm missing two sea bass, and I've already sent someone to buy them. He Xiaoxiao nodded and replied to He Jingjing.

He Jingjing looked at the time of the drip, it was enough in one hour!

"After a while, the sea bass will come and immediately start killing the fish and hanging the soup, you know the specific steps. He Jingjing asked He Xiaoxiao.

"Yes. He Xiaoxiao nodded and responded, now, after the preparation of the dishes, the Manchu and Han banquets are officially opened.

He Jingjing held the big spoon, He Xiaoxiao handed the dishes and commanded, and the progress of the Manchu and Han banquets was very smooth.

"Xiaoxiao, go and find me a spatula again!" He Jingjing never expected that the prefect's spatula was "in disrepair", and his head fell off in the process of stir-frying.

He Jingjing didn't care about the heat, so she directly reached out to the dish and fished out the head of the spatula, and this dish could still be saved.

He Xiaoxiao, who got the order, quickly put down the work at hand, ran out of the prefect's mansion, and came to the blacksmith shop to buy a new spatula.

When he came back, He Xiaoxiao passed by the hall and heard the emperor's stern voice inside.

He Xiaoxiao has lived in the capital for so long, and understands that the emperor can only make such a sound when he is extremely angry, so he quickly hid in the corner of the wall curiously and listened to the conversation inside.

"Ye Haixuan, you let me say what is good about you, you were a general when you were in the army, and you can do whatever you want with the soldiers under your command, but when you leave the army, even if he is not an envoy of a neighboring country, you will damage the image of our country to him like this!"