Li Xiao was slightly lucky, shook his wrist, and a shiny kitchen knife rotated twice in the palm of his hand, playing a very beautiful knife flower.

"What materials do you prepare?"

The cooks and servants in the Xue family's kitchen were a little surprised by Li Xiao's fancy movements, and hesitated for a moment before replying, "Lang Jun has already ordered the preparation of materials, and the housekeeper has asked people to buy all kinds of fresh materials early in the morning, including birds and beasts, swimming in the water, crawling on the ground, and flying in the sky. ”

Another person said, "In the afternoon, a cow in the village on the outskirts of our city fell to his death, and he reported to the official, and he slaughtered it early this morning and brought the meat, and now the meat is still hot." ”

Li Xiao snorted twice.

It is precisely the imperial court that has decrees, and the people below have methods. The imperial court stipulated that cattle were not allowed to be slaughtered privately, but what should the magnates do if they wanted to eat beef, although there was a regular distribution of beef to each family, but sometimes everyone wanted to eat something fresh.

As a result, there will always be cattle accidents in each family.

What died while walking, what died in a fight, what cow died on a hunger strike without grazing······ In short, the magnates are going to eat beef, so there will be cattle in the Zhuangzi under their family that just die.

This kind of thing, in fact, everyone understands what is going on, but after all, they are powerful, as long as they cover it up a little and don't make it so open, everyone will turn a blind eye.

With a freshly slaughtered cow, there are plenty of fresh dishes to make. This cow alone can make dozens of dishes.

Li Xiao secretly sighed in his heart, the guests invited by the Xue family today seem to be not small, and they can let Cheng Yanjin accompany him, and directly kill a cow, which is awesome.

After thinking about it in his heart, Xue Rengui asked him to cook, probably because he wanted to eat something new. After all, compared with the traditional Chang'an chef, his strength is better in stir-frying, and some traditional dishes, such as what muddy sheep are missing, he can't compare.

In that case, he didn't bother to think about anything too complicated.

The cow is a cattle, so let's have a small fried yellow beef first, then fry a steak, a torch fat cow, boiled beef slices, and stewed beef brisket with radish.

Stir-frying, frying, roasting, boiling, and stewing are all available.

I looked at the materials prepared in the kitchen.

There are fresh carp from the Wei River, and wild bracken picked from the mountains.

There were too many dishes, Xue Rengui told him that it was good to cook a table of dishes, and five people would eat them.

Then there is another braised Weihe carp, stir-fried bracken, then a hand-papped cucumber, and then a pok choy tofu soup.

After thinking about the menu, Li Xiao instructed the people in the kitchen to help prepare the ingredients.

"Just make these dishes?"

Several cooks of the Xue family had heard that they were going to entertain distinguished guests today, and they originally wanted to show their hands, but they were told that Lang Jun had invited a chef to come outside today.

I thought it was a celebrity chef in a big restaurant, but it turned out to be a young boy.

And when you open your mouth, it's just a few dishes.

One beef made five dishes, then one fish, two vegetarian, plus a soup, eight dishes and one soup.

It's very ordinary.

"That's it."

"What do you call this one?" A fat chef with a long fat head and big ears asked, he is the head chef of the Xue family's kitchen, he has the final say in this kitchen, and he is also the most dissatisfied with Li Xiao at this time.

"Just call me Li San."

"Oh, Li San. Do you know that our Lang Jun is going to invite a distinguished guest today, do you know who it is? The British public knows, right? Situ and Tongzhongshu are under the door. ”

"And Lu Guogong knows? General of the Left Guard! ”

"Su Gong of Linqing County, General Zuo Yulin."

······

Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, Su Lie, well, they are all military officers. Li Xiao was still guessing who he was inviting just now, but now he knows several at once.

But so what.

"Thank you."

The fat man said, "Li San, do you change the dishes again, you can't slack off my Langjun's distinguished guests." ”

"No, just these few dishes, don't stand, wash the vegetables, pick the vegetables, and prepare the accessories. This fat man, you go and wash the pot. ”

"You!" The fat man has always commanded others, and when it is their turn to give orders to him in his kitchen.

The atmosphere was tense, and Xue Chuyu walked in.

The fat man immediately stepped forward to sue.

As a result, Xue Chuyu frowned after hearing this, "Jiao Da, you are also an old man in my family, why are you so unreasonable." San Lang was specially invited by my father to entertain distinguished guests, how dare you call Li San, it's too rude. Don't apologize yet. ”

"Gorou, but he's just messing around, entertaining distinguished guests, but he only plans to cook a few dishes, and they're all simple dishes."

"Simple, simple, will you do it?" Li Xiao asked with a smile.

The fat man snorted unconvinced, "Isn't it simple?" There is not a single famous dish at the banquet of the nobles of Chang'an. ”

Xue Chuyu interrupted the fat man, "Okay, don't say more, do what San Lang instructs, if anyone is disobedient and causes the dishes to be entertained to the distinguished guests today not to be done, then you can pack up and leave tomorrow." ”

"San Lang, my father invited you to the front hall to meet the guests, and some guests said they wanted to see you."

"Is it Old Man Cheng?" Li Xiao asked.

"You'll find out when you go."

Li Xiao took off his apron, followed Xue Chuyu out, and came all the way to the front hall, but saw that there were already several acquaintances sitting in the hall.

There are British Gong Li Ji, as well as the old devil Cheng Biting Jin, as well as the master Xue Rengui, and his colleague Zuo Yulin's general Su Lie.

In addition, there is an unexpected person who is also there.

"San Lang, I haven't seen you for a few days, but your demeanor is still the same."

Wang Yuanwai, who broke up unhappily in Lijiazhuang last time, looked at Li Xiao with a smile, "I heard General Xue say that today's chef is San Lang, and I still don't believe it." Last time, I invited Saburo to my house to cook for a few days, but Saburo didn't agree, and I didn't expect that today, Saburo still cooked for me. Hahaha! ”

Between the words, his smug appearance made Li Xiao want to kick him twice.

But beyond the surprise, he was a little surprised.

The other guests invited by Xue Rengui were all important members of the military, such as Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, and Su Dingfang, who were more ruthless than the other.

And this Wang Yuanwai is just a member of the Ministry of Works, why did he come, and no one else brought a female dependent, so he took his wife with him wherever he went.

"I didn't expect that Wang Yuanwai was also here, did he happen to meet General Xue for a treat and was stayed?"

Li Zhi couldn't laugh out loud all of a sudden.

As soon as Xue Rengui saw that the emperor was angry with Li Xiao, he hurriedly wanted to explain the identity of the emperor, but Li Zhi raised his hand to stop it.

"Well, I came to talk to Brother Chu Yu about something just now, and I happened to meet General Xue as a guest, and General Xue kindly kept me, so I had no choice but to be respectful and obedient, and I was cheeky to stay. But fortunately, I stayed, otherwise I wouldn't have eaten Saburo's food. ”

Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, Su Lie, and Xue Rengui were all very surprised to see the emperor and Li Xiao there, they had never seen the emperor have such a side.

I wanted to remind Li Xiao, but this kid was bent on arguing with the emperor and didn't even look at this side, and the emperor refused to let them say anything, so he had to keep his mouth shut one by one, holding back his hard work.

However, they also admired Li Xiao very much, he was really capable, he could argue with the emperor, what a big guts.

This kid is really fearless for the ignorant.

"Okay, kid won't bother you, I'll go down and prepare the meal."

"Let's talk a little more." Li Zhi said proudly to Li Xiao, this kid always makes him unhappy, but this kind of unhappiness is not ordinary. Others generally don't dare to give him unhappiness, and those who dare to give it are those old courtiers such as the eldest grandson Wuji, Chu Suiliang, etc., and those people give him no pleasure, he can only be unhappy.

But Li Xiao doesn't know his identity, and after giving him unhappiness, he can also fight back, and it's quite interesting to go back and forth.

If only he could fight back against Changsun Wuji and the others, he could fight back like Li Xiao.