Behind the art street, in the house that was once used to place the textile machine in Yang Ji Cloth Village, it has now been changed into a conference hall by Dong Ce called Tao Rong, and at this time, more than 20 people in it sat on a long chair and looked at Dong Ce who was sitting alone in the east.

Dong Ce opened the fine food box on the table, glanced at the six round oil cakes inside, took out one and took a bite, then frowned and said: "Too greasy, too sweet, not enough aroma, to put it mildly, it is really worthy of the name of the king's ten miles of fragrance." ”

Wang Fuyan, who was sitting on the first seat on Dong Ce's right hand, heard the words and said: "I also know that there is something missing, but the Mid-Autumn Festival Hu Cake is a palace dessert, and the practice is rarely spread to the people. ”

Dong Ce smiled faintly and said: "The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Yuanwai really knows how to pick the time, but it is also for the art garden business, so let's ask people to prepare a few catties of red beans, flour, eggs, sugar cubes, etc., and I will go back to Shili Piaoxiang to teach you to make an ordinary Hu cake." ”

"These are available in our store, waiting for Master Dong at any time." Wang Fuyan said happily.

Wang Fuyan didn't want to come here to seek art, but after eating a kind of osmanthus cake taught by Dong Ce to Zhang Yan, he really realized Dong Ce's omnipotence!

Now the osmanthus cake in Zhang Tan's stall has become the preferred snack for most of the audience before and after the play, but the pastries on his ten-mile fragrance stall are rarely cared about, which makes Wang Fuyan secretly scold Dong Ce for being eccentric, and he is also very helpless, who let him not learn from Dong Ce earlier!

Zhang Tan, who was three seats away from Wang Fuyan, saw this scene, and his heart was suddenly unhappy, but since people learn from the experience first, and regardless of the cooking skills of the ingredients, people who open restaurants are naturally more suitable for selling this Hu cake than those who sell grain.

"Master, how about taking a look at these three brass lamps?" Lu Kexuan said.

Now everyone knows that Dong Ce is the leader of the Yan Sect, and his unique insights and skills are here, so that everyone unknowingly learns from Wang Fuyan to call Dong Ce a master!

When Lu Kexuan's words fell, his entourage brought the three beautiful golden lanterns to the table in front of Dong Ce and placed them.

These three lamps, one like an ancient pine, one like a jade tray, and the last one is like a small sword stuck in a golden stone, and the end of the hilt is slightly wider, just enough to hold lamp oil.

Dong Ce took a closer look and nodded: "Yes, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen in your store is worthy of being a unique in my Jinling, and it is exactly the same as the drawings I drew that day." ”

When Lu Kexuan heard this, he smiled bitterly and said: "For the sake of Master Dong's words, I can make our craftsmen's hair white!" ”

"In my art garden, everything must be kept improving, so that no one can follow suit, and in terms of price, we can take the initiative." As soon as Dong Ce finished speaking, Yang Nailei's eldest son, Yang Jing, also asked his entourage to unfold a few costumes for everyone to watch.

These costumes are gorgeous and luxurious, and some are simple and unpretentious but made of high-quality materials, but the style is completely different from the costumes of the Broken Jade Case.

Dong Ce got up and went over and looked at it carefully several times, and finally said to Yang Jing: "Young Master Yang, the other three are fine, but why is there so many feathers added to this neon coat and feather?" ”

"Since it is a feather coat, how can it become a feather without a feather feather?" Yang Jing frowned.

Dong Ce smiled and said: "You and I have different opinions, in the next opinion, the feather coat is as light as a feather, as if it is like smoke when it meets the wind, beautiful as a dream, the application of the lightest silk cloth production, don't you look at my drawings?" ”

Yang Jing was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "The master in the shop saw that Dong Gongzi's requirements in the picture were too simple and not beautiful enough, so he wanted to add a little more beauty, but he didn't expect to add enough snakes!" ”

"This dress is no different from a birdman, and it also paints snakes, have you ever seen Chang'e with a feather?" Although Dong Ce was unhappy in his heart, he didn't blame Yang Jing for changing his design without authorization, because he was too busy and didn't emphasize it in advance, which eventually caused people to misunderstand.

Then, after discussing the follow-up goods with the rest of the staff, Dong Ce personally sent them away.

After another busy afternoon, that night, Dong Ce came to Shili Piaoxiang in a hurry, and Wang Fuyan had already prepared some simple ingredients according to his instructions.

The Mid-Autumn Festival Hu cakes of this year are the moon cakes of later generations, but today's practices are naturally different from those of later generations, especially in terms of aesthetics, which are completely incomparable!

In addition, ingredients such as walnuts, flax, or sesame seeds are extremely expensive nowadays, so it is difficult for them to prevail among the people.

Wang Fuyan was a very ambitious person, and he had always wanted to do the business of palace cakes, but he had never been able to replace them with cheap materials, and even if he tried walnuts and flax, the taste was far less good than the ones he had tasted in the scholars' homes.

"Master Dong, is this okay?" A cook showed Dong Ce the red bean paste in the basin.

"It's almost, you can wrap it in dough, it needs to be this big." Dong Ce gestured, then continued to bow his head and carve a piece of wood with a carving knife.

After a while, Wang Fuyan came over and said, "The small earthen kiln has been completed, Master Dong should go and take a look." ”

Walking to a mound of earth, Dong Ce glanced down at the situation in the earthen kiln, and said to Wang Fuyan on the side: "Burn the charcoal fire to let the water in the soil evaporate." ”

Wang Fuyan immediately ordered a fire, and then said to Dong Ce: "If the charcoal in the small earthen kiln is so low, can it be roasted?" ”

"It's easy to burn when you get closer, this thing can't be in a hurry, take your time." Dong Ce's words made Wang Fuyan very depressed, he thought that the palace Hu cake was stuffed with flour and then put into the oil pot, but he didn't expect it to be baked! And it's hard for him to mass produce it in a short period of time!

A quarter of an hour later, Dong Ce put away the carving knife, asked a little cook to take a bowl of oil, he dipped it on the cloth and began to smear the wooden block in his hand, then sprinkled some dry flour in it, then picked up a ball of dough with filling on the table and put it in, and then pressed it on the table.

When everyone in the kitchen saw this scene, they all took a closer look, and when they found that Dong Ce had pulled up the wooden block, a ball of round cakes that looked like flowers but not flowers appeared on the table, with a simple but beautiful shape.

Dong Ce continued to press eleven more, and then used a kitchen knife to scoop up one by one and put it on a brushed iron plate, sprinkled some water droplets before putting it into the small earthen kiln.

Wang Fuyan watched Dong Ce cover the mouth of the kiln with a copper mirror before asking, "How long does it take?" ”

Dong Ce tore off the linen cloth that wrapped his hand, and said, "Take it out after a quarter of an hour, brush it with egg yolk, and try it after continuing to bake for two quarters of an hour." ”

Wang Fuyan immediately drew people's attention to the missed moment, and the rest of the people were waiting anxiously.

In a blink of an eye, half an hour passed, and when Dong Ce went to a plate of baked Hu cakes from the small clay kiln, everyone on the side suddenly smelled a strong fragrance of cakes.

"Let's try it, be careful." Dong Ce put the iron plate on the table, and then took off the hand-wrapped linen.

Everyone had already waited, and at this time, they anxiously reached out and grabbed the Hu cake, regardless of the heat, and stuffed it directly into their mouths.

Wang Fuyan wrapped his hands in his sleeves, picked up one and threw it, looking at this novel style of Hu Cake was a little surprised, although he had seen Dong Ce press it before, but the baked and unbaked Hu Cake made him feel completely different, the overall milky white of the unbaked, and the texture was not clear, but this baked one was very beautiful, more tempting to appetite, and when he took a bite, he was immediately made to heaven and earth by the hot bean paste filling inside, painful and happy!

The pain is because of the heat, and the happiness is because of the crispy crust and bean paste, which are fragrant, sweet but not greasy, and have an endless aftertaste.

"I didn't expect that! This simple ingredient can make such a crispy and fragrant Hu cake! It's completely different from the greasy Hu Cake I've eaten in the past. Zheng Xu was surprised.

"The simpler the material, the more effort must be put into it, if it weren't for Master Dong's art, how would we know that Hu cakes are not fried, not steamed, but baked!" An elderly cook smiled as he tasted the red bean cake.

After Dong Ce tasted one himself, he said to everyone: "You don't have much time, this thing had better be sold tomorrow, and we can say that we are unprepared now, the problem we encounter now is that the earthen kiln is too small, and the heat needs to be improved, but you can't rush it, and it can be wasted if it is baked." ”

"yes!" Wang Fuyan nodded, and immediately ordered: "Three hundred must be released early tomorrow morning, everyone remembers Master Dong's approach, then hurry up!" ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately started to get busy, and among these people, except for one chef, the rest were assistants, so Wang Fuyan didn't think much about opening a store tomorrow.

Seeing everyone getting busy, Dong Ce said to Wang Fuyan: "The name of Hu cake is a bit rude, since it is the Mid-Autumn Festival to enjoy the moon, it is called moon cake, but at present, there is only one variety, it can't help but support the scene, do you have five kernels here?" ”

When Wang Fuyan heard this, he frowned and said: "The name moon cake is indeed elegant, but what is Wuren?" Please Master Dong explain one or two. ”

Dong Ce smiled bitterly and said, "Almonds, sesame, peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, etc." After Dong Ce finished speaking, he was afraid that Wang Fuyan would not understand, so he explained some characteristics, so that Wang Fuyan could understand.

"In the past, I used to eat some flax and walnuts, but recently I used this to try new dishes, and I don't know how many more, Master Dong wait a minute."

Wang Fuyan attached great importance to this matter, because he really wanted to be the first cook to pass on the palace cakes to the people, so he naturally hoped that Dong Ce could help him more.

But he knew that the moon cakes made by Dong Ce were completely different from today's palace cakes!

When Wang Fuyan happily came back with some dry goods, Dong Ce hurriedly began to teach Wang Fuyan to fry five kernels, knead them to make stuffing, and bake them with some red bean mooncakes.

When the five-kernel mooncakes were baked, because there were only three of them, ten people could only eat them separately, but even so, everyone was instantly conquered by the unique aroma and taste of the five-kernels!

After all this, Dong Ce left Shili Piaoxiang under the escort of Wang Fuyanxiang and rushed back to his single-building courtyard to rest.

And for Dong Ce's generosity, Wang Fuyan is very grateful, and for this he truly understands the true meaning of Dong Ceyan's teaching!

Wang Fuyan is not a poor person, even if he doesn't make moon cakes, he is still rich, but in terms of fame, he can only be limited here!

Although the purpose of Yanjiao is to help the poor, as for why he helped Wang Fuyan, the reason is very simple, Wang Fuyan believes that Dong Ce hopes to help more poor people with his hands!

In this regard, Wang Fuyan did not have the slightest intention of rejecting Dong Ce, because he is a cook, and in today's world, even if he is rich, he is the lowest and most humble person, and it is difficult to be respected by people.

But Dong Ce is different, he is not only respected and admired, but even the virtuous king looks at him differently, this is something that Wang Fuyan himself can't think of, while making money, he can also spread his reputation and win respect, in this world, it is simply a dream!

If you follow in the footsteps of Dong Ce, can you be like him?

Thinking of this, Wang Fuyan was a little uneasy!

Some people want to be famous after they are rich, and Wang Fuyan is this kind of person!