After a day of shopping, Zhao Ji felt hungry, so he casually found a restaurant that looked relatively neat to eat, and when the guy served the food, he listened to the most about the food competition held in Piaoxiang Building recently.

Zhao Jigui is the son of the Great Song Dynasty, and there are countless delicacies of the mountains and seas in the palace, and there are countless jade liquid elixirs, but I can listen to the people's discussions, and there seems to be a rare wine and food that is more precious than the delicacies in the palace.

"Although Hangzhou is rich, it is not as prosperous as Bianjing, not to mention that compared with the palace, the Hongfu Building in Bianjing City is not comparable to these restaurants in Hangzhou, it must be that these people have less knowledge."

After listening to the words of the little eunuch, Zhao Ji shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, although the imperial chef in the palace has superb cooking skills, but the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is vast, and there are their characteristic delicacies in various places, even the most powerful chef does not dare to say that he knows all the ways of cooking in the world, and the muffin cake that Tong Guan brought back from the border town a while ago is much more delicious than the pastries made by the imperial chef in the palace." ”

"Yes, yes, the little stupid, how can the official think about it."

Zhao Ji waved his fan boringly, and saw the guy coming over with the food, signaling the little eunuch not to call himself an official and exposing his identity.

"Guest, this is the dish you ordered, please use it slowly."

The guy put down the dish and was about to leave, when Zhao Ji called him: "Wait." ”

At this time, it was a meal, and there were more customers in the store, but Zhao Ji's dress looked like a rich child, and he was generous, and when he entered the door, he rewarded the guy with a dime of silver, which was worth most of his salary for half a month, so when he heard Zhao Ji call his buddy, he immediately stopped and turned around and asked enthusiastically: "What else does the guest officer command?" ”

"I want to ask you about the food competition, is the peach blossom wine really as delicious as everyone says? And the dish called Golden Egg Fried Rice, is it really that delicious? ”

Listening to Zhao Ji's question, the guy immediately opened the conversation box, and said with emotion: "Guest officer, you can be regarded as asking the right person, I also participated in the food competition that day, but I saw it with my own eyes." ”

Zhao Ji looked his guy up and down, and said in surprise: "Could it be that you still know how to cook?" ”

"Uh......" The guy's face was a little embarrassed, "The guest officer said with a smile, I'm just a guy in the store, how can I know how to cook, but Chef Feng from our store also participated in the food competition that day, and I followed him as an assistant." ”

"Oh." Zhao Ji nodded and motioned for the man to continue.

The guy looked around, and said in a low voice: "Guest officer, I will tell you quietly, Chef Feng in our store is notoriously proud, he is very confident in his cooking skills on weekdays, and he never admits defeat, and often says that the imperial chefs in the palace are not as good as him, but when he comes back from this food competition, he has no temper at all." ”

Zhao Ji smiled when he heard this.

"But the dishes made by Chef Feng are really delicious, you can see the customers in our store, except for Old Man Zhang's Jiuwei Restaurant, Hangzhou City is the best business in our restaurant."

There are still people who think that they are not as good as other restaurants, Zhao Ji suddenly wondered: "Is that Jiuwei Restaurant very famous?" ”

The guy also reacted that it was a little inappropriate for him to say this, but fortunately the shopkeeper was not there.

"Actually, there's nothing bad to admit, that old man's family has been running a restaurant for generations, I heard that the ancestor also served as the palace chef, Jiuwei Restaurant just hired famous chefs from all over the world and collected various recipes It cost tens of thousands of taels of silver, which can we compare."

Listening to what the guy said, Zhao Ji had a lot of interest in the Jiuwei Restaurant in his mouth, no matter how good the delicacies of the mountains and seas were, he would feel tired of eating too much, and Zhao Ji felt this way about the food made by the imperial chef in the palace.

"So the much-praised peach blossom wine and golden egg fried rice are all made by the chefs of Jiuwei Restaurant?"

Seeing that Zhao Ji guessed wrong, the guy smiled proudly, and said mysteriously: "Guest officer, you guessed wrong, in previous years, the chef of Jiuwei Restaurant did win the food competition, but this year, Jiuwei Restaurant also lost." ”

The guy looked smug as if he was the one who won the food contest.

"The chefs of dozens of restaurants in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and even the famous chefs invited from Bianjing, were all convinced, and the magistrate wanted to invite the winning master to his house to be a chef."

Seeing the smile on Zhao Ji's face, the guy thought he didn't believe him, and hurriedly said: "Don't believe it, I just smell that steamed crab and golden egg fried rice and think it's the most delicious food in the world, and the housekeepers in Cai's mansion all pointed out that Cai's birthday banquet must make these two dishes." ”

"Oh? Could it be that the winning chef is the chef of Cai Xiangfu? Zhao Ji had long been interested in the divine peach blossom wine and golden egg fried rice in everyone's mouth, and was thinking about how to taste it himself, but he didn't expect the guy to say that Cai Jingfu would also make these two dishes at the birthday banquet, so he could find an opportunity.

"That's not it, the winning little master used to be a celebrity in our Hangzhou City, it was the young master of the Fang family, but no one expected him to have such good cooking skills."

"Young Master of the Fang Family?"

Seeing that Zhao Ji looked puzzled, the guy explained: "It's the young master of the old man's family in Fang Bancheng." ”

It's a square half city again? Zhao Ji was secretly surprised in his heart, one of the Fang family's father and son had exquisite stone carving skills, and the other had supernatural cooking skills, which was really amazing, and he wanted to see this father and son more and more.

"Then why does Cai Xiangfu's birthday banquet also make two dishes, steamed crab with wine and fried rice with golden eggs?"

"The birthday banquet in Cai Xiang's mansion is the young master of the Fang family as the chef." Speaking of this, the guy sighed and said: "The Fang family was originally the biggest wealthy merchant in Hangzhou City, and Master Fang was also very good, but he didn't expect to be expelled from Hangzhou City by having his shops raided, and now even Young Master Fang is going to Cai Xiang's Mansion to be a cook, so life must not be very good." ”

After listening to the guy's words, Zhao Ji was also a little reluctant in his heart, feeling that Fang Shicheng's punishment was too heavy. As for what the guy said, the Fang family is not having a good time, Zhao Ji doesn't think it, he just spent nearly 10,000 taels of silver in Baizhen Building not long ago to buy a few strange stones carved by Shicheng, relying on Fang Shicheng's craftsmanship to carve stones, the Fang family's life will not be too bad, but he still plans to go to the Fang family to take a look, since the young master of the Fang family can still come to Hangzhou to participate in the food competition, presumably they live not far from Hangzhou.

"Do you know where the Fang family went after they were expelled from Hangzhou City?"

"I heard that the Fang family has a Zhuangzi outside the city, which seems to be called ...... Call...... By the way, it's called Sweet Water Village, and it's only half a day's work to take the carriage, and our shopkeeper specially inquired about that place, and went there in person. ”

After getting the news he wanted to know, Zhao Ji motioned to the little eunuch to give the guy a dime of silver as a reward, and the guy hurriedly thanked him.

After the man left, Zhao Ji instructed the little eunuch: "You go and hire a carriage, and after dinner, let's go to Tianshui Village to have a look." ”