Chapter 26: Huizong Goes South
is destined to disappoint everyone, Lu Yong, who can only eat a small bowl of rice on weekdays, has a surprisingly good appetite today, seeing that the two fat crab claws of the knife crab have been killed, the other judges are a little anxious, and if this continues, there must be someone who will not have a chance to taste the steamed crab.
"Lord Lu, how does it taste?"
Hearing someone ask, Lu Yongcai stopped unsatisfied, coughed lightly and pretended to say, "It's okay." ”
It's okay, the crab shells in front of me are piled up!
At this time, Lu Yong was also embarrassed to enjoy the steamed crab alone, and said, "You can also taste the taste of this steamed crab." ”
Just wait for you to say this, as soon as Lu Yong spoke, the others scrambled around the wine altar, and the people watching outside were dumbfounded, in previous years, Hangzhou City also held a food competition, but when have you ever seen such a scene, a group of judges put the dishes of other participating chefs and ignored them and just competed for a dish.
Lu Yong had already eaten a lot of steamed crabs, although he was not addicted, it was not good to continue to compete with others, so he had to focus on the other two dishes presented by Fang Yuan, in his opinion, the taste of steamed crabs was very good, so the other two dishes made by Fang Yuan would not be bad.
The golden egg fried rice in front of him looked like a precious work of art, Lu Yong carefully picked a bite and put it in his mouth, and then the whole person was stunned.
Originally, he thought that steamed crab was the best thing he had ever eaten, but after eating golden egg fried rice, he realized that the two were not at the same level at all!
The charm of the food of the two-dimensional world can't even be resisted by foodie otaku like Fang Yuan who has seen all kinds of cuisine, let alone Lu Yong, the natives of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Lu Yong's reaction was seen by everyone, so the golden egg fried rice and the light shadow mushroom soup soon joined the ranks of the scrambles.
In the end, Fang Yuan's three dishes were snatched up, and there was not even any soup left, while the entries of other chefs were only symbolically tasted, and after tasting a delicacy like golden egg fried rice first and then eating other people's dishes, it was naturally not tasteful at all.
Not surprisingly, Fang Yuan won the first place in this food competition, and Lu Yong even proposed to let Fang Yuan become a chef in his own house, but Fang Yuan refused.
He came to participate in this food contest to save Fluttershy, and in addition to him, there are also the chef of Zhu Mian's Mansion and the famous chef of Bianjing invited by Old Man Zhang, and the three of them jointly organize the birthday banquet of Cai's Mansion, which is five days later, and they will enter Cai's Mansion in advance in two days to prepare.
At the end of the competition, many people looked for Fang Yuan to find out the source of the ingredients, especially the peach blossom wine, Fang Yuan just smiled and shook his head, everyone explained helplessly, Old Man Zhang was the most anxious, he had always wanted to open the restaurant into Bianjing, if he had Fang Yuan's peach blossom wine and those dishes, he would not only have the confidence to open the restaurant into Bianjing, but even become one of the best restaurants in Bianjing.
"Nephew Fang Xian, if you make a price, I will never make a counteroffer."
"Yo, when did Boss Zhang become so generous?" After the game, Li Defu didn't leave, and couldn't help but joke after listening to Old Man Zhang's words.
"Brother Li, if the relationship between Brother Li and Fang Xian's nephew can help me do it, as long as there is a place for me in the future, I will never refuse!" Old man Zhang changed his previous attitude towards Li Defu and lowered his posture, obviously this matter is very important to him.
If Li Defu had been angry after hearing Old Man Zhang's words before the competition, and then denied the relationship between the Li family and the Fang family, but now after listening to Old Man Zhang's words, he was silent for a moment and said, "This matter depends on Fang Xian's nephew's own meaning." ”
Seeing that Old Man Zhang looked at himself again, Fang Yuan spread his hands and said: "Boss Zhang, I really can't help you, I didn't make that wine, and I don't have a wine recipe, as for the knife crab and other ingredients, I only occasionally get such a little, if you want it, I can find a way to help you get a little next time, but I really can't do anything to provide a large amount." ”
Old man Zhang stared at Fang Yuan's eyes and didn't know if what he said was true or not, but if these were the secrets of the Fang family, he couldn't be the master, nodded and said, "Nephew Fang Xian can go back and discuss with Boss Fang first, and I will visit another day." ”
There are not a few people who have the same intentions as Old Man Zhang, Fang Yuan is very helpless, he originally just wanted to get the opportunity to enter the Cai Mansion to rescue Fluttershy, but he didn't expect to cause such a big impact.
After finally sending Fang Yuan, the owner of the major restaurants, packed up his things and prepared to go back, Li Defu hugged Li Muning over and said with a smile: "Fang Xian's nephew is preparing to go back?" ”
Fang Yuan nodded and said, "Go back early and make some preparations, I don't dare to be careless at the birthday banquet in Cai Xiang's mansion." ”
"That's that, that's." Li Defu nodded and said, "I'll ask Steward Chen to send my nephew back." ”
"Boss Li is too polite."
"It's okay, Ning Yatou still bothered you to take care of it. With my relationship with Brother Shicheng, Fang Xian's nephew called me Boss Li, isn't it too outlandish. ”
"Huh?" Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment, Li Defu's big change in attitude made him a little unaccustomed.
"Ah what, let's go, it just so happens that I may not have seen Brother Fang for a long time, so I'll go to Sweet Water Village with my nephew today." Saying that Steward Chen had already driven the carriage over, Fang Yuan naturally couldn't refuse, so he had to follow Li Defu and Li Muxuan to board the carriage together, and Li Muning's girl had already broken free from Li Defu's arms and ran to Fang Yuan's side to sit down.
Anan and Steward Chen drove the carriage towards the outside of the city, and Zhu Jun nodded thoughtfully not far behind him, and then turned around and headed towards Zhu's mansion.
In Bianjing City, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong had just finished making a painting, and immediately a palace maid stepped forward to dry the ink, Zhao Ji looked at his work and shook his head, turned back to the eunuch next to him and asked: "I heard that there is a birthday banquet in Cai Xiang's mansion in a few days?" ”
Cai Jing is now idle in Hangzhou, but Zhao Ji still calls him Cai Xiang, and sees Cai Jing's status in his heart.
"The official family is really still thinking about Cai Xiang, and there will be a birthday banquet at Cai Xiang's mansion on the fifth day."
Zhao Ji has a generous and easy-going personality, and he doesn't show any imperial power on weekdays, so the eunuch is not afraid, and he still has a smile on his face when he replies.
"Speaking of which, things are always not so smooth without Cai Xiang, and those officials have to personally take care of every little thing, and they are a little rusty if they don't practice painting for a long time, and they don't paint a picture very well."
"The official family paints it casually, and it is also beyond the reach of others in their lifetimes."
After listening to the eunuch's words, Zhao Ji was in a good mood, this is a fact, Zhao Ji is still very confident in his artistic talent, and let people roll up a dry picture scroll and order: "There is nothing important in the DPRK and China recently, didn't the new Ying Fengguan write a while ago that he found a five-color stone in Taihu Lake, you go and arrange it, tomorrow we will go to Hangzhou, and by the way, take a look at Cai Xiang." ”