Chapter 40: Life in the Daimyo's Mansion
readx;?โ Yes, you have to pour in the flour gently," Zhao Gou stood beside Hu Die, and instructed with unprecedented patience, "Then, carefully mix it in one direction with a scraper, only stir but not stir, stirring will break the foam." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝU๏ฝEใ ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝโ
Hu Die nodded, quickly and briskly mixed the sifted flour into the white solid egg white that had just been whipped, it was really worthy of a chef, and it was mixed well in less than ten strokes, and the flour was completely integrated into the whipped egg white, and the powder was completely invisible. When Zhao Gou was in modern times, he also went to the chef school to learn pastry for half a year, and he thought he was good. But I didn't expect that Hu Die had extraordinary means as soon as he got started, even if he was compared with the professional cake chef in the school, he was not lagging behind at all. Perhaps, this is the legendary genius, right? Zhao Gou has been staring at Hu Die in surprise and admiration, and kept saying in his heart, alas, oh my mother.
Seeing that Hu Die had poured the stirred batter into the mold made by the blacksmith of the Daimyo's Mansion without a teacher, Zhao Gou continued to guide with some extra words on the side, "Okay, pour it well, after pouring, scrape it flat again, so that the baked cake embryo is beautiful." โ
Hu Die nodded, divided the batter by two, and then quickly stuffed it into the oven, covered it, turned his head, and asked, "Wang, how long do you want to bake?" โ
Zhao Gou blinked his eyes, weak ****, "Big sister, what do you think?" โ
Hu Die also blinked, and said confidently in a loud voice, "I think it's okay to bake it for a quarter of an hour first, and if it's not cooked inside, you can continue to roast." โ
Zhao Gou nodded and said Well, you obviously know how to bake cakes better than me, and you pretended to ask me for a yarn. Of course, Zhao Gou is not a cautious person, especially in cooking, he sincerely hopes that everyone is better than him. Therefore, Zhao Gou stopped talking, squinted his eyes, stood by the stove with a greedy matcha and waited, he saw Qiu Da Belly just licking his lips from a distance, Zhao Gou was very disdainful of him, and said that no matter how greedy he was, he couldn't show it!
"Great King," at this time, Kang Lu entered the kitchen and said, "Today, the four commanders Yue Fei, Han Yuan, Zhang Sanlang, and Liu Bin have all won the offensive and defensive battles. โ
Zhao Gou smiled, and said in his heart that it was worthy of Yue Fei, the offensive and defensive exercises had been conducted for four days, and he had not lost once, Zhao Gou slapped his face and said happily, "Please wait for these four in the restaurant, Marshal Ben wants to have dinner with them." โ
At this time, it was already the twenty-third day of the lunar month, that is, the small year of the traditional festival, Zhao Gou and his volunteers settled down in the Daimyo's Mansion and began the next stage of training. The Daimyo's Mansion was built in the Northern Song Dynasty specifically for war, and although it has been neglected in recent decades, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the city is still second to none in terms of armament logistics, which allows Zhao Gou and his volunteers to live comfortably and affluently (there is even an oven in the kitchen, which of course was originally used to bake baked cakes and meat). When the prefect Zhao Ye welcomed Zhao Gou into the city, he specially focused on introducing the 10,000 jars of cured meat stored in the Daimyo's Mansion, and at the same time, the Daimyo's Mansion was also the most important war horse stocking place in the Great Song Dynasty except for the Bianliang Mansion, raising a total of 2,000 war horses. Zhao Gou helped Zhao Ye, who was about to lose his teeth, and said in his heart, the second most important war horse breeding ground has only 2,000 war horses, and the Great Song Dynasty is really shabby. However, it is always good to have war horses, after all, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, he has dozens of war horses under his command o(โฏโกโฐ)o. After settling in the Daimyo's Mansion, Zhao Gou had his own cavalry battalion and guard battalion equipped with war horses, and he could also match horses to various commanders and centurions.
After being stationed in the Daimyo's Mansion, the Volunteers began to conduct offensive and defensive exercises on the training ground with battalions as units, and the training of each battalion was under the responsibility of the commander, while Zhao Gou focused more on training recruits and discovering talents. Probably because the Chinese New Year is approaching, there are fewer and fewer volunteers who come to sign up for the army, which gives Zhao Gou a lot of free time to pursue the true - to make all kinds of food that did not exist in the Song Dynasty with Hu Die, from boiled fish invented after the reform and opening up to biscuits and bread that came to China from foreign countries, and today, sweet cream cakes.
Half an hour later, Zhao Gou sat at the table with the commanders who had won all the offensive and defensive exercises today, ready to enjoy the cake. Although the guard battalion led by Shi Erlang did not all win, Zhao Gouben also invited him, who knew Shi Erlang's righteous words, "Since the king values the last general and is close to the last general, the last general should not live up to the king, and I will win like other commanders, and then come to eat with the king." After speaking, he also gave a look to Qiu Da Belly, who had already sat down and waited, which means that you are also a little promising, get up, don't be so cheeky! But Qiu lowered his head with a big belly, pretending not to see it. Zhao Gou didn't expect Shi Erlang to be so ambitious, and couldn't help but value him more, and even inexplicably felt that Shi Erlang's character should be as noble as Yu Qian and Yue Fei.
At this time, Hu Die's assistant chef Hu Lihu grinned and squeaked with a small cart to push the prepared cake up. Although it is the first time to make it, this cake has a good appearance, which makes people shine, especially the piping on the cake, the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing with the four big characters of "golden man and dog thief", Hu Die is really a cross-era cooking master.
Zhao Gou smiled when he saw this, picked up a knife and was about to cut it, the knife was raised in the air and put down, Zhao Gou endured it and said, "What about Yue Fei?" Why hasn't Pengju come yet? โ
Qiu Shiqiu swallowed and foamed at the mouth in order to respond to Zhao Gou's question, "Back to the king, Commander Yue is busy writing a letter to the king, so I will go back first." โ
"Write a letter?" Two people still write letters when they meet every day? Zhao Gou made the god think crookedly, and smiled maliciously.
Han Yuan listened to Qiu Da's belly say to write a letter, Yile, patted Qiu Shi's shoulder, and added, "Commander Yue is a part of Chen to present to the king. โ
"Tiao Chen?" Zhao Gou knew that the documents given by the ancient courtiers to the emperor were called Song Chen, and the documents given by the subordinates to the superiors were called Tiao Chen, such as Zong Ze, who liked to send this article to Zhao Gou every three or five times, and now, Yue Fei also began to write a note Chen, I don't know what he wants to suggest, won't he also urge him to go to Bianliang to save Song Qinzong, right? To be honest, Zhao Gou is aggrieved in his heart, what is good about the two losers of Huizong and Qinzong? Let Yue Fei Zongze miss it so much? Even the young year is not good, what to write? Didn't they think that he, Zhao Gou, could also be the emperor?! In frustration, Zhao Gou even hoped that the Jin people would take Song Qinzong away quickly, so that he could be justified.
Since Yue Fei was thinking about saving his life, Zhao Gou didn't wait for him anymore, he directly divided the cake into eight pieces, Zhang Sanlang, Liu Bin, Han Yuan, Qiu Shi who were present at this time, plus Yue Fei, who didn't come, one piece each; At the same time, it is necessary to send a piece to each of the important members of the Marshal's Mansion, Zhao Ye and Wang Boyan.
Although it looks fair, Zhao Gou actually hides Xiao Jiujiu from everyone in his heart, and gives Yue Fei the piece of cake, including the word "gold" in "Golden Man Dog Thief", which means that the national hero Yue Fei slashed and killed Jin Ren with a handle in his hand and was as easy as eating; And the piece given to Wang Boyan should be taken inappropriately and improperly, which naturally means that Wang Boyan is a traitor! Zhao Gou was very proud of his arrangement, he was quiet on the surface, but he was secretly happy for a long time in his heart.