Xiao Quzhi lay in the hot spring bath, completely relaxed his spirit, and fell asleep. I don't know how long it took, until a eunuch came to call Xiao Quai, and then woke up.

"What time is it?" Xiao Quzhi opened his eyes and asked.

"It's already three o'clock in the hour, Xiao Hou hurry up, the dinner is about to start, General Gao specially asked me to call Xiao Hou, but I don't dare to let His Majesty and Niangniang wait anymore."

Xiao Quzhi immediately stood up, punched a fist, and the bones of his whole body shook, making a dull thunderous sound, and a cooing frog sound came out of his mouth. This lasted for two or three minutes, and Xiao Qu was sick before he jumped out of the bath and began to change into a clean new robe.

After sleeping for more than an hour, I shook the bones of one side of my body, and at this time I felt refreshed, and my whole body returned to an excellent state.

"Let's go, lead the way." This time it was the turn of the little eunuch to be stunned, and he looked at Xiao Quai's eyes as if he was looking at a monster.

When I came to the hall where the dinner was held, it was early. The hall was full of guards, and there was only a team of palace maids and eunuchs shuttling back and forth in the hall, busy with dishes. Li Longji and Yang Guifei did not come, it seems that Gao Lishi was afraid that he would be late again, so he called him in advance.

Well, I have time to thank this hussar general, who has been praised by many scholars as "the first person to be a virtuous eunuch through the ages".

It's okay to be idle, Xiao Qubing began to look at the dishes that were served. At this time, the iron pot was not popular, and the method of stir-frying did not appear, and the cooking method was nothing more than steaming and stewing, plus broiling. The same is true of the court dishes eaten by Li Longji and Yang Guifei, but the ingredients are precious. Water and land are as ashamed as swan meat, hump hump hooves, bear paws, deer-lipped leopard fetus, etc., and the history of a plate costs the property of ten families.

Xiao Qubing has also eaten these dishes a few times, in addition to eating fresh, in fact, there are a few dishes that taste very ordinary. And looking at their cooking methods and condiments, they don't see that they are healthy and nutritious, and they are purely luxurious for the sake of luxury. Xiao Quzhi wanted to tell them that in fact, ordinary ingredients are just as delicious as they are cooked well, and they are also very nutritious.

Thinking of this, I asked the emperor about when he would come back, and the eunuch who wanted to pass the meal on a whim took him to the imperial dining room, saying that he wanted to make a few dishes for His Majesty and Niangniang.

The eunuch looked at Xiao Quai's illness like an idiot, and said in his heart that the gentleman was far away from cooking, where was the reason that the third-grade marquis cooked himself. However, seeing that Xiao Quai's attitude was resolute, and he knew that he was now a celebrity around the emperor and Niangniang, he didn't dare to have any objections, so he took Xiao Quai's illness and went.

The chef in the imperial dining room was also surprised, and after hearing the meaning of Xiao Quai's illness, everyone looked at Xiao Quai's illness with unconvinced and suspicious eyes. Xiao didn't care about them when he was sick, asked for a stove, and found two iron kettles for making soup that looked relatively thin to temporarily replace the iron pots for stir-frying.

I took a look at the array of strange ingredients on the table. I chose a few of the simplest and most homely-cooked, lamb tenderloin, lamb chops, two sea bass, and a chicken. What pleased him the most was that he discovered vegetable oil and Chinese cabbage. After inquiring, I learned that this vegetable oil is used to bake things and brush oil, Chinese cabbage, well, the Tang Dynasty should be called woad, which is grown in the greenhouse of Huaqing Palace.

Xiao Quzhi personally chopped the lamb chops into two sizes, and cut the lamb tenderloin into slices of the same size, light and paper-thin. The surrounding cooks and eunuchs and palace maids were dumbfounded, and many people couldn't help but guess in their hearts: "This Hou Ye was not a cook before, how can he be so skillful." No, he's so young......"

Of course, they wouldn't know that when they were in Wudang Mountain, Xiao Qu was sick and had been cooking for six or seven years. There is already a foundation in the knife technique of cutting vegetables, and now that the martial arts are rapidly improving, the control of strength and coordination has reached the point of perfection, and this knife technique is really trivial.

Then quickly cut the chicken and fish, wash the wead, and only cut the middle half of the yellow and white parts horizontally and vertically and put them aside. Preparing everything, Xiao Quzhi filled half a pot of water with two cooking pots each, and added a few spoonfuls of rice vinegar in a ratio of twenty-one ratios.

Seeing a circle of cooks, Xiao Quzhi put the mutton and lamb chops into the pot, and then heated them over high heat, and explained to everyone: "In the future, you can use this method to remove the smell and smell of the mutton, so that you can use less or no spices, and the meat will be more delicious." ”

…… After more than half an hour, Xiao Quzhi made a total of seven stir-fried dishes: sweet and sour lamb chops, pan-fried lamb chops, cumin mutton slices, fried lamb with green onions, peony fish fillets, boiled fish, slippery chicken slices and a soup dish boiled cabbage.

Watching this stir-fry dish come out of the pot and put on the plate, all the chefs and eunuchs around were dumbfounded, and their eyes were about to fall. They never thought that there was a way to cook, in addition to boiling, stewing and grilling, it turned out that it could also be fried.

It turns out that mutton and mutton chops only need to be blanched in a pot under cold water with vinegar in clean water, and after the water boils, skim off the blood foam, and then take out the mutton and lamb chops and cook them to remove all the fishy smell; It turns out that after the meat slices are marinated, they are coated with egg whites and flour, and then fried or fried to keep the meat slices smooth and tender.

Especially the method of stir-frying, these chefs would never have imagined that such an ordinary ingredient would emit a strong and tangy aroma after being stirred by hot oil. It's so fragrant, when the mutton and chicken are put into the pot, the aroma emitted conquered all the chefs here at once, and everyone can't help but salivate.

At this time, their eyes when they saw Xiao Quai's illness changed again, and they began to be suspicious and unconvinced again, and they were a little amazed at the back, and at the end, they couldn't wait to bow and worship. This young man looks less than twenty, how can he be so good at cooking, and he can cook so many ways that everyone can't think of before, it's just that the kitchen god has descended to earth.

And some careful chefs also found out that after cooking these eight fragrant dishes, this young man didn't seem very satisfied, and he had been complaining about this and that. Obviously, if he prepares well, he can make better dishes.

Xiao Quzhi is really not satisfied, some materials are missing, for example, lemonade can be replaced with orange water if there is no lemonade, but there is nowhere to find it if there is less chili pepper, that guy is still in South America. However, it seems that Master Zhu said that in the dense forests of Yunnan, there is a kind of small wild pepper, and when you have the opportunity to go to Yunnan, you have to send someone to find it.

On the other side, Li Longji, Yang Guifei and all the guests in the main hall were also present at this time, when they heard that the steward eunuch said that Xiao Qu was sick and went to the imperial dining room, and he wanted to make a few dishes to His Majesty and Niangniang, Li Longji and Yang Guifei were also stunned, this Shouchang County Marquis still has this ability.

Li Longji couldn't help but be curious, but Yang Guifei was full of expectations, and Yang Guifei's three sisters, Mrs. Qiuguo, Mrs. Han and Mrs. Qin Guo, felt even more incredible.