The first round of the triennial Great Dynasty Banquet is the only one open to the people, and anyone can participate in it. Before Chinese New Year's Eve, such a grand event will undoubtedly push the pre-Spring Festival celebration to the highest, both children and the elderly are vying to participate, and if you miss today, you will have to wait for another three years, and you may not know which dish you eat will become the emperor's favorite imperial meal, and the sense of achievement is self-evident.

But the price of a tael of silver turned away most of the people, and there are many things that can be bought for a tael of silver, and more people are willing to live a comfortable harvest year than a feast.

This is also a helpless move, in order not to let Suzaku Street flow too many people. But such a measure is meaningless, and many people come to see the excitement even if they don't eat it, and it's good to smell the meat.

This was the case at the beginning of the last term, and today the overcrowding is even worse.

In the crowd, Xia Shang could only feel Xu Yuan's small hand, Xu Yuan was pulled by Xia Shang, and he was a little nervous at first, and his little hand was a little stiff, and later realized that if he didn't do this, he would definitely get lost and he couldn't take care of it too much, and grabbed Xia Shang tighter with his backhand.

The heat of the crowd melted all the snow on Suzaku Street, and the ground was full of mud and puddles of water large and small. When the two of them held hands and found the stall of Yunshui Pavilion, their shoes were already soaked with snow.

The stall was not the one that Xu Yuan had originally planned, but a guy from Yunshui Pavilion waiting there.

The guy told Xu Yuan that the stall last time had been occupied first.

This is a new problem this year, in the past, the booth was selected early on the day of the competition, but this year, many hotels have selected the seats two or three days in advance, and they have sent people to guard them all day and day long.

Xu Yuan didn't rely too much on the stalls, in order to avoid competing with others, the selected location already belonged to the second half of Suzaku Street, but she didn't expect the stalls here to be preempted, so she had no choice but to follow the guy to the temporarily selected location.

After changing the location, the location of Yunshui Pavilion changed to a place close to the Mingde Gate.

Today's event is to close the city gates, no one can enter or leave, and it is obviously not a good place to be near the city gates. Judging from the experience of previous years, the flow of people will be close to the Imperial City and the middle of Suzaku Street. There were few people and fewer customers, so the cooks who fell close to the city gates were all people who did not have the same path.

However, it is rare for a large restaurant like Yunshui Pavilion to be reduced to the most remote area. I don't know if Xu Yuan noticed it, Xia Shang felt that there should be rumors about the fact that each restaurant occupied a position in advance this year, and Yunshui Pavilion should not be ignorant.

Time is pressing, and there is no time for Xia Shang to think about it. All the stalls on Suzaku Street were set up temporarily, each stall had only two stoves and two pots at most, and the chef could only bring one helper, and after the game began, none of the guys could help, and each seat was guarded by one or two officers and soldiers.

It was noon.

The Great Dynasty Banquet has officially begun!

At the same time, the officers and soldiers who were distributed in various seats on Suzaku Street opened their envelopes about the rules of the game and handed the contents of the letter to the cooks beside them.

A moment later, from the Mingde Gate to the entrance of the palace, a wave of surprise came out, and all the cooks who saw the rules of the game cried out in surprise.

This time, there's a change in the first round of screening!

The dish is still a tael of silver, but it is not given before the diner has eaten, but after the diner has eaten. Diners only need to pay 50 copper plates when they visit, and after eating, they can add one or two pieces of silver if they are satisfied. Therefore, if this tael of silver is not given to the mood of the diner, one tael of silver becomes a reward. And the way of evaluation is also different, there is no prescribed turnover, but the total amount of silver, if the total amount of silver is equal, the number of copper plates is evaluated, so as to select the top 50. That is to say, silver is the key, if someone sells tens of thousands of copper coins, but does not have a tael of silver, it is not as good as someone who only sells fifty yuan and a tael of silver.

Let's talk about the number of people selected, from Mingde Gate to the Imperial Palace, the stalls on both sides are more than 1,000, and only the top 50 are selected from them? The probability is less than five percent, and the difficulty can be imagined, and compared with the last time, the number of people alone is more than half.

This year's huge changes were beyond everyone's expectations, because the rules of the Great Dynasty banquet had not changed since the Wude years, and the sudden change suddenly made everyone confused.

The chefs were shocked, but the people who came to see the excitement were overjoyed, the new rules led to a sharp drop in the price of dishes, these chefs' dishes are no longer the patent of large families, as long as they want to eat, who can't get fifty yuan?

The direct consequence of the mixing of a large number of people is that the demand for ingredients becomes larger, and the probability of obtaining silver becomes smaller. And luck is also very important, who can guarantee that the guests they receive will come up with a silver tael? Will you take out a tael of silver?

Faced with such rules, even the most experienced chefs do not have the slightest confidence in themselves.

Xia Shang looked at Xu Yuan and patted her on the shoulder: "Now you understand?" That's what it means to have more ingredients. ”

Xu Yuan looked back worriedly at the dozens of large wooden barrels behind him, which were full of fresh osmanthus fish, which was Xu Yuan's preparation today.

These fish were sufficient according to the rules of the past, but the rules of today are difficult to be confident in.

Every chef here prepares more than 50 yuan, and even the price in the hotel is definitely more than one or two, now you can taste it as long as 50 yuan, and the people will definitely try their best to taste it, the food is definitely in short supply, how many taels of silver can you get before the ingredients are sold out? Everything is left to fate.

The rules of the competition were revealed, and the first round of selection officially began.

The atmosphere was suddenly solemn, and if there was some benefit to the area near the city gate, it was because there were fewer pedestrians here, and the sight was relatively open, and you could see that the peers around were nervously preparing.

There is no eye contact between the chefs around them, the vegetables are chopping and chopping, and the animals are slaughtering, but a solemn atmosphere is affecting everyone.

"It seems that everyone's plan is the same, no one will change the original strategy because of the rules, little master, let's start, please cut two fish out first."

Xu Yuan straightened his hat and entered the state, and said to Xia Shang while lighting a fire.

Xia Shang didn't say much, after all, he was a deputy, and Xu Yuan did whatever he said.

The two said that they had never communicated with each other if they were good partners, which did not affect the tacit understanding between the two, a good chef did not need to communicate, just need to communicate, Xia Shang would definitely be able to complete all the requirements of the chef.

Xia Shang began to move the knife, and there was an oil fragrance behind him, and when he smelled the taste, he could guess that the dish prepared by Xu Yuan was sweet and sour osmanthus fish.

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