Since Emperor Wanli had identified himself, Zhang Cheng didn't sit down after standing up, and when he heard the emperor's inquiry, he stood aside respectfully and casually glanced at Wang Tong who was kneeling there, and then lowered his head again.

Seeing Wang Tong hesitating there, Wanli, who was full of food and drink, was not in a hurry, but said casually:

"Stop kneeling, get up and talk!"

Wang Tong stood up after thanking him, didn't hesitate much, and asked in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, is the food made in the imperial dining room of the palace so unpalatable! See how happy Your Majesty is to eat in the villain's shop every time! ”

I thought that I wanted the official to ask for money, but I didn't expect Wang Tong to ask this sentence, and Emperor Wanli was stunned for a moment, and replied casually:

"Those old goods in the imperial dining room, the things made are light and tasteless, when they are served, they are half cold and not hot, they are said to be made early and prepared in the big steamer, and they are mutton all day long, and after saying a few words, they knelt down and went back to this is the ancestral rule, where it can be entered!"

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, how is the food on the villain's side?"

Unconsciously, the topic has turned elsewhere, Emperor Wanli licked his lips, picked up the chopsticks and cleaned the bottom of the plate of dried shrimp mixed with cabbage, nodded and said:

"At least the food here is fragrant, fresh, and the heat is enough, and it is comfortable to eat."

Wang Tong took a few steps forward and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty hasn't eaten before you come to the shop, has you?"

"I want to go to the court again, I have to listen to my husband's teaching, and I have to learn what sages are thrifty at lunch, and the surname Suo comes to eat with you!"

Unconsciously, the topic has changed from rewards to eating, Wang Tong bowed down with a smile and said:

"Ming said that I also invite Your Majesty to come again, there are still some fresh things for Your Majesty to taste here, try the craftsmanship of the villain's side."

"Okay, okay, Ming said that the widow must come!!"

Even if it is the Son of Heaven, he is only a thirteen-year-old Son of Heaven, not to mention the Son of Heaven who grew up under the care and discipline of the Queen Mother, Feng Bao, and Zhang Juzheng.

At this time, Emperor Wanli was still very naïve, and his surname was more of a child, and unconsciously, he had forgotten the things he had just been rewarded, and happily pondered the "fresh things" of Ming, drank a sip of hot soup, and couldn't help but ask again:

"What the hell is new?"

"Your Majesty forgives the sin of not telling the ministers, and you will know it when you say it."

Emperor Wanli nodded excitedly, swept away the shrimp dried cabbage heart in three times and two times, got up to leave, but stared at Wang Tong with puzzled eyes a few times, and asked inexplicably:

"Wang Tong, how old are you this year?"

"Back to Your Majesty's words, the villain is thirteen years and five months old this year!"

"It's a few months younger than me, how can I grow so big, I'll explain it later, and finally the queen mother will give a space for the widow to come out, and I have to listen to Wang Guoguang talk about ......history in the afternoon."

After whispering a few words casually, Emperor Wanli was helped down from the chair by Zhang Cheng, waved his hand and went out of the store, Wang Tong hurriedly knelt down to send him off.

When he was about to go out, Zhang Cheng turned his head and nodded to Wang Tong, as if he didn't want to say hello, but had other intentions.

As soon as Emperor Wanli left, Wang Tong got up from the ground and sat in the corner, and began to think hard, he was not a chef in the first place, and now he has almost taken out the inventory of the year, and how difficult it would be to come up with something new.

Wang Tong was no longer in the store in the afternoon, but pondered in his living room, and the cook in the revitalization building was a person from Beijing, and he also sent someone to invite him.

The dishes and snacks that I have eaten and even heard in my memory are reported one by one, to see if the cook knows it or not, and what I know is immediately removed.

When it got dark, Wang Tong was a little desperate, many of the dishes and dim sum he knew were either available in this era itself, or they couldn't be made without materials, for example, some dishes that needed chili peppers, and the cooks in Zhenxing Building hadn't even heard the word chili.

Not to mention potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and other things, every time he says a word, or even draws a graphic on paper with charcoal, the cook is dumbfounded.

In the end, Wang Tong could only realize in frustration that these things should not have been introduced to Jingshi, as for the so-called seafood and river fresh, now there are only frozen or dried goods in Jingshi, and they can't make any tricks.

At dinner, the horse widow came over and called Wang Tong to eat, but Wang Tong also refused, tomorrow can not come up with new things, can not maintain the freshness of the little emperor, not to mention, if you invite yourself to a crime of bullying the king, it is not worth it.

It's hard to open up such a situation, and it's really reluctant to give up like this, what should I do?

There was a bell from outside the window, this was a signal that the gate of the imperial city was closed not far away, and it was already deep, Wang Tong patted his forehead, gave the cook in Zhenxing Building five taels of silver, thanked him and sent away.

Wang Tong sat in the room and sighed, but heard someone knocking on the door, maybe it was Widow Ma and Zhang Shiqiang coming over, should they explain the situation in case of emergency, Wang Tong was a little worried, it seemed that he was going to plan for the worst.

The guy and helper of the delicious restaurant had already returned after a busy day, and the store was deserted after cleaning, and Wang Cheng went to take down the door panel, but he was stunned.

There was only one person outside the door, he didn't know, this person wore a cotton hat with ears and a short cotton robe, dressed as a common person, about thirty years old, carrying a lantern in one hand and a burden in the other.

In this era, there was no nightlife, except for the privileged class, there was a curfew at night, especially in the vicinity of the Imperial City, and if it were not for the local residents wandering the streets and being discovered by the night patrol soldiers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, they would even be killed. But the person outside the door is obviously not from South Street.

"Lord Wang, it's cold and windy outside, so it's okay to let you go in and talk?"

The voice was sharp and feminine, Wang Tong squinted his eyes and looked at the other party's face, and found that the other party had no beard, and men in this era had to grow hair and beards, and he was actually a eunuch.

After the eunuch entered the door, he first took off his cotton hat, looked at the furnishings of the delicacy hall by the light of the lantern, and said with a smile:

"Bai said that everyone in the palace made an appointment to come here for dinner, to see the freshness, and to be extravagant, there happened to be an errand missed, who would have thought that he would be sent over at night."

This man spoke lightly, Wang Tong was bored in his heart, and he didn't want to answer, the eunuch took a lantern and shone it around the room, found the lamp on his own point, and then hugged his fists and smiled:

"In Xia Zou Yi, the internal official supervisor is on an errand, and the celebrant supervisor has something to say to Lord Wang!!"

"Grandpa Zhang?"

Wang Tong was stunned, he didn't know who Gonggong Zhang was, the middle-aged eunuch coughed a few times, and explained with some embarrassment:

"It is the father-in-law who accompanied the emperor in Bai Yueli, the emperor's companion when he was in the East Palace, and now the eunuch of the celebrant is the pen."

It's true that I don't know, everyone looks like they should know, Wang Tong said a word of shame, but Zou Yi said straight to the point:

"Father-in-law Zhang said, your side is just a small restaurant, how many fresh dishes can be there, but it's good to be able to hold the emperor back, tonight Grandpa Zhang is to let you send a way to Lord Wang!"

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