Chapter 37: Infiltrating the City Lord's Mansion (Part II)
If it were according to the normal situation, it would be impossible for Xiao Wanqing to notice the disguised Chen Yuan. After all, there are too many people who come to the city from the village every year to eat, although Xiao Wanqing also feels that they are a little helpless, but it is impossible to help them one by one, the city lord's mansion is not a good hall, and the operation of a huge city needs resources and wealth to support, so since Xiao Wanqing can't help, she simply doesn't contact these people, so as not to feel uncomfortable.
But of course Chen Yuan would not play cards according to the routine, and when he saw Xiao Wanqing appear, he had already greeted him. "This young lady, I see that you have an outstanding temperament, luxuriously dressed, you must be the daughter of a big family, do you lack a cook there? My skills are not bad, you see what I write on it, there are a lot of dishes! The salary is negotiable, I just eat with a mouth, even if it is to help the cook. Chen Yuan said as he handed the wooden board in his hand to Xiao Wanqing.
"There is no shortage of cooks in our City Lord's Mansion, you can go and ask elsewhere, we still have something, please get out of the way." Yang Xuan, who was blocked by Chen Yuan, said with a frown. "It turned out to be the Lord of the City Lord's Mansion, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry to disturb me, I'll leave now. Chen Yuan showed a sincere and fearful look, and vividly interpreted the role of a countryman who came to the city to make a living.
"Don't be busy. Xiao Wanqing said loudly. Chen Yuan's eyes lit up, and his heart was hooked!, "What else does Miss have to order?" Chen Yuan looked respectful. "You said you would make a flower chicken?" asked Xiao Wanqing. "Yes, the little one learned it from a place called Linxing Village. Chen Yuan deliberately said Linxing Village.
Xiao Wanqing thought in her heart, Chen Yuan is from Linxing Village, that's right, then this person is not lying, try him first, if it can really be made, then it is not impossible to recruit him into the mansion, such a delicacy can also be tasted by grandpa and father and mother. "Then you can talk specifically about this practice called Huaji, if you can really say it, it's not impossible to ask you to enter the house. Xiao Wanqing thought for a few minutes and said.
"Really?" Chen Yuan pretended to be ecstatic. "The best is called flower chicken, and it is necessary to use guinea fowl as raw material and use the soil from the middle layer of the stream to ······" Chen Yuan quickly told the whole production process, and it was almost exactly the same as what Chen Yuan said for the first time. Xiao Wanqing quickly made a decision and decided to let Chen Yuan's disguised "Tian Sheng" join the back kitchen of the City Lord's Mansion.
"Name", "Tian Sheng", "Age", "Seventeen", "Where did you come from?" Every subordinate of the City Lord's Mansion in "Daxi Village" must go through detailed records and filings, which is the rule of the City Lord's Mansion, so Xiao Wanqing took him to the big housekeeper to record after deciding to recruit this "Tian Sheng" into the mansion.
Looking at this yellow-faced and thin-skinned Tian Sheng, the chief housekeeper asked again: "Since you are only seventeen years old, why didn't you take it with you in the village, but came to the city to beg for a living?" Chen Yuan said: "Originally, the family asked me to go to a distant relative, which is my cousin, named Zhao Ya." She married into the noble gate valve in the city, which can be regarded as a step to the sky. But I didn't expect that when I went to someone's house, they didn't recognize me as a relative at all, and they drove me out directly. After two days in the city, I couldn't even make up the fare to go back, but fortunately I had a craft, so I didn't starve to death. These days, while doing odd jobs, I am looking for a suitable job. ”
The chief housekeeper nodded, and looked at the young man who was brought by the young lady with some sympathy, "It seems that there is such a thing, the Li family in the north of the city took a concubine again a few days ago, and it seems that the name is Zhao Ya." The butler muttered to himself. As the chief butler of the City Lord's Mansion, he obviously knows something about some of the things that are still important and famous in the city. The Li family in the north of the city is a noble family that is not weak, and the matter of the eighth concubine is also something that Tianjin in the city talks about, and I have heard of it. It's just that I didn't expect this woman to be a thin person, and in order to cling to the powerful, she didn't recognize her poor relatives.
"That's it, I'll let someone take you to the kitchen for a turn, it's one of the most important places in the City Lord's Mansion, don't mess around if you don't let you cook, don't walk around, someone will arrange tasks for you when the time comes, understand?" Chen Yuan said that he had a nose and eyes, and the big housekeeper happened to know that there was indeed such a thing in the city, so he agreed with Chen Yuan's identity. So after the record was completed, he gave Chen Yuan a set of kitchen work clothes, instructed Chen Yuan, arranged a person, and brought Chen Yuan to the kitchen.
After bringing him to the housekeeper, Xiao Wanqing left, after all, it would take a long time to make detailed records, and she couldn't wait. Chen Yuan changed into work clothes and came to the kitchen under the guidance of others. With superhuman memory ability, quickly familiarize yourself with the environment of the city lord's mansion, this collection of intelligence, strategizing, infiltrating the enemy camp, stealing tokens and assassinating five missions, the first two have been completed in the first day of preparation. The most important thing is that in the last three missions, infiltrating the enemy camp has been preliminarily completed, and the only thing left is to steal the token and assassinate. But these last two tasks are also the most difficult and the most risky.
As soon as he arrived at the kitchen, Chen Yuan saw a fat man dressed as a head chef, directing these many chefs, handling the ingredients, and preparing the lunch for the entire City Lord's Mansion. "New here, you, yes, that's you, slashed this frame of red reeds. The fat man spoke, pointing at Chen Yuan and said.
Chen Yuan pointed to himself and found that the fat man was talking about him. Unexpectedly, he had to work as soon as he came, and Chen Yuan walked to a basket of vegetables with some helplessness. This so-called red reed is actually similar to the radish on the earth, but the taste is more crisp, and when he was in the village, Chen Yuan studied some ingredients from this world. He found that the staple food here is not much different from the earth, but the speed of ripening is different, and the magic is that even the name is exactly the same, and some of the other vegetables and fruits are similar to the earth, but the name is changed.
Chen Yuan pulled a wooden pier, just sat down and began to complete the task given to him by the fat man, there was still a day and a half before the exam was over, but Chen Yuan was not in a hurry, and seemed to be confident.
Compared with the self-satisfaction of Chen Yuan's side, the old man who watched Chen Yuan's every move from the projection was in a mood of ups and downs. He got up early in the morning, and until the morning, he never saw Chen Yuan's figure from the projection. You must know that the entire exam time is only three days, and yesterday I wasted an afternoon in the restaurant, and I didn't show up this morning, and the old man was a little anxious for Chen Yuan in his heart.
Just when the old man was in a hurry, the gramophone stone rang. "This young lady, I see that you have an outstanding temperament and luxurious clothes, you must be the daughter of a big family, do you lack a cook there······ Chen Yuan's words when he intercepted Xiao Wanqing were completely transmitted to the old man's ears through the phonograph stone on his body. The old man heard the sound of the voice, and hurriedly looked for Chen Yuan's figure in the projection, but still did not find it.
In the end, through the dialogue between Chen Yuan and Xiao Wanqing, the old man finally locked the location of the phonograph stone, which was on the body of the "Tian Sheng" who talked to Xiao Wanqing. The old man was taken aback, and his first reaction was that Chen Yuan cheated and gave the gramophone stone to others, so that others could help him and achieve the purpose of infiltrating the City Lord's Mansion to complete the task. But then he overturned this idea, Chen Yuan is not stupid, through the combination of the gramophone stone and the projection, the old man in charge of the invigilator can quickly find out the location of the gramophone stone, which must be very clear to Chen Yuan, so that cheating is too easy to be seen through, Chen Yuan is impossible to do.
The old man carefully looked at this person who called himself Tian Sheng, and found that this Tian Sheng and Chen Yuan's body shape was very similar. Could it be that this Tian Sheng is Mu Chenyuan, the old man said in his heart. But looking at Tian Sheng and Chen Yuan's completely different faces, the old man overturned his guess again.
Cultivators can change their body shape to a certain extent in order to achieve the purpose of camouflage. However, neither the eyebrow pitch nor the cheekbones can be changed. This Tian Sheng's face is completely different from Chen Yuan, and it shouldn't be that he is disguised. But how can the gramophone stone be explained, was it stolen by this Tian Sheng?
The old man couldn't understand the situation in front of him at all, and for the first time, he felt that the exam in front of him was very strange, and it was not the examinee who felt that it was the examiner, but him, the invigilator! Although it was stipulated that during the exam, the invigilator was not allowed to interfere with the examinee in any action, but for the situation in front of him, the old man could only decide to go to Chen Yuan at night to ask for a reasonable explanation.