The years are not lived, the seasons are like a stream, and in a blink of an eye, it is the tenth year that Zheng Xinwen has entered Prince Gong's mansion.

On this day, the five masters of the Four Heavenly Kings of the small dining room all gathered together and watched Zheng Xinwen cook with a serious face.

The sideburns of the master of Su cuisine are more frosty, the corners of the eyes of the master of Lu cuisine are wrinkled, the top of the head of the master of Manchu cuisine has become bright, and the chin of the master of snacks has a stubble.

Although the original old but still upright body of the master of Huaguo is now bent down, only the focused eyes are still silent, telling that his life has not yet become a candle in the wind, and he can still cook!

Hao Xian also watched Zheng Xinwen's every move carefully.

Today is the day Zheng Xinwen leaves Prince Gong's mansion, and the masters are conducting his last examination.

The fourteen-year-old boy is now a twenty-four-year-old adult, taller, stronger, and the frivolity of his youth has disappeared into the years.

He is engrossed in finishing his final dish at Prince Gong's Mansion, the Crispy Wyvern*.

[*Note: The Wyvern is a pigeon-like bird, not a real dragon.] 】

This is a dish in the Manchu and Han banquets, as for why this dish is taught, it is very simple, it is drawn by lot.

The masters wrote down all the dishes of the Manchu and Han banquets and put them in the stickers, and they had to make which dishes they draw, which was the final test that every apprentice in the small dining room of Prince Gong's Mansion had to face before leaving the school.

If you can't get through, then you are not qualified to say that you are out of the palace.

Zheng Xinwen calmly dipped the delicious flying dragon leg in flour, and then began to pour peanut oil into the pot.

Not only the five masters, but Hao Xian was also watching him do all this with appreciative eyes.

Hao Xian can't make this dish himself.

In the past ten years, he has adhered to the original study policy, and each master focuses on learning only the five dishes that have been selected, and the five masters are twenty-five dishes, and he resists the temptation to stick it once when he sees it for the first time.

Twenty-five dishes sounds like a lot, but it's not too much on the scale of ten years.

There are more than 100 dishes in the Manchu and Han banquets, and Zheng Xinwen can now start cooking any dish drawn from the sticker without thinking.

Even if you don't take into account the fact that Hao Xian has not had the opportunity to cook in his own hands for ten years, this is also a talent that is difficult for him to achieve.

Of course, he will not be jealous of Zheng Xinwen because of this, Zheng Xinwen's youth is a youth spent in his company, and it is a great blessing for any chef to be able to witness the growth of a generation of grandmasters.

What's more, Hao Xian has already understood his own path.

Ten years is quite a long time, enough to make a metamorphosis.

At first, he wondered every day, the traitor who wanted to kill Zheng Xinwen would only bubble up in the Year of the Monkey?

Then, a year passed, and the traitor did not appear; Two years have passed, and the traitor is nowhere to be found......

Later, he didn't want to, because he no longer doubted that the Kitchen Jing did deliberately let him come to this era many years in advance, so that he could enter Prince Gong's Mansion with Zheng Xinwen to learn cooking.

Why?

Because he decided for himself!

Before the appearance of "Peng Zu's Kitchen Sutra", it was he Hao Xian who made up his mind to close the hometown pavilion and spend more than ten years or even decades returning to China to learn to cook!

The Chef Jing just helped him realize his original idea!

It's just that the timing of returning to China is different from what he planned......

This time the task of saving pot meat gave him ten years of study, and presumably the task of indiscriminate in the future will not be short, and it may even take ordinary people a lifetime to complete.

It was he who was too naïve at first, and subconsciously thought that he could punch Western food and kick Japanese food when he got the plug-in, but the ten Cantonese dishes included in the Kitchen Book to help him open the hang were just from his father's Yu Yin, and if he wanted to truly become the protector of Chinese cooking, he had to make corresponding efforts.

"Peng Zu's Kitchen Classic" has witnessed the ups and downs of the Chinese kitchen for 5,000 years, and Hao Xian guesses that he will probably go to various eras through the indiscriminate mission, and accept the heavy inheritance of these 5,000 years in the long years.

If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.

The past ten years of cultivation may just be an appetizer for honing the heart of the Taoist protector, and Hao Xian feels quite pressured in the face of endless problems that may arise in the future.

But he will not be afraid, because he was ready to move forward alone before he got the "Peng Zu Kitchen Sutra".

Perhaps, this is the real reason why the chef chose him.

Zheng Xinwen completed the final plating, twelve crispy dragon legs were enclosed inward, and a flying dragon bird with independent branches and full of aura was carved with various vegetables in the middle.

He looked up at the masters with a calm face, trying to hide the tension in his heart.

Whether you can be a teacher or not depends on this dish.

Several masters grabbed a flying dragon leg that had been blown golden brown and tasted it with serious faces.

After everyone finished eating, Zheng Xinwen also began to be unable to hide his emotions, seeing that the rest of the masters all set their eyes on the respected master Huaguo, Zheng Xinwen felt that his heart was beating wildly, and then, the master of Huaguo spoke-

I saw that the old man opened his mouth, muttered for a moment, and then grabbed a flying dragon leg and bit it down.

Zheng Xinwen: ???

Isn't it to announce whether I can be a teacher or not?

Hao Xian couldn't help but snicker on the side, in the past ten years, he had seen several times that the masters had apprentices going out to do similar things.

"Yes, you're out of school." Zheng Xinwen was still stunned, and Master Huaguo said coldly.

"Huh? Yes! Zheng Xinwen finally reacted.

"You heard it right, you're out of school!" Master Lu Cai stroked his palms and laughed.

"With this cooking skill, you can go to the world from now on, and you are not afraid of hunger anywhere!" Master Su Cai smiled.

"Be angry, don't embarrass us!" The master chef of Manchu cuisine touched his bald head.

"There's no Prince Gong's Mansion outside to shelter you from the wind and rain, the world is sinister, be careful!" The snack master strokes his chin.

Zheng Xinwen looked at the masters blankly, a little at a loss for a while.

Master Huaguo smiled and patted him on the shoulder, and wind leaked from his crooked teeth: "Go, child, the future is promising!" ”

Zheng Xinwen's eyes were a little moist, he knelt down, kowtowed solemnly, and wanted to say a few words of gratitude, but he was speechless.

The five masters looked at him with satisfaction, but they didn't know that there was another apprentice next to them who was thanking them.

Hao Xian bowed deeply to the five masters, his soul was close to the ground, and he buckled his head three times:

"Although I have no way to offer tea to your masters, and you are destined to never know the existence of my apprentice, I will definitely take your craftsmanship to the distant future and carry it forward!"

Hao Xian and Zheng Xinwen stood up, and under the eyes of the masters, they left the small dining room of Prince Gong's mansion.