"Forget it, don't think about those annoying things, besides, I can catch up in previous years, and I'm not interested in participating in those"

Sikong Yue didn't like to participate in those crowded banquets very much, so even if Concubine Jing originally intended to persuade her to attend, she had to dispel this idea.

"I can't help you, there are only you and I who are eligible to participate in the official New Year's banquet of the palace at home, and you don't want to participate this year, so I can only go by myself", as if remembering something, Concubine Jing suddenly said: "I remembered, I forgot to tell you something, the recipe for this year's New Year's banquet will be jointly responsible for Hua Mian and Jia Lao."

"What!" Hearing what she said, Sikong Yue slapped the armrest of the wooden chair and almost stood up from his seat.

Sure enough, her sister also has a lot of interest in Xia Huamian, Concubine Jing suddenly felt that this was a very interesting thing, although they were a family, but more than a dozen brothers and sisters had their own interests and hobbies, and it was rare for a few people to be interested in the same thing, and now whether it was Sikong Yue, who was the general of Zhenbei, or Sikong Yu, the boss of Flower Street, they all showed great interest in the same chef.

Even Sikong Xiao goes to the kitchen every day to find something to eat, in her own opinion, Xia Huamian is just a chef, although the skills are really good, but no matter how her identity is, she can't change it.

Not to mention that there is also a Celestial God Cult outside, and according to her habit of making dishes, if she hadn't worked in a place close to the Sikong family and the royal family, I'm afraid she would have carried it back to the church to be taught.

When Sikong Yue heard that Hua Mian would be in charge of the dishes during the New Year's banquet, a somewhat bold idea took shape in her mind, and she wanted to go to the kitchen to find Hua Mian and say it.

Seeing Sikong Yue's expression, Concubine Jing said: "If you have anything else to do now, just do it, and the palace will also prepare to wait for Huang'er to come back", and returned to her usual Concubine Jing in an instant.

"This is beef, here is white mushrooms, that basket is milk skin, and then there is a basket of all kinds of vegetables... Horse meat is really no."

Since Jia Lao told him that until the end of the New Year's banquet, he would be responsible for the purchase of ingredients from the place where he and Jinggong Xia Zhang's kitchen, and he went to Jinggong Kitchen early every day to wait for Xia Zhang's chef to tell him the type and quantity of ingredients expected to be used the next day.

At first, he didn't care, thinking that he could do the purchase of hundreds of people, this time only for a chef to buy what is difficult, before going out Jia Lao repeatedly told him to listen carefully and remember, now he is glad to listen to Jia Lao's words with paper and pen to make a record, this Xia Huamian Xia chef is indeed different from others, and even more detailed than Jia Lao's requirements for ingredients.

"The rhizomes of your white mushrooms have already turned yellow, look at this place, it is almost soft into sauce without me doing it", Hua Mian said as he picked up a white mushroom and looked around in his hand.

The buyer smiled and said: "It's true that the ingredients sent back from Beilin this season are not easy to preserve, and they have always been dry goods, and I thought that we could purchase fresh ingredients in winter, who expected that our side would be hotter than Beilin."

The buyers said so, and there was no way to do it, because the wooden barrels used for transportation were already covered with ice, and even this could not ensure that vegetable mushrooms and the like could be transported over long distances without damage.