"You can add two more knives here, be careful, don't cut off"

Back in the big kitchen to put down the basket, Yang Gu began to point out Hua Mian's knife skills, although Hua Mian likes to cook but is not good at using knives, especially the kitchen knife he is holding in his hand now, it is heavy and not smooth, obviously not as flexible as the kitchen knife in the maid's canteen.

"This knife is not your use" Yang Gu saw Hua Mian's thoughts, "If you can complete this birthday banquet, I will give you a knife that matches you"

"Kitchen knives? The one in the maid's kitchen I used very well."

"The knife nature of the knife will change with the owner's heart, when you can have your own knife, you are a qualified chef, but now you should be careful not to cut your hand"

With the assistance of Yang Gu, the birthday banquet menu was perfected one by one, seeing that the day of the birthday banquet was approaching, and a few pots of peppers planted in the room by Huamian also pulled out the buds, although Huamian hoped that the peppers could come in handy in the birthday banquet, but it was obviously impossible to wait for these pots to grow up, so he had to fry the dried peppers when collecting seeds before to make chili oil.

After dinner, Sister Liu cleaned up the outer room and prepared to go back to her residence, thinking about saying hello to Hua Mian, who would have just entered the kitchen A white smoke with a pungent smell greeted her.

"Ahem... cough cough cough" Sister Liu fanned the wind with her hand, "Huamian, what are you doing here?" What does this smell like?"

"Sister Liu? Just right, help me try the taste" Hua Mian was not sure if the people here could accept the taste of chili oil, so he picked up a little with the tip of his chopsticks and handed it to Sister Liu.

"That's what you call chili oil?" Sister Liu looked at the red oil on the tip of the chopsticks in her hand, which looked no different from ordinary oil except for the color, and put it in her mouth..."It's so hot, what is this feeling?" It hurts a little again, and then the aftertaste does have a special taste, and it's a little sweet."

Huamian divided the small amount of chili oil into two small porcelain bottles, one bottle was just tasted by Sister Liu, using sugar to neutralize the spiciness, so that the spicy taste of the chili pepper became much milder, and at the same time more in line with the taste of the people here, the degree was about slightly spicy, and the other bottle was pure chili oil without adding any other flavoring, and the bottle was sealed and wrapped with strips of cloth of different colors as a distinction.

Seeing that the date of the birthday banquet was less than ten days, Huamian and Yang Gu's trip to the market every morning gradually shifted from recognizing ingredients to practicing eyesight to selecting materials according to the recipes prepared by Huamian.

In the past few days, Hua Mian didn't care about preparing the dishes in the maid's canteen, and she was intermittently empty to cook a meal, and I heard Sister Liu say that Sikong Xiao had sent someone to inquire before the meal every day since she found out that the dishes were not made by her, and if she was not there that day, she simply did not appear, and Hua Mian did not have time to pay attention to what the ninth young master was doing, and every day in addition to sleeping and going to the market, he plunged into the kitchen to try to make it.

During the period, I listened to Xiaocui tell a lot of interesting stories about the guests at this banquet, and Aunt Juan also arranged for experienced maids to teach the maids in the backyard, from the precautions at the banquet to the reception etiquette and the norms of behavior and conversation.

"Pain Pain Pain"

After a busy day, Huamian lay on the bed, Xiaocui stood by the bed to help her pinch her legs, standing for a long time every day caused Huamian's legs to be somewhat obviously swollen, walking a little lame, with Huamian's own feelings, it was like being asked by the teacher to run 1500 meters on the first day of school after a summer vacation.