Chapter Fifty-Seven: Winning the First Prize
Ye Yun'er thought of the donkey rolling that she liked to eat the most in her previous life, and knew that it was the royal pastry that was exclusive to the court later, why not use this to attract people's eyes and ears?
Seeing that the ingredients were available, she took soybean flour, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, red beans and honey that were necessary for making pastries, and began to make them.
She first boiled the red beans in a large pot, steamed the glutinous rice sticky rice flour on the top, and fried the soybean flour on the other side until it became brown.
Finally, she rolls out the glutinous rice flour into a round dough, sprinkles fried soybean flour on top, and then purees the boiled red beans, sprinkles them, and finally rolls them into rolls......
Cut it piece by piece, put it on a plate, and you're done!
Ye Yun'er confidently sent the two plates to several public judges, and said with a slight smile: "This is called donkey rolling, please taste it." ”
These public judges are all squires who are accustomed to eating delicious food, and even two are well-known chefs who are very popular in restaurants, and only two are ordinary people who are randomly selected from the audience.
When everyone saw the tender yellow pastry and the faintly exposed red beans, they immediately had an appetite.
After picking it up and tasting it one after another, everyone showed expressions of approval.
"This pastry is soft and mellow, and it melts in your mouth, which is really rare to eat!"
"The pastries I want to pay tribute to the court are a bit out of reach compared to this."
"I wonder who you studied with this girl, who can make such a fine pastry?"
Seeing that the judges were surprisingly unanimous, everyone gave Ye Yun'er a good review, and they all salivated at this novel pastry, and looked at Ye Yun'er even more curiously, waiting for her to answer.
Ye Yun'er raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "I figured this out by myself, and no one taught me." ”
One of the chef reviewers was slightly surprised, "You figured it out yourself?" Heck, in that case, why don't you pay this tribute to the imperial court? Think you're sure to get it reused! ”
Ye Yun'er just smiled slightly and didn't answer.
But in her heart, she just wanted to be an ordinary little businesswoman, but she didn't want to have anything to do with the treacherous officialdom.
The judges have already tasted the results of other people's hasty work, and they all feel that they are not satisfactory.
Yes, Ye Yuner naturally became the leader of this group.
The competition of no less than 100 people was not over yet, and Ye Yun'er came with Gu Zhen to watch her competition in terms of female popularity.
The topic of the competition is to embroider the most beautiful magpie in the shortest possible time.
Magpies are often embroidered by Gu Zhen, so they are particularly easy to embroider.
This group was also easily won by her.
The two of them were very happy, and they jumped up and down like cheerful birds, and came to the competition venue for threading needles......
On a towering hill, in the gazebo, there are several figures who look like sons of families.
A young man drank wine while looking at the women competing below, and laughed: "These women are all stunts!" But the most outstanding one is not worthy of our little Muta. ”
Mu Yihan's eyes have never left her since he saw Ye Yun'er, and the slight smile on the corner of his mouth makes people can't help but think about it.
"Hey, prince Wang, don't bury yourself like this, can't we have a first-class woman in our small county? Throughout the ages, the royal family has also selected many concubines from us to enter Beijing, and even two or three have become queens admired by the world. Another son disagreed, looked at Mu Yihan, and asked tentatively, "I don't know which one Xiao Mu has taken a fancy to?" If you like it, I have my own way to help you match. ”
"Yes, Lord Xiao Mu, Liu Gongzi is a famous 'matchmaker' in our county, let him thread the needle and lead you, even if it is the daughter of the county master, he can match you with that!"
Someone said this, and everyone laughed.
Mu Yihan had to temporarily withdraw his gaze and look at the group of people who were extremely funny about him: "What belongs to me will belong to me sooner or later, do you still need you to help me match?" ”
He said it so confidently that everyone stopped laughing, and they had to admire Mu Yihan's domineering.
"Also, what a big man Xiao Mu is, but even the county master's daughter likes it, and he can't wait to give him a hug, where do you need someone else to match?"
Someone looked down again, and said in a loud voice: "Don't say it, Miss Na Mo did her best today, and she was determined to take down the top spot of that female red." ”
Someone else seemed to see through it, pouting and saying mockingly: "Since she followed Master Mo to the county seat two years ago, didn't she win the female celebrity competition every year?" I don't think it's going to be her this time. ”
"But I looked at the civilian woman in the green dress and a man and a woman by her side, and her embroidery skills were no worse than hers. Now that she has won the top spot in the group, she is sure to sprint to the final championship. The previous man stared at Gu Zhen and said as a matter of course.
The latter scoffed again, "Forget it, even if there are more characters who are better than Miss Mo, they will eventually be ranked behind her." Coupled with some other official ladies, the ladies of the squire family are pressing, and it is impossible for these people with real skills to be in front of the list at all. ”
The latter person suddenly realized, shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity." ”
One of the previous people said: "As for the cooking competition, it's a different story." After all, everyone is beautiful, and there are very few people who go to the stove room. Therefore, the fairness of this game is more credible. ”
Time passed imperceptibly, and gradually it was twilight.
At the end of the competition, a merchant who sponsored the competition announced the final results.
"Cooking competition, first place, Ye Yun'er from Houshan Village, Qinghe County!"
Ye Yun'er and Gu Zhen listened, not to mention how excited they were, hugging each other and jumping like children.
As for the female red and needle threading, as predicted by the son-in-law, the first name was obtained by the county magistrate Miss Mo. The top ten are mostly the daughters of some big families.
Gu Zhen was a little slightly disappointed, and Ye Yun'er comforted her: "Don't you see that this competition is not fair at all?" I think they are just favoring those noble ladies as much as possible, lest they offend them. As for people like you who have real skills, but have no power or power, they don't bother to pay attention to it. ”
Gu Zhen couldn't imagine that there was such a cat in this, so she nodded clearly, and she didn't feel how lost in her heart.
They're just out to play, and the most important thing is to be happy.
In the end, Ye Yuner accepted the special reward of the competition - ten taels of silver, and five taels of ginseng, which was the envy of others.
But Ye Shuhua, who came to participate in the female celebrity competition, saw that Gu Zhen was ranked tenth, and was named and pointed out, but she didn't even have her name on the list, not to mention how aggrieved she was.
She saw that Ye Yun'er actually won the first prize in the cooking competition and won such an attractive reward, and she was even more angry.
She didn't understand why Ye Yun'er was better than her everywhere, even Gu Zhen, who looked ordinary, was a step above her in terms of female popularity?
When she saw the two of them walking towards the moat again, she rolled her eyes and couldn't help but step up and follow.