Shen Hongfei looked at Chang Ning and winked at himself a few times, the corners of the elves' black bean small eyes hooked up knowingly, smiled lightly, and clenched his fists: "Thank you for your advice."

Chang Ning smiled and shook the jade fan bone and said: "This prince didn't say anything, ha, I'll go to the imperial garden first, I heard that a few gold-edged water lilies paid tribute by the Rakshasa Kingdom last year bloomed, and this prince went to see the lotus ......."

Chang Ning shook his steps as he spoke

Shen Hongfei looked at Chang Ning's back, his thin lips hooked a light smile, and turned around towards the direction of the imperial garden banquet

The eunuch in charge of the imperial banquet was holding a banquet not far from the lotus pond with a group of small eunuchs

Seeing Shen Hongfei coming over, the eunuch in charge smiled and said: "It's still early before the time for the banquet, Lord Shen, you can go to the side and take a look, there are a lot of places in our garden with good scenery."

Shen Hongfei smiled lightly and said, "Dare to ask where the father-in-law's imperial dining room is."

When the eunuch in charge heard this, he pointed to the back of a rockery not far away: "Then bypass the corridor over there."

Shen Hongfei flew to the door of the imperial dining room, and saw a little eunuch walking out with a pot of garlic from the inside, Shen Hongfei called the little eunuch and asked, "I don't know that the master is in charge of today's cooking."

The little eunuch said: "It's the imperial chef, Lord Zhang, and the others are supervising the imperial meal at noon at the moment, you go in and find it."

Shen Hongfei said with a smile: "The imperial dining room is an important place in the palace, and it is inconvenient for me to go in, and I asked the little brother to help spread the word, and said that Shen Hongfei, the new champion of erudition and Confucianism, asked to see him."

As he spoke, Shen Hongfei stuffed a piece of loose silver weighing two taels into the palm of the little eunuch's hand

When the little eunuch heard about Shen Hongfei's name, he knew that this new champion was a courtier appointed and reused by Kangxi, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off

Moreover, the people gave the silver again, and the little eunuch agreed neatly, turned around, and ran to the imperial dining room

After a while, the little eunuch led the middle-aged man who thought he was short and fat to walk out from the inside

"Zhang Yuchu, this is Lord Shen," the little eunuch led people to Shen Hongfei, and consciously retreated

Imperial Chef Zhang had already heard that this new champion was a celebrity in front of the emperor, and heard that the crescent princess admired him, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, bowed down and saluted: "Lord Shen is fortunate to know, Lord Shen came to find Xiao Chef, is there something wrong?"

Shen Hongfei looked at the red-faced chef in front of him with his hands behind his back, and he knew that this person had an upright and honest temperament

Shen Hongfei smiled and asked, "I heard that Master Zhang's accent is from Shandong."

Chef Zhang nodded with a little surprise: "What the adults said is right, Weichen's hometown is Taining, Shandong."

Shen Hongfei said with an authentic Jinan accent: "Lord Zhang and his mother are still fellow villagers?"

When Chef Zhang heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "Lord Shen's Jinan dialect is really authentic, and Weichen is quite kind to listen to."

Shen Hongfei patted Chef Zhang's shoulder affectionately and said with a smile: "Since I am a fellow countryman, then I will say it bluntly if I have something to say, I want to ask Master Zhang for a favor."

Shandong people have a bold temperament, Chef Zhang saw that Shen Hongfei had something to say, but he felt that he was an outsider, so he patted his chest and said: "Master Zhang, you have something to say, as long as I can do it, I will do my best."

Shen Hongfei asked, "May I ask if there is red bean paste in our imperial dining room?"

Chef Zhang smiled: "The adults want this thing, you said you want a few catties, I'll get it for you."

Shen Hongfei said: "If it doesn't matter so much, it's just half a catty."

Chef Zhang said coolly: "No questions, I'll go and fetch ...... for you" As he spoke, Chef Zhang was about to step into the imperial dining room

Shen Hongfei smiled and grabbed Chef Zhang's arm and said, "Wait, I still have something to ask for."

"Okay, you can do it together, and if you say what I can do, I'll do it together."

Shen Hongfei asked again: "Master Zhang can carve food?"

Chef Zhang smiled proudly when he heard this: "It's not contemptible bragging, I think when I first entered the palace, I inadvertently carved a little rabbit with white radish, which was originally placed in the grass to play, but I didn't expect to attract the empress dowager to call someone to catch the rabbit."

Shen Hongfei smiled when he heard this: "Brother Zhang is really good at his skills, Shen admires it, I bothered Brother Zhang today, and it is not difficult for you to come over with your ears."

Chef Zhang put his ear on Shen Hongfei's mouth, only to hear him whisper a few words, and his jaw almost fell out in shock

His head shook like a rattle, and he waved his hand again and again: "No, if others know that my reputation in this life will be ruined, I won't do it, you can ask for another master."

Shen Hongfei stretched out his hand and grabbed Chef Zhang's arm, and said earnestly: "For the sake of fellow villagers, you can help me, this time you also know that our Hanchen is in the court, and people are soft-spoken ......."

Chef Zhang listened to Shen Hongfei finish talking about the reason for the matter, and his heart was also quite moved, since he entered the palace, he has also suffered from the anger of many Manchu cooks, and he can understand the difficulty of Hanchen in doing things in the court

"I promise with my life that only you and I know at this time, and I will never fall into the ears of others," Shen Hongfei saw that Chef Zhang was moved, and hurriedly added a sentence

Chef Zhang thought about it carefully, and finally gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and said: "Only this time, I won't take it as an example, and you must not say it, I helped you get it, and I still have more than a dozen people to support at home."

After Shen Hongfei swore to the sky, Chef Zhang dropped a sentence: "I'll pick it up in a quarter of an hour" and turned around and went back to the imperial dining room

After the arrangement was secure, Shen Hongfei turned to the side and walked around for a while, and returned to the door of the imperial dining room after about a quarter of an hour

happened to meet the little eunuch who had spoken before

The little eunuch saw Shen Hongfei and said with a smile: "Lord Shen, let's go find Lord Zhang, I'll go and pass on a message to you."

This time, without waiting for Shen Hongfei to give orders, the little eunuch ran straight to the back kitchen, and not long after, Chef Zhang walked out with something in his hand and carefully covered it with a white drawer cloth

"Lord Shen, this is what you want, you can see if it's okay."

Shen Hongfei lifted the cloth of the drawer and took a look, hey, it really looks like

"Okay, Brother Zhang, I'll have time another day, I'll invite Brother Zhang to go to Zifeng Tower for tea"

Chef Zhang said helplessly: "You better be careful, beware of being caught, this is a royal forbidden land"

Shen Hongfei thanked Chef Zhang again, hid the thing in his sleeve, and walked towards the place where the imperial banquet was held

Walking to the Golden Dragon Banquet table, Shen Hongfei looked sideways and looked around, looking forward to seeing that the little eunuchs were busy with each other, and no one paid attention to him, so he took advantage of the fact that no one was next to him and secretly put the things entrusted to Chef Zhang under Kangxi's dragon chair......

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