【Chapter 18】His Taste
The shopkeeper of the Jade Building couldn't move immediately.
It's not that I don't want to, but I can't.
The moment the man appeared, his body seemed to be pinned by an invisible pressure.
He couldn't tell what he was afraid of, he only knew that he had lived most of his life, and he had never looked away like tonight.
can make such a valuable "son" as a servant for him...... To be exact, even one of his servants is as valuable as the son of a family, who is this man?
The shopkeeper of the Emerald Building looked at the man again.
The man was wearing a silver fox coat, which was like a dazzling white light in the night.
The shopkeeper of the Jade Building only glanced at it and hurriedly lowered his gaze.
Even if his eyesight is not strong enough, the instinct for survival is always there, and his intuition tells him that if he wants to live, he should stop staring at the man in front of him.
"Master."
Another carriage drove over, and this car was much smaller, still inconspicuous, but the shopkeeper of the Jade Building no longer dared to underestimate the other party.
A man in his forties jumped out of the carriage, and he called the man "master", thinking that he was also his subordinate, but compared with those young and handsome young servants, his appearance was too stumbling.
But he was the only one who could talk to a man.
The middle-aged man said: "I've inquired, there are no other restaurants around here, I haven't eaten all day, so I'll just use some." ”
At this time, the shopkeeper of Bai Yulou Zhou also noticed the movement on the street.
As soon as he saw this posture, he also knew that there was a distinguished guest, but he didn't have the courage to come forward to solicit customers, so he looked at the other party with blank eyes, praying that the other party could come to their restaurant.
However, to his disappointment, the man lifted his footsteps and walked towards the Emerald Building.
The shopkeeper Zhao of the Jade Building straightened his waist in an instant, and showed a smug look at his family.
I had heard that Bai Yulou had found someone to buy high-grade refined salt, but so what? On the wine and food of Lotus Town, or the fragrance of his Jade Building!
A group of people entered the most elegant wing of the Jade Building, not Zhao shopkeeper boasted, this wing room was built by the most famous craftsmen in the capital, the tables and chairs are all high-quality pineapple wood, Duobaoge furnishes the most fashionable jewelry and jade, and even the calligraphy and paintings on the walls are all from the hands of everyone in the dynasty, I am afraid that the prince will definitely take a look at it more.
I didn't even lift my eyelids, so I went into the back room and sat down.
Shopkeeper Zhao wanted to keep up, but the middle-aged man put down the bead curtain, and the man's figure was blocked by the bead curtain.
Shopkeeper Zhao sneered.
The middle-aged man said, "You all have some good dishes here, and you can present them all." ”
As soon as he heard that all of them were presented, Shopkeeper Zhao went happily.
Because he was a distinguished guest, the shopkeeper Zhao invited out the treasure of the town store - Liu Yuchu.
Liu Yuchu made a unique recipe of sour bamboo shoots and pork belly, and fried a plate of crabs that were enough to fake the real one, in addition, he also fried a few palace dishes with all colors and flavors, and steamed a piece of osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, which he was best at.
Imperial Chef Liu is very confident in his craft, after all, this is a dish that the emperor has eaten, where do ordinary people have this kind of mouthful?
I never thought that as soon as the food was delivered, the middle-aged man brought it out.
The middle-aged man said in disgust: "This is your specialty? ”
Shopkeeper Zhao was stunned: "This, this is all made by our Chef Liu, he was the imperial chef back then!" ”
"Change to a cook who is not an imperial chef!" The middle-aged man said unceremoniously.
Liu Yuchu is still disliked? Shopkeeper Zhao was inexplicable, but he still went as he said, but when he presented a new table of dishes, he once again asked the other party to withdraw.
Shopkeeper Zhao was anxious: "This big brother, what kind of food does your son-in-law want to eat?" Let's just say it, and we'll do it! ”
The middle-aged man didn't answer his words, but glanced at Bai Yulou opposite, and said lightly, "You go and invite his family's cook." ”
Shopkeeper Zhao: "This ......"
The middle-aged man came with a cold eye, and Zhao's shopkeeper went with a numb scalp.
It was Chef Lu from Baiyulou who came, after Chef Lu saw the dishes made by Jade Mansion for guests, he had a vague measure in his heart, and when he returned to Baiyulou, he didn't do any complicated dishes, and stewed a pot of winter bamboo shoots and crucian carp soup alone.
The bamboo shoots and crucian carp were not bought at the market, but were given by the little girl who sold salt.
The freshness of the ingredients is very high, the winter bamboo shoots are so tender that they can drip out of water, the crucian carp is so fat that they can fry the cream, and a pot of soup is boiled into a thick milky white, and there is no extra ingredients, only a few grains of Yu Wan's snowflake salt are sprinkled, and the umami of the fish soup is completely hooked out.
The fish soup was presented to the man.
The man's slightly tired eyebrows and eyes stretched slightly when he smelled the fragrance of fish and bamboo shoots.
The middle-aged man didn't expect the man to react to this pot of fish soup, and his eyes immediately lit up: "This soup smells fresh, it looks even fresher, I don't know how it tastes." ”
After that, the middle-aged man scooped a spoonful and tasted it for the man first: "Fresh!" It's so fresh! It's fresher than the fish soup in our house! ”
There are no fancy condiments, and the taste of the ingredients is retained in the original locality, with a sweetness of bamboo shoots, and the saltiness of the fish, but there is no trace of bitterness, and it seems that a rare tribute salt is used.
The middle-aged man didn't care why a small restaurant could use the tribute salt that was not circulated among the people, he waited for a while, and after confirming that the soup was non-toxic, he served the man a bowl: "Master, you taste it." ”
The man tasted it.
"How?" The middle-aged man asked expectantly.
The man dropped the spoon: "It's tasteless." ”
The middle-aged man sighed secretly.
To be honest, this fish soup is really good, but the young master is not picky, he said that there is no taste, that is, he really didn't eat the taste, the young master was weak at a young age, almost soaked in the medicine jar, maybe the medicine was eaten too much, and then to taste other things, gradually I couldn't taste it.
The three foods that everyone enjoys are very painful for the young master.