Chapter Seventy-Six: Homely
Others say that the place is shallow and narrow, and the princes and princesses should listen to it politely.
Anyway, others won't take them seriously to any "rough and shallow" place.
But from today onwards, when they hear these words again, they will probably have to ponder it in their hearts.
The place Lu Yi said is shallow and narrow, it is really "shallow" and "narrow"!
The shop is at the end of the street where the back door of the Zhao Mansion goes out, the small door can only open two doors, behind the door is a small hall, and then into a very small courtyard, the yard is planted with an acacia tree, the tree is full of green fan-like leaves, but it is very cool. Behind that is the place to eat.
It's three rooms.
Liu Yan didn't care where to eat, but Liu Yu was full of disgust.
Even Zhao Lei felt that it was really aggrieved to invite the princesses of Jin Zun and Jade to eat here.
Zhao Yi was very frank: "Let's eat under the tree, and Lao Hu picks up the fresh." ”
The person in charge of the kitchen is the boss, surnamed Hu, who didn't even show his face, so he answered in the back. However, the young man in this store looked at the noble man who came, and he was a little at a loss. When the tea was served, his hand shook, but fortunately the tea bowl was still empty, otherwise it would have to be splashed on Liu Jing.
"You don't need to make tea, just pour some warm water to quench your thirst."
Anyway, the tea in this small shop, that is, the scum, may still be the old tea of last year and the year before last, and the nobles of the golden branches and jade leaves are not used to drinking it.
The young man's hands trembled, Lu Yi said it again, and he still didn't come back to his senses.
Liu Jing didn't put on a show when he came out, and the eunuchs had to follow the two. Maud scolded this little guy in his stomach for being a good mallet. The opportunity to serve the prince and princess, his ancestors burned high incense for eight lifetimes to meet such a time, serve him well, and the reward will be indispensable to him.
Mao De knows the rules of rewards in the palace very well, even if it is different from the palace outside, the princes and princesses will not be too stingy when they make a move.
He hurriedly rolled up his sleeves, this kid can't count on it, don't look back and spill the vegetable soup on His Royal Highness, or his Grand Duke Mao himself.
The bean soup and the others hurriedly followed.
Blind people can't get into what they are now. Since they all have eyes, how can there be any reason to stand now?
As a result, when they arrived in the back kitchen, they were even more awkward.
There was a thick grease on the side of the pot, and Chef Hu's apron was black and shiny.
Can this man eat the food?
It really ate His Highness badly, and a few of them had to be beaten at the lightest.
That Lu Gongzi was really reckless.
If you don't have money, no face, and can't afford this meal, don't slap your swollen face and become fat. It's good now, if you bring a person to such a place, isn't he afraid that he will have a problem with his food and burn himself?
Chef Hu was stir-frying the vegetables in full swing, and when he saw a few of them coming in, he didn't care about it, so he hurriedly picked up a sweat towel to wipe the sweat on his face: "Take out the cold dishes over there." ”
Mao De took a look, the cold dishes had been put on the plate, four vegetarian and two meat, and they looked quite neat and clean.
Anyway, take the food out first, and then stare at the cook when you come back.
The cold dishes are all farmhouse flavors, bean sprouts, sausages, white-cut chicken, cold melon, and they are served on the plate in such a regular manner.
However, most of the golden branches and jade leaves are not pampered and raised, especially Liu Yan, when he was at his uncle's house in the countryside, he drank soup and ate vegetables in a coarse porcelain bowl, and sometimes he slipped to the kitchen when he was thirsty, and directly took a soup spoon to scoop soup from the pot and drink.
As soon as I tasted the food, I was even more surprised!
"This sausage is delicious!"
Not as soft as ordinary food, this sausage is mostly homemade, the taste is a little hard, and it feels a little salty at first taste. But it is particularly chewy, the more you chew, the more fragrant it is, and the aftertaste is endless.
Liu Jing tasted the bean sprouts first, nodded and said, "Okay." ”
It would be nice to have him say yes.
Liu Yan tasted the bean sprouts in the second bite.
I just ate sausages, and then I can't help but feel a little bland.
But the sprouts are really good.
Most people know that bean sprouts are easy to make, they can be eaten fried and boiled, and they are really hungry and can be eaten raw. But it's not easy to make bean sprouts delicious. Either it is stewed with big meat, and the watercress is stewed until it tastes good. In other ways, the bean sprouts are stiff, difficult to taste, and there are beany smells.
But this cold bean sprouts are not boiled, but pickled.
Fresh and crisp but not hard, flavorful, no beany at all, and it is particularly refreshing to eat.
Mao De was afraid that His Royal Highness would not be able to eat this dish, but he didn't expect everyone to be quite happy to eat.
Then the hot dish came up.
Crispy fried small fish, the fish is only the size of a finger, the spines are fried crispy, the outside of the fish is fried to golden, a bite open, the fish meat is still snow-white, a plate itself is not much fish, one person feels that it is not enough, another one, and then ...... The plate is empty.
It's empty.
Not to mention the surprise of the person who waits, the person who eats is surprised by himself.
Only Lu Yi and Zhao Lei are accustomed to it.
"A fish of this size has to be fried and eaten, and even if it is a little bigger, it can also be boiled into soup, and this fish soup is also a must for his family."
The dishes are almost eaten one by one, don't look at the appearance is average, the taste is not much novelty, but it makes people have an appetite.
Liu Yan especially likes the pumpkin stewed chicken.
The chicken is the fresh and sweet taste of pumpkin, and the pumpkin is soaked in the chicken flavor, which is needless to say, and the heat is just right. The chicken is detached from the bone as soon as it bites, the skin is still very springy, and the meat is not firewood. The pumpkin is stewed until it is half-melted and can be swallowed without chewing.