Hua Manxi recognized this voice as Chen Xiuya's.

She seemed to have washed her hands just now, and suddenly came in, and when she saw Hua Manxi standing on the side, she was very shocked and said, "Chef Hua? Why are you here? ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw that Shen Miaolan kept giving her eyes, and she realized in hindsight, could it be that Chef Hua caused some trouble?

Sure enough, Lin Fengxuan glanced at her and said in astonishment: "Xiuya, do you know this cook?" ”

Although Chen Xiuya's father and Lin Fengxuan's father are both one of the six Shangshu, Lin Fengxuan's family is higher, because his father is a lord and was born in a public mansion, but Chen Xiuya's father is not even a marquis, but a prince's house.

Besides, Chen Xiuya's father Chen Bochang is still a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and his real power is too little, and he is not even as good as Chen Xiuli, who is a man in the household department.

And Lin Fengxuan's invitation to Chen Xiuya this time is actually for another purpose, Wei Guogong took a fancy to Chen Xiuli's talent, wanted to win him over, and planned to marry a concubine to Chen Xiuli, so he invited Chen Xiuya.

The meaning of arrogance and disgust in Lin Fengxuan's words was obviously easy to see, coupled with Shen Miaolan's eye hints, Chen Xiuya finally understood it in hindsight.

Hua Manxi is afraid that she has offended Lin Fengxuan, if she says that she knows her, she will not be implicated.

"Well, acquaintance, not acquaintance, it's just a one-sided relationship, didn't I go to my eldest brother at the beginning of the year? There's a food festival there, and I've seen her cook there. Chen Xiuya clumsily told a lie.

Thinking about it, Shen Miaolan is much smarter than her, Shen Miaolan stood up, smiled softly, and said slowly: "Xiuya said this, I remembered it, I really had a relationship with her, she is quite famous in Shishan County, our group, including Shida and Jiuwangye, have tasted the dishes she made, one of the dishes, take Shishan County's specialty seafood as the main ingredient, all kinds of vegetables as ingredients, called hot pot, that delicious, delicious, I grew up in Kyoto, I have never eaten such delicious seafood, I never knew that seafood could still have this way to eat, even Lord Shen and the Nine Princes were full of praise and ate it for two days. ”

She quietly moved out Shen Shao and the Nine Princes, if Lin Fengxuan insisted on saying that the dishes made by Hua Manxi were not delicious, wouldn't it be a slap in the face to the Nine Princes and Shen Shao? Forgive her for not having the guts.

"Really? Since Miss Shen said it so expressively, why don't we try it? If it's done well, forget it, if it's not done well-" Lin Fengxuan stopped immediately, and said with a threatening tone.

Shen Miaolan glanced at Hua Manxi without moving, and said with a smile: "Chef Hua, you can serve snacks and take out all your housekeeping skills, and ah, these girls eat less spicy food on weekdays, and the bottom of the pot is lighter." ”

Hua Manxi understood that Shen Miaolan was mentioning herself, nodded and said, "Then the little chef will go down to prepare first." ”

She got permission, turned around and retreated, the manager outside the door was waiting for her, and he was also shocked into a cold sweat, but what Hua Manxi said was not wrong, and it was not easy to blame her, so she could only comfort: "This place in Kyoto is like this, especially Yipinju, it is even more mixed, you must be very careful when you talk and do things." ”

Hua Manxi nodded and said in a low voice, "This time it was really my carelessness." ”

She thought that as long as the dishes were ready, she didn't need to play any tricks, but she was wrong. If it weren't for Shen Miaolan this time, she wouldn't have ended a little hard.

Or did she underestimate the degree of authoritarianism in this feudal society, Kyoto is really a big dye vat, and it is not difficult to explain that a noble and elegant person like Brother Chen has changed a lot in more than a year here.

Hua Manxi returned to the smoky kitchen, smelled the aroma of various dishes, and listened to the clattering sound of chopping vegetables, only then did he feel that he had come back to his senses.

She breathed a sigh of relief and asked the chief manager, "What about the girls who want to eat seafood pots, do you have fresh seafood in the kitchen?" ”

"The seafood in our Yipinju is fresh, and it is transported directly from the production area with ice cubes, and it is stored in the ice cellar. However, seafood is a rarity and a little more expensive. The steward said.

"It's expensive, I'm afraid it's not expensive." Hua Manxi smiled slightly, a gleam flashed in her eyes, since Miss Lin dared to insult her in public, then don't blame her for letting Lin Fengxuan suffer a dumb loss! She is full of flowers and is not a soft persimmon, so they can be rounded and flattened!

Isn't it a seafood pot? Then she'll let them eat to their heart's content!

"Boss, let me tell you, please send someone to the ice cellar to fetch it for me." After Hua Manxi muttered to himself, he smiled and asked for it, hairy crabs, nine-headed abalone, yellow croaker, saury, sea bass, sea cucumbers, green shrimp, bamboo shrimp, clams, oysters, pike crabs, flower crabs, fairy shells, scallops, clams, octopus, flower snails, etc.

After these seafood are taken out, there are ice cubes, Hua Manxi uses modern plating technology to put these seafood in place, and decorate them with carved cucumber flowers.

That's not all, in addition to this dazzling array of seafood, when she boiled the bottom of the pot, she actually laid matsutake mushrooms!

Kitchen cooking, a pot of good broth, needless to say, a pinju broth, in addition to pork bones, tube bones, but also add duck, go-to-the-ground chicken stewed together, delicious and abnormal, whether it is cooking or soup, with it.

Hua Manxi used this broth, and after putting the broth into the charcoal-burning copper furnace, she added matsutake mushrooms, a little ganoderma lucidum, and all kinds of wild mushrooms to use as the bottom of the pot.

After the bottom of the pot boiled, she asked people to go directly to Lin Fengxuan's private room, and made a few bowls of sauces by herself, sesame sauce, ginger and garlic sauce, and a sour dipping dish made of tomato sauce, and also picked a plate of slightly spicy chili sauce.

In the end, she got some green vegetables, which were naturally expensive, such as out-of-season fresh vegetables, lotus root slices, wild bamboo shoot slices, pea tips, etc.

By the time she passed with the sauce, the large table was already full, and the bottom of the copper stove in the middle was boiling, gurgling and bubbling, and even the air was filled with a delicious aroma of mushrooms.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the bottom of the pot is open, you can put your favorite seafood in, this is a dipping sauce, there are sesame, ginger and shallots, sour, spicy flavors, you can dip the seasoning according to your favorite type. Eat meat first and then eat vegetables, is the soul of the pot, these are the freshest seafood in the back kitchen, the bottom of this pot is the fungus base, delicious and refreshing, no oil, these seafood taste refreshing and delicate, rich in nutrients, but also no oil, this kind of pot is especially suitable for girls brush, not only has the effect of beauty and beauty, but also will not get fat. Hua Manxi first talked about the benefits of this seafood pot, paused, and continued, "Scalding the pot, eating is a hot and spicy one, this seafood, with the shell, is about a quarter of an hour, and without the shell, it is half a quarter of an hour." These vegetable bamboo shoots can change color, soft and hard at will. ”

Hua Manxi said, watching Xiao Er put all kinds of dipping saucers in small oil dishes, and everyone shared them, so he bowed slightly and said in a low voice: "Distinguished guests, please use it slowly, and the little chef will retreat first." ”

Maybe this hot pot is too novel, on weekdays, these noble girls have naturally brushed the pot, but they are mostly mutton, this is the first time I have seen seafood brush pot, and it is also used as a mushroom base, plus when Fang Manxi went to the kitchen to prepare, Shen Miaolan said a lot of Shishan County's delicacies, all kinds of seafood practices, they have never heard of, let alone eaten, so they are looking forward to it.

Therefore, Hua Manxi did not retreat until Lin Fengxuan did not make things difficult for herself. She is not stupid, so many friends are here, and they are all looking forward to this seafood pot, if she does something to discourage everyone, it is inevitable that she will be tongue-in-cheek.

"Miaolan, Xiuya, you've eaten this thing, how about you try it first?" Lin Fengxuan's sister-in-law Lin Fengruo suddenly said loudly.

As soon as she shouted like this, all the nobles present looked at Chen Xiuya and Shen Miaolan.

Chen Xiuya is not in the same circle with them on weekdays, but today she was suddenly watched by such a crowd, and she was secretly happy in her heart, so she pretended to be modest and said: "This thing is like this, it's not difficult, when we were in Shishan, we put whatever we liked in the pot, and when it was cooked, we just took it out." ”

As she spoke, she took some crabs and shrimp and put them inside.

After a while, the shrimp turned red in the pot and curled slightly.

After a while, Chen Xiuya estimated that it was almost over, so she took a hot shrimp out with chopsticks, put it in a basin and let it cool a little, then peeled the shell, and then put it in a plate of chili sauce and dipped it, and then in the eyes of everyone, she stuffed the shrimp stained with chili sauce into her mouth.

"Uh-delicious-" Chen Xiuya sighed contentedly, "This chili sauce is dipped in shrimp, the shrimp don't smell fishy at all, it's all delicious and sweet, the delicate shrimp meat plus a little spicy, delicious, the chili sauce prepared by Chef Hua is really delicious, I've been back to Beijing for so long, I've been hungry for this." ”

Over there, Shen Miaolan also took out a crab, skillfully peeled it, took the crab meat, chopped the sauce of ginger and garlic, and excused: "This crab meat is more tender than shrimp meat, if it is covered up with spiciness, it is not beautiful, so if you dip the crab meat, it is best to simply use some ginger and garlic, which is sweet and refreshing, delicious and invincible." ”

"How can you still be so exquisite?" Those noble ladies were all very shocked when they heard it.

"Actually, it's not, anyway, when you eat the pot, you can dip it in whatever sauce you like, eat it a few times, and you will find the flavor you like." Shen Miaolan smiled lightly and said.

In this way, those ladies couldn't sit still, and they put their favorite food in the pot one after another, staring at the food in the pot with burning eyes that changed color, and then gave off a fragrance.

Lin Fengxuan is naturally no exception, she is sandwiching the bamboo shrimp that looks more familiar, and after the shrimp is cooked, she sticks the sour sauce and puts it in her mouth.