The car went fast, and after walking for a day, I walked on the largest official road in Nanyang, Wangjing Avenue. If you take this road, you will be in Kyoto in a few days.

All over the country, and even in the surrounding small countries, if you want to go to Kyoto, most of them have to take this avenue, so the inns, inns, and post stations on this side of the road are overcrowded and the river is endless.

"It's really lively on this official road, if I can do business here, it will be amazing." Wang Shishi got out of the carriage, sighed, and planned to order someone to go to the hotel.

However, Bao Gonggong stopped: "Miss Wang, we are official errands, we can live in the post station, and you two girls' house, although they are escorted, but the official road is not as peaceful as it seems, there are usually mountain bandits and people in the rivers and lakes fighting at night, the post station is guarded, it is safer, and when we get out of these remote areas, we will go to several large prefectures around Kyoto, where the security is better, and it is not too late to stay in the hotel." ”

Sure enough, it is someone from the palace, and this thing is to be thoughtful and proper.

"Thank you Father-in-law Bao for mentioning it, Shishi and I are both young, and it is inevitable that things will be a little rough when I think about things, so I have to mention more Father-in-law Bao." Huamanxi has crossed over for more than two years, this is the first time to leave Shishan County, although Shishan County is small, but it is quite peaceful, even if the food festival has developed, because the security work is done well, there has been no chaos, who knows that the outside world is so dangerous.

She thanked her sincerely, and Father-in-law Bao also saw that although these two little girls were a little out of temperament, they were not as reserved and quiet as the girls in Kyoto, but their eyes were much better than those in Kyoto, and their temperament was good.

"Where, where, Chef Hua is serious, I was ordered to take you into the palace, if you have any mistakes, our family is also responsible." Father-in-law Bao said truthfully.

"Ouch, you two don't thank you so much, hurry up and get some food, I'm going to starve to death, I've eaten all the snacks all the way, and my mouth is sweet." Wang Shishi stomped her feet and called.

"Father-in-law, please." Hua Manxi took the initiative to get out of the way and let Father-in-law Bao go first, Father-in-law Bao was very satisfied, if it weren't for his own identity, he would have wanted to recognize this girl as a goddaughter on the spot, I heard that she was a fatherless, and she was also a poor girl.

Bao Gonggong entered the post station and asked for three rooms, he lived in one, Hua Manxi and Wang Shishi lived in one, Wang Shishi's guards and the two guards brought took turns to live in one, although it was a post station, but after all, there was a mixture of fish and dragons, and someone had to guard the carriage.

After entering the room, Wang Shishi was naturally picky and complaining, but fortunately, she also played tricks, and finally there was no real princess disease, complaining was complaining, and she still packed her luggage very obediently and asked for hot water to take a bath.

According to what Bao Gonggong said, in Nanyang State, although the official does not need money to live in the post station, but the small officials live, but they have to open their own food, only the big officials above the fifth grade, the post station only provides food, but the food specifications are very general, unless the reception of the emperor's relatives, can eat better.

Father-in-law Bao did his work this time in accordance with the holy decree, and he was supposed to receive the highest standard of treatment, but the matter of recruiting the imperial chef in the palace had already spread, and there were not ten such people a day, but there were eight, and the officials of the post station had already seen no surprise, and there was nothing good to entertain.

After Hua Manxi and Wang Shishi came down, it was just time for dinner, and the people at the post station brought it up, only a big pot of rice, a fried pepper with pork belly, a pickle, and a green vegetable, and it didn't look very fresh.

It just so happened that there was a table next to it, but the dishes on the table were much richer.

"Why do they eat so well, let's eat this?" Wang Shishi didn't know the rules of the government, so she shouted.

"Shishi, this doesn't cost money, it's good to have food, and my father-in-law is from the palace, and he is not picky." Hua Manxi glanced at her and persuaded.

"This is different, Miss Wang, the name of our family is good, he entered the palace by order, but after all, he is just a eunuch of the Internal Affairs Office, and the one over there is a third-grade member of the court, have you seen the official uniform? That's a real official, this treatment is definitely different. Bao Gonggong explained.

"If there are fish, chickens and ducks in the third-grade majority, then if it is a second-grade member and a first-grade adult, wouldn't it be possible to get a roasted whole sheep?" Wang Shishi's heart was unbalanced, and she frowned.

Who would have thought that Father-in-law Bao would nod and say: "More than that, what is the roasted whole sheep, those big officials, eat a delicate and exquisite, this roasted whole sheep, not all of them are eaten, the delicious place has to be the roast leg of lamb, some fish, take the fish lips, fish belly, chicken only take the wings and legs." ”

Wang Shishi was dumbfounded: "I thought that the daily supply of ingredients in my Wang Mansion was already a luxury, but I didn't expect that there would be such a poor and extravagant person, only taking fish belly and fish lips, so how many fish do you have to kill to make a dish?" ”

"There's no way, whoever makes the dignitaries noble, they have to take good food." Father-in-law Bao smiled, and there was no resentment in Wang Shishi's tone, he had long been accustomed to this.

However, Hua Manxi shook his head and said seriously: "Actually, otherwise, if the lip and belly of this fish are delicious, it is also a matter of practice, in fact, if an ingredient is different, it will have its ultimate taste, such as our most common pork, among which the tenderloin, there is no gluten in the meat, suitable for slicing, dicing and shredding, can be fried and fried, and the buttocks and sharp meat, most of them are lean meat, the meat is fresh and tender, and it can be replaced by the tenderloin, and the buttocks and meat, located above the hind legs, are all lean meat, but the meat is relatively old, Generally used for back to the pot meat or white cut meat, pork belly fat and thin, suitable for braised meat, white stew, steamed meat, sandwich meat, old and tendonous, strong ability to absorb water, can be used to make fillings, meatballs, and pork ribs, is suitable for boiling soup, sweet and sour, hoof, hind hooves are better than the front hooves, braised stew is better taste, even the pig's head, can be marinated and marinated——

She paused, and said, "So, each ingredient must taste different in different ways, and if you prefer to use hooves to make fried meat, it will definitely not taste good." Of course, it cannot be denied that there are individual ingredients that must be taken to make them, such as steak, foie gras, sashimi, etc. ”

"No, Manxi, I'm going to drool, I want to eat braised pork slices, I want to eat pig's trotters, I want to eat pork ribs-" Wang Shishi listened to Hua Manxi's colorful food, and then looked at the dry rice and pickles on the table, as well as the slightly charred fat meat slices, and really had no appetite.

"If you really can't eat, why don't we borrow them for the kitchen and buy some ingredients, and I'll make them?" Hua Manxi proposed.

"That's great!" Wang Shishi was so moved that she almost burst into tears, and quickly took out the silver, "I'll go and take care of it." ”

She got up from the table, pulled Hua Manxi into the kitchen, and finally bought some ingredients for five taels of silver, and used their stove again.

The rice was not delicious, dry, and steamed too hard, and Hua Manxi couldn't get used to eating it when he wanted to come to Bao Gonggong, so he made some noodles and pulled some noodles, planning to make some delicious noodles to stew.

The conditions are not very good, and the ingredients are not very fresh, Hua Manxi bought a duck, as well as green vegetables, and planned to make a ginger duck stewed noodles.

The tender duck is killed, washed, and then cut into small pieces, the ginger and shallots are fried in the pot until fragrant, the duck meat is stir-fried, then the cooking wine is added, the ginger slices are added, the water is added to simmer, and finally some favorite vegetables, such as chili peppers, bamboo shoots, and finally the noodles are put on top, and the noodles can be simmered thoroughly.

When the noodles were stewed, Hua Manxi thought that this ginger stewed duck noodles were too oily, although it was suitable for eating on the road, but it was better with a bowl of soup.

She boiled water again, put dried seaweed brought from Shishan County, knocked a few eggs, and finally sprinkled some green onions and sesame oil to make a pot of extremely light seaweed egg drop soup.

It's such a simple meal, but it fills this humble inn with a rich fragrance.

When Wang Shishi came out with a large pot of duck meat stewed noodles, the steaming heat and aroma made the surrounding people couldn't help but take a few more breaths.

"Father-in-law Bao, here, eat noodles." Wang Shishi hurriedly took a bowl of noodles with a large number of chopsticks to Bao's father-in-law, and finally poured stewed duck meat, as well as oily bamboo shoots, green peppers, lettuce-

Bao Gonggong was really hungry after a tiring day, and when he saw that the noodles were full of strength, covered with juice, and exuding an attractive aroma, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, picked up chopsticks and tasted it.

"Father-in-law Bao, this noodle is a little oily, just eat it with soup." Hua Manxi also came out, and gave Bao Gonggong a bowl of light seaweed egg drop soup and handed it to Bao Gonggong.

Father-in-law Bao suddenly felt that there was nothing to envy about the treatment of the third-grade master, and his father-in-law Bao ate much better than him!

The three of them were happily eating noodles and nibbling on duck meat, whether they drank a mouthful of soup, they were really satisfied, and their mouths were full of oil.

But the three-grade master sitting next to them quit, smelling the fragrance from the table, and then looking at the food on the table without the aroma of heat, it was really hard to swallow.

After a while, a person who looked like a housekeeper came over, saluted them politely to Hua Manxi, and said in a humble voice: "This girl, our lord also wants to taste your noodles, I wonder if you can make one for our lord?" ”

Although he spoke very politely, the arrogance between his eyebrows was undisguised, Wang Shishi was most disgusted with this kind of person who looked down on people in his life, and refused without consideration: "I'm sorry, our master is tired and wants to finish eating and sleeping quickly, and now I don't want to go into the kitchen." ”

The housekeeper didn't expect to refuse, he was stunned for a while, and then slowly took out ten taels of silver from his pocket, put it on the table, glanced at Hua Manxi, and said condescendingly: "Little girl, cook a meal, this silver is yours, even the restaurant next door is not so profitable." ”