Wang Shishi thought about it carefully, although she felt a little better, but the shame on her face still did not dissipate, and she said in a low voice: "Let's go, I'll go and give you a hand." ”

"Then it's hard Miss Wang." Hua Manxi grinned and pretended to be polite.

"Chef Hua, please-" The two have been together for so long, and they really have a heart, Wang Shishi also made a gesture of please, pretending to be in a tone.

The two little girls soon forgot about the coercion of cooking, and entered the kitchen with a smile, and this scene all fell into the eyes of Xu Jinfei upstairs.

Although he was wearing a mask, he still couldn't hide the slight curvature of the corners of his mouth.

His little cook is really - always surprises him. But Xu Yang, it's time for him to brush the horse, and he dares to threaten his family Manxi!

Besides, Hua Manxi and Wang Shishi entered the kitchen, and the people at the post station were bringing in the ingredients, and when they saw Hua Manxi coming in, they said to him: "This master, you can count it, this is the ingredients that the army ordered us to get back early in the morning, and I was worried about how to entertain them, fortunately, you-

It's really polite and enthusiastic, with a hint of flattery, and yesterday's attitude is like two people.

Hua Manxi has never liked to serve shelves, and she is very sincere to others, she glanced at the ingredients on the stove, chickens, ducks and fish heads, all of them are alive and fresh, and replied: "You are polite, it's just a gesture, can these ingredients be used?" ”

"You can use it, use it as you like, if you lack anything, just tell me, and I'll send someone to buy it." The man at the post station nodded and said.

"Hehe, it's a good job, but it's just bullying the soft and afraid of the hard." A cold voice suddenly interjected, and his tone was full of mockery.

Hua Manxi and the cook at the post station invariably raised their eyes and looked at the person who came, it was not someone else, it was the housekeeper who took ten taels of silver to cook for Hua Manxi last night.

He walked in arrogantly, but instead of looking at Hua Manxi, he turned his eyes to the cook of the post station, and said in an arrogant voice: "Our master is a second-grade master, according to the specifications stipulated by the court, but there are three dishes and one soup, and the meal is ready?" We have to eat but we have to hurry, if we delay our official duties, can you afford it? ”

He was a little cook at a post station, so he naturally couldn't afford it, so the little cook quickly nodded and said, "Please take this master for a while, and then start cooking, the rice is steamed, and the cooking is very fast." ”

"Soon? When our lord was in the house, he prepared meals, which day and which meal were not carefully prepared, can you eat the things you made in such a hurry? Yesterday's meal was unpalatable, and we brought our own cook, so we don't need you to do it, we do it ourselves! ”

The cook naturally couldn't ask for it, but the post station was small, although there were two stoves, but the battle of the military master was so big and there were many people, a stove must be too busy - this fairy fight, and it will affect mortals!

He was embarrassed, but the housekeeper beckoned and said directly: "Master Li, come in, I see that the ingredients on the stove are very good, just use those, the master is waiting to eat." ”

When the cook at the inn saw a young man in coarse cloth walking in behind him, he chuckled in his heart and secretly screamed that it was not good.

Where is the cook they brought, this is clearly the person who just came to rest this morning, just like the girl, they were all brought by the people of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and they are clearly going to Kyoto to participate in the imperial chef audition!

Last night, when the housekeeper wanted to spend the river cooking, he also saw it from the beginning to the end, and now there is nothing he doesn't understand! This housekeeper didn't dare to offend those military masters openly, this was to make it bad, occupy the stove, and make this little girl unable to cook!

"This stove is what we want to use, and everything is on a first-come, first-served basis." Wang Shishi is a good person, seeing this old housekeeper acting like this, she immediately understood what she meant, and immediately stood up and said coldly.

"Hehe, this is the cook brought by our family himself, and he belongs to the family members and servants in the second rank master's mansion, and he has the right to enjoy all the supplies of the post station equally, what are you? Aren't you also the cook in the military master's mansion? The housekeeper smiled and said slowly.

Hua Manxi and Wang Shishi naturally couldn't go to be servants in someone's house for more than 10,000 taels of silver!

Besides, she went to Beijing to choose the imperial kitchen to go to the imperial kitchen to see the head of the imperial dining room, not to climb a powerful person at will, just have a place to go.

She looked up at the cook at the inn and asked, "Is there such a rule in the inn?" Can't we use the cooktop? ”

The cook nodded helplessly: "For the safety of the officials, it is indeed unusable, only the cooks brought by the officials themselves can be used, so if something happens, it will not be able to rely on the head of the post station." ”

"So that's the case, then let this master use it first, we don't need a stove." Hua Manxi nodded.

"Even if you know each other, our chef is going to cook, so you idlers should go out, so as not to leave something unclean in the meal!" The butler snorted coldly.

"Why don't I cook for the military master?" The cook felt that it was not a way to snub the military masters, he was a member of the post station, and he was qualified to use the kitchen first no matter what, but the food he cooked, I was afraid that people would not look down on him.

"No, since they tell me to do it, I'm going to do it." Hua Manxi is not afraid at all, she is on a desert island, and she has not made everyone hungry, now the dishes and chopsticks are complete, the seasonings are available, and the ingredients are ready-made, can the living still make urine suffocate to death?

Hua Manxi thought about it for a while, leaned over and whispered a few words in the cook's ear, and the cook looked at her in amazement, stunned for a while, and then nodded.

When the housekeeper saw Hua Manxi and Wang Shishi turn around and walk out of the kitchen, he was very proud, and he smiled a little triumphantly.

Aren't they bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, praising the high and stepping on the low? The old man of his family is a second-class official, and he is not happy to ask her to cook a meal, but when he sees the people in the military department, he is like a soft persimmon.

The people in the military department are not easy to mess with, they came to the kitchen so early, they must also want to cook to please others, he wants to occupy the kitchen, they can't get food, and when the people who have been on the battlefield are hungry, there will be a good show to watch.

He was very nervous, and instructed the cook: "Since you have signed the deed of sale in our house, when the time comes, you only need to go through the motions, there are so many people in the imperial kitchen audition, and you may not be able to choose, if you go to our house to be a master, the monthly reward is rich, isn't it better than being afraid in that palace?" I am also familiar with that father-in-law, he received the money and would not say it. ”

Master Li nodded and said flatteringly: "Big housekeeper, this is the first time I cook for the master, and I don't know what kind of flavor the master likes, can you mention one or two?" ”

"This, our master, is particular about not getting tired of eating, and not getting tired of fine ......."

One was deliberately flattering, the other was deliberately flattering, and the other said and done, but the intentions were very good, very harmonious, so they didn't pay attention to the movements on the side of Huamanxi.

Hua Manxi came to the well in the courtyard and began to cook.

The cook of the post station was also very afraid of offending the prince and his party, and this cooking was originally his job, so it was hard work to help.

Although the ingredients are not very rich, there are chicken, fish, meat, and vegetables, which can be regarded as a combination of meat and vegetables.

"This master, the ingredients are available, condiments, kitchen knives, and chopping boards, I can also get them out for you, but there are only two pots, both on the stove, how do you cook?"

"I have my own way, you help kill the chicken first." Hua Manxi was confident, and began to kill the fish neatly.

There were about 20 of the military master's party, and he killed four of the fish alone, four of the chickens, and a few fresh pork belly.

Huamanxi pickles the killed fish with cooking wine, salt, ginger slices, green onion knots, peppercorns, etc., and the same goes for chicken.

In the process of marinating, she pricked the pork belly again, and also marinated it with the material for a while.

Then, she stuffed the marinated fish into the belly of the chicken, and then wrapped the chicken in banana leaves, which were originally going to use lotus leaves, but she couldn't find them now, so she had to use banana leaves first.

After wrapping the chicken, she wrapped the outside of the plantain in wet mud and began to make a charcoal fire with firewood from the yard.

After burning the charcoal fire, she threw the mud chicken into it, buried the mud in a clump of charcoal fire, and then continued to burn the fire.

Hua Manxi asked Wang Shishi to look at the fire, turned around and asked the cook at the post station to ask for a small pot filled with half a pot of oil, and built it with stones at will, then set up the small pot and boiled the oil.

She put the marinated pork strips into the oil pan and fried them, and what she did was to button the meat.

After frying the meat, Hua Manxi returned the oil to the little cook, and asked him to pour the oil into the oil jar and put it away, and then took out the pot and gave it to her.

She boiled the water, blanched a large basket of vegetables directly, and then mixed a pot of sauce, which was used to pour on top of the meat and vegetables to make a rice bowl.

After adjusting the sauce, Hua Manxi asked the little chef to help divide his steamed big pot of rice according to the head and put it in a large bowl, and then she cut the still warm button meat into large pieces, put three pieces in each bowl, and then divided the green vegetables according to the score, and finally poured the sauce she had concocted.

After Xu Yang smelled the aroma of fried button meat, he ordered to go down and prepare for dinner, a large group of soldiers gathered in the hall of the post station, only to see a large bowl of steamed rice on the table, only a large piece of fatty and juicy meat slices on the bowl noodles, and some green vegetables, nothing else.

The soldiers who were accustomed to eating big fish and meat were naturally dissatisfied, stared at Xu Yang and said, "Captain Xu, didn't you say that you invited us to eat delicious food today?" It is also said that it is better than Yipinju! ”

"Yes, doesn't this bowl of rice look any different? This slice of meat, this slice of meat is at best thicker, bigger, and thinner than the braised pork we used to eat, isn't it not a matter of words? ”