Before Yao Xiaofeng could react, the little guy had already obeyed Wang Shishi's order and threw Yao Dalong out on the ground.

"This, he, will he be okay?" Although it was a beating, after all, it was his own brother and his only relative, Yao Xiaofeng was a little unbearable.

"You shouldn't have made him such a vampire, he sucks your blood, if you are good for him, you shouldn't let him go again, otherwise you can still raise him for the rest of your life?" Hua Manxi said with relief, "Such a big person, Miss Wang gave the medicine money again, can he still let the urine suffocate to death?" ”

Yao Xiaofeng's face turned red, and he quickly covered the worry in his eyes, and said to Hua Manxi: "You and Miss Wang are both good people, by the way, what do I call you?" ”

"Just call me Manxi." Hua Manxi is a cook, and naturally cherishes the cook, although Yao Xiaofeng is a little confused, but the dishes are really good, and she studied under the imperial chef in the palace, and knows how to cook a lot of imperial meals, and the imperial food is Hua Manxi's shortcoming.

Because in modern times, there are not many people who can eat such complicated dishes, and the restaurant in Huamanxi is also a popular business, and it is better at home cooking, but this era is different, and now in this dynasty, the royal family is the representative of the supreme honor, and this imperial meal is still very gimmicky.

"Shishi, since Miss Yao, what she is good at is imperial food, don't you have a restaurant there that is not positioned? Why don't you just use Imperial Meal as a gimmick? After all, there are not only ordinary people who come to the food festival, but also many dignitaries. Hua Manxi proposed.

"Yes, yes, when we went south, we met a lot of big people from Kyoto who also came down, and you guys have a food festival, I heard that you also got a royal plaque from Your Majesty, right? The booklet that drew is called a good one, and it is all over Kyoto. Yao Xiaofeng said excitedly.

"If you think it's possible, do it." Wang Shishi has absolute trust in Huamanxi.

"Then why don't we draw up the menu first, and you tell people to quickly divide them into private rooms, and all of them want private rooms." Hua Manxi decided immediately.

Since Yao Xiaofeng is the chef, the dishes she needs to cook need dishes that she can cook, Hua Manxi first asked her to choose her favorite dishes, and then ticked the menu.

Several people were busy with their own work, and soon it was dark.

When it was time for dinner, Hua Manxi simply asked Yao Xiaofeng to make a few dishes to taste. Yao Xiaofeng didn't shirk either, and immediately went to the kitchen to make a few dishes that he was good at and let everyone taste them.

What she wants to do is spiced pigeon, sweet and sour lotus root, eight-treasure rabbit dice, red oil duck, pearl tofu, flower duck tongue, and crab meat double bamboo shoots, the staple food is crystal plum bun, and finally made a soup, which is a canned simmered mountain chicken shredded bird's nest.

Hua Manxi watched her operation throughout the whole process, which can be regarded as a long experience. Just a spiced pigeon, the process is complicated. First, the pigeon is killed, cleaned, pickled with ginger, green onions, salt, cooking wine, and then with cinnamon, bay leaves, grass fruit, cumin, licorice, cloves, grass cardamom, angelica, ginger, pepper to make a large package.

Then boil with the old brine, put in the spice packet, after boiling, put in the pigeon, ginger, green onion knot, cooking wine, pepper, sugar, skim off the foam, and marinate the pigeon until it is cooked through.

After taking out the pigeon to dry the water, then heat the oil in the pot, 60% hot, fry until the pigeon puff pastry is taken out, cut and put on the plate.

This pigeon can be regarded as a complex process and cumbersome operation, but the finished product is crispy and slag, the color is red and bright, the spice is rich, and the aftertaste is long, so delicious that even the bones can not bear to let go.

There is also the last pot of simmered mountain chicken shredded bird's nest soup, which also opened everyone's eyes.

The shredded chicken is the chicken breast of an authentic pheasant, and the bird's nest is the best bird's nest in Wang's house, just like that, Yao Xiaofeng also said that the grade of this bird's nest is still lower.

The simmering soup is also a small jar, a small jar of simmering, not a pot of simmering, delicate and troublesome, simmering with charcoal for an hour, finally taken out, and a little salt to taste.

Anyway, this imperial meal, everyone who ate it was convinced, and everyone who still had some complaints agreed to let Yao Xiaofeng serve as the master of Wang's Mansion in one fell swoop, specializing in teaching cooks.

Hua Manxi and Yao Xiaofeng both like to cook, and the two of them couldn't finish talking about the topic until they sent someone to call at home, and then reluctantly returned home.

In the past few days, Hua Manxi and Yao Xiaofeng have been discussing their cooking skills with each other, and the loss in their hearts is still less, and they feel that the days have passed quickly.

According to Hua Manxi's proposal, Chen Xiuli held the most beautiful village girl selection contest to help the fun, some singing, some dancing, some playing the piano, some painting, and some performing various acrobatics, with the intention of attracting attention.

In addition to the most beautiful village girl selection competition, there are also various restaurants storytelling, stage plays, singing, anyway, entertainment, travel, food, and fun.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, sure enough, a lot of people came from all over the place, and the whole street was opened, the stove was burning, and the fragrance was spraying all over the street, the sound of selling, and the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras lingered endlessly.

At night, there are also people who change shifts, all kinds of lantern streets, all kinds of lanterns are hung up, there are activities to guess lantern riddles to break through the level, there are activities to enjoy the lanterns and put wishing lanterns, and the small rivers in the city are crowded with lanterns, and they almost can't flow out.

Hua Manxi has been so busy these days that he can't touch the ground, in addition to helping out with his own home shop, he also has to act as a consultant and technical guidance for others.

"Chef Hua, that guest's hands are not spicy enough, do you want to add peppercorns or chili peppers?"

"Chef Hua, guests like to eat this spicy prawn very much, can you take it away and keep it fresh?"

"Chef Hua, can we have some new dishes? There are so many guests that I'm afraid they'll be disgusted with the lack of dishes. ”

"Chef Flowers—Chef Flowers—"

She originally thought that after the opening of this food festival, she would be able to have a good rest, but it seems that she really thought wrong.

After all, it is the first time to operate, no matter how well prepared you are, there are still some shortcomings, so you can only bite the bullet, go one by one, and guide one by one.

In order to celebrate this food festival, even the inventory of the city gate has been relaxed, and the surrounding carriage and horse shops, selling carriages, renting tribute carriages, and rowing boats, have almost made a lot of money.

Not to mention the restaurants and inns in the county, just talking about the street under Wang Shishi's package, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, she earned a full 100,000 gold.

The small shop of the Hua family has also made a lot of money, Hua Lanxiang finally has no time to nag Hua Manxi these days, because the family's business is too busy, that is, Uncle Hua, aunt, plus Da Yang, Xiao Ye, Hua Lanxiang five people can't do it, but also light clouds and light breeze to help chop meat filling, even Hua Xiaosong's academy to go to school is also on holiday, Hua Xiaosong counts thieves, and helps collect money at home.

The whole Shishan County is filled with a joyful and lively atmosphere, which is even more lively than the New Year.

"I didn't expect it to be so lively, comparable to the Lantern Festival in Kyoto." Chen Xiuli stood on the city gate and looked down on the crowded crowd, his eyes showing a touch of joy.

He stood tall, and as far as the eye could see, it was dark all around, but the Shishan County under his feet was brightly lit, especially the golden plaque of the food town hanging on the city gate, under the suggestion of Hua Manxi, a circle of small lanterns surrounded each other, which reflected each other, making people dare not look directly.

These days, there are constantly noble people with high status to come to Shishan County to play, he not only sent out all the county officials to arrest and officers and soldiers to maintain law and order, and even recruited many young adults in the county to join, to ensure that the county security is patrolled for 12 hours, the degree of strictness is comparable to that of Kyoto.

It's just that he suddenly took out a plain and elegant sachet from his sleeve pocket, leaned under his nose and sniffed it, his eyes were distant.

This sachet, he originally planned to give it to Hua Manxi as a New Year's gift on the first day of the new year, so it wouldn't be very abrupt, but-

After delaying for so many days, he is cowardly to send it now.

Of course, he promised Xu Gongzi to take good care of Hua Manxi, but he understood that Xu Gongzi's words contained a sense of entrustment.

If Xu Gongzi can't come back, then he-

Chen Xiuli hurriedly suppressed the strangeness in his heart and clenched the sachet tightly.

"Cousin Xiuli!" Suddenly, a delicate voice interrupted his reverie.

He didn't have time to put the sachet back into the bag, and someone snatched it away.

"Cousin Xiuli actually has such an elegant sachet, it shouldn't be a girl who gave it?" The person who came was really Li Yuehui, she specially dressed up today, and also painted exquisite makeup, which looked a little more gorgeous than usual.

"It's my own." Chen Xiuli saw that the sachet was taken away by her, and a flash of urgency flashed in his eyes, but he still kept calm and covered it, and opened the topic, "Why does Miss Li have time to come to the city gate?" Didn't you accompany Shishi's cousin to the song stage? ”

"Don't mention it, Hua Manxi has no time to go, run the store, my cousin has to do accounts, I have to purchase, even that Yao Xiaofeng, I have to be so busy that my feet don't touch the ground, where can anyone accompany me to watch singing and dancing?" Li Yuehui opened the sachet as she spoke, but saw that the white and blue dried flowers were slowing down inside.

She sniffed it, it was her favorite smell of white gardenia and blue impatiens, and then looked at the sachet, there were four words embroidered, which had nothing to do with Fengyue.

Fengyue, Yue, isn't that the word in her name?

Li Yuehui's face suddenly turned red, and she raised her eyes to look at Chen Xiuli shyly, only to see that under the moonlight and firelight, his side face was handsome and elegant, and his expression was calm and calm, which made her heartbeat a few beats faster.

"Cousin, is this sachet for me? How do you know my favorite impatiens and gardenias? Li Yuehui held the sachet, her face turned crimson, and asked in a low voice.

Chen Xiuli: "......." No, it wasn't for you!