The competition three days later is based on the theme of the New Year's Festival, and all participants can prepare materials in advance to avoid delaying everyone's time in the ring, and to prevent being stolen from learning art.

You must know that most chefs don't make pastries, and the pastries that can come out must be secrets, or they have excellent pastry chefs in their own team, otherwise it is impossible to be promoted to the god of cooking.

The purpose of the competition is to select the chef and serve the powerful, but it is impossible to have only dishes on any occasion, so the pastry chef as a deputy is also an extremely important assessment object.

Pastries are not all kinds of dim sum in the market, with the special diet of the New Year as the main assessment, such as glutinous rice dim sum, which must be prepared for at least three or five days, and the materials can only be prepared in advance.

Song Yao has been having a headache preparing materials for the past few days, and everyone in the family is looking at it, but Song Yao's foundation in Yunzhou City is too shallow, and there is no other way than to buy it at a high price.

Of course, it is not impossible for Song Yao to ask for help, but that will definitely make people target him, and it is easy to damage Helian Sheng's painstaking management.

But what Song Yao didn't know was that Helian Sheng's people had been secretly paying attention to her dynamics, and as long as Song Yao was interested, they would definitely give their full support.

"Madam, there are a lot of people outside the door, all of whom are here to deliver competition ingredients to Madame." Red sleeves came in with a happy face, wiped the sweat and said: "The slaves and maids can't tell which house they belong to, the big car and the small car have blocked the door, do you want to go and see?" ”

"I don't have any close relationships here, so why would they send things here? Can you ask clearly? Song Yao asked suspiciously.

"The slave didn't ask, but listening to the conversations of those people, they were all sent by the sons of various provinces, and it seemed to be related to the lady's thin gold body." Red Sleeves smiled lightly, "I didn't expect Mrs.'s good handwriting to win the favor of many people, with the help of these people, Mrs. will definitely be able to compete smoothly to the end, don't be afraid of those villains behind the ghost." ”

Although Song Yao was overjoyed, she said helplessly: "I'm afraid that I owe these favors, and it will be difficult to repay them in the future." ”

"That'...... Madame doesn't accept it? Redsleeves asked.

"Accept, of course you have to collect!" Song Yao knocked on the table with her fingers, pondered for a while, and said, "If you go out, the mansion of the future will be recorded, and I will come to the door to thank you one by one after the competition." ”

"Madame is not afraid that with such a promise, will the doors of the mansion be squeezed open tomorrow?" Red Sleeves chuckled and said: "Don't say that Mrs. is hard to find, that is, Mrs. thanked everyone with a calligraphy and painting, I'm afraid everyone will be happy to take turns to collect." ”

"You also come to tease me, be careful that I deduct your monthly money." Glaring at Red Sleeves angrily, Song Yao urged: "Go and do something, you have to help me when you come back, you can't lose this game no matter what, otherwise I will lose a lot." ”

"The slave maid will go ahead and be busy." Red Sleeves bowed and retired.

With the main ingredients, Song Yao rolled up her sleeves and went to the small kitchen, and happened to meet Haiyan, the sister of Haiwazi, who came to work in the house.

I saw Haiyan carrying a bamboo building behind her, and she couldn't straighten her waist, obviously because her weight was not light.

"Why don't you ask someone to help? At your age, once you hurt your muscles and bones, you will be the root of the disease for a lifetime. Seeing this, Song Yao stepped forward to take a hand, "Come to work, why do you carry so many things?" Tell your red-sleeved sister that I'll get off work early and buy it later. ”

"Yesterday, I heard from the sisters in the house that Mrs. needs to get a lot of glutinous rice and buckwheat noodles, but I can't buy them outside, so I bought some with Haiwazi nearby after I got home, and Mrs. will see if I can use them." Haiyan wiped a handful of sweat and looked at Song Yao with a look of anticipation.

Haiyan's house is outside the city, and there are also grain stores and grocery stores in the nearby villages, although they are not as good as the things in the city, but they can still buy them with silver.

Song Yao slapped her head and only cared about buying in the city, but forgot that there were also places outside the city where she could buy things.

This is Yunzhou City, a small township outside the city, no worse than some remote towns.

"Silly girl, when you're tired, you'll take a break, and let someone else take it into the kitchen in a while, and remember to settle the bill with your red-sleeved sister when you go back." Patting Haiyan on the shoulder, Song Yao didn't say that there was no shortage of these things, and she was very moved in her heart.

"I'm not tired, I'm used to working at home, and I'm going home with something heavier than that." Haiyan breathed a sigh of relief and picked up her things again, "I'll send the things to the kitchen for Madame, it's late today, I have to hurry up and do my work, I can't be sorry for Madame's wages." ”

Song Yao had the heart to let Haiyan rest, but she also knew that Haiyan's mother was an urgent child, and she would not rest until she finished her work, so she thought that she would let Red Sleeves give her an order later, and she should leave Haiyan less alive in the future, so as not to tire people out.

I don't care about Haiyan's affairs, Song Yao wants to make snacks for the New Year's Festival, so she needs to use coolies, and several male servants in the house have been called out by Song Yao to work, and the maid and wife can't be idle.

"Song Zhiyuan, there is something you need help with now, and only you can do it." Song Yao took a drawing, found Song Zhiyuan, and said in a low voice: "At most, one day, help me make some such molds, as long as the patterns in them have a good meaning, you can play as you like, but don't be the kind of creativity that makes people dislike it at first glance, otherwise you will pave me and get out." ”

Song Zhiyuan has been quite neglected these days, Song Yuanbao and Yinzi prefer to follow the old man to study, he is idle all day and is about to get moldy, and he doesn't know what to do.

Now that Song Yao took the initiative to find him to do things, she was as excited as if she had been beaten with chicken blood.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Song, I will definitely complete the task." Song Zhiyuan took his things and went back to the room, as if someone was chasing him behind him.

"Mrs. Hinder has a way, no matter how spirited Song Gongzi is, the slave and maid will suspect that he is sick." Red Sleeves just entered the door, and after saying a word with a smile, he took out a piece of paper-cut and asked, "Madam, look at it, this kind of paper-cut may be used?" ”

Looking at the paper-cut that could be the size of a baby's fist, Song Yao nodded and said, "Yes, just cut more according to this size." ”

"The slave maid went to arrange people, Madame is tired all afternoon, can you rest for a while?" Seeing that Song Yao's cheeks were pink, obviously tired and feverish, Red Sleeves asked softly.

"I'm not so squeamish, I have other things to do, so you can get busy first." Song Yao waved her hand and asked the red sleeves to retreat first.

To make glutinous rice dumplings, the most important thing is to beat the glutinous rice into dough with high viscosity, but to make zongzi, it is necessary to soak the rice until it swells without powdering, and Song Yao does not need to do the rest by himself.

Song Yao stared at these things, but making Chongyang cake was for Song Yao to operate it himself.

Many of the diets of major festivals have fixed templates, and Song Yao doesn't want everything to be different, so she focuses on Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes and Chongyang cakes.

The moon cake box has not yet been made, so Song Yao has to put it first, but the chiffon cake has not been made for a long time, and Song Yao plans to use it as a chongyang cake.