Chapter 51: Meng Xiaohua
"Alas~ Why can't the things in film and television dramas be brought back to reality? This pit and incompetent system! If I could bring back things from the film and television world, I wouldn't be looking for the earth chalcedony jade in Tibet. Consume too much energy and spend all your money. I had no choice but to come to the film and television world to replenish my energy. Chen Ao was lying in the largest private room of Yipinju, drinking fine wine and eating a meal made by Du Laodao, the famous chef of Yangzhou Yipinju. While silently complaining about the system. Thinking about it, I thought about it again, and I thought about my adoptive parents in this world.
Chen Ao has not had a mother since he was a child, and he has not received much father's love. It's rare to cross over this time, even though he was adopted. But his adoptive parents treated him even better than his own son. If he hadn't had the mindset of a traverser, he might have been spoiled. So as long as his adoptive father and adoptive mother expected him to do it, Chen Ao did it one by one. Like his adoptive father who hoped that he could inherit his cooking skills, Chen Ao practiced chopping vegetables since he was a child. Until he practiced cooking better than his adoptive father. And his adoptive mother hopes that he can get ahead, and hopes that he can rely on a talent or jinshi. Chen Ao immediately went to take the exam and came back.
It's a pity that his adoptive parents have worked hard all their lives, and their bodies are too weak. When he heard that his son had won the top prize, he was overjoyed and fell ill all of a sudden. He passed away one by one in less than two years, but he had no regrets before leaving. At least I can watch the birth of my grandson with my own eyes, but I just wronged my wife. The pearl of the pilgrimage, Princess Ling Jing, was willing to wake up her adoptive father who had been in a coma for a few days. hastily held a wedding and married himself. As a result, at the wedding, he successfully woke up his adoptive father. Let his adoptive father hold out for more than a year. Princess Ling Jing, who has been married and filial piety in front of her adoptive parents' graves for three years, is already her own wife, and she has also accompanied Chen Ao with her children for three years. It wasn't until two years ago that the three of them moved back to the mansion after the expiration of their filial piety period.
When Chen Ao was indulging in his memories, suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"The owner, Lord Yushi and Lord Prefect, have been waiting downstairs for a long time. It's time for you to go down and stay with you. A shopkeeper knocked lightly on the door and whispered outside the door.
"Got it, you go down first. I'll go. Chen Ao reluctantly strolled downstairs to socialize.
At this moment, the celebrity chef Du Laodao was standing in the kitchen, and in front of him, there was a young man kneeling. The kneeling young man was still holding a plate of eight-treasure fat goose in his hand.
"Xiao Meng, you are out of school." Du Laodao looked at the young man kneeling in front of him with a relieved expression.
"Thank you, master, for teaching." Xiao Meng's eyes were slightly red, and he said gratefully.
Du Laodao took Xiao Meng's hand and held the eight-treasure fat goose and handed it to the onlookers next to him. Stretched out his hand and helped up his apprentice. opened his mouth and praised: "Xiao Meng, you are indeed very talented in cooking. It takes others fifteen years to become a teacher, but you can do it in ten years. I, Du Laodao, have taught so many apprentices, and none of them have learned as fast as you. ”
"Thanks to the master's teaching, our master deserves to be the first chef in Yangzhou." The first half of Xiao Meng's sentence was said to his master, but the second half of the sentence was said to the onlookers and chefs.
"The first chef in Yangzhou can't be your master and me, our owner is the first chef in Yangzhou. I used to learn my cooking skills from my old employer. The owner not only inherited the cooking skills of the old owner, but also came out of the blue. And not only is the cooking skill good, but the writing is better. That's a champion. Du Laodao talked about his owner and his old club, with a pious face.
Who knew this Xiao Meng sighed and said, "Master, you have said this since the first day I entered Yipinju." The owner didn't even do it. How can you cook now, and how can you be considered a chef if you don't cook? ”
"As far as you talk a lot, today is your first day of teaching. This eight-treasure fat goose dish is also your first dish. Serve it yourself. The master of the imperial history from the capital is now accompanied by the prefect and our host. I've been waiting for a long time," Du Laodao knocked Xiao Meng's head, and then said to Xiao Meng.
The guy next to him also coaxed: "Wait a minute, when the old man Yushi is full of food and praise." You're going to have to ask for more money. ”
Xiao Meng nodded and took the Eight Treasures Fat Goose. resolutely turned around in a cheering voice. Holding the eight-treasure fat goose, with a sacred look. Step by step, I walked up to the second floor.
And at this moment, the second floor of Yipinju. Two pretty maids and a middle-aged man who looks like a housekeeper. Xiao Meng, who was watching the food upstairs. A maid muttered, "Look, why is this person so similar..."
After seeing Xiao Meng enter a private room, the three of them also followed and ran outside the door of the box. Eavesdrop on what's going on inside.
"Zhuang Yuanlang, why did you invite the old man and the prefect to the Pinjin Grotto. We are all civil officials, shouldn't we be over there? Yu Shi hugged a beautiful woman in cool clothes in his arms and asked Chen Ao.
"Lord Yushi, don't call me the champion anymore, the Holy Lord has already canceled my title of champion. You can just call me the word table. As for why the two of you moved to the martial arts area of Yipinju, my lord, the beauty in your arms is the reason. On the side of the literati district, there is a martial arts district where they are free and happy. Chen Ao smiled slightly
"Haha, self-humility is still so suave. But if you weren't the East this time, I wouldn't dare to come to your so-called martial arts area. Now in the outside world, it is called this place to sell the gold cave. If I come once, I will have to drink white porridge for a month. After a burst of laughter, Yushi spoke.
"Yushi and the prefect are willing to come to the shop for a light meal, and the shop is already flourishing. And how can you break the bank. Chen Ao smiled on his face, picked up his wine glass and toasted this imperial history. But he cursed silently in his heart: "You are a turtle son, with a net worth of more than one million taels." When I didn't know about you, I was so greedy. Now I'm still crying poor with Lao Tzu. ”
After drinking a few glasses of wine, a few people talked about the wind and snow. What that Oiran is pretty, and that thin horse is more alodo. When the conversation was starting, Xiao Meng's voice sounded outside the room: "Guest officer, your food has arrived."
"Go open the door" Chen Ao, as the proprietor, instructed his subordinates to open the door.
Chen Ao glanced meaningfully at the dishes and put them on the table, and stood respectfully to Xiao Meng. Glancing again at the door that had been closed. Xin said: "Meng Xiaohua, plus the sound of three footsteps outside the door." After waiting for twenty-five years, the plot finally began today. ”
"Today, I'm a guest though. I still want to have a drink with the prefect," Lord Yushi saw that the topic just now was already cold, and immediately raised his glass. Toasted.
"Come, come, drink..."The three of them drank another glass of wine, and after Lord Yushi drank another glass. Maybe I couldn't feel the strength of the wine, so I picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched the eight-treasure fat goose that had just been served.
"Wait, Mishi-sama. That's not how I eat this dish. Xiao Meng, who had been standing next to him and didn't speak, suddenly spoke.
After speaking, he took out a knife from his waist and pulled it out. Frightened, a few people unconsciously shrank back.
After Xiao Meng pulled out his knife, he approached. On the side of the goose's belly, a slight cut was made. After a while, several little goslings carved from radishes flowed out of the goose's belly, and they floated in the soup one by one.
"Wonderful, wonderful. This dish is so wonderfully conceived. Yushi looked appreciative. Picked up the chopsticks and pinched a few goslings.
"I'm sorry Lord Yushi, my dish is not to eat the goose in the belly of the goose." Xiao Meng opened his mouth again to stop him. Then he came up again and took the spoon and the bowl. Take out the sticky rice hidden in the belly of the goose.
Mishi glanced at the sticky rice in front of his eyes and picked up his chopsticks. After taking a small bite, he said with a look of enjoyment: "The goose meat has been integrated into the glutinous rice, and this goose fragrance is delicious." Glutinous rice sticks but not sticks. Absolutely, absolutely, rewarded"
The servant behind Yu Shi immediately took a silver ingot and rewarded it to Xiao Meng. But Xiao Meng looked at Chen Ao, looking like he wanted to take it but didn't dare.
"If Lord Yushi rewards you, you will continue. Look at me for what, I'm your boss though. But I'm not that mean. Chen Ao saw that Xiao Meng didn't dare to accept the reward, but stared at himself. Said angrily.
Xiao Meng saw the owner nodding and immediately accepted the reward. He said, "Thank you, Lord Goshi, for the reward, and thank you." ”
"You are Du Laodao's apprentice?" The prefect sitting next to him suddenly spoke.
Xiao Meng immediately turned around and said respectfully to the prefect: "Lord Qiqi prefect, the little one is Master Du's introductory disciple." ”
"What's your name?" Yushi also asked.
"Everyone calls me Quick Knife Xiao Meng, I was just cutting vegetables, and I cut vegetables for seven years. The chef saw that I could still learn something, so he taught me some cooking. Xiao's full name is Meng Xiaohua. Xiao Meng explained to the first two adults who opened their mouths to ask.
"Xiao Meng is the fastest disciple of Master Du's disciple, and he can be regarded as worthy of my cultivation of you. But since you're out of school, start tomorrow. You're the chef of our Yipinju. In the future, your housing and marrying a wife and having children will be arranged for you. Okay, you go down and sign a first-class contract with the accountant. Then ask him for ten taels of silver, and tell him that I have rewarded you. Chen Ao also explained, and then ordered Meng Xiaohua to go down.
After sending Meng Xiaohua away, Chen Ao drank with Yushi and the prefect for half an hour. Only then did he pretend to be too strong to drink, and asked the shopkeeper of the restaurant to accompany the imperial history and the prefect to continue to have fun in the entertainment area at the back. I went back to the third floor and lay down on the bed again. I took a sip of wine.
That night, Chen Ao received a report from his subordinates. Meng Xiaohua was kidnapped, but Chen Ao didn't care. went home directly to accompany his wife and children.