Chapter 7 The Cooking Boy

The working hours of the drunken immortal building are uncertain, like Xiaoer's hall when the time arrives to prepare for the next day, and the work can be started when the sun sets in the west. But there are also seasons when the house is full of guests, so you have to stay up all night and wait around.

Xiao Erkou sighed, raised his hand and rubbed his bloodshot eyes due to lack of sleep, and saw from the window that there was only a trace of sunset left in the sky, so he took out a fire fold from his arms and lit the remaining glass lamps in the building.

There were three men and one woman at a table of guests by the window, all of whom were dressed in white shirts, wearing a bachelor's crown and a sword hanging from their waists. As long as the people in Jingshi look at their outfits, they know that the three of them must be the students of Bailu Academy, the future mainstay of the imperial court.

On the other hand, the woman was dressed in a simple black brocade dress, and only a green wood hairpin was inserted in her bun, and there were no accessories around her body. The woman's long and amazing way can make the surrounding diners look at it, but it is very attractive, a pair of narrow eyes look at the left and right students' mouths are full of indifference, neither cold nor close.

The three students poured out their talents in their chests, pointed out the country, and were full of spirit, although they had never been dressed in purple gold, but they had the courage to rule the world with the king. The woman kept chuckling and silent, nodding a few times at most, as if listening with relish.

Seeing that he smiled and nodded, the student was even louder and chattering.

The woman turned her head to look at the sky and called softly, "Little Er'er." ”

Xiao Er was listening to this, which was full of theories of governing the world, and he couldn't resist the eyelids of fighting up and down. Suddenly, he heard the call, turned his head and ran and hurriedly said, "Guest officer, what is the matter with the little one?"

The woman picked up her chopsticks and pointed to a dish on the table and asked, "This stewed shrimp with green bamboo shoots is very authentic, and the chef who cooks the dish should be from Bohaizhou." ”

Xiao Er hurriedly smiled after hearing this: "The guest officer is really an expert, this stewed shrimp with green bamboo shoots is my master's specialty dish, I just came from Bohai Prefecture not long ago, I don't want the guest officer to taste it after just a few bites, it is really a big connoisseur, a big connoisseur." ”

The student opposite the woman said proudly: "Miss Shuoqing has traveled with her husband since she was a child, and she has never tasted any dishes, so there is no need to make a fuss." ”

Xiao Er echoed and smiled: "What the guest officer said is true. ”

The woman put down the chopsticks in her hand, stood up and whispered to Xiaoer: "Tomorrow at this hour, ask Master Nian to make another dish of this dish and send it to the academy to teach Mr. Su." With that, he turned around and walked out of the building, and the three students hurriedly threw down the silver two from their arms and chased after the woman.

Xiao Er remembered the woman's words and looked at her back and murmured softly: "Looking at the small breasts, this butt is not small when you stand up, Aunt Cui said that the butt is big..."

Xiao Er instantly broke out in a cold sweat, and said in his heart: "How can a woman who has walked far away hear it?" After a moment, I remembered that the storyteller in the building said that martial arts masters listen to all directions, and the distance of ten zhang is not more than Erer, and this woman is a martial arts master. Thinking about it, the young man scolded a few evil beggars last night, if it weren't for them, how could he be so sleepy, and say such rash words without thinking. But then I think about it: it's really round and warped.

There are still a few fires in the backyard stove room that have not been extinguished, and the master on duty is sitting on a chair with his legs crossed, picking up the teapot in his hand, taking a few sips from time to time, and turning his head to look when he hears footsteps. I saw Xiao Er coming with the braised shrimp with green bamboo shoots and leftover from the guests in both hands, and immediately stood up, seeing that the dish didn't move a few times, he couldn't help frowning, grabbed a piece of shrimp and chewed it in his mouth a few times, and said to himself: "That's right." ”

He looked up and asked, "Did the guest return the food?"

Xiao Er put down the plate and replied, "No, the guest said that this dish is very authentic, and he guessed that you are from Bohai Prefecture and a gluttonous expert." ”

After hearing this, Master Nian raised his rough and wide palm and said angrily on the young man's head: "Hurt your old brother to jump, I thought something was wrong, and you didn't say it earlier." ”

The young man raised his hand and rubbed his head, took a few sips of the teapot in the hand of the New Year's master, picked up his sleeve and wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "The guest officer also said that he would make another one tomorrow and send it to the academy." ”

"Oh, write it down. Master Nian took out a pen and paper from his arms and wrote

When the young man saw that the young master wrote it down, he smiled cheaply and said, "Brother, the stove is almost out of fire, I'll help you refill it." ”

"The tea is cold, I'm making a pot for my brother. ”

After hearing this, Master Nian smiled and stretched out his strong arm to grab the young man's neck, and walked towards the stove in the air.

"Learn this rock candy yuan hoof with me today, it's much more delicious than the previous spiced hoof, but it's also more complicated, be serious, if you don't make it delicious, see if I don't beat you." ”

One fire to five stoves, this is the stove built by Master Nian himself, pulling the bellows with his feet, and making five dishes at the same time. On the first day of coming to Zuixian Building, he showed the miracle in this cooking skill, so that the master chef in the original building was willing to give up his position, and dozens of kitchen apprentices, handymen, and masters were all admired.

Two stoves, a middle-aged fat man and a thin teenager.

The young man frowned very seriously, looking at every movement and every detail of the middle-aged fat man, from how the hooves were changed to how many horizontal and vertical knives, the pickling of accessories, the temperature of the oil, when the stew was low and when the fire was high, all of them were forcibly written down one by one with his head.

In the middle of the ring, there were two plates of almost identical rock candy hooves next to the stove. Master Nian picked up the chopsticks and tasted them one by one, shook his head and said, "I want to have this kid's talent for cooking, make something delicious for the master, and I can't let him run all over the mountain with a stick." Thinking of the lean and witty old man, I lost my mind a little.

After a moment, he looked up and said, "The kid is good, why don't I talk to the shopkeeper and come and mess with the old brother, what's the matter?"

The young man shook his head and replied, "It's good ahead, it's like this, it's burning all day long." ”

After hearing this, Master Nian laughed teasingly: "What's the matter, this still dislikes our back kitchen, so I don't dislike it when you eat it." ”

Then he said, "Do you want to be a shopkeeper in the future?"

The boy seemed to be told what was going on and smiled embarrassedly.

Master Nian didn't persuade him, he pointed to the hooves made by the young man and said with a smile: "Go and find a lotus leaf inside, pick it up and take it back to eat, doesn't Ah Da like to eat hooves the most?"

The young man was familiar with the packing and thanked: "Thank you so much, brother, my family likes to eat this bite the most, and I have never forgotten it since you made it once in the temple." ”

Master Nian waved his hand and said with a smile: "Say thank you to your brother, go back and tell Ah Da, if you want to eat, just come to me." ”

After thinking about it, he said: "Xiao Er, it's not a way for you to live in a broken temple, the road of more than 20 miles a day is tiring, my brother has a small courtyard not far behind the building, and there are three or five rooms in the house, so I live by myself It's boring, or you can come together, even if you talk to my brother, when it's okay, your son can still drink some wine with me." ”

After hearing this, Xiao Er hesitated for a moment and said with guilt on his face: "I know my brother's intentions, but I have lived there for many years, and I am used to it." ”

When Master Nian heard this, he suddenly feigned anger and said: "Habit, get used to a fart, I haven't lived, there is wind leaking everywhere, it is raining heavily outside, it is raining lightly in the palace, and I don't know if I can collect a whole corpse when I want to tower one day." ”

The young man listened to these mean but all kind words, thought about it and said softly: "I'm afraid that she will be anxious if she can't find us when she comes back one day." ”

Master Nian suddenly lost all his anger, sighed, touched the young man's head and said, "Since you don't want to do it now, if you feel cold in winter, come to my brother's place, do you hear?"

The boy looked up and smiled, "Okay, I heard you." ”

The middle-aged fat man said, "Let's go, those two boys are in a hurry." ”

The young man said goodbye with his hooves and turned to leave, but as soon as he walked a few steps, he saw the big shopkeeper in the building walking towards him with two jars of wine in his hands, and hurriedly hid his hooves behind him and greeted him with a smile. The big shopkeeper nodded in response with a chuckle, and grabbed Xiaoer's arm as he wiped his body, and the young man instantly broke out in a cold sweat. Unexpectedly, the big shopkeeper chuckled and said: "Xiao Er, don't be afraid, as long as the fat man gives you something that year, it doesn't matter, you don't have to be so careful." After speaking, he walked to Master Nian.

The young man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and left.

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The bright moon hangs high, outside the back kitchen of the drunken fairy building, a strong fat man opens his chest and exposes his breasts and drinks with a thin and tall old man. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, both of them had red faces, and no one used cultivation to suppress the wine, only to let it naturally paralyze itself.

The tall and thin old man squinted his drunken eyes and said, "Just choose this kid?"

The fat man waved his hand, stroked his straight tongue and said, "It's not this, this, this and I learn to cook." ”

The tall and thin old man pursed his lips and said, "Who is that?"

The fat man's big bowl was not very happy, so he grabbed the wine jar and took a big sip directly: "It's the one who is the strongest, the one called Ah Da." ”

The tall and thin old man patted his head and said: "Oh, I know, this son heard that Xiaoer said that it was nineteen, but there were only fifteen or six between the eyebrows, although there was no contact, but you are satisfied with the qualifications." ”

The fat man smiled proudly: "Of course, can I be wrong when I am young?"

The tall and thin old man drank the wine in the bowl, and also lifted the wine jar and said, "What about Xiaoer?

The fat man lifted the wine jar and slammed it down: "Teach, isn't this teaching cooking every day." ”

The tall and thin old man shook his head and pouted disdainfully: "What is this, it's just a small way." ”

After hearing this, the fat man stood up and pointed to the hooves on the table with chopsticks in his hand and shouted: "Is it delicious, I'll ask you how you are, eat, no?"

The tall and thin old man was a little embarrassed to be asked, looked at the hooves in front of him that were almost eaten by himself, and said weakly: "It's delicious." ”