In the kitchenette:

Qiu Tian looked at the empty kitchen, no dishes had been delivered, only some carrots, onions and some ingredients, there were no fresh chickens, ducks and geese, let alone fresh birds and animals or out-of-season vegetables.

"Angelica—" she exclaimed, "what's going on?" ”

"Didn't you go to the imperial dining room and ask for a leg of mutton?" Qiu Tian looked at the empty small kitchen in disbelief, frowned worriedly, and looked at the board without ingredients with both hands, and Angelica never expected that the little father-in-law in the imperial dining room received a silver ingot from him, but he didn't send anything to himself.

Immediately, Angelica was so angry that his teeth itched, and he thought in pieces: "That dead eunuch actually accepted my silver, and didn't even get some mutton." It's just looking for ......" she hadn't said yet.

She knocked on Qiu Tian's door and reprimanded: "Angelica, how do you do things?" Now that there are no ingredients, I can poop things out of thin air? ”

Angelica covered his head, and had already greeted the whole family of the little eunuch in the imperial dining room in his heart, "Miss! Rest your anger! The slave and maid did not know that the eunuch had received the slave's monthly gift, but as a result, nothing was delivered. ”

"You also gave your moon bong?" Qiu Tian suddenly twisted into a twist, looked at the stupid Angelica, and said helplessly: "Why are you so stupid?" Angelica pursed her lips, "Miss, I'll go to that little eunuch to ask for an explanation." ”

"Don't!" Qiu Tian grabbed the angry Angelica, "You won't have any good ingredients to slaughter when you go to the imperial dining room now, and most of them have started to cook delicacies for the masters of the palaces and halls at this point in time." You're going to be bored now. ”

"So that's it?" Angelica looked at Qiu Tian in confusion, and Qiu Tian sneered, "How is it possible?" Tomorrow we will go to the imperial dining room to collect debts. ”

"So what do we do now?" Angelica asked, and when Qiu Tian just wanted to tell Angelica to go to the small kitchens to see if he could even order the ingredients to come out to save the urgent need, a little eunuch carried a sheep rack into the small kitchen and placed it heavily on the food table, "I'm tired." ”

"You dare to come!" When Angelica saw the little eunuch, he suddenly stepped forward with an arrow, angrily pressed the little eunuch on the food table, and was about to smash it down with his fist.

"Angelica, stop!" Qiu Tian is also the first time to see such a galloping, violent Angelica, and the picture of himself just knocking on the door of Angelica's head flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly put away his hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled, fortunately Angelica didn't do it to himself, otherwise he was the one who was pressed on the food table.

Although Angelica, who was furious, stopped, he still pressed hard against the little eunuch who was struggling. At this moment, this scene made Qiu Tian suddenly seem to see the rooster pressing the little bug, the little bug was eager to survive and struggling hysterically, and the final ending - it is conceivable that the little bug gave up struggling and was eaten.

As expected, the little eunuch hurriedly cried and begged for mercy, "My aunt! Please, let me go first! Aunt ......"

"You white-eyed wolf, you took my money, and you didn't get me the ingredients, do you want to die?" Angelica pressed the little eunuch's head hard, Qiu Tian glanced at the ingredients table and moved, he was really afraid that Angelica would shatter the ingredients table, so he hurriedly stopped: "Angelica, let him go first." ”

"Miss, it's this little liar white-eyed wolf who took my money and didn't do anything. We can't do anything now! Angelica saw that the initiator was in front of him, and hurriedly explained to Qiu Tian, Qiu Tian glanced at the sheep scorpion, and then looked at the little eunuch, "You let him go first, let him talk well." ”

"Miss......"

"Did you hear what your master said? Hurry up and let go of our ......"

Qiu Tian heard the little eunuch so presumptuous, she backhanded the knife on the side of the food table, and took advantage of the moment when Angelica let go of the little eunuch, her hand rose and fell, "Bang-"

In the blink of an eye, the sheep's vertebrae were instantly cut in half, and the knife slashed the little eunuch's ear, and the little eunuch was so frightened that he was weak, fell to the ground, and urinated on the ground.

"Help, help, help...... Help-" The little eunuch looked at Qiu Tian's smiling face, got up from the ground in a panic, and scolded Qiu Tian, "You murderer, help!" Kill—"

"Miss!" Angelica looked at Qiu Tian and shouted worriedly with an expressionless face, but admired Qiu Tian very much that he could even cut bones.

"Angelica, get me back." Qiu Tian didn't care about what the little eunuch called herself, but she found that Angelica didn't move, tilted her head and asked, "Don't tell me that you, a practitioner, can't catch it, this little eunuch who has no power to restrain the chicken?" ”

"Miss!" Angelica's heart trembled, and he looked at Qiu Tian weakly, "Miss, I ......"

"Hurry up and arrest someone!" Qiu Tian didn't wonder why Angelica was just a palace maid who had been in the palace for five years and knew martial arts, but urged her to hurry up and arrest someone, "If you miss this opportunity to make up for your merits, it will be a pity." ”

"Yes! Slave and maid command! Angelica knew that Qiu Tian knew his identity, so he simply didn't hide it, hugged his fist towards Qiu Tian, and quickly flashed out of the small kitchen, and a person's name flashed in his mind.

Then, she looked at the sheep vertebrae on the table that were divided into two by herself, and a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in her eyes, and then the garlic knife she was holding would not break in half, and the Yang vertebrae were cut into joints again and again.

It didn't take long for the sound of "chopping wood" in the small kitchen to subside, Qiu Tian wiped the sweat from his head, and looked at the sheep and scorpion pieces piled up in the small wooden basin on the food table with a sense of accomplishment.

And at this time, Qiu Tian just looked up and saw Angelica carrying the little eunuch who deceived her Yuefeng, returning to the small kitchen like a chicken, she looked at the little eunuch who was dirty and soaked, obviously this person had already been taught by Angelica in private.

At this moment, he stood in front of her obediently like a deflated quail, "The slave knows that he is wrong, please ask the young lady to forgive a large number of minions!" Miss ......"

"Noise!" She frowned in displeasure and spit out two words, and then Angelica's fist made a crisp and neat sound of "bar", and suddenly the little eunuch was so frightened that his eyes widened, and he hurriedly covered his mouth.

"You give me less stove!" Qiu Tian took the small wooden basin to the basin to wash, and shouted at the little eunuch, the little eunuch frowned, and pointed to himself, "Me? ”

"Or else?" Angelica's face sank, and he shouted angrily at the little eunuch, the little eunuch was startled, hurriedly walked to the stove, clumsily pulled the bellows, and by the sound of the bellows, he was dissatisfied and thought, "Sure enough, there is a master, there is a slave......

Angelica glared at the little eunuch, the little eunuch was so frightened that he hurriedly closed his mouth, and Qiu Tian, who had been observing, pursed his lips and smiled, and put the pieces of sheep and scorpions that had been washed one by one into a pot of warm water, and then recessed a small jar of rice wine and a handful of green onion and ginger, and began to boil the warm water of the sheep scorpion into the pot until it boiled blood foam.

After that, she washed it with cold water again, but the second time it was boiled, a small spice packet was put in and boiled with water, and after repeated three times of warm water, until the fourth warm water put the spice packets containing bay leaves, cinnamon, peppercorns, cumin, grass fruits, dried chilies, black pepper and white pepper, as well as additional green onions, ginger, garlic, and ginger, and finally poured in some light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and salt, she took out a special bottle of Laojiao wine.

As soon as the lid of the wine was removed, the thick flavor of the sauce instantly grabbed her nose, and finally lingered in the air, which could not be dispersed for a long time, which shows that this wine is strong, mellow and fragrant, and it is rare to see good wine.

After that, she quickly heated another pot and poured in the mixed oil, and when the oil was hot in the pan, she quickly poured in the sheep scorpion pieces, "What-"

After a burst of mist quickly rose and dispersed, she quickly stir-fried the sheep scorpion pieces, until the sheep scorpion pieces changed color, she scooped up two large spoonfuls of the bean paste she boiled according to the taste of the bean paste in a certain county in her memory into the pot, and quickly stir-fried again until the fragrance of the bean paste was completely fried, and the aroma of the sheep scorpion pieces slowly dispersed.

But at this time, Qiu Tian poured the soup boiling in another pot into the pot where the sheep and scorpion pieces were stir-fried, "Zizi-"

In an instant, the room was filled with a tempting aroma, but before the aroma spread, she covered the pot back into the pot with a lid, and the little eunuch looked at Qiu Tian unexpectedly, and then looked at the stir-fried pot, and swallowed his saliva.

Seeing this, Qiu Tian chuckled lightly, and instructed the little eunuch: "The martial fire will be stewed for half an hour, and then turn to the simmer for an hour." ”

"I'm guarding?"

Qiu Tian didn't answer but nodded, the little eunuch was overjoyed, thinking that he would steal a piece or two to taste later, but Angelica still saw the clue, "Don't think about stealing food or doing some indiscriminate things like stealing chickens and dogs, I will guard you here." ”

"Ah-" The little eunuch screamed dissatisfiedly, but the next second he was restrained by Angelica's cold eyes, he looked at Qiu Tian pitifully, thinking that Qiu Tian would help him speak, but Qiu Tian didn't have time to look at his expression at all, but instead asked while cleaning up the ingredients, "What's your name?" ”

"Do you ask me?" The little eunuch pointed to himself, looked around the small kitchen, and was about to agree, when Angelica knocked on the door of his head suddenly, "Miss asked you!" Still not talking? ”

"Oh!"

"Be polite!" Angelica scolded rudely, and the little eunuch flattened his mouth slightly, "Oh! It's ......"

"Before the slave entered the palace, it was called Huzi, and when he entered the palace, the steward's father-in-law gave him a name, called Xiaoshizi." Xiaoshizi wiped his face, Qiu Tian suddenly realized, and wiped his face, "Then your little father-in-law who has been serving vegetables in the imperial dining room?" ”

"Little father-in-law?" Angelica looked at Xiao Shizi and sneered, "Is he worthy?" A little father-in-law who washes vegetables in the imperial dining room who is not even a choreo has the audacity to do things for cashiers......"

Angelica told the identity of Xiaoshizi one by one, Qiu Tian didn't have much emotion, but Xiaoshizi gritted his teeth indignantly and said: "If I hadn't had a chance, I would have become the knife hand of the second chef, instead of doing some vegetable washing work that is not even a chore." ”

"Whew...... Speaking of yourself so good, you want to try? Qiu Tian placed the tofu, winter melon, cabbage, pork and beef cubes on the table......

"That's right! Seeing is believing, if I don't show it, I won't believe it. After receiving a look from Qiu Tian, Angelica immediately understood and provoked: "Otherwise, you are fooling me and Miss." Did you know that fooling Miss can have serious consequences? ”

"I'm not fooling anyone!" Xiao Shizi frowned and stared, "Try it, you guys watch it with your eyes wide open!" ”

"We'll see!" Qiu Tian smiled slightly, holding her hands on her chest, looking like she was watching a play, but Angelica had already found that there was something wrong with Qiu Tian's hands - she was already trembling when she was just carrying the spatula, and she was afraid that she accidentally injured herself when she cut the sheep scorpion with a kitchen knife.