Chapter 47: Gambling
"Is that true?"
Suddenly, Qiu Tian's face raised a smile that seemed to be a smile, "Really! Why not? β
She just saw Xu Song clasping his fists and saluting, and the thickness of the tiger's mouth on his hand showed that he had been holding knives, pots, and shovels for a long time, but his fingers were slender and his nails were clean, not as yellow as the nails on the hands of Zhou Wangba's chief manager.
"So what am I going to do?" Xu Song took a deep breath and looked at Qiu Tian, Qiu Tian glanced at him unhurriedly, "Don't worry, let's add something to have fun." β
"The eighth manager of King Zhou! You are belittling Xu Song inside and outside your words, so why don't you play to compete with Xu Song? β
"I ......" Deputy Manager Zhou frowned, he never expected this girl to ignite herself, "Why should I compare with him?" What rank is he? What level am I? β
"I'm a first-class imperial chef, an imperial chef who specializes in making the main dish of imperial meals for His Majesty! He is a third-class imperial chef, stir-frying miscellaneous vegetables, I don't think it's good to fry it, and he has the face to compare with me. Deputy Chief Manager Zhou smiled coldly and answered himself, "It's really funny." β
"Oh......" Qiu Tian said "oh" in a low voice, "Listen to your words, it turns out to be all nonsense." Originally, he was also afraid of losing, but he didn't expect that a third-class imperial chef in Xu Song District could also scare the first-class imperial chef into not daring to face it. β
"That's right! If it spreads, Xu Song must be famous, after all, even the deputy head of the imperial kitchen is afraid of the person......" Angelica immediately added to provoke Deputy Director Zhou, and the corners of Deputy Manager Zhou's mouth twitched, "You don't use the agitation method." I won't be fooled. β
Qiu Tian didn't expect that Deputy Chief Manager Zhou was still a bit brainy, so he didn't plan to continue to provoke without being fooled, but asked Xiao Shizi to bring him a chair and sit on it and sip hot tea.
Xu Song, who had washed his hands, stood in front of Qiu Tian, who sat on the chair next to the finished table, looking at him half-propped up, "Are you ready?" β
"Hmm!"
She looked at Zhou Wangba with his hands on his chest and wanted to watch a good show, and the smile on the corner of her mouth became more and more intense, "I'll teach you to make an interesting soup today." β
"Soup?" Xu Song looked at Qiu Tian in astonishment, he thought that Qiu Tian would teach him to make a very amazing hard dish, but it turned out to be soup, and his heart couldn't help but be full of disappointment.
Qiu Tian saw the disappointment in Xu Song's eyes, and couldn't help but quip: "If General Jiang is so tired of losing his morale before he fights, can he still be invincible?" β
"If you're afraid, you go and apologize to King Zhou, and I'll cook this dish." Qiu Tian took another sip of hot tea, and out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Xu Song, who seemed to be fluctuated by her own words, and she further stimulated: "Forget it!" If you lose once, you will be haunted, and then you can only gnaw on the wisdom of your ancestors. β
"Others are the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach, but you are good at the back waves chasing the front waves, without innovation, and die on the beach together." She straightened her sleeves, "Angelica, go and get me the sleeves and apron." β
"Wait!" Xu Song suddenly stopped Angelica, who was about to leave, and then turned to Qiu Tian and hugged his fist, "Xu Song has been taught." β
Qiu Tian was very satisfied with Xu Song's attitude, raised his head and glanced at it defiantly, and an interesting and playful soup flashed in his mind, "Gu said: soup, hot water." From the water, the sound of the voice. Today we are going the opposite way and making a soup to chew. β
"Chewing soup?" Xu Song was stunned for a moment and repeated: "The soup that goes the other way." β
When everyone heard this, they looked left and right, hoping that someone could explain, but the people present didn't understand, and even Deputy Director Zhou didn't dare to make more comments rashly, for fear that he would understand it wrong and be teased by Qiu Tian.
"Xiaoshizi went to help Xu Song take a Wang Ba and kill it, wash it, and hand it over to him after boiling water." Qiu Tian combed the hair in front of him, Xiao Shizi hurriedly ran to the edge of the warm pool and grabbed a napping Wang Ba, Angelica immediately laughed, "Miss, this Wang Ba is really similar to Zhou Wang Ba......"
"Angelica!" Qiu Tian scolded Angelica lightly, but these words led the people in the entire imperial dining room to compare Wang Ba with the deputy manager of Zhou, which made the head of the Zhou Mansion dare to be angry but did not dare to speak, so he could only hold back his anger and Manchester United glared at those people.
Half a pillar of incense is not fragrant, Xiaoshizi took out the soft-shelled turtle from the soft-shelled turtle shell, the soft-shelled turtle shell is intact, and the soft-shelled turtle meat is broken with a knife, there is no uneven knife edge, and there are no fine broken bones, which makes Xu Song can't help but look at Xiaoshizi's knife work differently, "I didn't expect your knife work to be so good." β
"There are many unexpected things." Xiao Shizi looked at Xu Song coldly, "You'd better not embarrass Miss." β
"Definitely not!" Xu Song took the soft-shelled turtle meat and poured it into the hot water pot to boil water to remove impurities and miscellaneous smells.
Then, according to the steps of Qiu Tian and his "ear biting", put the soft-shelled turtle meat pieces into hot water, pour in the paired spice packets, boil a stick of incense together on high heat, and then simmer on low heat for half an hour.
While everyone was waiting for the soft-shelled turtle soup to boil, Xiaoshizi and he took two large winter melons and began to carve them, and the people in the imperial dining room dispersed in the process of waiting, until the soft-shelled turtle soup was boiled and the lid was lifted, and the fragrance of the soft-shelled turtle soup exploded the entire imperial dining room.
This is the history of the imperial dining room of a different taste of soft-shelled turtle soup, deputy director Zhou watched from a distance with the heat of the soft-shelled turtle soup was poured out to drain impurities, found that the soft-shelled turtle soup was not milky white, brown yellow, clear water color but as bright and yellowish as a thick.
Then it drained the impurities three times, and the last time it poured into a bowl of soup of unknown things, slowly stirred in the soup, slowly poured into the two hollowed-out large winter melons that were carved into dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, and put the soup with melons into a steaming drawer and steamed for half an hour.
Qiu Tian saw that the last step had been completed, so he ordered Angelica to go and report to Fuquan, and turned his head and just wanted to ask Xu Song to cook a dish for himself to satisfy his hunger, but he didn't want to hear Deputy Chief Zhou in the yin and yang weirdness, "Ouch! It was so hard to do, but in the end it couldn't be presented to the masters, which was also a tragedy. β
"Why?" Qiu Tian asked knowingly, deliberately fueling Deputy Manager Zhou's arrogance, Deputy Director Zhou saw Qiu Tian so confused, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smug smile: "Since you asked sincerely, your grandfather, I will tell you compassionatelyββ"
"If the finished products of the imperial chefs are not recommended by the head chef or the grand dukes, or even named by the masters, then even if the dish is made incomparably, it is impossible to be brought out of the imperial dining room to the extent that there is no heaven and no earth."
Deputy Chief Manager Zhou smiled and straightened up, "Manager Gao went to the queen's mother to restore his life, and now I am the only one who can let Xu Song's dishes be served to the front of the palace." β
"So what?" Qiu Tian suddenly asked coldly, but asked Deputy Chief Manager Zhou until he had nothing to say. And Xu Song was also worried about this, so he couldn't help but ask Xiaoshizi in a low voice, "Xiaoshizi, is there a way to send it to the palace?" β
"If this dish is not delivered to the Imperial Palace, what is the matter?"
Xiao Shizi yawned, "Don't be impatient, Miss is very capable." Xiao Shizi originally thought that Qiu Tian was just making a small fuss in the imperial dining room, but he didn't want to come up directly and make Deputy Chief Manager Zhou restless, and ignored the people behind him three or four times, and he was already convinced of this; Now that he is intervening in the open and secret battle between Xu Gao's two cousins, he has to admire Qiu Tian's spirit of "not afraid of death", which makes him completely feel that this master must follow.
But if Qiu Tian knew that he had beaten other people's faces to death and slapped other people's "dog legs"; further helped Xu Song to challenge Gaode's authority as the head chef, and she may have immediately dug a pit for herself and buried herself.
"What if I could not only send it to the Imperial Palace, but also let the Grand Duke of the Imperial Front personally serve it to His Majesty?" Qiu Tian straightened his clothes, stood up, looked at Deputy Manager Zhou who sneered confidently, and said in his heart: How arrogant is now, how ugly it will be to cry later.
"Huh!" Deputy Chief Manager Zhou sneered, "If you can send this dish to the Imperial Palace, I'll eat upside down!" β
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, but Qiu Tian couldn't help but smile, and said with a smile crooked in his eyebrows: "Then I'm still looking forward to it." Ignore it, plus one. β
"Add what?"
"Restore Xu Song's status as a first-class imperial chef."
"No problem!" Deputy Chief Manager Gao suddenly raised his voice by one degree, "If you can't, Xu Song will immediately roll up and leave!" β
"Good!" Qiu Tian didn't hesitate to help Xu Song agree, and Xu Song, who was a little slower, looked at Qiu Tian remorsefully, "Why did you help me agree?" If I couldn't get to the palace, I would have left the dining room with a bedride, and my father and my grandfather would have been angry with me. β
"Afraid of what?" Qiu Tian frowned and interrupted Xu Song, who was holding his head in his hands and obviously couldn't accept this bet, "Those who become big things will not hesitate to make small sections!" It is a person like you who is afraid of thieves at the bow and ghosts at the stern of the ship that will be stolen from chickens and lose his title. β
After she motioned to Xiaoshizi to turn off the bellows of the stove, she was left with the remaining warmth to warm the soup steamed with melons and soup, "Xiaoshizi, have you come back with Angelica?" β
As soon as the words fell, Angelica, whose cheeks were frozen red, walked into the hot imperial dining room, and she shivered unnaturally, "Miss, I'm back." β
"Did anyone bring it?"
Before Angelica could answer, Fuquan's sharp voice came from far to near, "It's coming!" Here it isβ"
"Father-in-a-"
Everyone was stunned, no one dared to think that Grandpa Fu would come and look at Fuquan who was standing in the backlight at the door, and immediately shouted in unison: "I've seen Grandpa Fu!" β
Good one. The fox is fake and the tiger is mighty!
This blessed spring is more useful than the old emperor.
Qiu Tian silently looked at Fuquan and walked up to him, smiling flatteringly and saluting, "Our family has seen Miss Qiu!" β
"Father-in-law Fu is polite." Qiu Tian received Fuquan's gift before giving him a small gift, "Father-in-law Fu, what kind of edict did Your Majesty give last night?" I don't seem to remember much......"