After sitting in Lin Fei's courtyard for a while, turning over the beginning of the book, and drinking a cup of tea, Wen Mingtang was taken by Lin Fei to see Master Xing.

Wen Mingtang was really startled when he saw Master Xing with a thick bandage wrapped around his arm: although he knew that Master Xing was injured, when he saw Master Xing's injury with his own eyes, he still startled her.

This injury is much worse than she imagined! If it were someone else, he might have taken a leave of absence, but Master Xing was still injured, holding a kitchen knife and cutting vegetables.

Sensing that Wen Mingtang was watching himself chop vegetables, Master Xing's hand moved, looked up at Wen Mingtang, and greeted her with a smile: "Master Wen is here!" ”

Wen Mingtang nodded, and after calling "Master Xing", he couldn't help but say, "Master Xing's fall is not light!" Why don't you take a break from work? ”

Although Mrs. Hou loves to eat the dishes cooked by Master Xing, the Hou Mansion is not without a cook. It doesn't hurt to take a break and recuperate from your injuries. Looking at Lin Fei's appearance, I think that this Jingyunhou couple is not such a strong person.

But as soon as she said this, Master Xing shook his head, pointed to his injured hand, and said with a smile: "I am used to using my right hand, and I hurt my left hand, and cutting vegetables or anything is not in the way." After a pause, he said, "I was born with a temperament that can't be idle, and it has nothing to do with my wife, who is very sympathetic, but I don't want to be idle." ”

Wen Mingtang suddenly understood when he heard this, and did not say anything more about this matter, but untied the burden on his back, handed him the red yeast rice he brought, and said, "The chef has a lot of stock in the warehouse, bring some over, do you see if it is enough?" ”

Master Xing smiled and took the big bag full of red yeast rice, and said, "Enough, it's enough to make several plates of braised pork meat!" As he spoke, he pointed to the side and said, "I have prepared the cutting boards, kitchen knives and other utensils that Master Wen needs, and let's see if they fit first?" ”

Wen Mingtang walked to the cutting board, picked up the kitchen knife and tried it, probably taking into account the difference in natural strength between men and women, Master Xing specially prepared a few lighter kitchen knives for her, which were very brisk to use.

Wen Mingtang nodded, looked at Master Xing, who was still methodical in cutting and preparing vegetables, although he wrapped his hands, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Master Xing is really a meticulous person!" ”

Master Xing's hand cut into motions and said, "We are cooks, and we should be meticulous." If there is something wrong with the food in the mouth, something serious will happen. ”

Wen Mingtang also thought deeply of this, and after answering, he began to prepare the dishes.

Since it is a banquet dish, the first thing to serve is naturally cold food. It seems that most of these cold food side dishes are prepared in advance, Wen Mingtang glanced at the cold food side dishes that have been placed on the dinner plate and can be taken away at any time, and swept away them at a rough glance, there are a few marinated dishes, pickled goods and other things, although there is not much novelty, but the presentation is quite exquisite, and the dishes are very artistic conception.

Wen Mingtang looked at the cold side dishes that were quite intentional, but he was even more surprised in his heart, and subconsciously glanced at the master Xing who was cutting vegetables on the side again.

She had already heard of this Xing chef's good cooking. Although Lin Fei will not make a fuss because the cook's dishes are not good, he can be regarded as a "kind" master, but the taste is actually very tricky, and he will refuse to eat untasteful dishes with "no eating" and "less eating".

Before listening to Liu Yuandao, before she came to the future, Lin Fei went to Hongyan Lou and other big restaurants, and there were many dishes that he couldn't touch.

In addition to Wen Mingtang, the only person who can get Lin Fei's praise is this Master Xing. Her dishes fit his appetite by accident, but Chef Xing's craftsmanship ...... Looking at Master Xing, who stacked the lotus root slices in the cold side dishes into a boat, and decorated them with edamame and other things, and "created" a landscape painting scroll of "boat on the lake" on the plate, Wen Mingtang was also ashamed.

She has seen those who cook finely, but as fine as Master Xing, he is the cook of the imperial dining room in the palace, and he needs to be instructed by several palace painters to make the dishes look like this.

Of course, the dishes still taste like those dishes, but you can't make the dishes like this, you can't do it without some calligraphy and painting skills.

Wen Mingtang looked at Master Xing, who was particularly good at the word "color" in cooking, and couldn't help asking, "Master Xing, has he studied calligraphy and painting?" As he spoke, without waiting for Master Xing to speak, he said, "The handwriting on Master Xing's menu is really beautiful!" ”

Hearing this, Master Xing, who was cutting vegetables, stopped what he was doing, turned his head to look at Wen Mingtang, and said, "Since you rely on craftsmanship to eat, you naturally have a pair of skillful hands, and Master Wen's handwriting is also very beautiful, which is nothing." ”

In this regard, Wen Mingtang shook his head, glanced at those beautiful cold foods, and said: "After I am the criminal official, Wen Xuance who was convicted is my father, and my handwriting was taught by him, if it weren't for this, I would never be able to write such words." ”

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When he heard the words "Wen Xuance", Master Xing was a little surprised, obviously knowing Wen Xuance, but this surprise was only for a moment, and he quickly recovered, and he didn't compare with her again, but smiled, and said: "I did learn some calligraphy and painting before my young family was in the middle of the road, but I didn't think it would come in handy here." ”

As he spoke, without waiting for Wen Mingtang to speak again, he put down the kitchen knife in his hand, handed over a plate of washed red dates, and said: "The cold dish is still missing a dish of Master Wen's 'soft-hearted', and when Mrs. saw the menu, she remembered it, and when she waited for Master Wen's 'soft-heartedness' to be ready, she served it first!" ”

Although it was not explicitly stated, Master Xing's action of handing the dates obviously meant to change the topic.

Wen Mingtang is not a person without eyes, seeing Master Xing's action, he no longer asked, but took the red dates handed by Master Xing, and said, "What Master Xing said is reasonable", then lowered his head and scooped some glutinous rice flour, added water and began to mix noodles.

This "soft heart" is actually glutinous rice jujube, just cut the pitted jujube and stuff it into the middle with glutinous rice strips about the same size as the jujube.

Changing the topic, when it comes to food, Master Xing's words are obviously a lot more.

While cutting vegetables and preparing vegetables, he talked to Wen Mingtang about eating in various places.

"Scholars should read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, and we cooks should also walk more." Master Xing said, "I went to Jiangnan and other places before, and I saw that they also fried the Longjing tea leaves with the shelled shrimp, and the tea with shrimp and other meat dishes tasted quite wonderful!" ”

Wen Mingtang nodded, and after putting the "softness of heart" into the steamer, he began to boil the osmanthus sugar, and said while boiling the sugar: "Meat meat dishes are not only with tea, but also with fruits. ”

Speaking of eating, the two of them were also happy, because they were bowing their heads to do things, but they didn't notice that Lin Fei didn't know when he walked into the courtyard, sat down by the stone bench outside the window, and looked up at the two of them while drinking tea and looking at the book that Wen Mingtang had just turned over.

When his eyes fell on Master Xing, who was cooking, Lin Fei's eyes condensed slightly.