"Okay." Chi Xing cleaned her hands, rolled up her sleeves and rubbed them a few times, "Why does it smell so sweet?" ”

"Of course!" Chi Tao blinked: "This is the first meal we have when we go to the capital and the business opens, so naturally we have to come up with novelty!" ”

Chi Xing "poofed" and smiled: "The business is still open, are you still doing business?" ”

Chi Tao said seriously: "I didn't have a slave or servant with the Xie family, it is equivalent to an employment relationship with Xie Yao, he hired me to cook for him, what is the difference between it and a restaurant?" ”

Chi Xing pursed her lips and smiled: "There are so many fresh words!" Roll it out into a large, thin, round dough.

Chi Tao came over to take a look, and then smeared a thin layer of ghee on the dough, and folded the dough a few times: "Or roll it out and rub this again, this is called ghee." Repeat this four or five times. ”

I went and chose a handful of pea sprouts as a vegetarian dish for lunch.

Look at the hour, it's almost noon, and it is estimated that Xie Yao is also coming, so he raised the fire to heat the oil pot, and sat on the other stove with a deep-bottomed copper pot, boiled boiling water, and sprinkled a little peach blossom pollen.

Fry the mandarin fish on both sides of the pan until slightly browned, then scoop it up and put it in a copper pot, add salt to taste, but it will be cooked inside and out in a moment, and put it in a copper plate, with several dried peach petals as a garnish.

Chi Xing's side had already divided the dough into twelve pieces and rolled it into a round dough according to Chi Tao's instructions. Chi Tao starts another pot, brushes with a thin layer of meat oil, and after heating, burns the muffin cakes until golden brown on both sides before coming out of the pot.

Pea seedlings are easy to make, and they are cooked as soon as they are fried.

As soon as the meal was ready, he came to call the door when he heard the rain: "Childe is here, is lunch ready?" ”

Chi Xing had already avoided the back, and Chi Tao hurriedly invited Xie Yao and Murong Ling into the main room: "This room will be used as a dining room for the son in the future." He bowed solemnly: "Chi Tao thanks Gongzi, not only took my family to Beijing, but also arranged such a proper accommodation." ”

Xie Yao laughed: "No need to be polite." When I eat the food you cooked, I naturally have to think about you, otherwise if someone robs me of such a good cooking skill, wouldn't I have to rely on pills every day to survive? ”

Chi Tao smiled, knowing that although his cooking skills were good, he didn't get to such a point, but it was just a trick.

One by one, the vegetables and cakes were served, and Chi Tao pointed to the mandarin fish and said: "This dish is called 'Peach Blossom Flowing Water Mandarin Fish Fat', which is made of peach blossoms ground into powder in spring, and it tastes like peach blossoms, and the two sons taste it." ”

Xie Yao saw that the mandarin fish was not like the steaming method at home, the aroma was fragrant, and it was also dotted with a few pale pink peach blossoms, so he tasted it with chopsticks, and couldn't help nodding again and again: "It's really delicious, Fuxi, you can taste it." ”

Seeing that the two of them started to eat, afraid that they would not be able to listen to what they were going to say, Chi Tao gave Tingyu a color and retreated, and went to the stove room to make some snacks for Xie Yao to take away.

Before he could make a move, he ran over to Tingyu: "Brother Chi, is there still much bread?" ”

A piece of muffin cake was the size of a palm, and Chi Tao thought that the two of them would use two pieces at most, so they only served four pieces: "There are eight more, but it's not enough?" ”

Tingyu smiled and said: "No, the son said that this cake is delicious and he wants to take it home for his wife to taste, and the Hou Ye also said that he wants to bring some back." Exactly, pack four pieces each. ”

Chi Tao thought about it, there seemed to be a pair of ebony carved boxes on the shelf, and hurriedly found it, wrapped the muffins in oiled paper and put them in: "Is this feasible?" ”

Tingyu looked at it carefully: "It's a magpie flower, just right!" ”

After lunch, the two of them left separately, and agreed with Chi Tao that if they wanted to come here for dinner in the future, they would send someone to inform them one day in advance, and Chi Tao was happy not to be caught off guard.

As for the muffins, Chi Tao is not worried about being "unsalable". She had already found out that in this era, she had actually mastered the method of refining meat oil from fatty meat, and was able to use it in food, such as pastry making, but the method of frying and frying the oil at high temperature was not yet popular, and was only used by some particularly sophisticated wealthy families. Therefore, most of the pastries at this time are made of lard and a lot of sugar, although they are sweet and delicious, they are also very easy to get greasy. Or there are pure dry dim sum, such as the mung bean cake sent by Shao Cheng last time, without adding a drop of oil, suitable for soaking in water and eating, otherwise it will be dry and choked.

Her muffin cake is made of ghee, which not only has the fragrance of pine yellow, but also has a rich milky aroma. Xie Yao's mother and Concubine Lin are both women, how can they not love each other?

After sending away the "guests", Chi Tao closed the door and returned to the back house, seeing that Achu had also gotten up for a while, and was sitting at the table waiting for her.

"I've arrived in the capital, when will I go to see the emperor?"

Chi Tao thought for a while: "Then Xie Yao is a big family, why don't I find a way to let him inquire, has the fake 'Huayin County Lord' entered Beijing, and what is the situation now?" In fact, Murong Ling's sister is the favorite concubine of the harem, which is more suitable, but she doesn't want to mention Murong Ling in front of Achu.

"Then it's better to find Murong Ling......"

Chi Tao didn't hear it: "When there is news, let's take care of it, so as not to be reckless and lose our way." ”

Achu responded sullenly, Chi Tao saw that she was unhappy, and had the heart to coax her: "There is fresh mutton, let's eat barbecue at noon?" ”

He burned charcoal in an iron basin and put it in the courtyard, set up a wire Mengzi, and roasted a large piece of mutton that had been marinated for a while. After a while, a sizzling grease came out and dripped onto the red-hot charcoal, causing a puff of green smoke.

At this time, Chi Tao prepared three more bowls of small ingredients, and the three of them sat down around the stove and ate barbecue.

"Well, it's delicious......" Achu was a child, and when he saw that the barbecue was delicious and fun, he temporarily put aside the troubles of regaining his identity, and happily shouted: "I want that piece!" "Fourth

Here, Xie Yao said goodbye to Murong Ling and returned to Xie's mansion.

The Xie family is a scholarly family, cultivating and reading a family, but by the time Xie Yao's grandfather was born, there had been two generations of families who had never produced Jinshi, but they spent a lot of money for their children to study. Thanks to Xie Yao's father, Xie Nan, when he went to Beijing to study, he met Shi Chao, the Marquis of Ningyuan, and admired his talent very much, and saw that he was the origin of his family education, so he married his sixteen-year-old daughter Shi Nianci to Xie Nan.

Shi is the beloved daughter of the whole family, but because of the two family affairs decided by her grandmother in the early years, they both ended in the death of the other party, and the reputation of "Kefu" was spread plainly. The Shi family scoffed at the rumors, but no one in Beijing dared to marry, so Shi Chaocai had the ability to override public opinion and marry his daughter to Xie Nan, who was poor and white. Shi Nianci grew up in the family of military generals, but he loved poetry, calligraphy and rhetoric, and sincerely admired his husband, all the way to her husband's study, and supported her in-laws and uncles without complaints, until Xie Nan was promoted to the rank of scholar in the examination, and finally the emperor appointed the champion. With the help of the Yue family, the official is getting bigger and bigger, and now he is an official to the household department.

Tobe Shirou is the fourth product. has always been an official, five to four is a hurdle, if you can smoothly do the four in the prime of life, then there is hope for entering the cabinet. The head of the household department is also an official position with real power, Xie Nan is only thirty-nine years old, and he is also a hot figure in the court.

Xie Mansion is in the lotus, this piece is a powerful family, the most quiet and elegant. Originally, it was the mansion of the marquis of the former dynasty, and Xie Nan couldn't buy such a house with Xie Nan's qualifications at that time, but when the original owner got rid of it, Shi Chao saw that Xie Nan was very happy here, and hoped that his daughter would be closer to him, so he asked someone to say something, and secretly paid half a percent more silver for Xie Nan, so he bought this family business.

Xie Yao got off the horse, threw the whip to Tingyu, and carried the ebony box into the main courtyard by himself.

Mrs. Shi had just taken a nap, and was drinking tea served by the eldest maid Hongyu, when she heard the maid lift the curtain to announce that the eldest prince was coming, she hurriedly raised her eyes to look: "You came back so early today?" "Xie Yao was eighteen years old and was studying at Songyue Academy.

"Mr. went to visit a friend today, and there is no class in the afternoon." Xie Yao handed the food box to the maid, and had already moved an embroidered pier in front of Mrs. Shi, and sat down.

Mrs. Shi thanked Yao for a son, and he was born handsome, no matter how she looked at it, she was happy: "What's in the box?" What new things did you change for Niangtao? ”

"It's a snack." As she spoke, the maid opened the ebony box and brought it up, "I ate it sweet, and I specially brought it back for my mother to taste." ”

Mrs. Shi knows Xie Yao's strange illness best, most of the food is ready and served in front of him, he wants to vomit when he smells it, he really vomits when he was a child, and when he is older, he can control himself, and he also endures nausea. Usually, Xie Yao can only eat two or three bites of a meal, if the cook does a particularly good job, Xie Yao moved his chopsticks four or five times, and Mrs. Shi has to recite Buddha every day. Now Xie Yao praised the same dim sum as delicious...... Mrs. Shi was deeply surprised, and hurriedly looked at the box, and saw that it was a golden dough cake, and was a little puzzled: "It's just a dough cake, what's so special?" ”

Xie Yao pursed his lips and smiled: "You can taste it." ”

Hongyu had already cleaned her hands and asked someone to bring the plate and chopsticks, and when she saw Mrs. Shi nodded, she reached out and broke a piece and put it in the plate.

Mrs. Shi picked up the chopsticks and tasted them gently, and suddenly felt that they were unusually crispy, full of milky fragrance, and an indescribable fragrance, and said in surprise: "It's really delicious." Where did the cook make this? How much can you use? Such a good cook, how much money can be given! ”

Xie Yao shook his head with a smile: "It's a friend's cook, and it's also accidental, and it's not very good." ”

Mrs. Shi was suspicious, and was about to speak, Xie Yao said: "It's okay in the afternoon, I'll talk to my mother about what I've learned in Yuzhou these days." ”

Since Xie Yao entered school, Mrs. Shi has to personally guide her studies every few days. Although Xie Yao is getting older, it is no longer something that Mrs. Shi can teach, but this habit between mother and son has been retained.

At this time, the maids were not allowed to be in front of them, so Hongyu withdrew with a room of maids.

Xie Yaofang smiled: "Do you think I'm a little fat?" "Xie Yao only arrived home after dark yesterday, and went to Songyue Academy early this morning, and the mother and son haven't talked too much.

Mrs. Shi took a closer look: "It's fatter, but it's not obvious." ”