Since Du Zhiyan invented shepherd's cabbage dumplings and dandelion soup with a whimsical move, especially the queen who used these two things to successfully serve the bed, Du Zhiyan's fame can be regarded as starting in the six palaces of the east and west. Subsequently, the threshold of the Yongfu Hall was about to be trampled down, and this sky-high wealth was really unguardable.

Before dawn, before the snow in the Yongfu Hall had been cleared, I heard someone knocking on the door. Mama Zhao put on her clothes and went to open the door, just about to say which palace was waiting for the people who did not understand the rules and disturbed the rest of the masters, but she didn't know who to blame, there were more than a dozen palace maids and eunuchs standing outside, everyone was like a trumpet gathering, standing in two rows in a regular manner, Mama Zhao just opened the door a crack, these people poured in like a stream of water, and kept stuffing copper coins into Mama Zhao's arms: "Mama, please take care, we are here to buy food." ”

I felt that the copper coins kept falling into my hands like snowflakes, and Mama Zhao hadn't seen what these people looked like, and everyone had already assembled outside the window.

At the beginning, you earned me to rob, and there was a little bit of chaos, but after a few days, everyone knew the rules, and consciously lined up, not only queuing, but also not fighting, and reporting the names of dishes one by one.

Of course, the longan girl in the queen's palace is the first.

The longan girl politely offered a tael of silver, ordered a stir-fried vegetables and vegetables, and a steamed radish leaf stuffed meatball: "The queen wants to eat some vegetarian recently, so she specially ordered these two things, let Du Chang watch and do it, Wei Guiren wants to eat a carrot and yam soup dim sum, and if the sugar is a little less, please arrange it together." The queen said, let Du Chang do it slowly, don't worry, just deliver it before dark. ”

Behind the longan, it was the palace maid in the palace of Bao Guiren: "Bao Guiren said that she drank pheasant soup once when she was a child, and she hadn't drunk it for a long time, and she missed it very much, I don't know if Du Chang can do it in the palace, Bao Guiren is willing to pay half a penny, and it will be done in these two days, and Bao Guiren can wait, by the way, Bao Guiren doesn't eat chili peppers, and it's not spicy at all." ”

"Here is the half-hanging money that Zhao promised, Zhao promised to ask for a spicy fried quail meat, to put more chili peppers and peppercorns, Zhao promised a heavy taste, a large amount of rice. Zhao promised that he would be grateful if he could eat it tomorrow, and asked Du Chang to make it convenient. ”

Shi Jing looked at the palace maids and eunuchs through the window, and couldn't help but shake his head.

It's a big battle.

Since the last time I made dumplings for the queen and became an instant hit, the door of the Yongfu Hall could not be closed.

The longan of Jingren Palace often buys food with silver, and the dishes bought are not available in the small kitchen of Jingren Palace.

The queen is idle, just in time for a change of taste.

The strange thing is that Bao Guiren, Mei Guiren, and Zhao promised concubines of this position, speaking of which are not high, and they don't have much money, but recently they have also shown off all the silver in their mouths.

Let's just say that this Zhao promised, with the position of promise, used to tell his unfavored sadness with a handful of tears, and now Zhao promised to seem to have forgotten the sadness of no favor to the clouds, just count the little palace maids in her palace to run the most diligently, more often than two times a day can run to the Yongfu Palace, soup and water keep going to Zhao Promise room.

In the past, the nobles of Bao were also the fate of no favor, crying that they were counting the green bricks in the palace for days, since Du Zhiyan's exclusive small kitchen was opened, the nobles were ordered to eat, the nobles were a little more, and the nobles did not treat their mouths badly, from morning to night, so that the palace maid carried the food box to buy. When I said goodbye, it was visible to the naked eye that the noble man had gained a lot of weight.

Even the little palace maid of Cining Palace came, carrying a food box, and took a tael of silver and presented it obediently: "Yesterday, I ordered a corn cake for the Queen Mother, with less sugar, I don't know if it's done?" ”

Du Zhiyan took the cash while putting six corn cakes into the little palace maid's food box.

Even Shi Jing has to kneel down, this Du only said that he has done a good job, and even the queen mother's silver has been earned.

The key is that the Queen Mother still likes to eat the corn cakes made in Du Zhiyan's kitchen, maybe the corn cakes are fresh, which is in line with the Queen Mother's taste, and Du Zhiyan also designed some shapes for the corn cakes, six small corn cakes, and they made the appearance of six people, He Xiangu, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin...... Every character is vivid, so it is a corn cake, it is better to say a vivid character picture, such a vivid character modeling, the Queen Mother is willing to eat it for a long time after watching it.

With the praise of the Queen Mother and the Queen, it was like an advertisement, and Du Zhiyan's business was getting better and better.

Shi Jing simply gave Du Zhiyan as the bookkeeper, and was responsible for collecting money with a money bag. The money is put into the money bag, and it cannot be put into the account for ten taels or eight taels one day.

In the past, I always felt that I had a good mix in the palace, and when I got the position, I could get some money every month, but now I have an open mind, open a small kitchen, and earn more than being a concubine.

Even Changle Palace secretly sent palace maids to buy food.

Toutian is a sneaky little palace maid, probing her brain outside the Yongfu Palace, worrying about her toes and constantly looking inside, when asked what she came to do, she said for a while that she wanted to buy lotus leaf balls, and for a while said that she was not from Changle Palace.

Later, cashew nuts came in person, just covered with a veil, saying that they were infected with wind and cold, carrying a food box, and handed over a tael of silver, anyone could recognize that it was cashew nuts, no one said that it was broken, she was willing to pay for silver to buy, why not. One tael of silver can earn at least half a tael.

When cashew nuts brought the lotus leaf balls back to Changle Palace, Meng Yuzhu didn't have much hope, but she heard that people from the East and West Sixth Palaces lined up to go to Yongfu Hall to pick up the goods. Seeing the lotus leaf balls, Meng Yuzhu knew that she was underestimating the enemy.

Lotus leaf balls are simmered with fresh chicken soup, lotus leaves, is pressed out with vegetables mixed with glutinous rice flour with molds, mixed with balls in the chicken soup simmered for half an hour, soft and glutinous, but also with a fragrance of lotus leaves, open the food box, this aroma comes to the face, not only is it not greasy, the most important thing is that the color of this soup is good-looking, the soup base is light yellow, the lotus leaf is green, the balls are snow-white, the snow-white balls are floating in the light yellow soup, the lotus leaves are surging, it is like the epitome of the moonlight in the lotus pond in summer.

Of course, it is useless to look at it, and the food must taste good.

Meng Yuzhu picked up the spoon and tasted it, without squeaking, and then tasted it again, still expressionless.

Cashew Nut held the small bowl and said: "Niangniang didn't speak, it must be that this soup is not appetizing, and the slave and maid also look at it, this clear soup is waterless, and there is not even a little oil and water, how can the turtle chicken soup in our Changle Palace taste good." ”

"What do you know, this lotus leaf ball soup looks bland, the taste is all in the soup, this soup is good. Otherwise, so many people went to line up, which really made Du Zhiyan earn. ”

"Yes, only Tian promised not to buy it."

"She has been poor since she was a child, and she is never willing to spend more money." Meng Yuzhu picked up the lotus leaf balls soup and sighed: "She is also a show girl who has lived in Yongfu Palace, Du Zhiyan's soup tastes so good, and the wild vegetable dumplings that Tian promised to make can kill dogs." ”

Tian Lingyue was stunned.

The hand standing at the door of the main hall of Changle Palace and was about to lift the curtain suddenly retracted, and the half-straddled foot was quickly retracted, only to feel that it seemed to be stuffed with something in his heart, sour and astringent, and he could only go back to copy the scriptures.

Mangosteen was grinding on the side, and when she saw that Tian Lingyue had written two pages full, she dared to remind her in a whisper: "Master, many people have gone to the Yongfu Hall to buy food, do you want to taste it?" If the master wants to taste it, the slave can try it. ”

"No, I don't like to eat anything vulgar."

"But ......"

"No more mention." Tian Lingyue clenched the brush in her hand: "I said that if I don't eat, I won't eat." ”

Taihe Palace.

Meals from the imperial dining room have been served.

According to the old practice, hot dishes, cold dishes, soups, soups, and snacks are indispensable.

Venison, beef, mutton, ginseng, antler velvet, and various supplements and drinks are also available at each meal.

The long case accounts for almost half of it.

The emperor sat thoughtfully at the end of the long case, and Gao Rang waited for the cloth vegetables.

Gao Rang held the silver chopsticks, and the emperor saw which dish, and Gao Rang would clip it.

Strangely, the emperor just stared out of the corridor.

The wind and snow outside the corridor have stopped, and the snow stretches to the end of the eye.

The red palace wall was silent, and from time to time there were little eunuchs coming and going, just hanging their hands and not saying much.

Gao Rang looked up at the curtain, and secretly observed the emperor, the emperor stared outside, and didn't look at the imperial meal in front of him.

Gao Rang was still secretly wondering, could it be that the food in the imperial dining room was not to the emperor's appetite? Or is the emperor hungry?

The emperor withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes: "Gao Rang, what time is it?" ”

"It's time for lunch, Your Majesty."

"I didn't say it." The emperor bit his lip, the women in the palace are a little crazy these days, this trend is still from the queen, since the queen sent wild vegetable dumplings to Taihe Palace, there have been concubines to Taihe Palace to send food.

You must know that the largest kitchen in Chen's harem is the emperor's imperial dining room.

As long as there is a small kitchen in each palace, there will be it in the imperial dining room.

Therefore, the food in the emperor's palace is better than the concubine's small kitchen, and occasionally the emperor will reward the concubines with food, but now the opposite is coming, and the concubines have begun to send food to the emperor.

First of all, regardless of the queen sending soup to the emperor, Wei Guiren sending snacks to the emperor, even those who have no sense of existence in the harem, if it weren't for Gao Rang's reminder, the emperor would almost not be able to call their names.

First of all, Zhao promised to send the emperor a bowl of purslane chicken soup, not to mention, the purslane in the chicken soup, I don't know what vegetables are used, it is eight points similar to purslane, the taste is very fresh, with chicken soup, it is really delicious, the emperor didn't even see the face of Zhao promised, but the bowl of purslane chicken soup, the emperor remembered it.

Bao Guiren sent glutinous rice balls to the emperor, glutinous rice balls floating in the sweet rice wine soup, glutinous rice balls wrapped in fresh corn paste, every bite burst pulp, the emperor directly drank two bowls in a row, and after drinking, it was not enjoyable, and asked Gao Rang to send a message to Bao Guiren, let her send another one another day and reward Bao Guiren with a pair of earrings.

Bao Guiren boiled oil in the harem, when did he get such a large reward, he was so happy that he burst into tears, and he couldn't wait to put incense in the direction of the Yongfu Palace.

Strangely, the hour was almost up, but no one came to deliver food.

The emperor's appetite has been hung up, and these women are not coming again?

What about playing around?

Looking at the food in the imperial dining room, the emperor sighed.

If the food sent by the concubine is fresh, the food in the imperial dining room is rough, just the roasted venison in front of him, I don't know whether the deer has committed the rules of heaven or what's wrong, it is indispensable on the dinner table, every month and every month, it is not roasted venison, or stewed venison, or stewed venison, crockpot venison, although the ingredients are fresh and the seasoning is high-quality, but it is a no appetite, and there is no trick every day, so it is aesthetically tired.

"Isn't the emperor hungry?" Gao Rang gave the emperor some celery.

The emperor asked Gao Rang: "Do you think there is anything wrong recently?" ”

"Please also ask the emperor to make it clear."

"I feel that the craftsmanship of the small kitchens of each palace has been refined recently, and there is a posture that surpasses the imperial dining room, it seems that overnight, these women in my harem have improved their cooking skills, even what kind of bag, by the way, the noble people of Bao have eaten round and round, the glutinous rice balls she brought are really delicious, that Du is only stingy, so far, nothing has been sent to me, I estimate, eighty percent, what is delicious, she shows off her own mouth, Gao Rang, what do you think?"

Before Gao Rang could answer, he heard a bustling sound outside the Taihe Palace.

"Come in." The emperor suddenly became interested.

I saw the concubines dressed up in flowers, carrying all kinds of food boxes and coming in.

The first to come in was Meng Yuzhu, who wore a high bun and dark purple fat powder on the corners of her eyes, and personally carried a steaming food box to the emperor.

When I opened it, it was a bowl of lotus leaf balls, and the thin lotus leaves floated in the pale yellow soup, which was really beautiful. Just smelling it, the emperor felt that he had an appetite.

"Your Majesty, this is the soup personally selected by the concubine, the emperor likes it if you taste it."

Bao Guiren stepped forward again regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one: "Your Majesty, this is a plate of freshly steamed cheese, still steaming, it is best to drink in winter, the emperor must try it." ”

Zhao promised to squeeze to the front: "Your Majesty, although this box of mung bean and red date snacks is small, the filling is sufficient, and it is carefully kneaded into the shape of a peach, broken to be soft and glutinous and sweet, the emperor tastes one." ”

"Your Majesty, try this ...... I brought"

"The Emperor's ......"

Gao Rang was squeezed to his back.

Meng Yuzhu's hairpins were squeezed out, and the dark purple fat powder carefully decorated at the corners of her eyes was also squeezed out, and she secretly scolded these little hooves in her heart for turning against the sky, she was a concubine, and the concubine Niangniang came to send a soup, these little hooves didn't know how to go back, and they dared to run to the front to steal the limelight.

There is no humility, there are no rules.

The emperor didn't even reprimand them.

These are all the gray concubines swept out of which corner, and now they have a gourmet waist, and they are also jumping up, springing up like mushrooms after a rain, and they are gathered in Taihe Palace.

The emperor seems to be a little useful.