Xu Qinyu listened to the whispers of the surrounding people, and also felt that maybe the imperial envoy did it deliberately, maybe to target the prefect. At this time, the prefect recruited the fourth brother, which should also be related to the imperial envoy.

She was a little worried about Prefect Zhu.

Just as I was thinking about something on my mind, I heard people around me start to say, "Miss Zhu has come out."

Xu Qinyu raised her head and glanced into the restaurant, and she saw the woman who reminded her of the thief at noon went out. It turned out that she was Lady Zhu.

With a few strands of sadness on the woman's face, seeing a lot of people gathered outside, she came out and said, "Everyone is gone, don't talk about it, so as not to bring disaster to yourself."

Someone shouted, "Miss Zhu, how are you doing?"

Madam Zhu had a sad face, but she still smiled, "It's just a dinner for the adults, what can I do, don't think about it, everyone should be gone."

The crowd dispersed one after another.

Xu Qinyu didn't leave. Standing at the door of the restaurant, Mrs. Zhu also recognized that he was a thin young man who was queuing up at the dim sum shop in the afternoon to buy dim sum, and his wallet was almost stolen, so she nodded slightly at Xu Qinyu.

Xu Qinyu also nodded towards her.

Xu Qinyu didn't delay, and immediately returned to the Bafang Inn, wanting to see if the fourth brother had returned, and asked the fourth brother for the specific situation.

Back at the Bafang Inn, the fourth brother also returned, still in disguise in the morning, standing by the window, when he heard the door rattle, he looked back.

Xu Qinyu immediately ran to the fourth brother, and met the thief when he was buying snacks in the afternoon, and was helped by Mrs. Zhu from the Zhujia Restaurant. Then he returned to the Zhujia Restaurant in the afternoon and found two officials around the imperial envoy came over. The Zhu Family Restaurant, who wanted to embarrass Mrs. Zhu, told the fourth brother about it, and finally asked, "The fourth brother, you went to the prefect, but is it related to this matter?"

Pei Weixuan said: "It is indeed related to the imperial envoy, but I don't know about Madam Zhu. Madam Zhu of the Zhu Family Restaurant is the sister of my great-uncle."

He went to the prefectural mansion, and the prefect told him that after the imperial envoy came, he sent someone to the military camp to ask questions, and he didn't care about other matters. He was concerned about the military salary embezzlement case, so he urged him twice, and the imperial envoy had a black face. Ru Tan mocked him, saying that if he had the ability, he would go to investigate the case of military pay and corruption by himself, and then he would leave his sleeves and leave. After that, he would often be in the prefect's mansion or in front of other officials and soldiers guarding him. Run on the prefect.

The people in the prefect's mansion and the soldiers in the barracks dared not speak out.

The prefect probably sensed something about Ding Dian, and knew that Pei Weixuan was in Raozhou. In addition, the prefect actually vaguely realized that this nephew might not be easy, so he asked him to ask if he knew about the military salary corruption case. Happening.

At this time, the prefect did not know that the embezzlement of military salaries was what King Handong called. He just thought that he had something to do with the imperial envoy. When Pei Weixuan told him that the officials who embezzled military salaries belonged to King Handong, most of those embezzled military salaries went to King Handong. In his pocket, this imperial envoy was also a member of King Handong, so naturally he would not really do his best to investigate the case of military pay corruption.

This matter is still due to the black armored guards that Pei Weixuan installed in the capital, and the black armored guards helped him to check, and the black armored guards would pass on the trends in the capital to him.

The prefect was silent for a long time after hearing this.

In fact, the prefect had suspected that this nephew was plotting something before, and until he heard from his nephew about the activities behind the military pay corruption case, he knew that his nephew should really be plotting something, and he was not an ordinary escort of a small caravan.

But the prefect said nothing, just sighed.

From the moment he knew that military pay corruption was what King Handong called, he had already understood that the day would not come to light on this case, and even if it was found out, it would be a scapegoat.

And King Handong is the younger brother of the Queen Mother, it is impossible for the Queen Mother to not know about this.

From the moment when the queen mother appointed her younger brother to be the king with a different surname, to the construction of a luxurious palace, to the moment when the prefect let her younger brother embezzle and guard the soldiers' salaries at the border, he already knew what the big Sheng Dynasty would fall into.

Even if Pei Weixuan didn't tell Prefect Zhu, he knew that the new emperor and the empress dowager were lovers of pleasure, doing great construction projects and building luxurious palaces.

These things have spread all over the Dasheng state city.

The prefect originally wanted to investigate the case of military salaries and corruption, but he felt that no matter what, he could not treat the soldiers guarding the border.

But now the imperial envoys are all from the King of Handong, from the palace, what else can he do?

If he really stabbed this matter out and stabbed all the officials and the capital, the Queen Mother would just pick a random reason to punish him.

If he goes down, maybe the prefect who comes again will be the King of Han Dong or the Queen Mother. They dare to embezzle the military salary openly, and they must only want to make money. It will be the people in the border towns who will suffer. Originally, the people in the border towns also It was because of the eldest prince that he lived a good life for these five years.

And it will be even more difficult for the nephew to find a job in the future.

At this moment, the eunuch's heart had unconsciously turned to his nephew's side.

Later, the prefect didn't say anything, but let Pei Weixuan go back, and it seemed that the matter of the military salary would not be settled.

Pei Weixuan also knew about his uncle's grandfather's choice.

My uncle and grandfather really can't control this matter, all he can do is to protect himself wisely, otherwise if his uncle and grandfather go down, the people in the frontier will be in trouble.

Pei Weixuan also went back to Bafang Inn.

After he finished speaking, Xu Qinyu understood a little bit. It seemed that the prefect didn't know about it, and the imperial envoy hated the prefect in his heart because the prefect had questioned him. When he learned of the relationship between Zhu's Restaurant and the prefect, he decided Wanting to humiliate Mrs. Zhu in public is considered a slap in the face of the prefect.

Xu Qin said in a jaded voice: "This imperial envoy is really small-bellied, and every penny must be weighed. Fourth brother, what should we do now? Do you want to talk to the eunuch? The eunuch may have a solution."

Pei Weixuan shook his head, "Uncle and grandfather have nothing to stop this matter."

He could kill these imperial envoys in the southwest, but this is the last resort, and it will cause trouble for the prefect. He already has other solutions to the case of embezzlement of military pay, and he can do it when the imperial envoys leave the southwest. hands on.

Xu Qinyu had an idea, "Fourth brother, if I don't do this, I will help Mrs. Zhu cook dinner, and the imperial envoy will definitely be right.

I believe that no one can resist eating the food she cooks, as long as the imperial envoy feasts on it, it will explain everything, and he has no face to accuse Zhu's restaurant of poor cooking skills and take the opportunity to make trouble.

Pei Weixuan didn't say a word, he knew that if Yuniang came forward, she wouldn't be able to find fault with her culinary skills.

But even if Yuniang is only helping in the back kitchen, if the imperial envoy thinks about it, it will cause some trouble.

It is very likely that Yuniang's culinary skills will be watched by the imperial envoy, and he wants to take it back to the capital to be a cook for the queen mother or the king of Handong.

But he knew in his heart that even if he would be targeted, Yu Niang would not ignore it.

So he said: "Yu Niang wants to go?"

He'll take care of the rest.

Xu Qinyu nodded, "Of course, let's not talk about the relationship between Mrs. Zhu and the prefect. At noon, Mrs. Zhu helped me. I should also help Mrs. Zhu."

If she could help her but ignore it and make those who helped her suffer humiliation, she would not be able to do such a thing.

Pei Weixuan said: "Then Yuniang, let's go, I will go with you, but Yuniang wait a moment."

He returned to the book desk and left a note for shopkeeper Zhou, saying that he would go out for a few days and asked shopkeeper Zhou to reserve the room for them as if they were still living here.

After writing the note, Pei Weixuan went to Zhu's Restaurant with Yuniang.

When we arrived at Zhu's restaurant, Mrs. Zhu was also struggling with the big guys in the back kitchen.

She liked to cook since she was a child, and she had a childhood sweetheart fiancé when she was young, but before she got married, her fiancé died in an accident, and she never remarried in her life, and finally opened this Zhu's restaurant with money by herself, and it has been open for many years , taking the route of affordable prices and large quantities, and the business is still good.

Lady Zhu knew that her culinary skills were not even comparable to the chefs in Zuixianlou.

Besides, this imperial envoy didn't go to other famous restaurants in Raozhou City to eat, but came to Zhu's restaurant. What's wrong with a lady? Obviously it was aimed at the prefect behind her.

This matter also involved her sister and brother-in-law. She didn't want the imperial envoy to slap her brother-in-law in face just because she caused trouble to her brother-in-law.

Madam Zhu was so worried, her apprentice hesitated and stepped forward and said, "Master, why don't you go and tell the prefect? ​​Maybe the prefect has a solution."

Her apprentice is a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl with a round face, named Zhu Zhu. She was an abandoned baby she picked up ten years ago. She was adopted and brought up. She said she was an apprentice, but she was actually a mother and daughter, and she also took her surname.

Madam Zhu shook her head, "It's useless for the Prefect to come."

She knew what the imperial envoy meant, and she couldn't even offend the prefect, so calling her brother-in-law would only add to her worries, but instead would cause her brother-in-law trouble.

Just as he was worried, the man in front of the hall suddenly came to the backyard, "Master, two young masters came to the living room in front and said they were looking for you."

"Young Master? But it's the evening meal?" Madam Zhu asked in confusion, "Can you tell them that they won't receive diners today?"

The hall workman nodded.

He was sitting in the front living room just now, and when he saw two sons, one tall and one short, came in, he immediately said, "I'm sorry for the two sons, Zhu Family Restaurant does not accept diners today, and I ask the two sons to forgive me."

Because the imperial envoy wanted to come to the restaurant to use the evening meal, the restaurant was very worried, and the owner did not plan to receive other diners, because he was afraid that he would accidentally bump into the imperial envoy and hurt others, so the restaurant has been hung outside today. Two more came.

But the shorter young man said, "The store owner misunderstood. We are not here to use the evening meal. I want to find your owner for some things. I'd like to ask you to help pass the news."

The guy just came over and the chef looked for Mrs. Zhu.

After listening to Mrs. Zhu, she got up and went to the living room in front, and was slightly surprised to see Xu Qinyu.

She recognized Xu Qinyu as the little brother who was almost stolen in the afternoon.

Seeing Xu Qinyu coming, Mrs. Zhu subconsciously thought that he was bringing her family to thank her, and was about to say that she didn't need to come to express her thanks when she heard the young master say, "I know that the imperial envoy wants to use evening food at the Zhujia restaurant, and I also know that Zhu Madam Zhu's worries, I am grateful to Madam Zhu for reminding her of kindness today, and a certain person happens to be good at cooking, so she came to the door and recommended herself to help Madam Zhu prepare the evening meal for today's reception of the imperial envoy."

Madam Zhu was stunned, "This, this..."

This is a spontaneous recommendation.

But the little brother in front of him looked at most seventeen or eighteen, and the tall young man next to him looked more ordinary, but he looked like he was in his early twenties. It looks like a very sophisticated cook.

Are you here to make fun of her?

It can be seen that this shorter little boy has a sincere face, and it doesn't seem like he was trying to tease her on purpose.

For a while, Madam Zhu couldn't figure it out.

Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan disguised themselves as they were afraid that outsiders would recognize her, so it was naturally impossible to tell Madam Zhu her true identity.

At such an age, it is indeed not credible to say that she is good at cooking, but she still has to say, "Miss Zhu, why don't you trust me once? It's almost time for dinner, and it's time to prepare the ingredients."

Madam Zhu hesitated, and finally saw that the face of the skinny young man in front of her was too sincere, not like a liar.

Besides, when the evening meal is ready, if the little boy does not taste good, and there are other ingredients in the restaurant, she can also cook it herself, and it will not affect anything, so she agrees after hesitation.

Xu Qinyu and Pei Weixuan followed Madam Zhu to the kitchen.

When they got to the back kitchen, Xu Qinyu made a long list of ingredients and asked Madam Zhu to buy them.

Madam Zhu saw such a long list, not only with all kinds of ingredients, but also with all kinds of spices.

Madam Zhu instructed the cooks and disciples in the restaurant to buy them separately from the other guys, which would save a lot of time.

After half an hour, the ingredients, spices and seasonings that Xu Qinyu asked for arrived.

Today's highlight is the roast suckling pig, which is about ten pounds of suckling pig.

No one has ever eaten suckling pigs here. Pork is only eaten when it has grown fat and fat. It just happens that someone in the city raises pigs. Madam Zhu paid a lot of money to buy this suckling pig, and she has already bought this suckling pig according to this The slaughter method that the young master said, let the butcher slaughter it.

Now the restaurant doesn't need to receive diners, and even the guy who ran the hall in front couldn't help but run to the back to watch. He was very curious about Xu Qinyu, and even more curious about these ingredients. These ingredients are all strange and delicious. Do you eat?

Even the chef of Zuixianlou was criticized. Can this young master, who is only seventeen or eighteen years old, really make meals that satisfy the imperial envoy?

The big guys still don't quite believe it.

In fact, the roast suckling pig needs a suckling pig of the fragrant pig variety. Naturally, there is no fragrant pig here. It is also possible to choose this kind of piglet raised at home.

The pig has been slaughtered, and Xu Qinyu has to start processing the ingredients.

In addition to the ingredients, there are also brick charcoal and iron forks.

Xu Qinyu whispered a few words beside the fourth brother in the past, Pei Weixuan nodded, and started to build a simple roasting pool with bricks and tiles, which would be used for roasting suckling pigs later.

The suckling pig was only slaughtered, but not yet handled. Xu Qinyu split the inner spine of the suckling pig, cut off the excess suet, and then removed the front ribs and shoulder blades. She handled the suckling pig very quickly. Use the kitchen knife dexterously, and cut the inside of the suckling pig in just ten seconds, so that the suckling pig is still whole, but it will be easier to bake in a while.

After splitting the spine, Xu Qinyu washed the suckling pig with clean water again.

Madam Zhu and the others next to them were stunned when they saw Xu Qinyu's quick technique. Madam Zhu was even more shocked. She has been a cook for more than 20 years, but she doesn't have this knives skill. Er already vaguely felt that the young master was not fooling her, he should have really good cooking skills.

But it's a bit weird to do the food.

Xu Qinyu continued to process the ingredients. After the suckling pig was cleaned, he just set aside to prepare the seasoning. The seasoning of the roast suckling pig is also the most important thing. Grind the prepared spices into powder, sesame into sauce, and dry onions. Mushrooms, minced garlic, make a sauce with several other seasonings, add sugar at the end, mix the Huadiao wine evenly, and spread it in the abdominal cavity of the suckling pig.

In fact, the seasonings are still a bit off. In addition, she did not bring home-made soybean paste and fermented bean curd. Instead, she used soybean paste and fermented fermented bean curd bought in Raozhou City.

Suckling pigs that are well seasoned need to be marinated for half an hour.

The marinated suckling pig needs to be propped up and fixed in the abdominal cavity with wooden strips, and then according to the method to be roasted for a while, two iron forks are placed across the suckling pig to facilitate roasting for a while.

It is also necessary to pour hot water on the skin of the suckling pig to scald the skin on the surface.

That’s not all, it’s still not good, you still need to adjust the crispy syrup, boil the maltose, add Huadiao wine and white vinegar to make it, spread the prepared crispy syrup on the skin of the suckling pig while it’s still hot, hang it up and wait for it to dry. Can start roasting.

The oven on the fourth brother's side has been built and started to burn charcoal.

Xu Qinyu began to prepare other ingredients.

This roast suckling pig was the highlight of the day, so she didn't plan to make the other dishes too greasy.

For the other dishes, shredded chicken and white fungus are prepared. This dish is smooth, tender, crisp and refreshing, which can relieve the tiredness of roast suckling pig.

Plus a dish of milky fish fillet and small fried duck.

Madam Zhu also bought some beef yesterday. Xu Qinyu is going to make beef with dried tangerine peel. It has the aroma of dried tangerine peel.

It was already early autumn, and the horseshoes were already cooked. Xu Qinyu also asked to buy some horseshoes and make horseshoe patties.

There is also a stir-fried lotus root slice. The lotus root at this season is also just mature and extremely tender. It is simply sliced ​​and fried, and only salt is added, which is extremely sweet.

Another dessert, milk white jujube treasure, is made with golden red dates and glutinous rice flour. It is soft, glutinous and sweet.

Also boiled a jar of pork belly chicken soup.

Mrs. Zhu said that about four or five people would eat it, and Xu Qinyu's preparation was enough.

These dishes she made were not made by Xu Ji in Yuanbao Town.

She has all the ingredients ready and the soup is ready.

Seeing her hands flying, and a kitchen knife almost leaving an afterimage, Mrs. Zhu and the others stared blankly at the young master's preparations.

This is the first time know that eating can still do this, and these eating methods are completely different from Mrs. Zhu's, and they don't even use the methods of other restaurants. have never seen the piggy's smudged style.

The food was ready, and Xu Qinyu carried the suckling pig over to start roasting.

The roasted suckling pig also needs to pay attention to the heat. She adjusted the heat of the charcoal and started to roast the suckling pig. At first, she didn't need to keep turning it, so she asked the fourth brother to help her watch it.

This roasted suckling pig is roasted horizontally on a built-in charcoal stove. With the iron fork fixed on the suckling pig, it is easy to turn without using a lot of force.

Even when roasting, you have to pay attention to it. You need to pierce the skin with thicker iron needles, so that the moisture in the suckling pig can be easily removed, so that the roasted pig skin will be more crispy.

Moreover, when roasting the suckling pig, the oozing fat also needs to be wiped off carefully, so that the roasted suckling pig will look good, with golden skin and uniform color.

With the fourth brother helping to turn the iron fork, Xu Qinyu started to cook other dishes.

After half an hour, the smell of roasted suckling pig had filled the entire yard. It smelled of charred meat with a strong smell of meat. This smell of meat was mixed with other scents. It was the secret seasoning that permeated the smell of meat. The unique meaty aroma after roasting.

Lady Zhu has completely convinced the young master in front of her.

Zhu Zhu even murmured, "Master, it smells so good."

The others were already staring at the roast suckling pig outside, swallowing hard.

The smell of meat filled the yard and began to float outside.

The surrounding merchants and people who go shopping in the market can smell this fragrance.

"What's the smell? It smells so good."

"It's really delicious. Is there any restaurant serving food?"

The shopkeepers of the nearby shops couldn't help but come out to wait and see, and some people said, "Which one makes food?"

"Could it be Zhu's restaurant? Is Zhu's restaurant not allowed to invite the imperial envoy to dinner today? Maybe it's Zhu's restaurant."

The shopkeeper of another shop immediately said, "Impossible, we have been neighbors with Zhu's Restaurant for many years, and how many times we have eaten in Zhu's Restaurant. Come out, this is not the taste of Zhu's restaurant."

"Which one will it be?"

"I don't know, but the taste is really craving, and my stomach started to growl."

"No, hey, I really want to taste what kind of food this is. I feel that if I can eat it once, it will be worth it in this life."

In the backyard of Zhu's Restaurant, when Xu Qinyu was cooking other dishes, she still had time to go outside to see how the roast suckling pig was doing.

Roast suckling pig needs to be roasted for about an hour, and now it will continue to be roasted for half an hour. The aroma will become more intense and spread farther.

After waiting for half an hour, all her dishes had to be prepared, and the pork belly and chicken soup was ready.

The aroma of roasted suckling pig has covered the aroma of several other dishes. Almost the whole market can smell the strong aroma of secret meat, with a bit of burnt aroma. In restaurants, this fragrance is more obvious.

Even the proprietors of the shops who thought it wasn't the scent coming from Zhu's Restaurant were a little hesitant. Could it be the scent coming from Zhu's Restaurant?

But when did Miss Zhu's culinary skills become so good?

They didn't have any intention of guarding the shop at the moment, they all stood at the door and looked towards Zhu's restaurant.

In the back kitchen of Zhu's restaurant, Xu Qinyu looked at Miss Zhu and said with a smile, "Madam Zhu, do you want to taste these foods?"

She made a lot of them, divided them into two parts, and served one part in a while, and put the rest in the back kitchen for their evening food. At the moment, everyone is looking at these meals eagerly.

It’s just that the roast suckling pig doesn’t have to be eaten, so it has to be served whole, otherwise it will be cut into pieces and spoil the appearance.

In fact, she also wants to eat roast suckling pig a little bit, and she plans to wait for the matter to be resolved, and then go back to Xu Ji to make a special roast suckling pig for everyone to try.

In this roasted suckling pig, the pork skin has been roasted crispy and slag-free, and it squeaks in the mouth. It is crispy and fragrant, but the meat is still extremely tender, and the fat part is also fat but not greasy.