121. Mountain bamboo shoots and white fish lees add flavor

Pei Nianyu looked coldly at the self-made little girl in front of him. After a long while, he finally sighed, and turned to the small kitchen to make a pot... Danggui minced chicken and red dates.

The deep red soup exudes the sweetness of red dates, and also has a light aroma of chicken soup, mixed with a lot of aged antler.

Jiang Xue looked at the precious ingredients in the medicated diet pot, and even though she was ignorant of medical principles, she knew that this must be a medicated diet with the effect of warming the palace.

This kind of soup for girls... The master, as a prince, actually cooks for her, a maidservant.Jiang Xue couldn't help feeling ashamed and ashamed, while thanking her with a flushed face, while admitting her mistake sullenly, she would never be greedy again.

Pei Nianyu didn't care much about the difference between men and women and the difference in status. After all, he was a subordinate of the mansion, so he could be regarded as one of his own, and it was no different from him making medicinal meals for his family Ye Feng.

He only ordered lightly:

"You are greedy for food. Although this ice cream is most suitable for you to make with your yin and cold internal strength, you can't let others eat it? I think you are deliberately bullying others knowing that they can't beat you."

Since Jiang Xue competed with He Qi, although Pei Nianyu separated them, He Qi later voluntarily conceded, so Jiang Xue is now ranked first in King Yu Palace's force value.

Pei Nianyu thought in his heart that she can't be allowed to train with other shadow guards in the future. Isn't this becoming a steal, cheating.

"From now on, you can eat at most... no, you can eat at most once every ten days, don't always grab theirs."

Jiang Xue replied in a low voice:

"Yes, this subordinate understands."

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At the same time, in the courtyard in front of the big kitchen of the palace.

Dozens of large desks were set up in the open air in the yard, and in front of each desk was a chef of the imperial tea dining room and the cooks under their command, who were learning how to chop radishes hard.

And the Shangshan people in the imperial dining room were walking around the desk, like supervisors.Qin Lei taught them one by one.

Yun Shao and Lou Yefeng leisurely came over to inspect the progress of their studies.Apart from Pei Nianyu herself, the two of them have the best culinary skills in this house. Pei Nianyu has become the shopkeeper, and the two of them are almost equivalent to "teaching assistants and small bosses".

It's just that before Yun Shao stepped into the courtyard, Deputy Manager Qi gestured and bowed, and invited the two of them to the aisle outside the Hanging flower door.

Lou Yefeng followed Yun Shao without saying a word, as if he was just a follower.However, the corner of his eyes remained vigilant all the time, wandering over Na Qi's deputy manager.

"Master Yun, please take another step to speak."

In terms of rank, the deputy manager of the royal tea dining room is actually higher than her, the female official in charge of the dining room.However, Deputy Manager Qi is very smart, and he didn't call her "Yun Zhang Shan", so the word "Master" meant to ask for advice.

Yun Shao nodded slightly, she was born as a court lady, so she returned to the same level of salute in the palace.She came here on behalf of the prince, so she didn't have to be self-effacing, and she didn't have to embarrass the prince.

Qi Zhao bent over with an exquisite and appropriate slight arc, took out two indigo square embroidered brocade bags from his sleeves, and handed them out with both hands:

"Master Yun, these dozens of officials are bothering the family. They spend a lot of time practicing cooking, eating meat, rice, vegetables and fruits. We should pay for these subsidy fees. It is not a respect. I would like to ask the two masters to accept it for you.".”

Yun Shao stretched out two fingers and pinched it. The stack of papers inside was obviously a pack of banknotes.

She understood, the money was obviously...

So she unceremoniously took the two packs of bank notes from the opponent's hand.

Qi Zhao: "..."

He was a little confused.Although he knew that the other party would definitely accept it, he just didn't expect that the maid in charge of food was not polite at all, huh?

These little bosses of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are used to the style of eunuchs in the palace who talk and do things first. How can they imagine that the gentle woman in front of them is actually a shadow guard, and they will say what they say.

"Yes, then I will accept it."

After finishing speaking, Yun Shao directly handed one of the packs of silver notes to Lou Yefeng beside him.

Lou Yefeng: "..."

He didn't realize it a little bit. Fang Heng had just paid a large sum of money for the batch of dim sum made in the palace two days ago.Going forward, there is also the "grey income" of the investigation incident...

Yun Shao knew that she was just a foil, and it must be the owner's intention to let the old building take the opportunity to make another profit.Otherwise... the master wouldn't let the old building come over to participate in such a very anxious job of teaching apprentices.

It's just that Lou Yefeng has to collect the banknote, these trivial matters...she should take care of them.

Seeing that Lou Yefeng hadn't moved, Deputy Manager Na Qi coughed lightly:

"Both of you have worked hard. If your lord doesn't accept it, it will be difficult to be an official..."

Lou Yefeng was also aware of their behavior style, so he had to accept it silently, thinking that he would see how much money was in it later and then decide how to deal with it.

Here, since Yun Shao understood her mission, she stopped talking nonsense with him, coughed lightly, put on the air of a master, and walked into the yard with her hands behind her back.

Deputy Chief Na Qi quickly followed in and said loudly:

"Master Yun is here, why don't you welcome him?"

The sound of clanging and chopping vegetables in the yard stopped immediately, and the cook chiefs bowed their heads respectfully when they knew that the Shangguan was coming.

The corner of Yun Shao's mouth twitched imperceptibly, and he raised his plain sleeve and waved:

"You don't have to stop, you keep practicing, I want to see how you practice."

………………

Since Yun Shao has the mentality of "doing things well after receiving the money", she is ready to be a strict teacher.However, after scanning all the desks in the wide yard twice, her expression dropped, and she casually picked up the green radish from the person beside her, and said in a deep voice:

"Cutting a piece of radish can make you cut it like this... This is the easiest way to cut it with a straight knife! Don't you know how to peel and select the core? Do you usually dare to serve the radish with green children on your majesty's dining table?,Ok?"

"Cutting, what is dicing, do you understand that they are the same size? Look at the radishes under your hands. Some are wide, some are narrow, and those are cut into long strips. What about the ones that are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom?What, you can’t understand human words, right? Did you make you slant your knives?”

"How many times have I said that the first joint of the middle finger of the left hand is against the face of the knife, against the face of the knife, is it because you want to cut your own finger if you can't stand it?"

Lou Yefeng pursed his lips, with a slight smile in the corner of his eyes, and whispered next to her:

"I didn't expect that Yunzhangshan, who is usually gentle and gentle, has such a powerful side."

Yun Shao spoke with internal energy, and the sound of cutting the chopping boards stopped suddenly, and there was no sound.Everyone lowered their heads and did not dare to raise their faces, their expressions were extremely ugly.

Before coming to the palace, they all thought that they were going to teach them how to cook the delicious dishes at the Winter Solstice Banquet, but who knew...they started with the simplest diced radishes.

Moreover, the requirements are unprecedentedly high. A radish must be cut squarely without a slight difference, and even the transparency between the dices must be the same, and the color is not allowed to be dark or light...

Where have they treated ingredients with such an attitude before?This suddenly raised the standard several times, and naturally they were very uncomfortable.

Yun Shao naturally knew this too, but practicing with such a requirement was only worthy of the standard of imperial cuisine.That's why I'm going to give them a big blow on the first day:

"Give me the energy to practice. This is the simplest straight knife. I practiced so carelessly. When can I start practicing flat and oblique knives?""Material turning over the guillotine, do you think knife skills are so easy to practice?"

Lou Yefeng frowned:

"Why do you have to talk nonsense to them? If these people have put their heart into cooking, they wouldn't be so rough."

Yun Shao shook his head slightly, turned his head and said softly:

"Not necessarily, there are still two or three people who practice seriously, but the rest are..."

She closed her eyes and thought about it, anyway, the master gave her full responsibility for this matter.And these people are not from the mansion, she doesn't need to worry too much about what's there, of course it's how it works:

"King Yu Palace does not accept waste wood. Check the cutting technique tomorrow morning. If you don't practice well, you will be warned once. If anyone has been warned for more than three times, just pack up and leave!"

As soon as these words came out, the hearts of the dozens of people below were all terrified, and their expressions all changed.

The reason why they were selected to study art in the mansion is naturally for a higher status in the imperial dining room in the future.So there are more than half of the people here, and they used a lot of various means to squeeze in the places they wanted.

However, they came here to learn certain dishes that would please His Majesty, and they never thought of starting with the boring knife skills first, so they all began to habitually perfunctory their errands.

At this time, they didn't expect that the maid in charge of food was so strict, and they took the exclusion of places as a commandment, so they couldn't help but care less.

There was silence in the courtyard.

Even though everyone had slight complaints in their hearts, they had already learned not to show their faces after being in the palace for a long time, but they were still respectful on the surface.

It's just that there are people who don't have much experience of the majestic status of King Yu Palace. At this time, a Shangshan eunuch took two steps forward, bowed and asked:

"Master Yun, our vision and knowledge are very short, so we didn't know what kind of knife work is good before. I don't know... Could Master Yun please show us how this radish...should be cut to pass the test?"

Deputy Chief Na Qi immediately reprimanded:

"Presumptuous! How can you come to learn art like you! It's actually..."

Yun Shao unabashedly turned over to Byakugan.

What I said is nothing more than that I think my requirements are too high, and I feel that I can't do it myself... This deputy manager Qi has a way of yin and yang, so if you want to see my demonstration, just say it.

So she unceremoniously interrupted Deputy Director Qi's acting, and chuckled lightly:

"Alright, I should have given you a sample."

As soon as the words were finished, Yun Shao raised her sleeve lightly, and an arc of white light, like a crescent moon, flew out of her sleeve.

Only Lou Yefeng could see clearly that it was not a scimitar at all, it was clearly dozens of one-inch flying knives as thin as willow leaves.

A white light flashed, and with a uniform and fine "Puff" sound, dozens of throwing knives all sank into the wooden cutting board.And a blue radish on the chopping board has been neatly divided into small cubes that don't fit a finger.

"..."

There was a sudden silence in the courtyard, and no one dared to speak out.

Yun Shao turned around and walked out:

"gone."

Lou Yefeng laughed but didn't speak.

………………

Walking among the courtyards of the palace, Lou Yefeng judged her hidden weapon just now:

"It's been a long time since you made a move, but I never lost martial arts. I didn't expect kung fu to be good at it. You used to be unable to accurately control so many throwing knives at the same time."

"It's not that girl Jiang Xue who has been obsessed with practicing martial arts in recent months, so she always pulls me to practice together..."

"However, this move of yours may not be of much use to them. Once you make a move, they will know that you are a master of martial arts, and they may even think that they can't cut so well because they don't know martial arts. Isn't it counterproductive?.”

Yun Shao didn't care at all:

"I didn't show them how to cut carrots, I just used martial arts to scare them, and warned them that if they practice like this again next time, hmph..."

Lou Yefeng: "..."

He was speechless when a shadow guard flew over from afar:

"My subordinates refer to Professor Lou, Deacon Yun."

"The master just found you and didn't see you, so he ordered his subordinates to pass on... Deacon Yun, go back to Hanqiu Pavilion."

Yun Shao poked Lou Yefeng:

"Tsk tsk, old building, the master misses you and urges you to go back."

Lou Yefeng: "..."

He simply couldn't get down in front of the two subordinates, and was slightly annoyed:

"What nonsense, obviously the master called you."

Lou Yefeng asked the messenger shadow guard next to him with his eyes, but the shadow guard lowered his head and did not speak.

"Let's go, go back quickly, I can't take this responsibility later."

Lou Yefeng had no choice but to carry the lightness kung fu back to the master's bedroom with Yun Shao.And when they just landed, Pei Nianyu sent Yun Shao back to rest, leaving only Lou Yefeng to talk:

"How is it, how does it feel after inspecting it?"

Lou Yefeng thought for a while, and first gave a brief account of the matter, then took out the cloth bag containing the bank notes, and started counting in front of the owner:

"Well, there are twenty pieces of silver bills worth one hundred taels. Master, this..."

Two thousand silver bills are quite a lot, but not many.It's right on the line between "it's not rude to give it away" and "too much money makes people feel hot".

Pei Nianyu secretly praised in his heart, these palace errands are really good, so he said casually:

"You take what is given to you."

Lou Yefeng suddenly felt a headache, these two thousand taels of silver... If it is for the public, his palace does not lack this star.If you really take it yourself...

"But my subordinates always feel that they don't get rewarded for nothing..."

"You go to inspect it every day for me, so I don't have to worry about it. It's not your credit."

"Well……"

Pei Nianyu hurriedly stuffed the bank note into his arms, and then began to change the subject:

"But you said just now, how many people did Yun Shao see doing well?"

"Yes, but not many, just two or three."

Pei Nianyu pondered for a moment, thinking of the master-apprentice function in his system.Although these imperial tea dining rooms are only some apprentices, but if you can teach a few spiritual ones, you can also earn a fortune in food, right?

"How about this, let Yun Shao announce it tomorrow, and let them anonymously number the practice content every day. Then you and Yun Shao will roughly rate and score, and the daily scores will be accumulated."

"After a period of time, I will teach each of them a special dish according to their specialties."

"Yes, this subordinate understands."

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There were rewards and punishments, and from the second day onwards, these apprentices really became more serious day by day.

There are only a few places for "personally conferred by the prince", so they naturally want to do better, so as to have a chance to get the favor of the prince.

After ten consecutive days of this policy, Pei Nianyu inspected the selected high-rated ones every day, and saw that there were only a few serial numbers back and forth, so he knew it in his heart.

The matter of talent... is really cruel...

On the tenth day, Pei Nianyu felt that they had mastered several basic saber techniques, so he set out a task:

"Let them go to the stove today, and everyone will do a 'sloppy three whites'."

Yun Shao was puzzled:

"Master, you haven't taught it yet, will they do it?"

"Give them the recipe, and learn how to do it yourself. I mainly look at their knife skills. By the way, let me take a look at their respective talents in seasoning and heat before I teach them."

Yun Shao understood instantly.

This is a mess. The so-called "three whites" refer to fish slices, chicken slices, and bamboo shoot slices.

These are three completely different textures, and the natural feel when cutting the knife is also different.Moreover, the requirements for slicing are relatively high, and the requirements are neat and beautiful, and the thickness is uniform and appropriate. Too thick or too thin will cause problems in the heat.

It's just right to inspect the knife skills.

At night, Yun Shao directed the maids to bring over all the dishes made by everyone.

Pei Nianyu took a cursory glance, then shook his head greatly.

The matter of talent is really cruel... Sure enough, if you are not good at knife skills, the heat and seasoning are useless.

Those who cut the fish fillets crookedly are fine, and there are even those who pour soy sauce in it...

How can this dark piece be called "dirty three whites"?It's just brain flooding.

There was no other way, so Pei Nianyu had no choice but to start looking at the serial numbers that got high scores a few days ago.

Sure enough, a certain chef who has always been the number one chef, this time he did a bad job and looked good.Although it has not been taught, at least the appearance looks like it can be eaten.

Pei Nianyu stretched out his chopsticks to taste the taste, but before he stretched out his hand, he was blocked by a black sleeve from the side:

"Master, this subordinate has not tested the poison yet."

Pei Nianyu looked up at Lou Yefeng, the gaze of the man opposite seemed to be eternally calm and cautious, just like the calm black clothes.