136. Fish in clear water do not swallow the hook

It's been a while since Chinese New Year, and it's early spring in February.

Early spring is a good time, everything grows, and the willows turn green.The spring breeze blowing on the face has begun to bring a little warmth... This is when the hormones start to stir.

Such a slightly intoxicating intoxicating spring breeze, even if it is wood, should it sprout?

Pei Nianyu looked up at the blue sky above the palace, thinking so.

Yesterday, after I made a plan of "wood sprouting" with He Yanjun's eyes, today I encountered a good weather.Isn't this the right time, place and people, and great things can be achieved by seeing it, which is wonderful.

It's just that before he could maintain his good mood for a long time, the senior officials of the palace came back to him:

"My lord, a new batch of apprentices from the palace has arrived, look..."

Pei Nianyu: "..."

He thought to himself: fu...ck.

He has been in a good mood for the past few days, but why did he forget the mission of his younger brother!

But then he thought about the fact that the imperial dining room at his younger brother's side had been empty for almost a month, and there were only a few dozen or so people barely supporting the minimum imperial dining ostentation, which was really pitiful.So Pei Nianyu still called their new apprentices over.

Pei Niancheng ordered the shadow guards to spend a lot of time looking for these apprentices from the private sector.In addition to being clean and innocent, some tests were used to select those teenagers with culinary talents.

Among them, if there are those whose families are poor and unable to make ends meet so that they have to sell their children, they are gathered.After preparing for Pei Nianyu's unified training.Send it to the imperial dining room to experience slowly and fill the manpower.

Therefore, when Pei Nianyu saw them this time, these young people were all from ordinary people's homes, and they were really different from the group of eunuchs in the imperial dining room that Pei Nianyu saw last time.

I saw them standing in the courtyard of the deep house in the palace, their expressions were cautious and terrified, and at the same time, their eyes were full of anticipation for the future.Compared with those eunuchs in the imperial dining room who never got down to business, Pei Nianyu's first impression was 10,000 times better.

It's just that because of their background, they have never been exposed to a variety of ingredients and cooking methods, so the teaching still has to start from the basics.

As for the content of the teaching... have figured out a set of methods when teaching the group of eunuchs earlier.Therefore, after Pei Nianyu briefly said a few words of encouragement to them, and arranged their accommodation, daily life, and work and rest time, he took them to the big kitchen.

As soon as she entered the small kitchen, Yun Shaoyi happened to be in the big kitchen, but she was teaching her junior brother—Xiang Ping'en, and under Xiang Ping'en's hands was a clay pot with half a pot of flour in it.

"If there is too much noodles, add water, if there is too much water, add noodles. Basin light, hand light, face light! Why can't I remember!"

Pei Nianyu saw Yun Shao roaring with his arms crossed, his usual meek temper turned into a little impatience at this moment.Xiang Ping'en, who was next to him, was trembling, and couldn't help being a little curious. He stepped forward to take a look, but saw that the noodles in the basin were limp and had turned into a thin soup batter.

Pei Nianyu: "..."

"this is……"

Pei Nianyu asked what was going on, Yun Shao greeted the master first, and replied:

"Master, I recently taught this kid the basics of kung fu. Seasoning, heat, and knife skills are almost done. I have learned most of the common things about food processing, and even some simple stir-fried dishes have a good look."

"However, I started teaching him dim sum today, but I didn't expect him to be so stupid! He can't even knead dough! It's a mess!"

"It's such a big deal, calm down. By the way, a new batch of apprentices has arrived in the palace. Go and teach them the basic skills. It doesn't matter if it takes a little longer. Leave it to me here."

After Yun Shao left, Xiang Pingen was terrified when he saw that his senior sister had complained in front of the prince, and immediately wanted to plead guilty.Pei Nianyu stopped him and comforted him:

"Come on, try again, you can be so talented in cooking, dim sum is much easier than cooking."

"..."

"..."

After half an hour.

Pei Nianyu raised his forehead:

"If there is too much water, add noodles, if there is too much noodles, add water!! How can you not understand such a simple truth?! Can't you wait for the noodles to absorb the water and then add water little by little? You pour so much water at a time for useDid you drink?"

"My lord... uh... master..."

Xiang Ping was frightened into a hamster eating his hands.

Pei Nianyu was just about to teach a few more words, when suddenly a servant girl came to report:

"My lord, Miss He invites you to listen to the piano."

Pei Nianyu could only sigh:

"...I'll leave for a while, you can practice on your own."

………………

Pei Nianyu slowed down and came to the Wenhong Room. This time, He Yanjun did not put out the piano stand very wisely.

He put on his robe and sat down, and He Yanjun offered him a cup of tea:

"Although this tea is the top quality tea in the palace, it's just that the tea needs to be cooked with one's heart in order to know the taste. The person who cooks the tea today is not someone who knows the prince's heart, so the prince will just drink it."

Pei Nianyu took a sip when he heard the words, and it was quite satisfactory.He Yanjun's tea-cooking technique is obviously practiced, at least it is relatively standardized and not messy, and it is not a waste of good tea.It's just that compared to Lou Yefeng's casual taste that completely fits his taste, it's indeed lacking in flavor by more than three points.

"You're a smart one."

"My lord's qin skills are so wonderful that he must be more fond of tasting tea. The pursuit of perfection is interlinked, and this is not a difficult thing to guess."

Pei Nianyu nodded.

It's just that he didn't really come to listen to the piano, he just let Lou Yefeng know about it, and He Yanjun didn't prepare the piano either.So after drinking a cup of tea, the two of them had nothing to talk about, so they started staring.

Pei Nianyu: "..."

He Yanjun coughed twice, and started looking for something to say:

"My lord said yesterday that Yanjun's qin skills are terrible. It's because Yanjun met Master Fan after only a few days of learning... Naturally, it's not as good as my lord's true biography of Master Fan."

"I don't know... Yanjun is lucky enough to have some advice from the prince?"

Pei Nianyu shook his head:

"Who is your teacher is only a very small reason. The reason why you can't play well is not because of this, but because of your state of mind. Sister He, do you... like piano art?"

When He Yanjun heard the words, he was silent for a long time, and after a while, he suddenly sighed:

"I understand. When I was young, I liked playing the piano, but later... it was just forced to learn. When I thought that this piano was to please others, I..."

Pei Nianyu nodded:

"So, although your talent in piano art is not low, but since you don't like it very much, why do you ask me how to improve?"

"—You are already the Lord of Qingping County, and you will no longer need to serve others with the sound of the piano."

So the two of them fell into staring silence again.

Pei Nianyu thought that the time was short, Lou Yefeng must not be convinced, so he called a shadow guard:

"Go to the big kitchen and call Xiang Ping'en over, and ask him to come over with a basin. I want to watch him practice."

"Yes, this subordinate understands."

When Xiang Ping'en ran over with a basin and began to make new lumps of noodles in the basin, He Yanjun couldn't help being a little surprised:

"My lord... are you teaching him... how to make noodles? Yanjun is really surprised that the lord is proficient in cooking."

"Why are you surprised? Half of the snacks that those maids bring to your house every day are made by your sister Yun Shao, and the other half is made by me. This Xiang Ping'en... used to be the head of the imperial dining room, but now it's me.apprentice."

"By the way, Pingen, this is Commander He Dajun's younger sister, and she is now the county lord of Qingping."

He saluted quickly to Ping En:

"The lower official has seen the county head."

"Please get up, Mr. Xiang is a disciple of the prince, Yanjun really can't afford it."

Pei Nianyu's face was a little ugly:

"Your side...have been practicing for an hour and still can't get along?? If you don't even know how to make a face-to-face, why are you talking about making snacks? In white case kung fu, making a face-to-face is the foundation of everything."

After all, Pei Nianyu simply rolled up his sleeves and began to teach him bit by bit, while He Yanjun was watching with curiosity in his eyes.

After Pei Nianyu taught for a while, he suddenly felt her gaze, raised his head and said:

"Hey, what are you doing here watching this?"

"...It's nothing, it just reminds Yanjun of the old days. Yanjun loved dim sum when he was a child. He ate all the dim sum shops in Capital, but he couldn't eat any more tricks."

Pei Nianyu became interested and motioned for the two of them to go aside for a chat.And He Yanjun's eyes gradually showed nostalgia:

"After eating too much, Yanjun began to dislike the single style of these shops in Beijing. At most, they were just eight pieces of Jingba that were given to each other as gifts between the mansions. This is an extremely delicate and precious dim sum, but there are only those few styles..”

"Later... my elder brother knew that I hated the lack of fresh snacks to eat, so he racked his brains to think of some new tricks, and made them for me to eat. It's just that as the saying goes, a gentleman stays away from the kitchen, and my elder brother is waiting for imperial edicts, and my father has an old-fashioned temper.I don't know how to change it."

"That's why my elder brother didn't dare to let my father know that he was actually cooking himself, so he secretly went to my small kitchen to cook for me in the middle of the night. Knead the dough at night, and baked dim sum the next morning."

"Wait...Your elder brother...Your elder brother can actually make dim sum???"

Pei Nianyu's eyeballs were about to pop out when he heard it, but he still remembered the miserable situation when he first traveled through time.

This Dajing dynasty was too rough and contemptuous of cooking. Families with a little wealth would hire cooks, and most of the masters of the mansion would not touch the spring water.

And the eldest brother of the He family, a typical civil servant who entered the imperial examination, and the pillar of the family, would get up in the middle of the night to secretly make snacks?

He Yanjun couldn't help feeling sad:

"Yeah, brother learned how to make dim sum because of me. At the beginning, the ones sold by Capital were not as good as those sold by Capital. But it soon became more and more delicious, and there were more and more tricks, until the ones bought from outsideDim sum can no longer compare to that made by big brother.”

"...The most delicious dim sum I have ever eaten in my life is made by my elder brother. Although your prince's dim sum is more delicate and delicious, but...the dim sum made by my elder brother will never be eaten again."

Pei Nianyu was silent, and at the same time he sighed secretly in his heart. His eldest brother must be a culinary genius, but it's a pity... Sigh.

………………

They talked for a long time, but it took a lot of time. Lou Yefeng saw that the master taught a group of new apprentices for so long, he couldn't help but wondered, and called a shadow guard:

"...Did you see the master?"

"Go back to the building to teach. Just an hour ago, Miss He asked the master to listen to the piano, and the master went, until now."

Lou Yefeng stood there dumbfounded.

an hour...

After listening for so long...?

Is the master trying to make up for the regret that he didn't finish listening to the song that day, or...?

Suddenly, Lou Yefeng's chest seemed to be hit by a bang, and he felt a dull pain.He didn't dare to think about it anymore, and he was afraid that he would lose his composure in front of his subordinates, so he waved him off.

After a while, Pei Nianyu returned to Hanqiu Pavilion, Lou Yefeng couldn't help asking while serving lunch:

"Master, you just..."

Pei Nianyu turned his back to him at the moment, and he couldn't help but smile when he heard him ask such a question:

"Oh, I went to sit with sister Yanjun for a while, and listened to the piano for a while. She plays the piano with great flavor, unlike ordinary luthiers."

Sister Yanjun...

Hearing this address, Lou Yefeng stared blankly for a while, the silver needle used for routine poison testing rested on the dish for a long time.

Pei Nianyu secretly watched his reaction from the side, obviously feeling uncomfortable, and couldn't help feeling distressed.However, he also thought that his family Ye Feng had to take this step, and couldn't always hide under the identity of shadow guard for the rest of his life.

So I had no choice but to say to myself in my heart that short-term pain is worse than long-term pain, and resisted the urge to step forward and hug him.

……………

Meanwhile, in the Wenhong Room.

Not a while after He Yanjun sent Pei Nianyu away, he suddenly heard the message from the servant girl that Master Lian Xiao came over and quickly invited him in.

"Yanjun would also like to thank Mr. Lian for his good prescription. His body is already recovering. I don't know Mr. Lian today..."

Lian Xiao shrugged:

"Didn't you faint from overwork a few days ago? Your brother was worried about you. He was also afraid that it would be too hypocritical to care too much about you, so he didn't dare to tell the master, so he asked me to come back today to take your pulse yesterday.Is there anything that needs to be adjusted."

How did He Yanjun feel such care from his relatives for many years before?Thinking of his cold and serious second brother, he couldn't help feeling warm in his heart.

"Then thank you, Master Lian."

After the consultation, He Yanjun thought of something, but stopped Lian Xiao again:

"Master Lian, wait a moment, Yanjun still has some things he wants to ask Master Lian about."

"Sister He said it's okay."

He Yanjun hesitated for a moment:

"But I don't know... what's going on between the prince and his commander-in-chief?"

As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.Since He Yanjun made up his mind to do the prince a great favor, he naturally wanted to get the information clearly first.

Lian Xiao was suddenly vigilant, raised his eyebrows and said:

"Why are you asking this?"

He Yanjun then told the plan between himself and the prince.

Lian Xiao squinted her eyes and stared at her for a long time. He Yanjun only felt that he was being followed by a smiling fox, but he looked back without any fear.

Lian Xiao suddenly smiled:

"Since you have such a heart, it's the best. I finally have hope. Your brother is really... Hey! It's just adding trouble to the prince!"

"How do you say this?"

Lian Xiao started with Pei Nianyu and Lou Yefeng's first acquaintance, and talked about their ten-year friendship between master and servant, and their deep love for many years.He talked about Lou Yefeng's life and death to protect his master's safety, how his master trusted and relied on him, and how Lou Commander lost all his martial arts just a few months ago in order to save his master.

"Since then, the master has suddenly become interested in Commander Lou, and treats him with gentleness every day. As for Commander Lou, I think he has fallen in love with Master many years ago."

He Yanjun frowned:

"You just said... the prince has already expressed his heart to Commander Lou?"

"should be."

He Yanjun was amazed:

"Why did the leader of the building still...?"

Lian Xiao shrugged: "How do I know? Maybe Commander Lou has some scruples? For example, about his identity?"

He Yanjun was worried:

"Does Master Lian think Yanjun's strategy will work?"

"I guess it's about the same. Your thinking is right. As the saying goes, rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry. In the old building, he had no one else to rob him of his master before, so it doesn't matter whether he expresses his intentions or not. He and the master's relationshipThe relationship won't change."

"He is in the midst of blessings and doesn't know how to be blessed. If the rabbit finds out that the carrot next to his mouth is going to be snatched..."

He Yanjun nodded:

"Makes sense."

Lian Xiao suddenly got up:

"By the way, I'm going to see the master right now and report to the master."

"Report what?"

"Hmm... Ms. He has been exhausted for many years, and her body has suffered a loss. May I ask the master if there is any medicinal food for you?"

"—Don't worry, I definitely said it in front of Lou Yefeng."

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He Yanjun & Lian Xiao: seem to have seen someone of the same kind... (Old Fox's Smile.jpg)