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Chapter 2
Now Lin Dan was a little dazed, and subconsciously called a system in his head, and then he was stunned-what is a system? She was holding a spoon in her hand, and a thin layer of milky white soup came out from the spoon. It smelled delicious, and there was still a slight aftertaste in her mouth. It was obvious that she had already taken a sip just now. But the problem is that Lin Dan has no idea who he is, what he is doing, and why he appeared here inexplicably.
She stared at her skinny, calloused hands, and felt that these hands belonged to her, but she didn't seem to be. She stood here, but she clearly didn’t belong here, just like a stranger who broke in suddenly, and the people around her. Everything is out of place. She can't even figure out what the situation is now.
However, the people around did not realize that Lin Dan at this moment was not the Lin Dan before. One of them pointed to the dish placed in front of her and said, "It still tastes a little bad." But what kind of flavor it was, he did. It is not clear, after all, he is not a professional chef, but his sense of taste is more sensitive than ordinary people.
Lin Dan was awakened by this sentence, and when he looked up, he realized that the other party was a young man in brocade clothes. He is thin, fair-skinned, and handsome, if he doesn't speak, he looks like a little girl. Like Lin Dan, he was tasting the dishes with a spoon in his hand, his brows were slightly frowned, and his expression was serious.
"I really owe some heat." Another person said slowly.
Lin Dan turned his head to look and found that the person speaking this time was an old man with a gray beard. Right now he was stroking his lips, seeming to discern the aftertaste of the soup.
Lin Dan quickly looked away and looked around. Even though he didn't understand anything in his heart, he didn't show the slightest panic on his face. She seemed to be used to dealing with such emergencies.
"What does it mean to owe some heat? I think they are almost the same, there is no difference." This time the speaker is a middle-aged man with a majestic appearance, wearing a robe embroidered with auspicious clouds and blue unicorns, status and status It doesn't seem to be low, because as soon as his voice fell, the people standing around nodded in agreement, with a slightly flattering smile on his face.
But Lin Dan didn't focus on him, but turned his head and looked aside. A little girl stood seven or eight meters away from her. She was only thirteen or fourteen years old. She also had a square table in front of her. There was also a plate of dishes on the table. Just look at the color, fragrance, taste, Under Lin Dan's eyelids, there was almost no difference.
Integrating circumstances, characters, and dialogue information, Lin Dan quickly came to the conclusion that he seemed to be competing with someone in cooking.
The little girl smiled a little after hearing the words of the young man and the white-bearded old man. Seeing that the middle-aged man did not support her, her eyebrows were immediately twisted, and she looked a little stubborn: "Please try again."
Hou Ye? Lin Dan, who was trying his best to collect information, gave the middle-aged man a quick glance.
The middle-aged man was about to speak, and the young handsome boy was impatient and said, "Is the food good or bad, you can't taste it yourself, what do you cook?" This was obviously addressed to Lin Dan, because he was black and white. Staring straight at Lin Dan. The little girl was happy now, lowered her head, pursed her lips, and smiled shyly.
Before, Lin Dan had already tasted the dishes she made, but did not admit defeat. It would not be appropriate to say "no admit defeat". It should be said that she could not taste the difference of her dishes or lacked any flavor, and thought she had already The boy who lost was very dissatisfied with this.
Now that she has figured out the situation, Lin Dan doesn’t have to remain unchanged. She wants to finish the play according to the reaction of normal people, so she silently commented on the soup in the spoon and went there again. Next to the angry little girl, she scooped the soup from her plate.
These two dishes are both crab yellow chicken mashed cabbage heart, which looks like just a few cooked cabbage leaves, but it takes a lot of effort to make it. This is the case for a cooking dish, the simpler the dish, the harder it is to make.
Originally, Lin Dan only wanted to take a couple of mouthfuls and voluntarily surrendered, so that he could get away as soon as possible, and then find a place to quietly digest the sudden situation. But when she really tasted the two dishes, her taste buds and brain automatically made judgments. She was surprised to discover that her sense of taste seemed to be much more sensitive than ordinary people, and even the slightest difference could be magnified several times by the tip of her tongue, which was exactly what Lin Dan lacked the most.
"I lost." After putting down the spoon, she said sincerely, "My heart is a bit bitter." This bitterness is hardly tasted by ordinary people, and only the very sensitive old glutton can tell it.
The white-bearded old man took a deep look at her and said, "That's right, you didn't wait for the cabbage core to be fully cooked when you thickened. This makes the heating time of the starch excessively prolonged, which makes it easy to burn and bitter, and the taste is unpleasant. Smoky. And the essence of the crab yellow chicken mashed cabbage is in two words, one is fresh and sweet, and the other is smooth. Your dish looks decent, but it tastes a bit worse."
Lin Dan nodded and said again: "I lost."
Seeing her frank and safe expression and no resentment after defeat, the white-bearded old man nodded slightly. The middle-aged man sighed deeply, his face was unbearable, and a woman hiding behind the others fell over her chest, frightening everyone.
"No, the Qi family fainted! Lin Dan, come and see your mother!" Immediately, two women helped the women up and waved to Lin Dan.
Lin Dan, who quickly collected information from the words to supplement his identity, rushed over without hesitation, and said loudly: "I beg you to help find a doctor, I will send my mother home first." The words naturally took over one of them. The woman went to help the women. The woman who was free to take the shot had not noticed anything unusual, and hurriedly led the way, and soon brought Lin Dan back to her own home.
After a lot of turmoil, the doctor finally came and said that the woman was not seriously ill, but the fainting caused by over-worrying, just drink some soothing decoction.
After Lin Dan took the prescription, he took off a silver hairpin on his head and counted it as a consultation fee. She didn't know where the woman kept her money, even if she knew that the cash drawer was definitely locked. Now the woman is dizzy and can't ask her to get the key, it can only be so.
The doctor glanced at her with a pitying look, and said warmly: "The consultation fee, Lord Hou, is out. You can keep the hairpin. Give me this prescription, and I will let the little servant in the Hou Mansion help you catch it, your mother. I'm fainting, and I can't leave anyone. Alas..."
Looking at the doctor who slowly walked away while shaking his head and sighing, Lin Dan realized that the previous cooking test seemed very important to him, otherwise everyone would not have so much sympathy for her, and her mother would not be there. She fainted after giving up. But if you lose, you lose. This is an undeniable fact, so Lin Dan has no remorse for what he did.
Seeing the woman's face covered in cold sweat, she picked up the copper basin and went outside to fetch water, but saw a 16 or 17-year-old boy walk in and whispered: "Lin Dan, I have already caught the medicine for you. The medicine and three bowls of water are boiled on a high fire and then boiled into a bowl with a low fire. Don't lose the remaining medicine residue. You can boil two more doses, three doses a day, and it is almost enough to drink for seven days."
Lin Dan hurriedly thanked him, and after sending him away, he went to the kitchen to boil medicine. Whether it was chopping wood to burn the stove or holding a bucket to fetch water, this body could finish it subconsciously. The decoction had already boiled, and the bubbles were bubbling. Lin Dan removed some of the dry wood and boiled it slowly with a low fire. Then he brought a small stool and sat on the side of the stove to sort his memories.
She seemed to be used to doing this, so she quickly understood her situation. Her father is Lin Baotian, the chef of Yongding Houfu. Since Yongding Hou is a glutton, he is very particular about eating, so Lin Baotian, who has extraordinary cooking skills, is highly valued by the other party, and he is even taken with him even in marching battles. His status is evident. Because of this, Lin Dan and Qi had a very good life in the Hou Mansion. Not only did they have a detached house to live in, but also the maidservants served.
But two months ago, Lin Baotian suddenly fell ill and died. While he was still alive, he passed on the cooking skills and kitchen knives that he had summed up in his life to Lin Dan, the only daughter. Lin Dan has admired Master Xiaohou since she was a child, and the other person, like Master Hou, is also a favorite to eat, so she practiced cooking every day, just to make Master Xiaohou look at herself more.
After the death of her father, she took over the mantle and continued to work as a chef in Houfu. Although she was only twelve or thirteen years old, she was already very skilled. Occasionally, she cooked a long-trained signature dish, scallion and braised black ginseng, but she heard Xiaohouye say that this dish is far inferior to the little maid in his courtyard.
Lin Dan has always been arrogant, and even though he went to fight with the little maid, he didn't expect that the little maid would have a shocking secret. It turns out that Lin Baotian's cooking skills and kitchen knives were all stolen from her grandfather. Lin Baotian is not a descendant of the golden sword imperial chef at all, but the generation who deceived the master and destroyed the ancestor.
The young maid's name is Yan Langqing, and her grandfather is the former royal chef Yan Bo, who is quite famous in the industry. After leaving the palace, she accepted several apprentices, one of which is Lin Dan's father, Lin Baotian. Later, Yan Bo was seriously ill and was about to die. Yan Langqing's father happened to be out of town. He could not rush back in time to send his father for the last time. Lin Baotian buried Yan Bo and took the opportunity to steal the Imperial Golden Knife and Yan's recipes, and disappeared since then. Got without a trace.
Yan Langqing’s father was so upset about this and took his wife and children to find Lin Baotian in the Hou Mansion of Yongding, but he did not expect that the other party was dead, so he let his daughter sneak into the Mansion to learn about the enemy’s descendants. And looking for an opportunity to challenge Lin Dan, the bet is the golden sword and the Yan family recipe.
Lin Dan is very competitive and eager to win. Why would she be willing to lose face in front of Xiaohouye, and to defend her father's reputation, she immediately took the challenge... Then she lost and later became the "Lin Dan" now. The handsome young man who served as the judge was young marquis, and the middle-aged man who knew Lin Dan was defeated by Yan Langqing but still defended him is Old Hou Ye.
Although the names are the same, Lin Dan can clearly perceive that the previous self and the present self are not the same person at all. Before, Lin Dan was full of Xiaohouye. He could be ecstatic about one of his smiles, or hesitated about one of his frowns, but now, Lin Dan feels nothing anymore, thinking of the other person as if thinking of one. stranger.
What she urgently needs to solve is no longer the problem of identity and memory, but where to go. After losing the game and having a sickly mother who needs care, what should she do in the future?