The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 57
Zou Shangshi and Cui Wan listened to the holy will so naturally they had to follow through, and they also deliberately left an extremely quiet and empty room, prepared a pen and paper, and let Xueli ponder over it slowly.

Xue Li was about to cry in the room, she dragged Wei Chen to ask him for advice, Wei Chen leisurely sipped his tea: "I'm not good at this, you don't even know me, let alone me."

She saw how determined he was to stand by and watch, so she had no choice but to give up on it and try to think about it by herself.

After all, the imperial decree was there, so it was inappropriate for her to ask Wei Chen for help.

Resting her chin, Xue Li stared at the page of paper in front of her in a daze. After deliberation, the first thought that was a little bit tricky was to make sweet and sour pork ribs.

——This is the first stone step for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries!That prince really liked this back then, didn't he?There's not even soup left, is there?

Use it to shock this group of people again?

No.

She really served another sweet and sour pork ribs...then she is really stupid!

The people who came to Daqi to explore delicious food were all sent by the prince. If you think about it, you will know that they must follow his taste—just like their imperial dining room cooking will follow His Majesty's taste.Thinking about it this way, people will definitely make sweet and sour pork ribs. After so many years, maybe it is not uncommon in Luowu?
Putting this aside, Sydney began to think wildly.

Can scare the Luowu people.According to this idea, there are actually many ways, especially exquisite, shocking, unique, or extravagant materials, should they all be counted?

The brush was drawn back and forth on the paper, and finally, abruptly, he drew a big idea for himself.

She went to ask Zou Shangshi, if she couldn't choose one, would it be okay for her to present three?

Before Zou Shangshi could speak, Cui Wan, who always abided by the rules, frowned beside him: "Your Majesty told you to present one, you..."

"Three dishes, three." Zou Shangshi smiled, and said to Cui Wan, "What His Majesty cares about is not the dish, but to calm down the envoys over there. If she can do it, it doesn't matter if there are two more dishes."

Cui Wan thought about it, so she stopped stopping her.Zou Shangshi pondered for a while, and then said, "Do you have any special ideas for these three dishes?"

Sydney nodded.

"At that time, you can submit it yourself. As long as His Majesty allows you to speak, you will speak your mind."

"..." Sydney nodded regretfully.

Fortunately, the nervousness of presenting the meal with my own hands can be put aside for the time being. The matter at hand has taken shape. When she returned to that room refreshed, she dragged Wei Chen, who was watching the show, to the dining room!
"What are you doing?" Wei Chen suppressed a smile and said solemnly, "I can't help you cook, but it's okay to help you eat."

Xue Li stared at him fiercely, tiptoed to make herself not so much shorter than him, and put her hips on her hips: "Master Wei, has anyone under your command been to Luo Wu country? Can you call me for a favor?"

She wanted to present a dish of Luo Wu's.She is confident that she can make anything that can be made in that small place, but she has never seen it before.

So I have to find someone to talk to her and help her try.

Wei Chen thinks about it, there really is.

The total number of ten thousand households under his command exceeds ten thousand, and the eyeliners he sends everywhere are also members of the imperial guards, so naturally some of them have been to Luowu.

When you call someone over, he is still an acquaintance!
It was the one who gave Sydney the idea that she could give the "Master Commander" a purse, and he was the one who sent her the three hundred times copied recipes for "Master Commander".

Knowing that his name is Lu Yong, Xue Li bowed her knees and said, "Lord Lu."

Lu Yong was a bit at a loss when he was called to the Shangshi Bureau. After Wei Chen told him about Sydney's thoughts...

Lu Yong hid back with horror on his face: "No...no way!"

Wei Chen frowned: "What?"

"Let me tell you, Mr. Wei... I don't want to eat the food from that place in my life! Don't let me taste it! I won't do it!"

Wei Chen said in his heart that you are in a good mood, right?Are you trying to show off that you have a good wife?What kind of hardship has Yu Lingwei experienced before, to be so frightened by Luo Wucai?
Who are you kidding!Next, he will definitely be abducted to his wife's virtuous cooking!

Lu Yong really planned to turn his head and run away, but was grabbed by Xue Li.

Xue Li's eyelashes were filled with tears, and she clenched her hands tightly for fear that he would run away. Tears filled her eyelashes: "My lord, please help me, I can't do anything..."

"..." Lu Yong looked down at her expression, and felt that it was inappropriate for him to push this little girl away!
Then Wei Chen also rolled up his sleeves to cooperate, with the words on his face: My sister begged you so much, won't you help?
Lu Yong, who couldn't handle it, told Sydney about the miraculous luowucai.

"The Luowu people, the most common thing to eat is to cut potatoes, soak them in water first, then drain the water, then sprinkle with salt, pepper, and chili, and roast them on the fire. They can be eaten when they are cooked. Time to dip some sauce."

This is very simple!

Sydney went happily.

Wash the potatoes, peel them, and then think about whether they are roasted or fried, so they are not shredded, but thinly sliced.He only used the three kinds of seasonings he said, but she prepared four different ones. The first one had more salt, the second had more pepper, the third had more chili, and the fourth was average.

After a while, it came out, and a plate of potato chips was baked to a golden color, neatly stacked on the plate, forming a ladder shape.There are four columns in total, and each column uses the same seasoning.

As soon as she brought it over, Lu Yong praised her: "As expected of the craftsmanship of the Imperial Dining Room!"

Afterwards, Lu Yong tasted generously, and after tasting one piece in turn, he tasted one piece in turn.

Under Sydney's expectant eyes, Wei Chen touched him with his arm: "Don't just eat, is that okay?"

"Okay, it's delicious!" Lu Yong said, "If the Luo Wu people can do this, next time Luo Wu is on an errand, send me there!"

"..." Doesn't it look like co-authoring? !

Xue Li's small face collapsed, Wei Chen saw that Lu Yong was going to eat another slice, so he picked up the scabbard and drew it: "Don't eat it!"

Lu Yong rubbed his forehead, and told Xue Li what was wrong.

"People from Luowu, it's not slicing, it's dicing. You did it too meticulously."

Oh, and dicing is easier.But Xueli thought for a while: "But the smell can't get in like that?"

"Well, I just can't get in." Lu Yong said deeply.

Not long after, a new plate came out.

The square pieces are placed on the plate, each piece is three fingers long and one finger thick, because the outside is burnt brown, it looks like a plate of small gold bricks.

Lu Yong picked it up and took a bite. The fire was even. After the charred layer on the outside was broken, the cooked but not burnt potatoes inside had a rustling texture.The seasoning is well wrapped on the outside, and the inside still contains the original light fragrance of potatoes.

"This..." Lu Yong looked at his boss's expression, and reluctantly put down his chopsticks, "The Luowu people don't cut it so beautifully, they just cut a whole potato vertically, and if it's too big, cut it at the middle first One knife and then a few vertical cuts."

Sydney was dumbfounded after hearing this: how ugly is that?There are round faces and flat faces, as well as sharp and angular ones.

Don't Luowu people pay attention to "good color, fragrance and taste"?

Teased in her heart, she went to wash the potatoes again with a sullen head.This time the mood is very complicated, this kind of strange shape, I don't know how to bake it, no matter how I bake it, she thinks it is not cooked!
Especially the round surface, why can't it be flattened with a knife?This is not good for chopsticks, is it?Doesn't look too appetizing?
But this time, after Lu Yong tasted it again, he said it was "like", and then he lamented that he ate this every day in Luowu, except this was fried fish.In the end, I couldn't bear it anymore, and every three days I had to spend a lot of money to eat a meal at the Daqi restaurant that Luo Wu nobles like.

He said that almost all his salary at that time was spent on it.

Xue Li looked at him with compassion, feeling that the adults of the imperial guards are so pitiful...

However, in the end, Lu Yong still made a mistake for her plate of potatoes.

"They don't peel."

Sydney: "...?!" Wouldn't it be ugly if it was done? !
Wei Chen also froze beside him: Can that thing be eaten? !
In the end, Sydney decided to divide the dish into three parts and serve it on a large plate.

One part is the original "terrible unpeeled roux potatoes", and the other two parts are the baked potato slices from the first round, and the baked potato cubes that taste good in the second round.

Just let the Luowu people know that even if it is their own local food, what Daqi cooks is better than them!

This first course is done.

For the second and third dishes, Xueli had already made up her mind, and asked someone to prepare what she needed.Standing in front of the stove, he let out a long sigh of relief and started to get busy again.

After being tortured by the potatoes just now, the process of making these two dishes now makes Sydney feel so happy, it is simply pleasing to the eye!
The slices are as thick, the seasonings are adjusted slowly, and the soup is simmered slowly. She feels from the bottom of her heart that this is called a dish, and eating this kind of dish is called eating a dish.

The Luowu people call it "filling the stomach".

In Xushi, the Hanyuan palace banquet was held.

There have been a series of delicacies presented earlier, from cold dishes, hot dishes, to desserts, soups, most of them are exquisitely prepared, and occasionally there are a few dishes that look "wild", such as vegetarian stir-fried double peppers, which are also very particular about the color. It is another embellishment on the dining table.

But the members of the envoys have seen the world after all, they are all nobles in Luowu, they have eaten a lot of Daqi's delicacies, and they didn't show any shock because of the dazzling array in front of them.

The emperor was chatting with the envoy Qi Ke. Qi Ke was more than 50 years old. He had been an envoy stationed in Daqi since the late emperor was there.

Chen Jijiang listened beside him, no matter how he heard it, he felt that this was intentional, and it was obvious that he was selling his qualifications to suppress his momentum in front of the current emperor.

The emperor never showed any displeasure, he listened with a light smile, and occasionally offered to drink with him--"toasting" is not enough, the difference between the monarch and his ministers is still in the end.

After a while, a row of court ladies entered the hall through the side door. Although they tried their best to look inconspicuous against the wall, after all, there were so many people, many of them couldn't help but glance over there.

It's the maids who come to serve the dishes.After entering the hall, they stopped in front of the guests, added the dishes they had brought to the table, and stepped back.

Looking at it from a distance, Chen Jijiang saw that there were three dishes.One is golden, one is dark green, and one is green and white.

Vegetarian enough...

The emperor's eyes stopped on the few people who were still walking this way.

The one at the head couldn't be more familiar.She was young, half a head shorter than the maid in the back, and her dress was different, so he couldn't even recognize her.

Why did you serve the food yourself?Shangyi is short of manpower?
Just as he was thinking, they had already got down three or five steps away.

Xueli bowed her head: "Your Majesty, the lady of food has ordered you to add three dishes."

The emperor nodded, and the other maids behind her went to present dishes to the important officials on both sides.Sydney and Cui Wan stepped forward, presenting Sydney's to the emperor and Cui Wan's to the envoys.

The emperor looked suspicious when he saw the plate of potatoes: "What is this?"

"This is Luo Wu's baked potato." Xue Li refrained from saying the nickname "Ugly Roasted Potato", and continued, "I asked Lord Yu Lingwei to follow Luo Wu's method." After doing it, I made thin slices and cubes, and gave it to the envoy.”

She couldn't help emphasizing that this ugly crying thing was not her idea!

Qi Ke naturally tasted the "hometown" one first, praised "good", and picked up another cube.

Xie Zhao also took a piece of that cube, while tasting it, while watching Qi Ke's expression.

Taking a closer look, Qi Ke's expression was shocked.

The taste is obviously the same as what I am used to in Luo Wu, but the feeling is completely different.The soft taste unfolds between the teeth, as if because of the more even roasting, the salty and slightly spicy taste can be more delicately integrated with the taste of potatoes.

Let him feel that it is the same thing, and on the other hand feel that it is very different.

Xie Zhao smiled lightly, and soon, the second dish was served.

The bitter gourd is sliced ​​vertically from the middle, and it is curved on the plate like a small dark green crescent.Xie Zhao didn't respond much after taking a bite, but the envoy frowned after taking a bite.

Xueli lowered her head and said: "Sweet and sour bitter gourd, after adding a little chili, it will be sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. The servant feels that everything is like this dish, with all four flavors, but I hope that the diplomatic relations between the two countries will not be sour. so."

She raised her eyes slightly, took a breath, and looked at the envoy: "My lord, if the next taste between the two countries is bitterness, it must not be Daqi who has tasted this taste."

There was a sudden silence around.

Qi Ke endured it for a moment, but still couldn't restrain himself, and angrily said, "Your Majesty!"

Sydney tried hard to keep her feet steady without showing any sign of flinching.

The emperor sank, took another piece of bitter gourd and threw it into his mouth without a wave of emotion, tasted the taste, and smiled slightly: "It sounds disrespectful, but it's also the truth. I never stop people who tell the truth."

These words made Qi Ke break out in a cold sweat!Looking at Xueli again, my heart suddenly became clear: Even a court lady like her can say this, could it be that Emperor Daqi is really ready to attack Luo Wu? !
Immediately afterwards, the third course was served.

Vertical strips of cabbage in a white porcelain bowl, neither shredded nor sliced, are whole.But they are only two or three fingers wide. Xie Zhaoxi wanted to know that the outer layers were peeled off, leaving the tenderest cabbage in the middle.

Another glance at the vegetable soup underneath.

It is clear and clear, and it can only be discerned carefully to see a little yellowish color, which is very pale like the color of cabbage boiled in clear water.

Xie Zhao glanced at Qi Ke, Qi Ke was still wiping cold sweat from the surprise just now, and after noticing the emperor's gaze, he forced himself to calm down: "This is..."

Xue Li nodded her head, her heart throbbing like the deafening drumbeats of the Winter Solstice Nuo, but her answering voice unexpectedly calmed down: "Boiling cabbage."

(End of this chapter)