The purchaser and custodian come together to inspect the ingredients, and there is no third party to supervise?
I shook my head,
"Nothing like that!"
The slave next to me said,
"It turns out that Chef Meihua is in charge of this link. Now there are many things going on in the palace, and Chef Meihua is too busy for her."
I asked,
"Does Chef Mei live here? Why haven't I seen her?"
The slave smiled and said,
"The chef, no, it's the host, she doesn't live here!"
"Her home has long been in the Ren Family Courtyard in the backyard."
I was surprised, Renjia Courtyard?
"Could it be that they are Queen Mother Renxian's family?"
"Return to your lord, what your lord says is true, but it is not true!"
"Our head chef is the second wife of Queen Mother Renxian's third grandson."
Did I say that, it turned out that she was assigned to be the chef in the Prime Minister's Mansion because she married into a relative of the Imperial clan.
However, during the Jin Dynasty, how could a woman show up and work in the prime minister's house? Moreover, her family background was so advantageous.
I didn't ask any more questions.
Instead, he focused on the round-faced buyer Wang Bing.
At this time, Wang Bing was staring at me from a distance with his small round eyes, looking nonchalant.
I didn't go to him, but plunged into the kitchen.
When I entered the kitchen, I was still thinking about it.
Unexpectedly, Meihua already had a family and was married, and she was marrying into Mrs. Renxian’s Liang family.
Moreover, Wang Bing, who looked at him strangely just now, is also a member of the Ren family.
It seems that the relationship here is indeed quite complicated.
I followed the steam-filled kitchen passage and wanted to take a look at the front room.
In the corridor leading to the front hall, there were seven or eight rows of tall wooden boxes. I took a quick look and found that there must be at least seven or eight hundred wooden boxes.
The kind that can be lifted by hand.
These boxes leave only an aisle between them for a person to pass through.
I asked the chef who was about to pass by.
"Master, what is this? What is this for?"
This was an old chef, his face was sweating and he said impatiently,
"Don't you know this? Today is the 15th day of the lunar calendar, and we have to provide services on the first and fifteenth day of every month!"
As he spoke, the lid of a wooden box was opened in front of my eyes.
Inside are pork knuckles, pork knuckles, mutton, rabbit meat, and pigeon meat. . . . . .
According to the space of the box, the layers are arranged very plump and neatly. The food inside is oily and red, making it very appetizing.
The old chef said, "This is the non-staple food we worked on all night last night!"
"There are still a lot of staple foods that have not been processed yet. After the staple foods are processed, let them cool down and put them together. All the more than 800 portions will be sent out tonight!"
"Who are you giving these more than 800 copies to?"
The old chef looked at me, probably thinking that I would become their boss in the future, and said without hesitation,
"It's for those high-ranking people!"
"Then these things cost a lot of money, and processing these things will take you a long time!"
The chef said helplessly,
"As diners, we don't actually have much work to do when it comes to eating. That's what we should do every day. But to make the non-staple food for the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, we have to work overtime all day long."
"You said if you do it too early, it will easily rot, mold and smell. If you do it too late, it will be too late."
"You can only do it on the day before the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year before you can give fresh ones to others. Otherwise, these officials and masters will find fault with us. If they find fault with us, the superiors will criticize us."
It turns out that He Xiang's Xiangshan Hall also has such a service task.
I have new feelings.
Let’s not talk about the workload of these non-staple dishes and how hard the chefs are, but the cost of processing these ingredients for about 800 servings will be twice as much as the food used by 3,000 diners.
I still know this in my heart.
Because I have seen that the food served in these services is all genuine.
So where did the money come from?
How are they sent out after processing? I really want to see how they do their homework tonight. This may be one of the homework I need to be familiar with.
After the sun has made another full circle, it is about to set.
At this time, Meihua came in from the front hall in a hurry.
Look at me chatting with the slaves, talking and laughing.
Meihua's face turned cold for a moment, and she waved to me, signaling Liu Bancheng to follow him back, and behind him was the kitchen.
After I followed Mei Hua for a few steps, Mei Hua said,
"In the future, stop chatting with those maids. You have been like this since you first came here. It has a bad influence. Go back quickly and change into clean clothes. I will serve you later."
I asked,
"What kind of service do you have?"
Plum Blossom glanced at me again,
"You didn't see it, you don't have eyes. Those non-staple foods in the aisle. Even if we are greedy tonight, even if we work until dawn, we have to send these non-staple foods out. This is our responsibility and task!"
Not long after,
Mei Hua and I, as well as four male chefs, drove four carriages under the night, and started to drive around the entire Xuyang City!
I have studied military topography before and have a photographic memory.
The route Meihua and the others drove was basically the outer third ring road first, and then the inner third ring road.
After delivering one ring, come back to pick up the goods, then deliver the inner three rings, and then the outer three rings.
I don’t understand Plum Blossom’s routine.
Every time a service vehicle arrives at a house, it does not stop at the front door. Instead, it goes around the front door and runs to the back door or a side door.
It's like there was a prior agreement.
Every time she arrived at a house, Mei Hua would get out of the car alone and pull the door knocker.
Inside the door knocker, there will be two or three servants. They will first poke their heads to identify the person, and then come out to unload the goods behind the carriage.
Meihua didn't say hello to them, she carried the goods through the door, waited until the door was closed from the inside, and then rushed to the next house.
From noon to now, I haven't had a bite of food yet, and smelling the smell coming out of these boxes, his stomach growled.
Meihua smiled.
Open the box closest to her.
This box is a little different from other boxes.
It is not as high as other boxes, which are five levels from top to bottom.
This box has three layers.
Meihua took out a chicken leg and a piece of membrane from the top of the box and handed it to me.
I think Meihua, a woman with a high emotional intelligence.
She can feel what you are thinking and need from my expression and emotions,
Whatever she does for you is just right.
The chef and I finished our dinner amidst the bumps.
The moon has disappeared behind the clouds.
There are very few pedestrians on the street.
Most of the residents in Xuyang City have turned off the lights and gone to bed, falling asleep.
Four carriages were still running through the streets.
