Lasted for almost a week.
The dormitory that Meihua arranged for me is very good.
Fortunately, there is a small window on one side of this dormitory, and you can just see outside the wall of Xiangshan Mansion.
I have been working on plum blossom services for the past two days, and I am so exhausted that I can hardly breathe.
But I have a problem. The more tired I am, the more I can't sleep.
I often wake up early at four or five o'clock the next day.
On this day, the sky was just a little bright. Judging from the current time, it was around 4:30.
I saw a carriage parked on the side of the road outside the window.
The messy sound of hoofbeats and the roar of big horses attracted me to the window to look out.
This is a carriage drawn by three horses.
In the Jin Dynasty, those who could ride on a three-horse carriage were at least middle-level officials.
By modern bus standards, it's at least as much as an Audi.
The three war horses are all very tall, their manes are neatly trimmed, their hair tubes are brighter, and their necks are raised.
Even the horse pulling the cart is very proud, and you can fully imagine how majestic the owner sitting in the cart is.
While he was talking, the carriage door curtain was lifted.
Meihua poked her head out of the car, then stepped out of the car.
The two slaves who followed bowed to say goodbye, and the carriage turned around and headed back.
"Ouch!"
I really didn’t realize that Meihua had such a big show.
It seems that this woman is really not simple and should not be underestimated!
I turned my head, raised my eyes, and thought about it.
"It's nothing, nothing surprising!"
In today's terms, the person marrying is a third-generation official, and the person marrying is a member of the Zeguo clan of the Liang family.
This faction itself occupies 1/3 of the imperial court.
Then the descendants of the Ren family will definitely borrow the money, and it can be said that chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.
The eldest son of the family is carefree, dignified and wealthy.
So the eldest son of a concubine or a concubine is not much different.
By analogy, the concubine married by the eldest son or the third son of a concubine will of course also get the glory.
Then it is natural for Meihua to ride in a three-horse carriage.
Don't always be envious and jealous.
I was laughing at myself indoors.
At this time, I saw that the plum blossoms were no longer within the sight range of the window.
I just want to take a nap and go back to sleep.
But at this time someone knocked on the door.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
I got dressed in a hurry.
In order to prevent the embarrassment of the last time Meihua broke in, he specially made a plug-in rod for the door of his dormitory, which was equivalent to a door lock with a built-in one.
When I opened the door, I saw that it was Meihua's personal servant.
"Hello, chef!"
"Master Plum Blossom Hall, please go to the front building and hold an emergency meeting!"
I think,
"I'll go, are there any emergency meetings in this day and age?"
Just asked,
"Who is participating and what topics are being discussed!"
The slave asked, "What do you mean by the topic, chef?"
I shook my head, unable to make others understand, so I said,
"I'm just going to have a meeting later. What kind of meeting are you going to have? What do you want to solve?"
The slave girl understood immediately and her face turned red.
"That's what happened. Last night, when you went to serve, three boxes of non-staple food were lost!"
"The person who stole the things has been found, and we need to study how to deal with it!"
"Really? Is there still such a thing?"
I said to myself,
Then he followed up with another sentence,
"Who is participating?"
"You are the chef, as well as the purchaser and custodian!"
I said, "Okay, I'll be there soon!"
The servant had already gone far away, but he came back and told me the location of the meeting.
When I came to the Jin Dynasty and the Liang Kingdom, I just wanted to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the past and allow myself to observe the world and people with a cold eye.
At the same time, he also wants to use his expertise to cook some good dishes, and cook the foods that nature has given to mankind into delicacies for everyone to taste. This is what he is most willing to do, and it is also what makes him happiest. What's more important is that I have my own mission. According to Master Zhang's agreement, I will find the person I am looking for and ask him what he wants to say.
But now it seems that since you are hired as the head chef, you have to deal with human affairs, not the relationships between people.
Reluctantly, I walked through the kitchen passage to the hall on the first floor. I turned left as the slave reminded me, passed through the large dining room, and came to a room inside.
Knock on the door and enter the house.
There are three people waiting in the room.
Plum blossom, square face custodian, round face buyer.
They were the two people who treated him to peanuts, pig trotters, and rice wine on his first day of registration.
I had already seen the working status of these two people the morning before yesterday, and I could clearly see the importance of their jobs.
Knowing that these two people are not good people, I warned myself to be careful when speaking and not to say too much, because talking too much would be wrong and would bring unnecessary trouble.
But I was also very puzzled. The sun had just emerged and these people were getting up so early. Did they get up so early today or did they get up so early every day? This question made me want to know earlier.
Meihua didn't say much when she saw me coming in, and asked the round-faced buyer to give up her seat to me.
and handed over a bowl of water.
Meihua, who was sitting behind the desk, began to speak.
"Let's have a meeting today to discuss what to do if a chef stole the non-staple food last night?"
Round faces and square faces expressed their opinions respectively.
The general meaning is that,
Those who steal must be punished according to the regulations of the prime minister's office, either fined or expelled.
While the two of them were talking, I paid attention to the furnishings in Meihua's room.
The most obvious plant in this room is a tall rubber tree.
I have seen this kind of tree in my previous workplace.
The leaves are wide and green.
If the leaves are not removed artificially, its green leaves will always grow on the trunk.
It should be a woody plant.
When I didn't go back to my hometown to be a mason, I worked in a group. The bosses also kept this kind of tree in their offices, because the leaves were wide and large, which symbolized great achievements.
Could it be that Plum Blossom also has such ambitions? It was just a coincidence that she had such a plant.
There is also a decoration on the door corner opposite the plum blossom table, which immediately caught my eye.
It was an elephant's head taped to the wall.
The two teeth of an elephant stand outward.
The entire decorated head of the elephant is painted in golden yellow, and the elephant's eyes are bright and vivid.
"That's not right!"
I thought to myself.
The Liang Kingdom of the Jin Dynasty was in the west, and it was impossible for them to have seen elephants. Elephants are tropical animals.
In this era, exchanges between countries and regions were not very frequent. It was impossible for them to see animals from the south in the Longxi and Hangu Pass areas.
Why would Meihua put an elephant decoration in her room?
This is another question I have about plum blossoms.
"Liu Bancheng, what are you looking at? You have to express your opinion!"
While Liu Bancheng was looking around, Mei Hua asked him to speak.
Liu Bancheng didn't panic.
In fact, Liu Bancheng had already thought about the content of his speech on the way.
Because in the chef industry, when you open a restaurant, work in a hotel, or do any of these businesses, you inevitably have to deal with chefs.
There is an unwritten habit in the chef industry, that is, chefs always use cooking as an excuse to eat good food secretly.
For example, fry a green onion and sea cucumber.
After the master fried two shovels, he had to taste the saltiness first!
After tasting the salty taste, do you want to try the delicious fried sea cucumber?
What about making white fungus soup or bird's nest hericium.
In order to serve delicious food to the guests, the chef has to take the first bite himself. Otherwise, how can the technology improve?
So it is inevitable to steal food and eat good things secretly.
