Zheng Yuanqiao lives in a place called Baihua Village on the outskirts of Rongcheng.
But in Liu Mo's eyes, this place is really not much of a village: four single-room houses built solely of wood without mortar, surrounded by an empty pigsty and a well.
The roofs of the houses were covered with turf, and the windows were covered with tattered furs. There is a tall and misshapen camphor tree above the house, with pale branches and fallen leaves all over the ground.
When he saw Zheng Yuanqiao, he was chopping firewood outside the stone house.
"Hello, Mr. Zheng!" Liu Mo saluted him.
"Mr. Liu, what do you want from me?" Zheng Yuanqiao put the ax on the ground and raised his head and asked.
Liu Mo handed him the gift he had prepared, "I came to see you and asked you to do something by the way!"
"You don't have to be so polite if you have something to say." Zheng Yuanqiao waved his hand and rejected Liu Mo's gift.
Liu Mo kept smiling, and then put the gift in front of him, "I came here this time to ask Mr. Zheng to cook a dish."
Hearing this, Zheng Yuanqiao picked up the ax again and continued to chop wood. "If you can't help me, please come back!"
"Old sir, please hear me out..."
Seeing Zheng Yuanqiao stopped, Liu Mo told the whole story.
"Have you finished talking?" Zheng Yuanqiao said, "That woman is not related to you, why are you in trouble!"
"I can't bear to see a bastard like Zhou Zhushan using his power to bully others!"
"Hey, there are so many injustices in the world, how many of them can you take care of?" Zheng Yuanqiao sighed, "Now that you have a family and are about to become a father, you should put your family first!"
"This matter is definitely not that simple. If Zhou Zhushan bullies the people around me today, he will step on my face in the future. It is for my family that I have to fight him to the end..." Liu Mo said, "Here, I hope I can help you." Sir, please help!"
Zheng Yuanqiao sighed again, "Mr. Liu, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I once made a vow that I would never cook in this life!"
Good guy, have you ever sworn a poisonous oath?
What to do...
First of all, Xin'er's cooking skills have not reached this level. Secondly, she is eight months pregnant and it is impossible for her to cook!
This time it’s a bit too big!
I closed my eyes and meditated for a long time, and suddenly a bold idea came to my mind.
"Old sir, in your oath, is there a clause in your oath not to give advice to others?"
Liu Mo remembered that Xin'er's cooking skills grew up under his guidance.
"Mr. Liu, what do you mean?"
"Haha, I wonder if the old gentleman would like to give me some advice?"
In addition to Xin'er, the current "Jingshui Pavilion" also has many helpers cutting vegetables. The average cook has some cooking skills, although they are not great, but with the guidance of a famous teacher like Zheng Yuanqiao, it is not difficult to make "monkey brain".
"In that case, may I ask Mr. Liu what dish he needs my advice on?"
"Monkey brain!!!"
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In the back kitchen of "Jingshui Pavilion", a helper was cooking a spoon.
Next to him, Zheng Yuanqiao observed with a serious face, and reminded him from time to time.
Hearing Liu Mo talk about using tofu to make "monkey brain" flavor, Zheng Yuanqiao just felt that his decades of work as a cook were in vain. This idea was really unheard of!
Driven by curiosity, he agreed without hesitation to help Liu Mo accomplish this feat.
When the chefs took out the first finished product, everyone became quiet.
"Uncle, don't you want to taste it?"
"I've never eaten it, how do I know if it tastes right?" Liu Mo frowned.
"Ah? My uncle, you haven't eaten it yet?"
"What, have you ever eaten monkey brains?"
"Never... never eaten."
"Isn't that it?" Liu Mo said, "Mr. Zheng, please?"
With his cooking skills, he is not only the royal chef, but also the private chef of a certain first-class official!
You must have eaten monkey brains!
Zheng Yuanqiao stepped forward, picked up the bowl, and tasted it carefully.
There was silence in the kitchen.
After a while, Zheng Yuanqiao slowly opened his eyes, "It smells like monkey brains!"
Liu Mo just wanted to celebrate, but he heard him say, "The other party came prepared. This 'monkey brain' is fine for the common people of the other party, but it is far from enough to deal with such evil people!"
"He's right!" Liu Mo frowned, "Come again, come again!"
Clean the wok and instruct the vegetable chopping boy to prepare the ingredients.
Under the watchful eye of Zheng Yuanqiao, he started to get busy again...
"No, no!"
"Not enough, not enough!"
"Why is it worse than last time?"
"Hey, is this all we can do?"
After working all morning, I could only hear Zheng Yuanqiao sighing again and again.
Liu Mo saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.
It's a pity that I have never eaten monkey brains, otherwise I really want to try it and see how bad it is!
Noon has arrived, and the "monkey brain" he created still hasn't been approved by Zheng Yuanqiao.
Helpless, Liu Mo had no choice but to ask the chef in the store to make a few simple side dishes to fill his stomach first.
When eating, he looked frowning and had no appetite at all.
"Husband, why don't you let me try?" Xin'er said.
"You have a big belly and you are cooking?" Liu Mo looked at her, "Madam is interested, but there is no need to worry. It has only been a morning and we still have time."
"Otherwise, we can just use the finished product from the morning." Zhao Da suggested. "I feel pretty good after eating it. Zhou Zhushan may not be able to see through that!"
"No, you can't take such a risk."
At this moment, Xiang Wu limped up to Liu Mo and said, "Brother-in-law, if you don't mind my disability, let me give it a try!"
"you…"
"When I was in Xiangyuan Village, my parents left early, and I was the only one in the house. I did everything by myself. I often cooked and cooked." Xiang Wu said, "After I came to Rongcheng, I did everything by myself. I helped the kitchen and learned a lot secretly.”
"Perhaps cooking is also about talent," Liu Mo thought to himself, "Isn't Xin'er just an example? As her brother, he has the blood of a chef..."
"Okay, Xiao Qizi, tell the waiter to buy more ingredients and cook another stove in the afternoon."
"Okay, uncle!"
With expectations, the food tastes delicious.
The waiter in the store quickly bought back the ingredients and set up a stove in the back kitchen.
One on the left and one on the right, Xiang Wu and the morning helper, the cook, started working at the same time.
I have to say that Liu Mo, his brother-in-law, is really talented in cooking.
The knife work is exquisite, the clinking and clinking of the spoon is no less than that of a professional chef, and the heat is just right.
Although he experienced three failures at the beginning, Zheng Yuanqiao's eyes lit up when he came up with "Monkey Brain" for the fourth time.
"Your Xiang family...are really born to be cooks!"
Praise is praise, but there are still problems. Maybe it's because he strives to improve his cooking skills, or maybe it's because Zheng Yuanqiao is extremely cautious.
In short, what he means is to continue tomorrow!
Liu Mo had no objection. Any opponents he would come into contact with in the future could not be ignored. He had to make things perfect.
As the sun set, after returning to Zheng Yuan Bridge, he asked everyone to rest.
When doing things, slow is fast.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, we can design the plan more carefully so that Zhou Zhushan can be flawless!
