Jin Miaomiao ordered the dining room to prepare Xijing cuisine in advance. Fortunately for Qin Zheng, he didn't stay in Xijing City for a long time and didn't have any special preference for Xijing cuisine. Although the taste of Jiangnan is similar to that of Xijing City, there are still some There is a certain difference.
But Jiang Erye and Yan Bo were born and raised in Xijing City. Although they had to leave Xijing City and stay away from their hometown due to various reasons when they grew up, they still miss Xijing City very much. If you can have a bite of authentic Xijing cuisine in a foreign country, it can really relieve the pain of homesickness.
As soon as Mr. Jiang and Uncle Yan entered the door of the warm hall, they smelled the familiar fragrance floating in the warm hall and couldn't help but sigh. Although Jin Miaomiao had told them before that there would be a surprise for dinner, they did not expect it. , turned out to be this surprise.
"Lion's head, three sets of duck, crystal meat, squirrel mandarin fish, Wensi tofu?"
The two old men looked at each other and hurriedly took two steps. Second Master Jiang looked at the dishes that had been placed on his seat and couldn't help but sigh. He turned around and looked at the children and raised his eyebrows slightly. .
"It looks pretty good!" Mr. Jiang took a deep breath. "It smells like the same thing. You guys did a good job!"
"Hey, this credit is not ours. If Grandpa Second wants to praise it, let's praise Miaomiao. She has a delicate mind and thinks she should prepare Xijing dishes. She can think of these things, but we can't think of them."
"You are so busy every day. I have been watching you indifferently in the past few days, but I have never seen you take a complete rest."
"I'm not happy about what Second Master said!" Jin Miaomiao put her hands on her hips, pretending to be angry, and looked at Second Master Jiang, "I'm also very busy, right? Actually, I can't think of it. , The Duke and the Marquis could not think of it, because this is my duty."
"What Miaomiao said really makes me feel guilty!"
Xue Ruitian smiled and pushed Hongye to her own position. He took her off the wheelchair and placed her on a low chair. He paid attention to her feet while placing her. After placing her, he looked at Hongye carefully. ankle.
"It doesn't reach your ankle, does it? Does it hurt? Do you need to change your position?"
"No need." Hongye shook his head gently and looked at Xue Ruitian with a smile, "I'm fine, go and sit down!"
Xue Ruitian once again confirmed that there was nothing wrong with Hongye's feet, then stood up and walked to his seat to sit down.
When Hongye saw Xue Ruitian sitting down, she focused on her small table. She looked at the three simple ingredients and a bowl of white porridge on her own table, and then looked at the three dishes on other people's tables. The duck and the squirrel mandarin fish couldn't help but frown.
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"Although I can't eat fish and Wensi tofu. The seafood in them is not good for wounds, but lion heads and ducks shouldn't hinder my recovery, right?" She looked at Jin Miaomiao, "Why do I only have Qingming?" Porridge and side dishes?"
"Don't you have to take medicine now? You have to stop being greasy. There is fat in the lion's head, and there are things in the duck that you can't eat. Naturally, I won't give it to you." Jin Miaomiao raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her. He smiled and said, "Eating plainly at night will be good for your wound. I'll see how your wound recovers during the day tomorrow. Let's talk about whether we should give you something to eat to replenish it?"
"No, that's all. Why don't you even have bone soup?" Hong Ye looked at Jin Miaomiao's dish in aggrieved tone, "Didn't you say that drinking bone soup is good for leg injuries?"
"You have to listen to the doctor, you know? I can judge what you should eat and when you should eat it, okay?" Jin Miaomiao sat next to her and patted her head, "It's delicious, it's delicious. Sleep and recover well. If the swelling subsides tomorrow, you can eat well."
Hongye saw Jin Miaomiao's smiling face and saw everyone looking at her with smiles. Although she wanted to eat meat, considering that her ankle was really hurting, she couldn't make her injury worse because of greed. The main reason is that everyone is very busy now. If her injury worsens, not only will it not help everyone, but it will also drag them down.
"Okay, then
I'll just listen to you! "
"good!"
Second Master Jiang, Uncle Yan and Qin Zheng sat opposite the group of children, watching the show they performed and smiling helplessly.
"Okay, stop making trouble!" Qin Zheng knocked on the table and watched as Mr. Jiang took the lead in picking up the kuaizi. He also picked up the kuaizi, raised his chin towards the opposite side and said, "Let's eat!"
The children nodded, and when they saw the elders playing with the kuaizi, they also picked up the kuaizi and started eating.
Second Master Jiang and Uncle Yan took a bite of every dish on the table and looked at each other with very satisfied smiles on their faces.
"How is it? It tastes good?" Xue Ruitian dug out a piece of lion's head with a spoon and put it in his mouth. He looked at Jiang Erye and Yan Bo. "Although it is not as good as the imperial chef in the palace, it is much better than those in the restaurants on the street. ,Yes or no?"
"Of course." Uncle Yan, who has been hanging out on the streets all year round, nodded, "Let's not say the food is not authentic, let's just say that the ingredients are much better than those in restaurants in Xijing City. Many restaurants don't have this taste. He looked at Jin Miaomiao and said, "I'm interested."
"As long as you like it." Jin Miaomiao smiled, "The Master Liu in our Duke's Mansion used to be the chef at Zhai Xingju, the largest time-honored restaurant in Xijing City, for three years. He is good at Xijing cuisine. Yes, sometimes, the palace will call for a table."
"Zhaixingju?" Mr. Jiang nodded, "Then I know. The food in that restaurant is really good, and the chef's skills are also very good, not worse than the imperial kitchen. The main dishes are the dishes in the imperial dining room, every day. They all have the same taste, nothing new, but Star Residence is different. Some new dishes are introduced every month, and there are almost none that are not delicious. Therefore, ladies in the harem sometimes want to change their tastes. , I went to Zhaixingju to bring a table of banquets into the palace."
"So that's it."
Shen Cha was not very interested in the lion's head. After eating half of it, he handed the rest to Shen Haolin. She picked a few pieces of duck and ate them slowly. She looked at the person opposite who was eating very happily. Uncle Yan and Mr. Jiang slightly raised their eyebrows and smiled at Shen Haolin. Miao Miao did this very well. Although Xijing cuisine requires a bit of work and heat, you can eat it once in a while. Secondly, there should be no problem.
While Xue Ruitian was eating, he looked at the expressions of the people in the dining hall, and exchanged glances with Shen Haolin and Shen Cha who were doing the same thing. When he saw the two people winking at him, he shook his head helplessly.
“Uncle Yan!” ?」
"Is it the same thing as the golden relic?" Uncle Yan thought for a while, "No! This thing is not something that just anyone can have. There are not many old money ghosts left behind. Can you see this golden relic? It’s already very difficult.”
"But Hongye said just now that we seemed to have seen something similar when we were children."
"Have you seen something similar?" Uncle Yan looked at the red leaves, "What is it?"
"I don't remember." Hongye shook his head, took two mouthfuls of porridge, and said, "I vaguely remember such a thing, but I can't remember clearly."
Xue Ruitian bit off another piece of meat, nodded in agreement, and said, "Later, I recalled it carefully. Although we had no impression of seeing this thing, we had smelled something similar."
"When were you young?" Uncle Yan thought for a while and looked at Qin Zheng, who shook his head at him. He also thought for a long time, "How young were you?"
"Seven or eight years old!" Hongye put down the bowl in his hand and looked at Uncle Yan hopefully, "It was about this time, do you have any impression?"
"When you were seven or eight years old, did you smell something similar to this?"
"Yes, this smell is very familiar."
Uncle Yan thought for a while, then finished eating the lion head and put it aside, "Well, let me think about it!"
He looked at the ducks in his small basin, picked out the ones with bones and put them into Qin Zheng's small basin. He picked up another piece of ham and nibbled it in small mouths. When he finished eating the piece of ham, he gently Putting down the tachyon, he nodded towards the children on the opposite side.
"Have you really seen it?"
"Well, I have seen it, but it probably passed by in a flash, so you have an impression, but you don't know what it is." Yan Bo nodded, "But that thing is not for you, it is for Huilan. "
"My master?" Jin Miaomiao raised her head and looked at Uncle Yan, "Who gave it to my master?"
"Money ghost." Uncle Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, "He had a piece of gold that he wanted to give to Huilan for safekeeping, but I just took a look at what it was and didn't take it seriously. After all, it's not for us. Not very impressed either.”
"Where did that thing go? It's not among the things my master left behind!"
"It was only temporarily stored for a period of time. Later, your master sent it somewhere as agreed, so I don't know."
"My master has a very good relationship with this old senior?" Jin Miaomiao blinked, "But I have never heard my master talk about this friend, and I have never seen any record of this friend in the notebook."
"They should be friends, or acquaintances between gentlemen? Let's put it this way, Qian Gui is quite old. We don't know exactly how old he is. Anyway, this person is mysterious and sometimes even... He is very talkative and likes to sit there alone and talk to himself. Seeing him out of the blue is quite scary." Yan Bo thought for a while, poked Mr. Jiang and said, "Tell them, I I didn't talk to that guy for even a moment, and we both disliked each other. We didn't know that he was so old, but he wanted to embarrass the junior."
"He's not making things difficult for you, but he thinks you are very talented and visionary in this area, and he feels it's a pity that you don't want to learn from him. But he doesn't know what to say to you, so he always uses words to hurt you. "Qin Zheng smiled, "Of course, later I found out that you were really not interested in this, so I didn't care about you, right?"
"That's true." Uncle Yan nodded, took a spoonful of Wensi tofu, and raised his chin towards Second Master Jiang, "It's up to you to say it!"
"Okay, you can eat. I'll finish eating and talk to the children." Second Master Jiang nodded, put the half of the dishes he had not touched on Qin Zheng and Yan Bo's table, took some fruit, and ate while He said, "Actually, considering his age and seniority, he should be our elder."
"That means you must be over a hundred years old, right?"
"You can't tell from his appearance, body shape, or any aspect. I heard Huilan say that although this old man is obsessed with gold weapons, he is also a top master with very powerful kung fu, so it's hard to tell. His specific age."
"Good kung fu and good looks are two different things, right?"
"Then I don't know." Mr. Jiang shook his head, "I don't really understand these things. Huilan likes this kind of thing, but I'm not interested."
"Then what kind of person is this old man?" Jin Miaomiao looked at Jiang Erye curiously, "My master likes to make friends with such strange people. He finds it very interesting."
"Indeed." Mr. Jiang thought for a while and said, "The impression this old man gives me is that he devotes himself wholeheartedly to the things he likes. Look at the golden relics, they are so big. It takes about forty to fifty kilograms of gold to create. This is definitely not what he wants to make. Someone must have predetermined it. But why it is in Ning's hands, no one knows. As for this The character of this old man is not very kind. Just like what Xiao Yan said just now, he is nagging, and it looks like this..." Jiang Erye pointed to his head, "It seems like there is a problem. , he doesn’t like to deal with people, and he doesn’t understand the ways of the world. If he hadn’t had a very talented apprentice, he might have starved to death long ago and wouldn’t have survived that long.”
"This is a truly capable person." Shen Cha sighed, "This old money geek should be obsessed with making gold objects. In the eyes of people like them, they are the only ones who like and are obsessed with making gold. These things, other things are not important, let alone people.”
"Yes, but after you build it, someone has to buy it, right? You also have to ensure that you can live your life, right?" Jiang Erye shook his head helplessly, "However, he doesn't care about making money from craftsmanship. It is very acceptable, Huilan said. After all, he is a person who has lived for more than a hundred years. He has experienced the years of military famine and knows how to survive.
The importance is not so hard to imagine. "
"Yes, what the master said is correct." Shen Cha nodded, "Then what?"
"That's all I know." Jiang Erye smiled, "This is Huilan's friend. We don't have frequent contact. We have met a few times and chatted a few times. Judging from the entire process and content of the chat, He also has something to say, and he is a smart person, but he doesn’t like to move much at ordinary times, so all his energy is put into making gold vessels.”
"Then his style is very unique? When I saw the one just now, it seemed a bit like the Western Region."
"Because he lived there in his early years, he should have learned his craftsmanship there." Jiang Erye thought for a while, "Including the smell you smell, it is also a special kind of medicine used in the Western Regions to maintain the luster of goldware. Spice, but I don’t know exactly what it is. Our relationship is not good enough to inquire about such things.”
