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Chapter 11 The Imperial Dining Room is Really Complicated

Madam Qian's departure from the palace meant that Gong Xiaoyong could finally "retire after a successful career".

But when Gong Xiaoyong really left Fengji Pavilion, Cui Xi's heart was completely relieved.In view of the fact that Gong Xiaoyong has been around for a while, he has been "stealing skills", and Gong Xiaoyong also took the initiative to give him the secret recipe for pickles.Cui Xi decided to cook a table of delicious food for Gong Xiaoyong to practice.

What?Think Trish is stingy?Why not also exchange a unique dish?Then everyone thinks too much.Don't say that Gong Xiaoyong is what he rushed to give away, even if Cui Xi wanted to do that, he, who has a family and rules, is not so good at making suggestions.Anyway, he used [-]% of his abilities for this table dish, whether he can gain something or not depends on Gong Xiaoyong himself.He is consciously already very generous.

Gong Xiaoyong also felt that Cui Xi was really generous.Although it is impossible to know 100% of the preparation and ingredients of every dish, Gong Xiaoyong has never cared about how other people can make the dish.Being inspired is the most important thing.Just like this square meat made by Tracy.He said that because Beauty Qian is not greasy and wants to maintain her figure, she has only made this dish for the emperor twice so far.However, Gong Xiaoyong felt that if the tenderness of the meat was to be maintained without being too greasy, the taste and production method could be completely changed.Just separate the fat meat from the lean meat, cut them into thin slices, and overlap them evenly, so that after roasting, the thin fat meat will melt into fat and drip, while the lean meat can also absorb the sweetness of the fat without leaving any residue Excessive greasiness.Finally, it is topped with a sweet and sour sauce, not a purely sweet honey sauce.I believe that even Qian Meiren will appreciate it a few more times.

It's just that Gong Xiaoyong doesn't intend to tell Cui Xi about it.This is the ancestral dish of the Cui family, and I am an outsider who talks too much just to scold me. "Master Cui, you are really good at these dishes! To be honest, although I have never tasted the cooking skills of the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room, I think you must be as good as them!"

Who doesn't like to hear flattery, Tracy immediately showed a smile on his face: "It can only be said that each has a different craft. As for food, whether it is good or not depends first on whether the person who eats it or not. But you After returning to the imperial dining room, even though the emperor personally pointed out that you followed Eunuch Yang, none of the chefs in charge of the imperial dining room are like us. They have always looked down on eunuchs. Moreover, the deputy chief, Eunuch Jiang, is a distant relative of Concubine Shu. As someone who came out of our palace, Concubine Shu will dislike our master as soon as he enters the palace, so it probably won't be as smooth as it is now."

Gong Xiaoyong sighed: "Actually, I just want to hide in a corner and make some delicious food for myself, and watch others make delicious food. I really don't have any ambition to climb up."

Tracy shook her head: "In the palace, it's not something you can avoid if you don't want to. And you have never seen the hard life of being suppressed at the lowest level all your life. The life of the eunuchs in the front palace is better than that in the harem. At least It's not for serving a certain master. But if you don't have a bright future, it's hard to guarantee that you won't be dragged into the top bag in the future. The key is that you have this ability to improve, and you must not waste the talent given by God."

Gong Xiaoyong nodded: "Thank you for your words. Whatever you say, I can't make myself feel bad. You're right, you can't waste the talent given by God." The key is not to waste the space for cheating!I must find a way to leave the palace after accumulating enough wealth!The sky is high and the emperor is far away is my ultimate dream! !

Mu Xiang took him back to the imperial kitchen.Before leaving, the old eunuch chatted with Gong Xiaoyong very reluctantly for half the night.It's all about the "insider stories" he knew when he was in the Imperial Shanting Court.For example, which imperial chef is the best at what, which eunuch has nepotism with which concubine in the harem, in short, a lot of nonsense.Gong Xiaoyong's head got dizzy.All he can remember is about the royal chef and eating. As for the relationship between the front palace and the harem, he is completely out of his mind.

The imperial dining room is divided into four courtyards.The main courtyard is the imperial dining room, which is responsible for the catering of the emperor and the queen mother. In addition, they also cook the food for the palace banquet and the banquet for the emperor's foreign ministers.The east courtyard is the Imperial Food Office, which is simply a warehouse for food materials, ranging from frozen and dried goods to fresh food, and is managed by a special eunuch in charge of the warehouse.The ingredients used in the small kitchens of each palace are also received from here every day, so it is quite busy.The west courtyard is the imperial tea room, which is used to store all kinds of tribute tea.In Daheng, tea is highly respected. From the emperor to the common people, everyone regards tea tasting as the most important thing, so the quantity and types of tea leaves are definitely considerable.

Gong Xiaoyong used to cook in the backyard of the imperial dining room, and all the food was eaten by the former palace servants and guards.The harem is no longer under their control.Of course, there are grades for the servants, and there are grades for the kitchens where they cook.And Gong Xiaoyong was promoted directly from the lowest level of cooking to the imperial dining room to meet Eunuch Yang, the chief eunuch, which shocked everyone in the imperial dining room.

The so-called early bird is not something you can't be if you don't want to, Gong Xiaoyong understands this now.Well, he admits he deserved it.But being able to enter the imperial dining room and steal from the real imperial chef is also very attractive to him.

Eunuch Yang's name is Yang Qifang, and he is a mature eunuch in his forties.As far as the figure is concerned, it doesn't look too bloated. The slightly protruding belly and slightly fleshy cheeks make people look a little amiable.But that's just a feeling.

Yang Qifang entered the palace at the age of eight.From the bottom of the slave, the slave has climbed to the position of the chief eunuch of the imperial dining court by virtue of ability and thought, and he is by no means a person who only sees his background.Therefore, his attitude towards Gong Xiaoyong was very gentle.But amidst the gentleness, there was also a sense of alienation.In his heart, whether it is Gong Xiaoyong or Mu Xiang, they are all relying on the nepotism of the harem to climb up little by little.

If Yang Qifang is extremely enthusiastic, Gong Xiaoyong thinks that's what she needs to worry about.Now it's like this, but it's a little easier.

"Gong Xiaoyong, you start chopping vegetables with Li De from today. Work hard, don't get carried away thinking that you have served in front of the imperial court once." Yang Qifang, as the chief eunuch of the imperial kitchen, must have attended the palace banquet that day.He also saw the two things Gong Xiaoyong did.In his opinion, there is nothing particularly outstanding about it, but he puts a lot of effort into it, taking advantage of his young age.A young eunuch of 50 or [-] suddenly appeared among a group of [-] or [-]-year-old court cooks. This would naturally be surprising to a fresh and lively royal child like King An Yao.What's more, even though Gong Xiaoyong can cook well, in their imperial dining room, even the eunuch who washes the pots outside the palace is an excellent cook, and he can cook when he wants to come in?What a fool's dream!

Gong Xiaoyong is quite satisfied with the job of cutting vegetables.First of all, what makes him the happiest is that he can get in touch with all kinds of vegetables, fruits and meat every day.Even if the high-end ingredients may not be his turn for a while, he can sneak some into the space at any time, and then make a small stove for himself!You know, he has tested whether he can store ingredients well in his villa. Although only the kitchen has the effect of keeping fresh, it is impossible for him to get a whole room of things!

Rearranged the residence, although the room is two or three square meters smaller than when cooking, but fortunately it is still a single room.Although he now knows that this arrangement in the palace is entirely to avoid unnecessary friction or feelings between the palace people, and the physical condition of the eunuchs is relatively special, and they need to be nursed and cleaned from time to time. It's easy to get right and wrong together, so it's planned like this.Anyway, it's cheap and he can just go home every day.

It's different from doing the dirty and tiring work every day while cooking, and of course it can't compare to the treatment of eating delicious food and drinking spicy food by yourself in the small kitchen of Fengji Pavilion.In the imperial dining room, his work is only more tiring, not the most tiring!

Usually the eunuch who survived till the time of chopping vegetables was at least 30 or 15 years old.He, a kid who just turned [-], stood in front of the cutting board, which made eunuchs big and small envy and hate.So Gong Xiaoyong, who thought she could continue to study knife skills, actually picks vegetables and peels various raw materials the most she does every day.What kind of rape can only choose three leaves that are both tender and crisp.After the yam is peeled, it must be absolutely smooth and there must be no next time.When descaling the fish, don't break a little bit of skin to spoil the appearance.Take the gills and maw of the fish, and the opening should not be more than half a finger long.If the chef in charge of the spoon didn't trust Gong Xiaoyong, he might have to do the difficult technical work of deboning whole chickens and ducks.

Gong Xiaoyong knew that these were all making things difficult.But what he didn't know was that if it was just the jealousy and exclusion of these eunuchs, it wouldn't change him from cutting vegetables to picking vegetables.In the imperial dining room, any type of work has a clear hierarchy.If something goes wrong in any link, we have to look for it.So he was "abused" in this way entirely because of Jiang Pin, the deputy chief eunuch of the Imperial Kitchen Court, who secretly explained to the eunuchs.

In fact, Yang Qifang knew about this matter, but he didn't intend to intervene.Although he didn't like Jiang Pin's character, he knew that he couldn't offend him for the time being.Concubine Shu is a distant relative of Jiang Pin, Jiang Pin has to call Concubine Shu "auntie" according to his seniority, although he is thirty years older than Concubine Shu, but his seniority is here.Although the people in the front palace and the back palace are not allowed to have contact with each other on weekdays, there is a personal relationship in everything.If he confronted Jiang Pinming face to face, Concubine Shu's sharp temper would trip him up if he was not sure.

As for Gong Xiaoyong, he can only be blamed for being unlucky.He knew that the reason why Gong Xiaoyong was in today's situation was entirely because Mu Xiang found out that Gong Xiaoyong was good at cooking, so he wanted to claim credit for Qian Meiren, so he promoted him.Now that the promotion has been promoted, Gong Xiaoyong has become the person that Qian Meiren puts in the imperial dining room in the eyes of everyone.Although all the palaces and courtyards are inextricably linked throughout the front palace.But Beauty Qian is currently the most favored, and Concubine Shu fell out of favor only after Beauty Qian came.At this time, Jiang Pinzheng Gong Xiaoyong, it is too normal.Only by indifference can one maintain a neutral attitude.

But after Gong Xiaoyong was secretly depressed for a few days, she didn't take this matter seriously.Isn't it just picking vegetables?no problem!You only need three leaves for such a good dish?Success!The other Lao Tzu picked the better ones and secretly kept them.Especially when packing up things like fish, chickens, ducks and geese, he kept a lot of the offloads he needed.hum!Having fun while suffering is the highest state of being a human being!

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