The Manchu and Han Banquets in Qing Dynasty

The luster is golden, and the rice grains are scattered. "Then picked up the spoon next to it and spooned some into his mouth, "The egg flower is fragrant and soft, oily but not greasy, Zixiu, you are very good." "

"Thank you." Zixiu smiled.

"You don't have to thank me. Although your egg fried rice uses very few ingredients, the color and aroma are first-class. One egg flower with six grains of rice, hehe, it's not something ordinary people can make." He handed it to Zixiu made a sign and said, "I'm waiting for your performance this afternoon."

Zixiu reached out to take it, and accidentally touched Boss Qian's finger. Boss Qian smiled ambiguously and walked to the next person.

A strange feeling rose in Zixiu's heart. He felt that Boss Qian was becoming more and more wicked.In terms of handsomeness, Kangxi and Rong Ruo are no worse than him, but there is no evil smell about these two people. It feels like... a vixen.

Zixiu was taken aback by his own thoughts, vixen, isn't that generally used to describe women?He glanced at Boss Qian's back, and remembered the feeling of touching his fingers just now, it was cool and soft, like fine silk.

"What the hell are you thinking?" Zixiu wanted to slap himself. For some reason, after last night, he felt a little strange. It seemed that he became sensitive to the touch of a man.

"Master, Brother Zixiu has passed!" Liang Jiugong said happily.

"Well, I saw it. We'll go to Tianxiang Tower later. Let's celebrate Zixiu." Kangxi watched Boss Qian talking to Zixiu from a distance. The two smiled so gently that he felt a little uncomfortable.

Suddenly, he thought of the kiss last night. It was the first time he kissed a man, and it felt good.He replaced Zixiu's face with Liang Jiugong's, almost spat it out, and then replaced it with Boss Qian's, which was still unacceptable.

Kangxi frowned and thought for a while, and finally understood what was going on.

At the end of the first round of the competition, ten people were just picked out. Except for Zixiu, the rest were cooks from various local restaurants and inns. All of these people wanted to enter Tianxianglou. The wages given are five times that of other places.

Which one of the people who come out to beg for a living doesn't want to make more money?So they all desperately wanted to win.However, even if you enter Tianxianglou, you may not be able to cook. There are too many people with excellent cooking skills, and newcomers can only do odd jobs. Even so, people who want to go in are still flocking to it.

"This is the end of the first round of the competition. Everyone who has received the badges, please come here on time. The second round of competition will start in the afternoon." The host announced the end, several happy and some sad, Zixiu packed his things calmly , and then go to Kangxi.

A group of people planned to go to Tianxianglou for dinner, but they heard someone calling "Young Master Ye". When Kangxi turned around, he found that it was Boss Qian.

Boss Qian said: "Congratulations to brother Zixiu. If you don't mind, please follow me to Tianxianglou for a meal."

Kangxi said: "We are planning to do this."

Boss Qian said: "It seems that we are of the same mind, everyone, please." As he spoke, he glanced at Zixiu, his bright eyes glowing with peach blossoms.

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No.20 Four courses

When a group of people came to Tianxiang Building, Boss Qian asked Xiaoer to prepare dishes, while he accompanied Kangxi and others to the Accord on the second floor.Kangxi, Zixiu and Boss Qian were sitting, while the other two stood aside.

Boss Qian was not surprised, and said: "Young master Ye, you are a really good cook, I don't know who Zixiu's mentor is?"

Kangxi said: "Small tricks are hard to be elegant, Boss Qian laughed at him."

Zixiu: "..."

Boss Qian looked at Zixiu and said, "I have an unfeeling request, I hope Young Master Ye and Brother Zixiu can agree."

Kangxi: "Boss Qian, please tell me, we will definitely help where we can." He glanced at Zixiu, and Zixiu nodded quickly.

Boss Qian laughed and said, "That's great. Brother Zixiu's cooking skills are so good. I wonder if Young Master Ye can lend him to me for a few days after the competition in the afternoon?"

Both Kangxi and Zixiu were slightly taken aback, wondering why he would make such a request.By the way, this is a new thing.

Seeing that neither of them responded, Boss Qian said again: "Don't worry, I won't treat brother Zixiu badly. Although it's a loan, I will pay him ten taels of silver a day."

Kangxi frowned slightly, and said, "I don't know what is the use of Boss Qian borrowing Zixiu?"

This is exactly what Zixiu wanted to know, he was just a cook, there were so many cooks in Tianxiang Building, it shouldn't be his turn, the more he thought about it, the more he didn't know what kind of medicine this man was selling in his gourd.

Boss Qian smiled and said: "I am confident that Zixiu will be the winner of the 'Gourmet Conference', and I also know that he can't leave Young Master Ye and you to come to Tianxiang Building as a cook, so I can only make this bad plan, hoping to borrow Zixiu for a few minutes." God, help me attract customers to Tianxianglou."

Kangxi laughed and said, "Boss Qian, you are really planning ahead. How do you know that Zixiu will definitely win?"

Even though he asked like this, Kangxi was still very happy. Qian Shikun's saying and doing this was an affirmation of Zixiu. How could a royal chef in a majestic palace lose easily to a poor chef?

Zixiu didn't think so, he thought, even if he won the game, he would not go to Tianxiang Tower, he looked at Kangxi with some worry, hoping that Kangxi would not agree to Boss Qian's request.

Boss Qian laughed and said, "Although I'm not a cook, I think I have good eyesight. No one can compare to Zixiu's egg fried rice. Based on this alone, his cooking skills are much better than others."

Kangxi looked at Zixiu and said, "Zixiu, you can decide for yourself, are you willing to help Boss Qian?"

Zixiu's face showed embarrassment, who Boss Qian was, he knew immediately that he was unwilling, so he said, "Brother Zixiu, I don't expect you to stay for long, you can help me for three days?"

Zixiu immediately swallowed the refusal he hadn't said yet, and he had no choice but to agree when others said it was up to him.So he said, "Alright then, it's only three days."

"Well, it's only three days!" Boss Qian happily grabbed his hand and held it tightly.

Kangxi looked at the handshake between the two and found it particularly unpleasant. He inadvertently pulled Zixiu's sleeve and said, "Zixiu, then you have to behave well and don't let Boss Qian down."

"Yes, master." Zixiu said unhappy.

He knew that Kangxi could not be blamed for this matter, he had promised others, but he was still a little sad to hear Kangxi say that, it seemed that he was just sold out.

In the afternoon, several people went to the competition place together. Since there were only ten people left, the square seemed very empty. Kangxi and the others sat closer and could clearly see everyone's movements.

The host said: "The topic of this round of competition is drawn up by everyone. The competition time is one hour. During this period, you are not allowed to leave the competition venue. Now the competition begins."

As soon as he finished speaking, the contestants got busy, and Zixiu came in fourth. The food he was going to cook was Phoenix Spreading Wings. Because of the preparation in advance, he didn't have the embarrassment in the morning, and everything went smoothly from beginning to end.

Phoenix wings, the main ingredient is stuffed duck, followed by eggs, cucumber and other ingredients.Zixiu first steamed the eggs into egg yolk cakes and meringue cakes, then kept them aside for later use, and then began to slice the cucumber skin.

A piece of cucumber skin is a test of knife skills. The skin is too thin or too thick. It may be difficult for others, but it is a piece of cake for Zixiu.He first removed the head and tail of the cucumber, then picked it up with a knife in both hands, and with a little force with his left hand, the cucumber was thrown into the air.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, he flew with two knives and cut the cucumber into two-inch long uniform strips.Cucumber strips fell one by one and neatly placed on the plate.But this is not over yet. After cutting the cucumber, he put down the knife in his right hand and picked up the plate. Then with a flick of his wrist, cucumber strips flew out from top to bottom one by one, and the knife in his left hand danced rapidly.

All of a sudden, cucumber strips and cucumber skins flew around, fluttering like celestial maidens scattering flowers, and then fell one after another.After the slices are finished, the cucumber skins are divided into one plate, and the cucumber flesh is made into another plate.

Everyone couldn't help applauding, even Kangxi showed a satisfied smile.He admitted that he was captivated by Zixiu's cooking skills.

The contestants around were stunned and forgot what to do for a moment. Zixiu smiled faintly and began to shave the duck bone.After shaving off the bones, he shredded part of the duck meat and duck skin. The kitchen knife seemed to be alive in his hands, and he could cut the duck meat into thin strips of equal length and width even without looking at it.

"Who is that?" Mo Yuchu asked Boss Qian with his head tilted, his eyes full of doubts.

Boss Qian said, "His name is Lin Zixiu. How about it? He's a good cook, right?"

Mo Hai nodded, and said: "I'm afraid that the imperial chef is nothing more than that. I don't know where this person is, but he has such excellent knife skills."

Boss Qian looked at Zixiu, the light in his eyes became even brighter, Yuchu?It seemed that he was right.If Zixiu can really be invited to Tianxiang Tower, the daily money will probably be doubled.

Zixiu's dishes are in the final stage. He put shredded duck in the middle of the big plate and arranged it in the shape of a phoenix spreading its wings; , tail feathers and other parts, and finally, a plate of phoenix wings is complete.

The time of completion was just right, and the host asked them to bring the finished products to the stage one by one for the three judges to taste.

I don't know what No.1 was doing, the three judges just glanced at it and shook their heads, the man sighed and walked down reluctantly, looking like he was crying.

Zixiu wondered, don't cry even if you can't win.He didn't know that that person had participated in the competition for five years in a row, and he could survive the first round every time, but he couldn't pass the second round.

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