[Red Mansion] A little chef came to the Grand View Garden

Not long after Mother Liu left, she saw Lin Xiaohong appearing at the door of the small kitchen with a half-smile.

"You're here!" Liu Mei was overjoyed, she dragged her friend in, took her around the small kitchen, and asked, "How do you feel?"

Xiao Hong pursed her lips and smiled lightly, and said, "Put the water card on it, and it will be able to open!"

Liu Mei also smiled: "How can the small kitchen here compare with your Hongshun Building?"

Xiao Hong stopped joking with her, but asked Liu Mei: "Have you gone to get the documents and materials? Do you know the current situation in the mansion?"

Liu Mei nodded.

To be honest, if Xiaohong hadn't asked first, she might not know how to tell Xiaohong what happened earlier.

She secretly figured in her heart that if Sister Feng ordered her to collect the certificate and occasionally do some part-time shopping, it must be because she had the idea of ​​letting her secretly watch.The atmosphere in Jia's mansion is such that, according to Mother Liu, everyone already knew about it, and everyone knew it, but they just hid it from their superiors.

Lin Xiaohong is Sister Feng's confidant, but her parents are the housekeeper and lady in charge of the mansion.Liu Mei guessed that Xiaohong knew the inside story, but she didn't know how much Xiaohong would reveal to Sister Feng.

Only Xiaohong sighed softly, "Nowadays it's like this in the mansion, layer upon layer of greed, everyone wants to take the money into their own pockets. But who would have imagined that the mansion has already been living without money."

Liu Mei is a spoiler, so she was not surprised after hearing this.

Xiaohong said again: "Everyone is pointing at the errands in the mansion, it's a little bit more exploitative, but who has ever seen the mansion is not good, and the servants are still living well?"

Liu Mei nodded, agreeing.She thought, and she didn't know whether it was Xiaohong's sense of urgency that affected Sister Feng, or whether Sister Feng influenced Xiaohong in reverse. In short, these two people can see clearly now.

"Then... what is grandma going to do?" Liu Mei quietly asked Xiaohong.

Xiao Hong shook her head, with a puzzled expression on her face, she answered Liu Mei: "Grandma said, the roots are so intricate that you can't move easily. Besides, if the water is clear, there will be no fish, and if there is no profit at all, the house is so There are many things, and people are too lazy to take care of them.”

Xiaohong relayed Sister Feng's words, and what Liu's mother said had exactly the same meaning.

Finally, Xiaohong sighed and said, "It's just waiting, and I'll act when I see the opportunity!"

"Let's not talk about that," Xiaohong thought of her purpose today, and the gloom on her face immediately disappeared, "I will take you out of the house to a place, but this time, it will definitely be a fun thing!"

Liu Mei looked at Xiaohong, and thought for a moment - she understood why Sister Feng wanted to give her the name of shopping.

"Hongshun Building?"

Seeing that she guessed it, Xiaohong smiled happily, took her arm and said, "Mei'er, let's go!"

For a while, the two of them went out of the corner gate of the Grand View Garden, and walked along the corridor for a while, Xiao Hong suddenly pulled Liu Mei's sleeve, and the two little girls shrank back to the side of the road.

Before Liu Mei raised her head, she heard Sister Feng's signature hearty laughter——

"When the aunt is free, I will take a sedan chair to enter the mansion, play cards with the old lady, and talk! The old lady is relieved, and us juniors feel more at ease when we see each other."

In the distance, I saw Sister Feng, accompanied by a well-dressed old lady, coming out of the corner door in front of the hall, in front of Liu Lin and the other two, and slowly passed to the second gate of Rongfu.

Liu Mei asked her friend in a low voice, "Who is that old lady?"

Xiaohong also lowered her voice and replied, "It's the grandma of Grandpa Lai's family!"

After hearing this, Liu Mei took a long time to realize: this person is none other than Lai Da's mother, Nanny Lai, the housekeeper of the Rong Mansion.Countless servants, maids and daughter-in-laws in the mansion all call Lai Da grandpa Lai, so Lai Da's mother is almost the old Fengjun!

It's just that Liu Mei didn't expect that Nanny Lai, after all, was a servant girl, but she was accompanied by Sister Feng herself when she went out.This huge dignity is astonishing.

Seeing Liu Mei staring blankly at Nanny Lai and the others going away, Xiao Hong said indifferently: "It's just giving the Lai family a little bit of shame, if you really dare to do this, this Lai family..."

She didn't go on, Liu Mei helped her make up in her stomach: This Lai family is probably the target of Sister Feng.

For a while, Sister Feng and others went far away, Xiaohong pulled Liu Mei out, got into the cart, and went to Hongshun Tower together.

Only then did Liu Mei know why Xiaohong pulled her out.

"Cook Shao begs you later, hang on to him first, but don't agree to him easily! lest he turn around and take Joe again."

It turned out that Chef Shao wanted to use Sister Feng as an excuse last time, but he never thought that Sister Feng would pull a young Liumei out to deal with the most picky and cunning loyal prince.

Chef Shao had no choice but to come back honestly and continue to work.

But he never thought that Liu Mei made the "Jiang Shilang Tofu" for Prince Zhongshun, and for some reason, it became famous in Beijing.When many guests order noodles, they clearly say that they want to try that dish, "the tofu eaten by His Royal Highness".

Willow eyebrows supporting the forehead-it seems that tofu is really a dish that is easily misunderstood.

Lin Xiaohong continued to speak.

"Chef Shao put on a show at the beginning, saying that there is no reason for a chef like him to cook these ordinary miscellaneous dishes. But who would have thought that no matter which second chef it is, they can't cook the taste you made that day."

"Later, Chef Shao couldn't bear it any longer, so he tried to make it himself." Lin Xiaohong smiled very proudly, "You also know that all the big guys in the kitchen tasted that tofu that day, and they all said that What Chef Shao made is not like that at all."

"Since then, Chef Shao has been crazy. He cooks tofu more than a dozen times a day. In the past few days, everyone eats Kaiyang stewed tofu every day. His face turns pale and looks like tofu. But he just couldn't make it. Everyone The taste to eat!"

"No way," Xiao Hong looked at her friend, "Grandma told me to come and find you and take you out!"

"To be honest, I think that Chef Shao is about to lose his grip. If Hongshunlou still can't make that tofu dish, then he will be ashamed to stay here..."

"However," at this point, Xiaohong changed her tone, "but if you cook it yourself, it won't taste like the ones who helped the chefs taste it, Chef Shao will probably be able to talk about it! "

"So, your grandma, let me help cure Chef Shao who always likes to show off Joe's illness. It's better to get rid of the root, isn't it?" Liu Mei said with a smile.

Xiaohong gave a thumbs up: "Isn't it!"

"Mei'er, I trust you the most. But tell me, after such a long time, can you make the same taste after doing it twice?"

Liu Mei raised her eyebrows, "What's wrong with that?"

She leaned back in the carriage comfortably, and said, "There is a best cure for this disease of love to be inflated and show off."

Lin Xiaohong didn't understand what "expansion" meant, but she understood Liu Mei's expression.

"You'll see what it is in a while."

Liu Mei thought to herself, the best way is to crush and crush and crush again, after three times, it will be guaranteed.

When they were young, they arrived at Hongshun Building.

Hongshun Building only deals in the evening market, so the big kitchen is still busy at this time——

People were so idle that they all gathered in the big kitchen, ready to watch Liu Mei remake the tofu from last time.

"Miss Liu, what is the name of the tofu dish your old man made last time?"

"Jiang Shi... Well, Jiang's tofu!" Liu Mei thought for a while, and felt that it would be better not to say the word "Jiang Shilang" for the sake of safety, in case Jiang Shilang had never appeared in this world. What should I do with this person.

"It is said that a rich family surnamed Jiang came up with this method, so it is called Jiang's Tofu."

Others have never heard of the "legacy" that Liu Mei said, but they all think that she is unpredictable.

"Don't talk about these things. Everyone is looking at it like this. Let's see the real chapter!" A man in his thirties and 40s was standing in front of the kitchen stove with his arms folded, looking hostilely. with willow eyebrows.

Liu Mei saw that the big man had a shrewd and capable appearance, and his whole body was cleaned up very cleanly. At this moment, his sleeves were rolled up to the elbows, revealing the strong muscles on his forearms.

Liu Mei knew that this person was Chef Shao.

She didn't care, just nodded, and said lightly: "Okay!"

Next to Chef Shao, stood the second chef with "inexperienced" written all over his face.For some reason, the second chef focused on Liu Mei, and asked her cautiously: "Miss Liu, do you want us...to avoid it?"

He was afraid that Liu Mei's dish might have some hidden secrets.

Many famous chefs are like this, and many famous dishes are hard to find.

Unexpectedly, Liu Mei shook her head and said, "No need! You all watch from the sidelines, I will only do it once!"

Is this to teach them?

All the little chefs in the kitchen were very excited, but Chef Shao was the only one who turned black - this is a proper slap in the face!

However, it has been so long since I made the tofu dish last time, and even these people present can hardly remember the taste.Can Liu Mei make them so amazing?

Liu Mei was very relaxed, and Shi Shiran started to do it.

This time is no different than last time, this time the kitchen is full of pre-prepared ingredients: tofu, processed dried shrimps, oil, green onions, sugar, salt and liqueur...

Liu Mei's subordinates quickly, sliced ​​tofu, roasted tofu, roasted tofu, seasoned, cooked...

Chef Shao just watched Liu Mei make this tofu again with the technique he had repeated countless times.

When the pot was put on the plate, a helper shouted in surprise: "This is the taste!"

Liu Mei put two plates of tofu in the pot expressionlessly, and distributed one plate to the help cooks.Everyone tasted it with chopsticks, and there was a feeling of tears in their eyes: Really, this is the taste!

After trying so many imitation tofu, the chefs were so happy when they suddenly tasted the real one. A plate of tofu was immediately divided up.

Everyone looked at Liu Mei, and only then did they understand why Liu Mei served two plates of tofu.

I saw Liu Mei handing another plate to Chef Shao, "Try it!"

Seeing that the chefs were eating happily, Chef Shao was half-believing—he still refused to believe that the tofu dish Liu Mei made so lightly and skillfully was different from so many recipes he had tried.

Chef Shao took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick cage, tasted a piece, blinked, and felt that the plate of tofu in his hand was delicious and impeccable.In contrast, he has done it so many times in the past, and there are more or less flaws of one kind or another, which cannot be compared with the way in front of him.

He immediately put down his chopsticks, sneered, and said, "It's not bad!"

He had just carefully recorded every step of Liu Mei's cooking of this tofu dish, every seasoning, and the dosage of all seasonings.With Liu Mei doing this, he easily handed over the recipe of this tofu dish to him.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Liu Mei casually took a step to the side, giving way to the entire table and the stove, "Master Shao, since you have seen everything, you can make one!"

Chef Shao let out a "hum", and couldn't help feeling furious.

He is a cook who is two or three times the age of the other party. He has eaten more salt than the rice that the little girl has eaten. By saying this, the little girl is laughing at him and saving him face?

However, Lin Xiaohong and the other kitchen helpers watched from the sidelines.Hearing what Liu Mei said, the inexperienced second chef immediately cheered up Chef Shao: "Master Shao, we have to deal with the master. Since you have seen all the recipes, why don't you make another one. If you can, this dish will be fine." The menu can be served. When Miss Liu is not here, you can also teach us."

Lin Xiaohong stood aside, just watched, didn't say anything, and exerted pressure silently.

In the end, Chef Shao still couldn't take it anymore. After all, he no longer had the strength to bargain with the owner's family. If this family could not survive, he would not be able to get such a good salary in other restaurants in Beijing.

So Chef Shao turned around with a cold face, cleaned his hands, put on his apron, and followed Liu Mei's operation process, step by step, to make this Jiang's Tofu.

Liu Mei watched from the side, and felt that Chef Shao had a very good memory. Chef Shao still learned the way she handled the tofu just now, and he did a good job.Each piece of tofu is made into sixteen pieces, which is not bad at all.

The help cooks who were onlookers also seemed to have confidence in their boss.

But Liu Mei looked more and more confident, turned her head and exchanged a look with Lin Xiaohong.

When I was young, Chef Shao's "Jiang's Tofu" also came out of the pot, steaming hot.The big kitchen is also filled with the aroma of tofu and dried shrimp.

Chef Shao picked up the pot and put it on the plate, sneered at Liu Mei, and hugged his arms proudly.

Unexpectedly, Liu Mei smiled at him and encouraged him, "Master Shao, try it yourself first!"

Chef Shao was rarely provoked like this, and when he heard this, he blushed with anger.

But Lin Xiaohong was standing beside Liu Mei, and when she heard what Liu Mei said, she also nodded.

Chef Shao had no choice but to take the chopsticks again, took a piece of tofu that he had made, and put it in his mouth.

For a moment, the kitchen was silent.Everyone watched Chef Shao's face turn from white to red, and from red to black.

Chef Shao stood there, unable to speak for a while.

Suddenly, he remembered the plate of tofu that Liu Mei made earlier, and it was still placed next to the stove, so he quickly stretched out his chopsticks to grab another piece, and put it in his mouth to taste.

In the silence, the sound of bamboo chopsticks falling to the ground was heard.

Chef Shao was only shocked in the local area, unable to speak a single word.

Liu Mei patted her sleeves easily, turned to Xiaohong and said, "It's cured!"