While everyone was laughing, they saw Li Jingshu, wearing a floral apron, walking from the kitchen holding a gorgeous mahogany tray.

After being called out for a long time, Li Jingshu held a tray and bowed to Lan Qiao. She couldn't hide her joy and said, "When Mr. Lan finally comes back, the little girl thought that she would never have a chance to see him again." She and Lan Qiao exchanged greetings for a while, feeling hungry.

Four exquisite cold dishes were served to the crowd.

The first dish is called "Jade Finger Beauty". The ingredients are fresh local seasonal bamboo shoot tips. Each one is fresh and juicy. It is named because it looks like a beauty's jade finger. It can be called a gift from nature.

The ingredients were collected by Li Jingshu in person from a bamboo forest fifty miles north of Yueyang City. Along the way, the bamboo shoot tips were soaked with Dongting Lake water and jasmine petals grown in the backyard, which preserved the freshness of the bamboo shoot tips to the greatest extent while allowing the fragrance of jasmine to be integrated into it. When eating, just use

Peel off the outer skin with your hands and dip it in the specially prepared sauce. The fragrance combined with the aroma of the sauce will make you addicted.

Feng Yeling peeled off the tip of a bamboo shoot with her hands, dabbed the sauce and fed it into Lan Qiao's mouth.

Lanqiao tasted the refreshing taste and couldn't help but admire it. He shook his head and said, "The bamboo shoots in the green forest are bright and beautiful. The flowers are fragrant, and spring is in the mouth."

"Good poetry," Feng Yueming said with a smile, stroking her hands, "In the past, Cao Zijian wrote a poem in seven steps, and now Lan Shaoxia is not to be outdone."

"It's just a little bit sour." Lan Feng said while banging the bowl. "The elder brother and sister-in-law openly love each other in front of so many eyes. They really don't take us idlers seriously. Let's take a look at this second cold expression.

What’s the dish?”

The second dish is "Green Shade Summer Pond", which uses crisp and delicious slices of summer lotus root, which looks quite similar to the famous Jiangnan dish of osmanthus and glutinous rice lotus root.

"It looks like glutinous rice lotus root, but it is actually very ingenious." Feng Yueming picked up a piece of lotus root and looked at it carefully, and said calmly, "The hole in this lotus root is not filled with glutinous rice, but with bananas."

He put the lotus root slices into his mouth and took a bite, praising, "The lotus root is crisp and refreshing, the plantains are sticky and sweet, and the outside is wrapped with a thin layer of brown sugar to add to the crispy taste. Together with the osmanthus sauce, it is really delicious."

People have a comfortable feeling like the green shade of a summer pond."

Everyone had been hungry for a long time and could no longer resist the sweet taste of this dish, so they all took their chops to taste it.

Looking at the third dish, there were actually several fresh river crabs cut into pieces with a knife. The green crab shell contrasted with the white crab paste and crab meat in the shell, but it gave people a feeling that they did not dare to eat with chopsticks.

"Is this a raw crab?" Lan Feng picked up a piece and asked suspiciously, "The first two dishes are so exquisite, why does this crab seem to have no explanation, just pick it up and chop it twice before eating it?"

Feng Yeling said dissatisfied, "Sister Jingshu's first two dishes were so particular. How could this plate of crabs be as simple as you said? Look at what's in the little pot next to it."

There was another small pot next to the river crab. Lan Feng curiously poured the contents of the lake into a small bowl, sniffed and said, "It seems to be wine. Hey, there are some transparent threads here."

Li Jingshu explained with a smile, "This is the special cherry blossom wine made by Nujia. The wine is soaked with jellyfish shreds, and the jellyfish is paired with river crabs, so this dish is called Haiyan Heqing."

When Lan Qiao heard the name Haiyan Heqing, he immediately thought of Bai Xueyin and her Heqing sword, and couldn't help but feel sorry that Bai Xueyin didn't have such a good fortune.

Feng Yeling dipped his chopsticks into the wine and tasted it. He stuck out his tongue in surprise and said, "This doesn't seem to be the cherry blossom wine sold on the street. Why is it so strong?"

Li Jingshu smiled and said, "I made a little bit of the cherry blossom wine I bought on the street."

Feng Yeling wondered, "Although the usual cherry blossom wine is sweet and soft in the mouth, it is too pure. How did you process it?"

"One word, steaming." Li Jingshu blinked and said, "Put the purchased cherry blossom wine into a special steaming vessel and bake it, and then collect the steamed wine smell to make the wine smell much more fragrant.

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"I don't care about steaming or roasting, I want to be the first to eat crabs." Lan Feng said, rolling up his sleeves, picking up a piece of crab, soaking it in the wine syrup and putting it in his mouth, but he felt that the fresh crab meat was so chewy.

The soft texture like rice cake and the crispness of shredded jellyfish complement each other.

The strong cherry blossom wine removed the fishy smell of the two, but further enhanced the umami taste with its unique cherry blossom aroma, making him squint his eyes and indulge in it.

Seeing Lan Feng's expression after eating crabs, Lan Qiao and Feng Yeling couldn't help but curiously took the chopsticks to taste. Feng Yueming looked approvingly at Li Jingshu, pointed to the fourth plate of cold dishes and asked her, "This looks like tofu, right?"

What’s the name of this dish?”

Li Jingshu smiled slightly and said, "This dish is called Jinghua's Wet Dream. I respectfully ask the young Marquis to taste it."

Feng Yueming's heart moved, and she saw that this dish was made of tofu cubes arranged in a "hui" shape. The outer circle was white tofu, and the inner circle was bright red. Feng Yueming

He smiled and said, "The outer circle is the city wall, and the inner circle is the palace wall. Miss Li has built a capital city for us."

Speaking of this, Feng Yueming couldn't help but sigh in her heart as her memories of the capital were aroused. She thought that these people were classified as traitors for helping King Yan. Unless King Yan successfully pacified the enemy, they would never be able to return to the capital in an upright manner.

"What a lost dream in Beijing." Feng Yueming thought of this and said with a smile, "I hope that in the near future, Beijing will be more than just a memory in our dreams."

He picked up a piece of pink tofu and put it into his mouth. When he chewed the tofu piece, he found that there was a small piece of soy beef hidden inside. The aroma of the meat mixed with the taste of the tofu, making Feng Yueming nod frequently while eating.

"There are no traces of cutting on the tofu pieces. The beef should have been put in before the tofu is marinated." Lan Qiao also tasted a piece and savored it carefully. "The bright red color of the tofu is probably added when the tofu is marinated."

Pomegranate flower juice, right?”

"That's really smart." Li Jingshu smiled and said to everyone, "The four cold dishes have been introduced. Please wait and enjoy. I have to go back to prepare the next dish."

Lan Qiao couldn't help but smile when he saw her back walking back to the kitchen. He felt like he was being teased by her "so smart". He obviously noticed the mystery of the dish with his wit, but he was praised by her in this way.

The child's tone of praise always feels like she is somehow shorter than her.

Li Jingshu did not keep everyone waiting for too long, and quickly served the fifth course of the meal, which was also the first hot dish.

This dish is called Crystal Erbao. There are two kinds of almost transparent food neatly arranged on a long marble plate. They are meats that have been sliced ​​very thinly and evenly. One kind of meat is reddish, and the other is meat.

It is whitish, and the light can be clearly seen through the meat slices and the delicate lines on the marble plate under the meat slices. There is also a small bamboo basket next to the stone plate, which contains snow-white water lily petals of the same size.

"The red one is the pork neck, and the white one is the fish skin." Lan Feng pretended to be an expert, "It is made by frying. It seems to be the simplest, but in fact it tests the control of the heat."

"The second young master has a keen eye." Li Jingshu said with a sweet smile, "Eating these two crystal treasures alone is one kind of taste, and eating them together is another taste. If some sisters have a lighter taste, they can be eaten rolled up with water lily petals.

It will still have a normal taste." She bowed slightly and turned around.

Lanqiao tasted it carefully, but found that the pork neck was charred on the outside and tender and fat on the inside, and the fish skin was crispy and delicious. The two different textures and tastes intertwined on the tip of the tongue, which was indescribable.

If you use the snow-white petals still with dewdrops to eat, you will add a light floral fragrance to the pure fish and meat fragrance, enriching the entire taste level. Not only Feng Yueming and other meat-loving men will love it.

Even Murong Ying, who never likes greasy food, couldn't help but nod her head frequently.

Feng Yeling looked at everyone who was completely conquered by the food, and asked Lan Qiao teasingly, "How does my sister Jingshu's cooking compare to yours?"
Chapter completed!