Six dishes were placed on a large square table in the open space of the courtyard, all of which were signature dishes of the six chefs.
Muchuan loved food, so he tasted it with chopsticks. As a result, he found that every dish was very delicious, like a bomb exploding in his taste buds, which was very satisfying.
"Not bad!"
But now, a new question arises. The dishes prepared by the six people are all so delicious and they are almost the same. So who should I choose?
Muchuan couldn't make a choice, so he invited Liu Gui and Xin'er to come over to taste the work.
As a result, the four of them each had their own favorites and chose different cooks.
Now he was back to his original shape and back to the starting point, and Muchuan had to think carefully about who to choose from the six cooks.
"Brother Muchuan, don't you require literacy when you recruit a chef?
Why not consider their poetry and calligraphy grammar?"
Xin'er said this.
What Xin'er said really reminded Muchuan, so he decided to test the poems and essays of the six cooks.
"Everyone, I will recite a poem next, and I ask you to write down the poem I said."
Muchuan ordered the six cooks to be equipped with paper and writing brushes, and then he recited an ancient poem.
Muchuan had also thought about the content of the ancient poem, which was Li Bai's "Journey into the Wine", which was also his favorite poem.
"I don't see you, the water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky and rushes to the sea never to return."
Don't you see, the bright mirror in the high hall has sad white hair, and it looks like blue silk in the morning and turns to snow in the evening.
If you are proud of life, you must enjoy it to the fullest. Don’t let the golden cup stand empty against the moon...]
During a cup of tea, Muchuan shook his head and recited it once, then stepped forward to read the poems written by the six cooks.
The result was surprising! All six cooks wrote it, and indeed they were all literate.
The problem is that the quality of the poems written by each of them is different, or there are many typos, or the fonts are very crooked and uneven, or the punctuation marks are wrong.
The only one among the six chefs who satisfied Muchuan was a dark-skinned man, two meters tall, as tall as an ox, with big eyes and an ox nose.
Although this big man looks like a rude and barbaric person, the handwriting he writes is neat, powerful, dignified and elegant, which is very different from the big man's appearance.
Muchuan couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what is your name?"
"Sir, my name is Temujin Dali."
Temujin is powerful?
Temujin?
When he mentioned the surname Temujin, Muchuan couldn't help but think of Genghis Khan Temujin, and he didn't know the relationship between Temujin Dali and Genghis Khan?
Calculated by years, could this Temujin Dali be the ancestor of Genghis Khan?
Muchuan couldn't help but ask: "Brother Dali?
When you have children and grandchildren in the future, will you name them Temujin?"
"Master Mu, I have never thought about this. After all, I... am still not married."
"Ahaha, really?"
"Furthermore, Master Mu, my surname is Temujin, and I am not a single person..."
It was only after Muchuan was strongly reminded by Temujin that he realized the problem. The Yuan Dynasty Empire, which would be born thousands of years in the future, was founded by members of the Borjijin clan, whose surname was "Borjijin".
As for "Temujin", it is not a surname, but a given name, which is the name of Genghis Khan.
Based on this calculation, Temujin Dali seems to have nothing to do with Genghis Khan. Perhaps it just happened that Temujin Dali's last name coincided with Genghis Khan's name. This kind of thing happens often.
Muchuan no longer struggled with the relationship between Temujin Dali and Genghis Khan. Instead, Muchuan admired the other person's calligraphy.
So Muchuan smiled heartily and patted Temujin's vigorous shoulder: "It's you! From now on, you will be the cook of my minister's residence."
"Thank you, sir."
However, when Muchuan decided that Temujin would vigorously serve as the palace cook, some people immediately jumped out to object.
"I don't accept it!"
The person who jumped out to object was one of the six cooks. He was 1.9 meters tall, with a big belly and a fat head and big ears.
The fat man's reason for dissatisfaction was simple. If the competition was based on poetry, the fat man's poetry would not necessarily lose to Temujin's. He just lost in calligraphy, so he asked for another rematch.
One game.
As a result, after the fat man said this, two more cooks started to boo him. They all thought that they were as powerful as Temujin.
Well, now that everyone has said that, Muchuan decided to play another round.
Just when Muchuan was about to announce the extra match, an old and resonant voice came from afar.
"Why is it so lively here?
Why don't you let me join in the fun?"
An old man appeared at the round arch of the courtyard. He was wearing a red cloud crane robe, with white hair and white eyebrows, and an extraordinary temperament.
But who is this old man?
It's very dissatisfying to appear in Muchuan's mansion for no reason.
I don’t know what Heishan and the other guards are doing. Why did they let an outsider in?
Just when Muchuan was feeling sleepy, Liu Gui who was standing next to him quickly explained to Muchuan: "Master Mu, this is Master Yu Shinan. This time he came with me and wanted to see you."
Yu Shinan?
Muchuan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the name, and then quickly asked: "Eunuch Liu, is the Yu Shinan you are talking about the Master Yu Shinan from the Secretary's Supervisor?"
"Exactly."
Hearing that it was Yu Shinan, even a proud and arrogant person like Muchuan quickly went over to salute.
It's not because this Yu Shinan is a high-ranking and powerful person, but because this Yu Shinan is a talented person from ancient times and has high morals and high respect.
Yu Shinan, a famous writer, poet, and statesman in history, one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, one of the eighteen bachelors of the Qin Dynasty, with a wealth of knowledge and a strong temperament.
Putting aside Yu Shinan's many titles, the most eye-catching thing is his status as a "calligrapher". He is good at calligraphy, and together with Ouyang Xun, Xue Ji and others, he is known as one of the "Four Great Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty".
His calligraphy works have been spread throughout the world and have far-reaching influence.
When Muchuan was in college, he was criticized for his ugly handwriting. For this reason, he bought a lot of calligraphy works for model practice, and some of them were by Yu Shinan.
What was unexpected was that Muchuan actually saw the character who lived in the textbooks with his own eyes today, and immediately stepped forward to bow and salute.
Yu Shinan smiled warmly and said: "Master Mu, you don't need to be polite, but what happened to you here?
Doesn’t this mean recruiting a butler?”
Yu Shinan had just gone to the hut, and when he came out he saw a lot of papers and brushes in the yard, and he naturally felt confused.
Later, when Liu Gui told Muchuan about "composing poetry" to elect the cook, Yu Shinan said it was interesting.
"I didn't expect that someone would choose the chef based on 'poetry'. Master Mu is really special. No wonder the emperor likes you so much! If you don't mind, let me participate now."
