Jixiang Xiaozhu finally opened, and Ma Beifeng and other people at the front of the queue entered first.
"Tie Chu, how about lunch!"
"We're here to watch the fun today, Chef Tie, don't let us down!"
"Chef Tie, I'm optimistic about you!"
Gu Zheng was in the hall of Jixiang Xiaozhu. Everyone saw him as soon as they entered the hall, so they all greeted him.
"I admire Chef Ti's cooking skills very much, but what you should do well is what a cook should do."
Compared to the enthusiastic voices of the crowd, an old voice sounded unfriendly.
The speaker is an old man with a white beard. He is Dr. Niu in Qingfeng City. His medical skills are quite good, otherwise he would not be called a miracle doctor. However, his medical ethics are not very good. When treating people, he
Money is very important.
Doctor Niu is also a frequent visitor to Jixiang Xiaozhu. When he was outside, someone asked him if he came here today to watch the fun, but he obviously didn't want to say anything more to others. He just said that he came to Jixiang Xiaozhu to eat.
However, what he said at this time has made it obvious that his visit to Jixiang Xiaozhu today is not as simple as eating.
I have met Dr. Niu Gu Zheng before and talked to him several times. However, during those few conversations, Dr. Niu behaved no differently from ordinary diners, with a sense of reverence. But today he looks like this,
Gu Zheng naturally knew what was going on. After all, Doctor Niu once treated Ma Xiaolian and received a lot of money, but he failed to cure Ma Xiaolian. Gu Zheng wanted to treat Ma Xiaolian this time, let’s not talk about it for now.
Can it be cured? Gu Zheng at least needs at least thirty taels of silver to ask the city lord to treat the people of Qingfeng City better. Let him compare with Doctor Niu to make a judgment. This naturally makes Doctor Niu feel a little uncomfortable.
.
When Doctor Niu came outside Jixiang Xiaozhu today, Gu Zheng already knew that he had also thought that Doctor Niu would be evil, but he didn't want to be the same as Doctor Niu. As long as Doctor Niu didn't go too far, he wouldn't say anything.
.However, Doctor Niu is very exaggerated. At least the word 'cook' he refers to has a strong sense of irony.
"Since Dr. Niu admires my cooking skills, just wait until you admire my medical skills!"
Doctor Niu didn't expect Gu Zheng to say this. He thought Gu Zheng would be angry or humble, but he didn't know that he would be so calm and public.
"Okay, then I'll just wait and see how good Chef Tie's cooking skills are!"
Doctor Niu seemed a little angry. After saying something to Gu Zheng, he waved to the waiter: "Here, order!"
Doctor Niu actually wanted to order dishes that required Gu Zheng to cook himself, but he did not dare to offend the public. Not to mention that Ma Beifeng was the city lord. While waiting outside, the diners had already made an agreement. As long as they followed
The people who entered Jixiang Xiaozhu together with Ma Beifeng did not order the dishes that Gu Zheng would cook personally. The purpose was to see Gu Zheng treat Ma Xiaolian quickly.
After Doctor Niu ordered the dishes, the other diners also ordered. Without exception, no one ordered anything that required Gu Zheng to cook it himself.
"Since you don't want to order my cooking and want me to treat people first, I'm going to cook now. Please wait a moment."
Gu Zheng smiled and said to everyone, then turned and returned to the kitchen.
"Sir, why is this Dr. Niu so annoying?"
Lingzhu, who had been following Gu Zheng, sent a message to him.
"It's not surprising that he would be like this." Gu Zheng said in a message.
"Sir, do you need me to take care of him?" Lingzhu asked.
"No need, he's just a mortal. As long as he doesn't cause trouble, I'm too lazy to get along with him." Gu Zhengdan said.
Gu Zheng has returned to the kitchen, and Doctor Niu here is getting more and more uncomfortable the more he thinks about it.
"Lord City Lord, do you think Chu Tie can really cure your concubine?"
Doctor Niu joined Ma Beifeng at the table.
"Whether it can cure my little girl's disease, we will naturally find out if we try it."
Ma Beifeng didn't have a good impression of Dr. Niu. When he asked him to treat Ma Xiaolian, he didn't tell her that the disease was cured, and he received a lot of money.
"Doctor Niu, are you a little scared that Chef Ti will cure my little girl's illness?"
Li Susu was not like Ma Beifeng, who could still maintain a certain demeanor towards Doctor Niu. Her words at this time were full of ridicule.
"I'm afraid? How is that possible!"
Doctor Niu smiled sternly. He was really afraid that Gu Zheng would cure Ma Xiaolian. If Gu Zheng really cured Ma Xiaolian, then his face would be slapped loudly.
"I just feel that my daughter's illness is very strange, and leaving it to a cook to treat her may make her illness more serious." Doctor Niu said in a low voice.
"No matter who he is, as long as he can cure my daughter's disease, it has nothing to do with his status. Doctor Niu is a famous miracle doctor in Qingfeng City, but we spent a lot of money on you, and my daughter's disease
It’s not like there’s no improvement at all.” Li Susu said coldly.
"The words of the Madam of the City Lord are wrong. Someone else called me the miracle doctor. I always thought that I was just an ordinary doctor. Regarding your daughter's illness, I tried my best. Although I couldn't cure her, I didn't let her.
Isn’t his illness more serious?”
"you,"
Li Susu gritted her teeth, how could she not know what Doctor Niu was thinking? She thought that if she mocked Doctor Niu for a few words, she would not say anything more if Doctor Niu wanted to show his respect, but she never thought that this man was so shameless.
"Okay, Doctor Niu, please go back to your seat! Since we have hired Chef Tie to treat our little girl, I think you should treat others with basic respect, right? If we asked you to treat our little girl,
, how would you feel if another person said something like you were not good behind your back?"
Ma Beifeng's face became serious. Although he didn't act like a city lord, since he was impatient at this time, even if Doctor Niu wanted to say something, he could only swallow it in his stomach.
"Okay then! I also hope that my lady can really get better, and I also hope that Chu Ti can really cure diseases."
Doctor Niu deleted one sentence and then returned to his seat.
Although Doctor Niu kept his voice as low as possible when he spoke to the city lord and his family, what he said was still heard a lot by other diners, so that when he returned to his original seat, everyone at the same table with him
The diners' eyes became a little evasive. It was obvious that these diners were dissatisfied with his actions, but due to his status as a doctor, they did not want to say anything openly.
Ma Beifeng and the others were not made to wait too long, and Gu Zheng quickly brought out the food therapy.
The diet therapy to treat Ma Xiaolian is actually very time-consuming, but Gu Zheng cooked some of the ingredients that needed to be boiled after finishing it, so it was possible to do it so quickly today.
The prepared dietary therapy was placed in a soup basin with a lid on it. Although everyone was very curious as to what kind of dietary therapy was used to treat Ma Xiaolian, they could only look at it with helpless eyes if Ma Xiaolian did not lift the lid.
watching.
Facing the soup basin in front of her, Ma Xiaolian was obviously conflicted. In order to cure her illness, she had taken countless strange medicines. Moreover, due to her taste bud problems, she would become weird even when she ate delicious food.
If you take medicine, the taste will become even weirder! Although Gu Zheng has said before that what he is doing is called diet therapy, but in Ma Xiaolian's mind, diet therapy is also medicine.
"Open it and see what it is."
Looking at his hesitant daughter, Ma Beifeng smiled and said.
Ma Xiaolian mustered up her courage and finally opened the lid of the soup basin. The contents inside were not as ugly as she had imagined, like herbs.
"Hey, what is this? Chicken soup?"
"Have you ever seen a chicken like that? It must be a kind of bird."
"It looks good and tastes great. Is this food or medicine?"
The diners came closer to watch and couldn't help but ask questions.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Just when everyone wanted to ask Gu Zheng what was stewed in the soup, Doctor Niu suddenly burst out laughing.
"Why are you laughing?" Gu Zheng looked at Doctor Niu.
"I am very good at cooking at Xiaotie Kitchen, but I am very bold when it comes to treating diseases!"
Doctor Niu smiled coldly, then looked at the crowd and said, "Does anyone know what the stew in Tiexi's kitchen is called?"
No one answered Doctor Niu's words, but everyone also showed great expectations. This kind of reaction was enough for Doctor Niu. He proudly said: "This kind of thing is called 'corpse poison', and it is a kind of living creature."
The ghost bird born in the graveyard by absorbing the Yin energy of the cemetery is rarely seen because it only appears at night. The old man knows that the corpse poison is poisonous, and after eating its meat, he will vomit and have diarrhea in the slightest, and become a serious person in the worst case.
You may become mute or die!"
Doctor Niu's words frightened people quite a bit, because the thing stewed in the soup was really not good-looking. It had dark blue skin, and at first glance it looked somewhat similar to a black-bone chicken. But now after listening to what Doctor Niu said,
I suddenly felt a little nauseous.
The frowning reaction of everyone made Doctor Niu very satisfied. He looked at Gu Zheng and said: "Chef Tie, you used corpse poison to stew soup for the city lord's beloved daughter. I don't know what kind of weird folk recipe this is, or is it the so-called fighting poison with poison?
"
Looking at Doctor Niu's mocking face, Gu Zheng frowned: "Doctor Niu, as a doctor, don't you know you can't talk nonsense?"
"Of course I know not to talk nonsense. If I say it, I will make you lose face, Chef Tie. But this is a matter of life and death. How can I not say it now that I have seen it? You use corpse poison to make soup for the city lord's beloved daughter.
Have you ever thought about the consequences?" Doctor Niu sneered.
"hehe."
Gu Zheng also laughed: "Indeed, there are birds like corpse poisonous birds in this world, but I don't know whether Doctor Niu has seen corpse poisonous birds with his own eyes or heard people talk about this kind of bird?"
"I have ancient books passed down from my ancestors, and there are pictures of this ghost bird on them, so there is no way I can go wrong!"
Doctor Niu was very sure that he was not lying about this. He did have an ancient book at home, and it did have the appearance of corpse poison on it. It looked exactly like the stew in the ancient war.
"This thing is not called corpse poison. Its name is 'Weak Water Jackdaw'. It is not toxic in itself, but its medicinal properties are relatively cold."
Gu Zheng paused, looked at Doctor Niu and said, "You failed to cure the disease of the city lord's beloved daughter, so after knowing that I wanted to cure the city lord's beloved daughter, you felt very uncomfortable. I can understand this, so you
I don’t take to heart some of the doubts and ridicules today. However, my good temper does not mean that I am easy to talk to. Now I ask you to leave Jixiang Xiaozhu and don’t come to my place to eat again in the future. You are not welcome here!”
"What's wrong with Chef Tie? Are you so angry that you want to drive people away?" Doctor Niu said with a smile.
"It's for your own good to drive you away, so that you don't have to be particularly embarrassed. If you really don't want to leave, that's fine, then you can stay! After the city lord's beloved daughter tastes it, she will know that this is the corpse poison you mentioned.
, or the weak water jackdaw I mentioned." Gu Zheng said with a smile.
Doctor Niu was originally very sure that the thing Gu Zheng stewed was corpse poison, but at this point, Gu Zheng still seemed so sure, which made him have to wonder whether he really admitted that he had mistakenly admitted it. However, it turned out that
The bow has no turning arrow. If you give in at this moment, it will be a real loss of face.
"City Lord, do you really dare to let your daughter try this thing? If something goes wrong, it will be too late to regret it!"
"Doctor Niu, I think you can shut up. I've never seen such a shameless person like you!"
Doctor Niu's voice had just fallen, and Li Susu had already said it directly. She was really furious with Doctor Niu. She believed in her feeling. It was her feeling that led her to come to Gu Zheng. Doctor Niu questioned Gu Zheng in this way.
It's also questioning her feelings.
"Really, I just need to eat your food. How come there are so many things!"
"That's right! You haven't cured people. Now that Tietuchu is treating people, you keep saying things like this over and over again. It's really annoying!"
"Shut up! No one wants to hear what you have to say!"
Finally, some diners couldn't stand Doctor Niu, and they also started talking.
"Well, even though I'm a troubled person, I want to see how this turns out!"
Doctor Niu shrugged and gritted his teeth secretly before returning to his seat.
"Daughter, eat it while it's hot."
The annoying Doctor Niu finally left, and Li Susu smiled and spoke to Ma Xiaolian.
"Mom, I'm afraid!"
Ma Xiaolian was really scared, and it was all caused by Doctor Niu.
"Don't be afraid, this is not poison."
Gu Zheng smiled at Ma Xiaolian. After Ma Xiaolian saw the look in his eyes, the fear in his heart disappeared. He picked up the kuaizi and touched the weak water jackdaw in the soup basin.
The Weak Water Jackdaw originally looked very complete, but when Ma Xiaolian touched it with a tachyon, it turned into divided blocks. This was something Gu Zheng had done before. There was no way he could let Ma Xiaolian
Take a whole weak water jackdaw to eat.
For Gu Zheng, it was easy to do this, but in the eyes of the diners, it was a spectacle. For a while, everyone admired Gu Zheng's knife skills.
Ma Xiaolian picked up a piece of Jackdaw meat and put it into her mouth, chewing it with her eyes closed and frowning as if taking medicine.
However, the meat of the Weak Water Jackdaw didn't look good, but it was not as unpalatable as Ma Xiaolian imagined, which made Ma Xiaolian's originally frowning brows relax.
Seeing the changes on her daughter's face, Li Susu said happily: "Daughter, do you have an appetite?"
"No, it's just that it's not as unpalatable as I thought." Ma Xiaolian said.
"Quick, eat more." Ma Beifeng said.
"Do I have to eat all of this?"
Ma Xiaolian looked at Gu Zheng and spoke in a soft voice. The look in Gu Zheng's eyes just now gave her the courage not to be afraid. It also made her feel in her heart that Gu Zheng was not a bad person. If Gu Zheng asked her to finish eating, she would
Even if I hold my nose, I will definitely eat the whole bowl.
"Yes, you can't keep any meat or soup." Gu Zheng smiled.
Ma Xiaolian nodded, as if she mustered up great courage, she picked up a piece of meat from the jackdaw and put it into her mouth.
This time, Ma Xiaolian still had her eyes closed, but her brows were not furrowed. After chewing the weak water jackdaw's meat in her mouth a few times, her eyes suddenly widened and she chewed faster.
"Daughter, how do you feel?"
Seeing that Ma Xiaolian had swallowed the meat in her mouth, Li Susu asked hurriedly.
"It feels pretty good, it seems a little tastier than the first piece I ate!"
When Ma Xiaolian said this, it seemed to be nothing to the ears of ordinary diners. It was just a little more delicious than the first piece. However, the diners did not understand Ma Xiaolian. They did not know that the "delicious" in Ma Xiaolian's mouth meant something.
How rare! Normally, Ma Xiaolian did not say the word "delicious" in her mouth. If what she said was really what the diners understood, she would only say that the second piece of meat was better than the first piece of meat, and
Not delicious!
"Quick, keep eating!"
This time, without waiting for Li Susu's prompting, Ma Xiaolian had already picked up the third piece of weak water jackdaw meat and put it into her mouth.
However, this time Ma Xiaolian's reaction was a little dull. When Li Susu asked, she felt that there seemed to be no difference between the third piece of meat and the second piece of meat. When she ate the third piece of meat, she originally felt like that
The feeling of deliciousness has decreased, just like fatigue.
Faced with this situation, the hearts of the diners were affected. They also wanted Ma Xiaolian to be better and Gu Zheng to create miracles, but what they heard was the slightly proud laughter of Doctor Niu.
"Now drink two spoons of soup again." Gu Zheng said.
Ma Xiaolian nodded, picked up the spoon obediently, took a spoonful of broth and drank it.
After drinking the first spoonful of broth, Ma Xiaolian's expression was dull, but when she drank the second spoonful of broth, her eyes lit up.
"Daughter, how do you feel?"
His heart was fluctuating with his daughter's reaction. This time the person asking the question was Ma Beifeng, who was relatively calm. At this time, he was already unable to calm down.
“Delicious!”
Ma Xiaolian hurriedly said something and wanted to drink the third spoonful of soup, but Gu Zheng spoke again at this time: "Hold the third spoonful of soup in your mouth and don't swallow it until your mouth is so sore and numb that you can't stand it anymore."
Swallow the soup, and do the same with the fourth and fifth spoonfuls of soup."
Ma Xiaolian was very obedient. After the third spoonful of soup was put into her mouth, she immediately stopped holding it.
"Husband!"
Li Susu was already crying with joy. Ma Xiaolian's firm "delicious" just now really made her wonder if she heard it wrong.
"Very good!"
Ma Beifeng was also excited. He held Li Susu's hand, his eyes turning slightly red.
"It seems that the word 'delicious' is a very rare comment from the city lord's daughter!"
"Yes, it must be like this. You can see that the city lord and his wife were so excited that they cried."
“Chef Tie is really good!”
"Yes! I really didn't expect that the effect would appear so quickly. I thought I would have to wait three days!"
Facing everyone's discussion, Doctor Niu's face felt a little hot, as if he was being pricked by a needle, but he still didn't give up. He also wanted Ma Xiaolian to finish the meat and soup.
