Qixi also advised with distress: "Master has been copying for almost an hour, please loosen it quickly, it will hurt your eyes carefully!".
Ji Ling nodded and put down his pen.
Qixi opened the curtain and helped Ji Ling sit down at the dining table in the main room. Bixue then handed the hot tea cakes in. There were four snacks in total: in addition to soft milk cakes, salty ham pancakes, and glutinous rice and brown sugar fried cakes.
Outside the cake, there is also a dragon beard snowflake cake.
This Dragon Beard Snowflake Cake is something Ji Ling has never seen before. The sugar strands of the shortbread are white and slender, and are rolled up layer by layer. Each cake is dotted with a dot of brown sugar. In addition, the porcelain
The edge of the bowl is also decorated with a leaf pattern poured with hot brown sugar.
Each piece of shortbread is about the size of a three-year-old child's fist, neatly arranged on a deep plate with a blue and white fish and algae pattern.
Qixi waited and picked up a piece of Dragon Beard Snowflake Cake with chopsticks and put it on the plate in front of Ji Ling. The cake was so thin and crispy that strands of it immediately fell off.
Ji Ling had just washed his hands, and then he grabbed a piece of cake and put it into his mouth. He felt that the sugar shreds were not as sweet as he imagined, but had a delicate milky fragrance.
Before I even had time to chew it, it had already melted on the tip of my tongue like fine snow.
too delicious!
She ate four of them without stopping. There were only five in total on the plate, arranged in the shape of a plum blossom, with a stamen made of brushed brown sugar in the middle. At this time, only the last one was left alone.
"How is this done?" Ji Ling raised his head and asked.
At the door of the main room, Xiao Lezi was delivering the last pastry to Bixue. Hearing this, he rolled up his sleeves and saluted, and said with a smile: "Master! This pastry is a folk snack. This is a recipe improved by the slave.
Made of milk, maltose, rock sugar, brown sugar, bird's nest, glutinous rice flour, and rice wine."
He paused and said: "The method is not too difficult. I put the kneaded maltose on the glutinous rice flour, then dug a hole in the middle, then twisted the hole into a figure-eight shape, kept kneading the dough, and added bird's nest, milk, and so on.
In this way, the sugar thread is stretched thinner and thinner, and finally becomes the thickness of a hair, and the shortbread is formed."
Ji Ling picked up the last piece of Dragon Beard Snowflake Crispy and put it into his mouth. Hearing this, he smiled and nodded: "This tastes very good, sweet but not greasy, and crispy."
She raised her head and said to Qixi: "Reward."
Qixi knelt down and responded, then went back to the inner room to get a dark blue cotton purse, which was leftover from a few eunuchs who had been rewarded a while ago.
This one contains a little more money, and it hasn't been opened yet, so it's just the right gift for Xiao Lezi. If you really count it carefully, the money inside is almost equal to Xiao Lezi's monthly salary.
Qixi walked out of the back room holding her purse.
Xiao Lezi saw it at a glance and quickly knelt down. After taking the purse from Qixi's hand, he quickly kowtowed and said, "I thank you, Master, for your kindness!".
Ji Ling smiled, pointed at her purse and said: "Get up, you just came here not long ago, and I haven't had time to give you some greeting gifts. This is the first reward. From now on, you can follow Xiao Dazi in the dining room.
Do it well."
After Xiao Lezi bowed and left, he walked all the way to the dining room.
As he passed by the firewood room, he glanced sideways.
I saw four handy eunuchs busy in the firewood room. One was carrying firewood, and the other was rolling up his sleeves, using a small brush to spread the snow-white salt, and wiping it piece by piece on the belly of a fish. There was a small door at the door.
There was also a person sitting on the stool, using a small curved blade scraper to process a pile of yams.
These are all ingredients for dinner.
The yam skin was most itchy when it touched the skin. While peeling, the man would dip his hands in the cold water basin next to him from time to time and wipe them with a cheesecloth before continuing to peel.
He suddenly turned his head and caught a glimpse of Xiao Lezi. He quickly kicked off the stool and stood up. He said with a smile on his face: "Brother Le, what are your orders from your noble master?".
Xiao Lezi was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "Master has not said anything, but you guys have to be more agile in your actions. Be careful not to delay the master's dinner in the evening!".
The man then bowed repeatedly and said: "Brother Le, don't worry, we won't delay it! We won't delay it!".
Xiao Lezi nodded, glanced across the room, and was about to leave. Another person was listening nearby. When he saw Xiao Lezi coming out of the noble's main room, he thought about it, rushed forward and whispered
Said: "Brother Da just now told us the meal list for the evening, and asked brother Le to take care of us."
Xiao Lezi squinted his eyes against the wind and said, "Say...".
The handyman eunuch looked at the people next to him, then counted on his fingers and said: "For dinner, we have stewed chicken with melon and ginger, chicken wings turned into eggs, braised duck with apples, spicy and sour fish with yam and yam, braised pork with spinal cord..."
When Xiao Lezi heard what was coming, he raised his hand to stop him and said, "It's done! Let's add some vegetarian dishes and some soup. I'll go show it to Miss Qixi later."
After he finished speaking, he walked into the room next to him. The smoke in the room was hot, and Xiao Dazi was spinning in front of the stove, sweating profusely.
Turning his head, Xiao Dazi saw Xiao Lezi coming in, and said seriously: "Xiao Lezi, how are you? Is that dragon beard snowflake cake still to your master's taste?".
Xiao Lezi nodded and said quietly: "The master praised you several times and said that your craftsmanship is good."
Xiao Dazi raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat rolling down his cheeks and smiled innocently.
As he spoke, he pulled up a thick waxwood stool next to him and sat down. He stared at Xiao Dazi and said, "You are really good at making the Dragon Beard Snowflake Cake. Are you really the one who came up with the recipe yourself?"
”.
Xiao Dazi said while busy: "This is a snack from my hometown. I improved it a bit. My master likes sweet food, but he doesn't like it too sweet. I have served him for a long time, so I probably know his taste."
, Only then can we grasp it accurately."
Xiao Lezi smiled and said: "So, you are really attentive!" He paused and urged: "By the way, please tell me again how to make the Dragon Beard Snowflake Cake!".
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Inside the Nuan Pavilion of Yikun Palace.
Concubine Nian raised her hand and hit Mao Bi hard with a ball of paper.
Mao Bi cleverly turned her face and dodged, and the paper ball fell on the carpet, grazing her face.
Maobin knelt on the ground and said nothing.
After Nian Fei calmed down for a while, Mao Bi stood up holding Jasmine's hand, walked over, gently picked up the paper ball, put it on the table, and wiped it little by little with the bottom of a hot tea cup.
flat.
She made marks on the paper ball. Each circle represented a day when the emperor went to the east courtyard of Jingyang Palace to have a meal. If the emperor stayed overnight, the circles would be filled with cinnabar.
"Nian Fei," Mao Bi said softly: "Because it is inconvenient to check the records in the Jingshi Room, you asked me to make these records secretly. Fortunately, I am in the same palace with Ji Gui, so this is convenient.
Check.".
She paused, looked at Concubine Nian's face, and said: "Concubine, I am also seeking truth from facts. Just take a look at it. Don't get angry. It won't hurt your body. It's not worth it!".
After Mao Bi finished speaking, she looked down at the cinnabar Wanran on the piece of paper, and was inevitably a little shocked in her heart.
Don't blame Nian Fei for being anxious.
This piece of paper represents a month. Several pieces of paper are put together. Look at it carefully under the lamp...
The number of times the emperor went to the auspicious nobles... became more and more frequent.
Recently, it has become a trend to exclusively pet.
Besides, there were constant rewards and rewards, but Mao Bi didn’t even dare to write them down on this piece of paper!
Concubine Nian suddenly stood up, stretched out her arms, snatched the piece of paper away, and opened it to look at it again. Mao Bi was afraid that she would make trouble, so she quickly got up and walked to Concubine Nian in small steps.