Xiao Lezi sat back down, looked at him and said with a smile: "You came really early today? Are you hungry? I just asked someone to make some desserts, do you want to try them?"
Xiao Feng said happily: "Okay."
Xiao Lezi called Cabbage in and whispered a few instructions. Cabbage turned around and left, bringing out several plates of freshly made snacks, including red date cake, taro and coconut milk cake, wisteria cake, and shredded apples.
Four plates were placed on the table. The colors were very beautiful. Xiao Feng took a bite of each and his favorite was the shredded apple.
Xiao Lezi couldn't help but laugh. She didn't realize that Xiao Feng actually liked sweets.
Xiao Feng saw her beautiful smile, and his emotions were infected, and he also laughed: "You are in a good mood today, you are arranging flowers and having desserts."
"I have been lying in bed for four days, and mushrooms are almost growing on my body. I am really bored and want to go out for a walk, but the doctor said that I need to get more rest and cannot go out to enjoy the air. Cabbage tried his best to stop me and refused to let me go.
I went out. I had to borrow some flowers to put in and play with. These desserts are also snacks for me when I have nothing to do." Xiao Lezi paused, then called for cabbage and asked, "I want the jam yogurt.
Has it be done?"
She suddenly remembered that she wanted to eat yogurt today, so she asked if anyone in the imperial dining room knew how to make this. Cabbage took her words to the imperial dining room and went to the imperial dining room in person. Chef Liu listened to her describe the characteristics of jam yogurt in detail, and he was filled with emotion.
Then I had a rough outline and said I could try it out.
Most of the day has passed now, and I don't know if the test has yielded any results. Xiao Lezi asked Cabbage to ask again.
As soon as Cabbage stepped out, he saw the little eunuch from the imperial dining room coming with a red lacquer food box. He quickly paid a thousand and said with a sweet smile: "Sister Cabbage, I am Xiaoluzi, Liu Dezhang's apprentice."
.My master tried hundreds of times today to finally make this jam yogurt. My master’s hands and feet were so tired that he couldn’t even take a rest, so he hurriedly urged me to bring the jam yogurt so that he could make it.
Miss Le, give it a try and if you don’t like it, just say so and my master will go back and make improvements.”
In fact, Chef Liu only tried it more than twenty times. After all, he is an experienced chef in the imperial kitchen. Although it is the first time to make this Laoshizi jam yogurt, it is not like he has tried it hundreds of times. It’s just that Xiaoluzi wanted to make it for him.
The master was selling well, so he deliberately exaggerated. Cabbage knew this, and the emotion on her face was clearly evident. She said: "This is really troublesome, Master Liu. Come in with me. His Majesty happens to be in there too. You can talk later."
You have to be careful."
Although they live in this palace every day, there are only a few people who can see the emperor directly. When Xiaoluzi heard that he could see the emperor, his face turned red with joy and he didn't know what to do with his hands and feet. He plopped down
Kneeling on the ground, he stuttered with excitement: "Thank you...Thank you Sister Cabbage!"
Cabbage pursed her lips and smiled, stretched out her hand to help him, and said: "Get up quickly, your Majesty and Miss Le are still waiting inside."
Xiao Luzi quickly climbed up and stood up, quickly brushed off the dust on his knees, and pulled up his sleeves several times to make sure there were no wrinkles. Then he carried the food box and walked in behind Cabbage.
He secretly regretted in his heart that if he had known that he would meet His Majesty the Emperor here, he should have taken a shower before going out today, and put on the new clothes that had just been made before meeting the Holy Emperor. He lowered his head and looked at the half-worn dust on his body.
I was so sorry that my intestines were almost green.
Xiao Lezi saw that Cabbage came back all of a sudden, and asked curiously: "Why did you come back so quickly?"
Cabbage told the story of how she happened to meet Xiao Luzi at the door, then turned sideways and let Xiao Luzi walk in, and kowtowed respectfully.
Xiao Feng glanced at him casually and asked him to stand up.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xiaoluzi climbed up carefully without making any noise. He was so nervous that he didn't dare to breathe. He put the food box on the table, took out the jam and yogurt, and gently placed it in front of the emperor.
On top of the white and tender yogurt, there is a layer of bright red plum jam, which is very appetizing at first glance.
Xiao Lezi urged him to try it quickly. He smiled and agreed, scooping a little bit with a spoon and put it into his mouth. The milk was rich in flavor, but without the usual fishy smell of milk, and it was paired with sour and sweet ingredients.
The plum jam has the effect of promoting body fluids and quenching thirst, whetting one's appetite and making it very refreshing.
Xiao Feng praised: "The flavor is excellent, thank you!"
Eunuch Xia immediately stepped forward and took out a piece of silver to Xiaoluzi. Xiaoluzi took it with both hands and kowtowed three times in excitement, causing his forehead to turn blue. He said in a trembling voice: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."
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Xiao Feng waved his hand and motioned for him to retreat.
Xiaoluzi didn't dare to stay any longer. He clutched the silver ingot tightly, lowered his head and followed Eunuch Xia away. After walking out of Yuanxiang Palace, Xiaoluzi dared to speak loudly. He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeves, feeling very happy.
Still surging.
Eunuch Xia had seen this kind of thing a lot, so he wasn't surprised. He just warned him a few words: "Thank you master when you go back, don't get carried away, work hard, and you will benefit from it in the future."
Xiaoluzi knelt down on the ground again and kowtowed vigorously: "Thank you, Grandpa Xia, for the tip! I will definitely keep it in mind!"
Eunuch Xia pulled him up, a little amused: "Okay, go back and talk to your master."
Xiao Lezi, who was sitting by the window, saw Xiao Luzi kowtowing and wiping tears. He thought that it was not easy for everyone in the palace. Everyone wanted to climb up and refused to let go even if they got the slightest chance.
Even if you risk your life, you have to squeeze to the emperor's side. I can't say whether it's right or wrong. We all just want to live, so it's not easy.
Xiao Lezi looked away and found that Xiao Feng had already finished two bowls of jam yogurt. It seemed that he really liked this yogurt, but she did not intend to let him eat a third bowl. She advised: "It's not early.
Now, it’s time to have lunch later. Although yogurt tastes good, you shouldn’t eat too much.”
Xiao Feng smiled and said: "Okay, I will listen to you."
Xiao Lezi didn't expect Xiao Feng to come over before. When ordering, he only ordered some simple and common dishes. Now Xiao Feng was suddenly added. His appetite was relatively large, and those few dishes were probably not enough. Xiao Lezi then asked again.
He called over Cabbage and said, "Please work harder and go to the imperial kitchen again to ask them for some more dishes."
Cabbage asked: "How many kinds of vegetables should I add?"
Xiao Lezi thought for a while and said: "Make sweet and sour pork ribs. The ribs should be soaked in water first, then stir-fried with hot oil and sugar. Then add vinegar and rock sugar. Don't make it too sour or too sweet. Then make braised pork with shiitake mushrooms.
, remember to add more cinnamon, you can also use braised pork minced meat and sweet potato leaves to make a cold dish, and add hot soup. For dessert, you should have shredded taro and fruit pancakes. For the staple food, let’s have noodles, which are made from wheat flour. 2
I'll tell you how to make soup noodles, and let them take care of the rest."
Since Xiao Feng likes sweets, Xiao Lezi specially ordered sweet and sour pork ribs. As for the other dishes, she likes them herself and is not sure whether he likes them.
Cabbage whispered her instructions again, and after making sure they were correct, she quickly ran to the imperial dining room.
Just now when Xiao Lezi was ordering food, Xiao Feng was sitting next to her, playing with her flower arrangement carelessly.
After Cabbage left, Xiao Feng raised his head and said with a smile, "I can't tell you are so particular about food."
Xiao Lezi was ashamed: "Compared to the royal chef in the palace, I am not very particular about my work. It's just that I have a greedy mouth. I am bored here every day with nothing to do, so I just think about how to make myself eat.
It’s more comfortable.”
"Then we have a good relationship, I will eat with you from now on, which can be regarded as taking advantage of you." Xiao Feng fiddled with the osmanthus branches in the vase, "Your flower arrangement skills are really amazing, you have all the osmanthus, orchids, chrysanthemums arranged together."
, this white and yellow color is really lively!”
Xiao Lezi heard the joke in his words, but he was not annoyed and said with a smile: "Since you like it, I'll give it to you!"
Xiao Feng was stunned for a moment, then laughed even harder. He reached out and knocked her on the forehead and said, "You really know how to climb along the pole!"
She covered her forehead and smiled innocently.
Lunch was set, and more than a dozen dishes were placed densely on the table. The brightly colored sweet and sour spareribs immediately caught Xiao Feng’s attention. He stretched out his chopsticks to pick up a piece of spareribs, and immediately pulled out several sugar strands, like thousands of strands.
Like thousands of lotus roots.
He found it quite interesting and bit down on the ribs. Xiao Lezi kept staring at him and asked expectantly: "How does it taste?"
Xiao Feng swallowed the meat, took the wet handkerchief from the hand of the palace maid next to him, wiped the corners of his mouth gracefully, and said with a smile: "Sour, sweet, and delicious."
I know you have a sweet tooth!
Xiao Lezi picked up another piece of braised pork. It melted in her mouth, was fat but not greasy, and had a strong aroma of cinnamon. It was so delicious that she wanted to swallow it with her tongue!
As expected of the royal chefs in the palace, even an ordinary side dish can become a peerless delicacy when made by their hands!
The noodle soup was delicious and refreshing, and the texture of the noodles was also very soft. Xiao Lezi ate most of the bowl in one go, but Xiao Feng actually ate two whole bowls. Eunuch Xia was afraid that he would not be able to digest it, so he ordered the noodle soup to be removed quickly.
After switching to soup and dessert, Xiao Feng ate another half plate of shredded taro and two pieces of fruit pancakes, then put down his chopsticks and sat on the imperial concubine's bed to rest while holding hot tea.
I was very satisfied with this meal, and Xiao Feng even generously rewarded the people in the imperial dining room.
When Chef Liu received the money rewarded by the emperor, his face flushed with excitement, and Xiao Luzi even shed tears. The entire imperial dining room was congratulating them, and many people wanted to please them, secretly or openly.
Shi Xiaoluzi only felt that he had reached the sky in one step and was a little elated, while Chef Liu was happy in his heart but very steady on his face.
At night, Xiao Luzi was waiting for Chef Liu to wash his feet. While he was massaging the chef's feet, Xiao Luzi said with a smile that someone else came to him today to say good things and give him money.
Chef Liu raised his foot and kicked him on the shoulder, saying in a deep voice: "You worthless thing, how can you be so short-sighted! We just got a benefit once, if we work hard, the benefits in the future will be more or less."
, there will be more people who want to curry favor with us, now I’m making you so happy that you can’t find any answers, what else can I count on you to do in the future!”
Xiao Luzi was kicked by him until he sat on the ground. His hip bone hurt so much, but he didn't even dare to rub it. He hurriedly got up and knelt on the ground to listen to the lecture. When Chef Liu finished his lecture, Xiao Luzi suddenly woke up.
, slapped two ears of melon seeds on his face hard, making his cheeks red and swollen: "Master taught me this! I got carried away. Fortunately, my master gave me some advice, otherwise I don't know how I died in the future!"