Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 179 Bamboo Tube Rice (2)

  As soon as the bell rang at noon, people came over for lunch one after another.

Looking at A Bing and glutinous rice **** who were dividing and preparing dishes with serious faces behind the table, Liu Yuan, who was waiting to receive lunch behind the crowd, said to Bai Zhu who came to eat together: "Look at these two children. It looks like a public chef!"

"Not only does it look good, this saliva chicken is really good!" The servant who was the first to receive lunch and had already sat down to eat put a chopstick of saliva chicken into his mouth, and said, "It's really good, it seems We, Master A Bing and Master Tang Yuan, will become public chefs just around the corner!"

After saying this, the servant who was eating looked around at the young servants who were helping to clean up, and then looked at the two serious faces, and couldn't help but sigh: "Follow the right master, There are still some benefits!"

  Working in the public kitchen of Dali Temple, you don’t have to worry about starving to death, but the monthly salary of a handyman is different from that of a public chef. It is of course much better to be a master who relies on craftsmanship than to be a handyman.

Liu Yuan nodded, glanced at Ji Caimai, who was sitting on the counter not far away, who was selling stewed duck and ice powder, and then looked around at the public kitchen. Master Wen Xiumu today, it’s fine if he doesn’t come! Yu Jijiu, who came here every day, didn’t come today!” Having said that, looking at the serious faces of A Bing and Tang Yuan behind the counter, Liu Yuan could not bear to Can't help complaining for the two, "Does Yu Jijiu look down on our Master A Bing and Master Tangyuan?"

  As soon as the clinker said this, Bai Zhu shook his head and said to him, "You are wrong to blame Yu Jijiu. It's not that he doesn't like A Bing and the glutinous rice balls, but that there is a banquet today!"

Speaking of this "banquet", there are quite a few people who know about it. A few servants who got their lunch early and started to eat interrupted: "I've heard about this too! Today, Yu Jijiu called Master Wen to help The banquet is ready, it is said that many old friends have been invited to come and hold a literati banquet!"

   It turned out to be the reason, Liu Yuan suddenly asked, "Where did you choose?"

  The guard said: "I heard it's in Mount Li!"

  Lishan! Lin Fei, who had just stepped into the public kitchen, frowned slightly when he heard the words, listening to Liu Yuan sighing, "The scenery of Lishan Mountain is not bad at this time, but the most beautiful one is the autumn scenery" and so on, but did not interrupt, He just lowered his eyes and lined up with everyone to get the food.

  The case of the Goguryeo envoy was just over, and Dali Temple rarely had anything to do these few days, and even Lin Fei had a few notebooks borrowed from Liu Yuan on his desk.

  Thinking about this, Liu Yuan couldn't help feeling: I didn't expect Shangfeng to read these scriptures he read!

   Not only can read the storybook, but even take leave to go to the mountains to play!

  After lunch, Liu Yuan, who returned to the lobby and was about to continue sorting out the dossiers, took back the finished book from Lin Fei. Also in his hand, there is a leave note written by Shangfeng himself.

  Because Dali Temple Minister Zhao Mengzhuo was not in the yamen, Lin Fei asked Liu Yuan to forward the note to Zhao Mengzhuo. The reason for the leave written on it was to go to the mountains for a few days.

   Liu Yuan was dumbfounded when he saw the reason: it was the first time he saw such a leave note that he didn't even bother to make up the reason, and his mouth was full of truth!

  Lin Fei ignored Liu Yuan's astonishment, handed over the note, turned around and left Dali Temple, returned to Jingyunhou's mansion, changed into a convenient outfit, and left the city.

  …

  Everything in Dali Temple will not be shown for the time being, but for Wen Mingtang, celebrities have also arrived at Mount Li and entered the banquet.

  The timing is just right! The melon and fruit snacks and cold dishes at the banquet were put on the table, and the people came!

Wen Mingtang breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to start preparing hot dishes when he heard the handyman say, "Master Wen, there was a gentleman named Wang He at the banquet who said that he was driving hard and was already very hungry. Food delivered?"

   Doing as he pleases and not following the routine, even the handyman couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, and said with emotion: "I'm causing trouble for Master Wen!"

  Wen Mingtang said: "...No problem!"

  The rice in bamboo tubes was cooked early, and it was already ready at this time. Since Wang He wanted to eat first, he should send the rice in bamboo tubes over first.

At the banquet, before they had time to move their chopsticks to the unseen cold dishes in front of them, the celebrities who heard Wang He yelling to eat were also a little helpless, and couldn't help shaking their heads: "Wang He, you ate so early. How can you taste the next dish?"

"I, Wang He, have tasted all the delicacies in this world, and most of the recipes are the same, nothing special." Regarding this, Wang He didn't take it seriously, he said: "You taste yours, I have to eat first and then talk about it! "

   Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, and the celebrities had no choice but to do nothing, they ignored him and just moved their chopsticks while listening to Yu Jijiu introduce the names of the cold dishes in front of him.

   "This dish is called Saliva Chicken. The chicken is very tender and tastes slightly spicy and delicious; this dish is called coir raincoat cucumber... This dish is called..."

   Tasted several dishes in a row, all of which received a burst of praise from old friends. Yu Jijiu was very satisfied, so he knew that the dishes made by the chef who caught his eye would surely catch the eyes of his picky old friends, except... Looking at Wang He who didn't even move his chopsticks in front of him, Yu Jijiu Sighing, he was about to talk when he saw a few young servants coming over with the meals that Wang He ordered.

But it was different from the bowl of white rice they imagined. What the servant brought over was actually two bamboo tubes placed side by side. It's still covered, but not opened, so you can't see what's inside the bamboo tube.

Huh? This is... rice?

  The people who had just tasted a few cold dishes with chopsticks all looked at the bamboo tube in the boy's hand.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the young servant walked up to Wang He with the rice in a bamboo tube, and said, "Sir, here comes the rice, this rice is called rice in a bamboo tube, and there are two kinds of flavors, just open it and taste it yourself!" "After that, he put the rice in a bamboo tube in front of Wang He and retreated with the tray.

  Looking at the two bamboo tubes that looked like small boats, some famous people urged them: "Wang He, quickly lift it up and let us have a look at the food called bamboo tube rice in this bamboo boat!"

   Literati love bamboo a lot, and Wang He himself is the best among them. He often uses bamboo as a metaphor for himself. Therefore, no matter how unruly he was, the moment he saw the two "bamboo boats", he was already very interested. Under the urging of everyone, he opened one of the "bamboo windows".

  The moment it was opened, a strong fragrance came to the nostrils. The nearest Wang He couldn't help taking a deep breath, and looked down at the situation in the bamboo boat.

Rice grains with a thin layer of oil, dark brown diced bacon, bright green edamame, golden corn, and orange diced carrots fill the entire "bamboo boat". The bright colors are pleasing to the eye. , not to mention the scent of bacon, glutinous rice and green bamboo.

The celebrity beside Wang He's case got up and walked to Wang He's case to take a look, smelling the strong fragrance, the celebrity swallowed, turned around and asked, sitting there with a look of color on his face. Yu Jijiu: "Where did Brother Shinan find the cook? There is such a skill?"

  (end of this chapter)