"Fat" Chef

The next day

Mo Pang got up early in the morning and lingered at the door of his shopkeeper for a long time. He decided to go directly, so as not to worry about the shopkeeper. Just as Mo Pang turned around, he heard the door behind him open with a "bang". Mo Pang looked at Fang Ziyun who rushed out in his underwear in surprise.

Mo Pang said in surprise, "The shopkeeper got up so early today, and it's not yet bright!"

Fang Ziyun squinted his eyes and looked Mo Pang up and down. Mo Pang was a little embarrassed by Fang Ziyun's eyes.

When Mo Pang first arrived, he had nothing, and Fang Ziyun bought clothes and the like. They were all not gorgeous but comfortable fabrics. Mo Pang also knew that he would go out to meet a big shot today, so he chose a piece that he only wore once. Royal blue plain clothes, with a small bag embroidered with bamboo patterns of the same color diagonally across, inside which are her own special seasonings, ready to take to the palace, it seems that she also dressed it up with care.

Fang Ziyun looked around at Mo Pang and felt that everything was well-dressed, but his hair was still too short to hold a small bag with a square scarf, and today's hair was also meticulously groomed.

Fang Ziyun patted Mo Pang on the shoulder comfortingly, "It's okay, we'll be back when we're done, don't worry too much"

Mo Pang replied obediently, "Don't worry, I'm ready for the shopkeeper! You go back and sleep for a while, usually you don't get up until the sun is high, and it's still early!"

Fang Ziyun "... you go, I think the people in the palace are already waiting outside." Mo Pang nodded, turned and went to the kitchen first, saw that the morning porridge had started to cook, and it had already been put on the steamer earlier, thinking about it I wanted to wrap all the big steamed buns that came out of the oven in oiled paper before I walked out of the restaurant.

Mo Yu was sent by his lord to pick up Young Master Mo early in the morning. It was a bit cool in the early spring morning, and Mo Yu saw Mo Pang walking out of the restaurant without waiting for a moment, holding something in his hand.As soon as Mo Pang went out, he saw a young man in green clothes about fifteen or sixteen years old standing beside a delicate sedan chair with his hands folded, so he walked over.

Mo Yu hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Young Master Mo, the young one is from Prince Chen's Mansion, and is here to pick you up."

Mo Pang nodded uneasy, "Thank you for your hard work, well, here are the steamed buns that I just steamed this morning, if you don't mind, try them, there are all kinds of fillings." Mo Pang handed out the oil bag in his hand , Mo Yu quickly took it over, "I'm still troublesome young master, this is what you should do. It's still a bit cold today, young master, hurry up and get on the sedan chair to warm up." Oh my god, this was wrapped by the princess-to-be herself , after taking it back, I don't envy Mo Yan's wood anymore, and Mr. Mo's cooking skills are also well-known, Mo Yu feels that it is very right for him to come here!

As soon as Mo Pang got into the sedan chair, he felt a rush of heat, and the dew on his body was evaporated. It was the first time for Mo Pang to sit in the sedan chair. Except for a slight bump when he first got up, the sedan chair walked very steadily the rest of the time. , Mo Pang touched the west and looked around, and saw that everything in the sedan chair was very strange. The sedan chair stopped suddenly, and Mo Pang took a deep breath, knowing that he must have arrived at the Chenwang Mansion.Mo Pang lifted the curtain under the curtain, and at a glance he saw the king of Chen, Li Xun, who was waiting in front of the gate of the palace, wearing a purple gold crown with hair tied on his head, and wearing a white python robe with black patterns and clouds.

Mo Pang hurried forward and saluted Li Xun as Fang Ziyun taught him yesterday. Mo Pang felt a little sad. He was still a friend who ate and drank with him yesterday, but today he was so far away.Li Xun stepped forward to hold Mo Pang's saluting hands, and sighed, "Yesterday, I used to chat with each other, how could I be so unfamiliar today, but Xiao Mo thinks that the King of Chen can't be Xiao Mo's best friend."

Mo Pang hurriedly waved his hands, fearing that Brother Li might misunderstand him: "No, no, my lord is the proud son of heaven. It is a great blessing for a villain to be willing to befriend a villain. How dare you have other ideas?"

Li Xun grabbed Mo Pang's hand backhandedly and said seriously: "Little Mo doesn't have to be so introverted. You don't have to care about your status when you make friends. Xiao Mo just treats me as an ordinary friend of yours, just your brother Li."

Mo Pang was taken aback by Li Xun's serious face, and nodded blankly.

Li Xun smiled at Mo Pang's cute and cute look, and pulled Mo Pang into the palace. Mo Pang didn't even notice the hand being held by Li Xun.

Walking through the front yard all the way to the kitchen in the back yard, Mo Pang is really grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and saw the beautiful materialization; various flowers, fragrant and fragrant, refreshing, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, quiet and beautiful pools, pavilions, water corridors, and rockery The strange rocks all show the style of the palace.

Li Xun led Mo Pang into the back kitchen. Everyone in the back kitchen knew that the lord had invited an outside chef to cook this year's tribute dish for the empress dowager. They were all very unconvinced. They were also the royal chef. No matter what his background was, he couldn't compare to the wild cooks outside, but when he saw that the little chef was brought in by the prince himself, the prince treated him with a kind of intimacy, everyone looked at each other, and couldn't help but clean up again Clean up your expression.

Li Xun pointed Mo Pang to a group of servants waiting next to him, "These are all for you, if you need anything, just order it, but, I don't have time to eat in the morning, and I still need Xiao Mo Make me a morning tea first"

Mo Pang nodded again and again: "No problem, no problem, I will cook breakfast for the prince first." Mo Pang walked into the kitchen. Although he was making a vegetarian banquet, other materials were also prepared. Mo Pang looked at the fresh water in the water tank. For sea bass, I decided to make sashimi porridge. There are no small spines on the body of sea bass, so it is just right. Mo Pang took out a small casserole from the cupboard, and scooped out some rib soup that had been simmering in the large casserole. , filter the bone broth through a sieve and pour it into a small casserole, bring it to a boil on high heat, and then pour in the soaked rice. During the period, take the time to look up at the people in the kitchen who are standing in a row looking at you, look at them one by one, and then stay at the bottom In the corner, judging by his height, Mo Pang was estimated to be eleven or twelve years old. Standing thin and small in the corner, Mo Pang waved to him, and the child was stunned and hurried over.

Mo Pang looked at the child who had just reached his chest and asked, "How old are you?"

Ji Ping was a little nervous. He didn't know why this nobleman would choose him. He was just doing odd jobs in the back kitchen and didn't know anything at all. Hearing the nobleman's question, Ji Ping panicked and replied: "Young master, the younger one is 14 this year." It turned out to be 14. Mo Pang felt that his height was only eleven or twelve years old, but he was already 14.

Mo Pang: "Well, then help me stir the porridge now, stir it slowly, don't overcook it!" Ji Ping nodded and replied "Yes", just stirring the porridge, this is still done, Mo Pang saw that he was serious about stirring, so he took care of the perch, cleaned up the perch, cut the head and tail each to the fish bone, and then cut the fish body from the back of the fish along the sternum.Place the fish fillets skin-down on a cutting board, start from the tail, and slice the fish into thin slices, with the skin attached to each fillet.In this way, the fish fillets are not easy to fall apart after being cooked, and it looks better. Use a little salt and pepper to grasp the fish fillets, add a little egg white to mix well, and then cut the ginger and green onions into thin shreds. Mo Pang looks at the pot When the porridge is almost cooked, add shredded ginger and cook for 2 minutes. Finally, put the adjusted fish fillets into the porridge one by one, simmer for a while, then fill them up, put them on the tray, and put the steamed fish slices into the porridge. Shrimp dumplings were taken out.

Li Xun didn't leave all the time, and sat at the stone table outside the kitchen, where he could directly see Mo Pang's smooth knife skills and expression of lowering his head and savoring food directly in the room.Seeing Mo Pang coming out with the tray, Li Xun sat up a little bit. Mo Pang put the tray on the stone table, filled the porridge from the casserole and put it in front of Li Xun. Appetite, if I don’t like it, I’ll do something else”

As early as when Mo Pang brought out the porridge, Li Xun could smell the aroma, and it was only with strong will that he could hold back the growling sound in his stomach.Li Xun said with a smile: "I could smell the aroma when I was outside, Xiao Mo must have done something good." He picked up the porridge.

Mo Pang stared dumbfounded at Li Xun quickly and gracefully sweeping away all the porridge and shrimp dumplings. In Mo Pang's imagination, not most of the outstanding people like Chen Wang have a very small appetite, and they can't wait to drink flower dew in court. For a living?Is this fish porridge really so delicious?

After eating all the porridge and shrimp dumplings, Li Xun felt barely 5% full. Mo Pang saw Li Xun holding an empty bowl and looking at him with bright eyes. Wang said: "Um, there is no fish porridge, but the sliced ​​noodles I made are also good. Would you like to try it?" Li Xun touched his belly quietly, "Then I will trouble Xiao Mo." Li Xun felt that as a " Lord of the Army and Horses" A man still has a lot of food. He usually exercises a lot of martial arts, and he doesn't eat too much.Mo Pang waved his hands again and again, "No trouble, no trouble, I'll do it right away." Then he ran into the kitchen again.

Mo Yu looked at his lord, he finished all the breakfast in a storm, and he was probably half full. Thinking about the few buns he kept, he was immediately satisfied.

Mo Pang walked into the kitchen and quickly asked Ji Ping to boil the water again, and set up another pot to prepare the whistle first. Mo Pang was confused about how much to make, so he asked Ji Ping: "How much does the prince usually eat?"

Ji Ping answered honestly, "The lord and the guards have to get up early every day to practice martial arts. Usually, the chef cooks two big pots of beef noodles, and the king of Chen usually has about two bowls."

Mo Pang asked in amazement, "How big is the bowl?" Ji Ping pointed to the exquisite large bowl on the top of the cabinet, and Mo Pang twitched the corner of his mouth. And the shrimp dumplings are only enough for the prince to eat half full.

After the water was boiled, Mo Pang took out a bundle of blades wrapped in cloth from his small bag, each one was different, and this was specially made by Mo Pang specially hired the best blacksmith in Dongshi City. It was also very smooth. He took out a special blade for cutting noodles. While cutting, Mo Pang reckoned, and after thinking about it, cut half a bowl more.The wide and flat noodles floated up quickly. Mo Pang took the exquisite sea bowl out of the cupboard, scooped all the noodles in, and then covered the beef whistle in another pot, and the sea bowl quickly disappeared. A sharp point was exposed from the pile, fearing that Li Xun would be hungry, so he took it out with his hand.

Mo Pang put the bowl in front of Li Xun, and rubbed his hands on his clothes without a trace, "My lord is hungry, it's because I didn't prepare enough, you should try it!"

Li Xun frowned and grabbed Mo Pang's hand behind him. The redness on his hand had subsided a lot. Seeing that it was only slightly red, Li Xun gently stroked the red spot on his palm and said seriously: " Don’t hold it directly with your hands anymore, what if it burns, you know?!” Mo Pang felt itchy after being touched by Li Xun, and quickly withdrew his hand and nodded in response.Seeing his obedient nod, Li Xun rubbed the top of Mo Pang's head.Mo Pang watched Li Xun quickly finish all the noodles while holding the big sea bowl, and felt that Li Xun really looked elegant and extravagant even with the big sea bowl.After finishing the breakfast, we started the first task of today, making Vegetarian Dish!

Mo Pang decided that the main course would be the very famous Arhat dish, with seasonal vegetables, three mushrooms: shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, straw mushrooms, six ears: white fungus, fungus, elm fungus, yellow fungus, sweet-scented osmanthus fungus, stone fungus, beans With skin, gluten, melon and fruit as raw materials, it can be called the most luxurious vegetarian restaurant, plus roasted vegetarian goose, vegetarian eggplant, kung pao vegetarian, pine nut corn, golden wheat stuffed with bitter gourd, vegetarian fried four treasures, steamed black rice There are eight dishes of lotus root.

Li Xun has been sitting in front of the stone table, watching Mo Pang busy, probably Mo Pang himself did not notice that whenever he cooks, his eyes are extraordinarily focused.When everything was ready and the sky was already bright, Mo Pang sat opposite Li Xun and looked at the rising sun, thinking that he had already cooked the dishes, so he should be able to leave, so he said cautiously: "Your Majesty , Su Zhai is all ready, can I go back first?"

Li Xun sighed: "Xiao Mo, could it be that you forgot that you made an appointment to go to the temple fair together, why are you rushing to leave now? Because of this status, you really don't regard me as a friend anymore." Feeling unbearable, Mo Pang looked at Li Xun's slightly frowned star eyebrows and shook his head nervously, "No, no, it's me, I just forgot in a hurry, we made an appointment to go to the temple fair together, and I also sued the shopkeeper Fake!"

Only then did Li Xun stretch his brows, and said, "It seems that I was thinking too much. Since Xiao Mo is willing, let's go. Everything is ready." no more.

Mo Pang followed Li Xun out of the palace. The carriage was already waiting outside. Li Xun asked Mo Yu to take Mo Pang into his own carriage. The exclusive carriage of the empress dowager.

Mo Pang was sitting in the carriage, looking at the carriage covered with velvet blankets and burning the censer, he thought it was very novel, but he didn't know if the censer would fall off when the carriage was driving. When Li Xun came in, he saw Mo Pang Touching the base of the incense burner with a look of surprise, he chuckled lightly.Hearing the laughter, Mo Pang quickly withdrew his hand, his face turned red, what a shame!

As soon as Li Xun came in, the carriage set off.