The Manchu and Han Banquets in Qing Dynasty

"Your Majesty, this servant is really savage, I should teach him well." Xue Shan grumbled, she was ignored by a little royal chef after being a country, and she couldn't swallow it.

"Okay, empress, Zixiu has just entered the palace, and he is not very familiar with the rules of the palace. Besides, didn't he greet you? Are you so fussy, is it the bearing that an empress should have?" Kangxi glanced at Xue Xue coldly. With a glance at Shan, Xue Shan felt as if she had fallen into a cellar of ice, and her complexion suddenly became ugly.

"Please calm down the emperor, it's the concubine's fault, the concubine will not bother the emperor." Xueshan forced a smile, but it was uglier than crying.She put away the food box, took another look at Zixiu, and swayed out.

"How long do you want to kneel, get up." Kangxi looked at Zixiu who was kneeling on the ground with his head bowed, and said angrily.

Zixiu stood up aggrieved and found that his knees were sore and numb. He didn't understand why the queen was so angry. Wasn't he just late to greet you?

"Really, the good mood has been ruined. If you don't eat, come over and grind ink for me." Kangxi complained, and only in front of Zixiu would he show his true emotions, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Zixiu said: "Your Majesty, the Empress has cooked so many dishes, wouldn't it be too much for you not to eat any of them?"

Kangxi dropped the pen, looked at Zixiu and said, "Do I need you to teach me what to do? Have you forgotten how she treated you just now? Your heart is too soft, how can you survive in the palace like this?"

Zixiu was taken aback by him, and stood there in a daze, listening to his reprimand. He didn't know where he said something wrong. From the perspective of a husband treating his wife, Kangxi really shouldn't do this.

At least in his opinion, a husband should love his wife. He has never been in a relationship, but he also knows that husband and wife should live in harmony.He thought that if he had a wife in the future, he would take good care of her and not let her suffer any grievances.

"I don't dare, I just think that if you love someone, you have to treat her sincerely, you can't be half-hearted, you can't be cruel to her, you can't scold her, and when you disagree, you can discuss it and not quarrel... The slave is the most stupid, I don't know what to say."

Kangxi's anger dissipated in an instant, and he suddenly smiled and said, "What? Which maid do you have a crush on?"

Zixiu blushed and stammered, "No, I don't have anyone I like yet, but if I like someone, I will treat her wholeheartedly and won't...marry a second one." He didn't dare to talk to Kangxi. The face said that monogamy should be implemented, and he could only express his views euphemistically.

Kangxi propped his chin, looked at him unexpectedly, as if he didn't know him, and said after a while: "Are you talking about Zhenhuaxin?"

"The servant dare not."

"I know you dare not, that's all, don't mention this matter again."

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Seventh dish

On March 16th, Kangxi's [-]th birthday, a birthday banquet was held in the palace at the Qianqing Palace.

Kangxi was not a ostentatious person, and this birthday banquet only invited officials of the third rank and above, accompanied by concubines, a total of less than 100 people.

Early in the morning, the palace was bustling with people arranging the tables, hanging up good fortune and longevity, and congratulating ministers...but the busiest thing was the imperial dining room.Due to the lack of manpower, Zixiu was also temporarily transferred back. Zixiu was very excited about being able to prepare food for the birthday banquet. The bigger the scene, the more it could reflect the cooking skills of an imperial chef.

He is in a group with his master Cheng Li, and their group mainly prepares four appetizers, including 'Wanzi coral cabbage, Shouzi five-spice prawns, Wuzi salted beef and Xinjiang word red oil vegetal leaves', the combination is Wanshou Boundless.

He knows three of these four dishes, and he is not yet proficient in the second dish.Cheng Li assigned tasks, he did the first three tasks himself, and asked Zixiu to do the fourth task.Zixiu nodded in agreement, and then began to prepare the ingredients.

Red oil louver is not difficult to make, but it is difficult to arrange it in the word "Jiang". The word "Jiang" is too complicated, and the whole dish will be ruined if you don't pay attention.

Zixiu first boiled the beef louver with salt, and then cut it into pieces. He weighed the louver in his hand, and Cheng Li asked, "Pay attention to skill when cutting, not too big or too small. .”

"I know, Master." Zixiu said confidently, and then he threw up the venetian leaf casually, and his right hand danced "swipe, swish, swish" for a while, and saw a knife shadow flashing by, dazzling people's eyes so fast.

Cheng Li opened his mouth slightly, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.

Zixiu waved the kitchen knife confidently, gracefully and calmly, and when the knife was finished, he put the venetian leaves into the plate without missing a piece.Looking at the louvers on the plate, they are exactly the same size.

Zixiu put down the knife and picked up the plate. When Cheng Li was thinking about what he was going to do, he saw that with a movement of his wrist, the louvers on the plate flew up and down, like a bunch of beautiful butterflies.

Zixiu turned his wrist to meet the direction of the louvers falling, and put all the louvers into the plate again, but this time the louvers were neatly stacked, forming the word "Jiang".

"Okay!" Cheers erupted from around, Zixiu looked and found that the whole imperial dining room was looking at him, he smiled a little at a loss, and continued to do his own thing.

"Tell me, when did you learn this trick? I remember that none of you grasped the essentials when I taught you, including your senior brother." No wonder Cheng Li was surprised, because in today's world Anyone who knows how to do this is gone except him.

Seeing his apprentice making it so easily now, he really couldn't believe it.

Zixiu said, "It took me a long time to practice before I managed to master it, and today is the first time I succeeded." He lied to Master, but he had to.

"So that's it. Okay, keep going." Cheng Li patted his shoulder in doubt, and said with a smile.

"Yeah." Zixiu continued to cut the venetian leaves. Even though the others had watched it once, they couldn't help but watch it again, and it wasn't until the fourth time that they came back to do their own thing.

They were cooking in full swing, and the Qianqing Palace was also very lively.The officials brought their families to congratulate, the concubines also competed for splendor, and even the maids and eunuchs put on new clothes.

Before the emperor and empress appeared, everyone stood or sat in twos and threes, and they all gathered in one place to chat.Officials talk about family affairs and state affairs, and women talk about each other's beauty.

Nalan Xingde sighed secretly, he knew that he would not follow Ama into the palace today.He has a noble nature and doesn't like intrigues in the officialdom, but he doesn't dare to go against Ama's will, so he has to make up for it.

He watched the crowd chatting boredly, feeling isolated, he couldn't get into that kind of scene, and he didn't want to get into it.Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he simply slipped out of Qianqing Palace and took a walk alone.

The 15-year-old boy is handsome, but there is an indescribable melancholy in his brows. He is talented and has a photographic memory, and he can be regarded as both civil and military.But even if he has all his skills, he doesn't want to use them in government affairs.

A peach blossom fell leisurely, and he just stretched out his hand to catch it, and then put it on his nose to smell it. Putting his love on poetry and enjoying the landscape are what he thought in his heart.

"Peach blossoms are ashamed to die ruthlessly, grateful to the east wind. The delicate reds blow off, and fly into the window to accompany you." Rong Ruo seemed to be thinking, read every word, and suddenly smiled, "Hehe, I'm here What are you worried about?"

He turned around and wanted to go back, but because there was too much movement and he didn't find anyone around him, he collided with someone all of a sudden.Rong Ruo was so annoyed by the hit on his waist, he saw that it was two young eunuchs who came, and he couldn't help feeling unhappy.

Are all the people in the palace so rude?

"Oh, what should I do?" One of the little eunuchs didn't ask for safety or apologize, but panicked instead.

Rong Ruo took a look, and it turned out that the things they carried were spilled on the ground.He thought it was broken, and he didn't care about the pain in his back, so he asked, "What is this?"

The two little eunuchs saw his clothes and guessed which minister's son he was, so they cried, "How wonderful this is, this is the cuttlefish soup prepared by the imperial dining room for the emperor's birthday banquet. Hit, isn't it gone?"

Rong Ruo frowned, it turned out to be something for the birthday banquet, and the birthday banquet is about to start, what should I do?

"Is it okay to ask the Imperial Dining Room to prepare another serving?" Rong Ruo asked.

"My lord, if we have time, will we still worry about it here?" One of the young eunuchs said, Rong Ruo was about to cry seeing him like that.

So he said, "Take me to the Imperial Dining Room to have a look."

"It's useless to go, forget it, I will take you to see it." The two young eunuchs discussed it, and one of them took him there, and the other cleaned up the mess.

Rong Ruo was also very upset, she really shouldn't have come to the palace, wouldn't this cause trouble?

The two rushed to the imperial dining room, it was not so busy inside, everything that needed to be prepared had been prepared, and some of the dishes had already been moved, just waiting for the table to start.

The little eunuch yelled as soon as he entered the room: "It's bad, it's bad, the cuttlefish soup is gone."

The royal cooks were startled, Cheng Li asked, "What's going on?"

"I'm really sorry, I accidentally spilled the cuttlefish soup, so I came here to see if I could prepare another one." Rong Ruo took the initiative to admit his mistake, and the imperial chefs wanted to scold him, but seeing Rong Ruo's extraordinary handsomeness and temperament Ru Lan took back all the words of reprimand that came to her lips.

"It's too late to prepare another dish. Let's think about it, can we make another dish instead?" Cheng Li frowned, feeling anxious.

"My lord, is it okay to cook the same dish again? What if the emperor asks?" Immediately, some royal chefs raised questions, and they all just gave others