Yipin Chef

He was an imperial envoy with tokens and customs defenses, and ordered him to visit privately in micro-services to facilitate his work.

Ye Chengfeng and Jia Le arrived in Pingyin, and the market here is quite prosperous, the goods are quite abundant, and there is not a single beggar.

"Pingyin is the place where the governor of Hedao is stationed. It looks like it is well managed and the people's livelihood is prosperous." Ye Chengfeng said something casually as he walked and watched.

As soon as the words came out, people who heard him on the street glanced at him contemptuously. Some people opened their mouths to speak, but they were stopped by the people next to him.

Jiale saw all of this, and said: "There are beggars everywhere, and so is the capital city. Last year, the Yellow River broke its mouth, and the area from Pingyin to Gaogang is the country of Ze. The beggars are gone. Abnormality is a demon, the water here is very deep."

Ye Chengfeng smiled meaningfully: "Go and eat."

The two went to one of the largest inns, asked for a guest room, and went back to the front hall to eat. The waiter reported the special dishes in the store, and Jia Le said with a smile: "The price of your store is already scary. Stir-fried shrimps are so expensive, just grab them.”

The clerk laughed and said, "No way, business is hard. You come from other places, and you see Pingyin City's glamorous surface, but in fact, it's really deep down...huh..." The clerk didn't continue.

Ye Chengfeng pointed to Jia Le and said, "My brother is very good at cooking. He was well-known in his hometown. Now he wants to make a living with his cooking. I wonder if he can do it here?"

A guest sitting next to him interrupted and said: "Since this little brother has good craftsmanship, why can't he eat? Why do you come to Pingyin? How can you foreigners come to this kind of place where people eat people and don't spit scum?"

Ye Chengfeng acted curiously: "I heard that Zhang Boping, the governor of the river channel, is a capable official who has been commended by the imperial court. He has managed the subordinate Pingyin City in an orderly manner, and the people are rich and rich. We heard that this place is good, so we came here to do business. What's wrong? Please give me some advice, Young Master."

The guest sitting next to him wanted to say something, but he looked to the left and right, with a look of fear on his face, and said nothing, just chatted a few words, "Where did the guest come from? What's the fun on the way?" past.

Ye Chengfeng didn't ask any more questions, and after dinner, he called the shop assistant and asked, "We want to play around, what good scenery can be seen here?"

The shop assistant immediately introduced the places of interest in Pingyin City, the Confucius Temple and the Golden Lamp Temple in the South City, the Grand Corridor and Baiyun Temple in the North City, and the Xiaoqingshan Mountain in the East City.

"After counting for a long time, you haven't mentioned any interesting scenery in the west city yet."

The clerk was a little embarrassed and said, "There's nothing to see in West City, so let's go somewhere else."

Ye Chengfeng and Jia Le looked at each other, and they both had an idea.

"Shall we go to Xicheng to have a look?" Jia Le whispered into his ear.

Ye Chengfeng rolled his eyes at him: "Whoever is with you is us, and I will go."

Jia Le stared at him hard, seeing that he was unwavering, he simply opened his voice and shouted: "Everyone, come quickly, I heard that Beijing has sent imperial envoys..."

Ye Chengfeng quickly covered his mouth: "Okay, let's go together."

The author has something to say: The next chapter: I have to investigate the case again

Happy Dragon Boat Festival,

The temperature here is as high as 34 degrees, so hot that I feel dizzy and my legs feel weak, so I can only stay at home

47

47. Gathering intelligence...

Jia Le easily subdued Ye Chengfeng, and proudly followed him to the west city. As soon as he arrived in the west, he felt that the streets became narrower, the houses became more dilapidated, and the sewage flowed and garbage littered the ground. The shabby shack, the people inside had ragged clothes, yellow and emaciated faces, and a look of sorrow. When they saw the two strangers coming over, their eyes were full of vigilance.

Jiale took out a few steamed buns from the bag and gave them to the children on the side of the road. Suddenly, a large group of hungry children appeared from nowhere and surrounded them.Jia Le had to dig out all the pockets, saying that there was nothing more to eat in them.

Ye Chengfeng knelt down and asked a child who ate steamed buns: "It seems that you haven't eaten for a long time, how about your adults?"

The child choked on the steamed buns before saying, "It was all washed away by the flood."

"All the people living here are disaster victims?"

"Yes."

"Strange, didn't the imperial court allocate funds to resettle the victims, and also allocated farm tools and seeds for them to return to their hometowns and continue farming?"

The child shook his head blankly, and a middle-aged man next to him said angrily: "The money and farm tools and seeds given by the court will fall into the dog's belly."

An old man next to him stopped him: "Brother Ma, be careful what comes out of your mouth, you forgot what happened to someone who said a few more words a few days ago?"

The man surnamed Ma spat and cursed: "I'm afraid of a bird. We are driven to this place. Sooner or later we will die. What difference does it make if we die early or late."

Seeing this, Ye Chengfeng also understood that Pingyin officials swallowed up the disaster relief funds and drove these victims to the west city to prevent them from entering or leaving, so Pingyin city looks prosperous on the surface, who would have thought that there would be hidden places like this What about those who suffer?

Anyone who dared to complain in the street was dealt with by the spies set up by the government, so everyone here knew the evil deeds of the government, but no one dared to speak out.However, in this way, how to collect evidence?

Ye Chengfeng walked around to see that these people were frightened, and he couldn't find any information from their mouths, so he had to go back to the inn where he was staying with Jia Le.

Seeing them coming back, the shop assistant hurriedly ordered the kitchen to prepare meals, but Jia Le stopped him: "My young master doesn't like to eat those things, you go and order them to prepare some light and tasty dishes, one fried crab roe with honeydew melon, one Walnut waist, a raw fried shredded fish, a grilled live shrimp, and a buckwheat chicken dumpling."

The clerk was tongue-tied and said, "Could it be that the customer is deliberately embarrassing, how can you do these things?"

"What? Isn't this the biggest store in Pingyin? It doesn't even have shrimp or walnuts?"

The shop assistant said: "It's not that there are none, but it's impossible to cook these dishes. You see, honeydew melon and crab meat are sweet and fishy, ​​how can these two be put together, and walnuts and kidneys are soft and crispy, It’s uncoordinated if it’s hard to put together, can it be delicious? There’s also the raw fried shredded fish. How about making them into dumplings?"

Jiale became mean: "You say this is the best and largest restaurant in Pingyin, but you can't even make these simple dishes. Isn't that a lie?"

The store clerk was upset: "Who can burn these things, customers should not embarrass the store."

"What if I burn out?"

"Hmm..." The shop assistant pondered his intentions, thought for a while and said, "Then what do you want?"

Jia Le revealed his real purpose: "If I can burn it out, I will ask you a few questions, and you must answer them honestly."

The shop assistant agreed and took him to the kitchen. Ye Chengfeng was drinking tea in the front hall while waiting for the delicious food, with a smile that couldn't be concealed from the corners of his lips.

After a while, Jia Le served the fragrant food, and all the diners in the shop sniffed and looked here.

Ye Chengfeng ate it with his chopsticks, and praised loudly: "The honeydew melon is sweet and crisp, the crab balls are delicious and refreshing, with a sweet taste, but the fishy smell doesn't come out. Whoever said that sweet and fishy ones can't be put away just now?" One piece?"

Other diners called the shop assistant: "Give me a few dishes on that table."

The waiter in the shop laughed together: "I'm sorry, those dishes are made by the customers themselves, not by the small shop."

The diners sitting next to him were so greedy that they salivated, and they also leaned over: "Can I have a taste?"

Ye Chengfeng readily pushed the plate over to ask him to taste the question. The diner picked up a chopstick of grilled live prawns. The prawns were extremely fresh and had a strong aroma of flower carvings, which made people want to eat more.The diner was a little puzzled: "Is this shrimp really roasted alive?"

Jiale said: "That's right, wash the shrimp and spit out the sand, then pour a spoonful of old Huadiao to make it intoxicating, then brush with seasoning, put it on the iron plate to bake, the shrimp is still alive when grilled, but not Will dance around."

The shop assistant suddenly realized: "So it's so simple."

Jiale said modestly: "Some techniques are not uncommon to put it bluntly. This walnut waist is not fried with walnuts and waist. The two do not match as Xiaoer said, so cut the kidney flower and use the prepared one. The sauce is marinated, and then it is fried with walnuts on a very low heat until the walnut oil slowly penetrates into the kidneys, and the kidneys are soft and crispy with a walnut fragrance, and then cooked with the sauce, it is not eaten with walnuts .”

"What about the buckwheat dumplings?"

"Buckwheat is indeed poor in stickiness. It is easy to break when making noodles, and the dumpling skin will be rotten in a pot, so add a little white flour and glutinous rice flour to the buckwheat noodles to increase the stickiness. When kneading, apply egg liquid to knead the dumplings. Then steam it in a basket, so you don’t have to worry about it being boiled.”

"My little brother is really good at cooking."

The shop assistant was completely convinced, the diners kept eating with their chopsticks, and the boss also came to taste the dishes, and then listened to Jiale's explanation of the cooking method, which was very admirable.

The boss said: "If it was two years ago, small shops can make these things that customers order, and raw fried shredded fish is not a problem."

"So why can't your store come out now?"

The boss smiled wryly: "Because the best Chef Zhou in the small shop was taken by the Governor of Hedao to cook, the small shop has no chef, and the dishes have plummeted."

Jiale felt strange: "Your store is not overwhelmed by other stores."

"The guests don't know that all chefs with outstanding skills are invited away by the governor's office of Hedao. Therefore, the restaurants and inns in this city have similar cooking skills. The good cooks are all in the governor's office of Hedao. Banquets are held there almost every day. , swimming in the water by flying in the sky, as long as there are in the world, they will all pile up into mountains and flow into rivers."

Jia Le tentatively said: "It seems that the governor of the river is a person who is good at drinking and drinking, I will go there to find work, and I will definitely get a good reward.