I rely on food to guide the whole harem

For the emperor's birthday banquet, the palace has to start preparations a month in advance, making auspicious objects for decoration, arranging guest seats and so on.

The same goes for the Imperial Dining Room, which started customizing birthday banquet dishes early on. Tang Yinjiang said she was the head chef. Of course, she didn’t cook the emperor’s dishes alone. I don’t know what other dynasties were like, but her current emperor came from grass roots. It seems that he doesn't care about certain rules. Of course, Tang Yinjiang is a history novice, and he doesn't know what the rules are.

What she needs to be responsible for as the head chef is to pass the dishes that the chefs under her command are preparing to present at the birthday banquet first, and after trying the dishes and confirming the recipe, she will be in charge of the main dish for the finale.

Hundreds of exquisite dishes were neatly arranged in two rows on the long table. Each imperial chef stood in front of the dishes he made, bowed to Tang Yinjiang, and said in unison: "Auntie, please comment."

The momentum is huge, which makes people feel guilty. Usually cooking is done by drawing cards, commenting and so on. How could she do it?

Tang Yin Jiang Qiang pretended to try it out. This was the first time she ate dishes made by the royal chefs after coming here, and they were still at the birthday banquet level. I couldn't help but want to eat a few more bites, but after trying so many dishes, I was afraid that I couldn't eat it, so I had to give up this idea.

It is impossible to comment. I saw Tang Yinjiang walking all the way, taking a small bite of each dish, nodding and frowning from time to time or looking unpredictable, the whole process was silent, and everyone was a little scared after the end.

Tang Yinjiang pondered for a long time, and finally said: "I already have a good idea of ​​your dishes, but as an imperial chef, in addition to the ability to cook well, it also requires strength to be able to correctly evaluate the opponent's dishes. Exchange dishes on the opposite side and comment on each other."

Jin Yuchu seemed to have realized what he said, and his expression was very appreciative, and he took the lead to try the opposite dish. The other royal chefs saw that Jin Yuchu followed suit, so naturally they had no problem, and gave their own evaluations after the tasting.

"Your all-inclusive dish, with fresh mushrooms..."

"This blessing fish is made of old altar sauerkraut, which is very salty and sour, very ingenious..."

The way of commenting this time is excellent. The royal chefs who are qualified to participate in the birthday banquet are all strong. Commenting on each other can tell each other's shortcomings, and each has its own understanding.The founder, Tang Yinjiang, is also regarded as a wise man with insight, and her becoming the head chef is also sincerely accepted by everyone.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, the menu was set, and some rare ingredients that needed to be paid tribute from other places were also brought in from outside the palace one after another.Just before the birthday banquet, Jin Yuchu suddenly injured his arm.

Now the situation is urgent, the menu has already been submitted, and Jin Yuchu can cook dishes that no one else can. If the dishes are changed temporarily, who is to blame for spoiling the emperor's interest?

Because he was the chef who prepared the imperial meals, and he was the head chef of the imperial dining room who was in charge of two imperial dishes. After a lot of twists and turns, he still invited the imperial physician, but the imperial physician said that the injury of Jin Yuchu would not heal within a month.

After sending the imperial doctor away, Jin Yuchu sat in the room and confessed, "If you forcefully handle the spoon, it may hurt the taste. How about this, I will teach you the recipe, and I tell you to do it."

Tang Yinjiang was surprised, "Me? I can't do it."

Why did Jin Yuchu want to pretend to be someone else, and sighed: "Otherwise, do you have a better way? This time you don't need to ask me to be your teacher, I will teach you these two dishes for nothing."

It's not the problem at all, it's because she can't cook without the blessing of the system, okay, Tang Yinjiang said with a bitter face, "Stop talking, I can't, you should find someone else."

"My dish requires extremely high knife skills. In this imperial dining room, no one can do it except you and me."

Tang Yinjiang refused again and again, and only said to think of a way.

But what she can do is to squat in the small pavilion outside the imperial dining room to draw cards, and the surrounding flowers and plants are sprouting again, hoping that the renewed atmosphere of everything will give her metaphysics blessing.

A lot of good dishes were drawn out, but none of them could match Jin Yuchu's two dishes. Also, those two dishes were just researched by Jin Yuchu for the birthday banquet, so how could they be included in the system's stuck pool.

"It seems that we can only report and change the dishes." Tang Yinjiang squatted in front of a short tree and muttered to himself, a figure was reflected on the ground, and a note fell in front of her. nowhere to be seen.

So fast, is it light work?Tang Yinjiang picked up the note and looked at it, it said "Auntie has a solution to her troubles, please see Auntie."

The signature below is Xiao Guizi.

This prince...is quite mean?Tang Yinjiang burst out laughing, and went directly to Qingning Palace to find him. When he walked to the path, Qi Yangui was already sitting on a big rock waiting for her.

Tang Yinjiang cut to the chase: "What solution do you have?"

"I can order someone to make the dishes of Jin Yuchu, but you have to bring me into the imperial dining room together."

Bring people into the imperial dining room?Tang Yinjiang's mind flashed a lot of dramas about poisoning the palace, and he refused decisively: "What conspiracy do you have? Poisoning? No, if something happens at this birthday banquet, I won't be able to live."

Qi Yangui looked a little helpless, "Why did you go to poison yourself? Didn't you have been framed once, the poison test in the palace is very strict, it is impossible to succeed in poisoning and murdering the master."

He lowered his eyes and didn't know where to look, and his words were mixed with loneliness: "I just want to surprise my father. My father always thought that I was sick and weak, so those dog slaves deceived me."

That's right, it seems unreasonable for the crown prince to go into the imperial dining room to poison himself, but in his case, it's really only something that the servants can do?Since he can come out and walk, why doesn't he go to see the emperor himself?

I always feel that there is something I don't know, and it's best not to agree to this matter.

Tang Yinjiang made up his mind and was about to refuse, when he saw that Qi Yangui was exuding weakness and sadness. If the sadness had any substance, it was paired with a handsome face that was so beautiful...

Why do I seem to be persecuting Snow White's witch?With Tang Yinjiang's hesitation, his thoughts turned to the other side. What kind of conspiracy can a prince have, the most is to seize the heir. If you help him get the emperor's mercy, maybe he will be able to fight against the fifth prince?Besides, you can also get the favorability of the SSR, and now the crisis in the imperial dining room can also be resolved.

"……Fine."

Three days before the birthday banquet, in order to try the dishes in advance, Tang Yinjiang brought the prince in disguise and the cook he brought in to the imperial dining room. Because she was the leader, the guards checked that there were no prohibited items and would let them go. A guard on one side suddenly opened his mouth to block it.

"Wait, is this royal chef very unfamiliar?"

Tang Yinjiang explained calmly, "Isn't this the Gui Yuchu and Jia Yuchu? There are so many royal chefs in the imperial dining room, it's normal for my elder brother not to remember."

The guard walked up to Qi Yangui who was wearing the royal chef's clothes, "Impossible, why is there such a good-looking royal chef?"

Tang Yinjiang: "That's what I said, can't you be an imperial cook if you look good? Brother guard is saying that I'm not good-looking!"

"How can it be, aunt, don't talk nonsense."

"You're just saying I'm not pretty."

"Why are you messing around?"

……

Finally, she fished in troubled waters and brought her in. Tang Yinjiang asked the two of them to try the dishes for her first.

Jia Yuchu was the top cook Qi Yangui was looking for outside. He only looked at the names of the dishes and the list of ingredients that Jin Yuchu had written before, and deduced how to make those two dishes.

For golden lionfish, the two sides of the fish body are cross-batched into thin blades, each piece is connected to the fish body, and then cut into filaments with scissors, thus forming "inextricably linked" fish shreds, and then deep-fried in the lower oil pan.

"Because the finished dish is golden in color and looks like a lion, it is called golden lionfish." Jia Yuchu said. ①

Tang Yinjiang saw that this dish was similar to that of squirrel mandarin fish, except that the fish meat was shredded and the sauce was different.

For another Wensi tofu dish, Jia Yuchu cuts the soft and tender tofu into thin shreds and puts it into the soup to look like a blooming chrysanthemum.

After Tang Yinjiang tasted it, he was very appreciative: "Jia Yuchu is really amazing, he can make such a delicious dish just by looking at the ingredients!"

The man wondered: "This girl...my surname is not Jia."

Tang Yinjiang was embarrassed, the name he made up just now was Shun Kou, and was about to apologize, when Qi Yangui glanced at the man and said, "It's okay, Auntie can call you Shun Kou."

The man got the instruction, and quickly changed his words to say that he didn't mind, so Jia Yuchu's name was decided.

The guards also have to work in shifts, and today they are quite easy to talk about. If these two "fake" imperial chefs are released, I am afraid that there will be troubles when they meet other guards tomorrow.

Qi Yangui suggested that the two of them stay in the imperial dining room at night, and Tang Yinjiang agreed, but there was still one problem.

"It's okay for Jia Yuchu to stay overnight, just sleep with those second-class cooks in the Datong shop. Every chef is very busy these days. When I return to the house at night, I probably won't find one more person, but you can't, you grow up." It’s too beautiful to ignore.”

The two also showed embarrassment when they heard the words, but Tang Yinjiang didn't struggle for too long, only to see her startling words: "You can sleep with me."

The two were shocked, and Jia Yuchu was the first to speak: "Gu Gu is really a hero among girls, I admire you."

What is he talking about?Tang Yinjiang turned to see Qi Yangui's face turned red, and then realized that his words were a bit ambiguous, "You sleep on the ground."

When the two arrived in the same room at night, seeing Qi Yangui's pale face and thin body, they felt compassion again: "Forget it, forget it, you can sleep on the bed."

"I'm going to take a huge risk for my aunt to stay overnight. How can I let my aunt sleep on the floor now? This kind of thing should be done by me... Cough cough." Before he finished speaking, he coughed violently. The cough seemed to mock his overreaching.

Qi Yangui lowered his head, Tang Yinjiang couldn't see his expression clearly, but he could understand his embarrassment, so he eased the atmosphere and said, "Let the dignified prince sleep on the bed, and I can sleep on the bed of a court lady, I'm afraid it's just sleep. Even if you fall asleep, you will have nightmares, so don’t worry about your mother-in-law.”

As he spoke, he went straight to work, pushed the person onto the bed, took out a new bed from the cabinet and spread it on the floor, and lay down on his own, covering his head and refusing to talk.

Qi Yangui had no choice but to accept her kindness and lie down. The quilt exuding a girlish fragrance made him very uncomfortable, so he could only lie stiffly, as if turning sideways was a kind of blasphemy.

I don't know how long after such a blushing and heartbeating silence, the girl's long and even breathing came from under the bed.

She can sleep well, but if a man and a widow are in the same room, is she totally defenseless?Qi Yangui's body relaxed and his expression softened.

"Dad, I know a lot of dishes and cook them for you."

"Mom... I miss you so much."

Sleep talk full of warm emotions resounded in the small room, and then fell silent again.

Qi Yangui opened his eyes, looking at the sleeping person on the ground, the candlelight was flickering, and the candlelight fell on her peaceful face, casting a soft halo on her.