Chapter 444: Prepare the New Year's Eve Dinner
Chen Hanxing smiled and smoothed the fine hair on her face: "Are you still giving them food samples every day?"
"That's right. The palace staff has changed three times. Eating so many dishes every day has fatigued my taste buds."
At this time, a group of people came out of the palace gate, and he pulled Wen Zhenyi to the side to make way.
Wen Zhenyi frowned and looked at the person who came out: "What is going on?"
"Go back first, I'll talk to you on the way." Chen Hanxing pulled her towards the Princess's Mansion.
The place where they lived was not far from the palace, only a quarter of an hour's walk.
Seeing that there were not many people here, Chen Hanxing said to her, "Recently, many princes and concubines in the palace have been convicted, and some princesses have been arbitrarily married off to officials who are not favored in the court."
"What happened? How come I didn't know anything about it in the imperial kitchen?"
"You're busy with the Ninth Prince's wedding banquet every day, so naturally you don't know."
"Forget it, after all, it's uncle's family affair, we just need to do our own thing."
"The Ministry of Rites has been looking for me a lot recently, asking me about some things on the blueprints. I don't know if they are correct, so I can only wait until the day after tomorrow to go to the palace to see the situation before making any decisions."
"I'm almost ready here, but I just need a few days to make adjustments."
"It should be finished after the New Year."
"There shouldn't be too many problems. It's just some minor details now. We also need to deal with the temperature of the food. After all, it's still quite cold after the Chinese New Year."
"The one you have at the fast food restaurant should be fine."
"I was thinking the same thing. I'll have to discuss this with the Imperial Kitchen tomorrow. Any news on Master Cheng lately?"
"No, I'm a little worried too."
"Wait a little longer, Xiang just went back not long ago."
"I hope he gets better."
Huanhuanxixi has now gotten used to Wen Zhenyi going out in the morning and coming back in the afternoon.
The two of them had fun playing around with Wenwen.
Meng Caidie also moved back to the Meng Mansion to recuperate. As for her future plans, she would have to wait until she recovered.
After learning that Meng Caidie was fine, Lei Yingying returned to the county town outside the capital to spend the New Year with her husband and children.
It can be said that Lei Yingying is also a lucky person. Her husband also does not have a concubine and lives with her and their child. Their feelings for each other have only grown stronger over the years.
Old Mrs. Wen and Old Man Wen recently caught a cold. Shi Xuan examined them and found that nothing was serious.
However, Wen Zhenyi was still worried, so he prepared some dietary therapy for the two of them to nourish their bodies, and asked Ma Yinghe and the others to make sure they drank the medicine.
Every time Old Man Wen saw the medicine, he wanted to hide. If Ma Yinghe hadn't been watching him, he would have thrown the medicine away long ago.
Wen Zhenyi went to see the two of them first when he came back: "Grandpa and grandma, are you feeling better today?"
"Much better, just a little runny nose. Don't come near us, or I'll pass the disease on to you and the children."
"I'll go back later to shower and change clothes."
Old Lady Wen waved her hand: "Nowhere is fine. If these precious children of mine get sick, I'll be heartbroken."
Wen Zhenyi could only stand far away: "I'll just stand here, okay?"
"Back out the door."
Wen Zhenyi could only step back a little further: "It's okay now."
"Alright, if you have anything to say, just stand there and say it. Don't come over here. Your mom and dad are standing there too."
Wen Zhenyi was also speechless: "You won't even let us into the house?"
"Why are you coming in? We two old guys can take care of each other. We don't need you. If I wasn't afraid of you getting sick, I wouldn't need you to serve me."
Ma Yinghe came over with the medicine: "Yi Yi, I'll just put the medicine here and watch them take it, drink it, and leave."
Wen Zhenyi took the tray from her hand: "Mom, how many children are there?"
"Your sister-in-law and your father are taking care of them. I'm afraid they might get sick, so I haven't dared to get close to them recently."
Wen Zhenyi knew that in this day and age, a simple fever could be fatal, so he could understand why they were so cautious. "Grandpa and grandma, you two should get some rest. I'm going to go talk to Chef Fan about the New Year's Eve dinner."
Old Lady Wen said, "We'll also have the New Year's Eve dinner in our own room."
"That's impossible. It's Chinese New Year."
"If there's anything wrong, we can just stay inside."
Wen Zhenyi felt a headache coming on, but was there a better way? "Let me think about it."
"Anyway, we're not going out, so it's useless for you to come up with any tricks."
"Okay, okay, it's okay if you don't come out."
Ma Yinghe looked at the two of them and said, "Dad, Mom, drink the medicine first."
Wen Zhenyi could only let them have a good rest while he went to the kitchen to discuss tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner with Chef Fan.
Chef Fan is still studying some of the dishes in the imperial kitchen. Now whenever he has time, he will follow Wen Zhenyi to the imperial kitchen to learn the skills of these chefs.
The chefs in the imperial kitchen did not avoid him and even taught him some of their specialties, which benefited him a lot.
"Chef Fan."
When Chef Fan saw Wen Zhenyi coming, he said, "Miss, I was planning to wait for you to come back and ask you what dishes to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner tomorrow."
"Haven't you learned a lot of dishes in the imperial kitchen? Why don't you use those dishes to make us a New Year's Eve dinner?"
Chef Fan must have thought that there was no problem before, but after following Wen Zhenyi for some time, he found that there was no problem with him at all, but problems all over his body.
Even those battle-hardened royal chefs have been tortured by her to the point of going berserk recently.
Sometimes they would accidentally fall asleep during their lunch break and talk in their dreams about things like "low fire" and "add salt".
Wen Zhen looked at him and saw that he didn't say anything for a long time: "What's wrong?"
"I'm afraid I can't do it well."
"Whether you do it well or not, you won't know until you do it. Just follow your own ideas."
"If it doesn't taste good, it will ruin a good New Year's Eve dinner."
"Were you this insecure here before?"
"That's not the case. It's just that after following you, I realized that the food I cook is really not tasty."
Wen Zhenyi saw his face full of resentment and said, "Have confidence. I just told you more possibilities. You have to make these possibilities your own."
"Your own things?"
"Yes, when I leave the capital, I hope you can open a shop to help me earn some money for the daily living expenses of the Princess's Mansion."
"Ah?" Chef Fan couldn't believe it.
"Don't be so surprised. Although I don't pay your salaries, I only come to the Princess's Mansion a few times in a few years. If there's a need for money, would you still go and ask for it from the higher-ups?"
"Shouldn't it be?"
"If I were still favored, the higher-ups would naturally not dare to neglect you. But what if one day I'm no longer favored? Your salaries and all the expenses of the Princess's Mansion would become a problem."
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