"No, if you say they are afraid of me, that's for sure. They are definitely a little afraid of me, but they are not really afraid, otherwise they would not dare to manage me."
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhang Xing and Su Miaomiao immediately became interested.
"What's the meaning?"
"Managing up? Do they manage you up?"
Xiao Yunfei raised his eyebrows and said.
"I saw the term upward management in the book you gave me earlier. Yes, I think they are managing me upward."
"Look at the ingredients they prepared. They are all common ingredients that are available all year round. There are no seasonal dishes at all."
"Every day, the food I prepare may look like a large table, but in reality, only the dishes closest to me are edible. The rest are cold and reheated repeatedly."
"There are only a few edible dishes, and they are all very ordinary."
"They are all top chefs who have been carefully selected through various rounds of selection. Do you think they are deliberately making the food taste bad, or are they just not good enough to begin with?"
After hearing what Xiao Yunfei said, Su Miaomiao couldn't help but become more curious.
"I think their cooking skills are definitely fine. Are you saying they deliberately made it taste bad? Why? Because they don't approve of you being in this position?"
"Probably not. It doesn't matter to them who sits in this position. They just need to do their own job well."
"Why is that? They have to have a reason for doing this, right?"
Seeing that Su Miaomiao hadn't figured it out yet, Xiao Yunfei glanced at Zhang Xing. Seeing that Zhang Xing seemed to have some idea, he raised his chin and asked.
"Has Zhang Xing figured out what's going on?"
"I think it's safer this way and less likely to go wrong."
"How do you say that?"
"Seasonal vegetables are only available when they're in season. Even if you want to eat them after the season is over, you can't have them. If a noble insists on eating them, they have nowhere to get them, and it would be difficult to explain to the nobles. So they simply don't make seasonal dishes. Nobles have never tasted seasonal food, so naturally they won't make a fuss about not being able to eat seasonal food. This saves a lot of trouble. It's the same with dishes that don't taste good. They're afraid that if the food is too good, you'll be used to eating good food, and if it's not good one day, you'll be blamed. In short, they do this to protect themselves."
So that's how it is.
After listening to Zhang Xing's explanation, Su Miaomiao finally understood.
But she soon had new questions.
"Aren't they afraid of being discovered by the nobles if they do this? Just like they have been discovered by you now."
Xiao Yunfei curled his lips and answered gently.
"They can't fool us because we've lived outside. The people they served before all grew up in the palace, with everything provided for them. Everything they eat and use was delivered to them by the people below them. They've never seen anything good, so how could they have discovered it?"
"Oh! I see."
Su Miaomiao suddenly realized and couldn't help but sigh.
"I never imagined that the nobles in the ancient palace had such a miserable life. Aren't they simply harmed by the information cocoon? They were deceived by the people below them. How pitiful! I also didn't expect the workers in ancient times to be so united. They coaxed the nobles into a state of shock. Their ability to manage upwards is really strong."
"So what should we do now?" Zhang Xing asked, "Should we confront them directly? We can't keep letting them fool us. Besides, we can't eat such terrible food every day. I can't stand it."
After Xiao Yunfei pondered for a moment, he spoke out his decision.
"Find an opportunity to make it clear with them and see if they can change. If they can't change, send them out and replace them with obedient ones."
"Okay, I'll find time to talk to the people in the imperial kitchen."
"Besides the Imperial Kitchen, we also have to talk to the managers who buy all kinds of things. The other day, the tea manager brought me a can of tea, saying it was this year's new tea, but when I tasted it, I found it was old."
Xiao Yunfei was speechless when he mentioned this matter.
These old foxes are so used to treating people in the palace as fools that they forget that he has seen the world and seen good things. If they don't point it out, they will really think that he doesn't know the value of things.
The dishes cooked by Su Miaomiao are home-cooked dishes that Xiao Yunfei and Zhang Xing often eat and like when they are at home.
The food was served soon.
Su Miaomiao was not yet used to having someone serving her while she ate, so she asked the servants to leave first.
There were no outsiders in the house, and the family sat around the table as they did at home, preparing to have lunch.
"Okay, let's eat now and try the dishes I made today."
"Okay, sister-in-law, I won't be polite then."
As Zhang Xing spoke, he picked up a large piece of fish and put it in his mouth, squinting his eyes in satisfaction.
"Mmm~ It's delicious, it's just this taste, and it has to be the fish from the river in front of our house, plus my sister-in-law's cooking skills. Oh my god, it's amazing, I have to have another bite."
When he ate the delicious food, Zhang Xing acted exaggeratedly and was as happy as a child.
He hasn't been this happy in a long time.
Although they won, there were still a lot of troubles to deal with, and many things required him to do personally.
He was under a lot of pressure during this period, was very tired every day, was bothered by all kinds of miscellaneous things, and was not in a very good mood.
Now that he had something delicious to eat, his mood instantly brightened up a lot.
It turns out that delicious food can heal people's hearts. It would be better if my sister-in-law could come earlier.
He feels very happy every time he eats the food cooked by his sister-in-law, and he feels that life is worth living because of these delicious meals.
At the dinner table, Su Miaomiao asked about the current situation of her relatives who had been held hostage in the capital.
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