As he spoke, he picked up his chopsticks and pointed at the sweet and sour spare ribs and braised pork in red sauce in front of him. "Take these two dishes for example. They're clearly made with pork, but you can't smell the slightest bit of porky smell. It's full of the aroma of meat."
"Look at this vegetable. It's so refreshing and delicious, yet not too bland. My chef at home has been working for over 20 years, but he could never make it taste like this."
At this time, another young man who was eating looked up and said, "Of course. I heard that in order to prepare these meals for us, the Immortal Master specially transferred all the chefs from the commercial street over here."
"We're only lucky enough to have won the imperial examination. Otherwise, if we wanted to eat food like this on a normal day, we'd have to go to the commercial street. But can people like us just casually enter a place like the commercial street?"
At this moment, someone next to him suddenly burst into tears, which scared Li Zhuo. Even Hua Bule, who was serving him, became nervous.
The young man, with an extraordinary demeanor, smiled apologetically at Li Zhuo and said, "Please don't blame me, sir. My fellow villager's brother died in the examination hall. If he had received this kind of treatment, he wouldn't have ended up like this."
Every year, several people die in the examination hall, and Li Zhuo knows about this.
But when he really faced the victim, he had a different feeling.
The crying man wiped his tears and said, "If I had these meals back then, even if it was just a mouthful of hot soup, my brother wouldn't have died!"
As he said that, he picked up a trembling piece of braised pork with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, then cried even harder.
Seeing this, Li Zhuo also took a bite of the braised pork, and it was indeed fragrant.
He put down his chopsticks, looked at the examinees around him with different expressions, and said, "So, this imperial examination reform was indeed the right thing to do?"
The young man with extraordinary bearing nodded and said, "I don't know what the superiors are thinking. I just know that as long as we have enough food and warm clothes, we will naturally be in a better state when doing things. As expected, His Majesty cares about us! Long live the Emperor!"
Looking at the excited crowd in front of him, Li Zhuo couldn't help but nod and said to the young man in front of him, "What's your name?"
"My name is Du Wenzhong."
"Okay, okay, Du Wenzhong, I've made note of this. I wish you success in the imperial examinations!"
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