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Column article "The Imperial Chef's Restaurant"
August is the hottest time of the year in Haishi. The sun is so hot that it burns the earth, as if putting pedestrians in a furnace. Only after the sun sets will the temperature gradually drop and people can take a breath.
Haishi No. 2 Middle School is a key middle school in the district. During the break before evening self-study, students from Haishi No. 2 Middle School always go out of the school gate and go to the food street next to the school to find food.
This food street is privately called Black Street by students of Haishi No. 2 Middle School. This name has been passed down from generation to generation by students of No. 2 Middle School. As for why it is called Black Street, the reason is no longer verifiable. Perhaps it is because the food street is the busiest after nightfall.
In the center of the black street is a small shop without a sign. There are no customers in the shop, which is out of place with the surrounding shops that are crowded with people.
In this small shop without a sign, Bai Yinuo was scrubbing the walls, carefully wiping them with a rag mixed with detergent, leaving no corner where dust was hidden.
She was originally a third-rank female official in the Imperial Food Bureau of the Wei Dynasty, in charge of the meals of the harem. When she was testing new dishes in the kitchen, she felt dazed and when she woke up, she had traveled to the 21st century.
It has been a month since she traveled to this world. From being confused at the beginning, she now understands this world.
The owner of this body is also named Bai Yinuo. She had just graduated from college, but her parents died in a car accident. The original body was heartbroken and chose to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills. When she woke up, her soul had been replaced by the ancient Bai Yinuo.
Bai Yinuo has the memory of her original body. She chose to withdraw all the money in her bank card, and used the little remaining savings to hold a funeral for her original body's parents and selected a suitable cemetery. According to the customs of the Wei Dynasty, she personally folded many gold ingots and burned them. It is said that the gold ingots folded by relatives and friends, with the blessings of family and friends, are the most valuable in the underworld and are hard currency. Bai Yinuo is not their biological daughter, and it is not her intention to occupy their daughter's identity. She can only hope that their family can be reunited and live happily in the afterlife.
The original family was not wealthy. His parents ran a small restaurant with average business. After deducting the income for food, clothing and daily necessities, there was little left, and the savings were meager.
Bai Yinuo faced such an embarrassing situation when he traveled through time.
Fortunately, this little fly-in-the-wall restaurant is still there, so I didn’t have to sleep on the street.
After Bai Yinuo cleaned the whole house, her arms felt a little sore. She couldn't help but sigh, wondering what her former friends would say when they saw her current situation.
It's hard to believe that the once glorious Lord Bai has fallen to this point.
In the past, she was in charge of the whole industry, with high status, great power and great reputation. From the emperor and his concubines to the eunuchs and palace maids, everyone loved her dishes.
The reason is simple, it is because her cooking is too delicious. As a famous chef, she can make the grass taste like fairy grass. The praise from her peers is often the most valuable. Whether it is the famous imperial chef in the palace or the expert in the countryside, they will all bow down to her spatula after exchanging cooking skills.
In the past, she only needed to study food, and there was no need for her to do these chores herself.
All she needs to worry about is whether her cooking skills have improved and whether her recipe collection has increased. She is wealthy and does not need to worry about her livelihood.
Bai Yinuo sighed for a while, then went back to work, without any worry on her face. Because she has never been a person who likes to complain about herself, now that she has come here, she should just go with the flow.
At this time, footsteps were heard at the door and a tall and thin boy walked in.
When Bai Yinuo saw the person coming, he put down the towel in his hand and greeted him, "Lin Yu, why are you here? Sit down first."
Lin Yu has a tall and straight figure. He wears the loose school uniform of Haishi No. 2 Middle School but does not look bloated. He has fair skin and a handsome appearance. He is the son of Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin next door.
The Lin family is the neighbor of the Bai family and runs a boutique next door. They have a very good relationship with the Bai family's parents. They were very sad when the original owner's parents died unexpectedly. A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. They contributed a lot to the previous funeral. Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin watched Bai Yinuo grow up. After this incident, they loved Bai Yinuo even more and took care of her, almost treating her as their own daughter.
The boy, who was usually taciturn, shook his head and said, "I don't want to sit. My mother asked me to call you to eat."
Bai Yinuo didn't want to refuse Aunt Lin's kindness, so he washed his hands: "Okay, I'll go now."
Following Lin Yu into the Lin family's yard, Lin Yu went back to his room to read. Aunt Lin was washing vegetables. She looked up and saw Bai Yinuo, and said with a smile, "Yinuo is here."
"Today, a new vendor came to the market. The river shrimps they sold were really fresh. If I hadn't gotten up early, I wouldn't have been able to get any. Auntie will make you a shrimp dish today. I guarantee you'll love it."
"Auntie, have you cooked enough for today?"
"I cooked two bowls of rice, that must be enough, what's wrong?"
Bai Yinuo said in distress: "I'm worried that the food will be too fragrant and there won't be enough rice to eat."
"You girl." Aunt Lin said with a smile, feeling relieved.
Uncle Lin was packing goods nearby. When he saw Bai Yinuo coming, he put down what he was holding and asked her to sit down.
He asked, "By the way, Yinuo, why did you buy tables and chairs from me?"
Uncle Lin was a carpenter before he opened a boutique. He had good craftsmanship. After changing his career, he always wanted to make small items. The tables and chairs at home were all made by Uncle Lin. Bai Yinuo prefers this kind of log handicraft to the modern minimalist style. She found that the tables and chairs made by Uncle Lin were stable and exquisite. In addition, the tables and chairs in the restaurant were very old, so she discussed with Uncle Lin and ordered ten sets of tables and chairs from him.
"I plan to open a store at home." Bai Yinuo said. She was calm and composed, and had no idea how shocked the Lin family was by this news.
"What, you want to open that store?" Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin asked in unison.
"Aren't you studying computer science? Aren't you going to look for a job?"
It would be fine if we didn't talk about computers, but Bai Yinuo felt a little embarrassed when she talked about them. As a serious ancient person, she was very familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. But C++, Python, Java, databases and data structures were really too difficult to understand.
Everyone has their own expertise, so it’s better not to torture her, Bai Yinuo thought somewhat embarrassedly.
"Well, I think if the store at home is not open, wouldn't it be a waste to just leave it there?"
"Are you planning to hire a chef?"
"No, I'm the chef."
"Yinuo, you should think twice about this. It's not easy to be a self-employed person. You have seen how hard your parents have worked." Aunt Lin said.
In her eyes, college students should find an office job, which is leisurely and respectable. Moreover, she has never heard that Bai Yinuo has good craftsmanship.
Seeing that Aunt Lin seemed to be hesitant to speak, Bai Yinuo came over, took the dishes from Aunt Lin's hand and put them on the chair, then took Aunt Lin's arm and walked to the sofa to let her sit down: "Aunt, it's been so long, and I haven't cooked for you. Why don't you stop working today and let me cook. You just sit here and rest, and the meal will be ready soon."
Aunt Lin couldn't persuade her, so she could only watch Bai Yinuo snatch the things in her hands and slip into the kitchen.
Seeing Bai Yinuo walking too fast, she quickly reminded him, "Be careful of the water on the ground, don't slip."
"Oh, I see."
Uncle Lin watched Bai Yinuo enter the kitchen, worried that there would be no food to eat today, and asked worriedly: "Can Yinuo cook? Will the food he cooks later be inedible?"
Aunt Lin glared at him and said, "No matter how bad it tastes, you have to eat more. It's rare for a child to cook, you can't discourage her."
Aunt Lin said with a worried look on her face again: "Do you think Yinuo was serious just now? Is she really not looking for a job? The adults in her family haven't made any money in all these years, can Yinuo do it? By the way, you have a nephew who is a manager in an Internet company. Why don't you treat him to a meal and give him some gifts tomorrow to see if he can arrange a job for Yinuo in the company."
Uncle Lin sighed, "I see. As elders, we certainly can't watch her fall into such a trap. I'll call my nephew tonight."
At this time, a strange aroma came from the kitchen. The two smelled it carefully and could only smell pepper and chili pepper. Many kinds of spices mixed together, spicy and fragrant, tempting people's appetite.
"Gurgle gurgle."
When they heard each other's stomach sounds, they looked at each other and the volume of their discussion gradually died down.
The smell can't help but bring back their childhood memories.
Their ancestral home is in Sichuan, and they have only been in Haishi for more than ten years. Haishi’s food is sweeter, and they are not used to eating local dishes. Fortunately, Haishi is a place that welcomes people from all provinces across the country, and there are many Sichuan restaurants in the streets and alleys.
The two of them have eaten at many Sichuan restaurants in Hai City, some of which were run by Sichuanese. For some reason, the taste was not particularly authentic and was always a little different from the taste of their hometown, which was a pity.
The fragrance made them feel as if they were back in Sichuan.
This is not the end. As time goes by, the aroma becomes more intense, even more alluring than the hometown dishes I have eaten in Sichuan.
Bai Yinuo carefully removed the shrimp threads from the cleaned river shrimps, cut off the shrimp whiskers and shrimp claws, put them all in the prepared bowl, and poured some Erguotou to remove the fishy smell.
The river shrimps were large in size, and after the shrimp threads were removed and they were soaked in white wine, they were still jumping around. They were indeed as fresh as Aunt Lin said.
She said she was cooking, but Auntie Lin was almost done. She put steamed eggs with minced meat on the top of the steamer in the rice cooker, and corn and pork ribs soup was cooking on the stove. Uncle Lin liked to drink a little wine with his meals, and he also bought a lot of braised duck meat and duck wings to go with the wine.
So Bai Yinuo planned to make only one meat dish and make it more hearty.
She knew that Uncle Lin's family was from Sichuan and Chongqing and loved spicy food, so she planned to use these river shrimps to make a dry pot spicy shrimp dish.
Bai Yinuo's father, Bai Qi, was a great Confucian scholar in the Wei Dynasty.
Her name has a double meaning, a promise is worth a thousand gold. Her father hopes that she will be honest and keep her promise, and it also implies that she is the apple of his eye and a rich lady.
However, it is said that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen and cannot bear to kill. It seems that Bai Qi is not a qualified Confucian scholar. He is not only a gourmet, but also a good cook. When Bai Yinuo was still in her infancy, other families used rattles to amuse their children, but her family used maltose to amuse their children. When she was a child, she was taken to travel around and experience all kinds of food. She had naturally seen Sichuan cuisine, and later she studied it systematically with her master.
Sichuan cuisine is not all spicy, but it is famous for its spiciness. Sichuan cuisine is perfect, and it would be even more perfect if I could eat it without getting a stomachache, she thought silently.
She poured garlic, ginger, chili peppers, star anise and other spices into the wok and stir-fried them. The spicy and fresh aroma burst out instantly, and the kitchen was filled with an enticing smell.
By the time the dishes were ready, everyone was at the table. The three of them gathered around the table, staring at Bai Yinuo. However, their thoughts were different. Aunt Lin and Lin Yu were looking forward to it, but Uncle Lin was very worried and even somewhat resistant.
Although the dry pot spicy shrimps were bright red and looked delicious, he still gritted his teeth and didn't dare to pick up his chopsticks, fearing that the shrimps were not cooked. It was not Uncle Lin's fault that he was timid. It was really because when he and Aunt Lin first got married, she left him with a deep psychological trauma.
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