The palace servants in the western kitchen and the palace people who came to help felt like they were reborn after drinking a bowl of iced mung bean soup.
Finally I can take a breath.
The palace servants from the other three departments who came to help now had a better understanding of the difficulties of the West Kitchen.
Even with thirty or forty people helping, everyone is still so tired. If there were only the eighty people in the west kitchen working, I'm afraid they would fall asleep wherever they lie down.
Good food is inseparable from Su Wan’s craftsmanship and everyone’s hard work.
Su Wan listened to everyone's discussion and nodded silently. This was indeed true.
Cooking is strenuous work.
In the past, fewer people came to the west kitchen to eat, so everyone could make do. But now that people from the Palace Treasury Department have arrived, more staff must be sent.
We just need to give the head of the Imperial Food Department time to make the arrangements. This is the imperial palace, not your own home, so you can't just assign people as you please.
But it’s okay. I guess the Zhang and Wang families in Anqingfang are already worried by now.
I was afraid that once the palace people from the Baochaosi came to the West Kitchen, they would not go to Anqingfang for dinner and would definitely cause a commotion. It would be best if the commotion was bigger, at least to force the palace people from the Baochaosi to go to Anqingfang for a few days first.
As they were talking, the new mung bean soup had been prepared. After all, it couldn't be drunk by the people who came to help in the West Kitchen. So the mung bean soup had to be chilled and sent to several places in the West Outer Palace.
Let everyone know that the Western Kitchen is very good now. Not only does it cook delicious meals, it also provides soups to relieve the heat in the summer.
The better the Western Kitchen is, the greater the crisis in Anqingfang will be. The more anxious the Zhang and Wang families will be, and they will be eager to snatch away the palace people from the Baochaosi.
In fact, although the palace people in the Baochaosi and the Western Kitchen did not get along, it was not their own wish.
If you say they are pitiful, they are quite pitiful. Not only do they have to work for them, but they also have to make money from them. Now their meals are used as tools to make the western kitchen overloaded.
In fact, the people in the Baochaosi Palace were not unaware of these things, but most of them could do nothing about it. It was true that when the gods fought, the little ghosts suffered.
Therefore, the Baochaosi also had a share of mung bean soup, which not only helped the palace servants there to cool down, but also made the Zhang and Wang families jump with joy.
If there were two families in the world who were most reluctant to improve the western kitchen, it would definitely be these two families.
After finishing lunch today, I actually have to worry about dinner in the evening. Even if I have someone to help me, I won’t be able to rest for too long.
I just drank some iced mung bean soup, took a short break, and then ate my meal despite being exhausted.
This finally helped me catch my breath.
But I still have to make the chicken soup wontons for dinner. The dinner dish is not complicated, but kneading the dough and chopping the stuffing are too tiring.
Some palace servants even joked that it was a good thing that they kneaded the dough a lot when making beef bone noodle soup yesterday, so everyone had some skills and learned a lot of tricks.
This is also a way of saying "finding joy in misery", but it is also true.
After two days of intensive preparation of ingredients, the forty-four palace servants in the western kitchen have improved their skills in cooking pasta.
Especially when it comes to kneading the dough, the dough can be kneaded smooth very quickly, and the resting time is also very accurate.
With this skill, most pasta dishes you make will not taste bad in the future.
Because of this, the palace servants in the West Kitchen complained less. They could learn something instead of doing repetitive mechanical labor, so I believe many people would be willing to do it.
I’m afraid that I’ll do it for a long time but still not make any progress.
The people in the west kitchen have gradually figured out the tricks, and with Su Wan teaching them the techniques, not only are they quicker in their movements, but they also save a lot of energy.
When you are tired, you can also eat iced mung bean soup, which is also a good way to cool down and relieve fatigue.
Su Wan not only cooks delicious food, but is also very considerate. Many people look at her with more loving eyes?
Seeing that it was the hottest time of the afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister Xi did not ask his palace servants to deliver the mung bean soup, but instead sent a message to the various departments of the West Outer Palace, asking them to come and get it themselves.
When the news spread, the Imperial Household Department, the Imperial Treasure Department, the Old Treasury, and especially the Treasury Department were all stunned.
We are all in the West Outer Palace. Everyone knows how busy the West Kitchen has been recently. Under such circumstances, why are we still making mung bean soup to cool down?
Although it is already summer, it is necessary.
But they are so busy, how can they spare the time?
Now, many people have a different perception of the Western Kitchen. Look at it, there have really been a lot of changes.
If the palace servants in the West Outer Palace went to get the mung bean soup with mixed feelings, the Zhang and Wang families outside the palace were furious.
First, all of their dozen or so restaurants were deserted in the morning. Then, at noon, the few customers in Anqingfang all went to Li's Big Pig's Trotter, saying that his family had just made braised pork rice, which was extremely delicious.
Now it was afternoon, and the people who had been sent out to gather information about the palace had returned.
But none of the news brought back was good.
The chief manager of the Baochaosi had told him before that the current quietness in Anqingfang was only temporary and would soon return to normal.
But the news he got was that the chief steward's superior proposed to improve the West Kitchen, so the saying that it was deserted was only temporary, was actually to appease him. In the future, the palace servants of the West Outer Palace would only eat in the West Kitchen!
At first, they were both skeptical about this statement.
But when his own people came back, the news they found out was actually the same.
The nobleman above the general manager actually proposed improving the western kitchen last month!
Since last month, Xishanfang has been competing with their restaurant for business.
Now that I think about it, ever since the noble lady started to improve the western kitchen, within a few days, the palace servants in the Imperial Household Department stopped going out of the palace to eat.
A few days passed and the picky Shangbaojian did not come out.
Everyone knows how much the chief steward of the Shangbao Palace loves to eat. Even the two of them don’t go out to eat, which shows how delicious the food in the west kitchen is.
It actually started from that time?
The chief manager of the Baochao Division had actually been hiding this from him?
No wonder fewer and fewer palace servants come to Anqingfang to eat during this period. I went to ask the old eunuch myself, but he was fooling people!
Once the suspicions in their hearts grew, the Zhang and Wang families could no longer hold back.
In the minds of the two of them, they had already determined that the manager of the Baochao Division actually wanted to improve the western kitchen as well, and what he said before was just to fool them and reassure them.
When they thought of the dozen or so restaurants they owned and the money they had sent as a gift a few days ago, they became extremely angry.
No matter what, they will go to the old eunuch's house.
Now it's not a direct falling out, but the Zhang family will go find the steward, and the Wang family will hide with the private account books first. If there is any unusual change, they will immediately knock on the door of the Kyoto prefect and sue the steward of the Treasury Department for accepting bribes.
It was certainly not the first time that the two of them had encountered problems when doing this business.
They just didn't believe that the chief of the Treasury Department really wanted to cut off this source of income.
As soon as the Zhang and Wang families went out, they smelled the aroma of braised meat from the Li family's pig's trotters, which attracted all the scattered guests around, and made them even more angry.
There was someone trying to steal the business nearby, and there were also people trying to steal the business in the palace. The western kitchen even made iced mung bean soup.
To be able to do it so well, it must be an order from above.
Otherwise, why would the Western Kitchen go to such lengths?
They also asked the guards at Lingtai Gate, who also praised the food in the western kitchen, and finally said, "It tastes better than what you cook in the restaurant anyway."
The last sentence hurts!
Internal strife has already started here. In fact, the people in the western kitchen did not do anything. They just did their work step by step.
At this time, people in the west kitchen were rolling bread and wontons and were having a lot of fun.
But while doing these things, I was also thinking, when will this tiring life end?
According to regulations, they should have 160 people. When can the remaining 80 people be transferred over?
If they were transferred over, they could take turns doing the work and wouldn't have to work so hard.
Su Wan listened to the news from Deputy Prime Minister Xi and already had an idea in her mind.
Deputy Prime Minister Xi smiled, obviously understanding the meaning of Su Wan's note.
Unfortunately, their joy can only be digested by the two of them and cannot be expressed out loud for the time being.
In Su Wan's opinion, the chief of the Imperial Food Department was really quick. In less than a day, internal strife had broken out over there. His connections were truly amazing.
But the chief of the Imperial Food Department also felt a little strange.
She was not familiar with the Lingtai Gate's commander and guards, but he had helped them several times.
Was it intentional or unintentional?
If it's a coincidence, it's too coincidental.
At least things developed as expected, so she naturally kept her composure. She was just about to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to see if she could get some palace maids to go to the west kitchen.
The highest officials in Tianxiang's Internal Affairs Department were the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Junior Minister of Internal Affairs. The Minister of Internal Affairs was of the fourth rank, and the Junior Minister and the female official of the Imperial Food Department were both of the fifth rank, so they were naturally very polite when they met.
But when they heard the female official asking for palace maids, their brows jumped. This was too much to ask for.
The chief of the Imperial Food Department said with a smile, "The Western Kitchen has a lot of things to do. I want a hundred people. Is that not too much?"
Isn’t this too much?
There are only eighty people in the west kitchen now!
Ask for another hundred?
The Western Kitchen had no idea about what was happening in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as everyone was doing their own thing.
Su Wan looked at the wontons made today and discovered that the palace servants in the west kitchen were also quite skilled in making the fillings. The fillings were juicy and looked delicious.
It’s a pity that the people in Baochaosi Palace can’t eat such delicious wontons.
The young eunuch who was guarding the gate of the Treasury Department said in disbelief: "You are not allowed to go to the West Kitchen to eat tonight? Why?"
"Why? The higher-ups said that the people in the western kitchen are overworked and asked them to take a break." The eunuch who passed the message said, "Remember, you are not allowed to go to the western kitchen. Do you hear me?"
If you are not allowed to go to the West Kitchen, then you must go to Andingfang.
It was okay before, the food in the West Kitchen was not good, so we just went to Andingfang.
But after a day of delicious free meals, what's the point of asking them to pay for lousy meals?
As the old saying goes, it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. It is really difficult!
Anyway, the eunuch guarding the gate was already in tears.
They know that working in the western kitchen is hard, but they can't do this.
The entire Baochao Division was full of complaints for a while. Who could give up the food in the western kitchen?
The chief steward of the Baochao Division, whose purse was full, listened to everyone's complaints but didn't hear a word of them. The people at Anqingfang were too anxious, and now that more silver had been sent over, he raised his hand and told the palace servants to go to Andingfang.
Besides, I have already put all the blame on the West Kitchen.
The western kitchen couldn't cook it, so she was "considerate" to them and asked the palace maids to go to Andingfang to eat.
If the palace people in the Baochaosi want to complain, they can just blame the incompetence of the Western Kitchen. What does it have to do with him?
But after complaining, the palace officials in the Baochaosi came to their senses.
Something is wrong.
If the western kitchen really has no spare capacity and cannot cook meals, what happened to the iced mung bean soup in the afternoon?
If you really can't do it, do you still have the time to do it?
Just when everyone was skeptical, a piece of gossip spread like wildfire.
"Our manager accepted money from Andingfang Restaurant! So he asked us to go to Andingfang to eat! So that he can get kickbacks from it!"
This? How is this possible?
What was originally just a private discussion and speculation was brought up again today.
In the past, not many people believed in it.
But today's situation makes people have to believe it!
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