"Ma'am, won't you speak up and take care of it?"
But the imperial chef was still trying to make fun of him. Su Nuannuan said unhappily, "You want me to be in charge? I'm just an imperial edict, how can I be in charge of the prince? You have a crazy idea."
The imperial chef smiled and said, "The Anping Marquis's son has always been on good terms with the other princes, so if Madam were to ask, the princes would probably be able to..."
Before he could finish, Duan Tingxuan stepped into the room. The cook laughed and said, "Oh, this is really a case of speaking the truth. You are here, Prince of Anping? I greet you."
"Forget it." Duan Tingxuan rushed in front of several princes as if he was riding on a Hot Wheels.
The imperial chef's eyes lit up with a spark of hope. He thought that the prince of Anping had come in a hurry because he had anticipated this situation, so he wanted to take away a few princes to make decisions for the prince's wife. Who knew that the next moment, he heard Duan Tingxuan shouting, "Well, you guys are disloyal, why don't you leave some for me?" As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately joined the army of people scrambling for food.
The cook stumbled and almost fell to the ground. He looked at Su Nuannuan with tears in his eyes: Now there’s another wolf. Can we prepare lunch today?
Su Nuannuan glanced at the cook. How could she not know how he felt? He laughed and thought to herself that if you don't have enough information, you will suffer. Look at me, my aunt, you won't think so well of Duan Tingxuan. I said, who did a dignified prince learn to be a rat in the kitchen without caring about his face? So the root is here.
However, Su Nuannuan didn't have so many concerns about Duan Tingxuan. Seeing that the four people were eating with their mouths full of oil, although Duan Tingxuan came later, he had a tendency to surpass the latecomers. The food he just made was eaten up in a blink of an eye. The grandmother finally couldn't hold back her anger anymore. She knocked the iron pot on the stove and yelled: "Duan Tingxuan, do you still want to make lunch today? Give me an answer. It was agreed that you would only make two appetizers for the queen, but look, what is left now? If the queen blames you, will you take responsibility?"
Several princes were pulling Duan Tingxuan to say that Su Nuannuan was virtuous and gentle. She never roared like a lion even though they were so presumptuous. It was obvious that his usual words about his wife being powerful were all lies. The young marquis felt that he was wronged, but he didn't expect his wife to show her true colors. He immediately laughed. He pulled the three people and said, "Let's go, let's go. Be careful not to really anger Nuannuan, or she will blame the four of us."
The prince was still reluctant to part with these delicacies and wanted to struggle. He said, "My mother won't blame me. Even if she does, I will take full responsibility."
You've become fat as a pig, and you still have the nerve to take all the responsibility. Eat, eat, eat, or you'll be useless.
Su Nuannuan was so angry that she cursed in her heart and looked at the prince with a sneer. So the prince tactfully touched his nose and was pulled out of the small kitchen by Duan Tingxuan.
The kitchen was finally quiet again, and the dozen or so cooks breathed a sigh of relief. Most of these cooks were eunuchs, and the one who accompanied Su Nuannuan was the leader. Su Nuannuan heard him chattering beside her, and she knew that this guy was originally a cook in a restaurant. Because his wife was almost insulted by a playboy, he almost cut off the playboy's arm with a kitchen knife. In order to avoid the disaster, he reluctantly castrated himself. Fortunately, he was able to enter the palace. Relying on his cooking skills and his ability to flatter the eunuchs in charge, he climbed to this position after several years of hard work. It is hard for outsiders to understand.
"Then what will happen to your wife and children when you enter the palace?"
Su Nuannuan chatted with the cook while she chopped the cucumbers like rain. Soon, several cucumbers were turned into very fine cucumber shreds. The cook first praised the wife's knife skills, and then laughed: "Before I castrated myself, I sent my wife and children to my hometown in the countryside to avoid disaster. When I left, I told them that I would be dead, and if there was a good man who was willing to treat them well, they could marry. But my wife was so stubborn that she kept waiting. It was not until I became famous in the palace and asked someone to find out that I knew they were still waiting in the countryside. So I asked the Queen for grace to bring them back to the capital and buy a house for them. Every month, when I went out of the palace to buy things, I could see them a few times."
"Then you're in luck. There aren't many eunuchs who have their own children, right?" Su Nuannuan said as she saw the other side of the rice noodle skin was ready, so she took it and continued to cut it. Sure enough, the cook laughed and said, "Isn't it? That's why I often say that I must have burned a lot of incense in my previous life to work under the Queen Mother to have what I have today."
While the two were talking, Su Nuannuan had already put the ingredients on the plate, and soon, the colorful pulled skin was ready. The cook looked at the colorful and bright color of the dish and couldn't help but smile: "I was watching from the side and realized that Madam didn't use any strange ingredients, just a few ordinary things, and she was able to combine them to create such an effect, which is really amazing."
"Okay, stop praising me. This is nothing. It's just that the Queen has a poor appetite. Eating this will help stimulate her appetite. It's really an ordinary dish." As he spoke, he felt a little regretful. He thought to himself that there was no chili pepper in this era. This was really frustrating. My hot pot, my spicy sauce, my fish-flavored pork shreds and spicy chicken, oh! Mustard, pepper and the like, are not pure spicy flavors after all.
This busy work took an hour, and when Su Nuannuan came out of the kitchen, she was so hungry that her stomach was sticking to her back. How could she not be hungry? It was already past noon.
The emperor and empress were also eagerly waiting. In order to curry favor with them, the imperial kitchen specially sent someone to ask if they needed to serve the imperial meal first. Of course, this was also out of comparison. The food of the people in the palace was the foundation of the imperial kitchen. How could it be easily taken away by others? Unfortunately, their loyalty was in vain. This considerate arrangement was ruthlessly rejected by the emperor and empress.
At this time, the palace maids came in with food boxes. As soon as they opened the food boxes on the table, the aroma wafted out. The queen looked at Su Nuannuan with approval and nodded, "Your Majesty, although I have waited for a long time, just by smelling this fragrance, I know that this wait is worth it."
Su Nuannuan thought, have you waited for a long time? Don't blame me for this, blame your well-educated sons, who are fighting for food in the kitchen and are almost like wild wolves. In fact, she wanted to use the word wild dogs, but considering that they were still the crown prince and the princes, she reluctantly gave them a higher level.
"Nuan Nuan, what is this? Why have I never seen it at home?"
Duan Tingxuan stood up and pulled his wife to the table, pointing at the big bowl of oily green noodles and asked.
"Emerald noodles, very common." Su Nuannuan answered casually. Seeing that her husband was still confused, she said helplessly, "It's just noodles."
"You're fooling me again. There are green noodles?" Duan Tingxuan didn't believe it.
"Don't embarrass yourself. This is noodles made with vegetable juice, so it's naturally green." Su Nuannuan secretly rolled her eyes, but heard the queen say, "This noodle is interesting. Yue'er, give me a bowl. Your Majesty, do you want one?"
The emperor laughed and said, "The noodles are fine, but I find the soup interesting. I have never seen it before. Wife Tingxuan, what kind of soup is this?"
Tingxuan's wife, what a simple and intimate name. In an instant, the image of the emperor in Su Nuannuan's eyes overlapped with the second uncle next door in her previous life. Clearing her throat, she stood up and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, it is a home-cooked soup, with pig blood, diced tofu, diced pork, oysters, chopped green onions, coriander and other seasonings, and starch is used to thicken the soup, and it's ready."
This was a dish that Su Nuannuan had eaten in her previous life when she and her friends went to a wedding banquet in the countryside of Northeast China. At that time, it was served in a large bucket, three full buckets. After everyone left, the soup was all gone. Even Su Nuannuan, a foodie who had eaten all over the world, liked this soup so much that she went to the master chef to learn this trick. Unexpectedly, it came in handy today. The emperor couldn't help but applaud loudly after tasting it, and drank two large bowls in one breath. If the queen hadn't stopped him and asked him to save his stomach to try other delicacies, it is estimated that a bowl of country home-cooked soup would have filled this true dragon emperor.
The queen had a poor appetite, but she didn't know whether she was very hungry today or Su Nuannuan's food suited her taste. She loved the cucumber and peanuts and jade noodles, and ate a lot of colorful noodles. She also liked the candied hawthorn. Concubine Jing, on the other hand, had a special liking for cherry meat. Concubine Duan, the biological mother of the second prince, looked calm and loved the hot dried bean curd. She ate almost the whole plate.
Not to mention the Crown Prince, the Second Prince and the Fourth Prince, who all look like the kind of foodies who "can't get enough of anything". If Su Nuannuan hadn't known from Duan Tingxuan that these three were no simple people, she would have almost categorized them as lazy eaters who "can't do anything".
The meal lasted half an hour. When the eunuchs and maids came in to clean the table, they were all shocked: When has the royal table ever been so clean? What was on that plate? Why was there no soup? The light was so bright that it could reflect a person's shadow. Who was so powerful that he even drank the soup?
Even the royal family felt a little embarrassed watching this, and the emperor was still trying to smooth things over: "Haha! I've never had such a good meal before. Tingxuan's wife said they were all home-cooked dishes, but I don't understand. If home-cooked dishes all taste like this, then are we eating pig food on a daily basis?"
"Your Majesty, this is impossible." Duan Tingxuan heard this: Well, if his wife compares them to him, the imperial chefs will all be sentenced to death. Are they going to create the greatest injustice in the world? No, no, if this happens, the emperor will become the greatest tyrant in the history of the world. This kind of thing must not be allowed to happen.
So she hurriedly explained it, and Su Nuannuan also said a lot of good things about the imperial chefs. She didn't want the imperial chefs to be collectively blamed because of herself, a time-traveling girl.
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