Blissful Days After Widowhood: First course

Ning Xi really took some thought, what should I do for the fifth master of this first dish?

In terms of innovation, in fact, many dishes in Ningxi's mind are unheard of in this world. It is not difficult for her to make thirteen new dishes to fulfill this promise. After he helped him so much, Ning Xi didn't want to fool him at will. After thinking about it, Ning Xi decided to make a dish that looked like in the novel in his previous life, and then made some improvements in his actual operation— - Whoever listens to the plum falling on the jade flute.

However, Ningxi doesn't have many contacts in this world. I don't know if there is a verse "Who listens to plum blossoms on the jade flute" at this time. Fortunately, Ozawa wanted to change his academy for him. I have come home, and I am studying at home to prepare for the interview at Bailu Academy.

Ning Xi brought him over: "Ozawa, I once heard a poem read by someone else and thought it was very nice. I wanted to use it as the name of our restaurant's dishes, but I don't remember much now. I'll read it to you and see if you know it."

Ozawa nodded quickly: "Second sister, tell me, as long as it is in the book, I will definitely remember it."

Boy, are you overconfident? Ning Xi couldn't help but want to educate him: "Learning is boundless, remember? Don't casually say that you know it in the future."

Ozawa blushed: "Yes, second sister."

"Listen, there is a sentence in this poem that is about a jade flute or something listening to plum fall, have you heard of this?"

Ozawa searched carefully in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he blushed: "I'm sorry, second sister, I really haven't heard of this poem."

"I haven't heard of it, so forget it, I just said it casually, you go back and read the book carefully."

"Yes!" Ozawa answered very sincerely this time. The second sister was right. There is no limit to learning. You must not be complacent. You must study harder in the future.

Ning Xi was also muttering to herself. It seems that this poem doesn't exist yet, so she can't say it. The dish still needs to be renamed.

Ning Xi slept peacefully after deciding on the dishes to be made. When he woke up early the next morning, he took Meng Shuangshuang to the market to buy raw materials for cooking.

We usually go to the market to buy vegetables, which is a centralized place that sells rice, vegetables and meat. Generally, all the ingredients that are usually used can be bought, but some special ones, such as the nearby mountain residents All kinds of game hunted in the mountains cannot be bought in the market.

The rules of the big week are that every five and every ten is the day to go to the market. At this time, the villagers in the nearby villages will take the vegetables, chickens and ducks that they can't eat at home, as well as fish and shrimp caught in the river. Go to the market in the city to sell, if you are lucky, there will be trophies from the mountain people hunting, these may be what, in short, there are all kinds of strange things, once in Ningxi, someone caught snakes and sold them Yes, but no one dares to buy it.

Next time I see someone selling snakes, Ningxi decides to buy a snake soup for the fifth master to see if he has the guts.

Today, Ningxi was lucky, and I bought all the five kinds of meat needed to make that dish, especially the deer meat and rabbit meat. These two things are not always sold at every market. It turns out that She also thought that if she couldn't buy it, she would have to give it up and replace it with other meat.

After walking around for a while, Meng Shuangshuang said to Ning Xi, "Do you think there are a lot fewer people going to the market today?"

Ning Xi was only looking for her to get meat, but after listening to her, she took a closer look. Sure enough, there were not only fewer people setting up stalls, but also many fewer people going to the market. In the market, people had to squeeze people to walk, and now the two of them are walking easily with a big basket. In this case, I can still buy all the meat to be used, which is really lucky.

"Could it be because it's still early?" Ning Xi guessed.

"Maybe!" Meng Shuangshuang nodded.

On the way back to Shuangxi Tower, Ningxi found that the road was also deserted a lot, almost no one was hanging out outside, and occasionally a few passers-by who had to go out were in a hurry, but beggars on the street corner There are a lot more, but they all seem to be new faces, both men and women, young and old, with tattered clothes and numb expressions.

Some beggar children stared at the baskets in their hands when they saw them passing by, with hunger and longing in their eyes, seeing Ning Xi's heart panic, Meng Shuangshuang also held her hand tightly: "Let's Hurry up!"

Ningxi nodded, the two quickened their pace, almost running back, until they returned to Zhengyang Street where Shuangxi Tower was located, and they could see the gate of Shuangxi Tower, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief. , God knows how terrible those people's eyes are, staring at them as if they are two pieces of meat that can walk.

There was even a child who held out a dark little hand towards them. Fortunately, Ning Xi walked fast, so he didn't catch the corner of his skirt.

It wasn't that Ningxi was cruel and indifferent when she saw people dying of hunger. She really suffered a loss. When she first arrived in the capital, she once saw a beggar child who was holding her in a pitiful appearance, so she gave him a piece of meat. Baozi turned around unexpectedly, hula, and out of nowhere appeared more than ten beggars in the same ragged clothes, surrounded her tightly, making her unable to move an inch, and finally had to take out all the money on her body to buy They were able to escape after all the food was distributed to them.

From now on, Ningxi didn't dare to give anything to beggars when she saw beggars on the street again, especially in the situation just now. She believed that if they dared to distribute the food in the basket to any one of them, the others would definitely It will come and tear them apart.

Back to Shuangxi Tower, Ningxi came to Rong Daquan and asked him if he knew what happened in the capital recently.

Rongda said: "I'm also just about to tell you that the restaurant's business has declined a lot in recent days, less than half of what it used to be, and there are fewer people on the street, and now everyone is reluctant to go out. "

"Oh, why is that?"

"It's not because of those refugees." Just like those refugees who fought in front of the Shuangxi Tower last time, there are more and more refugees in the capital now, and these people are short of clothes and clothes, naturally it is inevitable There will be some robbery and robbery, which directly leads to the current poor security in the capital. If people have nothing to do, they will not dare to go out. On the one hand, they are worried that they will not be able to make money when they do business. On the other hand, they are more afraid of refugees. When there is trouble in the store, people are more and more panicked.

"Does the government even care about this mess?"

"No matter what, no matter what, a lot of people have been arrested these days, but there are so many refugees, they can't be resettled for a while, and the government can't do anything about them."

In the end, Rong Daquan also persuaded Ning Xi and Meng Shuangshuang to go out less these days.

Of course, Ningxi can't take care of such a big environment. Fortunately, the business of Sungai Tower was good before, and the foundation is still solid. Take the opportunity and see what happens later.

Jun Wuye didn't come to Shuangxi Tower until about noon. Ningxi had already prepared the dishes she was going to make today, and sent them along with several other dishes that he usually likes to eat.

Ning Xi opened the lid of the plate in front of him, and inside was a plate of roasted pork strips about an inch long and about the thickness of a pinky finger.

"This is the first dish I made for the fifth master. Yudi listens to plum, please taste it."

Jun Qianyu said: "This name has a meaning." He stretched out his chopsticks and put one in his mouth, chewing a few times, "It's soft and juicy, delicious, but what kind of meat is this, I can't actually eat it. ?"

Ning Xi smiled slyly: "How about you take a guess?"

Jun Qianyu took another piece, closed his eyes and savored it carefully: "It seems to be like mutton, and a bit like beef, no, there is still a bit of crispy skin in it, not as soft as ordinary meat. , what exactly are you feeding me?"

"I'll give you a hint, each piece of meat here is made of four small meat strips, but there are five kinds of meat in total, can you guess?"

Rarely, Jun Qianyu also played with her with great interest: "There is beef, mutton, and that crispy pig's ear, what are the other two..." Finally he shook his head, "Really I can't eat it."

Ning Xi said with a smile, "I can tell three of them. It seems that the fifth master's taste is really strong, so can I pass the test?"

"Well, it's ok, but you have to tell me what meat the remaining two are."

"These four small meat strips, one is lamb sitting buttocks, one calf kidney, one small pig's ear, and one is roe leg meat and rabbit meat rubbed together."

Jun Qianyu sighed: "You are not too troublesome!"

"It is natural to strive for perfection in cooking for the fifth master, so why is it troublesome? And the name of this dish also has a saying!"

"Oh? What?"

"Although there are only five kinds of meat, there are many flavors to match. For example, mixing beef and mutton is one flavor, and chewing deer and beef is another flavor. If you change the order, just right There are twenty-five variations, which make up the number of five or five plum blossoms. You can see that the shape of this meat stick is like a flute, so the name of this dish is called Yudi Tingmei.”

Jun Qianyu couldn't help but clapped: "This is interesting."

"So I'm passing the test?"

"Count it!"

"But why does the fifth master seem to be unhappy? Is there any other dissatisfaction?"

"It's not your problem here, it's just something annoying."

Since the two of them went to Lezhou together last time, after they met each other in the carriage for six days, Ning Xi felt that this person was much more cordial, and he dared to speak more casually: "Could it be because of the refugees? Troubled?"

Jun Qianyu looked up at her: "How do you know?"

Ning Xi said: "Now the emperor is in his prime, and it is a peaceful and prosperous age. The biggest thing in the capital recently is that the refugees are harassing the people of the capital, so I casually guess that the fifth master is worried about this. Do you think it's true?"

Jun Qianyu smiled bitterly: "Isn't that true? The emperor was angry with me and ran out for a few days without saying a word. When I came back, he gave me this job of relocating the refugees."

"It's definitely not the first time that this kind of thing has happened. There are precedents for how to deal with it before. If you can't do it, what's there to worry about?"

"It's easy to deal with it according to the previous methods, but I don't think those methods are very good, so I just don't want to do it."