The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty Chapter 66: I’m working in the hall

Newly obtained the title of Brewmaster, Yun Yanhui couldn't help laughing and laughing. In his opinion, this is completely the hype of the foot shop. No, it has spread all over the city, and everyone wants to go there to meet the "brewmaster" or try it." The wine fairy" has tasted the wine.

All day long marketing hype, this time it has also become someone else's advertisement, Yun Yan Hui was quite amused, and pressed it not to mention it.

With wine, Yun Yanhui experimented with the dishes in the canteen of Kaifeng House, preparing to make wine duck and wine chicken wings, and chose it in the afternoon, when everyone was resting and no one was in the kitchen.

In fact, cooking in the cafeteria is also for convenience. Not only are there always prepared chickens and ducks here, but also a new batch of casserole has been purchased recently, and the quality is very good.

It was bought from a county outside Bianjing. The casserole made by the locals was made of kaolin clay, and the production process was extremely cumbersome. Pharmacies in Bianjing love to boil medicines because they can preserve the medicinal properties to the greatest extent.

Similar to this, the deliciousness of the food can also be preserved to the greatest extent. Since it was first used by a restaurant, it has gradually become popular in the large and small restaurants in Bianjing.

In addition, this casserole has a very good fresh-keeping ability. It is said that the soup boiled on the 30th of the New Year's Eve in winter can be drunk on the 15th. Compared with other containers, the soup boiled is more fragrant.

Yunyan retrieved a casserole for later use. This casserole has been maintained several times and is already very suitable for stewing.

Pour the washed duck meat into wine, add light soy sauce and dark soy sauce to pickle, marinate for a little longer, about half an hour, then heat the wok, add onion and **** and fry until it comes out Fragrance, and then add the duck.

Stir-fry until the duck changes color, pour it into a casserole, pour half a pot of wine again, sprinkle with salt, and add dried tangerine peel, star anise, cinnamon, basil, etc.

Simmer slowly over low heat until half of the wine is left, then add some rock sugar, collect the juice and serve. The color of the duck meat is red, and it fully absorbs the wine. It mixes the aroma of the duck meat itself, and the taste of spices, which is fragrant.

Yunyan tasted a piece and almost burst into tears. It was so delicious. Mom, why is my cooking so delicious!

Duck meat is rich in flavor, and the meat is fat and soft, and it is very tempting even before it is eaten. Once you take a bite, it is extremely fat and tender, fresh and delicate, with the aroma of wine and condiments.

As for the wine chicken wings, it is much simpler. Yun Yanhui likes to eat the root of the wing. The meat is more lively than the drumstick and has more meat than the tip of the wing. Blanch the wing roots and drain, fry on low heat until browned, add salt and soy sauce and stir-fry, then pour in wine to simmer and simmer to taste, then collect the juice on high heat and sprinkle some pepper powder.

Both dishes were salty and fragrant, and it was easy to want to eat rice. Yun Yan returned to a bowl of rice, poured a pot of wine, and ate them. Both experiments were very successful.

After taking a few bites, a young man suddenly came in from outside. He was dressed in Yanjue clothes and had a handsome face. He was about twenty years old.

When the man came in, he looked around with his hands behind his back, as if he was looking for something.

Yun Yan looked back at him a little familiar, and his clothes were relatively high-end. He thought that he was either an official in the government, or someone from another yamen who had been here. Since there was no one in the kitchen, he greeted him: "At noon each compartment There are no leftovers, but I just cooked two dishes here, Langjun, come and eat some."

Although the cafeteria is only open in the morning and during lunch break, if someone misses the meal time, they can come and ask for food, as long as there is food available. If it is an official, he has to open a small stove for others.

The young man seemed stunned for a moment, then walked over and looked down at the dishes in front of Yun Yanhui.

"I just ate a few mouthfuls. I was experimenting with new dishes. You were the first to eat them." Gotta buy it in the market. He looked at the man and didn't know where the rice was, but he kindly helped him with a bowl of rice and handed it over.

The young man pondered for a while, and reached out to take the rice bowl.

Yunyan looked back at him and stretched out his hands. His hands were as white as jade, and his ten fingers were slender and delicate. There were only some thin calluses between the fingers, as if they were made by holding a pen, so he was a scholar.

The young man grabbed the tableware very politely, took a few pieces of duck meat to eat, and ate a piece of wing root, then smiled slightly, "It's delicious."

"Of course, wine is added to this dish." Yun Yanhui was quite content, "and my cooking is so delicious, I'm like a magic chef."

The young man was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't understand, he still smiled politely, and then poured himself a bowl of wine to drink.

Yunyan whispered back in her heart, although I am generous, buddy, do you want to be so natural when you pour someone else's wine?

The young man tasted the wine, his eyes lit up, "good wine."

Since he came in until now, he has said four words and two words, namely delicious food and good wine.

Yunyan smiled back, "Be careful, the stamina is a little big."

"The fragrance is mellow and thick, where is this wine?" The young man asked after eating half a bowl.

Yunyan replied casually: "A Hu businessman who walks the streets and alleys."

"Impossible," the young man said categorically, "although the taste is similar to the commercial wine sold by Hushang—for some reason I have never been able to brew that taste—but Hushang's wines are all aged wines. This pot is clearly old and new, and it will not be out for more than a month. Hu Shang will use local grapes to make wine, and in January, he will not be able to reach Bianjing.”

Yunyan replied: "..."

Yun Yanhui was also a little stunned. He didn't expect anyone to be more serious than this. He scratched his head and looked innocent and dazed. His acting skills were superb, "I don't know either. Does that mean I'm lucky?"

The young man looked at the wine and vegetables, then looked at him, and said meaningfully: "This wine is your own brew."

Yun Yanhui was so surprised that she refused to admit it, "No!"

But the young man looked confident, "It was you who brewed it privately."

Yun Yanhui was even more frightened, and she didn't know where she was wearing. Seeing that there is no grievance between the young man and himself, it doesn't seem like he wants to file a complaint. Anyway, everyone is his own, so he admits it semi-tupibly: "How do you decide?"

Young man: "Intuition. When I entered Kaifeng Mansion just now, I saw that the grapes were ripe and someone was picking them. In addition, this dish is a new dish, and the wine is a new wine."

"..." Yun Yan was speechless and choked back, people rely on intuition, what else can you say?

Yun Yanhui had to pour another bowl of wine and put her hand on the young man's shoulder, "Brother, Ming people don't speak secretly, this is what I brewed privately, it's just for cooking and seasoning, and I don't sell it. You seem to be such a nice person, so you definitely won't sue me, right?" He added in his heart, but you didn't admit it when you sued Lao Tzu.

The young man was hugged by him, a little unnatural, probably never hooked his shoulders, but he didn't break away, "Um..."

"It's great, come, let's go." Yun Yanhui touched the bowls with him and finished the drink in one gulp.

The young man also took two sips. At this time, his face was already a little red. When he looked at Yun Yan back again, his face remained unchanged, "Your alcohol intake is good, how old are you?"

"Seventeen years old." Yun Yan replied, "By the way, just now you said that the grapes were ripe when you came in. Are you not from the manor?"

"No, I'll take a look." The young man said, and asked another question, "With the strictness of the imperial court, how did you buy liquor?" He said, and added, "Don't worry. , I will not harm you."

"I didn't buy koji, I'm not qualified to buy koji," Yunyan returned to the booth, not caring to reveal the method at all, "I don't use koji when I make wine, Hushang's wine is different from ours. , but also because there is no koji. The reason why wine is wine is that it is made from grapes, and the wine is made with koji.”

"It's actually like this?" the young man pondered, "It makes sense..."

"Hey, buddy," Yun Yan had silently changed his title from Langjun to Xiongtai to buddy, "You're not from the mansion, which yamen is that? Dali Temple? The Department of Punishment?" These are the departments that deal with the Kaifeng Mansion the most.

Youth: "The Hall of Hanging Arches."

Yunyan replied: "The place where you look at the court, are you a guard and an army?"

The young man hadn't spoken yet, when a middle-aged man came in from outside, with a white face and a beardless, tender and tender body. He bowed his body and said in a male duck voice: "The official family, the Kaifeng House will pass the judgment and ask for an interview."

Yunyan replied: "………………"

…Damn! !

Why do you think this person looks familiar? Because every year on Lantern Festival, people come out to have fun with the people and they can take a look from afar!

Why do you claim to be working in the Hanging Palace? Because I handle government affairs there every day!

Why, why didn't I recognize it earlier...

Yun Yan Hui had a little person in her heart, and she was already crying in the kitchen.

"Well, go to the hall." Renzong put down his wine bowl, walked out with his hands behind his back, walked to the door, turned his head and smiled, "Child, I won't remember your name this time, the merits and demerits are equal."

No name, no reward and no penalty.

Probably it was because he served food well, but he broke the law in brewing, and he was called a buddy by the officials, so he had a balance between his merits and demerits... This is too exciting!

Yunyan replied like a quail: "Xie Guan's house."

……

Renzong left, there were still half a pot of leftover wine and two dishes of leftovers. Yun Yanhui was not in the mood to eat it. He walked out of the back kitchen and saw the cooks and chores kneeling all over the ground, all of which were too weak to climb. up.

In the beginning, everyone was so excited that they didn't sleep well for several nights when they brought in the dishes. What's more, Renzong suddenly found Kaifeng Mansion, which almost scared them to the point of spitting out their hearts.

Yun Yanhui suddenly felt that her psychological quality was okay, and muttered: "No wonder people entered the kitchen like this, and there was no one to greet..."

Everyone got up one after another, "Brother Yan, how are you? The official's family has been looking at it for so long, is there something that hasn't been cleaned up?"

"I don't know, I've been kneeling for a long time, and I don't dare to look at it." In such a situation, how could Yun Yanhui dare to tell the truth, and let people know that he is still a brother and a brother to the official family?

"I said, why did the official family suddenly come to Kaifeng Mansion? This is not normal!" Or Yun Yanhui didn't think that this person was Renzong, so he didn't have anything to sit in the palace, and Bao Zheng was not there. In the case of Kaifeng Mansion, not only is it abnormal, it is too abnormal!

Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and after a while, someone stammered out the common voice of everyone: "It's difficult, could it be... something happened to Bao Shaoyin..."