Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 1826 Sea Chart 1.0
Jin Miaomiao ordered the dining room to prepare Xijing cuisine for dinner in advance. Qin Zheng was fine, and he didn’t stay in Xijing City for a long time. He didn’t have any special preference for Xijing cuisine. Although the taste of Jiangnan was similar to that of Xijing City, there were still some. There is a certain difference.

But Jiang Erye and Yan Bo were born and raised in Xijing City. Although they had to leave Xijing City and stay away from their hometown for various reasons after they grew up, they still miss Xijing City very much. If you can eat authentic Xijing cuisine in a foreign country, it can really relieve the pain of homesickness.

As soon as Second Master Jiang and Yan Bo entered the door of the warming room, they smelled the familiar fragrance floating in the warming room, and couldn't help sighing. Although Jin Miaomiao had told them before that there would be a surprise for dinner, they didn't expect , It turned out to be this surprise.

"Lion head, three sets of duck, crystal meat, squirrel mandarin fish, Wensi tofu?"

The two old men glanced at each other, and quickly took two steps. Second Master Jiang looked at the dishes that had been placed on his seat, couldn't help sighing, turned around to look at the children, and slightly raised his eyebrows .

"It looks pretty good!" Second Master Jiang took a deep breath, "It smells like the same thing, well done!"

"Hey, this credit is not ours. Second Grandpa should praise Miao Miao if he wants to. She has a delicate mind and thinks that she should prepare Xijing dishes. She can think of these things, but we can't think of them."

"You are so busy every day. I have been watching coldly in the mansion for the past few days, and I haven't seen you have a complete rest."

"I'm not happy with what the second master said!" Jin Miaomiao put her hips on her hips, pretending to be angry, and looked at the second master Jiang, "I'm also very busy, am I? Actually, I can't think of it." , Lord Duke, Master Hou, they couldn't think of it, because this is my duty."

"What Miao Miao said really made me feel guilty!"

With a smile, Xue Ruitian pushed Hongye to her own position, carried her off the wheelchair, and put her on the low chair, paying attention to her feet while putting her down. After putting her away, she carefully looked at Hongye ankle.

"It's not up to the ankle, is it? Does it hurt? Do you need to change your position?"

"No need." Hongye shook her head lightly, and looked at Xue Ruitian with a smile, "I'm fine, go and sit down!"

Xue Ruitian reconfirmed that there was really no problem with Hongye's feet, so she stood up, went to her seat and sat down.

Seeing that Xue Ruitian was seated, Hongye turned her attention to her small table, looked at the simple and clean three-course material and a bowl of porridge on her own table, and looked at the three dishes on other people's tables. Set of ducks and squirrel mandarin fish, couldn't help frowning.

"Although I can't eat fish and Wensi tofu, the seafood inside is not very good for the wound, but lion head and duck should not hinder my recovery?" She looked at Jin Miaomiao, "Why do I only have Qing Dynasty? Porridge and side dishes?"

"Don't you have to take medicine now? You have to stop being greasy. There is fat in the lion's head, and there are things you can't eat in the duck. Naturally, I won't give it to you." Jin Miaomiao raised her eyebrows slightly, and looked at her Smiling, "Eat plain at night, it's good for your wound, see how your wound recovers during the day tomorrow, let's talk about whether we should give you something to mend?"

"No, it's fine if you don't have anything else, why don't you even have bone soup?" Hongye looked at Jin Miaomiao's own dishes beside him aggrievedly, "Didn't you say that drinking bone soup is good for leg injuries?"

"You have to listen to the doctor, you know? I can judge what to eat and when to eat, okay?" Jin Miaomiao sat next to her and patted her on the head, "It's delicious, it's delicious Get some sleep, take care of your wounds, and if the swelling subsides tomorrow, you can eat something good."

Hongye saw Jin Miaomiao's smiling face, and saw everyone smiling at her. Although she really wanted to eat meat, but considering that her ankle really hurt, she couldn't make her injury worse because of her greedy mouth.The main reason is that everyone is very busy now. If her injury gets worse, not only will it not help everyone, but it will also drag them down.

"Okay, then I'll listen to you!"

"good!"

Jiang Erye, Yan Bo and Qin Zheng sat across from this group of children, watching their performance, they smiled helplessly.

"Okay, stop making trouble!" Qin Zheng knocked on the table, saw Second Master Jiang picked up the chopsticks first, picked up the chopsticks himself, raised his chin towards the opposite side, and said, "Let's eat!"

The children nodded, seeing the elders moving their chopsticks, they also picked up the chopsticks and began to eat.

Jiang Erye and Yan Bo tasted every dish on the table, and looked at each other with very satisfied smiles on their faces.

"How is it? The taste is not bad?" Xue Ruitian dug a piece of lion's head with a spoon and put it in his mouth, looked at Jiang Erye and Yan Bo, "Although it is not as good as the imperial chef in the palace, it is much better than those restaurants on the street. ,Yes or no?"

"Of course." Yan Bo, who has been hanging out on the street all year round, nodded, "Don't talk about the authenticity, let's just say that this ingredient is much better than those restaurants in Xijing City, and many restaurants don't have this taste. He looked at Jin Miaomiao, "I have a heart."

"It's fine if you like it." Jin Miaomiao smiled, "Master Liu in our Duke's mansion used to be a chef in the largest time-honored restaurant in Xijing City, Zhaixingju, for three years, and he is good at cooking Xijing dishes. Yes, sometimes, there will be a table in the palace."

"Zhaixingju?" Jiang Erye nodded, "Then I know, the dishes in that restaurant are really good, and the chef's skills are also very good, not worse than the imperial chef's. It's mainly the dishes of the imperial dining room, every day It’s all the same taste, nothing new, but Zhaixingju is different. There are some new dishes every month, and almost none of them are bad. Therefore, the women in the harem sometimes want to change the taste , go to Zhaixingju and ask a table to enter the palace."

"So it is."

Shen Cha was not very interested in the lion's head. After eating half of it, she handed the rest to Shen Haolin. She picked out a few pieces of duck and gnawed it slowly. She looked across at Yan Bo who was eating very happily. He and Second Master Jiang slightly raised their eyebrows and smiled at Shen Haolin. Miao Miao did a very good job with this matter. Although Xijing cuisine is a bit labor-intensive, it should be eaten once or twice once in a while. There is no problem.

While eating, Xue Ruitian looked at the expressions of the people in the warming room, exchanged glances with Shen Haolin and Shen Cha who were doing the same thing, and shook his head helplessly when he saw those two people winking at him.

"Uncle Yan!" Xue Ruitian picked up a duck leg from his small basin and gnawed it slowly. He looked at Uncle Yan and said, "Does our family have the same thing as the golden relic just mentioned?" ?”

"The same thing as the golden relic?" Yan Bo thought for a while, "No! This thing is not something that anyone can have. There are not many left by the old money ghosts. You can see this golden relic It’s already not easy.”

"But Hongye said just now that we seem to have seen something similar when we were young."

"Have you ever seen something similar?" Yan Bo looked at Hongye, "What is it?"

"I don't remember." Hongye shook her head, drank two mouthfuls of porridge, and said, "I vaguely remember this happening, but I can't remember clearly."

Xue Ruitian bit off another piece of meat, nodded agreeingly, and said, "Later, I recalled it carefully. Although we have no impression of seeing this thing, we have smelled something similar."

"When you were young?" Yan Bo thought for a while, then looked at Qin Zheng, who shook his head at him, and he himself thought for a long time, "How young?"

"Seven or eight years old!" Hongye put down the bowl in her hand and looked at Yan Bo hopefully, "It's about this time, do you have any impression?"

"When you were seven or eight years old, did you smell something similar to this?"

"Yes, this smell is very familiar."

Yan Bo thought for a while, and put the lion's head aside after eating, "Well, let me think about it!"

He looked at the ducks in his small bowl, picked out all the ducks with bones and put them in Qin Zheng's small bowl, picked up another piece of ham, and gnawed it in small bites. When the piece of ham was finished, he gently Putting down his chopsticks, he nodded towards the children on the opposite side.

"Did you really see it?"

"Well, I have seen it, but it should be regarded as passing by, so you feel that you have an impression, but you don't know what it is." Yan Bo nodded, "But that thing is not for you, it is for Huilan. "

"My master?" Jin Miaomiao looked up at Yan Bo, "Who gave it to my master?"

"Qian Gui." Yan Bo slightly raised his eyebrows, "He has a piece of gold that he wants to hand over to Huilan for safekeeping, but I just took a look at what it was, and didn't take it to heart. After all, it wasn't for us. Not too impressed."

"Where did that thing go? It's not even in the things my master left behind!"

"It was only stored for a while, and later your master sent it to where as agreed, then I don't know."

"My master has a good relationship with this old man?" Jin Miaomiao blinked, "But I have never heard the master talk about this friend, nor have I seen any records about this friend in the handbook."

"Should be friends, that is, a gentleman's acquaintance? Let's put it this way, Qian Gui is quite old. We don't know exactly how old he is. Anyway, this person is mysterious and sometimes He likes to sit there alone and talk to himself, and seeing him suddenly is quite scary." Yan Bo thought for a while, poked Second Master Jiang, and said, "Tell them, I I didn't talk to that guy for a while, and I didn't like each other, and I didn't know that he was so old, but he wanted to embarrass the juniors."

"He's not embarrassing you, but he thinks that you are very talented and discerning in this area. It's a pity that you refuse to learn from him. But he doesn't know what to tell you, so he always stabs you with words. "Qin Zheng smiled, "Of course, I found out later that you are really not interested in this, so I don't care about you, right?"

"That's true." Yan Bo nodded, scooped up a spoonful of Wensi tofu, and raised his chin at Second Master Jiang, "You should say it!"

"Okay, you can eat. I'm done. Let's chat with the children." Second Master Jiang nodded, put the half of the dishes he didn't touch on Qin Zheng and Yan Bo's table, took some fruit, and ate He said, "Actually, counting age and seniority, he should be our elder."

"That is, isn't it more than 100 years old?"

"It can't be seen from the face, body, and other aspects. I heard Huilan said that although this old man is obsessed with gold, he is also a top master with great kung fu, so it is hard to tell. His exact age."

"Good kung fu and good looks are two different things, right?"

"Then I don't know." Second Master Jiang shook his head, "I don't really understand these things. Huilan likes this kind of thing, but I'm not interested."

"Then what kind of person is this old man?" Jin Miaomiao looked at Second Master Jiang very curiously, "My master really likes to make friends with such strange people, and he finds it very interesting."

"Indeed." Second Master Jiang thought for a while and said, "The feeling this old senior gives me is that he is wholeheartedly devoted to the things he likes. Look at that golden relic, it's so big, Forging about [-] to [-] catties of gold, this is definitely not what he wants to strike, it must be ordered by someone, but why it is in the hands of Ning, then no one knows. As for this The character of this old senior is not very kind, just like what Xiaoyan said just now, he is nagging, it looks like this..." Second Master Jiang pointed to his head, "It seems that there is a problem , He doesn't like to deal with people, and he doesn't know how to deal with people. If he didn't have a very talented apprentice, he might have starved to death long ago, and he wouldn't be able to live that long at all."

"This is someone who is really capable." Shen Cha sighed, "This old money ghost should be obsessed with making goldware. In the eyes of people like them, only they like and are obsessed with making goldware." These things, other things are not important, and people are even more unimportant.”

"Yes, but you have to be bought by someone after you build it, right? You also have to ensure that you can live on, right?" Second Master Jiang shook his head helplessly, "However, he doesn't care about making money through craftsmanship. It is very acceptable, Whelan said, at least he is a person who has lived for more than 100 years, has experienced the years of war, and knows the importance of surviving, so he will not be so hard to think about it."

"Yes, what Master said is correct." Shen Cha nodded, "And then?"

"That's all I know." Second Master Jiang smiled, "This is Huilan's friend. We don't have frequent contacts. We have met and chatted a few times. Judging from the whole process and content of the chat, He also has something to say, he is a person with a brain, but usually he doesn't like to move, and all his energy is devoted to making gold objects."

"Then his style is very unique? Seeing the one just now, it seems a bit more like the Western Regions."

"Because he lived there in his early years, and he should have learned his craft from there." Second Master Jiang thought for a while, "Including the smell you smell, it is also a special kind of smell used to maintain the luster of gold wares in the Western Regions." Spices, but I don’t know what it is, our friendship is not good enough to inquire about such things with others.”

(End of this chapter)