Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 354
Hearing that the other party was willing to wait, Chen Nian understood in his heart that it seemed that the other party really liked to eat, just like he used to go out to eat, if it wasn't what he liked, he wouldn't even be willing to wait for a second.

But if you go out and meet a restaurant that you are interested in and want to eat, you are willing to wait for two hours even if there are more people.

Chen Nian was making pastries in the back, while Li Zhao was sitting on the side waiting boredly.

Watching Chen Nian with great interest adding various materials to the basin, and Chen Nian chatting with each other from time to time.

"By the way, what's the name of this pastry?" Li Zhao asked suddenly.

"Name? This pastry is derived from the previous mincemeat, so I call it New Mincemeat." Chen Nian said.

"New Mincemeat Cake? The name sounds a bit random..." Li Zhao frowned. He felt that such a delicious fruit should have its own name. It is derived from other pastries.

"Then why don't you help me get one?" Chen Nian stopped his hands and looked at Li Zhao and said.

"I want one...how about calling it Qianguo Cake?" Li Zhao thought for a while and asked slightly.

The old age almost sprayed out, isn't this just a layer closer to the basis of mincemeat?

Seeing Li Zhao agreeing just now, I thought the other party could come up with a good name, but after thinking about it for a while, I came up with such a name. It seems that ancient people didn't just come up with the kind of crazy things. Good name.

"Okay, then it's called Qianguo Cake." Chen Nian nodded, anyway, there is basically no difference between the two names Xinbaiguo Cake and Qianguo Cake.

"It's really called this?"

"There can still be fakes. From now on, this kind of pastry will be called Qianguo Cake."

Speaking of aging, mix the fruit juice with glutinous rice flour and a little japonica rice flour, and mix them until evenly. The whole process is smooth and smooth, and it looks like a master chef.

That's why Li Zhao could sit there and watch with interest, otherwise, if the process was boring, he would have left long ago.

But just when the pastry was put into the pot and started to steam.

"Shopkeeper Lu, how is the pastry doing? I've already found someone, about this afternoon..." A voice suddenly came from outside the shop, it was Mr. Hai.

But before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Li Zhao who was sitting in the store with sharp eyes, and he was about to kneel on the ground on the spot. Others don't know Prince Jing, but he does. Although he has no official position now, He had never been in the palace either, but he had met Li Zhao with his father before. Although there was not much age difference between them, their identities were very different.

But Li Zhao didn't want to reveal his identity, so he quickly stopped him with his eyes.

In addition, Li Zhao changed a guard today, this guard is smarter, and he happened to know Hai Mingxian.

At the same time, he also knew that Prince Jing probably didn't know this guy, so he quickly said, "Master Hai, my master and I are waiting to buy some snacks."

Seeing this, Hai Mingxian suddenly realized, and immediately realized that Lu Ke and Chen Nian in this store might not know the identity of Prince Jing, so he quickly echoed: "Oh, that's right, I'm also here to make a decision. I ordered some pastries, and I want to ask shopkeeper Lu to help deliver them to the house in the afternoon, and I came here this time to let you know the time."

It was obvious that he said it boldly. You must know that he would kneel down when he met Li Zhao.

Chen Nian saw that they chatted first, so he asked curiously: "Do you know each other?"

"I've seen it a few times, so I know it." Li Zhao nodded, and when the guard beside him mentioned Mr. Hai, he also remembered that this person might be the son of Mr. Hai, the servant of the Ministry of Rites.

At this moment, Hai Mingxian felt strange when he saw that Li Zhao still spoke to Chen Nian first, instead of talking to himself first, so he was a little curious about the relationship between the two.

But he opened his mouth and didn't know how to ask.

Later, it was Li Zhao who saw the doubt in his heart, so he explained with a smile: "Brother Chen and I didn't know each other at first, but I went to Fu Xin Fu Zhuangyuan's mansion last night to chat with him, but I saw a kind of Dim sum, I later learned that Brother Chen is Fu Xin's friend, so I came over to buy some dim sum, but Brother Chen is really a nice person, and now we are also friends."

Chen Nian didn't feel anything when he heard this, but Hai Mingxian was even more shocked after hearing this!
Lu Ke's cousin is a friend of the new champion Lang Fu Xin?

And now because of Fu Xin's matchmaking, Chen Nian and King Jing are also friends now?
Didn't he just come to the capital?

Originally, he wanted to fall in love with Chen Nian, and then find a way to get close to Lu Ke, but now that he thinks about it again, the difficulty is astonishingly difficult!

"So that's it. It seems that Brother Chen is also a person who is easy to make friends." Hai Mingxian really wanted to say in his heart that when you play and make friends here, call me too, okay?But think about his old friends, one is Prince Jing and the other is Zhuangyuan Lang. Compared with them, he is nothing at all.

Not worthy!

So much so that he didn't dare to ask Chen Nian to bring him snacks, and directly said that the servants of the house would come and get them.

But Chen Nian kept waving his hands: "No need, I'll just make a trip when the time comes. Didn't I agree earlier?"

But Mr. Hai dared to let Chen Nian make such a trip in front of Li Zhao at this moment, even though Chen Nian was still just a commoner, but just now Li Zhao, Prince Jing, can say that they are friends.

"No, no, no." Mr. Hai waved his hand quickly, "The servants in my house have nothing to do all day long, so I just let them run a little longer."

But Chen Nian still felt that he should make such a trip today. Mr. Hai said that he wanted to entertain his friends to recite poems together, which meant that there would be many more Mr. Gongzi.

What are these people?
That's all white money!
Young masters in this age group are either studying all day, preparing to obtain fame and successors in the family, or they have no possibility of being admitted to fame, and have fun all day long relying on the meager skills they have learned and following others. The same half-baked friends sat together to hold poetry recitation conferences and the like.

Although even if he doesn't go, Hai Mingxian will definitely promote it, but if he goes by himself, Hai Mingxian will definitely promote it more beautifully, and for those young masters, it is still better to be able to see real people and just say it from Mr. Hai's mouth. There will be a certain gap.

This is a kind of psychological effect, and it may seem too ethereal to just say it from Mr. Hai's mouth, but if they appear by themselves, they will combine their impressions with the pastries in the pastry shop.

"Then how can it be done? Mr. Hai said yesterday that I was going to give it to you. I just went to find out the door. Maybe I will often go to Mr. Hai's side in the future." Chen Nian said. A double entendre.

Hai Mingxian was hooked immediately after hearing this.

"That's it...well, I'll trouble Brother Chen to make a trip this afternoon."

When the other party agreed, Chen Nian smiled.

That's right.

Then Mr. Hai turned around and left.

Chen Nian was helping his sister sell snacks and packing while chatting with Li Zhao. He never asked Li Zhao's name or what Li Zhao's family did during the whole process.

So Li Zhao chatted with him naturally without any psychological burden.

And most of the content he chatted with Chen Nian was about delicacies from various places, as well as some interesting things in Yangzhou area.

"Let me tell you, the current pots are almost meaningless to me. If you want to really cook delicious food, you have to use an iron pot, pour the oil into it, and then put the meat in and fry until it changes color. , then put in soy sauce and other seasonings, and finally put the vegetables to be stir-fried inside, just stir-fry it like this, the taste will be as good as it is!" Chen Nian said with a little dissatisfaction.

Because the iron in this era is still in the hands of the imperial court, and it is basically used for military use. Even if some of them are lost to the people, most people will use them to make farm tools such as hoes, because they are all guys who eat, and they are very expensive. Few people use it to make pots.

"Brother Chen wants an iron pot?" Li Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up. He was worried about what to give Chen Nian as a reward, and he felt that it was impossible to give money directly because of Chen Nian's personality.

And it is impossible for Li Zhao to push and pull with Chen Nian.

But now, according to Chen Nian, since he wants an iron pot, wouldn't it be easy?
He went back to the palace and asked the craftsman to take a bite of this thing, it didn't take long.

"Yes, with an iron pot, you can cook more food, at least much more than what you can cook now." Chen Nian said.

But Li Zhao heard another meaning from these words, but he was not sure, so he didn't say it.

After a while, the thousand fruit cake was ready, and Chen Nian took it out of the pot, then put it for a while, waited for it to cool down, then cut it with a knife, and finally packed a few portions skillfully.

"Brother, this pot is quite a lot, I will keep one, how much do you want for the rest?"

"Naturally, you want as much as you have." Li Zhao said, first of all, he must give a copy to Huang Jie when he goes back, and it is best to keep one or two copies for himself. Courtiers with better relations.

"Okay then, I'll leave the rest to you."

"Thank you, Brother Chen, how much are these?" Li Zhao asked his followers to come up and pay the money.

"No money." Chen Nian shook his head.

"How can I do that? I didn't pay you yesterday. If you don't pay me today, what will it look like?"

"My Thousand Fruit Cake has not been officially sold yet, so there is no price. If you give me too much, brother, I will be ashamed. I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at night. If you give me less, I might as well not give it. Anyway. Now it's a trial stage, you help me taste these pastries, and if you feel that there is something that can be improved, you can also bring it up, so it's very reasonable?"

"It seems to be true." Li Zhao nodded, feeling that what Chen Nian said made sense, but this was the first time he had heard of it during the tasting stage.

Then he asked his followers to put away the pastries that Chen Nian had packed for him, and after thanking him, he went back to the palace.

It was almost noon when he left the Chen Nian dim sum shop, and with the distance he traveled from Fuchunfang to the palace, it was almost time for dinner after returning to the palace.

Let the entourage carry two thousand fruit cakes back to his house, while he himself took the rest and headed towards the imperial study, because he had already asked, although it was already meal time, but His Majesty now He is discussing with several military ministers, so he is still in the study.

When Li Zhao heard that this was not a good idea, it happened that everyone had a taste together.

When he arrived, he found that the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Punishment, the Minister of Hubu and the prime minister were all sitting here.

Since Li Zhao was not an outsider, they didn't shut up after they came in. These people were discussing the current criminal law reform.

Li Xu's loss of appetite was due to this reason, if he didn't eat when it was time to eat, as time passed, he became more and more unable to eat.

But when Li Zhao came in with snacks, she immediately called Li Zhao to bring the snacks.

Then, with a bit of heartache, Li Zhao asked Li Zhao to distribute the snacks to those ministers, letting them have a taste too.

After all, she really didn't want to share these in her heart. She was eating these cakes last night while reviewing the memorial, and picked up a piece from time to time to eat, but she found that the cakes were all eaten by her It's over.

There is still an unfinished feeling in the mouth.

Although Li Xu was not very hungry at first, those ministers were indeed hungry. When they heard that Li Xu asked Prince Jing to distribute the cakes to them, they were quite happy. I can cushion my stomach.

But soon they regretted it, and they couldn't wait to try the pastry that Li Xu admired so much, but the amount of the pastry really couldn't fill their stomachs, and they felt even hungrier after eating one by one.

But I have to admit that this thousand fruit cake is very delicious and extremely appetizing.

So they all curiously asked Li Zhao where he bought it, but Li Zhao said proudly that he didn't buy it, it was a gift from his friend who opened a pastry shop, and then said that The location of the store.

But when Li Xu heard that his younger brother was taking other people's things for nothing...

"Why didn't you pay me?"

"I gave it, but he didn't want it anyway. He also said that he hasn't officially sold this kind of pastry, and he couldn't buy it today, but he made me a separate copy for trying, so I was able to get it back."

"But even if he said he didn't want money, I've already thought about what to give him as compensation. Today he said he wanted an iron pot, so I plan to get someone to cast an iron pot and give it to him later."

As a result, the Minister of the Household Department heard this: "Isn't that a scapegoat? This is not very auspicious, Prince Jing."

When Li Zhao heard this, he couldn't help glaring.

He didn't mean anything like that, but at this moment, he thought again, it seemed that this thing was indeed unlucky, but what should I give it as a gift?
Thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that when he was in the store just now, Chen Nian seemed to have said that they wanted to make a signboard recently, but they couldn't find the right person to help with the words...

(End of this chapter)