Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 364 Mr. Hai is here again
The puffs were made at one time, and the taste is still familiar, but the overall heat is a little bit too much. After all, the oven was used for baking in the past, and the thing is plugged in. The temperature of the upper and lower heat can be adjusted, and the heat is evenly distributed.

And this is baked in the stove. Although the fire can be adjusted, it is not as precise as the electric control.

But even so, Lu Ke seems to have found the feeling of childhood, not the taste of childhood, but the surprise and joy of eating pastries that he had never eaten when he was a child.

The two ate the puffs one by one, and there was only one puff left, but at this time Lu Ke picked up the last puff curiously.

"The outer layer of skin seems to be made of flour, but this shape...you should have made it with a mold." Lu Ke asked.

"Yes, I made some molds when I was free some time ago." Chen Nian nodded.

"But the stuffing inside is amazing. It can be seen that it is made of milk, but it seems to taste sweeter than milk. You should have put sugar, but how do you make milk become this look?"

This involves the secret of the cream.

However, there is no need to hide his cousin Chen Nian. This can be said to be the closest person in the capital. Although they have only known each other for a few months now, this kind of blood relationship stemming from the setting has become more difficult for Chen Nian after a long time. Just accept it.

So he completely treats Lu Ke as a family.

Then he explained the method of making the cream in such a way.

"It's amazing, I still can't imagine that milk can turn out like this."

Chen Nian smiled: "Actually, it's nothing. The main thing is to beat the air into it through stirring, and then it will become fluffy like it is now."

"What is air?" Lu Ke asked again.

The old man couldn't help being stunned. This question is not very easy to explain. If you want to explain what air is, then you have to explain the various gases contained in the air.

Then I have to talk about why people breathe, but these are probably not enough. After all, what is oxygen?Where did the oxygen come from?There are also various cycles of nature... Even if you don't talk about it in depth, just talking about it in a superficial way will take a lot of time.

At the level of Daxia, this kind of thing is probably hundreds of years earlier.

If no one listens to it, and no one cares, it's fine if it's just a joke, but if someone takes it seriously, they might be arrested.

"Air, I'm not sure about this. It's like blowing air into a sheep's urine bubble. When the air is blown, the sheep's urine bubble will swell, so the same is true for milk. As for the name of air, I just named it casually." Chen Year said so.

After hearing this, Lu Ke did not go any further, because this kind of thing is invisible and intangible, but like the wind, it does exist, so the old age is a little more concrete, and Lu Ke has a general impression in his heart. Will suffice.

Although it is still somewhat specious, Lu Ke has roughly understood the meaning. Anyway, as long as he does this, he will definitely be able to make cream.

"By the way, sister, I'm going to make another tool for whipping cream later, otherwise I might be exhausted from beating it with my hands every day." Chen Nian almost broke his hands just by handling the cream.

However, it is still possible to make this kind of tool for aging, and the principle is similar to making a fire bow for drilling wood to make fire.

And this thing old age just can do it.

After letting his sister eat the last piece of puff, Chen Nian clapped his hands contentedly, and planned to try to make this puff in the next period of time at noon and night.

And this time can be separated from the time of sour plum soup. You can make this semi-automatic egg beater by boiling sour plum soup.

……

It was on this day that Fu Xin went to court. After the court meeting, Fu Xin returned to the Yamen, but just as he sat down to start working, someone came in from outside and said that the prime minister had something to do with him.

Fu Xin got up and went towards the prime minister.

When he arrived, he was ushered into a room. As soon as he entered, he found that besides the prime minister, Prince Jing Li Zhao was also there, and he also knew the reason why these two people came to him.

Because just in the morning, Fu Xin said calmly that he had something important to discuss, and the most recent important thing between them was about the aristocratic family and the nobles.

"Fu Xin met Lord Yang and Prince Jing." Fu Xin saluted.

"You don't need to be too polite, come and sit down." Li Zhao waved his hand in greeting, "You said earlier that you can't do anything, but what is it?"

Fu Xin looked at his teacher, Yang Gongfu, and saw that the teacher was still sitting there calmly. Although he also had a look of inquiry, he didn't speak, apparently waiting for himself to speak first.

"Blurred names. In the past, the names of the imperial examinations were made public. In this way, all the examiners can see the names of the candidates. This is also the advantage of those aristocratic families who follow the rules. There are few officials in the court who fight alone. No matter what There is a bit of selfishness, but if they confuse this name, their advantage will be greatly reduced. In this way, no matter whether they are children from poor families or children from aristocratic families, there is relative fairness in this link, at least not because of birth. Talented people are not reused because of reasons.”

As soon as Fu Xin made this proposal, the eyes of the two of them immediately lit up, especially Yang Gongfu, who showed appreciation: "Yes, this is indeed the best way at present, but if it is done in this way, the resistance may be very strong. It’s big, and it’s best to accompany it with other government orders, anyway, it’s going to offend them, so it’s better to go straight to the end.”

Li Zhao took a deep look at Yang Gongfu. He knew that the Great Xia Prime Minister next to him was also born in a poor family, and his career path was much more difficult than Fu Xin's. But it was approved by the first emperor.

And he can still sit in his current position, and he has seen too many privileges of the great families in Daxia, and this kind of development is undoubtedly very unhealthy, so he wants to break this situation.

It's just that there was no breakthrough before, and finally a Fu Xin who had a similar experience to him came this year. Moreover, after Fu Xin won the first prize in the examination, he did not marry with other aristocratic families at all. Instead, he brought his wife from his hometown. Make him appreciate it more.

"Master Fu's method is wonderful. In this way, those aristocratic families can only smash their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, but they may launch a counterattack in other ways, but it doesn't matter, at least His Majesty is on our side. "Li Zhao said clearly.

Fu Xin came over to make this suggestion, and Yang Gongfu and Li Zhao felt that the plan was feasible, so they chatted for a long time in the room about the future of the imperial examination.

However, the provincial examination in the imperial examination is held every three years, and the general examination is only once every five years. There is still a period of time before the next time. During this period, they still need to issue some decrees to restrict the aristocratic families and those honorable groups.

Chen Nian also said this last night, he should not be too hasty in dealing with the family, unless someone rebelled, otherwise they would naturally have no scruples.

But there is no example for this old age, because there seems to be no Huang Chao in this world, so Fu Xin may not be very clear about the fact that Huang Chao killed those aristocratic families at the beginning, with their heads rolling and blood flowing like rivers.

And for this kind of history, if you can't make it up, you can't make it up well.

So Chen Nian is just pointing to the end, and now Fu Xin is only talking about the current plan, how it needs to be implemented, but it is actually very rare to be able to say this.

Now in Fu Xin's heart, Chen Nian's image has once again been elevated, and at the same time, he feels a little guilty. After all, these plans were not thought up by him. Now that he has received the praise from Prince Jing and the teacher, it shouldn't belong to him, but what? However, for Chen Nian's safety, he couldn't say that these were Chen Nian's suggestions.

However, in the subsequent discussion, Fu Xin still said something that Chen Nian told him yesterday, and the two of them couldn't help but look sideways.

……

The old people don't care much about national affairs, so the reason why they told Fu Xin that they also have a mentality of bragging after drinking, anyway, Fu Xin will not betray himself.

Compared with the battle between the poor family and the secular world in the Great Xia Dynasty, Chen Nian is still more concerned about his sour plum soup.

The previous aging has determined the ingredients, and now the timing needs to be adjusted.

However, after a series of previous attempts, Chen Nian found that the original plan was very suitable in terms of the cooking time alone, and there was not much improvement after modifications and adjustments.

So he also fell into an impasse.

Coincidentally, this afternoon Mr. Hai Mingxian came to buy some snacks again. Because of the humiliation of the previous Qian Nian at the poetry meeting, he originally planned to find two rogues to come over and make trouble. not on him.

But who would have thought that the day the gangsters came, they bumped into the plaque on which Chang'an Ling personally came to present His Majesty's imperial pen for Chen Nian. After such a collision, the two rogues were taken directly to the Chang'an government office, even Without serious interrogation, the two of them recruited everything.

Chang'an Ling knew who was behind the trick, but after all, everyone was an official in the same dynasty. Although the other party's official position was not as high as his own, he didn't have any need to ask for accountability.

Afterwards, the person surnamed Qian didn't dare to trouble Chen Nian anymore, because he also inquired about it later, and found that Chen Nian had an inseparable relationship with Fu Xin, the number one scholar in the imperial examination last year, and Fu Xin was a student of the current prime minister. This relationship was complicated, and in the end he made up his mind that he couldn't afford to mess with it.

Fu Xin was angry and beat himself up because of this incident, but it was in vain, so he could only endure it.

Later, Mr. Hai was looking for friends to have dinner or something, but he never called him again.

However, the reason why Hai Mingxian came to buy dim sum this time is different from before. Before that, he basically ate with friends, but this time his grandfather is going to celebrate his birthday, so he needs some dim sum for the birthday banquet. His Majesty will definitely return it at that time. The emperor gave some people in the palace, but the number may not be enough, so Hai Mingxian took the initiative to recruit this task to himself.

His father is the servant of the Ministry of Rites, and although his grandfather has retired now, he was also the Minister of the Household Department before retiring, but after the rapid retirement, he now has a good reputation outside.

Many people in the court have also been supported by his grandfather.

So when the time comes, the birthday banquet will definitely be held in a big way, and there will be a lot of snacks needed for this big event

"Shopkeeper Lu, I want to buy more dim sum this time. My grandfather is going to celebrate his birthday in half a month. I will have a lot of every dim sum in the shop by then. I don't know if shopkeeper Lu will accept this business." After Hai Mingxian came, he didn't directly say like the domineering president, that the snacks here come to ten catties each, and they will be delivered to my house in half a month.

Because that's too stupid, it's still a matter of whether someone can make it if you want it like this, and if the dim sum is made rough due to rush work, then all the princes and ministers of the court will come.

That embarrassment is the face of the entire Hai family.

After Lu Ke heard that the other party asked for so many snacks, he couldn't help being stunned.

There are dozens of kinds of snacks in Lu Wanxing's snack shop. If each item costs ten catties, it will cost several hundred catties.

But if you really do it, you can make it. Anyway, some snacks can be put, and it won’t make much difference if you make it in the morning and put it in the evening.

Just staggering the time is about the same.

So Lu Ke nodded: "Yes."

Hai Mingxian was overjoyed when he heard that: "In that case, I will hand it over to shopkeeper Lu, but I have to trouble shopkeeper Lu to count, and I will have someone send the deposit over tomorrow."

At this time, Chen Nian, who was on the side, heard that the other party wanted to hold a birthday banquet, and for a while, he also had some thoughts in his heart. Half a month should be enough for him to perfect the craft of puffs, and when the time comes, puffs and thousand fruits will be ready. Cake can definitely become a dazzling existence among them.

Under such circumstances, Haifu's decision to use Lu Wanxing's Dim Sum is also a very good publicity, but it still feels a bit inadequate just like this.

"Mr. Hai, you have been visiting our shop frequently during this time. Now that Mr. Hai is celebrating his birthday, we also want to express our affection at the dim sum shop. I wonder if Mr. Hai will have free time to come over these few days."

Mr. Hai immediately beamed with joy when he heard it, thinking that it seems that his frequent running here a while ago was not in vain!

Sure enough, this old age has recognized himself, and now he is going to give gifts.

Although he didn't think Chen Nian could give any good gifts, at least this move was a very good signal.

When the gift comes, I just need to take it back. Anyway, so many people have given gifts, it doesn't matter if Grandpa sees it or not.

"If you are free, you may be a little busy in the morning these few days, and you will be free after the afternoon."

"Okay." Chen Nian nodded: "Why don't you trouble Mr. Hai to come back tomorrow afternoon and take a look at the gift I want to give Mr. Hai."

Hearing this, Hai Mingxian felt that Chen Nian might be too cautious. Was he worried that the gift he gave would not be enough and he would be rejected?

But what Chen Nian thought was that he wanted to pass Old Master Hai's birthday this time, come up with a heavy gift, and play a very important role in Old Master Hai's birthday banquet.

It is bound to let all the guests who go to the birthday banquet know the name Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop on that day!

(End of this chapter)