Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 839 Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger

After Chen Nian narrated his experience, Song Qingzhou thought for a while: "Yangzhou? A tofu seller?"

"Then do you know the Minister of Honglu Temple?"

"Yes, he stayed at my house during the time I was in Yangzhou."

Hearing this, Song Qingzhou was shocked.

After Fu Xin was admitted to the number one scholar that year, his deeds were widely circulated.

It's just that at that time he didn't directly say Chen Nian's name, he just said that he lived in the home of a good friend who was both a teacher and a friend. Although the other party knew people well, he was indifferent to fame and wealth and was willing to wander in the world.

Unexpectedly, Master Fu Xin's best friend is actually Chen Nian!

"That means you and Master Fu..."

"friend."

"Then the shop opened by your cousin is called Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop?"

Chen Nian nodded: "Exactly."

Song Qingzhou suddenly became a little uneasy. He thought it was just a newcomer with some skills, but he didn't expect the other party to be so powerful!
Isn't this a hundred times better than the newcomer whose ancestors have been royal chefs for three generations?
Sure enough, this palace is really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden.

The so-called teacher for one day and father for life, the relationship between Chen Nian and Fu Xin will never be as simple as the friend Chen Nian said.

If it weren't for this, Fu Xin wouldn't be talking about it everywhere.

In addition, Chen Nian's cousin is the hostess of Lu Wanxing Dim Sum Shop, whose dim sum is famous in the capital, and she seems to have a marriage contract with the son of the Minister of the Household Department, and it is estimated that they will get married within a year or two.

Although the Hubu Shangshu is also a fourth-rank official now, his grade is real. He is an official of the imperial court who holds real power, and the Hubu Shangshu controls the money of the world.

And compared with others, he can only be regarded as a parallel importer.

He never expected that Chen Nian's background would be so big.

After thinking about it carefully, it was fortunate that Chen Nian was not beaten or scolded before, if he turned around and filed a complaint if he was not happy, then his life would probably be difficult in the future.

Chen Nian is a relative of a high official in the imperial court, a close friend of the prime minister's apprentice, and he is a servant of the Tan family, so it is clear at a glance who is more important.

These relationships were also intentionally mentioned by Chen Nian, after all, having a background is always easier than not having one.

But the attitudes of the people around him are different. Chen Nian doesn't need their vigorous love for him, as long as he doesn't wear small shoes.

It's just that Chen Nian plans to let go of the matter of apprenticeship. If Song Qingzhou appreciates him at noon, then the other party should be a little jealous now, so he has to sharpen the other party's emotions.

One is to let the other party know that I am not here to replace the other party's position, nor to show off my power, and secondly, I have to let the other party and myself really trust each other.

This kind of trust is the element that can further intensify the qualitative change in the emotional relationship.

After that, they went back to rest first, but the rest time was only about an hour.

Afterwards, they had to come back to prepare dinner for each palace.

But just when they were just starting to prepare the ingredients, Wang Jin suddenly came to inform them that His Majesty had the latest news.

Later today, he was going to discuss state affairs with several court officials. It would be later in the evening, and it would be late, so naturally he had to prepare something for the ministers to eat.

"That's why we add three extra cases of Braised Shark's Fin to Wan Shan today."

Song Qingzhou naturally said he knew.

Then he began to get people to prepare, and at the same time he was also preparing some things by himself.

As the name suggests, this dish is mainly made of shark's fin, and it is braised in yellow.

But Chen Nian knows that this method is definitely not as simple as braised chicken.

But since he has been kept by Song Qingzhou's side, there must be some major work to do.

According to Song Qingzhou's request, take out the yellow shark's fin, duck, old hen, scallops, ham and other ingredients and prepare them aside, and then start cleaning them one by one.

Song Qingzhou looked at Chen Nian's nimble hands and feet, carefully inspected every ingredient that had been processed by the old age, and found that all the fascia, blood, and bones that should be removed had been completely removed by the old age.

"Hey, just such a young man, not to mention his background, even if he has no background, he is still welcome." Song Qingzhou said with a sigh.

Sure enough, everyone's success is not accidental. To be friends with excellent people, you have to be excellent people.

When cooking at noon, Song Qingzhou still avoided aging in some steps, but at this time he felt that there was no need to avoid aging.

With his background, let alone himself, it is not impossible for Chen Nian to arrange a master who can be his senior.

In that case, what use is there for me?

So he planned to let Chen Nian participate in the whole process.

"Chen Nian, please check again, whether all the hard tendons on the side of the cut open scallops have been removed, and the sand outside has been removed. If there are no problems, use some water baskets to steam them, and then take them off halfway."

"Okay, Master Song."

After hearing this, Chen Nian went to check all the scallops again, and after finding that they were all processed, he began to add water and steam them in cages according to Song Qingzhou's request.

At this time, Song Qingzhou also began to prepare other ingredients. First, he cut a part of the ham into fine pieces, and then cut the remaining part of the ham into thin slices.

Then put the soaked water-haired shark's fin into the pot together with the grate, and then put the aged chicken and duck on the other grate and press it on top of the shark's fin.

Then put some scallions and ginger slices on the chicken and duck to remove the bloody smell.

Immediately afterwards, Song Qingzhou asked people to start a fire. After boiling the water in the pot with high heat and steaming for a while, he took out the ingredients inside, and removed the excess water to remove the shallots and ginger.

This time it is only a preliminary treatment of the ingredients. After washing the pot, pour boiling water again, and then add sliced ​​ham, steamed scallops, and chopped chicken and duck that have been preliminarily processed before.

Chen Nian kept handing the ingredients to Song Qingzhou, and the other party's movements were not particularly fast, so even if Chen Nian didn't want to remember, he couldn't do it.

Although Chen Nian felt that it was not good to blatantly steal a teacher, Naihe's eyes directly recorded the steps and stored them in his mind.

You can't work with your eyes closed, can you?
It's just that he didn't have much reaction when he saw Song Qingzhou in the end, so he didn't say anything, and the two cooperated tacitly.

The boiling water boiled, and the ingredients in the pot kept foaming out of blood. Song Qingzhou was too lazy to do the work of skimming the blood foam here, so he directly gave the spoon to Chen Nian and asked Chen Nian to do it.

After about a quarter of an hour, no new blood froth came out of the meat, and at this time the soup began to become a little thicker, but it still looked very clear.

At this time, Song Qingzhou asked the chef to switch to a low fire, then put the grate with the shark's fin on top of the pot again, and started to simmer slowly over a low fire.

Then he looked at the assistant chef: "Just keep simmering on a low fire for two hours, keep your eyes open, and if there is not enough firewood in it, add more firewood, so that the fire can neither be too big nor extinguished." ,do you know?"

"Understood, Master Song." The assistant chef said with some fear.

Then Song Qingzhou looked at Chen Nian again, with a smile on his face: "Chen Nian, don't worry about it here, come with me to do other things."

(End of this chapter)