The history of the struggle of the God of the Stove

Chapter 13 Weird Smile
Qi Yuan's rejection of the official position really made many ministers look at him with admiration, even King Zhou was a little surprised.

The official positions of the Great Shang Dynasty were all controlled by the nobles. Even if King Zhou wanted to promote low-level talents, he would be opposed by the nobles. Not many of those low-level talents could really go on to official careers.

Now it is rare to have such an opportunity, and Qi Yuan actually refused it himself.

The current social system has three levels: nobles, commoners, and slaves. Whether slaves or commoners, there is an insurmountable gap between them and the nobles.

Now King Zhou opens his mouth and bestows Qi Yuan with an official position. This is a change of identity like a carp jumping over a dragon's gate. The status and status are completely different from before. Redeem it yourself.

With such an opportunity, Qi Yuan turned down?
"Oh, then what reward do you want?"

King Zhou looked at the old man in front of him and asked.

Qi Yuan thought for a while, and said: "The little old man has traveled all over his life, and he has never put fame and fortune in his heart, nor has he thought of becoming an official."

When the ministers were lamenting Qi Yuan's indifference, they heard Qi Yuan change his words: "However, now that I am getting older, I want to pass on what I have learned from this body. And benefit. However, this requires the recognition of the general public, and only when it is recognized can it be widely disseminated and let more people learn."

Qi Yuan, who was shy with an old face, expressed his noble sentiments without blushing. What he did was not for his own benefit, but to benefit more people.

Therefore, even if he will make some small requests in the future, it is not for himself, but for the countless people of our business with a benevolent heart.

"The little old man has nothing else to ask for, but I hope that His Majesty can recognize the little old man's status as the number one stove in the world. If possible, it will be spread to the territories of the princes of other cities and towns, that would be even better."

"In this way, my little old man, when I go to these places to teach cooking skills in the future, no one will question me, and it will also allow me to teach a few more people who will inherit my cooking skills in my lifetime."

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall immediately aroused admiration.

What is the high wind and bright festival?
What is a benevolent person with a benevolent heart?
What does it mean to be dedicated to the public?
This is!
Look at Qi Yuan, at such an old age, he has no selfish intentions, and only wants to benefit the world, so that countless people of great merchants can live a better life. He is indeed worthy of the name of a sage, which is admirable .

"Okay, sir, if you have this heart, I can't help it."

After all, King Zhou is a generation of kings, of course he is willing to see the people under his rule getting better and better, so he fully agrees to Qi Yuan's request.

Besides, Qi Yuan's culinary skills are indeed worthy of being number one in the world.

In this way, amidst the compliments of all civil and military ministers, Qi Yuan completed his palace debut and exited perfectly.

While praising Qi Yuan's character, all the ministers muttered in their hearts that they must send the cooks in their homes to learn from the sages as soon as possible.

Otherwise, after seeing such cooking skills, how can I get used to the food in the past.

Qi Yuan didn't care about the small thoughts in these people's hearts. For him, the more people learn from him, the more people recognize him.

Once he reached the point where his fame spread throughout the world, even if someone wanted to compete with him for the position of Kitchen God in the future, he might not be able to compete with him.

The only thing to be careful is not to die early, because he is not sure whether his soul will float to the list of gods. As for after becoming a god, as long as he doesn't try to die, he really won't die.

However, his current reputation is only spread around Chaoge, and it is still a little unsafe. It is far from being well-known in the world, and he still needs to work hard!
The old guy, who couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, returned to his residence triumphantly, continued to teach his disciples about life, and then teased Jiang Ziya when he was free, which made Qi Yuan feel a little proud.

If it weren't for the need to pretend to be an old-fashioned and prudent sage, he would have almost been unable to help revealing his humble nature.

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Autumn is getting stronger, the sun is shining warmly on people, and the feeling of summer heat is no longer there.

When Qi Yuan was teasing Jiang Ziya for frying a fish into charcoal, there was a commotion outside.

Looking up, he happened to see Huang Feihu jumping off his five-color bull and walking in with several generals.

"Haha, sir, it's still so lively here."

Far away, Huang Feihu laughed and greeted Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan greeted him with a smile: "King Wu Cheng isn't busy with military affairs, why would he have time to come to me?"

Huang Feihu shook his head and said, "Military affairs can't be dealt with every day. You have to find some time to relax. No, I went out to hunt in the city today, and the harvest is good. Thinking of the shortage of food here, sir, I will send some to him."

"I think it's true that you want me to cook for you."

Qi Yuan laughed and teased him.

"Hehe, you can't hide anything from Mister."

Huang Feihu admitted without the slightest embarrassment: "Although the cooks in my house have improved a lot in cooking after being taught by Mr., they are still far inferior to Mr., so I just have time today, so I came to Mr.'s place to have a meal."

"Hahaha……"

The two smiled at each other.

"Bring up everything and show it to Mr."

Huang Feihu gave orders, and the guards at the rear moved the prey they had caught into the yard one after another, including pheasants, hares, yellow sheep, sika deer, wild boars, wild oxen, and even two huge rhinos, which were captured by two extremely powerful animals. The family brought everyone in one by one, and Qi Yuan straightened his eyes with envy because of this power.

"The harvest is not small!"

Qi Yuan looked envious.

He also wanted to go hunting, but it was a pity that he could not ride a horse or draw a bow. Huang Feihu invited him once when he was out hunting in the city, but in the end he could only look at other people's prestige in embarrassment. Since then, Qi Yuan There was no mention of hunting again.

Qi Yuan, who was looking back and forth at the many prey, suddenly saw a wild ass in the middle of the prey.

"That's it."

Qi Yuan pointed to the wild donkey, and ordered a few disciples to skin and devein the donkey, and later do it himself to entertain Huang Feihu.

There was a saying in later generations that dragon meat is in the sky and donkey meat on the ground, in order to praise the deliciousness of donkey meat.

In fact, Qi Yuan has never made donkey meat before, but he has eaten it a few times. Because he was attracted by its unique taste, he once learned how to make donkey meat on the Internet.

It is not easy to remove the smell of fresh donkey meat, so Qi Yuan first cut a few large pieces of donkey meat, mixed with several kinds of medicinal materials, ginger, star anise, and fragrant leaves, added broth and simmered slowly, and took another piece of donkey rib meat He started chopping the stuffing, and he planned to make a few baskets of steamed dumplings.

I saw two kitchen knives flying up and down in Qi Yuan's hand, and there was a very rhythmic sound of horseshoes, which was pleasing to the eye. Then he took a few bamboo shoots and chopped them up, adding onion, ginger, garlic, oil, salt and other seasonings. Stir well, take the awakened dough, roll out the skin and make dumplings.

As the steamed dumplings gradually emitted a strong aroma, the donkey meat in the pot was already cooked. After taking it out, mobilized the mana in the body, stretched out a finger, and a chill gushed out, freezing a piece of donkey meat.

This is commonly known as over-icing, which can make the meat firmer and more elastic through thermal expansion and contraction. This is used to make white-cut donkey meat. After cutting it and putting it on a plate, serve it to Huang Feihu first.

Huang Feihu looked over with a smile, and saw that the donkey meat slices were plump, with half the skin and eight parts of the meat, and a slice was dipped in the sauce specially prepared by Qi Yuan, which was full of deliciousness.

Qi Yuan cut another piece of donkey meat, heated the oil in a copper pot, put in shallots, garlic, shredded ginger, and spicy Polygonum, sautéed it until fragrant, then added the donkey meat and stir-fried, poured the meat sauce he had prepared, Garnish with a little cilantro and it's done.

Then with a weird smile, he took out something that had been cooking until now from another pot, and cast a playful glance at Huang Feihu.

(End of this chapter)