Nongmen fierce girl head chef

Chapter 1147 Important Gossip

It's just a pity that "being coerced into cooking" in his eyes is not the case at all, Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng didn't take his words to heart at all.

Xia Zheng smiled, held Lin Yuan's hand lovingly, raised his head and said to the old emperor, "Isn't it just cooking? Isn't that just a matter of one sentence? Besides, Yuan'er always talked to me before. Saying that you want to thank His Majesty for your kindness, no, just take this opportunity to let Yuan'er cook your Majesty's favorite delicacies, and it is right to regard her as a filial piety."

Cough, cough, cough!
Zhao Hongsheng will never forget the way Xia Zheng looked at him today, as if looking at an idiot.

And he was really an idiot, trying his best to get Lin Yuan to do the cooking and then be left in the palace by the emperor, so that he could find an opportunity to frame Lin Yuan and the general's mansion.

Well now, they didn't treat him as a dish at all!
It's really self-defeating, self-defeating!

Yao Hanyan and Tang Ruyan, who were sitting on the other side, saw the frustration on Zhao Hongsheng's face one by one, but the expressions on their faces were completely different.

Tang Ruyan was burning with anxiety, but Yao Hanyan looked away contemptuously, looking down on the second prince who had to marry in the future.

Ha ha ha ha.

The old emperor's hearty laughter echoed throughout the hall. It seemed that he liked Xia Zheng's words and Lin Yuan's filial piety very much.

"Okay, okay, as expected of my dear Princess Pingxi, a good boy, a good boy!"

Saying that, the old emperor still didn't forget to turn his head to look at Concubine Shu, and praised: "Your eyesight is always very good, this adopted daughter is well received, not bad!"

Lin Yuan was Concubine Shu's adoptive daughter and the third prince's adopted sister. Everyone knew this, but it was the first time that the old emperor praised a concubine's adoptive daughter in front of so many people.

Many officials and female relatives present here have begun to have big calculations in their hearts again.

Concubine Shu thanked Lin Yuan with a smile. The more she watched, the more she liked Lin Yuan.

After being praised by the old emperor in public, some people will naturally find it unpleasant.

Concubine Liu smiled strangely, leaned close to the old emperor and said, "Your Majesty, didn't A Zheng just say that Princess Pingxi's craftsmanship is worse than that of the royal chef in the palace? According to my concubine, it's not as good as this, we let Pingxi County How about a competition between the master and the imperial chef in the palace?"

Fearing that the old emperor would not agree, Concubine Liu deliberately added a few more words: "It just so happens that there are some distinguished guests from the Prince of Xiliang today, just watching the singing and dancing performances is too boring, why don't we open our eyes and see the Pingxi County How does the Lord cook? Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Concubine Liu is over [-] years old, and she is no longer a delicate girl. If it weren't for the thick makeup on her face, the ditch on her face would almost be able to grow fields.

But this old woman also likes to pretend to be tender, especially in front of the old emperor, she has to pick up her tone when she says the last word without saying a word, and blinks that she is no longer bright and full of bags under her eyes eyes to seduce the old emperor.

Even if the old emperor comes again, he will still be a man, so he naturally likes young and beautiful girls.

She turned a blind eye to Concubine Liu's affectionate eyebrows, turned her head and did not answer Concubine Liu's words, just looked at Lin Yuan, and asked kindly, "How is it, girl Pingxi, do you have the confidence to compete with my imperial chef? "

It is not difficult to compete with the imperial chef. Lin Yuan has tried cooking skills with so many people, and she is not inferior to the imperial chef.

And in the previous match against Zuixianlou, the opponent's master and younger brother were both royal cooks, so could she still be afraid?

Lin Yuan smiled gently and confidently, raised her bright little face and nodded to the old emperor: "It is a blessing for a minister to be able to cook for His Majesty, how can I shirk it?"

These words made the old emperor very sympathetic, seeing Lin Yuan's bright smile, he couldn't help but think of Cuiwei's little appearance in his arms calling him father emperor, Cuiwei was so lovable at that time!
Thinking about it, the eyes of the old emperor involuntarily drifted towards Princess Cuiwei, but it was a pity that the lively and cheerful little girl had long since become a dull and taciturn big girl, her appearance was still bright and charming, but that cold face...

Hey!
The old emperor sighed in his heart, and looked at his wife who had been with him for decades, and couldn't help feeling sad.

"Speaking of which, Aifei hasn't tasted food outside the palace for many years, right?"

The old emperor looked at Empress Su with some emotion, and said with a smile: "Just in time, how about letting Pingxi girl cook a favorite dish for the queen while Pingxi girl is here?"

Empress Su, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised her head and looked at the old emperor in a daze, with surprise and surprise in her eyes.

After a while, Empress Su's calm face for many years finally showed a bit of youthful beauty and shyness. Her eyes moved slightly, and she nodded with a charming smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty, my concubine."

After so many years, she can still be favored by the old emperor, which shows how affectionate Empress Su was with the old emperor when she was young.

Seeing Empress Su's youthful but still slightly blush cheeks, the old emperor smiled heartily, as if he had returned to the time when he and Empress Su were just married. At that time, the two were really young and energetic!

The emperor and empress love each other deeply, and many officials see it. Although Su Zhe is always in a bad mood because of his daughter, seeing that his sister is still loved by the emperor, his face looks much better.

However, every move of the emperor and the empress was conveyed to the eyes of Heliannuo, the prince of Xiliang, and there was an essential difference.

Empress Su had only two children in her life, the eldest prince and princess Cuiwei. Now the eldest prince died young, leaving only one eldest princess.

As for the reason for the eldest prince's early death, he naturally couldn't be more clear after inquiring.

I thought that the emperor was only superficially polite to the empress, but he didn't want to look like a real couple. If so, wouldn't he give up his idea of ​​marrying Princess Cuiwei?

The emperor cared about the empress, so he probably wouldn't be willing to marry her only daughter to Xiliang so far away, even if he was to be the future empress!

Heliannu turned his head and glanced at the taciturn Princess Cuiwei seemingly casually. In fact, he still had a good impression of this Princess Cuiwei. Those princesses are all savage and willful.

Rubbing his chin lightly, Heliano felt that he had more feelings for such a quiet beauty.

Now that the old emperor had spoken, a competition between Lin Yuan and the imperial chef was inevitable, but there was an episode when selecting the imperial chef to participate in the competition.

It turned out that when they heard that there was going to be a competition, many imperial chefs wanted to participate.

Ordinarily, the best chef in the imperial dining room is Cheng Haoxuan's master Lu Chong, but there is another chef surnamed Bai who also wants to participate in the competition.

The old emperor didn't mind who wanted to participate in the competition, and Heliano said that it would be more lively if there were more people, so he waved his hand and let Bai Jing join in.

Lin Yuan is quite familiar with Lu Chong. Today he is not much different from what he saw outside the palace. Although he is very respectful, his expression is still a bit indifferent. Even when he saluted the old emperor, he was not much flattering. state.

Such a person is not suitable for living in the palace.

Lin Yuan sighed slightly, then shifted her eyes to another person.

This person's name is Bai Jing, and it is said that he is the second person in the imperial kitchen besides Lu Chong.

It's just that she didn't know whether this person became the second because of his outstanding cooking skills or something else.

Lin Yuan narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked a little more at this Bai Jing.

Lin Yuan also had selfish motives in agreeing to compete with Yu Chu.

When she was in Yecheng before, she had heard Jin Can mention that there was a chef with superb cooking skills in Zuixianju, but this person didn't come to Zuixianju every day, and only appeared on certain days every month .

Moreover, Lin Yuan had dealt with him before. For this person, Xia Zheng said that he was probably the royal chef in the palace.

According to the regulations of the Dayong Dynasty, those who serve in the palace are not allowed to go out privately, let alone become the chef of a certain restaurant to make money.

So every time the chef in charge of the spoon appeared, he wore a black cloak that covered his head to his feet. Today, Lin Yuan wanted to see if there was such a person in the imperial kitchen.

The two imperial chefs had already arrived at the main hall. Although Lin Yuan was also a participant in the competition, she was the princess after all, so she didn't stand with the two of them in the main hall.

Furthermore, even if she was asked to stand outside, Xia Zheng had to agree, right?
The old emperor had always known Xia Zheng's nature, so he didn't care about him, so he even talked about the competition method.

The competition is very simple, everyone can cook two dishes at will.However, there are also requirements for these two dishes, one is for the emperor and the other is for the queen.

Although it needs other people to taste and judge together in the end, since it is a dish prepared for the emperor and empress, their opinions are naturally the most important.

This request was discussed and decided by the emperor and the Xiliang prince. They said they discussed it together, but in fact it was the old emperor who made his own decision, because Heliano didn't say anything except nodding.

Now that the requirements have been set, the next step is to prepare to start cooking.

The palace people quickly moved all the ingredients from the imperial dining room to the main hall where the banquet was held. Not only the ingredients, but also the chopping boards and small stoves and pots for cooking were prepared for the three of them.

The main hall was already very spacious, and the place where the dancers used to dance was quickly occupied by various pots and shovels.

In order for the emperor's concubines and the Xiliang prince to watch carefully, the competition tables of the three were lined up, but in order not to affect their respective performances, they were all separated by tall screens.

In this way, except for the players who are not able to see each other, everyone else can basically see the whole process of the three-person match.

Everything was ready, and the three of them were ready to start.

"Yuan'er, wait."

While the palace people were preparing the competition stage, Lin Yuan had already taken off the heavy palace attire, and at this time she had already changed into the spare dress she had prepared when entering the palace.

In order to move neatly during the competition, Lin Yuan also cut off the obstructing silks and satins on the skirt.

After cutting out those bits and pieces, her skirt became incomplete.Even if it can cover the body, it is really unsightly.

Princess Anle and Tian Hui accompanied her to change clothes, so they were naturally worried when they saw her dressed like this.

Lin Yuan doesn't mind her image, but when she thinks that she is the Princess of Pingxi now, and she represents the face of the entire Dayong in front of Xiliang Prince, she doesn't want to be looked down upon by Xiliang Prince Heliannuo.

"Don't worry, it's fine!"

Lin Yuan smiled sweetly, and casually took off the tablecloth used for decoration in the side hall, pulled it left and right, and quickly made it into a delicate little apron that was hung in front of her.

Everything in the palace is very gorgeous and exquisite, even the tablecloths in an unremarkable side hall are made of cloud satin from the imperial merchant Wu's family.

Aprons made of cloud satin will naturally not look cheap.

Princess Anle and Tian Huike had never seen such an apron before, so they couldn't help being amused and angry, but now they had to deal with it like this, because the time for the competition was coming soon.

Lin Yuan was ready, but she ran into Xia Zheng just as she was leaving the house.

Xia Zheng leaned against the entrance of the side hall, it seemed that he had been waiting for quite a while.

As soon as he saw Lin Yuan, Xia Zheng's eyes lit up, and he even whistled recklessly like the punks on Folk Street.

Lin Yuan blushed and glared at him.

"Hey, my husband came here specially to send information to my wife. It's fine if my wife doesn't say thank you. Why do you still stare at my husband? Could it be that my husband's information is not important?"

intelligence?

Lin Yuan frowned. She didn't think there was any important information about today's match.

Princess An Le and Tian Hui left early in a very cooperative manner. Xia Zheng walked up to Lin Yuan with his arms folded, and unexpectedly pecked her lips lightly.

Before Lin Yuan could respond, he raised his eyebrows first and said, "My husband has worked so hard to collect important information for my wife, and this kiss from my wife is considered my reward. However, if the information is useful, I will increase the price for my husband." !"

The corner of Lin Yuan's mouth twitched, she really wanted to slap this cheeky guy out of the palace, just accept the reward, and leave the reward without even providing any information, the thick-skinned guy is really not ordinary!
Even worse, did she ask him to collect this information?Obviously he rushed to deliver it himself, okay?

Gouging Xia Zheng hard, Lin Yuan murmured angrily: "The rewards have been taken, so tell me your information quickly! If your information is not enough, be careful and I will take the rewards back!"

As soon as these words came out, Xia Zheng, who was originally joking, immediately lit up his eyes, licked his face and leaned forward, and asked impatiently: "What? Take it back? How do you take it back? The lady wants to do the same as her husband." Do you want to kiss your husband? Yes, yes, I wish for it!"

Snapped!
Although the slap was not loud, it successfully slapped this shameless guy away from his eyes.

Lin Yuan folded her hands, moved her fingers, and said complacently: "Of course, the remuneration you get back cannot be the same as the reward you gave out. In my opinion, it should be enough to sew up your sexy and cute little mouth with thread." nice!"

I thought Xia Zheng would be angry, but I didn't expect this guy to chuckle, arrogantly flicked the non-existent bangs on his forehead, and said somewhat ambiguously: "It turns out that the lady likes this way, it really makes my husband grow up." Eye-opening! But it doesn’t matter, as long as the lady likes it, my husband is always ready to serve the lady. Well, do you want to prepare a small leather whip? I heard that there are people who use chili oil!”

The corner of Lin Yuan's mouth twitched, feeling that Xia Zheng was getting more and more dishonest as he talked. Fortunately, there were only the two of them here. If someone else listened to her, she wouldn't want her face.

In case Xia Zheng said something more unacceptable, Lin Yuan quickly interrupted him and looked at him seriously: "Okay, okay, let's get down to business, what information?"

Xia Zheng, who was about to talk about the [-] rounds of the battle, was suddenly blocked by Lin Yuan, feeling very uncomfortable in his throat.

He rubbed his nose embarrassingly, and smiled: "It's all my fault, she always leads my husband to some unscrupulous thoughts, so that my husband almost forgets about business."

Lin Yuan's eyes were wide open. If she hadn't been in a hurry to go to the competition, she really wanted to cut this shameless guy in half with a knife, and take a good look at what was hidden in his heart.

Lin Yuan waved her hand feebly, signaling Xia Zheng to speak quickly.

"Hey, actually, it's just some secret things about the emperor and empress."

Xia Zheng squeezed his eyes, and whispered to Lin Yuan: "Let's talk about the queen first. Ever since the eldest prince had an accident with that guard, the queen has been blaming herself, and has been eating fast and praying to Buddha ever since."

Therefore, the dishes prepared for the queen should be vegetarian dishes.

Lin Yuan nodded, but she was surprised by Xia Zheng's next words before she asked the emperor's preferences.

"Well, the whole palace knows about the empress eating vegetarian food and reciting Buddha's name, and the two imperial chefs know it even more. However, there is one thing they definitely don't know, that is, the empress liked meat the most when she was young. OK. So, you get it!"

Seeing Xia Zhengchong winking at herself, Lin Yuan finally understood what he meant by the important information.

"I see. What about the emperor?"

With the example of the queen, presumably the emperor also has some preferences or taboos, right?

This time Xia Zheng laughed even more mysteriously, even a little gloating.

"He, hehe, no one knows the gossip about the emperor. The emperor, like the empress, likes to eat meat. But, he has a little secret, which even the imperial chef and physician don't know."

Lin Yuan's ears immediately perked up.

"He has bad teeth, and he can't bite into things that are too hard! But, he also likes to eat meat, well, that's fine, I can only help you here as a husband, and how to behave in the future depends on you own."

He patted Lin Yuan's shoulder ambiguously, and Xia Zheng's hand fell on her waist, and he carried her towards the main hall.

Although it was only a few words, Lin Yuan still thanked Xia Zheng very much. He even knew clearly that the emperor's teeth were not good, which shows that he put his heart into it.

If you have a husband like this, what can you ask for?
　I wrote it smoothly today, and I finished it before the editor got off work, so I don’t need to split it into two updates and upload them, la la~ Then, there will be no second update~
　　
　
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