The golden and jade of the peasant girl in charge

Chapter 523 Red Yeast Powder (10)
This thin and small man has become the latest hot topic, and more people are curious about where he came from.

Naturally, someone has checked this, but in the final analysis, it was discovered that this person reported in the name of a small restaurant in the Jiangnan area. He came all the way to Bianjing, and he had never been close to anyone. No one in the room could even pronounce his name.

When the news reached Ning Ci, Jiang Chengye was helping Xiao Yu'er to conceal the scandal of him peeing his pants because he didn't have time to run to the latrine. He took off his son's pants, hugged his naked son in a daze Leng.

"Hurry up and put them on for him." Ning Ci hurriedly found new pants and handed them to them, Jiang Chengye took them, and put them on Xiao Yu'er slowly.

Seeing his silent face, Ning Ci smiled and said: "You look like this, I would think you are worried about me."

Jiang Chengye raised his eyes and looked at her: "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle. You said this yourself. Now that such a dark horse suddenly appears, and you are about to fight this person again, don't you worry?"

Ning Ci walked slowly to the desk, picked up a pen and practiced calligraphy: "You martial arts practitioners, when swords are facing each other, don't you pay attention to changing every move? Even if it's just a small move, maybe the situation will change suddenly."

Jiang Chengye walked to her side, only to see that she wrote the word "quiet".

Brake with static, respond to all changes with the same.

In the end, no matter what the origin of this little-known little man is, the day when Ning Ci will face the battle will finally come.

One is a dark horse that stands out from the encirclement, and the other is a goddess chef who has been praised by the Empress Dowager Jinkou and is famous in the south of the Yangtze River.Even if they are not in this circle, they still have great expectations for who will win this time.

On the morning when Jiang Chengye sent Ning Ci into the palace, he teased and said: "I heard that the gambling houses in Bianjing City have already opened a game for this matter, and many of the unsuccessful people want to take advantage of this opportunity to earn some travel expenses to go back. It's hot."

Ning Ci smiled, without feeling nervous at all: "Did you bet for me?"

Jiang Chengye looked at her sideways: "Three years ago, did you bet on yourself?"

Ning Ci smiled without saying a word.

Three years ago, she felt that it would not be so easy for her to participate in the selection, and she had no intention of participating, so she became the only bookmaker who bet on herself to lose.It's just that the money was used to resettle the villagers later, but it was still a little less after all.This money is really used up quickly, faster than straw paper.

In order to avoid being pointed out by others, Ning Ci's process of entering the palace is no different from that of ordinary cooks, there is no welcome or special treatment.Shangshi Bureau has only two stoves in the house that can accommodate hundreds of people working at the same time, and the two stoves are separated by a temporary partition, so you can't see each other's steps, and it also separates a kind of vision from the outside.

All the chefs who win the selection stay in the palace and are not allowed to walk around at will. Jiang Yan deliberately arranged people at the outermost periphery of the scene in order to show fairness. All the doors and windows were opened, and the tables and chairs were placed one by one. Disturbing words.

A dragon chair and a desk are placed at the front, and tables and chairs are placed on the left and right sides in turn.In the middle is Jiang Yan, the Ninth Five-Year Son of the True Dragon, and beside him is the Empress Dowager, who hasn't appeared for a long time, but has improved a lot, and the ones who fall down in turn are Yun Xiaochuan, Feng Qianwei, Shen Yuanhui, Liu Shaoxuan, and Tan Ruhai. .There are still officials standing beside them, but even the important officials in the court are separated like mountains, and have no right to speak in this regard.

Before the start, Jiang Chengye took his son to rest in the wing room specially prepared for them in the palace. Although Jiang Chengye was treating Ning Ci during this time, the two of them seemed to be indifferent to the world and the battle situation, and lived a happy life, but Yan Yizao had already Learn all the rules and regulations clearly.

Before the actual final selection, but just the night before, news spread from the palace that the match between Ning Ci and Jiangnan's representative was changed from independent play to a temporary proposition in order to show fairness.When the competition really started, outsiders couldn't see what the two of them cooked. When it was presented, they would only mark their names on the bottom of the bowl, and the five people in front of them would judge.

Jiang Chengye hugged his son and cheered for Ning Ci: "Don't be nervous, it doesn't matter even if you lose."

Ning Ci smiled: "That's right, if we lose, we won't be able to use it anymore, so we can just pay a bag and go back to Dongqiao."

Jiang Chengye really didn't see a trace of nervousness in her, on the contrary, he even saw a trace of excited and yearning expression, as if she was not nervous or afraid of everything ahead, but kind and nostalgic.

Jiang Chengye remembered the story of her in another world that Ning Ci once told him, now that she thinks about it, could it be that her expression was brought from there?
The time came soon, and the little eunuch in the palace came to invite someone.

Although Jiang Chengye is the eldest son of Prince Ning's mansion, but because Ning Ci had no choice but to participate in any special capacity, even the left and right prime ministers could only step aside as a curious spectator. Naturally, he could only be regarded as a family member at most, sitting with many spectators Together.

Not long after Ning Ci came in, the rumored dark horse appeared.

Really... inconspicuous.

Dark skinned, thin and slender, with slender bones, and a palm-sized face, there is even a very unsuitable mustache.

He also has an even more inconspicuous name, Li San.

There is a little eunuch singing beside Yunxiaochuan, and the time has come. The little eunuch shouted: "It's time for the Great Zhou Dynasty, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the things are rich and the people are prosperous, and the emperor's grace is shining. Today is the day of selection every three years, and the Jiangnan representative Li The three and Jiangnan chef Ning Ci fought for food in front of the hall, and the winner will be the final candidate for the Jiangnan representative. Today's topic is..." The little eunuch sang here, and someone has already lifted the sign covering the curtain, and it only reads with one word.

"fish."

As soon as the topic came up, there was inevitably some discussion in the venue, Yun Xiaochuan glanced at the eunuch next to him displeased, and the little eunuch immediately reprimanded everyone to silence.

Jiang Yan glanced around and looked at Shen Yuanhui who was at the side.

Shen Yuanhui nodded slightly, got up and stood up, and said to the two people in front of him: "This time, fish is used as an ingredient, and the result will not only be inspected in terms of color, smell, but my emperor's release of the imperial list is to attract talented chefs from all over the world. , to change the stale atmosphere in the palace for many years, so in addition to the basic inspection of color and fragrance, this time fighting food, pay more attention to the novelty of the dishes."

From a distance, Ning Ci looked at Jiang Yan who was sitting at the front.

He was still wearing the bright yellow dragon robe today, as if he felt Ning Ci's gaze, he also quietly looked over.

The time had come, Ning Ci and Li San entered their own cubicles respectively.Each compartment is three meters long, so other kitchen utensils are also readily available.Because there are too many ingredients and accessories to be prepared, they can’t fit in the compartment, so the two of them figure out what ingredients they need, write them down with a pen and paper, and then the servants go to the warehouse to pick them up, all the process is under everyone’s eyelids .

(End of this chapter)