Yipin Tang

Chapter 599
The butler and the cook suddenly realized that ascending the Immortal Tower was the property of Marquis Jiayuan, but...

If you are a boss, you may not know how to cook. After all, cooking is something you do.

Seeing that they still had doubts, Wang Xiang simply rolled up his sleeves and said, "Get out of the way, I will do it myself."

The butler was shocked when he heard the words, and said with a bitter face: "This can't be done, this can't be done, how can the Marquis be able to cook by himself, if the master finds out, he will punish us, we believe in the cooking skills of the Marquis gone."

The cook standing aside also nodded repeatedly, obviously not daring to let Wang Xiang cook himself.

I'll go, do you think I'm here to show off my cooking skills?
"It's okay, I often cook by myself at home, just don't tell your master about it."

"This……"

Before the housekeeper and the cook spoke, Wang Xiang had already skillfully picked up the kitchen knife beside him and began to cut vegetables swiftly. Seeing this, the housekeeper had no choice but to stand beside him at a loss and watch Wang Xiang cook himself.

After cutting the vegetables, Wang Xiang found out that the kitchen in the Yu Mansion didn't even have an iron pot. They used earthenware pots for cooking rice and vegetables. This thing was only used for stewing soup in later generations, so how could it be used for cooking.

And the seasoning is also extremely monotonous, only oil and salt. Fortunately, the salt is the refined salt newly sold by the imperial court. If it was the dark yellow salt before, Wang Xiang would not even want to eat it.

The sun-drying salt field in Xunzhou has stabilized, and a large amount of refined salt is transported from Xunzhou to Chang'an every day, and then sent to the local salt department in Chang'an. Dozens of times, and what is exposed to the sun is snow-white and delicate fine salt. This kind of salt-making method is only in the hands of the imperial court, so the original private salt dealers have no competitiveness at all.

Nowadays, the high-quality refined salt supplied by the imperial court can be bought for a bucket for ten renminbi. Ordinary people can afford such high-quality refined salt, so the Yu Mansion will naturally not be short of refined salt.But apart from oil and salt, there were no other seasonings in the kitchen of Yu Mansion, not even soy sauce.

In fact, soy sauce has been around for a long time. The Tang Dynasty also had soy sauce, but it was not called soy sauce, and it was not a mainstream seasoning. It was not until the Song Dynasty that soy sauce was gradually accepted and promoted by the people.

As soon as Wang Xiang was cutting and playing with some dishes, Wang Xiang stopped. The housekeeper and the cook thought that Wang Xiang was tired of playing, and he must have planned to have dinner in front of the meeting, but Wang Xiang turned his head and said: "The kitchen things in your house are also Too few, you wait, I'll go get something."

After speaking, he walked out of the kitchen, leaving the butler and the cook staring at each other.

"Will Marquis Jiayuan come back?" the cook asked in a low voice.

The housekeeper smiled wryly and shook his head, he didn't know what Wang Xiang's plan was.

"The lady's meal?"

The butler sighed and said, "Let's wait for now. If Marquis Jiayuan doesn't come back after a while, you can prepare meals for Miss."

There is no way, who made Wang Xiang the most important guest of the Yu Mansion today.

The cook glanced at the vegetables Wang Xiang had just cut, and said in a low voice, "However, Master Hou's chopping skills are really good, not much different from my knife skills of more than 20 years. Could it be that Master Hou really knows how to cook?"

Is that the point?The butler shook his head speechlessly.

After Wang Xiang went out, he found an empty corner and returned to the end of the world with a thought. It was more convenient to go back to the end of the world than to go back to the Hou's mansion to get kitchen utensils and seasonings.

When they returned to the basement warehouse, Wang Xingbang and Li Rujuan had just finished eating and were watching a movie in the room.

Li Rujuan didn't wait for him to come back for dinner because she knew that Wang Xiang was going to pay New Year's greetings to Lao Cheng and Li Er in Datang today. She was surprised to see Wang Xiang come back suddenly.

Wang Xiang just wished Wang Xingbang and Li Rujuan New Year's greetings, explaining that he came back to get some things, and came back to eat with them in the evening.

They all knew that Wang Xiang was Lord Marquis in the Tang Dynasty, and there must be a lot of things during the Chinese New Year, so they didn't ask any more questions, but asked him to come back for dinner earlier in the evening.

After leaving the basement warehouse, Wang Xiang went straight to the restaurant of the base. Most of the survivors in the base now cook and eat at their own homes, so the restaurant is relatively idle, and a lot of kitchen utensils are vacant. Wang Xiang chose an iron pot and a stainless steel soup pot , and then took some soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, chicken essence, salt and pepper, five-spice powder, and other miscellaneous seasonings before returning to the basement warehouse.

When Wang Xiang appeared in the kitchen of the Yu Mansion again, the housekeeper and the cook were completely dumbfounded. Wang Xiang held an iron pot in his right hand, a bag full of condiments in his left hand, and a stainless steel soup pot on his head. Where is there a Marquis? look.

Seeing them in a daze, Wang Xiang said, "Don't be dazed, quickly help me get things."

The butler and the cook came to their senses, and hurried forward to take the things in Wang Xiang's hands, sighing inwardly: Where did Lord Hou get so many things, is this a pot?

Most of the dishes cooked in the Tang Dynasty were stewed in pottery pots, and only a few people used iron pots to cook dishes. Moreover, the cooking technology is far from comparable to that of later generations. That's why the sound of ascending Xianlou is so popular, except for the special way of eating hot pot. In addition, the various stir-fried dishes in Dengxianlou are also unique, and many people go for the delicious and attractive stir-fried dishes.

The cook of the Yu Mansion is naturally not an ordinary cook, but also quite knowledgeable. His eyes lit up when he saw the iron pot brought by Wang Xiang, and he asked excitedly, "Master Hou is preparing to cook?"

Ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty had no chance to get in touch with cooking. Only some rich and noble families would have special cooks to study cooking. The cooks in the Yu Mansion had never had the opportunity to learn cooking. The cooking technique is definitely a secret in the culinary world. How can you not be excited if you may have the opportunity to come into contact with it now.

Wang Xiang nodded and said, "That's right. I'm going to stir-fry a few side dishes. Your cooking method of stewing can easily destroy the taste of the ingredients."

As a cook, he naturally understands the shortcomings of stewing, and nodded repeatedly after hearing the words: "What Hou Ye said is, I don't know how I can help Hou Ye."

He said he was helping, but the main reason was that he was afraid that Wang Xiang would drive him out. The advanced culinary skills such as cooking were basically kept secret.

But Wang Xiang is not a cook, and he doesn't mind other people learning how to cook, and he is really too busy to do it all by himself, so he nodded after hearing what the cook said, "Alright, you help me wash the ingredients and cut them up quickly."

"Okay!" The cook agreed again and again, and immediately turned to wash and chop the vegetables, which made the housekeeper stunned.

What exactly is going on?Just now the cook was skeptical about whether Wang Xiang could cook, why now he seems to be regarded as a great chef?
The butler didn't know the significance of cooking in the culinary world, so he didn't understand the chef's excitement. He could only watch Wang Xiang and the cook busy in the kitchen with a dull expression. He found that his brain was completely insufficient.

(End of this chapter)