Allure of a Country Maiden

The reason why the embroidery competition was replaced by a cooking competition was because the same few people won the embroidery competition every year, which was not interesting at all, and the queen was tired of it.

Cooking skills are different. Although every girl can learn it, no one will spend a lot of effort on it, otherwise what is the use of the cook at home?

Cooking is a compulsory course just because there is a custom in the imperial capital: the day after a new daughter-in-law enters the house, she needs to set rules and prepare a table of dishes for the family.

Although the custom is like this, in fact most of the dishes are cooked by the cook. The new daughter-in-law only needs to put the dishes in the pot on plates and serve them to the table.

Therefore, when most girls learn cooking skills, they only need to learn one thing: making soup.

As for why most people seriously learn to stew soup, everyone knows it well and there is no need to explain it.

The competition was held in the imperial dining room.

The queen, the prime minister's wife, the Duke's wife and several wives from the six ministers serve as judges.

For the sake of fairness and to prevent a certain lady from being biased against a certain girl, the queen unified the proposition that everyone needs to make a meal with fish, be it soup, dish or other, as long as it is made of fish.

The girls were dumbfounded after hearing this!

"Cooking fish?"

"How to cook fish?"

“Can fish be stewed in soup?”

"I don't like fish, and I've never eaten it. What should I do?"

…

Wails are everywhere!

"Girls can choose a fish by themselves, and then let the eunuchs in the imperial dining room help clean it up." The eldest maid next to the queen said to everyone.

Everyone looked at the fish swimming in several wooden barrels and were completely dumbfounded.

What kind of fish are these?

It really knows itself, but I don’t know it!

You beautiful girls, you look at me, I look at you, saying that you have no idea where to start.

Xiaoer walked to the barrel and picked the most common grass carp.

He didn't ask the supervisor to help him with it. He cleaned the fish himself, removed the bones, and cut the fish into fillets, all in one smooth motion.

It took less than half a quarter of an hour to finish all this.

The girls were dumbfounded, is this done?

Not to mention the girls present were dumbfounded, even the chefs, eunuchs and maids in the imperial dining room were dumbfounded.

Why does County Master Rui'an's sword skills seem to be better than those of them who have been immersed in the kitchen for many years?

"County Lord Rui'an, how long have you been practicing sword skills? Who did you learn from? Even I feel inferior and resigned." The head chef of the imperial dining room looked at the fish fillets of the same size and as thick as paper and praised sincerely.

"I've been learning from my mother since I was a child. The more you practice, the more you'll get familiar with it." Xiao'er replied as she started to process the meat slices.

"Hmph! Sure enough, you are from a mud-legged background, and you are so skilled at such a dirty job, so you are the only one who shows off!" Chu Die couldn't help but use Xiaoer's background to attack Xiao'er after hearing the chef's words.

You must know that in this circle, noble birth is more important than anything else.

"What about being born in Clay Legs? Does it bother you? Or do people who come from Clay Legs need you to support them? So you have such a big opinion against people who are born in Clay Legs?! You also grew up eating the food grown by Clay Legs. Why do you look down on Mudleg so much? Miss Chu, do you act like you are raising an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf?"

"Who are you calling a white-eyed wolf!" Chu Die was so angry at these words that her face turned foul.

Li Yunning saw this and pulled Chu Die: "Okay, stop saying that. It was you who was rude in the first place. Why don't you compete?"

After saying this, she smiled at Xiaoer and said, "Don't be surprised, Lord Rui'an, Miss Chu has no other intentions."

She was helping County Lord Rui'an to get out of the siege. She should remember this feeling no matter what.

It's really a waste of words to say too much. Everyone knows that she has no other meaning, only one meaning, that is, to look down on herself who comes from a low background.

But it really doesn't matter to you whether others think highly of you or not.

It doesn't matter where people come from, what matters is where they are going.

Xiaoer ignored the two of them and lowered her head to do her job seriously.

Seeing Xiaoer's skillful movements, Li Yunning suddenly said to the eunuch beside her: "What kind of fish did Lord Ruian choose? I want one too. Then please help me handle the fish like Lord Ruian did."

If you don’t know how to cook fish, it doesn’t matter. As long as someone can do it, it will be fine. If you learn to cook it yourself, the taste will not be too different.

After hearing this, the other girls still didn't understand. Then they all found a backbone and didn't panic anymore. After giving orders to the eunuch, they watched what Xiaoer did without blinking an eye, and then Follow along hurriedly.

Xiaoer makes raw fish fillet porridge. After the white porridge is soft and glutinous, then add marinated fish fillets. When the porridge in the pot boils again and the fish meat turns white, put it in a bowl and sprinkle with a few chopped green onions.

While making the porridge, Xiaoer fried the fish bones and heads, and then made a fish soup. When boiling the pot, she added an appropriate amount of salt and a small amount of pepper to the milky white fish soup, and sprinkled it with A little cilantro.

It’s a very simple and homely way to eat.

The palace maid stepped forward and tested the poison of the porridge and soup prepared by Xiaoer with a silver needle, then divided them into small bowls and took them out.

Seeing this, other people also started to take pots and fill bowls. There was a lot of excitement and confusion for a while.

The queen and other ladies saw that what was served was a bowl of porridge and milky white soup. It looked a bit ordinary, but they all felt that this was normal. If the food that was served was full of color, flavor and taste, they would have been suspicious.

A few people elegantly took a small spoonful and put it to their noses and smelled it. It smelled good!

Then he ate carefully.

Huh? tasty!

The taste is fresh and sweet with a hint of green onion, and the fish meat is tender and refreshing. Several people finished the porridge in the small bowls quickly, and they still felt like they still had more to eat.

Delicious!

Then several people tried the bowl of milky white soup again, it was delicious!

"Is this soup made of fish and milk?" the prime minister's wife asked uncertainly.

"No, if there is milk, why doesn't it have the sweetness of milk? Instead, it has a vague spiciness."

"Try the next dish first." The first dish was so delicious, and the queen was looking forward to the next meal.

A few people put aside their doubts, rinsed their mouths, and began to taste the next dish.

"Is this also fish porridge? The color is quite special. It's yellow. Did you add something to it?"

"This porridge seems to have a mushy smell."

…

Several people took a spoonful and ate it.

Evil~

I feel like vomiting!

Several people looked at the queen together. If the queen vomited, they would vomit accordingly.

It's a pity that the queen swallowed it hard.

Several ladies wanted to cry: Can this be eaten? Queen, human life is at stake, this is no joke!

Forget it, just die! I don’t know whose daughter made something, it was so harmful, the Prime Minister’s wife secretly cursed.