Zhen Jian had just come out of the living room of the hall and walked to the kitchen, when the servant who was delivering the message happened to run over and saw him, and shouted as he ran: "Zhen Jushi, the court envoy asked you to come over." ” Zhen Jian asked, "What's the matter?"
” The servant said: "The envoy said that the money has arrived, so let you get it quickly." ” "Let's go."
Zhen Jian hurriedly followed the servant and ran to the back office.
All the way to the back office, Zhen Jian directly entered Zhen Laosan's office, Zhen Laosan pointed to the three wooden boxes on the ground, and said: "Lord Jia said, there are only seven thousand taels, you make do with it first, if it is not enough, then apply for it." ” Zhen Jian opened the box and looked at it, it was full of white silver, he closed the lid, looked up at Zhen Laosan, and asked with a sneer: "What's the use of giving me silver now, Princess Elizabeth said, she will have dinner in half an hour, she is hungry." ” "What?"
Zhen Laosan was shocked when he heard this, and then looked at Zhen Jian suspiciously, and said, "You don't want to scare me, why are you hungry so soon?"
It's still a few hours before dinner. ” Zhen Jian sneered: "Are you really stupid or fake stupid, people are English, don't use your elm head to think about problems, okay, you eat two meals a day, how do you know how many meals people eat a day?"
” "You......
What do you mean by that?
Zhen Laosan suddenly panicked a little and hurriedly asked, "Englishman......
How many meals a day?
” "Three meals."
Zhen Jiandao, "Morning, noon and evening, one meal each, seeing that it will be noon in half an hour, you only give me money now, and half an hour is not enough time to even purchase ingredients." ” "This ......," Zhen Laosan suddenly asked in a panic, "......
So what now?
You have to think of a way, you can't let the princess and the duke go hungry, this meal is for the three princes to accompany the princess and the duke to dinner, if something happens, the prince will definitely tell the emperor!
” "It's okay, King Qi will help me testify."
Zhen Jian raised his eyebrows and said, "King Qi will testify for me, saying that this matter is all done by you and has nothing to do with me." ” "You ......"
Zhen Laosan was stunned when he heard this, and after being stunned for a long time, he suddenly knelt in front of Zhen Jian and cried bitterly, "Zhen Jian, I was wrong, the third uncle was wrong, you forgive me, you should think of a way." ” Zhen Jian glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Now that I know I'm afraid, why did I go earlier." ” "I really know it's wrong, you have to think of a way......"
Zhen Laosan just howled, and couldn't squeeze out tears.
Zhen Jianzhen wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to kill him, but he also considered that this was after all to entertain foreign guests, and the internal contradictions were resolved internally, and he couldn't let foreigners see jokes, and he would lose the face of the country at that time, and if something happened, even if King Qi was willing to testify for him, it was estimated that Qin Huan would impeach himself together with the courtiers, and it was estimated that he would not be able to stay out of the matter, and his official career would be difficult, and he could not make trouble for himself in order to kill a Zhen Laosan.
Zhen Jian walked to Zhen Laosan's desk, picked up a pen and paper and wrote it down, and then said: "Fortunately, I have been prepared, I spent 5,000 yuan myself, bought the ingredients, and now the kitchen has begun to prepare dishes." ” "Huh?"
Hearing this, Zhen Laosan slowly got up and said in disbelief, "So you were ready a long time ago?"
” "Do you think I'll be so easy to be tricked by you, naïve?"
Zhen Jian gave him a disdainful look, then handed him the written note and said, "This is a receipt of seven thousand taels." ” Zhen Laosan picked up the receipt and glanced at it, and immediately frowned: "Why is your receipt writing format different from others?"
” Zhen Jian said lightly: "Because this cannot be tampered with, it can prevent false accounts, and all the receipts of the Concierge House will have to be written like this in the future, you know!"
” Zhen Laosan didn't dare to speak when he heard this, because he was indeed greedy for three thousand taels, but Zhen Jian's receipt was too rigorous to be altered at all, it seems that he still had to return the three thousand taels to Jia Zheng, otherwise his account would not match the account of Honglu Temple, and he would not be able to make a difference with Jia Zheng, there is such a rule in the officialdom of Dachu, everyone is greedy for ink, at least they must do a good job of concealment, that is, they must be elegant in eating.
Zhen Jian called the servants outside to come in, carried the money to his office, locked it in the cash cabinet, and left one person to guard it, and then he rushed to the kitchen.
When I came to the kitchen, I saw that Director Ding Mian was supervising the chefs here to prepare the dishes, Zhen Jian stepped forward and asked, "Are the dishes ready?"
” When the chefs saw Zhen Jian coming, they hurriedly stopped what they were doing, lined up in a row, and replied in unison: "It's ready." ” "Then don't delay, time is urgent, let's start cooking, Li Liang, you do Yushu Arhat and Jinyu Mantang, Zhao Danian, you do Hundred Birds Chaofeng and Eight Immortals across the sea......"
The dishes for entertaining foreign guests are not only required to be delicious, but also to look good, some dishes require very superb carving skills, which are not what ordinary chefs can do, these five chefs are the worst in the palace kitchen, but cooking skills are also okay, Zhen Jian's on-site guidance, although Zhen Jian's carving skills are not good, but in terms of seasoning, he is an expert, so all the people began to get busy.
With Zhen Jian's joining, Ding Mian was idle, bored out of the kitchen, went back to the back office, returned to the back office, just saw Zhen Laosan standing in the courtyard, Ding Mian stepped forward to salute, Zhen Laosan waved his hand and asked, "Everyone is busy, why do you look so idle?"
” Ding Mian smiled helplessly and said: "Zhen Ju is very thoughtful, and even the kitchen work has to be taken care of personally, so I naturally have nothing to do." ” In the past, it was impossible to go to the kitchen, and it was usually the director who went, but Zhen Jian happened to know how to cook, so he went to the kitchen to personally supervise and guide.
Zhen Laosan heard that he seemed to have resentment in his heart, and suddenly his eyes rolled and asked, "I heard that when Zhen Jian didn't come before, it was you who acted as the agent?"
” Ding Mian nodded: "Yes." ” Zhen Laosan raised his eyebrows and asked, "You tell the truth to this official, do you want to get rid of Zhen Jian?"
” Ding Mian was stunned when he heard this, and after hesitating for a moment, he finally couldn't hold back, and nodded: "Naturally." ” Zhen Laosan beckoned to him and said, "Come here, I'll make a move for you." ” Ding Mian came to him, Zhen Laosan whispered a few words in his ear, Ding Mian suddenly looked shocked, looked at Zhen Laosan, and said, "How can this be!"
This ......"
Zhen Laosan raised his eyebrows and smiled when he heard this, and said, "Are you afraid?"
Then let's just say nothing.
Then he turned and went back to his room.
Ding Mian stood in place, his eyebrows frowning and groaning, and after a long time, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger!"
Then he turned and walked outside.
Ding Mian came to the kitchen again, and saw that everyone was busy, there were two long tables in the kitchen, one was a preparation table, which was specially used for preparing dishes, and the other was a table for putting dishes.
Although Ding Mian had only left a little more than a stick of incense, the table was almost full at the moment, the cooks were still busy, Zhen Jian was also wandering back and forth in front of the five stoves, instructing the cooks to cook, and the five assistant cooks (the chef's apprentices) were all standing by the stoves, watching the cooks cook seriously, and no one noticed Ding Mian at all.
Ding Mian looked at everyone carefully, everyone turned their backs to him, he looked at the distance between the table and the kitchen door, and thought about the layout outside the kitchen, after a while, Ding Mian suddenly raised his foot and kicked the leg of the table where the food was placed, he knew that due to the tight funds of the concierge, the equipment in the kitchen had not been updated for a long time, and the legs of the table had been moth-eaten, and the leg of the table he kicked was more seriously moth-eaten.
He kicked it, "clicked", the table leg was broken, the table began to tilt, Ding Mian had already kicked out, flew out of the kitchen, the table was only three steps away from the kitchen, Ding Mian had already prepared, before everyone reacted, he had already gone out of the kitchen, and then hid behind the water tank in the kitchen.
When Zhen Jian and the chefs heard the click, they were all stunned, and then when they heard Ding Ling's clanging sound, they all turned their heads, only to see that the table was crooked, and all the dishes on the table slipped to the ground, Zhen Jian and all the chefs were stunned.
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"You keep cooking."
Zhen Jian spoke, hurriedly walked over to check, and found that the table leg was broken, and there were many moth-eaten holes in the fracture, but he didn't think it was a natural break, after all, a table of dishes is not heavy, how could it be possible to break the table leg, he turned back to the chefs and said, "Don't stop, continue to cook, and the next dishes will be placed on the preparation table!"
After he finished speaking, he hurried out of the kitchen and chased after him.
Zhen Jian chased out of the kitchen, and after a while, he suddenly stopped, feeling that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran back, returning to the kitchen, only to see Ding Mian squatting on the ground to clean up the messy dishes and broken plates, and those cooks were still cooking.
Zhen Jian frowned and asked, "When did you come?"
” Ding Mian got up and said, "Just came." ” Zhen Jian asked again: "Then why didn't I see you when I went out?"
” Ding Mian frowned and said, "What do you mean by this?"
” Zhen Jian raised his eyebrows and said, "It's not interesting, you can go." ” Ding Mian frowned and said coldly: "My lord, the meal is about to start, all the dishes are ruined, you let me go?"
” Zhen Jiandao: "Otherwise?
Let you stay to burn the fire?
” Ding Mian pursed his lips and snorted coldly: "Let's go."
Then he turned around and left angrily.
Zhen Jian looked at his distant back and snorted coldly, he knew that Ding Mian did this matter nine times out of ten, but now is not the time to hold him accountable, but to consider how to solve the current problem, and then slowly settle accounts with him in the future.
At this time, the five chefs prepared the dishes, and all of them were brought to the preparation table, a total of two dishes, each dish made five servings, that is, ten dishes, which was obviously not enough.
Zhen Jian put on an apron and asked, "How long is it?"
” "My lord, there is still time for half a pillar of incense (15 minutes)."
The head chef replied.
Zhen Jian asked: "In the time of half a pillar of incense, can you carve five phoenixes?"
” The head chef nodded: "Yes." ” "Then hurry up and carve it, in the reception banquet, you can't do it without a show of knife skills, I'm responsible for stir-frying!"
He said in a loud voice, "Help the chef (the chef's apprentice), wash five large iron pots!"
” The five cooks immediately began to wash the pots, and then the five large iron pots were all set on the stove, and Zhen Jian said loudly: "Fire!"
” The water in the five large iron pots was boiled dry by the fire, Zhen Jian picked up the oil pot, poured sesame oil into the five pots respectively, and then began to pour all kinds of dishes into the pot.
In the past, when the chefs stir-fried vegetables, they all made two or three portions in one pot, and each dish had to be made in two pots to make five servings, because the amount of one pot of dishes was too large and easy to affect the taste, but Zhen Jian was different, one pot made five dishes, and the five pots added up to twenty-five dishes, but such a large amount, all of them were stir-fried by Zhen Jian, which was very difficult, Zhen Jian rolled up his sleeves and yelled: "It's time to perform real skills!"
"Then stir-fry pot by pot, the action is extremely fast, but it is also very busy.