When Eunuch Gao came to announce the decree, Concubine Mei was frightened and panicked.
This matter actually alarmed the emperor, and she was very embarrassed now, but the emperor had an order, and she didn't dare to let it go.
"You all come here to ask about the people I want. Is it possible that Li Yao hasn't left even after taking the silver reward? Aunt Yang, go and have a look." Concubine Mei winked at Aunt Yang.
Aunt Yang understood and moved into the back hall.
Ye Jiayao's mouth was still covered, so she didn't struggle. It was useless to struggle, so she might as well save some energy.
"Today, for the sake of His Highness the Crown Prince, Concubine Mei will forgive your rude words for the time being. Please listen carefully. If you talk nonsense after you go out, Concubine Mei can kill you at any time." Mother Yang warned. road.
"Do you understand?"
Ye Jiayao nodded.
Aunt Yang signaled the two eunuchs to let go.
Ye Jiayao rubbed her painful wrist and said, "Concubine Mei, please be at ease. I, a small commoner, just want to live a peaceful life. I will not offend anyone unless they offend me."
Aunt Yang choked. This kid was too arrogant. She wanted to warn him a few more times, but when she thought of the emperor, she held back.
"It's best that you understand. Remember that Concubine Mei asked you to leave a long time ago. It was the maid from Chaohua Palace who asked you how to make cakes, so she was delayed."
Ye Jiayao sneered in her heart, the prince must be here to ask for someone, and Concubine Mei couldn't explain it, so she asked her to cooperate in lying.
Anyway, let’s get out of trouble first.
Ye Jiayao never expected that it was the emperor who came to ask for someone, not the prince.
This was the most supreme figure in Huai Song Kingdom, and he actually stood up for her, a commoner. Ye Jiayao felt like she was sleepwalking. It was so unreal.
"Yao Yao, are you okay? Are you injured?" Helian Jing asked with concern when he saw her coming out, and was going to check if she was injured.
"No, no, but if you guys come a little later, it will be hard to tell." Ye Jiayao quickly dodged.
Gao Gonggong said: "Chef Li, the emperor has appointed you to cook lunch today. Go to the imperial dining room with the Za family!"
ah? Ye Jiayao is about to faint again, making royal meals for the emperor
Damn, what an honor.
He Lianjing also said: "Yaoyao, this is your chance, come on."
He once asked Yaoyao, what does it mean to cheer? Yao Yao said that the fire will be strong only when you add fuel, which means working hard and getting better and better. He thought these two words were very useful, so he learned them.
Ye Jiayao nodded vigorously, is there any need to say this? Today I am going to show off my special skills and use all my eighteen martial arts skills.
Without further ado, Ye Jiayao followed Eunuch Gao to the imperial dining room.
As soon as she entered the imperial dining room, Ye Jiayao was dizzy, "Oh my God, what a spacious kitchen, there are so many cooks!"
There were dozens of people going in and out, inside and out.
Eunuch Gao took her all the way inside to the innermost row of houses and said, "This is the kitchen specially used to prepare royal meals for the emperor."
When an imperial chef saw Eunuch Gao coming, he hurriedly came to say hello: "Eunuch Gao, what did the emperor order today?"
Gao Gonggong said: "You, Chef Lu, will have a rest today. The Emperor has appointed Chef Li to cook lunch."
He also introduced: "This is Chef Lu who is responsible for the emperor's meals. This is Chef Li Yaoli from Tianshangju."
Lu Yiming looked at Ye Jiayao. It turned out that he was Li Yao, the chef of Tianshangju. Recently, Li Yao was the most popular figure in Jinling's food industry. Everyone was discussing about him, such as ice drinks, ice-skin ice cream mooncakes, and vegetarian longevity noodles. Homemade dishes, etc…
He originally thought that someone with such cooking skills must be at least thirty years old, but when he saw it now, he turned out to be a young man with barely even hair on his head, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
Heroes have been born in youth since ancient times, and their younger generations are to be feared! I don’t know if it is worthy of the name or just in vain.
Ye Jiayao asked cautiously: "May I ask if you are Chef Lu Yiming?"
"Exactly." Lu Yiming said.
Ye Jiayao was overjoyed: "It turns out it's really you, Chef Lu. I have admired your name for a long time and have always followed your example. Today I can meet my idol. I am so happy that I don't even know what to say."
Ye Jiayao's enthusiasm is exaggerated. Youdao is famous for her popularity. She almost died today. Now that the emperor appreciates her, giving her a chance to cook for the royal family will probably cause a lot of suspicion. Lu Yiming is also considered pregnant. The leading figures in the Song Dynasty's catering industry have extremely high prestige. In front of their predecessors, they must be humble, lower their posture, flatter them more, and smile brighter. It is always right.
"Idol?" Lu Yiming couldn't understand such a new word.
"It means a role model, which means a person whom I admire the most." Ye Jiayao explained.
Lu Yiming chuckled, feeling that this kid was a bit exaggerated, but he was cute nonetheless.
Of course, Ye Jiayao's acting skills have been perfected in Heifenggang. Even if she is facing a piece of shit, as long as she is willing, she can use the most sincere eyes and tone to praise the shit into a shit flower.
"Then what are you going to do?" Lu Yiming asked.
Although Ye Jiayao thought about the dishes she wanted to cook on the way, if she wanted to succeed, she still needed to collect more information. To understand the emperor's appetite, it was just like a doctor seeing a doctor, and to prescribe the right medicine.
Ye Jiayao looked at Eunuch Gao.
Eunuch Gao said with a smile: "The emperor said, just cook your special dishes. Prince Jing actually recommended your sizzling mushrooms to the emperor."
Ye Jiayao asked quickly: "Is there any taboo on the emperor's diet? Is the taste heavy or light?"
Eunuch Gao smiled and said, "You can find out just by asking Chef Lu."
With Eunuch Gao here, Lu Yiming naturally told him everything without missing a beat.
Ye Jiayao had an idea. The emperor likes to drink soup. OK, then give him a dish of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. Buddha will jump over the wall to eat it after hearing it, let alone mortals.
After all, it is the imperial dining room, with all kinds of food available in the sky, swimming in the water, and running on the ground.
Ye Jiayao carefully selected the ingredients and started to cook.
Lu Yiming pointed to the imperial chefs in the imperial dining room and said, "If you need help, just ask them."
Ye Jiayao smiled and said, "Just help me wash the vegetables."
Her time in the Heaven Residence was not in vain. It was not a problem for her to cook more than a dozen tables of dishes on her own, but today she was preparing royal meals for the emperor, so she had to be extra attentive.
The first thing to deal with is the various ingredients of Buddha Jumping Over the Wall. There are as many as eighteen kinds of ingredients used in this dish. The cooking process is very complicated and requires extremely high control of the heat.
She had tried it out a long time ago. There was no such method in this era. She originally wanted to save this dish until she opened a restaurant, but now she wanted to let the emperor enjoy it first.
Lu Yiming watched Ye Jiayao cooking with a wait-and-see attitude. How much skill could such a young cook have? He had some doubts.
I saw Ye Jiayao handling the shark's fins in an orderly manner. After washing the water-coated shark's fins and removing the sand, they neatly placed them on a bamboo grate. Added Shaoxing rice wine, green onion and ginger to the boiling water, and then boiled the shark's fins in the boiling water to remove the fishy smell. Take out the flavor, put pork fat on the shark's fin, add Shaoxing rice wine, then put it in the steamer and steam it over high heat.
Then, she cut the fish lips into uniform pieces and also used boiling water to remove the fishy smell.
Then there are golden abalone, chicken, duck, pig's trotters, pork belly, sheep knuckles, tendons, duck gizzards, fish maw, sea cucumbers, scallops, turtle skirts, pigeon eggs, bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms and other ingredients, which are very complicated to process. .
Lu Yiming looked at it for a long time and didn't know what she was going to cook. Sometimes it was boiled, sometimes steamed, sometimes fried, and sometimes stir-fried. What came out were all semi-finished products.
While the ingredients for Buddha Jumping Over the Wall were still steaming, Ye Jiayao prepared other dishes.
Cut the dried mushrooms into cross-sections, chop the pork belly into small pieces, add flour and various seasonings to make patties and stick them on the bottom of the mushrooms, then fry them in a frying pan.
Cut the eggplant into sections, hollow it out, fill it with the prepared minced meat, and put it on the steamer.
Remove the heads, shells, and tendons of the prawns, leaving the tails. Take another plate of shrimps and mash them into a paste, then mix with the minced meat and set aside.
Cut the potatoes into thin strips and fry them in boiling oil until golden brown. Cut the cowpeas and eggplants into the same length and fry them in the oil.
After all these were done, she picked up the radish and began to carve the flowers. The knife quickly peeled, dug, and rotated. Flowers of different shapes emerged, and the exquisite and real radish flowers came out.
Finally, Ye Jiayao picked up a big carrot, made some gestures, and started to carve the flying dragon.
There was silence in the imperial dining room, and everyone's eyes were attracted by the carving knife and radish in Ye Jiayao's hand.
Her orderliness did not attract everyone's attention before. As the royal chef, everyone here can do this, but with the lifelike radish flowers and radish pigeons appearing, this exquisite carving craftsmanship is truly Breathtaking.
Lu Yiming's expression became solemn. He is a connoisseur among connoisseurs. Although some chefs can also carve patterns, the patterns are common and simple and not difficult to learn. He has never seen such complicated patterns as Li Yao's. What is amazing is that Li Yao's movements are as smooth as water. The carving craftsmanship, the pinching of the shape, and the control of the strength, it seems that everything is well understood, and the sword is struck like a god.
This kid really has some skills. Based on this alone, he can be proud of other chefs.
At the same time, Lu Yiming felt even more pressure. This kid had gone to the extreme with his performance today. What should they do in the future
Eunuch Gao looked at the flying dragon that was gradually taking shape, his eyes widened in shock.
Is this Li Yao a sculptor or a cook? This is amazing.
Ye Jiayao carved two flying dragons and an auspicious cloud, fixed the two dragons on the auspicious clouds with bamboo sticks, and finally dug out a bright white radish bead with a spoon and embedded it in the dragon's mouth, forming a pattern of two dragons playing with a bead.
Then, cutting cucumber slices, shredded tomatoes and other accessories, Ye Jiayao started to take the plate to make mosaics.
I have long been familiar with what dishes to put on what dishes, and how to arrange them. The eighteen plates lined up, what sunrises in the sea of clouds, what spring tides are surging, what rich peonies, what lotus blooms...all were placed in a short time.
The ingredients in the steamer over there were almost there. Ye Jiayao processed the various ingredients in order and put them into a jar filled with Shaoxing wine. She poured in chicken, duck and other soups, sealed the mouth of the jar with lotus leaves, and put it upside down. Put a bowl on the charcoal stove and simmer over low heat.
Only then did Lu Yiming realize that all the ingredients he had prepared before turned out to be just one dish. I couldn't help but be stunned. I had never seen such a complicated dish. It looked like a random stew in a pot, but in fact, every ingredient was processed very delicately. The sense of urgency and pressure in my heart was even greater, and I felt like I was about to be eliminated.
(End of chapter)