It was said to be a simple meal, but the old man and the mother-in-law prepared a very rich meal. They slaughtered a chicken raised in their own yard and cooked a large pot of thick chicken soup, which was fragrant.
In addition, there are several farm side dishes, which are colorful and pleasing to the eye.
Mo Chuan picked up his chopsticks, stared at a dish on the table, and asked, "Excuse me, mother-in-law, what is this dish? I have never seen it before."
He was in the palace, well-dressed and well-fed, and had tasted countless delicacies from all over the world, but he was greatly surprised by a dish on an ordinary farmer's table.
The old man and mother-in-law were both stunned. Just as they were about to answer, Shen Ning had already rushed to say, "Don't you know this dish? This dish has a very nice name."
"What a nice name?" Mo Chuan turned to look at her.
She replied seriously: "This dish is called: Gold inlaid white jade plate, red beak and green parrot."
Mo Chuan repeated: "Gold inlaid with white jade plate, red beak and green parrot?"
The name is indeed special and pleasant, and the more it looks like the dish, the more it looks like a jade plate. The white pieces are golden on the four sides and as white as jade in the middle. Are they not white jade plates inlaid with gold
As for the green parrot with a red beak, it is a vegetable. The red roots and green leaves make it look like a green parrot with a red beak.
"What a name, what a name! I think the taste is unmistakable." Mo Chuan praised.
The mother-in-law said "ouch" and laughed.
"What a white jade plate, it belongs to the Green Parrot. This little lady is really interesting. This dish is the most common, which is spinach and tofu. Have you two never eaten it?" She looked at Mo Chuan strangely.
Spinach braised tofu!
Mo Chuan's face instantly turned red to his ears, and he glared at Shen Ning hatefully.
The bolder she gets, the fatter she gets!
She actually made a fool of herself and made herself look embarrassed in front of these two old people to see how he would deal with her.
Shen Ning laughed so hard that she rubbed her belly and couldn't straighten up.
She had read such a joke in a book before. It was about an emperor who was visiting privately incognito. During the rain, he stayed at a farmhouse and had a casual meal. There was this spinach and tofu dish on the table. The emperor didn't know it. I thought it was delicious and asked the farmer about the name of the dish. The farmer made up a random name: "Gold inlaid with white jade plate, red beak and green parrot".
Later, after the emperor returned to the palace, he was obsessed with this dish and ordered the imperial chef to cook it in the same way. The imperial chef had never heard of white jade plate and green parrot, and his hair turned white because of the anxiety. Later, he finally found out that it was made by a farmer. After that, the farmer was invited to the palace to cook this dish.
The emperor was extremely happy to see that the dish was exactly the same as what he had eaten before. However, after taking a bite with his chopsticks, he looked disappointed and refused to take another bite.
Because the dish tasted ordinary, he didn't know that he was hungry at the time, so he regarded this simplest farm dish as the most delicious delicacy in the world.
Shen Ning originally thought this was just a fable-like joke, but she didn't expect that such a thing actually happened in front of her eyes.
Thinking of Mo Chuan's believing expression, she laughed until her stomach hurt.
Mo Chuan blushed at her laughter. He couldn't hold the chopsticks he lifted up. He grimaced, coughed heavily, stretched out his left hand from under the table, and pinched her wrist punitively.