The woman was startled, snorted, turned around and left. Lu Xiaoshu raised his foot and followed.
"Xiao Shu!" Liu Sanniang couldn't help being a little worried, and grabbed her sleeve.
Lu Xiaoshu blinked at her, and said with a smile: "Miss, don't worry, this servant will not let the girl be wronged! This servant has its own discretion, come when you go!"
Seeing her smile, Liu Sanniang calmed down a little, and could only watch her go.
Arriving outside the yard where Mr. Tian lived, the woman said, "Wait here!" and went in, but didn't come out for a long time.
Presumably at this time, Mr. Tian is having dinner. This nouveau riche may take a meal for a long time. There must be a lot of ostentation. Lu Xiaoshu is not in a hurry, his legs are a little sore after standing for a long time, so he simply looks for it. He sat down and waited slowly.
After waiting for about half an hour, the woman came out from the inside. She was expecting to see Lu Xiaoshu's disheveled face, but when she saw her sitting and waiting leisurely, she couldn't help but feel blocked again, and hummed: "Hurry up!" Get up, follow me to see the master! Our Tianfu is a place with rules, if you do this again in the future, don't blame me for being rude!"
Lu Xiaoshu gave her a blank look and ignored her. Anyway, she is not from the Tian family, so can this old lady beat her? If she dares to do something, she will discipline her to lie on the bed for a month!
As Lu Xiaoshu expected, Mr. Tian was eating just now, and now he was leaning on the recliner with his big belly, holding a bowl of tea made of Yue kiln celadon, fiddled with it, and sipped it in small sips. with tea. On the left and on the right, there are two little girls beating his back and legs.
"What's the matter with you? Did your girl figure it out?" Mr. Tian glanced at her and said arrogantly.
"Master Tian, my girl hasn't had dinner yet!" Lu Xiaoshu said, "The food in the house is so bad, the girl can't eat it!"
"What did you say?" Master Tian sat up, put the bowl of tea aside, and said with a downcast face, "You said the food in my house is terrible, Master? What did you send over?"
Master Tian glanced at the woman who led the way.
"Slaves, how dare you neglect Miss Liu!" The old woman hurriedly stepped forward, and replied: "What I sent are hibiscus chicken slices, rouge goose, fried roe deer meat with winter bamboo shoots and fungus, shredded fish with silver buds, and three fresh ham and chicken skin soup. It was made by Master Tian, and I sent it to Miss Liu as soon as it was out of the pot, and it was still steaming hot! But, "
The woman glanced at Lu Xiaoshu, and said: "This sister insists that her girls can't eat this kind of food, and it's only for cats and dogs!"
"Hmph!" Master Tian was furious, glared at Lu Xiaoshu and shouted coldly: "You really said that? You are not small!"
"Your servant is just telling the truth." When facing Master Tian, Lu Xiaoshu's expression was still very respectful, with a cautious and timid look in his respect, and he said: "My girl is always particular about food. If Master Tian doesn't believe it, you can send me People go to the Drunken Spring Tower and ask!"
Lu Xiaoshu dared to say that because he was certain that this nouveau riche would definitely not send someone to ask him - he couldn't afford to lose face! The cook in his house can't even compare to the cook in Hualou, so what face does he have to be a nouveau riche
Sure enough, Mr. Tian snorted and didn't answer the words, but his attitude and tone became more suspicious, and he said proudly: "Then you can ask what your girl wants to eat! Master, I will tell the kitchen to do it!"
He still doesn't believe it, there are things in this world that he can't get!
He can eat several eggs in one meal from a hen that grew up eating ginseng. There are more than ten such hens in the family! As for other delicacies from mountains and seas, as long as they are available in this world, there is nothing that his kitchen can't make!
"Master Xie Tian!" Lu Xiaoshu bowed his knees slightly to accompany Master Tian, and said lightly, "Actually, my girl doesn't have such a tricky mouth anymore. The girl said that she wants to eat two dishes today, one is delicacies from mountains and seas, and the other is cabbage heart in clear soup." .”
Mr. Tian laughed loudly and said, "What is this? Yes! What delicacies do you want? Bear's paw, deer tendon, leopard embryo, hump, orangutan lip, shark's fin, sea cucumber, abalone, scallop, scallop? Or something else? As for the cabbage heart in clear soup, hehe!"
Lu Xiaoshu shook his head, and said: "Master Huitian, delicacies from mountains and seas is the name of a dish, which is made from the round grain of tough meat in the center of the pheasant's paw and the two whiskers on the lip of a wild carp weighing more than ten catties. It is a dish made of raw materials and prepared broth. This dish must use at least a hundred pheasants and hundreds of carps! As for the cabbage heart in clear soup, the cabbage grown by pouring milk is used. Heart, put it into the clear soup prepared with dozens of delicacies from mountains and seas, and roll it twice. The soup is as clear as water, but it brings together the most beautiful and fresh flavors in the world. It is the best for maintaining the throat and body! My family What the girl is best at is teaching singing and dancing, and Mother Lian in Zuichunlou treats her like a treasure!"
As Lu Xiaoshu said that, Master Chaotian smiled a little embarrassedly, and said, "That's true, but these things are expensive and trivial to make, and my girl can only eat them once or twice a month! Now I entrust Tian Master's blessing, what a blessing!"
After hearing her words, Mr. Tian was already a little stunned. What kind of dish is this? It's the first time he's heard...
Master Tian couldn't help laughing "ha", looked at Lu Xiaoshu and said, "Okay, you are right! Master, I am already very particular about things like Buddha jumping over the wall, deep-fried sheep's tail, and hidden fish in the side of sheep." , Bazhen Yuchun, and jar meat I’m tired of eating, this is the first time I’ve heard of what you’re talking about!”
"If you don't have one, then forget it!" Lu Xiaoshu said with a smile: "Or just pieces of agate, pine mushroom kidney in walnut oil, and shark lips in chicken sauce! My girl doesn't care much about anything else, she just eats here—the mouth is a little bit It's tricky!"
Not to mention Mr. Tian, all the maids and women around were a little dumbfounded! All secretly speechless.
He said in his heart: On weekdays, our master is already particular about food, and he eats hundreds of taels of silver in one meal without blinking his eyes! Eat cowpea and cut it into sections, hollow out the middle and fill it with stuffing such as winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, scallops, etc. minced with minced meat. The girl is even tricky, really—are there more rich people in Nanjing than in Yangzhou
Master Tian couldn't help but be moved when he heard that, he is one of the largest salt merchants in Yangzhou, and he is a relative of the magistrate of Yangzhou. Besides, he has a huge backer, and the money in his hands is like sea water. He is particularly interested in eating.
Rare and not rare in these years, I don't know how many good things I have eaten, but he has never heard of the few things Lu Xiaoshu said.
Fish lip in chicken sauce is easy to understand, as for the other two—
Mr. Tian said "Oh", and asked in a bland manner, "What are the agate fragments and walnut oil matsutake kidneys? How would your girl eat them?"
Lu Xiaoshu secretly smiled, and didn't bother to expose him. He lowered his eyes and lowered his eyebrows and explained pleasingly: "The agate fragments are the bits of meat on the sparrow's thigh. Use the best Jiangyaozhu, winter bamboo shoots, aged Jinhua ham, and small flower mushrooms. , wild honey sauce, salt, rice wine, etc., add the seafood sauce made in the season and stir-fry; walnut oil matsutake kidney is mainly walnut oil and boil slowly. Slowly stir-fry on low heat until the oil comes out of crushing and frying, filter through gauze, and then use this walnut oil to fry the chopped and marinated kidneys, slice the matsutake into thin slices and fry on both sides, and let it cool slightly Roll up the stir-fried kidneys one by one, insert them with toothpicks, and steam them in the steamer for half a stick of incense... ”
Lu Xiaoshu made it out of his mouth, but Master Tian was dumbfounded when he heard it, and the glutton couldn't help being hooked.
Lu Xiaoshu didn't seem to be satisfied, so he casually mentioned a few other strange and weird dishes, and he was so fascinated by Master Tian's words, he wished he could find him and try them immediately.
Lu Xiaoshu secretly laughed in his heart. The saying that food is the heaven of the heart is a well-known saying in this country from ancient times to the present. The food has been passed down and developed from generation to generation. In modern times, it has integrated Chinese and Western. What can be said is There are too many! Isn't it easy to make something casually to fool the ancients? This idiot can't be so stupid as to take her words seriously...
"Master Tian, I'm afraid my girl is really going to be hungry..." Lu Xiaoshu said a little bit in embarrassment. Not to mention the mistress, even she herself, now her stomach is growling several times!
"Oh!" Master Tian, who was fascinated by the sound, woke up like a dream, and looked at Lu Xiaoshu with something different. He never dreamed that a little girl who was a servant in a flower building , actually know so many things.
"Well, you go back first!" Master Tian cleared his throat and coughed, waved his hands in a dignified manner, and said, "I'll ask someone to bring food to your master and servant later!"
Damn Chef Tian! If it weren't for his outstanding craftsmanship, he wouldn't let him take his own surname. He didn't expect to make him feel ashamed this time, and even a little girl who came out of a flower building could see what he made. No!
It's really unreasonable!
Fortunately, this embarrassment is lost at home. If it spreads outside, he won't need to lose face. Those people in Yangzhou have to laugh at him to death!
He swears that this time Chef Tian will try his best to cook two dishes that satisfy Miss Liu's master and servant, otherwise he will chop off his hands!
But what kind of dishes is that girl talking about? It sounds delicious, no matter what, he has to try...
"Yes, Master Tian!" Lu Xiaoshu bowed obediently and agreed, and retreated out with a low eyebrow.
Leaving in front of Master Tian, Lu Xiaoshu felt amused and heaved a sigh of relief secretly. Now the nouveau riche must have no time to pester his wife, at least, not these few days. And with these few days of effort, Zhou Shizhi can do many things.