Lin Dan was a little stunned now, and subconsciously called out a system in his mind, and was stunned—what is the system? She was holding a soup spoon in her hand, and there was a light layer of milky white soup in the spoon, which smelled fresh and fragrant, and there was a faint aftertaste in her mouth. It was obvious that she had taken a sip just now. But the problem is that Lin Dan has no idea who he is, what he is doing, and why he appears here inexplicably.
She stared at her thin, calloused hands, feeling that they belonged to her, but they didn't seem to be. She stood here, but she clearly didn't belong here, like a visitor from another world who suddenly broke in, and the people around her Everything is out of place. She doesn't even know what's going on right now.
But the people around didn't realize that the Lin Dan at the moment was no longer the Lin Dan before. One of them pointed to a dish placed in front of her and said, "It's still a little bit worse." But what is the taste? It is not clear, after all, he is not a professional chef, but his sense of taste is more sensitive than ordinary people.
Lin Dan was awakened by this sentence, and when he looked up, he realized that the other party was a young man in brocade clothes. He is slender, with fair skin and handsome eyebrows. If he doesn't speak, he looks like a little girl. Like Lin Dan, he was tasting the dish with a spoon in his hand, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and his expression was serious.
"It does owe some heat." Another person said slowly.
Lin Dan turned to look, and found that the person who spoke this time was an old man with a gray beard. Right now he was smacking his lips, as if discerning the aftertaste of the soup.
Lin Dan quickly looked away and looked around, even though he didn't understand anything in his heart, he didn't show the slightest panic on his face. She seemed to be used to dealing with such emergencies.
"What do you mean by owed some heat? I think it's almost the same, there's no difference." The person who spoke this time was a dignified middle-aged man, wearing a robe embroidered with auspicious clouds and blue unicorns. It doesn't seem to be low, because as soon as he finished speaking, the people standing around began to nod in agreement, with a slightly flattering smile on their faces.
But Lin Dan didn't pay attention to him, but turned his head and looked aside. There was a little girl standing seven or eight meters away from her, only thirteen or fourteen years old. There was also a square table in front of her, and there was also a plate of dishes on the table. Under Lin Dan's eyelids, the plate was almost indistinguishable.
Combining the environment, characters, dialogue information, etc., Lin Dan quickly came to the conclusion that he seemed to be competing with someone in cooking.
The little girl had a smile on her face after listening to the words of the young man and the white-bearded old man. Seeing that the middle-aged man did not support her, she immediately raised her eyebrows, looking a little stubborn: "I also ask Hou Ye to taste it carefully."
Lord Hou? Lin Dan, who was trying his best to gather information, glanced at the middle-aged man quickly.
The middle-aged man was about to speak, but the handsome young man said impatiently, "You can't taste the good or bad dishes yourself, so what are you doing as a cook?" This was obviously addressed to Lin Dan, because he was black and white. His eyes stared straight at Lin Dan. The little girl was happy now, lowered her head, pursed her lips, and smiled shyly.
The previous Lin Dan had already tasted the dishes she made, but she did not admit defeat, and it was not appropriate to say "no admit defeat". The boy who lost was very dissatisfied with this.
Now that she has figured out the situation, Lin Dan doesn't have to keep the same and respond to all changes. She wants to finish the play according to normal people's reactions, so she silently evaluates the soup in her spoon and walks there. Beside the indignant little girl, scooping the soup from her plate.
Both dishes are crab roe, chicken and choy sum, which look like only a few boiled cabbage leaves, but it takes a lot of effort to make them well. This is exactly what cooking is like, and the simpler the dish, the more difficult it is to make.
Lin Dan originally just wanted to take two bites and then voluntarily admit defeat, so that he could get out as soon as possible, and then find a place to calmly digest this sudden situation. But when she really tasted two dishes, her taste buds and brain automatically gave a judgment. Only then did she find that her sense of taste seemed to be much more sensitive than ordinary people's, and the slightest difference could be magnified several times by the tip of her tongue, which was exactly what Lin Dan lacked the most before.
"I lost." After putting down the spoon, she said sincerely, "My cabbage is a little bitter." This kind of bitterness can't be tasted by ordinary people, and only a glutton with an extremely sensitive taste can distinguish it.
The white-bearded old man gave her a deep look and said, "That's right, you didn't wait for the cabbage to be fully cooked when you thickened it, which made the heating time of the starch excessively prolonged, making it easy to burn and bitter, and the taste was unpleasant. Slippery. And the essence of crab roe and chicken choy sum is exactly two words, one is sweet and the other is smooth. Your dish looks decent, but it’s a little bit different in taste.”
Lin Dan nodded and said again, "I lost."
Seeing that her expression was magnanimous and peaceful, and there was no resentment after she was defeated, the white-bearded old man nodded slightly. The middle-aged man sighed deeply, his face revealed unbearable, while a woman who was hiding behind her collapsed while clutching her chest, startling everyone.
"No, Mrs Qi fainted! Lin Dan, come and see your mother!" Immediately, two women helped the woman up and waved to Lin Dan again and again.
Lin Dan, who quickly gathered information from the words to supplement his identity, ran over without hesitation and said loudly, "Please help me find a doctor, I will take my mother back first." The words fell naturally and took over for one of them. A woman goes to help the woman. The woman who came out with her hands didn't notice anything unusual, she hurriedly led the way, and quickly brought Lin Dan back to her own home.
After a lot of hustle and bustle, the doctor finally came and said that the woman was not seriously ill, but that the fainting caused by excessive worrying would be cured by drinking some soothing decoction.
After Lin Dan took the prescription, he took off a silver hairpin on his head and counted it as a consultation fee. She didn't know where the women kept the money, and even if she knew, the money box would definitely be locked, and now the woman was dizzy and couldn't ask her to get the key, that's all.
The doctor glanced at her with pity, and said warmly: "The doctor's fee is already out, you can keep the hairpin yourself. Give me this prescription, and I will let the servant in the Hou's house catch it for you, your mother. I'm dizzy and can't be separated from anyone. Alas..."
Looking at the doctor who slowly walked away while shaking his head and sighing, Lin Dan realized that the previous cooking competition seemed to be very important to him, otherwise everyone would not have such great sympathy for her, and her mother would not be there She fainted after admitting defeat. But defeat means defeat. This is an undeniable fact, so Lin Dan has no regrets for what he has done.
Seeing that the woman was covered in cold sweat, she picked up the copper basin and went outside to fetch water, but saw a 16- or 17-year-old boy walk in and whispered, "Lin Dan, I have already caught the medicine for you, a packet of The medicine and three bowls of water should be boiled on high heat and then boiled over low heat to make a bowl, don't throw away the remaining medicinal residues, you can boil two more doses, three doses a day, and it's almost enough to drink for seven days."
Lin Dan hurriedly thanked him, and after sending the other party away, he went to the kitchen to make medicine. Whether it was chopping wood to burn the stove or carrying a bucket to fetch water, this body could do it subconsciously. The soup was already boiling, and it was bubbling, so Lin Dan removed some dry wood and used a small fire to boil it slowly. Then, he brought a small stool and sat by the stove to sort out his memories.
She seemed accustomed to doing this, and quickly understood her situation. Her father is Lin Baotian, the chef of Yongding Houfu. Because Yongding Hou is an old gluttonous eater, he is very particular about food, so Lin Baotian, who has extraordinary cooking skills, is highly valued by the other party, and he even has to take him with him when marching and fighting, his status is evident. Because of this, Lin Dan and the Qi family had a very good life in the Hou Mansion. Not only did they have a single house to live in, but they also had maids and servants to serve them.
But two months ago, Lin Baotian suddenly died of a sudden illness. When he was dying, he passed on the cooking skills and kitchen knives that he had summed up in his life to Lin Dan, the only daughter. Lin Dan has adored Xiaohou Ye since he was a child, and the other party, like the old Houye, is also a food lover, so she practiced cooking hard every day, just to let Xiaohou Ye take a look at her.
After her father's death, she took over the mantle and continued to be a chef in the Hou Mansion. Although she was only twelve or thirteen years old, she was already very skilled. Occasionally, she made a signature dish that she had been practicing for a long time, but she heard the little Hou Ye say that this dish is far inferior to the little maid in his courtyard.
Lin Dan has always been arrogant and arrogant, but when he even went to challenge the little girl, he didn't expect the little girl to reveal a shocking secret. It turned out that Lin Baotian's cooking skills and kitchen knives were stolen from her grandfather. Lin Baotian was not a descendant of the golden knife royal chef at all, but a generation who deceived his master and destroyed his ancestors.
The little maid's name is Yan Langqing, and her grandfather was Yan Bo, a chef with a golden knife in the previous dynasty, who was quite famous in the industry. Later, Yan Bo was seriously ill and was about to die. Yan Langqing's father happened to be out of town and failed to come back in time to send his father on the last journey. Lin Baotian buried Yan Bo and took the opportunity to steal the imperial golden knife and Yan's recipe, and then disappeared. To disappear without a trace.
Yan Langqing's father was brooding about this, he took his wife and children to search everywhere, and finally found Lin Baotian in Yongding Hou's mansion, but he didn't expect the other party to be dead, so he let his daughter sneak into the Hou's mansion to learn about the situation of the enemy's descendants. And looking for an opportunity to challenge Lin Dan, the bet is the imperial golden knife and the Yan family recipe.
Lin Dan is very competitive, how could she be willing to lose face in front of the little Marquis, and in order to defend her father's reputation, she immediately accepted the challenge... Later, she lost, and then she became the current "Lin Dan". The handsome young man who acted as a judge before was Xiaohou Ye, and the middle-aged man who even knew that Lin Dan was defeated by Yan Langqing was Laohou Ye.
Although the names are the same, Lin Dan can clearly perceive that the previous self and the current self are not the same person at all. In the past, Lin Dan's heart was full of eyes full of Xiaohou Ye. He could be ecstatic because of his smile, or hesitant because of his frown, but now, Lin Dan has no feeling at all. stranger.
What she needs to solve now is no longer the question of identity and memory, but where to go. After losing the game and having a sick mother to take care of, what should she do in the future