Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

Jiang Tuan was brought to the kitchen by Ning Ling. After a few glances, he saw a chubby, festive-looking middle-aged man who was very easy to like at first sight walking towards him quickly.

"Your humble servant greets His Majesty."

Jiang Tuan has gotten used to it now. When he sees someone he doesn't know, he won't rush to talk. He will look at Ning Ling first, and every time Ning Ling will tell him accurately who that person is.

"Sir, this is the Imperial Household Order, Jia Yao, Lord Jia."

The time spent in Daxia was not in vain, and Ning Ling's popular science education was not completely useless. At least now when Jiang Tuan heard the three words "Taiguanling", he would no longer have any strange associations.

He knew that the Taiguanling was under the Shaofu and was an official in charge of the palace's meals, wine, and fruit.

Knowing the official position of the person in front of him, and hearing his name, he felt that this person and this official position were a perfect match. Delicious food, the person named Jiayao is in charge of the meals of the palace, what else can we call it if not matching?

After entertaining himself for a while, Jiang Tuan explained to Jiayao why he was there.

"Lord Jia, I came here to see what ingredients are in the kitchen. I want to make some food for the Queen and Princess Yale."

Before Jia Yao became the Minister of Imperial Households, he was a chef. This profession was hereditary. His family had been cooking for the Jiang family since his great-grandfather's generation.

His great-grandfather was originally a cook in a prominent family. Due to war, the family unfortunately disappeared and his great-grandfather was sold as a slave.

What are slaves? In times of war, they are things that are not even as good as cattle or sheep. Yes, they are just things, not even human beings.

His grandfather did the heaviest work, ate the worst food and was often hungry. When he was sick, no one treated him. After his grandfather fell ill, the owner thought it was unlucky and wanted to sell him off.

Jiang did not despise him and bought Jiayao's father back to treat him. When he recovered, Jiang's mistress heard that he used to be a cook, so she arranged for him to work in the kitchen.

In this way, Jiayao's grandfather became Jiang's chef, married and had children in Jiang's family. Later, Jiayao's grandfather passed away, and his father took over his grandfather's position and continued to be Jiang's chef.

During a battle, his father was killed by the enemy in order to find food for the injured King Jiang, now His Majesty, who was unable to eat. His Majesty, grateful for his father's loyalty, released his entire family into slavery.

Later, an enemy poisoned the current Queen Mother and the Crown Prince, but he discovered it and destroyed the conspiracy.

From then on, he became the exclusive chef of Your Majesty's family. After Your Majesty established Daxia and became emperor, he made an exception and appointed him as the Imperial Official.

He understood that his rise from a slave to the position of Imperial Household Minister was due to the efforts of his grandfather, father and himself, but without the grace of His Majesty, he and his descendants might still be slaves, even worse than cattle and sheep.

After all, most nobles would not take slaves seriously. It was an honor for a slave to die for his master, and being able to have a decent funeral was already a grace from the master. To think of anything else was just greed.

Jia Yao is a contented man. Your Majesty has given him the highest honor, so he will naturally perform his duties loyally for Your Majesty.

Ever since he became the Imperial Household Official, the kitchen has been well organized and strictly guarded, and he is very careful in preparing meals for His Majesty, Her Majesty, the Crown Prince, and Princess Yale.

The person who delivers the food, even if he is the most trusted one, will check it again before delivering it.

Out of concern for His Majesty's family, Jiayao was one of the first people in the palace to know about Jiang Tuan's existence.

However, this was not his purpose to spy on the emperor. Most of the people who helped Jiang Tuan make tofu products were eunuchs in the kitchen.

When Jiayao and everyone in Daxia made tofu according to Jiang Tuan’s method for the first time, they were stunned.

He had been a chef for many years, but he had never seen such amazing food. Oh, and there was also salt. He had lived for more than 30 years, but he had never tasted salt that tasted so good.

As a cook, how could he not be curious about the ingredients? Soy products and salt suddenly made Jiayao's favor towards Jiang Tuan soar, and he wanted to meet him very much.

However, before he could take action, he was told that Jiang Tuan was his majesty's long-lost half-brother, and that his majesty had already issued an edict to make him king, and all that was left was a ceremony.

Even if he was not a slave now, but the Grand Official of Daxia, he still could not compare with the prince. Moreover, from the attitude of the eunuchs around His Majesty, he could see that His Majesty valued Jiang Tuan very much, and the degree of importance he attached to him was almost the same as that of the Crown Prince.

Although he didn't know why His Majesty attached so much importance to a younger brother who suddenly appeared, he knew that His Majesty must have his reasons for doing so.

As a result, he did not dare to approach the other party casually, and placed the other party in the same important position as the Crown Prince and Princess Yale, and was very careful every time he delivered meals.

What he didn't expect was that the person he had always wanted to see but couldn't, suddenly appeared in the kitchen today.

He was very surprised when he heard the report from his men and hurried out to greet them. What he didn't expect was that the other prince was very friendly to him and even personally prepared meals for the Queen and Princess Yale.

You must know that whether in Daxia or in the previous dynasty, the status of cooks was very low. If it were not for Your Majesty's grace, he, a cook, would never have become the Minister of Imperial Households.

Many nobles were modest about their status and generally would not step into the kitchen. It was the first time he had seen a prince like Jiang Tuan walk in so openly and say that he wanted to cook his own meals.

Jia Yao had followed Jiang Qi all the way to become the Imperial Household Official, so he was considered to be quite knowledgeable. He was surprised for a moment but quickly adjusted his mentality and respectfully took his people on a tour of the kitchen.

While walking around, he introduced some things about the kitchen to the other party. If the other party didn't understand something, he would explain it carefully.

After a round of communication, Jiayao felt that Jiang Tuan was not a difficult prince to get along with, and Jiang Tuan also felt that Jiayao was a good person with a friendly attitude who did not mind being troublesome.

The kitchen of Daxia looks big, but there are not so many kinds of food, and there are even fewer things that Jiang Tuan can use to make desserts. Of course, this is also related to the fact that he can only make a few kinds of desserts.

After looking at everything, he decided to make double skin milk and ginger milk.

First of all, the ingredients for making the two desserts, such as milk, eggs, maltose, ginger, red beans, etc., are all available in the kitchen.

Secondly, both the double skin milk and ginger milk have a bouncy texture, somewhat similar to tofu pudding.

He didn't let Jiang Yi eat sweet tofu pudding today, so making her a dessert with a similar taste should be able to make up for his mistake!

Jiang Tuan asked the people in the kitchen to prepare the food. Just as he was about to start cooking, Jia Yao, who was standing next to him, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is what the prince is going to make very important?"

"It's not important. What's so important about two desserts?"

"If it's not important, can I do it for you?"