Datang First Chef

On the way back to the hotel, Li Sanniang was elated, and finally the restaurant was sold at a price of 25 taels of silver, which was less than she had imagined.From the bargaining between the two, Mo Wenyuan also learned a lot, and his heart was itching, and he hoped that he could apply what he had learned and find a chance to try his hand at it.

He interpreted reality into theory, and summed up the four-character key, which is nothing more than fast, precise, firm and steady.

Li Sanniang took her son's hand, said earnestly, and passed on her experience: "It's not okay to hide behind Aniang. If you have a chance, remember to stand in front of me. You kill first, and I'll be in the rear." He said very much like a fierce general on the battlefield.

"The voice is not too loud, but you must be quick to grab the white, and the words don't have to be vulgar, but the expression must be disdainful, especially like a restaurant with ghosts, and you must believe that no one will buy it except us." Mo Wenyuan nodded repeatedly, with admiration He looked at Li Sanniang.

"You have to believe it yourself first, and only when you believe it can you have enough momentum. Even the stingy seller like this has to think about it." She snorted disdainfully, "Especially that old man still wants to sell!" She didn't even have an honorary title. She didn't bother to confide, which showed how much that person disgusted her.

Mo Wenyuan said: "I can save it."

"What did A Niang think about the rebuilding of the building by the people looking for Zi Zi mentioned earlier?"

Li Sanniang thought for a while: "The restaurant must be rebuilt. I have seen it before, and the back kitchen is unsightly." The restaurant has only been empty for a few decades, so it is by no means dilapidated.Thinking of the many-legged insects lying on the ground, the mice scurrying around in the corners, the geckos clinging to the walls, and the spiders spinning their webs, she felt that she couldn't get her breath out.They are all engaged in eating and drinking, so don't you know the importance of hygiene?The kitchen is like this, she is worried about the diners who have eaten here, afraid that they will vomit and diarrhea after eating unclean dishes.

"As for the courtyard, it was originally said that the rebuilding was to get rid of the bad luck of spirits and monsters, but just looking at the furnishings, I think it is very good, so there is no need to make a big move."

Mo Wenyuan said: "If you don't move, you can lend me the yard first."

Li Sanniang said: "What use do you want it for?"

"I want to brew peony wine locally." He judged, "I have looked carefully, and the price of peony and other ingredients in Luoyang is far lower than that of Chang'an. Besides, the most important thing in peony wine is peony, which is harvested in Luoyang. The flowers are the freshest, the price is low, and they are suitable for winemaking."

"Besides, my wine needs to be brewed for at least two months before it can be opened. If it is left for a year, the taste will only be more mellow. If it is not in a hurry, it will be brewed this year. It will be sold at the Peony Flower Festival next year. I am afraid that your restaurant will not be able to drink it. Now that it’s in business, it just happens to be sold in the store, isn’t it good?”

Li Sanniang said: "That's good, but where do you get the people to make wine?" She hasn't taken root in Luoyang City yet, so she can't find anyone she can trust. If she really wants to make wine, why don't she find people from Chang'an?

Mo Wenyuan could only rub his hands with a flattering smile: "Hey, this summer is already hot, and it is not far from Chang'an to Luoyang Road, but it is a toss for peony flowers. If they are not well preserved, the petals will wilt when they arrive in Chang'an. Withering, the scent has dissipated..."

Li Sanniang couldn't laugh or cry and said, "Okay, okay, I'll take care of this matter for you, just wait."

Mo Wenyuan hadn't finished speaking yet, he said: "The flowering period of peonies is not long, I think it will be a decade or two at most, and it will be time to harvest the petals."

"There is also the aspergillus I made last year. It is placed in the backyard of my house. If I go to Chang'an to ask someone to come, I must not forget to bring my baby back."

Li Sanniang said: "Leave it to me, you should study the brewing method carefully."

……

Li Sanniang delivered a letter to Lu Zhong that night, entrusting a merchant who went to Chang'an to bring it back. Lu Zhong guaranteed that it would be delivered within a few days. Sanniang calculated that Mo Xiaogou is capable. Then find someone ready to go, and they will arrive in about ten days.

She had to make preparations first, tidy up the courtyard where the people were placed, and then go to buy the large and small items for wine making.The combination of all kinds of things made her so busy that even Mo Wenyuan didn't see Auntie often for a few days.

On the contrary, the client is very free, or this is his last free time. Mo Wenyuan knows very well that when Chang'an's manpower arrives, he will be busy.

He had already done the preparations for the sake brewing. Of course, it was not the distilling method, but an improved version of the sake brewing method that had appeared in this era.Method Mo Wenyuan has learned the ancient method in modern times, practiced it several times, and improved it, and the results are extraordinary.

His schedule is very full, and he has been busy building a bean product kingdom in the past few years. In addition, the technology of the Tang Dynasty cannot be compared with modern technology, so it took more than half a year from the beginning of the experiment to the cultivation of qualified koji bacteria.

After everything was ready, Mo Wenyuan did not act rashly. He was still thinking about how to make his own wine surpass other wines, making it more distinctive, more noble, and more satisfying to himself.After arriving in Luoyang, he finally had success.

Swaying and swaying, Mo Wenyuan traveled to Nanshi. Recently, half of the merchants from all over the world gathered in Luoyang City. Compared with the two cities in the east and west, Luoyang has more treasures in Nanshi. Find some rare items.

Li Sanniang has never been stingy with giving money to Mo Wenyuan. She knew that her son likes to find spices and fresh ingredients when he has nothing to do, so she gave enough silver taels. When Mo Wenyuan took a step, the bells jingled, and clusters of copper coins collided with each other. , making a "money smell" sound.

Suddenly, Mo Wenyuan saw something in the cloth pocket by the roadside, his heart trembled, and the tiger went down the mountain and threw himself on the side of the cloth bag: "Old man, can you take a look?"

The old man spoke with a strange tone, and Mo Wenyuan couldn't identify the dialect, but fortunately, he understood most of the meaning of the other party after listening carefully. "You little boy, be careful when you watch, don't break it." He said slowly, as if to mention something casually.

Mo Wenyuan nodded hastily, then grabbed a piece of dry yellow curly brittle object, and looked at it under the sunlight. As soon as he got his hands on it, he knew what they were.The production method of fish gelatin has not changed for thousands of years. Modern fish gelatin is still boiled by local methods, and the texture is exactly the same.

"Is the old man from the Chaozhou generation?" Chaozhou is the modern Chaoshan area. Mo Wenyuan once heard the wandering monks say that Chaozhou and other places are extremely rich in seafood. The local people dried the fish maw to make jelly and sent it to the palace as a tribute. Among them, even the empresses in the palace love to eat it, and girls from aristocratic families occasionally eat this food, saying that it is very good for the skin.

Mo Wenyuan remembered it in his heart at that time, when he went to the West Market, he wanted to find isinglass, but he didn't expect to find it in Luoyang at this time, it was really unintentional.

"My son knows a lot." The old man finally looked at Mo Wenyuan, he still spoke in a leisurely manner, not in a hurry to do business at all, "So, do you know what this is?"

"But fish maw is obtained after drying?" He said, "After cooking, it is soft and delicious, full of elasticity, and it is very good for women."

"Well said."

"How much is this money? I want it all."

The old man spit out a number, the price is not too high to be outrageous, but it is sold in Nanshi, which is naturally different from ordinary ingredients, Mo Wenyuan said: "Can you get it with money?" Looking at his small body, he didn't have any big skewers on him. Copper coins, otherwise they would have been crushed long ago.

The old man still nodded calmly: "Yes."

Mo Wenyuan carried the cloth bag full of isinglass on his shoulders, his face was full of excitement, and finally he could make homemade desserts!

……

The quiet moonlight shines on the loess surrounded by the low wall. The little black sheep leaps lightly and tramples on the ground without making a sound. He holds a few peonies with large flower plates in his mouth, and the petals are covered with night dew.

He cast a little spell that doesn't have much use, which can keep the flowers fresh after they are detached from the stem. The spell is unique to Black Sheep, which can ensure that the ingredients are of the highest quality.

Huizhi was too lazy to follow him. Since the delivery of the fish, Xiao Taotie would arrive every night as scheduled, and deliver the freshest ingredients to Mo Wenyuan. Sometimes it was fish, sometimes it was meat, and sometimes it was meat. Hua, Huizhi thinks that he has seen all kinds of things in the world, and the behavior of Taotie is exactly the same as that of a gentleman who is "a fair lady, a gentleman likes to eat".

Huizhi: I can't see it!I didn't see it!

Mo Wenyuan became very playful, and gained a lot of fun from exchanging letters and ingredients with Xiao Taotie. At night, the other party sent ingredients and notes. When Xi Weichao appeared, he put dishes and letters in the courtyard. He had never met and got along with each other. But incomparably harmonious.

It is also a gift of peonies, but the ones given by Xiao Taotie are very different from those given by Wang Wei. The latter are bought at a high price, as if the more money spent, the better the look and the better the taste. But Taotie, he has a sensitive sense. The combination of his sense of smell and his picky tongue makes him the most authoritative food critic, and he can't catch both finished dishes and raw ingredients.

Looking at the production process of peony fish fillets, he can see the essence of it. The smell of flowers and the brilliance of color are not the most important. What really plays a decisive role is the fragrance of flowers, so what he brings are all fragrant. faceplate.

Mo Wenyuan laughed at his ugly handwriting, and the self-respecting little glutton was very dissatisfied. Before leaving the note today, he turned into a human body and wrote several scraps of paper, and finally picked out a note that he was satisfied with. Not only that, he also dragged the text, The poem "Flowing Water Peach Blossom Fragrance" from the Northern and Southern Dynasties was used and written as "Flowing Water Peony Fragrance".

He was very proud when he left the note, and the little black sheep also went to the Peony Fair, knowing that those ugly men who wear big flowers on their heads and call themselves "literati" often leave words on the stone slabs. ladle.

The little black sheep thought happily: With the poems, Mr. Mo Xiaolang will definitely look at him differently, at least he won't think the words are ugly!

Huizhi looked on coldly as he was busy, and tried to stop him several times, but he still didn't say anything. He thought, the quality of the handwriting has nothing to do with whether or not to leave poems, and Mr. Mo Xiaolang doesn't like to read poems, so you looked for it in a different way. , he might still feel baffled.

Moreover, with Mr. Mo Xiaolang's nature, it is enough to leave flowers, so why leave a message?

The next morning, Mo Wenyuan placed the plate next to the ruined wall on time, his figure disappeared, and the little black sheep appeared. He rushed to the plate with lightning speed, and grasped the edge of the plate with his mouth precisely. , and run away.

Huizhi appeared in the grove. He thought he would cut off his appetite, but every time he was overwhelmed by Mo Xiaolangju's talent in cooking, even if he knew that Taotie would not give him food even the size of a grain of rice, he would Stretch your neck and see how you eat differently every day.

"What is this?" He looked at the trembling milky white jelly, "But tofu?"

The little black sheep bleated disdainfully.

Tofu, tofu has a milk flavor?

"If it's not tofu, what is it?"

The little black sheep ignored him, he struggled for a second, circulated the spiritual power in his dantian, turned into a human body, held Mo Wenyuan in his right hand with a wooden spoon on the side, and found a way to eat jelly without a teacher.

Gently scoop off the milky white jelly at the corner, and saw it lying tremblingly in the center of the wooden spoon, no matter how lightly the movement was, the jelly still swayed from side to side. A dancer who sways her delicate waist.

"Ahh-"

The tip of his tongue chased the small pieces of jelly, and the taste, which was more delicate and smooth than tofu, hit his heart. He moved his teeth carefully and chopped it into pieces.

Incredible!The hair on the little glutton's head was about to stand on end!The sharp teeth cut it into small pieces precisely, and no matter how hard the soft tongue tried, it couldn't crush the jelly pieces. The astonishing Q-talking touch made him open his eyes wide.

The almond-filtered goat's milk has no fishy smell, and the milky taste blooms on the tip of the tongue. The sensitive taste nerves send a sweet signal to his brain. The honey is mixed with the milky taste. The superposition of the two creates a taste of happiness.

It's really delicious!

The little Taotie wanted to crumble the jelly and the plate, but he was reluctant to swallow it in one bite. He struggled to taste the hard-won delicacy cautiously, and vowed to figure out how to make this jelly, so that Mo Xiaolang would eat it every day. Do it for him!

The magic power of jelly has captured him completely!

……

"What is this, this, this, this!"

The same scene appeared in the lobby of the hotel. Wang Wei held a wooden spoon and stared at the milk-flavored jelly with his hand, as if flowers would float out if he looked at it twice.

"Tofu? Bean curd? Why didn't I taste the bean flavor?"

Wang Wei doesn't hate beans, on the contrary, he likes the fragrant bean flavor in soy products. It's so wonderful. To the noble family, soybeans are a kind of cheap food, few people are willing to eat them. Of course, when soybeans are ground, they become soy milk or Simply make it into tofu, but it has become a popular delicacy all over the country and praised by everyone.

He thought that Mo Wenyuan had developed a new method of soybeans, and looked at him with admiration.

What a blessing for foodies!

Mo Wenyuan shook his head and said, "Can you taste soybeans from it?"

"No, Mr. Xiaolang, you have used various methods to remove the smell of beans?"

Listen to the little black sheep in the corner snorting disdainfully, Doudou, what are you kidding?His tongue didn't taste like beans!

Sure enough, the vast majority of human races are stupid, and they can't even distinguish the raw materials!

Only Mo Xiaoyuan is smart!

"Since there is no bean flavor, how can it be beans?" Mo Wenyuan left the back kitchen, and when he came back, he held a cloth bag. He reached out and grabbed a handful of yellow curly crisps and put them on the table.

Wang Wei said, "What is this?"

Mo Wenyuan said: "I only used four ingredients for this dessert, almonds, honey, goat's milk, and this."

"It's called fish gelatin, and I bought it from my old Chaozhou husband."

"Fish?!" Wang Wei yelled, "Why does fish smell like this?"

The little black sheep was also very excited, he swung his tail involuntarily, and the short black stripes swayed back and forth, left and right, Huizhi felt itchy when he saw it, and wanted to grab it.

baa baa baa baa!

How could it be a fish!No fishy smell at all!

"This is made from yellow croaker maw after drying, so it has less fishy smell. After removing the fishy smell, I mix it with goat's milk and steam it for two hours. After the fish maw is completely boiled, put it in cold water together with the bowl. The goat milk will gradually coagulate, and when the coagulation is complete, you will get the goat milk jelly you are eating."

Wang Wei slapped himself on the head suddenly: "Yellow croaker swim bladder, I know what it is!" Her mother always eats this thing, but the cooking method is completely different from Mr. Mo Xiaolang, but it is boiled in water. He tasted it once. Only the taste is good, the taste is like white water, how can goat milk jelly be delicious!

He wolfed down the goat's milk jelly, and finished the goat's milk jelly in a few mouthfuls, and said to Mo Wenyuan with a shy face, "Is there any more goat's milk jelly?"

Mo Wenyuan smiled and said: "Even if there is, I can't give it to you. My mother likes goat milk jelly very much. She has worked hard day and night these days. As a son, I can't do anything. I can't treat my mother badly when it comes to food. .”

There is no way to take advantage of Li Sanniang's fish jelly!

Moreover, Mo Wenyuan said in his heart that the price of fish gelatin is very expensive, and he would feel pain if he bought it. It would be enough to give Wang Wei a bowl of jelly, and he really couldn't afford to give it away if it was too much.

Wang Wei was in a hurry, he had known Mo Wenyuan for a few days, and knew that he valued Li Sanniang very much, and it was no less difficult to snatch food from his aunt's mouth than to snatch food from a tiger's mouth.

He was so terrified that he put his idea on the isinglass that his mother bought with a lot of money. Once the name and shape of the object were matched, he could smuggle the isinglass out from the front of the hall.

"If I give you fish maw, would you be willing to make it for me?" He gestured and said, "The weight of this bag is similar to yours. How about making me 10 pieces? The rest of the fish maw is yours."

Mo Wenyuan was not too willing to take advantage of him, he calculated: "Give me a quarter of this bag, and I will give you twenty pieces of goat's milk jelly."

Wang Wei was sure that this was a bargain deal, and he said, "It's a deal."

……

The Wang family is a local wealthy family in Luoyang, and they have been here for many years, even the new emperor cannot be easily shaken.

Wang Weixing is the third, and there is a big difference in age between the two brothers. He is the old son of the Wang family, the eldest grandson and the youngest son. After growing up, he developed his current temperament.

Although he is not an idler, he does not do any serious business. In the years of weak crown and no long-term possessions, he is better at raising peonies.But the craftsman's craftsmanship is difficult to be elegant.

Wang Wei walked into the kitchen with his head held high and his chest held high. The cook in the room was so anxious when she saw him, an older and respectable servant asked, "Your gentleman is far away from the house, why did Saburo come here?"

He opened his mouth to collect lies, without blushing or panting: "I was chatting with my aunt, and occasionally I mentioned isinglass, she said it has the effect of smoothing the skin and nourishing qi. I am very curious and want to see what this thing looks like. "

The old people know that Mr. Wang Sanlang is very curious. He is clearly in his weak years, and sometimes he behaves like a child with many problems.

He took out the bag containing isinglass, picked out a few pieces of yellow glue and said, "This is fish glue."

Wang Wei pretended to be curious, put it in the palm of his hand, and looked at it repeatedly. Finally, he seemed to find it boring, so he threw it back into the bag and said, "Can you give me some."

"Ah? What's the use of isinglass, Mr. Lang?"

"I just think it's very interesting, I just want to get some, don't ask too much, just give it to me first."

The price of fish gelatin is not cheap, but Wang Wei is the nobleman of the family, how dare the servants go against what he says and do?What's more, although the price of fish gelatin is huge, it is only for other ingredients. Compared with the gold and silver treasures of Fuchu, it is just a drop in the bucket and worthless.

Wang Wei got the fish gelatin without any effort, and he left happily. The people in the kitchen looked at each other, and finally decided to talk to his wife.

……

"It's too much!" Mo Wenyuan looked at the cloth bags filled with isinglass that Wang Wei piled up in front of him.

"I don't know how many sheep's milk jelly can be made with so many, anyway, the more the better, Xiao Lang, you can make them all."

Mo Wenyuan laughed dumbfounded: "That's not what I said. There is a limit to everything. Goat milk jelly is delicious, but you can't eat too much. Overeating will damage your spleen and stomach. How about this, I will help you make twenty pieces, you Just give me a little fish gelatin as a reward, and take the rest back."

"It's not very interesting to make goat's milk jelly alone. I will help you make a few flower jelly and jelly. The taste is different from goat's milk jelly, and it is also very beautiful."

Wang Wei hurriedly said, "It's all up to you!"

Other people in the hotel pricked up their ears and listened to the conversation between the two, envious. They also saw goat milk jelly in the morning, and even saw Wang Wei's expression when he ate it.It's a pity that the price of isinglass is too expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it, so they can only "look and sigh".

The quality of fish gelatin brought by Wang Wei was different from that received by Mo Wenyuan, but it boiled within an hour. He successively made five pieces of goat milk jelly, five pieces of peony flower jelly, and ten pieces of jelly with two flavors.

Among them, goat milk jelly is the best. There are substances in the milk that interact with isinglass, making it chewy and chewy, which is comparable to all kinds of processed jelly in the world.The peony flower jelly that doesn't use goat's milk has a taste similar to mousse. When it was congealed, Mo Wenyuan stuffed a few petals into the melted glue.The texture of isinglass is different from that of water. Even when it melts, it is thicker than water. The petals are caught in it, not too big or too small, like a bug trapped in amber.

After waiting for half a day, all kinds of jellies were freshly baked. Wang Wei was in a good mood, so he ordered the servants to collect them and go home. He even began to plan to eat ten pieces of jelly tonight and another ten tomorrow morning.Mo Wenyuan's exhortation not to overeat has long been thrown to the corner by him.

"Sauro."

As soon as Wang Wei got home, he was stopped, turned around and saw A Niang with full hair, and Grandpa followed behind A Niang, with a tigerish face, his expression was so serious that he couldn't help trembling.

"What do you want isinglass for?"

"I ate a famous dish this morning. It is made of isinglass. Its taste is far better than that of bean curd. After eating it, I can't forget it for a long time. So I took the isinglass from home and made it for the little master. I made it first and brought it back."

"Using isinglass?" A Niang was skeptical, she always ate fish maw boiled and mixed with soup, and the fish maw made by this method was tasteless, so it was not as delicious as he said.

Wang Wei endured the pain and said, "Shall I give you a piece to taste?"

"Very good."

"Cough cough." His grandpa coughed very suggestively, and Wang Wei said heartbrokenly, "I also share some with grandpa."

As a result, two old people who had never been in contact with jelly were immediately captured by its taste and texture. His grandfather said with great love: "Since it is so delicious, it's better to share it with your brothers, sisters-in-law and nephews."

Wang Wei's tears are almost dry, his jelly!How many rounds are left?

He hugged Mengmeng's self distressedly.

……

Yellow croaker maw, not to mention the Tang Dynasty, is now a rare commodity, which is expensive and difficult to extract, and its value is much higher than that of ordinary aquatic products.

It should have been like this.

Mo Wenyuan: =口=! ! !

At this moment, he is standing in the courtyard, the moonlight is bright and bright

, Everything is silent, he can only hear the sound of rapid breathing and heartbeat.

Even the bugs that come and go at night seem to be trapped in the fragrance of dreams, unwilling to break the silence of the room.

The silver-white moonlight shines on the surface of the light yellow isinglass. From Mo Wenyuan's vision, the glue seems to have turned white. Looking from the bottom up, countless isinglasses are stacked together, more at the bottom and less at the top, showing a pyramid-like shape. triangle shape.

How much isinglass is that!He was uneasy and trembling, almost dozens of times and hundreds of times what he bought!

The note fluttered down from mid-air, no more than a graceful butterfly. With sharp eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed the note and opened it.

Ugly and round words crowded the paper.

"I want to eat goat's milk jelly, and I will give you all the isinglass."

"I catch fish from Chaozhou and dry it in the water. You have to reward me with a hundred pieces of jelly."

He folded the paper together: "Let's not talk about a hundred goat's milk jelly, I can make even ten thousand pieces." Who said there is isinglass like a hill here?

However, when he went fishing in Chaozhou, he processed so much isinglass in a few days to make goat milk jelly for him...

Mo Wenyuan's mood is a bit delicate, well, he can be sure that the person he has been with with notes for many days is a cute little monster, and he must be very good at following, with boundless magic power at a young age.It's the great youkai of the future.

He had already guessed in his heart, and there was no panic at this time. On the contrary, Mo Wenyuan suddenly remembered the Shuo Jing who was eating fast and worshiping Buddha in the Pure Land Temple.

You guys are weird, are you so good at eating?

Putting limited mana into unlimited food business, it's no wonder Dongtu Tang is so peaceful!

……

After sending it to the Fish Glue Mountain, Xiao Taotie felt uneasy.stupid stupid stupid!I just gave away the fish gelatin, why did I give so much? Isn't this clearly saying that I am a ghost?What if Mo Xiaoyuan is afraid and doesn't make jelly?

Huizhi comforted: "I can't see it, Mr. Mo Xiaolang is a person who eats spirits, and the mere Yujiao Mountain can't scare him."

The whole body of the little black sheep stood up high: "Baa baa baa baa!"

Didn't scare him but scared me!Once again, he fell into the fear of being almost eaten.

Huizhi: "..."

You anorexic sensitive eaters are in trouble.

The restless little Taotie ushered in a new dawn, and a hundred pieces of jelly were placed in the courtyard.

Little Glutton:! ! !

Obviously, he won the precious friendship from Mo Xiaoyuan.

"Isinglass is fine, but don't give so much. I can't explain it to Auntie!"

……

Li Sanniang looked at Yujiao Mountain, and felt the breath churning in her chest, unable to get up or down.

"You said these were sent by the Bodhisattva?" Her face was expressionless, and her voice was even less fluctuating.

Mo Xiaoyuan pointed to the sky and the ground with one hand, with a serious expression, wishing to swear a poisonous oath to prove his innocence: "Yes, I dreamed of a Bodhisattva at night, he was sitting on a lotus platform, holding a clean bottle, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, he approached me and said he wanted to eat goat milk It’s freezing. Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the courtyard full of isinglass, it’s a miracle.”

Buddha:? ? ?

You are talking nonsense! ! !

Don't slander us monks, we don't eat fish or goat's milk! ! !