The cooking color is delicious, general, don't bite me

Chapter 137 Who is responsible?

Qi Xuan looked at Meng Fuling puzzled, "Why? I won't allow anyone to bully you!"

"The emperor attaches great importance to this competition, so it's natural that no one can disturb it. However, we don't need to make such a head."

Meng Fuling originally wanted Qi Xuan to ask if there were other fish in the palace, but then she thought, since Shang Qihao was tampering with the fish she gave her, the rest of the fish must be too.However, with such a big move, did he really think that the emperor couldn't find out?

"He shouldn't have done it so obviously." Qi Xuan somewhat knew Shang Qihao's style of handling things, and felt that he shouldn't play tricks in the fish, it was too obvious.

"Ma'am, what should I do without fish?" Lin Bixing asked anxiously.

"That can only be replaced by other things." Meng Fuling sneered, and used the ingredients she had prepared earlier, but replaced the fish with other things.

Before Lin Bi'an could react, Meng Fuling had already asked him to take out delicacies such as shark's fin, fish lips, skirts and so on, which had been prepared and delivered long ago, all of which were stewed in top soup.

What does she want to do?Shang Qihao frowned, he wanted to see clues from Meng Fuling's expression, but he couldn't see anything.

Yuan Shengwei glanced at Meng Fuling, also full of doubts, and the others were even more puzzled. Aren't they going to be fish?What does Meng Fuling knead noodles for?
The expressions of these people fell into Qi Xuan's eyes, and his fierce gaze swept over them, causing them to turn their heads away in a hurry, not daring to meet his gaze.

Meng Fuling doesn't care what other people think, she asks the cook to fix the frying pan, and asks Qi Xuan to heat up the fire, it's only natural to instruct him and instruct him.

When the other two were done, Meng Fuling hadn't finished yet, some people thought, isn't she playing tricks?
Over there, the emperor and others have already started to taste. What Yuan Shengwei makes is 'golden fish'. The ingredients are large yellow croakers, and the shape is extremely beautiful.

Kuang Ruhai's is golden fish soup, which is made by steaming mandarin fish or sea bass, removing the skin and bones, adding shredded ham, shiitake mushrooms, minced bamboo shoots, chicken broth and other condiments.

After the emperor tasted it all, he said: "Chef Yuan's golden fish dish is very good. It is bright in color, sweet and sour, soft and delicious. Chef Kuang's fish soup is also good. It is oily in color, tender and smooth, and tastes like crab meat. taste."

"Meng's isn't done yet?" The queen mother looked up at Meng Fuling.

Concubine Lian, the only concubine present, covered her mouth and smiled, and took the end of the Queen Mother's words, "Look at Meng's movements, which are like embroidery. It's really beautiful, no wonder it's slower."

When Meng Fuling heard this, her subordinates did not stop their movements, but she thought in her heart, if the empress hadn't been getting worse every day since the death of the crown prince, and rarely appeared on big occasions, it would definitely not be Concubine Lian's turn to say this today. Nasty words.

Concubine Lian fell silent for a long time, but no one answered her words. Everyone could see that the emperor favored Meng Fuling, so there was no need to upset the emperor.

Of course she is not stupid, it's just that she knows how to judge the scale, knowing that if she knows this, the emperor will not be unhappy.

Sure enough, the emperor didn't show any displeasure on the face, but waited patiently for Meng Fuling's dishes.

"Father, that fish is made of flour." Shang Qiyan stood up from his seat regardless of the occasion, and ran to Meng Fuling's side to watch. Looking, watching, his face became full of surprise.

All the people present were shocked from ear to ear, wondering what was the half-frozen stuff she poured into the fish's mouth?Is it possible to make stuffed fish, I have never seen such fish.

I really don't know how this village girl can practice such a powerful cooking skill at such a young age.Some people even wondered if it was because of her good cooking skills that she first captured Qi Xuan's stomach and then his heart?

you do not say?If everyone knew that when Qi Xuan first came to Meng Fuling's house, he was often scolded as a pig by Meng Fuling because of his excessive appetite, how would they feel?

The emperor couldn't help but praised, and said: "I can't see what kind of food she cooks."

As he said that, the emperor seemed to think that it was strange that Meng Fuling abandoned the fish and replaced it with flour, so he recruited Eunuch Zhao to give him some instructions.

The Empress Dowager also felt strange, and turned her head to ask the big palace maid next to her, "What the hell is this Meng family doing? Why don't you use the good fish and have to use flour instead? Is it just for a novelty?"

He said so on the lips, but in his heart he thought that Meng Fuling was clearly fooling everyone. In just a short moment, his impression of Meng Fuling was a little worse.

"I didn't even notice, how can anyone make flour into fish?" The maid shook her head and said.

Kuang Ruhai and the others were all done, and they all watched closely the movements of Meng Fuling's subordinates. Others didn't understand that the flour fish was fried after being filled with soup, so how could they not see how difficult it was to do so?

The belly of this flour fish is full of soup. Once the flour is wet, it tends to soften and fall apart, and if you are not careful, the belly of the flour fish will be broken and the soup inside will leak out, which will cause trouble.

At this time, Meng Fuling put the fried flour fish on a plate, heated the frying pan to boil the juice, sliced ​​Chinese kale into thin slices and thickened the chicken soup, and poured it on the fish.

Finally, she put down the pot, and Fang breathed a sigh of relief, because there was something wrong with the fish, so she had to follow her original method of filling the soup with yellow croakers and change the real fish into fake ones.

It was the first time to do this, and Meng Fuling was not sure what to do, and was a little apprehensive, afraid that something might go wrong again.

This time, the Empress Dowager didn't move her chopsticks, she said coldly: "It's nothing unusual to look at, and it's still made of flour. Could this be to fool the Ai family and the emperor?"

"Women don't dare, you have to taste this dish to know the beauty of it." The old woman is too annoying, she will find faults when she has nothing to do, Meng Fuling sighed secretly in her heart.

The queen mother glanced at her and waved her hand impatiently. The eunuch serving food by her side hurriedly took the chopsticks and picked up the flour fish. fish belly.

There was a sound of inhalation all around, and the soup like jade liquid and fine nectar, accompanied by various delicacies from mountains and seas, slowly flowed out, and the overflowing aroma permeated the entire hall.

This scent is so unique that everyone present couldn't help swallowing.

Even Qi Xuan couldn't help saying: "You should try it with me first."

"In order to reward you for helping me light the fire today, after returning home, I will cook the dishes I made today for you to taste." Meng Fuling smiled.

She also felt very warm in her heart. When the first dish was served, the emperor ordered someone to invite Qi Xuan to the table, and said that someone else would light the fire for him, but he declined.

Since he refused, the emperor was not annoyed, and even asked Eunuch Zhao to ask him if he would like to share some dishes for him to taste, but he refused.

Qi Xuan was about to speak, but Shang Qihao asked: "General Qi, you should know the beauty of this dish, right?"

He thought that Meng Fuling temporarily used flour fish, and Qi Xuan would definitely not be able to tell the truth about it, and deliberately made Qi Xuan look ugly.

When the others heard the words, they also turned their eyes to Qi Xuan, waiting for his answer.

Meng Fuling frowned imperceptibly, but she didn't say anything, she believed that Qi Xuan would not agree with Shang Qihao's wishes, and would be able to deal with it calmly.

Sure enough, Qi Xuan smiled lightly, and then said slowly: "The subtlety of this dish lies in the watertightness of the fish. The most difficult part is cooking the soup, and the second is frying it with soup."

"It's really rare for a dish to be able to do this." The emperor praised, maybe he didn't want the mother to make trouble again, so he added: "Of course the Meng family won this dish, but after talking so much, I still don't know what it is. The name of the dish."

The emperor looked at Meng Fuling, smiling endlessly, thinking that this woman is really strange, always surprising people by surprise.

"Back to the emperor, the women temporarily use flour to make fish, and it is not yet famous. Please give me a name from the emperor." Meng Fuling replied.

Just now Eunuch Zhao came over to her side on purpose and took away the fish she had put on the side, knowing that the emperor had a good idea, so he answered like this.

Therefore, hearing what she said now, the emperor is not even the slightest bit surprised.

She knew that the emperor would not find out those who tampered with the fish under such circumstances, and he would definitely wait until the end of the competition to settle the score.

Meng Fuling really wanted to know, if there was a more serious problem with the next dish, would the emperor choose to forbear it?

The emperor didn't know what Meng Fuling was thinking, so he laughed and said, "This fish has heaven and earth inside, and it is similar to your eight-treasure bag duck. It is called 'Splendid Fish of Heaven and Earth', which is most appropriate."

After the emperor said this, Meng Fuling realized that her eight-treasure bag duck was also stuffed with ingredients in the duck belly, and the technique was a little similar to this flour fish.That's all!Even if she didn't think carefully, she had to deal with the next dish.

The next thing is fried rice. What Kuang Ruhai cooks is broken gold fried rice. The grains of rice are wrapped in golden egg liquid. With his movements, light yellow light and shadow are pulled out, radiant, as if every grain of rice has life .

Most of the people present knew that Kuang Ruhai's specialty was broken gold fried rice. Although it was not a novelty, there were only a few types of fried rice, so what kind of tricks could he make?

And Yuan Shengwei's five-color fried rice in golden clothes also looked very good. Everyone thought, Meng Fuling should lose this time, right?No matter how powerful she is, it's impossible for her to win everything, right?

Looking at her again, what is she doing with lotus leaves?Should you use lotus leaf fried rice?

Shang Qiyan, who happened to be around Meng Fuling all the time, said strangely: "You don't know how to make glutinous rice, do you? Glutinous rice is not delicious, it's sweet and greasy."

His voice was not low, and he couldn't hide his disappointment. Everyone who happened to be present could hear it clearly.

Many people showed disappointment, of course, some looked disdainful, such as Qi Youming and others.

The emperor was very shrewd, when he heard that Meng Fuling changed the ingredients without authorization, he guessed that there must be another problem.

good!It's really good, to dare to play tricks under his nose and destroy the food contest he values, really tired of work!

"Your Majesty, this Meng family has changed the ingredients without authorization again and again. It's too insignificant to take the competition seriously." The queen mother finally figured out Meng Fuling's mistake this time, and immediately said angrily.

But the Empress Dowager overlooked one point, no matter how patient the Emperor was, he couldn't stand her repeatedly and unfairly contradicting him, even if she was his empress mother.

"Mother, if you participate in the food competition, the ingredients you get are always tampered with, what should you do? Will you find a way to remedy it?" The emperor's tone was a little impatient.

The queen mother couldn't help frowning, it's not that she didn't think of this, she just didn't like Meng Fuling, but the emperor was already upset, so she didn't say any more, she didn't want to make their mother and child estranged for Meng Fuling.

"Empress Dowager, the Meng family's glutinous rice should not be bad." Concubine Lian didn't know what kind of mentality she said, which made the empress dowager's face even uglier.

The queen mother glared at Concubine Lian, "With your eyes, can you tell good from bad?"

"The empress dowager forgives the sin, but the concubine is talking too much." Concubine Lian seemed shocked, and hurriedly confessed.

The Empress Dowager's face paled, and she didn't want to, but the emperor said: "What's wrong with my concubine? The Meng family has done well in every dish, there is no reason why they can't even cook glutinous rice."

Concubine Lian looked terrified, as if she didn't dare to say any more, because she was the emperor's favorite concubine, and the queen mother never liked her, and always found her fault, even if she tried to please the queen mother, she would not get good looks.Therefore, seeing the empress dowager deflated, she felt very happy.

"Wow! It turned out that the glutinous rice was wrapped in lotus leaves." Shang Qiyan exclaimed exaggeratedly, looking at his slanderous appearance, it seemed as if his saliva was about to flow out.

Meng Fuling pushed him away in disgust, "Don't drip your saliva into it!"

What kind of prince is this?Is there any prince like him?She didn't care about his image at all, and she had some doubts about whether he and Shang Qihao were brothers, and his personality was completely different.

She couldn't see Shang Qiyan's identity, so she should be more polite to him, but doubts arose in her heart, it was the first time she saw him, how could she have such a strong sense of familiarity?

"It's okay, just give me the drip." Shang Qiyan said brazenly.

"Get out!" Qi Xuan grabbed Shang Qiyan's collar and pushed him away from the stove.

Shang Qiyan was also not angry, and returned to his seat obediently.

"Five emperors, did you know Meng Fuling before?" Shang Qihao has been paying attention to Meng Fuling's situation, and feels that Shang Qiyan and Meng Fuling don't seem like they just met each other.

"How do I know her? It's you, Second Emperor, you have been staring at her leeryly since you entered the palace." After Shang Qiyan finished speaking, he clicked his tongue twice, with a voice so loud that he could not even sit on the front seat. The emperor heard it.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Shang Qihao became furious immediately, wishing to sew Shang Qiyan's mouth shut, it's like a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory!

"Tch! Do you still think that everyone else is blind? Can't you see your innocence?" Shang Qiyan has always been outspoken, and he is not afraid of offending people when he speaks. Anyway, he has no intention of competing for the crown prince, so he doesn't have to worry about anything .

"Brother Wuhuang, tell me what you came up with for brother. If you can't say it, then don't rant." Among the many brothers, the one Shang Qihao despises the most is this fifth brother who only knows how to eat, drink and play all day long Emperor brother.

"Say it, hey! I won't tell you anymore, I'm going to eat." Shang Qiyan just opened his mouth when he saw that Meng Fuling's meal was ready, so why would he want to argue with Shang Qihao?
The emperor and others were shocked again when they saw Meng Fuling's lotus-flavored glutinous rice chicken. They didn't know that glutinous rice could be wrapped in lotus leaves.The entrance is full of the fragrance of lotus leaves, mixed with the aroma of glutinous rice, and the taste is extremely unique.

Meng Fuling laughed secretly, fortunately there is no glutinous rice chicken in this dynasty, otherwise, if she switched to glutinous rice, it would be a disaster.

At this time, the emperor only tasted Meng Fuling and Yuan Shengwei's, and was about to scoop up a spoonful of Kuang Ruhai's broken gold fried rice, when the queen mother and several ministers suddenly felt pain in their stomachs.

"What's going on here? Send it to the imperial physician!" The emperor was shocked and angry.

Everyone was shocked by this sudden situation, and they were all in a mess for a while.

Even Meng Fuling pretended to be panicked, Qi Xuan held her hand secretly, and said in a low voice: "Shang Qihao is really going to lift a rock today and shoot himself in the foot."

Meng Fuling took it for granted, and when she found something wrong with the rice, she asked Qi Xuan to exchange the rice for Kuang Ruhai.Therefore, the rice she got is not a problem, the reason why she still uses glutinous rice is to confuse Shang Qihao's eyes.

Fortunately, Kuang Ruhai was only focused on preparing the fish at that time, and when his assistant cook wanted to steam the rice, Qi Xuan had already replaced the rice.

Fortunately, everyone's attention was on the three of them at that time, and Qi Xuan was squatting at the stove to make a fire, blocked by the stove, no one looked down.

Qi Xuan used his internal strength again at an astonishingly fast speed. Almost in an instant, he sucked the rice bag not far from Kuang Ruhai's feet, and then pushed and replaced the problematic rice bag.

At that time, Meng Fuling only saw it out of the corner of his eye, and thought Qi Xuan's solemn and motionless behavior of exchanging rice was very funny.

At this time, several imperial physicians came in a hurry, and the physicians were treating the queen mother himself, while the other imperial physicians were helping other people.

"Liu Yizheng, how is the queen mother?" the emperor asked anxiously.

"Returning to the emperor, what the empress dowager was poisoned by is ordinary poison powder, and the poisoning is not deep. Take some detoxification pills first, and then take the medicine prescribed by Weichen, and there will be no serious problems." Liu Yizheng replied.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen and others were poisoned after eating the glutinous rice and chicken made by the Meng family. I don't know what her intentions are, but she actually wants to murder the Emperor, you and the Queen Mother. Please punish her." Prime Minister Luo said weakly.

The emperor rejected him and Qi Youming's qualifications for judging, but still let them taste the dishes. Just now they ate all the food cooked by Meng Fuling and the three of them, so they were all recruited.

At this time, Prime Minister Luo had already taken the detoxification pills given by the imperial physician. The detoxification pills were prepared by the imperial hospital itself, and each imperial physician would put some in their medicine boxes for emergencies.

Although the detoxification effect of the Jiedu pill is not great, it can also relieve the toxicity, but Prime Minister Luo, Qi Youming and others pretended to faint at any time, and even poured sewage on Meng Fuling's body.

Before the emperor could speak, Qi Xuan said coldly: "Prime Minister Luo, what evidence do you have that the poison was poisoned by Fuling? If there is no evidence, don't slander her!"

Meng Fuling chuckled and said sarcastically: "Although I don't have much knowledge, I have heard the saying that the prime minister can hold a boat in his belly. I didn't expect that Prime Minister Luo was so narrow-minded. Because the general has no intention of Ling Qianjin, you will target me as a weakling." woman."

"Hmph! Your Majesty will decide whether you poisoned it or not!" Prime Minister Luo snorted coldly, and didn't want to argue with Meng Fuling, feeling that he would lose his status.

Shang Qihao's face was tense and his palms were sweaty. When Meng Fuling changed the rice, he knew that she had found something wrong with the rice.

But her act of changing the fish puzzled him, because he only had people poison her rice, and the rice had already been poisoned, so there was really no need for him to do it again, there must be other people who wanted to harm her.

Originally, Shang Qihao planned to take advantage of the fact that Meng Fuling's food was poisonous, and drag Qi Xuan into the water, but he didn't know that he was underestimating her.

"Liu Yizheng, I order you to test it. Is it the problem with the two fried rice dishes or the glutinous rice chicken?" The emperor only tasted Meng Fuling's glutinous rice chicken, but nothing happened. He knew that it had nothing to do with her, but what should he do? The way you do it, you still have to do it.

As early as Meng Fuling temporarily changed flour fish and glutinous rice, he knew that someone wanted to harm her. Since she changed the problematic fish and rice, how could there still be poisoning?Could it be that the black hands behind the scenes didn't just mess with her rice?

In just a short moment, the emperor's thoughts had turned several times, and he asked Doctor Liu to check the rice of the three of them.

As a result, the poisoned rice and poisoned rice all appeared in Kuang Ruhai's place, and the poison was different from the poison in Meng Fuling's fish. She didn't use the fish, which also showed that she had no intention of poisoning anyone.

"Your Majesty, the grass people are wronged! The grass people really don't know anything." Kuang Ruhai and his kitchen helper were all pale, kneeling in the hall, their foreheads knocking on the ground constantly, making loud bumps.

He never dreamed that things would develop into this situation. Didn't Shang Qihao agree to help him win the championship?Isn't there something wrong with Meng Fuling's rice?How can someone who suffers become him?

The emperor ordered people to send all the poisoned ministers to the side hall to rest, and the queen mother also returned to her bedroom.

Only then did he have the thought to talk to Kuang Ruhai, "Wronged? Why don't you tell me how to be wronged?"

"Hui, if you return to the emperor, even if the grassroots borrow courage from the sky, they will not dare to poison you nobles!" Kuang Ruhai really wanted to cry but had no tears.

He was hesitating whether to confess Shang Qihao, and happened to meet Shang Qihao's fierce eyes, although it was fleeting, he clearly felt the threat.

Now, Kuang Ruhai is really in a dilemma, his stomach is green with regret, he should not have agreed to be used by Shang Qihao if he knew earlier.

But it was because Kuang Ruhai's expression was weak at this moment, which made him even more suspicious.

The emperor was furious, "Bold! How dare you speak lies in front of me!"

Because the emperor was furious, everyone knelt down, and Meng Fuling knew what happened today, so he couldn't be kind.

Too!Such a good food contest, it turned out like this, not to mention spoiling the emperor's joy, if the real culprit of the poisoning cannot be found out, the emperor's dragon face will also be damaged.

In short, the matter is very serious, I really don't know what Shang Qihao was thinking, and he chose to kill her at this time.

Kuang Ruhai gritted his teeth and refused to plead guilty no matter what, the emperor did not immediately order him to be punished.

The fish and rice were distributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the emperor had ordered people to investigate who had passed through them. At this time, he came back to report, "My majesty, the rice and fish are distributed by..."

The ingredients for the gourmet competition were allocated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and inspected by special personnel, and it was precisely the eunuch who did the inspection.

But when he went to arrest the eunuch, he had committed suicide by taking poison. Because the poison in the rice and fish was not owned by the palace, and he had no right to leave the palace, it showed that he had connections with people outside the palace.

"Father, since Kuang Ruhai's rice is poisonous, he must have something to do with him. In my opinion, he should be sentenced to death, otherwise, he won't cry when he sees the coffin." Shang Qiyan said.

"The fifth emperor's words are reasonable!" The emperor nodded, agreeing with Shang Qiyan's words, after he finished speaking, he ordered people to slap Kuang Ruhai in public.

"Ah, no, your majesty, spare me, spare me, grass people—" After the execution, the sharp pain from the ten fingers was like piercing pain, which made Kuang Ruhai scream, and finally couldn't take it anymore, and was willing to call out the mastermind.

Shang Qihao's heart was in his throat, his robe was soaked in cold sweat, he stared at Kuang Ruhai closely, for fear that Kuang Ruhai would confess him.

At that moment, after hearing the name of the person Kuang Ruhai confessed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But Meng Fuling's eyes turned red with anger, "Kuang Ruhai, you spout blood!"

(End of this chapter)