The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 311
This remark made everyone in the room look very serious, especially An Huaiyuan. He remembered how high-spirited he was when he entered Beijing as an official at the age of 30 until he became a first-rank minister!
But now?When you are getting old, you still have to linger on to save your life and settle down!This thought made An Huaiyuan feel sad.

Jing Jing also raised her head and watched Su Xiazhi open her mouth...

"Well, I know what you're going to say." Su Xiazhi stopped her movement of speaking with a wave of her hand: "Do you want to say: I'm a talented woman, and I'm good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting... right? "

"Can these things be eaten or used as money? You don't want to eat your father! That's why I say you are an unfilial girl. It's really dark to want to piss him off after eating your father's money!"

Su Xiazhi pursed his lips and said his heartbroken heart, and a few words ignited An Huaiyuan's heart again. At this time, he had already made a secret decision in his heart: when he returned home, he would choose a reliable person to be the housekeeper. Although what she said was ugly , but it is not impossible.

"You nonsense!" After listening to Jing Jing for a long time, she was almost choked to death by Su Xiazhi, and seeing her father sitting there silently, she already knew it was not good, so she had to hurry up to defend herself.

"I don't know how to talk nonsense without you!" Su Xiazhi looked at her with a smile on her face, and she was extremely happy when she saw her flustered and flustered: I'll keep you thinking about my scholar all the time, why don't I pick you up today? The layer of skin counts as my two lifetimes in vain!

"How dare you take out those nonsense poems and print them? The most shameless thing is that you dare to give a copy to my scholar!" Su Xiazhi shook her head and looked at her like a lunatic.

Zhou Shu and Lu Qing also looked at her, feeling like a fool!
"You...you don't want to sound so ugly..." An Jing's mind was too confused, and she couldn't help being happy when she saw Su Xiazhi say the poem. He heard that the Su family was poor and stupid. Now it seems stupid, but poverty can't be wrong. Then she must be an uneducated village woman!
The reason why Jing Jing thinks that she will definitely change Min Lansheng's mind is that she feels that her talent is unparalleled by Su Xiazhi.

"I tore up those rough things you wrote one by one and set them on fire. As a result, even the vegetables in the pot were so sour that I couldn't swallow them!"

Su Xiazhi raised her hand and slapped the tip of her nose, as if the sour smell hadn't dissipated yet.

"Hehe!" Zhou Shu couldn't help laughing, feeling that her appearance was very funny.

"Don't laugh, she is such a sour and fake jealous thing, isn't it because of men like you that she can show off!"

"Ahem!" Zhou Shu coughed twice in embarrassment.

"You wrote this letter, right?" Su Xiazhi took out the envelope from the armhole, shook it at him, and immediately took it back.

"Yeah." At this point, there is no need to deny it, Zhou Shu simply admitted: "It was Jing who gave me an old work of Mr. Min, and it was too urgent, otherwise I could learn more like it!"

"So, based on your character, I won't give you that shop even if I burn it down!" Su Xiazhi said to him with a serious face, "You dare to listen to her and forge a letter today in order to seek family property. Is it possible to kill a person! If you have the ability to use it in such a place, you have the nerve to talk to me like this?"

Swallowing, Zhou Shu lowered his head, looked at the dirty carpet on the floor and asked, "I'm just wondering how you know?"

"I also want to know, how did you know me?" Lu Qing followed suit.

"I don't know you." Su Xiazhi seemed a little tired, she turned around and found a chair and sat down.

"Then you recognize my mother?" Lu Qing was even more surprised, and he didn't think he had seen her before.

"Don't guess, it's not." Su Xiazhi waved his hand directly: "I came to this restaurant to eat some time ago, and I came more than once."

Both Zhou Shu and Lu Qing knew that Su Xiazhi came to the restaurant for dinner. It was because they saw her coming and going here a few times that they avoided it more carefully.

"My shop is going to open soon, and it's also in the business of eating and drinking. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. Naturally, I have to find out all the restaurants and restaurants on Master Street."

"After eating here a few times, I found out that your cook is not a local."

In ancient times, transportation was very inconvenient, so most of the restaurants and restaurants business hired local masters, and very few people left their hometowns to work as master chefs in other places.

At that time, many officials would bring one or two cooks with them when they took office in a different place, and the price of money was very high, just to eat delicious meals.

And it's strange that a small place like Ping County can have a master from other places.

Lu Qing's eyes lit up, he took a step forward, stared at Su Xiazhi and asked, "Madam Min, can you tell me how you know that the master of our restaurant is not a local?"

"It's very simple." Su Xiazhi said with a smile: "You have also been to Jufulou for dinner, right?"

"I've been." Lu Qing nodded immediately.

"The food there is a local specialty. Therefore, Jufu Lou is the first restaurant in Ping County. You are learning from other people's dishes."

"Isn't it even harder for Mrs. Min to tell where our master is from?" Lu Qing became even more confused.

Now when this restaurant opened, he went to Jufulou many times. He asked the two master chefs he brought to learn a lot of housekeeping dishes there, so as to attract customers. Lu Qing just didn't understand Su What can the summer solstice see from here.

"Anyone who works in this industry knows that the quality of a dish should be judged from the four aspects of 'color, aroma, shape', and this is only known to ordinary master chefs."

"There is another kind of master chef. They come from official families and are especially particular about the way of eating. This kind of people is more strict in judging the quality of dishes. They should consider five aspects of 'color, fragrance, shape and utensils'. The master masters are basically from the imperial capital, am I right?"

Su Xiazhi tilted her head and asked.

"It turns out that the problem is with those porcelain..." Lu Qing whispered.

Ping County is not a big place, and in hundreds of years, only one big man like An Huaiyuan has been born.Only he, Guanju Yipin, has lived in the imperial capital for many years. Su Xiazhi can tell where the master chef comes from as long as he can see the difference between the dishes in this restaurant and the dishes prepared by the local master.

(End of this chapter)