2. The cook 1
Lin Dan was a little confused now, and subconsciously called the system in her mind, and then was stunned - what is the system? She was holding a spoon in her hand, and a light layer of milky white soup was oozing out of the spoon, which smelled fresh and fragrant, and there was still a faint aftertaste in her mouth. Obviously, she had already taken a sip just now. But the problem is that Lin Dan couldn't figure out who she was, what she was doing, and why she appeared here inexplicably.
She stared at her thin, calloused hands, feeling that these hands belonged to her, but they seemed not. She stood here, but clearly did not belong here, like a visitor from another world who suddenly broke into, incompatible with everything around her. She couldn't even figure out what the situation was now.
But the people around him did not realize that Lin Dan was no longer the Lin Dan as before. One of them pointed to a plate of dishes placed in front of her and said, "It's still a little bit worse." But he couldn't tell what it tasted. After all, he was not a professional chef, but his taste was more sensitive than ordinary people.
Lin Dan was awakened by this sentence. When he looked up, he realized that the other party was a young man in a gorgeous dress. He was slim, fair-skinned, and handsome in his eyebrows. If he didn't speak, he looked like a little girl. Like Lin Dan, he was holding a spoon in his hand and was tasting dishes. His brows were slightly frowning, and his expression looked very serious.
"I really lack some heat." Another person said slowly.
Lin Dan turned to look and found that the person who was speaking this time was an old man with a gray beard. He was smacking his lips, as if he was discerning the aftertaste of the soup.
Lin Dan quickly looked away from her eyes and looked around. Even though she didn't understand anything in her heart, she didn't show any panic on her face. She seemed to have become accustomed to dealing with this emergencies.
"What does it mean to owe some heat? I think it's almost the same, there's no difference." The person who spoke this time was a middle-aged man with a majestic appearance, wearing a robe embroidered with auspicious clouds and blue Qilin. His status seemed to be quite low, because as soon as he finished speaking, the people standing around began to nod and agree with a smile on his face.
But Lin Dan did not focus on him, but turned his head and looked aside. Seven or eight meters away from her was a little girl, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and there was also a square table in front of her, and there was also a plate of dishes on the table. The color, fragrance and taste were almost the same as the plate under Lin Dan's eyes.
Combining the environment, characters, dialogue information, etc., Lin Dan quickly concluded that he seemed to be competing with someone for cooking.
The little girl smiled a little after hearing the words of the boy and the old man with white beard. When she saw that the middle-aged man did not support her, her eyebrows immediately frowned, and she seemed a little stubborn: "Please try it carefully again."
Marquis? Lin Dan, who was trying hard to collect information, quickly glanced at the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was about to speak, but the handsome boy was impatiently saying, "You can't even taste the dishes good or bad, so why do you still make a kitchen?" This was obviously said to Lin Dan, because his eyes were staring at Lin Dan with straight eyes. The little girl was happy, lowered her head, pursed her lips, and smiled shyly.
Lin Dan had already tasted the dishes she cooked before, but she did not admit defeat. It was not appropriate to say "not to admit defeat". It should be said that she could not taste the difference between her dishes and what taste was missing. The boy who thought she had lost was very dissatisfied with this.
Since she had figured out the situation, Lin Dan didn't have to respond to changes in the same way. She had to finish the play according to normal reactions, so she put the soup in the spoon into her mouth and savored it silently, then walked to the indignant little girl and scooped the soup on her plate.
Both dishes are crab roe chicken and fresh cabbage. They look just a few slices of cooked cabbage leaves, but they are quite laborious to make. This is exactly the case with cooking. The simpler the dish, the harder it is to make.
Lin Dan originally wanted to take a few bites and take the initiative to admit defeat, so that she could get out as soon as possible, and then find a place to quietly digest the sudden situation. But when she really tasted two dishes, her taste buds and brain automatically made a judgment. She was surprised to find that her taste seemed much more sensitive than ordinary people, and a slight 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 soup spoon, she said sincerely, "My heart is a little bitter." Most people can't taste this bitter taste at all. Only gourmets with extremely sensitive taste can distinguish it.
The old man with white beard looked at her deeply and mentioned, "That's right. When you thicken it, you didn't wait for the heart of the dish to be completely cooked, which made the heating time of the starch be excessively extended, which easily burns and makes it bitter, and the taste is not smooth. The essence of the heart of the crab roe chicken is just two words: one is fresh and sweet, and the other is smooth. Your dish looks decent, but it is a bit less delicious."
Lin Dan nodded and said again: "I lost."
Seeing that her expression was open and peaceful, and there was no resentment after she was defeated, the white-bearded old man nodded slightly. The middle-aged man sighed with a sigh of relief, and a woman hiding behind the person fell down with her chest covering her chest, which scared everyone.
"No, Qi fainted! Lin Dan, come and see your mother!" Two women immediately helped the woman up and waved to Lin Dan.
Lin Dan, who quickly collected information from his words to supplement his identity, ran over without hesitation and whispered loudly: "Please help me find a doctor. I'll send my mother back first." After the words, he naturally replaced one of the women to support the woman. The woman who was free to take notice of any abnormality, hurriedly led the way, and soon brought Lin Dan back to her own home.
After a lot of trouble, the doctor finally came and said that the woman was not seriously ill, but she fainted due to excessive worry. She just took some medicine to calm the mind.
After taking the prescription, Lin Dan took off a silver hairpin from her head to count as a medical fee. She didn't know where the woman put her money, and even if she knew that the money box would definitely be locked. Now the woman was dizzy and couldn't ask her to get the key, so she could only do so.
The doctor looked at her with pity and said warmly: "Mr. Fei has already come out. Please keep the hairpin yourself. You can give me this prescription. I will ask the servants in the Marquis's mansion to help you catch it. Your mother is dizzy and can't live without people. Alas..."
Looking at the doctor who was shaking his head and sighing while walking away slowly, 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 faint after she gave in. But losing is losing, which is an undeniable fact, so Lin Dan had no regrets about what she did.
Seeing that the woman was covered in cold sweat, she picked up the copper basin and went to fetch water outside. But she saw a 16 or 17-year-old boy coming in and whispered: "Lin Dan, I have already brought you medicine for you. Boil a pack of medicine and three bowls of water on high heat and boil it into a bowl on low heat. Don't throw away the remaining medicine residue. You can boil it for two more doses, three doses a day, and it will be almost done for seven days."
Lin Dan hurriedly thanked him. After seeing him off, he went to the kitchen to boil medicine. Whether it was chopping wood, cooking stoves or picking up water, the body could subconsciously complete it. The soup was boiling and was bubbling. Lin Dan removed some dry firewood and simmered it slowly on low heat. Then he brought a small stool and sat by the stove to sort out his memories.
She seemed to have become accustomed to doing this, so she quickly understood her situation. Her father was Lin Baotian, the chef of the Yongding Marquis Mansion. Since Yongding Marquis was a gourmet and was particularly particular about food, Lin Baotian, who had extraordinary cooking skills, was valued by the other party, and even had to bring him with him in marches and wars. His status was evident. Therefore, Lin Dan and Qi lived a very easy life in the Hou's Mansion. Not only did they have a separate courtyard to live in, but they also served by maids and servants.
But two months ago, Lin Baotian suddenly died of illness. When he was dying, he passed on all the cooking skills and cooking knives he had summarized throughout his life to Lin Dan, the only daughter. Lin Dan loved the little marquis since he was a child, and the other party, like the old marquis, also like the old marquis, was a food lover, so she practiced cooking skills every day just to let the little marquis look at him more.
After her father died, she took the bowl and continued to work as a chef in the Marquis's mansion. Although she was only twelve or thirteen years old, her skills were already very skilled. One day, she made a signature dish that she had been practicing for a long time, but she heard from the little marquis that this dish was far less than that of the little maid in his yard.
Lin Dan has always been arrogant and immediately went to compete with the little maid, but unexpectedly the little maid revealed a shocking secret. It turned out that Lin Baotian's cooking skills and kitchen knives were stolen from her grandfather. Lin Baotian was not the successor of the Golden Sword Imperial Kitchen, but a person who deceived his master and destroyed his ancestors.
The little maid was named Yan Langqing. Her grandfather was Yan Bo, the imperial chef of the previous dynasty, and was quite famous in the industry. After leaving the palace, she accepted several apprentices, one of which was Lin Dan's father Lin Baotian. Later, Yan Bo was about to die of illness. Yan Langqing's father happened to be in another place and failed to come back to see her father for the last time. Lin Baotian buried Yan Bo and took the opportunity to steal the imperial golden sword and the recipe of Yan's family, and disappeared without a trace.
Yan Langqing's father was resentful of this and took his wife and children to search everywhere. Finally, he found Lin Baotian in the Yongding Marquis Mansion, but he did not expect that the other party was dead. So he asked his daughter to sneak into the Marquis Mansion to learn about the situation of the descendants of the enemy's family, and looked for the opportunity to challenge Lin Dan. The bet was the imperial gift of golden sword and the Yan family recipe.
Lin Dan was very competitive and did not want to be embarrassed in front of the little marquis. In order to defend her father's reputation, she immediately responded to the challenge... Later, she lost, and later became the current "Lin Dan". The handsome young man who was the judge before was the little marquis. The middle-aged man who knew that Lin Dan was defeated by Yan Langqing but still spoke out to protect him was the old marquis.
Although the name is the same, Lin Dan can clearly sense that he was not the same person as himself now. Lin Dan's eyes were full of little marquis, and he could be ecstatic for his smile and be confused for his frown. But now, Lin Dan has no feeling at all. When he thinks of the other person, he seems to think of a stranger.
What she needs to solve now is no longer the issue of identity and memory, but where to go. If she loses the game and has a sick mother to take care of, what should she do in the future?
Chapter completed!