The emperor had a different relationship with Yan Langqing, and when he looked at her, he naturally liked her more than others. But even so, he could not say against his conscience that the rice dumplings made by Yan Langqing were better than those made by Lin Dan. The result of the competition had already come out, and nothing he said now does not work, so he should be loyal to his stomach.

Thinking of this, he put down his chopsticks and said slowly: "Lin Dan, you won."

As soon as he finished speaking, a crisp sound came from the private room. It turned out that Yan Langqing's chopsticks were lost. Everyone looked at her, but she saw her eyes flushed, her face was pale, her hands and feet were shaking slightly, as if she was overwhelmed. Her father Yan Shouye stared at Lin Dan with an upright look, his face full of resentment and resentment.

Lin Dan bowed and bowed without any sarcastic expression on his face: "Then please ask the chef Yan Yucheng to fulfill his bet and return the golden knife and the recipe."

Yan Langqing opened her mouth with difficulty, as if she wanted to speak, Yan Shouye screamed in anger: "No, that's my father's thing, my Yan family's, why give it to you?"

"The ancestor passed it to my father before he died, and that was my father's thing. When you wanted to go back from me, it was your own craftsmanship. Now I want it back, it is my own craftsmanship. What's wrong?"

Yan Shouye still wanted to argue, but the emperor frowned and looked unhappy. Yan Langqing immediately pressed her father's shoulder and said hoarsely: "I brought everything, I'll give you this." She brought it just to show her magnanimity, but she didn't expect that she would really lose to Lin Dan. But the people had already sentenced her to lose, and the emperor admitted it personally. What can she do if she is unwilling to give up?

Lin Dan put the golden knife aside, turned on the Yan family recipe and looked at it, her eyebrows couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. The recipe was split into two parts by Yan Langqing. The lower half of Lin Baotian was given to Lin Dan, and the first half was considered to be only sixty pages left. But now, this recipe is thicker than before it was split. It can be seen that Yan Langqing has been working hard for many years and has developed many new dishes, adding new glory to the Yan family recipe.

However, Lin Dan's brows became tighter and tighter as she looked at them. In the end, she started to sneer. She tore off one of the pages and handed them to a chef who came to watch the game, saying, "I remember this braised deer tendon was developed by Master Liu, and now the food is returned to the original owner; this stewed Yuanyu was from Chef Fang, and I will give it to you..." She tore off many recipes one by one and returned them to the developer one by one.

These people looked at Yan Langqing and then at the emperor, and they were not allowed to answer, nor were they not allowed to answer.

The emperor showed doubts on his face, not knowing where Lin Dan made a fuss again, but Prince Cheng sneered: "Your Majesty is afraid that you don't know. Your imperial chef is very domineering and cannot make good dishes to please you, so he went to the people to rob other people of the dishes, and he was not allowed to sell them again. He said that he was for you to eat, and others could no longer eat them. This is a great crime of disrespect. If this is true, please make a list of food and let me avoid them from making big mistakes!"

Prince Gong pretended to be frightened and spread his hands: "If this is the case, will you not starve to death? If the emperor eats meat, we cannot eat it. If the emperor drinks water, we cannot drink it either?"

Prince Cheng quickly comforted: "Don't worry, you can go to the Yan family restaurant to have a meal. The dishes that the emperor has eaten are not allowed to be sold elsewhere, but his restaurant will do the same. Others respect the imperial power, but his family is not afraid. His family has the support of Yan Yuchu!"

The two of them sang together, exposing all the methods of Yan's family's behind the scenes of attacking their peers behind their backs, and even putting them on the hat of usurping the imperial power. Yan Shouye was so scared that he was ashamed of shaking and looked disgusted. Yan Langqing looked at his father in disbelief and shouted shrillly: "Dad, what's going on?" After that, he knelt down and apologized to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Caomin has never said such words, Caomin is also blinded. Please forgive me!"

The emperor lowered his eyes to look at her, and his eyes that were always shining with soft light were extremely cold at this moment. Yan Langqing looked up at him, and his heart couldn't help but jumped hard. She had lived in the palace for a long time and did not go home often. She never expected that her family would be so arrogant. She just wanted to learn a few more dishes, and she really promoted folk chefs, but she hurt them. No wonder the chefs invited today looked very stiff when they saw her, as if they dared not speak out, and were quite contemptuous.

But she can no longer control what others think of her. She only worried that the emperor would be dissatisfied with her. Prince Tang had been tired of her as early as ten years ago. Now she lost the Golden Knife, the recipe, the reputation, the hearts of the people, and can no longer lose the emperor's favor. If there was no emperor, Yan Langqing would be nothing after today.

Yan Shouye was so scared that he didn't dare to say a word, just kowtowed behind his daughter. When he showed off his might and suppressed his peers, he never thought that he would be today.

Lin Dan dismantled all the dishes stolen by Yan's family and placed them aside to prepare the items to return to the original owner.

The emperor looked at her, then frowned and said, "Get up, your restaurant has been closed anyway, so let's go before. Who do these recipes belong to? Take them away by yourself, and do whatever you should do in the future. I am the emperor and the lord of all people. What I can eat can be eaten by all people in the world."

With a word from Qingpiaopiao, she let go of the Yan family's father and daughter. Prince Cheng and Prince Gong showed dissatisfaction, but they did not say much.

Lin Dan was still dismantling the recipe and putting one of them. His calm expression finally rippled: "If I remember correctly, this Wanfu meat is a famous dish of Yan Yuchu? Because of this dish, the emperor will take a fancy to your cooking skills and summon you into the palace."

Yan Langqing's expression, which had just relaxed, began to tense again.

Lin Dan glanced at her and said with a slight ridicule: "But who knows that authentic Wanfu meat is not made like this, or even made of meat. Yan Yuchu, I remember you once said that you will never make my father's dishes in your life, but why do you use my father's efforts to gain your own future? You are really a person who is on the surface and a behind the scenes..."

Yan Langqing's lips were trembling, as if she wanted to refute, but she was nervously unable to speak. Yan Shouye shouted with confidence: "Lin Dan, don't talk nonsense! This dish was clearly developed by my Langqing himself, so I'll watch it with my own eyes!"

Lin Dan closed the recipe and said slowly: "Is that so? Did you develop it yourself, or did my father's apprentice tell you? If I remember correctly, my father's two apprentices are now chefs in the Yanjia Restaurant."

"You, you are so innocent that you can swear!" Yan Shouye was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, but the person involved Yan Langqing had a pale face and remained silent.

Lin Dan opened the door and said, "Is it a waste of time? Let's wait until I make the real Wanfu meat?" After the words came, he went straight to the kitchen.

The emperor looked at Yan Langqing deeply, and then followed slowly. The rest of the people could not sit still and hurriedly ran to join in the fun. Today's competition was really unsatisfied and started again. It was really ups and downs and exciting! Who could have thought that the shopkeeper Lin, who would definitely lose, would win under the pressure of imperial power? Who could have thought that Yan Yuchu, who seemed gentle and kind, was such a scheming woman inside.

Lin Dan was a distinguished guest brought by the emperor. She wanted to borrow the kitchen. The store did not dare to disobey. She immediately emptyed the spaciousest stove and prepared ingredients for her. She picked up a piece of tofu, cut it into two-inch squares, carved a beautiful ten-character knife on one side, put it in a milk soup with rich bones and flesh, and stewed it. After about two quarters of an hour, she put a little marinade in a wok and added seasonings to make the marinade thicker and turn it into a shallow layer of sauce. After that, she put the tofu pieces into the sauce and continued to cook, but only a layer of skin was left.

Prince Cheng reminded: "You have put too little sauce, and the tofu cubes cannot be completely immersed in the sauce, and it is not tasty enough."

Lin Tan smiled and said, "The prince doesn't know, this is what the folk girl wants." Two quarters of an hour later, she picked out the tofu cubes one by one and placed them neatly in the bowl and plate. Everyone looked closely and saw that the tofu cubes had turned into a sauce color, nine minutes of milky white, and the shape was very strange.

Lin Dan put the tofu cubes in a hot oil pan and fry it. The sauce-colored side was burnt with fragrant aroma. A layer of crispy crust was formed, but the other side did not touch the oil at all, and it was still white and tender. After this process, Lin Dan stewed the tofu cubes in the bone soup, then poured it into the red soup, and then steamed it in the steamed soup. After that, he stir-fried the chopped fish, chicken, and pork into a sticky sauce. He poured it on the steamed tofu cubes and sprinkled some minced ginger and scallions to enhance the flavor.

The tofu cubes that were repeatedly boiled by the broth and braised soup had already absorbed the essence of various soups and became extremely fragrant. Because the surface was covered with sauce and fried, it looked exactly the same as the pig skin. If you didn't see it with your own eyes, everyone would think it was a bowl of braised pork, not tofu.

The emperor took the lead to taste it, and his eyes immediately lit up. No matter how good the tofu looked like braised pork, it also tasted like it, but it was not as greasy as the meat, but it was full of the richness of the meat, soft and mellow.

Lin Dan explained: "My mother loves meat, but she is afraid of being fat. My father thought of developing a dish for her that she would never be fat, so this Wanfu meat came into being. It not only absorbed the strengths of meat and vegetables, but also abandoned the shortcomings of meat and vegetables, which are neither fat nor greasy, soft, fragrant and mellow, and melted in the mouth. My father told me this dish and told his two apprentices, but it did not record it in the Yan family's recipe. At that time, he did not dare to call Wanfu meat, but Wanzi meat, because the lines of Wanzi knife were complicated.

Again, only after carving ten thousand words can the tofu be tasted. Yan Yuchu, you probably got the recipe from my father’s two apprentices, but you were unable to make the tofu meat flavor. So you directly chose pork to cook? This very ordinary vegetarian dish made into your mouth and became a lucky meat specially developed for the emperor’s birthday. Yan Yuchu, your thinking about the best intentions is really ingenious. If you can use it all in cooking, why would you lose to me today?”

Without sufficient experience and hard work, even if you get a recipe, it will be difficult for ordinary people to restore the dishes because you don’t know how to deal with the ingredients, how to control the heat, and how to mix the amount of seasonings. If the ingredients are not processed well, the heat is a little bit short and the seasonings are less, the dish will completely change its flavor.

Yan Langqing was indeed as Lin Dan said, and she could not make the tofu meaty taste after getting the recipe, so she could only make it with the meat directly. It was not that she didn't want to develop her own dishes, but she was driven out by the Marquis when she was the most confused. She wanted to make a fortune, too much, she wanted to gain a foothold in the capital, too much, and too much, so she accidentally walked a fork in the road.
Chapter completed!