Chapter 15 Oily Noodles (2)

Seeing that Wen Mingtang was about to die, Jiang Laosou couldn't say anything else.

His eyes swept across the crowd of handymen in front of him, and when he landed on one of them, a young boy who was fifteen or sixteen years old and had a somewhat delicate appearance, Jiang Laosou waved to him and said, "Ah Bing, you and I..." Jiang

The old man waved his fingers among the group of handymen, and finally selected the girl who just ran to ask Ji Caimai, and said, "You and she can work together with Miss Wen!"

In all Da Rong yamen public kitchens, the cook must be accompanied by two handymen.

Ah Bing heard the words and responded: "Yes, Uncle Jiang!"

Being able to call Old Man Jiang "Uncle Jiang" shows that this young man named A Bing knows Old Man Jiang.

Probably because he felt that Wen Mingtang had been tricked, Jiang Laosou specifically asked A Bing to help her, so as not to cause two more trouble-making lazy guys in the matter of handyman assistants.

With Ah Bing, a "backed person" here, she can avoid a lot of trouble.

Ji Caimai naturally didn't know all the details, but he didn't stop him.

He didn't intend to trick the new cook in these matters, he just wanted to be more "demanding" and didn't want to recruit any more messy people, like Cook Zhou who had evil intentions.

After ordering Ah Bing and the little girl to be Wen Mingtang's helpers, Jiang Laosou said hello to Ji Caimai and turned around to leave.

Of course, before leaving, he did not forget to say to Wen Mingtang: "If Mrs. Wen needs any help, just come to me!"

Of course it would be nice to listen to these kind words. Wen Mingtang was not an ungrateful person, so he nodded and thanked him.

Zhang Caimai was always inconvenient to interrupt. Now, seeing that Old Jiang was leaving, he didn't want to stay much longer. He just said to her before leaving: "If you need anything, just come to the old place to find me!"

Compared with Jiang Laosou's politeness, Zhang Caimai's words were sincere.

There is still one year before Yuerou leaves the palace, and he has to take good care of this "niece" that Yuerou has asked him to take care of.

After Jiang Laosou and Zhang Caimai left, Ji Caimai glanced at her and said, "How about Miss Wen cooks tomorrow's breakfast?"

Wen Mingtang agreed.

Ji Caimai took out a large key, turned around and walked out: "Come to the warehouse with me and pick out the ingredients you will use tomorrow."

The warehouse of the public kitchen of Dali Temple is at the back of the dining hall. There is a large copper lock hanging on it. The key of the copper lock is on Ji Caimai, who distributes the daily ingredients needed by the public kitchen cooks.

Wen Mingtang and his two followers followed Ji Caimai into the warehouse. When he looked up, he saw the neatly packed ingredients in the warehouse.

The staple food portion was placed on the ground in a large wooden barrel. There were notes posted on the outside of the barrel indicating the contents of the barrel.

Wen Mingtang glanced at it: rice, millet, flour, red beans, mung beans, etc. were all available in large quantities.

Compared with the staple food placed on the ground, vegetables and meat are placed in the cellar below for easy storage.

Wen Mingtang took a look at the staple food section in the warehouse, and was about to go to the cellar below with Ji Caimai to look at the vegetables and meat. However, Ji Caimai just stood at the entrance of the cellar, pointing at the dazzling array of vegetables and meat inside, and let her look at it.

He glanced at it, and then said with a half-smile: "It's unlucky for Miss Wen to come here. My Dali Temple public chef buys it every ten days. The vegetables and meat we buy each time are rationed, and they are listed by the chef.

Orders are classified for purchase. The last purchase was two days ago, and there are still eight days until the next purchase..."

Wen Mingtang knew that "difficulties" were coming when he heard Ji Caimai say, "Ms. Wen's arrival is unlucky."

Sure enough, when Ji Caimai said, "There are still eight days until the next Caimai," he stopped, and then said with a troubled face: "The previous meals were cooked by Master Wang and Master Sun in the public kitchen in turns.

The two of them didn’t offer any meat or vegetables on the lunch menu, so..."

Hearing this, Wen Mingtang understood: "So, I can't touch the vegetables and meat in the cellar for the time being. They are the vegetables and meat ordered by the two chefs. I have to wait until the purchase in eight days before I can make a list and ask Ji to buy them.

Vegetables and meat?”

Ji Caimai nodded, knowing in his heart that he had indeed given her a problem. Looking at Wen Mingtang's thoughtful expression, Ji Caimai remembered that this little lady had never complained from the beginning until now. After thinking about it, she still felt a little soft-hearted.

He said: "I'm afraid meat is a bit rare! However, vegetables and eggs are delivered from Zhuangzi every morning. It's just that we don't know what vegetables and meat are delivered until the day. Miss Wen, please take a look.

Is this possible?"

To be fair, today's episode does seem to be a source of difficulty and intimidation.

But...this really wasn't his intention!

Very few Dali Temple officials came to eat the meal, and many times no one came.

No one came to eat, so they didn't bother to bother! When Master Wang and Master Sun took turns making breakfast, they would either make steamed buns or noodles, or they would cook some porridge, add vegetables and eggs that were brought in at short notice, and stir-fry whatever they wanted.

.There are only a few people eating, so we just want to be full. Very few people care about this.

There are other people who really eat these morning foods conscientiously.

Ji Caimai told Wen Mingtang the truth: "The officials in the public kitchen of Dali Temple don't eat much, only the prisoners in the prison. Even if it's monotonous, no one will talk."

This meal is almost as if it is specially prepared for the prisoners in the prison.

But which prisoner who has entered the prison of Dali Temple can still have requirements for food? They are all in prison, and some are even sentenced. They can't even speak, so what opinions can they have about the food in the morning?

As long as you don't eat dead people!

Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of being a chef in the public kitchen of Dali Temple are obvious.

The disadvantage is that there is no way for her to show off her cooking skills, but the advantage is that people who eat are not picky about food, so she won't have any objections no matter what she does.

This is really a position that is perfect for "hanging around" and easily overlooked.

When Wen Mingtang heard this, he smiled at Ji Caimai and said "Okay".

In this way, Wen Mingtang's position as the chef of the public kitchen in Dali Temple has been temporarily determined.

After introducing him to Wen Mingtang, Ji Caimai turned around and left.

Seeing Ji Caimai leaving, A Bing, who was following Wen Mingtang, immediately said: "Master Ji, isn't he deliberately trying to make things difficult? There is nothing here, except for white flour steamed buns, white water boiled noodles and white porridge, what else can be made for breakfast?"

"That's right! The food for this morning is only the same, and Master Wang and Master Sun just fooled around and got away with it!" The little girl of twelve or thirteen years old sighed and said worriedly, "It's hard to make any tricks.

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There is indeed not much breakfast in Dayong. Wen Mingtang, who visited the breakfast shop this morning, is fully aware of this.

However, she is not afraid of these things. There should not be too many breakfast tricks in the future! Even if she only has staple food these days, she can come up with countless tricks.

Just as he was thinking this, two men who looked like guards came over and knocked on the door frame outside the warehouse.

The three people in the warehouse heard the sound and walked over, but saw the two guards asking: "Which one is the new chef?"

Wen Mingtang stood up and said, "It's me."

The two guards glanced at her, seemingly surprised, and muttered, "Why are you so young?"

However, after muttering this sentence, before Wen Mingtang could speak, the two of them clarified their purpose: "Tomorrow there will be a group of prisoners in the prison who will be escorted to the prison of the Criminal Department. I am afraid that they have been busy all morning, and they may not be able to get there when they arrive at the Criminal Department."

Let’s have lunch. Let me tell you that tomorrow’s breakfast will be breakfast and lunch. You need to be full. Don’t cook those porridges, lest you go hungry and call people to complain about the torture of prisoners in our Dali Temple!

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Chapter completed!