Chapter 316 The gentleman is far away from the kitchen
When Zhu Hao woke up, Tang Yin was seeing off guests at the door and putting Wang Shouren on the sedan.
Looking at the sky, it turned out that I hadn't slept long.
Tang Yin was about to come back to wake Zhu Hao up, and found Zhu Hao sitting there looking at him, and quickly said hello: "Let's go."
Zhu Hao got up, tidied himself up a bit and then walked out of the restaurant with him.
Lu Song personally led two guards to follow him out, and there were others behind him to complete some settlement matters and other aftermath matters.
"It's finally over. You won't need me anymore, right?" Zhu Hao asked.
Tang Yin smiled and nodded.
Lu Song had already harnessed the carriage and came forward to ask for instructions. Tang Yin waved his hand and continued to walk side by side with Zhu Hao. He turned his head and asked, "I haven't asked you yet, how did you do in the government examination today?"
When Zhu Hao heard this, he knew that Tang Yin had sent Wang Shouren away. He was in a good mood and actually became concerned about his own situation.
"It's okay." Zhu Hao said.
Tang Yin said angrily: "That's right. With your level, if you fail even the government examination... I can only say that you are distracted and unable to concentrate on your studies. It's all your own fault."
When Zhu Hao heard this, his face was full of displeasure: "Today I took the government examination, but you asked me to hand in the paper early and come to meet with the high officials at noon. If I don't do well in the examination, will all the responsibility be on me?"
Tang Yin glanced sideways at Zhu Hao and continued walking forward.
"Mr. Tang, are you going back to the palace? I won't go back with you. I have to find a place to eat... I dealt with it casually before entering the examination room in the morning. Now I am almost hungry. I am exactly
When you are growing up, it is not a problem for you to skip three meals, unlike you."
Zhu Hao said goodbye to Tang Yin.
Tang Yin looked at the carriage brought by Zhu Hao himself and was waiting there on the street. The driver and the entourage looked at the two of them eagerly. Zhu Hao was now the "young master" after all, and he didn't want to run away with him on the street after the matter was done.
Tang Yin touched his belly: "I'll go with you."
Zhu Hao was speechless for a moment.
He looked back at Dongsheng Pavilion and asked, "If I remember correctly, you just came out of there, right? There's a table full of chicken, duck, and fish, and you actually want to eat with me?"
Tang Yin sighed: "When I meet old friends, I only drink a few glasses of wine at most and talk about my feelings after saying goodbye. How can I think about eating? After seeing off the guests, do you still want me to go back upstairs to eat more to fill my stomach? I have already ordered my entourage to let me eat.
They packed up the food boxes and took them back and distributed them to the brothers..."
Zhu Hao really wanted to say, you are quite generous, you just share the table with good wine and food among others, and then you come to my place to share the meal?
So thick-skinned.
"Zhu Hao, I'm going with you. I'm just going to eat something casually. Is there anyone in the way? Didn't I invite you before? Of course, if I go to your house... then forget it."
Tang Yin means that if you want to go home for dinner, I won't go with you. Everyone knows that your mother and aunt are widows, and they say that widows have a lot of trouble. I won't cause trouble for myself.
Zhu Hao said: "You can eat if you want, but please don't ask too much, especially since there are women in the place where I take you, you'd better... restrain yourself."
"it's okay no problem."
Tang Yin was very happy when he heard that he could help Zhu Hao.
I can finally take advantage of this guy.
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After taking the government examination, Zhu Hao finally had some free time and could divert his attention from his studies, which he had been focusing on since the end of the year. First of all, he had to reward himself.
So today he prepared a "celebration banquet" for himself, not with his family, but by himself...a hot pot meal.
Zhu Hao took Tang Yin to the yard where the laboratory was located in a carriage.
Lu Song went back to the palace to report first, leaving two guards running to follow him. Zhu Hao also had several guards from Zhu Hao's side following him.
When they arrived at the place, the two got off the carriage. Zhu Hao stepped forward and pushed open the courtyard door. He saw someone chopping firewood in the courtyard.
It is Guan Jing.
"Master, what are you...?"
Guan Jing glanced at Tang Yin. Although Tang Yin was not his husband, he was his employer's teacher. He quickly came over to salute.
Zhu Hao said: "Go and tell Miss Gongye that I'm here and ask her to bring over the things I asked her to prepare in advance."
The laboratory was connected to the school, so Guan Jing hurriedly went next door to inform Gong Yeling.
Tang Yin glanced in the direction of the school, and there was the faint sound of a woman reading inside. She was studying "The Classic of Female Filial Piety", and Tang Yin's eyes were a little strange.
"Sit down, I'll go get something first."
Zhu Hao pointed to the small bench where Guan Jing was sitting on while chopping firewood.
Tang Yin wanted to sit down, but in the end he was concerned about his face, so he stood there, looked around the yard, and asked, "Do you need help? I'll come with you."
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Zhu Hao didn't let Tang Yin follow him, and quickly went to the penthouse and took out the copper hot pot specially prepared for hot pot.
This copper hot pot is divided into three layers, with a small one at the top and a big one at the bottom. The uppermost layer is a cylindrical flue, the middle is a plate-shaped container, and the lower part is a stove-type bracket. Bai Juyi once wrote a poem describing this thing: "Green Ant New Fermentation"
Wine, small red clay stove. It’s getting snowy this evening, can you have a drink?”
As for the ingredients...there are no refrigerators these days, and meat products are difficult to store. It is not easy to get some seafood back from Anlu, an inland place. Unless Zhu Hao is planning to cook boiled salted fish...that is not something ordinary people can afford.
s things.
But Zhu Hao was still prepared.
There's a lot of pork, and then there's mutton...
Fortunately, it is convenient to buy things in Anlu City. You can buy them from the morning market and cut them into thin slices. The temperature is not high in March and it has only been half a day, so the ingredients are still very fresh.
"Let's start cooking." Zhu Hao said.
Tang Yin watched Zhu Hao working there. There was charcoal in the copper hot pot, which was lit to boil water in a plate-shaped container. There was nothing on the table next to him.
Tang Yin asked curiously: "Are you going to boil boiled water for me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the courtyard door was pushed open from the outside, but Gong Yeling and Guan Jing came in, holding wooden trays with many ingredients on plates, mainly meat and some vegetables.
, but there aren’t many vegetables in March, just radishes, cabbage, and pea tips.
"I've met Mr. Lu."
Gong Yeling saluted Tang Yin politely.
Tang Yin felt a little embarrassed when he saw the woman.
Perhaps because he has had little experience communicating with women in the past few years, when he comes into contact with the opposite sex, he is like a junior brother with stage fright... But at your age, shouldn't you be blind to the distinction between men and women and take it calmly?
"Just put it aside. Do you want to sit down and eat something together?" Zhu Hao asked with a smile.
"Don't dare."
Gong Yeling said, "If there is any need, the boss can just give the order and the little girl will wait next door."
After Gong Yeling put down his things, he took Guan Jing and left.
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"Is this the one who sings about White Snake?"
After the people left, Tang Yin looked back.
Zhu Hao was still fiddling there, and did not stop what he was doing when he heard this, and said angrily: "I advise you not to think wrongly, Miss Gongye is very ambitious, and now she has no contract with the troupe, so she wants to leave.
Just leave, I can't stop you."
Tang Yin said: "Then why is she here?"
Zhu Hao pointed to the next door: "I'm helping Mrs. Gongsun... You don't know, right? The girls' school I run is next door. She works as a teaching assistant here. Sometimes she helps teach, and sometimes she takes care of the kitchen.
…Bring me that jar.”
Tang Yin casually handed over the pottery pointed by Zhu Hao. When he saw the gray stuff inside, he frowned and asked, "What is it?"
Zhu Hao said: "Tahini, you don't think it's...cough! Want some?"
"Um."
Of course Tang Yin was welcome, and then he saw Zhu Hao put garlic, chopped green onion, tempeh, fermented bean curd and kohlrabi into the bowl one after another and prepared it. He couldn't help but swallowed his saliva.
Now he was sitting on a chair waiting. When he saw Zhu Hao adding green onions and ginger slices to the water after the water boiled, he asked curiously: "Are you going to...boil these ingredients? Isn't this...too common?"
Zhu Hao didn't say anything.
Tang Yin suddenly frowned again as he continued to add things to the pot.
"This is a soup stock made in advance using butter, dogwood chili oil, Sichuan peppercorns, and five spices. It is mainly spicy and used to enhance the flavor."
After Zhu Hao finished speaking, the red and spicy soup was already boiling, and the aroma was fragrant. He couldn't help but swallow, and poured in the mutton and pork slices one after another.
After tinkering for a long time, the first pot of ingredients was cooked, and Zhu Hao finally had his first spicy hot pot meal since arriving in Daming.
That feeling...
hot!
numb!
Cool!
Taking advantage of the heat, Zhu Hao ignored Tang Yin and started gobbling it up.
Tang Yin frowned, watching Zhu Hao eating so deliciously, he couldn't help but stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of mutton, dipped it in the bowl, and put it into his mouth...
This attempt didn't matter. He felt like a door was opened in his mouth. This feeling was something he had never experienced in most of his life...
"Zhu Hao, this...this..."
Tang Yin found that he was suddenly not good at words.
Zhu Hao said: "If Mr. Tang doesn't like this way of eating, just leave it until evening. Anyway, there are people in the palace treating guests to dinner these days, so I don't have many ingredients prepared here."
As he spoke, Zhu Hao used an iron scoop to scoop out the mutton and pork slices from the pot.
Tang Yin didn't know why, but he seemed to be choked and coughed: "Save some for me."
Zhu Hao smiled brightly, knowing that Tang Yin had a good eye but a weak hand, so he handed the ladle to Tang Yin casually.
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The old and young people feasted happily.
Tang Yin mainly drank alcohol during banquets and ate less or no food. He just wanted to be free and easy. With his body, he couldn't consume much energy in a day, so he was not too picky about the quality of the food.
But today he really experienced delicious food.
"It's so spicy... It would be nice if I had a little more wine at this time..." As an alcoholic, Tang Yin felt physically and mentally refreshed while eating hot pot, and at the same time, he became addicted to alcohol.
Zhu Hao said: "I'm sorry, no, I'm not ready for you to come and eat... Who do you think drinks in this yard?"
Tang Yin smiled bitterly and looked around: "By the way, Zhu Hao, I haven't asked you yet, what is the question of today's government examination? Tell me and I will help you with the details."
While talking, he reached for a plate and prepared to add another plate of mutton to the pot.
Zhu Hao said: "The topic is: A gentleman is far away from the chef..."
"cough!"
Tang Yin was choked again.
I'm here to prepare the fucking ingredients and put them into the pot, and you're standing next to me and saying, "The gentleman is far away from the chef." Are you sincere?
Zhu Hao took the plate and poured the mutton into the pot: "Mr. Tang, do you think I'm tricking you? That's the topic. If you don't believe it, you can ask Yuan Rulin when you get back."
"Forget it! A gentleman is far from being a chef. It's just a matter of benevolence, and it has nothing to do with you and me dining here."
Tang Yin is not so formal.
Although this way of eating is a bit different from the previous mode of waiting for others to prepare it and just wait to eat it, it can't be said that it was cooked by oneself. Even if it is... it doesn't matter. Who made this thing so good?