Sandwiched the remaining small piece of jujube paste yam cake on the chopsticks, and looked at it carefully, Chen Xin was surprised to find that there seemed to be a series of small characters on the top of the pastry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Vaguely, it can be seen that it is a series of intermittent sentences that can be connected together, but the second half was eaten by him, which looks very pity.

With Chen Xin's eyesight, he couldn't tell what the words were on it, but speculated that it was probably a poem.

Chen Xin didn't believe in evil, turned on the scanning function, and then magnified 10 times, and suddenly the handwriting became clear.

"When is the spring flower and autumn moon, the past ・・・・・・"

Well, the back part has already been eaten by him.

Chen Xin put down the half of the pastry and searched for a while in the plate of jujube paste and yam cake.

Sure enough, put all the pieces of jujube paste yam cake together, and it was a song of Li Yu's "Poppy Beauty".

"Why is that? Why engrave such verses so small that they are barely visible to the naked eye? ”

"Your Excellency, this is to determine when the pastry was made."

"Oh? Let's be specific. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is the responsibility of the Palace for the food and drink of the Cabinet and the Privy Council ministers who work in the Palace.

So when the kitchen is making pastries, it will make a little more as a margin.

If the ministers can't finish eating that day, they will also send it back to the kitchen for other treatments.

In the kitchen, making and preserving pastry are separate and performed by different people.

Problems can easily arise in the middle, such as re-serving the leftover pastries from yesterday.

The taste of the leftover pastry from the previous day was definitely much worse than that of the new one, and according to the regulations, it was absolutely not allowed to be delivered to the offices of the palace.

Therefore, in order to let the maids serve the wrong pastries, the chefs carve different patterns on the side of the pastries according to their preferences.

These different patterns represent different production dates.

And the chef who made this jujube paste yam cake happened to be very fond of poetry. ”

Chen Xin understood, looked at some pastries in front of him again, and couldn't help but sigh again.

"What a masterpiece, how did those chefs carve it? Do you use a machine? ”

The handwriting is miniature carving, and there are some beautiful patterns on other pastries. It's a work of art, and it's a shame to eat it.

"It seems that the Institute of Precision Mechanics has come up with this new product, which can be used for micro-carving in the limit state that is visible to the naked eye. However, this machine is very unstable and the chefs in the kitchen do not like to use it.

Therefore, this kind of miniature carving should be done by hand with the exquisite craftsmanship of several chefs. ”

"It's amazing, this eyesight and knife work are amazing, it can be called art."

The head maid smiled and nodded.

After admiring it for a while, Chen Xin tasted other delicacies again.

"Just now, you said that the Institute of Precision Machinery has come up with a machine that can perform miniature carving?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"How is the performance of the machine? Can it reach the level of these chef miniature sculptures? ”

"If you work properly, you can surpass the level of a chef.

It's just that, although it can be controlled by ordinary people for micro-carving, the performance is very unstable, and I am afraid it will take a long time to improve. ”

"This is already very powerful, the kingdom's current mold processing ability and precision machining ability have really made great progress, such a small pastry, can actually be engraved with complex and clear patterns."

Hearing Chen Xin's emotion, the head maid smiled and agreed, "It is still the precision instrument factory that was ordered by the king to set up at the beginning, and the task goal of miniaturizing clocks and watches, which has played a leading role.

When they were doing research on the miniaturization of clocks and watches, they cooperated with various departments to continuously develop high-precision instruments and small observation equipment, so that the kingdom's fine processing ability broke through several steps in a row.

Eventually, this machine was created.

In this kind of machine, the kingdom has accumulated valuable experience in various technologies such as observation equipment, high-stability and high-precision machine tools, and prime mover. ”

Chen Xin nodded with satisfaction, the method of focusing on public relations of a certain science and technology with national power in later generations really has his unique benefits.

Just a micro-carving machine can harvest so many high-tech, and this kind of scientific and technological conference battle should come a few more times.

Then, he asked, "To what extent have they developed small clocks?"

I remember last year, they were already able to mass-produce grandfather clocks the size of a human head.

Then, in their laboratory, I'm afraid that more advanced things have already appeared. ”

"It's not clear, do you need to send someone to ask?"

Chen Xin thought for a moment and shook his head, "No, forget it, as soon as I ask, I'm afraid it will disrupt their original industrial plan and let them develop step by step." ”

"Yes."

After the maid answered softly, she continued to gently sandwich various pastries between Chen Xin's plates, and answered all kinds of questions when Chen Xin was curious.

The erudition of the head maid simply made Chen Xin a little dumbfounded, no matter what she asked, she could answer one, two, three.

As for those who don't know, it's just because they haven't seen the relevant reports.

This kind of powerful ability, just being the head maid who serves him, is really too wasteful.

Therefore, Chen Xin broke the principle of same-sex service that he had set before on the spot, and ordered that the chief maid should also serve as the king's secretary, serving at any time to help the king deal with life and work matters.

Suddenly, Chen Xin reacted, stopped his chopsticks, and asked a little embarrassedly, "I'm really a little embarrassed, I haven't asked for so long, your name." ”

"The gentleman is serious, the gentleman has only lived in the palace for less than a day, and he doesn't know the people in the palace.

It's also that the concubine didn't have a self-registration number before, and according to the rules you set before, the concubine can't always serve by the king's side, so naturally you don't need to care about the concubine's name. ”

"Now, then, my head maid, can you tell me your name?"

"Lao Jun asked, concubine, Anya, meet your majesty."

Chen Xin smiled, "Good name, it's nice to meet you, head maid Anya." ”

Chen Xincai won't admit it, it's really the head maid who is too beautiful to make him change his mind, if he does, wouldn't it mean that the king of the kingdom is a person who has no perseverance, so he can't admit it if he is killed.

The next delicate pastries made Chen Xin extremely satisfied.

Although each one is only three or four pieces the size of a small finger, the variety of varieties can be regarded as satisfying, Chen Xin's taste buds that eat army cauldron dishes all year round.

Of course, Anya's meticulous service also made Chen Xin, an otaku who has been dealing with military elders for five years, feel a touch of the feeling of being at home in later generations.