Chapter 698: The Cook and the Cook
Princess Jinyang's sudden illness not only made Li Yuanba and them chaotic, but the entire banquet was also interrupted because of this incident.
Of course, the most chaotic place is not the four halls where the banquet is held, but the back kitchen of the Wuwang Mansion.
The kitchen ladies brought by Li Shimin are now like ants on a hot pot, and they don't know what to cook at all.
Because their master is now a saint, he just gave them a death order, they must make a set of the most digestible meals within an hour, if they can't make it, Li Shimin will break their hand tendons, expel them from the palace, and let them not enter the back kitchen for the rest of their lives.
This is their own life, they have no other way to live except for this craft, pick their tendons, and expel them from the palace, they will definitely die.
Therefore, Li Shimin's words made them both annoyed and frightened.
"How's that okay?" A cook lady who looked no more than twenty-three or four, with a look of panic on her face, "What does Her Royal Highness the princess eat and vomit, how do we know what Her Royal Highness will not vomit after eating?" ”
"Red Moon, okay, you better say a few words!" The eldest cook in the back kitchen glared at the woman who spoke at the beginning, and said, "You have the skill of speaking, and you have already figured out a good dish!" ”
"But Sister Ning, the pigeon eggs that Her Royal Highness the Princess ate are already very digestible!" The cook named Hongyue was very distressed, "Your Majesty clearly doesn't want us to live!" ”
"Who doesn't want your life? Tell me about it! ”
The cook named Sister Ning was just about to say something, when a deep voice came.
When the words landed, the thick door curtain was lifted from the outside, and Li Yuanba, who was dressed in a blue robe, walked in.
"I've seen His Royal Highness the Martial King!"
There were more than a dozen cooks in a room, and they hurriedly bowed to Li Yuanba.
"Alright, don't be nervous, get up!" Li Yuanba waved his hand and motioned for everyone to be exempted. "What's the matter?" Let's talk about your topic just now, who made it clear that he didn't want you to live? ”
Hongyue was about to be scared to death, and knelt on the ground with a 'poof', and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, Your Highness Mingjian, it is really difficult to complete the order given by His Majesty, slave maid, slave maid, this is also impossible!" ”
"Oh? According to your meaning, the emperor will not give you a way to live? Li Yuanba said such a sentence with a cold face.
It's not impossible for you to criticize the emperor, but you have to choose a place to criticize? You go in and out with this man and criticize the head of the royal family. Isn't that death?
"Your Highness, forgive me, for the sake of Hongyue who has just entered the palace for a short time, please spare her this time!"
Sister Ning hurriedly stepped forward to intercede, there were only a few cooks who served the emperor, and more than a dozen of them had been in the palace for so many years, and their feelings were still very deep, if one died, how could they still live?
"Please forgive me!" The cooks also did the same, and hurriedly begged for mercy.
"That's it. That's it! Li Yuanba waved his hand and said, "This king is not here to hold you responsible, let's get up for this king!" ”
"If you don't promise to forgive Red Moon for your innocence, slave. The slave and maid will not get up! ”
Sister Ning is really a caring person, and she actually used this method to threaten Li Yuanba.
"Yo, you cooks, you dare to threaten this king?" Li Yuanba looked at the group of kneeling cooks all over the ground angrily. "Don't really be angry with this king, this king hates others to persecute the most in his life, since you want to kneel like this. Then just kneel! ”
Li Yuanba glanced at these cooks coldly again, and after leaving this back kitchen, he entered another back kitchen not far away.
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In fact, the back kitchen where Li Shimin brought these cooks is actually specially prepared by Li Yuanba, anyway, this back kitchen is also spare, and now that someone is coming, they will use it.
As for the other back kitchen, it has been used in their palace all along.
At this moment, in the inner hall of the back kitchen of the palace, seven or eight cooks in their thirties were eating hot pot around a round table.
To tell the truth, eating hot pot on this cold day is really a special enjoyment.
"Hey, today is a great experience for our grandfathers, the royal family in the main hall is the first to be watered, and even the emperor is here!" A young man with an obvious Youzhou tone took a sip of a cup of Wuwang drunk and continued: "Alas, our grandfathers have lived for more than thirty years, and we have never seen this kind of posture!" ”
"Hey, don't say it, we, the cooks, have always been masters who can't get on the table, but now His Majesty actually found us and gave us a hot pot, today we are worth it!"
Another middle-aged man who was wearing a long chef hat also laughed and said: "We, being able to go on the stage are all thanks to the blessing of the prince, and it is my Cai Hansheng's luck to be able to follow the prince in this life!" ”
"Uncle Cai, our brothers were all taught by you, you remember the good of the prince, we remember your good!"
A little man who looked to be no more than twenty years old and looked very shrewd stood up with a smile, and the martial king drunk in his hand also picked it up, "Although I, Han Chengqing, don't know a few big characters, but Chengqing still understands the truth of knowing how to repay kindness!" Come, Uncle Cai, I toast you! ”
"Wrong!"
Hearing Han Chengqing's words, Uncle Cai shook his head and said, "The reason why I taught you the craft is not because I want you to do anything, but because of the order given by the prince, of course, this does not rule out that I want you to serve the prince better!" So tracing back to the source, your benefactor is still the prince. I remember the good of the prince, and you should remember the good of the king. ”
Speaking of this, Uncle Cai stood up, faced the room where Li Yuanba lived with a wine glass, and said very solemnly: "This glass, to the prince!" ”
"This cup is for the prince!"
Several other cooks were also in awe after listening to Uncle Cai's words, obviously they didn't know that the reason why Uncle Cai was so dedicated to teaching them cooking skills was because of the Martial King Li Yuanba!
"Hahaha, why are you so happy? Or, this king also got a hand? At this moment, Li Yuanba walked in and laughed at the cooks.
"I've seen the prince!"
The cooks put down their wine glasses in a bit of a panic and bowed to Li Yuanba.
"Okay, okay, you're polite to this king!" Li Yuanba took a few steps forward, helped the head chef Cai Sheng up, and said: "It's really hard for you today, at least half of the dishes in these four halls are from your hands, it's really hard!" (To be continued.) )