Vol 2 Chapter 84: The rescue is like a fire

The errand of Chu Xiu Palace was not as difficult as Gu Yunxi imagined. +++All Tanmei novels: www.sto123.cc.com. As Du Zhangshi said, Xu Fei is cold-spirited, and she doesn't say much every day, and she is a master of little things.
Born in a scholarly family, Xu Fei is so elegant and indispensable to play the piano and paint in the palace every day. Gu Yunxi wanted to light the sandalwood incense burner just before the empress played the piano and put it on the piano case.
After the empress recited the poem, Gu Yunxi put the manuscript of the poem and essay in the brocade box in chronological order and placed it on the cabinet.
Every time the empress had to change into a large plain robe after painting, Gu Yunxi would take this outfit and wash it.
Because of the beauty of the concubine Xu, Su Rili would not be harsh on the palace people. Such exquisite life preferences fell in the eyes of others, and no one felt hypocritical.
Days passed extremely fast in the busy schedule, and in a blink of an eye Gu Yunxi had been in the palace for four days.
Three days later, it will be the annual Girl's Day.
Dayi Kingdom pays no less attention to the Girls' Festival than the Chongyang Festival. Regardless of the palace or the folk, there must be a grand celebration on that day.
According to the rules of the palace, the Palace of Gods and Martial Arts opened on the night of Hinamatsuri. According to the time sequence, the palace people can go to the people in batches, make wishes, set off river lanterns, and stroll around the night market.
Lan Xin was looking forward to the Hinamatsuri in the early days. She had a friend in the palace, and the imperial army was on the spot.
Every year on Girl's Day, Lan Xin meets with her guard brother to go to the night market.
She told Gu Yunxi that if the head of the office arranges for them to leave the palace at the same time this year, she will pull Gu Yunxi to join them and the three will play together.
Gu Yunxi looked enviously at Lan Xin's happy face full of expectation and longing, and couldn't help but start to associate, not knowing where the Master Leng was and what he was doing that day.
Would you miss her somewhere like her?
Two days before the Hinamatsuri every year, the concubines of the harem will gather together to weave colorful ropes, embroider purses, and knead running music, and call them "Naughter Meeting".
In the past, this traditional entertainment was held in the Queen’s Kunning Palace. Since the crown prince and the queen hugged, they handed over the event to the imperial concubine Wan Yuyao.
In the past two years, although the queen cheered up and showed her face in the harem, she did not reopen Chrysostom to preside over the daughter's meeting, and only let the sisters go to have fun.
In the early morning of this day, Concubine Xu got up early, put on a gorgeous palace costume after seeing the little prince, and prepared to go to the annual harem girl meeting.
When she combed her hair, Xu Fei thought of something and called to the mirror:
"Muxue, come here."
When Gu Yunxi heard it, he walked all the way, lowering his eyebrows and nodding in agreement:
"What is your order?"
"You go to the small kitchen to see if the desserts prepared for the imperial concubine have been prepared. Neto asks them again, the imperial concubine likes to eat the goat cheese in our palace, wait for the butter pastry and pastry, tell the kitchen to make it carefully. "
"Manny, peace of mind, this is the slave and maid."
After Gu Yunxi answered cautiously, he walked out of the main hall and walked through the corridor to the small kitchen of the side hall.
Before people entered the door, they heard the chef's clamor:
"Boiled milk is the key to extracting cheese. You can't keep it sloppy! Look at it for yourself, this pot of goat milk has been made so much by you, and how do you ask me to wait for the cheese? This is the cake to be given to the Wanhuang concubine "
Lan Xin's "嘤嘤" sobbing came one after another:
"Lan Xin has pleaded guilty. Auntie will plead with the empress later, don't let her punish me!"
Hearing that Lan Xin was in trouble, Gu Yunxi couldn't settle down.
Not long after she entered the palace, she was always taken care of by Lan Xin. That little girl is working as a errand in the small kitchen on weekdays, she is a little frizzy, but her heart is not bad!
Gu Yunxi walked into the kitchen and saw two cooks standing by the side. In front of the stove was the frustrated chef mother Liao, and Lan Xin, who was crying with a small face and trembling at a loss.
When Mr. Liao saw Gu Yunxi's arrival, she knew that Concubine Xu had sent someone to remind her of the cakes, her face was more like an ant on a hot pot, she was anxious.
The time for Empress to get up is almost here, and the cakes have not yet been made. If the hour is missed, Princess Wan will be blamed. Even if Concubine Xu has a good temper, she can't spare anybody in the small kitchen when she comes back.
"Aunt, what's wrong?"
Gu Yunxi's eyes flickered, and he leaned forward to ask carefully.
Chef Liao shook her head and stomped her feet, pulling up Gu Yunxi to rush to the pot:
"Girl, look, what kind of goat's milk has been cooked by this dead hoof! Today's harem party stove is already busy. I have no skills. I asked this little hoof to take care of me one or two. The whole pot of goat milk is scourge!"
Gu Yunxi squinted his eyes and looked into the pot, and saw that a pot of goat milk was almost boiled, and only a thick layer of milk was left, crumpled on the bottom of the pot.
It's not that Gu Yunxi has never made goat cheese, and he knows the difference between steamed cheese and boiled cheese.
Steaming the cheese takes a long time, and the produced cheese is moisturized and has a smooth and clear appearance. She used the steamed cheese method when she made "Jiaozhu Pear".
The cooking of cheese not only takes a long time, but also keep people in front of the stove to stir the pot with a wooden spoon from time to time. If the fire is too high, the butternuts are easily boiled dry.
At this time, a pot of goat milk formed a thick skin, and the goat milk was basically waste.
Goat's milk is precious, and it takes some time to make cheese pastry after re-taking the cheese. Time is too late.
"Girl, please go and ask the empress, can you change to other cakes. Quan has passed the imperial concubine level, how to punish the empress afterwards, I will accept it voluntarily."
Chef Liao really had nothing to do, and she sat down on a low stool and fell dejected.
Gu Yunxi curled his brows slightly, and lifted the milk skin with his chopsticks.
Under the milk skin, there are some unformed goat cheese, shaped like broken tofu residue, which is really disgusting to look at.
Gu Yunxi glanced at Lan Xin beside her, and whispered:
"You, you, good butter, what are you doing with cold water halfway?"
Lan Xin wiped her tears and whispered back:
"I, I think the night market can be fascinated in the next day and night, and the pot rushed in a blink of an eye. I was so scared that I poured some water into the goat's milk. Who knows that if I cook it again, the cheese will not be condensed, but the milk skin..."
"Water can thin the milk fat of goat milk, so it won't curdle into butter naturally, not to mention cold water."
Gu Yunxi shook his head helplessly.
"What about now?"
Lan Xin was so flustered that he cried again, grabbing Gu Yunxi by one arm and not letting go:
"Muxue, you help me, help me beg Niang Niang, I don't want to be locked into a violence room!"
"It's okay, wrap it around me. You quickly find a ghee."
After talking to Lan Xin, Gu Yunxi turned to look at Chef Liao:
"Aunty, I need some ice cubes. Let's process this butternut and make a fresh meal, so the royal concubine likes it!"
"This...good!"
Liao Kitchen hesitated for a while, and there was no better way in his mind, so he got up from the stool and bit his head and ordered the cook to go to the ice cellar to fetch ice.
Gu Yunxi started the fire again, took the butter that Lan Xin handed over, cut a piece of it and threw it into the pot, and sprinkled a handful of icing sugar.
When the ghee melted for a while, Gu Yunxi didn't stir the pot, he took the ice cubes and mashed them in a hurry, put them in the food container, and made a thick layer.
The remaining broken ice yards in the ice cracked lotus leaf disc, then go to see the pot.
The boiling butter goat milk has thickened. Gu Yunxi ordered people to put out the fire and start the pot.
When the milk was slightly cold, Gu Yunxi took a spoonful and poured it into the lotus leaf tray.
When the milky milk was frozen and solidified by ice, Gu Yunxi poured another spoonful of it, and it gradually accumulated in this way, gradually pouring into a sharp snow-white hill.
Take a slice of fresh mint and garnish the peak, and press a gorgeous pitted cherry on top.
Gu Yunxi asked someone to pluck a few bright flowers and place them on the crushed ice. He eased his eyebrows and approached Chef Liao with a tray with both hands, and said with a smile:
"Auntie can put this dish of'Sushan' into the food box, and the empress will bring it to the daughter's meeting and present it to Princess Wan to taste."
After seeing the things in Gu Yunxi's hands, the bright brilliance in Mrs. Liao's eyes was only a flash in the pan, and then her brows were heavy, she rolled her eyes and looked at the white snowy mountain on the green disc with a gaze, and asked without confidence:
"This... is this all right?"
"Auntie, just use it for business. After a while, the empress will get up and drive, and if she and the imperial concubine cause criticism, Mu Xue is willing to be punished for her aunt."
"Well, yes, let's try it!"
The chef nodded and agreed, put Su Shan into the iced food box, and sent Gu Yunxi to the main hall.
When Concubine Xu saw this dish, her expression was obviously unhappy, and her beautiful eyebrows were raised immediately, and she said angrily:
"On that day, I went to Yongning Palace to ask for peace. The Emperor Wan, in front of many concubines, named and praised the cakes and pastries in our palace.
Now, these dead slaves in the kitchen want me to take this shapeless thing to see the imperial concubine. Are they afraid that their masters will not be blamed? "
"Manny..."
Gu Yunxi was about to explain, but when he heard the attack, Xu Fei sternly ordered:
"Jinzhu, go and call Mrs. Liao to come!"
Jinzhu hurriedly obeyed his orders, and not long after he came back, followed by the restless chef lady.
"Let's talk about it, this palace is always reluctant to alarm you old, and you have become more clumsy, and now you dare to use this thing to fool this palace!"
Gu Yunxi stood aside and watched sneakily. Fortunately, the Concubine Xu only raised her eyebrows, as if she was trying her best to endure the emotional outburst, and she hadn't lost her attitude so much that she raised her hand and smashed the lotus leaf plate.
Otherwise, Gu Yunxi really won't have the ability to turn the tide.
Chef Liao had already scared her legs to weaken, and one could not stand steady, so she sat in front of Concubine Xu.
Jinzhu scolded: "Laughter!"
The cook was sweating profusely, hurriedly adjusted her posture and prostrated herself, kowtow one after another:
"Niangniang, please spare your life, Niangniang! The slave and the maid are guilty! Just because the slave and the maid smashed the butternut, Mu Xue saw it and taught the slave and the maid to change the recipe to make a'sushan'. Time is running out, and the slave is really helpless. , I also hope that my mother will be more forgiving"
"Sushan?"
After hearing this, Concubine Xu raised her eyebrows slightly, and her anger was mostly gone.
Turning my eyes to look at the white hills on the green disc, my lips suddenly curled up, creating an arc of laughter:
"Well, the shape is not interesting, the color is right... Sushan, the name of this dessert is also novel. Mu Xue, is this your idea?"
Gu Yunxi lowered his eyebrows and knelt, and said with a respectful voice:
"The slave and maid are the masters without authorization, and I ask my mother to punish me."
"Let's talk about it, what is the characteristic of this dim sum?"
"Yes."
After bowing to the ground, Gu Yunxi straightened his upper body, nodding his head and talking:
"This dessert was inspired by the slave servants from the ancient poem "Red crispy hands, yellow vine wine, full city spring palace wall willows", and the main ingredient of the dessert is fragrant beef ghee, so the servants extended the name from it and named the dessert. It is'Sushan'.
This product is cold and soft, melts in the mouth, and the frankincense tangles the tongue. It's not so much a snack, it's better to call it an ice product.
Today’s daughter’s meeting was held in the imperial garden. Just imagine the empress, the fire in July, the sun is empty, the imperial concubine and the other sisters are in the pavilion, enjoying flowers and pottery on the wall, tasting the crisp mountain on the wall, and feeling the
full city
in the cultural population The charm of the willow on the wall of the spring palace is so pleasant. "
After hearing this, Concubine Xu's expression was startled, and then the light in her eyes flowed, revealing a hint of joy, and she curled her lips lightly:
"Get up, come here."
Gu Yunxi stood up obediently, her drooping eyelashes covering her uncertain eyes.
Seeing Xu Fei holding one hand again, she hurried forward.
Concubine Xu held up Gu Yunxi's hands and looked closely, her lips slightly raised:
"Red Sushou... admittedly right. Have you read a book?"
"Hui Niang Niang, I studied for a few years at home."
"Very good. Don't be afraid of danger and don't panic when you are in trouble. I like this spirit. Wait a moment, you can follow."
Concubine Xu deliberately took Gu Yunxi to the daughter's meeting, but her sudden decision made Gu Yunxi flattered and froze in place for a while.
Jinzhu's urging sounded in my ears:
"Kneel down and thank you!"
Gu Yunxi was about to bend his knees, but was stopped by Concubine Xu.
"Forget it, don't kneel. It's not early. Let's leave. If you delay, the ice in the food box is about to melt."
The stern eyes turned to the kneeling chef Liao, Xu Fei got up from the rose chair, and the stars walked outside the hall like a moon.
The hall was empty and there was no one else, and Mrs. Liao dared to stand upright, panting, looking aggrieved at the door, and silently stroked a cold sweat.