The Dragon Boat Festival is a top-notch event in the capital.

There are hundreds of boats competing for crossing by the moat, and there are singing and dancing in the golden dragon boats in the Ming Dynasty. Every household hangs calamus, children's foreheads are painted with realgar characters, wear tiger-head hats, and women wear colorful wormwood on their waists. The silk ribbons on their waists sway with skirts, becoming a dazzling scene on the street.

A Yao rushed to the railing beside the government office before the time she wrote on the post. When she looked up, she saw the flag in front of the railing gate, "Dragon Boat Festival Cooking Competition". She found it easily. There were two servants at the door to check the identity of the visitor. She handed the post. The servant looked at it repeatedly and muttered that such a young girl was actually a cook, so she put the person in.

The cooking skills exchange of the official four departments and six bureaus was carried out in this tray. She stepped over the door and walked around the screen. One floor was so empty that there were only floor tiles, the temporary desk in the middle of the patio. There was also a servant responsible for guiding the stairs to the second floor and arranging seats. From the top down, you could see the chefs who were competing in the patio. The north of the tray was the highest position in the entire tray. From her, she had to raise her head. There were only a few positions there. There were maids standing on both sides of the adjacent ones, and no one was allowed to get close.

"Is there any dignitaries coming here in this situation?"

"It must be, otherwise it wouldn't be so strict. You've seen someone specifying a seat for you when you go to the tram before. Don't you walk around after you get in?"

"I heard that it was the eldest princess who proposed to establish the four departments and six bureaus of the government in the private sector. This competition is to select talents! You haven't seen the contest all the chefs in the famous main restaurants. The only chef next to it is Nanyou, one of the best chefs in the capital. Many ministers asked her to cook."

A Yao listened to the people next to her, and the names of contestants were mentioned. After she came here, she had eaten food from a restaurant once or twice, but later she did not go to the restaurant again. She knew more about the chefs in Beijing and wanted to go out more and understand the methods of each company. It is not enough to just work behind closed doors.

They exchanged names and identities as they chatted, and saw a little girl with a snail bun next to her. They remembered that she sat down and didn't see an adult next to her. They didn't know which apprentice or disciple she was from: "Miss, which family are you from? Why didn't you see your master?"

A Yao: "I came from Sun Niang's foot shop. I am the chef and my name is Yaozhu."

"Cook?" They were stunned when they heard this, "Young people are so scary. Study hard and have a great future." As for Sun Niang's foot shop, they muttered in their hearts that they had never heard of it. I guess it was a small shop.

The seats were only a quarter of an hour. The shopkeepers of various restaurants who came to watch and the chefs invited to hear the news were sitting down one after another. They were already full of people when they were talking.

The eve of the beginning, the people on the field rubbed their hands to relieve tension.

The servant walked to the middle with a gong and rang. The shopkeeper of Dingsheng Building, the most famous shopkeeper in the capital, delivered a speech. When the eunuch of the princess's mansion announced that the question of this cooking competition was "Dragon Boat Festival", it caused a small sensation.

Not for the topic, but his appearance means that the eldest princess is eager to pay attention to this competition. She supports the official four departments and six bureaus behind her back. If she can do a great job and win the favor of the eldest princess, there is no need to worry about her future!

The cook here regretted that he didn't sign up at the beginning, so he let those smart people take the lead. At the same time, he also began to think about how to do this "Dragon Boat Festival" if it were them?

A Yao was also thinking.

Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat, five poisons, rice dumplings, seasonal foods during this period.

No one should choose zongzi. As a holiday food, it is too common. Unless it is made into crystal zongzi and star ice zongzi in later generations, there is a new breakthrough from the ingredients to taste, but it can only be regarded as a strange thing. It exists as a dessert at a banquet, and it cannot be used on a large dish.

Dragon Boat Festival to eliminate the five poisons, mix calamus juice and other pastries into five poisons? Or fry the crust like a dragon boat? Or stir-fry it with mushrooms, shrimps, bacon and sausage, and egg shreds, mix it with glutinous rice and millet, add a little soy sauce to make it into dragon boat rice?

She looked down and was speechless. The cooks below made five-color water balls and papaya fragrant medicine. Some people really made rice dumplings. Only the cook next to them chose duck eggs, bean sprouts, ham, and meat sticks to make a steamed dish. When the heat fog dissipated, a dragon boat was rushing to cross on the white porcelain plate, like a landscape painting, which aroused many people's surprise.

I don’t know when there were several ladies sitting in the north. There was no princess here. They were both a pity but not surprising. Some people recognized that one or two of the ladies were legendary wives of the Chamber of Commerce and who had built a family business with one hand, and some were official wives, who gave them no matter how much weight and face were.

The chef's dragon boat fights with all its colors, fragrance and taste, and such a dish deserves to be the first.

Eunuch Sishen came out and told the chef that the eldest princess's mansion would invite her to have a banquet. Then, she announced in public that there would be a cooking competition between Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. She was determined to search for folk chefs. Interested chefs can register after the competition. A Yao didn't listen to the words of Eunuch Sishen. At this time, she widened her eyes and threw herself to the railing to identify carefully-

Bird's nest!

She followed Eunuch Sishen, lowered her eyebrows and followed her step by step, no different from the maid next to her.

A Yao rubbed her eyes and confirmed that this graceful maid who had raised her body a lot was the bird's nest with a cold face and a soft heart.

How could she appear here?

A Yao remembered the people around her before the cooking competition that the princess supported the establishment of the Fourth Department and Six Bureau. The eunuch of the Sishen appeared here, followed by a bird's nest dressed in maids...

I haven't figured it out yet. After leaving Nanxun, I joined the Princess's Mansion.

Her heart is turbulent and her eyes are red again.

Eunuch Sishen noticed a hot sight upstairs, looked up and saw a little girl lying on the railing with a covetous look on her face.

The person next to him laughed kindly: "Is there such delicious food? Nan You is a good person and easy to talk to. While she hasn't left yet, hurry up and ask."

A Yao smiled shyly and ran downstairs. Her smile gradually disappeared. The eunuch Sishen and the bird's nest were gone.

...

On the way back, eunuch Sishen suddenly said, "The little girl I saw in Wasi Loft is a man you know."

Even if she looked at the dishes on the plate with a covetous look, she could not hide the sharp look of her eyes. The little girl was looking at the person behind him before, and suddenly she met her relatives who had no news about her at first glance. The joys and sorrows of peace could not be hidden from others.
Chapter completed!