Facing a large table of good dishes, A Yao was very happy.

Such a good mood until a plate of aquarium was served.

A golden mandarin fish was lying on the black glaze plate, poured with golden thick sauce. It is conceivable that the method is braised with soy sauce, ginger and green onion, and finally sprinkle green onion on the surface, which is extremely attractive.

At the same time, this plate of freshly cooked fish dishes emits an indescribable and strange odor towards the hot air.

When it was brought up, A Yao, who was caught off guard, was caught in the odor. She quickly held her breath and her face turned red. Unfortunately, it was too late, and she felt that her mouth was already full of the stench.

Mo Xingle was amused by A Yao's reaction. He couldn't help but burst out and then burst into laughter.

A Yao glared at him but did not stop his happiness. Seeing A Yao's face turned darker again, he became serious again and coughed lightly: "This is Fanlou's signature dish, stinky mandarin fish. Although it smells strange, it tastes delicious, which is completely different from its smell."

The mandarin fish was just right. He poked down the ridge of the fish, and the chopsticks were slightly hard. The soft and tender fish skin separated from the fish body with the snow-white fish meat, and picked up large pieces of fish meat. Just from the petal-shaped fish meat that had not yet been eaten into the mouth, you could think that it must be firm in meat, as if the strange stench was given to it by the chef.

"The mandarin fish tastes like this, but it is really fresh!" Mo Xingle tried to make A Yao accept this dish, praise it so much that it was full of fragrance. Every bite was fresh and tender, without any firepower, and the smell was full of fragrance after it was slightly odor.

When Mo Xingle was eating very much, A Yao's thoughts were already drifting away.

Stinky mandarin fish, stinky tofu, snail noodles and other foods are "notorious", but they have a group of diners who like it. As long as they do not reject its smell that is thousands of miles away, they can only feel its ecstasy taste. The more they eat, the more they like it, the more they eat, the more they like it, even if they are involved, they will be covered with odor.

Mo Xingle was wrong. The stinky mandarin fish was not freshly caught from the river. In order to facilitate long-distance transportation, people in the riverside areas where mandarin fish were produced, they applied salt on both sides of the mandarin fish, but after they arrived, they still smelled strange.

It is very similar to the recipe for stinky fish recorded in "Taiping Guangji". After that, the chef washed it and cooked it slowly, stewed or braised it, turning it into a magical dish, and even becoming a city's signature.

In the midsummer, some people will take the initiative to brew mandarin fish. The odor comes from the gas produced by fermentation of food. When cooking, the smell evaporates with the heat as the heat is heated, so it smells smelling and smells fragrant.

The same applies to the transportation of anchovies.

The shad is delicate and cannot withstand the toss and dies when it leaves the water. So the restaurants are set up by the dock, and the gourmets have to taste that delicious food even if they travel thousands of miles away. Those who want to eat shads are either like cooking shads, or...

Or what is it?

A Yao bit her chopsticks and thought hard.

"A Yao, what are you still thinking? If you don't eat it, I will finish the dish." Mo Xingle saw her face full of distress, and thought she didn't know which dish to choose.

"You eat first, I'll think about it."

It’s so entangled with eating vegetables. It’s really hard for girls to understand nowadays. Mo Xingle sighed, then he would be polite to this mandarin fish.

"I have it!" A Yao suddenly snapped the chopsticks, "I thought of it! There is also a kind of poisonous carrying!"

"What?"

"The shad dies when it comes out of the water, and transporting it becomes a big problem. Either like this stinky mandarin fish, or it is frozen and travels day and night. If it is transported on land, there is another way: the shad is soaked in oil and put it in a lead box to ice. And this lead box is poisonous." A Yao said.

"There is a word that washes away all the dew, that is, the makeup powder you girls use also contains lead? But it seems that you are not poisoned either." Don't ask questions.

A Yao: "That was a long time ago. There was a time when rice flour was used, plus various spices, but rice flour was easily peeled off when applied to the noodles. Nowadays, peach blossom pollen is mixed with materials such as clam powder, wax fat, motherwort, etc., as well as pearl powder mixed with hosta powder obtained by grinding pearls and hosta powder. Lead powder is difficult to find in the market. Long-term use of lead powder will not cause poisoning, but the skin is not much better... "

Another important thing is that in the era when lead powder was used, the lifespan was generally short, and not many people died of lead poisoning and died early due to war or diseases. It is difficult to know that it is harmful.

"The alchemist will also add lead, cinnabar and the like. As for immortality or death, it depends on one's opinion. Back to the question, what is the reason for the poisoning of the imperial kitchen? What kind of hatred does he have with Concubine Xue? Even if he loses his life, he will drag the entire family into the water and harm his wife and daughter? Concubine Xue pretends to die, leave the palace and give birth to a child, and then... blame the imperial kitchen?"

Mo Xingle tends to the latter kind of speculation. Behind Xue Nianzhi, there is the Jingzhao Xue family as support. Concubine Xue came out of the Xue family at that time... The speculation was sorted out one by one, and guessing alone was not enough, and relying on this direction, he could find more powerful evidence.

"You eat slowly, I remember that I still have a step ahead of time, and the bill has been settled."

"Then I'll go with you." A Yao glanced at the table slightly and was eaten up by Mo Xingle. What else was she left here to eat?

Mo Xingle was not ashamed at all, "Then I owe another meal, I will make up for it again, and I will leave first."

After half a month, A Yao had never seen Mo Xingle before. Instead, when she saw the bird's nest on vacation, she looked much more relaxed and saw the young and lively atmosphere of a girl again.

Bird's nest came up to tease A Yao, saying that in addition to the one-acre and three-point land in the kitchen, she could also develop some skills in the future to give people some advice.

It seems that Mo Xingle's progress is quite smooth. It's great to be able to help. When A Yao poured tea for the bird's nest, she thought with a smile.

A lot of things have happened in the past half month.

The palace maids around Concubine Xue either released her or loyally followed her to the world. The evidence was not cleared, but Mo Xingle accidentally found the Strong Woman who delivered her birth, and confirmed that Xue Nianzhi was born seven months after Concubine Xue's death. After searching through various information, he finally found a line of words in a record. In this line of less than fifteen words, it proved that the shad sent to the palace used a lead box, and then restored the poison test process that year and found out the reason for the toxicity detected.

With these evidences, Mo Xingle applied upwards under pressure... Of course, he failed in the end - the imperial tomb was not something he could only open if he wanted to.

Even if it is not possible to prove whether Concubine Xue was actually buried in the imperial tomb, the reason for the wrong judgment was found after finding out the way to detect toxicity.

Mo Xingle also had a piece of information on his hand, but he did not intend to present it. It was related to the fact that the emperor believed the slander of a traitor. In this whole plan, the imperial chef and others were innocently affected from beginning to end.
Chapter completed!