Datang First Chef

Chapter 31

The sake that Mo Wenyuan wants to brew is not the sake that is placed in the otaru in the Japanese grocery store, but the clear sake.There are three kinds of common drinks in the Tang Dynasty, rice wine made from rice and grain, wine made from grapes, and compound wine made from rice wine as a base and fermented with other spices.

The most common is rice wine, and this wine can be divided into clear wine and turbid wine. Needless to say, turbid wine is turbid and easy to brew. A lady with a virtuous craft can even brew this wine at home for her husband to drink.

Li Sanniang also knows how to brew dirty wine, but their family does not have a man who likes to drink. She thinks that the production process is too cumbersome, so she simply does not brew. If necessary, she can buy wine at a familiar wine shop.

What Mo Wenyuan was going to brew was of course sake, and it was the highest-grade amber sake in the eyes of Tang people, the kind known as rice wine in modern times.There was no high-quality rice wine in the Tang Dynasty. Even the clearest wine was too sweet and not long enough to meet Mo Xiaoyuan's requirements, so he brewed it himself from scratch.

He is an all-around player, and now he is assisted by the God of Cooking system. After studying it with great concentration, he is confident to brew the perfect peony wine.

The koji is fermented before, and the yeast, hemp leaves, etc. are filled and fermented. The wine brewed with this koji is full of aroma.

After Zhao Shenshan and the others were busy with their work, they all came to watch the brewing and helped them out. Mo Wenyuan glanced at them, threw two cans of insect repellent to them and said, "Clean up this place first." What he said was The room specially vacated for wine making had been cleaned up by the strong woman before. He checked and found no cobweb dust, but occasionally caught two small insects flapping their wings.

"It's not clean, isn't it the front of the hall?" Mo Wenyuan cared a lot about the cleanliness of the kitchen, and it is no exaggeration to say that the kitchen of Li Sanniang's restaurant is the brightest that Zhou Miao has ever seen.

"No, it's cleaner than the kitchen."

"There are no mosquitoes in the air, no dust on the ground, and better ventilation. This is the ideal environment for winemaking."

Mo Wenyuan was very practical, and he explained while doing. The disciples were embarrassed to stand when the master took the lead. The smell of wormwood was in the air, and the ground was wiped many times with a rag dipped in water.

At the end of the day, the apprentices had sore backs and backs, so they went back to the bed to rest. Seeing that they were so exhausted, Mo Wenyuan felt embarrassed and cooked food himself to reward everyone.

……

On the branches of the moon, black shadows sneaked into the room, he gently pushed open the wooden door, "Squeak--".It was cloudless tonight, the bright moonlight shone through the gap in the door, and the little black sheep blocked the door, looking harshly at the furnishings in the room.

Before Mo Wenyuan appeared, his life was very boring, struggling every day on the boundary line between looking for food and hunger.He is the only glutton in China who has suffered from anorexia for 5000 years. Unless he is about to starve to death, he will never eat unpalatable food. Unfortunately, there are not many delicacies that can enter his tongue, and the quality of life of glutton is extremely low.

After Mo Wenyuan appeared, he was still hungry, because the gluttonous stomach is a bottomless pit that can never be filled. However, the anorexic patient who has experienced despair gained new power from the food, and his happiness index soared. Life has also become colorful.Follow Mo Xiaoyuan, look for top-quality ingredients, and eat the meals he cooks. The simple life of three points and one line is full of fun.

When peeping at Mo Xiaoyuan, he heard the other person's needs, a clean and spotless room.No matter how hard the human race tries to clean it, they can't meet the sterile requirements. Thinking of this, he used his nose to blow air, the human race is really useless!

The spiritual power is like the thin neon dress on the fairy, floating around the little black sheep. Ruo Huizhi can see here that his spiritual power has grown much stronger than a month ago.Taotie is the son of the dragon, an innate ferocious beast. He does not need to practice. He is born with the aptitude to become a Da Luo Jinxian. Due to anorexia, the little Taotie is much weaker than his predecessors. The energy in the body will flourish.

Power is like rain and fog, spreading in a small room. It is invisible, like air, and can touch any corner.Dust, pebbles, cobwebs in corners, corpses of dead bugs, and small bugs flying slowly were all captured by invisible forces, and they were swept out of the door without mercy.

The room has a new look, the walls that have been oxidized for several years have returned to their original colors, and the room is full of "new" flavor.

The little black sheep snorted with satisfaction, and it was done.It turned into a human form and wrote a note happily.Modesty is a good quality, but it is not destined to belong to Taotie. His nature of being good at asking for rewards made him never hide his achievements. After cleaning the room like a snail girl, he decided to let Mo Xiaoyuan see the fruits of his labor.

Mo Xiaoyuan will definitely add food to him!Xiao Taotie thought, in order to show his intention to add more dishes, the ingredients delivered tomorrow morning must be doubled!

……

As soon as the sun came out of the horizon, Mo Wenyuan got up from the couch. It was June, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Only in the early morning and late at night, could there be a hint of coolness. Walking into the courtyard, the breeze was blowing, and the tender grass in the corner of the courtyard Especially with dewdrops.Li Sanniang has a good vision, not to mention the age of the house and the old and new walls, just looking at the little flowers blooming in the courtyard and the broad leaves rustling after being blown by the wind is refreshing.

Taking a deep breath, Mo Wenyuan entered the kitchen, and the inconspicuous corner was full of fresh ingredients.

Li Sanniang is not a fool, she is smart and diligent. One time when she woke up as early as Mo Wenyuan, she saw the ingredients and immediately called her son to ask.Her tongue is not very sharp, but she can also tell the quality of the ingredients. From the first time Taotie delivered the meat to her door, she sighed how the meat was better than usual. When she saw the high-quality vegetables and meat, she immediately brought the memories deep into her mind. Throw it out everywhere, hold Mo Wenyuan by the ear and ask him what's going on.The Hedong lion is not as fierce as her.

The spectacle of the yard full of fish gelatin earlier came into my mind, I am afraid that it was done by the same person as today.

She had a far-sighted vision and thought a lot. The pie that fell from the sky did not make Li Sanniang dizzy, but frightened her.The melons, fruits and vegetables that even the emperor might be able to eat were given away, either by gods or spirits. She selfishly felt that the gods had little to do with ordinary people, and there were many possibilities for spirits.How could Dalang not do anything after accepting the offerings from spirits and monsters?Don't really lose yourself, send it to the mountain gate to be a cook!

Mo Wenyuan let her ask her any questions, and he insisted that it was the Bodhisattva who did it, and it was not without asking for rewards when he went to the Bodhisattva to deliver melons and fruits. He cooks and worships every day.They established a contract of exchange.

Bodhisattva: Hehe.

Li Sanniang didn't believe in evil, so she took him to the White Horse Temple to meet the eminent monk. When the eminent monk heard about this, his expression did not change.Li Sanniang felt relieved after seeing several masters receiving such evaluations, and learned to ignore fruits and vegetables.She also helped Mo Wenyuan lie, saying that these things were ordered by her, and Mo Wenyuan got up early every day and waited for someone to deliver the goods to the door, so she covered up the matter.

Mo Wenyuan: Although I don't know why the mages cooperate so much, it's good to pass the test.

Huizhi: Hehe.

If he hadn't used the dream spell to inform the mages in advance, would he think the lie could go on?

Hey, following Taotie, one is destined to keep wiping his ass.

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All kinds of melons and fruits were piled up on the table, including melons, eggplants and reeds. The crops that did not belong to this season were mixed in the pile of vegetables. Mo Wenyuan picked them out and carefully observed the size and growth. He thought that this must be from Yazhou and Danzhou. Picked up somewhere else.Yazhou and Danzhou are areas near present-day Hainan, far away from Luoyang.

The fat and healthy ram was tied to a stake, and I don't know what kind of magic was cast on it. It stared in a daze and didn't make a sound. Mo Wenyuan went in to check the quality of the meat, and found that the sheep was one of the best in a hundred thousand. , the meat is plump and has no fishy smell. It is delicious whether it is roasted lamb chops, boiled lamb or stir-fried soup.

In the dark, Huizhi stared at the back of Taotie's head with wise eyes, as if wanting to know what was going on in his mind.

Hui Zhi: Send fat sheep?Do you really want to be eaten by Mr. Mo Xiaolang?

Mo Wenyuan looked at the ingredients that were several times more abundant than usual, and raised his left eyebrow. It seems that today's big show is not enough.He also wondered what caused the monster friends to send so many ingredients, hey, I was afraid that after cleaning the room, his strength would be exhausted and he would not be able to cook big dishes.

His worries were resolved when he saw a message from a friend: "I have cleaned the room, you have to reward me!" The appearance of the bully little goblin appeared vividly on the paper, and he couldn't help but laugh.

When the acceptance was completed, Mo Wenyuan couldn't laugh anymore. His sharp nose and mouth were beyond ordinary people, let alone dirt. After cleaning, there was not a speck of dust in the room, as if he was in a sterile room , in this environment, if he can't make good peony wine, he will be a cook in vain!

"This is not making friends with monsters, it is clearly raising a snail girl!"

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When the disciples saw the gleaming white wall, they wished they could kneel down with a plop, grab the ground with their heads, and spurn themselves.They clearly remembered that work was over yesterday, and the room was not yet so bright, it must have been when they were resting, the master tossed and turned, unable to sleep, went back to the room, and washed it clean.

The iron man Zhao Shenshan nearly shed two lines of blood and tears, he knelt down and said, "Master, I am ashamed of you!" Several other apprentices saw the elder brother kneeling, and they knelt in a row like dominoes. When others saw it, they must have felt that they had done something important to deceive their master and destroy their ancestors, otherwise how could they blame themselves so much.

Mo Wenyuan:? ? ?

He didn't expect the reaction from several people to be so strong, before he could pull Zhao Shenshan back, Mo Wenyuan hurriedly ran in front of the crowd, grabbed Master Zhao's shoulders and pulled him up vigorously: "No, no, no, this room is not What I cleaned was the gods, and the gods helped to do it!"

Zhao Shenshan: "Huh?"

Mo Wenyuan put on an inscrutable face specially designed for fooling people, and his expression was still learned from the monks of Daxingshan Temple: "I dream at night and meet Zhou Gong..." He took out the usual rhetoric he used to face Li Sanniang, three Mother had heard too much about his "dream of Zhou Gong" and "meeting with the immortal". As long as he said this, she wouldn't raise her eyelids, and she didn't want to hear Mo Wenyuan fooling around.The disciples were different, it was the first time they heard Mo Dalang tell about his supernatural powers which were different from ordinary people, their eyes sparkled, and their admiration for him was beyond words.

"I see!"

"As expected of a master?"

"Master, what does an immortal look like?"

Mo Wenyuan said nonsense: "It is the same as the Bodhisattva statue in Daxingshan Temple, with dignified appearance, kind eyebrows and kind eyes."

"So that's the case. Sure enough, Master has a deep connection with Buddhism. I and other common people have never seen the true face of Bodhisattva."

"Master, since this room is cleaned by the Bodhisattva, will it be wrong for us to brew wine here? How about changing a room, welcoming a few Buddha statues here, and decorating it as a Buddhist hall? It will surely bring Master's pious heart Listen up to heaven."

Mo Wenyuan: Not good at all!

He raised his eyebrows, and then flickered: "This statement is wrong. I wonder if you have heard of the Bodhisattva giving the cassock to Master Xuanzang?"

"I've heard of it."

"Before Master Xuanzang took Gaza from the Bodhisattva dressed as a beggar, the Bodhisattva tested many masters, but without exception, they were captured by his appearance and did not accept the cassock. The Bodhisattva taught us not to use appearances to show people and things, See the essence through the appearance.”

"Cleaning out the house is originally for the convenience of wine making. If we set aside the distance and arrange it as a Buddhist hall, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse and going against the meaning of the Bodhisattva?"

All the disciples nodded their heads one after another, as if they had suddenly realized: "It's very, very, I'm so confused!"

"Hey, we must make the most of the room."

Bodhisattva: I have become numb.

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After the koji was ready, it officially entered the brewing process. Mo Wenyuan wandered around the street for a few days and bought a lot of glutinous rice.Glutinous rice is called Jiangmi in the north, and its price is higher than that of rice, but its yield is low.The glutinous rice used to make rice wine is slightly different. It is called wine rice because it is good at making wine. There was no glutinous rice specially bred for wine making in Tang Dynasty. He had to shop around and choose the more suitable one after comparison.

Mo Wenyuan spread the wine and rice in front of everyone, and explained in detail that his apprentices were either cooks or peasants for generations, and when it came to the difference between the two kinds of grains, they knew everything.

"Look at it, how is it different from ordinary glutinous rice?"

The fourth apprentice, Qian Mian, was good at making pasta, and dealt with white flour, wheat flour and various grains every day. Mo Wenyuan's question hit his knowledge points, and he answered with eloquence: "This rice grain is bigger than ordinary corn rice." He doesn't care if the rice is raw, he chews it in his mouth, "The texture is softer after steaming."

Mo Wenyuan nodded in agreement, then he put a grain of rice on the chopping board, pulled out the lancet, and the leaf-thin blade cut across the grain of rice, perfectly dividing it into two sections, and he did the same, cut it open and ate it rice.

The two stared at the half-grain of rice, their eyes were almost cross-eyed.

"The rice grains seem to be whiter?"

Mo Wenyuan said: "Yes, it is called 'Xinbai'." The principle of Xinbai is that wine rice contains a lot of starch, and the starch-rich part in the center is milky white, which is whiter than ordinary glutinous rice.In addition, the space between starch and starch in the center grain is relatively large, and the rice grain is very "empty". This design is more reason for the mycelium in the distiller's yeast to invade, allowing the starch to be converted into sugar to the greatest extent.

However, Mo Wenyuan could not clearly explain these fine scientific knowledge to his apprentices. With the current technology, the gaps in the rice grains cannot be seen, so it is enough to talk about it.

The master and apprentice work together to soak the millet in a water tank, making sure that the top surface of the water is over the rice grains, and after fully soaking in water, pick up the wine rice grains and put them in a finely woven bamboo basket to drain the water.

The fragrant wine rice is put into an iron pot and then stirred and steamed. This is laborious work. The master and apprentice take turns to do it. A clean thick wooden stick is inserted in the wine rice and stirred continuously until the rice turns brown. The stirring never stops.

The distiller's koji was mixed with the boiled rice and fermented in a vat. Mo Wenyuan then added several other spices and dried flower petals. He did not follow the ancient method and adopted the traditional one-winter-one-brew method.The first few steps were based on the practice of rice wine, but his finished product is not rice wine, but special peony wine.

The big vat was standing still in the corner of the room, and he counted: "We will open the vat in Luoyang in February." The peony wine will be ready by then!

[Task: Making Peony Wine (2/1)]

[Reward points: 100]

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Li Sanniang is a considerate and good mother. Her considerateness is mainly reflected in the fact that when Mo Wenyuan is doing something wholeheartedly, she never interferes and lets herself go.When he was young, Li Sanniang followed him to pursue cooking skills. Even though she once hoped that her son would take the imperial examinations like his scholar father, he didn't want to study, so he didn't want to study. CUHK shows its talents and can do whatever it wants.

It is simply the Tang Dynasty version of "doting" parents, but in the eyes of neighbors, Sanniang's "doting" has achieved unimaginable results.

When she grew up a bit, her non-interference was reflected in her work. Mo Wenyuan said that he wanted to make wine, so he created perfect conditions, bought the materials, found the place, and the apprentice traveled thousands of miles from Chang'an to get it.The support staff couldn't have been better.

The brewing was quite exhausting. After the end, he and his apprentices rested for two days. The apprentices all slept until they woke up naturally, while Mo Wenyuan, who had a precise biological clock, let go of his distracting thoughts and sank into the God of Cooking space to study food.For him, cooking is both a job and a hobby, and it is a good way to kill time in his spare time.

This morning, Li Sanniang found Mo Wenyuan with a mysterious smile on her face: "Da Lang, do you know what I did?"

Mo Wenyuan raised his head and said, "What?"

Li Sanniang handed a stack of tissue paper to him and said, "Let's have a look!"

Mo Wenyuan looked at it carefully, and was surprised to find that the pictures on the paper seemed familiar. The storefront of Li Sanniang’s restaurant was sketched on the front, and various kinds of food were drawn on the back, such as steamed buns, steamed cakes and bean curds. .

Mo Wenyuan said to his heart: "But you learned from Baima Temple?"

Li Sanniang said: "That's right!"

When they came to Baima Temple in Luoyang that day, they were shocked by the small advertisements provided to ordinary believers. In order to increase believers, the temple really brainstormed and innovated constantly.

Li Sanniang said: "At that time, I thought it was a good idea to put the mountain gate into the painting. I asked my neighbors. Everyone in Luoyang knew about the blueprint of the White Horse Temple. Many poor people enshrined it in their homes. Kowtow and kneel down."

For the middle and lower poor in Luoyang City, paper is a rare thing, and the paper for painting Bodhisattvas is even rarer. The more people live in poverty and suffering, the more they need spiritual beliefs. They practice Buddhism deeply, and the paper sent by Baima Temple considered sacred.There are even residents who are grateful and swear that they will go to the White Horse Temple to offer incense.

"The paintings we print are not as influential as the White Horse Temple, and no one kneels and recites scriptures every day." She is quite humorous, "However, if you distribute it on the street, it will definitely be scrambled by the people."

Mo Wenyuan continued: "We don't need loyal followers, we only need someone who knows the name of the restaurant."

Li Sanniang said: "Not bad!"

"With this seal, within ten days, the name of the restaurant will be known to everyone in Luoyang."

……

Shen Yu is the Lord of Chang'an, so it is impossible for him not to know Li Sanniang's restaurant.

Among the many restaurants in the capital, Li Sanniang's restaurant, which is known for its steamed hair and tofu dishes, is an evergreen tree and an eternal benchmark. Whether it is a high-ranking official or a commoner, they always go to Li Sanniang's restaurant for a meal Rice.Those who have no money drink tofu curd, and those who have money order big dishes. There are many varieties and choices.

Shen Yu is a regular customer of the restaurant, and it was strange not to have had the bean curd from Li Sanniang's restaurant in Luoyang in January. When he woke up in the morning, he felt hungry in his mid-abdominal muscles, and for some reason suddenly remembered the branch of the restaurant in Luoyang City.

Li Sanniang's restaurant seems to have opened?

He jumped up from the bed suddenly, full of energy.Shen Yuxin said that it is true that Sanniang Restaurant has a great reputation in Chang'an City, but it has gained a foothold in Luoyang City. There are very few people in this city who have been to Chang'an, let alone those who have heard of the famous shops in Chang'an City. It is very few.

It’s true that the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley. After knowing the quality of the bean curd, the customers of Sanniang’s Restaurant will continue to flow. Unless you want to eat it early, you will have to wait in a long queue. It has not been widely spread, so go eat a cool one.

Shen Yu was wearing a long coat and ran like a whirlwind. He passed by Wang Wei, who was frightened by him.

Seeing the background where Shen Yu was gradually going away, Wang Wei asked loudly, "Shen Lang, why are you in such a hurry?" The voice floated in the air, causing ripples.

Shen Yu's answer also reached Wang Wei's ears with the help of the warm summer wind: "I'm going to Sanniang's Restaurant—"

Wang Wei looked up at the sky, it was already dawn, and he still wanted to go to Sanniang Restaurant?He looked at Shen Yu's getting smaller and smaller back from a distance, with admiration in his eyes: Shen Lang, you are really trying too hard!

After admiring the other party's courage, he staggered away with the food box in his hand. The box contained the bean curd and various snacks he bought from Sanniang's restaurant.People in their family are now superstitious about the products of Sanniang's restaurant. The serious second brother asserts that as long as it is eaten in the restaurant, there is nothing wrong with it.

Wang Wei couldn't sleep last night, so he got up early this morning and went to buy breakfast while taking a walk. Even so, there was already a long queue at the restaurant when he arrived. If Shen Yu went now, the line might have twists and turns. , Queue outside the gate of Sishunfang, within two quarters, there is absolutely no food to buy.

Hey, Shen Lang must love their food very much!

……

Shen Yu:? ? ?

= Mouth =!

Looking at the endless line, he was dumbfounded, what's going on?

The scene in front of him reminded him of a travelogue he had read, which was about the scenery of the Yellow River. The author said that the Yellow River was turbulent and had many channels. Relaxed.

The same is true for the queuing at the entrance of the restaurant. At the beginning, the inexperienced citizens stood in a line of wallpaper, flatly speaking, and bravely moved forward; in the middle, some people finally realized the problem. The straight line cannot support the large flow of people, and they are cautious , like a snake winding forward, standing twisting and twisting, squeezing more people into the limited space; needless to say at the end, the people are already densely packed, one horizontal strip after another, standing like a Dense squares.

Sadly, Shen Yu is one of the squares.

He can't wait to scream up to the sky and shed tears of anger. There are so many people, when will the queue end!

However, even though he was so sad and angry, he still joined the team without hesitation. Damn, since he has already arrived at the door of the store, how can he not drink bean curd, isn't it just queuing?He lined up!

The aristocratic gentleman is fearless!

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The Luoyang branch of Li Sanniang's Restaurant opened auspiciously, and the business was booming. [-]% of it was due to small advertisements, only half of it was due to the good reputation of the store in Chang'an, and half of it was due to Mo Wenyuan's good performance at the peony banquet.

At the beginning, Li Sanniang printed thousands of small advertisements, and asked the staff in the store to distribute them manually. Unexpectedly, they were all snatched up before they were distributed in a few nearby shops. Staged in this era, old people, women, porters... People of all genders and occupations are like treasures when they get advertisements, and they look at them carefully.

A few words were written on the paper, explaining that the name of the shop was Li Sanniang Restaurant, and it would open in a few days. Many people could not read, but their superficial knowledge told them that it was a "character", so they looked everywhere for literate ladies and gentlemen, and told them to write what.

Not to mention the child, the lifelike picture aroused the glutton in the belly, and immediately grabbed A Niang's skirt and said: "A Niang, A Niang, I want to eat!"

"Looks good!"

"Eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, eat!" The ladies snatched the advertising paper and looked at the price list. Every food has a price, most of which are "one" and "two".

Ladies are illiterate, but they can recognize these two horizontal lines. Some shopkeepers are lazy, so they write it on a wooden sign and hang it on the top.

Just one article or two articles?The ladies hesitated, Luoyang's economic level is not as good as Chang'an's, and it is still very developed compared to other cities or the countryside, and no one takes a penny or two pennies seriously.If there is food that is so cheap, it is worth buying a piece.

For various reasons, customers tend to go to Li Sanniang restaurant in Sishunfang. It officially opened on the first day. The people who come to buy are Langjun who knows Mo Wenyuan's craftsmanship and everyone in the hotel including Jin Rongda. The neighbors didn't plan to buy it. It's too fragrant, and I can't hold it back.

On the second day, the situation was different. Some people came to buy from other workshops with a small advertisement, and all the ingredients prepared in the morning were used up. Mo Wenyuan and Li Sanniang looked at each other and smiled, simply increasing the cost of buying ingredients pay expenses.

Sure enough, on the third day, the customers who were attracted by the advertisement, the repeat customers who thought the steamed buns were delicious, and the loyal supporters of Mr. Mo Xiaolang, had already filled the open space in front of the store. Li Sanniang was proud and distressed Said: "Oh, there are too many people, Ziren must hurry up and clean up the nearby wine shop as soon as possible."

Otherwise, their small shop will be broken by the turbulent flow of people!