In this era, the kindness of guidance is enough to be remembered for a lifetime.

What Chen Nian told Fu Xin greatly improved Fu Xin's chances of passing the exam!

"That's not necessary." Chen Nian quickly helped the other person up and said quickly.

After all, this is how modern people think. They are used to this kind of custom. They kneel down at every turn. Moreover, we are all of the same age. Although in the dormitory, we often yelled at our sons in a good manner, but no one would really make people kneel down.

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"I'm not used to you being like this, so we can just do it as usual."

Fu Xin looked at Chen Nian with inexplicable complexity in his eyes.

When they first met, his first impression of Chen Nian was that he was a person who liked to talk nonsense, but gradually he discovered that Chen Nian knew not only a lot of things, but quite a lot!

It's what Fu Xin can say, and there's basically nothing Chen Nian doesn't know.

In terms of literary talent and composition, he is no worse than himself. Fu Xin even feels that if Chen Nian also took part in the imperial examination, he might get a higher ranking than himself!

"Brother Chen, since you have such profound knowledge, why are you willing to stay in this tofu shop? Are you willing to study this daily necessities all day long?"

"Is there anything wrong with this?" Chen Nian asked, "For me, cooking is the happiest thing in the world. I can get satisfaction from cooking. Three hundred and sixty

Okay, go ahead, you will be the number one scholar in the imperial court, and I can become the number one scholar in the imperial court, so why should I say that my number one scholar is not as good as yours?"

Chen Nian's words left Fu Xinwen speechless.

But in my heart I still admire Chen Nian's leisurely and carefree attitude, which is hidden in the city. It seems that no matter whether I can pass the exam next year, I will be behind Brother Chen at the starting point after all!

At noon the next day, Fu Xingxing sat at the dining table happily, waiting for Chen Nian to start the meal.

Last night Chen Nian already said that he would not make tofu soup today.

“Finally a change of flavor!”

When Chen Nian brought the dishes...

"Here, tofu balls, cold tofu skin, mapo tofu!" The three dishes were served, and Chen Nian not only sighed: "I spent a lot of money on this meal for you!"

But Fu Xin lost control of his facial expressions when he looked at the dishes on the table.

"Isn't this still tofu!"

"No, no, no, this is different." Chen Nian stretched out an index finger and waved: "Although there is tofu in these tofu balls, I also added flour, steamed buns, and deep-fried them.

"The cold tofu skin also uses the tofu skin just made yesterday, and adds some salt and vinegar. It tastes very delicious as a combination."

Listening to Chen Nian's introduction, Fu Xin looked at the Mapo Tofu next to him; "Then this dish... I just want to know who Mapo is?"

"Yes, there is a grandma from our hometown who is very good at cooking."

Although this era is not the history of any dynasty that I am familiar with, the development is still roughly similar. There is no chili, pork is fishy and cannot be eaten, and it is illegal to eat beef, but there is sugar, salt, starch, Sichuan peppercorns, and garlic.

The presence of garlic means there are garlic sprouts.

Among them, Zanthoxylum bungeanum is the most expensive.

However, the pepper used in making this dish was bought from Wen Si when Chen Nian went to Tianning Temple in the morning.

As for the spiciness in this mapo tofu dish.

Cornus officinalis was used for aging.

That is to say, when the brothers climbed to the top, they planted the dogwood with one less dogwood everywhere. This dogwood is also called the eating dogwood and the evodia. It is one of the main spicy ingredients in ancient people's cooking.

Although there is some medicinal smell in the taste, some simple de-bitter processing has been done during aging to make it less heavy.

In this way, the fragrance of dogwood itself can cover up the medicinal smell.

However, the taste is very unsatisfactory for aging. After all, many materials are not available. Secondly, the color is not very satisfactory.

After listening to Chen Nian's introduction, Fu Xin ate a meatball first.

His eyes suddenly lit up!

The freshly fried meatballs are still steaming. The skin of the fried meatballs with steamed buns is even crispier. As soon as you bite into it, the heat inside comes out. Although it is mainly made of tofu, you can’t taste the taste of tofu at all.

, but it feels like eating meatballs!

Of course, it's the kind of meatballs that don't have too much meat.

"It's so delicious! Brother Chen! I didn't expect your cooking skills to be so superb!"

"I see that you don't show off your skills at ordinary times. Since you have such cooking skills, why do you still cut tofu and make tofu soup every day? It makes my little brother scared now when he hears tofu."

Chen Nian also tasted a meatball.

I thought it was a bit unsatisfactory, probably because there were too few steamed buns and the frying time was a little long.

Later, Fu Xin tried the Dogwood version of Mapo Tofu.

"tasty!"

"Can tofu be made like this? This is so...so delicious! I originally thought that tofu could only be made lighter, either steamed or boiled, but I never thought that tofu could be made with such a taste.

, this is wonderful!”

Fu Xin couldn't hide his admiration. This plate of aged tofu simply opened the door to a new world for him.

He knew that there must be many ways to make tofu in some restaurants in Yangzhou or in the private kitchens of wealthy businessmen.

But Fu Xin is now certain that they will never make this old Mapo Tofu!

At this point, Fu Xin admired Chen Nian even more.

However, as for the cold tofu skin, Fu Xin thinks this cold dish is quite satisfactory.

However, when he proposed that he also want to eat these two dishes in the evening, Chen Nian flatly refused.

"Why?"

"I don't have money." Chen Nian said coldly, "Do you know how much I spent at lunch? Just have a meal. I will make these for you when you can pass the exam, otherwise there is no need to talk!"

As Chen Nian spoke, he cut the tofu into uniform thin strips about three millimeters thick and put them into the pot.

Not surprisingly, the dish tonight is still tofu soup.

And being able to reach this point is also the result of years of continuous practice.

Now I still can't meditate as Wen Si said.

It is also impossible to be like Fu Xin who can read without distraction in any situation.

The days passed day by day.

One day, Chen Nian and Fu Xin were watching Little Peony Singing and just jumped down from the tree to go back.

Suddenly, a young-looking girl wearing a green skirt came over.

"You two, please stay. My lady asked me to deliver something to you."

The two of them immediately stopped.

"What is it? And who is your lady?"

The maid smiled and said, "You climb trees every day to see our young lady. How can you still not know who she is?"
Chapter completed!