eurekapd Chapter 243 The Fast Food Concept
Chapter 243 The Fast Food Concept
Chapter 243 The Fast Food Concept
As Wen Yuxia spoke up to warn him, a snake darted out of the bushes and pounced towards Bei Yi.
Wen Yuxia dodged the snake's attack by sidestepping it. After the snake landed, she could see clearly that it had a triangular head and a dark gray back. She lowered her voice and said, "A five-step snake."
The five-step snake, having missed its attack, raised its head in annoyance, hissing and flicking its black tongue, as if to say that this patch of grass was its territory and any intruder would die.
Bei Yi knew the five-step snake was highly venomous. The snake remained motionless, and so did Bei Yi. Thus, the two, one dead, shared a poignant gaze.
Finally, the five-step snake couldn't hold back any longer and leaped up, lunging at Bei Yi's face. Bei Yi dodged, his right hand swiftly reaching out to firmly grip the snake's seventh step.
The five-step snake didn't even have a chance to struggle before its head drooped limply. Wen Yuxia took out a bag, and Bei Yi threw the snake into the bag and tied the bag shut.
Wen Yunhe and the others also heard Wen Yuxia shout "Be careful!" They quickly moved towards Wen Yuxia and just then saw Bei Yi throw the snake into the bag.
"Hehe, a five-step snake, it's quite valuable," Wen Yunyu said with some envy.
It was just a five-step snake; Wen Yuxia didn't even consider it worthwhile, and Bei Yi had no intention of exchanging it for silver. After descending the mountain, the snake would definitely be left to the Wen brothers.
Since it's going to be delivered sooner or later, might as well do it now. Bei Yi tossed the bag to Wen Yunyu and calmly said, "It's for you."
"Thank you," Wen Yunyu said happily as she caught the bag Bei Yi tossed to her.
After wandering around the woods, Wen Yuxia lost interest in hunting rabbits and pheasants, so she sat down with her back against a big tree and closed her eyes to rest, while Bei Yi stood guard beside her with a wary expression.
Wen Yuxia, who was resting with her eyes closed, fell asleep without realizing it. When she woke up, she saw Wen Yunhai and his brothers staring blankly at the pheasants and rabbits laid out on the ground, and the grapes and hawthorns in their baskets.
She walked over, picked up a bunch of grapes, plucked one, and gently bit into it. The sweet flesh filled her mouth. "Ah, this grape variety is quite good, purely sweet," she exclaimed.
Wen Yunyu smiled and said, "We also dug up some small grapevines, do you want them?"
They had already tasted the grapes while picking them, and afterwards they casually dug up more than ten small grapevines to take home and plant in their yard.
“Yes,” Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile.
In order to return to the city before the city gates closed, Wen Yuxia did not stay for dinner after descending the mountain. Instead, she took ten grapevines, a basket of grapes, and a detailed article written by Wen Yunhai, and rode away quickly on horseback.
The next morning, Nan Yi took the detailed report written by Wen Yunhai to the Ministry of Agriculture. The report stated that a new grain variety, white soybeans, had been discovered and had been planted in the vegetable garden and had all survived. The Ministry of Agriculture immediately wrote a memorial and sent it to the palace.
Xia Yichen was overjoyed upon seeing the memorial and immediately issued an edict summoning Wen Yunhai to the palace to explain in detail. Wen Yunhai, who was entering the palace to meet the emperor for the first time, was extremely excited.
He truthfully informed Xia Yichen that the two brothers, Nangong Youcheng and Nangong Youqi, had discovered the large white soybeans. Xia Yichen slowly said, "Discovering a new grain variety is meritorious, and planting it is equally meritorious. I will reward them according to their merits after the white soybeans mature."
When Wen Yuxia learned of this, she did not care too much. The Nangong brothers had no intention of entering officialdom, so merit or failure was of little use to them.
Wen Yunhai returned home and meticulously tended to the white soybeans in his vegetable garden. He kept detailed records of their growth stages, from seedling to flowering, pod formation, and finally, maturity.
After harvesting, Wen Yunhai also laid out the shelled fresh white beans to dry in the sun. Once the beans were completely dry and hardened,
The white soybeans were weighed to calculate the average yield of one hundred soybean plants. Then, forty catties of white soybeans were delivered to the princess's residence.
When Wen Yuxia learned that Xia Yichen was coming over to eat the pork rib stew with white beans she had made, she was speechless. There was no way the imperial chef couldn't cook such a simple dish; why did he need to come to her house to freeload?
Despite the complaints, things still had to be done. Wen Yuxia sent Nangong Wenrui to the palace to ask Xia Yichen when he would come to her house to taste the white beans and how many people would accompany him.
On the day of the white bean tasting, Xia Yichen brought Meng Xiaoyi, An Chiyu, Wen Yunhong, Wen Yunhai, and Du Fei from the Agricultural Division to the Princess's residence.
To save on white beans, Wen Yuxia stewed pig's trotters and pork ribs with kelp and white beans. Xia Yichen was completely dumbfounded when he saw the two bowls of stew on the table.
"Mu Hua, I rarely come here, and you've only prepared two dishes?" Wen Yuxia calmly replied, "Please be patient. After you taste the white beans, there will be other dishes."
Xia Yichen picked up his chopsticks, took a white bean, and put it in his mouth: "It's soft, slightly sweet, and tastes good." Then he looked at Meng Xiaoyi and the others: "Eat up, why are you looking at me?"
Meng Xiaoyi and the others picked up their chopsticks and ate one piece here, one piece there, and the two bowls of stew were quickly emptied. Wen Yuxia whispered to Bei Yi, "Have the kitchen bring out more food."
Stir-fried pork with green peppers, tiger-skin peppers, twice-cooked pork, and cold preserved eggs—these four dishes all contained chili peppers. Each dish was served in small portions, and soon only four clean plates remained on the table.
Wen Yunhong's mouth watered at the sight of the chili peppers, and he said with an embarrassed smile, "Sis, could you ask them to bring another serving of the same dish?"
“No,” Wen Yuxia said with a faint smile, then glanced at Bei Yi. Bei Yi understood immediately, turned around, and walked out of the dining room to the kitchen.
Xia Yichen serves dozens of dishes per meal in the palace, so Wen Yuxia naturally has to serve the same standard. However, serving dozens of dishes at once means that many dishes get cold before they are even touched. Therefore, she came up with a different idea today and served only a few dishes each time.
Boiled fish, steamed fish, pickled fish, sweet and sour fish, sashimi, fish balls... All ten dishes served this time were fish, small-scaled fish from the Yin River.
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The dishes were served one at a time. Xia Yichen and the others had never eaten like this before, and before they knew it, everyone was stuffed.
After the meal, Wen Yuxia also gave them a lesson on fast food from her previous life. Wen Yunhong, who was the quickest to react, immediately said that he wanted to open a fast food restaurant.
Meng Xiaoyi and Du Fei also laughed and said they wanted to open a fast food restaurant. The three of them stayed together and divided up the area for the store. An Chiyu shouted that he wanted to invest. Wen Yunhai looked at them with envy.
Wen Yuxia and Xia Yichen were chatting about the military and financial strength of the Great Xia Dynasty, as well as its development direction. Wen Yuxia was talking eloquently, while Xia Yichen was listening attentively.