Chapter 61 The Cook

Zhao Su searched his memory and recognized Liang Ying, the second son of Uncle Guangping.

In the original text, Uncle Guangping was the late emperor’s childhood playmate, with a tugging nature, but of course, people also have the ability, once picking over the villain who assassinated the late emperor with a single shot, and then of course, he was knighted.

I didn’t expect his son to be a prick as well.

To echo Liang Ying’s words, a few low laughs soon sounded.

Zhao Su ignored them.

The newcomer had to learn to behave, or else these old birds would end up tripping and pitting her at some point. It wouldn’t matter if it was just this errand, but the point is that in addition to this, she must also be punished!

She just put the paddle away, unpacked her bag, and took out a hamburger with double-spicy chicken nuggets to eat.

–Opening lunch!

Ancient workplace is not as perverse as modern times, except for the fact that you can’t drink and gamble when you’re an errand boy, it’s surprising that eating is not among the prohibited things, and like their line of work, there won’t be any very fixed meal times, so it’s even more regardless.

After scrutinizing the rules yesterday, she prepared herself a lunch. After taking a bite of her hamburger, she pulled out four four-inch-square wooden food containers, one containing golden fries, one containing a plate of spicy, fresh hand-torn chicken, and the other containing a vegetable salad of diced corn cabbage and carrots and so on, to everyone’s amazement.

The rest of the box is a box of egg cookies that took a lot of effort to bake.

A hamburger meal set out, immediately attracted the eyes from all sides, if you listen carefully, you can also hear the faint sound of inhaling.

Zhao Su ate her lunch like no one else was watching, and someone couldn’t hold back their curiosity and put down their dishes to ask her, “What are you eating here?”

“Pie!”

“Why is this pie so strange, with lettuce in the center, how come I’ve never seen it before?”

“Oh, I made it myself. It just so happens that I made an extra one, would you like to try it?”

The one who spoke was a youth with a small red mole hidden in the center of his left eyebrow, he looked around and was obviously a bit embarrassed.

But over here Zhao Su had already taken out another hamburger wrapped in paper. She wrapped it in kraft paper and wrapped a layer of cotton wool around the outside, so it was still warm when she took it out.

As soon as the heat wrapped in the aroma emanated out, the air immediately became tantalizing.

“Here.”

The fragrant “pie” had already been handed to him, and the youth’s throat rolled a bit as he reached out to take it, and then opened his mouth to take a bite!

It was also meal time, wasn’t it?

This mouthful of pasta and beef and lettuce rolled together between the lips and teeth, the internal organs seem to be all mobilized.

“How is it?”

One of the people who had just sniffled asked him in a low voice.

“Delicious!”

The youth responded vaguely, unable to stop himself from opening his mouth wide and taking another bite as he spoke back, “I’ve never had a patty that smells this good before!”

He said and even extended the hamburger in his hand towards them.

These days there is no oven, making bread can be laborious, Zhao Su tried many times before using a copper pan with a flat bottom and a lid to slowly bake it over a small fire, the advantage is that the one made this way comes with a burnt wheat aroma, and at the moment the smell of the meat and the bread aroma and the smell of the self-adjusted sauce spreads in the room, and those low laughs from just now instantly disappeared!

“I also baked some small cookies, if you all don’t mind, try them too.”

Jo Su unveiled the box of cookies and set them on one of the crowded tables.

The hamburger-eating dude had completely lost his shyness and reached out to pick up a cookie, looking at it before putting it in his mouth.

The dude who had just questioned him started to reach out as well. He held the cookie in his hand, repeatedly looked at it carefully, and brought it up to the tip of his nose to smell it, before putting it in his mouth and taking a bite.

The small cookie was made of coarse grain flour, and in addition to the egg, some ready-made dried cherries had been added, and the plain aroma of the coarse grain coupled with the tartness and sweetness of the dried cherries made a person want to capture this particular taste more deeply, and he took most of the rest of the piece into his mouth as soon as he could.

The rest of the guards, who were staring intently at the two of them, finally began to reach out their hands as well, and soon, a large portion of the box of fifty cookies was gone. Only Liang Ying and the remaining three guards who had made fun of Zhao Su earlier were left with taut faces and no movement.

Zhao Su acted as if she didn’t see it, continuing to eat her own meal, and when she raised her eyes again a moment later, the small half box of cookies that was left was looking to be at the bottom.

“Zhao Su, what did you just say you call these cookies?”

The second guard who reached for the cookies asked slightly coyly.

“Biscuit. Because it’s a very dry biscuit, that’s what I named it.” She replied seriously and asked in a sincere phase, “Does it taste alright?”

“More than okay? It’s so good I don’t even know how to describe it …… don’t you guys think so?”

“That’s right! This little cake is dry and burnt, I didn’t expect it to be so tasty, Servant Zhao is really good at his craft!”

Several of the guards followed and chimed in, their faces beginning to show goodwill.

There were also a few others who hadn’t made fun of Zhao Su earlier because of Liang Ying’s words, but hadn’t shown much friendliness towards the uneducated Zhao Su, who had no martial arts roots, who also threw an inquisitive look at Zhao Su after the cookies his companions handed over to him went into their mouths.

“If you guys like them, I’ll bring them to you tomorrow. Or you guys can go back and give it to your family’s cooks to make it yourselves, it’s actually very simple, mix the coarse grain flour into a dough, add the fruit pulp you want to eat, flatten it into small pieces and put it into a copper pot and bake it over a fire, and wait for it to dry out.”

Zhao Su sincerely communicated with them.

Breaking down barriers between people, food was one of the most effective weapons.

The guards were all sons and daughters of high-ranking officials, almost all of them were at the age where they all had a sense of propriety, and after a hamburger meal that she had carefully concocted, it didn’t come as a surprise at all to open up the social situation.

It was true that she didn’t know martial arts, and was here to make up the numbers, but she couldn’t fight the enemy, but she could feed them! They all had long mouths, and the presence of the small cookies was the catalyst that quickly closed the distance after breaking down the barriers.

“I didn’t realize you had such skills, it’s breathtaking. Our family cooks don’t even do it this well!”

“Who says it isn’t? Our family cook only knows those few things every day, and everything he eats has the same flavor!”

After they finished eating, everyone was talking and discussing, and they all opened up to Zhao Su.

The buddy who finished his hamburger came over, “I’m General Rongwei’s eldest son, my name is Pei Zhan, I’ve eaten your pancakes, if you don’t mind, let’s make friends!”

Zhao Su stood up, “So it’s big brother Pei! It’s a pleasure to meet you, my little sister is not well educated and doesn’t know anything, please take care of me in the future!”

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