Chapter 124: Try in advance
The people around him secretly looked at them and expressed their contempt. Gao Wei suddenly shouted: "The second one is our master! What a pity why is he just the second one?"
The people around him almost vomited blood, seven studies."
Everyone also had this premonition. After all, Gao Chong and Liu Ziyi's literature are not bad. Even Yang Zaixing also has his own father Yang Bangyi's teachings and has been familiar with the scriptures since childhood. Unlike Luo Yanqing's family, he had to occupy the mountain and become king in the end. He didn't recognize much of his words, and in his daily study, everyone felt the gap.
After knowing their ranking, they turned around and walked back. Gao Baobao frowned and saw that he was home. Finally, he couldn't help saying, "Master, you are not the number one. What should we do in the top scholar building? Do you still need to change your name?"
Liu Ziyi smiled and said, "Baobao, this time I only confirmed the grade of Jinshi. There will be another palace examination by the end of the month, which is an examination personally hosted by the official. All the grades of Jinshi will be taken, and then we will decide who is the top scorer, who is the second scorer, and who is the Tanhua."
"Oh, it turns out there is still an exam? It's really troublesome. I said why are you not in a hurry at all? Hehehe."
Everyone laughed for a while, and then returned home happily.
Cao Sheng and Gao Shize, who had received the good news, had brought people to congratulate him with gifts. Gao Chong quickly asked someone to let them in.
"I'm really sorry this time. I should have named you first, but I didn't expect that the old thief Zhang Bangchang would interfere and let you be second."
"Not involved! No matter! I have seen Li Hong's strength, it's really good. He can win the first place because of his own strength. I am convinced."
Gao Shize and Cao Sheng raised their thumbs and said, "Forget it! That is, my brother is so open-minded that he can't do this even if he doesn't."
"You two brothers are so polite, let's sit inside!" Gao Chong led them to the living room, and everyone took a seat with the guest and host.
Cao Sheng smiled and said, "Brother, you can go and have a high school this time, but you still have to thank someone. If you have the chance, go and thank you!"
Gao Chong was stunned and said, "Oh? What's going on? Brother Cao gave me some advice."
"This time, one of the three examiners is named He Guan, a Du Yuhou of the Infantry Division of the Guards, and is a subordinate of Wang Zongqin, our Wang family. According to him, Zhang Bangchang originally wanted to directly exempt such results, but the deputy examiner Qin Xue was a war pro-war faction. He argued with reason and even turned against Zhang Bangchang and threatened to face him to argue, so he set you a second place."
"So, Qin Xuezheng is a good official. Young Master, we should have a visit." Liu Ziyi also reminded Gao Chong.
Gao Chong nodded and said, "Ziyi's words are reasonable. May I ask the name of Qin Xuezheng, so we can go and have a visit."
"This person is named Qin Hui, whose courtesy name is Huizhi; a native of Huangzhou, Hubei. He passed the imperial examination in the fifth year of Zhenghe, and was also a scholar of Zhongci, and was appointed as the academic scholar of Taixue. He was a general who was a war-oriented faction."
Everyone suddenly felt a chill in the room. Gao Chong, who was smiling just now, suddenly had a blue face. This change made everyone unexpected.
"Qin Hui? It's him! This guy can also dominate the battle? He can't be a spy who has entered the war faction, right?"
"Brother, do you know this Qin Hui?" Gao Shize asked in surprise.
"Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Forget it, let's not talk about him anymore, let's just pretend that nothing has happened. Today I have prepared our signature dish from the Zhuangyuan Building. Everyone will try it later and give me more suggestions."
Seeing that Gao Chong was unwilling to say more, everyone did not mention it. Gao Shize and Cao Sheng laughed and said, "Okay! As soon as we entered the yard, we smelled the fragrance soaring into the sky, and our stomachs were already quacking."
"Today I will do it myself and show it to you. Please give me your opinions and we will continue to improve."
Cao Sheng and Gao Shi were urging him constantly. Gao Chong clapped his hands and arranged the banquet, and the dishes came one by one.
These dishes were made by two masters from Zhending Mansion. Even Gao Shize and Cao Sheng came from famous families and had never eaten many of them.
Gao Chong introduced them one by one, and everyone was not polite to eat and praise them constantly.
"I have a little belly, and the food behind hasn't come yet?"
"I can't keep it anymore! My saliva is about to flow out!" Gao Shize answered in a hurry while eating.
Seeing the mess of cups and plates on the table, these people began to touch their stomachs and kept burping.
"Okay! The last dish that everyone has been waiting for for a long time is here. It's time for me to demonstrate it to you this time!" After Gao Chong finished speaking, he went to the side to clean his hands with water.
Not long after, someone pushed up a small car with two layers of upper and lower layers. The car had a two-foot-sized lid, and I don’t know what was under it.
The two servants brought several small cages, which contained piles of many doughs. Then someone put them on sauce, garlic paste, sugar, and radish strips.
"It's so troublesome, but these side dishes? This one is a bit out of standard, right?" Everyone was stunned, looking at Gao Chong, seeing what tricks he was going to play.
Gao Chong smiled slightly and said, "Please take a look!" As he exclaimed, he opened the lid. The rich fragrance made everyone involuntarily suck his nose hard.
They looked over and saw a rosy duck in a white porcelain tray on the car. Although everyone was full or even overeating, the color and fragrance made them swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Gao Chong pulled out a bright kitchen knife from below with a blink of an eye and said, "This time I will make it for you myself! A top chef with a good knife skills can produce 108 pieces of duck with a 4 kilogram, and it has skin. However, most people can only produce about 90 pieces; today I will demonstrate it for you."
"Oh, then brother, are you of the top knife skills or ordinary people?" Gao Shize and Cao Sheng asked with a smile.
"You two brothers can count. I'm going to start now, everyone is here!"
He first removed the "blocking" and released the boiling water in his abdomen. Then he picked up his knife and cut off the duck head first, so that the duck breasts faced upwards, and cut the oblique piece of the neck from the protruding front of the duck breast, then used three or four pieces of the right chest and three or four pieces of the left chest to cut open the collarbone and lift it forward.
After the wings are sliced, pull the wing bones up and pin them inwards on the duck neck. After the wings are sliced, pull the leg bones up, pin them in the underside of the bladder, and until the duck buttocks are sliced. After the right side is sliced, then slice the left side in the above order.
The 4-pound duck quickly turned into thin slices. Finally, he chopped off the duck's beak, cut the duck's head upright from the middle of the head, divided the duck's head into two halves, then put the duck's tail tip under the slices, and tore off the left and right tenderloins attached to the duck's sternum, and put them on the plate together.
"You take this duck stand down, half stir-fry, and half make soup!" Gao Chong ordered to the two chefs, and the two nodded and agreed, pushing the cart and turning away.
Seeing him doing this, everyone felt saliva full of saliva. When they saw the ducks coming up, they all glared at them.
"Don't move everyone!" Gao Shize shouted. He held the chopsticks and pointed at him and began to count the number of duck pieces.
"105,,106,107,108! It's really 108 pieces! It's really amazing! Brother, are you counting yourself?"
"I have nothing to do with it!" Gao Chong's outfit B laughed loudly, and Gao Shize stared at his eyes and said, "Will Lingtang let you have such a duck every day?"
"Uh~" Gao Chong was suddenly criticized, and he laughed and said, "How can you? You can't be beaten to death by your mother? This is what I learned by secretly practicing strength control."
Gao Chong cleaned his hands again and said, "There are three kinds of seasonings, one is sugar, the other is garlic paste, and the third is noodle sauce. Everyone likes the kind that can be used to it!"
As he said that, he took off a layer of lotus leaf cake, picked a little noodle sauce with chopsticks, wrapped it with radish strips and duck slices, and put it in his mouth.
"The taste is good, everyone should try it!" Gao Chong greeted him, and these people had already pounced on him impatiently.
"Not bad! Really good! There is also this kind of roast duck in the palace, and I have eaten it, but compared with my brother's, it's really in heaven and earth, and it's not the same as the other day!"
Gao Chong didn't eat much, but everyone snatched him up and shouted: "I can't eat anymore! I can't eat anymore! Even if there is dragon liver and phoenix marrow, we won't eat anymore."
Soon the fried duck rack and duck soup were served, and the people broke their promises again and tasted some of them. Seeing them sucking their fingers, Gao Chong smiled and said, "Everyone, the meal has been finished, it's time for everyone to give their opinions."
These people looked at each other one by one, and Gao Shize burped with Cao Sheng and said, "No, good, full!"
Everyone heard the laughter, and Liu Ziyi said, "Shaojun, this Kaifeng City has a population of one million, and there are more wealthy people. I can foresee that our Zhuangyuan Building will be overcrowded as soon as it opens, and it will definitely consume a lot of people every day, but don't cut off the supply."
"Ziyi said it well! I have already thought of this, and at the same time, Cao Ning arranged for people to travel to all the ducks on Jingji Road to increase the number of feedings. Now hundreds of them can be supplied every day, and there will be more in the future. Don't worry."
Chapter completed!