"Young Master Xiaoyao, where are you going?" Princess Ke Xin asked, she didn't know Xiaoyao was going to make some medicinal cuisine for Lady Ke.
"I'm going to the kitchen to make some medicinal cuisine, and see if there are materials to make some small dishes. Princess Ke Xin, don't call me young master or anything, I'm just a little servant, can't bear such titles, just call me by name directly," Xiaoyao answered while once again making this request, he had said this many times, asking Princess Ke Xin not to use honorifics with him, he couldn't bear them.
"If you call me Ke Xin, I'll call you Xiaoyao," Princess Ke Xin said with a smile.
"..." Xiaoyao stopped speaking, like this then, anyway it didn't matter, it was just a form of address.
"Young master also knows medicinal cuisine, can cook?" Princess Ke Xin asked somewhat surprised, but thinking again, felt it was very normal.
"Of course, I'm a servant, cooking is no big deal," Xiaoyao said casually, then went out, Xiao Ai had already instructed Phoenix Soaring Tower's people, someone would take Xiaoyao to the kitchen.
Phoenix Soaring Tower also made medicinal cuisine, so they had all the materials, Xiaoyao didn't need to buy ingredients, originally arranging for Phoenix Soaring Tower to make it would also work, but the problem was Lady Ke's constitution was somewhat special, with quite a few things to pay attention to, explaining them one by one he found very troublesome, in that time he could handle it himself.
Regarding customers requesting to cook, originally Phoenix Soaring Tower wouldn't agree, but the other party was Ke family, plus it was making medicinal cuisine, so they agreed, letting Xiaoyao enter the kitchen's important area, giving him a space to use, and even preparing to assign Xiaoyao a helper.
Xiaoyao declined Phoenix Soaring Tower's kind offer, he could handle it himself, didn't need others to help.
Regarding this, Phoenix Soaring Tower's people didn't mind, just assigned someone to watch Xiaoyao, not letting Xiaoyao do anything special, this couldn't be blamed on their lack of trust, after all the kitchen was the restaurant's lifeline, if Xiaoyao affected other dishes, their Phoenix Soaring Tower's golden reputation would be smashed.
The person watching Xiaoyao was the worker originally prepared to help Xiaoyao, after the worker learned he was refused, he also had a little bit of small anger, he stood to the side coldly watching Xiaoyao.
Hmph, let me see what ability you have, not wanting my help.
The worker watched Xiaoyao with an unhappy attitude, soon his unhappiness turned into surprise, he couldn't imagine that the youth in front actually had incredible knife skills, even the person with best knife skills in Phoenix Soaring Tower could only watch his dust.
After Xiaoyao entered the kitchen, after preparing materials, he skillfully and quickly washed the ingredients, then began displaying his knife skills, that kind of shocking knife skills.
In Mo family, kitchen people all liked Xiaoyao coming to help, because Xiaoyao's knife skills were very strong, strong to an incredible degree, what others needed a day's effort for, he only needed one hour to complete, and this "others" were already cooks with very strong knife skills.
Xiaoyao's knife skills weren't only fast, but also uniform and detailed, with accurate force, couldn't find any flaws.
This was also why Xiaoyao wanted to come himself, if others did it, just the time for knife work would take most of the day, and might even make mistakes.
"Little Xu, who is this person, a newly hired cook, these knife skills are very strong, even Great Tang Empire's imperial chefs probably aren't stronger than him," a cook taking a break discovered Xiaoyao, asking with a shocked expression.
"Don't know, he was brought by customers themselves, borrowing our kitchen to make medicinal cuisine," that worker shook his head and answered.
"Brought by customers themselves, is this not trusting our culinary skills?" the cook at this time wasn't admiring Xiaoyao's knife skills but feeling jealous, finding it very irritating.
"Not really, their other dishes are still ours, what you're making now is one of them, but these medicinal dishes need to be special because they seem to be for Lady Ke to eat," the worker replied.
"Lady Ke, which Lady Ke?" that cook didn't understand.
"The one mentioned recently, originally almost dead but saved by Little Doctor, she's just recovering from serious illness so needs to be special," the worker answered, seemingly he wasn't an ordinary worker, quite knowledgeable about these matters.
"So it's her, no wonder," that cook understood, now he didn't find Xiaoyao irritating anymore.
After watching for a while, that cook's expression became serious again, muttering to himself, "This person's knife skills seem extraordinary, not what ordinary cooks can practice, seems to have a kind of knife intent within, he's a martial artist, no wonder..."
Although this cook hadn't learned martial arts, he was a high-level cook, cooks might not understand martial arts but were all experts at using knives, therefore they were more sensitive to the way of using knives.
There was a saying on the continent, the best knife users weren't blade masters but cooks.
Blade masters only knew how to use knives to kill people, while cooks could use knives to dissect all living beings, including people.
However, this saying was also somewhat one-sided, because the two types of people pursued different realms, what cooks knew blade masters might not know, and what blade masters knew, cooks might not know either.
Xiaoyao's knife skills were indeed extraordinary, incorporating his knife intent, to him cook's knife work was also a kind of blade technique, also a cultivation path, from knife work he comprehended quite a few things.
The more he comprehended, the more helpful it was to his knife intent, while at the same time knife work became stronger and stronger, changing until it was almost incredibly strong.
With good knife work, cooking skills naturally wouldn't be poor, among cooks there was a saying:
"Three parts stove, seven parts cutting board."
Soon Xiaoyao moved from cutting board to stove, frying, stir-frying, stewing, steaming..., one person was actually making several dishes simultaneously, while stewing and steaming could still be understood, even frying, stir-frying and deep-frying he did simultaneously, this besides requiring superb cooking skills also needed very high coordination and most importantly speed.
Immediately, the worker and cook beside were dumbfounded, the cook even forgot he was just taking a break, that side already needed him, fortunately there were others watching, otherwise this time would really smash Phoenix Soaring Tower's reputation.
However the situation on Xiaoyao's side also gradually affected the entire kitchen, gradually almost everyone put down what they were doing, all watching Xiaoyao.
Their expressions were all the same, dumbfounded, looking like they couldn't believe such things existed.
Xiaoyao didn't change anything because of this, he just continued his work, taking dish after dish out of pots and plating them, having people carry them over.
"You can watch, but don't interfere with me, also if you continue watching, the customers in front will riot..." after finishing one dish, Xiaoyao smiled and reminded.
As if coordinating with Xiaoyao's words, a seemingly higher-level manager rushed in, stunned for a moment seeing the current situation, then roared, "What are you all doing, do you not want to work anymore, customers outside have already urged several times."
"Ah..."
"Damn..."
"Forgot..." Immediately the kitchen became chaotic, but quickly returned to normal, normal working state, because everyone at this time seemed to wake from a dream, understanding they were still at work.
Now wasn't the time to admire others' cooking skills, otherwise they would be admiring getting fired.
"Borrowing some small dishes, making simple things, fried rice, boiled cabbage, that lady can also eat some ordinary home-style dishes..." Xiaoyao finally made two dishes, then carried them over himself.
Just as Xiaoyao finished on this side, on the other side, in the room where Young Miss and others were, a group of women exclaimed in amazement, because they had tasted delicious food they had never eaten before.
"This is truly too incredible... how come I never felt Phoenix Soaring Tower's dishes were this delicious before, surpassing even the imperial chefs in the palace," after Xiao Ai finished eating the dishes on the table, she immediately exclaimed.
At this time Xiao Ai still thought these dishes came from Phoenix Soaring Tower, she didn't know the dishes she was eating now were made by Xiaoyao, she only thought Xiaoyao was making medicinal cuisine, and at this time medicinal cuisine hadn't come up yet, medicinal cuisine took longer to make.
Xiaoyao making other dishes was mainly to reward Guxing, originally his dishes would be mixed with other dishes, but unexpectedly because of his presence in the kitchen, other dishes were delayed, his dishes became the only ones served.
"Really, this is so much better than before," Ke Shan felt Xiao Ai was exaggerating, but after he ate, he felt Xiao Ai wasn't exaggerating at all.
"Yes, this is the best I've ever eaten," Princess Ke Xin and others also joined the amazement, "New Moon Empire truly deserves to be New Moon Empire, such delicious food, our Heavenly Wind Kingdom has never had."
"It's not that there isn't any, you just don't know..." Young Miss took a bite and said casually, then continued drinking.
At this time almost everyone looked at Young Miss, not only because of Young Miss's words, but also Young Miss only took one bite, while others couldn't help taking several bites, if not for fear of eating too much, each of them would have eaten entire plates.
"Mo Yu, what do you mean, could you have eaten even better food, that shouldn't be possible, your family's cook isn't as good as mine," Nangong Suxin said, she still hadn't truly tasted Xiaoyao's cooking, having Xiaoyao cook was easy, but the problem was he only cooked for Guxing, incidentally giving some to Young Miss, he had never given any to Nangong Suxin, because she was from Nangong family, not Mo family.
"My family's cook isn't good, but I have my little servant, so far I haven't found anything he can't do, including cooking," Young Miss replied with a smile.
“Little servant?"
(End of Chapter)