Bao Gucheng’s attentive, top-level pampering act clearly just fell short of having a few big words written on Xi Zuzi’s forehead: She’s no ordinary person!
Zhou Youjian pursed his lips and cautiously chuckled, "Miss Xi, you’re really joking, the 108-course flowing banquet has been lost for hundreds of years..."
No one could possibly complete it.
Moreover, this young girl is about the sa age as Xi Rubao, how could she possibly know the secrets of the 108-course flowing banquet.
However.
Zuzi smiled serenely, extending her elegant wrist, "Bring pen and ink."
Zhou Youjian was stunned.
Fortunately, his son Zhou Yingjun reacted quickly, though he was a 190-pound heavyset man, he moved swiftly, quickly fetching a set of his own art exam practice pen and ink from the compartnt: "Here you go."
Being Teacher Cao Yu’s sister, he had to treat her well too.
"Very good." Zuzi smiled and glanced at Zhou Yingjun.
Then she took up the pen and began writing line by line on the white paper—
"Peach Blossom Eggplant, Panlong Boneless Eel, Clear Soup Tiger Ball..."
Zhou Youjian took a few glances, thinking, the young girl must have practiced calligraphy, her writing was quite beautiful, even a bit more pleasing than the teacher his son hired.
As Zuzi wrote longer and longer, Zhou Youjian’s eyes grew wider and wider, almost popping out of their sockets.
The beautiful handwriting was secondary; more importantly, these dish nas and recipes, so he had only heard a few words of, like Eggplant, and so he had never heard, like Panlong Boneless Eel, only seeing blood eel in the ingredient list, who knew the full na was actually this.
But seeing Zuzi writing it down so fluidly, as if these were not secret treasures at all, just as ordinary as making a poached egg for breakfast in a common household!
Could this young girl really know what the 108 flowing banquet is?
"It’s done. Try to see if you can cook it. As for the ingredients, they’re not particularly rare, except the tiger balls are hard to find, you can substitute them with goose kidneys."
Zuzi put down her pen.
Zhou Youjian looked covetously at the long recipe, his heart surging with emotion.
Dish 106, Dish 107, Dish 108...!
Zuzi had really completed the 108 dishes for him, and they weren’t just thrown together, they genuinely corresponded with the incomplete recipe, those nas and thods left with sparse such words!
This recipe is so precious!
"This, is this really for ?"
"Mhm, yes."
"Thank you, little Ancestor!"
Zhou Youjian treated it like a treasure, the chefs beside him tried to sneak a look, but he held it protectively like a gem: "Hey, have you washed your hands? Don’t ss around and stain the little Ancestor’s masterpiece! Hurry up and get into the kitchen to prepare the eel and goose kidneys... Everyone, get moving, we’re going to complete the 108-course flowing banquet!"
His own son reminded him, "Dad, your chef hat fell off."
Zhou Youjian directly grabbed the hat from a nearby chef and put it on: "Don’t just stand there, read the recipe to , wait, first fra the recipe, don’t let it get stained by oil and smoke."
Everyone: "..."
He’s really treating it like an offering to an Ancestor.
With guidance from Zuzi, Zhou Youjian went to the back kitchen to concoct new dishes.
Bai He instantly felt like she was going to be overshadowed, an intense sense of crisis ca over her, fearing that the "Immortal Jumping Wall" she had might not be enough.
"Ancestor Master, what else do you like to eat, I’ll make it for you first, right, you said the double-skin milk was delicious last ti, shall I make a few more desserts for you?"
Zuzi squinted her eyes, "Hmm, delicious it is indeed, but today is Xiao He’s birthday, dishes aningful to Xiao He are more fitting for the occasion, how about..."
Bai He listened intently with her big eyes, never expecting the Ancestor Master to give her a surprise too!
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