Capítulo 1810: 077, Conquest_4
Lin Yuan lowered her eyes, gently smoothing her sleeves, and didn’t take to heart the criticism of several scholars. However, she found it quite amusing, thinking how remarkable these scholars truly were, wishing they would say more.
“Enough, from the look on Sir Bai’s face, he evidently already knows his mistake. In that case, we won’t make further fuss over a word or two here, lest others see and say we’re bullying him.”
As for bullying, the scholar didn’t explicitly say, but the townsfolk all understood—it was indeed bullying Bai Jing and the others for their lack of learning!
Imdiately, a few people unkindly chuckled, making Bai Jing and Liang Liqin’s faces flush red and then turn white, feeling utterly humiliated.
“Since that’s the case, let’s talk about Sir Bai’s dish! Tsk tsk, to be honest, though I intended to say sothing nice for you, this thing of yours, hiss, is indeed too hard to swallow. The skin is hard and thick, the filling is chaotic, and the feeling in the mouth is like soone starving yanking a handful of leaves from the garden and stuffing them into their mouth at random.”
Another scholar shook his head and continued, “It’s not that I’m being rude to Sir Bai, nor is it intentional offense, but I dare say, even if you threw such a dish to a beggar to eat, I’m afraid…”
Originally, the scholar intended to say that this thing wouldn’t even be noticed if thrown to a dog.
But at the last mont, he changed his words, after all, Bai Jing was the Imperial Chef, and the dishes he made were for the palace dignitaries. Saying “beggar” was already disrespectful enough; to say “dog” would truly be over the line.
“You, you all, all of you are doing this on purpose! You’re deliberately opposing . Even the Emperor said my cooking is delicious, how could it be as unbearable as you say? You, you are the ones seeking personal revenge, yes, revenge! You’re avenging calling you commoners earlier, so I won’t believe you, not at all!”
With a soft laugh, Lin Yuan covered the corner of her lips with a handkerchief and chuckled secretly. Bai Jing wasn’t entirely foolish; these people were indeed getting back at him.
However, their intention was not just revenge; this dish was truly dreadful, they rely exaggerated the facts a bit.
Hearing Bai Jing’s words, the scholar not only didn’t get angry but laughed: “Sir Bai says we are retaliating; fine, we’ll say no more, please ask the others who tasted the dish!”
Sure enough, the two scholars who tasted the dish imdiately closed their mouths tightly, hands tucked into their sleeves, and didn’t utter a word.
Yet the mysterious smiles on their faces still made Bai Jing sowhat uneasy.
Liang Liqin was stamring at this point, not knowing what to do. Since becoming Bai Jing’s apprentice, he had never tasted his master’s cooking.
Not only that, he had rarely even seen his master at the stove, and he encouraged his master to display his skills today because he wanted to see his master’s skills with his own eyes.
But who would have thought the result would be like this?
Liang Liqin was dumbfounded, unsure whether he should speak up for his master.
As he hesitated, he suddenly felt two intense gazes directed at him. He turned to see Gao Xuan.
Gao Xuan still wore that placid expression, but the bright eyes clearly showed disdain and mockery.
Liang Liqin was both embarrassed and angry, clenching his lips tightly.
The two scholars fell silent, but several of the townsfolk who had eaten the Four Joys Fortune Bag began to speak one after another.
“I think the dish is alright, about the sa as what my wife makes. Just needs a bit more salt, it would be better with more salt.”
“Psh, my wife cooks way better than this. My wife would never waste ingredients like this—look at it, mixing at and vegetables like that, who cooks that way at ho?”
“That’s not it, why do I find this dish so ugly? Especially the black stuff on top that looks like soy sauce but isn’t quite, tsk, why is that put on the bun? What’s the point?”
“You’re dumb! Didn’t you taste that the bun has no salt? That soy sauce is the salt! Oh wait, I rember the chef tasted a bun himself before adding the sauce, could it be…”
“Of course! I saw it too, he only put the sauce on after tasting. It must be that the dish was flavorless, so he added the sauce on purpose.”
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