On the 13th day of the twelfth lunar month in Zhenguan, the morning drums began to ring, and as soon as the gate of Guangdefangfang opened, a carriage slowly drove out, and three other people trotted and fell behind the car.

"That's not Eunuch Xu next to the saint. Why was he also in Guangdefang last night?"

"The person in the car is..."

"No, the saint did not leave the palace last night."

"Even if the saint leaves the palace, he shouldn't be the Eunuch Xu."

"Who is in that car?"

"Where are people? Yesterday I saw Eunuch Xu enter the Ma family's guest house, and it should be because of the cake. He didn't buy it last time."

"I think I've made some for the palace last night."

"Some?" Someone laughed and said, "I lived in the Ma family's guest house yesterday. When I woke up this morning, I happened to see Eunuch Xu and others holding a cake of the size of their arms onto the carriage. They were double-layered, and there were many flowers on it."

"really?"

"I just didn't have the chance to meet you."

"It's better not to see it. Just those small cakes as big as a palm, almost all my salary will be emptied. How can I bear it if I hug it with my arms and hold it together?"

"Oh, it's better if you don't see it, it's better if you don't see it."

"I hurried into the palace early this morning. Could it be that I wanted to invite all the ministers to eat together?" Someone guessed.

"This...it shouldn't be possible." This guess seems to be based on no basis.

"Why can't you? The saints earn so much money this year, maybe they want to have fun with all the ministers." As they earn a lot of money, they should become more generous.

"It's not unreasonable!" Someone nodded repeatedly.

So these people went to attend the morning court on this day with such anticipation.

As a result, from beginning to end, the emperor didn't even mention the word "cake"...

Emperor: Hehe.

The emperor finally ate this double-layer big cake with his concubines and princes.

Although there will be fresh items offered at any time below, and the imperial chefs in the palace often make some new tricks, there has never been any item or any food that can be loved by the concubines and princes in the palace.

The emperor had countless beauties in the harem and many children. Those who could come today were also quite popular. Twenty or thirty people shared the double-layer cake with one arms and hugged each other, and finally ate it clean.

"Aye, I still want to eat it." The young prince focused on eating the piece on his plate. He looked up and saw that it was a big cake, but it was not left at this time. So he asked him Aye with tears in his eyes.

"Don't cry, don't cry." The emperor held the son and used a spoon to scrape a spoon of butter from the board for serving the cake and fed it into the young son's mouth.

"Aye, I want to eat too..." Another little girl spoke timidly.

"You want to eat too?" The emperor smiled and waved to her: "Come on, there are still some here."

"I want to eat too, I want to eat too." Seeing that Aye was so easy to talk to today, the little princes and princesses stepped forward and pulled his clothes and acted coquettishly.

There were also some older princes who came forward and scooped the butter from the board with spoons to eat. The emperor smiled and did not scold them.

After the big cake was finished, the butter on the board was also scraped into pieces, and everyone was satisfied. Then the emperor asked the Eunuch Xu: "Did you learn how to make cakes with Na Luo Sanlang yesterday?"

Eunuch Xu bowed and replied, "I have only seen it once, and Assistant Professor Luo asked me to go tomorrow night."

"Well, then you go tomorrow night." The emperor nodded, and he also felt that this cake would definitely not be that easy to make.

"Here." Eunuch Xu bowed and said again: "I need to buy milk in advance to let it sit. I have to prepare some corn flour in advance. I will start preparing in the past two days."

"Good." The emperor said, "If you lack something, let them buy it."

"Here."

When Eunuch Xu left the hall, several temple people of all sizes surrounded him and talked to him.

"What's going on? The saint ordered you to make cakes?"

"Can we help?"

"You have really lost your luck this time, and you don't have to worry about it in the future."

"I'll be familiar with each other. I hope Eunuch Xu will give me more suggestions in the future."

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After Eunuch Xu responded one by one, he called two temple people whom he had been with on weekdays, saying that he wanted them to help make corn flour.

There are rivers and lakes in places where there are people, and this is even more so in this palace wall. There are also struggles between temple people, and there are also mutual appreciation and support. Some older temple people will bully young temple people, and some older temple people will treat those little eunuchs like their own children.

"You are now promising and meet noble people. But in the future, you still need to remind yourself not to make a fuss because of your support." An eunuch in his early forties taught Eunuch Xu.

"I can save it." Surviving within this palace wall, there is no room for them to be so popular among the temple people. As long as they can rely on some little reliance and no longer have the same dispensability as before, it is already a great blessing.

"How to make the cake? Eunuch Xu, can you teach me?" The person who spoke was a young temple master of fourteen or fifteen years old.

He was sold by his parents three or four years ago. When he was just cleansed, he often had a fever. Many people thought he couldn't stand it and survived. After working as a choreographer for a few years, he was arranged to follow Eunuch Xu. Eunuch Xu was generous and treated him well, so this kid followed him all day long, just like a little tail.

"If you don't have the permission of the saint, do you think that someone can learn it if you want to?" The middle-aged temple man scolded. This method was learned by Eunuch Xu from Luo Sanlang, but when he got inside the palace wall, the emperor had to decide.

"That's all I asked." The young temple man whispered.

"Don't ask questions without any trouble." The middle-aged temple man said to Eunuch Xu again, "Don't indulge him like this, don't know the sky or the earth, be careful of what kind of disaster a day will cause."

"..." Eunuch Xu silently and said to the young temple man: "Don't follow me today, go to the kitchen to chop firewood. I'll check it tonight. If there is less, you will continue chop firewood tomorrow."

"Eunuch Xu..." The young temple man blushed, like a child scolded by his elders at home.

"Why don't you go quickly?" Eunuch Xu scolded with a stern face.

"Here." The young temple man responded, finally stopped following, turned around and headed towards the kitchen.

Eunuch Xu looked at his left back and sighed silently in his heart. Young people can always easily forget their sorrows. Even if they are purified and have been servile for such a long time, they have suffered a lot. As long as someone treats him better, they will soon forget the previous pain and become happy day by day.

But being a temple man, being too happy is not a good thing. They need to keep fear and alert in their hearts all the time. Cowardly children always live longer than cheerful children.

On this day, Eunuch Xu and the old temple people made corn flour together. They grind the slurry with soaked corn kernels, filtered out the corn residue, and placed the remaining fine powder and water in the pottery jar to settle. They scoop out the clean water early tomorrow morning, scrape off the starch under the pottery jar, put it on the kang and dry it slowly. Finally, they were grinding on the grinder to get corn starch.

This is also the method Luo Sanlang told him. When making cake embryos, if the white flour is not mixed with this kind of corn starch, the cake embryos will be tighter and not fluffy enough. Eunuch Xu carefully remembered all the words he said. When he was fine, he would think about it alone, fearing that he would forget something.

On the evening of December 14th, Eunuch Xu went to Guangdefang again. After returning to the palace early the next morning, he began to make the first cake in his life.

In fact, Na Luo Sanro had already asked him to try it yesterday, but someone supervised and reminded him that it was different from his own operation.

On the fifteenth day, it was a big dynasty, and the time he attended the court was longer than before. When the emperor went to court, someone sent a message to him, saying that Eunuch Xu had already made the cake and some palace servants tasted it. The words were very good, and asked the emperor if he wanted to see it.

So the emperor brought someone to present it and saw a piece of cake the size of a palm. Perhaps because of not enough time to make the color, the whole piece was milky white, and the patterns were pretty good. Compared with the cake presented by Luo Sanlang that day, it was less casual and more neat.

The emperor tasted it, and the taste was no different from the cake made by Naro Saburo. He was satisfied and asked someone to give him silk to him, and asked Eunuch Xu to make cakes for the concubines and princes in the harem.

So in the days that followed, Eunuch Xu stopped serving the emperor, and took the middle-aged and young temple people to make cakes in a small kitchen in the palace. The emperor asked him to take care of the place, and the idle people were not allowed to see it. Even the princes and daughters wanted to go there because they were worried that they were too young and were too close to each other, so they went out to tell people about this method of making cakes.

A few days later, an old minister in the court held a banquet at home on his 60th birthday. The emperor rewarded him with a lot of things and ordered Eunuch Xu to make a double-layer cake for him.

This time the cake has color, and its size is larger than the one presented to the palace in Luoyeng last time. It has more color and brighter and the patterns are made more exquisitely. People who have seen it have not said it is not bad.

The emperor felt quite handsome and asked Eunuch Xu to give him another reward. Later, he often asked him to make some cakes to the ministers in the court.

Not long after, even the people in the public heard that there was an Eunuch Xu who was good at making cakes in the palace. He learned from Li Shi Luosanlang. He heard that he not only made cakes well, but also had a very good temperament and looked good.

"I heard that he looks ordinary."
Chapter completed!