In the movies and dramas that Bai Caoshi had watched, only the women who served would bathe and burn incense.
And she had a husband.
The corners of Huan Yan's mouth curled up slightly. "Miss Bai, you've misunderstood. After changing, someone will bring you to the kitchen. The guests are of noble status, so you can't waste your etiquette."
Bai Caoshi obtained some more information. Huan Yan in front of her was the subordinate of the master of the villa, and the noble of Yanjing was temporarily staying there. How could she be an ordinary person if she could befriend the noble of Yanjing? "Miss Huanyan, can you tell me what the noble and master of the villa are like so that I can make preparations early?"
"Someone will tell you later."
Huan Yan left.
Since she was here, Bai Caoshi decided to take things as they came. She changed out of her farm clothes and plunged into the water. The temperature of the water was just right. There were also bath beans prepared beside her. They smelled not much different from the ones she had bought. They all smelled like bean powder. Probably in this era, there was no habit of spices being added to bath beans.
She remembered that Sun Simiao, the Medicine King of the Tang Dynasty, believed that bath beans were a necessity of life and that the method of concocting them should be known by every household. Therefore, in "Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions", he introduced many formulas for bath beans. The most exaggerated one was that he used seventeen types of flora and fauna and studied them thousands of times. The people were eager to obtain them. It seemed that in the future, she could do the business of making face cream, clothes, and bath beans. What she lacked were Acacias and various spices.
The villa had also prepared a change of clothes for her. It was a blue mid-waist traditional dress. After changing, it made her skin seem fairer. Her slender waist was naturally beautiful.
Even Huan Yan was stunned. "Miss Bai really has a good appearance."
Bai Caoshi's heart bloomed with joy. She didn't know how Zhe Yu would react when he saw her like this, but there were more important matters at hand. "It is all thanks to my parents' genes. It has nothing to do with me. Miss Huan Yan, let's go to the kitchen."
She wasn't proud of her beauty, Huan Yan discovered another virtue of Bai Caoshi. She felt closer to her.
She led the way and the two of them arrived at the kitchen.
The kitchen of an ordinary farmer only had a stove, but the kitchen of the villa was rich!
It was a total of 60 square meters and was divided into ingredients placement area, cold food placement area, and hot food cooking area.
Among the ingredients, there were vegetables, meat, aquatic products, mushrooms, and alcohol. Oh, there were marbled meat, peeled black chicken and duck, lively fish, and especially rare pine mushrooms. A black porcelain bottle with a red seal was labeled red koji wine.
Heavens, there was even red koji wine!
Ten chefs stood side by side in the kitchen, including Shopkeeper Feng. They were digesting the information that the new chef was young and beautiful and was surprised by the new chef's strange expression.
She was probably as shocked as they had been when they first arrived.
"Everyone." Huan Yan nodded at everyone. "Today's head chef is Miss Bai. Tonight's banquet will be handled by Miss Bai. Everyone, including me, will cooperate with her fully. Do you understand?"
Everyone agreed in unison.
"B-banquet?" Bai Caoshi stuttered. She could be ingenious while cooking some ordinary meals. However, cooking for a banquet is different. How could she do it?
What to do, what to do?
She had no way out. If she couldn't do it well, would she be able to walk out of the villa alive?
Shopkeeper Feng, you really screwed me over.
Bai Caoshi took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. What was her core advantage? After understanding this, she could make arrangements. After all, there were still ten chefs helping her.
Bai Caoshi broke into an awkward smile and said, "Miss Huan Yan, if you want to do a good job, you have to sharpen your tools first. I'm best at medicinal cuisine, but besides a bottle of red koji wine, I don't see any herbs in the kitchen. This is called you can't make bricks without straw."