Chapter 441 The Kang Family's Imperial Chef

At noon, I found a familiar private restaurant. The chef there was a family of imperial chefs. The restaurant was located deep in a hutong, in a three-courtyard siheyuan (traditional courtyard house). The interior was decorated in an antique style and had a lot of charm. Despite the chaos in the city before, this restaurant had been secretly operating all along. There was no particular reason, it was simply because... it had a powerful background.

Moreover, the boss is very low-key, good at interpersonal relationships, and knows how to get along with people.

None of the diners were ordinary people; they were all children of high-ranking officials from various compounds in Beijing. At the height of the chaos, the owner had received advance notice and closed the shop for two years. However, someone secretly protected it, preventing the secret society from causing trouble inside, all for the sake of that one meal.

This kind of store is not unique in Beijing, but each one is hidden very well, and you can't find it unless you are a trusted regular customer.

"Uncle Kang, Brother Kang!"

Fang Meng, holding Bai Nuo's hand, knocked on the courtyard gate and greeted the two people standing at the door with a smile.

The young man, wearing a dark blue padded jacket, was taken aback when he saw the young couple outside the door. Then, he welcomed them in with a look of delight.

"Hey, who do we have here? It's Xiaomeng and Xiaonuo. I heard you two went to the countryside. When did you come back? Come in, come in."

The middle-aged man who was standing a little further away also hurried over, looking at Bai Nuo with surprise and excitement: "Young Miss..."

"Uncle Kang!" Bai Nuo quickly interrupted Master Kang, her face beaming with a bright smile. "Long time no see, how have you been?"

When Master Kang was reminded of this, he quickly realized that the word was not appropriate for the present moment, and he stopped talking. However, he could not stop his excitement, and his eyes even turned a little red.

The Kang family had a spendthrift ancestor, Master Kang's great-grandfather, who was the heir of the Kang family at the time. In the old days, he contracted a black rash, and later, someone with ulterior motives led him to become addicted to gambling, which made the old master Kang seriously ill. Not only did he squander all the family's wealth, but even this old house was mortgaged.

Master Kang was the head chef hired by the Wei family at the time. Because he was at odds with the eldest son of the Wei family, and being an illegitimate son born to the second wife, his mother was not favored, and he had no connections...

Fortunately, the Kang family has an ancestral rule that all Kang Jia sons are qualified to learn the family's culinary skills, which prevented their talents from going to waste.

After his mother passed away, the eldest and third wives joined forces to kick him out of the Kang family. Fortunately, he still had a skill, and at a young age, he entered the Wei family as a kitchen helper. Because the eldest daughter of the Wei family, who was also Bai Nuo's maternal grandmother, liked the dishes made by Master Kang, he became the head chef of the Wei family kitchen in less than a year.

After learning what had happened in his family, he endured his shame and shamelessly begged the eldest daughter of the Wei family. The Wei family stepped in to help the Kang family settle their debts and even redeemed the old house. However, the Wei family had one condition: the Kang family must be inherited by the Kang family's current master, and the eldest son and his mother must be expelled from the clan.

Old Master Kang had no choice but to agree to the Wei family's conditions for the sake of the entire family. After Master Kang officially took over the family business, he directly arranged for the old Kang family residence, which is this three-courtyard siheyuan, to be returned to the Wei family. However, Old Madam Wei insisted on not accepting it.

In the 1960s, when Old Lady Wei sensed that the political situation was about to become turbulent, she did not forget her old friend Master Kang when making arrangements for the collateral branches of the Wei family. Master Kang made a decisive move, taking his wife and children to clean up the house inside and out, close the shop, and go to his old home in the countryside.

Later, life in the countryside became too difficult, so he and his son secretly returned and, through connections, secretly opened a shop.

When Fang Meng and Bai Nuo were little, they didn't want to eat the cafeteria food anymore, so they liked to sneak over to the Kang family's house. Anyway, the elders in the family would come over once a month to settle the bill.

It's no wonder that Master Kang was so excited to see Bai Nuo again. He has been able to live peacefully until now because the Wei family has helped him countless times. It's just that the young lady liked his cooking back then.

After learning about the incident involving Elder Bai and the young lady, he secretly pulled many strings. Now that the young lady has returned safe and sound, and not only that…

"Little Nuo, you can talk now!"

Bai Nuo smiled and nodded: "Yes, I had a bit of an accident in Shanghai before and bumped my head. I didn't expect it to heal so quickly. If I had known, I would have gone and banged my head against a wall a few years ago. It can be considered a blessing in disguise. I heard from Uncle Wen that you ran a lot of errands and asked a lot of people for help after the family's troubles. This time I came not only because I wanted Uncle Kang's cooking, but also because I brought some things that I asked my friends in the countryside to send over. I hope Uncle Kang won't mind."

"Not at all. Coming to Uncle Kang's place is just like coming home when we were kids. This yard should rightfully be yours. Come in quickly, Uncle Kang will cook something for you. I still remember all your favorite dishes."

Bai Nuo smiled and glanced at Fang Meng, who quickly turned around and brought out a large basket he had brought in.

"Take a look and see if you like it first, otherwise... don't regret it later and come chasing after us to our house to ask for it back!"

When you meet your uncle again, who you watched grow up, there is no sense of estrangement. Memories of your childhood quickly come back, and your tone of voice becomes more intimate and casual.

"Hey, have you forgotten where your Uncle Kang's ancestors worked? What good stuff haven't your Uncle Kang seen?" Master Kang teased the little girl while looking down. No matter what it was, if the children brought it, it meant they cared about him, their elder. Even if it was just a blade of grass brought back from the countryside, he would like it.

Then……

Kang Baichuan also curiously bent down to look, and his eyes lit up when he lifted the top layer of dry grass.

"My God, Dad, look! Isn't this the flying dragon you used to talk about?"

Bai Nuo squatted beside the basket and took things out one by one: "I know Uncle Kang doesn't care about anything else, but he loves these ingredients that can be made into delicious food. Fang Meng and I came back in a hurry before, and after that we were busy with work and school, so we didn't have time to come to the city center. Now that the New Year is almost here, we finally have a holiday, so we quickly brought over the things that we asked a friend to send over before."

The hazel grouse, scientifically known as the hazel grouse, belongs to the order Galliformes and the family Grossgrouseidae. It is one of the most delicious species of wild pheasants.

Bai Nuo caught these two dragons from the mountains in the space and took them out on the way to eat.

When she and Fang Meng were little, they often came over for meals. Although her maternal grandmother or Grandma Zhou would come over to pay the bill, Master Kang would always reduce the bill by half and never charge more. He would also often cook special meals for the two of them, making her favorite dishes and having Brother Kang secretly deliver them to her.

Having been back in Beijing for so long, Bai Nuo felt a little embarrassed to only come and visit now, so naturally she wouldn't be stingy with these ingredients.

The flying dragons in the space mountain were caught by Bai Nuo when he was in the countryside. He caught six of them and kept them all in the space. Unknowingly, they bred into a large family.

Inside the vault were not only two flying dragons, but Bai Nuo also took out a set of wolf bones, two deer whips, and a tiger whip.

Finally, there were two complete bear paws.