Chapter 173: Hot Pot in Winter

After a northwest wind, Chang'an City quickly switched to winter mode.

On a gloomy afternoon, a goose-feather snow fell in the sky, falling one by one on the branches, on the roofs, and on the earth.

"Lord Wang, it's snowing!"

After thinking about it at home, Cheng Jingwen still pulled Li Xueyan and came to the courtyard of the Chu Palace.

Nominally, it is naturally to visit the famous conservatory in Chang'an City, but as for the true thoughts in her heart, only she knows best.

Well, maybe she was convincing herself that she was really just going to visit the conservatory.

Li Kuan looked up and found that snowflakes had begun to fall on the glass roof of the greenhouse.

Fortunately, the need for subsequent snow removal was considered during the construction, and the construction of the greenhouse was slender and slender, as long as a ladder was erected next to it, and a broom could be used to clear the snow.

"Ruixue is a good year! It's time for snow, too. ”

"Second brother, I see that this courgette is bright and dripping, I haven't eaten it for a long time, or let's pick it first."

"You girl, this is only a finger long, and you can do it? At least a few more days before you can pick it, and then you can come back again. ”

Looking at Li Xueyan's greedy cat-like appearance, Li Kuan felt that this greenhouse vegetable should still be very promising.

Usually you can buy several courgettes for a penny, and sell them for a hundred yuan, does anyone buy them?

If you don't sell it, you won't have it, and it's up to you to buy it.

"Then these weeds can always be eaten, right?"

Li Xueyan seems to be not trying it today, so she will not give up.

"Okay, okay, I'll let you eat enough."

Watching Li Kuan and Li Xueyan bickering, Cheng Jingwen felt very lively.

"Snow goose, they all say that the prince is building a greenhouse with glass that is more expensive than gold, and the vegetables grown in this greenhouse are like this, what you eat here is not vegetables, what you eat is gold!"

Seeing Cheng Jingwen's cherry mouth coming out of her mouth, "It's gold to eat", Li Kuan's brows couldn't help jumping.

"Lord Wang, why don't we eat hot pot at noon, the last time we ate hot pot was a long time ago."

Qing'er, a foodie, couldn't help but jump out.

Li Kuan frightened: "Eat, eat, eat, you are not afraid of eating into a big fat man, this king will marry you to a butcher." ”

"Lord Wang." Qing'er pouted, knowing that her master was joking.

……

The chef of the Chu Wangfu is somewhat famous in Chang'an City, but anyone who has come to the Chu Wangfu to eat basically knows where the best food in Chang'an City is.

A year-old steer was cleaned, cut into pieces and placed in a huge copper pot with a charcoal stove underneath.

Although honeycomb coal has become very popular, Li Kuan, as the initiator, likes to use charcoal when eating hot pot.

Puff puff.

When the water boils, a copper stove filled with shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, chicken, and some stems of woad vegetables is steaming constantly.

"This chicken soup base will take half an hour to cook before it can be served, and this king has come up with a fun game, let's play a few games before we come to dinner."

Seeing a group of people staring at the dishes and copper stoves on the table, Li Kuan took out a box from the side.

"Second brother, is there anything you can't wait until you're done eating?"

Although Li Xueyan ate a lot of snacks when she came to the Chu Palace's mansion in the morning, Li Xueyan felt that she didn't have to do anything when she saw the green cabbage and the tender cabbage.

"Okay, then you watch first, I'll let Xingxiang fight for you first."

Li Kuan said as he poured something from the box onto another table.

"Whoa, whoa!"

"Miss Cheng, Qing'er, Xingxiang, come, come and sit, I'll teach you a fun game."

"Huh? Lord Wang, is this the mahjong you asked you to do a few days ago? ”

Seeing these cards poured out by Li Kuan, Qing'er remembered that a few days ago he specially asked the craftsmen of the printing workshop to carve mahjong.

"That's right, this is mahjong. The gameplay is very simple, mainly there are tubes, strips, and ......"

Li Kuan briefly introduced the gameplay of mahjong.

In later generations, the mahjong gameplay in different places is quite different, and Li Kuan is not so complicated, first playing sixteen cards with everyone, which can be eaten, touched and lit.

"This mahjong sounds like it's simple to play and easy to play, but after a little thought, I found that there are a lot of changes, and the prince is really knowledgeable."

Cheng Jingwen listened to Li Kuan's lecture and generally understood the gameplay and routines of mahjong.

"Has there been a lot of change? How do I feel the way it sounds simple. ”

Qing'er looked at everyone innocently.

"Whether it's complicated or simple, let's play a game first, and then we will be familiar with it after playing a few more times."

Li Kuan beckoned everyone to sit down, and then began to shuffle the cards.

Li Xueyan was bored standing alone on the edge of the copper stove, so she came to Cheng Jingwen's back to look at the cards.

"Red in the middle!"

"East!"

"Bump!"

"A tube!"

It's just a cup of tea, and in Cheng Jingwen's words of "I seem to have touched myself", the first game came to an end.

In the next few games, it was basically either Cheng Jingwen or Li Kuan who won, and everyone quickly became familiar with the rules.

"Seventy thousand, Jingwen, seventy thousand."

"Bump!"

"Jingwen, come out of this one, this one is good."

Li Xueyan, who was originally watching from the sidelines, looked at it and looked at it, and she was more interested than anyone else.

"Actually, playing mahjong like this isn't the most interesting." Li Kuan threw out a card, but felt that this game was too uninnovative for him.

"Huh? Lord, is there a more interesting way to play? I think that's already interesting. ”

Although Qing'er didn't win a game, she had a lot of fun.

"Of course, don't you think it would be more fun to play if you added a little bit of color?"

Qing'er: "Add color head?" What's the color head? ”

"It's very simple, those who lose pay money, and those who win make money."

"Lord Wang, you are bullying me again, seeing that I have been losing, you deliberately joined forces with Miss Cheng to cheat me out of money, right?"

Qing'er also slowly discovered that Cheng Jingwen, who was sitting at Li Kuan's house, basically ate and touched every game, and before she cleared the cards, people were already huh.

Qing'er can find it, and Cheng Jingwen naturally sees it.

As for Kujou Kyoka, although she looks like a transparent person, her brain is not stupid at all.

Only Li Xueyan, who was babbling, thought that she had a good guide.

"Lord Wang, it's been a long time since noon, why don't you eat hot pot first?"

Cheng Jingwen's face was slightly red when Qing'er said this, and she quickly changed the topic.

"Yes, yes, eat hot pot first, the fragrance of shiitake mushrooms, I can't help it a long time ago."

After Li Xueyan finished speaking, she ran over and pulled a chair and sat down, looking like she was ready to start.

"Okay, it's snowing outside, so it seems to be good to have some wine and eat hot pot."