Chapter Seventy-Eight: Roll the Lantern Festival
Seeing that the article he plagiarized was about to be made public, Li Chengqian hurriedly said: "Master Li, this is not appropriate, you have seen the disciple revise this article with your own eyes, and you are sure that it was written by the disciple." But others don't know, once it is sent out, people all over the world will think that this text was written by you, and the disciple is stealing his name. ”
Li Gang frowned, what Li Chengqian said was right, if it is really sent out now, it is very likely that this will be the result.
It's not appropriate!
Seeing that Li Gang was silent, Li Chengqian added another sentence: "So you better keep it yourself first, and when the disciple is older, it's not too late to spread it all over the Tang Dynasty." ”
"That's all there is to it."
Sighing, Li Gang also felt that this was the best.
patted Li Chengqian's head with satisfaction, and Li Gang smiled: "Originally, the old man thought that this crippled body could teach you as much knowledge as possible, and it was already God's mercy." Now it seems that God treats the old man well, and in just half a year, you have learned something. ”
Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Master Li praised it, the disciple is still far behind." ”
As a traverser, Li Chengqian knows that he has a few catties and taels. Relying on plagiarism, you can occasionally pretend to be forced, if you really meet a traditional reader, there is no monkey play at all.
You know, this group of bastards, but what is recorded in such and such a book, I don't know? Haven't seen it? Well, then don't nag, we're not at the same level.
There was still a period of time before lunch, and Li Chengqian told him about asking Li Yuan for a palace maid.
After listening to the whole story, Li Gang agreed: "You are doing this very right, it is not a gentleman's act to arrest people and coerce them wantonly." What's more, if you keep filial piety, it will be even more speechless. Cheng Qian, filial piety comes first, no matter what you do, as long as you start from filial piety, it must be right. ”
Li Chengqian immediately retorted: "Master Li, the disciple doesn't think so. There is no absolute in everything, and filial piety is indeed a good thing, but if someone uses filial piety to do wrong, can't he be blamed? ”
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Looking at the master and apprentice who were discussing the issue in full swing, Li Anren showed a look of envy. Obviously, he is the old gentleman's legitimate grandson, but he has never been like this. He knew that the prince was not so much a disciple of his grandfather as a year-old friend.
The Li family did not have much wealth, although the old gentleman had received a lot of rewards in his life, but every time the reward came home, he distributed it to the poor families in the neighborhood. Although Anderfang is within the city of Chang'an, the city has not yet reached its most glorious moment, so that the corner area is no different from the slums.
Lunch is simple, just small rice and chicken stewed with dried vegetables. Looking at the freshness of this chicken, it may be because the prince arrived, and Li Anren broke the precept of not killing during the New Year, and he killed it now.
Although the dishes are simple, dining at the old man's house is still happier than in Gaofu.
Although he had never experienced it, Li Chengqian knew that dining in Gaofu was probably very depressing, and those ordinary clansmen didn't even dare to breathe.
After lunch, he played chess with the old gentleman for a while before Li Chengqian said goodbye and left.
Li Gang insisted on staying at home until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month before returning to the East Palace, knowing that the old gentleman was afraid that he would finish his life in the East Palace one day and wanted to spend more time with his family, Li Chengqian didn't say much, but just ordered the accompanying eunuchs to buy more charcoal and meat for the Li Mansion.
The East Palace, where there is no old gentleman, looks particularly deserted.
After the New Year's greeting event, Li Tai or a cat spent the winter in Miyagi, and Li Ke got up early every day to exercise with Li Chengqian.
Li Jing still appeared in the East Palace every morning, although he was surprised why Li Ke followed Li Chengqian, but when he saw Li Ke making a mistake, he would also make a little difference.
In this way, the ordinary days lasted until the thirteenth day of the first month.
Like the six departments of the three provinces that gradually returned to activity, Yu Tai and the eldest grandson Baoqing also returned to the East Palace, and after the end of the 15th Shangyuan Festival, the activities of the New Year will end.
On the morning of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, after exercising as usual, Li Chengqian patted Li Ke on the shoulder: "After you return to the palace, call Qingque over and tell him that if you come over tonight, you can eat delicious food." ”
Li Ke, who was wiping his sweat, said with a smile: "Call him in other words, he will definitely not even come out of the house, but if you ask him to come over to eat, he will definitely drag me over." ”
Looking at Li Ke, who was smiling cheerfully, Li Chengqian also smiled. How good is this, although they are not the same mother, but they can't change their identity as brothers, why do they cringe when they get along?
After sending Li Ke away, Li Chengqian called Fang Sheng.
"Jiang rice noodles, red kidney beans, sugar.... Forget it, let's get some maltose back, by the way, there are sesame seeds, buy more, we have more people in Donggong, and if we get less, we won't have enough to eat. ”
Fang Sheng never asked why, but after keeping everything the prince wanted to buy in mind, he went out to buy it.
What do you want to do with these things? Naturally, it is to make rice balls and lantern festivals.
Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival, if there is no glutinous rice balls and Lantern Festival to eat, Li Chengqian always feels weird.
Making tangyuan is actually not complicated, when he ran the list of tangyuan, he also saw how to make Lantern Festival in the workshop, in fact, it is not so complicated, ordinary people can also do it, because of the cumbersome process, people are more inclined to buy finished products.
Call all the palace maids to the kitchen and wait for Fang Sheng to buy the things back.
After Fang Sheng brought the things, Li Chengqian pulled the cook and said, "It's still the old rule, I'll explain it to you, and you have to make the rest yourself." ”
Naturally, the cook nodded quickly.
After explaining to the cook how to make the filling, how to wrap the rice balls, and how to roll the Lantern Festival, Li Chengqian clapped his hands and left.
Although I really want to give it a try, if the prince does it himself, not only will he be blamed, but the cook's shameful appearance is not good-looking.
The cook of the East Palace will naturally not disappoint the prince. Before noon, a box of rolled rice balls was sent to the study and presented to Li Chengqian for seeing.
After cutting one with a knife and looking at it, Li Chengqian was still very satisfied with the results. It's not bad, it's much better than the scum dumplings made by the black-hearted workshop in later generations. The skin is thin and the filling is large, but the dough is very tough, and it will not be boiled as soon as it is cooked.
"Yes, yes, just follow this method, before tomorrow night, I want a large number of them, and I will send them out tomorrow, and the rest will be eaten by our own people in the East Palace."
With the hard work of the palace maids, a large number of rice balls were quickly made.
Fang Sheng, who knew that the prince was going to take this gift, was very smart to buy a batch of wooden boxes and pack the rice balls. Don't look at the glutinous rice balls inside, just look at this box and know that it is worth a lot of money. is obviously an ancient person, but Fang Sheng has learned the science of "commodity packaging" without a teacher.