Li Jie persuaded Liu Yi for a while, and finally let him calm down, in fact, Li Jie figured it out after calming down, with Zhu Biao's temperament, even if he is not Zhu Biao's son-in-law, the other party will most likely not blame them for a few words.

So Li Jie went to cook with peace of mind, Liu Yi was still a little weak-hearted, and he kept following Li Jie's side, and in the end, Li Jie could only arrange for him to do something, so as not to think about it again.

Zhu Yunxi was also very curious about Li Jie's cooking, and at this time he also followed up with the kitchen, and when he saw the ingredients prepared on the board, he was also very surprised: "Li Banyu, you are actually going to invite us to eat pork meat?" ”

The so-called pork meat is actually pork, although Lao Zhu is from a poor family, there is no prejudice against pork, but the pig and Zhu have the same sound, and some words are a little taboo, such as killing a pig sounds like killing Zhu, so the pig is renamed porpoise.

However, although the pig has changed its name, it has not changed its status, relatively speaking, pork is still the meat of poor families, and rich families generally prefer to eat mutton.

Zhu Yunxi is the emperor's grandson, and his usual meat is mainly mutton, he still went out of the palace to the workshop, and only then did he eat pork with the craftsmen, but the workshop is full of cauldron dishes, and the craftsmen are not picky eaters, it would be good to have meat to eat, so the chefs don't pay much attention to cooking, the pork is in their hands, and the dishes they make are simply difficult to say, which also causes Zhu Yunxi to have no good impression of pork.

"That's right, the chefs in the workshop are so poor, you'll know that pork meat is much better than mutton!" Li Jie said with a smile, but as soon as he said it, he became worried again, Zhu Yunxi had eaten pork with him, but he didn't expect Zhu Biao to come, in case Zhu Biao had a taboo on pork, it would be difficult to do.

However, Li Jie's worries quickly disappeared, and I saw that Zhu Biao also turned around the yard at this time, came to the kitchen door to take a look, and then said with a smile: "Li Jie is too deductible, and he didn't invite a good meal on his birthday, so he used pork meat to entertain guests?" ”

"Your Highness doesn't know, I know a few ways to cook pork, and the pork meat is much better than mutton." Li Jie said with a smile, the reason why he made pork was actually to change Zhu Yunxi's opinion on pork, but he didn't expect Zhu Biao to come to join in the fun, but fortunately, he didn't seem to mind if he looked good.

"Don't brag, my mouth is very tricky!" Zhu Biao patted his big belly and said, it can be seen from his body shape that he is a delicious person, and he has tasted almost all kinds of delicious foods in the world, so it is not easy to satisfy his mouth.

"Wait until Your Highness knows!" Li Jie was full of confidence, and after speaking, he went to work on his own business, Zhu Biao didn't leave, just stood outside the window and watched Li Jie cook.

Originally, when Zhu Biao heard Zhu Yunxi say that Li Jie was going to cook in person, he still didn't believe it, but now he sees that Li Jie's skills are skillful and the kitchen knife is also playful, which makes him dispel the doubts in his heart, but he didn't expect that his son-in-law still has this hand.

"Cousin, have you seen this white thing?" At this time, Liu Yi was holding a big bowl in one hand and stirring in the bowl with a tea whisk in the other, and he felt that his hands were about to fall off.

"Yes, hard work cousin!" Li Jie took the tea whisk and picked up a little cream, looked at it and nodded, the job he asked Liu Yi to do was to beat the cream, this is a hard job, you need to use a whisk to keep stirring, but he doesn't have a whisk, he can only use a whisk that stirs tea powder to make up for it, anyway, the functions of the two are almost the same.

Liu Yi also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, shook his sore arm at the moment, and then pointed to the cream curiously and asked, "Cousin, you are adding eggs, milk and sugar here, what are you for?" ”

"It's called cream, and it's used to make a dessert!" Li Jie said as he took out the cake base that had been baked a long time ago, and then carefully spread the cream on it.

Of course, there is a birthday cake for the birthday, in fact, Li Jie doesn't like sweets very much, but considering that Zhu Yunxi and they are coming, they specially made an oven, and also baked the cake, but unfortunately Di'er is not there, otherwise she will definitely like it!

In the end, Li Jie embellished some of the current fruit slices on the cake, so that the fruit cake was ready, Li Jie brought the cake to the living room, and then beckoned Zhu Biao and the three to taste it, even if it was a dessert before the meal.

Zhu Biao and the three of them were also very curious about this peculiar pastry, Li Jie did not make a candle and make a wish, and immediately cut the cake, but Zhu Biao and the three of them were full of praise after tasting it, this kind of pastry was completely different from what they had eaten before, the taste was soft and sweet, and even Zhu Biao couldn't find anything wrong.

After tasting the cake, Li Jie entered the kitchen and began to show his cooking skills, Liu Yi and Zhu Yunxi helped serve the dishes, and after a while, a table of sumptuous wine and dishes was set up, and the meat dishes were mainly pork-based, plus some fresh vegetables.

Of course, Li Jie will also cook some home-cooked dishes, such as braised pork, garlic white meat, braised pig's feet and the like, these dishes of later generations are very different from the dishes of this period of the Ming Dynasty, even if the dishes are similar, there are also differences in materials and heat.

Zhu Biao stretched out his chopsticks and sandwiched a piece of braised pork, but was surprised to find that the taste was surprisingly good, it looked fat, but it didn't taste greasy at all, and the taste was very similar to Dongpo meat, but the taste was somewhat different.

At that moment, Zhu Biao tasted all the other dishes, and found that the taste of each dish was quite novel, which made him feel like he couldn't stop chopsticks.

In fact, the dishes made by Li Jie may not be really delicious, at least they certainly can't be compared with the dishes carefully cooked by the imperial chef in the palace, but they are better than a novelty, such as most people like to travel, and then taste the local food, in fact, the local food may not be better than the food in your hometown, but you haven't eaten it before, and it feels very fresh.

Therefore, the mouth is the most fond of the new and the old organs in the human body, even if you like to eat the dishes, but let a person eat at once, every day, I am afraid that in the end it will make him want to vomit, the so-called food, most of them are just a change of taste.

Zhu Yunxi looked at his father's delicious food, and at the moment he curiously picked up a piece of pork that he didn't like, hesitated for a moment before closing his eyes and stuffing it into his mouth, then opened his eyes and nodded in surprise, it turned out that this is the real taste of pork!

Compared with the Zhu father and son, who were dedicated to tasting food, Liu Yi next to him had no intention of tasting food at all, but had a feeling of sitting on pins and needles, after all, Zhu Biao was on the other side, and he was still worried that the other party would blame himself for what happened before.

Li Jie was also a little helpless when he saw Liu Yi's appearance, so he immediately stretched out his foot and kicked him and said in a low voice: "Cousin, did I let you bring the things I brought?" ”

"Here it is!" Liu Yi woke up like a dream, and nodded immediately.

Li Jie didn't speak, but gestured to Zhu Biao with his eyes, fortunately Liu Yi and Li Jie still had a tacit understanding, and immediately understood what he meant, only to see that his eyes also lit up, so he reached out and took out a silk bag from his arms, presented it to Zhu Biao with both hands and said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, I have a gift I want to present to you!" ”

"Gifts?" Zhu Biao was also stunned when he heard this, and then looked at Li Jie, because today is Li Jie's birthday, why did Liu Yi give himself a gift?

Li Jie was also a little helpless, originally he asked Liu Yi to bring a gift for himself, but now in order to make Liu Yi feel at ease, he can only give the gift to Zhu Biao.

I saw Zhu Biao reach out and take the cloth bag, and then open it, and was surprised to find that it was a mirror, but it was not a bronze mirror, but made of glass, which made him look up suddenly: "Glass mirror? You've made another side! ”

"Yes, this is a glass mirror workshop that I partnered with my cousin, the glass transparency produced by the glass workshop was too poor, after I reminded the improvement, this produced the right glass, and there will be more glass mirrors in the future, of course, this first mirror will be dedicated to His Highness!" Li Jie explained with a smile that in fact, he planned to use this mirror himself.

"No wonder when you started a glass workshop before, you insisted on exporting glass, it turned out to be the idea!" Zhu Biao also laughed when he heard this, the glass workshop was originally only prepared for the clairvoyant mirror workshop, but later because of Li Jie's insistence, the scale of the glass workshop increased several times, and the glass produced was also sold to the outside world, but the sales were not very good.

"Your Highness misunderstood, the reason why I insist on the export of glass is because glass has great use, in addition to making mirrors, there are many uses, these need to be developed a little bit, I dare to assert that the export income of the glass workshop in the future is by no means a small amount!" Li Jie opened his mouth to explain that he was not a fake public and private person.

"Well, I believe you!" Zhu Biao smiled again when he heard this, and then pointed at Liu Yidao again, "I accepted the mirror, speaking of which, Yihuihou and his father are the same generation, if it wasn't for your grandfather's help, I'm afraid my grandparents wouldn't even have a place to be buried, so you don't have to be restrained in front of me!" ”

"Your Highness!" Liu Yi was immediately pleasantly surprised when he saw Zhu Biao accept his gift, looking at Zhu Biao's appearance, he should not pursue the previous matter anymore.

Seeing that Liu Yi finally let go, Li Jie also laughed, and then explained to Zhu Biao the recipe for the dishes on the table, Zhu Biao was a delicious glutton, and he was very interested in the recipe of the dishes, so he listened to it with relish.

After the meal, Liu Yi and Zhu Yunxi also showed satisfied expressions, and Zhu Biao pulled Li Jie into the courtyard to discuss business.

"There's news from Zhang Dingbian, but it's not good news!" Zhu Biao suddenly said with a worried expression.

Li Jie was also shocked when he heard this, and immediately asked: "Didn't Zhang Dingbian go to recruit nine fishermen, what bad news can there be?" ”

"Good news for him, but bad news for the imperial court." I saw Zhu Biao's face was bitter, and he paused for a moment before continuing, "There are too many people he recruited, even beyond my father's expectations!" ”