Although the last time the emperor gave the marriage was not explicitly stated, almost everyone in the house could guess that although the emperor did not mention this stubble after the Hou Ye fell into a coma, but today Princess Huayu came, accompanied by the Hou Ye, and the two husbands and wives communicated with each other on the kang so closely, I am afraid that there will be an extra princess as the hostess in the Qinghe Hou Mansion soon, so it is better not to disturb the two at this time.

And Chen Xu, who watched Princess Huayu write on the kang, was also full of helplessness, and turned his head from time to time to look at the door of the room.

Could it be that Chen Ping and the steward fell into the pit, why haven't they come for so long?

Half an hour passed, and the two friends hadn't come over.

Chen Xu almost understood the reason, so he could only sigh in his heart and continue to chat with Princess Huayu, who was full of curiosity, and at this time, Princess Huayu's interest had shifted to his stack of manuscripts.

"Princess, this telescope is composed of two lenses, and after it is successfully manufactured, you can see the situation more than ten miles or even dozens of miles away......

"This is a water supply device, which is connected to the water tank through a pipe, and finally the water can be discharged at any time by installing a faucet......"

"This is a hand-pressed pump, which drives an iron pipe into the ground for several feet, and then shakes the handle up and down to pump the water out of the ground......"

"This showerhead is installed in the bathroom......"

"This ...... Uh, princess, don't look at this one, look at the next one! ”

"Why? The name of this thing is ...... The toilet, but it looks weird, and it is very different from the bucket that holds water on weekdays, so it must also have a strange use! Princess Huayu looked at Chen Xu with a pair of big eyes, with a look like a curious baby.

"Princess, let's take a look at the next one!" Chen Xu stretched out his hand to take the drawing away, and Princess Huayu also reached out almost at the same time, and the fingers of the two touched together.

"Sting~" Chen Xu felt an electric current hit his whole body for no reason, and Princess Huayu quickly retracted her hand as if she had been electrocuted, her cheeks instantly turned crimson, her head lowered her heart and the deer collided, and her voice hummed like a mosquito: "Qinghe Hou forgives the sin, Shi Yan is not intentional!" ”

Alas, Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it seems that the emperor still doesn't plan to give up marrying this daughter to himself, otherwise he wouldn't let her run to his house to play, should Lao Tzu have a leg with Qin Shi Huang's daughter in this life?

The traverser must marry the emperor's daughter, can't this fate be broken in Lao Tzu?

But at the moment, it seems that it is difficult to break this fate, so Chen Xu can only say with a smile: "Princess, these things are all boring and playful by me on weekdays, although they look strange, but they are not very useful, it is estimated that the braised vegetables in the kitchen are almost ready, I will take a look again!" ”

Chen Xu got up and got off the kang, ran out of the room with a smoke, stood in the courtyard and took a few deep breaths before going to the kitchen, at this time a strong fragrance once again filled the huge Qinghe Hou Mansion, and the street still smelled a strong fragrance.

However, hundreds of people in the house are now accustomed to this taste, because since they found that the braised chicken feet, chicken wings, pig skins, and sheep's trotters could not be sold in the weekday market, and finally they could only be sold cheaply or even discarded leftovers that were braised and more delicious than meat, the people of Qinghe Houfu searched for several farmers' markets in Xianyang in the past few days, and they had to collect dozens of catties every day.

The Marquis of Qinghe is different from all the princes and princes, he has never restricted the eating and drinking of the people in the house, whether it is a steward or a helper, or a guard and a servant, he has to eat and dress well every day, and in the event of heavy snow in a cold day, he will also arrange people to give porridge to the beggars at the door of the Hou Mansion, in his eyes, there is basically no distinction between high and low, so in the past two months, everyone in the house has an inexplicable respect for this approachable Hou Ye, and at the same time, there is a lot more closeness, and the meeting is more respectful and polite, It's a respect from the heart.

And these bought chicken feet, chicken wings, pig skin, sheep's trotters, because they are cheap, they don't cost a few dollars, so Chen Xu also ordered to buy more, take some to the Academy of Sciences on weekdays, and eat a few with Zhao Zhangcang, Zhao Qing, Sun Shujiong and others in their leisure time at work, which can also be regarded as a kind of communication and fun.

However, this kind of good thing of picking up cheap things has become more and more difficult to get in the past two days, because there is another group of people who are also collecting these leftovers, and the two groups of people will naturally not give in when they meet each other, and they will blush and have thick necks fighting for a few chicken paws, but when they all show their identities, they all quickly restrain their smiles and greet each other, and the other party turned out to be the kitchen worker in the palace dining room.

Things are small, but face is big.

If the people in the bazaar know that there is a fight between the Qinghe Marquis Mansion and the Imperial Palace Dining Room for a few chicken feet, this face will not be recovered anyway, and it is estimated that it will spread throughout Xianyang City, which has millions of people, in an hour or two.

Today's Xianyang, gathering almost half of the rich people in the entire Great Qin, there are 120,000 wealthy families who moved from the Six Kingdoms alone, as well as the descendants of the kings and grandchildren of the Six Kingdoms plus merchants, ministers and nobles and the original Xianyang residents, there are now millions of people in Xianyang City alone, which is already the largest city on the earth, and there is no one, and the capital of the Roman Republic is only tens of thousands of people at this time.

And Xianyang also includes Chang'an, which is close at hand, although it has been abandoned, but now many annexes of Xianyang Palace have been cultivated in Chang'an, plus hundreds of thousands of farmers nearby, as well as caravans from south to north, the population of the entire Xianyang range is not less than two million, so Xianyang City is full of people almost every day, and the people who enter and exit the four city gates are like flowing water and have hardly stopped.

And in order to maintain the consumption of so many people in the city, grain, vegetables, cloth, salt, iron and other things are also busy, the street is full of people driving goods to and fro, even in the cold winter season, the streets and markets are still crowded with people, and even among them can see a lot of Yueshi and bearded people who look very different from the Central Plains, with high noses and deep eyes, curly beards, leading horses and camels to drive goods.

Therefore, the matter of buying lowly leftovers such as chicken feet and sheep's feet naturally needs to be low-key, the people in the Qinghe Marquis Mansion are wearing patched coarse old clothes, and the kitchen workers in the imperial dining room are also dressed very ordinary, and after a few quarrels, they secretly reveal their identities and prepare to threaten each other, but then they are all careful to make peace.

This is completely a flood that washed away the Dragon King Temple.

Because the braised chicken feet and braised sheep's hooves in the imperial dining room were also learned from the Qinghe Marquis Mansion.

And since the concubines and princesses in the inner courtyard of the palace have eaten this delicacy, they have gone completely crazy.

You can not eat rice, but you can't not eat the braised chicken feet, and every day I keep asking the maid to go to the imperial dining room to inquire when there are still braised chicken feet, duck feet, chicken wings, and sheep's hooves.

Although the production of lo-mei is simple, but in the current era of Daqin's material is not rich, these things are not easy to collect, and scattered, the most important thing is that there are not many, the wealthy families have their own slaves to feed chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, which belong to self-production and self-sale, and there are few things, but there are so many people in the palace, there are hundreds of official concubines with names and surnames, these women are the concubines and princesses of the six royal families, and their identities are also respected, plus the identity of the concubines, the imperial kitchen and the officials in the imperial dining room naturally dare not offend, Therefore, I can only instruct the helpers of the imperial kitchen to go to several markets in the southeast and northwest early every day to stare at the butchers to collect and buy, but this is a drop in the bucket, and it is simply impossible to meet the tense needs of a huge harem, even if the braised eggs and dried tofu are not enough to distribute, they can only give priority to those concubines with status and status, although the princess who is young and unmarried like Ying Shiyan can also get some, but for this kind of little girl who is in her teens who loves all kinds of delicious snacks, a few chicken wings are completely unsatisfying, and it is okay not to eat, eat more gluttonous.

Therefore, the concubines and some brothers and sisters in the palace knew that she had some unclear relationship with the Marquis of Qinghe, so they privately arranged for someone to collect some large baskets of chicken feet and chicken wings and other things, and asked Princess Huayu to take them to the Marquis of Qinghe's mansion to help marinate them, and then bring them into the palace to distribute, so that they could have a good meal.

So there is a visit to the Hou Mansion of Shangqing River today, sending the giant panda is by the way, and the braised food is the main reason, of course, for the fifth princess, this is also a rare opportunity and excuse to get close to and get along with Chen Xu, and the purpose has also been reached.

Although Qinghehou still avoided her a little, they got along for nearly half an hour, and the two got along quite well, at least Qinghehou didn't faint.

Several primary school students from Qinghe Town gathered at the door of the kitchen and looked inside, and saw Chen Xu walking over with his hands behind his back, and immediately dispersed and ran away in a blink of an eye.

At this time, the steam in the two large clay pots on the kitchen stove was puffing out, the kitchen was full of smoke, and the fragrance in the air seemed to condense into water droplets.

"Ga~" Seeing Chen Xu come in suddenly, the two helpers who gnawed on the chicken paws were so frightened that they almost swallowed the entire chicken paws, and stood up and looked at Chen Xu with a frightened face at a loss.

"It's okay, eat it slowly, how does it taste, have you ever marinated it?" Chen Xu waved his hand indifferently.

Only then did the two helpers relax, and one of them said, "Master Hou, it's almost six minutes cooked, and it will be out of the pot in half an hour!" ”

"Six or seven medium-ripe is almost the same, too ripe and rotten tastes bad, pick a few out and I'll taste it!" Chen Xu nodded and said.

The two imperial chefs hurriedly opened the big clay pot, and used a bamboo grate to fish out a chicken foot, a duck paw, a chicken wing, and a sheep's hoof, and put it steaming in a plate, Chen Xu washed his hand and picked up a duck paw and nibbled a few bites, nodded again and again and said: "Okay, okay, the taste of duck feet and chicken feet is just right, hurry up and scoop it up!" ”

So a few cooks hurriedly started to fish out all the chicken feet and duck feet in the thick and fragrant mist, and piled them in a clay pot.

Next, the duck wings and sheep's hooves Chen Xu also tasted them side by side, ordered them to cook for another half an hour out of the pot, and then used a plate to fill the soles and wings of more than ten chickens and ducks to the living room.