The day before yesterday, Qin Shi Huang arranged for someone to send several large carts of delicacies and seafood, ten catties of dried sea parameters, air-dried wild deer, pheasants, geese, swans, hares, and two large carts, among which there is a car that is more terrifying, smoked tiger legs, humps, elephant pulls, rhinoceros tongues, bear paws, etc., all of which are parts of the beast army.

After these things were rewarded, Chen Xu was distressed, sea cucumber and hares and pheasants are good to say, after all, he has eaten them, even if he has not eaten them in later generations, they are not too expensive ingredients, but tiger legs, elephant pulls, and bear paws will not be done well at all, not to mention rhinoceros tongue, which has never been heard of, when holding that air-dried big tongue, Chen Xu almost cried.

These are all precious national protected animals, how can they be eaten?

However, after he asked a little question, he dispelled the idea of protecting animals.

Tigers are everywhere in the barren mountains and mountains, although the elephants are no longer in the Central Plains, but there are still many in the Lingnan region, bears and tigers and wolves are almost the same, as long as they enter the mountains, they can hear their roars day and night, as for rhinoceros, well, Chen Xu originally thought that China did not have them, but the answer made him flurry for a long time, rhinoceros, a giant beast and elephants, is not less at the moment, and even more than the distribution range of elephants, there are rhinoceros in the Qinling Mountains and a large area south of the Huai River, Because rhinoceros horn and ivory are the favorite things of the noble ministers, these two beasts are also very killed, but because these two beasts are indeed too fierce, they basically need to be encircled and suppressed to win, so ordinary hunters do not dare to provoke, and it is not easy to kill, so if you can get a rhinoceros, you can basically sell it for tens of thousands of dollars, which is definitely a huge amount of money for hunters.

Rhino horn is a precious ornament, and the noble ministers will rush to buy it, and a rhino horn cup is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Meat fat is edible, and skin is the best material for armor.

In Daqin, ordinary soldiers can only wear the most ordinary miscellaneous leather armor, those who have lords above the rank of public can wear cowhide armor, officers can wear rhinoceros or oxhide armor, and generals can wear copper armor, but this kind of copper armor is not full armor, but the bronze pieces are hung on the outside of the leather armor.

In addition to the horns, skin, and fat, the most valuable thing on the rhinoceros is the tongue, which is a very precious and important delicacy, which only princes and princes and dignitaries can enjoy, but this delicacy is absolutely a tyrannical thing according to the simple production method of Daqin now, that is, it is put in a pot and boiled with salt water and some simple spices, and after cooking, it is cut into large pieces and chewed to eat.

However, for Chen Xu, the taste only occupies a small position in the color, flavor and shape of the food, whether a food is good or not, the most important thing is the taste, and for him who is familiar with the eight major cuisines of later generations...... The original rude method of boiling it in salt water is definitely sorry for the dead rhinoceros brother, so Chen Xu decided to make this huge tongue into lo-mei.

The large mouth strips are soaked in cold water, washed and cleaned, cut into three inches square and salted for half an hour, green onions, ginger, garlic mustard, pepper, bay leaves, star anise, vanilla fruit and other spices are put in the pot to cook out the fragrance, and then the Qinghe tea oil is heated, add soybean paste and fry until fragrant, pour the boiled water into it, put in a little syrup to taste, and then add salt to boil, put the cut mouth strips into it and simmer over low heat, until you can smell the strong fragrance and then start the pot, this time is about two hours, and a pot of brine only boils a mouth strip is obviously a bit of a waste, Therefore, Chen Xu also marinated a large piece of pork skin, more than a dozen chicken feet and chicken wings, and finally put a few eggs and a few pieces of dried bean curd in the pot and marinated for ten minutes.

At that time, when this dish was cooked, there was a strong fragrance wafting throughout the Qinghe Hou Mansion that everyone couldn't let go, and the kitchen was densely packed with people, whether it was a servant or a guard or a maid helper, all staring at the steaming big clay pot in the kitchen, but it was not just the people of the Hou Mansion who were tempted to salivate, even on the street where the Qinghe Hou Mansion was located, a faint fragrance could be smelled at the street hundreds of meters away, and countless people ran to the outside of the Qinghe Hou Mansion to look around, His eyes passed through the gate of the Hou Mansion and he kept swallowing his saliva.

The family that lives next door is Qi Tang, although the two families are still fifty or sixty meters apart, but Qi Neishi, who is reading at home, has a strong will to resist for half an hour and then put down his reserve, swallowing saliva and cheekily visiting the Qinghe Hou Mansion, and then when he has eaten the marinated strips, chicken feet, and pig skin, he took Chen Xu's hand and shook it for a long time, and finally held a braised egg and a piece of dried tofu and cried back, originally he still wanted to eat, but Chen Xu didn't let him, because he continued to let him eat, this half day's work was in vain, Because Chen Xu also heard that the good food of Qi Neishi is very famous in the whole Xianyang.

The marinated strips were cut into thin slices, along with the pork skin cut into translucent filaments, as well as chicken feet and chicken wings, braised eggs and dried beans, each of which was made for the imperial chef to send to the palace, and of course, the preparation of brine and the method of braised vegetables.

Half an hour later, the imperial cook came back happily, saying that the emperor had praised him fiercely, and rewarded him with a jade bowl......

Chen Xu was looking at the sky with his eyes for a long time, he was looking for a star, whether there was an emperor star about to transform into a food star.

The history of braised vegetables is very long, and it originated in Shu during the Qin and Han dynasties.

Because the Shu people have a heavy taste, like spicy and spicy, so when cooking vegetables in salt water, put some pepper, ginger, mustard and other spicy spices, whether it is boiled fish or boiled eggs, boiled meat are like this, so it slowly formed a unique Sichuan marinade, the county seat of Shu County is Chengdu, the region is flat and rich, and there is almost no war far away from the Central Plains, so the common people live a peaceful and leisurely life, so in life slowly develop the lo-mei more colorful, as long as it can be eaten, you can take it to marinate, so the scraps after the slaughter of various animals, Other people are too lazy to eat the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, chicken feet, chicken wings, rabbit heads, all of which have been slowly made into delicacies by them, and in the Tang and Song dynasties, braised vegetables have become a delicacy that has swept the whole of China, and slowly added some traditional Chinese medicine ingredients in the marinade, and the lo-mei has become more colorful, especially after the Ming Dynasty chili pepper was introduced to China, the Sichuan people once again raised the lo-mei to a higher level, and the techniques of smoking and steaming, soup and salt, etc., have been inherited more and more, forming many famous heirloom marinated recipes, Liu duck, Liao pork ribs, Shuangliu rabbit head, Yibin pig's trotters, Zhang Fei beef, etc., have become famous local specialties in Shuzhong.

Chen Xu spent four years in Chengdu, not only likes the leisure of Chengdu, but also likes all kinds of delicious snacks in Chengdu, and on weekdays, three or five people gather on the roadside to eat some barbecue and lo-mei, drink some beer, and see the night view of Jinjiang, which is also the most comfortable time in life.

And because of the simplicity of production and the strong flavor, lo-mei has become the best way for Chen Xu to deal with these beast parts that have not yet been eaten.

According to the habits of Sichuan people, the water that flies in the sky and the ground swims in the soil, everything in the world can be marinated, and if you can't marinate, you are not a qualified Sichuan chef.

Chen Xu then conquered the stomach of Qin Shi Huang with such a delicious and casual half-baked art, and also conquered the stomach of the entire Qinghe Marquis Mansion, and also conquered the stomach of the civil and military ministers of the Xianyang Manchu Dynasty, so when he went to the court the next day after making the braised rhinoceros tongue, more than a dozen civil and military ministers surrounded him outside the court hall to ask about the practice of braised vegetables, so Chen Xu was happy to tell them that in another half a month, when the Qinghe Hotel in Xianyang opened, all colleagues who like delicious food were invited to taste countless delicious foods. All of a sudden, all interested people were excited, and they all nodded and promised to go to the party to taste it when the time came.

But what made Chen Xu depressed was that the few carts of ingredients sent by the emperor had only eaten a few things at the moment, tiger legs, elephant pulls, bear paws, and humps had not yet begun to be made, and Princess Huayu had sent a lot of ingredients, what does this mean, Lao Tzu is the president of the Great Qin Royal Academy of Sciences, the Marquis of Qinghe, and the immortal disciple who wants to do great things to assist the emperor in unifying the earth, how can he do this kind of cooking thing all day long.

It's okay to eat by yourself, but it's too depressing to spend your brain researching what to cook for others every day.

And Princess Huayu came, Chen Xu naturally knew her thoughts.

Although the last time the emperor gave the marriage, he was pretended to be sick and resigned, and the emperor never mentioned it afterwards, but the five princesses seemed to really like themselves, the last time they played mahjong and said that they wanted to play, but they didn't expect to really come after a few days, that kind of shyness with expectation, and pretending to be stupid in their intelligence, so that Chen Xu couldn't refuse sternly, especially in front of the emperor, as the saying goes, there are only three things, and for the emperor, this kind of thing can only be done once at most.

The carriage was bumpy all the way, and appeared in the Qinghe Hou Mansion after ten minutes, and when I entered the door, I saw three carriages parked in the middle of the courtyard, surrounded by dozens of forbidden soldiers and palace attendants of the Weiwei Mansion, one of the carriages was also tightly covered with black cloth, and the other was the car of Princess Huayu, and there were many ingredients piled up on a car, the most conspicuous was a basket of fresh chicken paws and chicken wings.

At this time, Princess Huayu had already gotten out of the car, and was holding her skirt and constantly looking at the gate of the Hou Mansion, her beautiful and delicate cheeks looked a little anxious.

"Hurry up, Master Hou is back home!" With a few shouts at the door, a group of stewards and servants of the Hou Mansion standing respectfully next to them all moved, some ready to greet them, and some went to prepare hot water and clothes for washing.

Seeing Chen Xu's carriage roaring into the mansion surrounded by a group of guards, Princess Huayu waited anxiously before a surprised smile bloomed on her face, took a few steps forward with her skirt, and quickly stopped to tidy up her outfit, and watched Chen Xu's carriage drive over with a worried expression.