Chapter 3: Playing with Mud
Li Chengqian didn't let his sister wait long, and soon walked out with Xia Ju's service, combed his hair, got dressed, and walked out.
Seeing his brother come out, Li Lizhi quickly ran to Li Chengqian's side.
"Brother Prince, what do you want to get for Lizhen, if it's not delicious, I won't follow it" Li Lizhen looked at his handsome prince brother and threw the bridge.
"Got it, you snack goods, when it comes to eating, your whole person has changed, wait, I'll tell Xia Ju to prepare the materials" After speaking, Li Chengqian called Xia Ju over and told her to prepare a killed chicken, lotus leaves, green onions, ginger and salt and other ingredients.
Then he instructed Zhang Gao to go to the Tai Hospital to get himself some cinnamon, grass fruit, star anise, and some spices that were often used in later generations, as for why he went to the Tai Hospital to get them, instead of going to the imperial dining room, it was because people nowadays have not used these spices as ingredients, but as medicinal materials.
After instructing Zhang Gao Xia Ju, Li Chengqian asked someone to bring a bucket of water.
"Brother Prince, what are you asking me to carry water for" The little girl looked at her brother puzzled.
"Can we, don't call the prince brother, just call my brother, as for the water, of course it's used to make mud"
Li Chengqian is very unaccustomed to adding the word prince when the little girl calls herself, and he decided to be good at first, but after a lot of it, he felt that the whole person was not good, after all, he thought about not being the prince from the first day he came to this world.
"I don't want to call it either, but if I don't call it Brother Prince, the queen mother will say mine" The little girl looked at him aggrievedly.
"It's okay, when the queen mother asks, you say that I said it, so that the queen mother won't scold you, and don't stand still, hurry up and help"
As he spoke, he saw that Li Chengqian had already poured the water brought by his subordinates, and he found a good place.
And the little girl heard his words, and thought about it, anyway, my brother let me call it that, the queen mother shouldn't say me, and I saw that my brother still had to take himself to play with mud today, which I always wanted to play that I didn't dare to play, and now that my brother is here, then I won't be afraid, anyway, the queen mother scolded and had my brother in front.
So Li Lizhi also quickly joined Li Chengqian and the mud team, but Li Chengqian was called a flower chicken with mud, while Li Liqian just wanted to play with mud.
But this scene still startled Zhang Gao, who took back the spices.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how can you take Her Royal Highness the eldest princess to play in the mud here, if Your Majesty knows about this, then you will definitely be punished again"
Zhang Gao looked at the crown prince and the eldest princess, who were already two mud monkeys, threw down the spices in his hand, ran to them, and persuaded them in a low voice.
"What are you afraid of, you know if you know, and you didn't see that I took everyone away, as long as you and Xia Ju don't talk about it, who will know, or do you want to tell my father and king" Li Chengqian looked at Zhang Gao with a nervous face and asked indifferently.
"Slaves don't dare" Hearing Li Chengqian's words, Zhang Gao looked around, but there was really no one, so he was relieved.
"Don't dare, then what should you do, you don't need to serve here, just have Xia Ju, but Xia Ju, why is this girl so slow to get a chicken, you are back, why hasn't she come back yet"
After speaking, Li Chengqian muttered quietly there.
"Why are you still here, didn't you let you go down? But forget it, you're actually running to the hospital to give me that saltpeter here."
Seeing that Zhang Gao hadn't left yet, Li Chengqian thought that the weather was so hot, and he tried to make saltpeter ice in those time-traveling novels, whether it was really possible, and immediately ordered Zhang Gao to get saltpeter for himself.
Seeing Li Chengqian speak again, Zhang Gao looked at it and finally did what Li Chengqian said, but when he left the courtyard, he specially ordered the people who stood outside to be servants, and the prince's affairs should not be said a word, otherwise they would look good, and after a threat, Zhang Gao left.
Not long after Zhang Gao left, Xia Ju, who was sweating profusely, also came back.
"Why did you go for so long, what happened?"
Li Chengqian saw Xia Ju running sweating profusely, so he asked casually.
"It's okay, Your Highness, this is what you wanted"
"Okay, you put it there, since you're back, then go and boil some bath water, and the king and princess will be busy in a while, and they will take a bath."
After receiving Li Chengqian's order, Xia Ju, who had just come over, put some materials such as chickens and lotus leaves in a clean place and went out again.
Looking at Xia Ju, who was tired, although Li Chengqian couldn't bear it, he didn't say anything, after all, this society is like this, and if he wants to integrate into this society, these are the most basic.
"Brother, the chicken is here, how can the chef there, there is no cook, then what do we eat, it won't be eaten raw" Li Lizhi looked around, didn't see the cook who cooked for them, and asked her brother puzzled.
"Who said, no, I'm not just it, hurry up and wash your hands, let you see today, my brother's awesomeness" After saying that, he took away Liz's little hands that had been covered with mud and came to the bucket.
Because the subordinates and maids who served them were all driven outside by Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian personally scooped water to wash the beautiful little hands, and the mud on his face was not washed.
After washing his hands, Li Chengqian took Lizhi to marinate the chicken brought by Xia Ju with green onion and ginger water and salt, and put some green onion and ginger in the chicken's belly and wrapped it in lotus leaves, and then used the mud that had been reconciled before to wrap the whole lotus leaf in mud and put it aside, and then lit a fire in the open space, and when the firewood was almost burned, he put the chicken wrapped in mud and lotus leaves into the fire.
"Okay, it's done, when it's done, you can eat, Lizhi goes, let's go to the bath, otherwise it will be dirty for a while, and it's not good to eat" After roasting the chicken in the fire, Li Chengqian pulled Lizhi and planned to take a bath.
"Brother, anyway, Xia Ju, they will boil water for a while, why don't you play with me for a while" After speaking, the little girl raised her head and looked at herself with her big eyes.
In the end, Li Chengqian couldn't carry his cute sister's bridge, and played with the mud there again, until Xia Ju came over and said that the water was boiling, and he pulled Li Liqian, who was already the same as a mud monkey, to take a bath.
When the brother and sister had finished their showers and changed into clean clothes, they couldn't wait to run to the fire where they roasted the chicken.
At this time, Zhang Gao, who had been ordered by Li Chengqian to get saltpeter, also came back and followed behind them with Xia Ju, while the others were still left outside.
"Brother, okay, Lizhi is hungry"
"Wait a minute, let Manager Zhang dig it out and take a look, don't worry"
Soon, Zhang Gao dug out a mud egg that had been dried from the fire that had been extinguished.
Looking at the ni egg in front of them, Zhang Gao and Xia Ju had only one idea, can the roasted chicken be eaten like this?
But soon their doubts were broken by the golden roast in Li Chengqian's hands, and the fragrant flower chicken with lotus leaves.
But Li Chengqian didn't care about them at all, and took out the plates and chopsticks that Xia Ju had prepared a long time ago, and ate them with the little girl who was already hungry.