Li You, Zhang Guigui and Yin Guanghao were talking nonsense, and Zhou Qian and Wang Liao came in happily. Wang Liao took the bowl of egg custard and knelt down when he came in. He said excitedly: "Thank you, Lord Wang, the method you taught the slave and maid is really wonderful." ”

Zhang Guigui stepped forward to take the bowl of egg custard, and Yin Guanghao also leaned over curiously to look at it. The two of them are no strangers to egg custard, which is one of the things they often eat. However, seeing that the egg custard turned out to be like this, Zhang Guigui asked suspiciously: "Brother You, did you make this?" ”

Li You was proud, his eyes facing the sky.

Wang Liao said excitedly: "Two sons, this is really the recipe taught by the prince of my family, it's amazing." ”

Yin Guanghao looked Li You up and down, and asked suspiciously: "Brother You, could it be that the gods really invited you to dinner, you actually know how to cook?" ”

Li You smiled: "What is this? I'm going to show you a hand right now. You wait here, and I'll show you what it means to eat today. ”

Zhang Guigui and Yin Guanghao were also interested and wanted to follow him. So the three of them went to the kitchen together.

At this time, the chefs in the kitchen had already prepared the ingredients according to Li You's request.

Yin Guanghao looked at the pork belly in the porcelain basin on the board and asked, "Brother You, what is this?" ”

Li You said: "Pig (porpoise) meat, pork belly. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Guigui and Yin Guanghao immediately frowned. Zhang Guigui said: "Can you eat this?" I don't eat pork. ”

Yin Guanghao also said: "Pork is not delicious. Brother You, you lie to us, what kind of food, this is the food you want to make? ”

The people of the Tang Dynasty mainly ate mutton and rarely ate pork, which they thought was of low grade and hindered health. Of course, there is also a major reason that there is something wrong with their approach.

The Tang Dynasty did not have peanut oil "A Preliminary Study on the History of Peanut Cultivation in China" (not specifically discussed here), and the taste of rapeseed oil was not liked by most people in the north, and it was only used for lighting. So the pork recipe is extremely monotonous. The main way to eat it is to cook the pork and put it with salt and garlic, similar to the white meat with garlic paste.

Zhou Qian and others have squeezed out a small amount of peanut oil according to the method taught by Li You, Li You heated the peanut oil, put in purple sugar (brown sugar imported from Tianzhu), dissolved the sugar, and then put the pork belly that had been copied into it to color.

After these processes were completed, Li You explained the seasoning to be put in, and then said: "You transfer this meat to a casserole, add an appropriate amount of boiling water, and simmer it for half an hour. Sprinkle some pepper and salt before removing from the pan and you're done. ”

Subsequently, he, Zhang Guigui and others left.

An hour later (for the sake of reading convenience, switch to modern time), Zhou Qian and Gao Zhiming, the main chef, came in with a vermilion lacquer food box. Seeing their happy faces, you know how the braised pork tastes.

Sure enough, they opened the food box, and a rich aroma suddenly spread.

On a few cases, in a pale cyan Tang blue and white square plate, pieces of rectangular pork belly, red fluttering, shiny, trembling, dotted with a small amount of finely chopped green onions, coriander, looking at it is mouth-watering.

Li You said: "Eat while it's hot. Let's try them all. ”

Yin Guanghao eats more elegantly, the first bite of the meat skin, gently cut down with his teeth, his eyes immediately opened, and then he ate the next layer of fat, fat but not greasy, and then the next layer is lean meat, which melts in the mouth, and there is another layer of fat below, followed by another layer of lean meat, which is clearly layered.

"Wow, that's so fragrant!" He couldn't help but say.

Where is Zhang Guigui so exquisite, when Yin Guanghao tasted it slowly, he had already gone down several pieces of meat. Eat some crystal Yangzhou rice, that feeling, tsk, cool!

The magpie, the white tiger and the black panther stood aside, drooling greedily, but unfortunately they were subordinates, and they only had the share of greed.

Li You said: "Zhou Qian, you arrange to make braised pork tonight, so that all the people in the palace can eat it." ”

The magpies, the white tigers, and the black panthers were overjoyed, and immediately looked forward to the arrival of supper.

Zhou Qian said with a bitter face: "Lord Wang, no, there is not so much pork in our house." ”

The imperial diet management of the royal family is divided into the Shang Shi Bureau and the Guanglu Temple, and the Shang Shi Bureau is in charge of the imperial food of the palace. Gwangrokuji Temple was in charge of the large royal banquets, and the main food supply for the princes' mansions and princesses' mansions was also handled by Gwangrokuji Temple. At this stage, the monthly meat supply is 12 catties of beef, 20 sheep and 50 catties of pork. In the past, everyone didn't like to eat pork, and there was a lot left, but dozens of catties of meat were not enough for thousands of people in the palace to eat.

Li You smiled: "You are stupid, we didn't like to eat pork in our house before, isn't it the same in other people's houses?" Won't you trade mutton? ”

Zhou Qian's eyes lit up and said: "The slave and maid understand, Xie Wang Ye will instruct, and the slave and maid will go and change." ”

After Zhou Qian left, Li You said to Gao Zhiming, the main meal: "This is just the beginning, I have hundreds of methods for this braised pork, after lunch, you come to record, I will tell you thirty methods." ”

Gao Zhiming was pleasantly surprised and said, "Lord Wang, thank you so much." After saying that, he happily retired.

In a blink of an eye, the braised pork was finished, and Zhang Guigui was still unsatisfied, and said, "Brother You, I won't leave today, and I will continue to eat in the evening." ”

Yin Guanghao had a lot of eyes, and he said, "Brother You, I will also send a cook to study with you." ”

"Hmmm! This is good, I will send a cook to learn when I go back. Zhang Guigui's eyes lit up.

Li You said: "No problem, I have a lot of food recipes in my hand, you can send someone." However, it must be kept secret, you think, these recipes, if we arrange someone to open a restaurant, how about it? ”

"Wow, isn't that a fortune?" Yin Guanghao's mind was quick, and he immediately thought of this. Zhang Guigui's eyes also lit up.

Li You said: "How about it, we are good brothers, how about making a fortune together and joining forces together?" ”

Yin Guanghao immediately said: "Okay, I agree." ”

Zhang Guigui frowned, and he said with some embarrassment: "That, that's inconvenient for me now." "He is different from Yin Guanghao, he is an only son, and some have money. He's a concubine, and he has little pocket money.

Li You smiled: "It's not a problem, I'll put it on for you first, and when you make money, just deduct it from it." ”

Zhang Guigui was very moved and said, "It's better to be Brother You." ”

Tang Dynasty officials were not allowed to do business, but this could not stop them, and it was not enough to send a cronie to run it. Then, the three of them began to plan.

Zhou Qian left the palace and came to the Shu Wangfu next door.

Listening to Zhou Gan's explanation, the straight chief of the Shu Prince's Mansion was happy in his heart, and he immediately agreed to Zhou Gan's request. After Zhou Qian left, this straight man smiled and said: "The people in the Yiyang Palace's mansion are stupid, one pound of mutton for one pound of pork, haha, laugh at me!" "You know, mutton is 20 yuan a catty, and pork is only 12 yuan a catty.

He found Quan Wanji, the chief historian of the Shu Palace, and reported the matter, he said: "Quan Changshi, the villain promised them on his own initiative, and every month in the future, the pork will be exchanged for mutton with them." ”

Quan Wanji felt that he had done something not very honorable, and said: "This is not good, we can't take advantage of others." ”

Zhichang said: "Yes, the villain also said so, but that Zhou Qian insisted on doing this, and the villain couldn't help it." ”

Hearing him say this, Quan Wanji also felt that there was nothing uneasy, so he said: "Since this is the case, let him go." ”

Zhou Qian walked around, returned to the palace, and reported to Li You. He said with some uneasiness: "Lord Wang, the slave maid has made a loss-making deal......

After listening to Zhou Qian's words, Li You laughed and said, "Okay, well done, have brains." It won't be long before this pork will be in high demand. ”

He looked at Zhou Qian for a while and said, "Well, yes, he has a brain, and he is a talent." It will be of great use to you in the future. Go, go to the Lord's book, and withdraw the money, and reward you. ”

Zhou Qian was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

Not long after, a big joke came out in Chang'an City: "I heard it, King Yiyang has a serious illness and is stupid." ”