Chapter 41: The Royal Feast
Hearing Cai Cong's aggrieved, Yan Dong snorted coldly and said with a smile: "Who is the girl?" Naturally, it is the little girl of the Yan family, after eating the delicacies you sent, people can't eat anything, and now they are all starving to death, Your Majesty ordered you to send some delicacies over quickly. ”
"Why did this happen, I don't know! Meng Baolai, you quickly ask the kitchen to cook a table of children's favorite dishes and send them to Yanfu, fast, good. Cai Cong shouted, this is a good intention to do bad things, eighty percent of the Yan family's child ate delicious food, and then got anorexia.
"Hehe, I'm distressed! Your Majesty asked me to ask you, is it true that Your Majesty and the Queen Mother treat you badly? Yan Dong suddenly lowered his voice so that only the two of them could hear it, and asked suspiciously.
"Good, excellent. My Majesty and the Queen Mother are more tolerant of me, and the Queen Mother loves me even more, and gives me a lot of food every time she sees me. Cai Cong said without thinking.
"Since it is good to you, why are there delicious dishes You only think about the Yan family and the Li Gang family. They are gracious, can't the queen's reward be gracious? ”
Understood, yes, Li Lao Er's heart is unbalanced. Cai Cong reacted immediately. looked at Yan Dong with disdain, you don't want to think about it, who has taken the initiative to invite the royal family to dinner throughout the ages? Every meal at your house has to be checked again and again, you take a bite, I take a bite, and the leftovers are only given to the emperor to eat, do I dare to send them?
But he didn't dare to say this, and said with a smile that he couldn't send it in if there were many rules in the palace. Yan Dong rolled his eyes, what are you doing with the jade plate on your waist?
However, he also understood Cai Cong's concerns and was not embarrassed. Cai Cong asked the kitchen to cook eighteen dishes, saying that it was for the emperor and empress, and the kitchen was boiling all of a sudden. One by one, it is like beating chicken blood, the meat must be cut exactly the same size before daring to be put on the stove, the vegetables are washed and peeled, and the pieces are checked to see if they are dirty.
The guards from the palace watched the whole process, and someone watched every link, for fear that someone would poison the emperor. Cai Congcai didn't care about them, he went to the sun by himself, Yan Dong stared at the old wine and stir-fried, every time he added a seasoning, he had to ask why, the old wine knew why, and it could only be said that it was taught by Xiao Langjun.
After half an hour, Yan Dong was satisfied and took away more than a dozen food boxes, there was no way that there were many emperors' families! The ministers have eaten all the delicious foods, my family will not say that they have eaten all of them, but important people must eat one!
"Captain Ben Wu is going to write this matter into the family tree when he turns around, obediently, I actually cooked for the emperor and empress, this is a matter of glory to the ancestors!" The old wine is already beautiful, I don't know the east, west, north and south.
"Me too, the meat is cut, and I burned the fire in the brisket pot, which is too embarrassing." Applejack laughs silly. When I looked at Meng Baolai again, I was already with contempt in my eyes, I made you crazy yesterday, wasn't it just that I was reprimanded by Mr. Li? Lao Tzu cooks for the emperor.
Meng Baolai personally led people to deliver the food to Yan's mansion, and Mrs. Yan personally received him. "Mrs. Haojiao knows, my little Langjun said that the little lady can't overeat if she hasn't eaten for many days, so she specially ordered to cook minced meat porridge, let the little lady eat minced meat porridge, open her stomach, and then eat other things, so as not to hurt her spleen and stomach."
"Thank you for your advice, please help the old man and Xiao Langjun to say thank you, there will be a good reward one day. I don't have time to entertain you right now, so please bear with me if it's rude. ”
Listening to Mrs. Yan's words, Meng Baolai didn't even dare to say goodbye, and Mrs. Yan personally sent them outside the door to see them leave.
When they were far away, Mrs. Yan returned to the mansion and walked towards the house. Just walked a short distance when I saw a maid running over laughing and screaming: "Madam, the little lady has eaten, a big bowl of porridge, three vegetable leaves, and a fried chicken leg and two chicken wings, and now she says she wants to play!" ”
"Okay, tell them to take care of the little lady, and the other dishes are hot, and keep the little lady to eat at night. Who dares to steal the old net worth to serve. Mrs. Yan happily didn't care about the maid's faux pas, and said with a smile on her face.
The palace is also very lively, Li Shimin saw Cai Cong eat a few bites at random when he ate the imperial meal, and thought he was restrained, today I heard two pure-hearted Confucians talk about the appearance of the Cai family's delicacies spitting, and then I remembered that Cai Cong's eyes were full of disgust.
The eldest grandson didn't need to speak, and even the older prince and the favored princess were called. More importantly, Emperor Li Yuan, who has been free-range in Da Nei, was also invited by Li Shimin.
Li Yuan didn't have any ideas anymore, and his sons, who had the ability to inherit his throne, were all killed by the second child of his family. The face of the Li family still has to be preserved, and there can be no scandal about discord in the heavenly family, and besides, if he has always harbored resentment, what if the second child smoked that day, and the three-foot white silk gave himself to Huo Huo? So the scene where their father and son met was very harmonious.
Li Shimin and the eldest grandson personally helped Li Yuan to sit on the main seat, and they did it themselves, and the others sat down. In fact, there were no tables in this Tang Dynasty, only a few cases, so everyone ate separately, one person had a case.
waited until everyone sat down until Li Shimin said with a smile: "Father is afraid that he doesn't know, a few days ago, a little doll came to visit Yan's mansion, and Yan Zhitui's great-great-granddaughter didn't think about tea and dinner, and she didn't eat for three days, and she almost died." ”
"Oh! There is such a miracle, and the doll can't be like this even if she looks better than Pan An, right? By the way, how old is Yan Zhitui's great-granddaughter this year? I don't think I'm that old, right? Li Yuan came to the spirit all of a sudden, he is now not only creating people, but also creating people, it is rare to have this kind of peach blossom elegance without onlookers to be sorry for their boring days.
"That's right! The concubine remembered that Mr. Yan only had one great-granddaughter, and she should be six years old this year, how could she make a fuss...... Could it be that the doll that His Majesty said is Cai Cong's kid? The eldest grandson was also curious, and suddenly thought of Cai Cong asking through gritted teeth.
"Haha...... It's this kid. My father is afraid that he doesn't know, but my Tang Dynasty has a child who asked the sky at the age of four, and the child and the queen are very fond of it.
A few days ago, he came to the door to send some dishes to Yan Silu and Li Gang, so that the two Confucians are not forgetful, Yan Silu's granddaughter can't eat anything else because of this, almost starved to death, today the child asked him to offer food, dare not forget his father, I specially invite you to taste it. ”
Li Shimin said with a smile, he is left with such an old father, he will never miss the opportunity to ease the relationship, otherwise he will not kneel in front of Li Yuan, holding his ** and begging him to forgive himself.
"The people of the world have a heart, so I can't wait to taste it." Li Yuan said with a smile, but he didn't think so, he was born in a wealthy family, he grew up in fine clothes and jade food, and later became an emperor for nine years, what delicious food has he not eaten?
It's a pity that this time is destined to surprise him, and Chinese cuisine has only entered the era of a hundred flowers from the Song Dynasty. In the 21st century, there is a random person on the street, and he eats more food than Li Yuan, of course, this is based on taste, if you talk about the delicacies of the mountains and seas, it is incomparable.
As soon as the dish is served, the refreshing aroma lingers. Li Yuan was quite surprised, and took a piece of lion's head with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. I saw him suddenly widen his eyes and chew and swallow heavily. slapped the case hard and shouted: "It's delicious!" ”
After saying that, the chopsticks kept moving towards the case, and the others laughed and started to taste the delicious food. Li Chengqian's size is strictly demanded, even if it is such an unprecedented delicacy, he eats slowly and logically without the slightest rudeness.
On the other hand, Li Tai and Li Ke are still young, and their hearts are undecided The first time they saw this kind of food, they ate a greasy mouth, and after a while, they finished eating the chicken wings on their desk, and looked at others restlessly, and the envy in their eyes couldn't be stopped.
"Brother Tai, Brother Ke, come to me, I have a lot of them here, let's eat together!" Six or seven-year-old children are the purest time, even if it is the emperor's family. Li Chengqian, as an elder brother, will love and protect his younger brother, and when he sees their gluttonous appearance, he calls them over.
The rules of heaven are strict, and Li Tai and Li Ke did not dare to walk around at will at the banquet, and when they heard this, they all looked up at Li Shimin.
"Today is a family banquet, don't worry about too much etiquette, your brother called over, you don't need to see me. Yan Dongke still has fried chicken? Give them another copy. Li Shimin is in a good mood, he has done bad things, what he is most afraid of is that his children will learn from him, and now he is really happy to see this picture of brothers, friends and brothers.
"Thank you, Father!" The two of them said happily, and ran over to eat with their prince brother, you and me.
Everyone laughed happily when they saw this scene, but they didn't worry about how long this kind of scene would last. Li Yuan drank the wine in the cup, his eyes were full of sadness, how could his son not be like this when he was a child, but why did he kill each other later?
Drunk and drunk, Li Yuan was helped down to rest by the chamberlain when the moon was in the middle of the sky, and when he left, he said to Li Shimin: "Teach your children well, if today's scene can be maintained until they are old, it would be great, don't learn from my son, my son ......"
Although he viciously said to Li Shimin that day that in the future, your son will be like my son, but today it reveals a father's worry about his son.
The others also dispersed, only the eldest grandson accompanied Li Shimin, and the husband and wife held hands and looked at each other for a long time without saying a word, but the two hearts comforted each other.