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On this day, early in the morning, Li Qi said hello to Wu Furong and went out alone, as for where to go, he didn't say a word, but Wu Furong was already surprised by this.

Li Qi walked around the city for a while, and when he was sure that no one was following, he went straight to Wangchun Gate.

Out of the Wangchun Gate, to the eastern suburbs of the city, and walk for several miles, came to a blacksmith shop, a wooden house of about 40 square meters, in front of the house set up a simple shed, under the shed placed a large stove, on the side of the stove placed a large anvil.

At this time, there were three men standing in front of the stove with hammers, a middle-aged uncle about forty or fifty years old, and two young strong men about twenty years old.

The appearance of the three of them is somewhat similar, obviously three fathers and sons.

"Master Liu! Boom! Jiro! ”

Li Qi stepped forward and said hello.

"Li Gongzi!"

When the three fathers and sons saw Li Qi coming, they hurriedly put down the work in their hands and greeted them.

Blacksmith Liu rubbed his hand on the piece of linen around his waist, bowed down to Li Qi, and said, "Master Li, why are you here today?" ”

"I happen to be fine today, so I'll come and have a look." Li Qi laughed.

Blacksmith Liu stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please, and said, "Gongzi Li, please in the house." ”

Li Qi arched his hand, nodded with a smile, and said, "It's hard work." ”

"You guys are watching here, I'll go in and talk to Li Gongzi about something." Blacksmith Liu told his two sons a word, and invited Li Qi to the house.

When they entered the house, they saw that there were some iron tools and some iron-striking tools piled up everywhere inside, and the iron filings all over the ground were very dirty, and there was a small wooden table and three wooden stools in the middle of the room, which seemed to be used for their usual meals, and there was a closed wooden door on the left side.

After Blacksmith Liu invited Li Qi to sit down, he then took out a bowl, poured a cup of tea for Li Qi, handed it over, and said, "Li Gongzi, please drink tea." ”

Li Qi looked at Blacksmith Liu's big black hand, and felt a little disgusted, but seeing that he was very enthusiastic, and couldn't bear to brush off his kindness, he took the tea, just took a small sip, and said, "Master Liu, how much have you done?" ”

Blacksmith Liu hurriedly said: "Thirty-two, there are still sixty-eight." ”

I didn't expect this handmade zuò, and the speed was quite fast.

Li Qi nodded with satisfaction and asked again, "How many days will it take?" ”

Blacksmith Liu calculated in his heart before he said, "I'm afraid it will take more than twenty days." ”

"Twenty days?"

Li Qi frowned and thought for a while, and said, "That's okay!" By the way, where do you put the ones you have already made? I want to take a look first, but it's inconvenient. ”

"Convenient, convenient. Li Gongzi, please come with me."

Blacksmith Liu got up and led Li Qi to the closed wooden door, and when he opened the door, he was greeted by a white cloth.

Blacksmith Liu lifted the white cloth, and there were dozens of iron pots of the same size piled up under the white cloth.

The body of the pot is round, about one foot in diameter, there is a conical iron pipe more than ten centimeters high in the middle of the pot, and the base of the pot is also made of iron, ten centimeters high, fifteen centimeters in diameter, it is also conical, narrow and narrow, the inside is hollow, and there is a round hole, which is not big or small, just enough to stretch out a fist to enter.

Li Qi picked one up casually, looked at it carefully, and tapped it lightly with his hand, only to hear a few sounds of "dangdang", which was very crisp.

After looking at it for a while, Li Qi suddenly put down the iron pot, sighed, and shook his head.

"Li Gongzi, is there something wrong?" Blacksmith Liu saw it and asked with a worried face.

Li Qi was slightly stunned, and smiled at Blacksmith Liu: "Very good, I am very satisfied." ”

That being said, Li Qi actually has a lot of dissatisfaction with this iron pot, for example, the weight of the iron pot far exceeds his expectations, but today's technology is like this, it is already very good to be able to make it like this, and he originally hoped to use copper as a material, but the imperial court had already issued a ban on copper, and he didn't dare to oppose the imperial court, so he could only use iron instead.

When Blacksmith Liu heard this, he immediately turned his worries into joy, and laughed a few times.

Li Qi took out a few ingots of silver from his arms, handed them to Blacksmith Liu, and said, "Here are ten taels of silver, you take it first, and when all is finished, I will give you another twenty taels." ”

Blacksmith Liu hurriedly took the silver, cracked his mouth and laughed, this is already the second payment given to him by Li Qi, he gave him ten taels at the beginning, and Li Qi will pay him a total of forty taels, this is a big deal for Blacksmith Liu, how can he not cherish it, nodded and promised: "Hey, Li Gongzi, you can rest assured, our father and son will do their best to help you make this hundred iron pots." ”

Li Qi shook his head and said: "I'm not in a hurry now, the most important thing is to ensure the quality--- oh, you have to do it carefully." ”

"Hey, I get it." Blacksmith Liu nodded.

Li Qi nodded, and then admonished: "I don't want anyone else to know about this except for your three fathers and sons, and I don't want anyone else to see it." ”

Li Qi had already said this on the first day he came, otherwise Blacksmith Liu would not have covered those iron pots with a white cloth, nodded and said, "Don't worry, Li Gongzi, I know what to do." ”

"That's fine! You're busy, I'll go back first. ”

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After coming out of the blacksmith's shop, Li Qi looked up to the sky and let out a long breath.

Obviously, those iron pots are old-fashioned charcoal hot pots.

Chafing dish!

This dish with Chinese characteristics will become a key factor in whether Zuixianju can successfully fire the first shot, and it is also a crucial card in Li Qi's hand.

Although in the Northern Song Dynasty, the taverns in Kaifeng in Bianjing had hot pot in winter.

But it has not yet been popularized, and the culture of hot pot is still in its infancy, the taste is monotonous, and the essence of hot pot is not understood at all.

However, Li Qi, a chef from 900 years onwards, is really no longer familiar with hot pot.

He can make more than ten kinds of nationally famous hot pot, such as Chongqing spicy hot pot, Beijing mutton shabu-shabu, Guangdong seafood side stove, etc., and the taste is very authentic. Not only that, but even those more famous foreign hot pots, he also dabbled, he originally wanted to learn from Japanese paper hot pot, but unfortunately, he didn't know what kind of special paper was made of, so he had to give up.

With the word 'hot pot' alone, there are hundreds of dishes, and they are flexible enough to satisfy most palates at the same time.

But that's not why Li Qi chose hot pot.

He alone can be regarded as a qualified chef in today's Drunken Immortal Residence, Wu Xiaoliu and the Zhu Brothers are now at the same level, at best, they can only be regarded as a miscellaneous person, if in the past, Li Qi would never allow people of this level to enter his "domain", but now he can only accept this fact.

It's not that Li Qi didn't think about recruiting chefs from outside, but those chefs with superb cooking skills have already been invited away by other restaurants or those rich gentry, and he is not at ease with people he is not familiar with, who knows if they are spies sent by other restaurants.

If the chef team of a restaurant is too different from each other, this is absolutely not possible.

That's why Li Qi chose hot pot.

Because it doesn't take too many people to prepare the hot pot base, he can do it alone, so that he can control the entire kitchen more calmly.