Chapter 588: Home Alone (Thanks to the Lonely Little Star!) )
The tenth shift is sent, the crazy ten consecutive shifts, desperate, just so that everyone can vote for a few monthly tickets to support it!
The weather was still sunny, and the heat wave was rolling in at noon, and people who were hot did not dare to go out at all. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info even a few puppies in the family were lying on the stone slab under the porch with hot bellies, and their tongues spit out the elders, whirring and panting.
The weather is so hot that people get drowsy at noon.
Zhizhi kept screaming, and the subordinates took long sticky sticks everywhere, so as not to disturb the sleep of the little masters.
Prince Chengqian has no intention of sleeping, he is always playful at his age.
It just so happens that there have been a lot of companions recently, and the righteous son of Qi Guogong has come to Henglaiji and the brothers, who are slightly older than him. In addition, there is Pei Xingjian, the righteous son of Tan Guogong, and his aunt Pingyang's eldest princess's two sons, Chai Zhewei and Chai Lingzhe, who were originally his teacher Li Chao's protégés, so now they are also regarded as brothers in the same discipleship.
In addition, the youngest son of Wei Zheng's family, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhan's youngest son, Cheng Yanjin's youngest son, Wei Chigong's youngest son, and several prime ministers' youngest sons, are not very old.
These people also have a common identity, that is, Cheng Qian's future brothers-in-law are engaged to Cheng Qian's princess sisters.
Now these guys, who are eight or nine years old, and who are four or five years old, have all come to the Li family.
Anyway, Chongwenguan Elementary School is also on vacation, so they are all sent here to spend the summer vacation, and they are also called accompanying the prince to study.
Although Cheng Qian is not the oldest among everyone, he has the most noble status, and the others are either his quasi-brother-in-law or his fellow disciples, and he is the leader.
Every day with a mess.
The servants and maids in the Li Mansion were busy, and although the masters were asleep, they still had many things to do. You have to prepare mung bean soup, sour plum soup, etc., you have to prepare watermelon, etc., you have to prepare ice cubes, and make all kinds of preparations, and when the masters wake up from a nap, you have to prepare to serve.
Li Chao has been very busy these days, busy preparing to recruit partners, busy preparing to set up a new workshop, busy recruiting craftsmen, and busy producing drawings.
For Cheng Qian, there is not so much time to take care of him.
Every morning became a self-study class, and at noon, I went with him. Anyway, I sent someone to follow them every step of the way, so I didn't have to worry about safety and other issues, and the rest went with them.
These children are all children of nobles, either the son of the prime minister, or the son of a general, even if they come to Henglai to help Pei Xingjian three, they are also the sons of the country, and their father is also a famous general in the Sui Dynasty.
"Huailiang, are you okay?"
Li Chengqian saw that Cheng Huailiang hadn't rubbed his cigarette for a long time, so he pushed him aside.
"I didn't expect you to be so useless, how can I rest assured that I will marry my thirteenth sister to you in the future." Li Chengqian shook his head with a look of contempt.
Cheng Huailiang lowered his head and squatted aside with a look of shame.
"Eldest Sun Chong, you come."
Changsun Chong, the son of Changsun Wuji, heard the prince's assignment, stood up from the group of people who were squatting onlookers, walked to Cheng Qian's side, and took the turning bow in Cheng Qian's hand.
This is a very simple tool, a sharpened stick, with a rope attached to a small bow, pull the bow, the bowstring can drive the sharp stick to rotate, pull back and forth, the stick can keep turning.
Changsun Chong stepped on a dry wooden stick with one foot, and then put the sharp stick on the hole that Cheng Shiliang had turned out just now.
The hole was already a little blackened, but there was no smoke coming out.
Li Chengqian and the others were impatient, and the eldest grandson rushed over.
"Remember to keep pulling, you can't stop, when you see the smoke coming out, don't stop immediately, you can't stop until there is more smoke."
Eldest Sun Chong nodded, "Got it, Your Highness." ”
"Well, let's do it, don't let Gu down, don't be like Cheng Chuliang, you can't use it, you look so big, you can't even drill wood for fire."
Cheng Chuliang was a little aggrieved, he was the quasi-husband of Princess Qinghe, the thirteenth princess appointed by the emperor. In front of a group of future brothers-in-law and eldest brothers, it was too embarrassing to be able to get out of the fire.
"Could it be that this is not the right way?" He whispered.
"Impossible, this is the method taught to me by the teacher, and I have demonstrated it, I have drilled out the fire, you are useless." The prince said impatiently.
So a group of friends laughed brightly, laughing he lowered his head and was about to bury himself in his crotch.
Changsun Chong worked very hard, and after a while, there was indeed smoke.
"There is, there is smoke, go on, don't stop."
After rubbing for a while, the smoke was even bigger, so Li Chengqian took the board and carefully dumped the sparks into a ball of hay. Then he puffed up his cheeks and blew.
Sparks ignite the dead grass, and the flames rise.
A group of little kids cheered, happily watching the hard-won fire.
"Quick, put up the thin dry branches, and don't have any grass." Cheng Qian acted as a conductor, pointing at the point, and a group of little children began to add firewood.
"Yu Chi Baoqi, Du He, bring the cicadas!"
A large handful of cicadas strung on the branches were brought over, and one was strung on each branch, which Li Chengqian got from the subordinates of the Li Mansion Net Cicada.
He once heard Li Chao say that the outside always knows and screams the summer cicadas, but in fact, they taste good when they are roasted and eaten, and then he remembered it in his heart. Today, while the adults in the house didn't have time to take care of them, they asked for the cicadas they caught from the cicada catcher, and a group of little guys gathered here to barbecue.
There is no need for ready-made flint, he still has to come to drill wood to make fire, at first he directly rubbed his hands, rubbed a few times, and his hands were about to break the skin, so he changed to a tool.
Watching the fire rise, Li Chengqian felt a sense of accomplishment.
"Come, roast cicadas, two skewers per person, roast them yourself."
The weather was very hot, and it was even hotter and sweating around the fire, but Li Chengqian was very energetic.
"Beloved, Ling Wu, you two go to the kitchen to get some beans and millet, that can also be roasted and eaten." Li Chengqian commanded Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu, two prospective brothers-in-law on one side.
"Fulfill, you go get some salt, you have to sprinkle some salt in a while to be delicious."
Xiao Yu's sons Xiao Rui and Chai Zhewei said on the side, "It would be nice to get some wine to drink, cold beer, Bailu brand, I have drunk it, it is quite refreshing." ”
Li Chengqian's eyes lit up, "Is there a cold beer in the kitchen?" ”
"There should be."
"Then you go get some."
"Okay." Xiao Rui and Chai Zhewei said with a smile. The brothers who came to Henglaiji were also infected by this atmosphere, "Let's go too." ”
A group of little guys, this one went to get salt, that one went to get wine, and some went to find cumin, and some went to find beans, and they had a lot of fun.
There were already people in the house who had been staring at this group of little guys and told Li Chao.
After Li Chao heard this, he leaned back in his chair and just chuckled a few times.
"What a nostalgic childlike era, let them go, while watching, just don't let these guys set fire to the house."
"It doesn't matter if you drink?"
"It's not a big deal to have a beer, just watch and don't let them drink too much, have a drink or two, and it's okay to get drunk." Li Chao said with a smile, the first time he got drunk, it was also an interesting thing.
The prince is quite good at playing today, and the organizational skills and leadership temperament revealed are quite satisfactory to Li Chao, not in vain!
(To be continued.) )