There is a mansion in Chang'an City, there is a village in Lanxi Township, a few carriages and a few good horses at home, and there are more than 1,000 acres of fertile land and a few shops.

With the title of the founding man of Lantian County, we are considered nobles of Chang'an.

Dressed in a scarlet robe and wearing a silver fish, riding a high-headed horse, Li Xiao felt a little fluttering. This little day is indeed very comfortable.

The weather is hot, and Li Xiao is reluctant to continue to run around Lanxi, Chang'an, and Shayuan under the scorching sun. Go back and take your daughter-in-law to Chang'an City and let her enjoy it for a few days.

No need to decorate, just move in.

Li Xiao originally lived in the corn supervisor's house, which was the corn supervisor's staff dormitory, for those officials who did not have a house in the capital, the house was relatively simple, and it was certainly not as comfortable to live in.

The housekeeper's surname is Ma, and Lao Ma is estimated to be in his forties, and the family is all slaves, but he does things very neatly. As soon as Li Xiao took over the house, he immediately asked his son to run to the plaque maker to order a new plaque.

The pony is also very clean and neat, he went to order the plaque in the morning, and he had already brought someone back the plaque at mid-noon.

"Lang Jun, the plaque has been hung up, and I invite Lang Jun to pick up the color."

Above the gate facing Fang Street, a plaque has been hung, covered by a red cloth.

As the new owner of the house, Li Xiao took the bamboo pole and removed the red cloth with a smile, revealing the two big characters of Li Mansion on the black plaque.

"Well, that's good."

Lao Ma was very neat, the house changed its owner, he immediately inspected the house again according to the master's title and official position, how big the official lived in the house, and even the position of the front and back of the gate, and how many copper nails on the door were all strictly regulated, and could not be exceeded at all, otherwise it would be a big crime.

At this time, Li Xiao also felt the benefits of having a housekeeper like Lao Ma, he didn't need to worry about anything, he could do everything.

Even how many furniture and utensils there are at home, they are all registered one by one and given to Li Xiao for a look.

"You wait for the housewife to come over and give it to her, and I will ask Second Brother Zhao to give you 50,000 yuan as a means of family expenses."

Lao Ma is very grateful to the new head of the family and trusts him very much.

"Work hard, and I, Li Xiao, will not treat you badly."

Changing into a casual robe, Li Xiao wandered around this mansion, in fact, in the eyes of a former Guanlong nobleman like Zhao Zhiman, this mansion is really just a small mansion, but the size of a dozen acres of land and a dozen rooms. I don't even have a decent back garden.

Thinking of his Zhao Zhiman's previous mansion, there are more than ten acres of ponds alone.

"There are many kinds of lotus flowers in this pond, and the lotus flowers are beautiful in summer, and there are lotus seeds to eat, and you can dig and eat them in winter." Li Xiao pointed to the lotus pond that covers an area of several acres, "Raise some more fish, don't raise the fish that I don't like to eat, I'll go back and get some fish fry, just raise some grass carp, carp, silver carp, herring, crucian carp, mullet, etc., when you want to eat, you can catch a few at any time to eat, by the way, raise some loaches, crabs or something." ”

Zhao Zhiman was a little speechless.

A good lotus pond, to raise is also to raise some ornamental fish, not to mention raising white cranes, goldfish, how to raise loaches, crabs.

"A few more ducks and geese!"

Li Xiao walked into the pavilion by the pond and looked at a piece of flower on the shore, "You can actually grow some vegetables here, just grow some cucumbers, beans, peppers, eggplants, corn or something, it's also pretty good." ”

"Growing vegetables in the garden?" Zhao Zhiman couldn't listen anymore.

"What's wrong with growing vegetables, how good it is that vegetables can be watched and eaten."

There was a burst of laughter from behind, "That's a good thing, the old man likes to hear it." San Lang, you have planned well, raising fish, raising ducks and growing vegetables, why didn't the old man think of it before. ”

Li Xiao turned his head, but it was the eldest grandson Wuji who came.

The old man was still dressed in the same sackcloth shirt, and there were only two followers by his side.

"Seeing that San Lang is quite satisfied with this house, the old man is relieved."

Li Xiao smiled, "This house is really good." ”

Today, Li Xiao has already met the eldest grandson Wuji three times.

He sent the house once in the morning, and after the meeting, he sent the house once, and now he came to the door again.

The eldest grandson Wuji must have something to find himself.

"Taishi is so idle today!"

"Yes, now that I have resigned from my official position, I am a light person without a job. There is no case of labor, no silk and bamboo mess, but it is a little boring to be idle, and I want to talk to you kid, so I will come to see you. The chubby eldest grandson Wuji said with a smile.

Zhao Zhiman silently stepped aside, and the two entourages of the eldest grandson Wuji stood in the distance.

In the pavilion by the pond, only one old and one young remained.

"Please also ask San Lang to tell the old man, what should I do next?"

"What's next? What's next? Li Xiao asked rhetorically.

"Of course, how to protect the interests of my Guanlong nobles, although the old man is forced to resign, he is still not at ease. Now that the court is full of people like Li Ji, and untrustworthy and unrighteous people like Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu are in power, the old man is uneasy when he thinks about it. ”

"In fact, Taishi is not doing anything now, which is the best thing to do." Li Xiao groaned for a while, he believed that the eldest grandson Wuji could see it more clearly than him, but he was too worried.

Why were the senators so nervous about the emperor before?

It's not that the patriarchs are always worried about the emperor, thinking that the emperor is too young and inexperienced. As a result, the more uneasy he was, the more he refused to hand over power, the more dissatisfied the emperor became. The patriarch refused to hand over power, and the emperor naturally had to find a way to seize power.

The patriarchs represent the Guanlong aristocracy, and the emperor can only find the support of Shandong nouveau riche like Li Ji.

Now that the situation has finally eased up, why bother to be nervous again.

"It's all time for dinner, let's stay for lunch." Li Xiao said to the eldest grandson Wuji, people have given them a mansion worth thousands of yuan, you must know that such a house is not only valuable, but ordinary people have no place to buy it if they have money.

A new little nobleman like Li Xiao was originally not qualified to settle in Shengye Fang.

Kitchen.

The chubby cook in the house watched in surprise as Li Xiao skillfully put on the cloth and rolled up her sleeves.

Fresh pork just bought from the East Market, the ribs are still attached to the meat, and the belt bones are attached. Li Xiao patted this piece of meat with satisfaction, picked up the butcher knife and went down, and just cut off a rib, and chopped it off with the skin and meat below.

In the past, people would not divide the meat too finely, and the flesh and skin were all together. Unlike later, pork ribs are the fat of the ribs to the fat and the lean to the lean.

In fact, pork with bones and skin tastes more delicious, especially in this era, pork itself is mainly eaten by ordinary people, the nobles and bureaucrats of Chang'an eat mutton, and the emperor and princes and nobles often eat venison.

The eldest grandson Wuji was like an ordinary old man, smiling and watching the dignified baron chopping meat with a knife.

Simply chop the ribs into large pieces, each rib still has a large piece of meat on it, and the excess skin and meat cut off are also cut into large pieces.

Then Li Xiao took out a bag of corn shoots.

"Could this be corn?" The eldest grandson Wuji looked at the long, pointy yellow bamboo shoot-like vegetables and asked.

Li Xiao smiled, peeled off the outer shell leaves, and threw the finger-sized corn shoots into the basin to be cleaned.

"It's called a corn shoot, and it's not corn, it's an extra ear of corn. The excess ears have to be petaled, otherwise it will affect the yield, and there are more long ears, and there will be no yield at that time, and it is easy to have empty ears and not full grains. ”

The spikes are very sweet, very small and tender, and a little bud has just grown on them, which is actually good for cooking.

"Stewed pork ribs with corn shoots are the most tender and sweet, but they are a good dish, and the master will know it in a while."

Li Xiao's cooking is very smooth, and watching him cook, he even has a sense of beauty like flowing water.

Wash the corn shoots and remove the stems, slice the ginger and garlic, cut the green garlic into sections, wash the ribs and marinate them with salt for a while.

Over there, oil has been added to the pot to heat, ginger and garlic are added to stir-fry until fragrant, and then an appropriate amount of frosting sugar is added, and the girl who burns the fire is told to control the low heat, boil out the sugar, and then let her burn the fire. Pour the blanched pork ribs and pieces of meat with skin into the pan and stir-fry, add some rice wine and soy sauce and continue stir-frying.

After stir-frying for a while, Li Xiao added a large bowl of water to the pot, so that the water was flush with the pork ribs, and covered the pot.

"Keep the fire."

When the pork ribs were stewed in the pot, Li Xiao took fresh cucumbers and washed them and smashed them, and made cold cucumbers.

"It's a pity for this young ear."

"What's a pity, keeping it will make the whole corn not produce full particles, and it won't be wasted if you pick it, so you can't still cook it." The stewed pork ribs are delicious, and they can also be eaten cold or stir-fried. ”

After a while, the water in the pot is almost boiled, add some ingredients and fry for a while, reduce the juice on high heat, and then it will be out of the pot.

A bowl of fragrant and brightly colored stewed pork ribs with corn shoots was placed in front of the eldest grandson Wuji.

"A cup of soju?"

"Yes."

Eldest Sun Wuji's throat swelled, he couldn't imagine that the pork could also exude such a strong fragrance.

Picking up the chopsticks, he couldn't wait to eat a piece of corn shoots.

In the mouth, you first feel the rich aroma of the pork rib soup attached to it, and then bite into it, the corn shoots are extremely crispy, fresh and sweet.

It is very crisp to chew, very fresh, very sweet, especially there is a strong aroma of pork ribs, there is no imaginary smell of pork, he picked up another piece of pork ribs, the meat on the bones has been stewed, and the bones are off when you bite it, but the meat is not rotten, and the taste is not woody or tough.

"How?" Li Xiao asked as he crunched on a piece of cucumber.

"Yes, surprisingly tender, this corn shoot with pork ribs is unexpectedly delicious. The juice is fragrant, sweet, crispy, and delicious. ”

"If it's delicious, you can eat more."

"Corn is such a good thing, this extra young ear is so delicious, not bad." The eldest grandson Wuji ate several pork ribs in one go, chewed four or five corn shoots, and ate a mouth full of oil.

Putting down the chopsticks, the eldest grandson Wuji looked at Li Xiao and said, "I have a junior young man like San Lang in Guanlong, and my generation can rest assured." ”