Chapter Thirty-Eight: Salt-making, Pickling Pigs, and Gentlemen!
As soon as they spoke, Li Yi and Bing Yu came to the kitchen. There is only one person in the kitchen www.biquge.info the pen, and that is Aunt Han, because Aunt Han only needs to cook Li Yi and Bingyu's meals, and other people's meals are not in this kitchen!
"Aunt Han, are you busy?"
Aunt Han is a woman in her thirties, honest and good-tempered! "Oops! Young Master, this is the place you can come! It's dirty, get out of here! ”
Li Yi glanced at Bing Yu helplessly, Bing Yu smiled, and stepped forward to explain for Li Yi.
"Auntie, the young master is here for an important matter, and you don't have to stop the young master from coming here in the future!"
"Hey! Middle! What do you say! I don't understand, auntie! ”
Li Yi nodded gently!
"Auntie, what's in this kitchen now!"
"Oh! It's winter, and there's just some rice noodles, rabbit meat, roe meat, mutton, and the like! ”
"Oh! What about sparse vegetables? ”
"The young master is actually joking, this winter, where to get vegetables!"
"What? Don't even have vegetables? By the way, this Datang doesn't have greenhouse technology yet, so I said how come there is no vegetable to eat in winter over the years, which makes me malnourished! After Li Yi muttered, he walked around again!
"Auntie, isn't there any pork in this kitchen?"
"Hehe, that's what the poor people eat, how can a nobleman like the young master eat that thing?"
"Why?"
Bing Yu explained with a smile on the side. "Young Master! There is a fishy smell in the pork! So very few people want to eat it! ”
"How so? Could it be that Datang doesn't even have a way to pickle pigs? ”
"Pickled pigs? What is that? ”
Aunt Han seemed to remember something. "That, young master, I seem to know that there is a kind of pork in Zhang's dried meat in Xishi, and their pork does not smell fishy!"
"Okay! This method of pickling pigs has even become a secret recipe! Alas! It doesn't matter so much! Emergency! Aunt Han, you go on a trip, you go to the front yard to find some people, just say what I said! Let them go with you to buy two pigs of pork from Zhang's dried meat, remember, it must not smell fishy! The sooner the better! Ice Jade! Get money for Aunt Han! ”
Bingyu hurriedly took the money for Aunt Han, and Aunt Han walked out with the money!
"Bingyu, come back to the study with me! Wait a minute! What is it? Li Yi asked, pointing to some lumpy white objects.
Bing Yu looked at Li Yi with a strange expression. "Young master, this is salt!"
"I know it's salt, I want to ask why there's no refined salt!"
"Refined salt? What is that? ”
"Alright! I see, follow me back to the study! ”
"Young master, you really know how to cook!"
Li Yi rolled his eyes. "Stinky girl, you've met Young Master Ben's awesomeness!"
After Li Yi and Bingyu came to the study, Li Yi found a blank book for Bingyu.
"Young master, what are you giving me this?"
"Yes! This book will belong to you from now on, and it will be used exclusively to record the useful words I have said in the future! Maybe I can publish a book in the future, well, just write the cover - encyclopedia, author Li Yi! ”
"Young Master, you're serious!"
"If I were you, I'd hurry up and pick up the pen now, because the young master is going to be powerful!"
Bing Yuhu glanced at Li Yi suspiciously, picked up the pen on the table, and prepared to record!
Li Yi walked to the window, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Remember: In the fifth year of Zhenguan, the twentieth day of the first month, Li Yi Li Wenyong, the grandson of Li Jing, the god of the Tang Dynasty, is compassionate and compassionate, kind and kind, respectful of the old and loves the young, full of benevolence, patriotic and dedicated, and graceful..."
"Young Master!"
"Ahem! All right! Don't understand me at all, keep going! Because it has some clever recipes, I am afraid that it will be lost, so I wrote this book for future generations to refer to! ”
"I. The method of pickling pigs, today's pork, has a fishy smell, so it needs to be castrated to remove this smell, method..."
"II. The method of preparing refined salt, because the coarse salt contains many peculiar smells and contains toxic substances, so it needs to be refined, and the method of processing: the saturated brine is first rinsed and filtered with impurities such as sediment, and then caustic soda is added, and then sent to the decoction pot to be steamed into salt, and then through dehydration, drying, crushing, screening and other procedures to become refined salt. Kindness! That's all for now! ”
"Young Master, is this all true?"
"Nonsense! Little girl, dare to doubt Ben Shao again, be careful that Ben Shao enforces family law to you! ”
"What family law?"
Li Yi hehe, hey, a pleasure. "What do you say?"
"Humph! Shameless, young master! ”
"Stinky girl, did I say anything? What a man! ”
Li Yi blew his bangs stinkily, returned to the table, and wanted to continue to write about the training method of special forces, but suddenly remembered that Li Er seemed to want him to write about punctuation! Therefore, I can only start a new article and write the punctuation method first.
Half an hour later, Li Yi finished writing the punctuation method, blew the ink, and nodded with satisfaction. When I looked up, I saw Bing Yu holding a historical record and reading it with relish.
"This girl, she can even understand the historical records, it seems that I have found a treasure!" Li Yi smiled slightly. "Girl, go get me a pair of scissors and some hard paper!"
Bing Yu raised her head, agreed, put down the book, and ran out!
Not long after, Bingyu came back with a stack of hard paper, although it was still a little soft, after all, Datang's papermaking technology was still very poor, and it took a long time to make a piece of rice paper.
Li Yi picked up scissors and cut the cardboard into pieces of paper the size of playing cards.
"Bingyu, do you see it, cut it like this, you cut it, I'll write it!"
Bing Yu didn't say much, picked up the scissors and started cutting, Li Yi admired Bing Yu the most, when he shouldn't ask, Bing Yu never talked much!
What Li Yi has to do is poker, or after a while, the Tang Dynasty gentlemen can't let them stare at each other, they should have fun!
Ice jade paper-cutting, Li Yi used ink and cinnabar to write on it, and the writing was still in traditional Chinese, because the Tang people did not know Arabic numerals. Depend on! I won't want to let my master get a primary school math book! Kindness! It's really necessary, after all, in the future, Qian Zhuang and Shangmeng will have to deal with numbers, alas! Why is there nothing in this Datang! Is it simply a primitive tribe? I didn't see any bright spots here other than beautiful women. Complaining is complaining, poker has to be done. Half an hour later, Li Yi and Bingyu made a total of five decks of poker!
"It should be enough, let's go! Aunt Han is also coming back soon! ”
After Li Yi finished speaking, he took the poker into his arms and walked out first, followed by Bingyu!
After arriving at the kitchen, sure enough, Aunt Han had returned, along with a group of subordinates and two dismembered pigs.
Li Yi first went to the pork to look at and smell it, and sure enough, there was no fishy smell, and the meat quality was also very good, obviously it had just been killed. I nodded and walked into the kitchen!
"Aunt Han, I will teach you how to make refined salt now, and after you learn it, you will refine refined salt here!"
"What refined salt? Ah! This is the young master's recipe, how can I learn it, this is absolutely unacceptable! ”
"It's not a good thing, okay, I'll start talking now, you hear me clearly!"
After Li Yi finished speaking, he told Aunt Han about the method of refining refined salt, because Li Yi didn't want much salt, as long as it was enough for cooking, so it was enough to steam and cook in a small pot, which was very fast.
Li Yi said it a few times, and Aunt Han remembered it, and then started making salt in strict accordance with the method Li Yi said!
Aunt Han started to make salt, Li Yi walked out, ordered her subordinates to support a few cauldrons, set up firewood, and then packed up all the pork except for the tenderloin, pig's head, part of the pork belly and pork ribs, packed it all up and threw it into the pot to cook!
Li Yi was almost busy here, the guests over there arrived, heard the report of the subordinates, and hurried to the front hall, while Bing Yu was sent by Li Yi to the front hall to prepare the newly made tables and chairs.
After Li Yi arrived in the front hall, he saw that a large number of people had already come to the front hall!
Everyone in the hall stood up when they saw Li Yi coming, staring at Li Yi!
Li Yi hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "Oops! Sorry sorry for keeping you waiting! ”
Everyone also hurriedly clasped their fists in return, but their faces were a little bad!
Li Yi knew that he had misunderstood! "Huh! Brothers, I should have personally invited you, but what about one? I really can't leave, and second, I also want to prepare a hearty lunch for you, so I let my two younger brothers do it for you. If there is any neglect, please forgive me! ”
As soon as Li Yi finished speaking, he saw a man of medium stature, white and clean, slightly chubby, with a slightly hideous face, laughing, stepped forward and said, "Hahaha!" I'll just say it! How could this jade unicorn be such an arrogant character, no! I Lao Cheng is right, at first glance, Brother Li Xian is a bold man! ”
Everyone's faces also softened, but they just gave a disdainful look to the man who spoke, and they didn't know who complained the loudest just now!
"Huh! The brothers of the Li family, you are welcome, they are all their own family, we are brothers with the heirs and the business, just talk about it! A handsome and incomparably handsome, suave man, and a pair of peach blossom eyes said to Li Yi with a smile, but Li Yi was jealous of this look!
"Huh! Heir, don't introduce me to my eldest brother yet! ”
Li Yesi hurriedly stepped forward to help Li Yi introduce.
Li Yesi first pointed to the handsome guy who had just spoken, and began to introduce: "Big brother, this is His Royal Highness Li Ke, the third prince of Shu, the word is virtue, fourteen years old!" ”
Li Yi was taken aback, Li Ke knew it, according to historical data. This Li Ke is not a simple character, his mother Concubine Yang is the daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui, so he can be said to have the blood of two generations of earth kings, and he is extremely noble, but because of this, he is destined to miss the position of the crown prince. And this Li Keke is a civil and military all-rounder, and was once evaluated by Li Shimin as "Yingguo class!" It can be seen that his outstanding appearance is only killed by the old fox of the eldest grandson Wuji in the end!
However, these have nothing to do with Li Yi, people are here to make friends, and of course Li Yi should welcome them. "Haha! I'll just say it! There are actually people in this world who are comparable to me in appearance, and it turns out to be a prince, so it makes sense! Hehe, since you're here, it means you're here to make friends, so I don't care about your status as a prince! Since you're not as big as me, I'll call you virtuous, hahaha! ”
"Hahaha! Well, I appreciate Brother Li's character, yes, I'm here to make friends! Call it whatever you want! ”
The two looked at each other, laughed again, and knew each other!
Then, Li Yesi took Li Yi to the man who spoke just now. "Big brother, this is..."
This man looked like a bold person, and he interrupted him without waiting for Li Yesi to finish speaking. stepped forward, patted Li Yi on the shoulder, and introduced himself. "Hey! I'll come by myself, Brother Li, my name is Cheng Chumo, and my father is Lu Guogong Cheng Biting Jin, hahaha! Lao Cheng I like to make a bold man the most, Lao Cheng is seventeen years old this year, two years older than you, so I will call you a mediocre man! ”
Feeling the force on his shoulder, Li Yi's face twitched, clicking, worthy of being the son of the mid-range goblin of the second general of the Tang Dynasty, this is simply carved out of a mold, looking rough on the outside, but in fact, he has a bad stomach!
Li Yi grinned: "It turned out to be Uncle Cheng's son, haha, Uncle Cheng is my idol, let's have a few drinks later!" ”
"Good! Great, no problem! Lao Cheng likes men who can drink! ”
Listening to Cheng Chumo's liking one by one, Li Yi felt that the chrysanthemum was tight, clicking, this is not a pervert!
Later, Li Yesi introduced Li Yi to people one after another.
Two of them look similar to Cheng Chumo, but the shorter person is Cheng Chuliang, the second son of Cheng Fairy, fifteen years old, just younger than Li Yi, in fact, Li Yi doesn't know his birthday, and he didn't pay attention to it when he was in Maoshan, so he set the day he left the mountain, that is, the second day of the first lunar month, as his birthday, which is both meaningful and can take advantage, and everyone who was born in the same year as him will be younger than him in the future!
The other is Cheng Fairy's third son, Cheng Chubi, who is twelve years old.
There is also the son of Chi Jingde, the second general of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Chi Baolin, fifteen years old, a black, strong, and fierce man!
There is also a black, strong, ugly one. His name is Wei Chi Baoqing, thirteen years old.
and Qin Huaiyu, the son of the legendary Tang Dynasty general Hu Guogong Qin Qiong, a handsome fourteen-year-old man with a resolute face.
The last one is Li Zhen, the son of Li Ji, another old yin man in the Tang Dynasty, a tall, skinny, fifteen-year-old boy with a heart at a glance.
"Little Er, are all your friends here?"
"Oh! No, these are all close to me, and there are some friends who have a good relationship but don't often contact me, I don't call them, they are all the sons of those civil officials! ”
Li Yi nodded, and then saw Bing Yu motioning to him outside.
"Brothers, I have prepared something for you in the front hall, why don't you come with me?"
Li Ke smiled gently, fully showing his handsome demeanor. "I have long heard that the jade unicorn Li Wenyong is both civil and military, and he is very smart, and today we are going to see it, en! We're all going to listen to Wen Yong's orders today! ”
Everyone nodded yes, and then Li Yi led ten people to the front hall!