Chapter 47: The Emperor Arrives
The lunch meal, as always, was still Cheng Wu holding the spoon, the housekeeper bought a silver carp weighing eight catties in the vegetable market, the housekeeper knew that Cheng Wu liked to eat this, so he bought it, Cheng Wu asked, and knew that it was the old farmer who Cheng Wu often bought fish with him, and used twelve copper coins. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, the fish were not artificially cultivated, unlike in the previous life, such a large one, which was generally raised artificially, maybe it was still raised with contraceptives. And the one the housekeeper bought today, don't worry, it's 100% pure wild and pollution-free silver carp. A silver carp of such a size is still used to cook its head, and the head of the silver carp is large, so some people also called it a big-headed fish in the previous life.
Cheng Wu plans to use this fish to make a dish of Cheng Wu's love - chopping pepper fish head. As for the condiments of this dish, there is no problem at all, online shopping, Taobao, Jingdong is available.
What worries Cheng Wu is that there is no money left in his Alipay, and so far, there is only a mere 15,600 yuan left in the card, which seems to be a lot, but speaking of which, when you really want to sell something good, it will be enough at that time, you know, the days ahead are long, and there are decades in the second half of your life, and this thing can't be recharged until now, and it's over when it runs out.
I'll have to save some money in the future!
I usually buy some spices or something, these bargains, these are not worth a few dollars. A bottle of 200g chopped pepper costs only 6.5 yuan, and Cheng Wu buys it according to the cheapest on Taobao, which is a Shanghai product. Green onions, ginger, and garlic have long been available. It's easy to make this dish, just wash the fish head, arrange it, add the chopped pepper and related condiments, and then steam it in the pot. Normally, it takes about 20 minutes.
Chop the fish head with pepper, fry two plates of bean sprouts, buy four packets of fried peanuts online, open them all, put them on a plate, and throw the plastic bags into the fire to destroy the corpse.
Then stew a large pot of mutton, and that's it. Mutton, Cheng Wu put star anise, ginger, tangerine peel, chicken essence and a little sugar to taste, the taste of the boiled mutton is far from the practice that people at this time only know to cook, at most with a little salt. Star anise can make the taste of mutton more fragrant, and ginger can remove the smell of mutton, this kind of sweet practice was learned by Cheng Wu from his mother in his previous life.
The staple food is still white rice.
However, when the meals were all ready to be eaten, Cheng Mansion ushered in a heavyweight, the number one of the Tang Dynasty, the big boss Li Er, and the emperor Li Shimin.
"The emperor has arrived—" A long eunuch's voice came from the gate of Cheng Wu's house. Cheng Wu didn't react at first, and was about to sit down, already picking up chopsticks and preparing to eat. Who knew that Li Er was going to come over today, and besides, he was the number one in the country, so what did he do when he came to his house without anything? No matter how Cheng Wu thought about it, he couldn't have imagined that he would come uninvited. Besides, when the emperor arrived, Cheng Wu had only heard it in TV series before, but now there is a realistic version, and Cheng Wu couldn't react for a while.
Or a few people next to the emperor who reacted quickly, and after hearing the voice, Qin Shubao, who reacted, said to Cheng Wu: "The emperor is here, why don't you hurry up and go out to greet him?" After speaking, without waiting for Cheng Wu to agree, he picked up Cheng Wu, who was holding chopsticks and was dazed, and rushed to the front yard. The next few also hurriedly followed, walking to the front yard.
Cheng Wu was easily picked up by Qin Shubao and clamped on his armpit. Cheng Wu didn't have time to complain about Qin Shubao's fox smell, what Cheng Wu was worried about now was that this Li Er didn't know where to say hello in advance, so that he could prepare something or something, so that he could hide some things that shouldn't appear, in case the things in his previous life were seen by him, and asked how he would interpret the coming life?
The five people came to the gate, and there was a yellow decorated and noble carriage parked outside, it is estimated that the emperor is sitting here, in the ancient times of this monarchy, no commoner dared to use yellow to make his own carriage.
Yellow was regarded as a symbol of imperial power in ancient times, and only the emperor or royal family could use it.
The emperor came in person, and everyone had to come out to greet and bow down, which was Li Er's prerogative, and the four people of the Cheng Wu family were no exception. After the two servants of Cheng Wu's family, who followed behind, arrived, Li Er just came out of the carriage at this time.
"The ministers meet the emperor / the grass people meet the emperor." Cheng Wu has no job now, and he can only call himself a grass citizen, everything is said on TV, so I can't be wrong.
"Let's all be flat." Li Er waved his hand very kindly, and waited until everyone got up, and then Li Er looked at a few comrades-in-arms who seemed to be born and died with him, and saw that Qin Shubao's face seemed to be much better today than in the past, and said happily: "Brother Tai seems to have a good complexion today, I didn't seem to be so good when I saw it a few days ago, and it seems to be much better today, it seems that the old saying is true, people are in good spirits when they are happy."
"Emperor Xie cares, the minister has taken some medicine and food from Cheng Wu's nephew these days, and he feels a lot better, and he can sleep peacefully at night." Qin Shubao said to Li Er.
"Hey, this is not in the court, there is no need to be so serious, in private, we are still the same as usual, we can call it whatever we want, and there are no outsiders here." Then he turned his head and instructed Cheng Wu: "Brother Qin has made great contributions to my Tang Dynasty, due to excessive bleeding in previous years, in recent years, the health is not very good, and the imperial doctors are helpless, I don't know what elixir Cheng Wu has, so that Brother Qin's body has improved, if this is the case, Cheng Wu, your contribution is not small, you must know that Brother Qin is our Tang Dynasty God of War, if Brother Qin's body recovers as before, if he can go to the battlefield again in the past, it will be millions of elite soldiers." ”
Without waiting for Cheng Wu to speak, Qin Shubao told Li Er about Cheng Wu's treatment of himself, including the medicine used.
After a few people said Chen, Cheng Wu came back to his senses, and forgot to invite the emperor in, if he let the officials of the Ministry of Rites who have nothing to do know that we blocked the emperor from the door, I don't know what to say about us.
Although Cheng Wu is not afraid of Li Er, it does not mean that he is not afraid of those officials who make small reports.
"The grass people are guilty, please ask the emperor to enter the palace first, okay?"
Li Er raised his feet and walked into the Cheng Mansion, and the natural Imperial Forest Army outside the door made the Cheng Mansion impassable inside and out. The emperor's safety must not be sloppy, if something happens to the emperor, everyone will have to fall to the ground.
Qin Shubao, Cheng Biting Jin, Wei Chigong and Li Ji didn't dare to be sloppy, who knows if there is any prince's remnants in Chang'an City now, in case of an assassination, it will not be enough to destroy the whole family of several of them.
The four of them left their "bodyguards" with them, responsible for patrolling the periphery of the Cheng Mansion, and as for the Cheng Mansion, there will naturally be the emperor's personal guards guarded by the Imperial Forest Army.
Although the number of people is not as large as that of the Royal Forest Army, there are only fourteen people, but these fourteen people are all warriors, and they can be the bodyguards of several people, all of them are warriors with excellent martial arts, and they have fought many battles with their masters, and the enemies who died under their hands are not one thousand but eight hundred.
The big boss of the country is here, it seems that the meal must be a little special, otherwise Li Er knows that what he eats is not as good as Cheng Wu's hospitality to Cheng Qin and Li Weichi a few days ago, and he holds a grudge in his heart, which is not a good thing.
Hey, I have to add vegetables again. Cheng Wu thought to himself as he followed everyone into his living room.