Jingwen settled down in the daily dining restaurant, and planned to go back to the palace to have a look. Although Jingwen generally doesn't have to cook now, he still has to go back to take a look, now he is also an "imperial chef" after all, if he stays outside for a long time, it is not a thing. Therefore, Jingwen plans to go back and take a look at his godfather, Master Hu, and all the senior brothers and brothers.

"Oh, what can I do!" Master Hu paced back and forth with a headache.

Jingwen saw this situation and immediately asked, "Master, do you have something?" ”

"Oops, I'm burning my eyebrows now. The ice in our dining room has been missing lately, and we don't even know what's going on. If we go down here, then I'm afraid our imperial dining room quota will run out. Master Hu said.

After this period of understanding, Jingwen knew that the summer of the Tang Dynasty actually had ice cubes. In ancient times, ice cubes were actually hidden in the winter, and then the ice cubes were put in the cellar so that they could be taken out and used in the summer. For example, what to put in some drinks, so that you can relieve the heat and cool down, is a good thing.

However, since there were no refrigerators in ancient times, the ice cubes melted quickly when they were taken out of the cellar, so they had to be used as much as possible. Moreover, in the Tang Dynasty, the scale of ice storage was not large, and ice was still a scarce material, which only high-ranking officials and nobles could use. Those officials were usually able to get some "ice tickets" and go to the cellar to get ice when needed. And because a lot of food in the imperial dining room has to be kept fresh when the weather is hot, Soyi also has some ice cubes to gain power.

But now, the ice cubes in the imperial dining room are often lost these days, and they are lost inexplicably. Sometimes, as soon as there is no one in the kitchen, the ice is lost. Even if it melts, it can't be that fast, so someone definitely stole it. But if you steal the ice, you can't sell it outside, because I'm afraid it will melt before it reaches the street. Who did such a bad thing, this is something that many people in the imperial dining room want to figure out.

"Master Hu, let's just lure the snake out of the hole, and then close the door to catch the thief!" Jingwen said.

After a while, all the cooks in the imperial dining room left the kitchen one after another, and they deliberately left a huge block of ice in the imperial dining room, which was a quarter of a cubic meter, which was very large. After they left, they didn't go far, but just found a relatively hidden place nearby to observe the imperial dining room, wanting to see who stole the ice.

Not long after, a little boy about seven or eight years old, dressed in decent clothes, came to the imperial dining room. The little boy looked around, made sure that there was no one, and then tiptoed into the imperial dining room. But after a long time of not leaving, Jingwen knew that the time had come to close the net.

Jingwen walked into the kitchen with the cooks, and then saw a little boy holding the ice, but he couldn't hold it, so he could only lick the huge ice cube with his tongue.

"Oh, the ice cube is so big this time that I can't even take it!" The little boy said.

"Boy, did you steal the nearest ice cube in our Imperial Dining Room?" Master Hu walked up to the little boy and said.

The little boy immediately looked up and saw more than twenty cooks looking at him, and he immediately said; "Hit the mark!"

The little boy immediately wanted to run away, but he was immediately grabbed by Jingwen's clothes, and he couldn't run away.

Jingwen pulled the little boy into a chair, sat down himself, and said, "Let's talk about it!" Which minister's child are you? How rude you are to come to us and steal ice cubes to eat? ”

"Let go of me, if you don't let me go, I'll cut off your head right away!" The little boy said angrily.

Master Hu said earnestly: "You child, why do you have to fight and kill all day long?" You came here to steal ice cubes, and we didn't say anything about you, but what did you say that you wanted to kill us? Does this make sense? You stole our ice, are you justified? ”

"Hmph, the entire palace belongs to my family, what do I want to eat?" The little boy said.

"Hahahaha, you said that the palace is all your family? Are you the emperor or the crown prince? A chef asked.

"I'm the crown prince!" The little boy said.

"Hahahaha......" the chef laughed.

Where would the chef believe that this little boy was the crown prince? The current crown prince Li Chengqian is Li Shimin's eldest son, how could he come here to steal ice cubes? And the chef has never met the prince, so naturally it is impossible to know the prince.

"I really am the prince! Hurry up and let me go! The little boy said.

"Since you say you are the crown prince, why are you dressed so poorly? I'm afraid it's just the clothes of the family of ordinary petty officials, right? One of the chefs said, apparently trying to prove by his clothes that he wasn't the prince.

But the little boy stood up, took off his clothes, and said angrily, "Hmph, I didn't want to wear this ragged clothes for a long time." If it weren't for my father's words about what the treasury is empty now, let me, the crown prince, lead by example, otherwise all subjects in the world will follow suit. I don't even want to wear this kind of torn clothes. ”

Jingwen looked at the set of clothes made of fairly elegant fabrics on the ground, but he was actually said by this little boy that he didn't want to wear them? I'm afraid that this cloth is probably the same for Jingwen, a rich man, but this little boy is just a low-grade commodity in his eyes? Jingwen can't imagine how high this little boy's vision is!

"Have any of you ever seen the Prince?" Jingwen asked.

The cooks shook their heads and said, "Where have we chefs seen the prince?" However, the prince probably wouldn't come to do this kind of thing of stealing ice cubes, right? ”

"This? Hard? Jingwen thought to himself.

Jingwen has read some YY novels about the Tang Dynasty in later generations, which mentioned that Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, liked to steal other people's cattle, and then kill the barbecue to eat. Therefore, Jingwen is not sure whether this Li Chengqian will come to steal the ice.

"Oh, Your Highness the Prince, I've finally found you. How did you get here? This is the imperial dining room, a place where gentlemen have to stay away, why are you here? A eunuch said.

And the little boy saw this eunuch and hurriedly said, "Here I am!" ”

The smiles of Jingwen and those cooks froze on their faces, obviously they didn't expect that the crown prince Li Chengqian actually stole ice cubes and ate them himself?

After Li Chengqian was taken away by the eunuchs, he turned around and said, "I remember you cooks, isn't it just some ice cubes?" You still put a condom on me? I remember you! ”

Chef Hu and the chefs all secretly said that they were not good, and they were "remembered" by the prince.