Chapter 41: Sugar Gourd

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"Sixth brother, what's wrong with you, are you not happy to see your son?"

Li Su, who slept soundly in the morning, suddenly felt that there was an active weight on his body, which scared him out of a cold sweat, and when he saw the heavy object clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it was the son of the son jumping around on him barefoot, and Li Zhi, a kid standing next to the bed, was gloating and smiling.

Li Su was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and lay down again and said, "Why are you two here, does the queen mother know?" ”

The son said in a milky voice: "It was the queen mother who asked us to come to the sixth brother to play, saying that the sixth brother has the most time and is the most leisurely." ”

"What do you mean by me being the most idle? It's prejudice, I'm busy! Go find your seventh brother, and play with your eighth brother! ”

The son said unhappily: "I don't play with them, the wood is the same, it's not interesting at all." After speaking, he stepped on Li Su again, preventing Li Su from sleeping.

"I'm so scared of you!" I couldn't sleep this time, Li Su simply got up, hugged his son and hit his little buttocks, his strength was not great, and his son giggled happily.

Li Zhi stood aside and watched Li Zhi and his son playing, just laughing, and didn't dare to participate, Li Zhi saw it, and thought that this Li Zhi was really as written in history, and his personality was too weak.

After eating, Li Su decided to take the two guys to play in Dongshi, where there were singing and juggling everywhere, and when they had seen enough, they would send the two little guys back.

Because of his younger siblings, Li Su didn't dare to be careless, and transferred four nursing homes to follow to prevent any accidents.

The son and Li Zhi stayed in the Taiji Palace all the year round and were raised by the eldest grandson queen, and rarely had the opportunity to go out of the palace to play, firstly, they were worried about their safety, and secondly, among the brothers and sisters, the older ones had their own affairs, and the younger ones could not get out of the palace, and Li Su, who came back from Xiangzhou, became the only one who had his own palace and was relatively idle.

Holding his son in one hand and holding Li Zhi in the other, Li Su drilled in the lively places in the East Market, watched the monkey, and went to see the singing, and he bought a lot of small snacks along the way, and the two little guys laughed all the way.

"Sixth brother, look!" As soon as the sledgehammer performance on the chest ended, the son's little hand pointed to another place, Li Su turned his head to look, there were some red things piled up on a small stall in front of him, and the son's little hand was pointing at these things.

Li Su approached and saw that these turned out to be hawthorns, "Son, do you want to eat?" ”

The son drooled and nodded desperately.

Li Su has always disliked these sour things, so he never eats hawthorn directly, but he has eaten sugar gourd a few times.

"Sugar gourd!" Li Su thought about it, "Son, childish slave, go back to the sixth brother and cook a delicious meal for you!" ”

"Okay!" Hearing that there was something delicious, both of them jumped and jumped excitedly......

Taiji Palace, Yong'an Gate.

A group of fifteen women with white veils covering their faces passed through the guò palace gate after the inspection of the guards.

"It's really beautiful in the world!" Looking at the backs of the women leaving, the guard said.

The guard armor echoed: "Of course, it is said that this is a singer recommended by His Royal Highness the Prince, how can it be bad." ”

"It's just that the emperor is diligent in government affairs, and he rarely has the interest in appreciating singing and dancing, I'm afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will waste his efforts!" Guard C retracted his gaze, "It's a pity that these beauties have to be in the old palace again!" ”

"Who can say this accurately!"

“……”

Following the little eunuchs, fifteen singers were led to the Caisi Courtyard, where they lived and lived, and were inhabited by singers, dancers, and musicians who performed for the court banquets.

"In the future, this is where you live, you must not leave this place without an order, this is your willow steward, and you will listen to her discipline in the future!" The little eunuch pointed to a woman in her thirties.

"Yes, father-in-law!"

Nodding, the little eunuch said, "Steward Liu, I'll leave it to you here!" ”

The woman known as the Liu Steward respectfully responded yes, her original name was Liu Yueying, she was in charge of choreographing songs and dances, and she entered the Taiji Palace during the Gaozong period, and it has been fifteen years.

Sending off the little eunuch, Liu Yueying looked at this fifteen upright cardamom girls and said: "The rules here are very simple, first, don't leave the Caisi Courtyard at will, second, practice singing and dancing diligently, and the third and most important point is not to have the illusion that you will be favored by the emperor and the prince, let alone try to lead. Seduce the emperor and the prince, otherwise it will be a capital crime once it appears, remember! ”

"Slave remember!" Fifteen people answered the road crisply.

At the begging of his son, Li Su bought a large bag of hawthorn and returned to the palace.

Straight to the kitchen, Li Su asked the cook to take a big jar of brown sugar, at this time the Tang Dynasty did not have a white sugar, only boiled brown sugar, the sweetness is also average, the Tang Dynasty environment is so difficult, Li Su has no choice, can only use it, first, he skewered the hawthorn and cooked, and then began to boil the syrup.

The son and Li Zhi were also in the kitchen, clamoring to see Li Su make sugar gourds.

The sugar gourd is really not technical, the syrup is boiled, Li Su put the hawthorn in the syrup and rolled it a few times, took it out and was cold for a while, and the sugar gourd was done.

"Here, little glutton!" Li Su stuffed a sugar gourd for each of the two, and wrapped the rest for them.

The son and Li Zhi had never seen anything like this, so they picked it up and took a bite, the sourness of the hawthorn and the sweetness of the brown sugar entered the mouth at the same time, fragrant and refreshing, and the two of them ate it with relish.

"It's delicious!" Li Zhi is a few years older than his son, and he eats quickly, he screamed, he picked up another string, and when his son saw it, he quickly touched another string and held it in his hand, for fear that he would suffer a loss.

Looking at the two little guys gobbling up, Li Yu said, "Don't worry, eat as much as you want!" After speaking, he continued to make zuò up the sugar gourd, he understood that these two guys would definitely show off when they returned to the Taiji Palace, and he might as well make a little more zuò, let them take it back, and let the younger brothers and sisters in the palace taste it.

The sugar gourd was made here, and Li Yu asked Jin Daqian to weave a shelf for the kind of sugar gourd, which was convenient for carrying the sugar gourd.

When he was busy until dusk, Li Su made another fifty or sixty strings of sugar gourds, and at this time, Jin Daqian came over with a wooden stick with straw tied to the upper part.

One person ate four or five strings of sugar gourds, and the two guys still didn't want to go back to the palace, so they didn't want to leave, and they had to spend the night in the palace.

In Yanxi Palace, when Empress Changsun was about to send someone to King Liang's mansion, the son and Li Zhi came back, and the guards behind them were still carrying a stick full of sugar gourds.

Empress Eldest Sun had never seen such a thing, and wondered, "What is this?" ”

"Sixth brother said this is called sugar gourd!" The son threw himself into the arms of the eldest grandson queen and said, Li Zhi pulled one out and handed it to the eldest grandson queen, saying, "Queen Mother, you taste it!" ”

"What strange things did this Li Su come up with?" After the eldest grandson queen finished speaking, she took a bite of the sugar gourd.

"It tastes good!" Empress Changsun tasted a few bites and praised.

Li Zhi smiled and took out a piece of paper from his arms, "The sixth brother also wrote the method of making zuò to the slaves, saying that the sons and slaves can eat sugar gourds every day in the future." ”

Empress Changsun took the note, which said how to make zuò of sugar gourds, so she instructed Xiao Huangmen and said, "Give this list to the imperial dining room and let them learn how to make zuò." ”