Chapter Twenty-Eight: To Each His Heart
In the Spring Garden, Huang Jingchen sat in the study drinking tea, and Shunzi on the side stood respectfully on the side and slapped him on the shoulder, "Daguan, I have already found out, after the luncheon was dispersed that day, Chen Tang went back and asked people to drag his son to the street, slapped himself a hundred times in front of everyone, and the two house slaves were also imprisoned, with tattoos on their faces, and now they have been exiled to Lingnan!" Junko said unhurriedly about the news she had just gotten.
"Well, Chen Tang is quite smart, and he knows what to do!" Huang Jingchen squinted and said with a smile.
"There is another thing, the little one can't figure it out, at the banquet that day, the prince only used five thousand yuan to buy the two hundred hectares of land next to Chen Tang, and exchanged a cat for the house of his manor and all the big animals, and the people on Chen Tang Zhuangzi obediently came to deliver it the next day!" Junko said suspiciously.
"Oh, and this episode, you tell me what happened, don't miss a word!" Huang Jingchen frowned and said.
"Yes, it was caused by eating..." Shunzi is really a language genius, how Zhao Ta cried poor, how Jianxi and the big steward beat the side drum, Chen Tang's various reactions... The tone and demeanor of the people at the table were imitated by him vividly, as if he had been seeing them from the sidelines.
"Hehe, the prince is really a child, it's hard for him to figure out such a way to rob Chen Tang's Zhuangzi, if you like it, you still need to waste such a big setback, just take it over, and let me, the general manager, be a wicked person, do you need to cry poor in front of them, as if I treat the people in the house harshly!" Huang Jingchen said with a smile that he had seen a lot of things about the forcible seizure by the DPRK and China, and he was not concerned.
"Official, I think the prince is thoughtful, I want Chen Tang to be the prefect of Gongzhou, there are not only many officials in the palace, but also 20,000 forbidden troops under his jurisdiction, insulting the saints, besieging the palace, if you dig deeper, it is a heinous crime, Chen Tang is not a good kind, if he jumps over the wall in a hurry, he will inevitably have the intention of killing people and destroying his mouth, then the prince..." Junko seems to have figured out some joints, and analyzed it little by little.
Huang Jingchen waved his hand and asked Shunzi to stop, his fingers tapping lightly on the table, "If it's like you said, then the prince is turning around again after the ghost door is closed, but the prince is just a child who grew up in the deep palace..." Huang Jingchen said to himself.
"Official, you see that the prince has grabbed the handle of Chen Tang, such a trouble, the prefect bowed his head, the world knows, who else dares to find trouble with us in these ill-intentioned Xiaoxiao around, I think this is the main purpose of the prince, robbing his Zhuangzi is just a hand-holding, it is an unexpected gain, the prince is using the means, and the face of the inside is obtained!" Shunzi replaced Huang Jingchen with a cup of hot tea and said.
"It's not unreasonable for you to say that, the prince's methods are more like a child spilling anger!" Huang Jingchen was taken aback when he thought of this, could it be that the prince was really as the two Taoist priests said, "If a seven-year-old child can have such a scheming, then wouldn't he really become..."
"Official, the summer courtyard is here!" A small yellow door knocked on the door and said.
"Let him in!" Huang Jingchen quickly returned to his former appearance, frowned and said.
"Hello official!" Seeing Xixian invited An, he said with a smile: "Official, the prince invites you to come over for dinner at noon today!" ”
"Oh, is there a distinguished guest in the house?" Huang Jingchen asked with some surprise, these days Zhao Ta is alone in the house or with the little guys, they haven't eaten together for a long time.
"Official, no, the second master said that the vegetables in the conservatory are ripe, and he picked the first batch, and wants you to go over and try it, and he personally cooked it for you today!" Miki replied.
"Really? Then I want to try the prince's craftsmanship, but the prince is also messing around, how can he go to the kitchen, you don't persuade him! Huang Jingchen smiled and said, but there was no trace of anger in his words.
"The little one persuaded me, but the prince didn't listen, but the dishes made by the prince are really delicious!" Seeing that Huang Jingchen had no intention of blaming, he said with a smile.
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In the small kitchen of the summer courtyard, Zhao Ta was wearing a small apron specially made for him by acacia flowers, and was cleaning up a fish, the fish was a Yellow River carp, and his tail kept slapping the board. He neatly scraped off the fish scales with a knife, took out the internal organs by disembowelment, used the knife to cut the peony flower knife on both sides, quickly washed it in clean water, and then wrapped the fish head with a wet towel and drained the dry starch. ,
"Sister Zhang, you immediately adjusted the sweet and sour sauce, is Sister Li's oil pot hot?" Zhao Ta kept commanding the two cooks.
"Okay, I'll get out of the pot right away!" Sister Zhang quickly prepared sweet and sour sauce in a pot according to Zhao Ta's instructions.
"Lord Wang, the oil is hot!" Sister Li also replied.
'Ting', Zhao Ta held the fish head and put the fish into the oil pot, only fried it in the pot for about a minute, immediately got out of the pot, put it on the plate, untied the towel on the fish head, quickly poured the sweet and sour sauce that had been prepared, and sprinkled a few coriander leaves.
"Serve it right away!" Zhao Ta took off his apron and said, and a small yellow door immediately held the plate and sent it in.
"What's wrong with you, your eyes are straight!" Seeing the prince go out, Sister Li shook her hand in front of Sister Zhang, who was in a daze, and asked.
"The dish is ready, the fish is still alive, how did the second master do it, if I learn this dish, I will definitely become a famous chef in Beijing!" Sister Zhang hadn't woken up from the shock just now.
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Huang Jingchen walked around Zhao Ta's house casually, following him respectfully. "Fengxi, these books are all newly bought by the prince?" Huang Jingchen saw that the bookshelves on three sides of the small study were full of books, many of which were newly purchased.
"Official, yes, that day the prince went to the state city and saw a bookstore, so he asked the little one to buy a copy of the books in it, no matter what kind of book it was, and it ended up loading a whole cart and spending hundreds of dollars!" Feng Xi replied cautiously.
"Ha Luha, it's the first time the old man has seen a book bought like this, the prince is really a wonderful person!" Huang Jingchen was amused, "The prince likes to read these books on the art of war and miscellaneous arts?" He flipped through the stack of books on his desk and asked.
"The little one doesn't know a few words, anyway, the prince will not sleep until late at night when he reads these days!"
"Hmm!" Huang Jingchen nodded, and suddenly he saw a fresh thing on the pen stand, a copper tip pressed on a wooden pole the thickness of a little finger, which was very delicately made, "What is this thing Fengxi, is it made by the prince?" ”
"Daguan, it was a picture drawn by the prince, and the coppersmith in the house made it, and he used this to write with ink dipped in ink, saying that this is called a dipping pen!" Seeing Feng Xi looked at the answer, and handed Huang Jingchen a piece of paper full of words.
Huang Jingchen took it and took a closer look, although the words on the paper were small, they were neat and powerful, less feminine than the brush, and more upright, which made people feel refreshed. He didn't say anything, put down the pen and paper, looked at the bed on the side, glanced at it, his eyes didn't roll, the quilt on top of it was neatly folded, square, angular and angular, and the sheets were stretched like calm water.
"Fengxi, who folded this quilt?" Huang Jingchen didn't believe that the quilt could be folded like this, so he couldn't help touching it with his hand and said.
"Official, he cleaned up the study and bedroom of the prince since he moved over, and rarely bothered others, this quilt was folded by the prince!" Feng Xi hurriedly smoothed Huang Jingchen's wrinkled quilt and said, the house is messed up, and the prince will lose his temper.
"Oh?! Take me to the other rooms! Huang Jingchen said in surprise, he walked into the bedroom quickly, sure enough, the quilt was the same as the outside, he touched the furnishings on the lattice shelf were also spotless, opened the cabinet, the big clothes were neatly hung with hangers according to the 'size', and the small clothes were also stacked of the same size, stacked together, and the shoes were placed in a line with the tips of the shoes facing outward.
"These are also cleaned up by the prince?"
"Official, this is what the prince ordered, after the osmanthus they washed their clothes, they were all folded and placed according to the prince's requirements!"
"Is the prince like this every day?" Huang Jingchen asked again with some reluctance.
"Yes, the prince is like this every day, and even the vegetables in the greenhouse he asks to be photographed with edges and corners, and the size is the same!" Feng Xi replied calmly, he was no longer surprised.
"Hmmm..." Huang Jingchen nodded and hummed, and went around the other rooms, all of them were well-behaved, not at all like a child's room, he looked at Shunzi who was following behind him, and the two of them were difficult to calm down. It seems that the confrontation between Wang Ye and Chen Tang is by no means a child's whim, but a planned and premeditated action, everyone involuntarily followed his baton for a long time, but no one figured out his true intentions.
When he returned to the restaurant, there were already several dishes on the table, including cucumber dipping sauce, vegetarian roasted eggplant, fried leeks with eggs and shrimp, and three meat white chopped chicken, red braised mutton, and cold-cut mutton.
"See, where did these vegetables come from?" Huang Jingchen asked.
"Daguan, these are all planted in the greenhouse, today the prince picked the first crop of vegetables, I want to invite the official to try it, these are the prince's craft!" Jianxi said with a smile.
"Oh, fresh vegetables really grow in the winter in the prince's greenhouse!" Huang Jingchen used to just regard the greenhouse as the product of the prince's nonsense, but he didn't expect him to really grow vegetables, which still surprised Huang Jingchen.
"Yes, now the vegetables in the conservatory are almost ripe, just in time for the New Year!" Miki said.
"See Xi, why are you still stunned, let Uncle Huang enter the table, you hurry up and scald the wine!" Without waiting for Huang Jingchen to ask again, Zhao Ta came in, and the little yellow door serving the dish put the fish on the table, "Uncle Huang, this dish has to be eaten first, otherwise it won't taste good!" Zhao Ta sat on the main seat, and he knew that if he didn't sit, no one would dare to sit down.
Huang Jingchen sat down next to Zhao Ta, glanced at the dish that the prince had just served on the table, and saw that the carp's mouth was open and its gills moved, his eyes were shining, and the fish was still alive, "Uncle Huang, how do you taste it!" Zhao Ta put a chopstick fish on Huang Jingchen's plate, Huang Jingchen put it in his mouth and tasted it, the fish was fresh and tender, sweet and sour, and he couldn't stop being amazed.
"Lord Wang, this fish is still alive, the meat can't be raw, right?" Jianxi couldn't help but ask.
"It is said to be alive, but it is dead; It is said that it is dead, but its mouth and gills are moving, and it can also be said that the fish is still alive! Zhao Ta took a bite of fish and put it in his mouth and said.