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"Okay, okay, my father is going to cook it himself!" Wenwen was happy like a little squirrel, jumping up and down.

"Wenwen, what kind of system is it to shout and shout!" Huan Xi said angrily. When he asked, he immediately shrank his neck in fright, then stuck out his tongue and stopped talking, it seems that he is still a little afraid that Huanxi will punish him.

Geng Jingzhong also smiled and said: "Children should be lively, this is the time for him to play, and when he grows up, he will have no time to play." "Geng Jingzhong doesn't want his son to lose his good year, he should play, he has to carry a heavy school early, which is not what Geng Jingzhong wants." By the way, take advantage of today's opportunity to call all Juzhong and Zhaozhong over, and everyone will have a meal together. The last time we had dinner together was the New Year, and if the family doesn't move around, it doesn't look like a family anymore! ”

"What Xianggong said is that the two uncles rarely come to the house, but a few sisters-in-law often come to talk to me." Huan Xi also said in approval when he heard it. Under Geng Jingzhong's education, she has long since changed her previous title, and now Huan Xi and Chunzhu are like ordinary people's families, calling Geng Jingzhong "Xianggong", not using the same set in the palace, what is the princess of the princess, it is too raw, and it doesn't look like a family at all.

After instructing people to go down and prepare, Geng Jingzhong began to check the harvest of these peppers, because there are many kinds of vegetables in the vegetable field, peppers are only one of them, although there are four different peppers in total, but the total number of varieties is not much. Coupled with Huan Xi, they are not ordinary peasant women after all. Basically inexperienced. With the help of a few maids, the survival rate was guaranteed. Therefore, the peppers received these days are only a few dozen catties. However, after these chili peppers were harvested, Han Xi and Chunzhu led the maidservants to string them together with threads and hang them under the sun to dry, and the first batch of chili peppers was almost all dried into dried chili peppers.

Seeing the enticing strings of red peppers hanging on the wall, Geng Jingzhong couldn't help but feel drooling. The peppers planted this time should be better than those eaten before, the seeds of this batch of peppers. However, several kinds of peppers were hybridized in the past, and this kind of pointed red and red pepper also appeared for the first time. The pointed one here refers to the long and pointed one, especially the length, which is a little longer than the original pointed pepper, reaching the length of an adult's middle finger.

At that moment, he personally took some dried red peppers from the wall, and asked a few guards to pick up two baskets full of all kinds of vegetables, and then rushed to the big kitchen to prepare for cooking. In this royal house, as long as he is there. I don't like to talk about a lot of rules, and many places are very humane. But if this article is known to outsiders, I really don't know how many people's jaws will be shocked. To be honest, Geng Jingzhong regretted it a little as soon as he entered the kitchen, because the weather was too hot, and the May day in Fujian was June on the solar calendar, but it was the hot time, and cooking at this time was really not a good choice, but since he had already promised Wenwen, and he had already sent someone to invite the two younger brothers to the whole family, it was not easy to break his promise at this time, so he had to endure the heat and stay.

But he didn't need to do it himself, as soon as he entered the kitchen, all the chefs here began to listen to his command, and after a while, under the division of labor, all kinds of ingredients had been washed and placed on the board. Geng Jingzhong has always paid great attention to cleanliness, this palace kitchen is of course the focus of attention, even if Geng Jingzhong has not come to check in person, the palace stewards will automatically be strict, so Geng Jingzhong was very satisfied when he came in just now. The weather was still very hot, so Geng Jingzhong asked people to put a few ice basins in the kitchen to lower the temperature a little, and then he started cooking.

In the kitchen of the palace, it can be said that ordinary ingredients such as chicken, duck and fish are the best, and they are carefully selected. There is no shortage of delicacies from the mountains and seas, Fuzhou is close to the sea and mountains, and it is not difficult to want rare birds and beasts. Today, Geng Jingzhong's dishes are mainly spicy dishes, and he was the governor of Hunan in his previous life. After five or six years in Sha, Hunan cuisine is as famous as Sichuan cuisine, and I am quite familiar with making spicy dishes. However, compared with Sichuan cuisine, in addition to chili peppers, it is also accompanied by a large number of Sichuan peppercorns, so the main flavor is spicy, while Hunan cuisine is simply spicy, but it is fragrant, so it is considered spicy. It can be said that both have their own strengths, and Geng Jingzhong also likes to eat.

He is also very familiar with several representative dishes, such as boiled fish and spicy tofu, which is not difficult for him at all. It's ready to go quickly, and it's ready to go to the pot at any time. Of course, Geng Jingzhong deliberately reduced the amount of chili peppers, after all, Wenwen was the first time to eat it, and if it was too spicy, he would definitely not be used to it. It didn't take long for the spicy wild pheasant, kung pao chicken, back to the pot meat, sauerkraut fish and spicy tofu to be ready, and each of them was a lot of money.

But Geng Jingzhong also considered that there were more people, and he was afraid that the few dishes he made by himself would not be enough, so in the end, he took out a peerless weapon at the dinner, that is, hot pot, and now there are chili peppers, if you don't eat a spicy hot pot, you are really sorry for your tongue. If you want to do it, Qian Ming has already popularized hot pot in many places, and he has eaten it before, but it is all without chili peppers. Therefore, these utensils are also ready-made in the kitchen, as long as the various ingredients of the hot pot are prepared and the soup base is also made into two, the same spicy and not spicy, after all, other dishes are put with chili, in case someone is not used to eating chili, you can also eat hot pot. Of course, there will not be just a few dishes on the table, just let a few chefs make a few more dishes later.

Hot pot appeared very early, and it is called "antique soup" in ancient books, and it is named because of the "coo" sound made when the ingredients are poured into the boiling water. It is an original Chinese cuisine with a long history. According to research, the Eastern Han Dynasty cultural relics unearthed after the liberation "wok-bucket", that is, hot pot. Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's poem "Ask Liu Nineteen": "Green ants make new wine, red clay small stove." If you want snow in the evening, can you drink a glass of nothing? It vividly describes the scene of eating hot pot at that time. In the Song Dynasty, the food method of hot pot has been common among the people, and in the recipe of Lin Hong's "Mountain Family Qing Offering" in the Southern Song Dynasty, there is an introduction to eating hot pot with his friends. In the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot spread to Mongolia and was used to cook beef and mutton. Up to now, hot pot is not only popular among the people, but also has become a famous "court dish", that is, at this moment, there is "game hot pot" on the Qing palace imperial recipe, and the ingredients are wild meat such as pheasants. Later history also recorded that Kangxi's grandson Qianlong had a habit of eating hot pot, and he had traveled to the south of the Yangtze River many times, and every place he went to, there was a hot pot. According to legend, in the first month of the first year of Jiaqing, he put on the "Thousand Suo Banquet" in the palace with a total of more than 1,550 hot pots, and more than 5,000 people were invited to taste it, making it the largest hot pot feast in history.

Just when Geng Jingzhong had just prepared a qiē and all kinds of dishes were already on the table, eight people from Geng Juzhong and Geng Zhaozhong also arrived. They arrived almost at the same time, met at the gate of the house and came in together. When the two of them walked into the dining room and saw the various ingredients that had been cut on the table, they were also very surprised: "Big brother, are you making these things?" "It's hard not for them not to be surprised, in their impression, when will their eldest brother cook?

"Yes, the peppers are ripe today, and I promised Wenwen to make a dish made of chili peppers for him to eat, so I will call you all together by the way, let's get together as a family, our brothers haven't been together for a long time in the past few months!" Geng Jingzhong said with a smile.

"Hey, it's all about the things at hand, and it's our fault that we didn't come to say hello to my eldest brother!" Geng Juzhong said that under Geng Jingzhong's arrangement, the two of them studied in Gongzhufang and the trading company, and they have made great progress in the past two years. (To be continued......)