294 Concubine Yang's little ninety-nine
Everyone looked at it, and it was Li Yuan standing at the door of this hall.
"Father!" Li Shimin got up to greet Li Yuan when he arrived, and the others also stood up respectfully.
Li Yuan's face softened slightly, showing a slight smile, for so long, he also deliberately forgot the unhappy qiē before, and aside from the rest, Li Shimin is still very filial, but he was too partial to Li Jiancheng back then and broke his heart, after all, for Li Shimin, half of the Tang Dynasty was defeated by him, and Li Jiancheng was just a person who enjoyed his success, and it was because he was worried that Li Shimin's credit was too great and Li Yuanji conspired to kill him, which forced him onto the road of the Xuanwumen Change.
"Erlang!" Li Yuan said two words softly, now that Li Shimin has put aside the previous estrangement, he is still very relieved in his heart, after all, blood is thicker than water between father and son, and now there is no dispute of interests, and now there is only pure father-son affection.
Li Shimin was silent, only a father can understand a father, he carried Li Yuan to the main seat, let Li Yuan sit in his original position, and he and Empress Changsun sat on Li Yuan's left side, just this point, it shows that the estrangement between Li Shimin and Li Yuan has melted like ice and snow.
Seeing this scene, Li Su's eyes were full of smiles, this is a family, he got up and said, "Grandfather, father, can the family banquet start?" ”
Li Shimin looked at Li Yuan and said, "Father, you announce it!" ”
Li Yuan's eyes were a little warm, he nodded, now he is seventy years old, the only thing he hopes for is to enjoy a few more years of family fun, and now his expectations have been realized, he said: "Okay, good, the family banquet begins!" ”
"The feast begins!" Hearing this, Li Su said to Rong Da, who was standing at the door.
Rong Da got the order, clapped his hands, and the maids and housekeepers who had already prepared began to enter the hall with various dishes. Unlike the buffet a year ago, the style of this family banquet is still the same as that of Chang'an, after all, they are not used to it when they first come here, and this meal is just a simple meal, so the dishes are placed in front of the individual.
After a year of development, Yizhou's catering industry has made great progress, especially in the kitchen of Shu Wangfu, these cooks are learning the recipes brought back by Li Su from modern times every day, what Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine. Shanghai cuisine is very proficient, and there is no shortage of materials in the palace, and now the kitchen of the palace has been rectified by Li Su has been basically the same as the kitchen of a modern hotel, which definitely belongs to a professional kitchen and a professional chef team.
Looking at the exquisite dishes on the table, the concubines, princes, and princesses all showed novel expressions, although they have been pampered since childhood. Most of these dishes have never been seen before, and when these dishes are served, just the unique aroma makes their saliva almost stay.
"Father. Queen mother! These are all dishes carefully prepared by the palace, you can try them! After all the meals were served, Li Su said.
At this time, there were more than a dozen dishes in front of Li Shimin, with different meat and vegetarian dishes. But the shape of each dish is very exquisite, which makes people look very comfortable, Li Shimin pointed to one of them the size of a fist. The thing with the white oil on it asked Li Su, "Liulang, what kind of dish is this?" ”
Because the princes and princesses who will come to Chang'an are very young, Li Su naturally sat under Li Shimin, he glanced at it and said: "Father, this is the latest dim sum in the palace, called cream cake, very sweet, you can taste it." ”
"Cream cake, that's a weird name." Li Shimin smiled and dug some with the spoon on the plate and put it in his mouth, "Well, it's delicious, you can taste it too, queen." The cream of this cake is fragrant but not greasy, and the entrance is fragrant, and the pupils of Li Shimin's eyes instantly dilated.
Seeing Li Shimin's appearance, Empress Changsun was also interested, and learned from Li Shimin's appearance and dug a mouthful of the cream on the cake and put it in her mouth, and then nodded again and again, obviously extremely satisfied, and then she looked at Li Su and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you Liulang, why didn't you eat this kind of thing when the palace was in Yizhou last time, and now that your father is here, you are willing to take it out." ”
Li Yuan also took a bite and said: "The queen is right, I have eaten the bread below, and I have not tasted this cream either." ”
The two of them pointed the finger at Li Su, and Li Su hurriedly shouted: "Imperial grandfather, the queen mother, you really misunderstood, this cream has really just been made from zuò, and this is still made from milk just squeezed out of the dairy farm." ”
"Milk!" Li Shimin asked suspiciously, the nobles in the north are popular to drink goat's milk, but milk is rarely eaten, he couldn't help but be a little confused, "It's just that milk can make such a delicious thing." ”
Li Su said: "Naturally, it can't, this cream also adds white sugar, flour, eggs and other things." ”
"I see, then why don't you use goat's milk?" Li Shimin still misses goat's milk.
Li Su showed a wry smile, the reason why many Tang people are with goat milk is because sheep are easy to raise, and cattle are very precious, so he said: "Father, in fact, this milk is very delicious than goat milk, but the people of the Tang Dynasty are used to goat milk, and this milk is also squeezed out from a cow that specializes in milk production, so it tastes better, and we will also produce milk powder in Yizhou in the future, so that we can feed children with milk." ”
"Aren't all cattle used to plough the land? And one specifically for milk production? Li Shimin then asked.
"That's right, father, in a few days, I will take my father to our farm, and then my father will understand." Li said.
Empress Changsun smiled, when he was in Yizhou, he was not the same as Li Shimin, asking questions all day long, and finally scared Li Su so much that he took a detour when he saw her, so he said: "Your Majesty, let's eat, anyway, we have to stay here for a while, and we have time to take a look." ”
Li Shimin remembered and said, "Yes, yes, I almost forgot." ”
"When the time comes, I can also accompany Erlang to turn Yizhou, and now I know Yizhou very well." Li Yuan also said.
With these two people interrupting, Li Shimin finally stopped asking, and Li Su also secretly sweated, thinking about taking Li Ran with him in the past few days, and letting him accompany Li Shimin around, so as not to be used as a questioning machine.
After eating a few bites of cream cake, Li Shimin paid attention to other dishes, tasted them one by one, and was full of praise for these dishes, and Li Su also answered Li Shimin's questions about these dishes from time to time, what materials are made and so on.
As the family banquet progressed, the atmosphere in the hall became more and more harmonious, the princes and princesses and concubines talked and laughed, Li Shimin and Li Yuan, the two fathers and sons, also talked happily, abandoning their previous suspicions, the eldest grandson queen and Concubine Yang were not idle, the two whispered, their eyes swept over Su Mo'er who was sitting at the end from time to time, and after a while, they called Cui Yingying over, asked a few words and seemed to have some understanding, and then Concubine Yang showed an angry expression and beckoned to Li Su.
Li Su had been talking to Li Shimin and Li Yuan just now, and he didn't care about the situation here, seeing that Concubine Yang was a little annoyed and a little inexplicable, he thought that he hadn't done anything wrong.
"Queen Mother, Mother Princess!" Li Su came to Concubine Yang and stood on one side.
Concubine Yang glanced at Su Mo'er at the end and said, "Mother asks you, the girl sitting on the outermost side is called Su Mo'er, Mother remembers that she followed you very early." ”
"Yes, Princess." Li Su was even more confused, he looked at Su Mo'er, only to see that Su Mo'er seemed to be unaware, and Cui Yingying squeezed her eyes at him.
Concubine Yang heard this: "My mother has already asked Yingying just now, since I have broken someone's body, I will marry you in a dignified manner, and my mother is still asking you to marry a concubine, what are you like now, are you not afraid of others gossiping about you?" ”
"Your mother is right! I think this girl is also good, just now she is very measured, and her speech is also atmospheric, although her status is a little low, but it is still good to be a concubine! "The eldest grandson queen is also taking advantage of the excitement. (To be continued......)