Volume 1: Once Upon a Time in the Capital Chapter 116: Conversation
For the two words "eat for nothing" and "idiot" at the same time, Yan Ruyu looked at Li Xiangru with a deflated face and couldn't help laughing.
Li Xiangru couldn't help but be annoyed, he didn't dare to say Yan Ruyu directly, but he was able to clean up King Ning. Outside this courtyard, he can be King Ning, or he can be the horse boy who collects the land by himself. He glared at King Ning gloatingly, his eyes full of threat.
King Ning wisely lowered his head and continued to eat large pieces of food, and then changed the topic and slowly explained to Youyou: "In the border land of Gongzhou, winter is not cold and humid, but there is already a way to eat hot pot. It's just that this way of eating was not called hot pot before, and this device is not called what it is now? Yes, professional. ”
King Ning gently tapped the mandarin duck pot a few times with chopsticks, looked at Li Xiangru and thought for a while, found out the word "professional", and then pointed at Li Xiangru and said with a smile: "I have eaten his barbecued meat and grilled fish, and I will never forget his description of the taste of this hot pot." Now when I try it, it's delicious. ”
Ning Wang picked up a piece of freshly tender and thin lamb slices and put it on the side of the red soup where there were still bubbles, scalded it, put it in a bowl and rolled the ingredients, and then took a bite to enter, swallowed it and said slowly: "This way of eating keeps the ingredients fresh and tender to the greatest extent, and it will not be bad for eating because of raw." If eaten in winter, these spicy and hot can drive away the cold in the body. In the future, this will be the most popular way to eat it in winter. ”
Yan Ruyu nodded, secretly stroked her lower abdomen, and said excitedly: "Well, let Lao Yan set up a few shops in the future, and specialize in this hot pot." Hum...... At that time, Lao Yan will not have to have a headache, and the foreign goods passing through will always delay the time and miss the best sales time. Although the profit of jade is considerable, the shop guy who is responsible for escorting it will lose a lot every year, and it is inevitable that he will pay some money to worship the mountain when passing through the mountain. ”
Yan Ruyu thought, then stared at Li Xiangru with bright eyes, and continued: "In the future, Lao Yan will be able to sit firmly on the throne of the richest businessman in Sishui County, and he will no longer have to fight with that pot-bellied old man to grab business." With this ingredient secret recipe, the hot pot is so big, this is the only one!"
Li Xiangru chewed a piece of hairy belly, glanced at Yan Ruyu, knew her thoughts, and said lightly: "These are all debugged by the ugly lady herself, just ask her directly about the base formula, you don't need to ask me." ”
King Ning gave Yan Ruyu a thumbs up, and knew from her little conversation that this was the daughter of a merchant, and it was not bad to have this insight under her ears.
As soon as Yan Ruyu heard that Li Xiangru agreed, and saw that King Ning gave her a thumbs up and praised her, she smiled even more, turned her head to look at the ugly girl, and couldn't wait to let the ugly girl tell her the secret recipe and write it into a letter to pass to Lao Yan.
The ugly lady who was chewing slowly lowered her head when she heard her name, and then saw Yan Ruyu's hot eyes, and nodded with a smile.
Youyou glanced at King Ning a few times with flickering eyes, but King Ning turned a blind eye.
Li Xiangru smiled "hehe" and took the initiative to speak: "Miss Yoyo can also go and copy a copy later, and it is good for the family to sit down and eat in their spare time."
This is a happy situation, and you said thank you sweetly, and heard Li Xiangru continue: "Hmm...... There are also some recipes for making pastries.,The ugly lady and others will also tell the yoyo girl.。 ”
Yoyo smiled even more happily, looked at Li Xiangru and gradually turned his gaze to the ugly girl, and said, "I heard that there is a pastry called 'cake' in Ning'an Town, which is specially designed for birthdays. I don't know, is it from the girl's hand?"
She considered the following words, and it seemed a little impolite to call her an ugly girl, not to mention that the ugly girl was not only not ugly, but very standard.
The ugly lady was a little cramped, and said in a low voice: "Sister...... Just call me an ugly girl. That's what Brother Li told me. After speaking, he looked at Li Xiangru and asked for his opinion.
Li Xiangru nodded at her and said: "Miss Youyou's very well-informed, this cake appeared for a short time, and I wanted to teach her as a skill of the ugly girl, but too many things happened later, so it was delayed." ”
At this time, King Ning, who was squinting slightly, opened his eyes, took the initiative to take the words and explained: "I really know this, this girl has more than once recited in front of me that it was a concubine of the imperial envoy's family, and she bragged in front of the princess for a long time, saying that it was delicious. Yoyo is a greedy girl, and she is very unhappy. When she complained to me, I asked her to buy it, but she said she couldn't find it. But I don't want it to be with you. ”
King Ning ignored Youyou's slightly angry eyes, and was about to continue speaking with a laugh, but was unceremoniously interrupted by Li Xiangru: "King Ning can't eat Ha, it's easy to get fat." ”
When King Ning heard this, he slowly changed from stunned to bitter and aggrieved, and he didn't know how to defend himself, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the three girls talking with a smiling face in the gloating and even more helpless, and looked at the stomach that was eaten, and looked at Li Xiangru pitifully and begged: "Really, can't you eat at all?"
Li Xiangru rolled his eyes, picked up a cup of tea, looked at Youyou, and said, "Whether to give it to King Ning or not, it may be up to the princess to decide, right? ”
Youyou smiled and nodded, looking at King Ning with a proud face.
King Ning sighed leisurely, and sat weakly on the wicker chair, giving up struggling to resist. If it was up to the princess to decide, he might not be able to eat meat for three months.
Yan Ruyu whispered to the ugly lady again, asking if there were any other food recipes that had been handed over.
Yoyo pricked up his ears and listened, silently wrote it down, and when he returned to the mansion, he tried it out and dedicated it to the princess.
Recently, there have been a lot of things in the palace, and the princess has also done many things herself, so that she has been a lot haggard during this time, and she has no appetite. Just take advantage of this time to cook more food and let the princess take care of her body a little better.
Li Xiangru looked at the empty plate and the soup that had been almost burned, and smiled at the two girls who were talking: "Take it, you will go and copy it later." ”
When the ugly lady heard this, she stopped talking and began to clean up, and Yoyo immediately stood up to help.
After they were cleaned up, Yan Ruyu took out a pair of tea sets from the house and put them in front of them, and the ugly lady rekindled a bonfire on the side, and a stream of steam slowly erupted from the spout of the teapot.
Li Xiangru stood up, took it from the ugly girl's hand, and said gently: "You accompany Miss Yoyo and them to the study to transcribe first, it's up to me." ”
The ugly lady and Yan Ruyu nodded meekly, they all knew that Li Xiangru had something to discuss with King Ning.
Li Xiangru took out a trace of tea leaves from a bamboo jar and put it into the purple sand teapot, and brewed it in boiling water several times.
Ning Wang picked up the bamboo tube with great interest, took out a little tea and put it between his fingers and then to the tip of his nose, and a faint fragrance of green leaves penetrated through his nostrils, making him refreshed.
"Don't think about it, this is a rare pine needle tea, which was found on a cliff in Chuxiu Peak. The whole refining process is more than four taels, and I have to dedicate the prepared two taels to my teacher, one or two to the national teacher, and the rest ...... Hum...... Use it yourself. Li Xiangru poured a cup of tea and handed it to King Ning, and his words directly dispelled his thoughts.
King Ning was stunned and embarrassed: "What kind of person am I?"
"Aren't you?" asked Li Xiangru rhetorically.
"Uh...... All right. King Ning decided not to refute and continued to ask, "Rare?"
Li Xiangru naturally knew what he meant, and it was rare not only the cooking method, but also the preciousness of this tea. He nodded, raised a finger and said, "Once in a hundred years"
"Uh...... All right. King Ning glanced at the tea leaves in the bamboo tube with some unwillingness, this tea leaves are refreshing when they smell it, it is much easier to use than those sandalwoods, and it should contain a lot of aura. It's just that this amount is too small, and Li Xiangru refuses to give it. He thought in his heart what method to use to get some of it back from Li Xiangru's hand, rolled his eyes a few times, and asked, "Then the method of frying this tea field, the ugly lady also knows?"
Li Xiangru rolled his eyes at him again, and then nodded helplessly. This fat man, for the sake of this tongue, he was able to give away the precious dagger capital, but now he will not be polite. I'm afraid he won't even give it in exchange.
Friends, they are all used for pitting. This is what Li Xiangru said to King Ning, but King Ning has always remembered it. It's just that Li Xiangru naturally won't really care about these.
"That's good, that's good. King Ning looked at Li Xiangru with a smile, and then turned his head to the room of the waiting meeting and shouted loudly: "Youyou, ask me about the frying method of the ugly girl's tea, and copy it and take it back." ”
There was a long voice of doubtful agreement in the back room, and there was no more sound.
King Ning twisted the teacup with satisfaction, put it to his nose and sniffed it, took a sip slowly, smashed his mouth, and gave Li Xiangru a thumbs up. He said: "I heard that tea has the effect of clearing oil and relieving greasy, opening the spleen and stomach, and maintaining health and preventing aging?"
"Hmm. Li Xiangru took a sip, looked at the clear tea in the teacup, and nodded.
"I've been busy lately, and I've been busy in the house. Although the princess is not from a rural village woman's family, she is still powerless about this tedious and redundant thing. After more than two months, people are a lot haggard. King Ning stared at Li Xiangru with a smile and said, his eyes full of cunning.
"Oh"
"She's your brother and sister. ”
"Hmm"
"Your brother and sister have been suffering from a bad appetite lately and are in a haggard spirit. ”
"There is a specialization in the art industry, you should let her teach professional things to professional people, so that she doesn't have to work so hard. ”
"Now it's really screening people, there is no way, many things even I am learning, I have to do it myself. If you don't even have some ordinary knowledge of a thing, it will be inconvenient to manage it in the future, and it will be easy to be deceived. So, during this time, your brother and sister were haggard and made me feel very distressed, and I also persuaded her, but she is also a very stubborn person. I can't persuade you......" King Ning said with a bitter face, showing a distressed expression vividly.
Li Xiangru glanced at King Ning and sighed, the people who came out of the royal family are really actors. Isn't it just for this reason that he is so persistent? It is already obvious that his eyes are looking at the bamboo tube from time to time between conversations.
"Half a tael, let the ugly lady pack it up in a while, and you can take it back. Li Xiangru said helplessly.
King Ning smiled so brightly that his eyes were as bright as day, and he pretended to be polite and said, "Then I thank you for your brother and sister."
"Get out!" Li Xiangru spit out this word unceremoniously, not seeing the hypocrisy of King Ning's face, and not caring about continuing to discuss these things with King Ning, he thought about it a few times and said, "Let's talk about the recent events." ”