Chapter 62: Eating Hot Pot
Nangong You returned to the Xuanwang Mansion, and the sky had already darkened.
As soon as he entered the main courtyard, he went straight to the main house and asked, "Is the princess awake?" ”
"Back to the prince, the princess is eating in the dining hall." The man in the courtyard replied.
Nangong turned a corner and went straight to the dining hall.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I heard laughter inside.
"Hey, hey, you're not right, you have to dip this and eat it!"
This is Ye Xiaoyan's voice.
"It's too spicy, the slave can't eat it."
This is the voice of the green branch.
"It's just spicy to be delicious."
There was a burst of laughter like a silver bell from a little girl, as if she was laughing at the green branch and not daring to eat spicy.
Nangong You raised his feet and stepped in. When the maids sitting around the table saw that the prince had returned, they hurriedly got up and saluted, and stepped aside.
"I've seen the prince!"
"What are you eating?" Nangong You asked.
"You're back!" Ye Xiaoyan got up and greeted her with a smile and said, "We are eating hot pot." ”
"Hot pot?" Nangong walked to the table suspiciously.
I saw that this originally good table had a hole dug in the middle. There is a stove under the hole, and on top of the stove is a pot with chicken broth boiling. On the table, there are several plates of fresh vegetables.
Nangong You asked, "This is hot pot?" ”
"yes." Ye Xiaoyan replied.
Nangong You frowned: "Why do you want to dig a hole in the table?" ”
"In this way, the pot can be placed a little shorter, so that it is convenient to pick up vegetables."
Nangong You looked like it was delicious, and ordered someone to add a pair of dishes and chopsticks to him.
When he got the dishes and chopsticks, he was about to eat, but Ye Xiaoyan was busy: "Wait! ”
Nangong looked at her suspiciously.
Ye Xiaoyan said to Mama Tai: "Make a bowl of dipping sauce for the prince." ”
"Yes." Mama Tai goes to the kitchen to make dipping sauce.
After a while, I saw Mama Tai come out with a bowl of dipping sauce. There are green onions, coriander, chili, pepper, ginger, garlic, salt and other seasonings, these seasonings are poured with a layer of hot sesame oil, which is steaming hot, the fragrance is attractive, and the smell makes people's appetite move.
"How do you eat this?" Nangong You asked.
Ye Xiaoyan helped him stir the seasoning evenly, took a piece of chicken from the pot with chopsticks and put it in the empty bowl in front of him, and said, "Eat it with dipping sauce." ”
Nangong You picked up the chicken, dipped it in the fragrant and attractive dipping bowl, put it in his mouth and tasted it, sure enough, the taste was excellent and appetizing.
Ye Xiaoyan cooked some vegetables again and put them in Nangong You's bowl.
Nangong You enjoyed eating, and said while eating: "You eat too, don't just care about me." ”
Ye Xiaoyan said: "Haven't you eaten enough for the palace banquet today?" ”
Nangong said: "I'm full." But when I see your hot pot, I want to eat more. ”
"Eat less, it's not good to accumulate food at night."
The maid came up to serve the cooking, and Ye Xiaoyan also ate.
Nangong You asked, "How do you think of making this hot pot?" ”
Ye Xiaoyan said: "The kitchen originally stewed chicken soup for me, and after two bites, I felt that it didn't taste good, so I thought of using it to cook hot pot. ”
Nangong You ate and thought: These subordinates are still attentive to the princess.
Ye Xiaoyan continued: "This is a clear soup hot pot. In addition to the base soup, the focus of the clear soup hot pot is on the dipping sauce, and the taste of the dipping sauce determines the taste of the hot pot. There is also spicy hot pot. The spicy hot pot focuses on the base material at the bottom of the pot, and the taste of the base determines the taste of the hot pot. ”
"There are many kinds of hot pot?" Nangong Yu said while eating.
Ye Xiaoyan said: "Of course, there are many kinds of hot pot. There are shabu-shabu, boiled, and stewed. The taste is light, spicy, fresh, and sour. ”
"And sour?"
"Yes, the sour soup is made with tomatoes, and there are also sauerkraut dishes. The raw materials are different, the seasoning is different, and the sourness is not the same. ”
Nangong You looked at Ye Xiaoyan with admiring eyes and said, "I'll taste it if you do it another day." ”
Ye Xiaoyan shook her head and said, "I don't like to eat sour soup very much. I still like spicy food. ”
"Okay, then make spicy."
Nangong You suddenly remembered Xiao Yuhan and said, "Xiao Yuhan is going to live in our house tomorrow, and you order someone to clean up a house for him in the East Courtyard." In addition, in the days when he lived in the mansion, you ordered the kitchen to cook him these kinds of food that only our Xuanwang Mansion has. Nangong smiled proudly, thinking: I treat you with these foods that only our Xuanwang Mansion has, and I am worthy of you.
These so-called foods that are only available in the Xuanwang Mansion are made by Ye Xiaoyan who taught Mama Tai to make. These foods are basically made with sesame oil, so there is no outside.
Ye Xiaoyan asked, "Does Xiao Shizi accompany Princess Xiao to live in the royal palace?" ”
"Hey, this kid! I just heard at the palace banquet today that King Xiao is sick. I told him, your father is sick, don't you spend more time with your mother, guess what he said? He even said that his father was sick, and he should accompany his father and what to do with his mother. Nangong You shook his head and said, "This kid is really born in a blessing and doesn't know how to be blessed." His father, the imperial concubine, has spoiled him since he was a child, and he knows how happy it is to accompany his family. ”
Ye Xiaoyan watched Nangong You's eyebrows flutter at the mention of Xiao Yuhan, guessing that the relationship between the two must be very good. She also knew in her heart that Nangong You had been lonely since she was a child, and although she had brothers and sisters, she was not close. Since getting married, Nangong You and her have been almost inseparable, sticking together every day. In fact, she is also very lonely in this world.
Nangong You said: "By the way, I heard that King Xiao is suffering from pain and paralysis, the joints of his hands and feet are swollen, it is difficult to walk, and he has to be fed when he eats. Do you have this disease? How can I be cured? ”
"Pain?"
"Yes, Princess Xiao said that all the doctors in the Eastern Domain have seen it, and the effect is very small."
Ye Xiaoyan twisted her eyebrows and thought. She has read the medical books of this world, and all bone and joint pain is classified as "pain and paralysis" here. Listening to the description, Xiao Wang is joint pain. However, there are many causes of joint pain, and it is difficult to judge without understanding the symptoms.
Ye Xiaoyan said: "The disease of pain and paralysis in our place is generally rheumatism or rheumatoid arthritis, or bone hyperplasia. However, there are also some causes that are not caused by the joints, but symptoms similar to those of paralysis may occur during the course of the disease. So, listening to your description, I can't tell which kind of Xiao Wang is suffering. ”
Nangong You said: "Then wait for Xiao Yuhan to come tomorrow and ask him to talk about it carefully." If you still can't judge, let's go to Eastern Regions City in person. ”
Although the emperor said to send the imperial doctor, Nangong You felt that those famous doctors in the Eastern Regions City were no worse than the imperial doctors. Those famous doctors have very little curative effect, and I am afraid that the imperial doctor will not be much stronger if he goes. He felt that Yan'er's medical skills were the strongest in the world.
Ye Xiaoyan heard that if it didn't work, she would go to Eastern Regions City in person, and asked, "You have a good relationship with King Xiao?" ”
"Yes," Nangong You said, "Back then, in Eastern Regions City, King Xiao and Princess Xiao were very good to me. They treated me like a nephew. Although the Nangong family and the Xiao family are in the same vein, they have been related for hundreds of years, and they have long been unrelated. The eldest brother and the second emperor brother, they also studied at Shanhe College and were guests at King Xiao's mansion, but King Xiao's family didn't treat them as close as they did to me. ”
Ye Xiaoyan understood and said, "Okay, then wait until Xiao Shizi comes tomorrow." ”
The two had dinner, and Ye Xiaoyan ordered someone to go to the east courtyard to clean up.
When Zhou Qianru left, she smashed a lot of things in anger, broke them here, and didn't take them away. When she left, she only brought her personal things, and she didn't take anything else, as if she was so arrogant.
When Ye Xiaoyan heard this, the corners of her mouth twitched. Smash other people's things to show your arrogance. This week, Qianru is really shameless, and she regards herself as the master of Xuanwang's Mansion.
She ordered all the things in Zhou Qianru's house to be replaced, throwing away what should be thrown away, burning what should be burned, and some things that people can see, just take them. In short, the house where Zhou Qianru once lived is now completely new, and the home furnishings are completely different from before.