As the Queen Mother put this piece of mutton into her mouth, the eyes of several people looked at her at the same time, and they asked almost at the same time, "How?" ”

The Queen Mother chewed and quickly swallowed the piece of meat, "Yes, there is no such unpleasant smell, how did you do it?" ”

She is a native of the south, and she didn't like to eat mutton very much before this, and she thought that mutton was bad, but because beef needed to be cultivated land, it could not be slaughtered at will, and it was rare to eat beef several times a year in the palace, so the queen mother often ate pork, chicken, duck and fish.

"Even the queen mother said that it must be good if it is delicious." Li Cong took a chopstick by himself, and also learned from Yan Yan to roll in the seasoning and then put it in his mouth, "It's really good, it's fresh and tender." ”

"Back to the Queen Mother and the Emperor, this mutton can't be cooked for a long time, please let a few His Highnesses start it too." Yan Yan suggested.

"Do you hear me, let's do it yourself." Li Cong saw that his sons were sitting cross-legged on the kang, and others could not serve the meal, so he ordered.

"Brother Prince, hurry up." Although Li Sui was eager, he also knew that the elders and young were inferior, and he had to wait for the three elder brothers to taste him before he could start.

"Sixth brother, what's the hurry, it's just such a small plate of meat, let's wait for the emperor's grandmother and father to eat it." Li Ji deliberately teased him.

Fortunately, at this time, Qingyun also helped Qingyu to cut the meat, so Yan Yan quickly brought in two more plates of meat, "Your Highness the Sixth, don't worry, it's enough." ”

After speaking, Yan Yan secretly glanced at Aunt Rong who was standing on the side, and Aunt Rong followed Yan Yan out of the room.

It turned out that Yan Yan didn't expect so many people to come, and these four were all young men, she was worried that the two legs of mutton would not be enough, so she wanted to ask Aunt Rong to send a message to the imperial dining room to ask for two more pieces of mutton, preferably frozen outside.

Not to mention, fortunately, Yan Yan asked for two large pieces of mutton, otherwise, this meal is really not enough to eat, Rao is so, and in the end, Yan Yan and Aunt Rong were only half full, because the seasoning was gone.

After the meal, Li Cong thought of what he wanted to talk to Yan Yan, so he specially left Li Ji behind.

Yan Yan had already guessed that the emperor could not have come for a meal, and when he saw this, he hurriedly ordered Qingyun and Qingyu to cook barley tea brewed by Yan Yan himself, this tea was Yan Yan's mother's favorite drink in the previous life, to lose weight and relieve oiliness and help digestion.

Of course, the most important thing is that the barley is easy to make, the barley is roasted and crushed with the tea leaves, and then the fine powder is sifted out through a sieve.

The baking tools and grinders are ready-made, and Yan Yan wants to make cakes, and it is difficult for the flour bought outside to meet her requirements, so after buying them, she has to use the grinders and sieves several times, so it is also convenient for her to make barley tea.

"What kind of tea is this?" The Queen Mother smelled the smell of wheat and asked.

"Back to the Queen Mother, this is called barley tea." After Yan Yan finished speaking, he introduced the main effects of barley tea.

Fortunately, this content can be found from medical books, and Yan Yan doesn't have to worry about the source.

"You even read medical books?" Li Cong was surprised.

"Father forgot about my sister's rescue of Xi'er that time?" Li Ji easily accepted this.

"Girl, where did you learn this pot and spices?" Li Cong ordered Yan Yan to sit over.

Yan Yan confessed and sat sideways on the edge of the kang, next to the Queen Mother, "Back to the emperor, half of it was also seen from books, and half of it was figured out by myself." ”

Then, Yan Yan learned the description of how the nomads in the north ate meat from the book he had seen.

Yan Yan's words were not finished, and now Li Ji was curious, "How can my sister go to read a book about nomads?" ”

"I like to read travelogues in my spare time, the customs and eating habits of each place are different, which directly determines their personalities are not the same, for example, we Han people, after thousands of years of civilization evolution, we have long abandoned the way of life of drinking blood, into the farming culture, there is a complete set of written cultural inheritance system, there is also a complete set of our food culture system, in other words, eating is not only a satisfying time for us, but also a cultural enjoyment; But for those Hu people, eating is still a simple and crude stomach, and they can't even drink blood without Ru Mao. Yan Yan naturally guessed the meaning of the emperor's question, so he simply explained a few more words.

"But what does this have to do with personality?" Li Sui asked.

"Of course, there are fixed villages, fields and living circles of farming peoples, and if there is no war and natural disasters, they generally will not leave the land on which they live, while nomads are mobile, they live by water and grass, and often fight because they grab land with others, so they advocate force, the law of the jungle, whoever wins this grassland will belong to whom, so the character of the nomads is the same as their diet, it is also simple and rude. And we Han people advocate Confucianism, we receive education and civilization, and there are many rules and etiquette that have existed for thousands of years to restrain us, I will give the simplest example, nomads can marry the same person as a mother and daughter, aunt and nephew, which is absolutely not allowed in our Han nationality, this is called incest, and they don't have this word in their minds, they only care about the continuation of their children. ”

As soon as Yan Yan's words fell, the Queen Mother reached out and patted her twice, "This kid is getting more and more unruly." ”

"Don't blame Yan'er, the queen mother, she's teaching me a lesson." Li Cong heard the meaning of Yan Yan's words.

"Father, what do you say?" Li Ji didn't understand.

Li Sui, Li Zhi and Li Sui also raised their eyes to look at their father, they didn't understand that the usually omnipotent father would actually let Yan Yan teach him a lesson?

"Yan'er means that a nation that drinks blood has no credibility to talk about, and our Han people's credit and oaths that are more important than life are worthless to them." Li Cong explained.

"Yan'er is presumptuous, and I ask the emperor to forgive me." Yan Yan bowed his head.

"What about Liao? What is the difference between them and the Jurchens? Li Zhi asked.

"The Liao State has been sinicized a lot, belonging to semi-farming and semi-nomalist, they have also established their own writing, and adopted the court mechanism of our Han people, and even the imperial examination has followed, they are somewhat different from the Jurchens." Yan Yan said.

"Son, why are you trying so hard to convince me? You're so sure that you can make the right move, and if it's wrong, I mean, you can afford it? Li Cong was curious.

"I can't afford it, go back to the emperor, if you say selfishness, it's not nothing, the women have read the relevant literature of Wuhu Chaohua, and the women don't dare to imagine what we will face if one day the Jurchen or Mongolian iron horsemen step into the Central Plains. But when it comes to this matter, the woman still has one more thing she wants to report to the emperor. Yan Yan said thoughtfully.