"Peel the mango and cut the apple into cubes...... Well, kiwi is also prepared! That's right, you have to refine the white sand sugar...... I want you to speed up the cream! ”

Li Mao muttered quietly, while constantly loudly pointing out the improper operation of all the people present, for fear that if he was not careful, he would make some mistakes, and the few maids who were a little nervous under his instructions immediately re-fiddled in an orderly manner after a series of adjustments, because after many trainings, they were already familiar with these instructions that should be very unfamiliar.

Seeing that everything was on the right track, just waiting for the base cake in the oven to come out of the oven and then brush it with cream and add fruit to refrigerate it, Li Mao took a long breath and sat back on the private chaise longue and shook it again, but in front of him he seemed to be humming a little song on his lips, holding hot tea in his hand, and there was an exclusive dog's leg Wangcai at his feet to beat his legs very easily, but under this calm appearance, there was a small heart that had been hiding waves and was accelerating all the time.

After all, a modern person with sufficient historical knowledge found that he would die well in the future and became Yang Yuhuan's first unlucky husband Li Mao, facing a green hat from the emperor's father that would be buckled on his head at any time...... It's too much of a stimulus, and it's hard to get your heart rate below 250.

Because of the sense of oppression of that green hat, Li Mao can be said to have hollowed out his mind and tossed since he was a child, opened a restaurant, engaged in cement, and made cakes after making cement...... But even he didn't know what the purpose of such repeated tossing was for? Is it just to curry favor with Li Longji and make his position as a carefree prince more stable? It doesn't seem to be, or do you want to take off the green hat on your head in the future after making this? This doesn't seem to be realistic, Yang Yuhuan is one of the four great beauties, Li Longji's old puppet will let him go......"

Just when Li Mao's fugue was too imaginary, a certain talented person he carefully selected brought him the first good news. This Tang Dynasty talent, who can not only read the drawings to build the stove, but also paint the wall for decoration, Comrade Xiaoqiang, rushed to everyone with great excitement while running and shouting.

"Your Highness! It's done, it's done, all ten cake embryos are baked, and sure enough, you have to add charcoal to the top and bottom as you said, so that the heat will be evenly baked, and this time both the color and shape are much stronger than the previous ones......"

After Li Mao heard Xiao Qiang say this, he immediately jumped up from the recliner in good spirits, and then trotted all the way to the table where the cake was served.

"Amazing! Amazing, I have failed so many times, and the finished product this time is exactly the same as the picture of the later generations, Xiaoqiang, Shuang'er...... You guys are really amazing, this king is extremely excited at this moment, and even the excitement is a little bit I don't know what to say, anyway, let's eat first! ”

So after Li Mao looked up and down, left and right, Wangcai tore it first, like a hungry dog pounced, and smashed his whole head into the newly divided cake, and a few girls looked a little restrained on the surface, but then the posture of cutting the cake with a horizontal knife was also very tight.

"Your Royal Highness, I ......" "You are hairy, eat a good cake, how can you eat a handful of snot and tears!" Can't you learn to learn from others? "It's not that I want to cry, Your Highness, it's really this fruit cake is so delicious, I remember you said that this cake can only be eaten on your birthday, I have never eaten such a delicious thing on my birthday before...... Ah......" Wangcai cried while eating.

The maids also ate without the reserve of the past, and Li Mao was also beaten in an instant in the depths of his heart after tasting a small piece of cake, the soft and fragrant cake embryo, which fused the sweet sweetness of the melt-in-the-mouth natural cream, and then embellished with a little sweet and slightly sour fresh fruit, and the sweet impact of various delicate carbohydrates made the satisfaction rush from the chest to the brain. It was a taste of satisfaction and happiness that he hadn't felt or been exposed to for more than a decade.

Next, when everyone was still carnival for the birth of food, Li Mao silently packed the remaining cake alone, and then sent someone to send it to Daming Palace at the first time, in fact, this last step was the original intention of his painstaking research to find the cream cake.

In the early morning of the second day, the sky was slightly bright, in front of the dragon case in the imperial study room in the Daming Palace, a familiar and unfamiliar figure crouched down in front of the table early and started to write, and this hard-working middle-aged man was the emperor Li Longji, the supreme leader of the Tang Dynasty, who could decide Li Mao's life and death between talking and laughing.

However, in front of his eyes, he doesn't seem to be as terrible as Li Mao imagined, and he hasn't let go of himself enough to make the absurd and stupid thing of "riding a red dust concubine laughing, no one knows that it's a lychee", but he is very good at getting along with his brain, and he himself is still bent on the emperor's career in the hope of carrying forward the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

The tired book on the desk seems to be never finished, although Li Sanlang said that his brows were tightly locked at the moment, but Leng was willing to put down the brush in his hand after staying up for a full hour to stretch his muscles and bones to relax himself.

Later, after spending a few steps in the same place, he smiled with the middle-aged eunuch standing next to him, and said homely: "Lux, what do you say I am so tired of every day?" Hearing such an unusual question from the emperor, Gao Lishi, who was sensitive, was slowly stunned at first, but after feeling that Li Longji was just a sigh after being tired, he had the courage to respond.

"Sage, you are wise and wise, such hard work is naturally for the prosperity of our Tang Dynasty, and the country will be forever!"

"Huh...... If it's really as you said, then no matter how tired I am, I will be as happy as I am! Everyone in the world envies the life of an emperor, but how can I feel that I am not as good as ordinary people, do you know? Like them, the sunrise and sunset rest, but they fall at ease, don't you, look at my five watches and three sleeps......"

Li Longji walked while talking, and after a while, he stepped out of the palace gate and walked out of the corridor on the second floor of the imperial study, and Gao Lishi bowed down like a shadow and followed quietly on the side, when he felt the cold snow wind outside the house, he hurriedly turned around and took a cloak from the lady standing on the side, and only after carefully draping the cloak on Li Longji's body, he opened his mouth again and answered.

"What the sage said is that the happiness of the small people is indeed simple and easy, but then again, if there is no sage like you, who is responsible for state affairs every day and sympathizes with them, where would they come from to live in peace."

"Oh! How can you say this, Lux, don't you want to learn from Concubine Hui to say some pleasant words to coax me to be relieved, right? ”

"How dare the old slave! Now we are convinced by the Tang Quartet, and all the nations are towards this more ancient merit, but they are all the fruits of your hard work, the small people are cultivating a few acres of thin fields, and the sage you are cultivating the world's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and the blood and sweat that has been sprinkled are naturally more...... The old slave is stupid and doesn't know if this metaphor is appropriate? ”

After Gao Lishi finished speaking, he saw that Li Longji had moved to the round table, so he stepped forward and carefully moved the round stool on the corridor, and then waited for Li Longji to sit down, and Li Longji held on to the railing and looked at the busy scene of West Chang'an Avenue that had just opened, and he smiled a little bitterly, and let out a long breath of hot air with a smile.

"Huh...... You, you...... If you want to say something or a clumsy mouth, then I'm afraid there is no one who can talk in the world, although there are many officials and good ministers around me, but this is really to be able to say a few words in private, and you and Concubine Hui are the two of you who are obedient to your heart, since ancient times the emperor called the lonely widow, and the ancients did not deceive us! I am now standing at the highest place in Chang'an, not only is the wind and cold tight, but the spirit of chasing the virtuous and catching up with the saints in the early years has also slowly fallen, sometimes I really want to let go of my hands and don't even care......"

"Sage, you are tired and tired now, and your thoughts will be full of thoughts, you must not do this thought, our Datang can be separated from anyone, but only the saint is missing, besides, you have a long life, where is it now! Why don't we go to Concubine Mei's to see her new dance? It's better to change your spirit, isn't it? ”

Gao Lishi originally thought that his proposal would be acquiesced in immediately, but he didn't want Li Longji to change his usual interest at this moment, so he bent down and sat down on the round stool, and at the same time, he reached out and raised the teacup in a small sip without hurrying, as if he didn't want to move anymore.

Seeing this, Gao Lishi understood that he would not say more than half a word, and then he was very intimate and half-squatted down and beat his thigh, and after a while, Li Longji shook his head and showed a long-lost smile. But when he turned around and looked at the chapters stacked on the dragon case, he lowered his face again and sighed, "No, no, this time and again have to be delayed for a lot of hours, you see that this table full of chapters can not wait for a while, just use some tea on this high platform, bake the brazier and rest for a while!" By the way, are there any pastries that Mao'er has been sending every day? ”

As soon as Li Longji's words fell, Gao Lishi quickly turned around and took a large jade plate that had been waiting for a long time from the little waiter on the side, and sniffed it a few times meaningfully.

"Sage, this is what His Royal Highness King Shou just sent into the palace this morning, and the old slave thought that you would ask? However, His Royal Highness also instructed the visitor to relay that it was a newly developed fruit cream cake today, which was much more delicious than the previous ones! It's ......"

"What's it? When did you learn to be honest and spit out, if you have something to say, let it go, don't force me to say these vulgar words! ”

"Huh...... Sage, you are wronged slaves, His Royal Highness King Shou, his filial piety and sincerity are the temperament of a little doll, and he actually told the sage not to be greedy and eat more, saying that it is not good for teeth, where do you see this slave and maid? Your Highness, he regarded you as a doll as big as himself...... Huh"

"Haha...... Sure enough, he is a child who doesn't grow up, how can he say that he has been the king for three years, and now he is the prince who opened the mansion alone, why do you still tinker with these all day long...... These eat ...... By the way, did he ever fall behind in his schoolwork? ”

"The saint is too worried, although His Royal Highness King Shou has been living in King Ning's mansion since he opened the mansion, but Concubine Hui can watch him closely, and now he finally has a palace, it is inevitable to be casual! It's not that the slaves and maids have wide ears and eyes, but that the whole royal city is praising His Highness's noble deeds......"

"Oh, what's the matter? You say listen to me, I want to see if his kid dares to go against the sky! ”

"No, no! His Royal Highness didn't do anything out of the ordinary, except for tinkering with some clever things all day long, he also studied food, and the most incomprehensible thing is that he spent a lot of money to build a few big ships a few years ago, and in the first few months, he really found a lot of boatmen to send them out to sea? ”

Hearing that Li Mao built a big ship and sent people to sea, Li Longji's complexion did not change at all, and even the attention of his eyes was still focused on the few pieces of fruit cakes on the jade plate. After Gao Lishi picked up the utensils and separated the cake for him to taste, he wiped his mouth a little unsatisfied and said, "Well, the taste is indeed sweeter, what you said, I seem to have heard Concubine Hui say before, originally I thought that the bastard boy was going to learn from Xu Fu of the pre-Qin Dynasty to go to sea to visit the immortals, but then I listened to what he said and it seemed that it was also for some food, so let him go, as long as this bastard boy is not personally suspected!" Anyway, it's not spending the money in the treasury, and the officials can't find any reason to think about it. ”

Li Longji's short words seemed to be extremely ordinary, but Gao Lishi, who was standing on the side and was well versed in the emperor's heart, heard many unusual extraneous sounds from the ordinary.

This first point is that the words and deeds of the eighteenth prince Li Mao seem to be whimsical and incredible, but he is still very cautious in his way of dealing with the world, especially in the identity of his royal heir.

And the second point that can be understood from Li Longji's words is that it makes Gao Lishi, who is nervous at this time, unconsciously break out in a cold sweat, just imagine which of His Royal Highnesses who opened the palace and established the king at the moment dares to recruit tens of thousands of people to go around like this, build ships and go to sea, and go into the mountains to quarry.

The words of the Xuanwu Gate are still in my ears, and the end of the usurpation of power by the martial arts family is only a few decades, as well as the affairs of Empress Wei and the eldest princess of the Peace, one by one, if you want to say that the emperor in front of him at this moment, His Majesty is forgetful and completely forgets about these, then he Gaolishi will not believe it if he is killed, but under so many lessons from the past, His Royal Highness the Lord Shou was stunned that he did not pay any price for his willfulness, and it was still the breeze blowing on the hill and not moving.

With such grace and such luck, how could he not make him tremble and have a trace of fantasy when he saw it? What's more, all the things before, I am already a person in the game, if I still want to get out of the quagmire and be alone, how easy is it to talk about it......

Gao Lishi's short fugue in a trance, Li Longji naturally did not notice it at all, because he had long been concerned about food at the moment, and ate the full plate of fruit cake one bite after another, and when Gao Lishi came back to taste, he could only pretend to ignore it and continue to meet the matter.

"What the sage said is extremely true, this trip to the sea, the wind and waves are dangerous, His Royal Highness will definitely not dare to let him set foot in person, and the old slave will ask Yu Lin Wei to take care of it early!"

"This matter, Lux you have done a very thorough job, that kid just has to be watched, he is now Concubine Hui's heart can no longer be missed, every time I think of his two sibling brothers, this strict father's figure is always difficult to stand up! It's better to mess around than not to grow up......"

"This? The past of the saint has long passed, and it has been so long, so don't keep thinking about that, only to increase the sadness, in fact, His Royal Highness is not just joking, just take the recent big fanfare of his purchase of limestone, Your Highness, he also made a small poem for this purpose, which attracted the readers in Chang'an City to read widely? They all praised His Highness, his literary brilliance is unparalleled in the world...... The slave remembered that the little poem seemed to be called "Lime Moan" - a thousand hammers were chiseled out of the deep mountains, and the fire burned as if it were idle. I am not afraid of broken bones, and I want to leave my innocence in the world. The old slave is a little ...... when he reads."

"I'm not afraid of broken bones, I want to leave my innocence in the world? This...... Did these two sentences come from him? Gao Lishi originally wanted to have the icing on the cake, so he could take the opportunity to sell his personal favor to Concubine Wu Hui or something, but at this moment, when he looked at Li Longji and suddenly looked up at his asking posture 75 degrees, he knew that things might be a little bad. What a .......

So before the two trembling Gao Lishi could come up with appropriate words to deal with it, Li Longji continued to roar angrily.

"Nonsense, nonsense, it's getting more and more presumptuous, he opens restaurants, ships ships, and mines on weekdays...... I saw that Concubine Hui's face was also turned a blind eye by him, but now a child is chanting this poem! When the unreasonable person heard this, did he think that I had given him some grievance? Who does he think he is, and he wants to keep his innocence in the world, this rebel must have taken advantage of my inspection of the Eastern Capital to become restless again, you quickly go and spread my will, let him get into the palace immediately! ”

Before Li Longji finished speaking, Gao Lishi and the palace people who were waiting for him had already been frightened and knelt on the ground, after hearing the will of the herald, he was half rolling and half crawling before he barely walked out of the door, and after standing up straight again, Comrade Gao bit his back molars and gave himself three big mouths.

And then he suddenly remembered something, turned around and called a small internal affairs closer, explained a few words softly, and after waiting for someone to run away, he took the bridge unhurriedly, and the carriage went straight to the residence of the King of Shou in Taipingfang, outside the Suzaku Gate.