It is rumored among the common people that the best meal in Chang'an is in Jinchangfang, but these rumors are still not worth exposing to the nobles.

It doesn't matter, and there is nothing surprising about it, since ancient times the lives of the powerful have been incompatible with the lives of the common people.

The more the Qianshou liked something, the more the nobles had to avoid contamination, so as not to be contaminated with some of the Qiantou's habits and make others laugh.

The things that the leaders like are generally like a gust of wind, which will dissipate immediately after blowing it, leaving nothing behind.

This time it seems to be a little different, there are more and more legends about Jinchangfang, and gradually many people can't sit still.

If Ji Wang Li Shen doesn't eat a bowl of light scallion oil noodles every morning, he feels that he has no energy in the day.

For eating noodles, Ji Wang Li Shen has his own understanding, he feels that the first pot of noodle soup every day is the essence of noodle soup.

The noodles are sprinkled in the pot and turned around a few times, and then they are picked out of the pot with great vigour, pour the fine chives into the oil while they are hot and boil until the green onion is yellow and fragrant, and then sprinkle some shallots, and stir the noodles vigorously.

When you take the first bite, you must open your mouth wide, and the noodles picked up with chopsticks must be enough, because the first bite basically eats more than half of the value of this bowl of noodles.

The first bite should be eaten casually after a few bites, because it is necessary to take advantage of the aroma of scallion oil is still lingering in the mouth, quickly find the little shredded meat in the toppings, wrap the shredded meat with noodles, and quickly send it to the mouth again, at this time, take a bite, the meat aroma will burst out, and then, the salty and fresh taste will appear again, even if it is because of the relationship with meat, the strong aroma is far less than the first bite.

After two mouthfuls of noodles, Li Shen basically lost his appetite for the remaining noodles, and under normal circumstances, he would reward them to his eunuchs to eat.

He wanted to keep his appetite and continue to taste the tender, soft tofu with a color as white jade.

Of course, it must be the first spoonful that comes out of the first pot, and sometimes the women in the big cafeteria are too stupid to master the heat, which will make the tender tofu at the bottom of the pot have some burnt taste.

When Li Shen ate tender tofu, he didn't need anything except pour some frosting water.

He discovered this way of eating by himself, because he really didn't like to add black salted vegetables, soy vinegar, and dogwood water to the white jade-like tender tofu.

He thought that this was a violent thing, and talked to Yun Chu about it many times, thinking that frosting water should be used, and it must be frosted water made by boiling the icing sugar until it is browned and then boiling with water, so that the tender tofu with a strong caramel flavor is a delicacy in the world.

As a result, he was sternly rejected by Yun Chu for only one reason, a bowl of tender tofu only costs two yuan, and the frosting that Li Shen used to boil caramel water costs at least twenty yuan.

Thinking of this, Li Shen was very depressed, quickly ate five bites of tender tofu, and immediately moved to the battlefield to the steamed bun area.

Although the name of pork has long been changed to pork by Yun Chu, the name has changed, but the content remains the same, which can't deceive a well-educated person like Li Shen, so although the pork buns look good and smell fragrant, he still doesn't want to eat them.

In the Tang Dynasty, slaughtering a ploughing ox without permission is a big crime and will be exiled.

The beef here in Yunchu comes from the Hu people, and I heard that it is a kind of black and black cattle on the plateau, with long hair and no use except for eating meat.

The Hu people would use this ox to carry the goods when there were not enough camels, and after the goods arrived in Chang'an, the cattle lost their usefulness and were eventually eaten by the people.

No matter how delicious the buns are, they only eat three, and only eat one for each meal, which is the rule that Sun Simiao has set for him, and he has adhered to it for more than 20 years.

After eating steamed buns, it is generally a good time for the sun to rise, and it is also the time when the door of Jinchang Fang is wide open.

Don't ask Li Shen how he got in, even if a Yongzhou Mu no longer has the power, he still has the power to open a door from the market wall, and if he has no power, he can still open a small door to Jinchangfang.

He quietly came in from the small door every day, and then quietly left from the small door, although the young bath shopkeeper in Jinchangfang always hoped that he could enter the bathhouse and feel it again, Li Shen always scoffed, he had better ones at home, and the people who served him to take a bath were all beauties, not those half-sized children here who had a pimple on his arm and a pimple on his muscles.

Today is the day to enter the palace and share the brotherhood with the imperial brother, he actually wants to send some of the delicacies he has tasted in Jinchangfang to his brother, and also ask him to taste what is called the smell of fireworks.

It's a pity that his brother didn't dare to eat the food he sent, so he could only eat the food given by his brother.

It's not easy to think about my brother, but recently because of the matter of promoting the martial palace people to Zhaoyi, he was once again rejected by Chu Suiliang.

Li Shen believes that the reason why his brother recruited himself into the palace at this moment is to get the support of the royal family from himself.

Li Shen felt that Chu Suiliang was a little too much, which in itself was a matter of the inner palace of the palace, and it had nothing to do with him, a loyal minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if the people of the Wugong Palace once served their father, now, the imperial brother is the emperor, as long as the imperial brother does not dislike it, this is not a big deal, you must know that the father did not even let go of the former Sui Xiao who was over forty years old, and now the imperial brother just wants a woman who has long been abandoned by his father, which is really nothing.

When the carriage and horse entered the Taiji Palace, Li Shen felt irritable inexplicably, if it wasn't for the imperial brother who recruited him, he would never want to step into this deep, hot and bloody old palace for the rest of his life.

While standing and waiting at the foot of the steps of Hanyuan Palace, Li Shen saw a colorful butterfly dancing on the gardenia tree, and wanted to catch it, so he stood up straight again, making his figure look taller.

There is no need to go to court today, Li Zhi got up a little late, Wu Mei personally opened the heavy curtain and opened the window to let the morning sun shine into the deep hall.

Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei, who was bloated in the sun, and a smile appeared on his face, this woman is good anywhere, but she is too easy to get pregnant.

"Your Majesty, King Ji Li Shen asks to see you."

After listening to the report of the chamberlain, Li Zhi stood up and asked the palace people to serve and dress, and when the clothes were ready, he said to Wu Mei: "You just wait to be your Zhaoyi." ”

"Will King Ji agree?"

"He will." Li Zhi replied and left the dormitory and went straight to the Hanyuan Palace.

Sending the emperor away, Wu Mei said to a palace maid: "Chunzhi, you go to Hanyuan Hall to send some snacks to Your Majesty and King Ji, Your Majesty got up late today and has not eaten yet." ”

The palace people agreed, and hurriedly went to prepare, she knew that it was fake to send meals to the emperor and King Ji, and listening to what they said was the most important thing.

When she arrived at Hanyuan Palace, she found that the emperor was talking to King Ji very happily, but she didn't mention the promotion of Niangniang to the position of Zhaoyi, but seeing that the emperor was so happy, it must have been negotiated.

Li Shen happily accepted the invitation to eat, and deliberately picked up the meals sent by the palace people to his own plate one by one before the emperor, and then devoured them.

After eating, he wiped his mouth, and said to Li Zhi with a smile: "Brother Huang, it's not that you are the younger brother, the meal you use is not as good as the meal that your brother eats in the morning." ”

Li Zhi ate a quail egg and said disdainfully: "It's better to eat it, you were so greedy just now." ”

Li Shen looked left and right, and found that only the palace people and eunuchs were there, so he said with a smile: "The imperial brother gives food, and the younger brother must eat sweetly, this is a ceremony, just like when the imperial brother worships the ancestors, he takes a big bite of cold pork, is that thing delicious?" ”

Li Zhi snorted noncommittally and said, "Bastard, can this be compared?" ”

"Hahaha, my brother is guilty, but ah, I ate my morning food in Jinchangfang today, and the royal brother might as well guess how many kinds of morning food there are in Jinchangfang."

Li Zhi pointed to the dazzling array of food on the table with chopsticks: "It won't be too rich here." ”

Li Shen said with a smile: "Brother Chen just counted, there are only sixteen kinds of food in front of the imperial brother, two kinds of soup, four kinds of cakes, a total of twenty-two.

The younger brother asked the steward of the canteen, and there were as many as 68 kinds of food in the Jinchangfang canteen, as well as 6 kinds of soup and 20 cakes. ”

Li Zhi's hand holding vegetables stopped, and his eyes became cold at the same time, and he looked at Li Shen and said, "Is this the luxury in the world?" Whose family's morning food is so wasteful? ”

Li Shen said with a smile: "These morning foods belong to the whole Chang'an people, as long as you have a few money in your pocket, you can go in and choose your favorite morning food to eat." ”

Hearing Li Shen's explanation, Li Zhi's cold eyes gradually warmed, and he said lightly: "It turned out to be a restaurant, could it be that the chef of your Ji Wangfu is not as good as the chef of a restaurant?"

If you like, you can take the cook away from that restaurant, and I'll reward you. ”

Li Shen said with a smile: "Thank you for the reward from the imperial brother, but ah, the younger brother can't afford to raise so many cooks." ”

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment and said, "How much?" ”

Li Shen said: "If you count all the people who buy, run, and sweep, there are no less than five hundred." ”

"Five hundred?" Li Zhi was so surprised that he almost threw away the chopsticks in his hand, slowly put down the chopsticks and said, "You said that a restaurant is just a kitchen, and the cooks add up to five hundred people?" ”

Li Shen said disapprenousively: "There are also many people eating, I wonder if the imperial brother has seen thousands of people eating together?" ”

"Thousands of people, still together, are these people all Chang'an people?"

"This can be guaranteed by the courtiers, all the people of Chang'an, as well as a lot of Hu people, as well as scholars who entered Beijing to prepare for the exam, of course, there will be more merchants, and some people go there to eat almost every day.

The royal brother didn't know that every day when he saw those people saluting the giant phoenix before entering the door, the eyes of the younger brother were a little moist. ”

(End of chapter)