Lu Chen arranged everything, Fang Qi was burning charcoal, Meng Ji was cutting meat, the dog baby Liu Jing was washing vegetables and picking vegetables, and Lu Chen came to the kitchen to prepare sauces, saying that they were making sauces, but in fact, they were seasonings taken from the warehouse.

Fang Qi and Meng Ji are now a bit of a "Jiao is not separated from Meng, Meng is not defocused", and Lu Chen couldn't help but ridicule the current state of the two, they are almost glued together.

When Lu Chen brought out the "concocted" sauce in a clay pot and put it on the table, he saw Fang Qi's eyes were red, his face was dark and charcoal, and two tear stains were hanging on his cheeks.

"What's wrong? Let you burn charcoals and cry? Seeing Fang Qi's sad appearance, Lu Chen couldn't help but ridicule Fang Qi.

"O military advisor! This charcoal burning work is not easy to do! This chokes me! Check it out! Fang Qi cried and hugged Lu Chen with a sad face.

"Are you stupid? Won't you stand upwind and burn? Do you have to be downwind? Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh when he looked at Fang Qi's sad appearance.

"Strategist, didn't you let me squat there and burn it?" Fang Qi's big eyes widened and looked at Lu Chen.

"I asked you to squat there and burn charcoal, but didn't you let you move? What's the matter, if you are asked to wait for someone in one place, you will either die and wait? Or wait for death? Lu Chen looked at Fang Qi helplessly, good guy, let him squat there, he really squatted there motionlessly, "Brain is a little active!" Hurry up and wash up! Lu Chen looked at Fang Qi's performance with some tendons, and couldn't help but pat Fang Qi's shoulder.

"Am I not obedient?" Fang Qi looked at Lu Chen and smiled, and then went to the side to wash his face.

Lu Chen looked at the charcoal that had been burned red in the clay pot, and put a few pieces under the hot pot with iron chopsticks, and at the same time added a few pieces of charcoal to the clay pot and continued to smolder.

Just when the soup base in the hot pot was bubbling, Li Xiuning came with Ye Zhu and Lu Qiuming, Ye Zhu was carrying two wine gourds in his hands, and behind the three of them were two guards, each of whom carried two jars of wine.

"It's really time for His Highness to come down, the hot pot has just been boiled!" Lu Chen saw Li Xiuning enter the hospital and hurriedly greeted him.

"This is the hot pot you said, right?" Li Xiuning was very curious and circled around the table, constantly looking at the copper hot pot on the table surrounded by dishes, "Eat this at night?" How to eat this? Li Xiuning turned his head to look at Lu Chen and asked.

"There is only one key to eating hot pot, and that is 'shabu'!" Lu Chen asked Li Xiuning to sit down in the main seat, and he sat opposite Li Xiuning, "I'm trespassing!" Show your Highness how to eat hot pot! Lu Chen said and picked up a piece of mutton and soaked it in the hot pot, to say that Meng Ji's knife skills are really good, not much thicker than the mutton slices that were planed out by the machine in later generations.

Fang Qi and Meng Ji stood behind Lu Chen, looking at the mutton on Lu Chen's chopsticks, and couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

Lu Chen first scooped a plate of sauce into Li Xiuning's silver plate, then put the cooked mutton on another plate and pushed it in front of Li Xiuning, "Your Highness, taste it with sauce!" This sauce is secretly made! ”

Li Xiuning picked up the mutton with silver chopsticks according to his words, dipped it in the sauce on the plate, opened his lips lightly, and sent the mutton into his mouth, the soft and delicate taste, with the sauce, the meat aroma of the mutton directly overflowed the mouth, and the mutton roasted vegetables and green onion fried mutton eaten at noon The taste was completely different and directly impacted Li Xiuning's taste buds, the slightly spicy and hot mutton, swallowed in the stomach, and suddenly the feeling of warming the heart and stomach overflowed the whole body.

"What a hot pot!" After swallowing a mouthful of mutton, Li Xiuning's eyes glared slightly, "After eating such a delicious meal, how will you eat in the palace in the future?" Li Xiuning sighed.

"This thing is not strenuous and can be eaten on the march and in battle!" Lu Chen said to Li Xiuning with a smile.

Back then, legend has it that Kublai Khan commanded his army south and attacked the Song Dynasty. It was winter, and Kublai Khan instructed his men to slaughter and stew the captured sheep, which was a common way of eating in the steppe of Mongolians. But as soon as the sheep was killed, before the pot was cooked, there were spies to report that the Song army was approaching, and the war was urgent, and at this time Kublai Khan was hungry, so he ordered the army to open and shouted again: "Bring the mutton!" ”

I am afraid that it is too late to eat stewed mutton, Kublai Khan is short-tempered, and he has to move if he can't get his head, but fortunately, the chef is quick to cut the mutton into thin slices, and put it in a pot of boiling water with other ingredients, and when he sees that the meat changes color, he quickly scoops it up, and then immediately sprinkles it with seasonings, chopped green onions, minced ginger and other ingredients. Quickly accepted to Kublai Khan, who gulped down and shouted: "Delicious, delicious!" After eating a few bowls, he turned over and went to meet the enemy, and finally won the victory and triumphed.

When the celebration banquet was held after the war, Kublai Khan remembered that he had saved time and was delicious and delicious several bowls of mutton slices, and specially let the generals taste the mutton slices he ate before the war. They all asked what this dish is called? The man stepped forward and asked Kublai Khan to give him a name, and Kublai Khan soaked the slices of meat again, laughing and saying, "I think it's called "shabu mutton". ”

Of course, Lu Chen can't tell the story of Kublai Khan's fight against the Han people, naturally he changed Kublai Khan's name, and then became a Han man to fight the Turks, but it doesn't matter who it is, the important thing is to tell Li Xiuning through this story that this is also a way of eating in the army, and eating hot pot also has a name called "shabu mutton".

Li Xiuning listened to Lu Chen's story, smiled and nodded: "Mr. is reasonable", and then motioned for everyone to sit down and eat together, if it was in Li Xiuning's mansion, it is estimated that these people will not be able to serve anyone else except Lu Chen, but this is in Lu Chen's courtyard, not to mention that it is still in the barracks, and there are neighbors around, Li Xiuning will not eat at the table because of this, as for Liu Laosan's father and son, they are busy serving.

"This hot pot pays attention to a shabu-shabu! Because we are not marching and fighting, we have to chat about the sky with hot pot, then it is comfortable! It would be better if there was wine! Lu Chen looked at Ye Zhu and said embarrassedly.

"Sir's Du Kang, this palace has brought it!" Li Xiuning couldn't see what Lu Chen meant, so naturally he asked Ye Zhu to take out the gourd Du Kang, and then pointed to another gourd and said, "This is the imperial wine brought out by the palace in the palace, and it was also given to Mr. Yu!" ”。

"Thank you, Your Highness! It's disrespectful in the next place! Lu Chen got up and said to Li Xiuning.

"Oh royal wine! I didn't expect to be able to taste Emperor Laozi's wine today! Looking at the gourd containing the imperial wine, Lu Chen secretly poked a little proudly.