Daily life of the imperial mausoleum

The others were helping to move things, Xia Xiaoqiao rushed to wash his face and mouth, and prepared to make breakfast. After all, there were sixteen of them in total, and they had to boil a large pot of yellow rice porridge first.

Seeing that there are still a lot of fresh white noodles, Xia Xiaoqiao felt itchy for a while, went to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables, and cut a large piece of wild pork that he hadn't eaten yesterday, minced it and stuffed it, and made a lot of it. The delicious pancakes stuffed with vegetables and pork were worried that his subordinates would be too embarrassed to eat them with the big boss Yuan Zhen around. Xia Xiaoqiao even took the dishes and gave each of them a large bowl of yellow rice porridge and five pancakes. pancakes.

They haven't eaten hot human food for many years, and the guards can't wait to lick their plates clean.Thinking in his heart, no wonder this Xia Xiaolang is so favored by His Majesty, good-looking, kind-hearted, and considerate, who wouldn't like it?Compared with those aristocratic women who squeezed their heads into the palace just to become the emperor's woman and seek higher status for the family's profit, this Xia Xiaolang in front of him is the one who really treats their majesty well. Look, he even made extra barbecue for his majesty Woolen cloth.

"Hey, um, Mr. Yuan, I'm worried that you won't be full, so I specially made you a barbecue. Would you like to try it? This time the taste is different from last time." Serving Jiang Yuanzhen with a hot plate of barbecue, Xia Xiao Qiao looked forward to hoping that his new customers would give some advice on the new dishes he had just developed.

However, this look of eager anticipation, in Jiang Yuanzhen's view, seemed like Xia Xiaoqiao was carefully currying favor with him with food, just like in the imperial palace, those women brought all kinds of soup every day to invite him to taste, However, at that time, he only felt bored, but now, Jiang Yuanzhen felt that his heart was beating a little faster.

He picked up a piece of barbecued meat with his chopsticks, and was about to bring it to his mouth, but suddenly Xia Xiaoqiao grabbed it.

"Oh, wait! This is the right way to eat!" Xia Xiaoqiao quickly picked up the perilla leaves under the meat slices, then spread some sauce on it, picked up a piece of barbecue again, and rolled the barbecue meat on the perilla leaves Li, handed it to Jiang Yuanzhen's mouth: "Try it quickly! This tastes delicious while it's hot!"

"Oh, the feeding has already started, Xia Xiaolang is really enthusiastic." Huang Gouer winked at the black dog, beckoned, and motioned for the others to follow along, leaving time for the couple who are in the period of love(?) Quasi husband and wife.

Jiang Yuanzhen froze for a moment, stretched his brows and eyes casually, and smiled like an iceberg melting, opened his mouth and swallowed the barbecue meat wrapped in perilla leaves in one gulp.

"Yeah! The barbecue is fragrant, the vegetables are also very refreshing, and the sauce inside is also very good, continue."

ah?continue?What to continue?

Xia Xiaoqiao was stunned for a moment, seeing that Jiang Yuanzhen had no intention of doing it himself, and suddenly understood that the local tyrant wanted him to provide hands-on services, yes!The customer is the Jade Emperor, isn't it just a barbecue?In the past, some customers who came to his private restaurant to eat roast duck did not like to roll the roast duck by themselves. They thought the sauce would not wash off their hands, so they usually asked him to roll the duck and serve it on the table. Xia Xiaoqiao rolled it while rolling it. While grilling meat, he thought, is this local tyrant still a clean freak?

What he didn't expect at all was that the person in front of him was not a clean freak, but a cook who had never done anything himself since he became the emperor. He dared to ask His Majesty to roll the barbecue himself. He must have been sent to death row, right?

After eating, this time the local tyrant did not reward any more gold and silver, but clapped his hands, and asked someone to bring over a heavy leather bag: "Open it and see if it is convenient for you?"

conveniently?Could it be some peerless weapon?Is he finally going to learn from a teacher and learn magic skills to achieve great success, dominate the world and achieve the pinnacle of life?Xia Xiaoqiao opened the cowhide bag with trembling hands excitedly.

Then, in front of him was a whole row of various models and sizes—cut!vegetable!knife!

"This, this is all for me?" Xia Xiaoqiao asked with a forced smile.

"Well, bone cutting knife, kitchen knife, boning knife, descaling knife... should be complete, right? Yellow Gouer?" Jiang Yuanzhen looked at Huang Gouer.

"Your Majesty, it is the countryside after all, there are not many varieties, and the materials are not top-notch. Xia Xiaolang will make do with it first. When I turn around, I will order someone to go to the big city to buy some better ones." Concealing his identity in front of him, Huang Gou'er immediately changed his words, and his ability to adapt to changes was excellent. His Majesty the Emperor nodded in satisfaction.

"Oh, no need! This is already very good." Xia Xiaoqiao looked at the whole set of handmade knives with satisfaction. The only regret is that the descaling knives may be idle. The fish here have already caused Xia Xiaoqiao to produce a lot. Serious psychological shadow, he doesn't want to see these (raised by eating human flesh) fish and shrimps in the short term.

Xia Xiaoqiao was very happy to get a whole set of new knives by accident. This was the first set of knives that belonged to him in this strange ancient time!A well-mannered old chef has to sacrifice the knife when changing a new knife. After the new knife is sharpened, he chooses a rooster with a beautiful coat, kills the rooster to get the blood, burns incense, recites the knife curse, and finally sprinkles the chicken blood on the on the knife.

It is said that the sacrificial knives don’t cut hands, don’t stick, and don’t blunt. They are very easy to use. When Xia Xiaoqiao was a child, his grandmother taught him the first set of sacrificial knives. At that time, he was just learning to cook. I specially asked an old craftsman to order a set of small-sized knives for him, and it is still hidden in his home, alas!I don't know what to do with the things at home when he comes here.

The rooster that sacrificed the knife was a pheasant caught by Jiang Yuanzhen's guards in the mountains. This guard brother is probably also a smart foodie, thinking that since they have all entered the mountain, they simply caught more prey, except for what Xia Xiaoqiao asked for by name. In addition to the big rooster, a half-sized wild boar and an animal similar to a roe deer were caught, and they were all washed and washed by the river and sent over.

After the big rooster was brought to sacrifice the knife, it was plucked and cut into pieces by the cruel cook, and stuffed into a pot to make a stone pot chicken. The animal meat similar to roe deer is very tender. Xia Xiaoqiao ground some spices and prepared it to spread on it. The meat is marinated for a while, and the grilled meat is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, very delicious.More than half of the wild boar was reserved for dinner. A pork leg was left alone to roast for Jiang Yuanzhen's exclusive enjoyment. Xia Xiaoqiao threw the pig's head into a large pot to stew. When the time came, the pig's head was picked off and braised in brown sauce. It was also a very good dish. As an appetizer, the stewed bone soup should not be wasted, save it for the noodles at night.

"Our Majesty is really good food! Xia Xiaolang is really good at cooking!" After eating the delicious stone pot chicken, Hei Gou'er added three bowls of yellow rice in one go.

"Hey! I'm afraid it won't be long before we have to change our name to Niangniang~" Huang Gou'er smiled and looked at Xia Xiaoqiao who was squatting on the side to barbecue for His Majesty, and felt more and more that His Majesty's marriage came too late. Back then, if His Majesty How could the future generations be taught by a well-educated, gentle and virtuous empress like Xia Xiaoqiao, so how could there be the tragedy of the country's ruin and family destruction?Sigh~ After all, His Majesty has committed too many crimes. Fortunately, God opened his eyes and sent Xia Xiaolang to His Majesty.

Back in the day, after His Majesty was crowned the Great Treasure, he was reluctant to accept the concubine, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty wished to remonstrate with the dead. Later, His Majesty had to ask the imperial doctor to spread the word, saying that it was because of the years of fighting that damaged his body. He did not choose a young man from the royal family to be the crown prince, and this blocked the mouths of civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty.With the crown prince, the eyes of the big guys naturally began to stare at the position of the third division next to the prince, the position of the crown princess, the position of the crown prince Liangdi, the crown prince's concubine, etc., and finally stopped staring hard at His Majesty.

In fact, in the whole court, only Huang Gou'er knew that his Majesty was not inhumane as rumored outside, and many times he secretly tidied His Majesty's dirty sheets after getting up... However, he didn't know His Majesty either. Why don't you want to be a concubine, don't you like women as much as yourself?

If Huang Gou'er travels to modern times, he can probably understand that his beloved Emperor is not unwilling to get married, but suffers from a relatively rare mental illness among humans, called "spiritual cleanliness".

After dinner, Xia Xiaoqiao was going to look for that second-hand tub, but Huang Gouer tried to stop him when he found out, and promised to bring him a new tub next time he went shopping. He just gave up, anyway, he didn't want to use the bath tub that someone else had used.

"Huh, fortunately it's useless. Your Majesty hates using other people's things the most. If Xia Xiaolang serves His Majesty in the future, why should our Majesty use the bathtubs used by those dirty soldiers?" Thinking of this, Huang Gou'er asked I feel like I did the right thing.