I was a prince in ancient times

Although Lu Chengjie had prepared very carefully, the mansion where Xie Anlan stayed was deserted and unpopular on New Year's Eve.

"It's okay, it's better to be quiet." Xie Anlan stood on the porch, reached out to catch a snowflake, and let it blow off, not caring at all.

No one stipulates that the Chinese New Year must be lively and lively, and it is fine now.

"Your Highness has been wronged." Lu Chengjia lowered his eyes as he looked at the blown snowflakes.

In the final analysis, it was because he was a man, so he was not very good at housework. If another woman came, the prince might not have such a good year.

Xie Anlan took his somewhat cold hand and warmed it in the palm of his hand, "I have nothing to wrong, it should be you who wronged me, you didn't enjoy a day of happiness with me, the first year was like this .”

Lu Chengke shook his head, "Chengke is a man who doesn't care about the red tape."

Xie Anlan smiled, "That's it. You are a man and I am a man. I don't care about either. Instead of complaining about myself here, why not..."

Lu Chengjiao raised the end of his eyes, "Why not?"

"Why don't they be busy on the first day of the new year, and I'll take you to a two-person world that only belongs to the two of us."

"A world that only belongs to the two of us... two people?" Lu Chengjia's voice was soft, touching people's hearts like snowflakes.

Xie Anlan stretched out a hand, hooked the bridge of his nose, and said with a smile, "Do you want to go?"

"Think." Lu Chengjie blinked his eyes that seemed to be filled with clear springs, and then nodded.

After receiving the answer, Xie Anlan took Lu Lu to the back kitchen, instructed the kitchen staff to let go of his hand, and took the initiative to bring him a chair for him to sit obediently.

He rolled up his thick sleeves and was ready to go.

"Your Highness... what are you going to do?" Lu Chengjie sat on the chair, watching Xie Anlan roll up his sleeves, standing in front of the chopping board like a cook, gesticulating with a kitchen knife.

Xie Anlan smiled, "I want to make you a New Year's Eve dish with my own hands, just sit down obediently and wait for me to cook it for you."

Lu Chengjiao sat on the chair, spread his hands, and used his index finger to draw two little people clinging to each other on the palm of his hand, "So the world of two people that the prince said is such a world."

Xie Anlan gestured at the meat on the chopping board for a while, and when she heard what Lu Chengjia said, she explained with a smile, "Yeah, look, there is no one else in this kitchen, just you and me, does it seem like a small world. "

"En." Lu Chengjia didn't know what to say for a while, so he nodded slightly.

"If you like it in the future, we will often sneak out without them on the first day of the junior high school, how about it?" Xie Anlan cut a few pieces of meat in a mess, washed the pot, and went to the stove, ready to light a fire.

But Xie Anlan had never used an earthen stove in two lifetimes combined, so it took a lot of effort to start a fire.

The dignified prince, who grew up in rich clothes and fine food, was aloof, not to mention cooking, even the person who had never stepped into the back kitchen a few times, now he was lying under the stove, clumsily washing his hands and making soup for him.

Lu Chengjie didn't know how to get it, and suddenly felt that such a two-person world was pretty good.

When Xie Anlan got off the stove and raised his head again, there was a lot of pot ashes on his hands and face, and by the way, there was a strong smell of smoke.

"Cough, cough, it's happening." Xie Anlan was so choked by the thick smoke that tears were about to fall, and she rubbed it with the back of her hand. After rubbing it well, her eyelids also turned black.

Lu Chengjie couldn't help but chuckled, "Your Highness is alright, do you need my help?"

"No, no, just sit down." Xie Anlan waved his hand, took a basin to clean his hands and face again, and returned to the stove to start his difficult journey of cooking.

Fortunately, after a while of fuss, the smell of meat finally came out of the pot.

Xie Anlan smiled with satisfaction, found a porcelain white plate, filled the pot with the brightly colored braised pork, and placed it in front of Lu Chengjie.

Full of expectation, he said, "Try it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lu Chengjia wiped off the stains on Xie Anlan's face with his white sleeves, then held up his chopsticks and tasted them.

"How is it?" Seeing Lu Chengjia try it, Xie Anlan froze for a long time without speaking, a little anxious.

"No, just spit it out, don't swallow it, the result is not important, the process is what matters." Xie Anlan was a little panicked, he had been taught how to cook in his two lifetimes, and he finally had a whim so that he wouldn't scare Lu Let's take a boat.

Just when Xie Anlan was so anxious to pat Lu Chengke's back, Lu Chengke said slowly, "It's delicious."

Xie Anlan couldn't laugh or cry, poured a glass of water to rinse his mouth with him, "It's all like this, don't force yourself to praise me against your will."

"It's not against my will. It's really delicious. I was just surprised by His Highness's craftsmanship." Lu Chengjie didn't take the tea cup in Xie Anlan's hand, but put a piece of meat for him with his own hands, and put it to his mouth, "Your Highness If you don’t believe it, try it yourself.”

Xie Anlan swallowed the letter with suspicion.

The bright red braised pork is slightly sweet in the mouth and melts with a sip. It has a rich taste and is fat but not greasy.

Xie Anlan's eyes lit up, "It's really good."

It didn't even fail.

I have to say luck.

"His Royal Highness, this dish is very good. It is mixed with icing sugar, suitable for all ages. Cheng Jie is very curious, what else His Highness does not know." Lu Cheng Jie admitted that he felt a little frustrated just now.

His Highness seems to be better than others in everything. He is thoughtful and can think of what others don't think. Unexpected surprises can often bring unexpected surprises.

It seems that the only thing he can compare with His Highness is money.

But in fact, as a prince, His Highness is not short of money.

Not to mention that His Majesty's casual rewards are tens of thousands of taels, and the prince himself is not bad. Saddles, icing sugar, etc. can make great profits. Coupled with the ability to cook, it will never be a shortage in the future. Money.

If His Highness had money, would he no longer need him?

"I'll show you one by one later, okay?" Although Lu Chengjiao spoke with a smile, Xie Anlan could hear his loneliness, and boldly put his arms around his neck.

Being so close to Lu Chengke, Lu Chengke nodded unnaturally.

Fortunately, soon the footsteps of servants came from outside, breaking Lu Chengjiao's embarrassment.

"My lord and my concubine, there are many carriages outside, and they are said to be New Year gifts from the imperial capital."

Hearing the servant's voice, Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjia stood up from their chairs, tidied their clothes, opened the kitchen door, and left for the front hall.

"You sent someone to deliver it?"

"You sent someone to deliver it?"

Looking at several carriages parked outside the house, the two asked each other in unison.

After hearing that the other party didn't know about it, both of them were at a loss. It couldn't be prepared by Uncle Fu and the others.

The result is really not.

It was given by Xie Cangming.

Xie Anlan contributed a lot to defending Yicheng this year, but Xie Anlan is already a prince, and there is nothing left to reward him.

It happened that Xie Cangming thought that Xie Anlan's fief was still in the hands of the enemy and hadn't paid tribute all these years, so he gave him most of the tribute from the palace.

There were too many things, and it would take too much manpower and material resources to bring them all to Yicheng, so I first picked up some that could be used for the New Year and sent them to Xie Anlan, and piled up the rest in his Chenwang Mansion.

Xie Anlan took the order and glanced at it. Most of them were food and clothing that could not be found at the border. Putting down the order, she searched in several horse workshops and found a wooden box frozen with ice cubes. She opened it and looked at it. Look, moving in front of Lu Chengjiao, he said, "Brother Huang has a heart."

"What is it?" Lu Chengjia was a little curious, why Xie Anlan moved this box with so many things.

"Your favorite pineapples." Xie Anlan opened the wooden box, revealing a few yellow and orange pineapples frozen in ice.

Lu Chengjie was slightly surprised.

"I heard it mentioned by chance on the first day of the junior high school. It's rare that the emperor sent some this time. I have something to do with the vigil tonight." Xie Anlan smiled, and ordered the servants to take down the pineapple and defrost it.

In the Yong Dynasty, pineapples were only available in Lingnan area, not in the imperial capital and Yicheng, and it was not a product of these two days. Only the royal family could eat them in winter.

Because Xie Anlan occupied the kitchen for half a day, and His Majesty sent someone to give the New Year gift, today's New Year's Eve dinner was late.

Fortunately, they are all on vigil, and it's okay to be late at one and a half.

Candles filled the hall, illuminating the good wine and good food on the table in the middle. There was no strings and bamboo tubes, no singers dancing, and there were not even two servants serving them. far away.

Xie Anlan took a look, took the seat generously, smiled at the flickering candles in the hall, and said, "Candlelight dinner is not bad for Chinese New Year."

Lu Chengjie sat beside Xie Anlan and smiled comfortingly.

Xie Anlan really didn't care, and thoughtlessly picked up a bunch of vegetables for Lu Chengjiao, "Even if it's just the two of us, we should have a better time this year, if you don't eat, you'll starve to death on the first day of the new year. "

"I don't." Lu Chu, who was standing aside after being teased by the prince, retorted in a low voice.

Indeed, because His Majesty sent many New Year's gifts, there were many delicacies on the table that he had never tasted before, which made him secretly swallow his saliva several times, but he was not as greedy as the prince said.

"It's okay, I'll ask Chen Gui to tell you about the taste later." Xie Anlan didn't care much about Lu Chuyi's rebuttal.

Lu Chuyi, "..."

Chen Gui is Xie Anlan's special poison tester, every dish on the table has to be tasted by him before serving, so he knows what it tastes like.

Chen Gui saw that the lord ordered him, and the resentment of taking the blame for the lord yesterday disappeared, instead he straightened his back, as if he had reversed his sentence.

When interrupted by them, the deserted atmosphere in the hall disappeared, Lu Chengjie smiled, and swallowed all the food Xie Anlan gave him.

With a table of dishes, the two of them opened their mouths to eat, but they couldn't eat much, and the rest was rewarded to the waiting servants below.

These servants are all people living on the border, and they have never even seen the tribute paid to the palace, let alone eaten it.

When I did it, I asked Chen Gui again and again before I dared to do it.

Now that they got rewards, they kowtowed in front of Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjie one by one.

Lu Chengjie wrapped a red envelope for each of his servants. Although he hadn't gotten along with them for a long time, he could see their seriousness in doing things.

The servants who received rewards and rewards were ecstatic. This was not only an affirmation of their work, but also an encouragement to them.

Pineapple does not need to be soaked in salt water like pineapple. After the New Year's Eve dinner, someone will bring up the peeled and cut pineapple.

The two sat in the hall with pineapples and started chatting.

After a while, Lu Chengjia couldn't bear it any longer, and fell asleep leaning on the chair.

"Master." Lu Chuyi wanted to wake him up, but Xie Anlan stopped him.

"Your young master is also tired these days, let him rest, it doesn't matter if he stays on guard this night." Xie Anlan came to Lu Chengjia's side as he spoke, picked him up carefully, and left the hall.

"Well……"

As soon as Xie Anlan carried him back to the room, he woke up slowly by himself.

"Sleep when you're tired, I'll be with you." Xie Anlan put her on the bed carefully, and smiled softly.

"It's not good if you don't watch the night." Lu Chengjiao's consciousness was still a little wandering. When Xie Anlan pulled his hand, he unconsciously rubbed his elbow with his face.

This was the first time Xie Anlan saw Lu Chengjiao acting like a baby, and his heart skipped a beat.

She leaned close to his face and coaxed, "Then what do you want?"

Lu Chengjie thought for a while and reached out to wrap his arms around Xie Anlan's waist, so that both of them could hear each other's heartbeat, "That's good."

The hot breath that was exhaled, slightly reeking of alcohol, hit Xie Anlan's face, causing him to feel confused for a moment.

It took a while to gradually regain clarity.

Xie Anlan lowered his eyelids, looked at Lu Chengji's porcelain-white skin with almost invisible pores, lowered his head and couldn't help rubbing his nose lightly, and asked with a smile, "It's so cold in Yicheng. Why is your skin still so enviable?"

The eyes of the two men looked at each other within an inch, and Lu Chengjiao's eyelashes could touch Xie Anlan's with a flick of his eyelashes. Seeing that he was the one who was full of reflections in those deep pupils on weekdays, Lu Chengjiao's His hands not only clenched the quilt under him tightly.

She wanted to tilt her head slightly to avoid embarrassment, but unexpectedly, her lips touched another soft place.

Zheng was stunned, not knowing what to do with himself, so he just stopped in place, not moving.

Xie Anlan smiled, covered Lu Chengjiao's eyes with his hands, and took the initiative to deepen this superficial kiss.

Except for the last time to comfort Lu Chengjiao, Xie Anlan kissed someone for the first time in two lifetimes, and her kissing skills were not much worse than Lu Chengjiao's.

But for a moment, Xie Anlan let go of the person who had almost forgotten to breathe.

He took off his shoes, took the initiative to step over him, entered the inside of the bed, and was about to pull the quilt over and lie down.

"Your Highness..." Lu Chengjia didn't know what he thought of, and he got up from the bed with great reaction, trying to stop him, but he couldn't.

Xie Anlan took a look at the quilt, and there were two puppet figures who were put to sleep together by Lu Chengjiao lying under the quilt.

Lu Chengjie, "..."

Lu Chengjia lowered his head, like a child who has done something wrong, at a loss.

Xie Anlan smiled, moved the two puppets to a different position, put them as they were, covered them with a quilt, and lay down by herself, stretching out an arm, the meaning was self-evident.

Lu Chengjie lowered his eyes, froze for a moment, and laid down on Xie Anlan's arm leisurely.

As soon as he lay down, the person under him embraced him and gave him a warm embrace.

"Hold me for a while." Xie Anlan put his arms around Lu Chengjia's waist, buried his head in his neck, smelled the vague fragrance from his body, and suddenly felt the fatigue of his whole body was relaxed.

The two hugged each other, and neither of them wanted to sleep.

In the end, Lu Chengjie couldn't hold on any longer, and took the initiative to chat, "Does Your Highness really want to sell the saddles to merchants after the workshop finishes making the saddles for the army?"

"En." Xie Anlan responded lightly, knowing what Lu Chengke was worried about, and closed his eyes lightly, "I can't help it, most people in the Grassland Department already know the existence of the saddle by now."

The last time they defended Yicheng, the Yongchao cavalry chased down many cavalry from the grassland department. It is impossible for them not to see the clue.

In addition, the Grassland Department has been fighting with Yongchao all year round and spies on each other. The fact that Yongchao took out a gun this time is enough to make them vigilant, let alone a saddle.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Anlan said, "In addition, the production method of the saddle is simple, and others can imitate it as soon as they get it. Dare, the second is that my price is too low, the cost of a pair of saddles is more than two taels, speaking of which, I have to thank you for giving me such a low leather price."

As Xie Anlan said, he hugged Lu Chengjiao tightly again, "Tomorrow, Marquis Weiyuan and General Huo are going to go to war, and I just want to catch them off guard when the grassland people haven't fully made the saddle. .”

Tomorrow, the first day of the new year, the first day of the new year, thousands of people will take on the destiny of guarding this dynasty.

"Your Highness... What if Cheng Jie said he could prevent it?" Lu Chengjia said as he turned around and counted Xie Anlan's eyelashes.

"Huh?" Xie Anlan raised his eyes and looked at him puzzled.

"What do you need most to make a saddle?" Lu Chengke smiled faintly.

"Skin." After Xie Anlan answered, she was startled and looked at Lu Chengjiao in disbelief.

"You bought all the skins of the grassland?" Xie Anlan asked abruptly.

"The grassland is so big, my family can't collect it all." Lu Chengke shook his head, then said with a smile, "But it's okay to collect all the leather around the grassland."

"How much will it cost?" Xie Anlan was surprised.

"It's probably the money that His Highness bought two pieces of wasteland." Lu Chengjia calculated with his fingers.

"So cheap?" Even if the prairie people don't take the leather seriously, it won't be so cheap as the price of cabbage.

Lu Chengjie smiled, "Prairie people don't understand leather tanning at all. They only use coarse salt to rub it, or expose it to the sun. Such leather can't last two years at all, but cloth can't. Same, it can be kept for more than ten years. I used to exchange one piece of cloth for all the leathers of a grassland family. Since the prince made the saddle, I added one piece of cloth to two pieces of cloth, and the whole grassland went crazy. I I can guarantee that they won't be able to make it in a short time after they get the saddle making method."

When Lu Chengjie spoke, his eyes were full of confidence, like a night sky full of stars, shining brightly in the dark night.

"Fortunately, Princess Chen is courageous and far-sighted." Xie Anlan didn't hold back, and kissed those eyes that people couldn't take their eyes off.

Lu Chengjiao paused, the back of his ears felt hot, and after a while, he looked at Xie Anlan pitifully, "But... but... I have no money."

20 taels of silver, his entire net worth, is now depleted.

"How do you want me to repay it?" Xie Anlan raised the corners of his eyes, waiting for Lu Chengjiao to give him an answer.

What returned to him was a series of long-sleeping breathing sounds.

Xie Anlan poked his face without even shaking his eyelids. It seemed that he was really tired and fell asleep.

"Hey..." This time it was Xie Anlan's turn to sigh leisurely, hugged Lu Chengjiao in his arms, and fell into a deep sleep.

While the two of them were sound asleep, the people in the Grassland Department couldn't sleep all night.

Their spies in the Yong Dynasty learned that the sky thunder that scattered their prairie tribe last time was not witchcraft, but gun|powder invented by a prince of their Yong Dynasty.

And their spies also found out that the prince not only invented powerful gun|powder, but also invented a saddle that could keep pace with their grassland riding skills.

This news one after another directly stunned the people in the Grassland Department.

One must know that the magic weapon for their victory in the grasslands is far superior to the Yongchao people's riding skills, and now the Yongchao people's riding skills are comparable to theirs, so they still have nothing to win.

And they still have such powerful gun|powder!

"Could it be that the fate has returned to the Yongchao people?" Meng Hewei, the leader of the Grassland Department, sat on the dragon chair, holding a wine glass and frowning.

"It's impossible, Father Khan. The National Teacher said that the destiny of the next 300 years belongs to our grassland department." Meng Heduo stared red and refused to accept this statement.

Meng Hewei glanced at the third son, feeling a little displeased in his heart. It was the first time he had suffered such a big loss in the hands of the Yongchao people after standing down with Yongchao all these years. It was all because of the third son's willful behavior. After all, he glanced down.

Being looked at displeased by his father, Meng Hedo didn't dare to say anything no matter how unhappy he was, and poured himself a glass of bitter wine without frowning, and swallowed a large bowl of bitter wine go down.

The Grassland Department has no food to make wine, so they use a unique bitter grass on the grassland to make wine. Even if it is bitter, it is better than drinking without wine.

However, there are not many people who can swallow a large bowl of such bitter wine without frowning.

It can be seen that there is a ruthlessness in Monhedo.

This was originally what Menghewei liked the most about Monhedo, but after making a mistake this time, his advantage was infinitely magnified by Menghewei into a disadvantage.

Of course, in addition to making this mistake, Monhedo also broke through Yanhe and occupied two cities in the Yong Dynasty. This is why Menghewei did not punish Menghedo.

The merits and demerits are equal.

"Father Khan, our spies in the Yong Dynasty not only found out this, they also learned how to make that thing called a saddle. As long as we grassland people also master this saddle, they Yongchao people will not be able to turn it over." What are the waves?" Meng Hewei's second son jumped out immediately when he saw that Meng Hedo had fallen out of favor.

"Well, Ming'er did a good job this time." After hearing this, Meng Hewei praised his second son Meng Heming without hesitation.

After thinking for a while, he finally said, "I'll leave the matter of the saddle to you, Ming'er. You must equip our troops when the Yong Dynasty people attack."

"Yes." Among the three sons, Meng Heming, who had never had a sense of presence, raised his eyebrows provocatively at the third brother Meng Heduo as if he had been greatly encouraged.

"The villain is successful." Meng He didn't even look at Meng Heming, he was just a second brother who didn't have military power in his hands, even if he made a saddle, he couldn't threaten him.

What he really needs to be afraid of is that big brother Meng Hewu who has been sitting beside his father Khan, silently pouring wine for his father Khan and not talking.

"Father, the matter of the saddle is settled, what about the matter of the gunpowder, the gunpowder is hidden in the court, and there is no news about it." Meng Heduo drank another pinch of bitter wine, out of breath Shun asked.

Meng Hewei didn't even look at his third son, but looked sideways at Meng Hewu who was beside him and asked, "Wu'er, what do you think?"

Meng Hewu didn't even lift his eyelids, like a person without any emotions, "Whoever develops it, just kidnaps people."

Meng Hewei immediately laughed, "Wu'er is right, as long as the person who developed this is taken captive, and they hide things to death, it will not help."

Meng Heming listened to his father's elder brother and younger brother's words, and felt that he had nothing to do with himself, so he quietly resigned and went to do the work that his father Khan had entrusted to him.

Among the three brothers, he is the only one who has no military power. Now that there is finally a matter that can be related to military power, he must do his best to do it well, so that his father Khan will treat him differently!

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-06-1923:56:16~2020-06-2023:53:17期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: there is 2 idler;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of Shen Yuyan; 4 bottles of Laotubaljiang;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!