I was a prince in ancient times

Lu Chengjie didn't think too much, rubbed his empty stomach, and went straight to the main hall.

At this time in the main hall, servants were already serving dishes one after another. Lu Chengjia raised his eyes and searched the main hall, then looked at the sky outside, then turned to Lu Chuyi and asked, "Your Highness, have you eaten?" ?"

"No, my lord hastily ate a bowl of porridge in the morning, and stayed in the study all the time." Lu Chuyi replied truthfully.

"Early?"

Lu Chengjie squinted his eyes. If he remembered correctly, the two of them had tossed until dawn last night.

Xie Anlan went to the study early in the morning...

Didn't he stay up all night?

Lu Chengjie pinched his jaw, frowned slightly, thinking about everything.

"Master, shall I call the prince?" Lu Chuyi asked behind his back when he saw him like this.

"No need, I'll just eat by myself." Lu Chengke shook his head, "Let's deliver some meals to His Highness's study as usual later."

When Xie Anlan was busy before, he ate in the study by himself, and he couldn't eat at that time, so he didn't bother.

After a month, he got used to being alone.

At the dining table, four or five delicate and delicious delicacies had been served at this time, seeing Lu Chengjiao's appetite whetted, he held the chopsticks and tasted every one of them.

The delicacy bloomed on the taste buds, Lu Chengke's eyes lit up, and he turned his head and asked, "Such delicious food, but Your Highness recruited a chef for the house?"

Now his palate has been spoiled by Xie Anlan's scallop powder. Ordinary delicacies are difficult for him to catch, but today's meal is delicious.

After people have tasted it, even the imperial food in the palace can be ignored.

The family banquet in the palace last time was actually not as bad as what Princess Kang Jing said. Anyway, Lu Chengjiao ate quite well. If he hadn't been thinking wildly and messing up his mind, he could have tasted more.

But after tasting the food in his house today, he doesn't like the imperial food very much.

"No." Lu Chuyi smiled mysteriously, "Master, you can guess who made this meal."

"Could it be His Highness?"

Lu Chengjie remembered the plate of braised pork that Xie Anlan made for him in Yicheng.

Although the price is a bit off, the taste is still good.

Today's meal is much more delicate than the plate of braised pork, and the taste has also risen to several levels.

It doesn't look like something His Highness can make.

But when he saw Lu Chuyi's expression, he must be someone he couldn't imagine.

and so……

Lu Chuyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Master, besides the prince, there is no one else in your heart?"

Lu Chengjiao glanced at him, then guessed, "It can't be you."

Lu Chuyi's culinary skills were comparable to his, and besides, he walked around in front of him every day and was busy with business chores, so he probably didn't have time to learn cooking skills.

"It's morning dew." Lu Chu couldn't guess when he saw Lu Chengjiao, so he took the initiative to say the answer.

"It's her?" Lu Chengjia was surprised.

The two maids, Chaoyun and Chaolu, were the two personal maids who accompanied him when he was married from the Hou's mansion.

When Xie Anlan went to Yicheng, the Prince Chen's Mansion hadn't left anyone yet, so they had to stay with the two of them to take care of the Palace. Unexpectedly, it's only been half a year now, but it seems that something has changed.

Lu Chengjiao could still recall the first meal Chaolu cooked in a hurry in this mansion.

The taste is just as good as edible, and now the craftsmanship has become so good?

"Master, you can't think of it. After we went to Yicheng, the two maids also had a lot of leisure in the mansion, so Chao Lu learned cooking skills from others, and Chao Yun learned housekeeping from Fu Bo. Now one of them is One of the cooks in the mansion is the butler." Lu Chuyi also sighed when he said it.

"Really, why didn't I notice?" Lu Chengjia was taken aback. It has been a month since he returned to the palace, but he didn't notice these things at all.

"Master, since you came back, you have lost your appetite and are indecisive every day. You can't even eat a piece of fruit, let alone these meals." Lu Chuyi looked at Lu Chengjiao's thin and pointed chin worriedly , explained.

"Oh." Lu Chengjie took a few mouthfuls of food with downcast eyes, and when he remembered, it seemed to be true.

"It turns out that Chaolu's craftsmanship is not so good. After the prince discovered that she had the potential to be a cook, he went to the back kitchen to teach her a few times. Every time he made a new meal, the prince ordered his servants to send it to you, the young master." It's a pity that you couldn't take a bite of it, young master." Lu Chu first saw that Lu Chengke was in a good mood today, and he was able to eat something, so he babbled and talked.

Lu Chengjiao's movements paused, and his expression was a little unnatural. For the past month, he lived in a daze every day, and he really didn't know much about these things.

Now that I know the truth...

regret……

I am very sorry.

If I had known, His Highness pointed out these things for him to taste, and he would eat them even if he was hungry.

"On the first day of junior high school, add another bowl."

Lu Chengjie suppressed the remorse in his heart, and pushed the bowl in his hand towards Lu Chuyi, quite unwillingly.

"Master, it's already the fourth bowl."

Lu Chu took a look at the empty job bowl again, and couldn't help reminding him aloud.

Lu Chengjie rubbed his feelingless stomach, and said aggrievedly, "But I'm so hungry..."

"Master, I can't add any more."

Lu Chuyi frowned, and cruelly rejected Lu Chengjia's request. The young master hadn't eaten much in the past month, and now he overeats like this, which will hurt his stomach.

Lu Chengjiao frowned dissatisfiedly, he was really hungry.

"Go down and ask the kitchen to prepare some porridge."

Seeing the stalemate between the two of them, Xie Anlan stepped in from the door and took the initiative to break the deadlock.

Both Lu Chengjie and Lu Chuyi's expressions froze.

They didn't notice Xie Anlan's existence at all, and they didn't know how much he had listened to the conversation between the two of them.

"My lord." Lu Chuyi saluted Xie Anlan with a pale face.

Xie Anlan didn't seem to see the embarrassment of the two of them, she came to Lu Chengke with a smile, put a bowl in her hand down in front of him, and looked at him with a half-smile.

Lu Chengjie didn't dare to look at Xie Anlan, looked down at the bowl in front of him, and changed the subject, "What is this?"

"Didn't you say that you have a bitter summer and a loss of appetite? I specially asked the kitchen to prepare it for you. You can try it." Xie Anlan glanced at Lu Chengjia's thin and pointed chin, and said calmly.

"Okay." Lu Chengjie responded, nervously picked up the spoon in the bowl, and quickly put two mouthfuls into his mouth.

What Xie Anlan gave him was actually nothing unusual, it was a bowl of shaved ice topped with all kinds of crushed fruit.

As soon as the ice-cold shattered ice is in your mouth, it has the unique sweetness of the fruit, which drives away the sweltering heat in summer.

Lu Chengji himself is not afraid of heat because of his cold body, but he also feels comfortable eating such cool food in the hot summer.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Lu Chengjie took a sip, looked at Xie Anlan with bright eyes, and thanked Xie Anlan. At the end, he scooped up another spoonful and brought it to his lips.

The meaning is self-evident.

Xie Anlan took a look at him, met those bright and flattering eyes, finally lost the battle, lowered her head, and swallowed the shaved ice he fed.

Stretching out a hand to rub his thin jaw, feeling the somewhat crooked bones, his eyes darkened, and he said in a warm voice, "No matter what, you must remember to eat in the future."

Lu Chengjiao's eyelashes trembled, and he said in his heart that it was true.

When Xie Anlan walked in from the door just now, he knew that he might have heard the whole conversation between him and the first day of junior high school.

"If you feel uncomfortable, or if there is anything wrong, you can tell me." Xie Anlan said this, squinting at Lu Chuyi who was standing tremblingly behind him, and said coldly, "You are a loyal , It’s just that cleverness is useless.”

Lu Chuyi quickly understood what Xie Anlan meant.

If their young master was ill during this period, he could have told the prince earlier, the young master would not be so thin.

"Yes." Lu Chuyi lowered his head, he knew what to do next time.

"I told him not to tell you..." Lu Chengjie saw that Lu Chuyi was the most frightened and trembling, and took the initiative to admit his mistake.

Xie Anlan turned her eyes back again, and didn't get angry with him. He just felt sorry for this person, why didn't he know how to love himself well.

"Eat." Xie Anlan took the new bowls and chopsticks added by the servants, sat next to Lu Chengjiao, and started to eat with a few chopsticks.

At this time, the servants also brought up the clear porridge arranged by Xie Anlan. Lu Chengjia carefully held the clear porridge, looked at Xie Anlan and lowered his head to take a bite.

"Aren't you hungry?" Xie Anlan gulped down a few mouthfuls indiscriminately. Seeing him like this, she turned her head and asked with her phoenix eyes raised.

"hungry……"

Lu Chengjie responded, raised his head and swallowed all the porridge in the bowl.

"... Slow down," Xie Anlan was afraid that he would choke and snatch his bowl, "I won't fight with you, what are you in a hurry for?"

"hungry……"

Lu Chengjie didn't know what was wrong with him, his stomach was like a bottomless pit, and he couldn't feel full no matter how much he ate.

Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows, and put the bowl in her hand aside, "Don't eat it yet, you go to Uncle Fu on the first day of the new year, and ask him to invite an imperial doctor to come and take a look."

"It should be fine. Apart from being hungry, I don't feel any other discomfort." Seeing that Xie Anlan wanted to ask the imperial doctor for such a trivial matter, Lu Chengjie hurriedly stopped him.

Xie Anlan didn't follow him, "It's okay, I can feel at ease when I find a doctor to come over and have a look."

Seeing that Xie Anlan insisted, Lu Chengjie didn't stop him anymore and let him go.

Not long after, Uncle Fu invited the imperial doctor.

After examining the pulse, the imperial doctor smiled, "My lord, my concubine is fine. He must have been depressed some time ago and lost his appetite, so he closed his appetite. Now that his heart is open and his appetite is open, his food will naturally increase, and he will eat more." Some easy-to-digest foods won’t hurt your body.”

After the imperial doctor finished speaking, he wrote another prescription for nourishing qi and nourishing the stomach, and left.

Lu Chuyi accepted the prescription carefully, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what kind of medicine, tonic, prescription, it's not as good as the young master sleeping with the prince.

Look at the young master who couldn't eat alive some time ago, just slept with the prince for one night, and when he woke up, he could stuff a cow—how wonderful.

Hearing that the imperial doctor said that he was fine, Lu Chengjie could finally open his belly and eat.

He picked up the bowl of shaved ice that Xie Anlan specially made for him, and began to eat in small bites.

Halfway through eating, he suddenly felt something was wrong, looked up at Xie Anlan who was eating slowly, and asked suddenly, "Your Highness, where did you buy this ice?"

If he remembered correctly, there was no ice cellar in the Prince Chen's Mansion, and there was no ice storage.

And there shouldn't be much ice in other prince's mansions, even the supply of ice in the palace is fixed, so where did the ice in his hand come from?

"It's made of Glauber's salt." Xie Anlan finished eating, calmly wiped the corners of his lips with a silk cloth, and replied nonchalantly.

"Grabilite can also be used to make ice!"

Lu Chengjie stood up from the chair with a jerk, and looked at Xie Anlan in surprise.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that he was so excited, Xie Anlan raised her phoenix eyes slightly and looked at him suspiciously.

Being watched by Xie Anlan, Lu Chengjia also realized that he was too excited, walked up and down in the main hall, and took a deep breath to calm down.

Only then did he sit next to Xie Anlan again, and said to Xie Anlan seriously, "Your Highness knows that I was in the fur business before."

"Yes." Xie Anlan nodded.

"Does Your Highness know how my leather is tanned?" Lu Chengjiao asked again.

Xie Anlan narrowed her phoenix eyes, thought about it seriously, and finally shook her head, "How did you tan it?"

"There are many ways to tan leather, and our Lu family has mastered one of them, tanning, using Glauber's salt to process fur." ​​Lu Chengjie said slowly with a little excitement.

"I have to buy a lot of leather from the grasslands every year. Of course, I am not satisfied with just buying thenardite, so I bought a few thenardite mines." Anyway, the thenardite is not expensive, and it doesn't cost much to buy mines.

Xie Anlan is such a smart person, he figured out all the tricks at once, and squinted his eyes, "That's why you made the gunpowder and saltpeter last time, so you can get such a large dose in such a short period of time."

Although gunpowder is different from the saltpeter used to make ice, they have similarities, and it is not difficult to find them.

At that time, he felt that Lu Chengke's reaction was so fast, he had already done it before he came to talk to him about buying saltpeter.

It turned out to be waiting for him here.

"Your Highness, with this saltpeter to make ice, the Glauber's salt I bought will come in handy." Lu Chengjie said with some joy on his face.

When he bought these thenardite ores, he was still young and bought a lot. Later, he found out that the thenardite used for fur processing was not used much at all. When most of the thenardite he bought was shelved, he was depressed for a long time.

Now when Xie Anlan suddenly heard that those Glauber's salt can make ice, his heart trembled suddenly, and he couldn't contain his joy.

Compared with the price of leather and ice, it is nothing to mention.

Besides, if Glauber's salt is mainly used, the cost of the ice cubes produced is quite cheap.

In this way, doesn't he also have a business that can stand side by side with Xie Anlan's sugar and cement.

Lu Chuyi whispered in his ear several times, saying that the business he did with the prairie people was all small business.

A few lives have to be lost a year, and only a few thousand taels to tens of thousands of taels can be earned through hard work, while the prince started from a million taels a year, which made him blush and feel ashamed.

But let him think of a business that can stand side by side with Xie Anlan, he really can't think of it, so he can only keep his head down.

Now hearing that he can also have a business that earns a million taels a year, Lu Chengjie feels that he can finally feel proud.

After Lu Chengjie finished speaking, he raised his eyes to look at Lu Chuyi, and sure enough, seeing Lu Chuyi's shocked expression, he felt instantly better, better than eating a big mouthful of shaved ice in the dog days.

It was rare for Xie Anlan to see him jumping so happily, she narrowed her eyes and thought of teasing him.

Cursing her lips, she nodded and confirmed to him, "Yes, I do have a way to make ice from Glauber's salt."

"Then..." Lu Chengjiao parted his lips, suppressed the joy in his heart, raised his eyebrows, and said to Xie Anlan, "Then, can your Highness sell this method to me?"

"Yes." Xie Anlan bent her lips.

"Your Highness, please make a price." Lu Chengjie raised his hand to Xie Anlan with a businesslike attitude.

Xie Anlan pursed her lips into a smile and raised her brows slightly. She seemed to be in a better mood, but what she said made Lu Chengjia feel like falling into an ice cave.

"But I'm not short of money."

The implication is that I am not short of money, why should I sell it to you.

The smile at the corner of Lu Chengjie's mouth dimmed, bit his lip, and asked a little bit distressed, "Then is your Highness going to make ice and sell it yourself? I can sell you my thenardite."

Lu Chengjie was right after thinking about it. It would be a pity to sell such a freshman business to others. Anyone would choose to do it by themselves.

After being a little discouraged, he felt that it would be good to sell all his Glauber's salt to His Highness, at least he would not have to keep it in his hands as before, turning it into a useless thing.

The Yong dynasty was rich in Glauber's salt, and it was everywhere. After selling it, it is not easy to resell it. Now it is not bad to transfer them to His Highness.

Lu Chengjiao's confidence gradually rekindled, but Xie Anlan poured cold water on him again, "I have no plans to start an ice-making business."

Lu Chengjie's breathing was stagnant, and the smile on his face was cracked. He really didn't understand what Xie Anlan was thinking.

Seeing his playful expression, Xie Anlan picked up the teacup on the table, smiled at him, and said, "It's not impossible to sell it to you."

Lu Chengjia understood that Xie Anlan was going to increase the price, "Your Highness, please speak up, as long as Chengjia can afford it, Chengjia is willing to give it to Your Highness."

Xie Anlan took a sip of tea, with her phoenix eyes slightly raised, she leaned into Lu Chengjia's ear and whispered a word, and left the main hall to get busy in the study without looking at the change in Lu Chengjia's expression after speaking.

Then Lu Chuyi saw their young master's face turn red little by little from normal skin color, and finally it was as red as the sunset glow that day, with a little purple in the red.

Lu Chuyi couldn't hold back and asked curiously, "Master, what exactly does the prince want?"

"No...nothing?" Lu Chengjie fumbled for the teacup on the dining table in a panic, took it, and drank it all with his head raised.

After finally suppressing the passion in his heart, he heard Lu Chu say, "Master, that's what the prince just drank."

"Ah...really?" Lu Chengjie raised the teacup and looked at it. It was really the teacup that Xie Anlan was playing with just now, with a slightly embarrassed expression, "I didn't pay attention."

Now Lu Chuyi was even more curious about what the lord had said to their young master that made their young master so confused.

But since their young master didn't want to talk about it, and the prince obviously didn't want their servants to know about it, then he wisely chose not to ask.

Xie Anlan went back to the study, but she didn't pay attention to the ice making recipe, and what she said to Lu Chengjiao was just to tease him.

He frowned, looking at the words on the paper in front of him, thinking about what was unreasonable.

"My lord."

At this moment, a person came in outside the door, it was Kan Ming, his newly recruited aide.

He was responsible for helping Xie Anlan find out information outside. Now that he had decided to get involved in national politics, he could no longer be like before, ignorant of everything.

Only by grasping the current situation can we effectively respond to changes in the current situation, so eyes and ears are very important.

"Say." Xie Anlan rubbed his slightly swollen forehead, stopped his brainstorming, and nodded to Kan Ming.

Kan Ming is 24 years old, two years younger than Xie Anlan, but his temperament is extremely calm. He cupped his hands at Xie Anlan and said calmly, "Your Majesty, the latest news from the court will be waiting for you with General Huo soon!" We will take Weicheng and take back Yanhe."

Xie Anlan frowned slightly, and nodded, not surprised at all, with gunpowder in hand, even Weicheng could not be taken back, so Fu Zheng must be such a useless person.

"It's just..." Kan Ming said, looking at Xie Anlan's face.

"Speak." Xie Anlan frowned.

"It's just that after taking Yanhe this time, the imperial court may not go out again in a short time. The Yong Dynasty needs to cultivate and rest, and the Grassland Department also needs to cultivate and rest, so a truce agreement may be signed between the two countries. Your lord manor……"

Kan Ming didn't want to say any more when he said this, and kept looking at Xie Anlan's expression.

Xie Anlan didn't have any expression on his face. He never got the fief from the beginning, so if he can't get it back, he can't get it back. Anyway, it was his convulsive father who fought with his mother. After he didn't win, he became angry and gave him The border fief granted.

Counting the fiefdoms of his other brothers in detail, the one that is as miserable as he is, the fiefdom is in the hands of the enemy country.

"Is there anything else?" Xie Anlan asked again.

Seeing that Xie Anlan wasn't angry, Kan Ming continued, "Then the lord set up fire and trees and silver flowers in the sky last night, which shocked everyone in the imperial capital. There was even a quarrel in the court this morning over this matter."

"What's the noise?" It's just a firework, so there's nothing to be noisy about.

Kan Ming smiled, "The people in the Ministry of Rites think that such a grand scene should be used in the national sacrificial ceremony. It is the right way, but last night was just an ordinary Qixi Festival. They think that the prince's move is really...wasteful."

"I think he's a prodigal." Xie Anlan twitched the corners of his lips. It's funny that he still needs to greet them when he does something.

Kan Ming smiled and didn't answer, "Your Majesty ignored them, but the Ministry of Industry thinks that this kind of colored fireworks can be used for marching and fighting to convey information."

Xie Anlan nodded, the heads of the workers from the Ministry of Industry were turning a little fast. Someone thought of this use so quickly, which is more reliable than the Ministry of Rites.

"The rest is the discussion of the people. This morning, the streets and alleys are talking about this matter, and everyone looks quite excited. I heard that many people knelt down last night, shouting that Your Majesty is the wise king chosen by heaven. "

Xie Anlan smiled, "If it's useful, it's a wise king, if it's useless, it's a lack of virtue. It seems that this emperor is not easy to be."

At this moment, Xie Anlan is glad that she is a prince, and she doesn't need to pay attention to those important plans for people's livelihood, and she doesn't have to be ridiculed by the world just because she did something wrong or took a wrong step.

Xie Anlan said it was funny, but Kan Ming didn't dare to laugh, so he gave a wry smile.

When I first heard that the prince wanted to recruit staff, he came here to be the accountant of the prince's mansion. After all, everyone in the world knows that the prince made a lot of money selling cement. It is more than enough, and I can make friends with a lot of businessmen.

If one day, the prince doesn't need him anymore, then he can also have his own connections.

Unexpectedly, when the lord heard that he was proficient in arithmetic, he threw a counting chapter to him, which stumped him.

It was only at this time that he suddenly realized that he was making an ax in front of Lu Ban's gate.

Not to mention the calculus given to him by the prince, it took him a long time to comprehend it thoroughly, even the money-blocking method that the prince used in Sheng'an blocking square is also unspeakable in seconds.

In the end, the matter of Mr. Accountant was left alone, and he became the eyes and ears of the prince, in order to be able to gain some new knowledge of arithmetic from time to time with the prince.

After Kan Ming reported today's news to Xie Anlan, two or three people came outside the study, all of whom came to report to Xie Anlan.

He was busy among these people all afternoon, until night fell, and after the last person left, Lu Chengjia thought of the request that Xie Anlan had said during the day, so he dawdled into the study.

Xie Anlan was stunned when he saw Lu Chengjiao.

Then when he thought about why Lu Chengjie came here, the tips of his ears turned red instantly, and he just said it casually, did he take it seriously?

The author has something to say: Before the consummation of the house, the prince thought that riding a boat was implicit, but after the consummation, he realized that he was living in excitement every night.

The author whispered bb: "Go and nourish your kidneys!"

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