I was a prince in ancient times

Chen Gui squatted in the yard specially opened for planting in the backyard of the palace, looking at the peppers growing very gratifyingly in front of him, his face was full of confusion.

When did he find such plants?

Has he ever looked for such plants?

Holding his record book, I turned the corners of the book slightly, but I didn't find a plant with fiery red crescent moon.

"Is this really planted by the seeds I brought back?" Chen Gui kept asking the servants who were in charge of the yard after searching through the records but failed to find it.

The servants nodded again and again, "Chen Guanshi, every time you brought back the seeds, the prince told me to plant them here. Besides these fiery red fruits, there are others over there."

As he spoke, the servant pointed to the surroundings again.

Following his gaze, Chen Gui found that there were indeed many other plants growing lushly around, but compared with the fiery red fruit, they looked rather like weeds.

Chen Gui looked through the records again, and found that some plants could be matched, but some plants could not be matched.

I scratched the silver strands in my hair, and there was a faint tendency to fall off.

"Chen Gui," Xie Anlan approached with Lu Chengjie, just in time to see Chen Gui standing under the scorching sun, pulling his few silver hairs, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"My lord."

When Chen Gui saw Xie Anlan, he didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly bowed to salute.

"En." Xie Anlan nodded and approached him, behind him was a servant with an umbrella, who instantly protected Chen Gui from the scorching sun.

"My lord, come and take a look at this thing." Seeing Xie Anlan, Chen Gui hurriedly pointed out the peppers in the field as if he had seen a savior.

Under the care of the servants of the palace, the peppers grew very well. There were a lot of small peppers on one plant, and Xie Anlan could see it without Chen Gui's fingers.

"I see, what's the matter." But Xie Anlan still followed his fingertips to look.

"Old slave..." Chen Gui's face turned red from holding back, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead, "I don't remember finding this thing before."

As soon as the pepper turned red, it immediately attracted the attention of all the servants in the plantation. They didn't dare to blindly go to the prince, so they had to find Chen Gui first, and wanted to ask him about it.

After listening to the description, Chen Gui rummaged through his memory, but couldn't find any relevant memories, so he had to compare them one by one with the archives in hand.

As a result, there was no record in the record book.

Seeing this, Xie Anlan panicked even more. The last time he was invited to the household department for tea, he still vividly remembered. Now he is very scared, and he can't answer other people's inquiries.

"Could it be that the old slave didn't find this thing?" Chen Gui muttered again after sweating profusely.

It stands to reason that he should have an impression of such a characteristic plant, but he has no impression at all.

Xie Anlan looked at him in a hurry, and smiled, "Chen Gui, you should be more confident in yourself, you are definitely looking for this thing, I remember that the princess and I cultivated this small piece of land ourselves. "

Chen Gui frowned deeply.

Lu Chengjie walked around and saw a mark made of stones. He nodded to Chen Gui, "It is indeed the land that my lord and I cultivated."

As he spoke, he pointed to a few fields beside him, "Here, here, and there are all cultivated by me and the prince with the seeds you gave."

"But... but the old slave has no memory at all." Chen Gui knew about this kind of thing, and the prince and concubine had no reason to lie to him, but he really didn't remember.

"It's okay." Xie Anlan pursed her lower lip lightly, and smiled nonchalantly, "It's just a few plants, if you don't remember them, don't remember them."

Xie Anlan's indifferent attitude made Chen Gui relax a little, but he soon let out a sigh of relief, "I don't know what this thing is for."

"If you don't know, you don't know. There's nothing to be afraid of." Xie Anlan looked at Chen Gui who was at a loss and was a little amused. "The left and right are either for food or for use. If it's not good enough, it can only be used for viewing. Just try the same thing."

Xie Anlan stood under the umbrella, with an understatement and indifferent demeanor, like a breeze, blowing away the haze in Chen Gui's heart.

"Pick a few and let me have a look." Xie Anlan saw that Chen Gui stayed where she was, and turned her gaze back to the cute little peppers.

When Chen Gui heard Xie Anlan's order, he suddenly realized that he bent over and picked two fiery red peppers, and held them in front of Xie Anlan with both hands.

Xie Anlan picked up a chili pepper and looked around, but she couldn't see anything. She was about to try to break it off, but was stopped by Chen Gui, "My lord, I heard that the brighter the fruit, the more poisonous it is, let the old slave come." .”

Xie Anlan knew that he was a master of poison testing, so she didn't delay, and hurriedly handed him the pepper in her hand.

After Chen Gui took the chili pepper and looked around to see if it was all right, he tried to break it off. A little bit of spicy juice overflowed from the chili pepper and splashed on his fingers. In an instant, a burning sensation came from his fingertips.

Chen Gui's brows were furrowed tightly, and he tried to rub it with his fingertips, but instead of reducing the hot feeling, his fingertips also felt a little burning.

Chen Gui's frown deepened, and he patted the wide sleeve robe. Not long after, a small black snake as thick as an index finger crawled out of Chen Gui's wrist, poked out a round head the size of a thumb, and crawled onto Chen Gui's. On the back of his hand, a tiny snake letter stretched out to lick Chen Gui's fingertips that were splashed with chili juice.

A snake appeared in Xie Anlan's eyes so unexpectedly, his pupils constricted suddenly, he was so nervous that he couldn't even move his throat, and he didn't dare to move his whole body.

Fortunately, Lu Chengjie, who was standing by the side, noticed Xie Anlan's nervousness when he was in a hurry, and leaned forward slightly, blocking Xie Anlan's face, covering his sight for him.

The little snake licked the hot sauce on Chen Gui's hand, his body twitched a little, and quickly retracted into his sleeve and did not come out again.

Chen Gui observed for a while, and after seeing that the little snake didn't feel any discomfort, he relaxed and said, "Go back to your lord, this thing should be non-poisonous."

Xie Anlan, "..."

Never seen a snake being used to try chili.

Xie Anlan coughed, slightly concealing her embarrassment, and pointed to Chen Gui's sleeve with lingering fear, "Why didn't your little snake take it out to test the poison when it was in Yicheng?"

If he hadn't shown his skills today, he wouldn't have known that there was a snake breeder hiding beside him!

Chen Gui took a naive look at Xie Anlan, but explained patiently, "My lord, it was winter when I went to Yicheng, and the snakes had already hibernated by then."

Xie Anlan pulled the corner of her lips, "..."

"Since this thing is not poisonous, Your Highness can see if it has other uses." Lu Chengjie relieved Xie Anlan's embarrassment in time.

Xie Anlan's eyes fell on the peppers in the field, and said casually, "Since it's a plant, take it to the kitchen and fry it, let's see if it can be eaten."

Lu Chengjiao nodded, and was about to order his servants.

Chen Gui frowned, and couldn't help but said, "My lord, there is a strong burning sensation on the skin when this thing falls on it, and it may not be easy to enter the stomach."

"It's okay, let's find some animals to try it out first." Xie Anlan raised his hand, walking away from Chen Gui unconsciously.

When he moved, the big umbrella above his head also moved, and Chen Gui was exposed to the strong sunlight again.

After Xie Anlan gave her orders, she left here without looking back.

Lu Chengjie suppressed the amused feeling in his heart, and ordered his servants to pick some peppers and send them to the kitchen.

The chili that Xie Anlan brought out before was eaten secretly by the two of them. Occasionally, Lu Chengjie would add some unobtrusive chili sauce to the dish when he was hungry.

As soon as the chili entered the kitchen, Zhao Lu was also stunned, she had never seen this thing before, so what to do was also a problem.

After thinking about it, I used all eighteen cooking skills of steaming, frying and cooking.

So the chefs of the Tianchen Prince's Mansion were punished.

I was choked by the chili all day and had tears and snot running down my nose. Many servants even wondered whether this thing could be eaten.

Wrapped with a face towel to prevent choking on the exposed nose, he cooked more than a dozen dishes with chili peppers and fed some chickens and ducks. After observing them for a day and seeing that they were fine, he hesitated whether to try it himself.

"I'll try it first." Chen Gui, who had been observing the kitchen for a day, also developed a strong curiosity about the chili pepper. Seeing that his snakes, chickens and ducks were fine after eating, he couldn't bear it any longer.

Knowing that he can detoxify, Zhao Lu gave him all the peppers in front of him.

Chen Gui picked up his chopsticks. Even though he was prepared in his heart, he was surprised by the scorching hotness of the chili pepper when he ate it.

"Shui Shui Shui." Chen Gui spat out the remaining chili in his mouth and called hurriedly.

Zhao Lu hurriedly poured several cups of tea for him, and after half a quarter of an hour, the spicy feeling that spread from the mouth to the stomach could be suppressed.

"Chen Guanshi, how is it?" Zhao Lu couldn't help asking after he calmed down.

"It's too spicy, like it's on fire." Chen Gui stuck out his tongue, feeling like his tongue wasn't his own.

Zhao Lu curiously picked a little bit, tasted it lightly, and frowned. It was indeed a little spicy, but it didn't seem to be inedible.

With some thoughts in her heart, she took two more peppers and tried to use them as an ingredient to stir-fry rabbit meat.

She remembered that the rabbit meat always had a little fishy smell, the prince didn't like it, and the palace didn't buy it very much. He only bought some for extra meals for the servants of the palace on the [-]th day of every month. Tomorrow was exactly the fifteenth day, just right There are two rabbits in the house.

She wanted to see if she could suppress the fishy smell of rabbit meat with spicy flavor.

There was another pungent chili smell from the kitchen, and the servants outside sneezed one after another.

Not long after, the commotion in the kitchen finally quieted down, and Chao Lu came out with a plate of fried rabbit meat.

"Chen Guanshi, do you want to try it?" Zhao Lu looked at Chen Gui with a smile.

Chen Gui hadn't recovered from the spiciness just now, but when he saw the plate of rabbit meat fried red by Chao Yunlu with chili, he shook his head vigorously.

Zhao Lu didn't force herself, she picked up the chopsticks, picked a little bit and tried again.

The entrance is still spicy, but it is not as spicy as eating chili peppers. Instead, it is spicy with a bit of fragrance, and the faint fishy smell is suppressed by the chili peppers. The taste is so sour that people can't stop.

So Chen Gui saw that after Zhao Lu ate a chopstick, the chopstick in her hand didn't stop. Even though she was already dripping with sweat, she still couldn't stop her mouth.

"Not spicy anymore?" Chen Gui asked suspiciously.

"Chen Guanshi, you'll know if you don't try it." Zhao Lu smiled mysteriously at him.

Chen Gui's curiosity was fully aroused, he took the chopsticks and tried to pick up the rabbit meat, and his eyes lit up.

The two ate the plate of rabbit meat upside down, even though the chili was so spicy that their stomachs felt slightly uncomfortable, it still couldn't stop them.

Inspired by the spicy stir-fried rabbit meat, Chaolu used chili as an auxiliary ingredient to stir-fry a lot of dishes at night, and served them to the prince's table.

It doesn't matter to Xie Anlan, he himself is a person who doesn't like spicy food very much, it's fine if he has it, or he doesn't.

But Lu Chengjie likes it. Before the chili was not grown, he could only eat a little secretly. Now that it has been grown, he finally opened it up to eat. When eating, the smile between his brows never stopped.

"Since the princess likes it, you keep the chili seeds and grow more next year." Seeing that he likes to smile, Xie Anlan said to Chao Lu who was waiting by the side.

"Yes." Zhaolu blessed Fuli, and the anxiety in her heart suddenly disappeared. She likes the taste she made, but it doesn't mean that the prince and princess like it. Now that she hears Xie Anlan's order, she finally has a bottom line.

It's summer, and after eating a little spicy food, Xie Anlan still felt hot all over her body at night, so she fanned the heat on her neck slightly with her hand.

Seeing this, Lu Chengjie casually wiped the wet hair, went to the case, picked up a pen, dipped in the ink, closed his eyes and calmed down for a while, and when he opened them again, his eyes were clear, and the corners of his mouth were full of Laughing, the pen in his hand is like a dragon and a snake.

From Xie Anlan's perspective, he could only see what Lu Chengjiao was writing on the side of the case, leaning against the window sill, feeling a little displeased, "Don't deal with things at night, it will hurt your eyes."

After saying something, seeing that he didn't listen, he let him go. At this moment, there was a breeze blowing by the window, blowing away some of Xie Anlan's heat.

Xie Anlan leaned on the arhat couch under the window sill, and unconsciously closed her eyes.

When I woke up again, it was already the middle of the night, and there was a cool breeze blowing around me.

Slowly opening his eyes, he saw Lu Chengjiao sitting beside him, holding a very bright fan in his hand, fanning him.

"Still sleeping?" Xie Anlan stood up, hugged him in his arms, rubbed his chin against his, and asked in a low voice.

"Fan Your Highness." Lu Chengjiao held the handle of the fan with his slender fingers, which looked really good, and he fanned it again and again. The cool wind circulated on the two of them, and the black hair behind them was blown up.

Xie Anlan hugged him, raised his eyes and met his eyes, bent his lips, and said with a smile, "I think you are not fanning me again, but lighting me on fire."

Lu Chengjiao lay in Xie Anlan's arms, slightly raised his eyelids, his eyes were full of innocence.

Xie Anlan only hugged him for a while, then shifted her gaze to the very bright peach blossom fan, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Where did it come from?"

Lu Chengjiao raised his jaw slightly, "Guess."

Seeing the smugness in his eyes, Xie Anlan thought of his actions before going to bed, and there was still something she didn't understand, so she reached out to hold his hand holding the handle of the fan, and put the fan together.

She held his hand and raised his chin with the tip of the fan, squinting at her phoenix eyes and asked, "Is this what you're doing if you don't sleep?"

"En." Meeting Xie Anlan's questioning eyes, Lu Chengjie did not deny it.

Only then did Xie Anlan let go of his hand, took the fan out of his hand, and began to look at it carefully.

Each peach blossom on it is painted very deeply, as if it is real, and it is very eye-catching.

Xie Anlan sized her eyes up and said amusedly, "As long as you make a fan, make a fan. Why are you painting peach blossoms? Do you want me to go out and recruit peach blossoms?"

"Of course not," Lu Chengjie put his arms around Xie Anlan's waist, put his head on his shoulders, and murmured, "It's because of my Highness, he is as willful and affectionate as a peach blossom."

The words "My Highness" made Xie Anlan's heart tremble. She put away her folding fan, raised his jaw again, and asked in a low voice, "Am I passionate?"

Lu Chengjiao didn't answer, he knew that Xie Anlan knew that that's not what he meant when he said being passionate.

"Am I passionate?" Xie Anlan approached him and asked again.

The tips of their noses touched each other, and they smelled each other's breaths. Lu Chengjie pursed his lips and still didn't answer him.

With a fan, Xie Anlan leaned over and forced Lu Chengjiao's back to lie on the Arhat couch.

On the arhat couch that can only sleep one person, the black hair of the two people is mixed together, hanging down the couch.

From this day on, Xie Anlan had an extra fan in his hand.

He is a person who doesn't like to be burdened. He doesn't like to touch the fans, finger rings, and jade pendants that men love, but he is willing to hold them in his hands when they are given by Lu Chengjie.

In summer, it is really convenient to have a fan in hand.

Last year, Xie Anlan offered businessmen a lure to raise donations for road construction, and divided the shares of cement and icing into tens of millions of shares, according to the amount of donations each businessman raised.

With these merchants spending a lot of money, the roads in many places in the Yong Dynasty have been repaired, and even the road from Yicheng to the imperial capital has been half built.

It was time for Xie Anlan to fulfill his promise.

Lu Chengjia helped sort out the information of the businessmen who invested in the stock at the beginning, so naturally he has to come now.

However, there are many industries in the Prince Chen's Mansion, and Lu Chengjie is so busy every day that he doesn't touch the ground, so he can't spare a lot of time to sort it out.

And Kan Ming's fellow students who are proficient in arithmetic are not good enough, and Xie Anlan can't entrust them with such an important matter.

In the end, I had to roll up my sleeves.

With a pen in one hand and a fan in the other, sitting in the study and liquidating everyone's shares, at least it relieved some of my irritability.

When he was upset, the merchants were also upset.

After donating money to build roads for a year, the agreed shares have not yet been seen. The businessmen who have raised money can't help but feel sorry for them.

Although each of them has received a contract with the private seal of King Chen, but that is King Chen, even if they have the contract in hand, would they dare to come to ask for a debt?

The merchants had something to worry about and couldn't sleep well, so they went to the house of Jiang Can, the first businessman to raise donations, to inquire openly and secretly.

Jiang Shen was not in a hurry about this matter, and blocked everyone's mouths with one sentence, "The king of Chen gave us the contract, can we still break the contract?"

At the beginning when they were collecting donations, it didn't take long for the Chenwang Mansion to send people from door to door to send them to see the deeds. This attitude attracted a large number of businessmen.

Moreover, the repair of this road has indeed brought great convenience to the merchants, and the transportation between the south and the north has been speeded up many times.

Although the horse's hooves have been damaged after running on the concrete road for a long time, it also reduces the burden on the horse. As long as you pay more attention, it will be fine. Little loss is negligible.

Especially Jiang Shen, his family is in the fruit business. Once the road is repaired this year, the transportation is fast. There are not a few bad fruits left in his orchard, and the money is doubled compared to previous years.

Earning money made him believe even more that Prince Chen would not deceive them.

He firmly believed in it, but he couldn't stand someone who wanted to fan the flames.

Jiang Yun is the kind that fan the flames. The royal family has been unable to take care of themselves in the past two years. The economy of the Yong Dynasty is falling behind each day. In the past few years, their Jiang family was barely ranked as a big businessman, but now they can only be regarded as Wait for the merchant at the end.

Therefore, he has always been very wary of the royal family, and believes that King Chen's incitement of merchants to raise donations this time is to defraud them of their money and squeeze out the last trace of value from them.

Although the Grassland Department took the initiative to return the city that invaded them, but who knows if the Grassland Department will sweep again.

And up to now, King Chen has not sent anyone to send this year's dividend, so he is even more convinced that King Chen is fooling people.

He smiled at a group of businessmen who thought the same as him, "Everyone, it's a good thing we didn't follow the wind, otherwise we would have donated half of our net worth today, and we would have slept all night like those businessmen outside." Don't feel it."

"Brother Jiang is right. Fortunately, we listened to Brother Jiang's persuasion and did not fall into the trap of King Chen. Now that the merchants outside have paid for the repair of the road, we not only have no losses, but also use the repaired road for nothing. It’s really a bargain.” A businessman sitting at the bottom of Jiang Yun raised his wine glass with a smile on his face, and anyone with a discerning eye could see his complacency at a glance.

The rest of the merchants raised their glasses when they saw him holding up the wine glass. They respected each other and echoed, "Speaking of this, I have to thank Brother Jiang. The momentum of fundraising was so hot back then, I almost I just donated my entire net worth, thanks to brother Jiang stopping me in the end."

This person still had lingering fears when he said it. When he was stopped by Jiang Yun at the beginning, he saw the momentum so hot and thought of regretting it. In the end, he listened to Jiang Yun's words to wait and see the direction of the wind, and he didn't feel overwhelmed.

This year, as expected by Jiang Yun, there was no movement at all in Prince Chen's Mansion. If he put all his wealth into it, this year the family would have to drink Northwest Wind.

Fortunately fortunately.

"Come, let me toast Brother Jiang." Ye Ji was terrified when he remembered the impulsiveness at the time, and raised his glass to clink glasses with Jiang Yun sincerely.

Jiang Yun accepted with a smile.

Xie Anlan stayed in the study for three days in a row, her wrist was about to snap, and she only managed to clear one-third of the money. She waved her fan, feeling impetuous.

After Lu Chengjie finished his work, as soon as he came back, he saw Xie Anlan leaning on the chair and shaking his fan, with a look of lovelessness on his face.

With his cool care, he suppressed Xie Anlan's face, and asked softly, "Tired?"

"Yeah." Xie Anlan raised her eyes and said impatiently, "Tired and annoying."

"Let's rest." Lu Chengjia rubbed Xie Anlan's sore arms and elbows, sat down and hugged all the documents in front of Xie Anlan in front of him.

Xie Anlan glanced at the bruises under his eyelids, and asked after a moment of silence, "Are you done?"

"Well, I'm done." Lu Chengke said casually, holding a pen in one hand and abacus beads in the other, without lifting his eyelids.

Lu Chuyi twitched his lips behind him. He didn't close his eyes after staying up for three days and came here to help the prince settle the score. Can you be unhappy?

"Come here, let me give you a hug." Of course, Xie Anlan could see that Lu Chengke was exhausted, but he didn't say anything. The exhaustion was swept away, "Now I don't feel tired again."

Lu Chengjie couldn't help laughing, "I'm not a panacea, and taking a sip can make people feel refreshed."

"You are." Xie Anlan hugged for a while, reluctantly let go of the person in his arms, and said with absolute certainty.

Lu Chengjie pursed his lips lightly, smiled lightly, bowed his head and ignored Xie Anlan, and continued to make plans.

Xie Anlan rubbed her wrists and joined them.

The two of them finished the calculation together, and after checking again that there was no problem, Lu Chengjie took out a large box full of banknotes, "Use these banknotes that cannot be spent to pay dividends. From now on, all businesses except the emperor's brother will be treated equally Collect gold and silver."

Lu Chengjie knew that Xie Anlan was short of gold, so he took every aspect into consideration for him.

"Okay." Xie Anlan got up and helped him carry the box out, and when he got up, he hugged him up.

Lu Chengjie was startled, "...hey"

"Hold you to sleep." Xie Anlan lowered her head and kissed him on the forehead, saying without hesitation, "My princess, you need to rest."

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