I was a prince in ancient times

The time has entered September, and the scorching sun in the sky is still burning like fire, as if it wants to roast all the people on the ground.

Hube has planted a large number of limes this year, and they are planted on the field stalks in Hube's field. At this moment, when the limes are ripe, the yellow oranges are hanging among the green leaves, which looks very attractive.

It attracted the attention of many children nearby. The timid ones only dared to look at the attractive fruit from a distance and swallowed secretly, but the bold ones sneaked into the grass and crawled along the grass while no one was around. In the past, he quickly picked a few fruits and hid them in his pocket, then crawled back quietly, preparing to share the sweet fruits with the rest of his friends.

The naughty boy who had picked the fruit crawled out from the grass, and suddenly a group of children surrounded him, looking at him eagerly.

"A group of cowards, you don't have to rely on Goudaner in the end." Goudaner didn't disappoint them, he took out a few yellow and orange fruits from his pocket, peeled them quickly, and ate some of them.

The children who got the pulp couldn't wait to put it in their mouths, and couldn't wait to taste the sweetness.

Children in the country don't have much taste, and what they can taste all year round, except for the few fruit trees in the village, they rely on them to find wild fruits all over the mountains and plains to moisten their mouths.

Although these children have never been to school, they are all thieves. Knowing that this lime tree, which has been seeded in large quantities and carefully cared for, must be extraordinary, they set their sights on it early.

Unexpectedly, when the pulp entered their mouths, the sweetness they imagined did not appear, but the sourness made them all roll their eyes and tremble.

"Bah bah bah..."

All the children hurriedly spit out the pulp in their mouths, vomiting sour water one by one, "What kind of fruit is this, why is it so sour?"

"It's too sour, isn't it ripe?" The other child blinked his eyes that were reddened by sourness, and mumbled.

Goudan'er took out the last fruit from his bosom that he was going to take back to his sister, pinched the slightly wrinkled outer skin, and his face sank, "It shouldn't, I think this fruit is about to fall, no Probably not ripe."

"This fruit is so sour, why do those high officials bother to grow it?" In the eyes of these innocent children, they thought that the only way to grow the fruit was to eat and sell it.

A group of children were full of doubts in their small heads, looking at the attractive yellow orange fruit, their mouths were sour.

Not to mention these children, even the officials of the household department looked at the several plates of green and yellow lemons on the desk, and they all looked sad.

"My lord, what is the use of this fruit?" Several adults in the household department really didn't want to try this sour fruit anymore, they swallowed their sour saliva and asked Wang Shangshu again.

Wang Meng pinched a lemon in his hand and frowned, he didn't know what the use of this fruit was, but seeing that Prince Chen was concerned, he subconsciously ordered his subordinates to grow more.

But Prince Chen seemed to have taken the tree back, but he didn't do anything about it. He asked his servants to inquire a few words, and the servants only said that after the prince cut some branches and leaves, he didn't care about it anymore.

Now the fruit is ripe, and it is even about to fall. If the fruit can't be found to have a magical effect, the following officials should question him as a minister.

"Since the fruit has been planted, it must be useful, so don't worry." Wang Shangshu comforted the officials below, pinched a few lemons and hid them in his cuffs, got up and left the gate of the household department.

Instead of trying to eat this sour fruit here meaninglessly, he might as well go to Xie Anlan with this sour fruit. It is much better to lose face in front of the prince than to lose face in front of the officials.

Chenwang Mansion.

At this time, Xie Anlan was being served by Lu Chengjiao, wearing a luxurious and extraordinary black gold python suit, her hair, which was tied up casually before, was also loosened, combed back and replaced with a jade crown.

He already looks like jade and gold, now he will lose the unrestrained unrestrainedness on his body, and put on a solemn python suit, his every move has a majesty, standing in front of the mirror seems to be a different person.

Lu Chengjiao wrapped his slender fingertips around the edge of his collar, lowered his eyelashes, and tidied things up for him meticulously. When he turned to look at the person in the mirror, he couldn't help being startled.

Xie Anlan raised his eyebrows lightly, pursed his thin lips, saw Lu Chengjiao's sluggishness through the mirror, and teased, "Why, I don't know each other anymore."

Looking at the familiar phoenix eyes, hearing the familiar tone, and standing in front of the familiar mirror, Lu Chengjia's face turned red.

He hurriedly took two steps back, escaped from the mirror, slid his Adam's apple, and explained, "No, it's just that I'm not used to such a highness for a while."

Xie Anlan is afraid of snakes, so she doesn't like to wear python clothes. Ordinary clothes are just the clothes of ordinary rich children. Coupled with her unruly personality, she is inevitably a bit coquettish. She looks like a prince. Not at all.

No wonder the servants of Nanyue thought of him that way.

However, since that day, Xie Anlan seemed to have been stimulated, and had her servants rush out a lot of python suits.

Xie Anlan stood in the mirror, measured herself up and down, and felt that there was not much difference except that she was a little more coercive than usual, and she didn't care.

Hooked lips smiled, "Now, no one will still recognize this king as Mian Shou."

Lu Chengjie pursed his lips, and forcibly suppressed the smile in his eyes, how could he still remember this.

Xie Anlan picked up the peach blossom fan placed by the mirror and fanned it. The black robe with gold thread hooked his slightly curved lips, and there was a majesty in the wind, which made people dare not look directly at it.

"My lord, Wang Shangshu's greeting card."

At this time, the door of the bedroom was closed tightly, and the servants outside only dared to communicate outside the door.

Xie Anlan put away the fan, tapped the tip of the fan on the palm of her hand, wondering, "Why is he here again, maybe it's for cotton again."

Calculating the time, it is really time to pick cotton.

"Maybe." Lu Chengjiao picked up the jade hairpin, raised it and inserted it into Xie Anlan's jade crown, and smiled at his eyebrows, "Your Highness, please entertain Mr. Wang at the mansion. I will not accompany you."

Xie Anlan hummed lightly, and went out by the boat after landing.

Not long after, Wang Shangshu was invited to the main hall, and he was taken aback when he saw Xie Anlan sitting high in the hall.

It is very rare to see a prince wearing a python suit. When he saw it at first sight, he couldn't help feeling a chill down his spine.

Obviously the prince had a smile on his lips, but that smile always gave people a chilling feeling.

Not only Wang Shangshu is like this, but even the servants of the mansion are cautious in doing things today, without the casualness of the past.

"Wang Shangshu, go to the Three Treasures Hall for everything." Xie Anlan seemed not aware of the difference between them, and used the same tone and expression as usual.

Wang Shangshu saluted and stood up. Hearing Xie Anlan's words, he didn't even dare to lift his head. There was a bit of caution in his tone that he didn't realize, "The prince is joking."

Xie Anlan rolled his eyes lightly, and said with a light smile, "Tell me, what's the matter with this Prince's Mansion."

Xie Anlan never likes to be courteous, Wang Meng also knew it well, and he didn't use an official tone. He took out two lemons from his sleeve and presented them in front of Xie Anlan, "Your official came here today for this."

Xie Anlan tucked the corners of her lips when she saw the lemon, and the fan in her hand patted her palm unconsciously.

Again and again, as if beating Wang Shangshu's heart

Wang Shangshu didn't dare to look up at Xie Anlan, pondered for a moment, and said slowly, "Speaking of this matter, please forgive me for being rude."

Xie Anlan slapped the tip of the fan in her palm, looked at him and gasped.

Wang Shangshu smiled encouragingly, forcibly suppressed the sense of fear in his heart, and said truthfully, "The prince took this tree away from the lower official, and the lower official privately speculated that the prince wanted this tree to be of great use, so he asked his subordinates to plant a lot. ..."

When Wang Meng said this, Xie Anlan couldn't help laughing.

"So you came to this prince's mansion on purpose today, just to ask me what the purpose of this thing is." Without waiting for him to explain further, Xie Anlan said it first.

Wang Meng's face was slightly stagnant, but he nodded honestly.

Xie Anlan opened the fan in his hand to enjoy the cool breeze, why did he feel that the little old man in front of him was so cute.

In the main hall, only the sound of Xie Anlan fanning could be heard for a while, but Wang Shangshu's heart was pounding. He knew that Xie Anlan was laughing, but he couldn't figure out why Xie Anlan was laughing.

Fortunately, Xie Anlan smiled for a while, looked at the lemons on the table, and didn't play tricks on him, "This king said before that I want your tree, but I just like the fragrance of the leaves, so I picked the leaves to adjust A bottle of perfume, who knows..."

Who knew you could think so far ahead.

Wang Shangshu's complexion turned ugly in an instant. He had already boasted in front of his subordinates that the tree would be of great use, and bet his hopes on the prince. Now this hope was taken away by the prince himself. People can't help but panic.

Xie Anlan waved her fan, watching Wang Meng's expression change was amused, had enough, curled her lips, and whispered, "But..."

Hearing this whisper, Wang Meng clenched his official uniform, raised his head for the first time since entering Chen Palace today, met Xie Anlan's starry eyes with a slight pressure, and secretly suppressed his panic. , asked nervously, "But what..."

"But this fruit is not without other uses." Xie Anlan saw enough of Wang Shangshu's panic, and relieved his anxiety.

Sure enough, when Wang Meng heard Xie Anlan's words, his heart felt relieved, as if a stone had fallen to the ground, the panic expression on his face calmed down slightly, and he looked much more normal.

She cupped her hands at Xie Anlan, "Please tell me, my lord, what is the use of this thing."

"I told you, what kind of money does this king earn?" Xie Anlan rolled his eyes lightly, and the angle of the peach blossom fan perfectly covered the faint smile on his lips, "You also know that this king has always loved money, Since this thing can make money, the king will naturally not show it to others easily."

Wang Meng couldn't see Xie Anlan's expression clearly, so he nodded unconsciously following Xie Anlan's words.

After nodding, he not only asked, "Then this fruit..."

"The king will send someone to buy this fruit, so Mr. Wang is satisfied." Xie Anlan looked at the fan in his hand and said calmly.

Wang Meng nodded, there is nothing more satisfying than this.

In this way, not only can he maintain his majesty in front of the subordinate officials, but the prince can also make money, and this fruit tree is not considered white.

"This fruit, if I remember it well, is extremely suitable for planting in the south. If Wang Shangshu has the heart, he can try planting it in Lingnan and other places." Xie Anlan picked up a lemon and rubbed the fruit on the peel with her pretty fingers. texture.

Wang Meng's heart was terrified, the prince said this, probably because he wanted to help Lingnan.

The south of the Five Ridges area has always been poor, with little output, and the fruit itself is sour, so it doesn't need to be carefully maintained, and it is easy to grow, and it doesn't need to occupy more farmland.

In this way, it is equivalent to opening up an additional source of income for the people of Lingnan.

"I've made it clear." After Wang Meng figured out the cause and effect, he bowed deeply to Xie Anlan again.

"Don't brag about me to those people this time." Xie Anlan put down the lemon and glanced at Wang Meng lightly, "I haven't eaten a few jars of pickles in my mansion so far, so don't give it to me again One batch."

Last year, the people in Lingnan sent several carts of pickled vegetables to Xie Anlan, which had already become something that the people of the imperial capital liked to talk about.

Naturally, Wang Meng knew that when he heard Xie Anlan mention this again, he couldn't help but smile knowingly.

After laughing, I had to praise the prince for his indifference to fame and fortune. Everyone in this world loves fame and has done some good deeds, lest people in the world know it. Only the prince doesn't care about fame and fortune.

Really take the word "king of leisure" to the extreme.

After finalizing the matter, Xie Anlan ordered Chaoyun to go to the warehouse to pay the money, and went to the household department with Wang Shangshu, and asked her to take back all the fruits from the household department.

After being reminded by Wang Shangshu, Xie Anlan suddenly remembered the lemon tree planted in the Prince Chen's Mansion.

After asking several servants, Xie Anlan finally found it in an inconspicuous courtyard.

Due to Xie Anlan's long-term indifference, the servants did not pay much attention to the tree, and the growth was similar to when it was just sent back to the house, with a few sparse fruits, the flesh was too sour and there were no birds to peck at it.

Xie Anlan picked the few fruits and carried them to the kitchen in a python robe. When he came out again, he was holding a glass in his hand with some lemons soaked in ice cubes.

I took a sip of it lightly, it was cold with a little sourness and a little sweetness, it was delicious and refreshing.

When Lu Chengjie came back, his face was slightly red from the sun, and Xie Anlan was sitting on the porch, watching the koi fish playing again.

Jin Zi, who had been neglected for a long time, was staring at the koi in the pond, eager to go down and peck two up to vent his anger of falling out of favor.

"Where did you go? It's like this." Xie Anlan saw Lu Chengjia come back, put down the cup in his hand, and fanned him with a fan.

"I went to the sugar shop." Lu Chengjia took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe the sweat off his face.

"Where's the one with the umbrella?" Xie Anlan looked at Lu Chuyi who was behind Lu Chengke with a little anger and asked.

Before Lu Chuyi could answer, Lu Chengjiao spoke first, "It's not easy to get too many people to the sugar shop, so I didn't let them follow."

After coming out of the sugar shop, Lu Chengjiao still had a lot of sweet smell on his body. Seeing that Xie Anlan's expression was not good, he took out a pack of rock sugar from his bosom, twisted one and fed it to Xie Anlan's lips.

"Why do you give me candy?" Xie Anlan was caught off guard and fed a candy by Lu Chengjia, but didn't spit it out, and held it between his lips and teeth, sipping it lightly.

"Chengqi." Lu Chengjie smiled, snatched Xie Anlan's fan from Xie Anlan's hand, and fanned himself, "I'm not a woman, I'm not that delicate."

Lu Chengjiao's body was very cold, so he was sweating when he got hot, and the black hair on his temples was already wet.

After fanning to remove the heat from his body, seeing the cup Xie Anlan was drinking from on the table, he took a sip of it without hesitation.

"Hey..." Xie Anlan wanted to remind him, but saw that he had already swallowed half of the glass.

The lemonade with ice doesn't feel sour at first, but after drinking it, the sour taste surges up.

Lu Chengjiao supported the corner of the table, his facial expression was slightly distorted, sore and vaguely nauseated.

"I want to remind you that your hands are too fast." Xie Anlan gently followed his back and asked worriedly, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Lu Chengjiao shook his head, raised his chin slightly to look at the water glass in front of him, and asked, "What did you add, why is it so sour?"

"Sour fruit." Xie Anlan raised the water glass to show him the lemon slices inside.

The two lemons that Wang Shangshu didn't take away happened to be on the table, and Lu Chengjie understood it instantly.

Smiling softly at Xie Anlan, "If you don't tell me, I thought it was because I ate too many plums sour recently, and I even felt sour when I drank my saliva."

Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows, "What are you doing with plums?"

Lu Chengjie didn't speak anymore, and Lu Chuyi continued for him, "Young master will always meet a few princesses when he goes out. The princesses like to see the expression on the young master's sour face, so they always treat the young master to eat sour plums."

"On the first day of junior high school, talk too much." Lu Chengjia threw a rock candy into his mouth, and gave Lu Chuyi a displeased look.

"Don't eat if you don't want to, don't spoil them." Xie Anlan sat down and said in a deep voice.

"It's okay, just one or two, it's okay." Lu Chengjia raised the rock candy in his hand, "I bring candy with me."

"It would be nice if the sourness and sweetness could be neutralized." Lu Chengjie said with a little regret, with sugar in his mouth.

Although the plums have also been soaked with sugar, only the outer layer is sweet, and the inside is still sour when bitten. It would be great if the two can be combined.

Xie Anlan looked at the rock sugar in Lu Chengjie's hand and smiled, "You can mix sour plum juice with the sugar."

"Um……"

Lu Chengjiao, who was still bowing his head in thought, immediately sat up straight when he heard Xie Anlan's words.

Looking at the rock candy in his hand, his mind instantly became active.

It was because he was dull, he only thought of maltose and maltose but forgot fructose.

"By the way, help me make some sour candies." Xie Anlan pushed the lemon on the table over.

Lu Chengjiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "It turns out that His Highness likes to eat sour."

Xie Anlan doesn't like sweetness, spicy food, or bitterness. It turns out that he likes sour taste.

Xie Anlan nodded without denying it.

Lu Chengjie silently remembered it in his heart, and suddenly he didn't feel that the water he drank just now was sour, but felt a little sweet instead.

"Try to make sugar into small candies and wrap them in oiled paper of different colors, so that you can distinguish the taste." Xie Anlan shared his thoughts with Lu Chengjie.

Lu Chengjie couldn't help nodding his head, "Your Highness, this idea is very good. Maltose and caramel on the market are too easy to melt, especially in summer, and the rock sugar in my hand is not easy to melt as long as it is sealed well. Candy is also convenient for the common people to buy and comfort their children at home, and the taste is changeable, so there is no need to worry about sales.”

Lu Chengjie said that he had already dug out the small book he used to record things. As there are more and more things in Chenwang's mansion, people with the best memory sometimes forget things.

Inspired by Chen Gui's records, he also kept a notebook with him, and imitated Xie Anlan to use a charcoal pen. Because he was used to holding a brush, he suddenly felt uncomfortable holding this kind of pen. His handwriting was not very good, but it was barely enough. look.

"In this way, the sugar factory will have to expand again, and next year we will have to grow more sugar cane in Sichuan. It seems that there are still too few sugar canes." Lu Chengjie wrote stroke by stroke, slowly stroking his thoughts.

Since the establishment of the sugar workshop, Lu Chengjia has almost rounded up the unsalable sugar cane in Shu, and even negotiated with several local officials and gentry households who grow sugar cane for a living, letting them grow more this year.

Seeing that the sugarcane is about to ripen, another fructose will come out, and I can imagine that it is not enough.

"No hurry, take your time." Xie Anlan picked up the fan on the table, fanned Lu Chengjie herself, watched him write seriously on the paper, and said indifferently.

"It's not in a hurry." Lu Chengjiao finished writing slowly, flipped through the densely packed things recorded in the front of the small book, and said to Xie Anlan, "It's just too many and complicated."

"Aren't you bothered?" Xie Anlan took his small notebook and flipped through the pages.

Lu Chengjie shook his head, "I'm quite happy doing it."

"Just be happy." Xie Anlan read the above content at a glance, and returned the small notebook to him.

Lu Chengjie took it and put it away, looked at Xie Anlan and asked, "What about your Highness, Mr. Wang is looking for you to discuss cotton."

Lu Chengjie still remembered that this year's cotton had already been reserved by him.

"No." Xie Anlan picked up a lemon and tossed it in the air, "He came to me to tell me this."

Lu Chengjie was curious, "What's there to say about this?"

"He saw that I had brought this tree back from him this year, and he thought it would be of great use, so he planted a lot of it."

After Xie Anlan explained for a while, Lu Chengjia understood what was going on, and immediately, like Xie Anlan, he couldn't help laughing.

"Then how did His Highness solve it in the end?" Lu Chengke asked after laughing.

Xie Anlan said flatly, "I took all his fruits."

"All?" Lu Chengjiao raised his eyebrows.

"Well, all of them." Xie Anlan nodded.

"You can't finish the tea." Lu Chengjie stared at the lemon slices in the glass in front of him, thinking how long he would have to drink just one or two slices.

Xie Anlan looked into his eyes and smiled, "Who said it can only be used for eating."

Lu Chengjie pursed his lips, "What else can it be used for?"

"It can be sliced ​​and dried to make tea, it can also be used to make sugar, and it can also be used as a cleaning agent..." Xie Anlan said dozens of uses in one breath.

Hearing this, Lu Chengjiao was stunned, dumbfounded for a long time, and said slowly, "There are so many uses, it's really a treasure."

"Yeah." Xie Anlan nodded, and asked another servant to make a glass of lemonade and moisten her lips, "When you're free, you can also try to drink some, it's good for your health."

Lu Chengjiao leaned over and took a sip of the water in Xie Anlan's cup. Although it was still sour, but this time the servants put in a small amount, so they could barely accept it.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "Can the sister-in-laws drink it? I see that they have been addicted to acid recently, and this taste should be the most acceptable to them."

Xie Anlan nodded, "Yes."

Speaking of which, Chaoyun happened to instruct his subordinates to move the lemons picked from the household department back to the residence.

The fan in Xie Anlan's hand tapped on the table, smiled and told Chaoyun, "Leave a few baskets out later and send them to the three concubines, the four concubines and the five concubines, and tell them to drink at least three cups a day. The fetus in the womb is fine."

"Will three cups be too much?" Lu Chengjie took another sip, his little face wrinkled with sourness.

Xie Anlan couldn't help laughing, she picked his chin with the tip of her fan, and said with a smile, "Are there many?"

Lu Chengjiao wanted to nod, but Xie Anlan's chin was held tightly by Xie Anlan, so he lowered his eyes at him and hummed lightly.

One sip is so sour, you can imagine how sour it will be after three cups.

"I don't think much." Xie Anlan retracted the fan, opened the fan, looked up at him, and smiled softly, "Didn't you say they like this taste, maybe they don't have much time for three cups."

"Your Highness, why don't you use these fruits to make candy and give it to some sisters-in-law?" Lu Chengjie tasted the sourness in his lips, thinking that Xie Anlan would make candy anyway, why not just give candy, anyway There must be a sour taste in the sugar, but the fruit was sent directly.

Xie Anlan tapped the palm of her hand with the tip of her fan, watched the servants busy coming in and out, and curled her lips, "I call it courtesy."

Subconsciously, Lu Chengjie wanted to refute, but suddenly remembered that his sisters-in-law invited him to eat sour plums, and suddenly understood why Xie Anlan said that courtesy was reciprocal.

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