I was a prince in ancient times

After coming down from the roof, Lu Chengjie was very curious about the detergent. When he was adjusting the bubbles, Xie Anlan hadn't had time to experiment, so the two went to the kitchen together.

It was already evening at this moment, the kitchen was preparing dinner, and the servants were busy and smoky.

The lemon peel that Xie Anlan soaked in a glass jar was carefully placed under the window sill in the kitchen by the servants, so that he could see it as soon as he entered, it was very conspicuous.

"Go and hug me." Xie Anlan raised her hand, suppressed the servants in the kitchen who were about to salute, looked at the glass bottle, and gave some casual instructions.

Zhao Lu put down the spatula in her hand, wiped off the oil stains on her hands on the apron, and quickly carried the jar full of lemon peels, and came to Xie Anlan.

Xie Anlan looked around in the kitchen, saw two servants in the corner who were washing and brushing, and walked over.

The two servants who were washing the dishes were so frightened that their hands holding the rags were shaking, and they thought over and over in their hearts that they didn't break the dishes today, so they probably didn't offend the prince.

Xie Anlan came in front of the two servants, but before he could take any action, the two servants fell to their knees on the ground with a plop in fright.

Xie Anlan glanced at the servant who was kneeling on the ground trembling, there was no emotion in his eyes, obviously he was already familiar with it.

He passed the two servants, came to the basin they were washing and observed for a while, pointed to a plate that looked more oily, and instructed Chao Lu, "Try to clean it with water from a glass bottle on it."

Zhao Lu blessed Fuli, came to the basin with the glass bottle in her arms, knelt down, put it down gently, picked up the plate identified by the prince, scooped a little lemonade from the glass bottle, poured it on the plate, took a rag Wipe it up a little.

As expected of a maid, when all the servants in the kitchen were trembling in front of the prince, she was the only one who was calm and not afraid at all.

A plate was wiped off in a short while, rinsed with clean water, and it was as clean as new.

Zhao Lu couldn't help but her eyes lit up. She had been in the kitchen for a year or two and knew how difficult it was to clean the greasy dishes.

You have to use plant ash to remove the oil stains on it first, then wash it with soap locusts, and finally steam it in a pot, especially the dishes that princes and concubines usually use should be cleaned carefully.

It takes a lot of time just to tidy up these dishes every day. This is still in the case of only two masters in the palace. If there are more masters, it will take more time.

And the water soaked in lemon peel is actually better than saponins, and it can be cleaned in one go!

"How?" Zhao Lu lowered her head, Xie Anlan didn't see her expression, and asked when she saw that she was silent after washing.

"Return to the prince, it is better than saponin." Hearing the voice of the prince, Zhao Lu immediately recovered, and respectfully presented the brand new plate in her hand.

The dish was wiped by the morning dew until it was not stained with any water stains. Xie Anlan took it, measured it for a while, and handed it to Lu Chengjie after making sure that there were no stains left.

After Lu Chengjie took it, he sniffed it gently. His sense of smell is very sensitive. Sometimes the dishes will have a very faint fishy smell after being left for a long time, which can't be washed off. After he smells it, the meal will be remembered Loss of appetite.

The plate was covered with oil stains just now, and it was only cleaned with lemon water. Before it was placed in the steamer, the oily smell on the plate was completely gone, leaving only a faint fragrance of lemon.

Lu Chengjie nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad."

Seeing that he liked it, Xie Anlan told Chaolu, "Then leave this jar in the kitchen, and use the water in this jar to wash the dishes from now on."

"Yes." Zhao Lu replied.

After Xie Anlan finished giving orders, she was about to lift her feet to go out, not to scare the servants in the kitchen. Out of the corner of her eye, she happened to see the lemons that Chaoyun had received from the household department a few days ago, and they were being placed basket by basket in the kitchen yard. corner.

Only then did he remember that he only ordered people to take the things back, except that he picked up some soaking water and Lu Chengjie took some to make candy, the rest hadn't been used yet.

The footsteps that were about to leave paused, and when Chao Lu finished cleaning up, she pointed to the lemons piled up in the yard and said, "Save some and put them in the ice cellar for later use, find someone to slice and dry the rest and store them in the air, and try to see the rest." See if it can be used for cooking, since spicy food can be used for cooking, why not sour food."

Xie Anlan's words can be said to the end, this servant who is a big maid is not stupid, she has developed many dishes for the chili last time, I believe a small lemon will not be difficult for her.

As soon as Zhao Lu was mentioned by Xie Anlan, her head immediately became active.

It's all because she has been too obsessed with developing spicy dishes recently, and forgot about this sour fruit.

Sour fruit, sauerkraut...

Zhao Yun's eyes lit up, he bowed deeply to Xie Anlan, and hurriedly grabbed a handful of pickles from the corner of the kitchen.

She wanted to try what kind of result would be if this pickle was added with sour taste.

Seeing that she had a clue, Xie Anlan bent her lips and left with Lu Chengjiao, believing that there will be many new dishes on the table soon.

As soon as the prince and concubine left, the servants in the kitchen immediately relaxed and looked at Zhao Lu adoringly.

"Sister Chaolu, why aren't you afraid of the prince." The servants were all curious and admired.

Zhao Lu was peeling a lemon in her hand, she didn't get impatient with these chattering companions, and instead asked, "Why are you afraid?"

"My lord, he looks so fierce recently." A servant said bluntly.

In the past, the prince never wore a python suit, and he looked friendly. Recently, for some reason, the smile on his face disappeared, and he often carried a coercion on his body, which made a group of servants dare not breathe .

"I don't think the prince is fierce." Zhao Lu recalled for a while, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Xie Anlan recently, and it was still the same as before.

I mentioned her again today.

"..." Seeing that she was completely unaware of the horror of the prince, the servants were annoyed and didn't know what to say.

"Don't make random guesses." Zhao Lu picked up the peeled lemon peel, looked at the companions around her, and reminded, "Instead of having time to think about what you have, it is better to do what you are doing. Alright, if you are lazy and be careful to be sold out by Steward Chaoyun, you won’t be able to be so carefree in the Prince Chen’s Mansion once you’re outside.”

As soon as Chao Lu reminded them, the servants who formed a group dispersed immediately, and each returned to their respective seats to continue working.

They are all servants, and being a servant in Chenwang Mansion is completely different from being a servant in Beppu.

There are only two masters in Chenwang's mansion, and the master is gentle with his servants and doesn't bother others, unlike other mansions where this master and that master have even a small kitchen divided into several factions. If you join the team, you will suffer lightly and be punished lightly. I am afraid that you will just find someone to sell by hair.

Those of them who are servants also need to keep their records in the sales. If they sell more times and keep more cases, no one will want them anymore. They can only be reduced to low-level coolies, and finally die of exhaustion.

Thinking about it this way, everyone would no longer dare to think wildly and do things with peace of mind.

With Xie Anlan's suggestion, in the next few days, there were indeed more dishes made with lemons on the table.

Zhao Lu found that the lemon seemed to have the effect of keeping fresh, so she tried to use the lemon to re-pickle a jar of pickles. She didn't like the sour and salty taste, so she threw some peppers in it.

I added chili and thought it would be spicy, salty and sour, so why not be bolder and try adding some sugar.

This jar of hot, sour, salty and sweet kimchi was freshly baked, and Xie Anlan was amazed when it was served on the table.

After tasting the taste, it was extremely rare to appreciate, "It's very good."

Even Lu Chengjie, who doesn't like sour food, ate half a bowl of rice extra due to the hot and sour taste, and was rewarded by Lu Chuyi.

"Keep working hard. This is the first dish. I believe you can develop countless dishes in the future. There will be more dishes in the future. It may not be popularized across the country. Those people who grow sour fruits will also treat you if they don't worry about sales. Thank you so much."

Zhao Lu received the reward before she could thank her in the future, and when she heard the prince's words, the joy on her face disappeared, and she became serious instead.

"Why do you have to force her like this? The sour fruit hasn't been planted in large quantities at the moment, and it's not enough to supply the Prince Chen's mansion, let alone the whole country." As soon as Zhao Lu left, Lu Chengjie wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said to Xie Anlan .

"If there is no pressure, there will be no motivation. The Prince Chen's Mansion allows them to stay too leisurely, so we have to find something for them to do." Xie Anlan wiped off the oil stains on the corners of her lips, speaking flatly.

Selfishness is actually to hope that Chaolu will be stronger, so that he can satisfy his appetite more.

Lu Chengjia seemed to have seen Xie Anlan's plan, smiled lightly, and stopped talking.

"By the way, how did you make your cleanser? There are also a lot of used sour fruit peels left in my sugar shop. After trying to soak them, the effect is not as good as your can."

After eating, the two of them sat under the gazebo to enjoy the moon and digest food. Lu Chengjiao suddenly remembered what happened in the past few days and couldn't help asking.

Ever since he knew that the peel of the sour fruit could be used as a cleaning agent, he collected the leftover sour fruit from the sugar shop and soaked it in a bottle like Xie Anlan did.

But after soaking for a few days, the water brought out was not as effective as the water soaked by Xie Anlan.

After eating a lot of kimchi at night, it was a bit salty. Xie Anlan drank some tea and smiled after dispelling the salty taste, "Dry brewing will definitely not work, and I need to add something."

"Add what?" Lu Chengjia frowned, and he saw that there was nothing else in Xie Anlan's bottle.

Xie Anlan put down the teacup, and said bluntly, "I added shochu, why didn't you smell the wine?"

"No." Lu Chengjiao shook his head. If Xie Anlan didn't say anything, he really wouldn't have noticed that there was wine in it, so he would ask someone to add some shochu to those jars to try.

"After soaking for a day, don't forget to add some coarse salt in it, the effect will be better." Xie Anlan reminded again.

Lu Chengjiao nodded and wrote it down.

"Speaking of which, lemon wine seems to be pretty good, do you want to try it?" Xie Anlan propped his chin, and suddenly thought of the lemon wine he tasted in a private kitchen in his previous life, so he couldn't help pursing his lips.

"Okay." Lu Chengjie's eyes lit up, and he agreed without thinking.

Xie Anlan seldom drank, let alone got drunk. The only time he got drunk was last year.

The drunk Xie Anlan was completely different from the current Xie Anlan. Lu Chengjiao felt that it was very fresh, but it was a pity that after that, no matter how much he coaxed him to drink, he stopped drinking.

It's rare to see him bring it up now, and Lu Chengjie hastily agreed.

Because he promised so readily, he didn't notice the flash of success in Xie Anlan's eyes at all.

Xie Anlan is a person who does what he says, so it happened that the two of them were full tonight, so they asked someone to go to the storeroom to get a glass jar, and then went to the cellar to pick up two jars, both of which had a lot of dust. The wine is served.

Lu Chengjie cut the lemon into slices and placed them neatly in the glass jar. Xie Anlan lifted the red cloth from the wine jar and poured wine into the glass jar.

In an instant, the two were surrounded by a strong aroma of wine, watching the glass jar being filled with different thoughts.

Xie Anlan finally remembered that Lu Chengjie couldn't eat sour, so he added some rock sugar to the glass jar, so that the brewed wine would not be sour.

"How long will it take?" Lu Chengjiao asked through the glass jar, looking at the rock sugar and lemon soaked in wine.

Xie Anlan hadn't soaked before, so after thinking about it, "Maybe it will take three, four, five or six days."

Lu Chengjie nodded, "It happens to be the Xiayuan Festival in a few days, so let's save this wine until then, okay?"

It's already the beginning of October, and the Xiayuan Festival is on the fifteenth day of October, so it's only about ten days. Xie Anlan readily agreed, and carried the jar full of wine to put it away.

Lu Chengjiao wanted to see him get drunk, so why didn't he want to see Lu Chengjiao get drunk once.

Xie Anlan thought about it for a while, Lu Chengjiao tasted very good, and usually he wouldn't drink it until he was slightly tipsy. He wanted to see what he looked like when he was drunk.

The cotton was ripe in the first month, and according to Xie Anlan's instructions, the white steward of Yicheng picked all the cotton, packed it in sacks, hired a caravan carriage like last year, and transported it back to the imperial capital.

With the development of Fengzhi County, Yicheng is no longer as barren as before, but has become full of vitality, with an endless stream of businessmen coming from south to north.

Butler Bai was instructing his servants to load the carriage, sweating profusely, but there was a group of "flies" making trouble around him.

"Steward Bai, please leave some cotton seeds for us."

"Steward Bai, you are accommodating and leave some cotton seeds behind, and we will buy them with money."

"Why don't you make an offer?"

A group of people surrounded Butler Bai, took money, and said all kinds of good things, just hoping to buy some cotton seeds from Butler Bai.

They were all relatives sent by other city officials to buy seeds, and under the orders of those officials, they had to come and grind the housekeeper.

But this butler Bai is not an ordinary butler, but a butler who stays in Yicheng in the Prince Chen's Mansion, and they are not the relatives of officials sent abroad who can afford to offend.

Only dare to use soft ones, not hard ones.

Butler Bai didn't care how these people begged, he just urged the servants to hurry up, and he rushed to the imperial capital to meet his family.

How important this cotton is, he knows it in his heart, the lives of his family are in the hands of the prince, and he dare not do such a thing of privately selling cotton seeds.

Losing money is a small matter, but losing a life is a big matter.

What's more, the prince didn't treat him badly, nor did he treat his family badly, the monthly money was much more than that of Befu.

He can't betray the prince just because of a small profit, he will have to transport a lot of these cotton seeds back to the imperial capital for the prince.

"Bai Butler, don't be so cowardly, we'll just buy some, the prince won't be able to find out." A relative of an official tirelessly seduced Bai Butler, "Besides, you can get some benefits, so why not do it."

Butler Bai glanced at the amount of the bank note he took out from his cuff, and smiled, "You're going to send a beggar for this little money."

After hearing this, the relative of the official gritted his teeth unwillingly, "Then I'll add another one."

"If you add ten more cards, it's just to send a beggar. Your master must have never gone out to inquire about it. Now we have too much money in the Prince Chen's mansion. You want to bribe me with your little money. There is no way." He waved his hand, bypassed this person directly, and stepped forward to reprimand a servant who almost turned over the numbing bag full of cotton on the carriage with his hands and feet.

The official's relatives bit their lips in anger when they saw that Butler Bai didn't eat oil and salt.

Who in the world doesn't know that Prince Chen is rich, and who doesn't want to take the route of Prince Chen's mansion to earn more money, but they are far away from the imperial capital, except for the white housekeeper in Yicheng, where is the route of Prince Chen's mansion? .

And the master of the family offended Prince Chen a few years ago.

Who would have thought that the [-] Chen Wang would rise to such a level in just two years.

If he had known this earlier, the master of the family would not have offended Prince Chen to death.

This is still the year before last.

The year before last, King Chen followed General Huo to Yicheng to supervise the army. Before he arrived, he sent a group of guards to let the master in charge of disaster relief.

At that time, refugees from several cities gathered together, and there were 10,000+ people. How could it be so easy to resettle them?

But everyone hated King Chen to death. Later, when King Chen rented [-] acres of land in Yicheng to recruit people wantonly, the master of the family remembered the previous grudge, and fueled the flames by tricking those refugees into Yicheng again. , Just wait to see Yicheng's jokes.

In the end, the joke didn't come true, but he watched Yicheng get up day by day.

The masters panicked, and it was impossible to settle their suspicions with Prince Chen, but fortunately, Prince Chen didn't care too much.

Things were supposed to go on so peacefully, but unexpectedly, a crop called cotton grew out of the land rented by King Chen.

and its suitability for dry land.

The land in Yicheng is dry land, and the area under the jurisdiction of the masters is also dry land. The masters also want to plant cotton.

One is that this cotton can make money, and the other is that this cotton can also increase the job evaluation of masters.

But the imperial court did not distribute cotton seeds to them at all. The masters wrote letters to the imperial capital, but no one in the imperial capital replied.

It is still unknown whether cotton seeds can be distributed this year, so the idea has to be focused on the [-] mu of cotton in Yicheng.

Yicheng has a reservoir built by Fengzhi County and cotton, and its development is in full swing. Feng Zhixian may be promoted in a short time, and their master is still sitting in the position of magistrate. Isn't it the same as being pressed in the face? Grind on the ground.

The masters couldn't sit still anymore, so they sent their servants to grind the butler Bai, but the butler Bai was a recalcitrant at all, and after a few days of soft grinding him, there was no progress at all.

This is how they go back to work.

Butler Bai didn't know how these officials' relatives went back to the capital. Anyway, he was going to the imperial capital.

After all the cotton was packed, Steward Bai returned to the imperial capital with a mighty team of carriages and guards escorting the carriages.

This summer, when the cotton trees were just growing, some gangsters who didn’t know where they came from wanted to burn the prince’s cotton. Fortunately, the prince had the foresight and placed many guards around the cotton field. The fire hasn’t started yet. , the man was hacked to death by the guards with their knives in their hands.

There is no need for a trial.

The corpse was hung around the cotton tree, frightening Xiaoxiao.

It is also fortunate that the people in Yicheng today have all experienced wars in the past, and they have seen many dead people. The people who were hacked to death just hung on the tree like that. Shizi cursed.

In a few days, people were buried with stones and clods thrown, and a human-shaped fortress was built outside the cotton field, which made those who had different intentions afraid when they saw it.

Steward Bai and his team hurriedly rushed, and finally delivered the whole cotton to the Prince Chen's Mansion in early October.

This year the big guys know the value of cotton, unlike last year when they let it grow naturally, taking good care of it, the output has doubled compared to last year, and the hired carriages have naturally doubled.

People in the imperial capital knew that the cotton sent by Yicheng had arrived when they saw countless carriages parked outside the Prince Chen's mansion.

Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjie stood by the side door watching the servants busily moving in and out of cotton, and listened to Butler Bai's report.

"My lord, the family members of those officials..."

The family members of those officials never thought that Steward Bai would be so honest and honest as to tell the prince all these things.

"You've done a good job, don't worry about them, these matters are handled by their superiors." After hearing this, Xie Anlan's lips curled into an unnoticeable arc.

He had already received the news that Feng Shuchong had done a good job in Yicheng for the past two years, and he would be promoted to the magistrate of Jiazhou in a few days, and these people would have a good time to watch.

Butler Bai didn't understand the twists and turns inside. After nodding his head, he continued, "My lord, Mr. Feng also asked the villain about cotton seeds, but he didn't take money to buy them. He asked the villain to ask the prince for cotton seeds. , this year's cotton seeds are left over, can you share some of them."

Xie Anlan nodded, Feng Shuchong was a good person, and the cotton seeds would give him more peace of mind than handing them over to others.

"Let's talk about it." But Xie Anlan didn't say it dead, he didn't forget that he got an extra fief this year.

Although this fief had just returned, it was messed up by grassland people, and the imperial court was sending people to count it, and he didn't know when it would be finished, but he had to think about it.

Butler Bai finished his explanation here, bid Xie Anlan his leave, and went down to see his family.

Xie Anlan had already promised Lu Chengke that he would give him a batch of cotton to make military uniforms. Now Lu Chengke had already gathered the sewing rooms in the mansion, and was waiting for the rest of the staff to pick out the cotton seeds. They became active .

The two were sitting by the side door, carefully discussing the details of making military uniforms, and several carriages came to watch the excitement outside the door.

It was the princes and their pregnant concubines who came here.

Seeing people, Xie Anlan stopped talking to Lu Chengjiao, and smiled at the others, "Brother and sister-in-law are in a good mood today, and come to visit my house when you have time."

"If you don't hang out with you, who doesn't know that your Chen Palace has never received guests, even us brothers and sisters-in-law." Xie Guanchao helped the fifth princess, and stepped forward with the look of being beaten, "We will ask you a few words. Walk."

"What do you want to ask?" Xie Anlan looked at him with raised eyes.

"Of course it's about the cotton." Xie Guanchao said without thinking, pointing to the cotton that was being carried outside the door.

Xie Anlan nodded, and understood in her heart that his cotton was ripe, and the cotton of her brothers would naturally be ripe too. This is the way to ask him how to use cotton.

"I'll ask the craftsmen from my house to visit your house later." Xie Anlan folded her arms and leaned against the door without changing her posture.

"Xiao Qi, you are magnificent." Xie Guanchao praised Xie Anlan, then looked up and down around Xie Anlan for a while, and suddenly said, "How come you have become more human recently."

Xie Anlan's lips twitched, "Fifth Brother, I don't have a share in your family anymore."

"No, no." Xie Guanchao waved his hand indifferently, anyway, the craftsmen in other brother's houses have learned it, and it will be the same if he sends people to learn it.

"I will tell the other brothers." Xie Anlan had already guessed his plan, and added another sentence.

Xie Guanchao immediately changed his face, "Look at your fifth brother's stinky mouth, what I mean is, why have you become so graceful and imposing recently?"

Xie Anlan pursed her lips, stretched out her hand and made a gesture of invitation, "Fifth brother, you said just one word and left, you can leave now."

"Come on, buy me another cup of tea, and I'll tell you good news." Xie Guanchao leaned on Xie Anlan.

"I don't want to hear it." Xie Anlan felt that there was no good news coming out of Xie Guanchao's mouth.

Thanks to the help of the third princess, she hurriedly dismantled Xie Guanchao's stage, and said unhurriedly, "He wants to tell you that Zhu Tou is getting married."

"Who is the pig head?" Xie Anlan was baffled by what the third concubine said.

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