His Majesty is a sick beauty

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Su Xun has great enthusiasm for restoring hot pot in this era. He first asked the craftsmen to build a mandarin duck pot with a cross brace in the middle. The bottom of the copper pot is hollow and can be used to burn charcoal for heating.They also asked people to prepare lard, use lard and chili to make a spicy pot, and use fungi, seafood and big bones to make a clear soup pot.

Meat is mainly mutton, pork, fish and so on. The sheep is gazelle, which is said to be a specialty of Outer Mongolia. They are all sliced ​​and placed in advance by the imperial dining room. The fish balls are freshly fished out. Most of the dishes are seasonal vegetables and some dried mushrooms that are specialties near Suiyang.

At first, the Imperial Dining Room planned to put some old wild ginseng, abalone, bird's nest and so on into the hot pot for him, but it was heard by Su Xun and he stopped him immediately.

How can anyone eat this kind of thing in hot pot?

Regardless of the heartbroken expression of the chef in the imperial dining room, the little emperor waved his hand and replaced those tonics that were about to nosebleed with pork belly and duck blood.

Now, the five people sat at the table, staring at the strangely shaped pot in front of them, silently.

The eunuchs and maids who were waiting on the side did not dare to show any airs. You must know that the last time these five people appeared together was the day when the late emperor passed away!

Several men with serious faces silently surrounded a strangely shaped copper pot made of red and white, which was constantly bubbling with heat. No matter how you look at it, this scene looks a bit like a cult scene.

"This is my secret formula."

Hot pot dipping sauce is Su Xun's specialty. It is an exclusive secret recipe that will be asked repeatedly by companions who smell the aroma whenever they go out to eat hot pot with others.

Sesame sauce, chive flowers and fermented bean curd, these are the three most classic base ingredients, and then put fried lard residue and fresh shrimp paste, sweet and delicious, paired with hot hot pot, not to mention how delicious it is.

The dipping sauce this time was made by the person who condescended to personally command the imperial dining room!

Xiao Buwen: "The pot seems to be boiling."

The charcoal under the copper pot is burning red, and the spicy pot above has started to bubbling. The mushroom and seafood pot does not have the oil layer on top of the spicy pot, so it needs to be heated for a little longer.

Everyone stared at the boiling pot in silence. In the current Yu Dynasty, aristocratic families often use the meal sharing system. It is unheard of for four or five people to eat around a pot, and they don't know what to do for a while.

Who should serve the dishes? Logically speaking, if there is a banquet, the host or the most honorable person present should move the chopsticks first to announce the start of the banquet, and the rest can follow closely behind.This meal was invited by the little emperor, he was the host of the banquet, Su Xun was still His Majesty, and also the most honored person, there was no problem with that.

But the problem is that, logically speaking, Su Xun should be the first to do it, but...

Murong Che glanced at the red and white meat beside him, and the fresh-cut mutton chilled with ice cubes, fell silent.

It's not that they haven't seen raw food on the table, but it's all meat that can be eaten directly.Facing this kind of ingredients that need to be processed before they can be eaten, they really don't know what to do.

Let His Majesty do it?Then His Majesty will become the cook who prepares the dishes for them. They do it themselves, before the emperor moves the food, which is really too much.

Silence permeated the entire room, and for a moment only the gurgling of water in the pot could be heard.

Su Xun didn't expect those people to think so much in just a few minutes, only thinking that the reason why they didn't do anything was because they didn't know how to eat this new thing.

Before they could continue to struggle, Su Xun stretched out his chopsticks to grab a large piece of freshly cut mutton and put it in the pot. After a little stirring, the red and white mutton was cooked into light brown.

"It can be eaten after a little cooking, but it is too old to bite."

Among the people sitting quietly, Qinghe moved his chopsticks first, picked up some mutton, dipped it in a little seasoning, and put it in his mouth.

"tasty."

Qinghe's action seemed to be a beginning, and the others finally stopped staring at the pot in silence, and stretched out their chopsticks to pick up the mutton.

Su Xun happily picked up a large piece of mutton from the red oil spicy pot, dipped it in the delicious sesame sauce and took a big bite.

The hot mutton is covered with spicy juice, take a bite, the mouth is immediately filled with the aroma of meat and chili, the fishy smell of mutton is covered by the chili and sweet sauce, leaving only its unique flavor Full-bodied taste.The crushed peanuts and lard residue sandwiched in the dipping sauce seem to be a packaged surprise. The crispy taste and the aroma of animal and vegetable oils are like small bombs, which enrich the taste and bring a different kind of taste. taste experience.

Woohoo, it's so delicious.

Su Xun felt that she was about to shed tears, this is life!

Since it was a banquet, there would naturally be wine. The wine was brought by Murong Che. It was made from sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that he had buried before. Although it was not as spicy and mellow as white wine, it had a flowery and sweet taste. A drink is allowed.

The little emperor picked up the wine bottle and carefully tasted the golden liquid.

It's sweet and delicious~

The mutton that was placed was quickly divided and eaten, and Xiao Buwen put all the remaining mutton in.In this era, there is no concept of eating vegetables to keep healthy. Except for half-bigu people like Qinghe, most people think that compared to vegetables and grains, meat is more nutritious and healthier food.Even in some prescriptions for curing diseases, meat is a very important traditional Chinese medicine.

Su Xun speculates that this is probably caused by the lack of supplies in this era. There are many people without food, so eating meat has become a representative of identity and healthy diet.

"Mutton is fat, Your Majesty should eat less." Qinghe put some fungi and vegetables into the pot.

Su Xun nodded absently. He was observing the state of several people eating hot pot, and found that their preferences were really different.

The national teacher doesn't seem to like eating hot pot very much, or in other words, the national teacher doesn't like eating very much?He took a bite of some mutton at the very beginning, and then took a few slices of vegetables from the clear soup pot deliberately, without much dipping in the seasoning, and just ate it in small bites slowly.Compared with eating, Qinghe seems to be eating to pass the time.

Murong Che and Chu Yun seemed to like hot pot very much. They were only awkward for a moment because they shared the same pot at the beginning, but they were soon overwhelmed by the hot pot and the little emperor's secret sauce, and they ate happily with chopsticks non-stop.

Murong Che is not very good at eating spicy food. After trying it once under the trend of curiosity, he never touched any ingredients in the spicy pot. On the contrary, Chu Yun was overwhelmed by this brand-new taste, and ate it bite by bite. Without stopping, the lips that are carefully coated with lip gloss become more and more colorful.

To his surprise, Xiao Buwen didn't seem to like meat very much, and he specialized in fish balls, mushrooms and vegetables. He didn't have much preference for spicy pot and clear soup pot, but because of his Beside him, while eating by himself, he had to take out a chopstick to pick up vegetables for the little emperor—there was no such thing as mutton in a spicy pot in ten times.

He always felt that there was a kind of telepathy between Eunuch Xiao and Qinghe that he didn't understand, especially when it came to controlling his body.So it seems that Xiao Buwen is serving him vegetables, but in fact it is the doctor Qinghe who controls his meals together with Eunuch Xiao.

Su Xun didn't dislike it either, he picked up a white and tender fish ball, the fish ball was carefully patted out with the back of a knife by the imperial dining room, and then punched out by hand, without any starch.Fresh and elastic, smooth and chewy.

Xiao Buwen saw that the little emperor loved fish balls, so he added a few extra fish balls when serving dishes next.

ahh-

Su Xun ate it in one bite with satisfaction, then licked the sauce on his lips, waiting for Eunuch Xiao's next feeding.

The aroma of the hot pot permeated the hall, and even the little eunuchs on duty outside couldn't help swallowing.

[The author has something to say: I am hungry writing this chapter...]