Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 239

"You want to know?"

Li Shimin's expression was strange, he couldn't see that he was angry, but he still wanted to confide.

Qin Tian looked at him and suddenly hesitated, but after a long time, the nature of gossip still prevailed.

He nodded, and then carefully observed Li Shimin, for fear that he would suddenly become angry.

But no, Li Shimin just sighed softly: "If you want to know, I will tell you, actually..."

As soon as Li Shimin opened his mouth, Qin Tian immediately said, "My lord, let's go back to the living room, where it's warm and there's tea."

"Are you still going to listen to a story, kid?" Li Shimin rolled his eyes and said, "Let's just talk about it here, just a few words, in fact, the relationship between us, brother and sister, was the best before, but later Luo Cheng fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. His father agreed in order to win over Luo Yi, but he also knew Jiu Mei's temper, so he let me open the mouth. I remember that time, it was also winter, Jiu The girl ran out of the city angrily, alas..."

Li Shimin sighed again as he spoke, shook his head, and turned around to leave, but just as he turned around, he suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I have made too many matches, and I will send some to the palace."

Li Shimin left, but Qin Tian suddenly understood the suffering of the Ninth Princess.

Even though Luo Cheng is dead, the political marriage that year still hurt him, so that she still can't let go of it after all these years.

But according to Li Shimin's words, he was just used by Li Yuan.

But how does Qin Tian know whether it is true or not?

A gust of cold wind blows, and the plum blossoms are fragrant again.

Qin Tian turned around and was about to leave. At this moment, he saw Lu Huaniang leading people in from the outside. Those people were pushing carts with more than a dozen pieces of cut pork on it.

Seeing this, Qin Tian was very strange.

"Ma'am, why did you bring so much pork back?"

Lu Huaniang showed bitterness, and said: "In winter, many people kill their own pigs to eat, but our Sihaiju's pork suddenly couldn't be sold. I was afraid that these pork would be spoiled, so I wanted to bring them back to the family. Let the servants eat."

Many people are reluctant to eat meat for a year, but when the Chinese New Year is approaching, no matter how the family conditions are, they have to cut some meat to prepare for the Chinese New Year.

Sihaiju slaughtered a lot of pigs before, and it is normal that the meat cannot be sold now.

But with so much meat, even the servants might not be able to finish it, because they also killed a few pigs before.

Qin Tian looked at the pork, held his chin and thought for a while, then said with a smile: "Madam, there is a way, I will deal with the meat, even if it is stored for a few months, there will be no problem."

Hearing that the meat would be stored for several months, Lu Huaniang couldn't help but have the urge to retch.

"Sir, don't be disgusting, okay, if this meat can be stored for a few months, the maggots will reproduce for several generations."

These words sound disgusting, Tang Mu curled his lips: "Don't worry, you will only eat and want to eat when the time comes."

Lu Huaniang shook her head, she didn't believe it.

However, Qin Tian didn't explain much, but ordered his servants: "Clean up all the hairs of these pork, and set them aside."

After the servants took orders, they didn't dare to hesitate and quickly cleaned up. While they were cleaning up, Qin Tian began to prepare some condiments, such as drunken beauty, salt, and some soy sauce and sugar.

After the pork is cleaned up, these things are almost ready.

Lu Huaniang was not interested at first, but seeing that Qin Tianlai was serious, she ran over with Tang Rong and Xiaodie to take a look.

When they saw that Qin Tian had prepared a large basin of salt, they all felt distressed.

"Sir, our family is indeed rich, but the salt is not cheap, you... how can you be so prodigal?" Tang Rong complained in distress.

Datang's salt production is troublesome, so the cost is high and the price is expensive. Even wealthy families like them dare not buy salt every day, and a lot of it is coarse salt.

The salt that Qin Tian used was enough for their whole family to eat for a year, no wonder Tang Rong didn't feel sorry for her.

Qin Tian didn't care, it was just a little salt, what a pity, at worst, he would find a way to improve the salt making process in the future.

"I'm cooking food for you, don't you want to eat it?"

Tang Rong wanted to speak, but after hesitating a few times, she still kept her mouth shut. She believed in her husband's cooking skills. This food must be delicious, and she was really looking forward to it.

Xiaodie is even more so.

"Brother, you can use whatever you want, if it's not enough, I'll buy it for you."

Tang Rong curled her lips and nodded her head: "Prodigal just like your elder brother."

Xiao Die was very wronged: "I want to eat the delicious food made by Big Brother."

When everyone was talking like this, the meat had already been brought up. Qin Tian cut the meat into strips one by one, and then used an awl to pierce some fine holes in the meat for marinating.

After doing this, he mixed the previously prepared ingredients together, and then used these ingredients to smear the meat continuously, like a massage.

There was too much meat, and he definitely couldn't finish it by himself, so he asked other people to help, as long as he learned from him, Lu Huaniang and Xiaodie thought it was fun, so they quickly followed suit.

But Xiaodie was impatient, and didn't want to do it until she finished a piece of meat.

After the meat is cooked, it will continue to be marinated and dried. At this time, Qin Tian started to make the smokehouse.

What Qin Tian wants to do is cured meat. There are many ways to make cured meat. Some of them don't need a smoker, but they need to be dried in different seasons, which takes a long time. It is relatively more convenient to smoke.

The making of the smokehouse is very simple, and Qin Tian finally finished it before it got dark, and this smokehouse can not only be used to smoke bacon, but also some roast ducks, whole lambs and so on, without any problem.

After it was done, Qin Tian looked at the smoker's room and suddenly felt that he was so late, otherwise he would have eaten roast duck and roast whole lamb. Thinking about the taste of those two things, he couldn't help but salivate.

The more I think about it, the more I want to eat it.

In the end, let it go.

"Kill the sheep!"

Qin Tian ordered, everyone was stunned, they were cooking pork, why did Qin Tian suddenly think of killing sheep?
But Qin Tian ordered, those servants didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly ran to kill a fat sheep.

After the whole sheep was slaughtered, Qin Tian put it into the smokehouse for smoking, and every time the sheep was smoked, he would take it out and spread some salt and honey on it.

Soon, the aroma of mutton permeated the air.

But at this time, it was already very late.

"Go back and rest, eat tomorrow morning." Qin Tian said to Tang Rong and the others, but Xiao Die kept Qin Tian's thigh and refused to leave.

"No, no, it's very fragrant. I can't sleep tonight if I can't eat it."

Tang Rong and Lu Huaniang also looked at each other, and then decided to stay.

The temptation of delicious food is too great. Seeing this, Qin Tian was very helpless, so he asked someone to light a fire in the courtyard, which would be warmer and more romantic.

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(End of this chapter)