The first emperor of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 31 Hot pot and quilt

Hearing Li Chengqian's words, Li Shimin almost spit out the tea in his mouth.He never expected that Li Chengqian was going to ask him for money.

At this time, Empress Changsun was also shocked by Li Chengqian's words.Although I felt very funny in my heart, I still blamed Li Chengqian on the surface.

"Gao Ming, your father asked you to get some tea, how can you ask your father for money?" Empress Changsun said to Li Chengqian with a serious face.

"Mother, you don't know that the reconstruction of the Yiqiu Palace has allowed Erchen to spend a lot of money in it. Now Erchen is a hunchback and money is tight." Li Chengqian said helplessly.

"Okay, don't tell me I'm still short of tens of pennies from you. Wang De, send the prince twenty pennies later." Li Shimin said.

"I would like to thank my father over there. Next time I get Tieguanyin, I will give half the price to my father." Li Chengqian said with a smile.

Li Shimin definitely looked helpless, and really didn't want to talk about this topic with Li Chengqian anymore.So he said: "I don't know how long it will take for you to get this quilt, but I can't just sit here and wait."

"If my son's guess is correct, the emperor father and queen mother probably haven't had a meal yet. Why don't we just have a simple bite at my son's place?" Li Chengqian asked Li Shimin with a smile.

"I don't know how much I and your mother will give you for a meal here?" Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and asked.

"How can I ask my father for money for everything. Even though my father and the queen are free to eat, my son will never take any money." Li Chengqian said with a smile.

Li Shimin couldn't help but nodded, if Li Chengqian asked him for food again.It is estimated that Li Shimin has to fight Li Chengqian directly.

Li Chengqian asked Li Shimin and Empress Changsun to wait for a while, and then he and Wang De went to Shangshi Bureau.After all, Li Chengqian has no ingredients here.

Li Chengqian was going to invite Li Shimin and Empress Changsun to have a hot pot meal at his place.Although this hot pot had already appeared in the Three Kingdoms period, it was not really popular even in the Tang Dynasty.

The real popularity of hot pot was in the Southern Song Dynasty, so in the Tang Dynasty, hot pot was not a well-known way to eat.Coupled with the lack of condiments, the hot pot was naturally buried.

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"Hurry up and cut the mutton into thin slices. Remember, the thinner the better. I also get some of this, and this, and this..." Li Chengqian gesticulated in the Shangshi Bureau.

Wang De took the ingredients Li Chengqian needed and a copper pot.Immediately behind Li Chengqian, he left the Shangshi Bureau and came towards Li Chengqian's residence.

Li Chengqian exchanged the hot pot base and dipping sauce in the grocery store again.Chili is naturally indispensable. If you eat hot pot without chili, the taste will be greatly reduced.

After returning to his residence, Li Chengqian put the copper pot on the stove.Then put the modified hot pot base material into the copper pot and boil it together with water.

But at this time Li Shimin found Li Chengqian's stove in the small room that was originally very gloomy.Because of this stove it gets very warm.

So he said to Li Chengqian: "Why did you light a fire in the room again? Don't you want to burn down my Taiji Palace?"

"Father, you can rest assured that the furnace in this son is coal. So it will not cause a fire at all." Li Chengqian said while he was busy.

Looking at Li Chengqian's iron stove, and the iron chimney that sent the smoke outside the room one by one.Li Shimin couldn't help thinking to himself, he must find a way to let Li Chengqian install one in his Ganlu Palace later.

"Father, hurry up and taste the taste of this hot pot." Li Chengqian said while pulling Li Shimin to the edge of the stove.

Then he demonstrated how to eat hot pot. Li Shimin felt a little strange at first.I don't know what Li Chengqian dipped in the bowl.

Seeing that Li Shimin and Empress Changsun did not move their chopsticks, Li Chengqian dipped a piece of cooked mutton into his bowl.Then personally delivered it to the lips of Empress Changsun.

Empress Changsun opened her mouth and ate the mutton into her mouth.It doesn't matter if you don't eat it, you will taste the sweetness if you eat Empress Changsun.

So he hurriedly picked up the chopsticks and started to eat like Li Chengqian.This made Li Shimin want to try it too.

Soon Li Chengqian was crying, because Li Chengqian only ate one or two slices of mutton in the whole two plates.The others have already entered the mouths of Li Shimin and Empress Changsun.

Li Chengqian could only shake his head helplessly, and then boiled vegetables in the copper pot.However, it immediately attracted the attention of Li Shimin and Empress Changsun.

In the end, Li Chengqian didn't eat a few mouthfuls at all, but Li Shimin and Empress Changsun ate a hearty one.

"Gao Ming, your hot pot is really good. It tastes full of flavor. It's just that my mother has never tasted this spicy feeling."

"Even if it is top-quality pepper, it may not have such a taste." Empress Changsun said to Li Chengqian.

"Erchen added something called chili to this hot pot. Coupled with the numbing feeling of pepper, it has a spicy and spicy feeling. It tastes really good in this way." Li Chengqian said with a smile .

"What is this pepper you are talking about? Why have I never heard of it?" Li Shimin put down his chopsticks and asked Li Chengqian.

"If the father is free to go out of the palace for a visit, not only can he get some things he has never seen before, but he can also learn about the lives of the people by the way." Li Chengqian said with a smile.

"Are you saying that this chili is also obtained from the folks? I didn't expect that there are really good things in the folks. Guanyin servant girl, how about we go out for a while when we have time?" Li Shimin nodded and said to Empress Changsun.

"It's really time to go out for a walk. Ever since I became the empress, I haven't left this Tai Chi Palace." Empress Changsun nodded and said.

At this moment, Xiao Rou walked in with a quilt in her arms.And said: "Your Majesty, the quilt is ready."

After Li Shimin took the quilt, he looked it over carefully.Then according to Li Chengqian's instructions, he wrapped the quilt around his body.

Originally, there was a stove, which made the room very warm, and I just ate hot pot.Now that he was wrapped in a quilt, Li Shimin was sweating profusely for a while.

Seeing Li Shimin's appearance, Li Chengqian said with a smile: "Father, my son is not talking nonsense. Is this quilt really warm?"

At this time, Li Shimin's face was not happy.Instead, he frowned and thought.

After a long time, Li Shimin asked Li Chengqian: "Is it feasible to put the things in the quilt into the clothes?"

"Father, this quilt is made of processed white folds, and I call it cotton. That's why it's called this quilt."

"If father put this cotton into the clothes, then the clothes can be called cotton clothes." Li Chengqian nodded and said.

(End of this chapter)