First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 438 Picnic
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The depression that had been accumulated for many days was swept away at this moment, Li Yuan raised his bow and arrow high, and said with a loud smile: "You all go to have fun."

As soon as the words fell, Li Yuan kicked the horse's belly and rushed out first, followed closely by his attendants.

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji looked at each other, got on their horses, and followed each other.

Seeing Li Shimin, who was not in high spirits, just walking and chatting with Chai Shao, Yu Wenshi and others, Gao Chong handed the reins to Kaohsiung, walked forward, and asked with a smile, "Why doesn't Your Majesty go?"

Li Shimin shook his head, and said bluntly: "The prey is prepared in advance, and it is not interesting to keep it here and shoot it. It has lost its wildness."

Chai Shao also said with a smile: "It seems that the king likes hunting in the jungle?"

Li Shimin raised his head with his hands behind his back: "In the jungle, fighting wits and courage with those real wild animals is the real contest. These prey are all domesticated and raised here in captivity. It's really good to come out."

Hearing this, Gao Chong praised: "It's really not interesting to hear what you said, my lord. Why don't we have a meal, and a picnic is also good. I happen to know a new way of eating chicken called Huaji. Let's try it."

Yuwen Shiji has never been good at archery, so he agreed after hearing the words, "The new dishes in Youzhi's Hero Pavilion are really unique. I really want to try this unheard beggar's chicken."

Everyone was sitting on the ground at the moment, Gao Chong ordered Gao Xiong to prepare the ingredients, and then rolled up his sleeves to dig holes on the ground.

Li Shimin watched with his hands behind his back in a daze, and Gao Chong didn't raise his head.

"Your Majesty, do it together, everyone can do it together so that it tastes good."

Li Shimin was taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately smiled wryly at Chai Shao, Yu Wenshi and a few others: "Gao Youzhi is the first one who ordered me to dig a hole."

Next, Chai Shao went to fetch water from the creek, and what made Yu Wenshiji speechless was that Gao Chong actually asked him to help pluck chicken feathers together.

The second son of the dignified Yuwen family, when he was the Duke of Yun, a scholar of Yuwen, and always a gentleman who cooks far away, when he did such a thing, he looked disgusted, and rolled up his sleeves carefully for fear of staining his clothes.

At this time, Li Zhiyun, who was not far away, rode over excitedly when he saw this, "Second brother, what are you doing?"

Li Shimin raised his head and looked, "You Zhi said to be a very famous chicken and try it."

Li Zhiyun laughed when he saw it, "Hahaha, second brother, look at the mud on your face."

Li Shimin reached out and wiped his nose, good guy, his face was covered in mud, and he glared at Gao Chong from embarrassment.

"It's all about you, and when the sage teaches me that I'm rude, I'll blame you."

Seeing this, Gao Chong laughed, disapproving, and whispered, "When the beggar chicken is ready, the king remembers to offer it to the sage first to show his filial piety."

Li Shimin moaned and smeared the yellow mud on the chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, very suspicious, "Is this edible?"

Yu Wenshi washed his hands over and over again with the water that Chai Shao had brought back, "That's right, it's all mud, it's too dirty."

Chai Shao huffed and came back with water, "Yuzhi, you are called Huaji, why is your name so strange?".

Gao Chong was taken aback when he heard this, he couldn't say that this dish was invented by a beggar, after all, he will dedicate it to Li Yuan later.

After a little thought, he said: "According to ancient books, there are eight treasures in the Zhou Dynasty, and there is a dish called Paofu, which is to wrap suckling pigs with yellow mud and grill them. The inspiration of this dish comes from Paotu."

Only then did everyone understand when they heard the words, Duan Lun squeezed in, licked his lips and said, "It's better to read a lot of books, and I must try it later."

Chai Shao's face turned dark, thinking of his hard work carrying water, he spat and scolded: "You want to eat meat even if you don't work hard."

Everyone laughed, but Duan Lun was always cynical, he just grinned when he heard the words, "They are all relatives, I just eat your chicken."

Deep in the paddock, "Brother, he didn't come." Li Yuanji galloped up to catch up with Li Jiancheng, "He didn't come to participate, how can I compare with him, I can't implement the plan."

Li Jiancheng looked back and saw that Li Shimin was not there, and his palms were also a little nervous, sweating slightly.

When they originally planned to hunt outside, Li Yuanji initiated a provocation and took the initiative to compete with Li Shimin on who had the most prey. Then Li Jiancheng, the eldest brother, came forward and offered a horse as a gift. Li Shimin couldn't refuse.

It's just that Li Shimin doesn't participate now, so the plan has changed.

"I'll go tell Aye," Li Jiancheng gritted his teeth and rode his horse to catch up with Li Yuan's team.

"Aye, Erlang doesn't seem to be interested, and he didn't come to participate." Li Jiancheng pretended to have just discovered it, and said with a warm smile: "Erlang has always been good at archery, and my child has improved slightly in archery, and I want to compete with him." .

Li Yuan was just enjoying himself, when he heard the words, he turned his head and looked, but he didn't see Li Shimin, and immediately asked around: "Where's Erlang?"

"Return to Your Majesty, the King of Qin is having a picnic with a few sons-in-law," the personal guard returned.

"Picnic?" Li Yuan frowned, "Let's go and have a look." He immediately turned his horse's head and went straight to the stream down the mountain.

"The sage is here", Gao Chong hurriedly got up when he saw the group of people coming.

"Erlang, what are you doing here? Why don't you go hunting?" Li Yuan got off his horse and asked loudly.

When he turned around and saw Li Shimin's appearance clearly, he was stunned, pointed at Li Shimin and said sullenly: "Look at you, what do you look like, you are covered in mud, what a dignified prince you are."

Li Shimin wiped his hands in a hurry, "Aye, calm down, it's almost noon, and my son wants to make a delicacy for you to taste."

"Gourmet food?" Li Yuanji sneered and said, "Second brother, you are the prince of the Tang Dynasty, don't you know the reason why a gentleman stays away from cooking?"

Gao Chong said straightly: "I have tried to persuade the King of Qin, but the King of Qin insisted on doing it by himself to show his filial piety."

Li Yuan's heart moved when he heard the words, he waved his hand to stop Li Yuanji, and said with a smile: "The food made by Erlang himself? Then I want to taste it."

Li Shimin was very happy when he heard the words, and wiped his hands on his body, "It's almost ready, Aye, please."

Immediately afterwards, Li Shimin took out the beggar chicken from the fire regardless of the heat, grinning his teeth from the heat.

"Second brother, are you a clod of burned earth?" Li Yuanji laughed loudly when he saw this.

Li Shimin ignored it, and introduced himself: "When the child is out in battle, sometimes the conditions of the camp are limited, and it is difficult to eat hot food. Youzhi came up with this method. He directly wrapped chickens, rabbits and other prey in yellow mud and burned them. This taste is not bad, Aye, you have a taste."

While speaking, Li Shimin had already cracked open the mud, revealing the golden chicken inside, which was delicious and tempting. He immediately tore off a chicken leg and gave it to Li Yuan with both hands.

Gao Chong was stunned when he heard it, and he called out what a good guy, Li Erfeng's nonsense came out of his mouth, and he learned it without a teacher.

Chai Shao and others next to him bowed their heads in silence, as if they didn't hear anything, they are all masters.

(End of this chapter)