Chapter 4 Delicious Called Chicken
Li Chengqian didn’t let his sister wait for long, and soon walked out with his hair combed and clothes on under the service of Xia Ju.
Seeing her brother come out, Li Liqi quickly ran to Li Chengqian’s side.
”Crown Prince brother, what kind of delicious food are you going to get for Li Qi, if it’s not delicious, I can’t rely on it” Li Li Qi looked at her handsome Crown Prince brother and spread the bridge to.
”I know, you a snacker, when it comes to food, your whole person has changed, wait, I told Xia Ju to go to prepare the materials” finished, Li Chengqian called Xia Ju over, instructed her to go to prepare a killed chicken, lotus leaves, onions, ginger, salt and some other ingredients.
Then instructed Zhang Gao, to go to the Imperial Hospital to get some cinnamon, grass nuts, anise, and other spices often used in later years, as to why to go to the Imperial Hospital to get, rather than go to the Royal Cuisine Room, that is because the current people, but not these spices as ingredients in use, but as a medicinal herb in use.
After instructing Zhang Gao Xia Ju, Li Cheng Qian asked someone to carry a bucket of water.
”Crown Prince brother, you asked me to carry water for what ah” the little girl looked at her brother in disbelief.
”Can we not, do not call the crown prince brother, directly call the brother line, as for the water, of course, is used and mud.”
Li Chengqian is not used to the little girl called himself when adding the word Prince, at first decided to be good, but quite a bit more he felt the whole person is not good, after all, he came to this world from the first day of the thought of not the Prince.
”I also don’t want to call ah, but if I don’t call the crown prince brother, the mother empress will say me” the little girl looked at him aggrieved.
”It’s okay, mother ask up you just say is what I said, so mother will not scold you, and don’t stand, quickly come to help.”
Speaking see Li Chengqian has already poured the water carried by the subordinate to, the place he found.
And the little girl heard his words, thought about it is, anyway, is the brother let himself so called, the mother should not say I, and see their brother today also want to take their own play mud, this is their own has always wanted to play that dare not play, now there is a brother in, that their own is not afraid of, anyway, the mother scolded up, there is a brother in the front.
So Li Liqi also quickly joined Li Chengqian and mud in the team, but Li Chengqian is in order to and mud do call chicken, while Li Liqi simply want to play with mud only.
But this scene still made Zhang Gao, who took back the spices, startled.
”Your Highness the Crown Prince, how can you bring Her Highness the Eldest Princess here to play with mud ah, if His Majesty finds out about this, then he will surely punish you again”
Zhang Gao looked at the Crown Prince and the Rapunzel who were already two mud monkeys, threw down the spices in his hands, ran to them and persuaded them in a low voice.
”afraid of what, know know, and you do not see me to the people are detached, as long as you and Xia Ju do not say, who will know, or do you want to go to tell my father” Li Chengqian unconcerned look at a face of nervousness Zhang Gao asked.
”Slave girl dare not” heard Li Chengqian’s words, Zhang Gao looked around, there is really no one, which put down the heart.
”actually dare not, then you should do what to do, here you do not have to wait, there are Xia Ju on the line, but Xia Ju this girl get a chicken how so slow, you are back, how she is not back”.
Said Li Chengqian there muttered in a low voice.
”Why are you still here, not let you go down? But never mind, actually you are here then run a trip to the Imperial Hospital to give me some saltpeter over”
See Zhang Gao is still not gone, Li Chengqian thought of this weather is so hot, they try those traveling novels, saltpeter to make ice, is not really can, immediately and again instructed Zhang Gao to go to get himself saltpeter.
See Li Chengqian again, Zhang Gao looked at the end or according to Li Chengqian said to do, but he left the courtyard, specially instructed to stand outside the subordinate maids, the Prince’s business, a word can not be nonsense, or let them look good, after threatening some, Zhang Gao only left.
In Zhang Gao left not a moment, running sweaty Xia Ju also came back.
”Why did you go for so long, what happened?”
Li Chengqian looked at Xia Ju’s sweaty head and asked casually.
”It’s alright your highness, your highness this is what you want.”
”OK, you put it there, since you are back, then go and boil some bath water for, in a moment, this king and princess are busy and want to bathe”
Getting Li Chengqian’s order, Xia Ju who just ran here, put the chicken and lotus leaves and some other materials in a clean place and went out again.
Looking at the tired Xia Ju, Li Chengqian although his heart can not bear it, but did not say anything, after all, this society is like this, they want to integrate into this society, these are the most basic.
”Brother, the chicken brought, how the cook that, no cook, that we eat what, will not be raw,” Li Liqi looked around, did not see the cook who cooks for them, puzzled to ask his brother.
”Who said, no, I’m not just, hurry up and go wash your hands, today let you see, brother’s awesome” after saying that he pulled away Li Liqi’s small hands that were already covered in mud, and came to the water bucket.
Because the underlings and maids serving them were all driven outside by Li Chengqian, so Li Chengqian personally scooped up the water and washed Lizi’s little hands clean, as for the mud on her face, she didn’t wash it.
After washing his hands, Li Chengqian took Lizhi to marinate the chicken with onion and ginger in water and salt, and put some onion and ginger in the chicken’s stomach and wrapped it in lotus leaves, and then wrapped the whole lotus leaves in mud with the mud and put it on one side with the mud and good mud, and then lighted a pile of fire on the open space, and so on the firewood burned almost, and then put the chicken wrapped with the mud and lotus leaves into the fire.
”Ok, the great work is done, when it’s baked, it’s ready to eat, LiQi go, let’s go bathe, otherwise it’s not good to eat when it’s dirty in a while” After putting the callow chicken in the fire and baking it, Li ChengQian pulled LiQi and planned to take a bath.
”Brother, anyway, Xia Ju they boil water still have a while, why don’t you play with me for a while” said the little girl looked up with her big eyes at herself.
In the end, Li Chengqian couldn’t resist his lovely sister’s spreading the bridge, and she played with mud there again, until Xia Ju came over and said that the water was boiling well, then he pulled Li Liqi, who was already like a mud monkey, to go to take a bath.
When the siblings each finished bathing and changed into clean clothes, they all couldn’t wait to run to the fire where they roasted the roasted chicken before.
And at this time, Zhang Gao, who had been instructed by Li Chengqian to get the saltpeter earlier, also came back and followed them along with Xia Ju, as for the others, they were still left outside.
”Brother, is it ready yet, Li Qi is hungry”
”Wait, let Chief Zhang dig it out and see if you don’t know, don’t rush”
Soon Zhang Gao dug out a ni egg that had been roasted dry from the already extinguished fire.
Looking at this ni egg in front of them, Zhang Gao and Xia Ju both had only one thought, can a chicken roasted like this be eaten?
However, their doubts were soon broken by the roasted golden brown and fragrant callow chicken in Li Chengqian’s hands, which emanated a lotus leaf fragrance.
But Li Chengqian didn’t care about them at all, and took out the plate and chopsticks that Xia Ju had prepared long ago, and ate it with the already hungry little girl.