Chapter 63 – The Eastern Palace Barbecue Conference Officially Begins

　　”Big brother, you’ve gone too far ah, how come there’s only Xiao Yi’er’s again, what about ours?” Sharp-eyed Li Yue, and has been staring at his little girl Li Liqi, only to see their big brother gave Xiaoyi Er a piece of immediately dissatisfied ran over.

　　”Gao Ming, this is Hu Gua right! I didn’t think you could actually get it! The last time I ate or your uncle ten years ago sent one to my mother,” not waiting for Li Chengqian to speak, his own mother also came over.

　　Hearing his own mother’s words, he instantly not calm down, this ten years ago there is a watermelon, this group of people ate it all, how is not a thought of planting some, this group of people are too sorry for the sky.

　　”Mother, you first eat a piece, the other wait for me to cut, we are eating, a few of you take away, or do not give you to eat” Li Chengqian scolded a few pairs of small hands that reached out, handed a piece to his own old mother.

　　”Brother, is petty, all do not give us to eat, small Yi’er can not let sister eat a bite ah” in the face of Li Chengqian’s chiding, Li Yue they can only resentfully withdraw their hands, honestly waiting, only the little girl complained Li Chengqian a sentence, hit the attention to the head of the small Yi’er who has not yet finished eating.

　　”Yes, sister, you eat, this watermelon is delicious” Hearing her own sister’s words, the kind-hearted Xiao Yi’er didn’t even think about handing her side that she hadn’t bitten yet to Li Liqi.

　　”Aigoo, or Xiao Yi Er is good, don’t want someone, don’t even give their sister to eat” but the little girl finally didn’t eat the watermelon in Xiao Yi Er’s hand, but sour her own brother a sentence.

　　”Just you have a lot of things, take it, one person just two pieces, more no” said Li Chengqian to cut the 2 pieces of watermelon loaded onto the plate and handed it to the little girl.

　　”Thank you brother,” holding the plate of watermelon, the little girl sweetly said thank you to Li Chengqian, and the little Yi’er also take, pulling the little Yi’er to find a place to eat watermelon to go.

　　Several others also said thank you to Li Chengqian took the watermelon and ran away.

　　”Xia Ju the rest of the watermelon, you take it to make juice, add some ice water, a little dinner time to take up” finished Li Chengqian to the rest of the big half of the watermelon to Xia Ju, leaving only two is to his old man, and then end of the cut cantaloupe in one person to give a few pieces after he took his own sitting on the side of his own old lady to eat up.

　　”This watermelon is indeed a good thing, cool and thirst quenching, this summer to a really good, but not my Central Plains things, the next time to eat to don’t know to when” Changsun Wu dirt after eating the last piece of watermelon, suddenly said with emotion.

　　”Mother, want to eat is not simple, and so over the mid-autumn festival time, you want to eat a few eat a few, still worry about not eat, does not exist” heard his own mother’s feelings, Li Chengqian came to a sentence, this is not that he is not a target, not to say that there is Hu Mo this Hu Shang, even if there is not, his manor planted watermelon, in the mid-autumn festival how to also can be eaten after.

　　”How, you still have this?” Changsun Wushu, who didn’t react, subconsciously asked.

　　”There is no more, but give me watermelon hu merchant, was I brought back, I let him go to his hometown to watermelon, cantaloupe and some other specialties to bring back, which counts the distance, there is a month or two, how can also come back, so old lady, you want to eat, wait a month or two, how to eat also eat” Li Chengqian bit a mouthful of watermelon, full of juice to his own old lady said. Juice, said to his old mother.

　　”You this child, eat a watermelon can eat a face full of juice, but listen to you so say, for the mother is looking forward to up” to see his son eat a face full of juice, Changsun Wuyao said with a smile, and then took out a handkerchief to give him a wipe.

　　Letting his own mother wipe his mouth, after wiping it clean, he grinned at his own mother and went on to gnaw on his watermelon.

　　”Mother, you first sit down, son go to give you old man whole delicious to go, this Hu Shang can not only bring watermelon, cantaloupe and raisins, there are some spices, that’s the good stuff” finished eating watermelon Li Chengqian, and his own mother said a word, grabbed the raisins in his arms, and then took Xia Ju they went out, toward the kitchen.

　　”Your Highness, how did you personally come over” Liu Hai saw Li Chengqian, couldn’t help but rush to curiosity, he but also long time didn’t come to this kitchen.

　　”Why, this king can’t come over” For Liu Hai’s question, Li Chengqian didn’t answer, instead asked him.

　　”Do not dare, small do not dare, small ……” This can be Liu Hai scared hurriedly kneel on the ground, do not listen to say.

　　”OK, know you don’t dare, go to get some woad for this king, and take a carp over, of course if there is pomfret is better” said Li Chengqian let Liu Hai to go to prepare himself the ingredients he wanted.

　　”Yes, I’ll go now” Hearing Li Chengqian’s words, Liu Hai knew that the crown prince didn’t blame him and that he had to make a new dish, he hurriedly got up and went to find the ingredients.

　　”Xia Ju go to take out, before this king ordered people to build a good barbecue grill, and build a fire, in a while this king want to use” After letting Xia Ju go to get the barbecue grill, Li Chengqian himself got busy.

　　Mr. let the cook to a variety of ingredients such as beef and mutton, cut into small pieces, with salt, pepper, yellow wine, soy sauce, and fried and crushed pepper marinade, in the skewer into a string of a string of put good, a variety of fresh vegetables are also strung up, and a little bit of river shrimp, river crab is also the main dish of the barbecue.

　　And Li Chengqian himself is on the side of the preparation of barbecue material, and steamed cabbage and fish with garlic.

　　Barbecue material is actually also good to adjust, is only in the chili pepper and add a variety of spices and monosodium glutamate (MSG), salt, but now there is no MSG, Lee Seung-kyan simply do not do a dry barbecue material, but a variety of spices, such as star anise powder, powdered fruits of grass, powdered leaves of the spice powder, powdered cloves, chili pepper, red hot pepper, in accordance with a certain proportion of mixing together with the addition of salt, with the hot oil poured directly on the top, and so on the cooled down, in the addition of a certain amount of broth.

　　Steamed fish garlic is the same, the chopped garlic, put in the frying pan fried golden brown out, and then put the fried garlic and some not fried garlic in a bowl, add salt, and spices, in the hot oil, add stock, steamed vegetables with garlic is done.

　　And steamed fish soy sauce, a lot of things are not, Li Chengqian had no choice but to do a simple version of the first whole fish, add celery, green onions and ginger, passion fruit, fragrant leaves, shrimp, honey simmering soup base, and so on the soup base simmering, in the addition of soy sauce, salt to taste.

　　”Hey, this flavor is okay, is missing some ingredients, a little bit not authentic, it seems that this can wait until later in the improvement, there is that oil is also, this soybean since ancient times, how no one used to extract oil ah! Not a moment to let Zhang Gao to find a few oil refiners, try to use soybean oil, or eat animal oil every day, that three high sooner or later to find the door” in a taste of boiled shrimp pumping, Li Chengqian in the heart of the dark thought.