Chapter 30 distracted Li Shimin

　　When Liu Hai brought the refined salt, pepper flour, Li Chengqian let Liu Hai use a frying pan to put the refined salt in, stirring constantly, know Li Chengqian think the temperature of the refined salt is enough, immediately let Liu Hai pour the refined salt to a plate without a drop of water stains.

　　Then Li Chengqian put the pre-prepared pepper flour in proportion to the constant stirring, until the refined salt is completely cooled, pepper salt is done.

　　Li Chengqian let these pepper salt to leave a little in a small bowl, the rest are all sealed and put away.

　　Let people find grass nuts, cinnamon, star anise, pepper, incense, white kou, and other spices, according to a certain proportion of good, respectively, into the pot directly fried out of the flavor, let a person with a stone mortar pounded into powder, and the fine salt and pepper noodles mixed together.

　　This can do barbecue material, can also be dipped in a variety of fried foods, but also directly with hot oil and scallions into the oil hot pepper.

　　Of course, this oil is already good, but for real foodies, that must be added chili noodles, and fine chili noodles, sesame seeds, that is a bowl of oil with a soul of spicy.

　　Look at the good spicy noodles, smell the pungent aroma in the air, Li Chengqian saliva are almost down, see the water boil almost, hurry to let people find a large wooden pot to pour the water in, but did not forget to let people do a good job of chili noodles to stay a little bit outside the other are sealed and put away, and instructed that they are not allowed to steal food.

　　Then he put the locusts he carried before into the large wooden basin with hot water, and asked people to use a stick to press the sack downward, so that the hot water can be hot locusts to the death.

　　After a while of scalding, see the sack has no movement, Li Chengqian let people carry the sack out, and re-take a large wooden basin over.

　　Then let the helpers to the inside of the locusts poured in the wooden basin, but when the helpers to pour out the locusts, scared him directly threw down the sack, panicked successively fell.

　　And those cooks who had been watching, were also scared and directly kneeled down, recited words in their mouths and looked at Li Chengqian in horror.

　　”Your Highness, how do you catch the locust god, but also with hot water to scald to death, if this offends the locust god, we are all going to die ah” Finally or Liu Hai boldly asked Li Chengqian, and said that doing so will be retribution.

　　”Fear of a ghost ah, what bullshit locust god, you are doing chef, then you have to give the king to remember, there is no chef in the world can not touch the ingredients, or there is that is because it is not tasty, or too disgusting, otherwise do not say locust god, is the evil dragon came, but also to let it become your hands of the ingredients, the king’s table of delicacies, understand did not! “Finished Li Chengqian also do not care still kneeling on the ground of the crowd, he took a small horse sitting there, the wooden basin of locusts to the wings.

　　After all, the wings of the locusts are not only no meat, but also easy to fry in the fried batter, affecting the taste, so fried locusts have to go to the wings.

　　But Li Chengqian one person there to get a while, those people are still kneeling there, no one get up to help themselves, although it is difficult to make people understand his previous words, after all, this is a belief in the supremacy of ghosts and gods of the times, they are afraid of understandable, but has been like this, then let Li Chengqian is very angry, he said so understand, but also like this.

　　”Liu Hai, you still want to stay in the East Palace, still want to be a good cook, then give the king up, give those locusts to the king to deal with, and you guys as well, if you don’t want to, then give the king a roll right now” said Li Chengqian stood up and kicked Liu Hai.

　　Maybe Li Chengqian’s words worked, or his threat worked, after Li Chengqian finished and kicked Liu Hai.

　　Liu Hai stumbled to climb to the front of the wooden basin, to is going to die like pick up a locust like Li Chengqian to remove the wings of the locusts, other people see Liu Hai past, but also slowly climbed over, very soon the side of the wooden basin is not Li Chengqian’s position.

　　Just get the locusts have a plate of quantity, Li Chengqian got himself to the stove side, add butter in the pot, on behalf of the oil melting, and rise to 6 into the heat, Li Chengqian to deal with the locusts put into the frying pan, to be fried to golden, Li Chengqian rushed to deep fry the locusts fished out.

　　And while Li Chengqian was frying the locusts, Liu Hai and the others all looked at him in unison, especially when the aroma was fried, some people even secretly swallowed their saliva.

　　”Hey, this butter fried, really not as good as the aroma oil fried, and this eat more, sooner or later to get three high, it seems that must be as soon as possible to the vegetable oil to get out, I do not know, those seeds in the seed there is no rapeseed seeds, if there is good, no that can only be used with soybeans, fortunately, soybeans are the native crops of China, do not have to bother to look for, I do not know that this soybeans to how to Fried oil to, it seems to let Zhang Gao to find this talent line “locust fried, Li Chengqian can not wait to take a dip a little chili, put into the mouth to eat up, eat also side spit Tang Dynasty no edible vegetable oil, are some animal oil, even light is also used in the animal oil.

　　See Li Chengqian that one after another eat with relish, and smell that fried food unique flavor, Liu Hai and those cooks are to once secretly swallow saliva.

　　”How so also want to eat, not afraid of the locust god punishment you” see Liu Hai a group of people look at their own, Li Chengqian ate a locust, asked them with interest.

　　”Your Highness, small people are not afraid, anyway, small people have no father and mother, also not afraid of what the locust god punishment, you hurt small people a it!” A long and skinny helper said to Li Chengqian after swallowing his saliva.

　　”Since you are not afraid, then taste, after all, as a chef, if he himself has not tasted the flavor of the food, then he can not make any good delicious food” said Li Chengqian gave that helper a fried locust.

　　That helper looked at the hands of the locusts, at first did not dare to eat, and then thought about it, a put into the mouth, slowly chew up, the more you chew the more fragrant, to be eaten, the eyes straight look at the locusts in the plate.

　　”No, want to eat their own catch to go, and this locusts not only fried delicious, that is, baked to eat is also a delicacy, after the test, sprinkled with pepper or chili pepper, that taste, think about it all let a person drooling, and that is, what is not sprinkled that ask is also good” said Li Chengqian rushed to let people use bamboo skewers of a few skewers, so that the helpers of this dare to try to get Outside the kitchen raised a pile of fire, give him roast locusts to go.

　　And see that helper after eating a fried locusts, also nothing happened, plus before Li Chengqian’s words, and that tantalizing ask, Liu Hai, one by one they pleaded with Li Chengqian also let them taste.

　　And Li Chengqian saw the situation, thought about it, anyway, they can not eat, and even if eaten, let them go to catch is, but before Li Chengqian did not give them, but let Liu Hai in making a copy of the kitchen, so that everyone in the kitchen have something to eat, and Li Chengqian also let them dip in the pretzel salt to eat.

　　After that one ate it, they all thought it was delicious, and they didn’t resist so much, and some even reported to Li Chengqian that they wanted to go outside the city to catch locusts.

　　Li Chengqian saw the color of the sky is still early agreed to let them go.

　　So the vast army of catching locusts from the East Palace.