"Try my skills, this is my carefully secret soup base. It is the first time Qiaoqiao and I have eaten it. I don't know what it tastes!"

There were several plates on the table, which were naturally incomparable to the level of the hot pot that later generations had eaten, but there were also vegetables and meat. The meat was mutton. Li Mu asked the chef to pick good meat with fat and thin slices and cut them into thin slices. He cut them into five plates in total. The weather is not cold enough now, and when it snows in a few days and the meat can be frozen, it will be much easier to eat slices of meat. Now it can only be sliced ​​one by one, which is very troublesome.

The only vegetables are spinach and cabbage, which is not something Li Mu was reluctant to spend. There was no vegetable to eat in the Tang Dynasty, which was also something that made Li Mu feel very worried. After he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, he had not realized this problem. The people in Dingxiang and Mayi ate wild vegetables, and he only thought that the people in the small towns on the border were poor and could not afford other vegetables, and did not think deeply. After arriving in Chang'an, he realized that the vegetables in the Tang Dynasty were so poor. Not only were there no peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, beans, potatoes...

What's there?

There are five common green vegetables: sunflower, aquamarine, leek, leek, and shepherd. Sunflower means mung, and leek is the tender leaves of soybean seedlings; leek is leek, and there is basically no difference between leeks in the Tang Dynasty and leeks in later generations; leeks are cabbage; shepherd is shepherd's purse, and the roots are dried and ground into mustard. Li Mu only ate these five so-called vegetables, and the other three types are rare in later generations.

These five are dishes that the people can afford, and there are five "noble" dishes. They are all imported products, including spinach and carrots introduced from Persia, long beans and eggplant introduced from India, and lettuce uploaded from the Silk Road.

In addition to these, there are only some wild vegetables, lotus roots, mushrooms, and other dishes that are only available in a few places that are produced locally by the people.

It sounds like a lot, but many vegetables are eaten only in specific seasons, and because of the planting level and climate, they only eat one or two months a year. But Li Mu was worried, but he could understand it. In this era, ordinary people were a difficult problem to fill their stomachs, and there was no leisure to study vegetables. What he observed also confirmed what he thought was that no one cared about what vegetables were eaten except him. Poor people drank porridge, rich people drank noodles, noble people drank meat, or fish... No one seemed to care about what vegetables were eaten, at most they were worried and choked when eating dry food, and just cooked wild vegetable soup.

If it wasn't winter that Li Mu really wanted to learn the cultivation skills and plant all these vegetables. But then he thought again, fortunately he was not impulsive. Otherwise, he would have suddenly had more than a dozen new species inexplicably, and he would not be able to explain it clearly. Even if he wanted to find out, he had to find an excuse, such as asking for seeds for a lot of money, or trading them when envoys from other countries paid tribute, etc., and he had to find a reasonable reason.

The problem of the vegetable basket cannot be solved for a while. In this hot pot, I can only cook a little cabbage and spinach. These two green vegetables were not bought by Li Mu, and there were no vegetables sold in the east and west markets... These two green vegetables were from Li Ji's mansion. Only the Duke's mansion can still eat some green vegetables in this late autumn.

Zhang Tianai was a little confused when she saw Li Mu put the vegetables and meat in boiling water. She had never seen such a way to eat them, but she had seen spinach and cabbage. She could still see green vegetables at this time, which made her very happy. Although she grew up in the nest of a bandit, she did not like greasy, but liked light foods. She naturally liked green vegetables.

Zhang Tianai remembered that Li Mu liked to eat meat, and there were no green vegetables during lunch. Naturally, she thought that these green vegetables were specially prepared for her. This made her feel a strange feeling. From childhood to adulthood, besides her father, apart from her father, there was never a man who treated him without asking for anything in return. He became flustered for no reason, lowered his head, and tickled in the bowl with chopsticks.

The chef's knife skills are pretty good. The mutton slices are very thin, the water is boiling, and the meat slices are cooked when they are put into the water. Li Mu took out the cooked mutton slices, first put them to Bai Qiaoqiao, and then to Zhang Tianai. Seeing her tinkering in the bowl, he smiled and said, "I have blended the sauce, so don't mix it." As he said, he put the meat slices into Zhang Tianai's bowl and said, "Peat with the meat slices and dip them in the dip sauce. If you think they are spicy, you will rinse the meat in the left half of the pot, with a partition in the middle and the left side is clear soup, which is not spicy."

"Oh..." Zhang Tianai still didn't dare to look up. She looked at the slices of meat in the bowl and took a sneak peek at how Li Mu had eaten it. She picked it up and dipped it in her mouth as if she was like him. The mutton was tender and slightly spicy. After eating the meat, her cheeks turned red.

Bai Qiaoqiao's face turned red, Li Mu handed over the prepared water and looked at Zhang Tianai. Zhang Tianai shook his head and said that he didn't need it, but he still put the slices of meat on the side of the clear soup.

Li Mu smiled and said nothing. He had long guessed that they were used to eating it. After all, spicy taste was not a common taste in the lives of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Li Zhien came back after handling the matter in the front yard. Seeing the three of them eating happily, they swallowed, but did not serve the table, but stood obediently behind Bai Qiaoqiao, facing Li Mu. After Li Mu finished eating the meat in the bowl, he was about to stretch out his chopsticks to pick it up, but he just saw Li Zhien standing opposite him. Li Mu raised the chopsticks, and her little head was raised. Li Mu stretched his arms and she followed him. Li Mu picked up a piece of mutton and swallowed. The most speechless thing was that she didn't say she wanted to eat it, but just looked at it with a pitiful look.

In the end, Li Mu was defeated and said, "Go and get a pair of bowls and chopsticks by yourself."

"Thank you, Master!" Li Zhien responded happily, twisted his waist, and the person had already run out. Before he could breathe three times, the person was back. The place where she lived was next to her, and there were always a pair of bowls and chopsticks in the room.

Li Mu apologized to Zhang Tianai and said, "This little girl is a slave I bought in the West City. She is very capable of doing things. When I am not at home, it is thanks to her accompanying Qiaoqiao. Qiaoqiao treats her as her sister. She is always together when she eats. She is used to being young and small, so don't mind."

Zhang Tianai hurriedly said, "How could you mind? Zhien is a very good kid. We had a very good chat in the afternoon."

This was the first time that Li Zhien heard Li Mu praise her in front of an outsider, and he stuck out his tongue embarrassedly. Bai Qiaoqiao raised her hand and touched the back of her head, and grabbed two pieces of meat for her.

“Have the front yard been arranged?”

Li Zhien nodded, stuffed meat in his mouth, and replied in ambiguously: "I cooked meat, roasted lamb, and moved the wine. I told the big guy to take care of it."

"That's good." Li Mu looked at Li Zhien, picked up a piece of meat and hid it on the other end of the copper pot, secretly dipped it in a little mustard powder, and then put it in Li Zhien's bowl, and said quietly: "Thank you for your hard work, eat more."

"Thank you, Master!" Li Zhien looked innocent and picked up the meat slices in front of Li Mu... and put them in the pot and rinsed them.

Li Mu's face turned black immediately. Li Zhien smiled proudly at him and stuffed his flesh into his mouth.

Recently, this little girl has become more and more energetic, and Li Mu's prank is getting worse and worse. Bai Qiaoqiao caught a glimpse and covered her mouth and laughed secretly. Zhang Tianai didn't know what she was laughing at, so she cast a questioning look. Bai Qiaoqiao came to her ear and muttered a few words, and she also laughed.

Li Mu was a little embarrassed after eating, but fortunately, Li Zhien didn't expose him, so he just pretended that nothing happened. He was eating meat on his own and stopped teasing him.

Time passed slowly and I had almost finished eating. Zhang Tianai hesitated for a moment and said, "What you said at noon..."

"I remember, I'm about to tell you." Li Mu almost finished eating, wiped his mouth and said, "When it comes to grace, I can't help, and I can't do anything to the adoptive father. But if you just want to give Zhangjiazhai the identity of a good citizen, I can do a little bit."

"How to help?"

"Dingxiang City is being rebuilt, you know this."

"Yes." Zhang Tianai nodded. She often traveled to and from Zhangjiazhai and Mayi, passed by Dingxiang, and every time she could see many people working enthusiastically.

"Li Siwen, the county magistrate of Dingxiang City, is my brother-in-law. His father is my adopted father General Li Ji. He is currently the magistrate of Dingxiang County, and is in charge of rebuilding the city and recruiting refugees. It is the time to employ people. If the young and young in Zhangjiazhai are willing, I can write him a letter. Even if he has some connections, he will agree to the young and young in Zhangjiazhai to become naturalized for my sake."

"Li Siwen?" Zhang Tianai frowned slightly, always feeling that this name seemed to have heard it somewhere. Seeing that she didn't remember it, Bai Qiaoqiao gestured in front of her forehead and reminded: "That day I cried my husband, there is a bag here..."

"He?" Zhang Tianai frowned and said, "The person you mentioned... how could he accomplish anything?"

Li Mu quickly said, "Don't judge people by their appearance. Although my righteous brother seems unreliable, he actually... uh, he has a innocent heart, and he listens to me very much. As long as I write a book, he will definitely do what I want. There is definitely no problem with naturalization."

When Zhang Tianai heard that Li Mu seemed to be not confident enough, he even more suspicious and said, "Really?"

"I use my reputation as a guarantee, so there is definitely no problem with naturalization."

Seeing that Li Mu spoke firmly this time, Zhang Tianai believed it three times and said, "Then try it, there is no other way anyway."
Chapter completed!