I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Lu Xuan's mood at this time was like a roller coaster. Originally, he was a little bit overwhelmed by his injuries and fatigue. Now after hearing Liu's wonderful deeds, he even felt that he needed to calm down.

However, neither he nor Liu Tan were too worried. At most... it was just that Liu Tan was grounded for a few days.

This matter can be big or small, and strictly speaking, it is not a big thing.

Back then, even if Liu Tan had a disagreement and stabbed the court official, Liu Che didn't say anything, and even gave his son a platform. Now such a trivial matter is naturally not worth his big punishment.

Liu Che is well aware of the virtues of the people below, who only cook hot stoves all day long. Now that Liu Tan is favored, his mansion will be full of flowers. Even if he doesn't go back often, people often send gifts to him.

But once those people felt that the emperor didn't like the King of the North that much, the face would change very quickly.

So neither Lu Xuan nor Liu Tan were too worried.

The two of them discussed whether or not Lu Xuan should go to see Liu Che immediately after entering Beijing.

What Lu Xuan meant was that he wanted to meet directly, no matter how he looked at it, it could show his sincerity.

Even if he doesn't mention his relationship with Liu Tan, as a vassal king, he should maintain due respect for the emperor, so that the big man can trust Wusun more.

The attitudes of the post officials towards King Wusun were not particularly good, and Lu Xuan can understand that many Han people can't tell the difference between the Western Regions and the Xiongnu.

Even for a long time, the countries in the Western Regions were driven by the Huns, so in the eyes of many people, the countries in the Western Regions and the Huns are basically the same group.

So in their eyes, King Wusun is probably the other leader of the Huns, even though he is said to be naturalized now... But at the beginning, the Huns wanted to maintain friendship with the big man, and even made peace all the year round. What happened?It's not like he will send his troops south at the first opportunity.

Lu Xuan knew that Wusun's defection to the big man was still short, and he always had to prove it through various deeds.

This time he took the initiative to intercept the Huns, on the one hand for Liu Tan, and on the other hand for himself.

What's more, this road has already come, the environment of Weiyang Palace is better than the road, it's just to meet the emperor, what's the big deal?

It's just to express an attitude, Liu Che knows that he has injuries and won't make it too difficult for him.

Liu Tan thought about it and thought it was the same. Even if Liu Che got angry again, there was still a string of reason in his mind. When he encountered a major national event, he would instantly switch to the state of emperor.

So they didn't argue with Lu Xuan on this matter, they just sent Miao Rui and A Jiamu to report back to Beijing quickly.

Liu Che was very worried in Beijing, but the knights sent by Liu Ju didn't seem to find Liu Tan's trace. When both of them were thinking about whether to cast a wide net and send more people to look for him, Liu Che received the news.

After knowing that Liu Tan had reunited with Lu Xuan, Liu Che finally felt relieved, and after hearing Miao Rui's account of the cause and effect, he snorted lightly: "For he is a good boy."

He was naturally referring to Lu Xuan.

Although angry that Lu Xuan abducted his son, but just as Liu Tan thought, Liu Che still cared about Lu Xuan's injury.

After hearing that Lu Xuan's injuries were serious and needed to be stitched up, he decisively turned his head and said to Ajiamu: "Go back and tell King Wusun to let him temporarily stay in the northern palace to recuperate after he enters Beijing. It’s not too late to see me again later.”

Ajiamu scratched his head and said naively: "But Kunmi said that it is the rule of the big man to come to see you first after entering the capital. Since we have been naturalized, we should abide by the rules."

Liu Che waved his hand: "This is my license, let him not think too much."

Of course, Ajiamu hoped that his master wouldn't have to run around, and just now it was just a good show for the master.

He looks silly, but in fact sometimes he has a lot of heart, otherwise it would be impossible for him to stay by Lu Xuan's side for so many years.

Ajiamu happily thanked His Majesty the Emperor for his concern for King Wusun, and by the way used simple language to praise him a few times.

Although he said a few words back and forth, and he was suspected of being too straightforward, but Liu Che felt that the more straightforward he was, the more he showed that the other party was really happy.

Liu Che had never doubted Lu Xuan's desire to be naturalized before, but now seeing Ajiamu's performance, he felt that Lu Xuan's thoughts conveyed to his people should be good, and his heart became a little smoother.

Liu Tan and Lu Xuan met Ajiamu before they entered the city gate. After hearing the news, Lu Xuan held Liu Tan's hand with some concern and said, "This...Although Your Majesty said so, I still……"

Liu Tan said: "Don't make a fuss, do whatever my father tells you to do."

Lu Xuan whispered: "But I'm worried that you will be scolded if you go back alone."

In Liu Che's heart, he still felt that he was an outsider, so even if he wanted to scold Liu Tan, he would restrain himself a little. If the two of them behaved better, nothing would happen.

Liu Tan laughed: "Don't worry, that's my father, what can I do?"

Lu Xuan thinks about it. As far as he knows, Liu Che has never turned down his face to Liu Tan. Even the crown prince has been scolded, but Liu Tan has not.

Liu Tan at the Palace had already been cleaned up by someone. He sent Lu Xuan there, settled it himself, and then returned to the palace under Lu Xuan's reluctance.

However, even though he was very calm when facing Lu Xuan, in fact, he couldn't help but tighten the skin of his body the moment he returned to the palace - although his father never beat him, it doesn't mean that his father didn't. will beat him.

After Liu Tan went back, he went straight to Weiyang Palace. After learning that Liu Che was discussing politics with the prime minister in the Xuan Room, he turned his head and went straight to the Imperial Dining Room after thinking about it.

The Imperial Dining Room was overjoyed at his arrival. The dishes prepared by the King of the Northern Realm had always been more suitable for the emperor's taste. Even the emperor had to have dishes invented by the King of the Northern Realm for every meal.

It's just that no matter how delicious the dishes are, you will get tired of eating them every day. Recently, the emperor seems to be a little tired of eating those dishes.

Although I heard that the King of the Northern Territory also made new dishes for His Majesty the Emperor during his stay in the Cochin Kingdom, but that recipe really made everyone bald after it was passed on to the Imperial Dining Room—those dishes used a lot of local dishes from the Cochin Kingdom, Basically every dish has coconuts. The transportation industry is not well developed these days. Although coconuts can be stored for a long time, they are not very fresh when they are transported to Chang'an.

Even if the dishes were not bad, the taste of the dishes was completely different from what Liu Che ate in Jiaozhi Kingdom. As a result, even if they cooked according to the recipe, Liu Che was very dissatisfied, and even fined the dining room for it.

The royal chefs in the dining room have been having a hard time these few days. They are also thinking about new dishes, but no matter how innovative they are, they seem to be inferior to His Royal Highness the King of the North.

At least His Majesty the Emperor rarely felt good after taking a bite.

The eunuch who was in charge of the imperial cook came over and said with a smile, "Why is Your Highness free to come here today?"

Liu Tan had just come back from the outside at this time, and the eunuch was very surprised by the dusty look on his face.

Of course, Liu Tan would not explain to him that he wanted to make a dish to appease his father, but said: "These days have been a little lazy, and I haven't added new dishes to my father. I have seen my father's appetite in the past two days. Seems a little depressed, so I want to get something new for my father to taste."

When the eunuch was asking questions, the imperial chefs who were making preparations kept their hands on their hands, but their ears were actually pricked up. Hearing the words of the King of the North, I really wanted to jump up happily on the spot.

They are finally saved!

It feels like there are no new dishes that satisfy His Majesty the Emperor, and they are afraid that they will be kicked out this time.

The head cook immediately said: "Your Highness, just tell me what ingredients you want, even if you don't have them here, you still have time to buy them."

Liu Tan hesitated for a moment. In fact, he didn't have any plan just now. He just thought that the easiest and easy way would be to cook a dish and then apologize to Liu Che. As for what to do, he hadn't figured it out yet.

It's just that time is tight now, don't even think about big dishes, many dishes may take a day or two to process ingredients, so he can only choose relatively simple dishes.

He said casually: "I only have a clue, let me see what materials are available first, and don't go out to buy them. If you don't have enough time, it's not good to keep father waiting."

This is of course the best way. Just now, the head chef just expressed his position and told Liu Tan that he would fully support it.

Liu Tan walked around the imperial kitchen, not to mention, the sanitation of the kitchen in the palace is pretty good now - this is what Liu Che's people learned from him back then.

You must know that even the kitchen in the palace used to be a place where servants stayed, and the hygienic conditions were actually quite worrying.

Liu Tan walked around the kitchen and saw the suckling pig and bamboo shoots, and asked in his heart, "Is there any more bacon?"

The chief chef of the imperial kitchen was slightly stunned and immediately said: "Yes!"

There is basically no shortage of marinated meat these days. Families above the well-off level basically have it. Many dishes in the palace also use this ingredient. Of course, it is prepared all year round.

Liu Tan said directly: "Cut out some of the suckling pig's rib meat, then prepare some bamboo shoots and bacon, and the rest are green onions, rice wine and salt."

While talking about the head chef, he asked the apprentices to start preparing quickly, and count them when they are ready. There are only three ingredients in total, not counting the seasoning, and he couldn't help asking cautiously: "Your Highness...is this enough...is it enough?"

Liu Tan waved his hand and said, "That's enough. I said that time is tight and I don't have time to make too complicated dishes. However, you can help me get the duck out in advance, wash it, marinate it with various spices, and wait until tomorrow." I am useful."

Liu Tan was making two-handed preparations. In case Liu Che didn't like the dishes today, he would have a killer weapon tomorrow.

And the dish he is going to cook today is very simple pickled Duxian.

Pickled Duxian This dish should be a dish in the Huizhou area of ​​later generations, and the taste is salty and fresh.

Originally, spring bamboo shoots were used more in this dish, but at this time, spring bamboo shoots must be gone, and only winter bamboo shoots can be used.

The winter bamboo shoots have a more astringent taste than the spring bamboo shoots. In order to get rid of the astringency, Liu Tan asked people to put the winter bamboo shoots through the water before starting to cook them.

This dish is actually simple to make, that is, first wash and cut all the meat and bacon, put it in a casserole and boil it with clean water, add rice wine and green onions, then change to medium heat and slowly stew the meat until it is half-cooked. Time to add the prepared bamboo shoots and salt.

Although the method is simple, Liu Tan still put in a lot of effort. First, the meat and bacon are first passed through the water to remove the foam and blood, and then wait for the water to boil before putting it into the pot.

At the same time, there must be a lot of water, and a lot of it. Not only must it be able to submerge the ingredients, but it is best to have more water, and the pot cannot be covered when cooking.

After the soup is slightly boiled, turn to low heat, skim off the oil on the soup, and simmer for a while.

Although the soup produced in this way is not milky white, it is clear to the bottom. At first glance, the yellow bamboo shoots and red meat are in sharp contrast, and the taste is not bad.

The biggest effort of this dish lies in the slow cooking in the back.

Liu Tan used to cook this dish at home before crossing over, but he couldn’t remember how long it took to cook it, not to mention it’s useless even if he remembered, how could the natural gas stove take the same time as the current stove ?

He could only stare at it a little bit by himself, and when he felt that the heat was almost ready, he asked someone to bring the soup down.

Anyway, the dishes of the flower growers are generally based on intuition, and even if this dish is not particularly delicious, it will not be unpalatable.

After the soup was stewed, Liu Tan tasted it first and thought it was not bad. There was no astringent taste of winter bamboo shoots in the soup, and the combination of the fragrance of bamboo shoots and the saltiness of meat was very good.

Looking at the time, it was just about time to eat, so Liu Tan asked the imperial cooks to get ready, and he went straight back to the Palace of Suiyu and changed his clothes before going to Weiyang Palace.

He originally thought of going to see Liu Che directly after finishing the dishes, but when he came out of the kitchen, a gust of wind blew, and he felt that his body was full of smoke and the smell of various ingredients. All marinated.

He had no choice but to change his clothes first, or what if Liu Che mistakenly thought that he was going to perform a live performance of stewing himself in an iron pot?

After Liu Tan changed his clothes, he went straight to Weiyang Palace. Before he went, he happened to meet Liu Shi who was going out.

Liu Ju was a little surprised and asked: "I heard that you have returned to the palace, what have you been doing for so long?"

Liu Tan said with a smile: "I just heard that my father is discussing the state affairs, so I went to the dining room."

As soon as Liu Ju heard these words, he couldn't walk. Liu Tan didn't go to the dining room easily. He must have something delicious to go to. After working all day, Liu Ju was a little hungry, even if he didn't know what Liu Tan did. , but at this moment he was already salivating.

Seeing his expression, Liu Tan said, "Why don't you go with me to see Father?"

If Liu Ju is there, maybe he can help him disperse the firepower.

Liu Ju was a little confused, he had just come out of the announcement room, so he had to find an excuse to go back now.

He thought about it very hard, but still couldn't resist the charm of the new dishes, he sighed and said, "Let's go."

Liu Tan couldn't help smiling, and followed him back to the announcement room.

At this time, the door of the announcement room was closed, even the two of them had to be reported before they could enter.

In the end, before Liu Tan could speak to the little eunuch outside, Liu Che said in a deep voice, "Why don't you get out of here?"

Liu Tan couldn't help grinning. Hearing the tone...it seemed very angry.

He glanced at Liu Ju, who gave him a helpless look.

Liu Tan tidied up his clothes, and by the way, tidied up his expression, trying to make himself look like he knew he was wrong, and then stepped into the announcement room.

At that time, Liu Che was dealing with paperwork, and he didn't raise his head when he heard the footsteps. Although the number of footsteps sounded a bit wrong, he still didn't care. He thought it was the person serving Liu Tan who came in after him, and said coldly. Sentence: "Kneel down."

After Liu Tan heard this, he knelt down in embarrassment, very eager to survive.

Liu Ju stood aside and hesitated for a while, then knelt down on the side.

Liu Tan looked at him very surprised: Father didn't let you kneel, why are you kneeling?

Liu Ju: But my father didn't say who to kneel.

Otherwise why is he hesitating?At this moment Liu Ju only felt that he was simply obsessed with ghosts, why was he bewitched by a dish and followed him in?

The last time Liu Che made someone kneel down was... when his younger brothers were still there, that time a few people fought over something, which made Liu Che very angry, and directly asked his sons to kneel down half an hour.

Although Liu Ju didn't participate, he was fortunate enough to watch the whole process. At that time, he thought that he would not provoke his father if he didn't get angry. Kneeling for an hour sounds like a knee pain.

As a result, now...he didn't do anything outrageous, but he still had to accompany his brother to be punished here.

As for the kneeling time should be directly proportional to his father's anger, Liu Ju thought about Liu Che's anger after he knew his brother ran out to pick up King Wusun, and felt that he would not get better today.

Well, no two dishes couldn't soothe his wounded heart!