area51novel Chapter 378
Chapter 378
Su Chen didn't make boiled pork slices at noon, so it would be a waste of time to teach two dishes at once.
There was no time, so I'll talk about it next time when I'm free.
As for Li Shimin's request to Su Chen to send a cook back to the palace to exchange cooking skills, Su Chen had completely forgotten it.
Everyone was there, but Li Dejian refused to eat at the same table with Su Chen and the others, and ate with the people from the General's Office.
So there were only eight people at their table for lunch today, Su Chen and his two siblings, and Li Tai and his six siblings.
"Let's eat! Today's new dish is called: boiled mandarin fish!"
At Su Chen's command, Princess Changle took the lead in picking up her chopsticks. The goal was clear, boiled fish!
"This doesn't look like it's boiled at all, there's a lot of oil on it!" Li You stretched his neck and looked at the boiled fish carefully and said curiously.
"Hmm! It smells so good, it looks very appetizing!"
Su Chen was very surprised to hear this. As expected, he was Li Shimin's offspring, and he spoke exactly the same way.
"Why are you so troublesome? Just eat your food!"
Su Chen said bluntly.
"Little Sizi, can you eat fish? Be careful of fish bones!"
Just when he was about to try his new boiled fish, he saw Jin'er picking up a piece of fish for little Sizi, so he reminded her.
"Don't worry, Sizi started eating fish when he was two years old, and he eats more than me." Princess Changle finally had some free time, and Su Chen had already eaten several mouthfuls of fish before he ate a piece of fish.
She is not afraid of heat or spiciness!
Fortunately, Su Chen had foresight and used two mandarin fish to make a dish.
"Yes, I am very good at eating fish!" Little Sizi sat on a special chair and looked at Su Chen's serious expression.
"Haha, that's good, people who eat more fish are smarter!" Su Chen smiled slightly and started to eat chopsticks.
Little Sizi always had a good appetite. She would eat anything she was given, and she was never picky about food, unless it was something that seemed strange to her.
Su Chen looked at Li Zhi and Li Shen again. They were so old now, so eating fish shouldn't choke their throats.
"Li Shen, is the food at school delicious?"
"The food in the cafeteria is very good, but it's slightly inferior to my brother-in-law's cooking skills." Li Shen answered very objectively.
"Well, that makes sense. Let's eat!" Su Chen nodded with satisfaction.
Everyone picked up their chopsticks and ate the dishes in front of them. Su Chen occasionally helped them turn the turntable.
"Well, not bad!" Li Tai nodded and praised after tasting the boiled fish.
"I didn't expect that Su Chen's cooking skills are so great."
Li Tai praised Su Chen again sincerely.
"Little Daoer! Haven't you heard that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen?" Su Chen said modestly.
Li Tai looked up at Su Chen and retorted: "This is out of context, not what Mencius meant. A gentleman cannot bear to see animals die when he sees them alive, and cannot bear to eat their meat when he hears their voices."
"That is why a gentleman stays away from the kitchen."
Li Tai thought it was necessary to explain it to Su Chen. What if Su Chen stopped cooking in the future?
Wouldn't it be a waste to have good cooking skills in vain?
"Let him talk as he pleases. Anyway, I'd better cook less in the future." Su Chen didn't want to discuss nonsense with others. If it wasn't for the sake of eating better, he wouldn't bother to cook!
Li Tai saw Su Chen's attitude and didn't continue the discussion. He would find an opportunity to guide him properly in the future.
"By the way, Wang Ziyu came to my office today, and the passbook has been printed. The line height and the activity seal match exactly. I'll show it to you in the evening. The paper is wear-resistant."
Su Chen shook his head repeatedly, "You can handle this matter as you wish. I've told you everything I should have said."
Looking for trouble, Su Chen has no time to care about that.
Don't you see that he is very busy every day?
Li Tai was very angry, but he had no choice but to ask, "Is there any news about the sugar cane?"
"Soon, Lao Wang will send it to Chang'an after the sugar cane arrives." Su Chen answered casually.
After a while, lunch was coming to an end.
"I'm full! Brother-in-law, Sizi will have boiled fish tomorrow." Little Sizi remembered this dish, the name is boiled fish.
Su Chen smiled slightly and glanced at Princess Changle, "Okay, eat boiled fish three times a week in the future!"
"Okay!" Little Sizi clapped his hands and laughed happily.
A large bowl of boiled fish was eaten up, and even the fish head was eaten half by Li You and Li Tai.
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After lunch, Li Tai glanced at Su Chen and felt that he had nothing to say to Su Chen.
"Li Zhi, I'm going back to school now, do you want to go with me?"
Princess Changle thought about it, and then thought of the gloves that were almost finished, and said, "Fourth brother, you go first!"
Li Tai nodded, waved and went back to school.
Su Chen said to Princess Changle that he would send her back to school later, and walked towards the study.
Jin'er and Xiao Sizi followed Changle Gong and left. As usual, Xiao Sizi would sleep for one or two hours at noon almost every day.
Back to the studyAfter that, Su Chen didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Why do I always feel like I've forgotten something important?"
After thinking for a long time, he still had no clue.
Not long after, Princess Changle came to the study with wool and knitting needles in her hands.
"Beauty, don't you sleep at noon!" Su Chen asked politely.
"Su Chen, look at how thin this knitting needle is. Only such knitting needles can knit tight gloves. The copper knitting needles before were too thick and the gaps were too large."
Princess Changle took two knitting needles cut from bamboo and showed them off in front of Su Chen.
"Great! You are so smart!" Su Chen praised without any disobedience.
"Tsk!"
Princess Changle saw through Su Chen's perfunctory at a glance, "This time it's just a bargain for you. The first pair of gloves knitted by this lady belongs to you."
"How?"
"Thank you, Miss! I can only promise you my body and repay you in the next life." Su Chen thanked respectfully and seriously.
Princess Changle gave Su Chen a speechless look and ignored him.
Knitting gloves carefully, this kind of needlework is the most troublesome at the beginning.
Su Chen looked at Princess Changle who was concentrating on knitting, and suddenly thought that if he knitted a wool sweater by hand slowly like Princess Changle, how many hours would it take!
This is quite unreasonable. The wool sweaters made in that way, except for the nobles, probably few people can afford them.
Su Chen had never seen how the people of the Tang Dynasty knitted.
"Well, let your Majesty worry about this matter. Maybe there are skilled craftsmen in the palace."
"Lizhi, how long will it take you to make this pair of gloves?"
Princess Changle still lowered her head, thought for a while and replied: "I am not skilled enough. It may take more than ten days to weave it. I still have to go to class!"
Su Chen nodded and said:
"That's right! People only say that you are born beautiful, not that you are clever!"
Princess Changle suddenly looked up and asked: "Born beautiful? What does it mean?"
"Well, it means that a woman is beautiful. Lizhi happens to be the same as your name, as if the term born beautiful was born because of you." Su Chen answered vaguely.
As long as he didn't recite the complete poem, Su Chen thought it was not a big deal.
"You... you are slick!" Princess Changle lowered her head and continued to weave gloves.
Seeing Princess Changle like this, how could Su Chen let her go? Su Chen hadn't seen her shy for a long time.
"How do you know I have a slippery tongue?"
Princess Changle raised her head and looked at Su Chen again, as if she thought of something embarrassing, and pointed at Su Chen and said angrily:
"You...you are shameless!"
Su Chen stretched his neck and grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.
"Look, I have teeth, and I brush them every day!"
"You...you...!"
Princess Changle said "you" for a long time, but couldn't find a suitable word to curse.
"You are shameless!"
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