Datang: Dad, I really didn't want to rebel!

Chapter 49
Chapter 62
Li Chengqian understood why Su Han was so depressed.

She used to be the Crown Princess, and she was always surrounded by stars wherever she went. She was never as deserted as she is now.

"Ugh…"

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian put his arms around her shoulders lightly, and said: "Go and call all the maids in the mansion later. It's the Chinese New Year anyway, so it should be lively."

"Hmm..." Su Han nodded slightly.

Li Chengqian said: "Anyway, I'm bored, so I'll do the knife myself today, Xiaohan, you can tell the maids later to wash the dishes, and they don't need to do it."

"You cook..." Su Han pouted, with a disgusted expression, "Your Highness, can you cook?"

Li Chengqian immediately refused, "I'll show you how good my cooking skills are in a minute!"

"cut!"

Su Han expressed disdain.

Li Chengqian rolled his eyes at her, and then went to prepare things for New Year's Eve.

In the corridor, fifty servant girls stood on the left and right. After Li Chengqian came out, he began to give orders.

"Sweep the snow in the yard today, and we will have dinner in the yard."

"When the time comes, put a few more coal stoves around the yard, so you won't be afraid of the cold."

"Also...have you bought all the firecrackers? I have to watch the New Year's Eve at night."

The firecrackers here are not fireworks, but bamboo.

Because there are no fireworks and firecrackers in Tang Dynasty now, people can only buy some bamboo, and then light it with fire to make it burst and make a sound to drive away the plague god. Because bamboo burning makes a "crackling" sound, it is called firecrackers.

A servant girl said politely: "Return to the young master, everything has been done before the new year."

Li Chengqian nodded, "Okay, you guys go to work first, and have dinner together at night."

Many maids were taken aback for a moment, then someone hesitated and said: "Master, there is a difference between master and servant, this is not suitable."

Li Chengqian smiled slightly, "In our place, there is no distinction between master and servant. You all have no parents, no relatives, and nowhere to go during the Chinese New Year. It happens that we are also calm, so let's get together and have fun."

These maids were all signed in by the system. Although they had memories and reasonable identities, they were all alone and had no relatives.

After all, it is impossible for the system to arrange relatives for each of them.

After hearing Li Chengqian's words, all the maids began to sob softly and were deeply moved.

"Hurry up and get busy, don't miss the auspicious time!"

"Here!"

The front hall of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was extremely cold, but the backyard was extremely lively.

Originally there was Zhuge Liang, but because the backyard is an important place, only women can enter except for the male owner.

So Li Chengqian compromised and asked all the officials of the governor's office to have dinner together, and Zhuge Liang, the governor of Qianzhou, was naturally among them.

Fifty maids cleaned up the heavy snow in the yard, and at noon, they prepared everything.

In the kitchen, Li Chengqian, Su Han, and a few maids were in the kitchen, making dinner and eating together for New Year's Eve.

"Your Highness, why do you use cheap meat?" Su Han stood beside him and asked with some doubts.

Cheap meat is actually pork.

Because no matter how the pork is cooked, it has a fishy smell that is difficult to get rid of, so few people are willing to eat pork.

The less people eat, the cheaper it is. People who choose to eat pork are mostly ordinary people, so pork is called "cheap meat".

"Hey, this meat is naturally not edible, but this fat meat is very useful!"

Li Chengqian chuckled and started to get busy.

Soon, a bowl of lard came out of the pan.

Su Han and the maids looked at him curiously, but they didn't speak again.

Nowadays, this idea of ​​cooking is not popular, because the oil in Datang is very scarce, so cooking is not popular.

From ancient times to the present, the world's cooking of food is nothing more than stewing, steaming or roasting on fire.

It was not until the introduction of peanuts in the Ming Dynasty that the cooking technology reached maturity.

"You can splash oil with fat pig meat, and you can stir-fry vegetables with this meat."

As Li Chengqian spoke, he continued to splash oil again.

After half an hour, a large basin of oil was splashed.

Next, is stir-fry.

I prepared chicken, duck, fish, meat, etc., and the vegetables are rapeseed and some unknown wild vegetables.

"This chicken is diced and stir-fried..."

At sunset, all kinds of delicacies are freshly baked, but it is a pity that Datang does not have seasonings such as chili, so the fried food tastes mediocre.

However, this was a novelty for Su Han and the others. They never thought that food could be eaten in such a way.

Of course, how could the Chinese New Year be without Datang's most popular barbecue.

From the Sui Dynasty, the prosperity of the entire national culture brought about the development of food culture, and the common people already had a certain consumption base.

Today's barbecue is mainly influenced by the nomadic cooking style of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Barbecue occupies a large proportion of people's daily diet. At this time, barbecue food has more detailed requirements in terms of fire and materials.

A rectangular copper vessel is placed in the middle, and iron picks are inlaid in the mouth of the copper vessel, which are used to place raw meat.

The inside of the copper vessel is naturally used to put coal.

Ordinary people barbecue, at most they build a simple table, and then use charcoal to light a fire.

But those are too troublesome, and Li Chengqian feels that they don't have the atmosphere of barbecue.

So before, the Ordnance Division was specially asked to create such a thing. It has always been a product of idleness and boredom. I didn't expect it to come in handy today.

In addition, Li Chengqian also asked people to buy some spices, such as fennel, commonly known as cumin, pepper, pepper, dogwood and so on.

With these things, it is called barbecue!
After that, Li Chengqian moved the bronze utensils to the center of the courtyard, lit the coals, and put the chicken wings on top.

These things won't be familiar for a while, so I put them there first.

Around the bronze vessels, there are nine large tables.

The maids put the dishes on the table one after another. Including Li Chengqian and Su Han, there were 52 people in total, so there were not many dishes to share.

But today, the atmosphere prevails, and whether you can eat enough is secondary, and there is a barbecue, which is enough.

Li Chengqian was standing in the courtyard. It was dark now, and the red lanterns hanging on the eaves were lit. At this moment, the courtyard was shrouded in red lights, and it looked very festive.

And in every corner, there are many coal stoves, so that even in an open place like the yard, it is still very warm.

All the dishes were served soon, and the fifty maids found their seats and were ready to be seated.

As for the two masters, Li Chengqian and Su Han, they naturally had to make an impassioned statement first.

"Ahem...today is New Year's Eve, so... let's eat..."

Li Chengqian was hungry, so he didn't bother to talk so much nonsense.

Su Han refused to obey. He pressed his fingers hard on Li Chengqian's waist, and then said with a smile: "There are also firecrackers to set off, don't keep thinking about eating them."

Li Chengqian's face collapsed, so he had to ask someone to burn the firecrackers with a bitter face.

The sound of crackling firecrackers sounded quickly, and it was not until after the end that Su Han reluctantly let Li Chengqian take the seat.

Two people are the masters, so two people form a table, and the dishes on the table are the most.

Su Han looked at the five or six dishes on the table and couldn't help swallowing.

The reason why she agreed to let Li Chengqian skip those tedious procedures.

It's because... she's also hungry...

(End of this chapter)