Outside the courtyard of the Pingwang Mansion, hundreds of Li clans were drinking and eating New Year's Eve dinner, and the children were setting off firecrackers and having fun.

In the main hall, the banquet was deserted.

The prince is not here.

The second wife was quite cold and didn't say much except for occasionally saying a word to Mr. Song.

Li Yu and the second wife, stepmother, had an average relationship, so naturally they didn't say much.

Joey looked very happy. It was very rare to be able to spend New Year's Eve with her father today.

Chu Tianxiu was a little depressed.

The royal family is strict in the rules, and the younger generations have to toast pepper and wine to the elders. Although the second wife doesn't like him, he has to follow Li Yu and toast the second wife together.

The New Year's Eve dinner in the palace was full of pigs, mutton and fish, and Chu Tianxiu had no appetite. After eating half a bowl of it, he had eaten this New Year's Eve dinner.

He thought about it and waited to return to Yuyuan and get some food himself.

...

After the New Year's Eve dinner, General Song bid farewell to his second wife and Princess Li Yu, set off to leave Jinling City, and had to travel day and night to Yanzhi Mountain.

Chu Tianxiu and Zuer sent Old General Song out of the mansion together. Old General Song was half of his father-in-law.

The old general Song smiled and said, "Little Marquis, I will entrust you to you in the future. She is young and ignorant, so I will take care of her! Zuer, after the big gift, give birth to a big fat boy soon."

He was extremely satisfied with this "son-in-law".

The name of Xiao Hunhou's playboy is not very nice.

But the family status of the Hunhou Mansion is here.

The Hunhou Mansion has inherited the Chu State and has been the royal family of princes for thousands of years and has continued to this day.

The depth of the foundation is that no family in the Great Chu Dynasty can match. Whether it is the Xiang royal family or the top ten clans in Jinling, they are all far behind.

The little girl of the Song family can follow Princess Li Yu and marry Xiao Hunhou. This is the glory of the Song family.

"Dad~!"

Zuer was coquettish.

"General Song is at ease, Zuer is very sensible."

Chu Tianxiu glanced at Zuer gently, smiled, and the old general Song said, "I will definitely not let her suffer a loss."

The old general Song jumped onto a war horse and rushed to the north with more than a dozen personal soldiers on a snowy night.

"Dad, be careful on the road!"

Joo shouted.

"Gen. Song, take care of yourself!"

Chu Tianxiu stood at the gate of the palace, stood for a long time, staring at the old general Song and his party, and disappeared at the end of New Year's Eve.

...

Chu Tianxiu and Zuer sent away the old general Song and returned to Yuyuan in the royal palace.

Li Yu and Di'er have also come back.

When he returned to Yuyuan, Chu Tianxiu felt much more relaxed. This is his territory!

I was having the New Year’s Eve dinner with the second wife, and I was unhappy with her cold face and this New Year’s Eve dinner.

"Husband, I think you only had half a bowl of dinner. You have to stay up to the New Year's Eve and stay until early tomorrow morning to sleep."

Li Yu asked with some concern, "Why do you want the kitchen to bring some food?"

"On weekdays, you can have big fish and meat every day. When it comes to the New Year, you feel that the chicken, duck and fish meat at the New Year's Eve dinner is too greasy and can't be eaten."

Chu Tianxiu touched her flat belly, suddenly her eyes lit up, and she thought of an idea, "We're ready to stay up to the New Year while barbecuing."

Anyway, we have to stay up to New Year's Eve, and there are still two or three hours from evening to early morning. If you have nothing to do, you can barbecue in Yuyuan, just treat it as a pass time.

There was no entertainment in the nights of the ancients.

In Jinling City, there are a few places where business is open all night, except brothels, taverns, etc., ordinary people can only have wives and children on the warm bed, and they will go to bed as soon as it gets dark.

There is no TV watching the Spring Festival Gala, and there is also a constant viewing of mobile phones.

If you don’t find a way to pass the time, it’s hard to endure the New Year.

"BBQ? What is that?"

Li Yu said curiously, "Like a hunter entering the mountain, do you skew the meat together and grill the big meat?"

"It's almost the same! But my son-in-law likes to roast eggplant and roast leeks."

Chu Tianxiu said: "Zu'er, go to the kitchen to get some fresh fruits and vegetables, don't need too much meat! Make more spices."

"Okay!"

Joo immediately ran away excitedly.

Roasted vegetables? The idea of ​​a son-in-law is so strange!

Di'er's eyes lit up too.

Chu Tianxiu took Li Yu and Di'er to sweep out an open space in the courtyard and set up a bonfire and barbecue rack.

The three of them lit a fire.

A pile of wood began to crackle.

The weather was a little cold, but it was still quite warm when baking in front of the bonfire.

In less than a stick of incense, Zuer excitedly brought a group of chefs and old ladies, carrying loads and some big baskets.

It contains a lot of ingredients, water, wine, salt, vinegar, sauce, sugar, various spices, as well as kitchen utensils such as cauldrons and steamers.

Following him, there was a kitchen manager who bent down and looked flattering, and respectfully asked Chu Tianxiu.

Since Chu Tianxiu expanded the heating room on a large scale in the Pingwang Mansion, the newly built several acres of floor heating room, vegetables, melons and fruits, are the final decisions of the younger brother-in-law.

The manager seemed to have an extra master and tried his best to please his son-in-law.

The cook and the old ladies put down their things, bowed and left Yuyuan in a hurry, leaving only the manager.

The manager was thinking that the masters of Yuyuan were all people who didn’t touch the kitchen. If you want to hold a barbecue, there must be servants to do it.

He then stayed there.

Chu Tianxiu flipped through the basket and found a few round and fat eggplants.

He didn't know why, but the eggplants in Dachu were all round fat people, rather than the long and thin eggplants from later generations.

There are also a few shallots, garlic, a small bottle of sauce, a bottle of vinegar, a bowl of salt and sugar, a small amount of black pepper, and cumin powder.

Then there are star anise, pepper, ginger, and bottles.

Unfortunately, the Great Chu Dynasty did not have the pepper.

Chu Tianxiu feels so miserable!

For him, who is so spicy that he doesn’t like, it’s so fatal to have no chili in the dish.

Fortunately, there are peppercorns from Shuzhong and peppers transported from the Western Regions, which have a slightly spicy taste.

"The pepper is a little less... can't you bring more in the kitchen?"

Chu Tianxiu asked strangely.

"Son-in-law, these are transported from the Western Regions. Merchants in the Western Regions are often robbed by the Huns, and they are intermittent and it is difficult to transport the spices from the Western Regions. Just a small jar is a dozen taels of silver, and they are rewarded to the royal palace during festivals in the palace."

The manager quickly explained.

"Then forget it, just use it!"

Chu Tianxiu frowned.

"Sir Xie understands!"

The kitchen manager finally felt relieved and said flatteringly: "Son-in-law, what do you want to eat? The villain is also a good cook, come to help you do it!"

"Don't move!"

Chu Tianxiu immediately interrupted him.

What's the point of making barbecue without doing it yourself!

Making it yourself is the greatest pleasure of barbecue.

"Today, I will make you a barbecue restaurant treasure - 'Garlic Roasted Eggplant'!"

Chu Tianxiu first made the ingredients, then took two round eggplants, brushed oil on the noodles, and put them on an iron plate to bake.

After the baking is soft, cut it open with a skillful knife so that the soup cannot flow out.

Cut the eggplant into shreds, then apply garlic, sprinkle pepper, add sugar, salt and minced fish, apply oil and bake.

After the roast is soft and cooked, sprinkle chopped green onion and a little oil into the eggplant meat.
To be continued...