At the beginning of Shen Shi, the palace servants in the dining room divided the fries from the square porcelain plates into small plates. Bai Yuchu and Bai Lu discussed it, and in order to make the noodles look better, they put them into the food box. I added three small plates of special snacks made in the small kitchen of Chuxiu Palace, and barely filled the food box before letting the palace officials distribute the food boxes to Cining Palace, Shoukang Palace, Nansan Palace and other places.
Yinreng and Changquan also said goodbye to Qingyan and Xiaosi, and took He Zhuer and the nanny from the palace to the Qianqing Palace along the north-south palace road.
"Cousin Prince, when can we eat French fries again?"
Xiao Changquan, who was carrying a schoolbag, saw the golden glazed tiles on both sides of the palace road and couldn't help but recall the fragrant smell of French fries. He turned his face like a greedy cat, raised his head and asked, holding his hand forward. Little cousin is leaving.
When Yinreng heard his little cousin's question, he thought about it for a moment, then smiled helplessly and shook his head and said:
"This orphan doesn't know that potatoes were accidentally discovered by Guard Cao and others in the den of the White Lotus Sect traitor. Khan Ama only gave the orphan three and said that he would treat the rest as seeds and take them to the imperial village for the farmers. Trial planting, we are afraid that we will have to wait until potatoes are grown in large quantities before we can realize the freedom of French fries in the palace."
"Ah, that's it."
When Changquan heard this, he felt a little disappointed for a moment.
However, being optimistic by nature, he had already imagined in his mind the future when he would achieve the freedom of French fries before he waited for his little cousin's comfort, so he sighed with longing:
"Cousin Prince, if potatoes are everywhere in the future, then I will ask the chef in our house to cook them for me every day. I will eat French fries every meal, and eat the French fries as rice."
"Oh? Does Chang Quan want to become fatter, dumber, or less handsome?"
When Yinreng heard Xiao Tuanzi's words, he couldn't help turning his head and looking down at Xiao Changquan.
But he still remembered what Huang's mother said, it's okay for children to try French fries occasionally to satisfy their cravings, but they can't eat too much.
"Why?" Changquan was puzzled. Although the French fries are so delicious, why can't they be eaten as food?
Yinreng turned his head forward, raised the corners of his mouth in a small arc, and then said in an exaggerated tone:
"Changquan, do you know why Marshal Tianpeng turned into Zhu Bajie?"
"I know, my sister told me that he was demoted to the mortal world by the Jade Emperor because he was shameless and peeped at Fairy Chang'e taking a bath."
Sun Dasheng is Batulu, whom Changquan currently admires very much. Now when he heard that Yin Reng turned the topic to this topic, he waved his empty left fist up and down and answered the conversation with great enthusiasm.
"No, no."
Yinreng followed the example of the old master who taught the class, shook his head and continued talking solemnly:
"Changquan, you can't just look at the surface of this problem. As far as I know, the inside story is mainly because Marshal Tianpeng ate French fries without restraint in Changshengtian. Fried food is unhealthy and easy to gain weight. He didn't listen to Brother Monkey's advice, he ate like an idiot all day long, and then he accidentally ate himself and turned into a pig."
"Then Fairy Chang'e was taking a bath in the Tianhe River one day because of the heat. She accidentally discovered an ugly guy with a pig's head and a human body peeking at her. The good guy frightened Fairy Chang'e, and she immediately put on her clothes in a hurry.
Shi Yi ran to the Lingxiao Palace to complain to the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor thought that Marshal Tianpeng's current face was really ugly and damaged the good image of the heaven, so he demoted him to the mortal world."
"What?"
Changquan's eyes widened when he heard this alternative explanation for the first time, and he felt confused in the wind that overturned his understanding.
Seeing his little cousin's look of disbelief, Yinreng raised his eyebrows and murmured:
"Don't you believe it, Changquan? How could a five-year-old child deceive you?"
At this age, Chang Quan has a natural sense of authority and trust in the words of older children, let alone his trusted cousin, the prince.
He was extremely conflicted in his heart, because he usually likes to eat fried foods, such as fried candy cakes, fried dough sticks, and fried small meatballs. They are all his favorites.
Now when I hear Yin Reng talking about fried food,
Will gain weight, and Marshal Tianpeng turned into pig essence because he ate a lot of French fries. He felt an unspeakable melancholy in his heart, and he didn't know whether he should give up his beloved recipe.
"Hey, if Changquan really doesn't believe it and insists on eating French fries as rice, then there's no way he can stop him. Then he will!"
Yinreng used two words "Ai" in a short sentence, and the last "Ai" word was specially elongated, giving people a spiritual feeling as if he had said everything and yet nothing.
After listening to his words, Chang Quan couldn't help but imagine a picture in his mind.
[A three-headed little man who looked exactly like him was sitting cross-legged on the ground eating sweet fried candy cakes. Then suddenly a tall golden mountain of French fries fell from the sky. The little man happily dropped it and bit it.
Half of the candy cake was eaten, and he dived into the mountain of French fries with a "ouch" sound. He took one bite from the left and the other with great joy. It didn't take long for the "mountain" to be eaten, and the little man had a big belly.
He was lying on the ground. Unexpectedly, he just burped and suddenly turned into a little fat pig. He couldn't say anything and could only make silly calls like "hum hum hum".]
Changquan, who inherited the Aixinjueluo family's gene for being good at brainstorming, was so frightened by the images that came up in his mind that he shivered in the hot summer, then quickly shook his little head and never dared to think about it again.
I want to eat French fries every time.
He Zhuer and Wangfu's nanny who were following behind them both suppressed their laughter when they heard their conversation.
He Zhuer couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the young prince was really about to fool the young prince into stupidity. Marshal Tianpeng peeked at Chang'e in the bath and Brother Monkey didn't know where he was, so he could persuade him not to eat French fries.
?Furthermore, is the majestic Fairy Chang'e so unscrupulous that she would go and bathe in the Tianhe River? But these words reminded him of the time when the imperial concubine used similar words to describe the picky eater of the two-year-old prince.
Having put it straight, I can only say that His Highness has learned the true legacy of Concubine Jing in this aspect.
The nanny of the palace who followed him was full of gratitude to the young prince. Her family knew about her family affairs. There were only three young masters in the palace now, except for the eldest son and the eldest son born to the Fujin Siruke family.
Daughter, last year the concubine Yang of Fujin also gave birth to his second elder brother Zhan Sheng, but his elder brother Zhan Sheng has always been ill, so the youngest prince is the most favored person in the palace. In some small things, Prince Yu and
It can be said that Fujin is completely obedient to him. For example, adults all know that fried food should not be eaten too much, but they still can't satisfy the greedy young prince. Now that the young prince has said this, I am afraid that his young prince will be in this regard in the future.
I can also exercise some restraint.
The group of four people walked forward with different thoughts, and by chance, they bumped into Prince Yu just as they reached the west gate of Qianqing Palace.
"Amma!"
After seeing Prince Yu, Changquan immediately let go of the prince's cousin's hand, happily jumped up to Fuquan, and said excitedly to him:
"Ama! Ama! I ate a new delicacy called French fries at Gan's mother's place today. I brought one back for you, my mother and my sister."
"Oh, what a good son I have!"
Fuquan happily picked up his precious son, and then saw the huanghuali wood food box in the nanny's hand.
Although he is not greedy for children's food, it makes him feel very happy that his son can think of him while eating.
"Uncle Wang!"
Yinreng also walked forward with a smile and saluted Fuquan as a junior.
Fuquan hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, and then said with a simple smile:
"I really didn't expect that Baocheng and the Imperial Concubine could be so powerful. They just took the potatoes back to Chuxiu Palace in the morning and figured out how to eat them so quickly."
"Wang Bo was very complimentary, mainly because the chef in my aunt's palace is very skilled."
The little prince looked at Fuquan's sincere praise and scratched his head, feeling embarrassed.
"Uncle Wang, do you know what the current price of ice is in the capital?"
Yinreng remembered his purpose of returning to Qianqing Palace and hurriedly changed the topic elsewhere.
For the first time, Fuquan heard that the young prince actually asked about the price of ice among the people. Although he didn't know the reason, he still answered.
:
"I don't know the exact price of ice, but yesterday Fujin told me that the current price of ice among the people is about one tael of silver per pound of ice."
"Is ice sold so expensive?"
Fuquan looked at Yinreng's stunned look and explained to him:
"Your Highness may not know very well, but some scholars in the Tang Dynasty lamented: 'The ice and snow in Chang'an are as valuable as a gold jade in summer.' 2 Now this has just begun, and I am afraid that in a few days, the price of ice will rise again. It’s going up.”
Yinreng couldn't wait any longer. He had heard Khan Amma say that a middle-aged person in the capital with twenty taels of silver was considered a very good family. One penny could buy a big steamed bun, so one tael of silver could buy a big steamed bun. Buy a thousand steamed buns! Now you can only exchange them for a small piece of ice. The price of ice among the people is really too high! If it really rises to the point of "one tael of gold, one pound of ice", it will be simply too high. That's outrageous!
"Uncle Wang, I have gone to find Khan Ama first."
Yinreng frowned and felt that it was urgent to control the price of ice. He then waved goodbye to Fuquan and hurriedly led He Zhuer across the threshold and into the west door.
Fuquan saw the sudden change in his nephew's face after hearing his words, and he knew in his heart that something was wrong with Yinreng. He looked at each other in confusion with his son in his arms, wondering why he was so worried. I didn't want to think about it anymore, I was going to carry Chang Quan to the Cining Palace to say hello to Madam Huang, and then I went home through Xihua Gate.
"He Zhu'er, give the food box to Gu, go find some big buckets and small basins, and fill the big buckets with some water and bring them to the main hall."
As soon as Yinreng entered Qianqing Palace, he turned around and gave instructions to He Zhuer.
"Yes, your highness, your servant will go to the backyard to look for it."
He Zhuer reached out and handed the huanghuali wood food box to Yinreng and hurriedly ran to find something. At the same time, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the little prince had forgotten about watering and fertilizing the gourd.
His Highness picked up a kettle and watered the gourd, but if he really put farmyard manure into the gourd and made the entire Qianqing Palace stink, wouldn't it make the Emperor angry to death? I'm afraid His Highness will be tortured again by then. The emperor was pressed on his thigh and spanked with a "slap, slap" sound.
At this moment, Yinreng was thinking about how to balance the price of ice in the capital. He had no idea that his personal eunuch was worried about his little butt. He held the food box in one hand and touched it with the other hand. He touched the rice paper in his arms and walked straight towards the main hall.
After He Zhu'er picked through the backyard and finally found a wooden barrel about as high as an adult's knees and a small thin copper basin, when he hurried back to the main hall of the front yard, he saw the emperor, Princess Kejing and the little one. The prince was already eating snacks around the dining table.
"Brother Prince, these French fries are really delicious."
Xiao Kejing, who was speaking more and more eloquently, sat on Kangxi's lap, holding thin French fries dipped in sweet and sour tomato sauce with her little hands and said happily.
Kangxi also nodded in agreement. He didn't expect the potatoes to taste so delicious, and he paid more and more attention to the remaining potatoes.
Yinreng glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw that He Zhuer had come back, and he urged again:
"Khan Ama, please hurry up and ask someone to get the saltpeter. I will make ice for you."
Kangxi raised his head and saw the bucket and basin in He Zhuer's hand, and then said to Liang Jiugong who was standing not far away:
"Liang Jiugong, go get some saltpeter."
"Eunuch Liang, you need to get more."
Yinreng added another sentence.
Liang Jiugong agreed with a smile, turned around and left quickly.
Kangxi left the remaining French fries to his little daughter, then picked up a wet bright yellow sweat towel and wiped his hands. While looking at his son's confident appearance, he felt a little funny in his heart, thinking that children are prone to getting pregnant easily. What a fantastic idea, but he himself is also a lover of Western learning, and he is also a little curious about the process of "saltpeter dissolves in water and absorbs heat to make ice" as his son said, so he is willing to support Yinreng's idea this time.
Liang Jiugong moved very quickly and rushed back with a bag of saltpeter without leaving the father and son waiting for long.
When Liang Jiugong saw that the little prince was about to make ice by himself, he immediately stretched out his hand to stop him:
"Your Highness, your body is so precious that you cannot tolerate the slightest glimmer of it.
If it’s a loss, you should ask your slave to do it.”
"Yes, Baocheng, you come to my side, you just have to talk."
Seeing everyone's opposition, Yinreng had no choice but to give up the idea of taking action himself, stood with his sister and Khan Ama, and ordered He Zhuer and Liang Jiugong:
"He Zhu'er, use a small copper basin to fill a basin of water from the wooden bucket. Wait until Eunuch Liang pours all the saltpeter in the bag into the bucket, then put the small copper basin into the wooden bucket. Be careful not to let the copper The basin sinks, and then we just need to wait patiently for the saltpeter to melt and slowly absorb heat, and the clear water in the copper basin turns into ice cubes."
When the master and apprentice heard what the little prince said so simply, they followed his instructions with hesitation. In order to prevent the copper basin from sinking, Liang Jiugong specially asked He Zhuer to bring two feather dusters, one on the left and one on the right, to support the edge of the basin. Son, set up the copper basin properly and put the two heads of the feather duster on the edge of the bucket.
Several onlookers saw that the saltpeter melted quickly after being soaked in water. Yinreng could not help but lean forward and observe nervously, wanting to know whether this method of making ice was feasible.
However, the time for a cup of tea has passed, and the water in the copper basin has not changed at all. The little prince's brows have become more and more frowned, and the other people's brows have also begun to frown.
After another cup of tea, Yin Reng and others were a little anxious. He Zhuer felt his neck was a little sore and shook his body. Unexpectedly, the sunlight outside happened to shine through the glass window on the bottom of the bronze medal. He Zhuer
He noticed something shining at the bottom of the copper basin. He blinked his eyes and buried his head downward. After seeing the small ice crystals in the clear water, he hurriedly said in surprise:
"Your Highness, Your Highness, it's successful, it's successful, there's ice!"
After hearing what he said, Yinreng hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hand to soak in the clean water in the copper basin and stirred it for a few times. After touching the tiny ice cubes in the cold water, he turned his head happily and shouted to Kangxi:
"Khan Ama, come and touch it, the method of making ice from saltpeter is real!"
Kangxi came forward with his little daughter in his arms and couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw the mixture of ice and water in the copper basin.
Little Kejing lowered her head and saw that the clear water had really turned into ice bit by bit. At one year and seven months old, she couldn't figure out the principle. She just grinned and patted her fleshy little hands to praise the prince brother.
sharp.
After another quarter of an hour, when the water in the small copper basin completely turned into ice cubes, the originally melted saltpeter gradually crystallized out due to the low temperature. Doesn't this prove that saltpeter can not only make ice but can also be reused?
?
He Zhuer and Liang Jiugong couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: His Royal Highness is really amazing!
Seeing that the result was as expected, Yinreng's heart suddenly fell back into his stomach. He felt that he had the confidence to formally discuss it with his Khan Ama:
"Khan Amma, you have also seen it with your own eyes. I think we should build a royal ice factory in the capital to balance the price of ice in the capital."
Kangxi saw Yinreng holding his hands behind his back with a solemn look on his face, wanting to talk to him about important matters. He thought it was quite interesting, so he just held his little daughter in a galloping posture and sat back in the chair. He looked at the girl who had grown up to him.
The son at the waist also became serious in tone and asked lightly:
"Then what price do you want to set for the ice price?"
"Khan Ama, I heard from Prince Gu that the current price of ice among the people is one tael of silver per catty, so I decided to price our ice at ten cents per catty."
"Haha~ Ten coins a pound? Baocheng, do you think I am doing charity? Is the money in the national treasury and private treasury blown by the strong wind?"
When Kangxi heard his son's nonsense pricing, he couldn't help but feel happy. He instantly narrowed his eyes and looked straight at Yinreng, his tone became more and more serious, and said to him:
"Pure saltpeter is difficult to mine and expensive to produce. It is an important strategic resource for making black fire medicine. Countries are working hard to reserve saltpeter. Do you think I would be willing to use such an important thing for such an obvious purpose?
Will it be a loss-making transaction?”
"Furthermore, if the ice dealers collect a large amount of cheap ice from the Royal Ice Factory, and then turn around and add these ice cubes to their ice cellars and resell them at a high price, then I will be in vain.
Taken advantage of?"
He Zhuer felt that the emperor suddenly radiated
I was so frightened by the pressure that I didn't dare to say a word.
Liang Jiugong, the old god, was on the ground acting as a backdrop. He knew that the emperor was testing the prince, and it was up to him to see how the young prince would speak.
Xiao Kejing, who was sitting in Kangxi's arms, also felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. She raised her head and looked at her expressionless Khan Ama, and then looked at the prince brother standing opposite. She couldn't figure out why it suddenly changed like this.
I was so frightened by the pressure that I didn't dare to say a word.
Liang Jiugong, the old god, was on the ground acting as a backdrop. He knew that the emperor was testing the prince, and it was up to him to see how the young prince would speak.
Xiao Kejing, who was sitting in Kangxi's arms, also felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. She raised her head and looked at her expressionless Khan Ama, and then looked at the prince brother standing opposite. She couldn't figure out why it suddenly changed like this.
I was so frightened by the pressure that I didn't dare to say a word.
Liang Jiugong, the old god, was on the ground acting as a backdrop. He knew that the emperor was testing the prince, and it was up to him to see how the young prince would speak.
Xiao Kejing, who was sitting in Kangxi's arms, also felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. She raised her head and looked at her expressionless Khan Ama, and then looked at the prince brother standing opposite. She couldn't figure out why it suddenly changed like this.
I was so frightened by the pressure that I didn't dare to say a word.
Liang Jiugong, the old god, was on the ground acting as a backdrop. He knew that the emperor was testing the prince, and it was up to him to see how the young prince would speak.
Xiao Kejing, who was sitting in Kangxi's arms, also felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. She raised her head and looked at her expressionless Khan Ama, and then looked at the prince brother standing opposite. She couldn't figure out why it suddenly changed like this.
I was so frightened by the pressure that I didn't dare to say a word.
Liang Jiugong, the old god, was on the ground acting as a backdrop. He knew that the emperor was testing the prince, and it was up to him to see how the young prince would speak.
Xiao Kejing, who was sitting in Kangxi's arms, also felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. She raised her head and looked at her expressionless Khan Ama, and then looked at the prince brother standing opposite. She couldn't figure out why it suddenly changed like this.