The fat and thin pork belly is bubbling and sizzling on the iron plate.
As the iron pan grills, the oil in the meat is completely released and both sides are slightly browned.
Then, a pair of delicate hands picked up a piece with silver chopsticks and spread it flat on the tender green cabbage leaves. Then ordered some bean paste and put on thin slices of garlic.
Finally, the vegetable leaves were slightly rolled and brought to Zhu Gaochi's mouth.
"Your Majesty, please!" Zhenying held the vegetable leaves wrapped in meat in both hands.
"Okay!" Zhu Gaochi opened his mouth and bit hard.
Jinying's face turned red and she quickly retracted her hand, almost getting bitten.
Zhu Gaochi, on the other hand, was enjoying the barbecue with a pleasant smile.
"This is dinner! What did you eat in the palace just now?" He thought to himself, "You ate half a belly of cabbage and tofu, and you fed me like a chicken!"
It was not that there was no meat on the palace table, but it was bacon that he didn't like to eat. That kind of bacon was a specialty of Huaixi, which was salty and fatty. He didn't like fish either, because it was all thorns.
Zi La, Zi La!
The meat is still roasting, and the aroma fills the room.
Zhu Gaochi finished the meat in one bite, and Zhenying over there was holding a small white jade cup in both hands.
"Your Highness, this is Korean rice wine. Drink it sour and sweet to relieve tiredness!"
Tasty! Zhu Gaochi drank it in one sip and had a long aftertaste.
"Your Highness, would you like to try the kimchi here? There are sweet and sour radish, perilla leaves..."
"What's so delicious about vegetable leaves? Eat meat!" Zhu Gaochi smiled like Maitreya Buddha.
Zhenying also smiled brightly and stood in front of the iron plate again, busy with her hands.
"How about my slave grilling the beef tongue for you?" Zhenying turned around and smiled, "It's crispy and tender!"
"Ox tongue?" Zhu Gaochi paused slightly, "Where did it come from?"
Zhenying smiled and said, "I know I have to serve you for dinner in the evening, so I told the father-in-law in the kitchen more. Then, someone will deliver it in the afternoon!"
The Ming Dynasty prohibited the slaughter of farm cattle, so beef was a rare commodity.
But that's for the outside world. It's just a matter of words for people in the royal family to want to eat beef.
But for some reason, Zhu Gaochi suddenly couldn't eat anymore.
Because he thought again of the dishes on Zhu Yunxi's table, bacon, cabbage and tofu.
"He's better than me!"
He suddenly sighed in his heart.
He grew up with his parents in Peking since he was a child. The food he eats is the best in the world, and he enjoys it as a matter of course. Sometimes he even picks and chooses, eating a large table of dishes after just a few bites.
And the emperor in the Forbidden City was indeed diligent and frugal day after day.
In fact, if you look carefully, the emperor really has nothing to choose from now. He doesn't like women, doesn't like fancy clothes, doesn't do much building work, doesn't like food and drink, and is devoted to this empire.
"He's better than dad, too!"
Zhu Gaochi sighed again in his heart.
He knows what kind of person he is, and he is someone who is not willing to wrong him at all.
The food and supplies in the palace in Peiping are more than twice as good as those in the Forbidden City.
"Hey, Grandfather Emperor did not see the wrong person!"
As a leader among the three generations of emperors, and as the future heir of Yan Fan, Zhu Gaochi knew how important an emperor who was thrifty, diligent, and knowledgeable about people's livelihood was to the empire.
He tried hard to find someone in the royal family who could compare with Zhu Yunxi, but found that there was no one.
"Your Highness, please!"
Zhu Gaochi opened his mouth, but the barbecue was tasteless.
"Remove it, I won't eat it alone..."
Before he finished speaking, a voice suddenly sounded outside, "Boss, boss, where are you?"
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"Isn't this house the former fifth uncle's? Did the emperor reward it to you?"
Zhu Gaosui came in from the outside with a riding whip, shouting, "Boss, although it's a reward for you, I can live in it too, right? Clean up the backyard and create a cross-yard for me, and I'll live here from now on..."
"
Zhu Gaosui entered the door and his eyes suddenly fell on Zhenying's face.
"Here comes the third child!" Zhu Gaosui stood up from his chair with a smile, "I haven't eaten yet, but I happen to be eating Korean barbecue!"
"You hide and eat alone?" Zhu Gaosui still looked at Zhenying, not even looking at the barbecue.
"Come and sit!" Zhu Gaochi said with a smile, "Zhenying is the third child in my family!"
"I have met Qiantose!" Zhenying said in greeting.
Zhu Gaosui looked straight at her, sitting on the stool, and after a long time he turned to Zhu Gaochi and said, "The fifth uncle's house belongs to you?"
Zhu Gaochi nodded, "The emperor rewarded me!"
Zhu Gaosui also nodded, and then continued to ask, "Uncle Wu's woman is yours too!"
"The emperor's reward... what the hell!" Zhu Gaochi gave his third son, Zhu Gaosui, a chestnut and said angrily, "This is the beauty from Korea that the emperor rewarded me with!" He said, giving Zhu Gaosui a rolling look, "What's in your mind?"
What are you thinking about? What uncle Wu’s woman is, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"Korean beauty!" Zhu Gaosui turned his head again, and Zhenying was so helpless that he stood there with her head lowered.
"Brother..."
"No, just call me boss!" Zhu Gaochi stopped Zhu Gaosui and said, "Since you were a kid, if you just call me big brother, nothing good will happen!"
"Brother!" Zhu Gaosui licked his face and smiled, "Hehe, hehe!" He said, leaning over, "Look, there are peonies, roses, and joy in your room, isn't it...!"
Zhu Gaochi was unmoved and rolled his eyes at Zhu Gaosui.
"Look, you've fucked up all those girls around my mother!" Zhu Gaosui continued to laugh, "I'm in Peiping with you, and there's not even a clothes washer around me!"
"Nonsense!" Zhu Gaochi put his hands in his sleeves, "There are a lot of people waiting around you!"
"Isn't that...all rough hands and feet!" Zhu Gaosui continued to laugh, "Brother, what a big brother!"
"Don't think about it!" Zhu Gaochi knew what the third brother Zhu Gaosui had planned, "No!"
"You...do you still act like a big brother?" Zhu Gaosui was angry, "You know how to eat alone!"
After that, he spoke again, "Brother, who is more important, a woman, or us brothers?"
"Of course we are brothers!"
"What about this True Young...?"
"No!" Zhu Gaochi snorted, "It's not that I won't give it to you, this is a reward from the emperor!" He said, snorted again, "To tell you the truth, the emperor rewarded me with more than a dozen, all of which are beautiful and fragrant.
of!"
Zhu Gaosui's eyes lit up, "Can't you give one to more than ten people? You...you, you, you...are you afraid that you won't be able to bear it!"
"Not even half of it. What the emperor rewarded is a royal gift. I can only use it. Give it to you? If the emperor blames it later, who will bear it?" Zhu Gaochi sneered.
"Is it okay if no one says no?" Zhu Gaosui said loudly.
"You have a pig brain?" Zhu Gaochi glared, "Can no one talk about this? The emperor will reward you, do you understand?"
"Okay, I have a pig brain!" Zhu Gaosui was furious, "We were born to the same mother, I have a pig brain, what kind of brain do you have!" He said, sitting down angrily, "The good things are all yours, I will
Nothing at all!"
"You're like a child, what's missing around you?" Zhu Gaochi shook his head, "Can you change your habit of wanting everything?"
"You got a bargain and behaved well! The house rewarded you, the beauty rewarded you, you can stand and talk without back pain!"
"What method is given by the emperor, do you think I want it?" Zhu Gaochi said dissatisfied.
"You don't want to give it to me!" Zhu Gaosui climbed along the pole.
"Get out!" Zhu Gaochi cursed.
"Okay, boss, you actually scolded me for a woman. I traveled thousands of miles away from my home in Peking to come to the capital to be with you, and you actually told your brother to get out for a woman?" Zhu Gaosui frowned coldly.
"Get out!" Zhu Gaochi cursed again.
"Okay, remember what you said today!" Zhu Gaosui was angry and walked out with a riding whip, "From now on, we two brothers, you go your own way..."
"Dad is coming!" Zhu Gaochi suddenly said softly.
Suddenly, Zhu Gaosui wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.
He came back obediently and whispered, "What are you doing here?" Then, thinking about it carefully, "How long will he stay in the capital?"
"Don't you want to go back?" Zhu Gaochi glanced at the other party.
"I won't go back. The capital is so nice. I'm free all day long. When I go home, my father wants me to learn the art of war, and my mother wants me to learn writing... Especially when you and the second child are not here, and my father sees me all day long.
It’s not pleasing to the eye, and you always want to beat me!”