Li Qi and his party found a seat and sat down. Tang Yun asked curiously: "Sir, what is that hot spring?"
Without waiting for Li Qi to explain, Wei Xinshan instead said: "Sister Yun, a hot spring is a pool with hot water emerging from the ground... We also had one in our village before. Every winter, we would go there to take a bath."
Tang Yun was stunned: "Is there such a pond?"
After all, Tang Yun was from the south and didn't know that hot springs were normal. What Li Qi didn't expect was that Feiyan Village also had hot springs.
"There are also hot springs in Feiyan Village, how come I didn't know about it?" Li Qi said.
Wei Xinshan hesitated to speak, as if there was something difficult to say. Li Qi was a little curious when he saw this, but seeing that the girl was unwilling to talk, it was hard for him to ask further questions.
Although Li Qi was very curious about some things in Feiyan Village, he knew that sooner or later he would figure it out.
After a while, the waiter came over and asked, "What do you guys want to eat?"
"What do you have to eat here?"
The waiter began to introduce them incessantly. They were all names of dishes that Li Qi had never heard of before, and he ordered a few at random.
After a while, the dishes were served, and everyone was stunned.
All the dishes on the table were wrapped in ice cubes, and there were no vegetarian dishes. They were all meat, and I didn’t know what kind of meat it was.
Tang Yun glanced at Li Qi and said, "Sir, how do you eat these?"
Grandma, is this sashimi?
Li Qi was a little unsure and called the waiter over: "Brother, is this all you have?"
The waiter seemed to see something and said with a smile: "Is this your first time in Snow City?"
Li Qi nodded.
"People here eat these." The waiter explained, "Vegetables and fruits are generally not available in stores."
As he spoke, he pointed to the dishes on the table and introduced them: "This is fish meat, this is bear meat..."
After listening, Li Qi roughly understood that the food in this place couldn't be simpler.
Grandma’s sashimi is fine, but you have to get some dipping sauce, right?
If you eat it directly like this, who can eat it?
Li Qi suddenly thought of something: "Don't you have a hot spring here?"
The waiter nodded: "In the backyard, after you have dinner, I will take you there."
"Take me over now to take a look." Li Qi said.
The waiter didn't know what Li Qi wanted to do, but he didn't refuse and took Li Qi to the backyard.
I saw a hot spring of about ten square meters in a small room in the backyard. It looked like it was for public use.
After looking at the hot springs, Li Qi stood in the yard and pointed to the surrounding rooms and asked: "Are these your guest rooms?"
"kindness."
"How many rooms are there in total?"
"Eight rooms."
Li Qi nodded, took out a piece of silver and said, "I'll cover the entire backyard."
The waiter was stunned: "All inclusive?"
"Yes, go and tell your shopkeeper that as long as we live here, no more people will be allowed in the backyard," Li Qi said.
The waiter had obviously never seen such a arrogant customer, so he hurried to find the shopkeeper.
When the shopkeeper came over, he greeted Li Qina politely.
After securing the backyard, Li Qi asked Wei Gang, Tang Yun and Wei Xinshan to come to the hot spring.
Immediately afterwards, he asked the waiter to find a pot, tie it with a thread, dropped it in the hot spring, put some seasonings he brought along the way in the pot, and then put all the meat in it.
It's cooked.
This series of operations confused the waiter and the shopkeeper.
After a while, waves of fragrance wafted out of the hot spring room.
Li Qi and others gathered around the hot spring, took off their coats, and started eating hot pot.
Li Qi figured out that eating hot pot next to the hot spring would not be cold and you could eat cooked food.
Just when everyone was eating happily, a voice suddenly rang out: "It smells so delicious!"
Immediately afterwards, a few people wearing animal skins and exquisite patterned belts walked in. At first glance, these people were not ordinary people.
After they came in, they stood in two rows, and soon a man dressed in rich clothes appeared in front of everyone.
This man looked to be in his twenties, wearing mink fur and an unknown fur hat, and actually held a paper fan in his hand.
Taken as a whole, it's simply nondescript.
The man looked at Li Qi and a group of people eating hot pot around the hot spring. It was very fresh. He came over and asked, "What kind of way is this?"
"Hot pot." Li Qi smiled and said, "Would you like to have some, too?"
Hearing this, the man smiled and said, "Okay."
After saying that, he actually followed Li Qi's example, took off his coat, and sat cross-legged by the hot spring.
Li Qi knew that this man with so many guards must not be an ordinary person.
It was my first time to come to Xuecheng, and I didn’t want to offend any powerful people.
Thinking about it, Li Qi handed over a pair of chopsticks.
The man took it over, picked up a piece of meat, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully. His eyes immediately lit up: "It's delicious! It's delicious! What did you put in this?"
Li Qi smiled and said: "Some homemade condiments."
Although the seasonings in this hot pot are not as good as the seasonings of Li Qi's time, they can still be regarded as the top seasonings of this era.
When he came out of Kyoto, Li Qi brought a lot of spices with him, among which pepper and salt were the most common.
It would definitely not be enough to sell, but if he wanted to eat it himself, Li Qi felt that it would be enough to last him for more than a year.
After the man took a bite, he didn't stop and started eating one after another. It was called a voracious devouring.
He ate almost two-thirds of the pot full of meat.
Tang Yun and Wei Xinshan didn't eat much, but Wei Gang had already eaten almost enough before.
Li Qi took out a piece of dried sesame cake from his bag, broke it open with his hands and put it into the pot: "This is not bad for soaking in the soup."
The man smiled and said, "Okay, I'll give it a try."
After he was almost done eating, the man burped with satisfaction.
"After eating your meal today, I owe you a favor." The man said, "My name is Nalan Jin. Whenever you encounter any trouble here in the future, you can report my name."
Li Qi cupped his hands and said, "I'm Li Shizhen."
"I won't bother you for now, I have something else to do. I think you are here to do business in Xuedou, right? After you finish your work, you can stay at my place for a few days." Nalanjin stood up and took the
Leaving with a group of people.
After watching them leave, Wei Xinshan couldn't help but said: "This man is really weird. He asked us to stay with him for a few days, but he didn't tell us where he lived."
Li Qi smiled and said nothing, but called the shopkeeper over.
"Shopkeeper, who was that person just now?" Li Qi asked.
The shopkeeper was obviously very nervous and said with a smile: "Sir, that person is the Fourteenth Master of our Snow Country..."
"Fourteenth Master?" Li Qi looked confused.
The shopkeeper nodded: "He is your fourteenth prince."