My harem can't be this messy

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"Yes, Your Highness."

When Li Zhi walked into the prison, Li Chengqian struggled to get up, and seemed unwilling to continue squatting in front of his younger brother.

"Brother, don't be discouraged. Since the father keeps the elder brother, he should not be slaughtered again."

"You don't know what the elder brother did, do you? The crime deserves to be punished. Everyone has been beheaded, and I will be the next one."

Li Zhi put his hand on Li Chengqian's shoulder lightly, and squeezed it lightly.

"The queen mother will plead with the emperor father, after all, she is a close relative."

Li Chengqian didn't want to say anything more, leaning against the cold stone wall of the cell in Dali Temple.

Li Zhi didn't know what to say, so he got up and left.

Looking back at this time, Dali Temple looked extremely solemn and cold.

Back at Prince Jin's Mansion, Li Zhi stood in front of the bronze mirror, rubbing his face to restore it to normal, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then called Chuntao.

Li Zhi said a word to Chun Tao, Chun Tao stood there, looking at Li Zhi.

"What's the matter, Chuntao, didn't you hear what I said clearly? Take someone to the Chang'an market to buy ducks, and buy as many as you can."

Chuntao couldn't figure it out, but King Jin had already ordered it for the second time, so she couldn't hear clearly.

"Yes, Your Highness, Chuntao will take someone there right now."

In the afternoon, the Prince Jin's Mansion was very lively, ducks quacking and quacking filled the Prince Jin's Mansion. Groups of ducks were being driven, rushing left and right in the Prince Jin Mansion, like an army, high-spirited and upright.

Chapter 495 Ducks

The people of Prince Jin's Mansion basically bought out all the live ducks in Chang'an today, and even a few wealthy mansions saw people from Prince Jin's Mansion buying ducks everywhere, and sold all the ducks raised in their own mansion to Prince Jin's Mansion.Why, because the price given by Prince Jin's Mansion is fair!

Prince Jin's mansion bought ducks everywhere, bought so many ducks, and the Chang'an ducks they bought were empty, which made the eyes of those who knew about it widen.

Those court dignitaries couldn't see clearly, many concubines in the palace couldn't see clearly, even Li Shimin just smiled helplessly when he knew about it.

Look at King Wei, then King Jin, Zhi'er is still so unique in his work.

On the surface, he always seems to be fooling around, but in the end there is always some truth to him.But this time Zhi'er bought so many ducks in Chang'an, Li Shimin didn't know what Zhi'er was doing, just to eat ducks?

Today, Li Zhi showed many people in the mansion what a dead duck has a hard mouth. The duck he bought was killed by Li Zhi. People put away the duck blood, which is a good thing.

At this time, there are a lot of ducks, and there are also a lot of fruit trees that the guards of the government go out of the city to chop during the day, and they are also several large piles.

Li Zhi ordered everyone to store some ducks. In the severe winter of December, this kind of slaughtered poultry can be kept for a long time. As long as cats, cats and dogs are protected, severe winter is the best refrigeration equipment, and it is pure natural. , much safer than the refrigerators of later generations.

And Li Zhi picked dozens of the fattest ones, and asked them to set them up in a stove built with bricks and stones, and roast them with fruit wood.He even sent people to rush to the palace in advance, telling the queen mother and father not to eat dinner, but to wait for him.

The son was used to messing around, so Li Shimin and Empress Changsun naturally didn't think it was strange, they were just waiting for what Zhi'er was going to do tonight, but it was not difficult to guess, since they bought so many ducks, they probably would eat ducks tonight.

As night fell, the Jinwang Mansion was filled with the aroma of roast duck. It was really fragrant, and there was no need for too good seasoning, just salt and a small amount of spices. Spices are the most common types, such as cumin .

However, Li Zhi was not at the roast duck hearth at this time, but was looking at a large pool in front of him. The water in the pool was changed by Li Zhi before, and replaced with alkaline water. At this time, a large amount of duck down was placed in the pool and soaked.

Alkaline water can remove the fat contained in the duck down itself, which is degreasing, and the duck down that has removed the fat can be fluffy and warm better.

Meng Tian had done this kind of thing before, but it was an accident, Meng Tian wanted to use the hair of wild animals to make brushes, but the brushes he made were always unusable due to the problem of ink absorption.

At that time, Meng Tian probably threw the brush away in a fit of rage, and it happened to be thrown into a lye puddle, but when he remembered the next day, when he picked it up from the lye puddle, the brush could absorb ink miraculously.

At this time, Li Zhi was doing the same thing as General Meng back then, but one was unintentional and the other was intentional.One is to soak animal hair with alkali water, and the other is to soak duck down with alkali water.

This lye water is just ordinary lye water, and it may take several days to soak in it to completely degrease the duck down.

After Li Zhi arranged the side of the alkaline pool, he went to the side of the stove. At this time, the aroma was strong, the aroma of roast duck, the aroma of burning fruit wood, the aroma of spices and oil transpiration.

Even King Jin asked someone to pick up some duck fat roasted from fat duck, which is also a good thing.

Some restaurants in later generations used this kind of roast duck oil to stir-fry. It was not a good oil in later generations, but in the early Tang Dynasty, roast duck oil was definitely a rare and good thing.

Li Zhi asked people to keep the roast duck fat collected.

Ducks can be said to be full of treasures, duck down, duck blood, and even the duck fat was absolutely good in the early Tang Dynasty.

The roast duck has been roasted, and Li Zhi had asked someone to bring the prepared food box at this time. The food box has been insulated. At this time, there are two ducks and one food box, and the maids are busy getting ready.

"Chuntao, it's all counted. Every prince's mansion must send two. They must be delivered, and every consort's mansion must also be delivered. Don't miss any one."

"Princess, little aunt, let's go to the palace to deliver it, and we will also deliver it to Concubine Wei and Fourth Concubine, Concubine Yang, Concubine Chao, and my aunt. By the way, the food that this king specially marked The box was sent to the father, the queen and the queen."

The carriage of Prince Jin's Mansion was busy running around in Chang'an at this time, and King Jin personally carried two food boxes, one of which was naturally delivered to his father, queen and queen.The other only had half a duck in it, and it was sent to the prison of Dali Temple.

When passing by Dali Temple, Li Zhi got out of the carriage and gave the food box to the Dali Temple Minister who rushed over in a hurry.

"Send this to my imperial brother, and say that tonight the palace will eat ducks, and the imperial brother also has half of them."

When Li Zhi rushed to the palace, he left with the maids and went to the palaces to deliver the ducks.

Tonight Li Shimin deliberately stayed in the Lizheng Hall. When Li Zhi came here with the princess and his aunt, he saw many empty plates, chopsticks and spoons on a large table.

The two little princesses, the father, the queen, and the queen are all sitting here, and they should have been sitting here for a long time, seeing that Sizi and Hengshan are already sitting impatiently.

"Zhi'er, your father guesses that what you brought tonight must be ducks."

"That's right, it's a duck, but the duck that Zhi'er brought tonight should be different from what the palace usually eats."

"What kind of duck is that?"

"Roast duck!"

"Brother Huang, is roast duck as good as roast rabbit?"

There, Hengshan had already moved next to Li Zhi's food box, and he was about to reach out to uncover the food box.

"Zhi'er got something to roast. Come, let father and queen mother taste the roast duck that Zhi'er roasted. The mother remembers that the roasted rabbit eaten by Tangquan Palace tastes really good."

Heng Shan couldn't wait to open the food box, and the food box was opened.A scent of roast duck mixed with a touch of spices comes out elegantly.

"It smells so good!"

Li Shimin sighed, and looked at the two burnt and shiny roast ducks in the food box.

Li Zhi had already taken out the two roast ducks with his own hands at this time, and there was a small knife beside the roast ducks, which was sent by King Jin himself. Considered an assassin.

The roast duck was put on the plate, Li Zhi took a knife and cut the roast duck open.

"Brother Huang, I want duck legs!"

"Okay, I'll give you a duck leg, little imperial sister. Si, I'll give you one too. Queen Mother, how about you try this duck breast."

Two ducks, at this time several people share the food, if it is the instant duck of later generations, it must not be enough. At this time, it is Chu Tang, but there is no instant duck. Li Zhi chooses the fattest duck, so several people share, It is also enough.

At this time, in the harem, all the palaces naturally received gifts from King Jin.

Chapter 496 Small Matters

Even if Concubine Yang, who had a little resentment towards King Jin at this time, ate roast duck with her own Fu'er, she still thought it was delicious.

She is a woman from a family background, and she has been in the palace since she got married. It can be said that she has eaten all kinds of delicacies, but this duck meat still feels a kind of happiness of enjoying delicious food.

Li Fu had eaten there long ago, and his mouth was full of oil, so he naturally praised his emperor brother endlessly.

"Fu'er, do you like your ninth brother?"

"I like it! Brother Jiu is the best among all the imperial brothers, and he is the best for Fu'er."

A gleam of light flashed in Concubine Yang's eyes, and she gently wiped the corners of her son's lips with a brocade handkerchief.

"If one of your brothers becomes the emperor in the future, who do you want?"

"Of course it's Brother Nine, Fu'er is a little afraid of Brother Four."

Concubine Yang cut a duck leg with the knife in the food box and handed it to her son.

Two fat ducks are definitely not enough to eat, but this thing can't be kept, it won't taste good if it's cold.

Concubine Yang gave the rest to her maids and eunuchs here, and everyone was naturally happy to eat.

Coaxing her son to sleep, Concubine Yang looked at the new moon outside the palace, and lightly smoothed her temple hair.

"If the Ninth Prince becomes a crown prince and one day really ascends the throne, with his attitude towards him, I'm afraid he will have to serve a man again. But Fu'er likes him, so I will support him."

"Actually, apart from lust, this guy has no other disadvantages. It's not a bad thing for a man to be lustful, but it's rare to see a man who is lustful to the level of King Jin."

Concubine Yang probably thought of the scene where King Jin molested her. Now that His Majesty is still there, he dared to molested herself in various ways. After he becomes emperor, he must be all kinds of unscrupulous.

Concubine Yang couldn't fall asleep, so she looked at the cold moon in the sky.

At the place where Princess Chao lived, she saw the two fat ducks brought over. Princess Chao knew that she would not be able to eat them all, so she asked someone to call Wu Meiniang.

The two top beauties in the world ate with Li Ming, and Li Ming also ate so much that his mouth was full of oil.

"Wu Mei, the princes have become more and more active recently, even King Jin is still doing many inconsequential things."

"What my sister said is that the other princes are basically fighting openly and secretly for that position, but he seems to be a normal person."

"This roast duck is delicious. Should we do something for King Jin? After all, he invited us to eat such a delicious thing."

"Sister, I'm afraid that we are all in a hurry for him, but he himself is not in a hurry."

"He is eager to enjoy the delicious food and the beauty."

The two sisters couldn't help laughing there. Li Ming stuffed a duck leg into his mouth, but he couldn't eat it anymore.

At Concubine Wei's place, she used a small knife to finely chop the duck meat. Li Shen always felt that the concubine's mother cut it too carefully. Tonight, there were actually two people beside Concubine Wei. She and Li Shimin's only daughter, Linchuan. The princess and her daughter from her first marriage to her previous husband.

She was married to Li Shimin in her second marriage, and she has a daughter with her ex.

Li Shimin didn't dislike her, and even this daughter had the position of county head, just like Zheng Guanyin's only daughter Guide.Titled Dingxiang County Lord, and married very well, married Xue Guozhen Gong Ashina Zhong.

The children are all here tonight. In fact, Concubine Wei Gui was planning to discuss some things with her daughter from the beginning, but King Jin's roast duck was delivered.

It just so happened that it would be more beautiful to discuss things after eating roast duck.

Li Zhi would not underestimate any concubine in the palace. In fact, a large part of the reason is the attitude of a concubine, which can often represent the attitude of their children.

Sometimes the underage prince and the unmarried princess can stir up the situation even more.

Because after the princess gets married, behind her, there are naturally a large group of people related to her body interests.

In the political environment of the early Tang Dynasty and the powerful political environment based on wealthy and noble families, whoever a princess is willing to support actually plays a very important role.

The interests of the family will inevitably lead them to have their own options in choosing the position of the crown prince. At this time, Concubine Wei's choice will naturally affect her children, thus affecting the interest groups behind them.

In Dali Temple, Li Chengqian, who has been deeply imprisoned, is holding a small knife, cutting duck meat, and there is a jug of wine beside him, which is still warm.

He cut slowly, ate slowly, and drank slowly at the same time.

Half a duck will be eaten in the palace tonight.

My third younger brother has come to a place where he is in prison.Still don't forget that he is his brother.

If it were someone else, I'm afraid it would be a disaster. At this time, only myself, the third younger brother, is sending carbon in a timely manner.

While eating, Li Chengqian stroked his loose long hair with his hands covered in duck fat.

Maybe I really still have a chance of life, everything depends on the queen mother and my third brother.Li Chengqian didn't dare to count on other people, no matter his old friends or his brothers, he didn't dare to count on it, only his mother and third brother, they let him see what he could see after the tree fell and the monkeys scattered. The only family.

Ducks were eaten everywhere in the palace, and ducks were eaten in the mansions of princes-in-law in Chang'an. Li Zhi shaved the last duck bone in the Lizheng Hall and let the maid take it away.

The cups and plates were removed from the table, and the two little princesses were taken to sleep by the maid.

"Your Majesty, let Zhi'er stay in the palace tonight, it's getting late."

"Well, the Wanchun Hall has been reserved for Zhi'er, you take the princess and Miss Murong to stay there temporarily for one night."

Li Zhi held his concubine's hand, Murong Xueying followed closely, and left the Lizheng Hall.

"Your Majesty, are you tonight?"

"I'd better go to the Ganlu Hall to rest. I've suffered for you in the past few years."

"Your Majesty, let me see you off!"

Empress Changsun naturally stretched out her hand to support her husband, the man who rules the world and is above everyone.

She leaned against Li Shimin gently, Li Shimin sighed, but still pushed her, not daring to touch women, what a pain!

"Is your Majesty still undecided? Choose between Tai'er and Zhi'er!"

"Let me think again!"

"That's okay, this kind of thing is really not sloppy, but His Majesty still needs to make a decision early. After all, the position of the crown prince is uncertain, and the court is unstable. Recently, all the princes are eager to move."