Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 208 These are not ordinary noodles, but noodles with eggs added.

Lin Xiao thought for a while, and began to make up things:
"When I returned to the emperor, the grass people only remembered that his voice was very gentle and kind, as if he was treating a junior. He said let me experiment first, and when the time is right, I will dedicate the salt-making technique to your majesty for the benefit of the people!"

Li Yuquan nodded, and asked again:
"Do you remember his name?"

"Returning to the emperor, the grassroots don't know his name, they only say that later generations call him 'Shen Nong'."

Li Yuquan fell silent when he heard the words, and his brows gradually became solemn.

"Is everything you say true?"

"There is absolutely no lie!"

"Okay! I will trust you for now."

After Li Yuquan finished speaking, his eyes swept over the porcelain bottle in Lin Xiao's hand:
"What you hold in your hand is the salt you made?"

Lin Xiao nodded:
"Exactly."

"Bring it up for me to see."

"According to the order."

Lin Xiao handed the porcelain bottle to the eunuch standing beside Li Yuquan, who respectfully took the porcelain bottle and put it on the table.

Li Yuquan opened the bottle cap and poured the salt in the porcelain bottle onto the palm of his hand.

"what?"

Looking at the crystal clear salt in his palm, he let out a cry of surprise.

Lin Xiao asked nervously:
"what happened?"

Li Yuquan put down his palm, gently twisted a few grains of salt with his fingertips, and observed carefully.

"What kind of salt is this? It's so fine."

Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, with a calm smile still on his face.

"If you go back to the emperor, it's called refined salt."

"So it is!" Li Yuquan suddenly realized, "This salt is different, I will try it later!"

Only then did Lin Xiao know that Li Yuquan had never tasted dishes made with refined salt, which made her feel a little pity for this superior emperor.

This refined salt has already spread into the streets and alleys outside, but the emperor has never even tasted it. It seems that being an emperor is not as beautiful as imagined!
The eunuch next to Li Yuquan was about to take the salt to the imperial dining room, but Lin Xiao hurriedly stopped him:
"Eunuch, wait a minute!"

The eunuch looked at her in confusion, confused.

Li Yuquan looked at Lin Xiao, with a playful look in his eyes:

"what happened?"

"If you go back to the emperor, the refined salt is too pure. The grass people are afraid that the imperial dining room won't use it. Why don't you let them send the ingredients and the grass people cook it yourself?"

"good idea!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yuquan immediately clapped his hands in agreement.

Lin Xiao secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

She thought Li Yuquan would disagree, but she didn't expect him to agree without thinking, which is really surprising.

Do the chefs in the Imperial Dining Room really know how to use these refined salts?

of course not!

It was Lin Xiao who suddenly remembered that Lu Xiang used poisonous salt to frame her. Before Li Yuquan brought her salt-making skills back to the royal family, she had to learn a lot of wisdom!
After a while, the people from the imperial dining room delivered the ingredients.

Lin Xiao asked the eunuchs to build a simple hearth in the courtyard outside the imperial study according to her request, and then started to work.

She doesn't know how to cook royal dishes that are delicious in color, fragrance, but she still has some skills in cooking noodles.

Heat a pan, pour oil, and crack a raw egg.

The egg white swelled and solidified rapidly under the stimulation of the oil temperature, and the rich fragrance immediately permeated the entire courtyard, making everyone's saliva flow out.

They don't know that eggs can still do this!

After the eggs were fried, Lin Xiao poured a small half pot of water into the pot.

As soon as the water boiled, put the noodles into it quickly. After the noodles rolled a few times, Lin Xiao fished them into a soup bowl that she had prepared in advance.

In that bowl, she used refined salt, lard and noodle soup to make the base, which was full of fragrance.

Li Yuquan looked at the bowl of noodles that Lin Xiao presented, with displeasure on his face:
"Noodle?"

"If you go back to the emperor, these are not ordinary noodles, but noodles with eggs."

Lin Xiao lowered his head slightly and explained respectfully.

"Eggs are added, isn't it still noodles?"

Li Yuquan, who had no interest in noodles, couldn't help feeling a little impatient.

Lin Xiao raised his head and looked at Li Yuquan sincerely:
"If you go back to the emperor, this is the special dish of Caomin. It is unusual. You will know it once you taste it."

"I want to see what tricks you can play with this noodle!"

Li Yuquan hesitated for a while, but couldn't hold back his curiosity after all, he picked up a noodle and put it in his mouth. The moment he entered it, Li Yuquan was stunned.

"It's delicious!"

He praised repeatedly, then swallowed gulply, and after a while, he downed the noodle soup together.

Seeing this scene, the smile on Lin Xiao's face became deeper.

Li Yuquan ate very contentedly, and while wiping the remaining soup dregs from the corner of his mouth, he gave Lin Xiao a thumbs up.

"Your noodles are really the best. I finally tasted the taste of delicious food today. It's good. I like it very much!"

"Without the help of refined salt, Caomin's noodles can't reach such a delicious level. Thank you for your praise!"

Lin Xiao bowed humbly, the corners of his mouth became wider and wider.

"This refined salt is really a treasure! I don't know how many times stronger than those salts for imperial offerings!"

Li Yuquan said appreciatively.

Lin Xiao lowered his head humbly, observed Li Yuquan's expression calmly, found that there was no strange look in his eyes, and felt a little relieved.

"Lin Xiao, are you really willing to hand over your salt-making skills?"

Li Yuquan continued to ask.

"If you return to the emperor, Caomin is willing to dedicate the salt-making technique to His Majesty!"

Lin Xiao respectfully replied.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Li Yuquan happily said three "good" words, and his appreciation for Lin Xiao became stronger.

"Your Majesty, the grassroots have an unfeeling request."

"I knew it was impossible for you to dedicate salt-making skills to me for no reason. Tell me, what do you want?"

Li Yuquan was not angry, but looked at Lin Xiao with a smile on his face.

Lin Xiao thought for a while and said:

"If you return to the emperor, can the salt-making workshop of the grass-roots people become the salt-making workshop used by the royal family?"

"What do you mean?"

"Caomin has this idea because of the following two points: first, the salt-making workshop of Caomin is very mature and the efficiency of salt production is very high; second, the salt-making techniques of Caomin are aimed at rock salt, so I am afraid that sea salt is not very Be applicable."

Lin Xiao originally wanted Li Yu to interpret Li Yuxuan's crimes, but thinking that the two of them were brothers whose bones were broken, the most he could do was reprimand him.

It would be too much of a loss to trade the salt-making technique for such a painless punishment. It would be more cost-effective to turn the brother workshop into a royal workshop!

After listening to Lin Xiao's logical explanation, Li Yuquan understood a little bit, he thought for a while, and then said:

"Okay, I agree to your request, but I also have a condition, I hope you don't refuse!"

"Please speak, Your Majesty."

Lin Xiao cupped his hands respectfully.

"I want you to wait by my side for a while!"

As Li Yuquan said, he picked up the cup of green tea on the table and drank two sips of tea.

Lin Xiao was slightly taken aback, then nodded in response:

"The grassroots obey the order!"

(End of this chapter)