My harem can't be this messy

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.

(End of this chapter)