The cold wind was howling outside the house, but the room was as warm as spring. Liu Chenglin sat cross-legged on the kang, listening to the sound of snow seeds hitting the window paper in his ears, but his eyes were quite complicated to look at Li Ze who was walking into the house with a tray.

The dignified young master Li Ze actually wore an apron around his waist.

Four large lanterns were lit at the four corners of the kang, which made the small dining table in the middle shine through, with four dishes and one soup. This was the meal prepared by Li Ze personally for Liu Chenglin’s cooking.

Not to mention whether it tastes delicious or not, but at least the two colors and fragrances are already all taken up.

"It is said that a gentleman is far away from the kitchen. If you have such an identity, you are still proficient in cooking skills? It is really surprising." Liu Chenglin looked at Li Ze and shook his head.

Li Ze's identity is much higher than that of him, no matter from any aspect, but even he has never entered the kitchen since he was a child.

"Eating is the most important thing." Li Ze smiled and climbed onto the kang, sat cross-legged, and said, "I opened my mouth to eat from my mother's womb until I closed my eyes and died. Eating, but it runs through a person's life. Whether you are a noble emperor or a poor beggar, you always have to eat. I am just a delicious person, but the food cooked by the chef at home was really not my taste, so I had to rely on myself. Over time, I have developed a good cooking skills, but there are not many people who are worth cooking and cooking in person yet."

Liu Chenglin smiled and said, "Then I am honored. How do you cook this dish? The girl also said in the letter that the food at your village is delicious. After returning to Shiyi, she couldn't stand the food at home. That's the food she had eaten for more than ten years."

"I know, I had sent a chef to Shiyi Liu's house earlier to cook for Qiao'er," Li Ze said with a smile.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the main cooking methods were still to be steamed and boiled. In Wuyi, because of the existence of Li Ze, iron pots were popular. After the iron pots, the talents of chefs were slowly blooming, frying, cooking and frying, and various methods were emerging day by day. Many people's skills have long surpassed Li Ze's two swords.

Picking up the chopsticks, poking a bowl of dishes in front of him. Looking at the golden neatly-coded slices of meat, Liu Chenglin said curiously: "What kind of dish is this?"

Li Ze said proudly: "This is my first creation. I called him plum vegetable buckle. Don't look at this mere bowl of vegetables, but the most effort is to take. First, choose the good pork pork, cut it into cubes, apply honey on the skin, put it in a pan and fry the skin until golden, then cut it into thin slices, and then drizzle it with my own seasonings. These dried vegetables are pickled cabbage, dried and chopped, cover it on the pork belly, and steam it over high heat for half an hour. The charm of the plum vegetables is penetrated into the pork belly together with those seasonings to make this bowl of vegetables."

"Pork?" Liu Chenglin frowned.

"Don't look down on pork." Li Ze said with a smile.

During the Tang Dynasty, pork was generally given to ordinary people. Anyone with status basically ate mutton, and even people with status could not eat beef every day.

At this time, the most important thing for the Tang people was to farm the helper rather than the dishes on the table. The government even had a ban on killing order.

"In the past, pork was not delicious, but it was just a single cooking method. Come on, try it, keep it safe and you will fall in love with it in the future."

Li Ze stretched out his chopsticks and put a piece of buckle for Liu Chenglin.

Liu Chenglin put the fat and thin pork belly into his mouth with a sceptical attitude. After stirring his tongue, his teeth had not had time to move, and the pork belly had melted in his mouth.

The various flavors contained in the meat stimulated his taste buds in an instant. He widened his eyes, his mind might not have turned around, but the chopsticks in his hand had already reached towards the plum vegetable braised pork in front of him.

Li Ze looked at the other party with a smile. Liu Chenglin's current appearance was as expected by him.

Seeing Liu Chenglin eating three slices in a row before putting down his chopsticks, Li Ze continued to speak, "You are a general and consume a lot on weekdays, so today I specially made two bowls of meat. I called him Dongpo pork this bowl, come and taste it, and each of the plum vegetable pork has its own merits."

"Why is it called Dongpo Pork?" Liu Chenglin said inexplicably.

Li Ze was stunned. When he made this dish, he casually said his original name. In Wuyi, no one asked him why he called it.

When Liu Chenglin asked, he had to make a fool of himself: "Oh, when I came up with this dish, it was on a gentle slope east of my farm, so it was called Dongpo Pork."

"Your name is so destined to be a casual person, but this meat is indeed delicious." Liu Chenglin ate a piece of Dongpo pork and praised it.

For someone like him who is not happy with meat, today's two meat dishes opened his eyes. On weekdays, the meat he eats the most is to cook the meat in a large cauldron and then apply salt. If it is at home, it will be more particular and there will be many spices to serve. These spices are expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it.

But the two meat dishes made by Li Ze couldn't smell the spices, but they were slightly fragrant and fragrant, which really made him have a big appetite.

"Can your chef make these two dishes?" Liu Chenglin asked in a vague way with a piece of pork belly in his mouth.

"certainly."

"I asked my cook to learn from him."

"I have a lot of cooks. If you want to learn them all, I'm afraid it will not take ten days or half a month to do it." Li Ze said with a smile.

"Then I'll send two chefs here, I'll take turns to learn, learn two subjects and go back to cook for me. When I'm almost done, I'll take one back and I'll have to get rid of your chef's old secrets." Liu Chenglin laughed: "Otherwise, I'll be stationed in Yingzhou alone in the future and want to eat this kind of delicacy again."

Hearing this, Li Ze put down his chopsticks and looked at Liu Chenglin.

"Mr. Cao told me about this." Liu Chenglin picked up the wine pot from the table, poured himself a glass of crystal clear wine specialized in Wuyi Li Ze Zhuangzi, and took a sip.

This is not the kind of wine he usually drinks that can dry and a bowl of wine. Even if he sips down, he feels a thread of fire rising straight from his lower abdomen.

"Brother Liu doesn't blame me?" Seeing Liu Chenglin so straightforward, Li Ze could no longer hide it. If that happens, he would be a villain for nothing.

Liu Chenglin was transferred to Yingzhou to command the army, but Yingzhou Governor had another person. After a mixed army was returned to Liu Chenglin, he naturally deprived Liu Chenglin of his original control over tens of thousands of Liuzhou troops.

"If it were someone else, I would of course be angry." Liu Chenglin took a sip of wine and glanced at Li Ze with his eyes squinted: "But who said I am your brother-in-law? If I don't help you, who else can help you? Cao Gong told me your thoughts, and I think it's quite realistic. If you want to rectify the army of Henghai and Chengde, and avoid the situation where the generals are in charge of the army and generals are not supervised and have no elbows, you will naturally have to attack me, my brother-in-law. I will obediently behave. In the future, generals like You Yong and Wang Sili will naturally have nothing to say."

Li Ze nodded in emotion and bowed: "Thank you Chenglin for your understanding and fulfillment."

Liu Chenglin laughed: "Actually, I am not proficient in people's livelihood politics at all. If you only let me lead the army, I will get the point. Besides, although the mixed army is only 5,000, there are 5,000 elite soldiers, which is much stronger than my previous Liuzhou army. I like it. And in Yingzhou, it would be even more satisfying to be able to compete with famous generals like Zhang Zhongwu. What Liu wished in his life was to lead the strongest army, fight the most fierce enemy, and then kill him on the horse."

Li Ze gave Liu Chenglin a thumbs up: "Chenglin, you have fulfilled me, and I will naturally not treat you badly. You also know that I have always been in contact with the court. This time I took Henghai, and Chengde is also my possession. At that time, I will let the court merge Henghai and Chengde into a town. I guess by that time, a Qianniu Guard General in the court will not be able to escape from me, and maybe I can also serve as a Shangshu Order. At that time, I will naturally ask Chenglin for you. You are definitely indispensable to you."

Liu Chenglin nodded, which was the right thing to do, and he didn't say anything thankful.

"Since I've followed you, I'll never get bad as long as you have it." Liu Chenglin said: "When I say this, I want to ask, when will your wedding with Qiaoer be held?"

"Qiao'er is only sixteen years old!" Li Ze looked upset in front of him.

"Are you still young at the age of sixteen? No matter how old you are, you will be laughed at as an old girl who can't get married." Liu Chenglin's eyebrows stood up as he stood up.

"I am about to enter Chengde, and Su has passed away. From the perspective of patriarchal principles, she is my legitimate mother. I must be filial to her." Li Ze said.

"It is impossible to get married within three years."

Speaking of this, Liu Chenglin also had nothing to say. This is the great way of patriarchal law. Now Li Ze still needs to hold Chengde in his hands, so he cannot make people sick in this regard.

After humming for a while, he finally said helplessly: "This is not a problem, but there is another thing. I want to say that you have a close girl named Xia He, who is very capable. Qiaoer is a lady from a family who never goes out of the door. She has learned from childhood to take care of her husband and children. I won't say anything about Xia He's entry, but after all, she has served you for many years. Now she is in a high position and has a high position and holds your financial lifeline. But if I know that she bullies my girl, don't say that I will turn against you and kill you with a knife."

Li Ze smiled bitterly: "It seems you have really found out a lot of things?"

"How can I not find out clearly if my sister wants to entrust her life to someone. Even if it is Xia He's temperament, I know it." Liu Chenglin said.

"That's a powerful person, my girl is incomparable."
Chapter completed!