The scorching sun was burning, and the hot sun was scorching the earth. Zhang Zong sat under the big tree in front of the door, practicing writing his own brush strokes. After this period of practice, he has written in a good manner now, and traditional Chinese characters are no longer a problem. He has finally got rid of the title of "illiterate".

I was tired of writing, Zhang Zong took out a small pot from the bucket next to him, which contained iced mung bean soup. After a sip of the heat, the heat disappeared. However, in such a hot weather, fewer and fewer people came to buy flowers, even if it was the attractiveness of a two-color rose.

Seeing that noon was approaching, there were basically no more customers, so he simply closed the stall and went home to clean up the ingredients of the hot pot. It was not suitable for hot pot on such a hot day, but the meat at home had to be finished as soon as possible. Moreover, he set up a few ice basins in the living room, and the temperature in the room had dropped.

In fact, the preparation of hot pot is also very simple. It is nothing more than cutting all kinds of ingredients into plates. The only troublesome thing is lamb, because if you want to cut the lamb into thin slices, you must start cutting it in a frozen state, just like cutting a popsicle. If you don’t have a handful of strength, you can’t move it.

Just as Zhang Zong was cutting the ingredients, he suddenly heard familiar footsteps coming from outside, so he shouted loudly: "Sanlang, come and help carry the plate!"

"Here you come!" Xue Shao agreed outside and walked in quickly immediately. However, when Zhang Zong looked up, he found that there was someone behind Xue Shao. When he saw the person coming clearly, he was also shocked.

"Zhang Zong greets the Crown Prince!" Zhang Zong hurriedly saluted to the people coming. He never expected that Crown Prince Li Hong would come with Xue Shao as well.

"No need to be polite. Sanlang said that your food here is the best in Chang'an. I, an uninvited guest, came here risking his mind. I hope Zhang Xiaolang will not blame him!" Li Hong said with a smile at this time, and he was very polite in his words.

"The prince is joking. This is not a place to talk. Please ask in the living room!" Zhang Zong said nervously. After all, this is the crown prince of a country, and this time, there is no Princess Chengyang standing by.

However, Li Hong acted very casually. At this time, Zhang Zong realized that Li Hong had not even brought a servant besides Xue Shao, which surprised him even more.

After sending Li Hong to the living room, Zhang Zong asked the other party to wait, then he quickly came to the wing room and grabbed Xue Shao who was secretly drinking mutton bone soup and asked, "Why is the prince here?"

"Brother Shi, aren't you going to inquire about your father? My cousin is here to tell you personally!" Xue Shaoxing said happily, but he tasted the sheep bone soup but opened his mouth because there was no salt in the soup.

"Isn't the prince recuperating? And even if he doesn't recuperate, he probably has a lot of things to deal with. Why do you have time to come to me?" Zhang Zong is not a child, so he is naturally not so easy to fool.

"This matter is a long story. Today I will go to Qingliang Palace to meet my cousin..."

"Long story short!"

"I demonstrated the method of making ice in saltpeter to my cousin."

"I understand!" Zhang Zong nodded immediately. In such hot weather, the method of making ice by saltpeter will have a huge impact on people's livelihood, so it is not surprising that Li Hong came here in person.

At that time, Zhang Zong put the mutton bone soup in a small pot. The mutton bone soup was the base of the hot pot soup, and there were also sesame sauce, garlic paste, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings. What would you like to add to it yourself. When he brought these things to the table in the living room, Li Hong also looked surprised, because except for a pot of soup, everything else was raw, so how could he eat it?

Zhang Zong lit the charcoal in the stove, then sat on the small pot, and then he introduced to Li Hong and Xue Shao how to eat hot pot, which made the two of them feel quite novel. He took the seasonings himself and put them in a bowl. Xue Shao, like Zhang Zong, likes sesame sauce and garlic paste. Li Hong's taste is a bit heavy, and a lot of soy sauce is added to the seasonings.

"Why do each person have two pairs of chopsticks?" Xue Shao suddenly asked strangely, because he found that Zhang Zong had given each of them two pairs of chopsticks.

"There is a pair of public chopsticks, which is how it is used!" Xue Shao picked up the pair of chopsticks in front, picked up the mutton and rinsed it in the boiled soup, then put it in his own bowl, and then changed to another pair of chopsticks to pick it up and eat it.

If only Zhang Zong and Xue Shao were the only ones, he would not have to prepare public chopsticks, but the prince Li Hong was a little special. It was not because of Li Hong's identity, but because he knew that Li Hong was sick and did not know if it was an infectious disease. If it was hepatitis or something, it would be troublesome, so it would be safer to use public chopsticks.

"Zhang Xiaolangjun is really as careful as his hair!" Li Hong couldn't help but praise him when he saw this, but then he put away his three pairs of public chopsticks and said, "Everyone gathers to taste the food, don't care about any etiquette, just use a pair of chopsticks to be more refreshing!"

Li Hong said as he picked up his chopsticks, and like Zhang Zong, he picked up the mutton and rinsed it in the pot. Then he dipped it in the seasoning and put it in his mouth. He found that the mutton was extremely smooth and tender, which made his eyes lit up and praised again: "It's really delicious, no wonder Saburo kept saying he was coming!"

Li Hong said that, and then rinsed a few more slices of mutton. Zhang Zong looked at the other party's chopsticks put into his mouth and into the pot, and he was also very confused: Eat? Or not? This is a question.

Compared to Zhang Zong's entanglement, Xue Shao next to him was eating very much, and he greeted Zhang Zong while eating, which made him unable to refuse. Finally, he made up his heart and finally got off the chopsticks. Anyway, with the son of the princess Xue Shao, the worst thing is that everyone will die together.

However, Zhang Zong was also anxious while eating. Xue Shao had already said just now that Li Honglai wanted to tell him about his father, but the other party was only concerned about eating, but he didn't look like he was talking at all. He didn't know if he should ask on his own initiative?

Finally, Zhang Zong finally thought of a solution, so he winked at Xue Shaokuang next to him, wanting the other party to help him speak, but he didn't expect that Xue Shao, a foodie, was all focused on the hot pot, and he didn't see his wink at all, which made Zhang Zong very speechless.

Fortunately, Li Hong finally didn't disappoint Zhang Zong. At this time, he suddenly smiled at Zhang Zong and said, "I heard Sanlang say that Zhang Xiaolangjun wants to inquire about your father?"

"That's right, please ask Your Highness the Crown Prince to help me solve my doubts!" ​​Zhang Zong also breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and then saluted Li Hong.

Li Hong pondered for a moment, then said again: "Twenty years ago, your father did hold a bachelor's position in Chongxian Hall. You must have not been born yet. I was only three years old at that time, and I was not the prince."

"Not the prince!" Zhang Zong was also shocked when he heard this, and then he thought of the prince Li Zhong, who had been before Li Hong. Could it be that his father was related to this former prince?
Chapter completed!