The mandarin duck pot in the middle of the table is one and a half feet in diameter.

One has red oil boiling inside, and the aroma of chili and Sichuan peppercorns comes to the nose; the other side is also red, and the soup base looks mellow. This is the bottom of a tomato pot made with tomato sauce.

The ingredients surrounding the mandarin duck pot include freshly cut mutton slices from various parts of the sheep body, as well as louver leaves, tripe and sheep blood. Then there are yuba, vermicelli, kelp, fungus, magnolia slices and other water vegetables, and the last two

The seasonal vegetable platter includes sesame sauce pancakes and green onion pancakes.

There is a condiment plate in front of each person, with sesame sauce, chive flowers, fermented bean curd, etc. on it.

When Kangxi moved his chopsticks, the other four people also started eating.

Listening to the commotion in the station these days, the second-rate consort didn’t take it seriously. It’s also mutton. Is it better to eat it in a rinse than with your hands?

But when the mutton slices covered with sesame sauce came to his mouth, he noticed the difference.

Kangxi looked at the menu and was quite satisfied.

Finally, Brother Jiu understood the importance and did not drag the cow over to eat the meat.

You must know that half of the six ministers and workers accompanying him this time are Manchu and Han. If Brother Jiu directly operates beef shabu-shabu in Rehe, he does not need to return to Beijing, and the impeachment will come out.

When Kangxi and Princess Rongxian ordered dishes before, they asked the shopkeeper. In addition to mutton, they also prepared meat dishes such as chicken slices and fish slices.

There are no expensive ingredients, but the base is unique and the dipping sauce is delicious.

This delicious and not extravagant diet was exactly what Kangxi praised.

Although there were no outsiders, with the true god Kangxi around, Princess Rongxian and the ninth elder brother were just fine with each other, while the consort and Shu Shu were still a little cautious.

Even so, half of the food on the table was eaten, and only one pancake with sesame sauce was left in a full plate.

Even Kangxi felt that the belt was a little tight, but it was difficult to put the belt buckle in front of his daughter-in-law and his father-in-law.

He thought about what he had just eaten. He had a plate of mutton slices and half a plate of sheep blood in the spicy pot. He had yuba, vermicelli, magnolia slices and cabbage cores in the tomato pot. He ate one sesame-sauce sesame pancake.

I ate three pieces of green onion pancake.

The main reason is that this orange water is delicious to drink. I drank several glasses of it while hanging from the well.

After leaving the restaurant, Kangxi wanted to go back to the palace, so he said to Princess Rongxian and his concubine: "When you are full, you and your wife can take a walk here..."

Princess Rongxian also enjoyed her lunch and nodded: "Then my daughter will take a good look around the shops here."

The second-breasted prince stood half a step behind Princess Rongxian, nodded, and said: "I accompany the princess..."

Kangxi looked at Shu Shu again and said: "The Queen Mother accumulated food yesterday, and it's time to use some plain food. When you come back, ask someone to prepare a plain pot and send it to the Queen Mother."

Shu Shu also responded respectfully.

Kangxi finally looked at his ninth elder brother and said, "Please accompany me back. I have something to ask you."

Brother Jiu blinked, feeling a little uneasy.

Don't want to go.

Are you coping well today?

However, he knew there was no room for refusal, so he smiled and said: "I've just finished eating. I'm thinking about Khan Amma's good tea, so I want to make a cup of it."

Shu Shu, Princess Rongxian and his wife watched Kangxi and his party leave.

Princess Rongxian held Shu Shu's hand and praised: "It's really a real experience. It's well-deserved. It's indeed more delicious than ordinary pots."

Shu Shu said: "The ingredients are ordinary, but the way of eating is fresh. The people in the mansion brought a lot of spicy base and persimmon sauce from the capital. They can be stored. Second sister will bring some back later."

Princess Rongxian was not polite to her, and said with a real smile: "Okay, then I will take advantage of my younger siblings."

There are two consorts here, so it's hard for them to talk much.

Shu Shu said goodbye to Princess Rongxian and his wife, got on the carriage, and went back to the Prince's Courtyard.

The remaining Princess Rongxian and her husband went to the teahouse next door.

In addition to the common Pu'er tea cakes in Mongolia, there are also many Jiangnan loose teas. There are not many types, but there are seven or eight types.

Knowing that the sale was from Jiubele Mansion, Princess Rongxian ordered twenty pieces of Pu'er tea. Other loose teas were expensive, limited in quantity, and had trading restrictions, so she took two kilograms of each.

One piece of Pu'er tea is about fifty kilograms, twenty pieces is one thousand kilograms, which is equivalent to two hundred and twenty taels of silver.

There were more than ten kilograms of loose tea left, ranging from half a tael to one and a half taels of silver, and another dozen taels of silver were spent.

In fact, this price is almost the same as the price of tea sold by tea merchants in Mongolia.

Princess Rongxian said: "Look at Brother Ninth. After all, he has been working as a errand for several years and has acted very appropriately. He opened a tea house here. The price is high or low. Compared with the price of the tea merchant, in the end

It saves worry and trouble."

If the price is set low, even if the sales volume is large, it will still bear the reputation of "competing with the people"; if the price is set high, even if the Mongolian prince who comes to meet him gives face to Brother Jiu and buys some tea, some of the big ones will take advantage of it.

suspicion.

No one is a fool.

The second-breasted son-in-law felt in his heart that the brother-in-law of the ninth elder brother did not act smart, otherwise he would not have spoken to the third-breasted son-in-law at the prince's banquet.

The impoliteness of the three-fronted consort had nothing to do with him at first, but after that incident, the third brother-in-law would only complain to the ninth elder brother in the end, and the prince would also mark it in his heart.

But in front of his wife, he nodded and said in agreement: "If Jiu Beile hadn't been so capable, he wouldn't have been in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for several years..."

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At this time, Brother Jiu had already followed Kangxi back to the main hall of the palace.

After he asked for fermented tea, Kangxi asked someone to make him a cup.

It's just that it's steaming hot, and I don't know when it will cool down.

Brother Jiu's mouth was dry early because he had eaten something salty at lunch. He sat there, waiting impatiently, and said to Liang Jiugong: "Is there some warm tea or boiled water? Shuida can pour me a cup. My throat is starting to smoke..."

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With this pitiful look, Liang Jiugong glanced at Kangxi and saw that he didn't speak, so he went over and poured a cup of warm tea.

Brother Jiu drank more than half of the cup before he finally calmed down.

Kangxi said: "The orange water is made of orange jam?"

He knew that Brother Jiu had an orange orchard on Dongshan Island in Suzhou, and last year he sent half a shipload of oranges to Beijing.

Brother Jiu nodded and said: "That's it. Fresh oranges can't be stored well. Years ago, my son wrote to the manager there and asked them to boil them into orange jam, so as not to waste them. Fusong came back from Jiangnan a while ago and brought them all with him.

came back."

Kangxi coughed slightly and said: "If anyone is rich, please send a few bottles of marmalade to the palace dining room..."

Brother Jiu looked at Kangxi and was speechless: "..."

He remembered the crickets from the past few days!

It’s not over, right?

Is this the legendary "Old House on Fire"?!

When you meet someone who is eating, you are thinking about your concubine, and when you are drinking, you are thinking about your concubine?

He didn't know why, but he was vaguely happy.

If he and his concubine give birth to an elder brother, he may not be able to hold on to the title of concubine, and he may be promoted to a noble concubine.

Brother Jiu is also a man, so he knows what it is like for a man to like a woman.

It was placed on the tip of my heart, held in the palm of my hand, and I couldn't bear to let her be wronged in the slightest.

If you really want to be crowned a concubine with your concubines, then not only the concubines but also the senior concubines above will be embarrassed.

Kangxi felt uncomfortable and said: "Are there no rich people left?"

Brother Jiu hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the orange jam is sour. You need to add a lot of sugar to make orange water. My son was thinking that Khan Ama didn't like sweet things, so he didn't offer it. He asked Cao to do it when he went back soon.

Send it here..."

Kangxi glanced at him and said: "For the remaining shops, I plan to let the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs run a few shops. Muskar is a military man and can only lead troops to fight, but economic affairs are blocked. How can the shops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs be opened?

, what to run, you can help me figure it out in your free time."

Brother Ninth knew what was right. The prince's love for the concubine was not something that the prince could question. He also turned his mind away and thought of the cement he mentioned to Shu Shu.

He said: "Everything else is just trivial. Let's not talk about it. I can open a cement shop..."

Then, he talked about building Fan Temple with cement.

This is about education, and it sounds respectable.

It can be jointly operated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Industry.

After listening to Kangxi's deep thought, he thought about not only Fanmiao, but also Mongolian stations and official roads.

Between Mongolia and the Qing Dynasty, there was no natural barrier except the Great Wall.

If all Mongolian ministries were connected by official roads, not to mention the cavalry roaring in, communication would be more convenient.

But the convenient transportation is a double-edged sword.

The Eight Banners has unimpeded access to Mongolia, and Mongolia going south will also go directly to the Great Wall pass.
To be continued...