The guard on the side said, "His Royal Highness King Wei, we have been out for a long time. Your Highness is still under grounding. If someone finds out, it will be very difficult for him to do this."
Li Tai looked at Zhang Yang's back angrily, "What are you afraid of! Who dares to stop me wherever I am going?"
The guard smiled bitterly and said, "But in humble positions, there are seniors and juniors."
Li Tai glared at him, "Just say that I am the one threatening you, and my father will not embarrass you."
Qiu Lie's team headed all the way to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin opened the car curtain and saw road signs stuck on the ground.
The street sign points to a store in the distance.
Seeing Li Shimin looking out from the sedan, Li Junxian, who was riding a horse to protect him, said, "Does your Majesty have any instructions?"
Li Shimin whispered: "Is that the store opened by Zhang Yang?"
Li Junxian said: "After careful inspection a few days ago, this store is indeed opened by Zhang Yang. This store sells pork, and recently there is something called beggar's chicken."
After pondering for a long time, Li Shimin hesitated for a while, "Buy me a piece of whatever food is available in the store."
"Here!"
Li Junxian responded and then said hesitantly: "But Your Majesty, that shop sells pork."
“Can’t we eat pork if it’s pork?”
"That's not what the general meant."
"Go and do it."
Li Junxian held up the reins and asked the horse to change direction and go to the store in the distance. "Your Majesty, a noble person now wants to eat pork. Your Majesty probably wants to experience the suffering of the people."
While driving the horse, Li Junxian thought to himself, "Your Majesty is like this, so we must fulfill our duties faithfully."
Soon Li Junxian came with a food box, "Your Majesty, I brought it all."
Li Shimin sat in the rickety sedan with his eyes closed and said, "Bring it up."
The eunuch took the food box and took out all the vegetables inside.
Li Shimin opened his eyes slightly, "What caught his eye was a basin with millet rice, braised pork, and some vegetables on it."
The eunuch took out a few more steamed buns and a beggar's chicken, "Your Majesty, you are here to eat. Do you need to test the poison?"
"Give it a try."
The little eunuch tried all the dishes and after half an hour said, "Your Majesty, it's not poisonous."
After Li Shimin sat upright again and looked at the dishes in front of him, "That store doesn't even have a bowl?"
Li Junxian, who was outside the sedan, replied: "Your Majesty, I heard that the store has little money and everything is saved."
Of course Li Shimin knew that his son-in-law and Yue'er were living in poverty.
My son-in-law was able to open this store because he saved money through frugality.
Pick up a piece of braised pork with chopsticks and put it into your mouth.
Li Shimin tasted it carefully. The pork was soft in the mouth, fat but not greasy. The sauce coating the pork was the essence.
I took another bite of the Beggar's Chicken. Although the Beggar's Chicken was cold, the chicken was still as smooth and tender.
After tasting it for a while, Li Shimin started to eat hungrily.
The curtain of the sedan blew up in the wind, and Li Junxian, who was guarding the carriage, took a deep breath when he saw His Majesty devouring pork like this.
In order to experience the suffering of the people, His Majesty even ate pork so heartily.
He is truly a role model for our generation.
Li Junxian sighed.
At dusk, the team was still some distance away from Lishan Mountain.
The team was not moving very fast.
The accompanying officers and soldiers of the Wei Mansion were already hungry, and everyone looked towards the shop on the roadside.
Li Shimin stepped out of the sedan and said, "Pass on my orders and station them on the spot. We will go to Lishan tomorrow."
"Here!"
Li Shimin shaved off the thin meat stuck between his teeth and had to say that it was the first time in his life that he had eaten such delicious pork.
I'm afraid Yue'er won't be able to eat the delicacies made by that boy every day.
Thinking about it this way, Li Shimin felt a lot more relieved about Yue'er's life.
In Chang'an City, Zhang Yang and Li Yue were sitting in the courtyard eating grapes.
"Ah!"
Zhang Yang sneezed loudly and looked up at the sky in confusion, thinking that it wasn't a cold day either.
Zhang Yang tightened his clothes and packed the grapes in the yard.
I bought ten kilograms of grapes for six guan.
At a time when fruit resources are not abundant, grapes are really expensive.
Most of the people who can afford grapes are today's rich and powerful.
Where can ordinary people afford to eat?
Spread the remaining grapes on a bamboo basket.
The ancient methods of preserving fruits were also monotonous.
Most of the time, the fruit is dried, sprinkled with some salt or sugar, and then eaten as dried fruit.
Li Yue finished eating the grapes and washed her hands, "I'm going to light a fire."
After saying that, she walked to the stove and started to light a fire.
Li Yue carefully added firewood to the earthen stove, making sure that the wood inside was burning before adding another piece of firewood.
At the stove, Zhang Yang saw that her hands and feet were quite clumsy.
Her limbs seemed a little uncoordinated when it came to making a fire.
Li Yue raised her head, her eyes were firm and proud, and she didn't say anything, as if she was waiting for praise.
Being able to light a fire well is indeed a small improvement for Li Yue.
Her eyes seemed to say: Praise me quickly.
Zhang Yang took a look at the fire and said, "If you light the fire so brightly, do you want me to burn the vegetables?"
Li Yue lowered her head and glanced, "Is the heat too high?"
"What do you think?"
After a long moment of silence, Li Yue hit him with her fist, "I already know how to make a fire, but you don't even praise me! You still scold me."
Her small fists have little lethality and cannot cause any harm.
Seeing that Zhang Yang's expression didn't change at all.
Why does he seem to be enjoying it?
Li Yue pursed her lips, stamped her feet, and turned around to leave.
"Call me when the meal is ready!"
After saying these words, Li Yue returned to the house.
Zhang Yang patiently washed the vegetables, cooked rice in one pot, and fried a fish in the other pot.
I don’t know what the situation is like in the store. Li Shimin’s tens of thousands of troops must have a meal outside.
Zhang Yang turned the fish over and added some salt and some ginger.
Pour in soy sauce to make it fresh, and a pot of fried fish is ready.