For a moment, Liu Tan was thinking seriously whether he should order his subordinates not to bring the sweet and sour pork ribs.

A dish of boiled cabbage is just like that. If there was another dish of sweet and sour pork ribs, wouldn’t Liu Che have to live here?

Fortunately, his reason told him that Liu Che was very busy and didn't have time to come over every day.

Of course, the most important thing is that the menu has been finalized, and all the serving procedures have been rehearsed. At this point, it cannot be changed. Even if Liu Tan is worried about this sweet and sour pork ribs, he has to serve it.

Unlike boiled vegetables, when the sweet and sour spare ribs are served, the flavor comes before the vegetables.

The mixture of sweet and sour taste is very refreshing, and just a slight smell makes people's mouth water.

Because the sweet and sour spareribs are dark in color, in order to make them look better, Liu Tan asked the chef to garnish them with some green leaves, and placed crabapple flowers and leaves next to them as embellishments.

According to Liu Tan's standards, this dish can be considered to be delicious in appearance, aroma and taste.

Liu Che sniffed it and asked, "Did you add vinegar?"

Liu Tan nodded, and Chen Ajiao hesitated: "Sour?"

Liu Tan said: "It's sweet and sour, with a hint of saltiness."

Both Liu Che and Chen Ajiao looked confused and couldn't understand how one dish could have three flavors.

However, because the first dish was so amazing, they both chose to believe Liu Tan.

The lamb chops are cut into the most convenient way to eat, and are coated with the sweet and sour sauce without any dead corners. When you pick up a piece, you can see the inseparable connection between the sweet and sour sauce.

Liu Che observed it first and had to say that because of its dark color, it did not look particularly delicious to someone who had never tasted sweet and sour food before.

But the aroma of the lamb chops made him curious again.

When the lamb chops are put into the mouth, the first thing you taste is the sweet and sour taste.

The sweet and sour sauce is perfectly proportioned, neither too sweet nor too sour. When you take a bite, the crispy outside of the lamb chops contrasts with the tender inside. The aroma of meat is overflowing, and the aroma of fat lingers between the lips and teeth, but it does not seem greasy because of the sweet and sour taste that still remains on the tip of the tongue.

This dish creates three distinct impacts on the taste buds. If you taste it carefully, you can also taste the salty flavor of the marinated lamb chops. The taste is so rich that Liu Che couldn't help but squint his eyes.

Chen Ajiao was not in a hurry to taste it at first. It was only after she noticed that Liu Che looked very happy that she picked up a piece and took a small bite.

After the aroma of fried food, the sweetness of sugar, the sourness of vinegar, and the saltiness of salt were all neutralized together, the two of them stopped talking and started eating.

I have to say that this dish is very much to the taste of Liu Che and Chen Ajiao.

In this era, on a per capita basis, fat and sugar were generally scarce. Of course, the nobles were not so lacking, but because there were too few dishes, they rarely had such rich dishes.

Sweet and sour spare ribs are famous for being delicious with rice, so Chen Ajiao, who usually only ate half a bowl of rice, ate a whole bowl, not to mention Liu Che.

Liu Tan was a little frightened when he saw it, but he couldn't help but whispered, "Wait, there's another dish."

Liu Che and Chen Ajiao finally put down their chopsticks, but there wasn't much food left on the plates at this time.

Liu Tan was a little frightened. He adhered to one principle when giving things to Liu Che and Chen Ajiao - the more, the bigger the better.

So the portion of that plate of lamb chops is quite large, plus the boiled vegetables and other side dishes, what if I eat too much?

At this moment, Liu Tan had already started thinking about whether there was anything he could give them to help with digestion and digestion.

But there are no stomach-strengthening and digestion-promoting tablets these days. If I use other things, don’t I have to eat them too?

The sweet and sour pork ribs are followed by a fruit salad.

Liu Tan specially prepared the salad dressing to be lighter in taste. He felt that the taste in his mouth would be quite strong after eating sweet and sour pork ribs, and even rinsing his mouth might not be able to remove that taste. If he added a sweet salad to it, it would be too greasy, so light taste was the best, but serving it with fruit directly didn't seem to work either.

Liu Che looked at the milky white salad on top of the diced fruit and picked at it curiously, but this time he didn't ask why. After the first two dishes, Liu Che had already been deeply impressed by the food here at Liu Tan.

Besides, no matter how unpalatable the fruit is, how unpalatable can it be?

In fact, after eating something strong and greasy, eating some fruit does make you feel much more refreshed.

Liu Che was very satisfied with the meal, and Chen Ajiao was also very satisfied.

The way these two expressed their satisfaction was basically to give rewards.

While eating his after-dinner fruit, Liu Che lazily asked, "Bu Fan, please send someone to the Imperial Household to choose a good horse for Tan'er."

Bu Fan bowed and replied, "Yes."

Liu Tan's face changed. He really wanted Liu Che to find him another horse-riding master, but he swallowed the words back after turning them around in his mouth twice.

From Liu Fuling, we can see that young noblemen of his age basically all know how to ride horses.

So he has to deal with this matter himself.

Chen Ajiao had actually prepared a horse for Liu Tan. In fact, Liu Tan did have a horse, but as a mother, she always felt that the things in her child's hands were not good enough.

Before she could even open her mouth, Liu Che took the initiative, so Chen Ajiao, unwilling to be outdone, gave Liu Tan a complete set of horse harnesses.

When he was about to leave, Liu Che ran to take a look at the grapes.

As the weather gradually gets warmer, the grape seedlings have actually been moved outside, and there are no longer just two or three of them. After the first few plants survived, Liu Tan cut a few more branches from them and continued to transplant them. Now he has marked out a large area on his farm, with at least ten acres dedicated to growing grapes.

Seeing such a large grape field, Liu Che was simply overjoyed.

Liu Tan really wanted to ask whether the country should promote it, but Liu Che didn't seem to care much.

All he cared about was whether he could eat the grapes and wine from the Western Regions. As for whether others could eat them... it would be better if they couldn't, otherwise how could he show his uniqueness as an emperor?

Seeing that he was not interested in this, Liu Tan simply shut up.

For things like cement, he would definitely find ways to promote it after it matures, but he doesn't care much about things like grapes, the existence of which actually has no impact on the public.

These days, for many people, being able to eat enough is the most important thing.

Liu Che and Chen Ajiao left a lot of rewards and left happily.

Before leaving, Liu Che said to Liu Tan: "I will come to see you again after some time!"

When Liu Tan thought about the feeling of vomiting from eating the unpalatable sweet and sour pork ribs every day a while ago, his face turned green and he quickly said, "The recipes for those dishes are not difficult. How about your son..."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Che lowered the curtain and said, "No need. It's nice to go out for a walk every now and then."

Liu Che didn't care about the recipe. In fact, what he cared about was that Liu Tan could always come up with something new. Getting the recipe was just tasting the same dishes. Liu Che was more interested in dishes he had never eaten before.

Liu Tan stood behind and watched the emperor and empress get into their carriage. For a moment, his face was filled with melancholy. He wondered if his label in Liu Che's eyes had become that of a chef who cooked delicious dishes.

But who wants to be a cook?

Liu Tan walked back listlessly. Halfway through the journey, he suddenly realized that the two of them had returned to the palace, so why had they left him behind? Was this a tacit agreement that he could leave the palace?

He soon understood why Liu Che and Chen Ajiao were not in a hurry to call him back.

Because no one knew whether it was Bu Fan's extraordinary mobility or the Taifu's extraordinary mobility, but a horse was delivered to him that day.

When Emperor Wu of Han said he would reward Liu Tan with a good horse, the image that appeared in Liu Tan's mind was a picture he had seen on the Internet that year. It was a very beautiful horse with golden hair.

The horse had a thin head, a tall neck, long limbs, and ran with light steps. Although it was not a human, when Liu Tan saw it for the first time, there was only one word in his mind: beauty.

If that horse turned into a human, it would definitely be a very beautiful lady.

Liu Tan even searched for the horse, and then he found out that the horse was a genuine Arabian horse, and it was said to have a very pure bloodline.

Of course, at this time the Ferghana horses were still in Dayuan, and it was not known whether Liu Che had known about it. But whether he knew it or not, it was true that the Han Dynasty did not have them.

But he had also seen many beautiful local horses in the country, and the good horses that the emperor personally ordered must be very beautiful as well.

This is what Liu Tan thought, so when he saw the group of cute white horses in front of him, his head was full of question marks.

This horse cannot be said to be ugly. It has snow-white hair and gentle eyes, and looks very docile.

It’s just that his physique is not very big, and his legs... are basically not slender, and the flesh on his body is not smooth muscles, it seems like there is more fat.

It is true that the whole horse looks pretty and cute, but can such a horse travel long distances?

Liu Tan asked doubtfully, "Is this horse still not grown up?"

The Ma family's Ma Ling, who came to deliver the horse, smiled and said, "Knowing that Your Highness is about to travel, how dare I send a pony here? This horse is almost three years old and is basically an adult horse."

Liu Tan looked at the horse, which was not much taller than him, in confusion. He couldn't believe that the horse was already an adult!

It’s a pity that no one around him knew Ma, so after thinking about it, he asked someone to call Li Buyan.

When Li Buyan saw the horse, his eyes lit up immediately: "Your Highness, where did you get such a good horse?"

Good? Liu Tan saw that his expression didn't seem fake, and for a moment he reluctantly accepted the fact that the Imperial Household Department hadn't tricked him.

Liu Tan smiled and said, "It was given by my father."

Li Buyan glanced at him with some regret and said, "Well... didn't you dislike riding horses before? You were so disgusted by the smell of horses that you refused to learn. Are you going to learn now?"

Li Buyan's heart was bleeding. Such a good horse, but he threw it away in the dark!

Liu Tan was shocked when he heard this. He had assumed that the original owner could ride a horse, but it turned out that he couldn't?

If he had known this earlier, he would have just said it directly. Why are you still hesitating about it?

However, knowing this made him feel relieved. He said in a relaxed tone, "Because I have to ride a horse when I go to Wusun, I have to learn. How is your riding skill?"

Li Buyan raised his head and said, "I don't know anyone who rides better than me! I want to be a general!"

Liu Tan was amused by his behavior and simply said, "That's perfect. You can teach me how to ride a horse. I don't need superb skills, just the basics will be fine."

Li Buyan agreed readily and said directly, "Why don't you just go and try it now? It's a good opportunity to see if this horse is docile enough. If it's not, ask the Imperial Household to replace it for you!"

Liu Tan thought about it and decided to ask someone to bring him the set of horse gear that Chen Ajiao had given him so that he could try riding it.

However, after the horse was fully armed, Liu Tan stood beside it and fell into deep thought: there was no Gaoqiao saddle, no stirrups, no mudguards, only something like a cushion tied to the horse. How could he ride it!

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