Time passed quickly and the Dragon Boat Festival soon arrived. This year's Dragon Boat Festival, the emperor held a family banquet in the palace. Lu Zifeng and Situ Yao did not plan to attend because Situ Yao was pregnant. She was just over two months pregnant and not yet three months old. Therefore, Situ Yao could only stay in the mansion. In order to accompany his wife, Lu Zifeng did not plan to attend the palace banquet.
After seeing off his uncle, grandmother and aunt at the end of the afternoon, Lu Zifeng returned to his own courtyard to accompany Situ Yao.
Now the only masters left in the mansion were Lu Zifeng and his wife. Lu Zifeng remembered that he suddenly wanted to eat hot pot some time ago, so he drew a blueprint and asked Lu Chun to find a blacksmith to make the pot.
"Where is Lu Chun?"
"Sir, Lu Chun is out, and I don't know what he's doing."
Lu Zifeng frowned when he heard this.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard Lu Chun's voice outside.
"My Lord, I have brought the pot back."
As he spoke, Lu Chun walked in with a pot in his hand. However, this pot was a little different from the current pot. There was a barrier in the middle, as if dividing the pot into two.
As soon as Lu Zifeng saw the pot was taken back, he immediately became happy.
"Haha, you're lucky you got it back in time, otherwise I would have definitely dealt with you today."
As he spoke, Lu Zifeng stood up and said.
"Come on, follow me to the kitchen and have them start preparing the food. Today we're going to eat something you've never had before."
Speaking of this, Lu Zifeng came to the capital two years ago. It was winter at that time, but there was no such food as hot pot in the whole capital. Lu Zifeng originally wanted to do this business, but then he thought that he had no backing, and if he did this business, he might just be making wedding dresses for others, so he gave up the idea.
Later, he became a relative of the Duke Dingguo Mansion and became the prince of the Duke Dingguo Mansion. He was then sent by the emperor to Jiangnan to do some work. He was so busy that he forgot about opening a hot pot restaurant. It was only when he suddenly wanted to eat hot pot some time ago that he remembered this matter.
In his previous life, Lu Zifeng was an orphan and worked in a hot pot restaurant near the university town for three years. After a period of secret learning, he had mastered the recipe of hot pot base. Now the most important thing is to stir-fry the hot pot base.
After arriving at the kitchen, Lu Zifeng discovered that there were not enough spices at home, and several kinds were missing. In desperation, Lu Zifeng decided to stir-fry them like this for the time being, because today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and all the medicine shops and spice shops in the capital are probably closed.
Lu Zifeng called the chef from the kitchen over. The chef was so frightened when he saw Lu Zifeng coming in person that he dared not move. He had not seen his masters for a year. Now he saw the prince, the future master of Duke Dingguo's Mansion, coming to the kitchen in person. He wondered if he had done something wrong. The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. He was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and dared not move.
After Lu Zifeng checked all the spices in the kitchen and was about to ask the chef to come over and talk, he found that the chef was so scared that he was kneeling on the ground and trembling.
Lu Zifeng looked at the chef kneeling on the ground in confusion, then looked at Lu Chun and Lu Xia.
"I don't think I did anything to him, did I? Why is that?"
Lu Chun held back his laughter and walked up to Lu Zifeng and whispered.
"My Lord, you're scaring him. Think about it, you rarely come to the kitchen this year. He probably thinks he did something wrong and made you unhappy, so he's too scared to get up."
After hearing Lu Chun's explanation, Lu Zifeng was speechless. "Is this young master so scary?" He thought for a moment and decided to hurry up and make the hot pot base.
Lu Zifeng came out of the kitchen half an hour later. He really had to admire these chefs. They were so smart that they could understand everything at once!
Lu Zifeng decided that since this chef was a member of the Lu family, he would leave a mark on his mind and make him the head chef of the hot pot restaurant under his name in the future.
When Lu Zifeng returned to his courtyard, he found Situ Yao sitting under a tree in the courtyard reading this book.
"What are you looking at?"
When Situ Yao heard Lu Zifeng's voice, she realized his existence and said angrily.
"How come there's no sound when you walk?"
Lu Zifeng smiled helplessly. It seemed that this woman's temperament would change after she became pregnant, and it would be sometimes good and sometimes bad.
"Okay, it's my fault. I shouldn't have shown up so quietly. I should have informed my wife in advance."
Looking at Lu Zifeng's teasing expression, Situ Yao glared at Lu Zifeng in embarrassment and anger.
"If we don't go to the Dragon Boat Festival banquet, will the emperor's uncle be unhappy?"
Lu Zifeng sat next to Situ Yao, took her hand and stroked it while speaking.
"The Emperor knows you're pregnant, and I'm at home with you. She'll only praise me for doing well and won't be angry."
Situ Yao looked at Lu Zifeng with suspicion, but she didn't say anything else.
"I just heard that you went to the kitchen. What were you doing there? What could possibly have happened that would cause the Duke Dingguo's son to go to the kitchen in person?"
Lu Zifeng pretended to smile mysteriously and said, "I won't tell you for now. You'll know in half an hour."
Situ Yao was originally three points curious, but Lu Zifeng immediately raised her curiosity to eight points. However, for the sake of face, Situ Yao did not continue asking.
Half an hour later, led by Lu Chun, the chef also came over.
Lu Chun and his men placed the prepared ingredients one by one on the stone table. However, there were still several rows of ingredients with no place to put them, so they had no choice but to prepare a table and then placed all the ingredients.
Lu Chun brought up the iron hot pot. To put it simply, this hot pot was an imitation of the hot pot of later generations. First, a small brazier was placed on the stone table, some burning charcoal was placed in the brazier, and then the hot pot was placed on the brazier.
"Madam, this is called hot pot. It comes in two flavors. One is with dogwood, which is quite spicy. The other is just for you, but it's also very delicious."
"We put these processed ingredients in the pot and cook them. It only takes a short while and then we can take them out and eat them."
As he spoke, Lu Zifeng began to demonstrate. He took out the cooked mutton from the pot, dipped it in the prepared seasoning, and then put it into his mouth and ate it.
Seeing Lu Zifeng's expression of enjoyment, Situ Yao also felt a little greedy. She quickly picked up the chopsticks in front of her, picked up a piece of mutton from the pot, dipped it in the dipping sauce bowl in front of her and put it in her mouth. Suddenly, a spicy taste rushed into her mouth. Although it was very spicy, it was very appetizing.
Seeing the satisfaction on Situ Yao's face, Lu Zifeng smiled. His only regret now was that he hadn't found the chili peppers. It seemed that he had to ask Lei Ting and the others to look for it in the Western Regions. Maybe they could find some.
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