When Chen Nian heard that the other party was willing to wait, he knew in his heart that the other party really liked to eat, just like when he went out to eat. If he didn't like to eat, he wouldn't be willing to wait for a second.

But if you go out and meet a restaurant you are interested in and want to eat, you will be willing to wait for two more hours even if there are more people.

Chen Nian was making pastries behind, while Li Zhao sat on the side and waited boredly.

He watched Chen Nian add various materials to the basin with interest, and Chen Nian also chatted with the other party from time to time.

"By the way, what's the name of this pastry?" Li Zhao asked suddenly.

"Name? This kind of pastry is derived from the previous Baiguocake, so I call it Xinbaiguocake." Chen Nian said.

"Xinbaiguocake? This name sounds a bit casual..." Li Zhao frowned. He felt that such delicious fruit should have his own name. Xinbaiguocake and other things are obviously derived from other pastries.

"Then why would you help me?" Chen Nian stopped the movement in his hand and looked at Li Zhao and said.

"I want one... might as well call it Qianguocao?" Li Zhao thought for a moment and said with a little inquiry.

The old people almost spewed out. Isn’t this a layer closer to the base of the Baiguocake?

Seeing Li Zhao agreeing just now, he thought the other party could take out some good name, but after thinking for a while, he said such a name. It seems that ancient people could not come up with such a good name casually.

"Okay, that's called Qianguocake." Chen Nian nodded. Anyway, there is basically no difference between the two names of Xinbaiguocake and Qianguocake.

"It's really called this?"

"There is still a fake one. In the future, this kind of pastry will be called Qianguocake."

As he said that, Aged mixed the juice, glutinous rice flour and a little bit of rice flour together, and mixed them evenly. The whole process went smoothly, and it looked like the master's style.

Therefore, Li Zhao was able to sit there and watch with interest, otherwise if the process was boring, he would have left long ago.

But just as the aged ones put the pastry in the pot and started steaming.

"Shopkeeper Lu, how are the pastry making? I have already found the people, about the afternoon..." A voice suddenly came from outside the store, and it was Mr. Hai.

But before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw Li Zhao sitting in the store with a sharp eye. He was about to kneel on the ground on the spot. Others didn't know Prince Jing. He knew him. Although he had no official position and had never entered the palace, he had met Li Zhao before with his father. Although everyone was not very old, his identities were very different.

But Li Zhao didn't want to reveal his identity, so he quickly stopped him with his eyes.

In addition, Li Zhao changed a guard to another day, and the guard was smarter, and he happened to know Hai Mingxian.

At the same time, he also knew that Prince Jing should not know this guy, so he quickly spoke: "Mr. Hai, our master and I are waiting to buy snacks."

Seeing this, Hai Mingxian suddenly realized and instantly realized that he was afraid that Lu Ke and Chen Nian in the store did not know Prince Jing's identity, so he quickly agreed: "Oh, that's right. I have ordered some pastries here. I want to ask Manager Lu to help deliver them to the mansion in the afternoon. This time I came here to inform me about the time."

It was obvious that he said with a stingy forehead. You should know that when he meets Li Zhao, he would have to kneel down.

Seeing that they started chatting first, Chen Nian asked curiously: "Do you know each other?"

"I have seen it a few times, so I know you." Li Zhao nodded. When the guard beside him said that Mr. Hai had left, he also remembered that this person might be the son of Mr. Hai, the Minister of Rites.

Hai Mingxian was so surprised that when he saw Li Zhao talking, he was talking to Chen Nian first, instead of talking to him first, he was so curious about the relationship between the two.

But he opened his mouth and didn't know what to ask.

Later, Li Zhao saw the doubts in his heart, so he explained with a smile: "Originally, Brother Chen and I didn't know each other, but I went to Fu Xin and Fu Zhuangyuan's mansion last night to chat with him. But I saw a kind of snack. Later, I learned that Brother Chen was Fu Xin's friend, so I came over to buy some snacks. However, Brother Chen is indeed a good person, and now we are friends."

Chen Nian didn't feel anything when she heard this, but Hai Mingxian was even more shocked when she heard this!

Lu Ke’s cousin is the friend of the newly promoted top scorer Fu Xin?

And now, thanks to Fu Xin's matchmaking, Chen Nian is now a friend of King Jing?

Didn’t he just come to Beijing?

Originally, he wanted to consider what Chen Nian liked and then found a way to get close to Lu Ke, but now he thought about it again and again, the difficulty was so difficult that it was just heaven!

"So that's it. It seems that Brother Chen is also a good friend." Hai Mingxian really wanted to say in his heart that you called me when you were having fun and making friends here? But then he thought about Chen Nian's friends, one is Prince Jing and the other is the top scholar. Compared with them, he is nothing at all.

Not worthy!

So he didn't dare to let Chen Nian give him snacks, and said that he would let the servants from the mansion come and get them.

As a result, Chen Nian kept wavering his hands: "No need, I'll just go there. Didn't you agree to it before?"

But Mr. Hai did not dare to let Chen Nian go like this in front of Li Zhao at this moment. Even though Chen Nian is still just a civilian, Prince Jing, said just now that they are friends.

"No, no, no." Mr. Hai waved his hand quickly, "The servants in my house are idle all day long, just so they can run more."

But Chen Nian still felt that he should go this trip today. Mr. Hai said that he wanted to invite friends to recite poems and write matches together, which means that many young masters would come at that time.

What are these people?

That's all white money!

Young men of this age either study all day long and prepare to get fame and fortune, so that the family can have successors, or there is no possibility of getting fame and fortune, and spend all day long, relying on the little skills I learned to sit together with half-loving friends like him to hold poetry chanting meetings and other things.

Although even if he doesn't go, Hai Mingxian will definitely promote it, but if he goes, Hai Mingxian will definitely promote it more beautifully. Moreover, for those young masters, there will be a certain gap between being able to see the real person and just speaking from Mr. Hai.

This is a psychological effect. It may seem too ethereal to speak from Mr. Hai. But if they appear, they will combine their impression with the pastries in the snack shop.

"How can that work? Mr. Hai agreed yesterday that I asked me to send it to him. I happened to go to the door to recognize him. He might have to run to Mr. Hai frequently in the future." Chen Nian said a pun.

After hearing this, Hai Mingxian immediately took the bait.

Gudai

"That's it... well, I'll bother Brother Chen in the afternoon."

Hearing the other party agreeing, Chen Nian smiled.

That's right.

Then Mr. Hai turned around and left.

Chen Nian was chatting with Li Zhao while helping his sister sell snacks and packing them. He didn't ask Li Zhao's name or what Li Zhao's family did throughout the whole process.

So Li Zhao naturally had no psychological burden when chatting with him.

Most of the content he talked with Chen Nian was also about some delicious food from all over the world, as well as some fun things in Yangzhou.

"I want to tell me, the pots nowadays are actually almost interesting in my opinion. If you want to cook really delicious, you have to use an iron pot, pour the oil in, then put the meat down and stir-fry until it changes color, then put soy sauce and other seasonings, and finally put the dish to stir-fry in it, and then stir-fry it all in one go. The taste will be as good as it will be!" Chen Nian said a little dissatisfied.

Because the iron of this era is still controlled by the court and is basically used for military use. Even if some people fall into the civilian world, most people will use it as farm tools such as hoes, because they are all people who eat, and few people use it to make pots.

"Brother Chen wants an iron pot?" Li Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up. He was worried that he would not know what to pay Chen Nian. He felt that it was impossible to ask Chen Nian for money directly.

And Li Zhao couldn't push and pull with Chen Nian.

But now I heard Chen Nian say that since he wants a pot, isn’t that easy to deal with?

He turned around and entered the palace and asked the craftsman to take a chess. It didn't take long.

"Yes, with an iron pot, you can make more food, at least there are many more types than you can make now," said Chen Nian.

But Li Zhao heard another meaning from this, but he was not sure, so he didn't say it.

After a while, the Qianguocake was ready. Agedan took it out of the pot, then put it for a while, waited for it to cool down and then cut it with a knife, and finally skillfully packed a few portions.

"Brother, this pot is not bad. I'll leave one, how much do you want?"

"Of course, you want as much as you have." Li Zhao said. First, you have to give the emperor's sister a portion when you go back. It's best to keep one or two portions on his side. If there is still the rest, he can give to those courtiers with better relationships with him.

"Okay, I'll give you the rest."

"Thank you, Brother Chen, how much does it cost in total?" Li Zhao said as he asked his entourage to come up and give the money.

"No money." Chen Nian shook his head.

"How can that be? I didn't give money yesterday. If I don't give money today, what would it look like?"

"My thousand fruit cake has not been officially sold yet, so there is no price. If you give too much, I feel ashamed of it. I may not sleep at night. If you give less, it would be better not to give it. Anyway, it is better to treat it as a tasting stage. Please help me try these pastries. If you feel that there is something that can be improved, it can be put forward. Wouldn't it be very reasonable?"

"It seems that he said it is the same." Li Zhao nodded, feeling that what Chen Nian said makes some sense, but this is the first time he has heard of it during this tasting stage.

Then he asked his entourage to pack all the pastries that Chen Nian had packed for him, thanked him and headed towards the palace again.

It was almost noon when he left the old snack shop. In addition, the distance he had from Fuchunfang to the palace, it was basically time to eat after returning to the palace.

First, he asked his entourage to carry two thousand fruit cakes and put them back to his mansion, and he took the rest toward the imperial study, because he had asked, although it was time for meals, His Majesty was discussing affairs with several military ministers, so he was still in the study.

When Li Zhao heard that this was just right, everyone would try it together.

When he arrived, the Minister of Rites, Minister of Justice, Minister of Revenue and Prime Minister were all sitting here.

Since Li Zhao is not an outsider, they did not stop talking after coming in. These people were discussing the current criminal law reform.

Li Xu's loss of appetite is due to this reason. He doesn't eat it at meal time, and over time he becomes less and less able to eat.

But when Li Zhao came in with the snacks, she immediately called Li Zhao to bring the snacks over.

Then he asked Li Zhao to distribute the snacks to the ministers with a little heartache, so that they could taste them too.

After all, in her heart, she actually didn't want to divide these things. Last night, she was reviewing memorials while eating them, picking up a piece of them from time to time to eat, but as she ate them, she found that all the pastries had been eaten by her.

It still feels unsatisfactory.

Although Li Xu was not very hungry at first, the ministers were indeed hungry. When they heard Li Xu ask Prince Jing to distribute the pastries to them, they were quite happy. The main reason was that no matter whether the thing was delicious or not, it could at least make the stomach.

But they soon regretted it. They couldn't wait to try the pastry that Li Xu praised, but the amount of the pastry really couldn't fill it. After eating them one by one, they felt even hungry.

But I have to admit that this Qianguocake is very delicious and extremely appetizing.

Therefore, they all asked Li Zhao curiously where he bought it. As a result, Li Zhao said proudly that it was not bought, it was given by his friend who runs a pastry shop, and then told him where the shop was located.

But when Li Xu heard that his younger brother actually took other people's things for nothing...

"Why didn't you give me money?"

"I gave it, but he didn't want it. He also said that he had not officially sold this kind of pastry yet and could not buy it today, but I made a separate copy for me to try it, so I was able to get it back."

"But even if he said he didn't want money, I had already decided to give him some compensation. Today he said he wanted an iron pot, so I planned to turn around and have someone cast an iron pot for him."

As a result, when the Minister of Revenue heard this, "Isn't that going to take the blame for others? This is not auspicious, Prince Jing."

When Li Zhao heard this, he couldn't help but glared.

He didn't mean this, but at this moment he thought to himself, it seemed that this thing was indeed not auspicious, but what should I give it if it was like this?
Chapter completed!