sjar Chapter 445 What’s wrong with me paying you money?
Chapter 445 What’s wrong with me paying you money?
The Queen Mother couldn't eat so much, so she took a small bite of each food. If she felt that the food was to her taste, she would take a few more bites.
Ali Jiujiu knew how to read the Queen Mother's expressions. If she saw her glance at a dish for a second longer, she would give her an extra portion.
The empress dowager's appetite was greatly increased, and she ate more than twice as much as usual.
The chief and deputy imperial chefs had already returned to the imperial kitchen, holding the exquisite recipes in their hands, studying the taste and cooking methods while comparing the finished products.
Before they left, Mu Qingqing asked Ali Jiujiu to copy a dish from the imperial study for them to study.
As they smelled the delicious aroma of the food, what came to their minds at the same time was Mu Qingqing's superb knife skills.
The two men picked up their own kitchen knives and started chopping the radish on the chopping board.
The chopping board was filled with semi-finished products of varying thickness and thickness, as if mocking their overestimation of their own abilities.
The chief and deputy imperial chefs could not help but stand dejectedly in front of the chopping board, repeatedly recalling Mu Qingqing's clean and neat knife skills.
The other imperial chefs in the imperial kitchen put down their work, gathered around and asked them what had happened.
Why do you look so devastated and exhausted, and can't muster up any energy?
The chief and deputy chefs looked at each other, perked up, and shouted loudly: "Go, go, go! Go do what you need to do! Don't disturb us from thinking about new dishes!"
"Tch, if you don't say it, don't say it..."
When Zhao Sinong arrived at the imperial study in a horse-drawn carriage, the delicious food on the table had already gone cold.
However, it did not affect the beauty and aroma of the food itself, which tempted Zhao Sinong, who was called into the palace urgently just after he took a bite of the meal.
"Your humble servant pays respect to His Majesty. Long live the emperor!"
Seeing that Zhao Sinong wanted to continue kneeling and bowing to the Queen Mother and Ye Nanli, Emperor Tai'an hurriedly stopped him and said, "Lord Zhao, stop kneeling! Come, study some crops and new farm tools with me. Take a look and see if you can figure out anything."
Anyway, Emperor Tai'an has looked at them more than three times, but still cannot figure out the secret of these farm tools.
As for potatoes and sweet potatoes, they are delicious but they look a little ugly, and we don’t know how high their yield is at present.
Zhao Sinong tried hard to control his eyes and not let them look at the delicious food on the table.
I even wanted to forcibly shut down my sense of smell so that the delicious food on the table would not affect my thoughts and judgment.
Emperor Tai'an did not beat around the bush and directly took out the potato seeds and tomato seeds, placed them on the dragon table, and let Zhao Sinong observe.
It was also the first time that Zhao Sinong saw these two new crops. He picked them up, sniffed them, and then pinched them.
Mu Qingqing looked at Zhao Sinong in dumbfounded as he put the raw potato into his mouth. Just as he was about to bite the potato skin, Emperor Tai'an spoke up to stop his reckless action.
"Master Zhao, these are seeds! Their finished products are on the dining table. Try them one by one to see how they taste. Is it feasible to let the people grow them?"
Zhao Sinong respectfully put down the potatoes and sweet potatoes in his hands, and a sly look flashed across his slightly drooping eyes: Finally, my fierce and coquettish operation did not let me down, and the delicious food on the table (I have never seen it before) can finally fall into my stomach...
Don’t be fooled by Zhao Sinong’s honest appearance, he is actually a serious foodie!
If you see a delicacy you have never tried but don’t eat it, you will probably just lie in bed and eat it all night.
While Zhao Sinong was eating non-stop, he even had time to praise the delicacies in various ways.
Mu Qingqing was also drunk. The world of foodies was not something she could participate in!
Although she is also a foodie, she is not as obsessed as Zhao Sinong.
Just as Zhao Sinong took out his handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth with lingering satisfaction, sighing at the deliciousness of the food, Mu Qingqing took out a new assembly diagram of farm tools.
Zhao Sinong casually opened the farm tool assembly diagram. When he saw the new farm tools one after another, tears welled up in his eyes.
In particular, the simple waterwheel can be used to irrigate farmland, and people no longer need to carry water from the nearby river.
This invention alone saves ordinary people so much energy and time!
With a thump, Zhao Sinong knelt down in front of Emperor Tai'an and said, "Your Majesty, could you please introduce the man who invented these farm tools to me? I want to be his disciple!"
When Emperor Tai'an saw Zhao Sinong's excited expression, he knew that these farm tools must be extraordinary and would definitely play a big role in the people's work.
Seeing Emperor Tai'an looking at her, Mu Qingqing hurriedly shook her hand: Your Majesty, please be kind, I really don't plan to accept any more disciples!
Emperor Tai'an could only give up the idea of sending someone to Mu Qingqing's school again, and said to Zhao Sinong majestically: "Lord Zhao, forget about becoming a disciple of this capable person. I would like to ask you now, if someone provides livestock and poultry cubs for the people to raise, and then buys them back at the market price after they are grown, do you think this plan is feasible?"
Zhao Sinong's face was full of suspicion when he heard this. "Your Majesty, if there is such a good thing, why bother asking this old minister? If the people knew that there was such a good thing waiting for them, they would wake up laughing in the middle of the night!"
"But," Zhao Sinong hesitated for a long time, and then asked hesitantly, "Your Majesty, is there any fool in the world who is willing to do such a loss-making business?"
The idiot Mu Qingqing stretched out her slender white index finger and pointed it at the tip of her nose, shouting silently to Ye Nanli: "Is the idiot that Mr. Zhao is talking about referring to me?"
Ye Nanli pursed her lips tightly, her deep pupils shimmering with a faint light, "Master Zhao, the fool you are talking about is exactly my princess!"
Prime Minister Mu was so furious at Lord Zhao's foolish remarks that he walked up to Lord Zhao with his eyes wide open and angrily.
He said sinisterly, "Master Zhao, what did my legitimate daughter do to you? You actually called her a fool?!"
If you have the ability, you can find me a fool who is an all-rounder with superb medical skills, talented in both civil and martial arts, and who can both be a housewife and a cook!
If you can find it out, I will take your surname! From now on, I will call you daddy!
Lord Zhao immediately realized that his casual question had stirred up a hornet's nest!
He pursed his lips, wanting to cry but without tears, "Your Highness, it's all because of this old minister's bad mouth. I didn't know how to control my words. Please forgive me for this time."
Ye Nanli's slender and powerful hand gently tapped on his temple, "Master Zhao, you've chosen the wrong person!"
Upon hearing this, Lord Zhao hurriedly turned around and made a sincere apology to Mu Qingqing, "Princess, I didn't mean it. Please be magnanimous and don't take it to heart."
Mu Qingqing's face did not show any anger, her tone was calm, soft and crisp, and unusually pleasant to the ear: "Lord Zhao, under normal circumstances, what you just said is not wrong! This sounds like a business that is sure to lose money. However, as long as it can mobilize the motivation and confidence of the people to raise livestock, it doesn't matter if I pay for it! As long as the people can get high returns from raising livestock, they will have hope for their lives."