Although Li An has a very high status, as long as there is no emperor's will, he is also not allowed to enter the royal garden to hunt, and the crown prince and the princes are also not allowed, and only the emperor has the privilege of entering the royal garden.

However, Li Ang is not too interested in the royal garden, that is, there are fewer artificial disturbances, more animals and plants, and there are too many traces of artificial carving, which is far less interesting than the natural and original primeval forest.

In a place where the plants were relatively lush, Li An stopped, squatted down, carefully inspected the plants under his feet, and then, got up and walked a few steps, and continued to check the nearby plants.

After some exploration, Ang Lee found a lot of herbaceous plants, and the farther away from the road, the higher and rarer the herbaceous plants became.

For example, there are many Chinese herbs that can cure diseases, which appear in the land of Shaoling Plain, and Li An only needs to squat down casually to see several medicinal materials, such as angelica, bupleurum, astragalus and other medicinal materials, which can be found relatively easily.

Medicinal farmers outside the city will also come to collect them from time to time, and after drying, they can become medicinal materials for curing diseases and saving people.

Before the construction of the cement road, the people who came to collect medicine needed to walk to Shaolingyuan, and after the road was repaired, they could easily drive over to collect, and the efficiency of labor was greatly improved, but at the same time, many medicinal materials near the capital were almost extinct, and wild medicinal materials, especially precious wild medicinal materials, were becoming less and less.

Sometimes, in order to get more and better precious medicinal materials, you can only go to the farther Lishan Mountain to collect, after all, the terrain there is more complicated, many places are difficult for human people to enter, there is less human destruction, and the density of medicinal materials is naturally higher.

However, because the cement road leading to Lishan has been repaired and opened to traffic recently, many people will enter Lishan to play, and it is more convenient for medicine pickers to enter the mountain, so the wild environment is worse than before, but Lishan is big enough, and the ecology of this era is also very good.

Nature is like a treasure trove, with too many inexhaustible resources to serve humanity selflessly.

On the land of Shaolingyuan, Li An collected some angelica, and then, he went to Lishan for a turn, and found that the density of angelica in Lishan was greater, and the size of the collected angelica was also larger than that of Shaolingyuan, however, the environment of collection was slightly worse, close to both sides of the road, it must be difficult to see this medicinal material, only by taking the path deep into the depths of Lishan, can you meet the medicinal material you want.

After all, if it grows on both sides of the road, it has long been picked away, how can it be kept, especially the large angelica, which is more conspicuous, as long as it is discovered, it will not escape the fate of being picked.

The guards of the same company all helped Li An pick together, so before the sun set, Li An and his party collected more than a pound of angelica, which can be said to be a good harvest.

This trip not only appreciated the natural scenery outside the city more carefully, but also harvested more than a pound of angelica, which can be described as a worthwhile trip.

As for why he only collects angelica and not the rest of the medicinal herbs, it is because Li An wants to use these angelicas to make evening dishes, and he has not cooked the local chicken soup with angelica as an ingredient for a long time.

Moreover, the local chicken soup made with freshly picked angelica will have a better effect and a more delicious taste.

The guards of the same company not only helped Li An pick angelica, but when they encountered the rest of the medicinal materials, they would also pick some easily, mainly Poria cocos, wolfberry, and even, there was a Ganoderma lucidum, which made Li An a little overjoyed.

When he was about to return, Li An actually found a few pheasants, which made Li An overjoyed, and he had already thought about it, and after going back, he would use angelica and other materials to stew local chicken soup, and the ingredients used were naturally the ecological chickens raised at home, but now he actually saw pheasants, the taste of these pheasants must be more fragrant and soft and delicious than domestic chickens, and they can better satisfy people's appetites.

Since the pheasants have been sent to the door, there is no reason not to catch them, Li An and his subordinates divided labor and cooperated, and easily caught a few pheasants and put them in the trunk of the vehicle.

After returning to the courtyard, the sun had already set, and Li An asked the people in the back kitchen to dispose of the pheasants, as for how to cook, Li An had to do it himself, and the people in the back kitchen only needed to clean up the pheasants.

"Ah Lang, you have to cook yourself again! What are you going to do today? ”

Yun'er was hungry, ran to the back kitchen to steal food, and when she saw Ang Lee roll up her sleeves, she knew that Ang Lee was going to cook herself.

"I came to steal it again, I want to make local chicken soup today, it tastes very delicious, but the amount is too small, and I don't have your share."

Ang Lee first praised the dishes as delicious, and then made it clear that there was no Yun'er's share.

"Chicken soup, can't I take a sip?"

Yun'er said coquettishly.

Li An smiled and said, "I can tell you, the local chicken soup tastes very good, a pot of chicken soup, if a few ladies can't finish it, maybe there will be one or two mouthfuls left, then you have oral administration." ”

After that, we started to do it.

"Four ladies can drink a big pot of chicken soup, is it so delicious?"

Yun'er frowned, put the stolen red dates into her mouth, chewed a few bites, gently spit the date core on her hand, and then continued to eat the second red date.

"Ah Lang, the three pheasants have all been cleaned, do you need to chop them?"

A back kitchen asked.

Li An hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, just leave it like this!" Continue to prepare peanut kernels, red dates, black fungus, and ginger slices, and the freshly picked angelica is also washed and sliced, hurry up. ”

To be honest, where is Ang Lee's own cooking, this is completely directing others to cook, and there are few do-it-yourselfs.

"Ah Lang, it's all ready."

Several male servants in the back kitchen quickly prepared all the materials that Li An needed.

Li An looked at Yun'er, who was still stealing red dates, frowned and said, "I still eat, I've gained a lot of weight, squatting down and burning the fire." ”

"Ah Lang, you asked me to light the fire?"

Yuna said in surprise.

Li An gently talked about Yun'er's head, and said unhappily: "What's wrong with letting you burn the fire, Ah Lang has cooked it himself, so you can't burn the fire?" ”

"Yes! Ah Lang, if you let me light the fire myself, can you let me take a sip later, or take a small sip! ”

Yun'er actually opened her mouth to talk to Ang Lee about the conditions.

"Hey, I still dare to talk about the conditions, my courage is getting bigger and bigger, burn your fire well, behave well, I can give you a sip and taste."

Li An said with a smile and asked Yun'er to hurry up and light the fire.

Yun'er naturally knows how to burn a fire, there is no difficulty in this, as long as she is a normal person, it is too simple.

At this time, there were already matches, which were invented by Ang Lee, and after the invention, they were quickly unanimously recognized by the common people, who felt that this was a very practical gadget and popularized it in a very short time.

After Yuna lit the firewood, Ang Lee asked people to pour water into the pot and boil, and then put the three pheasants into the pot, cook them for a while, and then scoop them up.

The purpose of this is to remove the fishy smell and dirty smell from the pheasant, so that the final pheasant is delicious enough.

After pouring out the dirty water in the pot, boil a pot of clean boiling water again, and then put the clean three pheasants, ginger slices, angelica, peanut kernels and black fungus and other ingredients together, and put the lid on the pot and keep boiling.

"Ah Lang, how long will this take to burn!"

After only a short while, Yun'er was already sweating profusely, and there was a big pot of black on her cheeks, which looked quite interesting.

"It will take at least half an hour, burn the fire well, and you have to keep the fire on it, haha!"

Watching Yun'er suffer, Li An said with a smile.

Actually, it's not much of a sin to burn the fire, besides, it's late autumn when the weather is cold, and the fire is actually very warm, but Yun'er doesn't usually do this, and the skills are not very good, it's too close to the pot mouth, and if it's too far, it seems that it is difficult for him to control the fire inside.

For a normal dinner, at least eight dishes and two soups must be prepared, which is Ang Lee's minimum dinner standard, and local chicken soup is one of the soups, so one soup and eight dishes are needed.

Fortunately, the facilities in the back kitchen are very perfect, there are a lot of cooking utensils, and a lot of ingredients are prepared.

"Ah Lang, besides this local chicken soup, what else will you eat tonight?"

A valet asked.

Li An thought for a moment and said: "A bowl of beef and stir-fried cabbage, a stir-fried pork with mushrooms, and a steamed grouper, in addition, forget it, the remaining dishes, go ask a few ladies!" See what they want to eat? ”

"Yes, Aaron."

The manservant answered and went to prepare.

Soon, the rest of the dishes were made, and the whole back kitchen was filled with all kinds of flavors, spicy, meaty, vegetable, and smoky, in short, a lot of flavors and good smells.

In the past, the taste of the back kitchen was completely dominated by the taste of beef and pork, but it didn't take long for a more fragrant flavor to mask the previous flavor of beef and pork, and that was the taste of Ang Lee's local chicken soup.

The fragrance of pheasant is much higher than that of beef, and in addition, fresh angelica, turmeric and other spices are added to it, so it is impossible not to smell it.

"Ah Lang, it's so fragrant! There is also a smell of Chinese herbs, which is even more fragrant, can I take a sip and taste it? ”

Yun'er looked at Ang Lee with a begging expression, her expression was very pitiful.

Li An smiled and said: "Look at your greed, where have you been, it hasn't been completely burned yet, it smells good, but the taste in your mouth is much worse, and you still need to continue to boil until all the essence of all the ingredients is fused into the soup, so that it will be really delicious, haha!" ”

The soup is naturally more concentrated, the better it tastes, after all, everything that is concentrated is the essence, of course, it can't be concentrated too much, there is a just right concentration, which can also be called the best concentration.

The smell of pheasant was already strong, and the fire continued to cook, so that the fragrance spread to the inner house, which made several ladies and children who were chatting in the yard smell it.

Tang Er asked such a fragrance, she had already run to the back kitchen with a smoke, Man'er and Han'er also followed, and even Ya'er and Cao'er also ran over, leaving only Yan Ruyu and the three of them sitting in the yard without moving, they knew that they had to pay attention to their identities and couldn't follow them to the back kitchen, otherwise, what would be the image.

However, they hadn't smelled such a fragrant smell for a long time, and the fact that they could waft from the back kitchen to the inner house showed how fragrant the dish was.

"It smells so good! It's chicken soup! ”

Yan Ruyu smelled it for a long time and opened her mouth to judge.

Li Hanlu thought for a moment and said: "It's not just chicken soup, it seems to be a pheasant, and the rooster raised at home doesn't have such a fragrant taste, yes, it must be a pheasant." ”

The barbarian opened his mouth and said: "Two sisters, how can I smell the smell of angelica, it seems to be in the smell of chicken, the smell of chicken and angelica is blended together, and I feel fragrant when I smell it." ”

Yan Ruyu frowned and said, "It seems to be true!" In the aroma of chicken, there is indeed a grass fragrance of angelica, and my sister's nose is really smart, and such a subtle smell can be smelled. ”

"Stewed chicken with Chinese herbs, only our husband can come up with it."

Li Hanlu said with a smile.

As the concentration of the soup increased, the fragrance in the air became more and more intense, and the smell made people drool, and even Ang Lee couldn't help but want to taste it.

"Ah Lang, it's been more than an hour, it should be cooked!"

Yuna swallowed her saliva and asked.

Li An gently lifted the lid of the pot, and suddenly, a thicker aroma of soup wafted out, which made people feel quite comfortable when they smelled it.

"Father, it smells so good! I'm going to drink. ”

Tang Er made the first request.

"Father, I'm going to drink too, I'm going to drink too."

Man'er and Han'er also made a request.

Li An saw that the concentration was almost there, so he nodded and said, "Prepare a big bowl, two large bowls, and a few smaller bowls." ”

The two big bowls are naturally to be served to the inner courtyard, and some small bowls are prepared so that these people on the scene can take a small sip and let them taste the taste.

The big bowls were full, and they were immediately taken to the backyard, and each small bowl was only one mouthful, and Li An handed these small bowls full of a mouthful of concentrated soup to Yun'er and other servants one by one, so that they could taste the taste.

"Father, what about mine? I'm going to drink, I'm going to drink. ”

Tang Er didn't get the soup, and said noisily.

Li An said unhappily: "Tang'er, come with me, we have two big bowls?" Come on. ”

After speaking, he dragged Tang Er away.