The people who can survive in the capital, everyone will not be a pure lamb, the reason why the Seventh Prince is so interested in Li Xin is naturally not entirely because of Li Xin's ability, he is more interested in Li Xin's identity as the illegitimate son of the Pingnan Marquis Mansion.

To be more precise, he took a fancy to the military power in the hands of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, not that he wanted to use this army to rebel, but the little marquis Li Chun of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, who was very close to another prince in the court on weekdays, and he wanted to pull Li Xin into his camp, that is, he wanted to use Li Xin's identity to balance the little marquis of the Pingnan Hou Mansion.

But these are all later words, now the dispute between Li Xin and the Pingnanhou Mansion has come to an end for the time being, from the perspective of the overall situation, it is natural that the Pingnanhou Mansion was defeated, and was played by Li Xin and a civilian in applause, but Li Xin himself was not comfortable, leaving a scar on his forehead.

Fortunately, the scar is not very deep, and only a small part is on the forehead, and most of it is in the hair, so it is not obvious.

The day after Mrs. Yu came to apologize, a family member from the Pingnan Hou Mansion came to Li Xin and handed Li Xin a small box, which contained a stack of bills, all of which were bearer bills of exchange of one hundred copper coins from Chase Bank, and Li Xin counted them, a total of twenty.

That is, a total of two thousand dollars.

Although this money is not particularly much, it can be regarded as a windfall for the current Li Xin, after all, the small courtyard he rents only needs two yuan a month, and these two thousand yuan are enough for him and the two people who sell charcoal, their ancestors and grandchildren, to live in the capital for a long time.

With money, there is no need to worry about livelihood, and the injury on Li Xin's head has not yet healed, in the next few days, Li Xin spent dozens of dollars to buy a lot of New Year's goods in the market, and honestly prepared for the New Year at home.

Several days have passed like this, and in the blink of an eye, it has reached the twenty-third day of the lunar month.

Since the next day is the day to worship the god of the stove, there are not many people on the streets of the capital on this day, every household is at home, preparing for the next day's New Year, Li Xin's side is no exception, he bought two fat big roosters from the market and came back, and he has personally peeled and washed them.

Li Xin did not have the habit of sacrificing to the gods, so he planned to deal with the two chickens himself, and he didn't need to do it with the prince of the stove.

Since he came to this world, the most unaccustomed thing should be to eat, at the beginning, it was the charcoal seller who was in charge of the meal, and the old man would only get some coarse grain cakes out, or boiled batter and boiled wild vegetables, in the first few days, Li Xin was able to grit his teeth and eat it, purely for survival.

Now that he has money, he naturally wants to improve his life.

The four chicken legs of the two chickens were chopped off by Li Xin, and then two eggs were beaten for later use, and after the oil in the pot boiled, Li Xin rolled the chicken thighs in the egg mixture, then rolled them in the flour again, and then began to cook them in the oil pan.

Crackling sounds, exploding in the kitchen.

The charcoal girl who was burning the fire under the stove stretched out her head to look at Li Xin, and then retracted her head again.

Although she didn't know what Li Xin was doing, after nearly a month of getting along, both of their grandparents and grandchildren had already regarded Li Xin as family, especially after the charcoal seller fell ill, the little girl regarded Li Xin as her own support.

If it was in the past, Li Xin poured half a pot of oil like this, the little girl would definitely be in a hurry, but now no matter what Li Xin does, she will not question anything.

After a while, the chicken thighs in the oil pot turned golden brown, Li Xin took them out with chopsticks, then wrapped them in egg wash, and applied them with flour, and after repeating this several times, the four golden chicken thighs were fished out of the oil pot by Li Xin.

That's right, this is the fried chicken leg of later generations, the only fly in the ointment is that there is no such thing as breadcrumbs in this era, so the fried chicken leg is not quite the same as the one in later generations, but it is still roughly the same in appearance, Li Xin grabbed one by himself and couldn't wait to take a bite.

Well, the texture is crispy.

The taste is roughly the same as the fried chicken thighs of later generations, especially when sprinkled with pepper.

Li Xin nodded with satisfaction, and reached out to take care of the little girl who had been watching beside him for a long time.

"Come on, get it, come and taste it."

The little girl nodded, stepped forward to learn to remember, grabbed a chicken leg with her hand, and took a small bite.

Just when Li Xin was about to ask the little girl if it was delicious, a familiar voice sounded in the courtyard.

"What are you going to eat, you can smell it from afar."

Li Xin frowned slightly.

It's the Seven Princes.

Li Xin's brows were only furrowed for a moment, and then he instantly stretched out, and then he squeezed out a standard smile on his face, walked out of the kitchen, bent over and hugged his fists at the seventh prince and said, "I've seen the seventh prince." ”

The seventh prince smiled and helped Li Xin up, and then drilled into the kitchen by himself, and after seeing the two chicken thighs left next to the pot, the eyes of the seventh prince of the Great Jin Dynasty lit up, and he directly reached out and took one in his hand, opened his mouth and took a bite, and said while gnawing: "It's so fragrant, no wonder I smelled it in the yard, fortunately, my son came in time, otherwise I would have missed such a delicacy." ”

At this time, the face of the Seven Princes was full of oil, and there was no longer the image of a prince of the Heavenly Family.

A black line appeared on Li Xin's forehead.

This seventh son really doesn't regard himself as an outsider anymore.

After the seventh prince nibbled on two mouthfuls of chicken legs, he shouted delicious, and stretched out his hand to the kitchen door and beckoned: "Xiao Jiu, come in, there is still a chicken leg here, if you don't come in, it will be gone." ”

Li Xin looked up in amazement, only to find a girl who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, standing at the door of the kitchen, and after the seventh prince finished speaking, the girl slowly walked into the kitchen and picked up the last chicken leg...

Only at this time did he realize that this seventh prince did not come alone.

This guy ...... I didn't even eat and take it before, but this time I brought someone to eat!

Li Xin smiled reluctantly and asked the Seventh Prince, "Childe, who is this?" ”

The seventh prince waved his hand indifferently, and laughed softly: "This is the maid next to this son, who has been with me for many years, and serves by my son's side on weekdays, and generally does not take her out of the house, this girl is more greedy, after eating the lamb skewer you made before, she had to clamoring to come to see you, and this son brought her." ”

Li Xin nodded and didn't say anything more.

This seventh prince can sneak out of a proud building in the capital, which means that this person's city government methods have reached a certain level, and people in this realm, no matter what they do, will not be untargeted.

Because of the "maid" of the seventh prince, Li Xin didn't even dare to raise his head to see what this girl looked like, but just bowed his head slightly and said: "Tomorrow is the new year, there should be a lot of things to be busy in the son's house, how can you have time to come here?" ”

"That's right."

The seventh prince took out a purple invitation from his sleeve, handed it to Li Xin, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow Xiaonian, I will set up a banquet at home, and invited many young people in Beijing to the banquet, so I want to call you too, so that you can also know people." ”

Li Xin took the invitation with both hands, and his heart was quite uneasy.