The Journey of Two Worlds
chapter 41

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Chapter 41 – Sweet Haw

"Sixth Sister, what's wrong with you, aren't you happy to see Sizi?"

Li Yin, who was sleeping soundly in the morning, suddenly felt a heavy moving object in her body, which frightened her to the point of breaking out in a cold sweat. When he saw the heavy object clearly, he heaved a sigh of relief. Jumping on his body, Li Zhi stood by the bed, smiling happily.

Li Yin was so sleepy that she could not open her eyes, she lay down again and said, "Why are you two here, does the queen mother know?"

Xizi said in a childish voice: “It was you who asked us to come and play with Sixth Brother, saying that Sixth Brother has the most time and free time.”

“What do you mean I am the most relaxed? My mom is biased, I'm so busy! Look for your seventh brother, starling to play!”

Xizi said unhappily: "I don't want to play with them, it's like a piece of wood, so it means nothing." After speaking, he stepped on Li Yin's body again to prevent her from sleeping.

"I'm really scared of you!" Now that he could not sleep, Li Yan instantly woke up, hugged his son, and hit his little butt. His strength was not strong, and Si Zi laughed happily.

Li Zhi stood to the side and saw Li Yin and Sizi playing around, only smiling and not daring to come along. When Li Zhi saw him, he thought that this Li Zhi was really as written in history, and his personality was too weak.

After dinner, Li Yin decided to take the two men to Dongshi to play, where there were singers and magicians everywhere, and when they had enough of a look, they will send the two little men back.

Since she brought the younger siblings with her, Li Yin did not dare to be careless, so she moved the four nursing homes to follow her to prevent accidents.

Sizi and Li Zhi lived in Taiji Palace all year round and were raised by the empress' eldest granddaughter. They rarely had a chance to get out of the palace to play. First, they worry about their safety. Second, among brothers and sisters, the older one has his own affairs. The younger ones were all in the palace and could not get out, and Li Yin who returned from Xiangzhou became the only one who had his own palace and was relatively relaxed.

Holding Sizi in one hand and holding Li Zhi in the other, Li Yin went to crowded places in Dongshi, watched monkey shows, went to operas, and went to opera, bought a lot of snacks along the way, and the two little men were very happy Laughing all the way.

"Six Brother, look!" Right after the hammering show ended, Sizi's small hand pointed to another place. Li Yin turned her head and saw some red objects piling up in a small stall in front of her. It points to these things.

Li Yin approached and saw that this was a hawthorn, "Xizi, do you want to eat?"

Xizi drooled and nodded in despair.

Li Yin had always disliked these sour things, so she had never eaten hawthorn directly, but had eaten a few haw sweets.

“Candied haw!” Li Yin remembered, “Son, I am a young slave, come back and Brother Six will cook you something delicious!”

"okay!" Hearing that something was delicious, the two jumped up and down in excitement…

Taiji Palace, Yonganmen.

A group of fifteen women covered in white gauze passed through the palace gates after being inspected by guards.

“Truly amazing in the world!” Watching the backs of all the women go one after another, said guard Yi.

Guard A echoed: "Of course, it is said that this is the singer recommended by His Majesty, how can it be bad."

“Only the emperor was diligent in government affairs and less interested in enjoying singing and dancing. I'm afraid His Majesty wasted all his troubles! Guard B looked back, "It's a pity that this beautiful woman was left alone in the palace again!"

"Who can say that accurately!"

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“This is where you will stay from now on, and you are not allowed to leave this place without orders. This is your servant Liu, and you will abide by his discipline from now on!” The little bastard pointed at a woman in her thirties.

"Yes, father-in-law!"

Nodding his head, the little bastard said: "Guan Liu, I will hand this to you!"

The woman known as Guanshi Liu responded respectfully. He was originally named Liu Yueying. She specializes in song and dance choreography.

Looking at the little eunuch, Liu Yueying looked at the fifteen honest young girls, and said: “The rules here are very simple, first, don't leave the page of Caisi casually, second, the rules are very simple, practice singing and dancing diligently, and thirdly and most importantly, Do not have the illusion that emperors and princes will fall in love with you, let alone try to seduce emperors and princes, if it won't be a grave offense if you find out, remember!

"Slave remember!" Fifteen people answered firmly.

Under Sizi's request, Li Yin bought a large bag of hawthorn and returned to the palace.

Straight into the kitchen, Li Yin asked the cook to bring a large pot of brown sugar. Currently, there was no such thing as white sugar in the Tang Dynasty, only boiled brown sugar, and the sweetness was average. The environment in the Tang Dynasty was very difficult, Li Yin had no choice but He could do it. First, he stabbed hawthorn and boiled it, then started boiling the syrup.

Xizi and Li Zhi were also in the kitchen, clamoring to see Li Yin making the haw sweets.

Beef haw really has no technical content. After the syrup was boiled, Li Yin rolled the hawthorn in the syrup several times, took it out and let it cool for a while, and the haw sweets were ripe.

"Here, you voracious little cat!" Li Yin filled the haw sweets for each one, and wrapped the rest for them.

Xizi and Li Zhi had never seen anything like it before, so they took it and bit it. The sour taste of hawthorn and the sweetness of brown sugar enter the mouth together, fragrant and refreshing, and they eat it deliciously.

"It's so delicious!" Li Zhi shouted how older Sizi was, and she ate quickly, and she took out a skewer again. Looking at Sizi, he quickly took another skewer and held it in his hand. I'm afraid I'm going to suffer.

Seeing the two little men devouring him, Li Yin said: "Don't worry, eat as much as you want!" After he finished speaking, he continued making the haw sweets. He knew that these two people would definitely show off when they returned to Taiji Palace. Better to produce more, let them take it back, and let the sisters in the palace taste it.

Here to make haw sweets, Li Yin asked Jin Daqian to weave a shelf for haw sweets, which are convenient for carrying haw sweets.

At dusk, Li Yin made another fifty or sixty sets of haw sweets. Right now, Jin Daqian came with a wooden stick with straw tied on it. The guards escorting Sizi and Li Zhi took her.

One person ate four or five bundles of haw sweets, but the two men still did not want to return to the palace. I came back with my heart and said I would be back playing after a while.

In the Yanxi Hall, when Empress Changsun was about to send someone to Liang Wangfu, Si Zi and Li Zhi returned, and the guards behind them were still carrying a stick filled with haw sweets.

Empress Changsun had never seen anything like this before, and asked doubtfully: “What is this?”

“Sixth sister says this is called candied haw!” Sizi threw herself into Empress Changsun's arms and said, Li Zhi took out one and handed it to Empress Changsun, saying: "Mother, you can give it a try!"

"This Li Yin, what strange thing was she thinking?" After Empress Changsun finished speaking, she bit the haw sweets.

"It tastes good!" Empress Changsun praised after tasting some bribes.

Li Zhi laughed and took out another piece of paper from his pocket, "Sixth brother also wrote the production method for Zhinu, saying that he and Zhinu could eat haw sweets every day in the future."

Empress Changsun took the note, on which was written the method of making haw sweets, so she ordered Xiao Huangmen, "Give this list to the imperial dining room, and let them learn how to make it.

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