After I kissed the rough man Khan, I was busy farming in the grassland

Chapter 103 What is the princess doing? (Second update)
Li Xianyun led the cooks to prepare the ingredients.

She first washed mung beans in a large wooden basin, soaked them in water, and then prepared ingredients such as sugar, mint powder, glutinous rice flour, and flour.

Mung beans need to be soaked in the morning before they become soft and crushed into puree, so mung bean cakes can only be made in the afternoon.

Jujube cake will be made faster.

After Li Xianyun soaked and washed the red dates, removed the stones, took out the jujube flesh, put it in a small basin, put it in a pot and steamed it over high heat.

After cooking for about a stick of incense, take it out and ask the cook to mash it into a paste, add eggs, brown sugar, and stir evenly.

Immediately afterwards, Li Xianyun mixed a small amount of flour and a large amount of glutinous rice flour together, then added the mashed jujube paste and kneaded it into a dough.

Leave it for another hour and a half, wait until the noodles are ready, then use molds to make various shapes, and then steam them on the grate.

During this period, Li Xianyun explained while cooking, trying to be as detailed as possible to the cooks.

She will patiently explain to the cooks what they don't understand or what they don't remember firmly.

He didn't think others were stupid or impatient at all.

Li Xianyun also encourages the cook from time to time:

"It's okay. No one can do it well the first time. I failed many times before I did it well. Just do it a few more times and it will be fine."

The cooks couldn't help but sigh that the princess was not only beautiful and knowledgeable, but also gentle and virtuous, and also very generous to her servants.

After getting along these days, the kitchen ladies really respect and love their princess.

After the affairs in the dining room came to an end, Li Xianyun came to the open space in front of the main building.

Dense albizia trees and sycamore trees leave a large area of ​​shade in the open space. The gentle breeze blows away the heat, making it perfect for doing carpentry under the trees.

Battelle has already brought wood, iron nails, iron sheets and other materials, and placed them neatly in the shade according to Li Xianyun's instructions.

The servants also took out their tools and were just waiting for Li Xianyun to teach them how to make the famous "Zhuge Wuhou's Cart".

Last time they made a hanging chair for Prince Xuan under the guidance of Li Xianyun, and Prince Xuan was extremely happy when it was delivered.

The Sixth Princess also gave them a lot of rewards, all thanks to the Princess.

Li Xianyun came to the stone table and bench under the sycamore tree.

There were pens and papers on the stone table. The servants already knew Li Xianyun's habits.

Every time before doing carpentry, Li Xianyun would write and draw on paper and pen, so that she knew what she was doing, and then directed them to do the work.

Li Xianyun sat on the stone bench, picked up a pen and paper, and quickly drew the sketch.

There are extremely simple patterns on the sketches, and numbers are marked next to the corresponding patterns.

The chamberlains had to sigh, why did the princess look so simple when she painted them all with her own hands?

But when they took the brushes to draw, their hands were so stiff that they couldn't control them. What they drew didn't look like anything.

Really high-sighted and low-handed.

It’s impossible not to admire the princess.

After Li Xianyun drew the sketch, she assigned tasks to the servants based on the sketch, while she herself did the most difficult part - the wheels.

The wheel consists of an outer ring, spokes and a central axle.

The outer ring of the wheel needs wood that will not splinter under lateral force. It needs to be very strong, and cypress is the most suitable.

Li Xianyun thought that there was no cypress in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but she didn't expect Battelle to bring it here.

She sawed the cypress wood into several long square pieces, and then fixed them into a circle shape with nails, then wrapped the outermost layer with iron sheets, and fixed them with rivets, so that the outer ring of the wheel was formed.

After finishing the two wheels, Li Xianyun made several spokes out of sandalwood.

Making the axle is the most troublesome. It is composed of parts of different shapes, which is the most time-consuming and tiring.

People often say that if you can't stand your temper, you won't be able to do carpentry, and it's true.

This is why Li Xianyun is always meticulous in doing things and has a tenacity that will not give up until the goal is achieved.

This is all tempered by doing carpentry work.

While Li Xianyun was making the axle, Jinwu walked in from the outside, bowed to Li Xianyun and said, "See Wangfei."

"Get up." Li Xianyun said.

If she remembered correctly, this should be the fourth trip to Jinwu.

The key is that in less than two hours, they came four times.

And every time he came, nothing happened. After greeting Li Xianyun, he watched Li Xianyun work without saying a word, and stayed for a while before leaving.

It came again after a while.

It was still the same this time, after Jin Wu finished his salute, he stood aside and watched Li Xianyun and the servants work, and occasionally chatted with the servants, looking like they were doing nothing.

He is Ye Luyan's personal bodyguard, how could he have nothing to do.

Running back and forth this time is too strange.

Li Xianyun finally couldn't hold back her curiosity, she looked at Jin Wu and asked, "Guard Jin, what's the matter with you coming to the Khan Palace every now and then?"

Jin Wu replied respectfully: "Reporting to the princess, I have nothing to do with my humble position. I just came to visit the Khan Palace."

He didn't want to come either, but Khan always asked him when he was dealing with official duties: "What is the princess doing?"

He could only run over and over to see it.

The most important thing is that he doesn't dare not come.

Jinwu still remembered that when the Khan asked the princess what she was doing for the second time, he said casually, not knowing the situation: "She should still be making snacks in the dining room."

"Should?" Yeluyan raised her cold tiger eyes to look at him and said softly.

The look in Khan's eyes was so scary that Jin Crow panicked and hurriedly said: "I'll go to the Khan's palace to see you."

Ever since, he ran four times in just two hours.

Li Xianyun asked, "What are you looking at?"

Jinwu opened his mouth and said, "Look what you are doing."

Li Xianyun thought of her conversation with Ye Luyan yesterday.

She said she would make snacks today, and Yeluyan said she would leave one for him. Was he afraid that she would forget about it?
probably.

Li Xianyun said to Jinwu: "Jinwei, go back and tell the Khan. You don't have to run all the way. When the snacks are ready, I will have them delivered to him."

The Golden Crow bent his arms and saluted, "Yes."

After Jinwu left, Li Xianyun looked up at the position of the sun. It was less than an hour and a half, and the noodles were not ready yet, so she lowered her head and continued making wheels.

When Jin Wu returned to Qinzheng Hall, Ye Luyan was discussing with the ministers about reducing taxes for the common people.

Last winter's heavy snow froze many livestock to death, and many people lived a difficult life. If taxes were not reduced, they would have no way to survive.

If this situation continues, people's hearts will be unstable, thieves will continue to invade, and the world will become even more difficult.

Tax cuts are possible, but they cannot be reduced for all states and counties. Standards have to be set according to whether they are affected by disasters and the degree of disasters.

Ye Luyan already had an idea in his mind, and wanted to hear the opinions of the ministers.

After the idea is more mature and perfect, it will be implemented layer by layer.

As a person in power, every move affects the whole body, so we must be cautious. Only in this way can we benefit the people and let the people live a good life.

(End of this chapter)