Li Ke pulled down a rope next to him, and the red silk cloth perpendicular to the city gate immediately fell. As the red silk cloth fell, there was a "crunch" and the two city gates were quickly opened by the soldiers inside.
Lights were also arranged inside the doorway, illuminating the originally dark doorway extremely brightly.
"Father, please." Li Ke made a gesture of invitation.
Li Shimin naturally smiled and walked inside, and Li Ke and the others followed them into the city gate.
Before walking through the doorway, a brightly lit world appeared in front of everyone.
A road that is not wide but extremely clean appears in everyone's sight, and the iron-made street lamps on both sides of the road emit dim yellow light, combined with the electric lights installed at various angles on both sides of the merchants, illuminating the place. It's extremely bright.
Not to mention Li Shimin and others, even Li Ke himself was in a trance when he entered this doorway. All of this was designed and produced by him, but he had never seen the final product.
At this moment, his eyes seemed to have traveled through thousands of years and saw the Tang Dynasty Evernight City that he had seen in his previous life. Although the Tang Dynasty Evernight City in front of him did not have so many LED light strips, the similar situation still made him feel a little dazed.
After all, in the Tang Dynasty Evernight City, there were many young ladies taking pictures in Hanfu. Now, although there are no pictures taken, everything around, including the stalls on both sides, feels inexplicably familiar.
Technology has shortened the distance between time and space, but loneliness has become even more profound.
Today is a day for lantern viewing. Without the restriction of candles, lanterns can be made into various shapes. The streets on both sides are filled with various lanterns. With the colors of the different papers on the outside of the lanterns, the lanterns can be made into various shapes. It also started to become colorful.
Everyone was dazzled by what they saw. There were so many things that they didn’t know where to look at them at the same time. But when the stall owners on both sides of the road saw Li Ke, His Highness the King of Qin, coming in, they all remembered His Highness the King of Qin's previous instructions.
Finally, a stall owner boldly shouted.
"Mutton skewers, mutton skewers from Xinjiang, they don't taste good and don't cost anything." A clear hawking voice came to his ears, and the tone of the tone was very similar, and Li Ke subconsciously walked towards the stall owner.
Jinyang and the others were led over.
Familiar oven, familiar iron skewers, skewers of meat, the charcoal fire inside is burning brightly, the already roasted sizzling lamb skewers have been sprinkled with cumin and salt, and even some chili peppers have been added.
The bright red chili peppers are dotted on the oily brown mutton skewers, and a unique aroma reaches everyone's noses.
"Boss, how much does it cost?" Li Ke asked in a daze.
"Two articles." When the boss saw that it was His Highness King Qin, he wanted to say it was free, but after thinking of his previous instructions, he still told him the ridiculously high price.
You must know that the price of grain in Chang'an is now only about 100 Wen per shi. This is still good quality rice. If it is of lower quality, it may only cost 70 or 80 Wen. Although mutton in Chang'an has always been expensive, it only costs 25 cents per pound, which is about thirty times the price of grain.
Pork is a little lower, but it is still 20 cents per pound. The pork improved by His Highness no longer has the same taste as before, but it is still delicious. Especially the method of eating pork has been promoted to the people by His Highness, so the price of pork has also increased. Up.
Nowadays, a meat skewer sells for 2 cents, and a pound of meat can make at least twenty or thirty skewers.
"Wei..." A word came out of Li Ke's mouth subconsciously, but he quickly came to his senses and began to call his little cotton-padded jacket: "Sizi, pay."
"Here we come." Jin Yang immediately came out from behind excitedly, looked at this and said, "Third brother, do you want to eat mutton skewers? Didn't you often take us to eat before?"
"It's different. It's more atmospheric to eat here. Boss, let's get thirty skewers." Li Ke glanced at the meat skewers that the boss had almost finished and said.
"Xin'er gives you money." Jinyang waved his hand.
The maid behind her was actually just a fourteen-year-old girl. She immediately took out a bunch of money from her backpack, counted sixty coins and handed it to the boss.
The boss was grilling it excitedly. He never thought that his mutton skewers would be sold to His Royal Highness King Qin and His Majesty first.
"I want to eat the one in front." Jin Yang excitedly pointed to the fried skewers in front of him and said.
"Go on, go buy it, buy less, or you won't be able to eat the rest." Li Ke said with a smile.
"knew."
Because the meat skewers were almost finished, after Li Ke asked for the ingredients, the boss handed him a handful of meat skewers. Li Ke took it with a smile and at the same time divided the meat skewers in his hand among the people around him. Li Tai, Li Zhi, Li Min and other Li Ke all gave it.
"Dad, do you want some skewers?" Li Ke gave one skewer to Li Shimin from the meat skewers in his hand.
The corner of the minister's mouth twitched. Although the Emperor's diet in the Tang Dynasty was not as perverted as that of later generations, it still required detailed inspection. Who would dare to feed this kind of food of unknown origin to Li Shimin?
Not to mention such inelegant things as making skewers.
Think about it, an emperor wearing a dragon robe without changing clothes holds a skewer in his right hand and puts it directly to his mouth. The point is that the ancients all had beards, so you don’t have to think about the effects of the seasoning on it.
"We won't eat here. Let's eat somewhere later." Li Shimin didn't care. He was happy today and he was indeed not hungry yet, so he waved his hand directly.
"Come on, Chengyang, Gaoyang." Li Ke gave all the remaining meat skewers to his sisters, but left two skewers for Jinyang, who had already run ahead.
"Thank you, third brother." Chengyang and the others didn't care at all, they just started eating. They learned it after they barbecued with Li Ke many times.
Li Ke didn't care, and just put it to his mouth just like eating skewers in later generations. Soon he finished the mutton skewers, and a lot of condiments were stuck to the corners of his mouth.
Li Ke wiped it casually. Even if he wiped his mouth, what should he do if he didn't bring any paper? Of course, there were silk handkerchiefs, etc., but Li Ke just didn't want to use them today. What he wanted was the smoke and smoke.
The corner of Wei Zheng's mouth twitched, silently thinking I can't see, I can't see.
After buying the meat skewers, everyone continued to walk forward. The distance between these stalls was neither close nor far. It seemed desolate for a group of them to walk here, but Li Shimin and the others knew that after they left, the people behind would Entering the city, it will become very lively!
The group of people walked around with great interest. The whole street was full of various stalls, including some sellers selling melon seeds and other dried fruits. Among the snack stalls, there were some selling handicrafts. people, but the number is relatively small.
In this era, this kind of handicrafts were mainly woven products, and it was difficult to find stall holders who knew this kind of craftsmanship.
