"I wonder if it would be too much if I fry a fried chicken in addition to these?" Li Mumu asked again.

　　"No, no, the saint is missing this bite of fried chicken." Eunuch Hu said quickly.

　　Li Mumu has been away for nearly two months.

　　Originally, before leaving Beijing, the saint had been missing fried chicken for several days, but he had been enduring it.

　　Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to eat to my heart's content, but Li Mumu had closed the store and gone to the border.

　　This absence lasted nearly two months.

　　The fried chicken shop has not been open for nearly two months.

　　The saint thought about it for such a long time, and his longing for fried chicken reached its peak.

　　But the saint did not urge Li Mumu yesterday because of his face.

　　I thought that since Li Mumu was back, I should reopen the fried chicken shop today.

　　So at lunch, while eating a piece of chicken, the Saint pretended to think of Li Mumu's fried chicken shop and asked Pan Lunchi, "Jianing County Lord's fried chicken shop is open today, right? It has been closed for nearly two months and reopened today. How is the business?"

　　"I don't know either. I'll ask someone to go check it out."

　　Therefore, Pan Lunchi quickly asked Eunuch Hu to come out of the palace to take a look.

　　Unexpectedly, when Eunuch Hu came over, he found that Li Mumu's fried chicken shop was not open yet.

　　If I tell this to a saint when I get back, he will definitely be disappointed.

　　It was not in vain that Eunuch Hu followed Pan Lunchi and he indeed learned a lot.

　　Eunuch Hu hurried to Gu's house to wait for Li Mumu to come back, and asked Li Mumu questions in detail.

　　"My Lord, may I go to the kitchen to help?" Eunuch Hu said, "I will definitely not steal your skills."

　　Li Mumu smiled and said, "You don't need to help. There are servants in the kitchen. But we should let Eunuch Hu watch over it. After all, it's for the Saint to eat, so we need to be careful."

　　Eunuch Hu meant the same thing, but he was also really curious about what Li Mumu was talking about, so he went to the kitchen with Li Mumu.

　　"Originally, I wanted to try out the new dishes today." On the way to the kitchen, Li Mumu said to Eunuch Hu, "So I asked someone to steam the sweet potatoes, taro and potatoes in advance."

　　"It should be almost done by now."

　　When they arrived at the kitchen, they found that the sweet potatoes, taro and potatoes had already been steamed.

　　Li Mumu asked someone to take it out.

　　Grind all three into a paste, and add some lard and other seasonings.

　　Li Mumu asked people to grind these three things into paste and then roll them into balls.

　　There are more servants in the house now, and there are more servants in the kitchen as well.

　　It's not like before when there was only one cook and there was also Gu Mian to help.

　　Now the cook still stays in the kitchen, and there is a new cook who shares the work with her.

　　Even if she was trying to make new dishes, Li Mumu didn't need to prepare all the preliminary work herself.

　　Everything has been prepared, Li Mumu only needs to take a few key steps.

　　This is for the saint to eat, and Li Mumu can't just order others to do it.

　　After finishing all these, Li Mumu flattened the taro balls with her palms, wrapped the sweet potato balls in them, and rolled them into a round shape on the panel.

　　After finishing each one, coat them with a layer of flour.

　　Then press the mashed potato balls into round shapes and use chopsticks to draw eyes and a smiling mouth on them.

　　This is the smiling potato cake of later generations.

　　For the last piece of taro paste pie, Li Mumu wrapped the prepared taro paste into the dough, rolled it into a square, sealed both sides, and brushed it with egg liquid.

　　Then put it into the pan together with taro mashed sweet potato balls and smiling potato cakes and fry them.

　　Li Mumu took out the fried food and put it aside to filter the oil on the surface again, otherwise it would be too greasy.

　　Taking advantage of this time, Li Mumu fried some chicken.

　　After all of these were fried, they were wrapped up and handed over to Eunuch Hu. "Although these are delicious, fried food is ultimately not good for health. Please eat less, Saint."

　　"I will tell the Saint, and there is another imperial physician who will check the Saint's pulse every day and will also give the Saint treatment in time." Eunuch Hu said, "But, County Lord, is what you gave too much?"

　　Li Mumu smiled and said, "These haven't been put into the store for sale yet. The only portion is for the Saint to eat first. If it was given to Eunuch Pan and you, the Saint would inevitably feel that he was not the first to taste it and would be unhappy. That's why I didn't pack a separate portion for you."

　　"There are too many of these, even the saint cannot eat them all by himself." Aren't the rest to be given to Eunuch Pan and the others?

　　Not only Eunuch Pan and his companions tasted it, but the sage was also the first to taste it.

　　Eunuch Hu was surprised.

　　Thinking about Li Mumu still thinking about them.

　　Even he himself hadn't thought of taking the opportunity to try it. He was thinking of waiting until Li Mumu's fried chicken shop reopened, and then finding a chance to go out of the palace to buy some and bring it back to honor Pan Lunchi.

　　However, they did not expect that Li Mumu not only thought about them, but also thought so carefully in order to avoid the saint's displeasure.

　　"Thank you, my lady." Eunuch Hu said hurriedly.

　　Eunuch Hu returned to the palace with satisfaction, taking what Li Mumu had prepared.

　　"What's going on?" Pan Lunchi asked as soon as Eunuch Hu returned to the palace. "Oh, what's that smell? It smells so good. Is the fried chicken shop open?"

　　"No, the county lord said that she wanted to research new products and open the shop the day after tomorrow, and then she will serve the new products." Eunuch Hu said, "But today, the county lord made the new products in advance and asked me to bring them back for the saint to taste."

　　Seeing the many bags in Eunuch Hu's hands, Pan Lunchi was surprised and asked, "So many?"

　　Eunuch Hu then whispered in Pan Lunchi's ear, "That's what the county lord said."

　　Eunuch Pan's eyes were filled with joy, "The county lord has always been thinking about us."

　　"Come on, take it to the saint with me." Pan Lunchi took Eunuch Hu and put these into plates first, and asked the chef to make a record.

　　Pan Lunchi first asked Eunuch Hu to wait outside, and then he came to the saint and said, "Your Majesty, I asked Hu Guanghai to go out of the palace to inquire about the fried chicken shop of the county lord of Jianing. He is back now, and he brought the new food that the county lord has researched."

　　"Oh? Let him come over." said the saint.

　　Eunuch Hu brought the food and presented it to the saint's table.

　　The sage smelled the fragrance and asked, "What are these?"

　　"Your Majesty, these are the new dishes that the county lord has developed. These are taro and sweet potato balls. They are made by steaming taro and sweet potato, mashing them into a paste, adding seasoning, rolling the sweet potato paste into balls, wrapping them in taro paste, and then coating them with flour and frying them in a pan."

　　"This is a potato pancake. It's made by mashing potatoes and then kneading them into pancakes. I saw that the county lord had poked eyes and a smiling mouth on the pancake, as if the pancake was smiling. The county lord said that the full name of this pancake is Smiling Pancake."

　　"This is taro paste pie. I saw the county lord mash the taro into paste, add seasoning, wrap it with dough, and fry it in a pan."

　　"It sounds like a simple method, but I didn't expect it to be so exquisite." The saint looked at what was in front of him with some curiosity.