The origin of Laba porridge is because a couple who do not know thrift and diligence, and there is no surplus food at home on this day, so they can only use eight kinds of beans to boil together to satisfy hunger.

Later, in order to remind themselves not to be indulgent and disgusting, so as not to get the tragic ending of starving to death for the first New Year, every household boiled this kind of multigrain porridge on the day of Laba to commemorate.

Of course, legends are legends, and the origin of Laba is now only speculation, but the customs of the festival have been handed down, and the way Laba porridge is made is no longer an unpalatable grain, but a delicate enjoyment.

Beijing is the birthplace of the Qiren culture, and the Qiren do not produce hardcore crops to eat, and more than 200 years of rich and idle time is enough for these idlers to develop all kinds of exquisite habits.

Let's just say that this eats laba porridge, the flag people boil the most exquisite and the most complicated, the white rice mixed with fruits are red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, hazelnuts, grapes, ginkgo seeds, water chestnuts, green silk, roses, red beans, peanuts...... There are no less than twenty in total.

From the evening of the seventh day of the lunar month, people began to be busy, soaking rice, picking beans, pitting, peeling...... Then the low heat is slowly boiled, a boil is a night, wait until Laba in the morning a bowl of fragrant Laba porridge is done, sprinkle a spoonful of sugar, pay attention to people boil rock sugar, preferably the purest rock sugar produced in the Ryukyus.

God knows how the Ryukyuan people produced it, and the rock candy cubes were as crystal clear as crystal.

If you think this is the most elaborate way to eat? That's absolutely wrong, the really rich and noble, such as the palace and the palace, the dried fruits that people eat have to be carved.

Walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, dried almonds and the like should be carved into animals and plants, and they should be carved with some patterns, and if conditions permit, they should also make fruit lions, which are carved with several dried fruits, and then dipped together with syrup to make a small lion.

When you eat the eight-treasure porridge, a little lion will stand in your bowl, delicious and beautiful, this is the most typical example of idle egg pain.

This year's festive atmosphere in Sijiucheng is much higher than in previous years, because the agreement reached between Lotte and the Ministry of Households has allowed paper bonds to enter the circulation field, and a large number of officials and children of Eight Banners have received a lot of arrears, which has made people who have been known for a long time burst out of strong purchasing power at once.

How to count the festival just by eating laba porridge, every household has to get some chicken, duck and fish, fat elbow is considered a festival, anyway, the bonds in the hand can still be spent, if you don't hurry up and turn it into something in case it can't be used that day, wouldn't it be a loss.

This is not the idea of two families, the entire Sijiu City has such worries, because all the idlers know that the imperial court is stubborn with Xiao Letian again.

In the morning of Laba, the idlers drank Laba porridge at home, ate a plate of buckle meat, and went to the teahouse with an oily mouth...... Make a pot for you...... Fuck that old lady of my family, I stew meat early in the morning, I don't know if I want to clear my stomach in the past two days?"

As soon as he finished speaking, another Uncle of the Eight Banners who was carrying a birdcage walked in with a curtain and "Little Er...... Hang up my warbler...... Give me a pot of Tieguanyin, like a little ...... Go to get greasy, it's sweet and oily this morning, who can stand it......"

This group of idle Eight Banners uncles have to use this way to show what they ate this morning, and the people in the old teahouse don't know that this group of people have two taels of sesame oil in their stomachs, so they don't say with a smile.

"Ding Sanye is early, you are old and auspicious......"

"Oops...... Second Master Ma is good, you are also auspicious......"

"How is your old man?"

"Good...... How is your old lady?"

"Good...... How is your wife?"

"It's all good, it's all good...... How is your young lady?"

"TOEFL, everything is fine...... You're a good family......"

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This is a typical old Beijing please, if you don't say all the people in your family once, it won't be over, and you are also particular about playing thousands, not playing horseshoe sleeves, one hand on the ground and bending your knees, you have to touch your shoulders.

Just like the Westerners' veneer ceremony, the two of them hit a thousand while the right shoulder is pointed together, it is best to touch it, this is the way to play a thousand for good brothers and good buddies, although it is verbose but not decent.

The real teahouse Xiao Er has to have an eye, you can't just finish the tea on the guests, you have to watch and let them finish this set of etiquette before serving tea, otherwise it will be cold when the time comes.

The shopkeeper who settled the accounts on the counter pouted and smiled and said that this is all idle, thanks to the blessing of Xiao Letian, and suddenly made up more money for the young and old.

If you go further ahead, when Britain and France enter the city of Beijing, the banners and salaries have stopped, and if you want to drink boiled water, you can't afford to buy firewood.

The shopkeeper finished pulling the last abacus with a click, and then said to the second master with a smile, "Third Master Ding, Second Master Ma...... Don't be polite, and hurry up to the seat and drink...... How about I put you on a chessboard to kill two games? Hey, second master, your pair of lion heads are amazing, red as agate, moist as jade...... You've got to open my eyes!"

The teahouse is so virtuous, and the big guy has to hold it when he speaks, and he must give full play to his politeness to the extreme, and he can only talk about serious things after he has a stinky praise.

"Oh, two masters, you eat hardcore crops well, walnuts, wrenches, caged birds...... The big bowl of tea and rotten meat noodles is not taken seriously, and eating button meat early in the morning is really a blessing from the previous life......"

"However, you two have great powers, and the affairs in the realm of the Great Qing Kingdom have not been hidden from you...... You revealed that you can still ask for the bonds issued by Lotte & Co., why are you stubborn with the imperial court again, why do you say that people have been so angry in the past two years......

If you don't say that the flag man has to hold it and say, you have to set up a ladder for him, let him climb up first, and swish to the flagpole, and then you remove the ladder, just after eating so many flattering words, he can't get down even if he wants to.

In fact, many secrets of the imperial court are leaked out in this way, and there are many idlers, and it is precisely because they are idle that they care about the flattery of others.

Ding Sanye and Ma Erye were put on the flagpole like this, and the two smiled and waved their hands mysteriously, "Out of my mouth, into your ears, don't go outside to talk about it! This is our old friendship for decades, if others want to know ......."

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