Chapter 12: Sacrifice

Zhang Zhaohua and Duange'er played all morning and didn't see the grain chief come to call her, and when she saw that it was time to eat lunch at noon, she wanted to go back, but she was retained because the meal was ready. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Zhang Zhaohua washed his hands and looked at the table, and suddenly said in surprise: "Hairy crab-"

I saw a dozen crabs with big fat, green shells and white bellies, golden claws and yellow hair on a plate in Table Mountain, Zhang Zhaohua was really the first time to see such fresh hairy crabs since she came here, and the memories of her previous life were immediately hooked, she could have fifteen hairy crabs in one breath at that time, which was simply a meal.

But after she arrived in this era, not to mention crabs, even ordinary seafood was not seen much. However, the fact that there are few fish and shrimp in the villages around Yongcheng does not mean that there is less supply of this kind of thing in Yongcheng County. On the contrary, there are five or six rivers of all sizes around Yongcheng, in addition to the Bianhe River and the Sui River, there are also Bao River and Zhushui flowing from the north and south borders of Yongcheng, there is no lack of fish and shrimp in the water, so the people in the city love to eat, but the people in the rural towns and villages do not like to eat much.

Zhang Zhaohua stared at the hairy crab in front of him, which could be regarded as salivating, Yue Shi washed his hands and came out to see her appearance, seemed to sigh, and said: "Ah Huamo is not frightened by the appearance of this thing, no wonder you don't see it, this is a golden claw crab in Changshu, one will cost one or two silver!"

It was shipped from Changshu, which was much more expensive, Zhang Zhaohua said in his heart, even if he ate authentic lake crabs in later generations, it was really expensive.

Fortunately, although Yue's mouth is shallow, but there is no small family spirit of picking, although the hairy crab is expensive, but as a seasonal product has been bought and cooked, it is for everyone to eat, she boasted a few words but couldn't stand the smell of fresh fragrance, she started first.

In fact, Zhang Zhaohua is familiar with how to eat crabs, but when she saw Yue's holding a small golden scissors to cut crab legs, she was a little unsure, and later the grain chief's wife said that although the crab legs are eaten without meat, they can't be wasted in vain, because they can be mashed and added with ginger, egg whites and other seasonings, put them in a bamboo tube and steam them to the ground, and take the rest of the flavor to eat.

Zhang Zhaohua is the number one player in eating crabs, but she didn't dare to show it, so she only came out as a Dong Shi Xiaofeng to see how the Yue family dealt with crabs. Of course, this Tatar satisfied Yue's psychology, but when Zhang Zhaohua saw that she had eaten the hexagonal board on the crab roe, he was dumbfounded, and it turned out that Yue's was just pretending.

After eating two, she stopped eating, took a small sip of ginger vinegar, and concentrated on eating the rice. As soon as she took a bite, she saw Brother Duan, who was sitting next to her, pick up the fattest crab under the plate and put it in her bowl.

Zhang Zhaohua naturally wanted to eat, but seeing Yue's substantial gaze, she had no choice but to say, "I'm full, you can eat it yourself." ”

Brother Duan'er blocked back and said, "You dig out the crab roe and eat the bibimbap." As he spoke, he also demonstrated, scraped out the crab roe with a spoon, poured a few drops of vinegar, and ate it with rice.

Zhang Zhaohua took off the crab cover as he said, and dug out the crab roe to bibimbap, the taste was naturally delicious without words, which made her eyes almost squint, revealing a happy and satisfied look like a cat eating a small yellow croaker, but she made the roots of Brother Duan'er next to her eyes red.

Yue's eyes sank when he saw Brother Duan'er like this, and when he glanced at Tian Tian on the other side, with the help of the servant, he had just finished eating a crab and reached out to take the second one, so he raised his chopsticks and knocked the back of her hand lightly, and said: "Crabs are cold, children will have stomach trouble if they eat too much, and it is uncomfortable to have a stomachache at night!"

Sweetly, two bubbles of tears immediately appeared in his eyes, and he stared at the white rice in front of him in a daze while snorting.

Zhang Zhaohua naturally ignored Yue's finger and scolded Huai, and slowly picked off the crab meat steak before saying: "Auntie is kind, for fear that this crab meat will not be restrained in the stomachβ€”β€”"

She looked at Yue's expression, and said with a slight smile: "This is my aunt's worry, I am a daughter of a poor family, I have never eaten any cold rice and omnivorous, where can I compare to the top brother and sister Tian'er Jin, my belly is like a bottomless pit, even if I eat ten or eight crabs, I am afraid that I will not hear a sound!"

Of course, she knew why the Yue family was angry, not because she had eaten one or two more crabs, but because she couldn't see Brother Duan'er looking at her differently. Why did you say why she brought Tiantian here, just to prevent the emergence of so-called "childhood sweethearts".

She scolded Yue's back, but she didn't say a word to Brother Duan after that.

After eating, the chief of the grain called her to the study.

When she stepped into the study, the grain chief was holding a piece of yellow paper in his hand and was talking to Zhang Geng.

"Ah Hua," said the grain chief, "your father should have asked you to come to ask the villagers about the drinking ceremony, this is nothing, you tell him, when the time comes, just do the etiquette of bowing with the people." ”

"Grandpa, what is the ritual of drinking in this township?" Zhang Zhaohua said curiously: "Is it a banquet?

"This is a kind of Jiali, and it can be regarded as a banquet and drinking custom. The grain chief said: "Taking a hundred families as a meeting, the villagers feast and drink, which is a custom left from the Zhou Dynasty." ”

According to the grain chief, there are different types of township drinking ceremonies: first, the township of the ancient princes had a township school, and the school period was three years. Scholars are recommended to the princes as talents. For this reason, every first month of the third year, the township doctor must hold a township drinking ceremony as the host to entertain the virtuous people and the highly respected people in the township school.

Second, the township doctor feasted and drank the sages of the country. Third, the governor met with the people in the spring and autumn to practice shooting, and drank alcohol before shooting. Fourth, the party is drinking at the Jidong wax festival. "The Book of Rites" says, "Those who drink in the countryside are the ones who drink the rites, so the order of the elders and the young is also." ”

"This is the announcement issued in April last year, and it has been a year since we arrived in this small place. The grain chief pointed to the words on the yellow paper and asked her to read: "Fuzhou county officials are in charge of eight things...... At that time, the chief of the order warned the people in his house to be filial to his brothers, and to do their best to punish him, not to do anything wrong, and to punish him, and to perform the drinking ceremony in the village, so that the body of the noble and the lowly would be judged at the end of the year, and the good and evil they had done would be judged and separated. ”

"The decrees issued from above must be complied with from the government to the state to the county, because the political envoys must be evaluated, and the judges must be corrected. But how to do this wine ceremony is a bit difficult. After all, there is no township school in these ten miles and eight townships," Zhang Geng said: "In the eighteenth year of the National Dynasty, we have not produced a single person or a jinshi or anything, and we have returned to the Zhizhou of Texas, and we are already old, and we can't practice shooting, so we have to know the order of the elders and the young." ”

"There wouldn't have been so much trouble," Zhang Geng said: "According to the regulations of the Song and Yuan dynasties, the wine ceremony should be held in the Minglun Hall of the Confucian Temple in the county seat, but the Confucian Temple ......"

Seeing that Zhang Geng's expression was different, Zhang Zhaohua hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with the Temple of Literature?"

"The Temple of Literature is said to have had another dispute this year over the issue of Mencius's allotment. The grain chief said: "Our emperor......

He shook his head, clearly not wanting to continue the conversation. He didn't say it, but Zhang Zhaohua knew it. Because this matter has been caused twice before, the specific reason is also clear to Zhang Zhaohua.

As early as the fifth year of Hongwu, when Emperor Zhu read the fourth volume of "Mencius" and "Lilou Zhang", Long Yan was furious. Because in this chapter, there is this passage:

Mencius told King Qi Xuan: "The king regards his ministers as siblings, and the ministers regard the king as his heart, and the king's ministers regard his ministers as dogs and horses, and the ministers regard the king as his countrymen, and the king's ministers regard his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard the king as enemies." ”

Emperor Zhu, who had the idea of the supremacy of monarchy, became angry and had serious consequences, and he issued an edict to the world, saying that many of Mencius's remarks were "not suitable for courtiers", so he dismissed Mencius from the Temple of Literature for thousands of years, and ordered Mencius to be expelled from the Temple of Literature.

Later, the ministers admonished him with death, and Emperor Zhu restored Mencius's enjoyment, but this matter was repeated two or three times, and no one dared to guarantee Mencius's sacrifice.

When Zhang Zhaohua was a child, he saw a group of people passing through the fields in ox carts carrying the statue of Mencius. Because the old Confucian Temple in Yongcheng County has long been destroyed in the war, now this is built in the third year of Hongwu, and the statues of Confucius and Mencius and Zhu Cheng are also newly plasticized, when Emperor Zhu ordered the expulsion of Mencius, the people in the county can only pull the statue of Mencius to Luyi County, because this is all built by craftsmen in Luyi County, at this time there is a rule, the statue in the temple can not be easily destroyed, to invite out, you can only invite back to your home, that is, the home of the person who made the statue, so the statue of Mencius in Yongcheng Confucian Temple was invited in and out two or three times.