Chapter 87

Ritual rituals?

The eyes of some young teenagers who usually participate in family activities lit up, they are familiar with this!

As teenagers who can be selected to participate in the Guozijian exam, their status in the family is definitely not low, and every family will not miss the opportunity to sacrifice such an opportunity to give the family a long face!

Therefore, the achievements of these little teenagers are usually told to the ancestors like mascots when they are sacrificed?

And if you participate in the rituals a lot, even if you don't fully understand the rituals in the food rituals, you still know a little bit about them.

When many young teenagers heard this, they were a little excited, and they would definitely be able to pass this subject.

Xiao Qi is also very happy, for the royal teenagers who have to participate in dozens of large and small sacrifices every year, from family sacrifices to imperial sacrifices, Xiao Qi is confident no matter which one!

Only the elder brother of the Li family, who heard the content of the exam questions, was stunned for a moment, looking at the young men with shiny eyes and smiling at the corners of their mouths, and a touch of sympathy and pity flashed in his eyes.

Think that's the final form of the exam questions?

Boys, you are so naïve!

So when the examiner came to a wide but piled up a lot of things, the little boys were stunned for a while.

Hey, something is wrong with the environment?

Of course not!

The teenager who walked into the room to take the exam cried and mourned.

Who can sue him, why does this sacrificial ceremony not only have to build their own altar, but also have to burn their own food?!

Is it okay that they don't even drink water by themselves?

At the moment, although they don't need to fetch their own water, just lighting a fire on their own stove and cooking food is enough for them to drink a pot.

What's more, the exam questions are different for each teenager?

If you have a wealthy family, you will have to have the question of the Spring and Autumn Agricultural Sacrifice, and if you have an average family, you will have to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors.

Of course, in addition to knowledge, it also tests the hands-on ability of each teenager.

But fortunately, the exam is also fair, because most of the food that needs to be sacrificed during the Spring and Autumn Agricultural Festival is raw food, such as hand-picked melons and fruits, the first ears of wheat drawn in the New Year, etc., which can be regarded as preferential treatment for the children of rich families who do not know how to cook;

So after the initial impact, the little boys also calmed down and thought carefully about how to face the exam questions issued by Guozi.

And among all of them, His Royal Highness Xiao Qi, the youngest, is naturally the most eye-catching one!

Because when everyone was still racking their brains to figure out what to do, His Royal Highness Xiao Qi had already started to do it, and it was just a matter of setting up the altar very quickly, but who could tell them, why did this little guy make a sacrifice, and his movements were also extremely skilled?

Looking at the skillful movements, it seems that the cutting board has been cut thousands of times, and even the action of adding water to the pot has a bit of beauty, which makes the invigilators stunned.

And when he came back to his senses, His Royal Highness Xiao Qi had already begun to add all kinds of spices, the heat was big and small, but it was just right, the seasoning was not too much, not too much, it was light and delicious, and it was originally recognized as the most unpalatable sacrifice, but at this moment, it was full of a pungent fragrance, and the invigilators shrugged the tip of their noses, only to feel that it was close to noon, and the stomach was getting more and more hungry.

QAQ: Otherwise, how could they think that this sacrifice made by a nine-year-old child would be delicious, and that it would be so delicious that they couldn't wait?

No, it must be an illusion of hunger, they would never believe that they would be hungry to such a point!

However, as time went on, the aroma became more and more entangled, spreading through the pores in the pot, and gradually spreading throughout the courtyard—so that not only the nearest invigilator felt hungry, but even the other teenagers who were taking the exam together were not committed.

Hmm, what kind of taste is this? It's so fragrant, it seems to be a good braised pork belly, speaking of lo-mei, it's still the best taste of Li Kee's family, but when I think of Li Kee, the taste of this braised pork belly is really quite similar, but I don't know how it tastes, will it taste as good as Li Kee? Speaking of delicious, I'm really a little hungry......

The boy was immersed in the seductive aroma, thinking about something while swallowing saliva against the gurgling stomach, until a burnt smell came, and the boy suddenly woke up.

Oops! I forgot to add water to the pot!

So he hurriedly added water, looking at the scorched black layer at the bottom of the pot, and couldn't help but feel depressed.

…… Can this kind of sacrifice really pass the test?

Probably not...... If he were an ancestor, when he saw this sacrifice, even if he didn't dream, he would jump out of the tomb and beat him!

QAQ blames that smell so good!

But now I smell ...... It's still very fragrant!

So the boy was frustrated and prepared to recook, and at the same time imagined that he would have lunch in a while...... QAQ now only has illusions to resist the melancholy that they are already on the verge of drinking their own saliva.

And the mistakes of the little teenagers are naturally not one or two cases, some almost burned the stove, some smashed themselves on the altar, some were burned by the smoke they burned, and some even felt unwell because they ate what they cooked......

Looking at the teenagers with all kinds of tricks, the examiner couldn't help but smile, what a group of energetic teenagers!

A teenager who is dying after eating what he cooked: Where is the vitality of QAQ......

Especially after so many situations, and then smelling Xiao Qi's alluring aroma, the seductive effect is simply ten times and a hundred times better?

But they are still taking the exam, and they can't go out, they can only endure it, for a while they only feel that the exam time is really long, I hope that the delicious food will not be eaten early, they also want to share a little, of course, it would be better if they knew which store to buy it!

And time has an end, after the written examination, there is not much time left for the practical assessment, so in just three quarters of an hour, the practical examination has ended.

As soon as the practical assessment was over, the teenagers who had been tortured by the fragrance didn't even have time to recall their test results, so they hurried out of the examination room and rushed towards the source of the fragrance.

Don't run away with that classmate who brought delicious food! I didn't do well in the exam, do you think you can escape? Hmph!

Of course, if you can give me half of it, let me forgive you!

The teenagers had evil thoughts in their hearts, and their saliva kept swallowing, hey, is it better to eat half of it for a while, or eat more than half of it, or just eat it all?

What a distressing choice!

The teenagers ran to Xiao Qi's exam room with sweet distress, but as soon as they arrived at the door, the teenagers were shocked by the scene in front of them.

Wait, what's going on?

It's just that the invigilators sit around the room, but who can tell them who these guys in front of them are?!

Who is it?!

Is it really their teacher and not just some random impersonating guy?

And what they eat is an offering!

If you're not mistaken, it's definitely an offering!

Even if the smell is a little more tempting and it looks a little better, they still want to eat it - but is it really good to sit around in front of a group of hungry teenagers like this?!

And the food is still sacrificed to the heavens or ancestors, and there will be no shadow in the heart after eating?

The teenagers looked at the teachers with indignation, cursing them until they couldn't eat anymore—and then they could have some leftovers, but it was in vain.

As a teacher who has also been seduced by the alluring aroma for most of the hour, how can he care about this little resentment?

They just want to have another stomach, so that they can snatch away all the colleagues who are competing with him for food, and it is best to have it for themselves!

And this, naturally, is the result of Xiao Qi's practical exam.

But God knows, Xiao Qi is just a sacrifice according to the description in the Book of Rites!

Of course, the etiquette will not indicate how much each spice to put in, Xiao Qi can only study by himself, as the Li family father's descendant disciple, Xiao Qi's progress in the past three years is simply fast, and he has an extraordinary keen sense of smell for the ratio of various spices, even if it is just a rough food that can not be coarse, Xiao Qi can also make it into a superb delicacy under his free play.

So the brown corn cake with a sweet aroma, the braised pork simmered with various spices, and the delicate fruit platter carved into flowers, the deliciousness has a deep artistic flavor, and everyone is captured by their visual taste at once.

But even then they can't interrupt the exam!

The other students were fine, just smelling the smell, but the examiners were watching while smelling, and from time to time they could see Xiao Qi, a student with excellent skills, tearing off a piece of braised meat from the braised meat to taste the taste.

Looking at the stewed braised pork, which has been soaked in soup, simmered into light brown, and gently torn it, it is the meat shreds involved, and they can't wait to tear off the meat at this time!

This braised pork, just looking at the appearance, is worth a lot of white!

But on the contrary, the stinky boy actually shook his head after tasting it, shook his head and then closed the lid again!

The aroma became silky again, and the examiners looked at the fragrant soup pot at this time, but they only felt that there was nothing to love.

Phew, let go of that soup pot and let them come!

So finally waited until the end of the exam, and the examiners no longer cared about the stinky boy who was still carefully checking his practice results, but flocked to it.

Ahem, this student is the youngest, and he needs to test the results of practice first!

And the most important result of practice is, of course, the sacrifice!

So check the offerings first!

So you scoop up a piece of meat, I will take another spoonful, and in a blink of an eye, the full pot of meat has been distributed by the examiners, and even the soup has not been spared!

Coupled with the corn cakes that have already been burned to a golden brown, the taste is so fragrant!

As a result, the students who came a step late could only watch the meat they wanted to eat disappear into the teacher's mouth, and their expressions were simply grief-stricken.

The teacher sits and they stand, the teacher eats and they watch, this relationship can't be good!

The boat of teacher-student friendship is really capsized!

QAQ