Xiao Baoer ate several chopsticks of food in a row, completely unaware that the fragrant delicacy in her mouth was pork. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Finally emptying her mouth, she asked, "What is this dish called?"

"Stuffed taro. ”

"What a strange name, is it possible that there is also a taro father?"

Yao Xitong knew that Xiao Baoer heard "brewing" as "mother".

Explains, "Stuffing refers to the method of sandwiching, stuffing, spreading, and wrapping one or several other ingredients in one ingredient, and then heating it into a dish. This dish could have been made into taro button meat, but the taro in the stale was too soft and glutinous, and it melted on the meat slices as soon as it was put on the steamer, which made the finished dish look more like stuffed taro. ”

"It's delicious," Xiao Bao'er lowered her head and continued to feast.

Yao Xitong was afraid that the food would be too greasy, so he turned around and went to the kitchen to serve soup. When the soup was cooked, he was worried that Xiao Baoer hated the fishy, so he filtered it with gauze, and he couldn't see the fish or taro in the milky white soup, but only smelled the freshness of the fish and the fragrance of the taro.

"The soup is here, the temperature is just right, taste it. ”

"Delicious. ”

Yao Xitong smiled slightly, and secretly sighed that Xiao Bao'er lacked words, except that it was delicious, it was delicious, and couldn't help but quip: "If there is a dish that is better than stuffed taro, what will you say?"

"It's delicious. ”

Yao Xitong understood, if a few dishes are delicious, Xiao Baoer's praise is delicious, delicious, delicious. One more good word means that the dish is a little more delicious than the appetizer, and this way of evaluating it is really concise and easy to understand.

What kind of dishes to eat, what soup to drink, and what kind of tea to go with, Yao Xitong is particular about it here.

When he diligently made tea for Xiao Bao'er, the latter said knowingly: "The way to tame a wild horse quickly is very simple, drive the horse into a hut that can only accommodate one horse, the house must be low-roofed, and the wild horse can only stand comfortably with its head and neck sticking out of the empty window." ”

After the wild horse was locked, he poured beans into the house from the roof and buried it all the way over the wild horse's chest, and the wild horse was unable to move, and was forced to breathe, in a state of panic and helplessness. ”

At this point, the trainer simply walked to the window and calmed the horse, and the beans slowly leaked away at the same moment. Creating an illusion that the danger is removed and the reassurance of the trainer is linked, leading the horse to believe that the trainer saved it and helped it regain safety. In this way, the wild horse will establish a high degree of affection and dependence on the horse trainer. ”

Yao Xitong thought about this process carefully, and said in surprise, "If the house is built early in the morning and the beans are prepared, wouldn't it only take a stick of incense to tame a wild horse?"

"Yes, in order not to be seen by Gao Mian in the method of taming horses, I spent all my time that day renovating the stables. ”

Yao Xitong asked again, "This method of taming horses, is it impossible for anyone else to approach this wild horse except the horse trainer?"

"Almost, this looks at the horse, each horse has a different temperament. ”

"You said it would take three days to train a horse, and that's how it works?"

"It's not. ”

As soon as Xiao Bao'er's words fell, Yao Xitong said: "Let me guess, everyone can control the wild horses tamed in three days, and the wild horses tamed by a stick of incense can only be controlled by the tamers?"

"Almost!"

"Can you tell me how to tame a wild horse for three days?"

"Okay!" Hearing Xiao Bao'er's promise so refreshingly, Yao Xitong muttered, "Tell me if you don't have any conditions?"

"You are my husband, my father's son-in-law, and the royal family of Northern Liao, so you naturally have the right to know about this kind of trivial matter. ”

Xiao Baoer said very seriously, and Yao Xitong didn't know how to answer. He thought that Xiao Baoer deliberately said the opposite, implying that the person he liked was Xuanze, and he would never be the son-in-law of Beiliao?

"Princess, I see what you mean, three days of horseback taming is not something I should know. ”

Xiao Baoer lowered her head and drank tea, for this kind of person who is too "smart", silence is the best way.

Yao Xitong thought that he had guessed correctly, he didn't hate Xiao Bao'er, it didn't mean that the two would have feelings. The girl he wants should be the kind of Wuya, who understands him, understands him, and only needs eyes and words to communicate with each other.

Like the countless nights the two have spent together, Yao Xitong hid in the study to deal with official business, and Xiao Baoer went to box. After that, Xiao Baoer slept first, and her sleep has been very good.

Yao Xitong wrote a note about the horse taming skills he had just obtained, and planned to pass it on to the bun shop tomorrow. The moment he put pen to paper, he re-read the note, and suddenly picked it up and burned it.

Who would want to master fast horsemanship?

Herders don't need it, they have the time, and even if they do, they can't afford to buy this kind of information from the bun shop.

Horse farm owners need that fast horse training can greatly improve the quality of horses on the horse farm and can also save a lot of money for the horse farm. The problem was that most of the horse farm owners served the imperial court, and once they had this kind of information, the Northern Liao side quickly learned that someone had leaked the news. Following the train of thought, his relationship with the bun shop will soon surface.

Before going to bed, he couldn't help but look at Xiao Bao'er many times, did this person already calculate that this kind of fast horse taming was only needed by the imperial court, and it didn't hurt to tell him? Or did he keep his promise and tell the secret just because the food was good?

He had no answer, and his eyes blinded by prejudice still couldn't see Xiao Bao'er's true face.

On the second day, the two packed their bags and prepared to leave for Zhongling.

Gao Wenyu was not in the mansion, Xiao Huafang was inconvenient to see the foreign man alone, and Yao Xitong talked to Eleven alone for a while before leaving.

The steward of the Chen Mansion informed the people to prepare the carriage, and looking at the empty carriage, Xiao Bao'er was very dissatisfied and said, "Gao Wenyu is really stingy, he actually let us leave like this without giving anything." ”

Yao Xitong sneered, "The princess has also begun to like mundane things?"

"How can a man live in the world without being stained with the smell of copper? When the Son of Heaven is worried about money, let alone others? I still blame you, if you have money, why do I need to be like this?" As he spoke, the carriage suddenly stopped.

Zhu Zhigao and Ma Jun stood outside the car together, listening to the two of them, they came to see off Yao Xitong, hoping that Yao Xitong could have a light meal with them.

Yao Xitong sent the coachman to Chunjiang to wait first, and took Xiao Baoer to Zhu Zhigao's carriage. During this period, Ma Jun was dissatisfied with Xiao Baoer's identity, felt that the maid should not sit with the master, and thought that Xiao Baoer had a life-saving grace for him, so he endured this emotion.

The most famous restaurant in Spring City - Chunfeng Building.

Zhu Zhigao boldly chartered the private seat on the second floor, and when they arrived, there was already a person in the private seat, looking at the color of the tea and soup on the table, this person should have waited for a while.

According to Ma Jun, this person's surname is Cui, alias Liu Lang, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, likes to make friends, loves beauty, but does not love fame...... In short, it is a wind ~ flow character worth seeing.

Xiao Baoer lowered her head and followed behind Yao Xitong, very satisfied with her status as a maidservant. No one cares about her humble status, and prefers to show her true feelings in front of her.

is like Ma Jun, when I first met, this person didn't know her identity, and he spoke and acted like a gentleman. When he knew that she was just a maid, he immediately put away his respect for her, and replaced it with the contempt and prejudice that the Central Plains men always held against women, especially for women of different races like her.

Zhu Zhigao is slightly better, the two have had the experience of holding the boat together, and this person's attitude towards her has not changed.

As for the wonderful Liu Lang in their mouths, this person has thin eyebrows and small eyes, and has a smiling face, and when he looks at people, he always feels that he is smiling, and if he really laughs, his eyes are basically invisible. Liu Lang has absolutely nothing to do with the willow tree, his body shape is round and thick-shouldered, and he is called Liu Lang for some reason.

Everyone saw the ceremony, Yao Xitong was famous and the princess's husband, so he naturally took the seat.

The group sat down, Liu Lang clapped his hands, and the little girl sent the dishes to the table. At one time, there are eight treasures on land and water, and the food and fruits are all in a row, which is very rich.

Zhu Zhigao got up and poured wine for everyone, and when everyone's glasses were full, he retreated to his seat, and just wanted to raise his glass and say something about the scene, but Liu Lang signaled him not to speak.

According to Liu Lang, Yao Xitong is a guest, a benefactor, and a friend, there is no need to say things that are too empty, just drink and have fun.

After a while, there are singing and dancing beauties and wine to help the fun, how can you not live up to the reputation of watching the spring breeze in the spring breeze building. After he said this, everyone looked out the window and saw that the window was green and forested, with plants and trees, and there was no shadow of half of the middle of winter.

Seeing the different colors on everyone's faces, Liu Lang took a sip of wine and slowly talked about an allusion. This allusion Xiao Bao'er also said, to the effect that Spring City is low-lying, surrounded by mountains, and the mountains cover the cold wind and cold, so that Spring City can be warm like spring all year round......

The story was only half told, and Xiao Baoer kept glancing at Yao Xitong. She said this allusion, why did she say it was nonsense, but Liu Lang said that it was not?

Yao Xitong glanced at her sideways and signaled to be a little restless!

The eyebrows of the two were all seen by Liu Lang, and he continued: "The person who wrote the story has not studied the history of Chen Di at all, and he went to Chunfeng Building to drink wine once and his mouth was full of firewood. It's strange to say, no one has read the history of the Eight Classics, but this nonsense story has been widely circulated......"

After Liu Lang said this, Xiao Baoer finally understood what was going on.

Chunfeng Building was built on a hot spring, in order to make the scenery in the building like spring, the craftsman who built the building designed Chunfeng Building into a coffin building. This building is rectangular, the middle open space is long and narrow, there is a hot spring, the side is full of trees, a pavilion, a few stone piers.

The house is built around an open space, with only one window and opening onto the garden, which effectively shelters from the cold wind and ensures that the trees nourished by the geothermal heat are not easy to freeze to death. Standing upstairs and looking at the garden, its shape does look like a coffin, but it is a good thing to be promoted and make a fortune, and it is not taboo.

There was once a scholar who relied on digging up people's personal interests and fabricating wild history anecdotes to listen to the story of the construction of Chunfeng Tower, and had the whim to reshape this story into a myth, briefly describing the origin of Chuncheng, the capital of Chendi.

At first, this story was only circulated in the countryside, and most of the people who believed in this story were fools and stupid women, and as the story spread more and more, the literate and hyphenation readers did not bother to expose it...... Later, someone actually wrote a book about this matter, which made outsiders think that what was told in the story was true.

Liu Lang used Chunfeng Building as an introduction, and told everyone about what he had seen and heard about his travels over the years, and as he was talking, he saw the cook bring a dish.

He got up and pressed the lid on top of the porcelain cup, and said mysteriously, "This dish is a bit strange, I don't think you here have ever eaten it, let alone smelled it...... Why don't you tell a story before you eat, and then you can taste it?"

Xiao Bao'er has long lost interest in the dishes on the table, and in her opinion, the eight treasures of water and land in Chunfeng Building are the ordinary goods in the eight treasures, namely: shark fin, abalone, civet, big black cucumber, wide belly, turtle skirt, fish lip, and anchovies.

Not long ago, the eight treasures used in the birthday banquet of the Empress Dowager were of the highest quality, such as raccoon lips, bird's nest, hump, elephant pull, deer tendon, monkey head, leopard fetus, and toad.

The days of living in the palace have been too long, and the delicacies have long lost their attraction to her, and these ingredients are just a few tricks over and over, which are not as delicious as the side dishes that Yao Xitong made casually.

Liu Lang's hand was still pressing the porcelain cover, but the story was already halfway told. It is said that a certain official in Liangdi likes to eat fish, especially Guiyu, but the place where he works is full of mountains and mountains, and the water is turbulent and does not produce Guiyu.

In order to curry favor with this official, a wealthy man ordered dozens of buckets of fat cinnamon fish from a long distance. The rich man said in his heart, so many fish are sent over, they can't all die, as long as a few are alive, these silver will not be spent in vain.

Every year at the beginning of winter, it is the fattest time for the fish. The rich man rushed to the riverbank with the silver, asked for twenty buckets of osmanthus in one go, and hired a porter to carry the fish and rushed home.

The weather that had already become cold suddenly became hot again, and most of the osmanthus in the barrel suffocated to death. If this continues, before they can go home, all twenty buckets of fish will be dead. Throw it away, it's all bought for nothing. If you don't throw it away, can you still eat this fish?

When he set off again, the rich man thought of a way, he smeared the freshly dead osmanthus with fine salt, and said in his heart that even if the officials didn't eat it, he could take it home and eat it himself.

A few days later, when the rich man returned home, there was only one bucket of live fish left in twenty buckets of fish, and the remaining buckets were all dead. Because of the salt, the gills of the dead fish are still red, the scales do not come off, the quality has not changed, but the skin exudes a special smell that seems to be smelly but not smelly, after washing, it is slightly fried in hot oil, and cooked over fine heat, not only has no smell, but is very fragrant.

"This kind of fish is called stinky osmanthus fish locally, and the cooking method is mostly braised osmanthus, and I asked the chef of Chunfeng Building to make braised stinky osmanthus fish today. ”

After Liu Lang finished speaking, he opened the porcelain cover.

Yao Xitong and others have long known from the story that this dish smells stinky and tastes fragrant. When Liu Lang opened the porcelain cover, they all couldn't wait to stretch out their chopsticks.

Xiao Bao'er had never experienced smelling and eating fragrant food, and although she was mentally prepared, she was still smoked by the stench that came to her face and took a step back. The smell was similar to that of carrion, and it was hard to imagine that such a dish could be eaten.

Liu Lang looked at everyone with a worried face, "What do you think of the taste?"

"Delicious. ”

Yao Xitong only said two words, and then sandwiched one of the stinky osmanthus fish on the plate, tore off the skin of the fish, picked out the fish bones, and only the white and tender fish meat was left on the plate. This fish smells wrong, but it tastes tender and smooth, full of fragrant, moderately spicy, and not a little fishy, which is most suitable for Xiao Baoer.

Ma Jun asked: "Brother Yao, why is this? Could it be that you pity the maid and feel sorry for her all the time standing and waiting? I heard that you have refuted the princess's face for this maid." ”

Hearing this, Yao Xitong was a little hesitant.

Since then, he has been thinking about Xiao Bao'er in everything, and even outsiders can see that he is different from Xiao Bao'er and ordinary people, this situation is not right, he shouldn't be like this.